We're talking about energy losses here. Energy which is either polluting or which is clean but we can't make enough of it to supply the demand. How is energy loss even acceptable in this day and age?
I found an even simpler solution: fuck you, Pinterest. If I can't watch your content without a fucking account then I'm not going to use your stupid website.
Because text ads are fine. Static images ads are fine.
Where I draw the line is when ads are:
- auto-play videos that annoy me, prevent me from reading whatever I'm trying to read and wasting my monthly data quota on top of it. Not everyone has a lightning-fast connection with unlimited bandwidth.
- javascript-enabled, HTML5 canvas ads that delay the whole page load and waste my CPU cycles on top of it. Not everyone has a fast CPU.
So whoever in marketing is reading this and is furious at me, don't be. Be furious at the other assholes in marketing who pushed that shit too far. We, the users, will not let you turn the Internet into "TV 2.0".
As for stuff above/beyond LEO, space is *REALLY* fucking big. What looks like a solid band of junk on a computer screen is in reality an incredibly sparse field with gaps where there's nothing within miles.
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space. - Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
And yet those providers probably have so much cash in reserve that they could conceive, manufacture and deploy a giant, sky-high faraday cage over all of Canada just to block this cheaper alternative.
About 40 years ago, the joke would have been "the price will go down fast as soon as Japan starts making them." Fast-forward to 2015 and the product is from Japan.
I wonder what the joke will be in the next 10~20 years. Maybe "the price will go down fast as soon as Africa starts making them."
A fanboy is usually someone who is blind to facts. Yes the upgrade is free but it's just that: an upgrade. In case you can't see it or can't scroll back up, my original comment was:
So in typical Microsoft fashion, it's free but basically "fuck you if you use Linux or OS X".
To which the AC replied:
Except windows 10 upgrade is free, Visual Studio Express is Free (even for production). Um.. have you tried developing windows programs in linux or OSX?
So I say "it's not free" and then someone replies with "the upgrade is free" which is a totally pointless fact just to try to contradict my original point.
So, to reiterate, it doesn't matter if Windows 10 IoT is free for the Raspberry Pi 2 because it requires Windows 10 which is not free.
Free upgrade or not, there's requirements to be eligible for it, meaning my argument is valid. If you're not already a user of a recent Microsoft Windows OS, it's not free at all.
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We're talking about energy losses here. Energy which is either polluting or which is clean but we can't make enough of it to supply the demand. How is energy loss even acceptable in this day and age?
Artificial selection at work!
You didn't know bladders are cube-shaped?
You know what else likes electrolytes? Plants! They crave it!
I found an even simpler solution: fuck you, Pinterest. If I can't watch your content without a fucking account then I'm not going to use your stupid website.
Virtual +1 funny
It would be the biggest e-ink display in the world.
http://www.tvworthwatching.com...
Because text ads are fine. Static images ads are fine.
Where I draw the line is when ads are:
- auto-play videos that annoy me, prevent me from reading whatever I'm trying to read and wasting my monthly data quota on top of it. Not everyone has a lightning-fast connection with unlimited bandwidth.
- javascript-enabled, HTML5 canvas ads that delay the whole page load and waste my CPU cycles on top of it. Not everyone has a fast CPU.
So whoever in marketing is reading this and is furious at me, don't be. Be furious at the other assholes in marketing who pushed that shit too far. We, the users, will not let you turn the Internet into "TV 2.0".
I gave one to my boss in advance, just in case. I left it on his desk to be sure he sees it.
Colonel Sandurz: It's Mega Maid. She's gone from suck to blow.
Now you're just making up acronyms...
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space. - Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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And yet those providers probably have so much cash in reserve that they could conceive, manufacture and deploy a giant, sky-high faraday cage over all of Canada just to block this cheaper alternative.
Nope, mine was way more primitive than that. Thanks for the link.
Oh, you don't want to do that. She weighs over 400 pounds.
Why not up that number over 9000?
Animated GIFs really suck, I prefer my own Javascript-powered animated JPEG format.
In AC's defense, those two company names do have two letters in common.
About 40 years ago, the joke would have been "the price will go down fast as soon as Japan starts making them." Fast-forward to 2015 and the product is from Japan.
I wonder what the joke will be in the next 10~20 years. Maybe "the price will go down fast as soon as Africa starts making them."
A fanboy is usually someone who is blind to facts. Yes the upgrade is free but it's just that: an upgrade. In case you can't see it or can't scroll back up, my original comment was:
So in typical Microsoft fashion, it's free but basically "fuck you if you use Linux or OS X".
To which the AC replied:
Except windows 10 upgrade is free, Visual Studio Express is Free (even for production). Um.. have you tried developing windows programs in linux or OSX?
So I say "it's not free" and then someone replies with "the upgrade is free" which is a totally pointless fact just to try to contradict my original point.
So, to reiterate, it doesn't matter if Windows 10 IoT is free for the Raspberry Pi 2 because it requires Windows 10 which is not free.
Free upgrade or not, there's requirements to be eligible for it, meaning my argument is valid. If you're not already a user of a recent Microsoft Windows OS, it's not free at all.
And nobody knows this better than me.
It's more like "Dual 2D".