For not buying a new machine after the warranty expires?
Yeah... so I used to buy Apple laptops and was happy with them (I left when they decided to focus on iOS and slowly end the Macintosh). But that aside -
If you're an Apple customer and you use your machines for work, what you need to do is to buy AppleCare with the laptop, and then when AppleCare has two months left, sell it on eBay. If there are any problems with the laptop, send it in for a tune-up before you put it on eBay as that will increase its resale value.
It's the most cost effective and least worrisome way to be an Apple owner - you can easily own a nice laptop for $5-700/year. That person paying $1200 for your laptop is only going to get the same yearly value and then get rid of it after a couple years, but he's going to be doing so without the insurance protection and he's got to live with a 3-year-old laptop. But that's how the market seems to work.
The ABS M1 has better springs for long typing sessions. The people you're speaking with on the phone can still hear just fine that you're still typing. Google Hangouts will even mute your audio.:D
I'm actually looking into doing this for chickens, which we're going to raise next year. I care more about the end-of-life conditions for the chickens than the State of Ohio does for its prisoners.
It's also easier for the kids to accept - the danger, I guess, is making executions easier for the People of the Ohio region to accept. This chemical suffocation is wrong in every way, however such grizzly means ought to be broadcast on the 10 o'clock news in Cleveland.
Well, maybe it's not as trivial as it sounds to fit an appropriate robotic arm, the sensors to find a suitable rock, the software to try grabbing it and turning it over and compared to the weight, time and effort it's probably just not worth it.
I'm a fan of these robotic expeditions, but this really speaks to the rate of exploration that a human colony could support.
Why, exactly, doesn't it make sense for them to develop their own operating system?
Why *does* it make sense? What benefit can they achieve that cannot be achieved faster and better by contributing to linux?
Is it, for instance, coded in a Chinese-based programming language?
Will Google not accept the patches that they need for [some reason]?
but the argument being made here is primarily economic, not political.
What is the argument, specifically? It seems like they have a 10-year self-imposed handicap if they're starting from scratch. The Mythical Man Month applies everywhere humans are involved.
Yep, and the thermal profile of a laptop (and a thin one at that) makes it that much more of a difficult environment.
I wonder when or if we've seen the first deaths from RoHS - in safety-critical systems in healthcare or potentially dangerous environments. Lead is akin to kryptonite in the anti-DHMO circles that run government bureaucracies.
Remember, kids, GPU's are chips but you shouldn't put them in your mouth.
Yet the people who called a state-sponsored monopoly "capitalist" are modded up, and your comment remains at 1.
Slashdot is over.
s/Slashdot/society/
Slashdot is just a subset of the society, and that's what kids are taught in school - and that's the point of the government monopolization of education.
No person shall... be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
But since when has the US Federal Government operated according to the Law? We're living under the Rule of Man, with the color of Law.
That's an excellent (and sad) point. Just to re-enforce it, and to perhaps defend the _intentions_ of the company's founders, they've already made public that their leader was approached, after giving a conference talk, by a man claiming to be from the FBI who asked nicely for her to cooperate on installing a back door. Apparently her microphone was still hot from giving the speech.
Not Chrome browser as it's not malicious software.
Hypothetically, one could write a botnet client that ran under Chrome's native code (making it platform-specific to Chrome). The results would be interesting on several axes - I'm sure Microsoft is praying nobody does that. The Shadows(b5) would write one to see what happens.
I have 3 of them in the house, I will be replacing them with real XBMC pc's shortly due to how fickle they are.
Same here. Some of my ffmpeg-created media files simply crashed the Pi's GPU (and no, Pi-ons, the latest firmware doesn't fix it). Every software player handles them fine, so over to XBMC on a core2 with an older nVidia card, and everything is great.
I tried using DLNA with the damn thing too, running every DLNA server I could find for Linux (including minidlna which a lot of people here seem to like). No luck.
DLNA is embarrassing to firewall. Here's my config:
# DLNA -A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 8200 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 2869 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -p udp --dport 1900 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 30000:60000 -j ACCEPT
I'm using XBMC as a DLNA receiver and MediaHouse on Android as a controller. For what I need it's much more sane than trying to use a wireless keyboard remote with XBMC's onscreen menus, which are hard to use.
I'm happy for DLNA's replacement to arrive tomorrow, but I haven't found it yet.
Spying on foreign citizens is completely constitutional.
No. The US is a Natural Rights Republic. The Rights that the People have are not granted by a government, they are inherent in the nature of being a human. That's what the Constitution was trying to provide (but has obviously failed).
If Privacy is one of those rights, then it applies equally to all humans. That's also why it's immoral.
And yes, you'll find apologists for power finding otherwise. When in doubt, consult the Declaration of Independence which sets forth the moral framework that the Constitution attempted to implement.
This is pretty neat. Some high school friends and I were attempting to get voice working over 2400 baud c. 1990 (we wanted Internet phones). We never even came close, and thought we'd have to do phoenmic deconstruction to get that kind of data rate. This is pretty amazing for 1200 baud, even if it is almost 25 years later.
He figured out that each AdWord purchase came to a fractional number of cents, so instead of just rounding he took the floor of the value and credited the fractional remainder to his payroll account. This only ends when Ray's AI turns somebody into a robot.
The ACLU people should just use Garmin. I was driving with my SiL and her family a couple years back because they were unfamiliar with the area and she wanted to follow the Garmin. Its directions were becoming exceedingly sketchy, but whatever, until it wanted her to turn down a dark alley in a seedy part of a city with one of the worst crime rates on the East Coast.
At that point I said, "hell no, go straight, take the first left, a quick right, the next left, and take the entrance ramp to the highway." (I'd been watching the roads the Garmin should have put us on).
So, those concerned about offending somebody can just use Garmin. In the meantime, somebody tell me which map routing algorithms use crime data to adjust their routes so I can give them some money.
. I haven't had an incandescent in my house for a decade, but I'll be switching to LED. They're superior to CFLs like CFLs are superior to incandescents.
Yep, same here. I like some of the older LED's I've got but the new Cree bulbs they have at Home Depot are damn near perfect. I have a few at this point, but once they hit $10, I'm probably going to do the whole house (and completely screw up my kids' enjoyment of an entire genre of jokes).
North Korea and Iran are both relatively small nation states capable and interested in building this type of missile system. North Korea would like to end its stalemate with South Korea whether the US was there or not. In Iran's case it is to attack a country some distance away with which it shares no borders.
The model works well here too - break each of them up into smaller units until they no longer present a threat.
Both groups of people would be much better off without 'their' States.
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Nice. Thanks for the info.
For not buying a new machine after the warranty expires?
Yeah ... so I used to buy Apple laptops and was happy with them (I left when they decided to focus on iOS and slowly end the Macintosh). But that aside -
If you're an Apple customer and you use your machines for work, what you need to do is to buy AppleCare with the laptop, and then when AppleCare has two months left, sell it on eBay. If there are any problems with the laptop, send it in for a tune-up before you put it on eBay as that will increase its resale value.
It's the most cost effective and least worrisome way to be an Apple owner - you can easily own a nice laptop for $5-700/year. That person paying $1200 for your laptop is only going to get the same yearly value and then get rid of it after a couple years, but he's going to be doing so without the insurance protection and he's got to live with a 3-year-old laptop. But that's how the market seems to work.
The ABS M1 has better springs for long typing sessions. The people you're speaking with on the phone can still hear just fine that you're still typing. Google Hangouts will even mute your audio. :D
serious question - do you have to use XPCOM and all that sort of cruft to do non-XULrunner things with NSPR?
Pain free execution.
I'm actually looking into doing this for chickens, which we're going to raise next year. I care more about the end-of-life conditions for the chickens than the State of Ohio does for its prisoners.
It's also easier for the kids to accept - the danger, I guess, is making executions easier for the People of the Ohio region to accept. This chemical suffocation is wrong in every way, however such grizzly means ought to be broadcast on the 10 o'clock news in Cleveland.
Well, maybe it's not as trivial as it sounds to fit an appropriate robotic arm, the sensors to find a suitable rock, the software to try grabbing it and turning it over and compared to the weight, time and effort it's probably just not worth it.
I'm a fan of these robotic expeditions, but this really speaks to the rate of exploration that a human colony could support.
Why, exactly, doesn't it make sense for them to develop their own operating system?
Why *does* it make sense? What benefit can they achieve that cannot be achieved faster and better by contributing to linux?
Is it, for instance, coded in a Chinese-based programming language?
Will Google not accept the patches that they need for [some reason]?
but the argument being made here is primarily economic, not political.
What is the argument, specifically? It seems like they have a 10-year self-imposed handicap if they're starting from scratch. The Mythical Man Month applies everywhere humans are involved.
This is an industry wide issue thanks to RoHS.
Yep, and the thermal profile of a laptop (and a thin one at that) makes it that much more of a difficult environment.
I wonder when or if we've seen the first deaths from RoHS - in safety-critical systems in healthcare or potentially dangerous environments. Lead is akin to kryptonite in the anti-DHMO circles that run government bureaucracies.
Remember, kids, GPU's are chips but you shouldn't put them in your mouth.
It would seem to me that 'seizure' is a form of 'deprivation', but I agree with both of your points.
Yet the people who called a state-sponsored monopoly "capitalist" are modded up, and your comment remains at 1.
Slashdot is over.
s/Slashdot/society/
Slashdot is just a subset of the society, and that's what kids are taught in school - and that's the point of the government monopolization of education.
or more specifically:
But since when has the US Federal Government operated according to the Law? We're living under the Rule of Man, with the color of Law.
What other vulnerability do you need ?
That's an excellent (and sad) point. Just to re-enforce it, and to perhaps defend the _intentions_ of the company's founders, they've already made public that their leader was approached, after giving a conference talk, by a man claiming to be from the FBI who asked nicely for her to cooperate on installing a back door. Apparently her microphone was still hot from giving the speech.
Again, in what universe would a government-enforced monopoly be called "capitalism"?
C'mon, man, that's Page 1 of the fascism playbook.
The irony here is Feinstein over dramatization
That's status quo for her, unfortunately. She's a terrible Senator, but a fairly good power monger.
Just like with guns, her goal is to take this technology away from the hoi polloi and reserve the use for her gang.
Not Chrome browser as it's not malicious software.
Hypothetically, one could write a botnet client that ran under Chrome's native code (making it platform-specific to Chrome). The results would be interesting on several axes - I'm sure Microsoft is praying nobody does that. The Shadows(b5) would write one to see what happens.
I have 3 of them in the house, I will be replacing them with real XBMC pc's shortly due to how fickle they are.
Same here. Some of my ffmpeg-created media files simply crashed the Pi's GPU (and no, Pi-ons, the latest firmware doesn't fix it). Every software player handles them fine, so over to XBMC on a core2 with an older nVidia card, and everything is great.
where do you buy a preconfigured PLEX server? because he does not want to spent any time at all building one.
You call your local AV nerd ("integrator") and hire him to come set one up for you. Look for "Home Theatre Installers".
I tried using DLNA with the damn thing too, running every DLNA server I could find for Linux (including minidlna which a lot of people here seem to like). No luck.
DLNA is embarrassing to firewall. Here's my config:
# DLNA
-A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 8200 -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 2869 -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -p udp --dport 1900 -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 30000:60000 -j ACCEPT
I'm using XBMC as a DLNA receiver and MediaHouse on Android as a controller. For what I need it's much more sane than trying to use a wireless keyboard remote with XBMC's onscreen menus, which are hard to use.
I'm happy for DLNA's replacement to arrive tomorrow, but I haven't found it yet.
Spying on foreign citizens is completely constitutional.
No. The US is a Natural Rights Republic. The Rights that the People have are not granted by a government, they are inherent in the nature of being a human. That's what the Constitution was trying to provide (but has obviously failed).
If Privacy is one of those rights, then it applies equally to all humans. That's also why it's immoral.
And yes, you'll find apologists for power finding otherwise. When in doubt, consult the Declaration of Independence which sets forth the moral framework that the Constitution attempted to implement.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4svoub6XcE&t=4m50s
This is pretty neat. Some high school friends and I were attempting to get voice working over 2400 baud c. 1990 (we wanted Internet phones). We never even came close, and thought we'd have to do phoenmic deconstruction to get that kind of data rate. This is pretty amazing for 1200 baud, even if it is almost 25 years later.
He figured out that each AdWord purchase came to a fractional number of cents, so instead of just rounding he took the floor of the value and credited the fractional remainder to his payroll account. This only ends when Ray's AI turns somebody into a robot.
The ACLU people should just use Garmin. I was driving with my SiL and her family a couple years back because they were unfamiliar with the area and she wanted to follow the Garmin. Its directions were becoming exceedingly sketchy, but whatever, until it wanted her to turn down a dark alley in a seedy part of a city with one of the worst crime rates on the East Coast.
At that point I said, "hell no, go straight, take the first left, a quick right, the next left, and take the entrance ramp to the highway." (I'd been watching the roads the Garmin should have put us on).
So, those concerned about offending somebody can just use Garmin. In the meantime, somebody tell me which map routing algorithms use crime data to adjust their routes so I can give them some money.
. I haven't had an incandescent in my house for a decade, but I'll be switching to LED. They're superior to CFLs like CFLs are superior to incandescents.
Yep, same here. I like some of the older LED's I've got but the new Cree bulbs they have at Home Depot are damn near perfect. I have a few at this point, but once they hit $10, I'm probably going to do the whole house (and completely screw up my kids' enjoyment of an entire genre of jokes).
North Korea and Iran are both relatively small nation states capable and interested in building this type of missile system. North Korea would like to end its stalemate with South Korea whether the US was there or not. In Iran's case it is to attack a country some distance away with which it shares no borders.
The model works well here too - break each of them up into smaller units until they no longer present a threat.
Both groups of people would be much better off without 'their' States.
Not sure if you're being sarcastic - you know Sun was always fabless, right? The fab contract would often change between generations.
Oracle just put out a brand new SPARC design less than a year ago. Fujitsu also fabbed the SPARC in the Sun 4.