Exactly. I'm sure this bomber I'm about to fire up has a "street value" of well over $1.3 million, but I managed to acquire it for the low low price of $12.50...
Also (further off topic), over the course of my life, I've found that the price of pot is a far better instrument to measure inflation than any number published by a government agency.
Also, I'm sure Sony would have no objection to selling a Bob Dylan album with the lyrics:
Oh God said to Abraham, "Kill me a son" Abe says, "Man, you must be puttin' me on" God say, "No." Abe say, "What?" God say, "You can do what you want Abe, but The next time you see me comin' you better run" Well Abe says, "Where do you want this killin' done?" God says, "Out on Highway 61."
"We Muslims consider the mixing of music and words from our Holy Quran deeply offending. We hope you would remove that track from the game immediately via an online update, and make sure that all future shipments of the game disk do not contain it."
Personally, I consider censoring art "deeply offending." Sony, you're losing a customer if you cave to the demands of any religious group. Hey Muslims, don't buy the game.
Why don't they just start their own wiki? I would find a great deal of value in a wiki moderated by a team of reputable scientists that published their findings to the great peer review workflow.
Personally, I love collecting butt tags like you and watching the total type-a freak out as I let off the gas and bring them to a crawl. I'm insured.:)
If you'd bother reading to the second sentence: " The feature, called Geode, is a prototype for the location-tracking technology that will be built into the forthcoming Firefox 3.1."
You can't not install it, it's already installed.
Other than that, you seem to be traveling.... you get the point
You can get the source and make it do just that. My personal hope is that the default this to off and make you activate it manually. Also, what are the chances that this gets abused by law enforcement?
Could you create a protocol that always operated at maximum bandwidth and which filled that extra bandwidth with bogus or random data to make intercepting and extracting useful information cost prohibative (money, resources, computation limits, etc)?
Corporations seek environments where they can generate the most profit. Get over it. America is quickly becoming a business unfriendly environment. Taxation, absurd regulations (for example, you CAN'T test 100% of your cattle for BSE no matter how much your customers want it, or how competative it will make you), insane legal exposure...
Why is metered bandwidth not an option? My electric company does this. Is it harder to count bits than watts? Also, why are the airlines charging more for baggage? Just come up with a price per pound and charge everyone fairly. Fatasses SHOULD pay more.
To hazard a guess at my own question... Money is why this isn't happening... It's more profitable, or the income stream is more predictable this way than in a sane, pay for what you consume (watts, fuel, bandwidth) model where everyone is screwed equally.
I second this request for clarification. Did we really just send up a sign that says "If we don't like your site, we'll jack your domain because it's our internet. Love the USA." Via what process and mechanism of authority was this allowed to occur? Did the governor log into the root servers himself and update the named.conf? Is there some kind of gui-rific web2.0 webapp that only our statesmen have access to that allow them to direct traffic on the tubes? Do states actually have the authority to jack domains that violate their laws? How has thePirateBay been allowed to exist for this long?
As a Java programmer who used to program in Objective-C, I can tell you right now Objective-C is easier, cleaner and nicer to program. It's dynamically typed, where Java tries to enforce static typing. GUI-wise, it's a total win for Cocoa. The widgets and controls are an order of magnitude easier to understand and use than Java's swing/awt/swt nightmare. My biggest complaint with OC is garbage collection (which is no longer an issue as of 2.0). Also, Java has a much larger community. For those two reasons alone, Java wins the mindshare, but if you're asking me which one I'd rather program in, it's Objective-C hands down.
Hope Lockhead's repository has all the necessary jars, or this build is gonna fail hard. I mean, maven's okay for what I do, but I would hope that for 480 million, they could come up with something a bit nicer.
Expect this behavior as long as it is financially beneficial to engage in it. There is no dis-inscentive for this type of lying. There is no reason NOT to do this if you can afford it. They could hit the jackpot with minimal risk.
I'm building a media display machine and I want 1080p and 3d support. Is there a card that just works? I've googled through the nvidia and ati offerings, and everyone seems to be complaining... Is there a list out there of working 3d cards (that's not 4 years old)?
I know nvidia's binary drivers are incompatible with some people's ethics. I am not one of those people.:)
Meaningless to anyone but DHS until some nitwit with an unencrypted drive on their laptop leaves it in an airport lounge.
This is just monumentally stupid. Seriously. A monument is required to commemorate this epically stupid idea. I'm thinking a huge statue of a DHS lacky shrugging their shoulders. Preferably with an Alfred E. Neumann "What Me Worried?" look on their mug.
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For many business users, word processors and excel account for the vast majority of time spent on computers, if they managed 24 hours for just that they'd have a viable market.
Vast majority implies that there is a market for word processor appliances. It would be easy to produce a black and white appliance that ran a single light office suite that lasted for more than 24 hours.
This is marketing. Very few people spend a vast majority of their time word processing. I would venture to guess that the time spent word processing is absolutely dwarfed by the time spent browsing the internet.
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You can shuffle back to your manager at EA and tell him I said that.
Do I sense a hint of jealousy?
Jealous of someone working at EA? You MUST be joking. That's like being jealous of a ten year old Malaysian textile worker.
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Exactly. I'm sure this bomber I'm about to fire up has a "street value" of well over $1.3 million, but I managed to acquire it for the low low price of $12.50...
Also (further off topic), over the course of my life, I've found that the price of pot is a far better instrument to measure inflation than any number published by a government agency.
Also, I'm sure Sony would have no objection to selling a Bob Dylan album with the lyrics:
Oh God said to Abraham, "Kill me a son"
Abe says, "Man, you must be puttin' me on"
God say, "No." Abe say, "What?"
God say, "You can do what you want Abe, but
The next time you see me comin' you better run"
Well Abe says, "Where do you want this killin' done?"
God says, "Out on Highway 61."
From: http://kotaku.com/5065106/nsiders-letter-to-sony-and-media-molecule-re-quran-references
"We Muslims consider the mixing of music and words from our Holy Quran deeply offending. We hope you would remove that track from the game immediately via an online update, and make sure that all future shipments of the game disk do not contain it."
Personally, I consider censoring art "deeply offending." Sony, you're losing a customer if you cave to the demands of any religious group. Hey Muslims, don't buy the game.
Yeah? And? So? What?
Christians shouldn't be allowed to use technology until they acknowledge that:
The earth is round
It revolves around the sun
Evolution is real
Intelligent Design is not Science
Why don't they just start their own wiki? I would find a great deal of value in a wiki moderated by a team of reputable scientists that published their findings to the great peer review workflow.
Personally, I love collecting butt tags like you and watching the total type-a freak out as I let off the gas and bring them to a crawl. I'm insured. :)
When you're important, people wait.
If you'd bother reading to the second sentence: " The feature, called Geode, is a prototype for the location-tracking technology that will be built into the forthcoming Firefox 3.1."
You can't not install it, it's already installed.
Other than that, you seem to be traveling.... you get the point
You can get the source and make it do just that. My personal hope is that the default this to off and make you activate it manually. Also, what are the chances that this gets abused by law enforcement?
Could you create a protocol that always operated at maximum bandwidth and which filled that extra bandwidth with bogus or random data to make intercepting and extracting useful information cost prohibative (money, resources, computation limits, etc)?
Corporations seek environments where they can generate the most profit. Get over it. America is quickly becoming a business unfriendly environment. Taxation, absurd regulations (for example, you CAN'T test 100% of your cattle for BSE no matter how much your customers want it, or how competative it will make you), insane legal exposure...
Welcome to the "service economy."
Would IPv6 make this go away?
Why is metered bandwidth not an option? My electric company does this. Is it harder to count bits than watts? Also, why are the airlines charging more for baggage? Just come up with a price per pound and charge everyone fairly. Fatasses SHOULD pay more.
To hazard a guess at my own question... Money is why this isn't happening... It's more profitable, or the income stream is more predictable this way than in a sane, pay for what you consume (watts, fuel, bandwidth) model where everyone is screwed equally.
Not all payment is traceable, and not all payment is worth tracing.
I second this request for clarification. Did we really just send up a sign that says "If we don't like your site, we'll jack your domain because it's our internet. Love the USA." Via what process and mechanism of authority was this allowed to occur? Did the governor log into the root servers himself and update the named.conf? Is there some kind of gui-rific web2.0 webapp that only our statesmen have access to that allow them to direct traffic on the tubes? Do states actually have the authority to jack domains that violate their laws? How has thePirateBay been allowed to exist for this long?
As a Java programmer who used to program in Objective-C, I can tell you right now Objective-C is easier, cleaner and nicer to program. It's dynamically typed, where Java tries to enforce static typing. GUI-wise, it's a total win for Cocoa. The widgets and controls are an order of magnitude easier to understand and use than Java's swing/awt/swt nightmare. My biggest complaint with OC is garbage collection (which is no longer an issue as of 2.0). Also, Java has a much larger community. For those two reasons alone, Java wins the mindshare, but if you're asking me which one I'd rather program in, it's Objective-C hands down.
Way to dismiss, out of hand, a viewpoint that causes you fear.
Hope Lockhead's repository has all the necessary jars, or this build is gonna fail hard. I mean, maven's okay for what I do, but I would hope that for 480 million, they could come up with something a bit nicer.
Expect this behavior as long as it is financially beneficial to engage in it. There is no dis-inscentive for this type of lying. There is no reason NOT to do this if you can afford it. They could hit the jackpot with minimal risk.
I'm building a media display machine and I want 1080p and 3d support. Is there a card that just works? I've googled through the nvidia and ati offerings, and everyone seems to be complaining... Is there a list out there of working 3d cards (that's not 4 years old)?
I know nvidia's binary drivers are incompatible with some people's ethics. I am not one of those people. :)
Meaningless to anyone but DHS until some nitwit with an unencrypted drive on their laptop leaves it in an airport lounge.
This is just monumentally stupid. Seriously. A monument is required to commemorate this epically stupid idea. I'm thinking a huge statue of a DHS lacky shrugging their shoulders. Preferably with an Alfred E. Neumann "What Me Worried?" look on their mug.
10 Gigabit Wan
I'll be in my bunk
For many business users, word processors and excel account for the vast majority of time spent on computers, if they managed 24 hours for just that they'd have a viable market.
Vast majority implies that there is a market for word processor appliances. It would be easy to produce a black and white appliance that ran a single light office suite that lasted for more than 24 hours.
This is marketing. Very few people spend a vast majority of their time word processing. I would venture to guess that the time spent word processing is absolutely dwarfed by the time spent browsing the internet.
You can shuffle back to your manager at EA and tell him I said that.
Do I sense a hint of jealousy?
Jealous of someone working at EA? You MUST be joking. That's like being jealous of a ten year old Malaysian textile worker.
These things cut latency by 2 orders of magnitude. Defrags are no longer necessary. 250MB/s damn near saturates the newest SATA gear.
Write/Read speed parity would be nice.