Tiny laptops with high end processors, video cards, etc... immediately make me concerned for the TDP of the box. Either the cooling fans are going to be constantly on leaf blower mode and/or the thing will be uncomfortably warm in just a couple of minutes of gaming.
I thought the deal was that the support contract was based on a percentage of the list price of the machine, so they jack the list price up really high and offer deep discounts because what they really want is the juicy support contract anyway.
While that's theoretically true, my experience is that most AT&T towers just tell T-Mo users to call 911 or go away. I had many many times where the AT&T logo showed up on my phone with even the EDGE or GPRS logos and attempting to make a call or load a page or even send an SMS just ended with my phone spinning for awhile and getting nowhere.
I'd much rather pay for the phone up front than give the phone company a loan on their terms. This is especially true since the current model is ridiculous. You buy a phone and it is "subsidized" over 2 years. Fine, except that at the end of the 2 years your plan's price doesn't go down to represent the fact that you've paid off the phone. In fact you're stuck paying the subsidy for absolutely no service at all! It's outrageous and they've been getting away with it for decades now. The worst part is that with most companies you can bring your own phone in, and they will still charge you the subsidy anyway. They have only been getting away with it because all of the companies do it so there is no real competition. With T-Mo finally giving people an option, we'll have to see if that particular ripoff can stand.
If only their coverage wasn't easily the worst of the big 4 a move to T-Mo would be easy. If you live in the city then this is a great plan and you should take it. If you ever intend to leave the city then it's not so great. I had T-Mo for years before I finally had to give up and switch to Verizon, because the coverage was a constant problem for me.
Bonus though: at least when I had it T-Mo worked in the city while AT&T (my wife's provider) was crapping themselves due to excessive volume. I could call and even get data through when her phone was reduced to a glorified iPod Touch due to total and complete network overload.
But but think of the merchant fees that they might miss out on! This is a case of the old business model preventing a company from making the transition to the new world.
People have been doing that, and causing some of the Chinese producers to bankrupt themselves already, even with all of the government subsidies and kickbacks.
I was assuming he got paid in $20s, which would be a stack about 2" high. I'm a bit curious as to what employer pays cash in that amount though. Maybe construction? It's hard to find a construction job that pays that well though.
The regulation is clearly going to happen at MtGox or any other place that exchanges bitcoins for USD. Once you are sending $10,000 USD to someone, the money laundering provisions apply. This should work for as long as businesses don't accept bitcoins directly, which is still mostly the case. There are a small number of businesses that will deal directly in bitcoins, but not enough that you could spend $10,000 on them reasonably yet.
The no-fly violations are kind of like NK artillery tests, diplomats and the media make a big deal about them, but in terms of actual effect they really don't mean anything. It's just dictators trolling the world and hoping to improve their bargaining position. It's just saber rattling.
That's the correct answer to any headline that ends in a question mark.
My impression at the time was that Bush and company was hellbent on railroading the country into war, and they knew how to get what they wanted, mostly by running roughshod over the concept of checks and balances. They didn't even really try very hard to convince people, it was just "he might have chemical weapons!" and "ooh, look at this render of a mobile chemical lab that he could have maybe built". It's a shame Breaking Bad had not aired yet at the time, people would have had a lot of fun with the RV comparisons. There was also the fact that we were still neck deep in Afghanistan at the time. The war with Afghanistan at least made sense, the country had been taken over by guys who were very happily sheltering the guys who had just perpetrated the biggest acts of terrorism in modern US history. They were also being huge jerks to their own people (destroying the countries heritage, oppressing women and minorities (ok, that is part of the heretic they kept), and running the place like their own private piggybank) and nobody else in the world liked them. We even had UN buy in and some (mostly token, with a couple of exceptions) NATO support. Saddam had been keeping a reasonably low profile for a long time too, it seemed really unprovoked for Bush to suddenly single him out and call for his head.
I'm not sure how 1 pound is now 1 penny equates to 99.6% inflation... Anyway a mere 100% inflation over 100 years is pretty darn good. It appears that your definition of catastrophic inflation is any inflation at all.
For example, no system of paper money has ever lasted more than a century or so without undergoing catastrophic inflation.
You're going to need to define "catastrophic" inflation, because we certainly have paper money systems that are more than a century old and still working. The US dollar alone is 228 years old, and the Great British Pound is approaching 300 years old. Have they had inflation over time? Yes, in fact that's considered normal and healthy for a currency. Have they had periods of increased inflation, yes, but never so bad as to wipe out people's savings like with some other currencies (examples include the German Mark after WW1 and the Ruble after the fall of communism in the former Soviet Union).
My problem with the Jetta is that after 5 years or so, all of the plastics start falling off of the vehicle at an alarming rate. It was my wife's car, but when the transmission finally committed seppuku, I was kind of glad, since the interior was literally falling apart. For example, the day we sold it we went out to pull our town sticker off of the car and noticed that the glove compartment and fallen out. A few months earlier the plastic housing for the trunk light fell apart and allowed the light to short out against the body of the car, destroying the computer and requiring an expensive replacement. The transmission crapped out with just barely over 120k miles on the Odo too, which is horrendous.
Anybody who is talking about data mining is already thinking about Big Data problems. These are everywhere, from correlating shopping habits based on receipts and customer loyalty cards to looking for terrorists by their travel patterns.
How one would "enforce" this document is pretty vague to me. What I wouldn't mind is some sort of "Seal of Decency" that publishers could put on their game if and only if it follows a specific set of guidelines like "no always-on internet requirement", "no rootkits", and "multiplayer servers shall remain active for at least 3 years".
The gross governmental mismanagement in the agricultural sector combined with rampant kleptomania and a policy of maintaining a much larger army than the economy can support have caused a continual food crisis for decades now. Most younger North Koreans have been starving for their entire lives.
The problem is that a civil war often boils down to which of the two (or more) military commanders wants to become the new dictator and continue exploiting the crap out of the populace just like the old dictator. Rooting out entrenched corruption is extremely difficult, and most people who try end up in shallow unmarked graves.
North Korea is like a Facebook drama queen that has to post every other day about how some nonspecific HORRIBLE new thing just happened to them, please post on their walls to validate their existence. On Facebook the only way to deal with them is to ignore them (or unfriend) until they get the point, but I'm not sure how well this will work with an entire country. One thing is certain though, feeding the troll only makes it worse.
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Nobody ever accused SGI of sane pricing.
Tiny laptops with high end processors, video cards, etc... immediately make me concerned for the TDP of the box. Either the cooling fans are going to be constantly on leaf blower mode and/or the thing will be uncomfortably warm in just a couple of minutes of gaming.
I thought the deal was that the support contract was based on a percentage of the list price of the machine, so they jack the list price up really high and offer deep discounts because what they really want is the juicy support contract anyway.
While that's theoretically true, my experience is that most AT&T towers just tell T-Mo users to call 911 or go away. I had many many times where the AT&T logo showed up on my phone with even the EDGE or GPRS logos and attempting to make a call or load a page or even send an SMS just ended with my phone spinning for awhile and getting nowhere.
I'd much rather pay for the phone up front than give the phone company a loan on their terms. This is especially true since the current model is ridiculous. You buy a phone and it is "subsidized" over 2 years. Fine, except that at the end of the 2 years your plan's price doesn't go down to represent the fact that you've paid off the phone. In fact you're stuck paying the subsidy for absolutely no service at all! It's outrageous and they've been getting away with it for decades now. The worst part is that with most companies you can bring your own phone in, and they will still charge you the subsidy anyway. They have only been getting away with it because all of the companies do it so there is no real competition. With T-Mo finally giving people an option, we'll have to see if that particular ripoff can stand.
If only their coverage wasn't easily the worst of the big 4 a move to T-Mo would be easy. If you live in the city then this is a great plan and you should take it. If you ever intend to leave the city then it's not so great. I had T-Mo for years before I finally had to give up and switch to Verizon, because the coverage was a constant problem for me.
Bonus though: at least when I had it T-Mo worked in the city while AT&T (my wife's provider) was crapping themselves due to excessive volume. I could call and even get data through when her phone was reduced to a glorified iPod Touch due to total and complete network overload.
But but think of the merchant fees that they might miss out on! This is a case of the old business model preventing a company from making the transition to the new world.
People have been doing that, and causing some of the Chinese producers to bankrupt themselves already, even with all of the government subsidies and kickbacks.
I was assuming he got paid in $20s, which would be a stack about 2" high. I'm a bit curious as to what employer pays cash in that amount though. Maybe construction? It's hard to find a construction job that pays that well though.
The regulation is clearly going to happen at MtGox or any other place that exchanges bitcoins for USD. Once you are sending $10,000 USD to someone, the money laundering provisions apply. This should work for as long as businesses don't accept bitcoins directly, which is still mostly the case. There are a small number of businesses that will deal directly in bitcoins, but not enough that you could spend $10,000 on them reasonably yet.
The no-fly violations are kind of like NK artillery tests, diplomats and the media make a big deal about them, but in terms of actual effect they really don't mean anything. It's just dictators trolling the world and hoping to improve their bargaining position. It's just saber rattling.
That's the correct answer to any headline that ends in a question mark.
My impression at the time was that Bush and company was hellbent on railroading the country into war, and they knew how to get what they wanted, mostly by running roughshod over the concept of checks and balances. They didn't even really try very hard to convince people, it was just "he might have chemical weapons!" and "ooh, look at this render of a mobile chemical lab that he could have maybe built". It's a shame Breaking Bad had not aired yet at the time, people would have had a lot of fun with the RV comparisons. There was also the fact that we were still neck deep in Afghanistan at the time. The war with Afghanistan at least made sense, the country had been taken over by guys who were very happily sheltering the guys who had just perpetrated the biggest acts of terrorism in modern US history. They were also being huge jerks to their own people (destroying the countries heritage, oppressing women and minorities (ok, that is part of the heretic they kept), and running the place like their own private piggybank) and nobody else in the world liked them. We even had UN buy in and some (mostly token, with a couple of exceptions) NATO support. Saddam had been keeping a reasonably low profile for a long time too, it seemed really unprovoked for Bush to suddenly single him out and call for his head.
I'm not sure how 1 pound is now 1 penny equates to 99.6% inflation... Anyway a mere 100% inflation over 100 years is pretty darn good. It appears that your definition of catastrophic inflation is any inflation at all.
You're going to need to define "catastrophic" inflation, because we certainly have paper money systems that are more than a century old and still working. The US dollar alone is 228 years old, and the Great British Pound is approaching 300 years old. Have they had inflation over time? Yes, in fact that's considered normal and healthy for a currency. Have they had periods of increased inflation, yes, but never so bad as to wipe out people's savings like with some other currencies (examples include the German Mark after WW1 and the Ruble after the fall of communism in the former Soviet Union).
My problem with the Jetta is that after 5 years or so, all of the plastics start falling off of the vehicle at an alarming rate. It was my wife's car, but when the transmission finally committed seppuku, I was kind of glad, since the interior was literally falling apart. For example, the day we sold it we went out to pull our town sticker off of the car and noticed that the glove compartment and fallen out. A few months earlier the plastic housing for the trunk light fell apart and allowed the light to short out against the body of the car, destroying the computer and requiring an expensive replacement. The transmission crapped out with just barely over 120k miles on the Odo too, which is horrendous.
Windows SSH servers blow chunks though.
Maybe it's because I'm always working with terminals? RDP sucks at scrolling text.
Anybody who is talking about data mining is already thinking about Big Data problems. These are everywhere, from correlating shopping habits based on receipts and customer loyalty cards to looking for terrorists by their travel patterns.
Hadoop is not a browser plugin.
RDP is faster than X on the same connection? When does this happen? It's always laggy for me.
How one would "enforce" this document is pretty vague to me. What I wouldn't mind is some sort of "Seal of Decency" that publishers could put on their game if and only if it follows a specific set of guidelines like "no always-on internet requirement", "no rootkits", and "multiplayer servers shall remain active for at least 3 years".
The gross governmental mismanagement in the agricultural sector combined with rampant kleptomania and a policy of maintaining a much larger army than the economy can support have caused a continual food crisis for decades now. Most younger North Koreans have been starving for their entire lives.
The problem is that a civil war often boils down to which of the two (or more) military commanders wants to become the new dictator and continue exploiting the crap out of the populace just like the old dictator. Rooting out entrenched corruption is extremely difficult, and most people who try end up in shallow unmarked graves.
North Korea is like a Facebook drama queen that has to post every other day about how some nonspecific HORRIBLE new thing just happened to them, please post on their walls to validate their existence. On Facebook the only way to deal with them is to ignore them (or unfriend) until they get the point, but I'm not sure how well this will work with an entire country. One thing is certain though, feeding the troll only makes it worse.
At least QR codes don't make an obnoxious noise and annoy everyone around you.