That's because the comic book was never really worth $500 in the first place. The reason some comics are so valuable is BECAUSE they're scarce. In the last 40 years, they've been ANYTHING but scarce. So, no matter how much some schmuck sets the value for it, unless just about every other of the tens or hundreds of thousands of copies are known to be destroyed, it probably isn't even worth the cover price.
My rule for SSD: I will never again have a non-SSD system disk, due to the significant increase in speed, and also noise reduction (and on laptop increased battery life), you get. The multi-TB storage is on a NAS.
"I'll pay in order to make sure that my subscriber might receive the best possible transmission of this movie."
Why? They're already paying for the bandwidth from their massive content network.
And their clients are ALREADY paying their ISPs for "best effort" delivery.
It's the ISP's customers who are requesting the traffic in their first place. If these providers don't want to deliver best effort, their clients can (ideally) move to services that WILL.
But nooo! That'd mean that these fucking bloodsucking middlemen would have to compete solely on price and performance. Can't have that! We'll just hold everyone hostage until they pay MORE!
A) Lying B) Trying to tell you something C) Stupid beyond the capacity of any language to encompass D) Completely out of touch with reality E) All of the above
Why would someone living on such slim margins buy a smartphone and its expensive data plan in the first place instead of buying a dumbphone?
Why do people ostensibly living below the poverty line without a high school diploma, popping out babies like it's going out of style own multiple cell phones and drive around in an Escalade?
Because they're stupid. And because our stupid, materialistic culture has convinced them that they HAVE to have it if they want to be considered worth anything.
Cut off the hand in such a way as to keep the appendage from bleeding out (think fire-heated axe), and there's still going to be blood (and hemoglobin) in there.
Maybe enough, maybe not.
What about people with poor circulation (older people mostly).
They're going to have real problems using this as an authentication mechanism. Hell, some of them NOW have major issues with capacitive touchscreens.
With stock firmware from Lenovo, SSDs are unsupported on T60/T61's. PERIOD. The are some third party firmware hacks that promise more stability. But, in general, it's luck of the draw on those machines.
Toshitba's on my as well. I wouldn't buy parts from them if they were the only source available. With crap hardware, crap software, and customer service second to EVERYONE (actually probably third or fourth to everyone but I'm going through a "nice" phase).
This is a product almost nobody with ANY understanding of the Windows ecosystem wants.
While these are still "tablets", users still want the ability to install and control their own software loadouts.
NOT have to depend on a locked-down app store. NOT have to re-buy the same product over and over again every time the platform changes.
Basically Windows RT was a well-meaning effort with an absolutely shitty execution (not surprising with Larson-Green involved). Windows 8 already has enough problems with user/enterprise acceptance. This was basically "Windows 8: Gimpy Edition".
B) Correct. The original 1965 paper observed that transistor counts were tending to double every year (12 months), which he later revised to every 2 years (24 months) in 1975.
What people are misquoting is the House corollary. That PERFORMANCE of microprocessors, due to increased transistor counts, and faster speeds, seems to double roughly every 18 months.
The urge to start killing dumbfucks and purging the stupid from the gene pool is as overwhelming as it is constant.
The better part of me says "this is not the way"...until nobody's looking, then it just nods and mutters that, actually, it is, but it's still figuring out a way to maximize the impact once the dumbfucks catch wind of it and hunt me down.
We keep getting these jackasses shooting up schools and QuickeeMarts. They're just too dumb to understand who the REAL enemies are.
Well, 10,000-to-90,000+ e-mails? Yeah, I can see that taking time. Flat-filing it takes more time due to extensive disk access. Reducing it to SQL and blobs takes more time due to query limits for performance's-sake. Think about it.
An average e-mail is somewhere between 25KB and 75KB. That works out to about 2300-7000 words in plaintext. Now think about 20,000 of them in a single inbox. Now think about 80,000 of them in a single inbox.
This is why users of solutions like Outlook are encouraged to use archiving.
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That's because the comic book was never really worth $500 in the first place.
The reason some comics are so valuable is BECAUSE they're scarce.
In the last 40 years, they've been ANYTHING but scarce.
So, no matter how much some schmuck sets the value for it, unless just about every other of the tens or hundreds of thousands of copies are known to be destroyed, it probably isn't even worth the cover price.
"I have zillions of dollars worth of comic books! Wizard says I do!"
"I have zillions of dollars worth of Bitcoin! The exchange says I do!"
*Together* Let's cash out!
"WTF? Nobody wants to buy my comics at massively inflated prices!"
"WTF? Nobody wants to buy my Bitcoin at massively inflated prices!"
Cue the Python!
SCAM! SCAM! SCAM! SCAM! SCAM!
That doesn't mean we take every idiocy he utters as gospel.
Well...
It's not impossible. I used to bull's-eye womp rats in my t-16 back home. They're not much bigger than 2 meters.
So the Emperor needs to Force Lightning whoever forgot to weld a shield plate over that coolant vent.
Because we're dealing with zero trust.
That ALSO means I don't necessarily trust a 3rd party host either.
My rule for SSD: I will never again have a non-SSD system disk, due to the significant increase in speed, and also noise reduction (and on laptop increased battery life), you get. The multi-TB storage is on a NAS.
Damn skippy!
I really wanna see me some dogs with no noses...
Sorry, but if you're a broke, jobless motherfucker, you should be concerned with:
Food
Rent
Utilities
Keeping your kids in school
Finding/keeping a job
Popping out kids and buying expensive "bling" while on the public dole is absolute bullshit.
"I'll pay in order to make sure that my subscriber might receive the best possible transmission of this movie."
Why? They're already paying for the bandwidth from their massive content network.
And their clients are ALREADY paying their ISPs for "best effort" delivery.
It's the ISP's customers who are requesting the traffic in their first place. If these providers don't want to deliver best effort, their clients can (ideally) move to services that WILL.
But nooo! That'd mean that these fucking bloodsucking middlemen would have to compete solely on price and performance. Can't have that! We'll just hold everyone hostage until they pay MORE!
This is basically extortion. Nothing more.
Anyone telling you the desktop is dead is:
A) Lying
B) Trying to tell you something
C) Stupid beyond the capacity of any language to encompass
D) Completely out of touch with reality
E) All of the above
I'll go with E.
Why would someone living on such slim margins buy a smartphone and its expensive data plan in the first place instead of buying a dumbphone?
Why do people ostensibly living below the poverty line without a high school diploma, popping out babies like it's going out of style own multiple cell phones and drive around in an Escalade?
Because they're stupid. And because our stupid, materialistic culture has convinced them that they HAVE to have it if they want to be considered worth anything.
Actually I have a med/surg background.
So, I can stand a lot...
Yeah. This is me taking out your spleen.
That's Nurse Ratchet juggling it.
Wait...that was your kidney...
Why are there two of them?
Oh crap!
Uh. Sorry. You're barking up the wrong tree.
I never claimed that "nobody" knows whether there's a God (or even a god).
I simply said that "I don't know. And you don't either."
That's a little general knowledge about humanity as a whole and basic statistics.
Sorry, the "True Scotsman" argument doesn't work with me.
Luckily I'm not an atheist.
I'm a lapsed Catholic (all of the guilt and none of the Sunday social commitments!) and a militant agnostic (I don't know AND NEITHER DO YOU DAMMIT!)
If the former, maybe. Might still be gotten around by pumping the hand.
If the latter, I wouldn't worry too much. A human hand doesn't bleed heat off that quickly.
Cut off the hand in such a way as to keep the appendage from bleeding out (think fire-heated axe), and there's still going to be blood (and hemoglobin) in there.
Maybe enough, maybe not.
What about people with poor circulation (older people mostly).
They're going to have real problems using this as an authentication mechanism. Hell, some of them NOW have major issues with capacitive touchscreens.
No.
Not a chance in hell.
Then again, Intel's 330 is notorious for not getting along with T60/T61 Thinkpads.>/quote>
With stock firmware from Lenovo, SSDs are unsupported on T60/T61's. PERIOD. The are some third party firmware hacks that promise more stability. But, in general, it's luck of the draw on those machines.
Toshitba's on my as well. I wouldn't buy parts from them if they were the only source available.
With crap hardware, crap software, and customer service second to EVERYONE (actually probably third or fourth to everyone but I'm going through a "nice" phase).
No. This is more than "a little difficulty".
This is a product almost nobody with ANY understanding of the Windows ecosystem wants.
While these are still "tablets", users still want the ability to install and control their own software loadouts.
NOT have to depend on a locked-down app store.
NOT have to re-buy the same product over and over again every time the platform changes.
Basically Windows RT was a well-meaning effort with an absolutely shitty execution (not surprising with Larson-Green involved).
Windows 8 already has enough problems with user/enterprise acceptance. This was basically "Windows 8: Gimpy Edition".
A) Stop being a pedantic dick.
B) Correct. The original 1965 paper observed that transistor counts were tending to double every year (12 months), which he later revised to every 2 years (24 months) in 1975.
What people are misquoting is the House corollary. That PERFORMANCE of microprocessors, due to increased transistor counts, and faster speeds, seems to double roughly every 18 months.
The urge to start killing dumbfucks and purging the stupid from the gene pool is as overwhelming as it is constant.
The better part of me says "this is not the way"...until nobody's looking, then it just nods and mutters that, actually, it is, but it's still figuring out a way to maximize the impact once the dumbfucks catch wind of it and hunt me down.
We keep getting these jackasses shooting up schools and QuickeeMarts. They're just too dumb to understand who the REAL enemies are.
Oh! Too soon?
Well, 10,000-to-90,000+ e-mails?
Yeah, I can see that taking time.
Flat-filing it takes more time due to extensive disk access.
Reducing it to SQL and blobs takes more time due to query limits for performance's-sake.
Think about it.
An average e-mail is somewhere between 25KB and 75KB.
That works out to about 2300-7000 words in plaintext.
Now think about 20,000 of them in a single inbox.
Now think about 80,000 of them in a single inbox.
This is why users of solutions like Outlook are encouraged to use archiving.