Some listeners think that vinyl reproduces sound better than digital
And some people buy Gold-plated Monster cables and Macs too. It just proves there's a sucker born every minute (at least).
some youngsters like the social experience of gathering around a turntable.
That's mainly because most youngsters' "social experience" has been limited to school (see "Lord of the Flies") and texting. Actually, y'know, MEETING UP with someone is a HUGE novelty these days. The turntable's just incidental.
Only an idiot is going to try to land an occupying force in something as large as the United States, where any given citizen can be more heavily armed than an entire company of Infantry.
No, straight Helium is a lower density medium than normal air. This means less atmospheric friction and less driver motor friction while spinning a platter.
Wouldn't it be better to just create a vacuum inside the drive? The vapor pressure of aluminum at 10^-10 torr is 600 C.
No. Because a vacuum would actually insulate the components. As there's nothing for heat to disperse through EXCEPT other components.
No, straight Helium is a lower density medium than normal air. This means less atmospheric friction and less driver motor friction while spinning a platter. Since the individual platter assemblies run cooler, they can pack them closer together (and put more in a given drive casing).
Also, because they have to hermetically seal a platter assembly into the helium atmosphere, with some modifications, such drives can be used in full-immersion cooling, where normal air-cooled drives need to breathe.
As much as I think these people, for lack of a better term, fucking morons, I'm VERY leery of making this sort of thing "mandatory".
We could all be mentally ill! Let's make Prozac mandatory!
We have a population problem. Let's make injectable birth control mandatory!
Yes, we're not there yet. And YES, there's a BIG difference between chemically sterilizing someone and giving them a vaccine. But the very act of making the putting of a foreign substance in your body COMPULSORY is the big scary issue here. And it SHOULD be scary. You're being told you have no right to control your own body and what goes into it.
Sorry. AMD's main problem is not their hardware. Their hardware ROCKS.
The problem is, their driver packages are flaky, buggy, unstable pieces of shit. And, after being burned so many times by their crap, I won't trust them ever again.
Simply because a product threatens your business doesn't mean you are entitled to get it legislated out of existence.
AdBlock puts out a product that saves people bandwidth and filters out all sorts of noxious, potentially dangerous content.
However, there ARE ways around AdBlock. At the root of it, your ads simply CANNOT utilize any of the aforementioned noxious, potentially dangerous means to FORCE views.
If this breaks your business model?
Get a better fucking business model, as the one you're using now sucks.
Also, end users VOLUNTARILY install AdBlock. It isn't a default install anywhere. So these are people who have made a choice NOT to accept traffic from your crappy ad network. AdBlock didn't FORCE their product on ANYONE. Again, you don't have a right to force people to view your content.
So you're trying to say there's no difference between a grid that's set up for power transmission only from utility-based sources and one that's set up to allow customers to push power back upstream?
You may be paying equipment and install costs on YOUR end.
But the utility has to have the equipment and infrastructure in place to accept transmission BACK from you as well.
I *HIGHLY* doubt you're paying for the upgrades to your local substation that this requires. Even the connection fees you're paying are only a token against these costs.
He doesn't understand how the Internet actually works.
CAN ISPs use technology and root out more casual piracy? Probably. But this kind of inspection doesn't STOP the piracy, it just makes discovery easier. It ALSO slows down their networks and requires a substantial investment in equipment and software that IN NO WAY contributes to the company's bottom line.
As such, why should the ISPs be forced to foot the bill? Especially when we get down to brass tacks, they pass it along to the customer and now people are essentially paying to be spied upon.
Had this been a PHYSICAL theft, he'd be blaming everyone who'd seen the criminal for not making an arrest, without knowing that something had been done in the first place. Every cabby, bus driver, friend or random pedestrian on the street.
The only way to get RID of piracy is to eliminate the desire to actually consume that media. But that's like trying to outlaw water because it contributes to drowning. If you eliminate the desire to consume said media, you've just cut your own throat.
As long as there's a desire to consume this content, and there's ANY form of price or availability barrier, there is GOING to be piracy. FLAT OUT. Anyone who doesn't understand this, and that trying to pursue this sort of imbecillic goal of "stamping out piracy" is chasing a fantasy.
The best that can be done is to increase viewer options until piracy becomes too much of a hassle for the majority. The best bet for that right now are streaming services like iTunes, Amazon, Google Play, and Netflix.
And we can get there all the faster without mentally stunted individuals like Cameron stirring the pot and injecting idiocy after idiocy into the debate.
why is your pacemaker directly on the internet? why is any of this stuff directly on the internet? Grandpa tapping his phone against his chest so the pacemaker can upload to his phone to send to his doctor would be neat. and make it so the pacemaker can only recieve instructions from a secure device at the Cardiologist's office.
nobody is saying set your toilet to send a tweet everytime you drop a deuce and do a chemical analysis on it (though the chem analysis may be handy from a health perspective in a hospital)
That's the thing, that's IS what they're saying. Everything online.
Without really stopping to ask if the stuff BELONGS online in the first place, what data it could be bleeding, and what kind of consequences there are to security breaches.
It's simply the latest wave of the "On the Internet!" fad.
Viewing webpages ON THE INTERNET Watching movies ON THE INTERNET Banking ON THE INTERNET Buying dog food ON THE INTERNET Your car ON THE INTERNET Your refrigerator ON THE INTERNET Your thermostat ON THE INTERNET Your toilet ON THE INTERNET
While the gear geek in me thinks "Cool! We can do that!" The rest of me really, SERIOUSLY questions other ramifications brought on by "Everything ON THE INTERNET". Like privacy. And security.
Think of "Your security system ON THE INTERNET". Now think of a tech-savvy burglar. They basically use your own house to recon you. Figure out when you're out, then hit you by opening the doors for themselves.
Or, if you REALLY wanna shit your pants, do the "Your pacemaker ON THE INTERNET" thought experiment.
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Some listeners think that vinyl reproduces sound better than digital
And some people buy Gold-plated Monster cables and Macs too. It just proves there's a sucker born every minute (at least).
some youngsters like the social experience of gathering around a turntable.
That's mainly because most youngsters' "social experience" has been limited to school (see "Lord of the Flies") and texting. Actually, y'know, MEETING UP with someone is a HUGE novelty these days. The turntable's just incidental.
Doesn't much matter.
Only an idiot is going to try to land an occupying force in something as large as the United States, where any given citizen can be more heavily armed than an entire company of Infantry.
And where did Lafayette come from, and on who's side did he fight?
I fail to see Gilbert du Motier listed as a member of the Vichy Regime government.
Just in time for the 4th Succession War!
Haven't we had quite a few more than that already?
In a word? Nope.
No, straight Helium is a lower density medium than normal air. This means less atmospheric friction and less driver motor friction while spinning a platter.
Wouldn't it be better to just create a vacuum inside the drive? The vapor pressure of aluminum at 10^-10 torr is 600 C.
No. Because a vacuum would actually insulate the components. As there's nothing for heat to disperse through EXCEPT other components.
Oh boy! So, at this rate, someone would be able to drive coast to coast by...oh...3025?
Just in time for the 4th Succession War!
I love Americans. So quick to call out the French for surrendering when they've never faced the prospect of enemy soldiers on their home soil.
You obviously have forgotten that little scuffle between 1775 and 1783 we like to call "The American Revolutionary War".
So yes, we DID have a foreign army on our home soil.
So, where the Vichy government dropped trou, we rude Americans kicked the invaders in the nuts and sent them packing.
I will say this. While the French government was useless and emasculate, at least the French Underground had a collective set of big brass ones.
No, straight Helium is a lower density medium than normal air. This means less atmospheric friction and less driver motor friction while spinning a platter.
Since the individual platter assemblies run cooler, they can pack them closer together (and put more in a given drive casing).
Also, because they have to hermetically seal a platter assembly into the helium atmosphere, with some modifications, such drives can be used in full-immersion cooling, where normal air-cooled drives need to breathe.
As much as I think these people, for lack of a better term, fucking morons, I'm VERY leery of making this sort of thing "mandatory".
We could all be mentally ill! Let's make Prozac mandatory!
We have a population problem. Let's make injectable birth control mandatory!
Yes, we're not there yet. And YES, there's a BIG difference between chemically sterilizing someone and giving them a vaccine. But the very act of making the putting of a foreign substance in your body COMPULSORY is the big scary issue here. And it SHOULD be scary. You're being told you have no right to control your own body and what goes into it.
Sorry. AMD's main problem is not their hardware. Their hardware ROCKS.
The problem is, their driver packages are flaky, buggy, unstable pieces of shit. And, after being burned so many times by their crap, I won't trust them ever again.
I am NOT getting locked into a subscription model and allowing ANY vendor to hold me hostage. NOT happening.
I'd rather unplug than get sucked into an extortion ring like that.
A buggy whip.
Simply because a product threatens your business doesn't mean you are entitled to get it legislated out of existence.
AdBlock puts out a product that saves people bandwidth and filters out all sorts of noxious, potentially dangerous content.
However, there ARE ways around AdBlock. At the root of it, your ads simply CANNOT utilize any of the aforementioned noxious, potentially dangerous means to FORCE views.
If this breaks your business model?
Get a better fucking business model, as the one you're using now sucks.
Also, end users VOLUNTARILY install AdBlock. It isn't a default install anywhere. So these are people who have made a choice NOT to accept traffic from your crappy ad network. AdBlock didn't FORCE their product on ANYONE. Again, you don't have a right to force people to view your content.
The DMCA needs to be thrown out with a bunch of the other fecal detritus that's been inserted in modern US law, to the detriment of everyone.
I'd say that Hughes didn't do a damn thing.
You had a bunch of journalists who didn't identify with the pablum the new owner was puking. So, to send a CLEAR message, they quit.
An unusually direct show of integrity in today's era of spineless, jellyfish-like hack wannabes.
So you're trying to say there's no difference between a grid that's set up for power transmission only from utility-based sources and one that's set up to allow customers to push power back upstream?
Uh. I think you're full of shit.
You may be paying equipment and install costs on YOUR end.
But the utility has to have the equipment and infrastructure in place to accept transmission BACK from you as well.
I *HIGHLY* doubt you're paying for the upgrades to your local substation that this requires. Even the connection fees you're paying are only a token against these costs.
I, for one, LOVE the fact that my local FOREST PRESERVE bought a bunch of M60's.
WTF is a Forest Preserve unit doing with M60's?
As long as there's a desire to consume this content, and there's ANY form of price or availability barrier, there is GOING to be piracy
As long as there's a motive there is going to be crime, therefore we should give up on policing crime but focus on removing motives for crime instead.
What's the weather like in cloud cuckoo land tonight?
Try actually READING what I said.
Nowhere did I say we should give up on policing crime.
But I draw the line at forcing people to pay to surveil themselves.
Or forcing ISPs into law enforcement, unpaid, when THAT IS NOT THEIR JOB.
My comment about piracy always being a factor is simple recognition of human nature.
Basically this structure is all finacial-penalty for the the ISP.
It's in their interests to minimize their cost outlays.
In this case, it's cheaper to grease political palms to be left alone than actually invest in a surveillance system.
He doesn't understand how the Internet actually works.
CAN ISPs use technology and root out more casual piracy? Probably. But this kind of inspection doesn't STOP the piracy, it just makes discovery easier. It ALSO slows down their networks and requires a substantial investment in equipment and software that IN NO WAY contributes to the company's bottom line.
As such, why should the ISPs be forced to foot the bill? Especially when we get down to brass tacks, they pass it along to the customer and now people are essentially paying to be spied upon.
Had this been a PHYSICAL theft, he'd be blaming everyone who'd seen the criminal for not making an arrest, without knowing that something had been done in the first place. Every cabby, bus driver, friend or random pedestrian on the street.
The only way to get RID of piracy is to eliminate the desire to actually consume that media. But that's like trying to outlaw water because it contributes to drowning. If you eliminate the desire to consume said media, you've just cut your own throat.
As long as there's a desire to consume this content, and there's ANY form of price or availability barrier, there is GOING to be piracy. FLAT OUT. Anyone who doesn't understand this, and that trying to pursue this sort of imbecillic goal of "stamping out piracy" is chasing a fantasy.
The best that can be done is to increase viewer options until piracy becomes too much of a hassle for the majority. The best bet for that right now are streaming services like iTunes, Amazon, Google Play, and Netflix.
And we can get there all the faster without mentally stunted individuals like Cameron stirring the pot and injecting idiocy after idiocy into the debate.
why is your pacemaker directly on the internet? why is any of this stuff directly on the internet? Grandpa tapping his phone against his chest so the pacemaker can upload to his phone to send to his doctor would be neat. and make it so the pacemaker can only recieve instructions from a secure device at the Cardiologist's office.
nobody is saying set your toilet to send a tweet everytime you drop a deuce and do a chemical analysis on it (though the chem analysis may be handy from a health perspective in a hospital)
That's the thing, that's IS what they're saying. Everything online.
Without really stopping to ask if the stuff BELONGS online in the first place, what data it could be bleeding, and what kind of consequences there are to security breaches.
It's simply the latest wave of the "On the Internet!" fad.
Viewing webpages ON THE INTERNET
Watching movies ON THE INTERNET
Banking ON THE INTERNET
Buying dog food ON THE INTERNET
Your car ON THE INTERNET
Your refrigerator ON THE INTERNET
Your thermostat ON THE INTERNET
Your toilet ON THE INTERNET
While the gear geek in me thinks "Cool! We can do that!"
The rest of me really, SERIOUSLY questions other ramifications brought on by "Everything ON THE INTERNET". Like privacy. And security.
Think of "Your security system ON THE INTERNET". Now think of a tech-savvy burglar. They basically use your own house to recon you. Figure out when you're out, then hit you by opening the doors for themselves.
Or, if you REALLY wanna shit your pants, do the "Your pacemaker ON THE INTERNET" thought experiment.
Misinformation is the greatest gift ever bequeathed to yellow journalism.
It sells papers and puts butts in Nielsen-rated seats.
So why WOULDN'T they pursue an agenda of misinformation?
Valls said taxation would have to orient citizens towards more expensive choices
There! I've thoroughly grammar-corrected the line from the original Surrender Monkey.
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