The only part of your rant that was missing was the part where you yell at the kids to get off your damn lawn.
I don't fully understand what your problem is. Savings cards? Some people like saving money, and aren't so fucking sad and lazy that they can actually _gasp_ walk to the garbage/recycling can and just throw it away? Using a card you can save hundreds of dollars a year! What fools!
I think part of this is a good idea. Being able to have your shopping list instantly seems like a good idea to me. They could even take it a step further and actually guide you to what you are looking for, instead of having to blindly hunt the aisles. For some of us, time is money, and anything that saves it is priceless. Anything that literally saves money is even better. Maybe you wipe your bitter ass with $100 bills, but some of us don't, and are willing to put up with an easily forgettable ad as compensation. Did an advertiser kill your dog and rape your mom or something?
Insert - Doesn't really insert, it overwrites, now doesn't it.
Windows - I use this key a lot at work. Win+L to quickly lock my workstation, Win+R to quickly run an exe, Win+E to open a new explorer window. Very useful (more useful than the start menu, anyway)
Menu - I can see this being useful at a kiosk with no mouse or something, but no, i've never used it. I've never used the Home key either, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have a use
Num Lock - Only useful if you have one of those keyboards without the "middle" set of keys (arrows, insert, delete, etc)
The unusual fluid, they say, works at room temperature, holds photons for far longer than other systems, and can also be tuned with a magnet to store any wavelength of visible light That is interesting. I wonder if they could extend it to trap other EM frequencies. It would make an interesting cloaking technology in my mind. Can absorb and possibly redirect radar, light, microwaves. It would seem to make decent shielding from x-rays in medical labs, who knows. I wish it said how much energy the magnetic fields took to sustain, and how many photons they can capture per area. If this turns out to be legit...
In some states, public indecency will get you on the sex offender list (I think West Virginia is one)*. So, for merely getting caught peeing behind a tree at a bar after drinking a lot, you can get labeled a sex offender for life. The only victim of that crime is the person convicted, as they will have problems getting jobs, homes, even credit for the rest of their lives, and get put on wonderful lists like these. These sites are an invasion of privacy, frequently contain bad/wrong information, and rely on the offenders themselves to keep their addresses current. There are so many problems with this idea I can't even count them.
* I know this information because for a few weeks I worked as a developer for a major national sex offender search website until my morals caught up to me and I realized what a colossally bad idea the sites are.
How much does the damn thing weigh? I can't see that spec listed anywhere, but to have RAID, SLi cards (and their cooling requirements), etc can't make the thing portable. For a fraction of the cost of that, why not build a microATX PC in a case with a handle? With the remaining $4000 in difference, you can buy as many monitors and keyboards to leave anywhere you'd want to bring the thing.
This is only in the bill because the main part of the bill is for allowing MA to build 2 new casinos. This is just a way of filtering out competition. If you can have the government force a monopoly position, why not?
did they name the bill "Gambling Enablement Bill of 2007"?
I have a 250GB Samsung SpinPoint P series ATA drive, and tests that I've run on it using various benchmarking apps (SiSoft Sandra, etc.) show that it gets about 60-70MB/sec depending on block size and platter position (No RAID). I've seen it peak at 80MB/sec. I have an nVidia nForce 4 board from DFI. Clearly, 2 drives as master/slave on the same bus could then fairly regularly saturate an ATA-133 bus when running full speed. I suspect this is why Apple gives each drive its own independent IDE bus in the XServe RAID devices.
God they have balls. According to this Wired article, the lawyer for the RIAA actually said "This is what can happen if you don't settle.". If that in itself isn't proof that all they are trying to do is extort people, I don't know what is.
Reznor has his own recording studio, and CDs are getting cheaper and cheaper to mass produce. Distribution is really all that the labels do these days. They are nothing more than a specialized FedEx or DHL but yet take > 85% of the profit. Something is not right there.
It will be interesting to see how the new processor really performs when the 2.6.23 kernel is released." Why would you have to wait? Couldn't someone just grab the source, compile it, and benchmark it? Yes, it may have bugs, but it should at least give an indication of overall speed.
Really all they need to do is submit a random string of 0's and 1's. That is all memory contains, and it doesn't say anything about having to be readable by humans nor anything explaining how those 0's and 1's are segmented.
That is hogwash. According to wikipedia it has been on the market for 2 years now in various forms. Searching newegg there are many drives from a few brands that have it already, and I know I've seen them on there for at least a year.
The world has to come to a screeching halt while we access the almighty floppy drive. Well, my XP machine comes to a grinding halt for 20 or so seconds any time I put a CD or DVD drive into my home PC (Opteron 175 @ 2.5GHz, 2GB DDR500, 20X DVD-RW). Why the hell does that happen? Can't they make the drive load at least only hog one CPU core? I'm afraid to test in Vista, because if it can't play an MP3 and transfer files at the same time, putting in a DVD might make it commit suicide (which if you think about it really makes for the best form of DRM).
Are you trying to imply that because it isn't a DRM issue that it is OK for this quite serious bug to exist? I'm really wondering how no one at MS noticed this before hasta la Vista went out the door. The fact that even an IM alert can make your network speed drop 90% is inexcusable. Their QA department should be fired.
s it that hard to put a link to the actual museum instead of to page 2 of an article that talks about said museum? Are the mods asleep today? There are no ads on the museum site, so no revenue to drive up by linking to it.
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No shit?
The only part of your rant that was missing was the part where you yell at the kids to get off your damn lawn.
I don't fully understand what your problem is. Savings cards? Some people like saving money, and aren't so fucking sad and lazy that they can actually _gasp_ walk to the garbage/recycling can and just throw it away? Using a card you can save hundreds of dollars a year! What fools!
I think part of this is a good idea. Being able to have your shopping list instantly seems like a good idea to me. They could even take it a step further and actually guide you to what you are looking for, instead of having to blindly hunt the aisles. For some of us, time is money, and anything that saves it is priceless. Anything that literally saves money is even better. Maybe you wipe your bitter ass with $100 bills, but some of us don't, and are willing to put up with an easily forgettable ad as compensation. Did an advertiser kill your dog and rape your mom or something?
Insert - Doesn't really insert, it overwrites, now doesn't it.
Windows - I use this key a lot at work. Win+L to quickly lock my workstation, Win+R to quickly run an exe, Win+E to open a new explorer window. Very useful (more useful than the start menu, anyway)
Menu - I can see this being useful at a kiosk with no mouse or something, but no, i've never used it. I've never used the Home key either, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have a use
Num Lock - Only useful if you have one of those keyboards without the "middle" set of keys (arrows, insert, delete, etc)
Why does this thread suddenly read like a continuation of TFA?
Bees make the best web 2.0 buzzwords. They're the buzziest! I blame the hive mentality of the marketing drones for this.
In some states, public indecency will get you on the sex offender list (I think West Virginia is one)*. So, for merely getting caught peeing behind a tree at a bar after drinking a lot, you can get labeled a sex offender for life. The only victim of that crime is the person convicted, as they will have problems getting jobs, homes, even credit for the rest of their lives, and get put on wonderful lists like these. These sites are an invasion of privacy, frequently contain bad/wrong information, and rely on the offenders themselves to keep their addresses current. There are so many problems with this idea I can't even count them.
* I know this information because for a few weeks I worked as a developer for a major national sex offender search website until my morals caught up to me and I realized what a colossally bad idea the sites are.
... and with a bad back.
How much does the damn thing weigh? I can't see that spec listed anywhere, but to have RAID, SLi cards (and their cooling requirements), etc can't make the thing portable. For a fraction of the cost of that, why not build a microATX PC in a case with a handle? With the remaining $4000 in difference, you can buy as many monitors and keyboards to leave anywhere you'd want to bring the thing.
This is only in the bill because the main part of the bill is for allowing MA to build 2 new casinos. This is just a way of filtering out competition. If you can have the government force a monopoly position, why not?
did they name the bill "Gambling Enablement Bill of 2007"?
I have a 250GB Samsung SpinPoint P series ATA drive, and tests that I've run on it using various benchmarking apps (SiSoft Sandra, etc.) show that it gets about 60-70MB/sec depending on block size and platter position (No RAID). I've seen it peak at 80MB/sec. I have an nVidia nForce 4 board from DFI. Clearly, 2 drives as master/slave on the same bus could then fairly regularly saturate an ATA-133 bus when running full speed. I suspect this is why Apple gives each drive its own independent IDE bus in the XServe RAID devices.
God they have balls. According to this Wired article, the lawyer for the RIAA actually said "This is what can happen if you don't settle.". If that in itself isn't proof that all they are trying to do is extort people, I don't know what is.
Reznor has his own recording studio, and CDs are getting cheaper and cheaper to mass produce. Distribution is really all that the labels do these days. They are nothing more than a specialized FedEx or DHL but yet take > 85% of the profit. Something is not right there.
Oh no, perhaps gravity is weakening, which is causing all the earthquakes in the indonesian fault lines! EVERYBODY PANIC!!!
Really all they need to do is submit a random string of 0's and 1's. That is all memory contains, and it doesn't say anything about having to be readable by humans nor anything explaining how those 0's and 1's are segmented.
Perhaps kdawson loves windows and IIS so much that he added it to his dictionary? ;)
That is hogwash. According to wikipedia it has been on the market for 2 years now in various forms. Searching newegg there are many drives from a few brands that have it already, and I know I've seen them on there for at least a year.
Are you trying to imply that because it isn't a DRM issue that it is OK for this quite serious bug to exist? I'm really wondering how no one at MS noticed this before hasta la Vista went out the door. The fact that even an IM alert can make your network speed drop 90% is inexcusable. Their QA department should be fired.
Is it going to run TCP/IPee?
:)
And I thought my internet connection was shitty.
Ok, I'm done. Sorry.
Is it that hard to put a link to the actual museum instead of to page 2 of an article that talks about said museum? Are the mods asleep today?