For instance, does Dell give cd keys for their products?
Yes, there's a little "certificate of authenticity" on each machine with the CD key.
Not sure about it always being valid though. For instance, all Win2K machines come with an XP key nowadays, I know that the licence - in the abstract sense - covers 2K as well, but the keys don't seem to work for reinstalls.
Give me a break, 2GB of RAM and 1 terabyte of disk space. It's rediculous.
Not that ridiculous, it's what I am running and pretty much what I consider to be "somewhat high-end" at this point. Of course the TB of disk isn't on board, large amounts of storage like that seem rather impractical without some sort of centralized management system.
Assuming that current PCs cost $600, in a couple of years, this will drop to $250.
PC prices don't work that way - in a couple of years "mainstream" machines will still cost $600 but will be of a higher spec. You will not be able to get a today's spec machine for $250 from the places where most "average users" get their machines from.
I tend to spec out machines we use at work here, the midrange Dell desktop most people get is about $1,600 (including the monitor and software), which is almost exactly what we were paying for a midrange machine five years ago - this does not mean we can get the old spec from Dell for a lot less money today, they simply don't sell it.
It's an "if these trends continue" argument: "This baby is only two months old and already has one head and two arms - if these trends continue it will have 6 heads and 12 arms when it turns one!"
Did saying "Eric Blair's 1984" have ONE IOTA of PURPOSE that made it perferable to "George Orwell's 1984?"
Yes. I for one didn't know who Eric Blair was - now I do. And "1984" is so well known that saying "George Orwell's 1984" is kind of redundant anyway.
Highlight, right-click, Google took all of 7 seconds in Mozilla. So a pointless reference was rendered informative. And your German analogy doesn't really work - German has no intrinsic relevance to the subjectmatter of your post, whereas the submitter's headline did.
It'd get very confusing if the ark was called "The Utnapishtim," but was shown to have been piloted by Deucalion and Pyrrha. And Ziusudra would have to have something to do with it as well. (Damn, you need a pretty big ass ark just to fit all the flood survivors on it)
WTF? The Discover Channel picture (the full version of which I cannot see because of awful javascript) has an ark in it that was drawn with MS Paint - are they serious?
If there really is a creator, how could anyone think that such a superior being would have anything to do with all of the hate and ignorance in the bible?
Well that's always been an interesting question - all that's claimed about the "creator" is that he is infinitely more powerful than us. He is only "good" because he tells us that what he does is "good" and that "evil" is the absence of Him. How do we know we didn't get saddled up with a particularly bitter creator? Or maybe he is just a really, really dumb and uneducated creator (by creator standards)? Or maybe he's just a bit of an asshole.
So, for a some more fun, check out this cute rebuttal of the scientific arguments against the story.
Nice, very St. Augustine - a logical dialectic argument, which continues until it comes to a contradiction with the bible, at which point the latter has to be accepted as correct, since as we all know, it is infallible. It's always fun to read this stuff.
3) It is Noah's ark, we will go on with our regular lives, and the scientists say "Umm... can we have a closer look at that book of yours?"
I am a little fuzzy on that point - you are saying that if they find something that is definitively identified as The Ark (like a little plaque on it, that says "The Ark"), then the laws of physics will be rewritten to accomodate a literal reading of the bible? Somehow I doubt that is going to happen, even if there is a little plaque.
Perhaps there is too wide an array of popular items in XYZ -- leading people to forgo any further shopping. This tells you you should move some of the popular items from store XYZ over to store ABC, and hike up all the prices a little bit.
It seems like you are really struggling to come up with reasons why this is a bad thing. (Even if you could somehow imagine that this system would give them more information about shopping habbits - you know those credit cards people tend to use nowadays?)
If walking past a particular ride makes me want icecream, hell, I want there to be an icecream stand nearby.
So, you go to their park, pay them money for the entertainment they provide, but somehow it's nefarious of them to more accuratly measure what the hell it is you want?
You are at their park, you wan't what they are selling, you are not somehow bucking the system by getting extra mayo on your burger before going the the Crazy Lego Ship.
And then as it was Windows I was learning Perl on I used OpenPerl IDE.
Personally I've never seen a use for a Perl IDE (maybe it's just that I haven't seen a good one) - I use UltraEdit day in and day out for Perl development and it's absolutely beautiful.
I really wish the parent didn't use buzzwordy phrases like "enabling rapid development methodologies," because the aforementioned tools really do kick some serious ass (once combined with a propertemplatingsystem.
Boo all you want but I do have to say that Yahoo does a superb job in spam filtering.
I use Yahoo, I'd go with "pretty good" rather than "superb." On an average week I'll get about 1200 messages a week sent to the bulk folder, and about 200 spam messages making it into the inbox. Still pretty damn annoying.
2 and 3 are squirrely? Are you on crack? Type in the code. Hit "Next" a couple times.
You forget that you actually have to find the code first, and that can be a huge pain in the ass. Just navigating through the dozens of popups for porn/bestiality on those warez sites (if you are using IE) is a hassle.
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Somewhere an Intel marketing exec just spastically grabbed his desk and ejaculated violently.
You are missing the point - what's in question is that we suffer for their being idiots if they don't get the updates.
(Uh, feel free to change the pronouns according to your OS purchasing habits)
Yes, there's a little "certificate of authenticity" on each machine with the CD key.
Not sure about it always being valid though. For instance, all Win2K machines come with an XP key nowadays, I know that the licence - in the abstract sense - covers 2K as well, but the keys don't seem to work for reinstalls.
Not that ridiculous, it's what I am running and pretty much what I consider to be "somewhat high-end" at this point. Of course the TB of disk isn't on board, large amounts of storage like that seem rather impractical without some sort of centralized management system.
PC prices don't work that way - in a couple of years "mainstream" machines will still cost $600 but will be of a higher spec. You will not be able to get a today's spec machine for $250 from the places where most "average users" get their machines from.
I tend to spec out machines we use at work here, the midrange Dell desktop most people get is about $1,600 (including the monitor and software), which is almost exactly what we were paying for a midrange machine five years ago - this does not mean we can get the old spec from Dell for a lot less money today, they simply don't sell it.
It's an "if these trends continue" argument: "This baby is only two months old and already has one head and two arms - if these trends continue it will have 6 heads and 12 arms when it turns one!"
Yes. I for one didn't know who Eric Blair was - now I do. And "1984" is so well known that saying "George Orwell's 1984" is kind of redundant anyway.
Highlight, right-click, Google took all of 7 seconds in Mozilla. So a pointless reference was rendered informative. And your German analogy doesn't really work - German has no intrinsic relevance to the subjectmatter of your post, whereas the submitter's headline did.
PS Uh, I don't think it's Cicero at least.
It'd get very confusing if the ark was called "The Utnapishtim," but was shown to have been piloted by Deucalion and Pyrrha. And Ziusudra would have to have something to do with it as well. (Damn, you need a pretty big ass ark just to fit all the flood survivors on it)
WTF? The Discover Channel picture (the full version of which I cannot see because of awful javascript) has an ark in it that was drawn with MS Paint - are they serious?
Actually no, it hasn't - my bad. Kind of seemed in line with the rest of the tinfoil bullplop posted here, guess I was just reading too much into it.
Well that's always been an interesting question - all that's claimed about the "creator" is that he is infinitely more powerful than us. He is only "good" because he tells us that what he does is "good" and that "evil" is the absence of Him. How do we know we didn't get saddled up with a particularly bitter creator? Or maybe he is just a really, really dumb and uneducated creator (by creator standards)? Or maybe he's just a bit of an asshole.
No way to know, really.
I'm fairly lightened up, I was a little confused about the joke.
Nice, very St. Augustine - a logical dialectic argument, which continues until it comes to a contradiction with the bible, at which point the latter has to be accepted as correct, since as we all know, it is infallible. It's always fun to read this stuff.
I am a little fuzzy on that point - you are saying that if they find something that is definitively identified as The Ark (like a little plaque on it, that says "The Ark"), then the laws of physics will be rewritten to accomodate a literal reading of the bible? Somehow I doubt that is going to happen, even if there is a little plaque.
Hey! There are parts of the bible I like, and parts I don't like!
It seems like you are really struggling to come up with reasons why this is a bad thing. (Even if you could somehow imagine that this system would give them more information about shopping habbits - you know those credit cards people tend to use nowadays?)
If walking past a particular ride makes me want icecream, hell, I want there to be an icecream stand nearby.
So, you go to their park, pay them money for the entertainment they provide, but somehow it's nefarious of them to more accuratly measure what the hell it is you want?
You are at their park, you wan't what they are selling, you are not somehow bucking the system by getting extra mayo on your burger before going the the Crazy Lego Ship.
A story about Perl and MySQL? Why not also mention that it runs best on FreeBSD, especially if it is written in vi?
That's kind of ironic, coming from "FatSean (18753)."
Personally I've never seen a use for a Perl IDE (maybe it's just that I haven't seen a good one) - I use UltraEdit day in and day out for Perl development and it's absolutely beautiful.
I really wish the parent didn't use buzzwordy phrases like "enabling rapid development methodologies," because the aforementioned tools really do kick some serious ass (once combined with a proper templating system.
Well, there's me... then there's sites like IMDB and Amazon.com, and *um* Slashdot?
Meaning that PHP is a real PITA - couldn't agree more. :)
The what? I've never seen a remote on mine.
I use Yahoo, I'd go with "pretty good" rather than "superb." On an average week I'll get about 1200 messages a week sent to the bulk folder, and about 200 spam messages making it into the inbox. Still pretty damn annoying.
Dude, where have you been the last year or so? Everybody knows SCO is full of shit - there is no reason to keep repeatedly listing the reasons.
You forget that you actually have to find the code first, and that can be a huge pain in the ass. Just navigating through the dozens of popups for porn/bestiality on those warez sites (if you are using IE) is a hassle.