Aparently, in their squabble over his money, someone tipped off the government
Precicely. If they hadn't been squabling, and just agreed to each become multi-millionares, then the tip-off probably wouldn't have happened.
But no, they wanted to be twice as obcenely rich, and now end up with nothing.
My wife and 5 year old son both understand that is why all the disney DVDs look like crap on our less-than-high-end DVD player. Yet, the "safety backup" looks fine on the same player.
So, what HD would you use in your desktop box, if you had to replace a drive today?
I mean, all drives fail at some point. I've had Maxtor, Segate, WD and several others die over the years (though not as spectacularly as TFA suggests).
Maybe a mix of brands is the answer, if you can make them co-operate in a RAID array. The usual advice seems to be that you want the drives to be identical. Are there any major downsides to using similar spec, but different brand drives in an array?
$10 isn't much of a risk, and there is a potential to make a few dollars back. Or at least, you'll get your name in the credits. And isn't that worth $10?
When machines get better at doing things, so that they're the cheaper option, they do the jobs instead of people.
I'm surprised that no one has brought up McSwineys from Harrison's "Stainless Steel Rat" books.
It is exactly what you suggest.
A 100% automated burger joint.
A guy comes by once a week and fills the freezer, and someone shows up if the machinery breaks, but other than that the only people are the customers (and an occasional thief-in-training hiding in the back room).
Just count the damn instruments.
That's what happens now, at least in the Canadian hospital where my wife had her c-section.
During the procedure I saw one of the nurses in the operating room do a full inventory of instruments, sponges, and everything else that the surgeon had access to at least 4 times. (Maybe more, I was a little pre-ocupied at the time.)
And she stopped the surgeon and assistant once to ask which tools they had in their hands at the moment when she had a discrepancy in the count.
If they even get a few hundred users to post a few blog posts with useful marketing information, they'll be happy.
Marketing data is what they are looking for
Well, if that's all they want, I'm sure a few hundred bored, "walMart-are-scum" preachin' Slashdotters could provide them with tons of "valuable" marketing data....
I routinely get work orders (as PDFs) with enormous diagrams, and circuit descriptions that span several pages.
It's impossible to see enough of it to do the job, without having the details impossibly small. Therefor, I print them.
When challenged on my going against the "paperless concept" I usually ask for a 3x3 array of monitors view the work order at a useable size. No one has yet taken me up on that.
Sometimes what works in the physical world doesn't translate easily to the virtual world.
Props to Google for setting up in small towns and doing it the right way. Granted they are doing this for their own reasons as well, but they're also not pulling a Wal-Mart and fucking over a community.
Yeah, it's good to see new money/employers coming into smaller towns/cities, but...
Did you also notice in TFA that local real estate prices are climbing signifigantly?
I just spent a week in Alberta, and yeah, it's booming, wages are rising, anyone who is capable of working can have their pick of jobs, BUT appartment buildings all have a waiting list (and rents have spiked), and the price of houses has increased by 60% in a year. People are getting into bidding wars for 600SQ ft houses, and paying over 200k (cdn) for them.
Speaking as a model builder, I do have an adequate (actually way overkill) fume extraction system in my house. It's my paint booth. And I built it myself, not out of cheapness, but because I have the skills and tools to be able to do it myself.
Which is the point of this entire debate. Being able to do stuff for yourself, instead of relying on the "all knowing, all seeing, government approved experts". Being able to do stuff for yourself because you want to.
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Well, I feel priveleged, then.
We had a bucket of rusty nails, a snarl of barbed wire and dirt to play with.
But try telling that to kids these days, and thay won't believe you.
Precicely. If they hadn't been squabling, and just agreed to each become multi-millionares, then the tip-off probably wouldn't have happened.
But no, they wanted to be twice as obcenely rich, and now end up with nothing.
There's a parable in there somewhere.
This story is just made for Fark, isn't it?
So, why is it on
DRM is what is causing my problem.
My wife and 5 year old son both understand that is why all the disney DVDs look like crap on our less-than-high-end DVD player.
Yet, the "safety backup" looks fine on the same player.
I mean, all drives fail at some point. I've had Maxtor, Segate, WD and several others die over the years (though not as spectacularly as TFA suggests).
Maybe a mix of brands is the answer, if you can make them co-operate in a RAID array.
The usual advice seems to be that you want the drives to be identical. Are there any major downsides to using similar spec, but different brand drives in an array?
http://www.mymilliondollarmovie.com/
$10 isn't much of a risk, and there is a potential to make a few dollars back.
Or at least, you'll get your name in the credits. And isn't that worth $10?
Or maybe learn to speak english without an accent, or speech impediment.
That can't be too hard, can it?
The only way to receive discounts without paying for some sort of membership these days is agree to loose some of your privacy.
The only way?
Nope
When machines get better at doing things, so that they're the cheaper option, they do the jobs instead of people.
I'm surprised that no one has brought up McSwineys from Harrison's "Stainless Steel Rat" books.
It is exactly what you suggest.
A 100% automated burger joint.
A guy comes by once a week and fills the freezer, and someone shows up if the machinery breaks, but other than that the only people are the customers (and an occasional thief-in-training hiding in the back room).
Good theory - Spammers not knowing what they are doing.
It definately explaines the spam I received today from:
Return-path: FIRST_NAMEgMeLAST_NAME@RND_FROM_DOMAIN
Which was signed:
Regards, Dr. FIRST_NAME LAST_NAME
And, yes, Thunderbird's filter caught it, but my ISP's filter didn't.
Now, what can we do?
How about making sure "this conversation" happens, and continues to happen.
And not just here on /.
I know I've heard about a utopia like you are describing...
It only works is you wave your arms in a certain way while saying it. A somatic component, if you will.
(I could never catch the last part of that, though, as Burt was invisible during that part of the gesture)
It's not just an annoyance.
It's yet another annoyance, in a long line of annoyances.
Could it be the "straw that broke the camel's back"?
Maybe. Or maybe the next annoyance will be.
Or the one after that.
And someone with a limited experience with firearms would know this how?
Especially in a high-stress situation?
Just count the damn instruments.
That's what happens now, at least in the Canadian hospital where my wife had her c-section. During the procedure I saw one of the nurses in the operating room do a full inventory of instruments, sponges, and everything else that the surgeon had access to at least 4 times. (Maybe more, I was a little pre-ocupied at the time.)
And she stopped the surgeon and assistant once to ask which tools they had in their hands at the moment when she had a discrepancy in the count.
Well, if that's all they want, I'm sure a few hundred bored, "walMart-are-scum" preachin' Slashdotters could provide them with tons of "valuable" marketing data....
They don't need to reinvent themselves because they are perfect as they are.
Seconded by my 5 year old.
More votes for "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" from my nephews and the kid down the street. And my 2 year old daughter.
These marketing weenies need to get their heads outta... wherever they keep them, and take a look at what their customers actually want.
It's impossible to see enough of it to do the job, without having the details impossibly small. Therefor, I print them.
When challenged on my going against the "paperless concept" I usually ask for a 3x3 array of monitors view the work order at a useable size. No one has yet taken me up on that.
Sometimes what works in the physical world doesn't translate easily to the virtual world.
Monsanto will come up with a GMO variety any day now. That'll fix all the problems, with none of those silly "un-intended concequences".
If the thing starts to get away on us, the makers will have a (very expensive) chemical tailor made to manage the problem.
Yeah, it's good to see new money/employers coming into smaller towns/cities, but...
Did you also notice in TFA that local real estate prices are climbing signifigantly?
I just spent a week in Alberta, and yeah, it's booming, wages are rising, anyone who is capable of working can have their pick of jobs, BUT appartment buildings all have a waiting list (and rents have spiked), and the price of houses has increased by 60% in a year. People are getting into bidding wars for 600SQ ft houses, and paying over 200k (cdn) for them.
Personally, I'm still having trouble getting past "quality dance gaming".
That sounds too much like an oxymoron to me.
Which is the point of this entire debate. Being able to do stuff for yourself, instead of relying on the "all knowing, all seeing, government approved experts". Being able to do stuff for yourself because you want to.
recently introduced provincial whistleblower law
And the federal law
Or paintball.
Takes care of the agression, and gets those involved off their asses for a while and gets 'em some exercise.
And with much less chance at causing permanent damage than this goofy fight club lite.