You do know that it was Germany that was hounding Jews, right? And that they used them as a scapegoat for the Weimar republic that resulted from them being blamed for WW1, right?
Yes they can. The fair value is something that they set, often below what you could sell it for if you decided to sell, and usually well below what it's worth to the developer. If proeprty rights were real, the developer would have to offer a lot more money; basically, ED is way too powerful and should be limited to cases of invasion and devastation - using ED to force the sale of some of the NOLA houses that have been abandoned and plant trees is one example of proper usage.
that's because it's an outgrowth of the MPAA rating system, with X rated being adults only.
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Who actually wants a.xxx? It's not like you can force someone to relocate there, and since you can't, the rest of the internet is never going to be totally child safe.
How dare you not drink our koolaid!"/froth froth froth
We use Linux for a lot of things here where I work, but if we moved to some other OS, or some other comapny changed platforms, I wouldn't take it personally. I only care if they offer inferior service or compromise data, which is more a matter of ops.
It'd be nice if Linux locked running executables in a manditory way, but not enough to really be a bother.
why? So gcc works better? That's an edge case compared to being able to install on top of an existing file and restart the program at the end - that's really simple the way things stand. Not so much with exclusive locked files.
No, that's not how it works. You can nuke a binary for an executing unix binary, but it doesn't get deallocated until all the open file handles are closed. Because of this, you don't need to lock running binaries. NFS locks can be gotten around if the lockd is screwed up.
or that high end stores won't soon be going out of business in favor of walmart or best buy starting their own "high end sections."
Walmart and BB are predicated on selling cheap (and for BB, midrange) crap to cheap and poor people. They don't attract the demographic that will be able to afford high end stuff, so adding a high end section will end up diluting the name as they try to chase two different demographics. BB might be able to pull this off, but their salescritters don't know much about the stuff they sell now, so why would they impact the high end stores? It's not like they're going to suddenly hire people who can afford to learn about this stuff and not push extended service plans on every goddamn thing (they tried that for a video game!).
Money IS the defined system of value - and there is no other measurable or accurate system of value.
Bullshit. Money is a medium of exchange - it has no intrinsic value. There are plenty of other things of value that mena more than money or else we'd be all scheming against everyone to get a bigger piece of the pie.
I think Dennis Miller summed it up best a long time ago: "If you get to be thirty-five and your job still involves wearing a name tag, you've probably made a serious vocational error."
That means every mail server operator, even the home hobbiest, has to subscribe to some third-party authentication service like domain keys.
I'm just a hobbier, not a hobbiest. Of course, public key stuff means you just have to generate a keypair and put the public one in your domain record.
Its akin to calling a Native American an 'Indian' - not only generally disliked by the people you are labeling but also factually incorrect because of a misunderstanding of what the term means (or on what continent you are located.)
Not really. Most Indians call themselves Indian or whatever specific tribe they belong to. Indian is likely a result of Columbus referring to them as In Dios - I'm pretty sure India as a country didn't quite exist at the time, and it's not that hard to figure out whether you landed in that area anyway - there's a lot of stuff between India and the Pacific.
What about heavy CPU usage: making the CPU fan run harder (crud up quicker), CPU circuits burn up quicker, etc.
No it doesn't: CPUs are designed such that they will either run forever or die shortly. In 10 years, I haven't had a CPU fail before going obsolete; meanwhile, our DB servers at work usually have memory or disk problems far more than they have cpu problems. This is for systems that run at 90% for weeks on end.
The best way to prevent crime is to allow honest people to arm themselves. Gangbangers don't care if the cops know they're shooting each other. Go to LA - the cops already know where the gunshots are gonna be - what good does it do them?
It was part of a collection of articles on 4th gen reactor designs in the economist from last year. The 95% refers to the amount of the fuel consumed - rather than the smaller numbers for standard reactors, the thorium breeder consumes most of its fuel, leaving a much smaller waste stream that is 'only' hazardous for a number of centuries. It's still a long time, but not the transcivilizational time period that our current waste is hazardous for.
Given the low cost of reactor grade enriched uranium on the (IAEA-monitored) international market, there is little incentive to convert to a thorium cycle in existing reactors.
Part of the reason I mentioned Thorium is that it's far more abundant than Uranium. Our current strategy in the US doesn't scale - if we used nuclear for everything (or everything that wasn't hydro), then we would burn through our supplies in a century or less, at least from what I've read. Part of this is due to our ban on breeder reactors, which leads to us producing more waste than we should, which could be reprocessed.
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You do know that it was Germany that was hounding Jews, right? And that they used them as a scapegoat for the Weimar republic that resulted from them being blamed for WW1, right?
Mobs of sober Scots pose little threat to strangers as well, primarily because you can't find enough sober Scots at once to form a mob. ;)
Sobriety is overrated, anyway.
Yes they can. The fair value is something that they set, often below what you could sell it for if you decided to sell, and usually well below what it's worth to the developer. If proeprty rights were real, the developer would have to offer a lot more money; basically, ED is way too powerful and should be limited to cases of invasion and devastation - using ED to force the sale of some of the NOLA houses that have been abandoned and plant trees is one example of proper usage.
that's because it's an outgrowth of the MPAA rating system, with X rated being adults only.
Who actually wants a .xxx? It's not like you can force someone to relocate there, and since you can't, the rest of the internet is never going to be totally child safe.
yet another person who's never seen a bugs bunny cartoon. I weep for the future.
How dare you not drink our koolaid!" /froth froth froth
We use Linux for a lot of things here where I work, but if we moved to some other OS, or some other comapny changed platforms, I wouldn't take it personally. I only care if they offer inferior service or compromise data, which is more a matter of ops.
What's the big deal? Click on the path and delete the part past what you want.
I run XP on this box - it's enough for playing eve or doing java development without ever swapping. Who wants Vista?
I have 2G of ram. I'm not going to lose sleep over 1M here and there.
It'd be nice if Linux locked running executables in a manditory way, but not enough to really be a bother.
why? So gcc works better? That's an edge case compared to being able to install on top of an existing file and restart the program at the end - that's really simple the way things stand. Not so much with exclusive locked files.
No, that's not how it works. You can nuke a binary for an executing unix binary, but it doesn't get deallocated until all the open file handles are closed. Because of this, you don't need to lock running binaries. NFS locks can be gotten around if the lockd is screwed up.
why not detect their client string and feed them gigs of autogenerated crap?
There's a good chance. It's certainly often true in Tech - with more experience and competence, I can demand more money.
Doesn't it make sense to cut the highest paid people?
No. It makes sense to cut the poorest performing people. Otherwise, you lose far more revenue than you save on cost.
or that high end stores won't soon be going out of business in favor of walmart or best buy starting their own "high end sections."
Walmart and BB are predicated on selling cheap (and for BB, midrange) crap to cheap and poor people. They don't attract the demographic that will be able to afford high end stuff, so adding a high end section will end up diluting the name as they try to chase two different demographics. BB might be able to pull this off, but their salescritters don't know much about the stuff they sell now, so why would they impact the high end stores? It's not like they're going to suddenly hire people who can afford to learn about this stuff and not push extended service plans on every goddamn thing (they tried that for a video game!).
Money IS the defined system of value - and there is no other measurable or accurate system of value.
Bullshit. Money is a medium of exchange - it has no intrinsic value. There are plenty of other things of value that mena more than money or else we'd be all scheming against everyone to get a bigger piece of the pie.
I think Dennis Miller summed it up best a long time ago: "If you get to be thirty-five and your job still involves wearing a name tag, you've probably made a serious vocational error."
Don't mechanics wear name tags?
That means every mail server operator, even the home hobbiest, has to subscribe to some third-party authentication service like domain keys.
I'm just a hobbier, not a hobbiest. Of course, public key stuff means you just have to generate a keypair and put the public one in your domain record.
No, that's Heinlein's unrelated identical twins from Time enough for Love.
Its akin to calling a Native American an 'Indian' - not only generally disliked by the people you are labeling but also factually incorrect because of a misunderstanding of what the term means (or on what continent you are located.)
Not really. Most Indians call themselves Indian or whatever specific tribe they belong to. Indian is likely a result of Columbus referring to them as In Dios - I'm pretty sure India as a country didn't quite exist at the time, and it's not that hard to figure out whether you landed in that area anyway - there's a lot of stuff between India and the Pacific.
Did the chevy dealer explain how the exhaust broke your friend's wheel?
What about heavy CPU usage: making the CPU fan run harder (crud up quicker), CPU circuits burn up quicker, etc.
No it doesn't: CPUs are designed such that they will either run forever or die shortly. In 10 years, I haven't had a CPU fail before going obsolete; meanwhile, our DB servers at work usually have memory or disk problems far more than they have cpu problems. This is for systems that run at 90% for weeks on end.
The best way to prevent crime is to allow honest people to arm themselves. Gangbangers don't care if the cops know they're shooting each other. Go to LA - the cops already know where the gunshots are gonna be - what good does it do them?
Do you know where you found the figure?
It was part of a collection of articles on 4th gen reactor designs in the economist from last year. The 95% refers to the amount of the fuel consumed - rather than the smaller numbers for standard reactors, the thorium breeder consumes most of its fuel, leaving a much smaller waste stream that is 'only' hazardous for a number of centuries. It's still a long time, but not the transcivilizational time period that our current waste is hazardous for.
Given the low cost of reactor grade enriched uranium on the (IAEA-monitored) international market, there is little incentive to convert to a thorium cycle in existing reactors.
Part of the reason I mentioned Thorium is that it's far more abundant than Uranium. Our current strategy in the US doesn't scale - if we used nuclear for everything (or everything that wasn't hydro), then we would burn through our supplies in a century or less, at least from what I've read. Part of this is due to our ban on breeder reactors, which leads to us producing more waste than we should, which could be reprocessed.