They're just to left-wing wacky on too many issues to be in power. I like them as a solid opposition though, they keep things relatively honest.
I've been voting Conservative since I started making good money.....but their copyright stance is just stupid and American. I may vote Green this time.
Assuming the stats are true, it means Slashdot can determine the outcome of the election. Scary!:)
It also means that you should all make the effort to vote and be happy with the outcome or know that you have the right to bitch about the outcome because you voted for the other guy.
Efforts like "Rock the Vote" to raise awareness really are worthwhile. If you haven't voted lately, please do.
I have a PS3 which upscales DVD and plays Blu-Ray. Most of the time, upscaling is just fine for an action flick on my HD TV. I thought I'd be buying Blu-ray discs but I find myself just wanting to spend 20 bucks on a DVD rather than 32 bucks for the Blu-Ray version.
If you're talking about concern over $600 price points, then all is lost. It sounds like you don't have the money to provide proper A/C to a residential home much less a commercial server room. I suggest you look into co-locating your servers to a real data center and pay a monthly fee. You'll have lower up front costs and your PHB probably isn't smart enough to recognize the long-term implications.
If a game developer offers a demo a couple of weeks before final release, people really have no excuse for pirating a game. The game either works on their system or it doesn't. The game is either interesting or it's not. Beyond that, pirating is just because they can get it for free.
If you still need a sitter for your kids, you're not old. Of course, it's a relative thing, but trust me. In a while, your kid will want to quit school to tour with some band called the "The Screaming Lemon Wedges" and you'll look back and think, "I really wasn't that old. NOW I'm old."
..of SP1 RTM, kind of like what the exo performance/xpnet people did late last year.
I am one of the many who switched back to XP..performance on my tablet stunk with Vista. However, I did like some of the ease-of-use mobility features, but it wasn't worth the grief of performance and drivers.
I would like to run Vista....I just need a compelling reason to do so.
Call me a cynic, but I'm sure they put a formula into a spreadsheet and discovered the liability issues outweighed the "do nothing" option. I'm sure there's a Ford Pinto kind of memo on a AT&T server somewhere.
"has embraced the W-USB standard, which promises transfer speeds of 480 Mbps at distances up to 3 meters, vs. TransfeJet's 3 centimeters."
Considering there is 2.54 cm in an inch, this really doesn't sound too smart on Sony's part. Unless Slashdot is wrong....but what are the odds?
During the east coast power failure a couple of years back, cell phones were useless because the towers were dead. Landlines worked just fine. I've always felt that the cell companies weren't doing enough to build out their infrastructure to support big events. They'd just have enough in place to provide average service.
Ma Bell and the landline service has been built out for generations and it shows.
I suppose the real question is....
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Is SETI Worth It?
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"Does SETI provide value?"
The money spent on it pays for scientists and new systems. The real question revolves around value for the money spent. If not SETI, then what else? I would expect that there lots of things of more immediate value and potential that could be studied.
That said, what's the value of finding that there really is someone else out there? I think that a very few of my tax dollars working to find out is something I'm happy with.
I couldn't tell you the number of times I've been in conference rooms, hotel kitchens, bathrooms, behind the wall of a tradeshow booth making edits to a deck.
I'd LOVE some.ppt competition ( Keynote for Windows, pretty please ), but needing the web to edit a deck would not work in my universe.
I don't even trust this old and busted internet. The new internet would be nothing but pandering to government 'security' concerns and big business DRM demands.
"Each of the four galaxies is at least the size of the Milky Way, and each is home to billions of stars. The galaxies will eventually merge into a single, colossal galaxy up to 10 times as massive as our own Milky Way."
4 galaxies the size of the Milky way create something 10 times bigger? Either the galaxies are much larger than the Milky Way or the result is not 10 times bigger...maybe only 4 times bigger?
"Researchers at McMaster University have found that plants get fiercely competitive when forced to share their pot with strangers of the same species, but they're accommodating when potted with their siblings"
Ya right. I suggest they stop smoking the plants they are studying.
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They're just to left-wing wacky on too many issues to be in power. I like them as a solid opposition though, they keep things relatively honest.
I've been voting Conservative since I started making good money.....but their copyright stance is just stupid and American. I may vote Green this time.
Assuming the stats are true, it means Slashdot can determine the outcome of the election. Scary! :)
It also means that you should all make the effort to vote and be happy with the outcome or know that you have the right to bitch about the outcome because you voted for the other guy.
Efforts like "Rock the Vote" to raise awareness really are worthwhile. If you haven't voted lately, please do.
I have a PS3 which upscales DVD and plays Blu-Ray. Most of the time, upscaling is just fine for an action flick on my HD TV. I thought I'd be buying Blu-ray discs but I find myself just wanting to spend 20 bucks on a DVD rather than 32 bucks for the Blu-Ray version.
If you're talking about concern over $600 price points, then all is lost. It sounds like you don't have the money to provide proper A/C to a residential home much less a commercial server room. I suggest you look into co-locating your servers to a real data center and pay a monthly fee. You'll have lower up front costs and your PHB probably isn't smart enough to recognize the long-term implications.
Good luck.
It's good to ask the question, I suppose.
If a game developer offers a demo a couple of weeks before final release, people really have no excuse for pirating a game. The game either works on their system or it doesn't. The game is either interesting or it's not. Beyond that, pirating is just because they can get it for free.
...I wonder if the Empress Elizabeth II gives a crap about her government running all over her subjects.
If you still need a sitter for your kids, you're not old. Of course, it's a relative thing, but trust me. In a while, your kid will want to quit school to tour with some band called the "The Screaming Lemon Wedges" and you'll look back and think, "I really wasn't that old. NOW I'm old."
That font usually sends me into an epileptic seizure resulting in a day off work.
..of SP1 RTM, kind of like what the exo performance/xpnet people did late last year.
I am one of the many who switched back to XP..performance on my tablet stunk with Vista. However, I did like some of the ease-of-use mobility features, but it wasn't worth the grief of performance and drivers.
I would like to run Vista....I just need a compelling reason to do so.
..and making the game more interesting.
Once I hit 70, my desire to grind for 20 hours to get that shiny new +1 Int cloak gets a little tedious.
Call me a cynic, but I'm sure they put a formula into a spreadsheet and discovered the liability issues outweighed the "do nothing" option. I'm sure there's a Ford Pinto kind of memo on a AT&T server somewhere.
"has embraced the W-USB standard, which promises transfer speeds of 480 Mbps at distances up to 3 meters, vs. TransfeJet's 3 centimeters." Considering there is 2.54 cm in an inch, this really doesn't sound too smart on Sony's part. Unless Slashdot is wrong....but what are the odds?
Do I have this right? So the MS DRM sniffer goes and finds MS sample videos added as part of the default XP install and invalidates everything?
I would have given you a +1 for that if I had the points.
...when I dropped my phone into the kitchen sink.
During the east coast power failure a couple of years back, cell phones were useless because the towers were dead. Landlines worked just fine. I've always felt that the cell companies weren't doing enough to build out their infrastructure to support big events. They'd just have enough in place to provide average service.
Ma Bell and the landline service has been built out for generations and it shows.
You can always try one of these:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_distributed_computing_projects
"Does SETI provide value?"
The money spent on it pays for scientists and new systems. The real question revolves around value for the money spent. If not SETI, then what else? I would expect that there lots of things of more immediate value and potential that could be studied.
That said, what's the value of finding that there really is someone else out there? I think that a very few of my tax dollars working to find out is something I'm happy with.
I couldn't tell you the number of times I've been in conference rooms, hotel kitchens, bathrooms, behind the wall of a tradeshow booth making edits to a deck.
.ppt competition ( Keynote for Windows, pretty please ), but needing the web to edit a deck would not work in my universe.
I'd LOVE some
I don't even trust this old and busted internet. The new internet would be nothing but pandering to government 'security' concerns and big business DRM demands.
Count me out.
"Each of the four galaxies is at least the size of the Milky Way, and each is home to billions of stars. The galaxies will eventually merge into a single, colossal galaxy up to 10 times as massive as our own Milky Way."
4 galaxies the size of the Milky way create something 10 times bigger? Either the galaxies are much larger than the Milky Way or the result is not 10 times bigger...maybe only 4 times bigger?
It'll be a cold day in hell before I hand my money to Sony.
I think I'll hire these guys after I leave my current job in 2009. It may take a few bucks to get it done, though.
-- George W. Bush
"Researchers at McMaster University have found that plants get fiercely competitive when forced to share their pot with strangers of the same species, but they're accommodating when potted with their siblings"
Ya right. I suggest they stop smoking the plants they are studying.
Any predictions?