"like many things in life, if you make more than a couple hundred k a year". No kidding? All I have to do is make more than $200k a year and stuff will stop being worth my time? Where do I sign up?
You need to pick your building inspector more carefully. I'm building my own home right now (not contracting, building) and where I live there are independant inspectors you can hire to do your inspection. 3/4 of these inspectors are P.E.'s (Professional Engineers), I doubt they are as incompetent as you claim. In most cases the bank you got your construction loan through can help you out with finding good people. Remember, their stake in your project is usually bigger than yours (monetarily) so they want you to succeed.
It scares me almost to the point of not sleeping at night. I see it happening time and again and can't help thinking that once taken, civil liberties are never given back. I fear my generation will spend the second half of our lives in a constant battle attempting to bet back to where we were a year ago. People don't see the big picture, every civil liberty we lose is a win for a terrorism and a loss for us, we're losing the battle badly.
Let me paraphrase. "Hello I'm a student looking to backpack a shitload of amazon affiliate links onto some story that I can dupe a slashdot editor into posting. That way I get a potential 500k people making me some beer money at amazon"
Yeah I mean 1,3, and 5, they're all 1/2 assed arguments. 1) The screen is so marginally smaller you'd never know the diff. The size and weight are similar.
3) The cost differs by about 2%, ouch, that will steer people away in droves! I guess the second reference to the marginally smaller screen really helped that point too.
5) USB 2.0 does supply power, who's to say it's not enough to power the unit?
You might as well scratch 2 and 4 from the list because they are totally speculative. If you want people to take you seriously, put up a serious argument.
For those numbers to mean anything at all we'd have to know what your site is. Obviously somewhere like/. or linux.org is going to have a much higher proportion of non IE browsers than say MSN.
I didn't think it was hard at all to install mozilla on my windows box. I just downloaded the exe and ran it while mindlessly clicking the "ok" or "next" box whenever it popped up;)
"and SQL Server is replaceable with mySQL"
Not to be a Microsoft supporter. But this is arguable. Perhaps you should replace it with:
"and SQL Server is replaceable with Postgres"
Right, but say the object is a titanium pin which is 10cm in diameter and 100cm in length (or some similarly simple/cheap thing). And say the royalty is $1,000,000 per pin. Technically, the only thing holding you back is a simple royalty. Realistically, you're 100% blocked.
So you're saying it's better to have a crappy system with lots of room for improvement than a generally good system with little room for improvement? Doesn't sound like a good way to evaluate things to me.
Yeah, your right. The Americans are a lot less democratic than the Chinese. If it wasn't for the efforts of the US government to forceably keep people from leaving by holding the remaining family hostage 90% of Americans would probably have emigrated to China by now.
Thats for original equipment. Modern knockoffs are never worth what the original is when you're dealing with collectibles. The way I see it, this is a $1000 case for an atx pc.
Yeah thats a brilliant idea. Purposefully crash someones HDD to "drive a point home". Suddenly I'm not wondering why your looking for work in your sig.
Bah, AMD DOMINATED the benchmarks from the advent of the athlon through the most recent set of P4's that just came out in april. Untill they gained the 800mhz advantage of the P4 2400, Intel got their ass handed to them by "just as good for cheaper" processors on a regular basis.
Yeah, thats a great precedent. Lets violate someones rights because we don't like them. I really don't think you want to allow politicians access to the slippery slope of deciding who gets what rights.
If they installed a Linux on the drive they'd get a boatload of people calling their tech support lines asking how to use it. I don't care how big and obvious the sticker that says "we don't support the OS, just the hardware" is, people will still call, and those calls cost money. If they ship it blank, they sidestep the whole issue.
Alice isn't that impressive from a technological standpoint. It's basically just a big database of previously asked questions. If you ask it a question it hasn't heard the response is predictably vague/wrong.
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"like many things in life, if you make more than a couple hundred k a year". No kidding? All I have to do is make more than $200k a year and stuff will stop being worth my time? Where do I sign up?
You need to pick your building inspector more carefully. I'm building my own home right now (not contracting, building) and where I live there are independant inspectors you can hire to do your inspection. 3/4 of these inspectors are P.E.'s (Professional Engineers), I doubt they are as incompetent as you claim. In most cases the bank you got your construction loan through can help you out with finding good people. Remember, their stake in your project is usually bigger than yours (monetarily) so they want you to succeed.
It was posted earlier this week. Look before you talk.
It scares me almost to the point of not sleeping at night. I see it happening time and again and can't help thinking that once taken, civil liberties are never given back. I fear my generation will spend the second half of our lives in a constant battle attempting to bet back to where we were a year ago. People don't see the big picture, every civil liberty we lose is a win for a terrorism and a loss for us, we're losing the battle badly.
Let me paraphrase. "Hello I'm a student looking to backpack a shitload of amazon affiliate links onto some story that I can dupe a slashdot editor into posting. That way I get a potential 500k people making me some beer money at amazon"
Yeah I mean 1,3, and 5, they're all 1/2 assed arguments. 1) The screen is so marginally smaller you'd never know the diff. The size and weight are similar. 3) The cost differs by about 2%, ouch, that will steer people away in droves! I guess the second reference to the marginally smaller screen really helped that point too. 5) USB 2.0 does supply power, who's to say it's not enough to power the unit?
A cheaper alternative is a match and some lighter fluid. I challenge anyone to recove a tape "erased" in that manner ;)
You might as well scratch 2 and 4 from the list because they are totally speculative. If you want people to take you seriously, put up a serious argument.
For those numbers to mean anything at all we'd have to know what your site is. Obviously somewhere like /. or linux.org is going to have a much higher proportion of non IE browsers than say MSN.
I didn't think it was hard at all to install mozilla on my windows box. I just downloaded the exe and ran it while mindlessly clicking the "ok" or "next" box whenever it popped up ;)
Animal House. Look it up.
"and SQL Server is replaceable with mySQL" Not to be a Microsoft supporter. But this is arguable. Perhaps you should replace it with: "and SQL Server is replaceable with Postgres"
Right, but say the object is a titanium pin which is 10cm in diameter and 100cm in length (or some similarly simple/cheap thing). And say the royalty is $1,000,000 per pin. Technically, the only thing holding you back is a simple royalty. Realistically, you're 100% blocked.
I think he meant Benjamin Franklin who lists moderation as one of his ten most desireable virtues.
So you're saying it's better to have a crappy system with lots of room for improvement than a generally good system with little room for improvement? Doesn't sound like a good way to evaluate things to me.
Yeah, your right. The Americans are a lot less democratic than the Chinese. If it wasn't for the efforts of the US government to forceably keep people from leaving by holding the remaining family hostage 90% of Americans would probably have emigrated to China by now.
Thats for original equipment. Modern knockoffs are never worth what the original is when you're dealing with collectibles. The way I see it, this is a $1000 case for an atx pc.
"certain things are forgivable" Yeah, like *gasp* actually making a profit?
Rule what, the unemployment line?
Yeah thats a brilliant idea. Purposefully crash someones HDD to "drive a point home". Suddenly I'm not wondering why your looking for work in your sig.
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Bah, AMD DOMINATED the benchmarks from the advent of the athlon through the most recent set of P4's that just came out in april. Untill they gained the 800mhz advantage of the P4 2400, Intel got their ass handed to them by "just as good for cheaper" processors on a regular basis.
Yeah, thats a great precedent. Lets violate someones rights because we don't like them. I really don't think you want to allow politicians access to the slippery slope of deciding who gets what rights.
If they installed a Linux on the drive they'd get a boatload of people calling their tech support lines asking how to use it. I don't care how big and obvious the sticker that says "we don't support the OS, just the hardware" is, people will still call, and those calls cost money. If they ship it blank, they sidestep the whole issue.
Alice isn't that impressive from a technological standpoint. It's basically just a big database of previously asked questions. If you ask it a question it hasn't heard the response is predictably vague/wrong.