i thought self-destructing discs were supposed to be cheaper than normal rentals because you wouldn't need the return/inventory system. were they more expensive to make, or were they just out of their minds?
And CDs were meant to be cheaper than LPs...
Production costs have very little to do with retail price. It's about how much the consumer is willing to pay.
Hey, I like the metric system. I really do. But sticking to the english system has never caused an aircraft to run out of fuel at altitude, a roller coaster to break, or a spacecraft to crash. The zeal to enforce metric conversion, however, has caused all of those things.
Hey, I like the imperial/english/mediaeval/whatever system. I really do. But sticking to the metric system has never caused an aircraft to run out of fuel at altitude, a roller coaster to break, or a spacecraft to crash. The zeal to make specifications understandable to people who think in terms of the size of kings' thumbs and the area of land that can be ploughed by an ox in a morning, however, has caused all of those things.
The simplest argument in favour of the metric system is that it's base-10... (or base-10^3 if you want to be picky...) Of course once all our civilisation is outsourced to India and China I guess we'd better get used to counting in 10^4 or 10^5... (wans and lakhs)
actually, i've noticed you on his "freaks" list, so i guess you'd figured it out by now.
The red dot makes his posts easier to find:)
I actually started out being superbly annoyed by all this crap, I've only recently seen the funny side of it.
i was wondering if maybe it was actually Rob or somebody blowing off steam and having fun.
I did notice that i was modded overrated seconds after posting, so . . .
Yup, me too, the only other times I get modded down that quickly is when I take the piss out of Americans;)
either it's so clear to everyone by now that even a casual person with mod points thought i was simply stating the obvious OR an editor bumped me so i wouldn't screw up the game.
I don't know which is scarier, that you could be right or that all the "great post! mod parent up!" people are for real.
It's an interesting social experiment, in the same way that posters who give the impression of being female always get modded up whatever they say. But I suspect the game is up by now.
The Germans have a phrase for this sort of thing - "Preemptive Obedience". Question is, who are they obeying, and why? Colour photocopiers have been around for ages and photocopies of banknotes haven't been a huge problem so far. So what's new?
Maybe this is another example of the kind of initiative that bureaucrats dream up all the time and usual get binned immediately, but are nowadays somehow seeing the light of day due to some "homeland security" paranoia. Like telling airline customers not to queue for the toilets in planes or whatever.
Red Hat doesn't have enough of a track record for their promise to protect me to mean too much to me.
Exactly, and this is why this may do as much harm as good. Think about it in the context of RH trying to show people that "yes, we're a serious software company, not a bunch of GNU/hippies".
Obviously they have to offer something to counter the FUD, if they want people to buy their products. The only question is, will it backfire, as their "something" doesn't cut it? Will it cause potential clients to go "oh look, it's not even a real warranty - they're not a real company after all, let's buy from a real vendor"?
but rather is simply promising to fix any real copyright problems moving forward, which is something I think we would assume they would do in any case.
So, they are promising, in case they are slapped with a cease-and-desist order, to cease and desist. Whatever next?
I thank those noble European eyes that were sacrificed in order to make this European mission Euro-possible.
It's ironic. By so blatantly highlighting the Euro-ticity of this mission, they sound very American.
I think you're missing the point. I think it's a dig at the UK, who hogged all the publicity with the (UK-built) Beagle lander, which then turned out to be a turkey. This is them pointing out that the rest of the mission, designed on the "continent", works just fine.
Remember that, especially in the UK, the "opposite" of european isn't american, it's british. "Fog in channel, continent cut off" and all that.
I am pretty sure that many top secret government organizations have mapped the earth at a better resolution than 10 meters.
Maybe, but there's no construction activity on mars, precious little erosion (wind only, no water) and (I think?) no continental drift. Any map of earth gets out of date pretty quickly.
This has been going on in Japan for quite a while. Instead of acronyms, you have words made out of initial syllables -- pokemon being a fairly popular recent example.
Because Japanese uses a syllabic "alphabet", that makes a lot more sense than using initial letters.
Interestingly a similar approach is quite common in German, especially for brand names (e.g. adidas = "Adi Dassler", hanuta = "Haselnusstafel", etc...)
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Anyway, Focus is rubbish, Der Spiegel is the only german weekly worth reading.
And CDs were meant to be cheaper than LPs...
Production costs have very little to do with retail price. It's about how much the consumer is willing to pay.
Zumpster, as in Gazumping? Trade you a 3-bedroom semi for 1000Gb of pr0n...
Not to forget the guy who burnt his genitalia...
shurely the matrix reloaded wins that one hands down?
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Hey, I like the imperial/english/mediaeval/whatever system. I really do. But sticking to the metric system has never caused an aircraft to run out of fuel at altitude, a roller coaster to break, or a spacecraft to crash. The zeal to make specifications understandable to people who think in terms of the size of kings' thumbs and the area of land that can be ploughed by an ox in a morning, however, has caused all of those things.
The simplest argument in favour of the metric system is that it's base-10... (or base-10^3 if you want to be picky...) Of course once all our civilisation is outsourced to India and China I guess we'd better get used to counting in 10^4 or 10^5... (wans and lakhs)
At 12 miles altitude, that would have to be a big gun to hit it with bullets.
Better get one of these.
Not painted, displayed on a huge screen mounted to the side, so the ads can be rotated/animated.
Just wait until someone hacks it and replaces it with goatse....
The red dot makes his posts easier to find :)
I actually started out being superbly annoyed by all this crap, I've only recently seen the funny side of it.
i was wondering if maybe it was actually Rob or somebody blowing off steam and having fun.
I did notice that i was modded overrated seconds after posting, so . . .
Yup, me too, the only other times I get modded down that quickly is when I take the piss out of Americans ;)
either it's so clear to everyone by now that even a casual person with mod points thought i was simply stating the obvious OR an editor bumped me so i wouldn't screw up the game.
I don't know which is scarier, that you could be right or that all the "great post! mod parent up!" people are for real.
It's an interesting social experiment, in the same way that posters who give the impression of being female always get modded up whatever they say. But I suspect the game is up by now.
Where do you think fossil fuels come from? There's oil in them thar hills!
Maybe this is another example of the kind of initiative that bureaucrats dream up all the time and usual get binned immediately, but are nowadays somehow seeing the light of day due to some "homeland security" paranoia. Like telling airline customers not to queue for the toilets in planes or whatever.
Exactly, and this is why this may do as much harm as good. Think about it in the context of RH trying to show people that "yes, we're a serious software company, not a bunch of GNU/hippies".
Obviously they have to offer something to counter the FUD, if they want people to buy their products. The only question is, will it backfire, as their "something" doesn't cut it? Will it cause potential clients to go "oh look, it's not even a real warranty - they're not a real company after all, let's buy from a real vendor"?
So, they are promising, in case they are slapped with a cease-and-desist order, to cease and desist. Whatever next?
Entirely unlike Duke Nukem Forever, then...
Because if we keep at it, one day you might even be able to find Europe on a map...
It's ironic. By so blatantly highlighting the Euro-ticity of this mission, they sound very American.
I think you're missing the point. I think it's a dig at the UK, who hogged all the publicity with the (UK-built) Beagle lander, which then turned out to be a turkey. This is them pointing out that the rest of the mission, designed on the "continent", works just fine.
Remember that, especially in the UK, the "opposite" of european isn't american, it's british. "Fog in channel, continent cut off" and all that.
yAhoo!
although that sounds like someone sneezing.
Ooh, I wonder where you heard that. At http://banyan.cs.uiuc.edu/~ambarish/acads/IIT-Madr as/cs650/ EllipticCurveCryptography/comparison.html maybe?
Oh, the irony...
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Oooh look, somebody likes me. Editor at work? I wonder what this post will come out as?
Maybe, but there's no construction activity on mars, precious little erosion (wind only, no water) and (I think?) no continental drift. Any map of earth gets out of date pretty quickly.
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Because Japanese uses a syllabic "alphabet", that makes a lot more sense than using initial letters .
Interestingly a similar approach is quite common in German, especially for brand names (e.g. adidas = "Adi Dassler", hanuta = "Haselnusstafel", etc...)