The difference is that Slashdot doesn't have "massive amounts of advertising". The front page has exactly 1 ad on each page. If that's too much for you, then fine. But I find it to be unobtrusive, and a very good way at generating cash. People are probably far more likely to remember and click on an ad, when they only see a single advertisement.
If you really want to see the effects, just look at a place where there's too much fluoride in the water. People's teeth are brown because they get too much.
I'm sure the people running the Olympics would like to know their methods of detection. If they can find these drugs in such small quantities, then surely they could help out with drug detection at the Olympics.
Go down to your local grocery store. You can get bottled water for $5 for 18L. The first bottle is $10, because of the deposit on the very large 18L bottle, but after that, it's $5, as long as you bring the old bottle back. If you really insist on drinking bottled water, then at least don't pay tons of money for it. If you don't want to go down to the store and pick it up, you can get it delivered for insanely cheap rates.
My dad lives in Guelph. Same watertable as the Aberfoyle bottled water. He thinks it's funny that people still buy bottled water when the stuff coming out of the taps is exactly the same stuff.
Two prescriptions per person? Wow, that seems high. I last took prescription drugs was 1 year ago, and it lasted for a period of 1 week. Before that, well, I'm not sure if I took any real prescription drugs. Maybe if you count Tylenol with Codeine, but other than that, I can't say I've been on any prescription drugs. Most people I know aren't on prescription drugs, at least not continuously. Sure, we all know that guy who's taking a cocktail of drugs, and will be for the rest of their lives, but I think that's a small minority. I would have to say, that on average, at any one time, there's probably less than 20% of the popuation taking 1 prescription.
Ripper: Mandrake?
Mandrake: Yes, Jack?
Ripper: Have you ever seen a Commie drink a glass of water?
Mandrake: Well, I can't say I have.
Ripper: Vodka, that's what they drink, isn't it? Never water?
Mandrake: Well, I-I believe that's what they drink, Jack, yes.
Ripper: On no account will a Commie ever drink water, and not without good reason.
Mandrake: Oh, eh, yes. I, uhm, can't quite see what you're getting at, Jack.
Ripper: Water, that's what I'm getting at, water. Mandrake, water is the source of all life. Seven-tenths of this earth's surface is water. Why, do you realize that seventy percent of you is water?
Mandrake: Uh, uh, Good Lord!
Ripper: And as human beings, you and I need fresh, pure water to replenish our precious bodily fluids.
Mandrake: Yes. (he begins to chuckle nervously)
Ripper: Are you beginning to understand?
Mandrake: Yes. (more laughter)
Ripper: Mandrake. Mandrake, have you never wondered why I drink only distilled water, or rain water, and only pure-grain alcohol?
Mandrake: Well, it did occur to me, Jack, yes.
Ripper: Have you ever heard of a thing called fluoridation. Fluoridation of water?
Mandrake: Uh? Yes, I-I have heard of that, Jack, yes. Yes.
Ripper: Well, do you know what it is?
Mandrake: No, no I don't know what it is, no.
Ripper: Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous Communist plot we have ever had to face?
Yes, but then you have to convince them all to deliver it in the same format, and then contact them when the mess up the format, or forget to deliver their feed. You've obviously never dealt with trying to get a data feed from some company who's main interest isn't sending out data.
If you want continual quality listings, you're probably going to have to pay for it. I got SageTV, and with the $80? I spent, I get free listings, for well, I guess as long as they stick around. I've been using it for like 2 years now, so I guess based on that rate, it would be $40 worth of listings. I think people should be thankful that Zap2it lasted as long as it did. You can't expect some company to just feed you data that they've spent a lot of time gathering for free.
I don't think digital distribution will be a replacement for physical disks anytime soon. If you want to know why, take for example, the WiiShop channel on Christmas day, You couldn't even get on, let alone get to the point where you could download a game. And that's just for downloading tiny ROMS. Using physical disks allows studios to release a very large number of disks to the public, and have almost everybody who wants a copy, gets a copy. Digital distribution of 50 GB HD movies won't be feasible for quite a while. If everybody with a cable connection started to download 50 GB a month, the ISPs would quickly raise rates to account for the massive increase in bandwidth.
I remember hearing that BluRay would only play encrypted/copy protected content. I'm not sure if I'm misinformed, or just not quite correct on the details, but it was my understanding that there wouldn't be any way of having user created content playable on BluRay.
Explains a lot. I live in Canada, so virtually all houses would require basements. The only places I know of that didn't have basements were ones that were built on solid bedrock, where I guess you wouldn't need a foundation as such. I've even seen basements with an outcropping of rock that goes into the basement. It looks like they started to dig the basement, hit bedrock, and decided to build the basement around it, instead of going through the trouble of removing the rock.
Most platforms don't provide a simple way to transition between one platform and another, especially in the web development sector. It would basically be a complete rewrite. Some lock you in more than others, but I think it would be quite difficult to switch between them, if you had a reasonable amount of code.
That's something that really bothers me too. I wish they would just play the original CBS/NBC/ABC feed instead of playing the Canadian networks with their commercials.
But the prices aren't any cheaper. I just checked Primus, and for their 3 MB/s connection, it costs $42.95 a month, if you sign up for their long distance also. Bell on the other hand costs $42.95 for their 7 MB/s service, as long as you sign up for at least a basic phone line. Oh, look, they're exactly the same price, and Bell is faster, and doesn't make you sign up for a long distance plan.
I have 6 tabs open on Firefox, and I've been using it continuously since this morning, and it's only taking up 70 MB of RAM. I never understood how people got it up to 200 MB. Maybe if you leave it open for weeks at a time, then eventually it piles up, but for the most part, I've never experienced Firefox going up to 200 MB. The point I'm trying to make though, is that just running vista and browsing your files with explorer requires at least 1 GB to do smoothly. Wouldn't it be nice if it required a more sane amount of memory, for doing such trivial things, so that applications that needed memory, like MMO, Office suites, browsers, and image/video editing could make use of the memory you had?
You shouldn't need 2GB to do those things though. That was the entire point of my post. You can do most things on Linux with 1/4 of the resources that Vista takes. If the next windows takes the same approach, and requires that you have 6 GB of RAM for a 3D desktop while playing mp3s, then Linux will just seem that much more attractive. My Linux laptop has 512 MB of RAM, and i've never felt like I needed more memory. Granted, I don't do video editing or editing of 80 MegaPixel images, but most people don't do that kind of thing anyway.
What are the specs on that laptop. Mine came with Vista, but I don't use it, because it's so slow. It's a Celeron 1.7 GHz, 512 MB of RAM, Intel graphics. Vista runs, but it's unbearably slow. I guess more RAM would help, and it's cheap now, but I didn't need the RAM to get Linux running just fine. Not even listening to anybody else, just from my own personal experiences, I find Vista to be quite resource hungry.
But it's starting to become more than $200. With the hardware requirements of Vista, you have to buy a much more expensive computer, just to get the same usability. I bought a laptop that runs Linux. It cost me $500. To get a machine that runs Vista just as well, I'm looking at spending $1000, at least.
It may come with a larger number of drivers included with the operating system, but that doesn't mean that the drivers work. I had a Voodoo 3500 TV card. It worked under the 2.4 kernel, but not under the 2.6 kernel, because whoever was maintain the drivers disappeared. Most video card drives are way worse quality then what you get on Windows. Sure the drivers exist, but they are buggy, or quite slow compared to their windows counterparts.
I think that's the major problem with patents. They use all this legal-speak to define their patent, in order to make them seem novel and inventive. However, when you actually analyze it, and find out exactly what they are doing, you'll find that it's not novel, and that tons of prior art exists. I think that as part of your patent application, you should have to provide a description, in plain english, of exactly what your invention is.
FreeBSD hardware support is not bad, but it is nowhere near as complete as that found in the various Linux distro's.
If it's not even as good as Linux, then it must be bad. That's one of Linux's major faults, and probably the most cited reason for not using Linux. If you don't have good hardware support, you are missing out on a lot of users. Because most people aren't willing to buy a specific machine, with just the right hardware just to use your OS. I'm an avid Linux user, but even I admit that their hardware support level isn't quite where I would want it.
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The difference is that Slashdot doesn't have "massive amounts of advertising". The front page has exactly 1 ad on each page. If that's too much for you, then fine. But I find it to be unobtrusive, and a very good way at generating cash. People are probably far more likely to remember and click on an ad, when they only see a single advertisement.
If you really want to see the effects, just look at a place where there's too much fluoride in the water. People's teeth are brown because they get too much.
I'm sure the people running the Olympics would like to know their methods of detection. If they can find these drugs in such small quantities, then surely they could help out with drug detection at the Olympics.
Go down to your local grocery store. You can get bottled water for $5 for 18L. The first bottle is $10, because of the deposit on the very large 18L bottle, but after that, it's $5, as long as you bring the old bottle back. If you really insist on drinking bottled water, then at least don't pay tons of money for it. If you don't want to go down to the store and pick it up, you can get it delivered for insanely cheap rates.
My dad lives in Guelph. Same watertable as the Aberfoyle bottled water. He thinks it's funny that people still buy bottled water when the stuff coming out of the taps is exactly the same stuff.
Two prescriptions per person? Wow, that seems high. I last took prescription drugs was 1 year ago, and it lasted for a period of 1 week. Before that, well, I'm not sure if I took any real prescription drugs. Maybe if you count Tylenol with Codeine, but other than that, I can't say I've been on any prescription drugs. Most people I know aren't on prescription drugs, at least not continuously. Sure, we all know that guy who's taking a cocktail of drugs, and will be for the rest of their lives, but I think that's a small minority. I would have to say, that on average, at any one time, there's probably less than 20% of the popuation taking 1 prescription.
Are those listings available for all 70 channels you get on analog cable?
Ripper: Mandrake?
Mandrake: Yes, Jack?
Ripper: Have you ever seen a Commie drink a glass of water?
Mandrake: Well, I can't say I have.
Ripper: Vodka, that's what they drink, isn't it? Never water?
Mandrake: Well, I-I believe that's what they drink, Jack, yes.
Ripper: On no account will a Commie ever drink water, and not without good reason.
Mandrake: Oh, eh, yes. I, uhm, can't quite see what you're getting at, Jack.
Ripper: Water, that's what I'm getting at, water. Mandrake, water is the source of all life. Seven-tenths of this earth's surface is water. Why, do you realize that seventy percent of you is water?
Mandrake: Uh, uh, Good Lord!
Ripper: And as human beings, you and I need fresh, pure water to replenish our precious bodily fluids.
Mandrake: Yes. (he begins to chuckle nervously)
Ripper: Are you beginning to understand?
Mandrake: Yes. (more laughter)
Ripper: Mandrake. Mandrake, have you never wondered why I drink only distilled water, or rain water, and only pure-grain alcohol?
Mandrake: Well, it did occur to me, Jack, yes.
Ripper: Have you ever heard of a thing called fluoridation. Fluoridation of water?
Mandrake: Uh? Yes, I-I have heard of that, Jack, yes. Yes.
Ripper: Well, do you know what it is?
Mandrake: No, no I don't know what it is, no.
Ripper: Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous Communist plot we have ever had to face?
Yes, but then you have to convince them all to deliver it in the same format, and then contact them when the mess up the format, or forget to deliver their feed. You've obviously never dealt with trying to get a data feed from some company who's main interest isn't sending out data.
If you want continual quality listings, you're probably going to have to pay for it. I got SageTV, and with the $80? I spent, I get free listings, for well, I guess as long as they stick around. I've been using it for like 2 years now, so I guess based on that rate, it would be $40 worth of listings. I think people should be thankful that Zap2it lasted as long as it did. You can't expect some company to just feed you data that they've spent a lot of time gathering for free.
I don't think digital distribution will be a replacement for physical disks anytime soon. If you want to know why, take for example, the WiiShop channel on Christmas day, You couldn't even get on, let alone get to the point where you could download a game. And that's just for downloading tiny ROMS. Using physical disks allows studios to release a very large number of disks to the public, and have almost everybody who wants a copy, gets a copy. Digital distribution of 50 GB HD movies won't be feasible for quite a while. If everybody with a cable connection started to download 50 GB a month, the ISPs would quickly raise rates to account for the massive increase in bandwidth.
I remember hearing that BluRay would only play encrypted/copy protected content. I'm not sure if I'm misinformed, or just not quite correct on the details, but it was my understanding that there wouldn't be any way of having user created content playable on BluRay.
That's funny, I thought in that in Australia, the basement is the home"
Explains a lot. I live in Canada, so virtually all houses would require basements. The only places I know of that didn't have basements were ones that were built on solid bedrock, where I guess you wouldn't need a foundation as such. I've even seen basements with an outcropping of rock that goes into the basement. It looks like they started to dig the basement, hit bedrock, and decided to build the basement around it, instead of going through the trouble of removing the rock.
Most platforms don't provide a simple way to transition between one platform and another, especially in the web development sector. It would basically be a complete rewrite. Some lock you in more than others, but I think it would be quite difficult to switch between them, if you had a reasonable amount of code.
That's something that really bothers me too. I wish they would just play the original CBS/NBC/ABC feed instead of playing the Canadian networks with their commercials.
But the prices aren't any cheaper. I just checked Primus, and for their 3 MB/s connection, it costs $42.95 a month, if you sign up for their long distance also. Bell on the other hand costs $42.95 for their 7 MB/s service, as long as you sign up for at least a basic phone line. Oh, look, they're exactly the same price, and Bell is faster, and doesn't make you sign up for a long distance plan.
I have 6 tabs open on Firefox, and I've been using it continuously since this morning, and it's only taking up 70 MB of RAM. I never understood how people got it up to 200 MB. Maybe if you leave it open for weeks at a time, then eventually it piles up, but for the most part, I've never experienced Firefox going up to 200 MB. The point I'm trying to make though, is that just running vista and browsing your files with explorer requires at least 1 GB to do smoothly. Wouldn't it be nice if it required a more sane amount of memory, for doing such trivial things, so that applications that needed memory, like MMO, Office suites, browsers, and image/video editing could make use of the memory you had?
You shouldn't need 2GB to do those things though. That was the entire point of my post. You can do most things on Linux with 1/4 of the resources that Vista takes. If the next windows takes the same approach, and requires that you have 6 GB of RAM for a 3D desktop while playing mp3s, then Linux will just seem that much more attractive. My Linux laptop has 512 MB of RAM, and i've never felt like I needed more memory. Granted, I don't do video editing or editing of 80 MegaPixel images, but most people don't do that kind of thing anyway.
What are the specs on that laptop. Mine came with Vista, but I don't use it, because it's so slow. It's a Celeron 1.7 GHz, 512 MB of RAM, Intel graphics. Vista runs, but it's unbearably slow. I guess more RAM would help, and it's cheap now, but I didn't need the RAM to get Linux running just fine. Not even listening to anybody else, just from my own personal experiences, I find Vista to be quite resource hungry.
But it's starting to become more than $200. With the hardware requirements of Vista, you have to buy a much more expensive computer, just to get the same usability. I bought a laptop that runs Linux. It cost me $500. To get a machine that runs Vista just as well, I'm looking at spending $1000, at least.
I find that very odd. I thought almost all houses had basements.
It may come with a larger number of drivers included with the operating system, but that doesn't mean that the drivers work. I had a Voodoo 3500 TV card. It worked under the 2.4 kernel, but not under the 2.6 kernel, because whoever was maintain the drivers disappeared. Most video card drives are way worse quality then what you get on Windows. Sure the drivers exist, but they are buggy, or quite slow compared to their windows counterparts.
I think that's the major problem with patents. They use all this legal-speak to define their patent, in order to make them seem novel and inventive. However, when you actually analyze it, and find out exactly what they are doing, you'll find that it's not novel, and that tons of prior art exists. I think that as part of your patent application, you should have to provide a description, in plain english, of exactly what your invention is.