And the fees are really high in the end. We are forced to in-part of PP fees keep minimum price rather high to cover those fees. It's quite a big figure we have to pay in PP fees per annum. It is definitely one of the major costs associated to our business.
When you give a little with great fanfare, people are calm and contempt, thinking govt is up for good, while everyone is looking at that activity, the govt's other hand at other side is taking everything it can while no one notices.
There was even a name for that kind of a scam. In one movie there was a con "kansas city shuffle" which had it's roots based on that.
And what happens when by average you are only 7 "friendships away" from anyone in the world?
At 3 levels looked upon that probably corresponds to 1/5th of population, or even at 1/10th of whole global population, you are bound to have "terrorist friends", making every human being on this planet guilty of terrorism, and earth a giant jail....
Oh wait a moment.... A) We really can't leave jail.. ehrm, earth B) We are already slaves of either money or religion Damn it happened already
Assuming people are innocent does not mean allowing crime. Assuming everyone is criminal does not mean no crime at all.
There will always be a level of crime, no matter the level of privacy rights violated. There will always be men who are so jealous, bitter and hateful they will kill their wifes for infidelity. There will always be women who kill their husband's lovers to stop infidelity.
There will always be poor, who can't stand being poor and will commit theft.
It's the nature of human condition. While we must do what we can to stop this, it does not mean you can invade everyone's privacy and human rights. We are already slaves, does it need to be so friggin' obvious?
Human brains is FAR from unreliable and slow. We don't just consciously know about the insane multitude of seemingly very trivial and simple tasks yet requiring immense processing power to make happen.
Can you stand on 1-leg? can you run and while running jump and keep running without falling down? Are you able to very delicately almost touch your girlfriend, but not really touch and she feels that, with all fingers in your hand and run your hand through her back, just almost touching?
All tasks of fine motory skills requiring immense processing power to make happen.
That would be because afaik most of the brains power goes into conceptualizing, and all kinds of other tasks. Pure maths is very small part of activities. But then again, those people who's visual cortex (or whatever the area is called which handles visual data and eye movements) are simply amazing in maths. Autistic persons can do amazing things as well.
It's matter of how the horsepower is used, not availability in the case of brains. For brains it's an very easy task to detect objects, and attach all kinds of metainformation and experience based data on it instantly, without us even consciously knowing. Never mind all the fine motory skills we have. All brains, all brains.
The "malware problem" is avoided 99.5% very efficiently: Don't click yes on everything. Rest of the 0.5%? Tought luck Holmes, time to boot up Spybot, go for coffee and come back to a clean system.
grown up people also appreciate efficient working, getting things simply done in as simple manner as possible.
The "grown up" approach is infact run Windows primarily, and leave the inefficient sutff in the VM.
(Just check how well Ubuntus clipboard works between FFOX, Putty, Terminal, GEdit, Openoffice..., or the new usability shortcuts in W7, among a plethora of other tiny usability features which end up saving you tremendous amount of time.)
In my experience on desktop Ubuntu is by leaps and bounds flakier than Win7.
I've been using Ubuntu solely for a month now, and i absolutely hate the memory leaks, insane ram usage for some applications, causing jiggery sounds, lagging mouse etc.
Stable otherwise yes, but unusable unless software is restarted every couple of days. Any heavy high IO activity causes jittery sound & laggy mouse.
None of those problems exists under windows, plus under windows the rare occurence i want to play something i can, nevermind many of the usability features (Such as 100% WORKING clipboard, many shortcuts etc.) which simply don't exist yet in the linux world.
And before you go and discredit me: I simply like to get work done as fast & efficiently as possible... This is quite an must when you maintain the amount of servers i do and your living depends on it.
If i want stable as in about never crashes: Yes, Linux by all means. If i want to get work done efficiently (especially coding): Windows, PLEASE NOW ASAP! If i want to do any entertainment at all on my computer: It's windows again.
I try linux as primary desktop system every couple of years, and have been forgiving a lot of things. But, last time it was more expensive too: Buying crossover office license, transgaming license, couple other misc. licenses etc. and i burnt 400€ within couple days just to those, and yet couldn't get work done as nothing worked as advertised. (Oh, OpenOffice couldn't handle the rather simple but large excel sheets i used back then). I always get back to windows. No amount of Linux advocacy
And many other rights regarding the wide open nature, known as "Everymans rights". It includes things such that you can go and collect berries, mushrooms etc. camping, hiking etc. afaik too
I can't be the only one thinking 2.7Tb ain't really that much...
Ok, in terms of Linux ISOs, it would be about 588 but in general.
2.7Tb is about 7Mbps 24/7 average usage, which is 1/3 of maximum for 24Mbps ADSL, or 50% in practical manners. So yes, it's not little but it's not that much neither.
That being said, a subgroup of our servers transfers almost 400gigs every single hour, or some 9-10tb a day.
worse even, most of them choke if you try to use your internet connection at max speed, especially if NAT is enabled. All cheap ones i've seen choke easily when reaching their "rated maximum", both ADSL and ADSL2+
It's so fun having a 24mbps connection when you can't utilize more than half of it without loosing connection due to router crash/overheating or severe lag or amount of dropped packets when it can't handle the traffic.
AMD cannot compete in terms of performance vs. intel, you would need to opt for a Dual CPU system, which is going to cost more.
Secondly, building a computer when you got the parts is not a task taking days, but several hours.
Thirdly, not all home built computers sound like jet engine, infact, some make almost no noises, it depends how you configure it, what parts you opt for, what case you opt for, do you opt for extra noise reduction methods.
What other features on Mac? Maybe one of these:
- Lousy, unergonomic, unusable mouse with jsut 1 button (vs. commodity mouse with 5 positioned ergonomically)
- Just about everything is proprietary and thus marked up. Hell they probably don't even use industry standard power cables
- Lots of excess eyecandy, lowering system responsiveness or at the very minimum consuming more resources thus electricity (mind you i do like W7 Aero and some of the Mac eyecandy)
- Need for extra licenses to run some standard applications (atleast for professionals), to get some basic functionality, thus costing more
- Lock-in to Apple products, lock-in like you've never seen before, where almost every action consists of somekind of payment
- Industry standard hardware, in different casing and huge mark up in price
- Many applications are just worse or worst to use, making simple tasks an immense hurdle (ie. iTunes+Ipod....)
- Lack of basic features (Remember Ipod shuffle being a big deal? iPhones lack of some basic, rudimentary cellphone features)
I admit Apple does good on several things tho:
- Marketing
- Milking every possible dime out of customers
- Generating hype for recycled ideas
- Marketing
- Design: Devices are pleasing to look at (but White is not very long lasting...)
- Locking users into their applications
- Marketing standard devices as something new and distinctive (Ipod still is just a standard MP3 player, Iphone is not that special of an smart phone, a Mac of any version is still just a basic computer)
- Being evil to raise their profit margin and revenues
actually wall wart term for these has been used since the first release of sheevaplug or earlier. try "wall wart computing" as search term. another is Plug computing.
They are not making their own lingo, but as wall wart AC adapters are way more widely used than wall wart mini computers.... You can guess the rest:)
Except atom boxes cost a lot more, consume a lot more electricity and are way larger, plus you can use an USB HDD jus like an internal SATA/IDE HDD under Linux.
With a WD Caviar an plug would would consume around 18W max, while the ATOM will use something like 55-70W and even at minimum around 40W. And higher consumption translates to more heat so it's harder to hide out of view aswell.
Oh and plugs come with debian preinstalled nowadays, configured to use DHCP.
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Moneybookers has tried to. Failing due to even higher transaction fees in part, and harder to use for businesses.
And the fees are really high in the end. We are forced to in-part of PP fees keep minimum price rather high to cover those fees. It's quite a big figure we have to pay in PP fees per annum. It is definitely one of the major costs associated to our business.
Uhm, are we europeans lucky bastards used to FREE wiretransfers, including within the EU? :O That's insane
No the really saddest part is that someone thought that video was a good idea, and actually showed it to anyone instead of destroying outright!
Give a little, take everything ;)
When you give a little with great fanfare, people are calm and contempt, thinking govt is up for good, while everyone is looking at that activity, the govt's other hand at other side is taking everything it can while no one notices.
There was even a name for that kind of a scam. In one movie there was a con "kansas city shuffle" which had it's roots based on that.
Seems to me the only one who even could be neutral is the professor of ethics...
How biased is that...
And what happens when by average you are only 7 "friendships away" from anyone in the world?
At 3 levels looked upon that probably corresponds to 1/5th of population, or even at 1/10th of whole global population, you are bound to have "terrorist friends", making every human being on this planet guilty of terrorism, and earth a giant jail....
Oh wait a moment.... A) We really can't leave jail.. ehrm, earth B) We are already slaves of either money or religion
Damn it happened already
So true... So damn true
he means TFA
Assuming people are innocent does not mean allowing crime.
Assuming everyone is criminal does not mean no crime at all.
There will always be a level of crime, no matter the level of privacy rights violated. There will always be men who are so jealous, bitter and hateful they will kill their wifes for infidelity. There will always be women who kill their husband's lovers to stop infidelity.
There will always be poor, who can't stand being poor and will commit theft.
It's the nature of human condition. While we must do what we can to stop this, it does not mean you can invade everyone's privacy and human rights. We are already slaves, does it need to be so friggin' obvious?
Human brains is FAR from unreliable and slow. We don't just consciously know about the insane multitude of seemingly very trivial and simple tasks yet requiring immense processing power to make happen.
Can you stand on 1-leg? can you run and while running jump and keep running without falling down? Are you able to very delicately almost touch your girlfriend, but not really touch and she feels that, with all fingers in your hand and run your hand through her back, just almost touching?
All tasks of fine motory skills requiring immense processing power to make happen.
For some people quite accurate visualization in 3D space, interactively realtime is very easy task. For most people it isn't.
You could say not everyone's operating system for their brains is the latest version.
That would be because afaik most of the brains power goes into conceptualizing, and all kinds of other tasks. Pure maths is very small part of activities.
But then again, those people who's visual cortex (or whatever the area is called which handles visual data and eye movements) are simply amazing in maths. Autistic persons can do amazing things as well.
It's matter of how the horsepower is used, not availability in the case of brains. For brains it's an very easy task to detect objects, and attach all kinds of metainformation and experience based data on it instantly, without us even consciously knowing. Never mind all the fine motory skills we have. All brains, all brains.
The "malware problem" is avoided 99.5% very efficiently: Don't click yes on everything.
Rest of the 0.5%? Tought luck Holmes, time to boot up Spybot, go for coffee and come back to a clean system.
grown up people also appreciate efficient working, getting things simply done in as simple manner as possible.
The "grown up" approach is infact run Windows primarily, and leave the inefficient sutff in the VM.
(Just check how well Ubuntus clipboard works between FFOX, Putty, Terminal, GEdit, Openoffice..., or the new usability shortcuts in W7, among a plethora of other tiny usability features which end up saving you tremendous amount of time.)
In my experience on desktop Ubuntu is by leaps and bounds flakier than Win7.
I've been using Ubuntu solely for a month now, and i absolutely hate the memory leaks, insane ram usage for some applications, causing jiggery sounds, lagging mouse etc.
Stable otherwise yes, but unusable unless software is restarted every couple of days. Any heavy high IO activity causes jittery sound & laggy mouse.
None of those problems exists under windows, plus under windows the rare occurence i want to play something i can, nevermind many of the usability features (Such as 100% WORKING clipboard, many shortcuts etc.) which simply don't exist yet in the linux world.
And before you go and discredit me: I simply like to get work done as fast & efficiently as possible... This is quite an must when you maintain the amount of servers i do and your living depends on it.
If i want stable as in about never crashes: Yes, Linux by all means. If i want to get work done efficiently (especially coding): Windows, PLEASE NOW ASAP! If i want to do any entertainment at all on my computer: It's windows again.
I try linux as primary desktop system every couple of years, and have been forgiving a lot of things. But, last time it was more expensive too: Buying crossover office license, transgaming license, couple other misc. licenses etc. and i burnt 400€ within couple days just to those, and yet couldn't get work done as nothing worked as advertised. (Oh, OpenOffice couldn't handle the rather simple but large excel sheets i used back then). I always get back to windows. No amount of Linux advocacy
Finland too.
And many other rights regarding the wide open nature, known as "Everymans rights". It includes things such that you can go and collect berries, mushrooms etc. camping, hiking etc. afaik too
and most likely the most ruthless, skilled and intelligent of OMON. The elite of the elite.
Those guys i wouldn't want to be messing with....
I can't be the only one thinking 2.7Tb ain't really that much ...
Ok, in terms of Linux ISOs, it would be about 588 but in general.
2.7Tb is about 7Mbps 24/7 average usage, which is 1/3 of maximum for 24Mbps ADSL, or 50% in practical manners. So yes, it's not little but it's not that much neither.
That being said, a subgroup of our servers transfers almost 400gigs every single hour, or some 9-10tb a day.
wtorrent is quite crappy gui for rTorrent, try ruTorrent. Much nicer and easier to use. Resembles uTorrent like the name suggests.
worse even, most of them choke if you try to use your internet connection at max speed, especially if NAT is enabled.
All cheap ones i've seen choke easily when reaching their "rated maximum", both ADSL and ADSL2+
It's so fun having a 24mbps connection when you can't utilize more than half of it without loosing connection due to router crash/overheating or severe lag or amount of dropped packets when it can't handle the traffic.
Your argument has some fatal flaws in it.
AMD cannot compete in terms of performance vs. intel, you would need to opt for a Dual CPU system, which is going to cost more.
Secondly, building a computer when you got the parts is not a task taking days, but several hours.
Thirdly, not all home built computers sound like jet engine, infact, some make almost no noises, it depends how you configure it, what parts you opt for, what case you opt for, do you opt for extra noise reduction methods.
What other features on Mac? Maybe one of these:
- Lousy, unergonomic, unusable mouse with jsut 1 button (vs. commodity mouse with 5 positioned ergonomically)
- Just about everything is proprietary and thus marked up. Hell they probably don't even use industry standard power cables
- Lots of excess eyecandy, lowering system responsiveness or at the very minimum consuming more resources thus electricity (mind you i do like W7 Aero and some of the Mac eyecandy)
- Need for extra licenses to run some standard applications (atleast for professionals), to get some basic functionality, thus costing more
- Lock-in to Apple products, lock-in like you've never seen before, where almost every action consists of somekind of payment
- Industry standard hardware, in different casing and huge mark up in price
- Many applications are just worse or worst to use, making simple tasks an immense hurdle (ie. iTunes+Ipod....)
- Lack of basic features (Remember Ipod shuffle being a big deal? iPhones lack of some basic, rudimentary cellphone features)
I admit Apple does good on several things tho:
- Marketing
- Milking every possible dime out of customers
- Generating hype for recycled ideas
- Marketing
- Design: Devices are pleasing to look at (but White is not very long lasting...)
- Locking users into their applications
- Marketing standard devices as something new and distinctive (Ipod still is just a standard MP3 player, Iphone is not that special of an smart phone, a Mac of any version is still just a basic computer)
- Being evil to raise their profit margin and revenues
Never mind Apple is probably the most evil largish IT company around ...
actually wall wart term for these has been used since the first release of sheevaplug or earlier.
try "wall wart computing" as search term. another is Plug computing.
They are not making their own lingo, but as wall wart AC adapters are way more widely used than wall wart mini computers .... You can guess the rest :)
Except atom boxes cost a lot more, consume a lot more electricity and are way larger, plus you can use an USB HDD jus like an internal SATA/IDE HDD under Linux.
With a WD Caviar an plug would would consume around 18W max, while the ATOM will use something like 55-70W and even at minimum around 40W. And higher consumption translates to more heat so it's harder to hide out of view aswell.
Oh and plugs come with debian preinstalled nowadays, configured to use DHCP.