Some people have horrible gambling habits. They get in to trouble. You could argue that the addiction is a disease like any other and that they are attempting to help control it. On one level you have people getting in debt and in big trouble with bookies (we'll call it the "movie scenario") and in others you have people getting in debt and in big trouble with banks and friends they owe money to, hurting not only themselves but their families to need that money to live (we'll call this one the "real life scenario").
Then, of course, the state obviously isn't getting to tax any of this money. And chances are you're losing more than you're making, so the money is just disappearing from the state economy and not being taxed when you buy a hamburger. My money is actually on the dangers-of-gambling aspect, though. Pun honestly not intended.
How many people know the difference between the Apache license and GPL? How many are more likely to adopt a project because it chose Apache over the GPL? And, most importantly, how many people are dealing with your crappy project anyway? I don't have the stats but I can only imagine how many inactive, hardly active, or active but never used projects there are on Source Forge. The difference between licenses to 99% of those projects is zero.
Greta: He knocked over another ATM. This time at knife point. He needs your legal advice.
Fletcher: [picking up phone and shouting] Stop breaking the law, asshole!
I'm in an IT department with billable services. Since we bill the other departments, we are supposed to net $zero, and adjust our billing if we are making a profit or loss.
Yeah, I gave a possible solution to the problem instead of answering the question. Shame on me.
Q: How do I eat spaghetti with a spoon?
A: Use a fork.
It works on a level for saving electricity, but the major driving factor here was business continuity and disaster recovery. If the building burns down 3000 people can work from home. If your building burns down, everyone is shit out of luck.
22 percent of IT admins surveyed said that savings from PC power management 'flow to another department's budget.'
No shit? What about hardware costs? Employee salaries? Cost of software licenses? Those too??? What are you, some sort of support department that doesn't sell your company's product??
I was deployed to UAE for 4 months. When we got there in September it was 45c+ every day with humidity in the 90s. THAT was hot. By the time it started raining in January, I was wearing a sweater out when it was 25c.
I think you're missing the point. CAPTCHA isn't a speed bump. Anyone that is going to take the time to make a bot to spam your site is going to take an extra minute to add a hack for your CAPTCHA or cat picture or sound or simple question. And saying you have to make CAPTCHA difficult for humans to read to be effective is a pretty major understatement. It should read "Computers are better at it than people."
A boxee app store? I understand that they are working on getting hardware created, but they are expecting people to pay for little applets that will run under boxee on hardware that you either had to build yourself or hack to even run it in the first place? And even after their own device is out, how many people are going to buy it [b]and[/b] buy plugins for it?
I also understand that if they aren't thinking big, they might as well not even try (think you can or think you can't..) but I just don't see this being even remotely successful. People use their iPhone because its "cool" and want it to do everything their computer does while they're on the road. If you want the functionality of a computer while you're in your living room, get up and walk to your office.
It seems to me that floating platforms would be cheaper and easier to make and maintain than anything anchored to the sea floor. I wouldn't know where to begin, but I find it hard to believe engineers haven't already got it worked out.
What can an independent citizen do, other than vote for their representation? What politician has ever shown they wouldn't do their best to try to implement and than take advantage of such a system?
And you're right. It is like having an insurance policy, because insurance adjusters and politicians (and cell phone companies and cable companies and banks and.. you get it) ARE assholes. And individuals are kind of in the same boat here as with politicians -- you have to take what you can get.
My point is that even if you can have a higher resell value, doesn't make that product better when buying it.
We're discussing cost, not quality.
G5 and older Macs are obsolete, so they are worthless. And now that I've looked at ebay (I hadn't for a few months, since I bought mine) it looks like the prices have dropped a lot. Such is the market during these economic times, I guess. I assume they'll be back up to ridiculous levels when the economy improves. Or maybe it proves that you need to replace your Mac every year if you want to save money. But the important part is upgrading it, because apparently people that buy used Macs think Apple's upgrade prices are reasonable and apply those values to used hardware.
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Yeah. When I hear someone reference a video game in real life, I think "old."
Some people have horrible gambling habits. They get in to trouble. You could argue that the addiction is a disease like any other and that they are attempting to help control it. On one level you have people getting in debt and in big trouble with bookies (we'll call it the "movie scenario") and in others you have people getting in debt and in big trouble with banks and friends they owe money to, hurting not only themselves but their families to need that money to live (we'll call this one the "real life scenario").
Then, of course, the state obviously isn't getting to tax any of this money. And chances are you're losing more than you're making, so the money is just disappearing from the state economy and not being taxed when you buy a hamburger. My money is actually on the dangers-of-gambling aspect, though. Pun honestly not intended.
I agree it doesn't matter, but not on why.
How many people know the difference between the Apache license and GPL? How many are more likely to adopt a project because it chose Apache over the GPL? And, most importantly, how many people are dealing with your crappy project anyway? I don't have the stats but I can only imagine how many inactive, hardly active, or active but never used projects there are on Source Forge. The difference between licenses to 99% of those projects is zero.
What incredible insight.
Greta: He knocked over another ATM. This time at knife point. He needs your legal advice.
Fletcher: [picking up phone and shouting] Stop breaking the law, asshole!
I'm in an IT department with billable services. Since we bill the other departments, we are supposed to net $zero, and adjust our billing if we are making a profit or loss.
Yeah, I gave a possible solution to the problem instead of answering the question. Shame on me.
Q: How do I eat spaghetti with a spoon?
A: Use a fork.
It works on a level for saving electricity, but the major driving factor here was business continuity and disaster recovery. If the building burns down 3000 people can work from home. If your building burns down, everyone is shit out of luck.
To save that $75 worth of electricity ...
Or, to save half, disallow installing software that sits there and uses 100% of your available CPU time.
Not sure if it's an option, but we have laptops.
You say that (I assume) sarcastically, but I really think that's just the kind of detail management would ignore when making a decision like this.
22 percent of IT admins surveyed said that savings from PC power management 'flow to another department's budget.'
No shit? What about hardware costs? Employee salaries? Cost of software licenses? Those too??? What are you, some sort of support department that doesn't sell your company's product??
I was deployed to UAE for 4 months. When we got there in September it was 45c+ every day with humidity in the 90s. THAT was hot. By the time it started raining in January, I was wearing a sweater out when it was 25c.
What an awesome deal!
If you are a descendant of either a Sooner or a Boomer, I respectfully do not agree with their actions.
Except he's not. He just prematurely ejaculates. And he'd gone all this time with no one drawing attention to it as you just have.
I think you're missing the point. CAPTCHA isn't a speed bump. Anyone that is going to take the time to make a bot to spam your site is going to take an extra minute to add a hack for your CAPTCHA or cat picture or sound or simple question. And saying you have to make CAPTCHA difficult for humans to read to be effective is a pretty major understatement. It should read "Computers are better at it than people."
What is this, an SSD for ants???
Who said that? Why do you think Canonical supports Ubuntu? For the good of the community?
A boxee app store? I understand that they are working on getting hardware created, but they are expecting people to pay for little applets that will run under boxee on hardware that you either had to build yourself or hack to even run it in the first place? And even after their own device is out, how many people are going to buy it [b]and[/b] buy plugins for it?
I also understand that if they aren't thinking big, they might as well not even try (think you can or think you can't..) but I just don't see this being even remotely successful. People use their iPhone because its "cool" and want it to do everything their computer does while they're on the road. If you want the functionality of a computer while you're in your living room, get up and walk to your office.
The most effective part of this move will probably be revealing the names of these 8 file sharers that are playing D&D.
Truly an American icon.
It seems to me that floating platforms would be cheaper and easier to make and maintain than anything anchored to the sea floor. I wouldn't know where to begin, but I find it hard to believe engineers haven't already got it worked out.
They also stress the fundamentals of basketball even though they no can dunk.
What can an independent citizen do, other than vote for their representation? What politician has ever shown they wouldn't do their best to try to implement and than take advantage of such a system?
And you're right. It is like having an insurance policy, because insurance adjusters and politicians (and cell phone companies and cable companies and banks and.. you get it) ARE assholes. And individuals are kind of in the same boat here as with politicians -- you have to take what you can get.
I don't even know what you could do with 5gb a month. I have dd-wrt running on my router and UPLOAD more than 5gb a month using email and AIM to chat.
My point is that even if you can have a higher resell value, doesn't make that product better when buying it.
We're discussing cost, not quality.
G5 and older Macs are obsolete, so they are worthless. And now that I've looked at ebay (I hadn't for a few months, since I bought mine) it looks like the prices have dropped a lot. Such is the market during these economic times, I guess. I assume they'll be back up to ridiculous levels when the economy improves. Or maybe it proves that you need to replace your Mac every year if you want to save money. But the important part is upgrading it, because apparently people that buy used Macs think Apple's upgrade prices are reasonable and apply those values to used hardware.
This April Fools has been like Nacho Libre - I can't even tell what's supposed to be funny and what's not.