Second, on an environmental level, for saving unnecessary rubbish from a landfill somewhere.
Overall, I agree with you, but isn't this stuff going to end up in the landfill eventually, anyhow?
When folks talk about "landfill", I presume you mean it like a "resource", and therefore care about "conservation"... so it seems to me this guy just gives a few extra years of life to these computers before they end up in the landfill - but consuming energy before they do.
So,...on an economic level, for using free software and cast-off hardware to do something useful. it is a "win", but it is not free. Wouldn't the "carbon footprint" be smaller if you just trashed them now?
Of course all your words would be mushed together and that wouldn't be a pretty word picture, so using the Wikipedia tip of assuming 5 letters plus a space, per word, we get:
250,000 X 1000 X 6 = 1,500,000,000 bytes.
Of course, you could use Unicode characters and double all the byte counts. (And I am not even going to mention the 1024 vs 1000 debate.)
Finally, some think the "picture : 1000 words" ratio is off by a factor of 10.
If we use that, then we get 30GB (assuming UTF-16)
So there you have it - Comcast only wants you to use about 100 kbps of bandwidth (1GB/day).
We can also thank them for a new constant - A song is worth 8.3 pictures
I wager my +2 karma against your +2 karma that God himself cannot create a rock so large that He cannot lift it, nor that Jesus can microwave a burrito so hot that He cannot eat it.
In summary, yes, I concede, the devil is in the details.
It's happened before, why wouldn't it happen again? Ever hear of an "ice age"? How did they end? How about all those nice fern-filled steamy renderings of the age of dinosaurs? Did dinosaurs make the climate turn cold by eating and farting too much?
Everyone thinks that "global warming" is a political thing. That's not the case. The "politics" is about whether you think humans have much to do with it.
While it is popular, in some circles, to say people are contributing to global warming in a meaningful way, the science is still out, and in many cases pointing towards a "shit happens" point of view, if it turns out badly for people.
Personally, I strongly believe in the "shit happens" model of the universe. In the cosmic scheme of things it doesn't matter one wit if a big rock wipes out all life on this planet tomorrow. A lot of people can't handle that idea.
A couple of years ago I had an iPod (given to me as a gift.) It was cool and all, but eventually it needed a new battery, wasn't quite big enough, etc. (BTW I never purchased a single song from iTunes.com - my own MP3 files worked just great, thank you very much.)
After dumping the iPod on eBay, I needed another player.
I bought a Sansa MP3 player... I don't care what Apple does.
I have (3) Win XP (pro) SP2 computers on all the time, and one Win2K SP4.
None of them have the indicated "stealth" updates.
The only computer that has the "7.0.6000.381" versions is a laptop that I explicitly updated last night (before reading about this issue.) Both the Win XP Home and Win XP Pro partitions have the newer wu* files... the ubuntu partition does not;-)
Do you have that ugly Windows Security Alerts shield in your system tray? Mine is turned off. Maybe the wscntfy.exe program gets some updates for the update program... and I don't have that running.
At the end of the day, I suspect there is a way to prevent "stealth updates", and it won't be anything sinister, just average programming at work.
They don't want to get rid of the meters to make way for free parking, they want NO Parking.
So, parked cars are ugly - Apple's solution; Don't allow cars to park. Applying a little reductio ad absurdum, one would conclude banning parking everywhere would be nice... until you have no customers.
Wanting to remove a limited resource like down-town parking spaces is a selfish and arrogant move on Apple's part, IMHO.
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Microsoft Man 1.0 is too geeky. I'd call him Bob.
You take a block of wood, and carve away everything that doesn't look like a boat. Right?
study that suggests hov lanes don't work.
Overall, I agree with you, but isn't this stuff going to end up in the landfill eventually, anyhow?
When folks talk about "landfill", I presume you mean it like a "resource", and therefore care about "conservation"... so it seems to me this guy just gives a few extra years of life to these computers before they end up in the landfill - but consuming energy before they do.
So, ...on an economic level, for using free software and cast-off hardware to do something useful. it is a "win", but it is not free. Wouldn't the "carbon footprint" be smaller if you just trashed them now?
A larger pool of mutants means more chance of a favorable adaptation, right?
We can't be so selfish - think of the children.
Everyone talks about evolution but nobody does anything about it.
How much energy is spend delivering fake moon rocks, Star Trek sets, and other must-have items purchased from eBay?
And you didn't balk at the 34% increase in rent?
I'll stick to tap water.
Much about nature sucks.
I am sure there are plans for rocket ships that can be found there.
Unless you live in a country that blocks certain web sites.
D'oh! (how do you say that in Chinese?)
"What did you lose (in monetary terms) by this picture being used?"
Like other cell phone companies where lining up to use the picture... now they are backing off.
I'd say damages are $1.00 for each random person off the street who can name the pictured individual. (Take 10,000 samples if you want.)
I presume that means buying a non-DRM, plain-old CD and "copying" it to my MP3 player.
By your logic Germans should just stop buying DVDs and CDs... perhaps that is what you meant.
Right up until the time I drop dead.
That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.
Like people who are 29 for a long time, or 39 for a long time, etc.
It was a joke, but I didn't smile. It was lame :-O
Everyone knows A picture is worth a thousand words, right? Assuming English, we have the "...estimated average word length of five..." for a simple calculation:
250,000 X 1000 X 5 = 1,250,000,000 bytes.
Of course all your words would be mushed together and that wouldn't be a pretty word picture, so using the Wikipedia tip of assuming 5 letters plus a space, per word, we get:
250,000 X 1000 X 6 = 1,500,000,000 bytes.
Of course, you could use Unicode characters and double all the byte counts. (And I am not even going to mention the 1024 vs 1000 debate.)
Finally, some think the "picture : 1000 words" ratio is off by a factor of 10. If we use that, then we get 30GB (assuming UTF-16)
So there you have it - Comcast only wants you to use about 100 kbps of bandwidth (1GB/day).
We can also thank them for a new constant - A song is worth 8.3 pictures
In summary, yes, I concede, the devil is in the details.
I don't think so.
God and I were having bacon cheese burgers at Hooters the other day, and He told me He doesn't have a Slashdot account. Why would He lie to me?
Then I told him a ribald joke that He hadn't heard before, and he snorted milkshake out his nose.
Everyone thinks that "global warming" is a political thing. That's not the case. The "politics" is about whether you think humans have much to do with it.
While it is popular, in some circles, to say people are contributing to global warming in a meaningful way, the science is still out, and in many cases pointing towards a "shit happens" point of view, if it turns out badly for people.
Personally, I strongly believe in the "shit happens" model of the universe. In the cosmic scheme of things it doesn't matter one wit if a big rock wipes out all life on this planet tomorrow. A lot of people can't handle that idea.
You can not disprove this fact.
After dumping the iPod on eBay, I needed another player. I bought a Sansa MP3 player... I don't care what Apple does.
I lose how?
I'd love it if everyone just got their gross pay and a 1099. Especially "public" employees.
Let them have the joy of filing quarterly taxes... all that paperwork keeps their public service brethren employed.
Who's gonna clean that ugly burn mark off the sidewalk?
But I see Columbia, for instance hasn't signed... so if some drug lord funds the trip, and they launch from Columbia, maybe they can claim it.
I want to know if you can grab old Apollo landing memorabilia... if you could return it to Earth, it would fetch quite a price on eBay.
If you can't return it, is it black mail to collect money for NOT defacing it?
None of them have the indicated "stealth" updates.
The only computer that has the "7.0.6000.381" versions is a laptop that I explicitly updated last night (before reading about this issue.) Both the Win XP Home and Win XP Pro partitions have the newer wu* files... the ubuntu partition does not ;-)
Do you have that ugly Windows Security Alerts shield in your system tray? Mine is turned off. Maybe the wscntfy.exe program gets some updates for the update program... and I don't have that running.
At the end of the day, I suspect there is a way to prevent "stealth updates", and it won't be anything sinister, just average programming at work.
They don't want to get rid of the meters to make way for free parking, they want NO Parking.
So, parked cars are ugly - Apple's solution; Don't allow cars to park. Applying a little reductio ad absurdum, one would conclude banning parking everywhere would be nice... until you have no customers.
Wanting to remove a limited resource like down-town parking spaces is a selfish and arrogant move on Apple's part, IMHO.