Hard drives are cheap. If you have any data that you absolutely don't want to get out...EVER...physical destruction is the 100% solution.
And, in terms of practicality, running DoD-7 takes about 1000 times longer than whipping out the old Sledge-O-Matic. If you're retiring a few dozen computers, even that gets old, and you start looking for the thermite.
Adding a new hard drive should be a given for any device. With a tower, I should be able to make significant changes: graphics, sound, yes motherboard and processor. I've had trouble with Mac servers because they arbitrarily decided, in the firmware, to ditch certain sizes of SATA drives in favor of the ones from their site which came complete with a 200% markup.
In my mind, it mostly covered good patents. If someone builds and patents a Whack-A-Mole machine, that's a good patent. These days it would be a patent for a game in which you hit things with a mallet, no implementation included.
Hard to upgrade isn't the question. RAM, Batteries, Hard Drives...These things are nominally user serviceable. But not for Mac, not on the majority of their devices. And even the ones that can be opened easily have issues. Try to replace internal components on a mac tower without buying those components from Apple.
The sibling post is exactly right. Sending all your data to Apple to get them to replace a battery (or RAM) is ridiculous.
The apple battery thing is pretty fricking annoying though...Hell, the "un-openable" appliances are the reason I'll never buy a Mac for myself.
I once had to add RAM to 20 new Mac Mini's. Do you know how to add RAM to a Mac Mini? Step one is to go out and find a putty knife or a spark plug gapper, or a straight razor, and step two is to use it to pry the fricking case apart.
"Then pry the case apart" is a step you hear over and over with the macs. I'm just not going to pay a premium for something I can't take apart without resorting to a lever. It's bad enough with the iPod, and I go through those before the battery wears out.
I hope you don't seriously believe your idea is going to get you anything without some implementation behind it. I suggest you google your unique idea, and then patent it, and try suing all the other suckers who have the same idea.
Lot of nice blanket generalizations there. Assuming that they're able-bodied, of sound mind, and don't have children or disabled relatives to take care of, they probably could do better than 500 bucks a month.
Lets just say, in the blanket case, that if some poor bastard is stuck living on 500 bucks a month, which is certainly possible, I don't begrudge them a digital converter so that they can watch a little TV.
Don't forget the approx 20,000,000,000 commercials.
Not like it matters. The program will get whatever extra money it needs. No way will the feds deprive Joe Bob of his basic right to free programming. Panem et circenses for the 21st century.
A sperm and an egg combined in a non-hospitable environment isn't a stage of growth by anyone's definition. It's like saying an acorn planted in nice forest loam is the same thing as an acorn planted on the moon.
If you want to make an argument about the sanctity of a fertilized egg inside a woman's body, that is an argument that has the possibility of support, but making an argument about a fertilized egg in the freezer is ridiculous.
The thing about a good interface is that you don't need those things. WASD is pretty much standard, and iirc WoW also lets you use the number pad and the arrow keys if you prefer.
Attacking things is likewise not rocket science. You just click on an enemy and auto attack kicks in.
Eventually you start wondering about the crap on your hotbar, and click those things, and more stuff happens, and it moves on from there. Very straightforward.
The places where people get lost in MMOs are never in the basic things (e.g. moving) it's in the area of "Okay, WTF do I do now?" and WoW nails that part. Your first quest giver gives you a quest that leads you to the next quest giver, who does the same. If you just follow the quests until you run out, without ever exploring, welcome to level 80. It's that simple.
That is the easy thing about WoW. It's got nothing to do with the interface. Playing on a pve server, there is nothing to get in your way between lvl 1 and lvl 80 except ~12 days of mindless grinding.
I agree completely, though I'm the opposite of you. Every intuition I ever had about algebra was wrong. Every. Single. One. And the system isn't designed to give you any concrete applications: the word problems are just reading exercises wrapped around a symbol problem with only one solution.
Geometry, on the other hand, I found to be trivially easy. Likewise linear algebra: that was the only class I've ever been in where every first impression intuition I had was absolutely correct...It was all concrete to me, all practical.
Batteries aren't efficient for a large scale solution. They're short-lived, they're low capacity, and energy is lost in the charging process...It can take 120% of the capacity of a NiCd battery to charge it to 100%.
So, on the balance, I'd say it's you. Solar is not a 100% solution.
Why fire it into the sun? Reprocess it, and throw it back in the reactor. Do that enough times, and the stuff you pull out at the end would be "cool" waste: easy to store, not all that radioactive.
The waste problem right now is extreme because the amount of fissile material left in the waste is huge. The reason we don't reprocess is essentially political; reprocessed waste can very easily be "bomb grade" fissile material.
Meh. If you don't play games, why use windows? I use it myself for games and the occasional access/excel nightmare that some accounting wonder-weenie came up with, that I have to "fix." I tack the occasional license costs onto my taxes as a business expense, and call it a day.
If you don't need any of that stuff, why bother to post, other than to show off the fact that you're a Ubuntu user. (Thank god I don't use a trendy distro.)
I was thinking the same thing...But in this world, it's more likely that they patented it so that some stupid patent troll won't get the opportunity to sue the gov't.
It's easy to say that, but when you take Apples "Less functional" product and set it next to a "More functional" product you can really see a difference.
I'm not a fan of their computers, and I don't think much of their design decisions there. But take the iPod vs Every other music player, and it's just sad. Sure, other had more space, sure others supported more codecs, but the iPod blows them away in usability and style (except in the never-to-be-sufficiently-damned annoyance of having to get a third party app to get music off the iPod on to a new computer.)
Likewise the iPhone. It's slick and intuitive. Sure there were more functional crackberries and palms out there, but they didn't have the full touchscreen, and they didn't have the same sort of development environment...Crippled as it is, people are lining up to make apps for the iPhone.
And what happens after the iPhone comes out? Everyone else gets a touchscreen phone. They look similar. They have the same or better features. And they just don't work as well. The Blackberry "Storm" is a dog...The software support is terrible, and it's not as responsive.
They make decisions that cause problems for high end users, but we are the niche, not everyone else. And techies are still getting the iPhone, they're just bitching about it.
You have to use a font that is thick enough to have a bunch of holes cut out of it. You could save even more ink by printing in a smaller font.
That assertion is based on cost figures for newspaper classified pages; drop the font size, save a ton of ink and paper. Papers all over the country have been doing this for years as their margins shrink.
But apparently they could have switched to this larger font with holes in it! Genius!
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Hard drives are cheap. If you have any data that you absolutely don't want to get out...EVER...physical destruction is the 100% solution.
And, in terms of practicality, running DoD-7 takes about 1000 times longer than whipping out the old Sledge-O-Matic. If you're retiring a few dozen computers, even that gets old, and you start looking for the thermite.
Adding a new hard drive should be a given for any device. With a tower, I should be able to make significant changes: graphics, sound, yes motherboard and processor. I've had trouble with Mac servers because they arbitrarily decided, in the firmware, to ditch certain sizes of SATA drives in favor of the ones from their site which came complete with a 200% markup.
In my mind, it mostly covered good patents. If someone builds and patents a Whack-A-Mole machine, that's a good patent. These days it would be a patent for a game in which you hit things with a mallet, no implementation included.
Hard to upgrade isn't the question. RAM, Batteries, Hard Drives...These things are nominally user serviceable. But not for Mac, not on the majority of their devices. And even the ones that can be opened easily have issues. Try to replace internal components on a mac tower without buying those components from Apple.
The sibling post is exactly right. Sending all your data to Apple to get them to replace a battery (or RAM) is ridiculous.
The apple battery thing is pretty fricking annoying though...Hell, the "un-openable" appliances are the reason I'll never buy a Mac for myself.
I once had to add RAM to 20 new Mac Mini's. Do you know how to add RAM to a Mac Mini? Step one is to go out and find a putty knife or a spark plug gapper, or a straight razor, and step two is to use it to pry the fricking case apart.
"Then pry the case apart" is a step you hear over and over with the macs. I'm just not going to pay a premium for something I can't take apart without resorting to a lever. It's bad enough with the iPod, and I go through those before the battery wears out.
And when they dropped the extra 30 cents, they started doing it for free.
I hope you don't seriously believe your idea is going to get you anything without some implementation behind it. I suggest you google your unique idea, and then patent it, and try suing all the other suckers who have the same idea.
It's sitting next to your government cheese. Caseum et Circenses?
Lot of nice blanket generalizations there. Assuming that they're able-bodied, of sound mind, and don't have children or disabled relatives to take care of, they probably could do better than 500 bucks a month.
Lets just say, in the blanket case, that if some poor bastard is stuck living on 500 bucks a month, which is certainly possible, I don't begrudge them a digital converter so that they can watch a little TV.
The government is not a for profit entity, especially when we're talking about "profit" gained by selling a public property.
Don't forget the approx 20,000,000,000 commercials.
Not like it matters. The program will get whatever extra money it needs. No way will the feds deprive Joe Bob of his basic right to free programming. Panem et circenses for the 21st century.
You know what else will kill them? Jack Daniels.
It's hard to beat alcohol as a bacteria killer. A little listerine does the job as well as anything else.
A sperm and an egg combined in a non-hospitable environment isn't a stage of growth by anyone's definition. It's like saying an acorn planted in nice forest loam is the same thing as an acorn planted on the moon.
If you want to make an argument about the sanctity of a fertilized egg inside a woman's body, that is an argument that has the possibility of support, but making an argument about a fertilized egg in the freezer is ridiculous.
The thing about a good interface is that you don't need those things. WASD is pretty much standard, and iirc WoW also lets you use the number pad and the arrow keys if you prefer.
Attacking things is likewise not rocket science. You just click on an enemy and auto attack kicks in.
Eventually you start wondering about the crap on your hotbar, and click those things, and more stuff happens, and it moves on from there. Very straightforward.
The places where people get lost in MMOs are never in the basic things (e.g. moving) it's in the area of "Okay, WTF do I do now?" and WoW nails that part. Your first quest giver gives you a quest that leads you to the next quest giver, who does the same. If you just follow the quests until you run out, without ever exploring, welcome to level 80. It's that simple.
That is the easy thing about WoW. It's got nothing to do with the interface. Playing on a pve server, there is nothing to get in your way between lvl 1 and lvl 80 except ~12 days of mindless grinding.
I agree completely, though I'm the opposite of you. Every intuition I ever had about algebra was wrong. Every. Single. One. And the system isn't designed to give you any concrete applications: the word problems are just reading exercises wrapped around a symbol problem with only one solution.
Geometry, on the other hand, I found to be trivially easy. Likewise linear algebra: that was the only class I've ever been in where every first impression intuition I had was absolutely correct...It was all concrete to me, all practical.
Batteries aren't efficient for a large scale solution. They're short-lived, they're low capacity, and energy is lost in the charging process...It can take 120% of the capacity of a NiCd battery to charge it to 100%.
So, on the balance, I'd say it's you. Solar is not a 100% solution.
Why fire it into the sun? Reprocess it, and throw it back in the reactor. Do that enough times, and the stuff you pull out at the end would be "cool" waste: easy to store, not all that radioactive.
The waste problem right now is extreme because the amount of fissile material left in the waste is huge. The reason we don't reprocess is essentially political; reprocessed waste can very easily be "bomb grade" fissile material.
Make sure you chain it to something. Not to say that less prepared neighbors might make off with it, but, well, they will.
Meh. If you don't play games, why use windows? I use it myself for games and the occasional access/excel nightmare that some accounting wonder-weenie came up with, that I have to "fix." I tack the occasional license costs onto my taxes as a business expense, and call it a day.
If you don't need any of that stuff, why bother to post, other than to show off the fact that you're a Ubuntu user. (Thank god I don't use a trendy distro.)
Financial houses are very conservative, and very prone to sticking with "proven" systems until some massive flaw forces them to change.
So, if you slip your monitoring gear in on day 1, the only way it would be detectable is if you took it off, and the packets started going faster.
I was thinking the same thing...But in this world, it's more likely that they patented it so that some stupid patent troll won't get the opportunity to sue the gov't.
It's easy to say that, but when you take Apples "Less functional" product and set it next to a "More functional" product you can really see a difference.
I'm not a fan of their computers, and I don't think much of their design decisions there. But take the iPod vs Every other music player, and it's just sad. Sure, other had more space, sure others supported more codecs, but the iPod blows them away in usability and style (except in the never-to-be-sufficiently-damned annoyance of having to get a third party app to get music off the iPod on to a new computer.)
Likewise the iPhone. It's slick and intuitive. Sure there were more functional crackberries and palms out there, but they didn't have the full touchscreen, and they didn't have the same sort of development environment...Crippled as it is, people are lining up to make apps for the iPhone.
And what happens after the iPhone comes out? Everyone else gets a touchscreen phone. They look similar. They have the same or better features. And they just don't work as well. The Blackberry "Storm" is a dog...The software support is terrible, and it's not as responsive.
They make decisions that cause problems for high end users, but we are the niche, not everyone else. And techies are still getting the iPhone, they're just bitching about it.
It's not about how crazy the story is, it's about whether or not Joe Peasant thinks the story is literally true.
You have to use a font that is thick enough to have a bunch of holes cut out of it. You could save even more ink by printing in a smaller font.
That assertion is based on cost figures for newspaper classified pages; drop the font size, save a ton of ink and paper. Papers all over the country have been doing this for years as their margins shrink.
But apparently they could have switched to this larger font with holes in it! Genius!