Mass casualties are stranger. I have a lot of friends in Haiti. With facebook its all a little creepy. You see my friends interaction right before the earthquake through the wall posts. Its like a digital pompeii. Its just really sad to look at all of the promise, all of the hope... gone.
That may have been historically true, but they we're really close to maxing out Saudi Arabia's current production rate. During the $4 gas days, OPEC was doing everything it could to increase production, but still couldn't get the price down. They understand that a price too high will lead to an increased searching for alternatives.
Yeah... ever hear of OPEC ? They basically do this at a multi national level. Although, I really don't know if the price would be any different if they didn't. Demand has almost outstripped supply capacities.
Wierd. I'm probaably one of the best cases for such a feature. Probably grandfathered/super karmaed in. Plus, Taco know it did happen, pics exist. Still, hoping for the solid gold rubix cube though. Not having to preview, isn't going to stop me, mister millitary faux mexican food item.
I'm okay with that arrangement. The reason hospitals so favor government-paid healthcare is because then they can suck their profits out of the taxpayerd' wallets. It screws us and favors the megacorp.
I'm not. You're freeloading off of everyone else. The current system privatizes the benefits, but socializes the costs. That is the worst possible system for people who really care about freedom. This really only confuses stupid conservatives. So, it really has been quite fascinating to see them all try sticking together against it. Bernie Maddof was an idiot, if he really wanted to never be caught, he would have advertised on Rush.
I would be totally fine with a health care that didn't require you to pay anything towards health care, if you singed your name in blood stating that you will never receive free or subsidized care from the state, ever. Which means you can never go to a public hospital. Never go to see any doctors that have received any kind of federal funding for any of their patients, or for there education ( going back to grade school ).
The problem was that many people would opt out before, and not get any kind of health insurance. Then when they go t sick the hospitals absorb the cost, which translates into higher costs for everyone else. So, no you don't get to go back to the way it was so you can free ride anymore. Everyone is paying in, one way or the other.
Danger was purchased by MS and tasked to build the kin. It wasn't a project that they bought fully featured like google did with android. The Kin was fully developed form concept to launch while the former Danger employees were under microsoft. Engadget has the whole scoop of internal politicking at MS that led the the demise of pink/kin if you want more of the details. BUt win7 phone is a go, they would be really dumb to change directions, yet again and go it alone. They've already made too many changes in plans that have lead them way behind.
Sounds like they came up with the outcome they desired and worked backwards to derive the initial conditions they needed. Which might be valid in some circumstances, but to me it always seems like a newspaper article whose headline reads.
We have no need of Oil
Scientists announced today that, counter to everyone else on this planet, we do not need oil. The researchers stated that with an initial assumption that water will become combustible tomorrow at 5 pm, we will no longer need to use gasoline, diesel or any other oil products ever again. They are expected to receive tenure, and a substantial research grant to further develop their ideas into production. The added, that their plan may also require Indian to redefine the value of Pi to an integer, but pointed out no politician would want to be the one that freed us from relying on foreign countries for our energy needs.
Well the Droid X is pretty much unflashable with non Moto roms. There are other phones that still haven't been rooted. Relying on back doors to solve problems with front doors only works as long as the back door exists.
Well BTRFS, is coming along nicely. Distros are looking at using it by default in their next desktop releases. I would advise waiting for at least another year after that before using it to store production critical data.
I think if you were a magical genie that offered the RIAA the option of having copyright for only 7 years and an absolute stop to piracy of the works for those 7 years, they might take it. The big hits they were producing just before digital copying became practical on a wide scale were boy bands and brittany spears. I immagine they probably don't have the staying power of the rolling stones.
I wouldn't quite put Nokia in the same position as Microsoft. MS has such a huge installed base, that they are still in a dominant position despite 8 years of screw ups. There is too much legacy stuff that relies on windows. Now, Nokia doesn't really have that luxury. The turnover rate for cell phones is much higher. Furthermore with better app stores, Apple and Android are setting themselves up to retain their current users due to their investment in their apps.
China's censor ship is designed to prevent people from openly sharing content that they don't want shared. Communications between two people who have an existing relationship and a desire to exchange information is always going to be possible through a variety of methods. This doesn't change that.
No, they are a dinosaur on the brink of extinction. They are the buggy whip maker laughing at car sales in 1890. There are already android phones that will be given away at no direct cost with a contract. Their cost will come down, and fill all of those niches where nokia is today.
When you are fishing, sometimes the line gets snagged on a underground log or weeds. You can struggle for a while trying to get it free, but at some point to get on with fishing you have to cut the line and attach a new hook complete with new bait. Or sometimes your bait just isn't working for the conditions for what ever reason, to switch to new bait, you'd have to cut off the old bait. So basically it means one will be trying over again with a new approach by admitting a previous mistake.
Who would drop $15 on a CD just to see if it was god or not?
Yes, I wouldn't pay just to find out if it was god or not. I really don't care if they put Vishnu in a cd case. I mean he's one of many. I feel like I'd have to buy a lot of them to collect the whole set. But, if it was God, in there? There's only One, so that might be less expensive a proposition. I don't know I might. Depends on the odds. Do on out of every ten CD's contain God, or one out of every Billion?
Well, I would suggest reading the article. Basically, there are two problems identified:
1) NYSE has a bug in their system which caused a crash.
2) High volume traders are effectively launching denial of service attacks through their otherwise unnecessarily high number of quotes per second ( as high as 5000 per second). The only reasoning besides stupidity is that they are trying to force their cometitors to burn though their cpu analysing the quotes, allowing the quoter to have a temporary advantage in analysis and trading.
I agree the elimination of Mac OS X is far fetched, but do not trust it just because Jobs said so. He's said a lot of things that Apple has reversed course on throughout his time of CEO. Furthermore there are other things that Apple has done, that I would categorise as foolish. The good news is that upgrades are never mandatory, and you can install alternative Operating systems on the hardware. If either of those two things change, run for the hills.
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Yes, but good jokes never die. The floating point jokes are also a lot funnier than the itanium jokes as they tend to be mathier.
Mass casualties are stranger. I have a lot of friends in Haiti. With facebook its all a little creepy. You see my friends interaction right before the earthquake through the wall posts. Its like a digital pompeii. Its just really sad to look at all of the promise, all of the hope ... gone.
That may have been historically true, but they we're really close to maxing out Saudi Arabia's current production rate. During the $4 gas days, OPEC was doing everything it could to increase production, but still couldn't get the price down. They understand that a price too high will lead to an increased searching for alternatives.
Yeah ... ever hear of OPEC ? They basically do this at a multi national level. Although, I really don't know if the price would be any different if they didn't. Demand has almost outstripped supply capacities.
Wierd. I'm probaably one of the best cases for such a feature. Probably grandfathered/super karmaed in. Plus, Taco know it did happen, pics exist. Still, hoping for the solid gold rubix cube though. Not having to preview, isn't going to stop me, mister millitary faux mexican food item.
Why do you need to hit preview first? I thought that was for cowards only.
I'm not. You're freeloading off of everyone else. The current system privatizes the benefits, but socializes the costs. That is the worst possible system for people who really care about freedom. This really only confuses stupid conservatives. So, it really has been quite fascinating to see them all try sticking together against it. Bernie Maddof was an idiot, if he really wanted to never be caught, he would have advertised on Rush.
I would be totally fine with a health care that didn't require you to pay anything towards health care, if you singed your name in blood stating that you will never receive free or subsidized care from the state, ever. Which means you can never go to a public hospital. Never go to see any doctors that have received any kind of federal funding for any of their patients, or for there education ( going back to grade school ).
The problem was that many people would opt out before, and not get any kind of health insurance. Then when they go t sick the hospitals absorb the cost, which translates into higher costs for everyone else. So, no you don't get to go back to the way it was so you can free ride anymore. Everyone is paying in, one way or the other.
Danger was purchased by MS and tasked to build the kin. It wasn't a project that they bought fully featured like google did with android. The Kin was fully developed form concept to launch while the former Danger employees were under microsoft. Engadget has the whole scoop of internal politicking at MS that led the the demise of pink/kin if you want more of the details. BUt win7 phone is a go, they would be really dumb to change directions, yet again and go it alone. They've already made too many changes in plans that have lead them way behind.
For the record, Slashdot kept returning a 503 every time I tried to preview this. So I tried submit ....
We have no need of Oil
Scientists announced today that, counter to everyone else on this planet, we do not need oil. The researchers stated that with an initial assumption that water will become combustible tomorrow at 5 pm, we will no longer need to use gasoline, diesel or any other oil products ever again. They are expected to receive tenure, and a substantial research grant to further develop their ideas into production. The added, that their plan may also require Indian to redefine the value of Pi to an integer, but pointed out no politician would want to be the one that freed us from relying on foreign countries for our energy needs.
Ah, Kin V2.
Well the Droid X is pretty much unflashable with non Moto roms. There are other phones that still haven't been rooted. Relying on back doors to solve problems with front doors only works as long as the back door exists.
Blechkt. That's how I feel about your post. This is a site for nerds. Nerds are often adept at doing nerdy things. Like writing software.
Now, if you're mom asked you. Then yes, a reply of "You only need to write a front end to this speech engine" is indeed inappropriate.
Your post, and the replies to it, really reflect more on how you view the general slashdot audience, then anything else.
Yes, yes I do sir.
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Well BTRFS, is coming along nicely. Distros are looking at using it by default in their next desktop releases. I would advise waiting for at least another year after that before using it to store production critical data.
I think if you were a magical genie that offered the RIAA the option of having copyright for only 7 years and an absolute stop to piracy of the works for those 7 years, they might take it. The big hits they were producing just before digital copying became practical on a wide scale were boy bands and brittany spears. I immagine they probably don't have the staying power of the rolling stones.
Yes, I've also been doing this forever. It only makes sense. And to be fair, large enterprises know this too. Its not just us smart people ;)
I wouldn't quite put Nokia in the same position as Microsoft. MS has such a huge installed base, that they are still in a dominant position despite 8 years of screw ups. There is too much legacy stuff that relies on windows. Now, Nokia doesn't really have that luxury. The turnover rate for cell phones is much higher. Furthermore with better app stores, Apple and Android are setting themselves up to retain their current users due to their investment in their apps.
China's censor ship is designed to prevent people from openly sharing content that they don't want shared. Communications between two people who have an existing relationship and a desire to exchange information is always going to be possible through a variety of methods. This doesn't change that.
No, they are a dinosaur on the brink of extinction. They are the buggy whip maker laughing at car sales in 1890. There are already android phones that will be given away at no direct cost with a contract. Their cost will come down, and fill all of those niches where nokia is today.
When you are fishing, sometimes the line gets snagged on a underground log or weeds. You can struggle for a while trying to get it free, but at some point to get on with fishing you have to cut the line and attach a new hook complete with new bait. Or sometimes your bait just isn't working for the conditions for what ever reason, to switch to new bait, you'd have to cut off the old bait. So basically it means one will be trying over again with a new approach by admitting a previous mistake.
Yes, I wouldn't pay just to find out if it was god or not. I really don't care if they put Vishnu in a cd case. I mean he's one of many. I feel like I'd have to buy a lot of them to collect the whole set. But, if it was God, in there? There's only One, so that might be less expensive a proposition. I don't know I might. Depends on the odds. Do on out of every ten CD's contain God, or one out of every Billion?
Well, I would suggest reading the article. Basically, there are two problems identified:
1) NYSE has a bug in their system which caused a crash.
2) High volume traders are effectively launching denial of service attacks through their otherwise unnecessarily high number of quotes per second ( as high as 5000 per second). The only reasoning besides stupidity is that they are trying to force their cometitors to burn though their cpu analysing the quotes, allowing the quoter to have a temporary advantage in analysis and trading.
I agree the elimination of Mac OS X is far fetched, but do not trust it just because Jobs said so. He's said a lot of things that Apple has reversed course on throughout his time of CEO. Furthermore there are other things that Apple has done, that I would categorise as foolish. The good news is that upgrades are never mandatory, and you can install alternative Operating systems on the hardware. If either of those two things change, run for the hills.