Your hardware DVD player doesn't have a User Interface? So how do you start the video playing? Stop it? Skip chapters? How in the fuck did this get insightful? A software DVD player needs a UI because it doesn't have dedicated buttons like a hardware player.
Which is specifically why I switched to T-Mobile. Loved the free calling to my family and slightly better coverage, but T-Mobile is much less expensive for the services I get, and has much better customer service.
That's the official reason. The real reason is that they didn't want people using their desktop OS's as servers. They wanted to sell people the much more expensive server version to do that.
Microsoft does make good tools. But all of their tools do their damndest to lock you into their software ecosystem. If you want cross-platform code, you can't really play much with Microsoft tools.
It's not a false scarcity. It's no different than a farmer selling some of his corn to supermarkets, and the stuff he can't he sells as cattle feed. It's the exact same product, it's just that he's meeting the demand of it. Anti-trust isn't selling your stuff at a loss, or selling something better as something lower class. Anti-trust is when you do it to lock out other competitors. It's just good business sense to sell what you have rather than making them all uber-expensive chips. Do you really think a Lexus costs THAT much more than a Toyota to build? Or that it's that much higher quality, other than a little nicer finish and better electronics?
Except not. They need the lower binned parts to supply people who can't afford the faster ones. A lot of times they have great yields, but they just can't sell enough CPU's at $300/ea so they disable a core and sell it as an X3, or clock it down. Really... only on the very first runs of a new process is it more likely to be the scenario you propose.
Aren't most display devices LCD any more? Why is it "color-inaccurate" then? Most views of it will be on an electronic media, which would mean that the source is what makes the definitive colors.
"Ive become lazy with digital photography and can shoot multiples blowing away my memory card and getting only a couple shots."
Seems like that's the problem. A poor craftsman blames his tools. You can do great or mediocre things with any tools. If you can take a great shot with film, you can do the exact same thing with a good digital SLR to the extent of my experience. The only thing that film might add is more resolution, but that's only readily apparent if you blow pictures up past A0 or so size. And even then, 35mm film resolves to roughly 10-20 megapixels. All current SLR's are there or above.
And since you have such strict gun control laws, there's almost no chance of someone you assault actually being able to defend themselves, so you don't risk anything by assaulting someone, and have pretty much everything to gain if you pick your targets right. Isn't gun control great?
Afghanistan was a cesspool that generated terrorists, and had a government that oppressed and routinely terrorized it's own people, and was the breeding and operational ground for the 9/11 attacks. It's only slightly better now, but it is better. On the other hand, Iraq was just Bush being an idiotic, imperialist douche riding the anti-Muslim wave. Very different countries, very different wars.
Natural sugar tastes different, but it doesn't have any nutritional benefit over HFCS. Hell, HFCS tastes sweeter to a lot of people. I personally prefer the taste of the throwback sodas, but I don't think for a moment that it's any healthier. Just check the calorie counts.
Still... the rules are known. Regex's are just a way to express rules... why in the hell is this patentable again? It's not like the regular expression is anything someone "skilled in the art" wouldn't come up with.
I haven't done much with wiki's, but I believe most of them are file-based, aren't they? Can you not just do a daily cron to tar/zip everything up and copy it to another server for backups? Even if it uses a database most databases provide dumping tools where you can do the same thing... dump it all to a pipe and then put that on another server. If you got crazy, you could put the wiki on a virtual server and just mirror the whole image, but that depends on what you really want to do.
Seconded. And if you need to run multiple commands while sudo'd, just use "sudo -i". That's the main reason I've heard most people want to keep a root password around. I also set my re-sudo timeout to 0, so I have to type my password EVERY time I use sudo. I figure it's safer that way if I ever have to leave the keyboard, and I just use sudo -i when I need to to multiple root-level ops. And that's just my laptop.
Sure, it costs money to switch. The problem is that MBA's don't understand (or don't care) how much just supporting the current system costs. How much do you spend on Windows licenses? How much on individual software licenses? Software maintenance and ongoing training (every time a virus hits...)? Doing one side of the costs of switching is necessary, but don't forget to calculate the costs of NOT switching.
They're going to put pictures of that on the web, and they want to lock people into being the only communication conduit to the band. If the band's website was available there, people could skip past TuneCore and buy it direct from the band. Or something. Who knows what "logic" goes on in a CEO's head.
IMAX recently started selling out and allowing theaters with smaller screens to use the IMAX brand. Be careful when you choose an IMAX theater... it may not be what you expect.
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I wouldn't put it past MS to have a "viral" marketing fund for sycophants that want to support Windows. Otherwise known as "shilling".
I knew I should have invested in that instead of anal probes...
Your hardware DVD player doesn't have a User Interface? So how do you start the video playing? Stop it? Skip chapters? How in the fuck did this get insightful? A software DVD player needs a UI because it doesn't have dedicated buttons like a hardware player.
Which is specifically why I switched to T-Mobile. Loved the free calling to my family and slightly better coverage, but T-Mobile is much less expensive for the services I get, and has much better customer service.
That's the official reason. The real reason is that they didn't want people using their desktop OS's as servers. They wanted to sell people the much more expensive server version to do that.
Microsoft does make good tools. But all of their tools do their damndest to lock you into their software ecosystem. If you want cross-platform code, you can't really play much with Microsoft tools.
It's a valid complaint. It's just not illegal.
It's not a false scarcity. It's no different than a farmer selling some of his corn to supermarkets, and the stuff he can't he sells as cattle feed. It's the exact same product, it's just that he's meeting the demand of it. Anti-trust isn't selling your stuff at a loss, or selling something better as something lower class. Anti-trust is when you do it to lock out other competitors. It's just good business sense to sell what you have rather than making them all uber-expensive chips. Do you really think a Lexus costs THAT much more than a Toyota to build? Or that it's that much higher quality, other than a little nicer finish and better electronics?
Except not. They need the lower binned parts to supply people who can't afford the faster ones. A lot of times they have great yields, but they just can't sell enough CPU's at $300/ea so they disable a core and sell it as an X3, or clock it down. Really... only on the very first runs of a new process is it more likely to be the scenario you propose.
Yes, that's exactly what I meant. Say, did our shipment of tinfoil hats come in yet?
Aren't most display devices LCD any more? Why is it "color-inaccurate" then? Most views of it will be on an electronic media, which would mean that the source is what makes the definitive colors.
Seems like that's the problem. A poor craftsman blames his tools. You can do great or mediocre things with any tools. If you can take a great shot with film, you can do the exact same thing with a good digital SLR to the extent of my experience. The only thing that film might add is more resolution, but that's only readily apparent if you blow pictures up past A0 or so size. And even then, 35mm film resolves to roughly 10-20 megapixels. All current SLR's are there or above.
And since you have such strict gun control laws, there's almost no chance of someone you assault actually being able to defend themselves, so you don't risk anything by assaulting someone, and have pretty much everything to gain if you pick your targets right. Isn't gun control great?
Afghanistan was a cesspool that generated terrorists, and had a government that oppressed and routinely terrorized it's own people, and was the breeding and operational ground for the 9/11 attacks. It's only slightly better now, but it is better. On the other hand, Iraq was just Bush being an idiotic, imperialist douche riding the anti-Muslim wave. Very different countries, very different wars.
Natural sugar tastes different, but it doesn't have any nutritional benefit over HFCS. Hell, HFCS tastes sweeter to a lot of people. I personally prefer the taste of the throwback sodas, but I don't think for a moment that it's any healthier. Just check the calorie counts.
What? You mean Mono doesn't make .NET 100% cross-platform? Say it ain't so! That's what Microsoft promised!
Still... the rules are known. Regex's are just a way to express rules... why in the hell is this patentable again? It's not like the regular expression is anything someone "skilled in the art" wouldn't come up with.
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I haven't done much with wiki's, but I believe most of them are file-based, aren't they? Can you not just do a daily cron to tar/zip everything up and copy it to another server for backups? Even if it uses a database most databases provide dumping tools where you can do the same thing... dump it all to a pipe and then put that on another server. If you got crazy, you could put the wiki on a virtual server and just mirror the whole image, but that depends on what you really want to do.
Seconded. And if you need to run multiple commands while sudo'd, just use "sudo -i". That's the main reason I've heard most people want to keep a root password around. I also set my re-sudo timeout to 0, so I have to type my password EVERY time I use sudo. I figure it's safer that way if I ever have to leave the keyboard, and I just use sudo -i when I need to to multiple root-level ops. And that's just my laptop.
Why phase out old stuff? Is there something limiting about old stuff still existing in game even though it's not heavily used?
Sure, it costs money to switch. The problem is that MBA's don't understand (or don't care) how much just supporting the current system costs. How much do you spend on Windows licenses? How much on individual software licenses? Software maintenance and ongoing training (every time a virus hits...)? Doing one side of the costs of switching is necessary, but don't forget to calculate the costs of NOT switching.
Wait a few weeks? Hell, it's Memorial Day Weekend. Go buy a machine this weekend... it's as cheap as it'll get for a long time.
They're going to put pictures of that on the web, and they want to lock people into being the only communication conduit to the band. If the band's website was available there, people could skip past TuneCore and buy it direct from the band. Or something. Who knows what "logic" goes on in a CEO's head.
IMAX recently started selling out and allowing theaters with smaller screens to use the IMAX brand. Be careful when you choose an IMAX theater... it may not be what you expect.