Then the insurance company would subsidize the more expensive machine for you...
I don't understand what the gripe is about... saving the insurance company money?
If it's about insuring (against damage or theft) an expensive machine, then the $7.15 won't help you get that machine in the first place.
If it's about the insurance companies willing to buy the expensive machine for you but not the cheap one, then why would a (financially) poor, disabled person mind?
but if you've installed third-party drives or memory to which a problem is attributable, tough luck, Chuck
See, that's where the problem is. Attributing a problem to a user installed third-party device is opened to interpretation.
For example, if the machine came with a defective second sata port to which i've plugged in a top-of-the-line western digital hard-drive - and the drive bursts in flames destroying both the drive and the computer... who's to blame? How can you KNOW what caused the problem?
Sure, you could say that if the user hadn't plugged in the extra drive, this wouldn't have happened - and you'll be right - but then why would one buy a machine with these sort of restrictions and limitations? Why would you bother with a warranty that has that sort of disclaimer attached to it?
Over time, a stupid user accumulates endless numbers of applications simultaneously running and residing in his system tray - all consuming memory and CPU cycles. Eventually he runs out of resources and things naturally slow down.
Why do sysadmins assume that everyone else is also a sysadmin who bothers to memorize all these stupid acronyms?
Sure, I googled it, and I hope you meant "Linux Terminal Server Project". But Why not just say so immediately?! Most people won't bother listening to what you have to say if they need too use a search engine to figure out key pieces of information just to understand the context of your words!
It's not apple's "lock-in" that drives innovation.. it's apples success in a certain new area of the market, that makes other players want their share of the pie.
The whole "open" and "free" talk from google is mostly marketing. I won't believe for a second that google went into the phone market out of ideology or the urge to make a "free" and "open" phone platform. They have a business model behind every move they make - and they are moving one step closer to having complete surveillance over their users.
And for good reason. Muslims cannot be trusted with power, as they are not a liberal and democratic civilization (not just a religion). Giving a Muslim power, is effectively giving his spiritual leader the same power... Note, that as opposed to other religions, Muslim countries - have a majority of fundamentalist muslims and are ruled by sharia law (of women stoning fame) - they have a minority of secular (read: intelligent) people - so comparing them to fundamentalist Christians, is not fair - since most christian nations are not "ruled" by the pope or any equally significant spiritual leader.
Do you want nuclear weapons in the hands of people that want to kill all infidels?
Now that is just utter proven bullshit. There are a lot of cases of Israeli soldiers targeting civilians, aid workers, journalists..
I don't know what lies the media has been feeding you, but never ever, were civilians the target of an Israeli strike. You can call bullshit as much as you like... but for me, having served in the Israeli army, watched leftist journalists deliberately provoking soldiers, walking around a platoons sticking cameras to their faces and shouting "murderers!! death to Jews!!" - in face of all that, they were NEVER the target and we never got an order to attack them. Eventually they run into the line of fire trying to show the israeli "brutality" from their unbiased point of view.
There are a handful of objective news channels out there... Reuters and the BBC are by far the WORST, with utter lies and photoshopped pictures (I'm not making this up: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13165165/ )
the best one i've seen so far is FOX news. comes second only to Israeli media stations (which are a bit too left biased in my taste)
I bet you're one of those people that go and protest against the "community" when someone commits suicide. I on the other hand, put the responsibility for the suicide on no one other than the person who committed it.
These are big philosophical differences.
Say a criminal took a baby as a hostage, and walked around with a gun killing 10s of people. You would probably not stop him and let him finish off the entire population.
I on the other hand, would say that this has to stop - and if the child dies while stopping it, then that's unfortunate.
The truth about the method Hamas is using is even worse - Hamas builds mortar and missile launchers, inside schools, hospitals and UN facilities. It then proceeds to fire the rockets with hopes that when soldiers will retaliate, there will be an abundance of civilian casualties - that will put international pressure on Israel (due to the hypocritical nature of politics, especially being lobbied by arab oil).
So hamas uses civilians as human shields to promote his political agenda.
That is a war crime. You should look it up.
You should blame hamas for all civilian deaths - Israel has never targeted even a single civilian - whereas hamas continually fires rockets into civilian population (not military facilities!).
I'm going to disappoint you once again - no one will ever nuke Israel, but I can assure you, that if such a scenario will ever happen, it will be the end of the human race.
550 Palestinian deaths to 5 Israeli deaths is so lopsided that it has to be stopped.
Err.. that's the worst logical reasoning i have heared in a long time.
Would you be happier with a 1:1 death toll? can't an army be efficient?
I'm not sure about the exact numbers, but the number of civilian casualties is less than 200. that gives a kill accuracy of greater than 60%. Can any other army claim such a moral accuracy figure?
It's not like there is no demand for RAM at all. The DRAM companies would not cease to exist, as people will still want to buy RAM.
If a company fails, they usually sell their facilities to try and recover some of their debt.. Someone would buy some of the fabs since there's still a lot of money to be made... hence, you get a smaller company doing the same thing. not a chain reaction that destroys all markets.
Besides, everyone knows that optical media is not suitable as an archival medium. (CD rot.. decay.. we've been hearing about those for years)
In my opinion, The most cost effective/reliable solution for a home user, is buying HDD and using them in some raid configuration, replacing them as they fail once every few years.
The foreign aid to Israel is given out since the US recognizes the strategic importance of Israel in the middle east - it is vital to promote US interests in the area.
And yes, the game is played both ways. Both US and Israel gain from the foreign aid - i just don't want people to think that the US is spending money in Israel without gaining anything from it. The US is not a philanthropic organization and Joe six pack is definitely not funding the Jews because they tricked him into it.
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50K MPH equals roughly 22352.0 meters per second
The Speed of light = 299792458 meters per second
50KMPH * (1 hundred orders of magnitude = 1e+100) = 2.2352e+104 meters per second
In terms of Speed of light:
7.45582465586909e+95 * C
That's quite an impressive jump in speed.
Then the insurance company would subsidize the more expensive machine for you...
I don't understand what the gripe is about... saving the insurance company money?
If it's about insuring (against damage or theft) an expensive machine, then the $7.15 won't help you get that machine in the first place.
If it's about the insurance companies willing to buy the expensive machine for you but not the cheap one, then why would a (financially) poor, disabled person mind?
If the devices cost so little to begin with, why bother with insurance or money claims?
If i had a disability, i'd say 400 dollars is money well spent... and it would probably last you for a couple of years.
Apple, kindly takes the confusion away from the average Mac users, who can't be wrap their heads around "complicated" numbers like 1024.
Can't risk being seen as a geek!
I think he was just being a grammar Nazi regarding the use of the word emissions vs. transmissions.
Don't you mean:
In soviet Russia, you watch TV.
oh, wait...
but if you've installed third-party drives or memory to which a problem is attributable, tough luck, Chuck
See, that's where the problem is. Attributing a problem to a user installed third-party device is opened to interpretation.
For example, if the machine came with a defective second sata port to which i've plugged in a top-of-the-line western digital hard-drive - and the drive bursts in flames destroying both the drive and the computer... who's to blame? How can you KNOW what caused the problem?
Sure, you could say that if the user hadn't plugged in the extra drive, this wouldn't have happened - and you'll be right - but then why would one buy a machine with these sort of restrictions and limitations?
Why would you bother with a warranty that has that sort of disclaimer attached to it?
So is pesticide good or bad for you?
What does "The weight of scientific evidence against the use of pesticides is quite frankly, frighting." mean?
Does it mean there is a frighteningly large amount of evidence against pesticide?
or
is there a frighteningly small amount of evidence against pesticide?
It's called the stupid user effect:
Over time, a stupid user accumulates endless numbers of applications simultaneously running and residing in his system tray - all consuming memory and CPU cycles. Eventually he runs out of resources and things naturally slow down.
Knowledgeable users don't have this problem.
I was sure he was talking about the MPAA!
Maybe because some people want a child that is their own flesh and blood instead of someone else's?
Great... but what's LTSP?
Why do sysadmins assume that everyone else is also a sysadmin who bothers to memorize all these stupid acronyms?
Sure, I googled it, and I hope you meant "Linux Terminal Server Project". But Why not just say so immediately?! Most people won't bother listening to what you have to say if they need too use a search engine to figure out key pieces of information just to understand the context of your words!
There's an earlier (#7 i think) mention of Microsoft Office.... I thought Excel was part of office, making either point #3 or #7 redundant.
It's not apple's "lock-in" that drives innovation.. it's apples success in a certain new area of the market, that makes other players want their share of the pie.
The whole "open" and "free" talk from google is mostly marketing. I won't believe for a second that google went into the phone market out of ideology or the urge to make a "free" and "open" phone platform. They have a business model behind every move they make - and they are moving one step closer to having complete surveillance over their users.
I'm assuming the GP was implying that the business model for most OSS projects is broken, as they spend time working yet give their results for free.
he'd have been disappeared a long time ago.
And for good reason. Muslims cannot be trusted with power, as they are not a liberal and democratic civilization (not just a religion).
Giving a Muslim power, is effectively giving his spiritual leader the same power... Note, that as opposed to other religions, Muslim countries - have a majority of fundamentalist muslims and are ruled by sharia law (of women stoning fame) - they have a minority of secular (read: intelligent) people - so comparing them to fundamentalist Christians, is not fair - since most christian nations are not "ruled" by the pope or any equally significant spiritual leader.
Do you want nuclear weapons in the hands of people that want to kill all infidels?
Israel has never targeted even a single civilian
Now that is just utter proven bullshit. There are a lot of cases of Israeli soldiers targeting civilians, aid workers, journalists..
I don't know what lies the media has been feeding you, but never ever, were civilians the target of an Israeli strike. You can call bullshit as much as you like... but for me, having served in the Israeli army, watched leftist journalists deliberately provoking soldiers, walking around a platoons sticking cameras to their faces and shouting "murderers!! death to Jews!!" - in face of all that, they were NEVER the target and we never got an order to attack them.
Eventually they run into the line of fire trying to show the israeli "brutality" from their unbiased point of view.
There are a handful of objective news channels out there... Reuters and the BBC are by far the WORST, with utter lies and photoshopped pictures (I'm not making this up: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13165165/ )
the best one i've seen so far is FOX news. comes second only to Israeli media stations (which are a bit too left biased in my taste)
Well, these numbers are the fault of Hamas.
I bet you're one of those people that go and protest against the "community" when someone commits suicide.
I on the other hand, put the responsibility for the suicide on no one other than the person who committed it.
These are big philosophical differences.
Say a criminal took a baby as a hostage, and walked around with a gun killing 10s of people.
You would probably not stop him and let him finish off the entire population.
I on the other hand, would say that this has to stop - and if the child dies while stopping it, then that's unfortunate.
The truth about the method Hamas is using is even worse - Hamas builds mortar and missile launchers, inside schools, hospitals and UN facilities. It then proceeds to fire the rockets with hopes that when soldiers will retaliate, there will be an abundance of civilian casualties - that will put international pressure on Israel (due to the hypocritical nature of politics, especially being lobbied by arab oil).
So hamas uses civilians as human shields to promote his political agenda.
That is a war crime. You should look it up.
You should blame hamas for all civilian deaths - Israel has never targeted even a single civilian - whereas hamas continually fires rockets into civilian population (not military facilities!).
I'm going to disappoint you once again - no one will ever nuke Israel, but I can assure you, that if such a scenario will ever happen, it will be the end of the human race.
550 Palestinian deaths to 5 Israeli deaths is so lopsided that it has to be stopped.
Err.. that's the worst logical reasoning i have heared in a long time.
Would you be happier with a 1:1 death toll? can't an army be efficient?
I'm not sure about the exact numbers, but the number of civilian casualties is less than 200. that gives a kill accuracy of greater than 60%. Can any other army claim such a moral accuracy figure?
hypocrite!
You can't apply 10MV at 10MA on the device, unless it has exactly 1 Ohms of resistance.
It's not like there is no demand for RAM at all.
The DRAM companies would not cease to exist, as people will still want to buy RAM.
If a company fails, they usually sell their facilities to try and recover some of their debt..
Someone would buy some of the fabs since there's still a lot of money to be made... hence, you get a smaller company doing the same thing.
not a chain reaction that destroys all markets.
You can always print your photos out.
Besides, everyone knows that optical media is not suitable as an archival medium. (CD rot.. decay.. we've been hearing about those for years)
In my opinion, The most cost effective/reliable solution for a home user, is buying HDD and using them in some raid configuration, replacing them as they fail once every few years.
no, it literally is "deer" (the animal).
And here's the ruby version:
print "I ate %d %s in %.3f seconds" % [99,'hotdogs',62.0895]
Notice the difference?
The foreign aid to Israel is given out since the US recognizes the strategic importance of Israel in the middle east - it is vital to promote US interests in the area.
And yes, the game is played both ways. Both US and Israel gain from the foreign aid - i just don't want people to think that the US is spending money in Israel without gaining anything from it. The US is not a philanthropic organization and Joe six pack is definitely not funding the Jews because they tricked him into it.