actually, "doing other things" often ends up pretty expensive.
i purchased a 70 inch hdtv 2 years ago. everyone couldn't believe i spent that kind of money on a tv. I then proceeded to question the same people about how much they spent on motorbikes, sailing and other water based hobbies they have.
My TV was a pretty cheap investment for the amount of pleasure i get out of it. I also use it a damn site more then said peoples jetski's and motorbikes.
bullshit. your trying to compare offering a service, to offering GOODS. the 2 are completely different.
The bottom line, it costs me money to browse the web, and you have no right to force me to pay for something i don't want.
The free to air TV analogy is also flawed in that free to air tv costs me nothing.
The way i see it web ads have 2 ways they can go. They can block users which ultimately will cost their advertiser sales and reduce the effectivness of the ads. Or they can rethink how they present their ads, make them smaller, less intrusive and more relivant to the theme of their website.
I can receive hidef tv anytime i want. it costs me nothing. it also has a large range.
packet network on the other hand are much more expensive to setup then a simple transmitter, and require specialised equipment to communicate with. there is no hd content streamed yet either, not enough bandwidth.
broadcast tv is actually very very efficent, and in terms of sending a picture and sound, pisses all over tcp for speed.
Oh please, what crap. a single subway shop makes more then a tv channel makes in a month? more like tv stations make more from a single 60 second ad then a subway makes in a day.
errr, there's no need to make the oil and coal, hence it's cheaper and better. the parents argument is valid - it's the best we have, so we should use it and not cripple our selfs to satisfy middle class guilt about the environment.
Thats a far too optimistic outlook. your assuming it's 100% efficent harvesting the oil. in real terms, it's no where near that.
don't get me wrong, i'm sure it's a tough weed and doesn't need much fertilizer to grow, and composting the remaing seed husks is a valid idea, but it's stupid to think they wont' need anythign extra.
I don't understand why people are able to be so sceptical about oil companys claims, yet when someone comes up with hair brained schemes and slap a "BIO" or "GREEN" on the label people just accept it.
So what your saying is biofuel is great as long as poor 3rd world countries like india are the ones to plant the toxic weed everywhere, and we get to use their cheap labour to perform the back breaking work?
You've never had a garden in your life have you. dust blowing in and lichen breaking down on rocks is no where near the nitrogen you need to farm such a crop. in fact, if this thing grows as quick and as weed like as promised, it HAS to consume large amounts of N.
TFA is clearly confused with the idea of fertilising itself with the left over seed cake. All the plants energy goes into making it's oil, once you squeese out the oil you have an energy defeicit. this is not a complete cycle, and cannot sustain the crop for long.
err, plants don't grow in soil indefinately. "soil" is infact sand/clays with organic matter in it which is broken down by nitrifying bacteria. if you keep taking nitrogen out of the system by harvesting the plants and taking their oil, you won't grow more then 1 - 2 years worth of crops.
hence why we keep telling or the retards who think bio diesel is a magic bullet, that it is infact NOT so fantastic.
Agreed on all counts. stick with serverside processing and you'll have a faster, better webpage. At the end of the say all the pretty scripts and flashing buttons don't mean jack if the site doesn't run properly.
look at/. and compare it to digg, that's all you need to show anyone to convince them i think.
annoying flashing crap is why i stopped using yahoo. google can kiss my traffic byebye if they think i'll put up with the same. there's 100's of other engines ready to take up the slack, trust me.
It must be an american thing. Here in australia every station broadcasts it's guide for free. It just seems crazy you should need to pay for it, because you watching is what keeps tv/cable companys alive.
Should have done a basic google before going off on a big rant, it would have stopped you looking so stupid. There's lots of software out there to recover data from formatted disks.
i've personally used one to recover data from an ext2 parition after i reformatted it as nfts.
lastly, you have NO CLUE if you think a few months or even years of work is any barrier to law enforcment. what, you think they will say to themselfs "oh that kiddie porn ring over wrote their drive, it's going to take 6 months to disect the information, guess we better let them off the hook!"
err, i have 2x seagate 200gig sata drives sitting at home, both under 2 years old both of them died with the same symptoms, clicking noise followed by filesystems that wouldn't complete booting.
I'm not the only one with this experience either.
safe to say, i wouldn't be crowing too loud about seagate drives.
you were always going to have to wait a long time.
yes spinning disks suck, but 100x the cost sucks even MORE. SSD is up there with those holographic drives we keep hearing about that are only 2 years away...
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i purchased a 70 inch hdtv 2 years ago. everyone couldn't believe i spent that kind of money on a tv. I then proceeded to question the same people about how much they spent on motorbikes, sailing and other water based hobbies they have.
My TV was a pretty cheap investment for the amount of pleasure i get out of it. I also use it a damn site more then said peoples jetski's and motorbikes.
there's some artifacts but it hardly looks like crap. lets compare analog to HD and see which looks better shall we...
The laptop shouldn't overheat just by being on. You've simply proposed a more serious problem.
Take them to small claims or better business. They will fold like a house of cards, they just want to try it on in the hope you give up.
The bottom line, it costs me money to browse the web, and you have no right to force me to pay for something i don't want.
The free to air TV analogy is also flawed in that free to air tv costs me nothing.
The way i see it web ads have 2 ways they can go. They can block users which ultimately will cost their advertiser sales and reduce the effectivness of the ads. Or they can rethink how they present their ads, make them smaller, less intrusive and more relivant to the theme of their website.
I can receive hidef tv anytime i want. it costs me nothing. it also has a large range. packet network on the other hand are much more expensive to setup then a simple transmitter, and require specialised equipment to communicate with. there is no hd content streamed yet either, not enough bandwidth. broadcast tv is actually very very efficent, and in terms of sending a picture and sound, pisses all over tcp for speed.
Oh please, what crap. a single subway shop makes more then a tv channel makes in a month? more like tv stations make more from a single 60 second ad then a subway makes in a day.
suck it you cheese eating surrender monkeys
errr, there's no need to make the oil and coal, hence it's cheaper and better. the parents argument is valid - it's the best we have, so we should use it and not cripple our selfs to satisfy middle class guilt about the environment.
don't get me wrong, i'm sure it's a tough weed and doesn't need much fertilizer to grow, and composting the remaing seed husks is a valid idea, but it's stupid to think they wont' need anythign extra.
I don't understand why people are able to be so sceptical about oil companys claims, yet when someone comes up with hair brained schemes and slap a "BIO" or "GREEN" on the label people just accept it.
So what your saying is biofuel is great as long as poor 3rd world countries like india are the ones to plant the toxic weed everywhere, and we get to use their cheap labour to perform the back breaking work?
No, dust blowing in the wind is not a large enough source of organic matter to replenish the nitrogen in the soil. you fail.
and before you start with the organic crap - I grow organic fruit and veg at home, but i'm not so navie as to think it is fesible on a large scale.
TFA is clearly confused with the idea of fertilising itself with the left over seed cake. All the plants energy goes into making it's oil, once you squeese out the oil you have an energy defeicit. this is not a complete cycle, and cannot sustain the crop for long.
hence why we keep telling or the retards who think bio diesel is a magic bullet, that it is infact NOT so fantastic.
look at /. and compare it to digg, that's all you need to show anyone to convince them i think.
annoying flashing crap is why i stopped using yahoo. google can kiss my traffic byebye if they think i'll put up with the same. there's 100's of other engines ready to take up the slack, trust me.
It must be an american thing. Here in australia every station broadcasts it's guide for free. It just seems crazy you should need to pay for it, because you watching is what keeps tv/cable companys alive.
Why the fuck would anyone want to pay for TV listings? is it so esstential to your life that you need to fork out for this shit?
I pay for it already when i'm forced to watch crumby ads for panty liners and erection problems.
lets see their nifty device copy shit then.
what makes you think they would want to do that? it'd be dog slow, and it'd also be error prone. none of which helps to sell drives.
i've personally used one to recover data from an ext2 parition after i reformatted it as nfts.
lastly, you have NO CLUE if you think a few months or even years of work is any barrier to law enforcment. what, you think they will say to themselfs "oh that kiddie porn ring over wrote their drive, it's going to take 6 months to disect the information, guess we better let them off the hook!"
I'm not the only one with this experience either.
safe to say, i wouldn't be crowing too loud about seagate drives.
yes spinning disks suck, but 100x the cost sucks even MORE. SSD is up there with those holographic drives we keep hearing about that are only 2 years away...