It's either that, or the cops can just claim they smelled weed and heard some noises coming out of your house, which obviously indicates that you're flushing your stash down the toilet. Then they'll send in a SWAT team who will shoot you 70 times and deny you medical care for an hour. Have a nice evening.
How about because x1080 monitors are usually several hundred dollars cheaper than x1200 ones, in other words, they can cost up to twice as much (check prices of Dell 2311 and 2410, for example). Not everyone is rich, American, or or can justify spending twice money as much for 120 extra horizontal lines.
We don't have PM here in europe. 6:00 only happens once per day, and it's when I'm still asleep, like most people. We need to reschedule the rapture to a more convenient time.
It seems that slashdotters in general feel very strongly that internet access should be very cheap and unlimited in any way, to the point of being subsidized. Whatever, that's fine. However, what bugs me is that people then start to argue dishonestly to try to justify their outrage over 250GB caps and the like.
Sure, it's very easy to come up with a somewhat plausible scenario, like say if you want to have a constant telepresence with your grandma via a HD webcam feed, but stuff like "well if you continuously download something at your maximum speed of Xmpbs, you will use up your allowance in just Y hours whaaa!!" make no sense, because nobody actually does that. As you say, what exactly are people going to do after they use the 40GB for netflix? Keep in mind that normal people don't torrent HD animes 24/7, but even if they do download a 720p movie every single day, they're still below the threshold at the end of the month, and I doubt most (employed) adults have enough time to watch more than that.
I recall everyone here bitching about how their ISP sent them warnings about using too much traffic, and how that was bullshit. And it was, because the service was offered as unlimited. But now that there are clearly defined limits (which currently even seems to be ignored by the ISPs), this apparently sucks too. Too bad, because I think economically, this model makes more sense. Someone who's downloading warez^w Linux ISOs all the time would pay more than the grandma who sends e-cards to everyone, while still allowing said grandma to browse her grandkids' photo albums without it feeling like downloading GIF porn on a 300Bd connection.
Don't know about pornography, but Disney did buy Miramax to release such kid-friendly movies like Clerks, Pulp Fiction, Trainspotting, City of God, and many others.
Saddam was found in his cook's house near his own home town because most likely somebody ratted him out for a good chunk of money. It still took almost 9 month to get him.
OBL, well, it took you guys 10 years to find the guy living in a huge compound in an upper-class neighborhood in a major government/military hub city of your regional parter/foe. And you couldn't (or maybe didn't want to) even capture him alive.
What I'm saying is that I'm not too worried. Sure, now it would be trivial to find me based on my browsing, online banking transactions and stuff like that, but if I wanted to disappear, I'm fairly confident I could do that at the expense of some convenience and quality of life.
Nothing! It was a mistake, ok guys? That's just what happens when you let another post affect your spelling. I promise to pay more attention from now on.
Nope, not at all. I work for one of the largest software companies that isn't going anywhere (even if you wanted it to). The process, at least in our office, is that new employees get whatever's available in the warehouse (currently mostly P4s with 1-2GB of RAM and WinXP) and a new machine is ordered for them (Core i5, 4-8GB, etc). It can take a while for the new hardware to arrive.
I have a feeling though that whoever is doing the hiring for our team doesn't pay enough attention to this, otherwise the new computers could be ordered in advance. But that's just annoying at most, and not an indication that the company is broke.
You don't really have to disable anything, all that functionality is there but it's not doing anything until you use it.
I set up Opera for my dad on a P4/512MB PC, and it does indeed run very well. However, soon he started complaining that it was very slow. I checked and it turned out that he had so many tabs open (many of them with some Flash videos paused) that you could only see their icons and none of the title text. Oops.
Admittedly I have the same habit of using tabs as bookmarks, but at least I have 16 times as much RAM and a huge monitor to fit them all.
Yes, that stick of RAM can fuck up the computer that the IT department will then have to fix or replace. In car analogy terms: you wouldn't bolt on a turbo kit on a company car just because you thought it wasn't fast enough, would you?
Of course that's not as bad as running a rouge server like that guy in the hospital, but it's also not as bad as Hitler, so I'm not sure what's the point of making such comparisons.
Yeah that seems to be a pretty ridiculous claim, there are plenty of products that degrade over time and experience shrinkage etc. Since I work at one of the larger business software companies, I'll ask around for what kind of solutions we have for this. I suspect that we'll have plenty to offer, the only problem I see is that most of these operations might be a bit too small.
Of course, and this is why these people were offered to stay in the US, right? Oh wait, can't do that either. Even though they were innocent at first, they might rather upset with the US now because THEY WERE JAILED AND TORTURED FOR A DECADE STRAIGHT. Oops, better keep them locked up forever then.
But why, for fuck's sake? What's the benefit limiting a camera to internal memory only, is it the 10 cents saved by not making a latch? (recommended response difficulty: construct an argument without invoking Apple).
For now, let's all take a minute to pray that Canon and Nikon continue not to listen to ideas like these in the future.
I have no personal experience, but from what I've heard and read, the current Wankel engines aren't any more efficient than corresponding "regular" engines. In fact, cars like the Mazda RX series are known to have pretty shitty fuel economy, for example.
Let's think if Oracle has something to gain from intentionally tarnishing the reputation of a product they want to kill.
I'm not saying it's foul play for sure, just pointing out they do have an incentive to do so.
Yeah but so does everyone who's ever worked with databases and doesn't have their head stuck completely up their ass. Let's pray this piece of shit is dead and buried soon.
Right, but cars/trucks both use the roads and gas. They also make up 98% of total gas usage. So that's double dipping. Not that it matters, everyone's already taxed so often that one extra tax isn't going to make any difference.
It doesn't, but you know what does encourage excessive consumption of alcohol? Fucking politicians, that's what.
I rarely drink alcohol at all, let alone when driving, but I'd use this app (for android, at least) just to avoid being harassed by the police. I don't know about the US, but the cops here often also feel the need to check your spare tire, first aid kit, reflective vest, and some other crap if they don't manage to bust you for drinking. Fuck digging that all out from the trunk full of luggage and shopping bags.
Obviously one doesn't for products with high margin cost of production. You can't just start selling LCD TVs for $20 because that's how much Chinese peasants could afford to spend. But for the stuff we're talking about here -- games, movies, music -- it's definitely possible, because the price of producing one more copy of a game is so low. As the pirates are demonstrating, you can go very very low here.
I think the reason that the content companies don't do that is either lazyness, unwillingness to look like they're compromising, or they find it more useful to use the rampant piracy to lobby for stronger copyrights or other favors with the governments.
What the fuck are you talking about. They (the "third world") get paid by their local standards, and thus can't afford to drop 60 bucks for an xbox game worth a few hours of entertainment. Your post makes no sense at all.
But they do? The only time they get shuffled around by the system is when the resolution is switched to something lower than it was before. In that case, that's perfectly sensible behavior, and much preferable to having icons outside of the viewable screen area. Perhaps it would be nice if Windows put the icons back to where they were when the higher resolution is used again, but what if the user moved the icons in the meantime?
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It's either that, or the cops can just claim they smelled weed and heard some noises coming out of your house, which obviously indicates that you're flushing your stash down the toilet. Then they'll send in a SWAT team who will shoot you 70 times and deny you medical care for an hour. Have a nice evening.
How about because x1080 monitors are usually several hundred dollars cheaper than x1200 ones, in other words, they can cost up to twice as much (check prices of Dell 2311 and 2410, for example). Not everyone is rich, American, or or can justify spending twice money as much for 120 extra horizontal lines.
We don't have PM here in europe. 6:00 only happens once per day, and it's when I'm still asleep, like most people. We need to reschedule the rapture to a more convenient time.
It seems that slashdotters in general feel very strongly that internet access should be very cheap and unlimited in any way, to the point of being subsidized. Whatever, that's fine. However, what bugs me is that people then start to argue dishonestly to try to justify their outrage over 250GB caps and the like.
Sure, it's very easy to come up with a somewhat plausible scenario, like say if you want to have a constant telepresence with your grandma via a HD webcam feed, but stuff like "well if you continuously download something at your maximum speed of Xmpbs, you will use up your allowance in just Y hours whaaa!!" make no sense, because nobody actually does that. As you say, what exactly are people going to do after they use the 40GB for netflix? Keep in mind that normal people don't torrent HD animes 24/7, but even if they do download a 720p movie every single day, they're still below the threshold at the end of the month, and I doubt most (employed) adults have enough time to watch more than that.
I recall everyone here bitching about how their ISP sent them warnings about using too much traffic, and how that was bullshit. And it was, because the service was offered as unlimited. But now that there are clearly defined limits (which currently even seems to be ignored by the ISPs), this apparently sucks too. Too bad, because I think economically, this model makes more sense. Someone who's downloading warez^w Linux ISOs all the time would pay more than the grandma who sends e-cards to everyone, while still allowing said grandma to browse her grandkids' photo albums without it feeling like downloading GIF porn on a 300Bd connection.
Yes, for example you have to make BBQ, hamburgers and hotdogs to become Canadian.
Don't know about pornography, but Disney did buy Miramax to release such kid-friendly movies like Clerks, Pulp Fiction, Trainspotting, City of God, and many others.
Saddam was found in his cook's house near his own home town because most likely somebody ratted him out for a good chunk of money. It still took almost 9 month to get him.
OBL, well, it took you guys 10 years to find the guy living in a huge compound in an upper-class neighborhood in a major government/military hub city of your regional parter/foe. And you couldn't (or maybe didn't want to) even capture him alive.
What I'm saying is that I'm not too worried. Sure, now it would be trivial to find me based on my browsing, online banking transactions and stuff like that, but if I wanted to disappear, I'm fairly confident I could do that at the expense of some convenience and quality of life.
Nothing! It was a mistake, ok guys? That's just what happens when you let another post affect your spelling. I promise to pay more attention from now on.
Nope, not at all. I work for one of the largest software companies that isn't going anywhere (even if you wanted it to). The process, at least in our office, is that new employees get whatever's available in the warehouse (currently mostly P4s with 1-2GB of RAM and WinXP) and a new machine is ordered for them (Core i5, 4-8GB, etc). It can take a while for the new hardware to arrive.
I have a feeling though that whoever is doing the hiring for our team doesn't pay enough attention to this, otherwise the new computers could be ordered in advance. But that's just annoying at most, and not an indication that the company is broke.
You don't really have to disable anything, all that functionality is there but it's not doing anything until you use it.
I set up Opera for my dad on a P4/512MB PC, and it does indeed run very well. However, soon he started complaining that it was very slow. I checked and it turned out that he had so many tabs open (many of them with some Flash videos paused) that you could only see their icons and none of the title text. Oops.
Admittedly I have the same habit of using tabs as bookmarks, but at least I have 16 times as much RAM and a huge monitor to fit them all.
Yes, that stick of RAM can fuck up the computer that the IT department will then have to fix or replace. In car analogy terms: you wouldn't bolt on a turbo kit on a company car just because you thought it wasn't fast enough, would you?
Of course that's not as bad as running a rouge server like that guy in the hospital, but it's also not as bad as Hitler, so I'm not sure what's the point of making such comparisons.
Yeah that seems to be a pretty ridiculous claim, there are plenty of products that degrade over time and experience shrinkage etc. Since I work at one of the larger business software companies, I'll ask around for what kind of solutions we have for this. I suspect that we'll have plenty to offer, the only problem I see is that most of these operations might be a bit too small.
Of course, and this is why these people were offered to stay in the US, right? Oh wait, can't do that either. Even though they were innocent at first, they might rather upset with the US now because THEY WERE JAILED AND TORTURED FOR A DECADE STRAIGHT. Oops, better keep them locked up forever then.
But why, for fuck's sake? What's the benefit limiting a camera to internal memory only, is it the 10 cents saved by not making a latch? (recommended response difficulty: construct an argument without invoking Apple).
For now, let's all take a minute to pray that Canon and Nikon continue not to listen to ideas like these in the future.
I have no personal experience, but from what I've heard and read, the current Wankel engines aren't any more efficient than corresponding "regular" engines. In fact, cars like the Mazda RX series are known to have pretty shitty fuel economy, for example.
Yeah but so does everyone who's ever worked with databases and doesn't have their head stuck completely up their ass. Let's pray this piece of shit is dead and buried soon.
"Common Lisp" sounds like a disease, I don't think that's something I could use myself or advocate for use to my colleagues or management.
Right, but cars/trucks both use the roads and gas. They also make up 98% of total gas usage. So that's double dipping. Not that it matters, everyone's already taxed so often that one extra tax isn't going to make any difference.
It doesn't, but you know what does encourage excessive consumption of alcohol? Fucking politicians, that's what.
I rarely drink alcohol at all, let alone when driving, but I'd use this app (for android, at least) just to avoid being harassed by the police. I don't know about the US, but the cops here often also feel the need to check your spare tire, first aid kit, reflective vest, and some other crap if they don't manage to bust you for drinking. Fuck digging that all out from the trunk full of luggage and shopping bags.
If they remove AC/DC from my computer, I'll just have to use my stand-alone mp3 player, thus reverting whatever they were trying to accomplish.
Obviously one doesn't for products with high margin cost of production. You can't just start selling LCD TVs for $20 because that's how much Chinese peasants could afford to spend. But for the stuff we're talking about here -- games, movies, music -- it's definitely possible, because the price of producing one more copy of a game is so low. As the pirates are demonstrating, you can go very very low here.
I think the reason that the content companies don't do that is either lazyness, unwillingness to look like they're compromising, or they find it more useful to use the rampant piracy to lobby for stronger copyrights or other favors with the governments.
What the fuck are you talking about. They (the "third world") get paid by their local standards, and thus can't afford to drop 60 bucks for an xbox game worth a few hours of entertainment. Your post makes no sense at all.
Nice try, asshole!
>He wasn't the central cause, he was a tool. [...]
Lucas was a tool.
But they do? The only time they get shuffled around by the system is when the resolution is switched to something lower than it was before. In that case, that's perfectly sensible behavior, and much preferable to having icons outside of the viewable screen area. Perhaps it would be nice if Windows put the icons back to where they were when the higher resolution is used again, but what if the user moved the icons in the meantime?