Cookies are the easy part. The hard part is that they log the IPs/hostnames and can link your searches to you without any cookies. Now, one IP != one user, especially in a NAT office/school environment, but can be quite accurate for home users.
Of course it's not that simple. My point was that you can have your place full of happy customers 24/7, each buying something, and still not make a profit. It's fine if you (or droidlev, the submitter) just want to have fun running the place, but such cafe won't last long unless its main purpose is money laundering.
Let me ask you something. Do you work for the minimum wage? If yes, well, skip to the next paragraph. If not, you're just as sick as the bars/restaurants you're criticising. How dare you charge for your services as much as someone would pay?
It's impossible to say what would be best for this gaming cafe without knowing the costs and the proposed prices for the computer time and a bunch of other stuff, but let's have a look at this cinema example.
Suppose there is a cinema which can take 100 people, they're always sold out ($1 tickets), and everyone buys a one dollar coke. Ticket revenue: $100, drink revenue: $100, total $200. Now there's another cinema with $4/coke. Only 80 people come on average (the rest find the $4 coke sick), and only half of them (40) buys the $4 coke. Ticket revenue: $80, drink revenue: $160, total: $240. Plus they could probably hire less staff and have some other costs reduced.
The number are made up, I don't know how much a coke costs in US theaters, or what its price elasticity is, but this example shows that just because you sell more tickets and more drinks doesn't mean you'll be better off.
getting passed from dog to dog through sex... or licking each other.
And it doesn't seem that human to human cancer transmission is impossible, too. This could be the next big thing once we've cured AIDS.
How common is Sticker's sarcoma, though? We have a dog, and although she's not getting to fuck like a rabbit, dogs often lick each other and sometimes bite.
Heh. I've got somewhere a concert video from Expo '92 in Sevilla (with people like Brian May, Joe Satriani, Joe Walsh), and when it's time for Steve Vai come out and play, Brain May (IIRC) introduces him as "the master of the space-age guitar". I think I actually laughed out the first time I heard it, the term definitely has a different meaning now.
I'm sure Stranger4U just wanted to post the Chuck Norris joke, and was (rightfully) afraid that he'll get modded down by humorless mods if his post doesn't contain anything else.
It is said that Chuck Norris once posted a Chuck Norris joke on slashdot and wasn't modded down.
...But not by Windows. Time Machine goes way beyond Windows' System Restore, and is more similar to VMS's versioning filesystem. Spaces is just virtual desktops, yes, but Windows never had them either [from Microsoft] except for a half-assed "PowerToy."
Who says it's anything like System Restore? Even the article says it's "inspired" by Volume Shadow Copy, which is present in W2003 and will be in Vista. The powertoy was, unlike the next Apple release, a free addon, and was available soon after XP.
I don't have time to go over everything, but how does Spotlight use "metadata much more extensively"? Does it add several fields like "artist" and "comments" to the Indexing Service? Frontrow is itunes with huge fonts, and Inkwell is more like handwriting recognition that can be added as input services to xp/2003 (although I don't think it supports gestures), rather than a large modification.
Promote it to a real state, remove everything currently there, and build a huge statue of Colbert. The usefulness and overall influence of the place will skyrocket.
U dunno, I just wanted a first post without being -1 troll, so that's just a bonus. I think of it as a compensation for being modded down multiple times when not praising linux or gpl.
I can't say I particularly care (not using any on-board graphics), but this is a nice move on their part. Also, it would be interesting to see how this affects the performance/features in the long run.
Most of the comments thus far are replies to some jealous asshole, so I'll try to steer this back on topic.
It's been possible to do for a while now, although it required some effort. From the benchmarks I've seen, QuadSLI is almost counterproductive for resolutions at or below 1600x1200. It does have a reasonable advantage in FEAR, but most other games showed very little improvement. That review didn't cover the 1920 and 2560 resolutions, but that's where the advantage should be quite significant. Of course, whether it's worth it or not depends on how many more hours you'll have to spend flipping burgers to pay it off.
Shit, this reminded me to check HSX, and it looks like I lost almost $300,000 just this month! Despite being excellent movies, Clerks II and A Scanner Darkly aren't helping me at all. FSM bless Indiana Jones 4 and Pirates III though!
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That's simple. Anyone using strong encryption is automatically sent to a det^H^H^Hhappy camp.
To be fair to G, it's your nose that is in their business ;)
Cookies are the easy part. The hard part is that they log the IPs/hostnames and can link your searches to you without any cookies. Now, one IP != one user, especially in a NAT office/school environment, but can be quite accurate for home users.
>Worst...analogy...ever!
I'm afraid that distinction is reserved for this user:
BadAnalogyGuy
Of course it's not that simple. My point was that you can have your place full of happy customers 24/7, each buying something, and still not make a profit. It's fine if you (or droidlev, the submitter) just want to have fun running the place, but such cafe won't last long unless its main purpose is money laundering.
Let me ask you something. Do you work for the minimum wage? If yes, well, skip to the next paragraph. If not, you're just as sick as the bars/restaurants you're criticising. How dare you charge for your services as much as someone would pay?
It's impossible to say what would be best for this gaming cafe without knowing the costs and the proposed prices for the computer time and a bunch of other stuff, but let's have a look at this cinema example.
Suppose there is a cinema which can take 100 people, they're always sold out ($1 tickets), and everyone buys a one dollar coke. Ticket revenue: $100, drink revenue: $100, total $200. Now there's another cinema with $4/coke. Only 80 people come on average (the rest find the $4 coke sick), and only half of them (40) buys the $4 coke. Ticket revenue: $80, drink revenue: $160, total: $240. Plus they could probably hire less staff and have some other costs reduced.
The number are made up, I don't know how much a coke costs in US theaters, or what its price elasticity is, but this example shows that just because you sell more tickets and more drinks doesn't mean you'll be better off.
>Heavens forbid that a corporation might put ethics ahead of profit.
Wallmart does that, and people go apeshit over it.
And it doesn't seem that human to human cancer transmission is impossible, too. This could be the next big thing once we've cured AIDS.
How common is Sticker's sarcoma, though? We have a dog, and although she's not getting to fuck like a rabbit, dogs often lick each other and sometimes bite.
>what's so great about BSD
;-)
You don't have to deal with the linux fans
Heh. I've got somewhere a concert video from Expo '92 in Sevilla (with people like Brian May, Joe Satriani, Joe Walsh), and when it's time for Steve Vai come out and play, Brain May (IIRC) introduces him as "the master of the space-age guitar". I think I actually laughed out the first time I heard it, the term definitely has a different meaning now.
I'm sure Stranger4U just wanted to post the Chuck Norris joke, and was (rightfully) afraid that he'll get modded down by humorless mods if his post doesn't contain anything else.
It is said that Chuck Norris once posted a Chuck Norris joke on slashdot and wasn't modded down.
Who says it's anything like System Restore? Even the article says it's "inspired" by Volume Shadow Copy, which is present in W2003 and will be in Vista. The powertoy was, unlike the next Apple release, a free addon, and was available soon after XP.
I don't have time to go over everything, but how does Spotlight use "metadata much more extensively"? Does it add several fields like "artist" and "comments" to the Indexing Service? Frontrow is itunes with huge fonts, and Inkwell is more like handwriting recognition that can be added as input services to xp/2003 (although I don't think it supports gestures), rather than a large modification.
I think we'll be able to agree on Washington, DC.
Promote it to a real state, remove everything currently there, and build a huge statue of Colbert. The usefulness and overall influence of the place will skyrocket.
>Actually, they "hate" (i.e. target) those that can afford to fly.
Ah, so the government does actually care about us. Thanks to the newly proposed air travel taxes, I won't be able to afford flying!
U dunno, I just wanted a first post without being -1 troll, so that's just a bonus. I think of it as a compensation for being modded down multiple times when not praising linux or gpl.
I can't say I particularly care (not using any on-board graphics), but this is a nice move on their part. Also, it would be interesting to see how this affects the performance/features in the long run.
But will it taunt the Happy Fun Ball?
Or, more importantly, the dynamite monkey?
> The wise slaves will revolt.
Not if we program them with memories to think they're humans.
Most of the comments thus far are replies to some jealous asshole, so I'll try to steer this back on topic.
It's been possible to do for a while now, although it required some effort. From the benchmarks I've seen, QuadSLI is almost counterproductive for resolutions at or below 1600x1200. It does have a reasonable advantage in FEAR, but most other games showed very little improvement. That review didn't cover the 1920 and 2560 resolutions, but that's where the advantage should be quite significant. Of course, whether it's worth it or not depends on how many more hours you'll have to spend flipping burgers to pay it off.
Shit, this reminded me to check HSX, and it looks like I lost almost $300,000 just this month! Despite being excellent movies, Clerks II and A Scanner Darkly aren't helping me at all. FSM bless Indiana Jones 4 and Pirates III though!
Shouldn't penis size be discussed twice, before and after Jessica Alba and Angelina Jolie are discussed? Things change, you know.
Why? Remember, this is congress we're talking about. The "after" discussion would provide redundant results.
>I never caught this the first time around.
And you didn't really miss anything.
In any case, 24 years seems quite a lot to me, considering that all the technology needed to accomplish this is available.
>...there were at least 25... So yes, it could be tricky because you can't just flip a coin!
Just throw out the worst 5 and then flip a coin!
ISP Accidentally Deletes 700GB of Email
I just wonder how inevitable losses like this one square with the EU-wide data retention laws.
Well, since it was an accident... wait, or was it?