Please, please, please stfu with "anecdotal is not the plural of data". I've seen this 5 times today and it was lame the first time.
Now every time someone tells a story, some dipshit slings out this phrase. Please add it to the closet of phrases never to be uttered again with "strawman" and other neologisms.
Plus, anecdotal evidence can still be useful and it's not like grandparent was trying to disprove some theory just express that "illegal" file sharing might have some value to artists.
Ah, but http://www.amazon.com/b/?&node=16261631 is the internal URL for the unbox service. Notice all those video ads and the buttons to buy downloads. This is the mighty unbox site.
Amazon does this with all their sites: music, dvd, software, furniture, etc. You don't really get different web sites, just a section within amazon.
Yeah, but the average consumer doesn't want to watch tv shows and movies on their computer. This service is for early adopters who don't mind a laptop or monitor for viewing video.
ITMS has only sold 35 million shows in the last year. That's pretty decent, but still only early adopter numbers. And ITMS plays on ipods and QuickTime.
Unbox is for nerds and nerds don't want special players and stupid DRM.
I noticed they are supposed to integrate this into MS' Windows Media Center, but couldn't find out anything substantial on how to do it.
At least it's more competition for Apple and google video.
The ultimate solution is to hire out real humans at $.61 to issue "What Do I do to prove I'm human." puzzles to the humans trying to break the captchas.
Since the anti-anti-captchas are paid more, they will get smarter cheapos and be able to beat the $.60 anti-captchas.
This makes perfect sense. I mean everyone in the world (especially asia) is super rich and can afford anything.
This explains how everyone drives BMWs and Mercedes (just hang around rich neighborhoods on trash day, I have friends who got cars this way). People for whom an M5 is a lot of money are already saving up their $100k.
I don't know about trucks, but the few diesel models that exist are the same price or cheaper than their gas counterparts. My 2006 MB E320 CDI is the same price as the similar E350. The same goes for the diesel jetta vs. gas jetta.
The diesel Touareg cost so much not because of the diesel but because of the huge V10 diesel and the other crap on that version. I'm not sure why they did this. Maybe the same reason the new hybrid Lexus G400h gets worse gas mileage than the non-hybrid.
Wow 1.33MHz. That's like slower than the chip in my clock radio. No wonder you have problems. You should have gone for the much more popular PB 17" 1.33GHz, it's like over a 1000 times more powerful and stuff.
AES is symmetric too (as was DES before it). Although asymmetric is "stronger", it is very slow. So usually you use asymmetric encryption to negotiate a symmetric key for the communication session. This is what SSL does and it's considered secure (in 128 bit symmetric mode).
In the US, handgun deaths are actually pretty small comparatively speaking. More people die from swimming pools yet there is no call to ban pools (which both the US and the UK allow). Statistically, you're much better off having a handgun in your house than a pool if you want your children to live.
communist!=soviet spy makes sense today. But in 1950, the communist parties around the world were largely funded and supported by Soviet Russia. So it was a bit treasonous to be a real communist.
Think about if there was an al qaeda party that was backed by the real al qaeda.
The problem McCarthy had was that he was rounding people up just for having attended meetings, etc. Rather than being real communist sympathizers.
Remember your post when Dell rolls out $150 desktops.
The Dell system includes support, a monitor, faster chip, bigger hard drive and windows. Strip all that stuff down to the China spec and you are near $150.
Also, the 6% margin doesn't apply to every product, just to the company overall.
Sorry for the misunderstanding. I'm not forgetting the target audience and I understand how $300 = 2 x $150.
My point is that you can currently get a system for $300 from Dell using Intel, Windows and with a monitor. So a custom chip/linux distro with no monitor for $150 is not a good deal.
If Dell can market a PC for $300 retail to the US with all that crap, I'm sure they can market a similar system for $150 to China that doesn't suck so hard. Order a couple thousand and Dell starts knocking down the price, especially if you take out the support contracts and the windows price.
Wow, this is much better than a $299 dell (which includes monitor and windows). Not!
Who greenlit this idea? A custom chip, a custom linux distro, a crappy processor. This is a nightmare waiting to happen.
I'm sure $300 is a big difference vs. $150. But when you consider $300 is the before sale price of Dell and I didn't even shop around on pricewatch. It's a no brainer.
I expect this to sell as much as the new lenovo thinkpads.
OK, what open standards group controls the Java langugage specification? ISO, ECMA, ANSI? There's not one, Sun decides what goes into the JSE release. All the JSRs for the JSE/JEE releases are controlled by Sun.
The Java name is trademarked to Sun as well.
Java is not as open as C/Perl/Ruby/Tcl/and others.
Java is not an open spec. It is owned and controlled entirely by Sun. They accept feedback from other members of the JCP, but all the decisions are made by Sun. Java is not submitted or controlled by any open standards organization.
Microsoft created , but Netscape created . You're probably thinking of which was really cool and is now incorporated into the html/dom standard and works fine on Opera/Moz/etc.
Microsoft has always pushed browser tech. It created CSS, IFRAME, XMLHttpRequest, window.event, XML data islands in the browser and lots of other goodies that got pushed off and incorpated into other browsers. This was years and years ago, they haven't done too much in this millenium.
Of course it only works on IE under MS. The different browser impls are all proprietary and only run in that browser.
The MS version is innovative because it was the first that all the others copied. And there's no such thing as a "native" impl, each impl only runs within its supported browser.
It would be pretty cool if someone wrote a pure JavaScript XMLHttpRequest library, but it's not possible until a real standard is created that each browser can adhere to.
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You forget dividends. From 1965-2005 the average dividend yield was about 3%.
Sheesh dumbasses, my joke was about the initials of the Polish Press Agency being PAP, not PPA.
I guess the slashdot mods are fans of Bush's "New Europe".
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You really only need two things, a decent notebook (Moleskines are great) and a roll of toilet paper.
Both of these can fit into an ultra-light pair of cargo pants with dryweave or something.
You don't even need extra clothes, just wash and hang your pants and shirt every night. The new water wicking clothes will dry in about 20 mins.
Like others have said, the lighter, the better. After a week, 10 pounds of macbook, ipod, pda, etc will weigh a ton.
Please, please, please stfu with "anecdotal is not the plural of data". I've seen this 5 times today and it was lame the first time.
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Now every time someone tells a story, some dipshit slings out this phrase. Please add it to the closet of phrases never to be uttered again with "strawman" and other neologisms.
Plus, anecdotal evidence can still be useful and it's not like grandparent was trying to disprove some theory just express that "illegal" file sharing might have some value to artists.
http://everything2.com/index.pl?node=the%20plural
Ah, but http://www.amazon.com/b/?&node=16261631 is the internal URL for the unbox service. Notice all those video ads and the buttons to buy downloads. This is the mighty unbox site.
/unbox to the URL.
Amazon does this with all their sites: music, dvd, software, furniture, etc. You don't really get different web sites, just a section within amazon.
So if you ever want to get to Unbox, just use http://ww.amazon.com/unbox.
I had the same problem with googling until I just tried adding
Yeah, but the average consumer doesn't want to watch tv shows and movies on their computer. This service is for early adopters who don't mind a laptop or monitor for viewing video.
ITMS has only sold 35 million shows in the last year. That's pretty decent, but still only early adopter numbers. And ITMS plays on ipods and QuickTime.
Unbox is for nerds and nerds don't want special players and stupid DRM.
I noticed they are supposed to integrate this into MS' Windows Media Center, but couldn't find out anything substantial on how to do it.
At least it's more competition for Apple and google video.
So kind of you to post the link with your own referid.
Here's a non-referral link for people who couldn't type in www.amazon.com/unbox.
The ultimate solution is to hire out real humans at $.61 to issue "What Do I do to prove I'm human." puzzles to the humans trying to break the captchas.
Since the anti-anti-captchas are paid more, they will get smarter cheapos and be able to beat the $.60 anti-captchas.
I remember back when I was 8. The entire 6th grade class had to write a tic-tac-toe program in BASIC. All 22 of us finished in under an hour.
Therefore, you are an idiot.
This makes perfect sense. I mean everyone in the world (especially asia) is super rich and can afford anything.
This explains how everyone drives BMWs and Mercedes (just hang around rich neighborhoods on trash day, I have friends who got cars this way). People for whom an M5 is a lot of money are already saving up their $100k.
All this honda/toyota FUD is just that.
I don't know about trucks, but the few diesel models that exist are the same price or cheaper than their gas counterparts. My 2006 MB E320 CDI is the same price as the similar E350. The same goes for the diesel jetta vs. gas jetta.
The diesel Touareg cost so much not because of the diesel but because of the huge V10 diesel and the other crap on that version. I'm not sure why they did this. Maybe the same reason the new hybrid Lexus G400h gets worse gas mileage than the non-hybrid.
Wow 1.33MHz. That's like slower than the chip in my clock radio. No wonder you have problems. You should have gone for the much more popular PB 17" 1.33GHz, it's like over a 1000 times more powerful and stuff.
The cute girl in that movie (that 10 year old me was in love with) is Jenny Lewis from the bands Rilo Kiley and The Postal Service.
entrepreneur is a French word. Babelfish gives you the correct translation because it means the same in French and English.
From M-W: "Entemology: French, from Old French, from entreprendre to undertake -- more at ENTERPRISE"
Maybe you were joking...
AES is symmetric too (as was DES before it). Although asymmetric is "stronger", it is very slow. So usually you use asymmetric encryption to negotiate a symmetric key for the communication session. This is what SSL does and it's considered secure (in 128 bit symmetric mode).
In the US, handgun deaths are actually pretty small comparatively speaking. More people die from swimming pools yet there is no call to ban pools (which both the US and the UK allow). Statistically, you're much better off having a handgun in your house than a pool if you want your children to live.
communist!=soviet spy makes sense today. But in 1950, the communist parties around the world were largely funded and supported by Soviet Russia. So it was a bit treasonous to be a real communist.
Think about if there was an al qaeda party that was backed by the real al qaeda.
The problem McCarthy had was that he was rounding people up just for having attended meetings, etc. Rather than being real communist sympathizers.
Remember your post when Dell rolls out $150 desktops.
The Dell system includes support, a monitor, faster chip, bigger hard drive and windows. Strip all that stuff down to the China spec and you are near $150.
Also, the 6% margin doesn't apply to every product, just to the company overall.
Sorry for the misunderstanding. I'm not forgetting the target audience and I understand how $300 = 2 x $150.
My point is that you can currently get a system for $300 from Dell using Intel, Windows and with a monitor. So a custom chip/linux distro with no monitor for $150 is not a good deal.
If Dell can market a PC for $300 retail to the US with all that crap, I'm sure they can market a similar system for $150 to China that doesn't suck so hard. Order a couple thousand and Dell starts knocking down the price, especially if you take out the support contracts and the windows price.
Wow, this is much better than a $299 dell (which includes monitor and windows). Not!
Who greenlit this idea? A custom chip, a custom linux distro, a crappy processor. This is a nightmare waiting to happen.
I'm sure $300 is a big difference vs. $150. But when you consider $300 is the before sale price of Dell and I didn't even shop around on pricewatch. It's a no brainer.
I expect this to sell as much as the new lenovo thinkpads.
OK, what open standards group controls the Java langugage specification? ISO, ECMA, ANSI? There's not one, Sun decides what goes into the JSE release. All the JSRs for the JSE/JEE releases are controlled by Sun. The Java name is trademarked to Sun as well. Java is not as open as C/Perl/Ruby/Tcl/and others.
Java is not an open spec. It is owned and controlled entirely by Sun. They accept feedback from other members of the JCP, but all the decisions are made by Sun. Java is not submitted or controlled by any open standards organization.
So it's not open like C/C++, et al
Microsoft created , but Netscape created . You're probably thinking of which was really cool and is now incorporated into the html/dom standard and works fine on Opera/Moz/etc. Microsoft has always pushed browser tech. It created CSS, IFRAME, XMLHttpRequest, window.event, XML data islands in the browser and lots of other goodies that got pushed off and incorpated into other browsers. This was years and years ago, they haven't done too much in this millenium.
Of course it only works on IE under MS. The different browser impls are all proprietary and only run in that browser. The MS version is innovative because it was the first that all the others copied. And there's no such thing as a "native" impl, each impl only runs within its supported browser. It would be pretty cool if someone wrote a pure JavaScript XMLHttpRequest library, but it's not possible until a real standard is created that each browser can adhere to.
You forget dividends. From 1965-2005 the average dividend yield was about 3%.
Come on man, you really think Snow Crash references are going to be picked up?
Sheesh dumbasses, my joke was about the initials of the Polish Press Agency being PAP, not PPA. I guess the slashdot mods are fans of Bush's "New Europe".