No kidding. I recently upgraded my desktop (only because I had to; the motherboard quit working), and decided to get something fast enough for Skyrim (a brand new game). Even then, the CPU cost only $50.
I only upgraded the CPU in the first place because I was going from DDR2 to DDR3; otherwise I'd have kept using my Athlon64 2800+.
A more concise way of stating that is that a Free Software license adds permissions that the owner of the copy would not otherwise have under law, while an EULA attempts to take away the rights that the owner of the copy inherently obtained along with the copy itself.
(Of course, a license to use a service (such as is being discussed here) is an entirely separate kind of thing, even if it calls itself an EULA.)
Did you read the post you replied to? According to it, for $1-$6 more per month, you could have enough minutes and also unlimited data via either Virgin Mobile or Simple Mobile. Additionally, what the grandparent post didn't mention is that Virgin has a $35/month ($4 less) plan with 300 minutes and still unlimited data, which sounds like it would fit you perfectly (since Virgin is prepaid, if you happen to run out of minutes then you just reload your account and effectively start the next month early -- there are no weird per-day fees).
I didn't say it was easy, I said it would be of equal difficulty for you or me. The difference is, I don't care. But you obviously do care (since you said earlier "really, I have a child of appropriate age and would like to know"), so you should do it!
If it's the elitist and pretentious pricks pushing the "new" learning languages, I'll stay away from them. The BASIC community was helpful and sarcastic, if you are representative, the "new" version community is full of people I don't wish to associate with.
Why should I, a random Slashdotter who happens to know these things exist but is in no way a "representative" of any learning language "community," spend my time looking up a bunch of information so that I could teach it to you, when you could just as easily look it up yourself? You accuse me of being elitist and pretentious, but the real issue is how ridiculously presumptuous you're being!
Besides, is your goal here to whine about the quality of the "community" or to teach your kid to program? If it's truly the latter, then fucking man up and deal with it!
First of all, all those resources for BASIC you're talking about still exist. Sure they're not new, but they didn't evaporate just because some time has passed.
Second, Logo and Squeak are not like Python and Cold Fusion. They're designed for teaching kids about computing. Squeak, in fact, is a whole graphical environment complete with self-contained guides.
Third, do you really expect me to spoon-feed it to you? You can Google for those resources just as easily as I can.
12 or 14 is too old. Give 'em a copy of Logo or Squeak when they're maybe 8, and they'll be off to the races (if they have any aptitude or interest, at least -- and if they don't, find a sport or musical instrument for them instead).
Actually, now that I think about it they can't get on the ballot to begin with either. Ballot access requires being nominated by one of the existing parties, and to get nominated you have to be as sociopathic and corrupt as the rest of them.
Man I just hope I don't have to reinstall Windows.
I went from an Nvidia something-or-other chipset to an AMD 760G (Gigabyte 78LMT-S2P) and didn't have to reinstall WinXP (although I did have to install all new drivers and reactivate over the phone).
I use this computer for pretty much two things: games and web browsing. Although Firefox would certainly benefit from having all 8 gigs available, I'm not sure my games would work well enough in VirtualBox to be worth it. (By the way, one of the games I'm playing right now is Fallout 3, which apparently doesn't work well with Windows 7 either.)
Even if you had only 2 RAM slots, a 2x4GB upgrade is only $40 or so these days.
Of course, in my case I'm OS-limited (I went ahead and got 8GB when replacing my motherboard and therefore going DDR2->DDR3, but I still use Windows XP 32-bit so the OS only "sees" 3GB of it).
You know, everybody says that but (as a relatively new homeowner) I don't quite understand. To get the mortgage interest deduction you have to itemize, and I found I was better off taking the standard deduction. Is it just that most people buy much more expensive houses than I did?
It doesn't matter how much we spend; it needs to be spent effectively. And designing a UAV that can be captured by the enemy just by hacking its GPS (an attack mode so blatantly obvious that even I as a civilian could have figured it out) is clearly not money spent effectively.
My thought was not so much on the bad-ass nature of Iran's engineers, but rather the distinct lack of bad-ass-ness among the American engineers.
Between stuff like this and Chinese hackers (and now Chinese aircraft carriers, apparently), it's becoming more and more clear to me that the US military needs to get its eye back on the ball.
Meanwhile I haven't bought a Sony product in 10 years, think the PS3 was no better than 360 in the first place, and would rather give my money to companies that honor hundreds of years of law (not to mention fucking common sense) regarding who owns something once it's been paid for.
I hope you don't mean to imply that you gave your money to Microsoft either then, because they have hardly any more respect for property law than Sony does.
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I had hoped that Rep. Johnson had said that as an intentional joke, but no, he didn't.
No kidding. I recently upgraded my desktop (only because I had to; the motherboard quit working), and decided to get something fast enough for Skyrim (a brand new game). Even then, the CPU cost only $50.
I only upgraded the CPU in the first place because I was going from DDR2 to DDR3; otherwise I'd have kept using my Athlon64 2800+.
Yes, thank you; that would make sense. On the other hand, TFS calls the document being discussed an "End User Agreement."
A more concise way of stating that is that a Free Software license adds permissions that the owner of the copy would not otherwise have under law, while an EULA attempts to take away the rights that the owner of the copy inherently obtained along with the copy itself.
(Of course, a license to use a service (such as is being discussed here) is an entirely separate kind of thing, even if it calls itself an EULA.)
Please don't feed the trolls.
Did you read the post you replied to? According to it, for $1-$6 more per month, you could have enough minutes and also unlimited data via either Virgin Mobile or Simple Mobile. Additionally, what the grandparent post didn't mention is that Virgin has a $35/month ($4 less) plan with 300 minutes and still unlimited data, which sounds like it would fit you perfectly (since Virgin is prepaid, if you happen to run out of minutes then you just reload your account and effectively start the next month early -- there are no weird per-day fees).
I didn't say it was easy, I said it would be of equal difficulty for you or me. The difference is, I don't care. But you obviously do care (since you said earlier "really, I have a child of appropriate age and would like to know"), so you should do it!
SSD makers will notice a large increase in sales?
Why should I, a random Slashdotter who happens to know these things exist but is in no way a "representative" of any learning language "community," spend my time looking up a bunch of information so that I could teach it to you, when you could just as easily look it up yourself? You accuse me of being elitist and pretentious, but the real issue is how ridiculously presumptuous you're being!
Besides, is your goal here to whine about the quality of the "community" or to teach your kid to program? If it's truly the latter, then fucking man up and deal with it!
Not to mention a long history of stupid proprietary formats... I've been boycotting Sony since MemoryStick and ATRAC3!
First of all, all those resources for BASIC you're talking about still exist. Sure they're not new, but they didn't evaporate just because some time has passed.
Second, Logo and Squeak are not like Python and Cold Fusion. They're designed for teaching kids about computing. Squeak, in fact, is a whole graphical environment complete with self-contained guides.
Third, do you really expect me to spoon-feed it to you? You can Google for those resources just as easily as I can.
12 or 14 is too old. Give 'em a copy of Logo or Squeak when they're maybe 8, and they'll be off to the races (if they have any aptitude or interest, at least -- and if they don't, find a sport or musical instrument for them instead).
Actually, now that I think about it they can't get on the ballot to begin with either. Ballot access requires being nominated by one of the existing parties, and to get nominated you have to be as sociopathic and corrupt as the rest of them.
The intelligent, honest candidates can't get any campaign funding.
You can increase those odds by requesting that your library buy it or by pursuing an inter-library loan.
Also, don't his books tend to be available for free [legally] on the Internet to begin with?
Individual natural persons have rights. Corporations are legal constructs, which means that the concept of corporations having rights makes no sense.
I went from an Nvidia something-or-other chipset to an AMD 760G (Gigabyte 78LMT-S2P) and didn't have to reinstall WinXP (although I did have to install all new drivers and reactivate over the phone).
LOL!
I use this computer for pretty much two things: games and web browsing. Although Firefox would certainly benefit from having all 8 gigs available, I'm not sure my games would work well enough in VirtualBox to be worth it. (By the way, one of the games I'm playing right now is Fallout 3, which apparently doesn't work well with Windows 7 either.)
Even if you had only 2 RAM slots, a 2x4GB upgrade is only $40 or so these days.
Of course, in my case I'm OS-limited (I went ahead and got 8GB when replacing my motherboard and therefore going DDR2->DDR3, but I still use Windows XP 32-bit so the OS only "sees" 3GB of it).
You know, everybody says that but (as a relatively new homeowner) I don't quite understand. To get the mortgage interest deduction you have to itemize, and I found I was better off taking the standard deduction. Is it just that most people buy much more expensive houses than I did?
They could at least re-use some of the other generic ship names from Star Trek (and other places): "Intrepid," "Excelsior," "Defiant," etc.
You don't understand trigonometry, do you?
It doesn't matter how much we spend; it needs to be spent effectively. And designing a UAV that can be captured by the enemy just by hacking its GPS (an attack mode so blatantly obvious that even I as a civilian could have figured it out) is clearly not money spent effectively.
My thought was not so much on the bad-ass nature of Iran's engineers, but rather the distinct lack of bad-ass-ness among the American engineers.
Between stuff like this and Chinese hackers (and now Chinese aircraft carriers, apparently), it's becoming more and more clear to me that the US military needs to get its eye back on the ball.
I hope you don't mean to imply that you gave your money to Microsoft either then, because they have hardly any more respect for property law than Sony does.