That is, of course, provided the machine has four internal drive bays, which it don't if it's the standard desktop box. So that's $1000 worth of EIDE drives provided it doesn't need an external drive, which pushes the price to guess what? $1200.
You would need 7 of these drivs to make up just over 1TB.
There is no retail consumer machine, case, BIOS or MB that can run seven drives unless several of them are external. Even if there is, nobody is going to run seven drives on the same machine.
And in two or more years, you'll be able to get 300GB drives for that price, so 1TB of storage will probably cost more like $280 by that time.
That would be great. Nobody's going to run Longhorn unless the cost of the upgrade doesn't require replacing the entire computer.
If piracy is good for the industry, then it should be encouraged, right? Unfortunately, once piracy reaches a certain point, it destroys the industry.
This is really no different than the outsourcing issue. It's just one group of people who already benefit from a market of plenty seeking to deprive others of their share and keep it for themselves. The ever-famous something for nothing.
If it takes 3 years, great! Imagine the ratings for each episode as they get closer to Mars, and the ratings for the finale? WOW!
The value of a man stepping on to the surface of another planet being measured in television ratings makes me want to drop to one knee and weep openly.
The basic problem is that video games are a poor format for story telling. Good stories require fine control of plot, pacing, character, setting and theme. The more control is given to the player, the less control the writer has over the elements of good story telling.
That said, there are a number of ways a good writer could dramatically improve the quality of numerous video games, and help improve various genres. Most publishers now take great delight in emphasizing the total lack of literature in their products.
If video games are to truly become meaningful, then they must convey meaning.
was to have given away 100 million tracks through Apple's iTunes music site. But according to Apple on Wednesday, only about 5 million free songs have been redeemed."
So iTunes is a failure.
Let's close it up. Unplug the servers and shut down the site.
They haven't sold enough Macs either, so let's close that down too. Can't make a dime unless they're the #1 record-setting, fastest-growing business in the history of civilization.
It's a great day! We found a new way to screw over the one company who actually found a way to provide what everyone said they wanted: convenient, electronic distribution of music at a fair price.
But wait, that's not really what they wanted. What they really want is stores with no cash registers and libraries of thousands of pieces of music representing the creative efforts of generations of people while valuing those libraries at zero.
Not good enough. The 128MB drives should be included with an 80% discounted ticket, and everyone who records the concert should get a free roast beef sandwich.
Remember, anything that can be copyrighted should be free, and anyone who tries to make a living writing, singing, performing, doing research, directing, producing, engineering, editing, designing, painting, sculpting or building should be driven out of business and live in a cardboard box until they throw away all their education and experience to find another line of work.
People wonder why they can't find a job after graduating college.
Oh, that's easy. Because employers want to devalue higher education in order to artificially and dishonestly remove the advantages of non-outsourced, non-slave, non-underpaid labor.
You know what, there are thousands of people just like you with the same experience competing for a handful of jobs.
Jobs from which they will be fired soon after they sign an apartment lease.
You need to be different than the rest, and to be different that means skills and experience.
Entry level means ENTRY LEVEL. Managers who insist on skills and experience for entry level jobs are liars and cheats.
You need to be different than the rest
Yep, maybe you'll be the one who doesn't get told "you're fired," and you'll be interviewed on the Today show.
YEP!! and that's just payroll. Then we get to the fun taxes like sales, property, gas, electricity, telephone, natural gas, cable, capital gains, interest, inventory, self-employment, county, city, vehicle registration, vehicle insurance, etc.
90% of spam is easily recognized by even the most basic spam filter. So, is this still a problem?
Has anyone noticed that stopping spam seems to be just as difficult as stopping file sharing? The two problems are very similar, and the funny part is that so many people think passing laws against spam is going to matter.
There will be a stirring piano solo accompanying a soundless lightsaber battle between Anakin and Obi-Wan, followed by a spectacular soaring performance of the theme from Star Wars with the entire cast of the film singing the new never-before-heard lyrics as a galactic chorale.
Darth Vader will then sing a solo baritone as the credits roll.
I just happened to be watching Attack of the Clones recently, and I noticed something. With the exception of Count Dooku and Mace Windu, most of the other actors look quite bored most of the time, and I can't figure out why.
One thing about the original is that people actually looked as if they were part of the movie. The only scene in Episode II where Obi-Wan is really emotional is when they are pursuing Dooku at the end of the movie.
It just appeared to be a series of storyboards and ideas instead of a cohesive story. The Clone War was cool, but somehow I wonder if it's really worth it to spend umpty millions to put 87 different kinds of laser blasting vehicles on the screen and vast horizons of rendered landscapes when the cantina scene in the original was more interesting.
There are no "Who's gonna fly it?" lines in the new trilogy.
If that worked, which it doesn't. So we have nine fonts, one of which is actually usable. The user shouldn't have to "build" a word processor in order to use it. It should simply work.
By the way,.fonts doesn't exist on Windows or Mac.
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Another sequel.
How original.
And as far as $1200 for 1 TB of drives..
Caviar 7200 EIDE 250GB drive: $249.99
That is, of course, provided the machine has four internal drive bays, which it don't if it's the standard desktop box. So that's $1000 worth of EIDE drives provided it doesn't need an external drive, which pushes the price to guess what? $1200.
You would need 7 of these drivs to make up just over 1TB.
There is no retail consumer machine, case, BIOS or MB that can run seven drives unless several of them are external. Even if there is, nobody is going to run seven drives on the same machine.
And in two or more years, you'll be able to get 300GB drives for that price, so 1TB of storage will probably cost more like $280 by that time.
That would be great. Nobody's going to run Longhorn unless the cost of the upgrade doesn't require replacing the entire computer.
Absolutely ridiculous. Minimum 2GB RAM? 1000GB of disk space? Just for an operating system? The disks alone would run $1200.
Nobody is going to spend $4000 on a new machine just for an OS upgrade, no matter how 64-bit the desktop icons are.
And here everyone still thinks Apple isn't brilliant. They've got the coolest operating system on the market running on single-processor G4s.
lol
Monday: Open source Java
Tuesday: Forked
Thursday: Enormous whirling clusterfuck
Saturday: Start on new language
If piracy is good for the industry, then it should be encouraged, right? Unfortunately, once piracy reaches a certain point, it destroys the industry.
This is really no different than the outsourcing issue. It's just one group of people who already benefit from a market of plenty seeking to deprive others of their share and keep it for themselves. The ever-famous something for nothing.
Just pay for the game.
what does the investment net us
Hope.
I don't think it would be right to fill space with the radiative effects of nuclear reactions.
Well, without them the sun would go out.
If it takes 3 years, great! Imagine the ratings for each episode as they get closer to Mars, and the ratings for the finale? WOW!
The value of a man stepping on to the surface of another planet being measured in television ratings makes me want to drop to one knee and weep openly.
If you really are that good, and are driven enough to be able to convincingly sell yourself, you'll have no problems.
Horse. Shit.
It happens, you can do everything right and still fail.
No. This isn't a case of "failure." It's a case of being failed.
What obligations do they have to their country?
QED
ho will own a company whose interests are subjugated to the workers?
Reductio ad absurdum
False dilemma
You choose.
So where is the line and why not the one before?
The line should hopefully be somewhere before "inflict unnecessary suffering on and destroy the careers of your neighbors."
He is also fed up with being called a Benedict Arnold CEO
The formerly employed are fed up with being called "poor credit risks" and "broke."
The basic problem is that video games are a poor format for story telling. Good stories require fine control of plot, pacing, character, setting and theme. The more control is given to the player, the less control the writer has over the elements of good story telling.
That said, there are a number of ways a good writer could dramatically improve the quality of numerous video games, and help improve various genres. Most publishers now take great delight in emphasizing the total lack of literature in their products.
If video games are to truly become meaningful, then they must convey meaning.
was to have given away 100 million tracks through Apple's iTunes music site. But according to Apple on Wednesday, only about 5 million free songs have been redeemed."
So iTunes is a failure.
Let's close it up. Unplug the servers and shut down the site.
They haven't sold enough Macs either, so let's close that down too. Can't make a dime unless they're the #1 record-setting, fastest-growing business in the history of civilization.
It's a great day! We found a new way to screw over the one company who actually found a way to provide what everyone said they wanted: convenient, electronic distribution of music at a fair price.
But wait, that's not really what they wanted. What they really want is stores with no cash registers and libraries of thousands of pieces of music representing the creative efforts of generations of people while valuing those libraries at zero.
Oh, and they also want to complain about greed.
Not good enough. The 128MB drives should be included with an 80% discounted ticket, and everyone who records the concert should get a free roast beef sandwich.
Remember, anything that can be copyrighted should be free, and anyone who tries to make a living writing, singing, performing, doing research, directing, producing, engineering, editing, designing, painting, sculpting or building should be driven out of business and live in a cardboard box until they throw away all their education and experience to find another line of work.
I hear they're building a new Wal-Mart soon.
Did you also add up all of your deductions that the recent college graduate doesn't have?
My taxes were right at 35% payroll only at my last W-4 job. Why? I had no deductions, credits or write-offs.
The government publishes the tax tables every year. Fact.
And no, '4 years of college' doesnt prove you are worth anything.
Weep.
Weep for this society.
That we can spit in the face of the dedication necessary to earn a college degree is too tragic to put into words.
Has the workplace become so cynical, and so toxic, that no amount of hard work or achievement earns anything beyond skepticism?
It looks that way. So we should weep for our society, and what it could have been.
People wonder why they can't find a job after graduating college.
Oh, that's easy. Because employers want to devalue higher education in order to artificially and dishonestly remove the advantages of non-outsourced, non-slave, non-underpaid labor.
You know what, there are thousands of people just like you with the same experience competing for a handful of jobs.
Jobs from which they will be fired soon after they sign an apartment lease.
You need to be different than the rest, and to be different that means skills and experience.
Entry level means ENTRY LEVEL. Managers who insist on skills and experience for entry level jobs are liars and cheats.
You need to be different than the rest
Yep, maybe you'll be the one who doesn't get told "you're fired," and you'll be interviewed on the Today show.
You're talking of an average tax rate of 33%.
YEP!! and that's just payroll. Then we get to the fun taxes like sales, property, gas, electricity, telephone, natural gas, cable, capital gains, interest, inventory, self-employment, county, city, vehicle registration, vehicle insurance, etc.
90% of spam is easily recognized by even the most basic spam filter. So, is this still a problem?
Has anyone noticed that stopping spam seems to be just as difficult as stopping file sharing? The two problems are very similar, and the funny part is that so many people think passing laws against spam is going to matter.
Episode III will be a musical
There will be a stirring piano solo accompanying a soundless lightsaber battle between Anakin and Obi-Wan, followed by a spectacular soaring performance of the theme from Star Wars with the entire cast of the film singing the new never-before-heard lyrics as a galactic chorale.
Darth Vader will then sing a solo baritone as the credits roll.
I just happened to be watching Attack of the Clones recently, and I noticed something. With the exception of Count Dooku and Mace Windu, most of the other actors look quite bored most of the time, and I can't figure out why.
One thing about the original is that people actually looked as if they were part of the movie. The only scene in Episode II where Obi-Wan is really emotional is when they are pursuing Dooku at the end of the movie.
It just appeared to be a series of storyboards and ideas instead of a cohesive story. The Clone War was cool, but somehow I wonder if it's really worth it to spend umpty millions to put 87 different kinds of laser blasting vehicles on the screen and vast horizons of rendered landscapes when the cantina scene in the original was more interesting.
There are no "Who's gonna fly it?" lines in the new trilogy.
Yes, the onus of putting TT fonts in ~/.fonts...
.fonts doesn't exist on Windows or Mac.
If that worked, which it doesn't. So we have nine fonts, one of which is actually usable. The user shouldn't have to "build" a word processor in order to use it. It should simply work.
By the way,