"Hey everybody, we want you to switch to this cross-platform language that runs all apps 85% slower. Then you will see the tremendous advantage our new $2000 processor provides... Instead of an 85% drop, its only a 40% drop!"
To be fair the Intel Pentium Extreme Edition (or whatever the new dual-core EE is being called) runs for $995 in 1000-unit quantities. (At least, that's what I recall reading... but I'm too lazy to check tomshardware right now...)
$1172 is very expensive, but if you are already considering a $995, it might not be entirely out of the question...
I played EVE for a long time (well, long for me anyway -- about 15-16 months).
I enjoyed it quite a bit, but got tired of the very-unrestricted PvP...
Once you have 100 million ISK or so, you pretty much have to be out in unprotected space to make any money. And it was always the case that two properly configured players could have a 95% chance of wiping out any single player that appeared, with little you could do... got really sick of dying at gate-camps when I wasn't in the mood to PvP.
I didn't quite because I became angry at my loss, though... I simply would play less for awhile, because I suddenly had almost-nothing again... Eventually I found that I didn't log in as often, and when I couldn't be bothered to log in once a week for 5 minutes to change my skill, I knew I didn't want to play anymore. So I cancelled.
EVE is still one of the cooler ones out there, I think, but... I had problems with the PvP, and the obscene long flight-times to get places. Large world = cool until you have 87 jumps to get where you want, so that you can pick up your stuff and go 87 jumps back, praying for no-gate-camp the entire 2 1/2 hour journey.
The casual TV watcher gets 100 channels for $40 or All The Channels for about $90.
The casual gamer gets... One game. And after every 5 months, he's spent enough keeping this game that he could have bought an entirely new game, and then he'd have two [then 3, 4,...] instead of just one he has to keep re-buying.
Incidentally, a very easy way to mangle words in a manner that is very difficult to decode works like this.
It is vrey dluciffit to raed wdros taht hvae all of the cartnel lrettes resreved lkie tihs scncetnee deos -- ellaicepsy it tsohe wdros are legnor tahn fvie lrettes lnog.
The avobe scnetnee is plbabory flriay slpmie to raed, bsuacee msot of the wdros are pttery sroht and aslo pttery common -- I epecxt tihs one to be a llttie bit hedrar to raed.
I read something somewhere -- quite possibly on snopes -- that illustrated this. Quite interesting, actually.
I don't think it is particularly grammatically correct to say that X appears to not be a word. The preferred method would be to say that X appears not to be a word.
This is because, technically, you are not supposed to split your infinitives.
In most languages it is not possible to split infinitves because they are one-word. In english, however, all infinitives begin with "to", for example "to eat."
Oh, and I approve of both mushification and unambiguity, though I must say I disapprove of "completly" And I'm sure now that I've been an ass and picked nits out of your post, that someone will find truly pathetic typos in this...
Upon re-reading other's comments, I think the person who talked about "its" being like "his" , "her" , and "your" is more correct than I am with my two-rule thing...
Oh well... you can't always be right... especially if you aren't going to look it up first.
inflammable/inoperable - same prefix, but opposite meanings
That is because inflammable doesn't have a prefix. The root word is inflame.
As for You've mail, it might be correct, but I wouldn't... You surely could say "You have mail," but I wouldn't contract it there... and I'm not sure why not. I think it has to do with the fact that in this case you are using "have" to mean possession rather than using "have" as part of the past tense. The difference between "You have eaten" and "You have food."
Also, "You have got mail" isn't entirely correct, I don't think. I think proper English says that should be either "You have mail" or "You have gotten mail" -- the first meaning you currently possess mail, the other being you once received mail (that's one of those less-common tenses that I can't remember the name of.
its versus it's... the trouble is there are two rules that conflict:
Rule #1: Use an apostrophe to indicate where the chomped letters are in a contraction
Rule #2: For possessiveness, apply an apostrophe followed by an s for a singluar possessor.
In this case both would be "it's" -- and this is one of those cases where "someone" decided to just pick one. Maybe there's a fascinating story around why...
I'm not that prolific of a system builder myself, but I can say this:
The 7 Intel CPU / Mobo with Intel chipset computers I've built have all been fabulous.
The 1 Intel CPU / Mobo with Via chipset computer I built was a bit unreliable.
The 4 AMD CPU computers I've built (1x VIA, 1x ALI, 1xSiS, 1xAMD chipset) were all complete and utter crap. Extremely unreliable, most hardware didn't work. In one case went through 9 video cards before I found one that worked [that was the ALI], and 3 sound cards [a VIA] before I found one that worked.
Now, to be fair, 3 of the 4 AMD-based computers were long ago... 2 of them were K6 chips. But the latest was a dual Athlon MP 1900+ on an AMD chipset. The machine had a number of really bizarre hardware problems... couldn't boot if all 3 HDs were connected, or black-screen-only on boot if I used the 3rd PCI slot, or...
So, I tried. Intel is simply more reliable. So I buy Intel.
why does everyone believe that the adobe proprietary format PDF is "open"? Just because people have figured out how to [sorta-kinda] render PDFs on their own doesn't make them any less a proprietary format...
It's no different than MS Word.doc. Everyone can find a way to read it, but its still proprietary.
Then they should, you know, buy insurance. Like I do.
It's not *that* expensive. It costs quite a bit, but not so much that most people can't afford it. Just that its easier to skip the insurance than to put off that new car every 36000 miles.
... and yet as far as I know it is the UNITED STATES that seriously ill people are flown to receive superior life-saving care that is not available elsewhere at any price...
Go look it up. The average American who is uninsured makes more than $50,000/year. That is enough to buy perfectly adequate health insurance.
It is not enough income to drive a 7 series BMW, live in a large house overlooking the ocean, eat out at gourmet restaurants twice a week, send the kids to private school *and* buy health insurance, however.
You've just got to decide what's important.
Certainly you don't think I should be paying for the health insurance of those who'd rather drive a more expensive car?
I, on the other hand, completely wrecked my C84 by using 3rd party inks from LG Products. They were relatively cheap -- I got a set of 10 cartridges (2 EA/color + 4 black) for a few bucks less than a set of 4 epsons.
The ink smelled naaaasty, the print quality sucked, and halfway through the first set of cartridges, the print heads gummed up, and no amount of cleaning could make it print remotely reliably again...
So I chucked the printer, and now I have a Canon. Their ink is already about 30% less expensive than Epson's was, and the print heads are removable. I don't know how easy it is to buy a new print head, but at least it is technically possible. I print little enough that I can afford to stick with Canon inks and just buy online to get a small discount... (say $9.49 or $9.79 instead of $10.99 or $11.99)
I've had very poor performance with the one off-brand ink-set I used...
I had an epson C84 printer... brand new... when the came-with-the-printer inks ran out, I bought some 3rd party ones...
Two problems... the ink smelled -- like rotten eggs. You could smell it if a printed page was on the desk, and you were standing two feet away. Other problem was worse: clogged the "high-quality" but non-replaceable printheads in the printer. So I had to buy a new printer... went with a cannon because their 1st-party ink is cheaper. (a little, anyway)
Indeed, you've hit the primary security reason that I exclusively use FireFox.
If FireFox gets destroyed somehow through a collection of malware, I've lost a browser, which I could uninstall and reinstall -- and if that doesn't fix it, I could use another browser like Opera or something until I had time for a system rebuild.
But if I lost IE severely enough, the entirety of the OS could blow up on me... I mean, practically every recent OS feature was built on top of IE. If you lose IE, you can't:
Use System Restore. Use Remote Assistance. Use Windows [not-so-helpful] help. Use Windows Update.
If you lose it really badly you also can't:
Use Windows Explorer or open any directory windows or visually access your desktop.
Facts and logic are fine. But have you ever read through any of these big laws? DMCA isn't that bad -- only about 70 pages of moderately-comprehendable legalese -- but try bigger boys like the PATRIOT act... it reads like diff output...
Congressmen hear arguments from both sides that frequently have little to do with the law, have extreme pressure to bow to their party's wishes (which means party donors too, on occasion).
I'm not saying I support the spineless congressman party hack. Nor am I absolving them of guilt in the case of the DMCA. I am simply saying, I know that it's harder than it looks, and I try not to hate them as strongly as their actions occasionally make me want to.
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two thoughts:
1: People who don't read the fine print [almost, but not quite] deserve what they get.
2: That will be the cellphone companies fault -- and it should thus be those companies that you choose to villify.
EVE Online has a one-hour daily downtime at 11:00 AM GMT - 12:00 PM GMT (which was 3:00 - 4:00 here in Pacific Time).
I know, because this downtime saved my life... I was hooked at the time, and downtime was the only thing that got me to go to log off and sleep...
It happened a few weeks ago. You missed it already.
Sorry.
Let's see... can I find the link... nope, I can't... oh well
riight...
"Hey everybody, we want you to switch to this cross-platform language that runs all apps 85% slower. Then you will see the tremendous advantage our new $2000 processor provides... Instead of an 85% drop, its only a 40% drop!"
To be fair the Intel Pentium Extreme Edition (or whatever the new dual-core EE is being called) runs for $995 in 1000-unit quantities. (At least, that's what I recall reading... but I'm too lazy to check tomshardware right now...)
$1172 is very expensive, but if you are already considering a $995, it might not be entirely out of the question...
I played EVE for a long time (well, long for me anyway -- about 15-16 months).
I enjoyed it quite a bit, but got tired of the very-unrestricted PvP...
Once you have 100 million ISK or so, you pretty much have to be out in unprotected space to make any money. And it was always the case that two properly configured players could have a 95% chance of wiping out any single player that appeared, with little you could do... got really sick of dying at gate-camps when I wasn't in the mood to PvP.
I didn't quite because I became angry at my loss, though... I simply would play less for awhile, because I suddenly had almost-nothing again... Eventually I found that I didn't log in as often, and when I couldn't be bothered to log in once a week for 5 minutes to change my skill, I knew I didn't want to play anymore. So I cancelled.
EVE is still one of the cooler ones out there, I think, but... I had problems with the PvP, and the obscene long flight-times to get places. Large world = cool until you have 87 jumps to get where you want, so that you can pick up your stuff and go 87 jumps back, praying for no-gate-camp the entire 2 1/2 hour journey.
The casual TV watcher gets 100 channels for $40 or All The Channels for about $90.
...] instead of just one he has to keep re-buying.
The casual gamer gets... One game. And after every 5 months, he's spent enough keeping this game that he could have bought an entirely new game, and then he'd have two [then 3, 4,
This debate reminds me of people who condem the use of the word "snuck."
As opposed to what, sneaked?
I see nothing wrong with sneaking in a snuck here and there.
I know... its not that clever, or that funny... but I couldn't resist, and I've never heard of this debate...
Incidentally, a very easy way to mangle words in a manner that is very difficult to decode works like this.
It is vrey dluciffit to raed wdros taht hvae all of the cartnel lrettes resreved lkie tihs scncetnee deos -- ellaicepsy it tsohe wdros are legnor tahn fvie lrettes lnog.
The avobe scnetnee is plbabory flriay slpmie to raed, bsuacee msot of the wdros are pttery sroht and aslo pttery common -- I epecxt tihs one to be a llttie bit hedrar to raed.
I read something somewhere -- quite possibly on snopes -- that illustrated this. Quite interesting, actually.
Does that mean it offers prayer and worship to all databases, real and imagined?
Just because I can...
I don't think it is particularly grammatically correct to say that X appears to not be a word. The preferred method would be to say that X appears not to be a word.
This is because, technically, you are not supposed to split your infinitives.
In most languages it is not possible to split infinitves because they are one-word. In english, however, all infinitives begin with "to", for example "to eat."
Oh, and I approve of both mushification and unambiguity, though I must say I disapprove of "completly" And I'm sure now that I've been an ass and picked nits out of your post, that someone will find truly pathetic typos in this...
Upon re-reading other's comments, I think the person who talked about "its" being like "his" , "her" , and "your" is more correct than I am with my two-rule thing...
Oh well... you can't always be right... especially if you aren't going to look it up first.
inflammable/inoperable - same prefix, but opposite meanings
That is because inflammable doesn't have a prefix. The root word is inflame.
As for You've mail, it might be correct, but I wouldn't... You surely could say "You have mail," but I wouldn't contract it there... and I'm not sure why not. I think it has to do with the fact that in this case you are using "have" to mean possession rather than using "have" as part of the past tense. The difference between "You have eaten" and "You have food."
Also, "You have got mail" isn't entirely correct, I don't think. I think proper English says that should be either "You have mail" or "You have gotten mail" -- the first meaning you currently possess mail, the other being you once received mail (that's one of those less-common tenses that I can't remember the name of.
its versus it's... the trouble is there are two rules that conflict:
Rule #1: Use an apostrophe to indicate where the chomped letters are in a contraction
Rule #2: For possessiveness, apply an apostrophe followed by an s for a singluar possessor.
In this case both would be "it's" -- and this is one of those cases where "someone" decided to just pick one. Maybe there's a fascinating story around why...
I choose not to do evil things, because I am not evil, not because of some law that says I shouldn't.
Therefore, I do not believe in torturing anyone, regardless of who they are, because torture is evil, and I am not.
I'm not that prolific of a system builder myself, but I can say this:
...
The 7 Intel CPU / Mobo with Intel chipset computers I've built have all been fabulous.
The 1 Intel CPU / Mobo with Via chipset computer I built was a bit unreliable.
The 4 AMD CPU computers I've built (1x VIA, 1x ALI, 1xSiS, 1xAMD chipset) were all complete and utter crap. Extremely unreliable, most hardware didn't work. In one case went through 9 video cards before I found one that worked [that was the ALI], and 3 sound cards [a VIA] before I found one that worked.
Now, to be fair, 3 of the 4 AMD-based computers were long ago... 2 of them were K6 chips. But the latest was a dual Athlon MP 1900+ on an AMD chipset. The machine had a number of really bizarre hardware problems... couldn't boot if all 3 HDs were connected, or black-screen-only on boot if I used the 3rd PCI slot, or
So, I tried. Intel is simply more reliable. So I buy Intel.
Simple.
why does everyone believe that the adobe proprietary format PDF is "open"? Just because people have figured out how to [sorta-kinda] render PDFs on their own doesn't make them any less a proprietary format...
.doc. Everyone can find a way to read it, but its still proprietary.
It's no different than MS Word
Then they should, you know, buy insurance. Like I do.
It's not *that* expensive. It costs quite a bit, but not so much that most people can't afford it. Just that its easier to skip the insurance than to put off that new car every 36000 miles.
... and yet as far as I know it is the UNITED STATES that seriously ill people are flown to receive superior life-saving care that is not available elsewhere at any price...
Let's *not* change that' mmmkay?
Or 4) he's right.
Go look it up. The average American who is uninsured makes more than $50,000/year. That is enough to buy perfectly adequate health insurance.
It is not enough income to drive a 7 series BMW, live in a large house overlooking the ocean, eat out at gourmet restaurants twice a week, send the kids to private school *and* buy health insurance, however.
You've just got to decide what's important.
Certainly you don't think I should be paying for the health insurance of those who'd rather drive a more expensive car?
I don't suppose the spyware was being attached to any linux downloads...
I, on the other hand, completely wrecked my C84 by using 3rd party inks from LG Products. They were relatively cheap -- I got a set of 10 cartridges (2 EA/color + 4 black) for a few bucks less than a set of 4 epsons.
The ink smelled naaaasty, the print quality sucked, and halfway through the first set of cartridges, the print heads gummed up, and no amount of cleaning could make it print remotely reliably again...
So I chucked the printer, and now I have a Canon. Their ink is already about 30% less expensive than Epson's was, and the print heads are removable. I don't know how easy it is to buy a new print head, but at least it is technically possible. I print little enough that I can afford to stick with Canon inks and just buy online to get a small discount... (say $9.49 or $9.79 instead of $10.99 or $11.99)
I've had very poor performance with the one off-brand ink-set I used...
I had an epson C84 printer... brand new... when the came-with-the-printer inks ran out, I bought some 3rd party ones...
Two problems... the ink smelled -- like rotten eggs. You could smell it if a printed page was on the desk, and you were standing two feet away. Other problem was worse: clogged the "high-quality" but non-replaceable printheads in the printer. So I had to buy a new printer... went with a cannon because their 1st-party ink is cheaper. (a little, anyway)
Indeed, you've hit the primary security reason that I exclusively use FireFox.
If FireFox gets destroyed somehow through a collection of malware, I've lost a browser, which I could uninstall and reinstall -- and if that doesn't fix it, I could use another browser like Opera or something until I had time for a system rebuild.
But if I lost IE severely enough, the entirety of the OS could blow up on me...
I mean, practically every recent OS feature was built on top of IE. If you lose IE, you can't:
Use System Restore. Use Remote Assistance. Use Windows [not-so-helpful] help. Use Windows Update.
If you lose it really badly you also can't:
Use Windows Explorer or open any directory windows or visually access your desktop.
Facts and logic are fine. But have you ever read through any of these big laws? DMCA isn't that bad -- only about 70 pages of moderately-comprehendable legalese -- but try bigger boys like the PATRIOT act... it reads like diff output...
Congressmen hear arguments from both sides that frequently have little to do with the law, have extreme pressure to bow to their party's wishes (which means party donors too, on occasion).
I'm not saying I support the spineless congressman party hack. Nor am I absolving them of guilt in the case of the DMCA. I am simply saying, I know that it's harder than it looks, and I try not to hate them as strongly as their actions occasionally make me want to.
tut, tut...
That may be a non-infringing use, but, because of DMCA, it is not a legal use. And for protection the use must be a legal, non-infringing use.
You're going to have to get DMCA off the books before this is legal. It is perfectly ethical, but clearly illegal.