Do you really want an financial regulator who has no knowledge of the industry he/she is regulating?
Occasionally, YES. There are many times when an outsider is far more effective than an insider, contrary to conventional wisdom. I don't want ignorant morons with no education doing it, but an outsider may be perfect for the job. This is specially true when talking about Wall Street. In my experience people in 'finance' live in a world where imaginary (not in the mathematical definition) numbers are all that exist. Most will tell you that 'you just don't understand it' when in reality, no one truely understands it because the entire 'economy' is based on scams with no real value in them at all.
When some starts telling someone else about 'how it is in the financial industry', I tend to tune out and get away rapidly as the bullshit be a flow'n.
If you really want to screw up a financial system, take it off any real hard backing and make the numbers arbitrary. No, don't bother going into telling me why it 'had to be done' as you'll be both an idiot and wrong and show that you are in fact too ignorant to realize it.
Our current financial mess isn't due to a lack of regulation, it is in fact due to over regulation. If we were allowed to tar and feather the bastards who manage billions of dollars and fuck it up, then the world would be a slightly different place. With all the crap thats happened, NOTHING actually happened to the people who are the problem, and more 'regulation' isn't going to fix it.
A good old fashioned ass whipping or 20 would fairly quickly.
You want good regulation? For ever dollar you loss of someone elses money, they get to hit you once. Hell, lets change it to something less painful. For ever million you lose, the people who were part of that million get to hit you once, as hard as they want. Most of the problem would already be dead from a beating, and those who survived would be out of commision for a while. Those who weren't involved would be a lot less likely to take retarded risks with other peoples money knowing their life may be forfeit for screwing up.
Instead, we've regulated ourselves into wrist slaps for punishment. Screw you and more regulation, bring back street justice and we'll see something get done.
The mob was safer and more trustworthy of a business partner than anyone on Wall Street, at least they didn't fuck you over THEN come take your house because they lost all your money.
People pay for hookup sites? Haven't they heard of craigslist? I leased my first 3 wives on there as a bundle from some guy in detroit. Sure they were slightly banged up, but hell for the price I paided they more than did the job. One of them even gave me some antibiotics before she left the first time.
Yes, its also harder to scam people in real life than it is on a website. Its harder to cut and run when you actually do have a storefront that people come into and see your face. Where the landlord knows you. Or where people come see your hotdog cart and buy hotdogs from you in front of the hardware store. Banks are far easier when someone walks in and askes about getting a CC reader because in most cases some guy is going to bring it to your store and 'install' it for you so they've established you've invested some effort at a minimum and people are going to have seen you and can describe you.
Physical interaction with the person you're ripping off is a lot harder than scamming them on a website while you're in the Ukraine. A website requires nothing more than a well placed adword to rip someone off. All they'll have is a number to track the scam with, and once that number crosses enough lines on maps and network borders, its impossible to make heads or tails of.
Having a phone number also makes you a little easier to track, it means you've established a presence and left more traces with someone else. Something that even if faked will still make it easier to track you down in every case but the CIA trying to rip you off.
You're correct, a website storefront is entirely different than a brick and mortor store front, and they are treated differently.
Are you suggesting that these two entirely different mediums be treated the identically in every way? Do you want sales tax on online purchases charged the same way as sales tax on purchases in brick and mortor stores?
Offline businesses are treated differently than online businesses. Its well known, its intentional and its intelligent, suggesting they be treated the are the same or should be treated the same shows pure ignorance of the subject at hand.
Now get creative. Like to go to theme parks? Set up another LLC and create a website dedicated to reviewing them, talking about which ones have what etc. Now you get to write off trips to Six Flags and Cedar point as legitimate business research.
Best idea ever posted to slashdot. Ever.
I've been itching to ride the Millennium again, no better review than the first for such an awesome ride... summer is coming... freaking awesome... when does Cedar Point open on weekdays this year/when is the last week of school in Sandusky?!:)
There are many laws targeting many different segments of the population/workforce in specific ways in an effort to get certain things to happen.
Other occupations have different legal challenges, but the more 'professional' a service is, in general the more controlled it is.
Programming has traditionally had no control what so ever. Little by little its getting these things, its still an fledgling industry. Interestingly, the laws pointed out aren't new.
A programmer who is an independent will not be hired, due to Lockheed being afraid of the IRS punishment.
What are you talking about? No, the laws that are 'the problem' specifically make it hard for joe the programmer to NOT work for Lockhead, in order to make it easier for Lockheed to beat him out. I get that you didn't read the article, but did you read the summary?
This is just an article about a douche bag (and he is) just realizing that programming is no different than any other industry anymore and he wants to whine about it and use it as a page impressions battle cry.
Yes, working in a group makes it easier than working by yourself.
Thats why companies exist, they can be more productive and efficient than a single person if they properly pool resources and talents.
Accountability in code defects? Lawsuits? Are you fucking kidding me? What universe do you live in where this is happening? Certainly not the one with Microsoft or Toyota in it.
Hold on to their jobs until retirement? Yes, the industry is no longer a fledgling industry. Yes businesses are getting better at figuring out who is actually useful as a programmer and who just happened to pass some courses at the college they went to. The article confuses the industry coming of age and realizing how useless most of the people who claim to be in it are and people not being able to hold on to a job.
People get fired because they are less valuable than something/someone else that can replace them or the need for them has simply went away. Yes companies try to cycle through low cost employees as a way to cut costs, but they end up moving so slowly after a short period of time that they disappear quickly and account for a small percentage of the workforce.
Reality:
Working independently and competing against people who work in groups is generally hard. Doing it as a programmer is no different than doing it as a plumber, with one exception. The plumber isn't so retarded as to expect it to be any different nor do they have the sense of entitlement to think that it should be different for them.
Plenty of people DO go it alone. Happens constantly all the time. The company I work for actually works with more self employed people than companies.
Its not impossible, it just takes effort and is harder than working for a company with shared resources. Yes there are some silly laws aimed at software developers working on their own, but there are also some silly laws aimed at plumbers working alone. God, slashdot would just keel over dead if governments started requiring developers to be licensed and show they are qualified to do so like MANY MANY other professions.
I have a better question:
Why is it IT people in general feel that they are somehow different than everyone else in the world? Are they really so ignorant and socially dysfunctional to not realize that they are no different than any other part of society in any way? Is this ignorance or a form a geek elitism, thinking that we geeks can't possibly be expected to suffer under the same working conditions of the rest of the pathetic planet of idiots?
Because his contact info on the site is info@fabulis.com? That's pretty standard actually.
That alone isn't really all that standard. Its common to have, and a lot of sites would prefer that you contact them through a generic address like that so they can have random people filter it.
However, pretty much every website has a phone number on it if you dig hard enough. I won't buy from a site without an address and a phone number listed. Every real business has a valid public phone number and address on public record so theres no real reason to not have it on your website except: A) You're an idiot. B) You're likely a scammer. In both cases, I'm not touching them.
My guess is that this is a good old fashion case of homophobia.
If you're going to play the prejudice card, fucking play it properly. The Jews that run the banks don't give a shit if he's gay as long as they can take 3% off each of his transactions, Moses and God can sort out the sodomy and chod eating issues later.
In reality, no bank would act based purely on homophobia at this point because they'd lose his business directly and all the other business from gays who protest them. It would be a shot in their own foot. One rogue employee? Sure, I'll buy that, but if thats the case and he followed proper channels we'd never hear about it.
My guess is that this is a good old fashion case of homophobia. Especially after reading this: Update on story [fabulis.com].
Yes, good source of information. The guy who basically pumps and dumps useless 'social' websites to other companies for a living (successfully mind you). He's nothing more than a marketing drone (good one) who creates random useless fluff for others to buy out because they think its some sort of advertising gold mine. He is also gay, seeking funding, and very near opening his next social networking site, for gays... Can't imagine what better way to get people to sign up than to give them a focal point to rally around, the little guy getting screwed by the big bad homophobic bank...
Until there are some facts, this is nothing more than attention whoring by some douche bag that no one cares about. Sadly, you and everyone else like you are falling right into it.
Perhaps you should lookup the dictionary definition of Gullible.
If OSS is trying to compete based on acquisition price then its fucked. The purchase price of software is trivial compared to the other costs of running a business. In 2-3 months, the cost of office space alone per employee is likely to cost more than all the software the use, including server licenses and everything else for most businesses. Sure some things with very specialized software where you're buying data more than the software itself is going to be more expensive (think car mechanic ODB diag machines, or a doctors software based medical reference system).
FOSS won't win on purchase cost. Purchase cost of software has never been a concern of mine while working. We spend more a month in bandwidth alone at our datacenter than the cost of ALL the software in it. That includes the Oracle packages, the Adobe LiveCycle server costs, all the OS licenses, everything.
Software purchase cost is a trivial cost, you won't win there on any sort of scale that matters. If thats how FOSS intends to win, it might as well just go rent a table at the flea market cause thats where its going to stay.
It actually has to be BETTER from the users perspective or its not going to go anyway. Not better technically. Not more secure. Not faster. Not 'newer'. Users don't give a shit. It has to be make their lives easier, more fun, or just more enjoyable or cost of learning something new far outweighs the purchase cost.
Most consumers who buy netbooks to web browse and check email, not to use as a desktop replacement. The iPad is just more expensive for the same purpose to most people.
The iPhone/iPad interface is also about 1 to 2 billion times better than other existing interfaces for most people.
And there is why it will sell better.
You think Apple is trying to beat netbooks they way YOU look at them.
Apple could give a flying fuck about you and everyone else on slashdot.
They want the people who bought a netbook to browse the web, check email, and potentially buy some books to read (from Apple of course).
Keep in mind when you make these sort of statements: Not everyone is like you, most people aren't, and won't use their tech gadgets in the same way for the same reasons for you. When you sit back and say 'thats dumb, this other device is way better for me' think for a second... ITS NOT FOR YOU.
For a device who's primary focus is clearly browsing the web and reading things, with some media playing on the side, a keyboard isn't really that important, more of a waste.
2: netbook is a actual pc Ie it runs windows or linux
No one cares. Really, no one gives a shit what OS it runs as long as it works. Okay, obviously people here on slashdot care, but you guys really need to understand that you are unlike the other 99.9999999%
3: netbook can multi task
No one cares. People are actually very shitty at multitasking, yes that includes you, even if you think it doesn't apply and you are special. Human beings are horrible multitaskers and in almost EVERY instance the result is a dramatic loss of efficiency.
Multitasking is great on your PC that isn't running off a battery and can do useful things in the background like crunch SETI@Home for you, doing this on a low power energy conserving device is retarded.
It might be useful to have an instant messenger client running in the background, but really, is it that important?
4: nebook can be had for as cheep as 200$
Yes, and a Toyota Camery only costs 10% of the cost of a Porsche. But people buying a ferrari are a different class than people buying a Camery, at least financially. The Camery is cheaper and gets the job done, but go take a ride in a Porsche and tell me if you'd willing go back to the Camery afterwords. You might, but you'd have a limited number of reasons for doing so, most of which would boil down to 'a Porsche is intended for a different class of the population than the Camery'.
5: netbook can close to protect screen.
I'd be willing to bet that the Sapphire used on the iPhone screen provides more protection completely exposed to impacts than the cheap thin plastic covering your netbook and its display will ever offer.
Camery > Porsche 1: Camery cheaper 2: Camery will run on more types of fuel than a Porsche 3: Camery has 4 doors so you can carry your kids 4: Camery can be had cheap as $200 (used) 5: Camery has crumple zones and can't do 140mph so its safer.
Now my list, must like yours, is retarded, mostly wrong and in the place its not flat out wrong, the statements are certainly misleading (intentionally, yours could just be ignorance).
I can keep going but sorry netbook is a real system, the ipad is just a oversized iphone.
Yes, your netbook is a PC thats too small to be really useful and the iPad is too restricted to function as a full PC replacement.
Good job, you managed to show how a screw driver is a really shitty hammer.
So you like that its a PC and not an internet tablet, gotcha. You probably shouldn't buy an iPad.
We've established that netbooks are general purpose devices trying to be shoe horned into Internet devices by manufactures, you like that fact, good for you.
But what actually was your point? Just wanted to restate the obvious, that most geeks don't want an Internet tablet?
Who in their right mind would do business with them? Oh I forgot you have to.
Why do you have to? Authorize.NET charges $25/month plus a smaller percentage per transaction and anyone can sign up, probably even get your money faster than with paypal from start to finish.
Pretty much ever storefront will work with authorize.net since its so popular.
You could also use Google Checkout instead of paypal.
I see no reason to use paypal on a site other than 'someone thinks paypal is the only way to go'.
whereas the/. trolls are merely run-of-the-mill asshats.
I disagree. I may be a run-of-the-mill or even outright shitty troll here on slashdot, but lets face it, we have a slightly higher than normal troll quality level here, so my shitty slashdot troll is a gold medal winner on most of the rest of the Internet:)
Yes, you can. Well maybe. I'm not positive about a single alloc request of that size, but Windows and FreeBSD will be happy to allocate more than 4 gigs to a single process via multiple allocs. I can't recall ever preallocating that much, but I'd be surprised if it didn't work.
I've done so with both FreeBSD and Windows, and both will even go so far as to overcommit and allow the alloc to succeed even though they don't have 4 gigs of ram in the machine, just 64 bit kernels.
Nobody cares about open solaris. Nobody in their right mind would have chosen it as a platform.
Ah, the beauty and ignorance of youth and inexperience. In short there are plenty of places where Solaris fits perfectly and Linux doesn't. I can show you several data centers with more Solaris running on Sun hardware with than Linux on any hardware, and they like Linux, its simply that it doesn't fit the bill.
Guess what, Solaris doesn't fit every situation either, which is why they use Linux too, and Windows, and some IBM gear.
Power the last proprietary hardware platform...
You do realize the x86 and x64 architectures are proprietary right? You do realize that Intel just happens to license the rights to use it to people like AMD and nVidia... right? You realize they've been doing everything they can to back out of those licensing agreements so they become the sole producer of x86 chips again... RIGHT?
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Occasionally, YES. There are many times when an outsider is far more effective than an insider, contrary to conventional wisdom. I don't want ignorant morons with no education doing it, but an outsider may be perfect for the job. This is specially true when talking about Wall Street. In my experience people in 'finance' live in a world where imaginary (not in the mathematical definition) numbers are all that exist. Most will tell you that 'you just don't understand it' when in reality, no one truely understands it because the entire 'economy' is based on scams with no real value in them at all.
When some starts telling someone else about 'how it is in the financial industry', I tend to tune out and get away rapidly as the bullshit be a flow'n.
If you really want to screw up a financial system, take it off any real hard backing and make the numbers arbitrary. No, don't bother going into telling me why it 'had to be done' as you'll be both an idiot and wrong and show that you are in fact too ignorant to realize it.
Our current financial mess isn't due to a lack of regulation, it is in fact due to over regulation. If we were allowed to tar and feather the bastards who manage billions of dollars and fuck it up, then the world would be a slightly different place. With all the crap thats happened, NOTHING actually happened to the people who are the problem, and more 'regulation' isn't going to fix it.
A good old fashioned ass whipping or 20 would fairly quickly.
You want good regulation? For ever dollar you loss of someone elses money, they get to hit you once. Hell, lets change it to something less painful. For ever million you lose, the people who were part of that million get to hit you once, as hard as they want. Most of the problem would already be dead from a beating, and those who survived would be out of commision for a while. Those who weren't involved would be a lot less likely to take retarded risks with other peoples money knowing their life may be forfeit for screwing up.
Instead, we've regulated ourselves into wrist slaps for punishment. Screw you and more regulation, bring back street justice and we'll see something get done.
The mob was safer and more trustworthy of a business partner than anyone on Wall Street, at least they didn't fuck you over THEN come take your house because they lost all your money.
People pay for hookup sites? Haven't they heard of craigslist? I leased my first 3 wives on there as a bundle from some guy in detroit. Sure they were slightly banged up, but hell for the price I paided they more than did the job. One of them even gave me some antibiotics before she left the first time.
You didn't look very hard, I found several addresses :/
Yes, its also harder to scam people in real life than it is on a website. Its harder to cut and run when you actually do have a storefront that people come into and see your face. Where the landlord knows you. Or where people come see your hotdog cart and buy hotdogs from you in front of the hardware store. Banks are far easier when someone walks in and askes about getting a CC reader because in most cases some guy is going to bring it to your store and 'install' it for you so they've established you've invested some effort at a minimum and people are going to have seen you and can describe you.
Physical interaction with the person you're ripping off is a lot harder than scamming them on a website while you're in the Ukraine. A website requires nothing more than a well placed adword to rip someone off. All they'll have is a number to track the scam with, and once that number crosses enough lines on maps and network borders, its impossible to make heads or tails of.
Having a phone number also makes you a little easier to track, it means you've established a presence and left more traces with someone else. Something that even if faked will still make it easier to track you down in every case but the CIA trying to rip you off.
You're correct, a website storefront is entirely different than a brick and mortor store front, and they are treated differently.
Are you suggesting that these two entirely different mediums be treated the identically in every way? Do you want sales tax on online purchases charged the same way as sales tax on purchases in brick and mortor stores?
Offline businesses are treated differently than online businesses. Its well known, its intentional and its intelligent, suggesting they be treated the are the same or should be treated the same shows pure ignorance of the subject at hand.
Best idea ever posted to slashdot. Ever.
I've been itching to ride the Millennium again, no better review than the first for such an awesome ride ... summer is coming ... freaking awesome ... when does Cedar Point open on weekdays this year/when is the last week of school in Sandusky?! :)
There are many laws targeting many different segments of the population/workforce in specific ways in an effort to get certain things to happen.
Other occupations have different legal challenges, but the more 'professional' a service is, in general the more controlled it is.
Programming has traditionally had no control what so ever. Little by little its getting these things, its still an fledgling industry. Interestingly, the laws pointed out aren't new.
What are you talking about? No, the laws that are 'the problem' specifically make it hard for joe the programmer to NOT work for Lockhead, in order to make it easier for Lockheed to beat him out. I get that you didn't read the article, but did you read the summary?
This is just an article about a douche bag (and he is) just realizing that programming is no different than any other industry anymore and he wants to whine about it and use it as a page impressions battle cry.
Yes, working in a group makes it easier than working by yourself.
Thats why companies exist, they can be more productive and efficient than a single person if they properly pool resources and talents.
Accountability in code defects? Lawsuits? Are you fucking kidding me? What universe do you live in where this is happening? Certainly not the one with Microsoft or Toyota in it.
Hold on to their jobs until retirement? Yes, the industry is no longer a fledgling industry. Yes businesses are getting better at figuring out who is actually useful as a programmer and who just happened to pass some courses at the college they went to. The article confuses the industry coming of age and realizing how useless most of the people who claim to be in it are and people not being able to hold on to a job.
People get fired because they are less valuable than something/someone else that can replace them or the need for them has simply went away. Yes companies try to cycle through low cost employees as a way to cut costs, but they end up moving so slowly after a short period of time that they disappear quickly and account for a small percentage of the workforce.
Reality:
Working independently and competing against people who work in groups is generally hard. Doing it as a programmer is no different than doing it as a plumber, with one exception. The plumber isn't so retarded as to expect it to be any different nor do they have the sense of entitlement to think that it should be different for them.
Plenty of people DO go it alone. Happens constantly all the time. The company I work for actually works with more self employed people than companies.
Its not impossible, it just takes effort and is harder than working for a company with shared resources. Yes there are some silly laws aimed at software developers working on their own, but there are also some silly laws aimed at plumbers working alone. God, slashdot would just keel over dead if governments started requiring developers to be licensed and show they are qualified to do so like MANY MANY other professions.
I have a better question:
Why is it IT people in general feel that they are somehow different than everyone else in the world? Are they really so ignorant and socially dysfunctional to not realize that they are no different than any other part of society in any way? Is this ignorance or a form a geek elitism, thinking that we geeks can't possibly be expected to suffer under the same working conditions of the rest of the pathetic planet of idiots?
If you had read the article ... Joe Stack was mentioned and linked to in it ...
God, the tech connection is that its on the Internet, so it must be news for nerds.
And also, CmdrTaco didn't really post this story, Timothy or kdawson stole his password used his account to post this story.
That alone isn't really all that standard. Its common to have, and a lot of sites would prefer that you contact them through a generic address like that so they can have random people filter it.
However, pretty much every website has a phone number on it if you dig hard enough. I won't buy from a site without an address and a phone number listed. Every real business has a valid public phone number and address on public record so theres no real reason to not have it on your website except: A) You're an idiot. B) You're likely a scammer. In both cases, I'm not touching them.
If you're going to play the prejudice card, fucking play it properly. The Jews that run the banks don't give a shit if he's gay as long as they can take 3% off each of his transactions, Moses and God can sort out the sodomy and chod eating issues later.
In reality, no bank would act based purely on homophobia at this point because they'd lose his business directly and all the other business from gays who protest them. It would be a shot in their own foot. One rogue employee? Sure, I'll buy that, but if thats the case and he followed proper channels we'd never hear about it.
Yes, good source of information. The guy who basically pumps and dumps useless 'social' websites to other companies for a living (successfully mind you). He's nothing more than a marketing drone (good one) who creates random useless fluff for others to buy out because they think its some sort of advertising gold mine. He is also gay, seeking funding, and very near opening his next social networking site, for gays ... Can't imagine what better way to get people to sign up than to give them a focal point to rally around, the little guy getting screwed by the big bad homophobic bank ...
Until there are some facts, this is nothing more than attention whoring by some douche bag that no one cares about. Sadly, you and everyone else like you are falling right into it.
Perhaps you should lookup the dictionary definition of Gullible.
Its not about the bank having his contact info, its about customers having a way to find it.
Either way, everything in this 'story' is conjecture at this point.
Dude, I don't care what she calls the thing, you should not be letting her put that thing in your ass.
There be Dragons Dictate!
God, so thats the problem?
If OSS is trying to compete based on acquisition price then its fucked. The purchase price of software is trivial compared to the other costs of running a business. In 2-3 months, the cost of office space alone per employee is likely to cost more than all the software the use, including server licenses and everything else for most businesses. Sure some things with very specialized software where you're buying data more than the software itself is going to be more expensive (think car mechanic ODB diag machines, or a doctors software based medical reference system).
FOSS won't win on purchase cost. Purchase cost of software has never been a concern of mine while working. We spend more a month in bandwidth alone at our datacenter than the cost of ALL the software in it. That includes the Oracle packages, the Adobe LiveCycle server costs, all the OS licenses, everything.
Software purchase cost is a trivial cost, you won't win there on any sort of scale that matters. If thats how FOSS intends to win, it might as well just go rent a table at the flea market cause thats where its going to stay.
It actually has to be BETTER from the users perspective or its not going to go anyway. Not better technically. Not more secure. Not faster. Not 'newer'. Users don't give a shit. It has to be make their lives easier, more fun, or just more enjoyable or cost of learning something new far outweighs the purchase cost.
Most consumers who buy netbooks to web browse and check email, not to use as a desktop replacement. The iPad is just more expensive for the same purpose to most people.
The iPhone/iPad interface is also about 1 to 2 billion times better than other existing interfaces for most people.
And there is why it will sell better.
You think Apple is trying to beat netbooks they way YOU look at them.
Apple could give a flying fuck about you and everyone else on slashdot.
They want the people who bought a netbook to browse the web, check email, and potentially buy some books to read (from Apple of course).
Keep in mind when you make these sort of statements: Not everyone is like you, most people aren't, and won't use their tech gadgets in the same way for the same reasons for you. When you sit back and say 'thats dumb, this other device is way better for me' think for a second ... ITS NOT FOR YOU.
Uhm, you do realize these devices have one screen keyboards ... RIGHT?
For a device who's primary focus is clearly browsing the web and reading things, with some media playing on the side, a keyboard isn't really that important, more of a waste.
No one cares. Really, no one gives a shit what OS it runs as long as it works. Okay, obviously people here on slashdot care, but you guys really need to understand that you are unlike the other 99.9999999%
No one cares. People are actually very shitty at multitasking, yes that includes you, even if you think it doesn't apply and you are special. Human beings are horrible multitaskers and in almost EVERY instance the result is a dramatic loss of efficiency.
Multitasking is great on your PC that isn't running off a battery and can do useful things in the background like crunch SETI@Home for you, doing this on a low power energy conserving device is retarded.
It might be useful to have an instant messenger client running in the background, but really, is it that important?
Yes, and a Toyota Camery only costs 10% of the cost of a Porsche. But people buying a ferrari are a different class than people buying a Camery, at least financially. The Camery is cheaper and gets the job done, but go take a ride in a Porsche and tell me if you'd willing go back to the Camery afterwords. You might, but you'd have a limited number of reasons for doing so, most of which would boil down to 'a Porsche is intended for a different class of the population than the Camery'.
I'd be willing to bet that the Sapphire used on the iPhone screen provides more protection completely exposed to impacts than the cheap thin plastic covering your netbook and its display will ever offer.
Camery > Porsche
1: Camery cheaper
2: Camery will run on more types of fuel than a Porsche
3: Camery has 4 doors so you can carry your kids
4: Camery can be had cheap as $200 (used)
5: Camery has crumple zones and can't do 140mph so its safer.
Now my list, must like yours, is retarded, mostly wrong and in the place its not flat out wrong, the statements are certainly misleading (intentionally, yours could just be ignorance).
Yes, your netbook is a PC thats too small to be really useful and the iPad is too restricted to function as a full PC replacement.
Good job, you managed to show how a screw driver is a really shitty hammer.
So you like that its a PC and not an internet tablet, gotcha. You probably shouldn't buy an iPad.
We've established that netbooks are general purpose devices trying to be shoe horned into Internet devices by manufactures, you like that fact, good for you.
But what actually was your point? Just wanted to restate the obvious, that most geeks don't want an Internet tablet?
Why do you have to? Authorize.NET charges $25/month plus a smaller percentage per transaction and anyone can sign up, probably even get your money faster than with paypal from start to finish.
Pretty much ever storefront will work with authorize.net since its so popular.
You could also use Google Checkout instead of paypal.
I see no reason to use paypal on a site other than 'someone thinks paypal is the only way to go'.
You think syncing your phone with iTunes is 'jumping through hoops to get off the developer's box'?
Please to be getting a clue about the topic before you attempt to troll.
I disagree. I may be a run-of-the-mill or even outright shitty troll here on slashdot, but lets face it, we have a slightly higher than normal troll quality level here, so my shitty slashdot troll is a gold medal winner on most of the rest of the Internet :)
Interestingly enough, in OS X, you can use a 32 bit kernel and still run 64 bit apps that use more than 4G of ram, even though the kernel can't.
Not sure WHY they went this route, perhaps it saves a little ram on pointers, its neat either way though.
Yes, you can. Well maybe. I'm not positive about a single alloc request of that size, but Windows and FreeBSD will be happy to allocate more than 4 gigs to a single process via multiple allocs. I can't recall ever preallocating that much, but I'd be surprised if it didn't work.
I've done so with both FreeBSD and Windows, and both will even go so far as to overcommit and allow the alloc to succeed even though they don't have 4 gigs of ram in the machine, just 64 bit kernels.
Yes, we got it, you're both idiots who have no idea what you're talking about and just spouting bullshit, we got it, lets move on.
Ah, the beauty and ignorance of youth and inexperience. In short there are plenty of places where Solaris fits perfectly and Linux doesn't. I can show you several data centers with more Solaris running on Sun hardware with than Linux on any hardware, and they like Linux, its simply that it doesn't fit the bill.
Guess what, Solaris doesn't fit every situation either, which is why they use Linux too, and Windows, and some IBM gear.
You do realize the x86 and x64 architectures are proprietary right? You do realize that Intel just happens to license the rights to use it to people like AMD and nVidia ... right? You realize they've been doing everything they can to back out of those licensing agreements so they become the sole producer of x86 chips again ... RIGHT?