i'm glad single issue parties never get much ground in the US. i get that you care a great deal about this one thing, but you should be a lobbyist trying to influence parties that already have power. Let's say your single issue guy gets into Congress, what about all the other issues? What is his stance on abortion, the environment, military spending, education and so on? If his stance on those issues match major party A more than major party B, he should join party A.
Which of these application would an SSD serve best: OS, Files or applications?
i was thinking of using an SSD for my OS, but read that the OS folder does a great deal of rewriting, which can cause the SSD to fail (and faster than a disk). Is that the case?
Can we consider the possibility that some software just isn't worth any price? The guys at Mozilla have a great product that doesn't nag me to buy or even donate.
Value = Supply/Demand
For software, supply is as close to infinite as makes no odds. Demand is still finite. Only X people want the product. Of that population there are striations of what people are willing to pay, if any thing.
Any infinite supply over a finite demand creates a value of all but zero.
If they want to make money, fine. Make something that has intrinsic value, something of finite supply. Something where your competitors are charging. Chrome, IE and FF are all free (to the user, as in beer).
AFAIK none of these are truly robots, they're remote controlled drones. A land mine would be closer to a robot than something like predator. AFAIK all of these systems that have weapons still require a 'man in the loop' to pull the trigger. A robot would not, it would have to IFF on it's own and fire.
Battlebots weren't robots, they were remote controlled cars with weapons. Mecha are not robots either, they're piloted vehicles. The PACRATs from GI Joe were robots.
If you're being paid for it, it's not a blog. A blog is where you whine about how uncool your parents are, or what that dick at work did. If you're being paid for it, it's an article... or something still not a blog. If you are writing a daily/weekly article for your job, it's not a fracking blog, even if you use wordpress to write it.
i like that only the caller pays for cell phone calls.
It's weird to me that in the US we're supposedly all about competition, but the big players have so much clout that they don't seem to compete at all. So we get crap service and it costs a fortune. Here you *can't* pay less than about 40$ a month. i don't need 1000 minutes a year let alone per month. i'm not a twelve year old girl. The pay as you go systems end up charging you a defacto recurring fee to keep your phone number. i'm pleased as punch that my employer provides me with an iPhone and service.
Personally, i'd much rather have a nationalized service that charges enough to cover costs instead of charging to line the pockets of investors.
IIRC, Germany just has 'teh phone system'. Would a public/state utility be as susceptible to this sort of abuse? Would the gov't be more able to do something about it?/non-rhetorical question
Was the first sentence supposed to be a statement or a question? It's marked as a question, but has the wording of a statement.
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If it was wrong to overthrow Saddam it would be just as wrong to overthrow Amadinotgonnaworkheremuchlonger. Unless having a Democrat president makes regime change OK for some magical reason./voted for Obama//wants us to help///mutters something about tyrants and pretense
i would argue that Saddam was worse to his own people and his neighbors than Iran's gov't has been. Iran's gov't is brutally repressive, but i doubt there are mass graves holding about a million dissidents. Iran didn't gas their Kurds, AFAIK./former USAF intel analyst who studied Iran, Iraq and North Korea intently for 4 years with a TS/SCI clearance.
or, i think i will. i watched the whole damn video and kept thinking, "yeah, that's what i've been wanting all this time". it won't be for everyone. But for me, it'll be heaven.
If this was Fark, this would have the OBVIOUS tag.
Most people's lives are boring. Most TV shows, movies and books aren't about normal people doing normal things for a reason. Normal life and normal people are boring. i know what boring is like, i don't need to know about YOUR boring. A mass email to friends and family can do the same thing without all the exhibitionism and voyeurism. All of this stuff feeds into narcissism.
Few people are funny or clever or insightful enough to warrant a blog.
Worse yet was the bastardization of the word blog by journalists. Folks... if it's part of your job description, it's not a blog, it's an article or journal.
That's why i like Steam. Many games offer a demo, if i like it, buying is easy.
Steam will also put some games on sale. i bought L4D for 20$. When that sale happened they sold tons of copies.
Buying older games also helps. You pay extra for the privilege of being one of the first to have it. For the 60$ someone spends on a game, i can by 3 for 20$ each. They're the same games, but i'm paying 1/3 of the price for having waited. Hell, you could auction off numbered copies (and give a slice to Penny Arcade's charity) for hard copies and auction off early DL access. Play Bioshock 2 for a full week before it hits the shelves for 60$!
This might lead to a ransom model of pricing. The first X copies sell for 60$, then batch Y will go for less.
Or maybe even single player games could have subscription pricing. DL Bioshock 2 for 10$, then keep it for 5$ a month. If you stop playing it, you are unsubbed from it after a month. If you load it again, they charge you again. i'm pulling numbers from a hat, so reply to the idea not the details, folks.
Food and water are plentiful. The problem is that some places have too many people than the environment and cultural infrastructure can sustain. If you live in a desert, you need to either keep your population low or you need to be advanced enough to bring water to you and civilized enough to get along. That's the problem with the 3rd world, not exploitation from the 1st... not a lack of generosity from the 1st, but there's too many people living in the 3rd world in proportion to its social and technological advancement. Even if we hand them the technology, they lack the cultural infrastructure to use and maintain it properly. The best thing they could do for themselves is to stop breeding like rabbits. That would reduce pressure on the people who remain and allow them to grow gracefully.
Yes, i'm very culturally inthenthative. Call me a culturalist if that makes you feel better. Go ahead and mod me -5 Unpleasant Truth. i don't want these people to suffer, but it's not SOLELY our responsibility to fix and no amount of effort from us will solve it. Even if we doubled the aid we gave to these places, it would be enough. We aren't their problem, they are. The sooner we (and they) realize this, the sooner things will get better for them. The best things we can give to these troubled lands is books and condoms and any other form of birth control we can throw at them. For now we're throwing money down the drain.
No, i won't read your whiny ass reply because you need to think this way to feel good about yourself. But i'll tell the girl at the campus bookstore you read your revised history and are oh so sensitive to the plight of brown people inflicted by rich white males.
The term wi-fi is a hijack of Hi-Fi. The Fi in Hi-Fi is meaningful, in Wi-Fi it's meaningless. It's just an attempt to steal recognition and to be cutesy. Calling it wireless is plenty informative. Have you seen the commercial for HD sunglasses? They go on and on about being "high definition" to borrow the name recognition of HDTV.
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i'm glad single issue parties never get much ground in the US. i get that you care a great deal about this one thing, but you should be a lobbyist trying to influence parties that already have power. Let's say your single issue guy gets into Congress, what about all the other issues? What is his stance on abortion, the environment, military spending, education and so on? If his stance on those issues match major party A more than major party B, he should join party A.
Which of these application would an SSD serve best: OS, Files or applications?
i was thinking of using an SSD for my OS, but read that the OS folder does a great deal of rewriting, which can cause the SSD to fail (and faster than a disk). Is that the case?
Can we consider the possibility that some software just isn't worth any price? The guys at Mozilla have a great product that doesn't nag me to buy or even donate.
Value = Supply/Demand
For software, supply is as close to infinite as makes no odds.
Demand is still finite. Only X people want the product. Of that population there are striations of what people are willing to pay, if any thing.
Any infinite supply over a finite demand creates a value of all but zero.
If they want to make money, fine. Make something that has intrinsic value, something of finite supply. Something where your competitors are charging. Chrome, IE and FF are all free (to the user, as in beer).
Controlled by a human = !Robot.
AFAIK none of these are truly robots, they're remote controlled drones. A land mine would be closer to a robot than something like predator. AFAIK all of these systems that have weapons still require a 'man in the loop' to pull the trigger. A robot would not, it would have to IFF on it's own and fire.
Battlebots weren't robots, they were remote controlled cars with weapons. Mecha are not robots either, they're piloted vehicles. The PACRATs from GI Joe were robots.
i applaud you for having the cojones to post this on /..
Well said.
i'll give you some karma elsewhere.
If you're being paid for it, it's not a blog. A blog is where you whine about how uncool your parents are, or what that dick at work did. If you're being paid for it, it's an article... or something still not a blog. If you are writing a daily/weekly article for your job, it's not a fracking blog, even if you use wordpress to write it.
Please invite me to your VB clan! /half kidding
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i like that only the caller pays for cell phone calls.
It's weird to me that in the US we're supposedly all about competition, but the big players have so much clout that they don't seem to compete at all. So we get crap service and it costs a fortune. Here you *can't* pay less than about 40$ a month. i don't need 1000 minutes a year let alone per month. i'm not a twelve year old girl. The pay as you go systems end up charging you a defacto recurring fee to keep your phone number. i'm pleased as punch that my employer provides me with an iPhone and service.
Personally, i'd much rather have a nationalized service that charges enough to cover costs instead of charging to line the pockets of investors.
a national service?
IIRC, Germany just has 'teh phone system'. Would a public/state utility be as susceptible to this sort of abuse? Would the gov't be more able to do something about it? /non-rhetorical question
Actually, it was the UN that blew off itself in not backing up their own resolutions, leaving us to do their dirty work. Again.
Was the first sentence supposed to be a statement or a question? It's marked as a question, but has the wording of a statement.
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Back to the subject:
If it was wrong to overthrow Saddam it would be just as wrong to overthrow Amadinotgonnaworkheremuchlonger. Unless having a Democrat president makes regime change OK for some magical reason. /voted for Obama //wants us to help ///mutters something about tyrants and pretense
i would argue that Saddam was worse to his own people and his neighbors than Iran's gov't has been. Iran's gov't is brutally repressive, but i doubt there are mass graves holding about a million dissidents. Iran didn't gas their Kurds, AFAIK. /former USAF intel analyst who studied Iran, Iraq and North Korea intently for 4 years with a TS/SCI clearance.
This should be modded +5 insightful.
Why are so many /.ers so paranoid?
Firefly was crap. Dollhouse on the other hand.... (you missed a dot)
See, i can express subjective opinions as if they were scientific facts too!
What else do you like that i can shit on?
A UAV is not a robot. Your car is not a robot (unless your car is from that DARPA challenge which drives itself).
Battlebots were not robots, they were remote controlled cars with weapons.
i can has Firefox that installs add-ons to the program itself so they'll be on ALL profiles?
or, i think i will. i watched the whole damn video and kept thinking, "yeah, that's what i've been wanting all this time". it won't be for everyone. But for me, it'll be heaven.
If this was Fark, this would have the OBVIOUS tag.
Most people's lives are boring. Most TV shows, movies and books aren't about normal people doing normal things for a reason. Normal life and normal people are boring. i know what boring is like, i don't need to know about YOUR boring. A mass email to friends and family can do the same thing without all the exhibitionism and voyeurism. All of this stuff feeds into narcissism.
Few people are funny or clever or insightful enough to warrant a blog.
Worse yet was the bastardization of the word blog by journalists. Folks... if it's part of your job description, it's not a blog, it's an article or journal.
That's why i like Steam. Many games offer a demo, if i like it, buying is easy.
Steam will also put some games on sale. i bought L4D for 20$. When that sale happened they sold tons of copies.
Buying older games also helps. You pay extra for the privilege of being one of the first to have it. For the 60$ someone spends on a game, i can by 3 for 20$ each. They're the same games, but i'm paying 1/3 of the price for having waited. Hell, you could auction off numbered copies (and give a slice to Penny Arcade's charity) for hard copies and auction off early DL access. Play Bioshock 2 for a full week before it hits the shelves for 60$!
This might lead to a ransom model of pricing. The first X copies sell for 60$, then batch Y will go for less.
Or maybe even single player games could have subscription pricing. DL Bioshock 2 for 10$, then keep it for 5$ a month. If you stop playing it, you are unsubbed from it after a month. If you load it again, they charge you again. i'm pulling numbers from a hat, so reply to the idea not the details, folks.
i propose calling mind-machine interface "Psionics". It's consistent with avionics and easier to say than protoculture.
Food and water are plentiful. The problem is that some places have too many people than the environment and cultural infrastructure can sustain. If you live in a desert, you need to either keep your population low or you need to be advanced enough to bring water to you and civilized enough to get along. That's the problem with the 3rd world, not exploitation from the 1st... not a lack of generosity from the 1st, but there's too many people living in the 3rd world in proportion to its social and technological advancement. Even if we hand them the technology, they lack the cultural infrastructure to use and maintain it properly. The best thing they could do for themselves is to stop breeding like rabbits. That would reduce pressure on the people who remain and allow them to grow gracefully.
Yes, i'm very culturally inthenthative. Call me a culturalist if that makes you feel better. Go ahead and mod me -5 Unpleasant Truth. i don't want these people to suffer, but it's not SOLELY our responsibility to fix and no amount of effort from us will solve it. Even if we doubled the aid we gave to these places, it would be enough. We aren't their problem, they are. The sooner we (and they) realize this, the sooner things will get better for them. The best things we can give to these troubled lands is books and condoms and any other form of birth control we can throw at them. For now we're throwing money down the drain.
No, i won't read your whiny ass reply because you need to think this way to feel good about yourself. But i'll tell the girl at the campus bookstore you read your revised history and are oh so sensitive to the plight of brown people inflicted by rich white males.
The term wi-fi is a hijack of Hi-Fi. The Fi in Hi-Fi is meaningful, in Wi-Fi it's meaningless. It's just an attempt to steal recognition and to be cutesy. Calling it wireless is plenty informative. Have you seen the commercial for HD sunglasses? They go on and on about being "high definition" to borrow the name recognition of HDTV.
Off my lawn.
Apple already did this, and did it better. Or was it Red Hat?
i wonder how much longer it will last. i hope i get to CR 5 before they shut down.
Well, I'm Boba the Fett.