Allow your immune system to fight off bacteria like it's supposed to, instead of giving it a nearly sterile environment to grow weak in.
It's like a great boxer who decides to retire because he feels it's too dangerous. He then spends the next 10 years watching television. Then he realizes he needs some money, so he decides to have a comeback fight. Well, he hasn't been training in 10 years. Now he's fat and slow and has no stamina. So he gets in the ring and loses.
As was Solar Realms Elite... did they both have inter-BBS battles over Fidonet?
I remember the first time I hooked my BBS into Fidonet.. that was the coolest thing ever, being able to send emails anywhere. So what if they could take several days to get delivered!
My wife is a neatnik. She always likes things in order.
However, she is the most productive worker in her department... as long as her desk stays organized.
If things get slightly out of order, it takes her several hours to get things back the way she wants it, and occasionally she feels that her design isn't 100% efficient, so she'll reorganize. Once she's satisfied, she switches into high speed and rarely makes mistakes.
One reason is because it's serial data generally, and you don't know exactly how many of those bits are going to be data.. (you could have start or stop bits, etc)... but I don't know the details of that, so I'll just mention my other possible reason.
It's that throughput is generally what actually matters when sending data. In other words, that how much actual payload is being send, minus any overhead. If you've got a decent amount of overhead, your actual throughput might be a bit less. So it makes more sense to talk about bandwidth in bits per second, so as not to confuse it with actual throughput.
I don't know about the time, but the purpose of a patent is to get investors interested in your idea. If you don't have a patent, they won't take your seriously, because if you didn't bother to patent it, it can't be a good idea, right?:)
So, the goal would be to get some capital and within a few years, bring it to market. (Some people have said they last 20 years... I doubt it would take 20 years to bring a product to market... really) Then you make your fortune before the patent expires. By the time it expires, hopefully you have at least made plenty of money, or even better developed a reputation for your product, that when all the imitators come out later, it doesn't really bother you.
Voting systems are only as good as the people administering them. Even with the most super-secure systems, if you pay/kill off enough of the right people, it doesn't matter what the vote really was. Especially if you screw with random polling on television so it *looks* like the vote is going to head in the direction you want it to, as well... nobody's going to question the local news station's informal polls anyway.
If all that fails, just get plenty of dead people to vote. That what they do here in Albuquerque anyway.
What is it with journalists? Why don't they have any common sense?
I don't think it's lack of common sense. It's lack of any sort of scientific education. Communications majors don't take physics, chemistry or biology. They're going to take the easiest course they can (since most 4 year universities require SOME sort of physical/lab science), and barely pay attention. After all, they aren't science majors, they're communication majors.
I'm sure there are exceptions, but humans (especially we Americans) like taking the path of least resistance to get what we want.
I'll stick to building my own PC's. Been doing it since I was a teenager, and I have no desire to buy a big name PC. Plus, I don't trust what they put in there. I've seen the inside of several low/mid range Dells, Gateways, Compaqs, etc. With the exception of the very new Compaqs (from HP), most of them use cheapo generic parts, inadequate cooling, etc. Sans-OS or not, they don't interest me. I like to know exactly what I put in there. Also I don't have to send my PC's off to some "authorized repair center" where some PFY will likely erase the hard drive and reinstall everything to "fix" it.
What about old farts who spend all day playing golf? How is that any different than playing BF2 for 8 hours? It's not. It's just a different game.
Old people waste just as much time as young people. It's the people in the middle who are (for one reason or another) too busy with "real life" to take a break every once in awhile and play a freaking game. (Although many do other similar things, like watch sports, movies, etc)
Okay, I didn't RTFA, so I'm guilty of being a slashdotter. Also, IANAL and other standard disclaimers. But why would you need some special general purpose license?
You can already just give anyone you want permission to use your work... why would giving someone permission to use your characters in a crossover have anything to do with someone bootlegging your site? That makes no sense to me.
Every time a new console comes out, someone has to scream "Oh noes! Console gaming is going to kill PC gaming!" and it never actually happens.
Sure you might not have the same sales as a console game, but who gives a flying fuck? If the mainstream publishers leave the scene the indy game studios will take over and it will be like the 80's/early 90's again... and that was a good time for PC games.
On a related note, some people suggest that if you give a console a mouse/keyboard and the ability to make/download mods, then that console will kill PC gaming... But I'd say it IS a PC at that point, just one you can't get in and tweak the hardware. (But how is that any different than your average name brand computer system?)
It's not X that takes the longest time.. It's freaking Qt and KDE that takes the longest for me. On my old 600MHz box it actually takes close to TWO DAYS!
I really hope they start using precompiled headers once gcc 3.4.x is standard:)
State sales tax laws are a bit weird.. IANAL, but from what I've researched on it, if a company has ANY physics presence in the state where you are purchasing an item, you must pay sales tax on that item, regardless of how you order it, or where you placed the order. What matters is your physical location.
So it's quite possible that Dell has a physical location in the state where you live, and therefore you have to pay sales tax. If they do not have physical presence in your state, then you were inappropriately charged sales tax and you may be able to get it back.
Well, my complaint is not as much that scroll-lock gets in my way. It does, but it's not really a big deal. My complaint really comes from the stupidity that got that hook put in there.
The pause key already existed, and it was made specifically FOR this function! Scroll-lock was as the article specified, to lock the keyboard to allow for easy scrolling rather than to lock the screen so that it doesn't scroll. If Linux used the pause key instead, nobody would have this problem, and everyone would be happy.
See, I really don't like the fact that Linux uses scroll lock to pause the screen.. see, that's what the PAUSE key is for. Scroll lock is used in many KVM's to switch machines, and having it lock up the terminal is sometimes frustrating when you forget after switching from one box to another. NOT fun at all.
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I know it's a bit of a troll, but I'll bite.
Sure, the OS itself can boot up in 5 seconds. Check Linux, the kernel loads in about 2 seconds and it's ready.
The problem comes from loading all the drivers you need and configuration files... Drivers are especially bad.. It can take quite awhile to wake up a device... Generally you want to initialize all devices before user input is allowed. You want fast access to devices, right?
Really each thing individually is fast, but time adds up. The more you need to initialize, the longer it's gonna take.
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Allow your immune system to fight off bacteria like it's supposed to, instead of giving it a nearly sterile environment to grow weak in.
It's like a great boxer who decides to retire because he feels it's too dangerous. He then spends the next 10 years watching television. Then he realizes he needs some money, so he decides to have a comeback fight. Well, he hasn't been training in 10 years. Now he's fat and slow and has no stamina. So he gets in the ring and loses.
It's probably a combination of their general disdain for paging and the fact that they didn't invent it themselves.
Maybe he's thinking of SNPP, which is mostly used by paging companies. Its design is very similar to SMTP... but cellular companies don't like it.
BRE was a sweet door game!
As was Solar Realms Elite... did they both have inter-BBS battles over Fidonet?
I remember the first time I hooked my BBS into Fidonet.. that was the coolest thing ever, being able to send emails anywhere. So what if they could take several days to get delivered!
Those were the days.
You should just be happy it's unsigned!
No way!
5040x1050, man!
My wife is a neatnik. She always likes things in order.
:)
However, she is the most productive worker in her department... as long as her desk stays organized.
If things get slightly out of order, it takes her several hours to get things back the way she wants it, and occasionally she feels that her design isn't 100% efficient, so she'll reorganize. Once she's satisfied, she switches into high speed and rarely makes mistakes.
At home, her desk is a mess. Go figure
If that's your concern, why not just call it "Electronic Entertainment Expo" when talking to your mom?
Yeah, see it's on the DS. Dual-screen. The lower (touch) screen is often used to display stats, inventory, etc.
One reason is because it's serial data generally, and you don't know exactly how many of those bits are going to be data.. (you could have start or stop bits, etc)... but I don't know the details of that, so I'll just mention my other possible reason.
It's that throughput is generally what actually matters when sending data. In other words, that how much actual payload is being send, minus any overhead. If you've got a decent amount of overhead, your actual throughput might be a bit less. So it makes more sense to talk about bandwidth in bits per second, so as not to confuse it with actual throughput.
I don't know about the time, but the purpose of a patent is to get investors interested in your idea. If you don't have a patent, they won't take your seriously, because if you didn't bother to patent it, it can't be a good idea, right? :)
So, the goal would be to get some capital and within a few years, bring it to market. (Some people have said they last 20 years... I doubt it would take 20 years to bring a product to market... really) Then you make your fortune before the patent expires. By the time it expires, hopefully you have at least made plenty of money, or even better developed a reputation for your product, that when all the imitators come out later, it doesn't really bother you.
"No one with a sane mind would suggest using giant magnifiers against cows, even though it might be entertaining."
Are you saying I don't have a sane mind?
Voting systems are only as good as the people administering them. Even with the most super-secure systems, if you pay/kill off enough of the right people, it doesn't matter what the vote really was. Especially if you screw with random polling on television so it *looks* like the vote is going to head in the direction you want it to, as well... nobody's going to question the local news station's informal polls anyway.
If all that fails, just get plenty of dead people to vote. That what they do here in Albuquerque anyway.
I don't think it's lack of common sense. It's lack of any sort of scientific education. Communications majors don't take physics, chemistry or biology. They're going to take the easiest course they can (since most 4 year universities require SOME sort of physical/lab science), and barely pay attention. After all, they aren't science majors, they're communication majors.
I'm sure there are exceptions, but humans (especially we Americans) like taking the path of least resistance to get what we want.
I'll stick to building my own PC's. Been doing it since I was a teenager, and I have no desire to buy a big name PC. Plus, I don't trust what they put in there. I've seen the inside of several low/mid range Dells, Gateways, Compaqs, etc. With the exception of the very new Compaqs (from HP), most of them use cheapo generic parts, inadequate cooling, etc. Sans-OS or not, they don't interest me. I like to know exactly what I put in there. Also I don't have to send my PC's off to some "authorized repair center" where some PFY will likely erase the hard drive and reinstall everything to "fix" it.
Just my two cents.
What about old farts who spend all day playing golf? How is that any different than playing BF2 for 8 hours? It's not. It's just a different game.
Old people waste just as much time as young people. It's the people in the middle who are (for one reason or another) too busy with "real life" to take a break every once in awhile and play a freaking game. (Although many do other similar things, like watch sports, movies, etc)
That's an awfully small stack.
I'd much rather have my tax dollars going towards me.
Okay, I didn't RTFA, so I'm guilty of being a slashdotter. Also, IANAL and other standard disclaimers. But why would you need some special general purpose license?
You can already just give anyone you want permission to use your work... why would giving someone permission to use your characters in a crossover have anything to do with someone bootlegging your site? That makes no sense to me.
Every time a new console comes out, someone has to scream "Oh noes! Console gaming is going to kill PC gaming!" and it never actually happens.
Sure you might not have the same sales as a console game, but who gives a flying fuck? If the mainstream publishers leave the scene the indy game studios will take over and it will be like the 80's/early 90's again... and that was a good time for PC games.
On a related note, some people suggest that if you give a console a mouse/keyboard and the ability to make/download mods, then that console will kill PC gaming... But I'd say it IS a PC at that point, just one you can't get in and tweak the hardware. (But how is that any different than your average name brand computer system?)
It's not X that takes the longest time.. It's freaking Qt and KDE that takes the longest for me. On my old 600MHz box it actually takes close to TWO DAYS!
:)
I really hope they start using precompiled headers once gcc 3.4.x is standard
State sales tax laws are a bit weird.. IANAL, but from what I've researched on it, if a company has ANY physics presence in the state where you are purchasing an item, you must pay sales tax on that item, regardless of how you order it, or where you placed the order. What matters is your physical location.
So it's quite possible that Dell has a physical location in the state where you live, and therefore you have to pay sales tax. If they do not have physical presence in your state, then you were inappropriately charged sales tax and you may be able to get it back.
Well, my complaint is not as much that scroll-lock gets in my way. It does, but it's not really a big deal. My complaint really comes from the stupidity that got that hook put in there.
The pause key already existed, and it was made specifically FOR this function! Scroll-lock was as the article specified, to lock the keyboard to allow for easy scrolling rather than to lock the screen so that it doesn't scroll. If Linux used the pause key instead, nobody would have this problem, and everyone would be happy.
See, I really don't like the fact that Linux uses scroll lock to pause the screen.. see, that's what the PAUSE key is for. Scroll lock is used in many KVM's to switch machines, and having it lock up the terminal is sometimes frustrating when you forget after switching from one box to another. NOT fun at all.
I know it's a bit of a troll, but I'll bite.
Sure, the OS itself can boot up in 5 seconds. Check Linux, the kernel loads in about 2 seconds and it's ready.
The problem comes from loading all the drivers you need and configuration files... Drivers are especially bad.. It can take quite awhile to wake up a device... Generally you want to initialize all devices before user input is allowed. You want fast access to devices, right?
Really each thing individually is fast, but time adds up. The more you need to initialize, the longer it's gonna take.