Dude, what the HELL is the matter with you? Do you seriously think that being a pudgy little thin-skinned is less awesome than being a 30 foot tall beast with teeth the size of a baby's arm then you're posting on the wrong web site.
But it's not pure extrapolation. Earthquakes in subduction zones are the result of pressure buildup. They are not spaced randomly, as the time between them is determined by the tectonic action that causes the pressure to be generated or released. Thus, the time difference between earthquakes is relevant.
Once an ink formulation has been designed, it can easily be remade. Kind of like how pharmaceuticals can be remade, except developing ink doesn't take a fraction of the cost to R&D. The bulk of the R&D costs are in the printer itself, but there is far more money charging for consumables rather than the durables.
As was pointed out, ink isn't new. Sure, printers are getting better and better, but I'd be the formulation of ink hasn't changed much since the first Bubblejet printers showed up on the market in the early 90s.
HP is lying. The truth is ink is expensive because making it so makes them lots and lots of money for items which can be mass-produced on the cheap. Oh, and I don't buy your "ink cartridges are precision items" BS either. Some ink cartridges cost more than a low-end CPU. Try convincing me that something that is 99% moulded plastic with a few small parts is harder to fabricate than a part with several hundred million transistors, fabricated in a factory that is probably worth more than HP's market capitalization.
Nah. I don't buy HP's BS. Or yours for that matter.
Actually no. That's a great idea. People would leave stocks where the risk of needing to evacuate the holding within the timeframe at which capital gains tax made the return sub-optimal. This idea would not place arbitrary rules on minimum holding time, so if you needed your cash back within 24 hours for some reason, you could get it, just without much of any profits you made. No need for the tax to stay high for a long time, it could drop to normal rates within a week, to ensure that the idiots who make money by buying and selling on the same fucking day are forced out of business like they should be. Their actions add nothing to the productive output of the economy.
So do away with salary bonuses and just have a set of rooms on the top floor populated with "relaxation service providers". Good code shipped gets you one visit voucher. Good code shipped on time gets you two.
Don't dismiss the idea; it's not like Wall Street isn't already staffed by prostitutes.
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Just so you know, the US is still the number 1 spam source, both by number of spam relays and origin of spammers. There was a recent Slashdot article on this, and you can also check the ROKSO list if you're interested. Don't be spewing that "but our poor PCs are controlled by evil Chinese/Russians/Europeans/Eritreans who use our unwilling innocent users' PCs in their botnets" crap either. Most of the top 100 on the ROKSO list are American citizens.
Clean up your own backyard before you decide to make snarky comments about the Russians and Chinese. Yes, we know, they hate your freedom and they want to eat your babies, but nonetheless, try to stay factual.
Yes, 2 hours per day does sound rather manageable. Until you step back, take in a bit of perspective, and realize that he spent about as much time as the modern worker spends with his/her children on a cheap iPhone game.
When the life energy of the members of our society is of such little value that such a huge chunk of it would be spent on such a mind bogglingly empty pursuit, one has to question the values that we as a society hold dear.
Oh wait, we're free, that's right. Who am I to ask questions like that etc etc.
Qt plus Nokia's commitment to open source plus Nokia's affinity for Python I think will make it the overall winner, despite being behind in the smartphone development race. Building apps using Qt+Pyside should be far nicer and allow for a very modern programming approach with fewer mobile-specific development skills necessary given that Python+Qt are a very common combination for desktop apps as well.
Also, Nokia is the only company that seems to be doing the open source mobile platform right. Android is only half open source, and realistically, it's only open to OEMs. Garage developers are about as welcome in Google's ecosystem as herpes.
Blatantly hijacking Micropenis FP to get this point in:
The review of VNC says that it is not firewall friendly, and that the network admin has to open a port and point it at the machine in question. While this is true of VNC in general, they specifically mention UltraVNC which has a nifty proxy feature. I use this very successfully on some of the networks I admin.
Basically, you run the proxy server on one machine that has the port forwarded to it from the firwall. Then, your UVNC clients enter the *local* IP or hostname of the machine they want to get to, and there's an extra field for the proxy's address, which is the real-world IP or hostname that you'd use to contact the proxy.
It works very well, is free/open source, provides access to whole networks behind a firewall without the need for individual configurations to the firewall on every incoming connection and allows for some very efficient connection compression giving usable speeds even over slow connections.
That the article doesn't mention it is pretty poor form, given that IMHO its the best all-round solution to this problem.
You can't talk about how great it is to be open source and then complain that people change it and customize.
Oh yes you can. This is Slashdot. You can be handed a Golden Artifact of Magic Hourly Orgasms, and it would be quite normal around here to complain about it.
No, the important take home is that *all* political agendas need to be audited. The moment you start giving a free ride to politicians just because you agree with their cause is the moment you open the floodgates to total political anarchy.
Not that it matters, really. The floodgates have been open for a while already.
As in, I hope AMD can execute, not I hope Intel have tech that can compete with nVidia and ATI. The former would lead to better competition, the latter would give the monopolist more power.
There's always AMD's Fusion on the horizon. If they can execute well on that they have a chance to do what they did with the Athlon. Intel has yet to demonstrate that they actually have GPU tech that can compete with nVidia and ATI in this space. I really hope they do, Intel has had too long at the top of the market and they're getting all monopolistic again.
Right. And given that there is *always* a yield rate somewhere below 100, it's a guarantee that not all of the partially disabled parts are in actual fact fully working. You'd have no way of knowing if you do. In fact, given that the yields are private information, you don't even know the *probability* that your unlocked unit will work properly.
The manufacturer will *always* bin the partially flawed parts as their low end units first. They will only use intentionally crippled units to fill the low end volumes if they run out of partially flawed units. Historical experience with yields indicates that they're more likely to get not enough fully functional units than they need. This was the case with single core parts, and I'd assume it's even more the case with multi-core parts, becoming more of a problem as core counts increase. I doubt AMD or Intel have the latitude to pick and choose the relative outputs of their units; I doubt the yield curves are such that they end up having to cripple many units because they have too many fully functional parts and not enough to fill low-end volumes.
Even if there *were* a decent percentage of fully working CPUs on on the market, you'd have to be pretty stupid to spend that amount of money on a high end motherboard to turn your CPU into a *maybe* working higher model that *may* totally destroy your data. Either that or the work you're doing is so trivially unimportant that you probably don't need a computer in the first place. Why not just buy a normal motherboard and spend the saved money on the real fully featured part.
You're showing a complete lack of understanding of, well, just about everything.
The average consumer cannot understand cell phone contracts, gym membership contracts, car lease contracts, bank account terms and conditions and a whole bag of other things. So you're saying they should abstain? Hell, I cant get a parking voucher from an underground car park these days without the back of it being covered in fine print you'd need a scanning electron microscope to read.
No sir, the answer isn't to "vote with your dollar". It's to acknowledge that the entire social system is broken and massively favors big money interests that are in a position to use the legal system to their own ends.
The fix is not some new piece of regulation you can come up with. You'll never be able to legislate around a population's total lack of ethics.
You say that jokingly, however, your point is rather poignant. If Wall Street types were presented with a way to transmit their methods and assumptions in a non-human readable way like a programming language, it becomes less transparent, not more. Sure investors can say "if a, b and c, then something happens in this black box and outputs x, y and z". They have no idea how their assumptions lead to the given result.
My view is that there just is no substitute for a system of social morality like those in eastern cultures of old. Modern society has the attitude that "if it's not illegal, do it". Unfortunately, the law will never be able to codify in black letters the rich spectrum of behavioral regulations imposed by morality, developed over thousands of years of human behavior. Thus, individuals conforming only to the law and ignoring ethics and morals will inevitably breach their moral duty, and the damage they do is limited only by their "creativity" in using the law and the social power they weild due to their position, wealth or influence.
In short, we need to disabuse ourselves of this trend to consider ethics and morals some hokey, freedom-fettering construct that has become obsolete. It is very much necessary, and Wall Street is a great place to look if you want an example of why.
BartPE and DriveImageXML are free and work a charm. I use them extensively to image WinXP and Win7 partitions. I keep an image of a working C: with all apps and things on D: with My Documents targetted at a folder on D: as well. That way I can restore a fresh C: any time I wish without even having to move anything, as all user data is by default on D:
Fresh install with all user data now takes 10 minutes.
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Dude, what the HELL is the matter with you? Do you seriously think that being a pudgy little thin-skinned is less awesome than being a 30 foot tall beast with teeth the size of a baby's arm then you're posting on the wrong web site.
But it's not pure extrapolation. Earthquakes in subduction zones are the result of pressure buildup. They are not spaced randomly, as the time between them is determined by the tectonic action that causes the pressure to be generated or released. Thus, the time difference between earthquakes is relevant.
So yea, our searches are protected from everyone except the people who are already the ones most interested in mining your data.
Great. Google is getting into the security theater game.
You're talking out of your ass.
Once an ink formulation has been designed, it can easily be remade. Kind of like how pharmaceuticals can be remade, except developing ink doesn't take a fraction of the cost to R&D. The bulk of the R&D costs are in the printer itself, but there is far more money charging for consumables rather than the durables.
As was pointed out, ink isn't new. Sure, printers are getting better and better, but I'd be the formulation of ink hasn't changed much since the first Bubblejet printers showed up on the market in the early 90s.
HP is lying. The truth is ink is expensive because making it so makes them lots and lots of money for items which can be mass-produced on the cheap. Oh, and I don't buy your "ink cartridges are precision items" BS either. Some ink cartridges cost more than a low-end CPU. Try convincing me that something that is 99% moulded plastic with a few small parts is harder to fabricate than a part with several hundred million transistors, fabricated in a factory that is probably worth more than HP's market capitalization.
Nah. I don't buy HP's BS. Or yours for that matter.
That's not the most ridiculous thing about this. Think about it, they're looking on Facebook for people who want to be celibate.
I don't rate their chances very highly.
Umm... I remember reading "Choose Your Own Adventure" books when I was 7. Circa 1987.
Actually no. That's a great idea. People would leave stocks where the risk of needing to evacuate the holding within the timeframe at which capital gains tax made the return sub-optimal. This idea would not place arbitrary rules on minimum holding time, so if you needed your cash back within 24 hours for some reason, you could get it, just without much of any profits you made. No need for the tax to stay high for a long time, it could drop to normal rates within a week, to ensure that the idiots who make money by buying and selling on the same fucking day are forced out of business like they should be. Their actions add nothing to the productive output of the economy.
Even if you diversify, you're still hit by the day-trading scumbags, just to a lesser extent.
Besides, your post boils down to "just don't live in a high crime neighborhood and you'll be fine, no need to make burglary a crime".
So do away with salary bonuses and just have a set of rooms on the top floor populated with "relaxation service providers". Good code shipped gets you one visit voucher. Good code shipped on time gets you two.
Don't dismiss the idea; it's not like Wall Street isn't already staffed by prostitutes.
Just so you know, the US is still the number 1 spam source, both by number of spam relays and origin of spammers. There was a recent Slashdot article on this, and you can also check the ROKSO list if you're interested. Don't be spewing that "but our poor PCs are controlled by evil Chinese/Russians/Europeans/Eritreans who use our unwilling innocent users' PCs in their botnets" crap either. Most of the top 100 on the ROKSO list are American citizens.
Clean up your own backyard before you decide to make snarky comments about the Russians and Chinese. Yes, we know, they hate your freedom and they want to eat your babies, but nonetheless, try to stay factual.
Yes, 2 hours per day does sound rather manageable. Until you step back, take in a bit of perspective, and realize that he spent about as much time as the modern worker spends with his/her children on a cheap iPhone game.
When the life energy of the members of our society is of such little value that such a huge chunk of it would be spent on such a mind bogglingly empty pursuit, one has to question the values that we as a society hold dear.
Oh wait, we're free, that's right. Who am I to ask questions like that etc etc.
This is Slashdot. A certain degree of "semantic leniency" is called for.
P.S., You insensitive clod.
Qt plus Nokia's commitment to open source plus Nokia's affinity for Python I think will make it the overall winner, despite being behind in the smartphone development race. Building apps using Qt+Pyside should be far nicer and allow for a very modern programming approach with fewer mobile-specific development skills necessary given that Python+Qt are a very common combination for desktop apps as well.
Also, Nokia is the only company that seems to be doing the open source mobile platform right. Android is only half open source, and realistically, it's only open to OEMs. Garage developers are about as welcome in Google's ecosystem as herpes.
Blatantly hijacking Micropenis FP to get this point in:
The review of VNC says that it is not firewall friendly, and that the network admin has to open a port and point it at the machine in question. While this is true of VNC in general, they specifically mention UltraVNC which has a nifty proxy feature. I use this very successfully on some of the networks I admin.
Basically, you run the proxy server on one machine that has the port forwarded to it from the firwall. Then, your UVNC clients enter the *local* IP or hostname of the machine they want to get to, and there's an extra field for the proxy's address, which is the real-world IP or hostname that you'd use to contact the proxy.
It works very well, is free/open source, provides access to whole networks behind a firewall without the need for individual configurations to the firewall on every incoming connection and allows for some very efficient connection compression giving usable speeds even over slow connections.
That the article doesn't mention it is pretty poor form, given that IMHO its the best all-round solution to this problem.
Oh yes you can. This is Slashdot. You can be handed a Golden Artifact of Magic Hourly Orgasms, and it would be quite normal around here to complain about it.
No, the important take home is that *all* political agendas need to be audited. The moment you start giving a free ride to politicians just because you agree with their cause is the moment you open the floodgates to total political anarchy.
Not that it matters, really. The floodgates have been open for a while already.
Gah! I meant "that'll teach me to preview".
Someone pass me a mallet. My head seems to need a little percussive maintenance.
As in, I hope AMD can execute, not I hope Intel have tech that can compete with nVidia and ATI. The former would lead to better competition, the latter would give the monopolist more power.
That'll teach me to not preview.
There's always AMD's Fusion on the horizon. If they can execute well on that they have a chance to do what they did with the Athlon. Intel has yet to demonstrate that they actually have GPU tech that can compete with nVidia and ATI in this space. I really hope they do, Intel has had too long at the top of the market and they're getting all monopolistic again.
Probably less volatile than what they're backing it with at the moment!
Right. And given that there is *always* a yield rate somewhere below 100, it's a guarantee that not all of the partially disabled parts are in actual fact fully working. You'd have no way of knowing if you do. In fact, given that the yields are private information, you don't even know the *probability* that your unlocked unit will work properly.
The manufacturer will *always* bin the partially flawed parts as their low end units first. They will only use intentionally crippled units to fill the low end volumes if they run out of partially flawed units. Historical experience with yields indicates that they're more likely to get not enough fully functional units than they need. This was the case with single core parts, and I'd assume it's even more the case with multi-core parts, becoming more of a problem as core counts increase. I doubt AMD or Intel have the latitude to pick and choose the relative outputs of their units; I doubt the yield curves are such that they end up having to cripple many units because they have too many fully functional parts and not enough to fill low-end volumes.
Even if there *were* a decent percentage of fully working CPUs on on the market, you'd have to be pretty stupid to spend that amount of money on a high end motherboard to turn your CPU into a *maybe* working higher model that *may* totally destroy your data. Either that or the work you're doing is so trivially unimportant that you probably don't need a computer in the first place. Why not just buy a normal motherboard and spend the saved money on the real fully featured part.
You're showing a complete lack of understanding of, well, just about everything.
The average consumer cannot understand cell phone contracts, gym membership contracts, car lease contracts, bank account terms and conditions and a whole bag of other things. So you're saying they should abstain? Hell, I cant get a parking voucher from an underground car park these days without the back of it being covered in fine print you'd need a scanning electron microscope to read.
No sir, the answer isn't to "vote with your dollar". It's to acknowledge that the entire social system is broken and massively favors big money interests that are in a position to use the legal system to their own ends.
The fix is not some new piece of regulation you can come up with. You'll never be able to legislate around a population's total lack of ethics.
You say that jokingly, however, your point is rather poignant. If Wall Street types were presented with a way to transmit their methods and assumptions in a non-human readable way like a programming language, it becomes less transparent, not more. Sure investors can say "if a, b and c, then something happens in this black box and outputs x, y and z". They have no idea how their assumptions lead to the given result.
My view is that there just is no substitute for a system of social morality like those in eastern cultures of old. Modern society has the attitude that "if it's not illegal, do it". Unfortunately, the law will never be able to codify in black letters the rich spectrum of behavioral regulations imposed by morality, developed over thousands of years of human behavior. Thus, individuals conforming only to the law and ignoring ethics and morals will inevitably breach their moral duty, and the damage they do is limited only by their "creativity" in using the law and the social power they weild due to their position, wealth or influence.
In short, we need to disabuse ourselves of this trend to consider ethics and morals some hokey, freedom-fettering construct that has become obsolete. It is very much necessary, and Wall Street is a great place to look if you want an example of why.
BartPE and DriveImageXML are free and work a charm. I use them extensively to image WinXP and Win7 partitions. I keep an image of a working C: with all apps and things on D: with My Documents targetted at a folder on D: as well. That way I can restore a fresh C: any time I wish without even having to move anything, as all user data is by default on D:
Fresh install with all user data now takes 10 minutes.
If you don't stop that then the Slashbot will be sent to take care of you. Oh, and here's 5gb for your trouble.