Many of comcast's cable customers are also phone service customers, they could just unobtrusively add a voicemail message to those accounts.
And I don't see why they shouldn't be able to send voicemails out-of-network, too. There's no reason the phone needs to actually ring for this, if it's in your voicemail you'll get the message eventually.
Please stop using the word "jail" after using the word "chroot." It doesn't do that, and it was never intended to do that. If you need a "jail" then you need a real VM.
Yeah but those people are as boring as the people who put cream and sugar in their coffee. You could buy a B&W TV for a while after color came out, but once they stopped taping in the higher fidelity of true black and white, there wasn't a point to getting one except to demonstrate that you don't really like tv,
In which case, why own one? Why not just get "people" magazine to keep up with all the stars and shows you've never heard of?
A big element of the objection to 3D, it seems, is for people to be able to feel superior to others for being able to be entertained by less sophisticated means. To which I have only the following to say: "Ball-in-a-cup."
Maybe that's how it works in your state. But I've been to about half of the nation's 50 states, and outside of the puritan states (the "government corridor" from boston to washington, and a few others), and people on the road in most of them seem more concerned with doing the right thing than forcing others to do the right thing.
I am sure that most people have no idea what the speed limit in residential areas is, yet still manage to avoid running down their neighbors.
The threat of causing injury to my fellow man "keeps me honest." The threat of a ticket only keeps me wary of cops. I suspect that it's the same in most teens as well. Your ephebiphobia notwithstanding.
So you want to cut me off, *and* melt my bumper? Isn't it enough that I try not to hit you when you slice between cars on the dashed line and push into the 3' gap(*) between my bumper and the car in front of me?
(*) Not my choice. I drive in Massachusetts, if you leave anything bigger than a half car-length, someone will squeeze in. Mass drivers are terrible, and it gets worse: I'm turning into one just to keep up.
I'm not looking forward to the texting ban, either. If there's one place where "paying more attention to the road" is not necessarily a good thing, it's Mass - they're just going to use the extra awareness to execute some retardedly dangerous maneuvers.
instead have given up and turned to trying to turn the old Xbox 360 hardware into a Wii type device. They have been closing down internal studios and other internal Xbox related teams for the past two years.
I've been using wikipedia for *years* for the things I used IMDB for a decade ago. I've found wikipedia to be much more cleanly laid out, loads faster, doesn't ask me to log in every five minutes, and oddly enough, better written, and often much more detail is available.
If you need to catch up on a show for the water cooler, then wikipedia's your place, not imdb.
Also, will he take the opportunity to re-do scenes from the prequels? This might be a great opportunity to edit Jar Jar, and some of the other embarassing storytelling problems with those movies.
If experience is anything to go by, he will, but you will not like what he does with them. And you will never be able to buy the original version again*
*except maybe a third generation lossy-format re-transcription of it for a special promotion. It'll give you that real "copied in your friend's basement" feel that you love so much.
Interesting argument. I'd like to add that I think it might be even worse, though: is there any documentation that traffic stops actually do anything substantive to reduce your chance of vehicular injury?
Ironically, a kind of "collective bargaining" and closed shops is the problem there, as well. See, nothiing prevents the CEO of one company serving on the board of another company that chooses the CEO of that company.
Naturally, this gives them great opportunity to artificially reduce the labor pool for CEO positions, which results in wages inflated well above the true market value.
The only reason I can think of for shareholders not suing the boards of directors over this is that most of the shareholders are institutions run by other memebers of the same club.
Which is doubly ironic because such institutions are generally "investment vehicles." They're buying those shares with other people's money!
Yep, laws are pretty gross. And will continue to be as long as lawyers write the laws, make money off of disputes over interpretations of the laws written, and have no negative feedback for spawning dependency hell.
How much do you want to bet that if you take the full document and drill down through the referenced documents, eventually you find both circular references and missing references (i.e. references to documents that have been lost through time, or repealed?)
Indeed. But not because we're waging them under the doctrine of total warfare with the intent to win and the will to do what must be done to achieve that goal. Because, like vietnam, the rules of engagement prevent exactly that, while not hindering the enemy from those very topics.
And we've been fighting wars for oil in the middle east for a very long time. Hell, the US Marines were created to deal with muslim terrorism, which was presumably due to our oil policies at the time.
Well, yeah, for a gaming machine. But both have some very important features that you won't want to be without in a server setting.
I believe an automotive analogy is customary: Both a semi and a high-end sports car can have 500 hp engines. Even their prices will seem comparable. But for the purposes for which you'd get a semi, the sports car would be highly inappropriate.
Just think about all the culture that would still be available to us today, if the technology to copy was wider spread and available when TV first appeared. We would have a complete collection of all the old Dr. Who episodes.
I don't know why this is funny. cache is one of the many knobs you have for designing your system.
Among the easily accessible advertised metrics are:
Processor
Speed
Number of cores
Last level cache
clock multiplier
RAM
size
speed
bus width
Disk/SSD
Size
speed
seek time
rpms (if disk)
I wouldn't expect it would be too hard to write a tool that just catalogues cycles spent waiting on each slower tier, to determine where the bottleneck really is for what you're using it for. There's no point in wasting money on extra L3 cache, or even RAM if your particular problem is CPU bound.
But... I'm sure it's quite a bit harder than I think, because I haven't yet encountered such a tool, despite the fact that the vast majority of people don't have the money to buy a matrix of computer components and test out the combinations to find the price-optimal one. Really, the ideal case is to guess, test, and find it's close enough, or only needs a small amount of tweaking.
AMD's lower prices are because of Intel's brand, not because of actual performance. You said it yourself: lower prices at comparable performance levels. The same holds true in the high end.
Further, because of the market share of Intel, other the software giants don't do very much in the way of optimizing code to run on AMD, so they're always going to be compared on the subset of chip features that Intel also supports.
Multiple equal giants would be a better situation for the rest of us, because then they'd be able to compete on architecture instead of just implementation. And yes, I'm aware of the Itanium fiasco, which i'd bet was driven by intel's x86 market inertia as much as anything: even Intel can't compete with Intel...
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Many of comcast's cable customers are also phone service customers, they could just unobtrusively add a voicemail message to those accounts.
And I don't see why they shouldn't be able to send voicemails out-of-network, too. There's no reason the phone needs to actually ring for this, if it's in your voicemail you'll get the message eventually.
I see what you're saying, but that particular script does leave a pretty complete record. You can find it at "history | tail"
Please stop using the word "jail" after using the word "chroot." It doesn't do that, and it was never intended to do that. If you need a "jail" then you need a real VM.
Yeah but those people are as boring as the people who put cream and sugar in their coffee. You could buy a B&W TV for a while after color came out, but once they stopped taping in the higher fidelity of true black and white, there wasn't a point to getting one except to demonstrate that you don't really like tv,
In which case, why own one? Why not just get "people" magazine to keep up with all the stars and shows you've never heard of?
A big element of the objection to 3D, it seems, is for people to be able to feel superior to others for being able to be entertained by less sophisticated means. To which I have only the following to say: "Ball-in-a-cup."
You've never heard of a lenticular "hologram?" The effect is dramatic, and even a decade ago was far superior to "9 points".
And it's cheap, too. Cheap enough to put on a greeting card or DVD box. Or a dramatic 4x3 poster.
It's a palindrome, so it's a fair bet that if there is any meaning, it's in the first 16 digits.
Maybe that's how it works in your state. But I've been to about half of the nation's 50 states, and outside of the puritan states (the "government corridor" from boston to washington, and a few others), and people on the road in most of them seem more concerned with doing the right thing than forcing others to do the right thing.
I am sure that most people have no idea what the speed limit in residential areas is, yet still manage to avoid running down their neighbors.
The threat of causing injury to my fellow man "keeps me honest." The threat of a ticket only keeps me wary of cops. I suspect that it's the same in most teens as well. Your ephebiphobia notwithstanding.
So you want to cut me off, *and* melt my bumper? Isn't it enough that I try not to hit you when you slice between cars on the dashed line and push into the 3' gap(*) between my bumper and the car in front of me?
(*) Not my choice. I drive in Massachusetts, if you leave anything bigger than a half car-length, someone will squeeze in. Mass drivers are terrible, and it gets worse: I'm turning into one just to keep up.
I'm not looking forward to the texting ban, either. If there's one place where "paying more attention to the road" is not necessarily a good thing, it's Mass - they're just going to use the extra awareness to execute some retardedly dangerous maneuvers.
instead have given up and turned to trying to turn the old Xbox 360 hardware into a Wii type device. They have been closing down internal studios and other internal Xbox related teams for the past two years.
How would that make it anything like a WIi?
I've been using wikipedia for *years* for the things I used IMDB for a decade ago. I've found wikipedia to be much more cleanly laid out, loads faster, doesn't ask me to log in every five minutes, and oddly enough, better written, and often much more detail is available.
If you need to catch up on a show for the water cooler, then wikipedia's your place, not imdb.
Also, will he take the opportunity to re-do scenes from the prequels? This might be a great opportunity to edit Jar Jar, and some of the other embarassing storytelling problems with those movies.
If experience is anything to go by, he will, but you will not like what he does with them. And you will never be able to buy the original version again*
*except maybe a third generation lossy-format re-transcription of it for a special promotion. It'll give you that real "copied in your friend's basement" feel that you love so much.
Interesting argument. I'd like to add that I think it might be even worse, though: is there any documentation that traffic stops actually do anything substantive to reduce your chance of vehicular injury?
You should be wary because it's so easy to fool. Biometrics are username, but everyone's using them for password.
I wouldn't want to keep my money in a bank that used iris scanning for authentication. (identification however, that could be neat.)
Ironically, a kind of "collective bargaining" and closed shops is the problem there, as well. See, nothiing prevents the CEO of one company serving on the board of another company that chooses the CEO of that company.
Naturally, this gives them great opportunity to artificially reduce the labor pool for CEO positions, which results in wages inflated well above the true market value.
The only reason I can think of for shareholders not suing the boards of directors over this is that most of the shareholders are institutions run by other memebers of the same club.
Which is doubly ironic because such institutions are generally "investment vehicles." They're buying those shares with other people's money!
Depends. Does he know how to spell the word, "Nuptials"?
Yep, laws are pretty gross. And will continue to be as long as lawyers write the laws, make money off of disputes over interpretations of the laws written, and have no negative feedback for spawning dependency hell.
How much do you want to bet that if you take the full document and drill down through the referenced documents, eventually you find both circular references and missing references (i.e. references to documents that have been lost through time, or repealed?)
Indeed. But not because we're waging them under the doctrine of total warfare with the intent to win and the will to do what must be done to achieve that goal. Because, like vietnam, the rules of engagement prevent exactly that, while not hindering the enemy from those very topics.
And we've been fighting wars for oil in the middle east for a very long time. Hell, the US Marines were created to deal with muslim terrorism, which was presumably due to our oil policies at the time.
Well, yeah, for a gaming machine. But both have some very important features that you won't want to be without in a server setting.
I believe an automotive analogy is customary: Both a semi and a high-end sports car can have 500 hp engines. Even their prices will seem comparable. But for the purposes for which you'd get a semi, the sports car would be highly inappropriate.
Just think about all the culture that would still be available to us today, if the technology to copy was wider spread and available when TV first appeared. We would have a complete collection of all the old Dr. Who episodes.
And hopefully some positive effects, too!
I don't know why this is funny. cache is one of the many knobs you have for designing your system.
Among the easily accessible advertised metrics are:
Processor
Speed
Number of cores
Last level cache
clock multiplier
RAM
size
speed
bus width
Disk/SSD
Size
speed
seek time
rpms (if disk)
I wouldn't expect it would be too hard to write a tool that just catalogues cycles spent waiting on each slower tier, to determine where the bottleneck really is for what you're using it for. There's no point in wasting money on extra L3 cache, or even RAM if your particular problem is CPU bound.
But... I'm sure it's quite a bit harder than I think, because I haven't yet encountered such a tool, despite the fact that the vast majority of people don't have the money to buy a matrix of computer components and test out the combinations to find the price-optimal one. Really, the ideal case is to guess, test, and find it's close enough, or only needs a small amount of tweaking.
eInk loses contrast through repeated uses. If you just put it in a box it's going to last a lot longer than if you read 100 pages a day.
I'm curious as to what you think the Kindle's screen is made of that it would be likely to crack...
I believe Edward James Olmos said it best: "You don't lend books."
What tools are you using to determine that on-die cache is the bottleneck for your usage?
AMD's lower prices are because of Intel's brand, not because of actual performance. You said it yourself: lower prices at comparable performance levels. The same holds true in the high end.
Further, because of the market share of Intel, other the software giants don't do very much in the way of optimizing code to run on AMD, so they're always going to be compared on the subset of chip features that Intel also supports.
Multiple equal giants would be a better situation for the rest of us, because then they'd be able to compete on architecture instead of just implementation. And yes, I'm aware of the Itanium fiasco, which i'd bet was driven by intel's x86 market inertia as much as anything: even Intel can't compete with Intel...