If this really turns out badly... then it seems like Aussies would have a lot to phear from DMCA and the possible Induce act and what nots sprouting from the cesspool nation!
When will it stop?!
Why must the world follow that cesspool nation that owes everybody else huge money?!
a friend of mine does this 3-4 times a year. Buys a printer, 3 months down the road finishes the ink or it dries out. He then goes out and buys the next model up because it's now cheapter than buying 2 cartridges. It's crazy...
"Generally speaking, no. Some ISP's will complain and threaten to cut you off if you use too much of your bandwidth, but some don't. For example, this month I've probably downloaded 100 gigs of data over my DSL line, plus uploads, and I haven't heard anything out of my ISP except them asking me to pay this months usual bill."
Man... now I know what they meant by the American Dream thingy...
My sincere hope is, Allerca [allerca.com] will someday engineer a Yorkie that won't constantly pee on my carpet. Now that would be marketable. Cute yes... but Yorkies are damn monster sprinklers.
Dear Sigalarm,
You have raised a very good point, please accept our job offer as Marketing Executive in Allerca.
We can sell these "Pee Wee" Yorkies to all the fire departments in the country!
Well, for an mp3 player, 499$ is not only on the extremely high side, but does anyone seriously need to pay 30% more to get photo display capabilities?
And of course there is the traditional Apple Premium that we all know and love.
I'd say a equivalent iRiver player will do the job just as well and support OPEN FORMATS too! Like Ogg and FLAC!
Hans Moravec's book "Robot" suggests that 100 teraflops is about the level required for human intelligence. So we are up to 10% of his target. But human intelligence still seems very far away, so either he has badly underestimated, or our collective programming skills need significant improvement.
Judging from the fact that Australians voted for John Howard as Prime Minister.. Nah! Not gonna need that much!
" As soon as paypal gets too big for Visa/MC to feel comfortable with they'll just create a similar product."
You will be surprised how it WON'T work out for Visa/MC. With eBay being the owners of Paypal now, it is really hard to see why a new competitor can snatch sales away from the service that is so well integrated into eBay
2ndly, let's admit it, Americans are all fucking lazy. Do you think the millions and millions of paypal members would want to sit down in from of their computers, and sign up at a new website, then wait for some confirmation code thing in their credit card bill?
Why the hell would they want to do that? It is not like anybody is gonna use the new service in the first place.
"I would have thought the oppisite. Unmanned drones and non-lethal weapons (to name a couple) are high technology will be of obvious help in a gueilla war."
Almost.. except I think we should have lethal weapons on unmanned drones!
I can't recall the number of times when that security drone saved my ass in Doom 3.
The sad truth is.. human life is cheaper than all these fancy toys - up to a certain extent of course, but for "small numbers" of 10000 men or so, it'd be way cheaper to have the govt send real men out to get fragged and then have some "do your duty for the nation, please have sex more often" ad campaigns than to build 10000 of these drones.
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" Geek guys tend to like goth women. Don't know why."
Maybe it is this "opposites attract" theory. Geek men want DIFFERENT women
You traitor!
What if someone does a 1+1 and put the 2 together?
Hmmm.. I noticed it doesn't seem to have PCI Express slots.
:(
That kinda suck
But what is the fuss with the background image?
Ok, mod me as (-1 Dumbass) if you will, but let me know what's the fuss!
If this really turns out badly... then it seems like Aussies would have a lot to phear from DMCA and the possible Induce act and what nots sprouting from the cesspool nation!
When will it stop?!
Why must the world follow that cesspool nation that owes everybody else huge money?!
Yea, I always run out of flesh tones first
Just what the hell are you printing cowboy?!
a friend of mine does this 3-4 times a year. Buys a printer, 3 months down the road finishes the ink or it dries out. He then goes out and buys the next model up because it's now cheapter than buying 2 cartridges. It's crazy...
Then what happens to the old printers?!?
"Generally speaking, no. Some ISP's will complain and threaten to cut you off if you use too much of your bandwidth, but some don't. For example, this month I've probably downloaded 100 gigs of data over my DSL line, plus uploads, and I haven't heard anything out of my ISP except them asking me to pay this months usual bill."
Man... now I know what they meant by the American Dream thingy...
"640kb of ram should be enough for any satelite"
Not sure how American ISPs work, but do you have bandwidth caps on these things?
Like they sell you a connection with say, 10GB downloads a month for $39.95.
My sincere hope is, Allerca [allerca.com] will someday engineer a Yorkie that won't constantly pee on my carpet. Now that would be marketable. Cute yes... but Yorkies are damn monster sprinklers.
Dear Sigalarm,
You have raised a very good point, please accept our job offer as Marketing Executive in Allerca.
We can sell these "Pee Wee" Yorkies to all the fire departments in the country!
Regards,
CEO Allerca
How the hell did the term "pussy" arise in the American language?
I really don't get it, did cats used to have something to do with.. you know?
Like what? They used cats during sex or something?
My webhost got taken out yesterday too!
/.!
Hope it is not due to this new sig I added on
Well, it is kinda playing good quality sound stream...
What about DRM?
Well, for an mp3 player, 499$ is not only on the extremely high side, but does anyone seriously need to pay 30% more to get photo display capabilities?
And of course there is the traditional Apple Premium that we all know and love.
I'd say a equivalent iRiver player will do the job just as well and support OPEN FORMATS too! Like Ogg and FLAC!
They didn't do it using Intel Xeons? =)
Hans Moravec's book "Robot" suggests that 100 teraflops is about the level required for human intelligence. So we are up to 10% of his target. But human intelligence still seems very far away, so either he has badly underestimated, or our collective programming skills need significant improvement.
Judging from the fact that Australians voted for John Howard as Prime Minister.. Nah! Not gonna need that much!
Seems like Lucas still has many years of life left. Jeez, just think of the billions he will be raking in from everyone!
Oh no! We gotta stop him!
Asimov will twist and turn in his grave, what about the Laws of Robotics?!
BattleBot and Robot.. they don't mix!
Will Gbrowser be GPL?
" As soon as paypal gets too big for Visa/MC to feel comfortable with they'll just create a similar product."
You will be surprised how it WON'T work out for Visa/MC. With eBay being the owners of Paypal now, it is really hard to see why a new competitor can snatch sales away from the service that is so well integrated into eBay
2ndly, let's admit it, Americans are all fucking lazy. Do you think the millions and millions of paypal members would want to sit down in from of their computers, and sign up at a new website, then wait for some confirmation code thing in their credit card bill?
Why the hell would they want to do that? It is not like anybody is gonna use the new service in the first place.
If they still don't get it, get EFF to start throwing cluesticks at them.
"I would have thought the oppisite. Unmanned drones and non-lethal weapons (to name a couple) are high technology will be of obvious help in a gueilla war."
Almost.. except I think we should have lethal weapons on unmanned drones!
I can't recall the number of times when that security drone saved my ass in Doom 3.
The sad truth is.. human life is cheaper than all these fancy toys - up to a certain extent of course, but for "small numbers" of 10000 men or so, it'd be way cheaper to have the govt send real men out to get fragged and then have some "do your duty for the nation, please have sex more often" ad campaigns than to build 10000 of these drones.
Just my 0.00002c =)