It is obvious that reality shows are cheap to make, what baffles me is why anyone watches them. Reality shows are just a bunch of jerks acting like assholes, I thought TV was escapism from jerks being assholes? Why should I pay money for HD coverage of morons when I can look out of the window and see morons in true 3D for nothing?
Hehe, I wanted to be a customer. Being perpetually five or six years behind the technology curve, I reckoned I now have enough horsepower to run HL2, so I installed steam and bought the orange box. Well, _tried_ to buy the orange box, multiple times over a period of weeks, using the same credit card that I use for many other online things. Valve wouldn't take my £18, even after lots of email/support tickets etc.
Eventually my bank rang me up to see if I had had my card stolen what with all the failed transactions so I gave up.
I will try again in a few years when I get a new card, but for now, Valve doesn't fill me with confidence.
You heartless swine! What about all the managers of the charities? Who will pay them and their expense accounts? What about the officials in the countries receiving aid? Without those donations to siphon off, how will they pay the service charges on their Swiss accounts?
I watch films many dozens of times, but not Amelie. God damn that film sucked. Shot after shot of the bridge of her nose. Is it a nose-bridge fetish film or something? What was the topic again? Oh, yes. Some people like to watch a beloved film yet again rather than risk £5 on Transformers 7 or Eight Fast Eight Furious.
Well, you have to store songs, perform transactions and serve songs. The bandwidth to do the serving appears less than $1.2 million, let's look at the storage.
Wiki says iTunes store has: More than 14 million songs worldwide, 1,000,000+ podcasts (USA), 40,000+ music videos (USA), 3,000+ TV shows (USA), 20,000+ audiobooks (USA)2,500+ movies (USA), 300,000+ App Store Apps.
Say 10Mb for a song, 80Mb for a podcast, 80Mb for a music video, 400Mb for a tv show, 200Mb for an audiobook, 1Gb for a movie and 50Mb for an app. I make that about 250 Tb, so a minimum of $12,500 on disks. Let's put those disks in some server hardware, allowing $1000 of ancillary kit per disk. We are now at $270,000 or so, so let's have some redundancy here. 100 mirrors should do, bringing the total to $27,000,000 . I will let someone else work out the electricity costs.
Anyhoo, it is looking like $1.4 Billion to perform the financial transactions. Anybody know if this is reasonable at this scale?
Well, I had a similar problem with unskippable adverts, so what I do now is insert my own adverts in the transaction. At the till, between putting my card in the machine and keying in my PIN, I spend five minutes shouting "ZMOLLUSC'S YARD SALE NEXT TUESDAY!! BARGAINS GALORE!! ROLL UP!! ROLL UP!! 87 GROT AVENUE!! ALL KINDS OF HOUSEHOLD ITEMS AT LOW, LOW PRICES. 87 GROT AVENUE, 22ND MARCH FROM 9AM. ZMOLLUSC'S YARD SALE! BARGAINS GALORE!". It has saved me a fortune, as I am now banned from many retail outlets.
When we are in the work camps and the non-geeks ask us why we didn't warn them, we will respond "Erm, there was this one guy called Stallman who kept trying to warn us, but we wouldn't listen". Stallman will become a legend, maybe even Skylab's Terminators will talk about him once they have destroyed Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia.
Erm, I don't know exactly what you mean by 'newer' or 'racking up the miles', but most of the taxis round here (Decayingnorthernwasteland, UK) are powered by the 1.9 TDI VW/Audi/Skoda engine ( I think it has been replaced by a 2.0 now and I have no data for the 2.0 ) and they get about 175,000 miles out of them before they need any major parts. And these are vehicles that spend almost all their time in 30 and 40mph zones with stop lights every few hundred yards.
How about a browser option of 'accept all cookies - but delete them once the session is over'? The tracking companies get their cookies accepted and privacy is maintained. Everyone is happy. Kind of.
I had Dos 4.01 on a 40Mb 286 back in the day. IIRC, Dos 3.3 could address 32Mb partitions, Dos 4.01 onward was good for 512Mb (so everyone split their 800Mb drives into 2 partitions) and there was another problem later at 2Gb which i think was solved by fleeing to NTFS.
Those foolish fools! Virgin is an ISP. Once those scientists pay Virgin, they will be horrified to find themselves strapped into a Cessna 172 for a flight of 'up to' five minutes of freefall at heights of 'up to' 100,000m.
Hey, sonny, back in the day we had plenty of food-named computers. Apricot, Peach, Orange, Lemon, Acorn, er.. Sage, er , er... Well, it seemed like plenty at the time.
What benefit? I hooked up my 28" CRT telly to my 600MHz PIII about 7 years ago and surfed from the couch using wireless keyboard and mouse ( the clue was the TV-OUT port on the graphics card ).
Maybe those death threats, fake bombs and leaflets could be investigated forensically or something?
Burglary is a big deal because even if you are insured and even if the insurance money meets the loss, you will end up out of pocket as your premiums will increase as the insurance claws the payout back.
I believe that police vehicles are insured and there would be no risk to life if I smashed up a parked one, but I am pretty sure that resources would be allocated to haul my ass to jail.
The irksome part about the police using agents provocateur is that the police are always complaining that they have insufficient funds to police the streets. If the police can spare a man to infiltrate a bunch of hippies for a number of years, how many undercover police are there in all the more disruptive groups? The figure of £250,000 a year was mentioned as the cost of running one agent, which is infuriating to anyone who has been told that the police have insufficient resources to visit their house when it has been burgled.
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It is obvious that reality shows are cheap to make, what baffles me is why anyone watches them.
Reality shows are just a bunch of jerks acting like assholes, I thought TV was escapism from jerks being assholes? Why should I pay money for HD coverage of morons when I can look out of the window and see morons in true 3D for nothing?
Hehe, I wanted to be a customer. Being perpetually five or six years behind the technology curve, I reckoned I now have enough horsepower to run HL2, so I installed steam and bought the orange box. Well, _tried_ to buy the orange box, multiple times over a period of weeks, using the same credit card that I use for many other online things. Valve wouldn't take my £18, even after lots of email/support tickets etc.
Eventually my bank rang me up to see if I had had my card stolen what with all the failed transactions so I gave up.
I will try again in a few years when I get a new card, but for now, Valve doesn't fill me with confidence.
You heartless swine! What about all the managers of the charities? Who will pay them and their expense accounts? What about the officials in the countries receiving aid? Without those donations to siphon off, how will they pay the service charges on their Swiss accounts?
The problem is not whether we can feed nine billion humans, it is whether we can feed ten billion humans, then twenty billion, then fifty billion.
I watch films many dozens of times, but not Amelie. God damn that film sucked. Shot after shot of the bridge of her nose. Is it a nose-bridge fetish film or something?
What was the topic again? Oh, yes. Some people like to watch a beloved film yet again rather than risk £5 on Transformers 7 or Eight Fast Eight Furious.
Well, you have to store songs, perform transactions and serve songs.
The bandwidth to do the serving appears less than $1.2 million, let's look at the storage.
Wiki says iTunes store has: More than 14 million songs worldwide, 1,000,000+ podcasts (USA), 40,000+ music videos (USA), 3,000+ TV shows (USA), 20,000+ audiobooks (USA)2,500+ movies (USA), 300,000+ App Store Apps.
Say 10Mb for a song, 80Mb for a podcast, 80Mb for a music video, 400Mb for a tv show, 200Mb for an audiobook, 1Gb for a movie and 50Mb for an app.
I make that about 250 Tb, so a minimum of $12,500 on disks. Let's put those disks in some server hardware, allowing $1000 of ancillary kit per disk. We are now at $270,000 or so, so let's have some redundancy here. 100 mirrors should do, bringing the total to $27,000,000 . I will let someone else work out the electricity costs.
Anyhoo, it is looking like $1.4 Billion to perform the financial transactions. Anybody know if this is reasonable at this scale?
Well, I had a similar problem with unskippable adverts, so what I do now is insert my own adverts in the transaction.
At the till, between putting my card in the machine and keying in my PIN, I spend five minutes shouting "ZMOLLUSC'S YARD SALE NEXT TUESDAY!! BARGAINS GALORE!! ROLL UP!! ROLL UP!! 87 GROT AVENUE!! ALL KINDS OF HOUSEHOLD ITEMS AT LOW, LOW PRICES. 87 GROT AVENUE, 22ND MARCH FROM 9AM. ZMOLLUSC'S YARD SALE! BARGAINS GALORE!".
It has saved me a fortune, as I am now banned from many retail outlets.
When we are in the work camps and the non-geeks ask us why we didn't warn them, we will respond "Erm, there was this one guy called Stallman who kept trying to warn us, but we wouldn't listen". Stallman will become a legend, maybe even Skylab's Terminators will talk about him once they have destroyed Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia.
Stop playing Devil's Abdicate.
Thank you. I hadn't thought about 2 natted users accessing the same web site. Duh. I will go back to painting cave walls.
Could you explain why cookies are 'absolutely needed'? Or provide a link? I can see how cookies are useful, but I don't see how they are vital.
Erm, I don't know exactly what you mean by 'newer' or 'racking up the miles', but most of the taxis round here (Decayingnorthernwasteland, UK) are powered by the 1.9 TDI VW/Audi/Skoda engine ( I think it has been replaced by a 2.0 now and I have no data for the 2.0 ) and they get about 175,000 miles out of them before they need any major parts. And these are vehicles that spend almost all their time in 30 and 40mph zones with stop lights every few hundred yards.
How about a browser option of 'accept all cookies - but delete them once the session is over'?
The tracking companies get their cookies accepted and privacy is maintained. Everyone is happy. Kind of.
Which sentence is missing a full stop? Or am I missing a pun or reference or something?
Damn it! There must be dozens of agencies monitoring me :-(
Maybe I should be more choosy where I drink.
I had Dos 4.01 on a 40Mb 286 back in the day.
IIRC, Dos 3.3 could address 32Mb partitions, Dos 4.01 onward was good for 512Mb (so everyone split their 800Mb drives into 2 partitions) and there was another problem later at 2Gb which i think was solved by fleeing to NTFS.
If they can't find it, it is clearly useless. Or am I missing something?
Those foolish fools! Virgin is an ISP.
Once those scientists pay Virgin, they will be horrified to find themselves strapped into a Cessna 172 for a flight of 'up to' five minutes of freefall at heights of 'up to' 100,000m.
Hey, sonny, back in the day we had plenty of food-named computers. Apricot, Peach, Orange, Lemon, Acorn, er.. Sage, er , er ...
Well, it seemed like plenty at the time.
Aw! I liked Vincent. Even if he is the kind of asshole who goes to france.
What benefit? I hooked up my 28" CRT telly to my 600MHz PIII about 7 years ago and surfed from the couch using wireless keyboard and mouse ( the clue was the TV-OUT port on the graphics card ).
Mod Parent "Required reading for fresh-faced boys and girls".
So sticking hard drive magnets on my tinfoil hat will be making my smartness more better? Horay!
Maybe those death threats, fake bombs and leaflets could be investigated forensically or something?
Burglary is a big deal because even if you are insured and even if the insurance money meets the loss, you will end up out of pocket as your premiums will increase as the insurance claws the payout back.
I believe that police vehicles are insured and there would be no risk to life if I smashed up a parked one, but I am pretty sure that resources would be allocated to haul my ass to jail.
The irksome part about the police using agents provocateur is that the police are always complaining that they have insufficient funds to police the streets. If the police can spare a man to infiltrate a bunch of hippies for a number of years, how many undercover police are there in all the more disruptive groups? The figure of £250,000 a year was mentioned as the cost of running one agent, which is infuriating to anyone who has been told that the police have insufficient resources to visit their house when it has been burgled.