I'm sorry to break these never ending posts bashing them for such law, but what is your exact intent when you share/use a shared credential to a paying service?
You are doing it for aiding or to avoid paying for the service. You know that, I know that.
Go ahead and flame me, but I will refuse to fool myself that I do something honorable when I steal something.
What you describe is indeed good, but it should not be done with shaping. It's a functionality implemented at another layer by the TOS flag (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_of_Service). While there are some bad apples out there, any decent TCP/IP stack(Linux has it since the stone age) has implemented this at least in its most primitive form (interactive/bulk cases).
Summary: "staff often work six 12-hour shifts a week, 98 hours of overtime in a month" FTFA: "One payslip showed a worker did 98 hours of overtime in one month"
98 hours is not the "often" case, but one extreme occurrence.
For normal usage (read: not mission and time critical applications), there is no such thing as computing power need. It's not like a specification: "I need my notepad to start in less than 300ms. If it starts in 301ms my computer is useless".
If it starts in more than 30 seconds you can still do your work.
If it starts in 2 picoseconds it can still use an upgrade so it starts in 0.5 picoseconds, or in the awesome wtfbbq 0.1 picoseconds!
You pay more, you get more. Its as simple as that.
Even for such a "simple" fast-feedback learning process, its not the "speed" of the neurons that matter, but the other thoughts that prevent the desired target neuron(s) to reach the desired threshold-to-trigger-signal weight ratios.
In fact, when we are talking about a neural network of human-brain size, there are no simple learning processes, its always a battle between at least millions of neurons(of total 100 billion) on whom on them need to adjust their weights.
Stop dreaming. Journalism is EXACTLY about being sensationalistic and bringing entertainment to people in form of news. Its not about education or cold (boring) facts. Unless you wanna starve.
So actually, the journalists did a GREAT job milking this cash cow.
In other news, the easter bunny is not real either.;)
As a parent, Internet is not your enemy, but your friend. Adapt to it: get a Facebook account and friend your kid. Get to know what he/she likes and what he/she is doing.
Be an active part of the Internet life of your kid. Evolve
It has nothing to do with the Internet. As a kid/teen, going at the "official" family meetings is fkin boring. Especially meeting really old dudes. I'm far, far away from that young age, but I still remember it bored the begeesus out of me at that time.
Stop forcing her to enjoy what you like and try to understand what she likes. Next time, try to take the "sulking" as a cry for help, not as an opportunity to bulldozer your way over her personality/thoughts/feelings, and you may avoid the tantrum. Oh wait, she a teen, you'll get the tantrum anyway:).
Not only that the "new generation" likes different things, even different people of the same age like different stuff.
Having one tab hog all the resources and block another tabs is so old.
All the other big browsers have switched to some kind of multi-threading model quite a while ago, and I see Firefox will still crawl with a single line of execution model even in 5.
I remember quite vividly when the other browsers started having a solid multi-threaded model, it was when Firefox was at version 2.x. I remember boo-ing at the head dev lead at Firefox deciding that they will avoid the multi-threaded "sync mess" until version 4.0.
Now Firefox 4 was released (without multi-threading), and the plans for FF5 still don't include any plan to touch this very essential feature.
And now I see they plan to bundle commercial crap inside too
I'm glad I stopped using it /rant
After 6 years of watching new "WoW killers" pathetic little MMOs come and go, i'm not bitting anymore.
Nobody ever says that they aim to be "second-best". Even if they realistically expect to be 6th or7th, Sales & Marketing will boast that their lame product is the best ever, the new king of the market-share.
Steaming pile of bullshit. If WoW will ever be overthrown, it won't happen over night. It will be a very long and slow process, requiring tons of work and patience from the competitor. My bet is still on Blizzard. Titan will pwn.
Keep pictures in their native high resolution on hard drives/DVD/Blurays.
With all the tiny shred of modesty left inside me, I don't think this deserves to be a Slashdot question, most hi-techies I know either don't have a facebook account or if they do they are a bit ashamed of having one.
I get a lot more value for my money buying games at a books/media store that buys the remnants that didn't sell originally a year ago and sells them for $10 a title or less, plus they work on hardware I already have.
And people laugh at me when I tell them time travel is already possible. It's called money! Its your own choice if you want to live in the past.
Getting performance levels or experiences at a standard of 1-2 years ago is cheap.
The present is expensive.
Keep in mind thou, my comment was based on the assumption that you were actually honest and describing your actual use pattern, and you were not presenting some extreme use case, just to be over-dramatic. Was my assumption wrong?
I can't imagine how you can actually enjoy yourself playing computer games twice a month. It's like buying a screwdriver to screw some screws once every 20 years and complaining that the screwdriver gets outdated meanwhile. My only explanation, and feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, is that you try to artificially maintain an idea that you actually play computer games.
Don't get me wrong, I mean, you don't have to play them if you are busy doing anything else. And its fine. Pretending that you are, with all respect, sounds phony.
There are no 4 ranges, there were only 3:
Budget was always <100$
Mid-Range 100$-400$
Enthusiast >400$. Yes, there are some very sweet cards even at 1,000$. Yes, my 3 year old water-cooled vendor-over-clocked, even more over-clocked by me card beats your so called "Enthusiast" range card.
No, there is no "I thing people thinking different than me are stupid" category, doesn't matter if we talk about 1$ or 1,000,000$.
I agree Anarchduke. Stealing is stealing, doesn't matter if the thing that got stoled does not exist physically or the owner was not "harmed". And you know something, I used to pirate too. But I never fooled myself that its ok to do it.
These guys preaching all forms of sophisms to make excuses for stealing know it too.They are just trolling.
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I'm sorry to break these never ending posts bashing them for such law, but what is your exact intent when you share/use a shared credential to a paying service?
You are doing it for aiding or to avoid paying for the service. You know that, I know that.
Go ahead and flame me, but I will refuse to fool myself that I do something honorable when I steal something.
What you describe is indeed good, but it should not be done with shaping. It's a functionality implemented at another layer by the TOS flag (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_of_Service). While there are some bad apples out there, any decent TCP/IP stack(Linux has it since the stone age) has implemented this at least in its most primitive form (interactive/bulk cases).
In my country(45 latitude) there are no such thing as "snow days". When there is snow (quite usual in the winter), kids simply go to school as usual.
Previous slashdot article: http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/03/23/1237215/Facebook-Bans-20000-Kids-a-Day
It was 3.6 million in March, now its 7.5. Riiight.
Summary: "staff often work six 12-hour shifts a week, 98 hours of overtime in a month"
FTFA: "One payslip showed a worker did 98 hours of overtime in one month"
98 hours is not the "often" case, but one extreme occurrence.
For normal usage (read: not mission and time critical applications), there is no such thing as computing power need. It's not like a specification: "I need my notepad to start in less than 300ms. If it starts in 301ms my computer is useless".
If it starts in more than 30 seconds you can still do your work.
If it starts in 2 picoseconds it can still use an upgrade so it starts in 0.5 picoseconds, or in the awesome wtfbbq 0.1 picoseconds!
You pay more, you get more. Its as simple as that.
WTF is a bluetooth cable?
It's like a Wi-Fi cable, but weaker.
...you cannot fight real bullets with lawyers not matter how many lawyers you have.
But we can sure try! Maybe using all lawyers will work? Please?
The result will be that you'll have to buy all three services to see all the movies you want... I can't wait.
You don't have to have everything. Choice is good. In the end, the studios will mass jump on the most successful service anyway.
Actually, they did went nuts over Win98 going EOL in 2003 too. Here, on Slashdot:
:)
http://developers.slashdot.org/story/03/12/09/1827235/Microsoft-Retires-Windows-98
And I bet you there will be people crying over even for the Vista EOL, as absurd as that may sound.
BTW, the XP EOL is not even close, it will be in 2014. Nothing to panic.
There are lots of entries of countries that would rank in the top 10. I can tell you Romania would rank either 1 or 2 in that top.
TFA is mainly about job openings in Australia, the summary is misleading.
Even for such a "simple" fast-feedback learning process, its not the "speed" of the neurons that matter, but the other thoughts that prevent the desired target neuron(s) to reach the desired threshold-to-trigger-signal weight ratios.
In fact, when we are talking about a neural network of human-brain size, there are no simple learning processes, its always a battle between at least millions of neurons(of total 100 billion) on whom on them need to adjust their weights.
Stop dreaming. Journalism is EXACTLY about being sensationalistic and bringing entertainment to people in form of news. Its not about education or cold (boring) facts. Unless you wanna starve.
;)
So actually, the journalists did a GREAT job milking this cash cow.
In other news, the easter bunny is not real either.
As a parent, Internet is not your enemy, but your friend. Adapt to it: get a Facebook account and friend your kid. Get to know what he/she likes and what he/she is doing.
Be an active part of the Internet life of your kid. Evolve
It has nothing to do with the Internet. As a kid/teen, going at the "official" family meetings is fkin boring. Especially meeting really old dudes. I'm far, far away from that young age, but I still remember it bored the begeesus out of me at that time.
:).
Stop forcing her to enjoy what you like and try to understand what she likes. Next time, try to take the "sulking" as a cry for help, not as an opportunity to bulldozer your way over her personality/thoughts/feelings, and you may avoid the tantrum. Oh wait, she a teen, you'll get the tantrum anyway
Not only that the "new generation" likes different things, even different people of the same age like different stuff.
Its called evolution, not addiction.
Having one tab hog all the resources and block another tabs is so old.
/rant
All the other big browsers have switched to some kind of multi-threading model quite a while ago, and I see Firefox will still crawl with a single line of execution model even in 5.
I remember quite vividly when the other browsers started having a solid multi-threaded model, it was when Firefox was at version 2.x. I remember boo-ing at the head dev lead at Firefox deciding that they will avoid the multi-threaded "sync mess" until version 4.0.
Now Firefox 4 was released (without multi-threading), and the plans for FF5 still don't include any plan to touch this very essential feature.
And now I see they plan to bundle commercial crap inside too
I'm glad I stopped using it
After 6 years of watching new "WoW killers" pathetic little MMOs come and go, i'm not bitting anymore.
Nobody ever says that they aim to be "second-best". Even if they realistically expect to be 6th or7th, Sales & Marketing will boast that their lame product is the best ever, the new king of the market-share.
Steaming pile of bullshit. If WoW will ever be overthrown, it won't happen over night. It will be a very long and slow process, requiring tons of work and patience from the competitor. My bet is still on Blizzard. Titan will pwn.
Snail mail is practically dead. Just let it rest in peace.
Keep pictures in their native high resolution on hard drives/DVD/Blurays.
With all the tiny shred of modesty left inside me, I don't think this deserves to be a Slashdot question, most hi-techies I know either don't have a facebook account or if they do they are a bit ashamed of having one.
I get a lot more value for my money buying games at a books/media store that buys the remnants that didn't sell originally a year ago and sells them for $10 a title or less, plus they work on hardware I already have.
And people laugh at me when I tell them time travel is already possible. It's called money! Its your own choice if you want to live in the past.
Getting performance levels or experiences at a standard of 1-2 years ago is cheap. The present is expensive.
Keep in mind thou, my comment was based on the assumption that you were actually honest and describing your actual use pattern, and you were not presenting some extreme use case, just to be over-dramatic. Was my assumption wrong?
I can't imagine how you can actually enjoy yourself playing computer games twice a month. It's like buying a screwdriver to screw some screws once every 20 years and complaining that the screwdriver gets outdated meanwhile. My only explanation, and feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, is that you try to artificially maintain an idea that you actually play computer games.
Don't get me wrong, I mean, you don't have to play them if you are busy doing anything else. And its fine. Pretending that you are, with all respect, sounds phony.
There are no 4 ranges, there were only 3:
Budget was always <100$
Mid-Range 100$-400$
Enthusiast >400$. Yes, there are some very sweet cards even at 1,000$. Yes, my 3 year old water-cooled vendor-over-clocked, even more over-clocked by me card beats your so called "Enthusiast" range card.
No, there is no "I thing people thinking different than me are stupid" category, doesn't matter if we talk about 1$ or 1,000,000$.
I agree Anarchduke. Stealing is stealing, doesn't matter if the thing that got stoled does not exist physically or the owner was not "harmed". And you know something, I used to pirate too. But I never fooled myself that its ok to do it.
These guys preaching all forms of sophisms to make excuses for stealing know it too.They are just trolling.
And its getting really boring, indeed.