I was going for +-1 "possibly technical correct but just a bit funny". I was not expecting that one part to be taken seriously. I have taken any US bashing I may produce (and I back US decisions more often than I bash them) to other more productive fora. My only real point real remains - there are certain topics on/. that get modded down regardless of merit (anti-American sentiment is most certanly one) even where a large percentage of Americans agree with the point themselves.
Please regard this as you see fit. It is just one opinion and happens to be mine.
Actually, anybody who just posts now and then and behaves a bit on/. will have their karma maxed pretty easily.
Not unless you're towing the party line at Slashdot. There are many topics, and discussions of them, where stating anything that is factually correct but against the slashbot touchy-feely meme gets you modded down into oblivion. For example, anyone taking an anti-American stance (even if its just akin to "I think all American chicks have huger asses than the global norm") will be modded down and shouted out. Watch this space.
And of course 90% of machines bought and sold daily are gaming rigs. Oh wait... TFA is titled "The Right *Desktop* Processor" which you obviously didn't bother to R.
Existing DSL and Cable are pretty much already paid for - its far from new tech and most of the infrastructure (cables) is already laid thanks to years-old phone and TV services. With the existing setup, DSL and cable speeds can easily be upgraded to their limits (which has been done in very few places) at the exchange end with minor expense. Once you reach the limits of existing established tech (DOCSIS / ADSL2 / cable has alot of unused bandwidth reserved for future TV) you require new infrastructure - currently this will mean FTTH (Fibre To The Home) or WiMax. WiMax requires towers / masts and repeaters (centralised hardware - no need for upgrades in every domestic phone/cable line. FTTH will be require infrastructure upgrades.
Since the infrastrucure is already in place and in the majority under-used the initial costs of the current infrastructure has been paid for many times over. Providers can easily edither reduce charges or increase throughput. The OP was completely correct that the main problem is the incumbents milking their cashcow for as long as they can.
I was thinking the same thing. Unless these life-forms evolved completely independent of other similar life-forms on earth, there is practically no corellation between life on earth (albeit at similar temperatures / conditions) and life on another planet. Earth-evolved life surviving on another planet might well be possible, but life beginning there is something else entirely.
Microsoft has spent the last year working almost solely on improving Entourage
WTF? Can I have some of what you're on please? I'd love to have that rosy happy warm feeling that beer isn't currently providing. Microsoft working full-time on a a Macintosh product? Pure comedy. Please don't let me down by making a retraction saying that perhaps you exagerated a stretch. After all, those can't be cheap pharmaceuticals you're imbibing.
Bandwidth costs? Everyone knows movie studios are sticking it to teh man at every opportunity. Why let those suckers^Hcustomers provide bandwidth for popular content? IN fact what else does bit torrent offer except bandwidth relief from a central server?
As for adding advertising, geez - how much longer must we put up with this useless intrusive medium? I buy products either locally (cheap delivery and sufficient for my needs) or online after good trusted consumer reviews. All these companies with huge marketting funds - MS especially, 100 million to sell a new revision of their OS - can the product not stand up on its own merits? Especially considering the entrenched masses?
What is it with marketting. Its like some sort of artificial magic tonic that dreaming idiots promise will make or break a product. Its almost as maddening as movie trailers showing ALL of the good bits, rather than just teasers of what is to come. Repeat customers do not come from marketting lies - IMO they come from either one of two things: desperation- eg. MS Office customers who can no longer read the document someone just sent to them; and happy customers who feel they got good value for money in a working product.
Most advertising these days is lying to their prospective consumers.
Imagine that. The buttons you use most displaying wear and tear after prolonged use! News at eleven.
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Amen. I stopped wtaching TV about 3 years ago. Sounds like I was right in the short and long term. Trouble is I get bored now and then. Any alternative options out there for *intelligent* mind food?
You have no idea. Only on/. can all of the RIAA / MPAA / Microsoft / Google / Apple / Creative / terrorists / freedom fighters be evil, yet the US government are infallible.
Don't ask any questions prole. You shall be interned, tortured and interrogated at our leisure, puny foreigner. You may have certain "favours" forced upon you in order to fight the common enemy, but we shall hold them against you at a later date. That is all.
I remember when everyone had cassettes and this whole CD thing was "never going to catch on", but the music companies rammed it down our throats soon enough by releasing albums on CD only. They used to love CDs and thought it would end copying / pirating of their stuff. Its since been proven without a doubt that CDs are not preventing piracy (and that digital is that much easier to rip and share). Instead of trying to innovate and come out with a new medium (or embracing an existing one - online downloads for example) they've decided to dig in and gouge their customers - by suing them or telling them what they can and cannot do. This sort of backwards thinking will be the death of their cartel. And I say good riddance.
I agree to some extent (that the most important data is in ~) but if you're not backing up that important data regularly why should I have any sympathy for you? If you are backing it up regularly then you don't have that much to lose in the event of it getting hosed, now do you?
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You, sir, are a master statistician. May I be the first to welcome you in advance as a future overlord?
Excellent. Browser specific hacks are your version of the way to future compliance? May the w3c gods shower you with quail and mana.
*cough* mod parent down :P
/. that get modded down regardless of merit (anti-American sentiment is most certanly one) even where a large percentage of Americans agree with the point themselves.
I was going for +-1 "possibly technical correct but just a bit funny". I was not expecting that one part to be taken seriously. I have taken any US bashing I may produce (and I back US decisions more often than I bash them) to other more productive fora. My only real point real remains - there are certain topics on
Please regard this as you see fit. It is just one opinion and happens to be mine.
Mod parent away please
Actually, anybody who just posts now and then and behaves a bit on /. will have their karma maxed pretty easily.
Not unless you're towing the party line at Slashdot. There are many topics, and discussions of them, where stating anything that is factually correct but against the slashbot touchy-feely meme gets you modded down into oblivion. For example, anyone taking an anti-American stance (even if its just akin to "I think all American chicks have huger asses than the global norm") will be modded down and shouted out. Watch this space.
And of course 90% of machines bought and sold daily are gaming rigs. Oh wait ... TFA is titled "The Right *Desktop* Processor" which you obviously didn't bother to R.
Existing DSL and Cable are pretty much already paid for - its far from new tech and most of the infrastructure (cables) is already laid thanks to years-old phone and TV services. With the existing setup, DSL and cable speeds can easily be upgraded to their limits (which has been done in very few places) at the exchange end with minor expense. Once you reach the limits of existing established tech (DOCSIS / ADSL2 / cable has alot of unused bandwidth reserved for future TV) you require new infrastructure - currently this will mean FTTH (Fibre To The Home) or WiMax. WiMax requires towers / masts and repeaters (centralised hardware - no need for upgrades in every domestic phone/cable line. FTTH will be require infrastructure upgrades. Since the infrastrucure is already in place and in the majority under-used the initial costs of the current infrastructure has been paid for many times over. Providers can easily edither reduce charges or increase throughput. The OP was completely correct that the main problem is the incumbents milking their cashcow for as long as they can.
Because it would be redundant :)
I was thinking the same thing. Unless these life-forms evolved completely independent of other similar life-forms on earth, there is practically no corellation between life on earth (albeit at similar temperatures / conditions) and life on another planet. Earth-evolved life surviving on another planet might well be possible, but life beginning there is something else entirely.
I dunno WRAC sounds good to me. "Dude! Your blog^Hwebsite is a WRAC (wreck)" - fair enough, it probably IS just me.
Microsoft has spent the last year working almost solely on improving Entourage
WTF? Can I have some of what you're on please? I'd love to have that rosy happy warm feeling that beer isn't currently providing. Microsoft working full-time on a a Macintosh product? Pure comedy. Please don't let me down by making a retraction saying that perhaps you exagerated a stretch. After all, those can't be cheap pharmaceuticals you're imbibing.
Bandwidth costs? Everyone knows movie studios are sticking it to teh man at every opportunity. Why let those suckers^Hcustomers provide bandwidth for popular content? IN fact what else does bit torrent offer except bandwidth relief from a central server?
As for adding advertising, geez - how much longer must we put up with this useless intrusive medium? I buy products either locally (cheap delivery and sufficient for my needs) or online after good trusted consumer reviews. All these companies with huge marketting funds - MS especially, 100 million to sell a new revision of their OS - can the product not stand up on its own merits? Especially considering the entrenched masses?
What is it with marketting. Its like some sort of artificial magic tonic that dreaming idiots promise will make or break a product. Its almost as maddening as movie trailers showing ALL of the good bits, rather than just teasers of what is to come. Repeat customers do not come from marketting lies - IMO they come from either one of two things: desperation- eg. MS Office customers who can no longer read the document someone just sent to them; and happy customers who feel they got good value for money in a working product.
Most advertising these days is lying to their prospective consumers.
Mr Macintosh ?
How did you manage to spell "teh" incorrectly and still make such a huge meal of rhetorical?
Thats two *sentences*. Please practice better punctuation / clarity or we will be forced to relegate you to slashdot editor. Bloody proles.
Imagine that. The buttons you use most displaying wear and tear after prolonged use! News at eleven.
Amen. I stopped wtaching TV about 3 years ago. Sounds like I was right in the short and long term. Trouble is I get bored now and then. Any alternative options out there for *intelligent* mind food?
You have no idea. Only on /. can all of the RIAA / MPAA / Microsoft / Google / Apple / Creative / terrorists / freedom fighters be evil, yet the US government are infallible.
Don't ask any questions prole. You shall be interned, tortured and interrogated at our leisure, puny foreigner. You may have certain "favours" forced upon you in order to fight the common enemy, but we shall hold them against you at a later date. That is all.
Yeah, because terrorism works so well and has not been stopped because it/they keep following the same old routine. O wait ...
I remember when everyone had cassettes and this whole CD thing was "never going to catch on", but the music companies rammed it down our throats soon enough by releasing albums on CD only. They used to love CDs and thought it would end copying / pirating of their stuff. Its since been proven without a doubt that CDs are not preventing piracy (and that digital is that much easier to rip and share). Instead of trying to innovate and come out with a new medium (or embracing an existing one - online downloads for example) they've decided to dig in and gouge their customers - by suing them or telling them what they can and cannot do. This sort of backwards thinking will be the death of their cartel. And I say good riddance.
Mom? Is that you?
I'm leaving now and will be home soon. Sorry about all that stuff I posted earlier.
I agree to some extent (that the most important data is in ~) but if you're not backing up that important data regularly why should I have any sympathy for you? If you are backing it up regularly then you don't have that much to lose in the event of it getting hosed, now do you?
Common is right. I've seen stuff in my fridge take on more life when you point a spotlight at it.
Last I heard they went out of business for being a vapourware company.