Who uses the indexes though? The customers. Complaining it's bogus, well, how about you use the web without using a search engine? How many web sites would choose not to be represented on a Google search?
The government doesn't have to break up a monopoly, you can wait for them to die naturally. But you could make the argument that intervening before natural death is better for the world economy.
If a pre-beta delivers close to comparable results to a release product, the release product will be significantly faster. You all knew that though. The journalist evidently doesn't.
Loud hard drives do exist, even in the 7200 RPM range. Consider yourself lucky if you've never hard to make the decision of whether or not to swap out an otherwise decent drive simply because the thing won't shut up. We have some 5+ year old Dells at work with hard drives that chatter annoyingly,
I hadn't heard that 2.2 was going to include podcast downloads. That's fantastic. It also explains why they shut down Podcaster, because Apple doesn't allow you to compete with their apps on the iPhone.
When microsoft do this, the EC and USA antimonopoly courts sue them to a fare-thee-well. I'm waiting for them to do it to apple.
170M standard - pay big $$$ for extra, and there is no such thing as unlimited. Max is 9Gig. There are other carriers here (Aus) but none AFAIK offer unlimited plans.
I am working on building a Drenaenei Shaman and since I started there have been some changes made to the Shaman Class that have been referred to as nerfs. It takes time to build a talent tree up and can be expensive to edit, have you considered allowing a free edit to a tree after changes have been made.
WTF? Some raids the toons respec a couple of times during. As a matter of course. Or respec, do dps tests on Dr Boom, then respec again, repeat, rinse.
No, I don't buy gold.:)
"A really positive move would be to ban all advertisements targeted at kids. It traps parents into a neverending spending cycle many can barely afford in the first place."
I dunno...my parents had a VERY effective manner in dealing with this 'neverending spending cycle' you mention. It was the simple word, "no".
While I'd agree we have too much advertisement in general...just because it is advertised doesn't mean you have to buy it for yourself or your kid. That simple word "no", was quite effective when dealing with all sorts of issues during my upbringing.
WHy, of course you can have it dear... How are you going to pay for it though?
Is transoceanic travel by ship feasible anymore? I've always wanted to visit Australia, and have always hated airports, etc. Are there still ships you can do that on?
Yes, and it's surprisingly cheap. Goto the UK, steal a loaf of bread, and voila!
It's your prerogative to use an double indirect method of voting for your president - don't complain about the results when they don't turn out how you like! Here's a thought. Have a ballot paper with the names of ppl who want to stand, count the votes, and the person with most votes wins! Saves with all the precandidate and college stuff.
I've had my laptop searched and I wasn't even going through Customs. Since then I refuse to take a computer onto a plane. I don't even know what they'll consider problem material anymore. It seems to change every week. They didn't let one guy on a plane because he was praying to Allah. Some oddball girl from MIT was harassed because she had a prototyping board with LEDs strapped to her shirt. What if I have text files of Slashdot comments on my desktop which often contain anti-US government sentiment? I'm more frightened of DHS right now than any terrorist. With that information, I don't need anyone's data.
Do we need to go back to the idea of 'Network computers' to deter them from doing this? Maybe not quite that far, but a computer that only contains application software, and all data is in RAM. (easily dumped RAM, too)
Corporate security is already making noises about what to have on laptops for crossing USA borders.
Slashdot Mirror
RMS might be right about cloud computing then. WTF knows what images lurk in my gmail spam folder, un-noticed.
Who uses the indexes though? The customers. Complaining it's bogus, well, how about you use the web without using a search engine? How many web sites would choose not to be represented on a Google search?
Expensive? $6.50USD from Blizzard.
The government doesn't have to break up a monopoly, you can wait for them to die naturally. But you could make the argument that intervening before natural death is better for the world economy.
No, but if you fail a degree course, you can't learn.
We can not afford to spend money, not right now.
There, fixed it for ya.
Balmer's running on a 486 version of this as we 'speak'
Wonder what the idle % is.
Agreed, it's how the smaller towns make their money. Good luck fighting the tickets in their court!
Good luck getting me to front up to your court when I've returned home (to Australia)
If a pre-beta delivers close to comparable results to a release product, the release product will be significantly faster. You all knew that though. The journalist evidently doesn't.
Seriously, the guy is delusional. Insane. A nutter. Crazy. Over the rainbow. Bars in the window. Truly gone fishing. Out to lunch.
He's apeshit mad, barmy, batty, berserk, bonkers, cracked, crazed, cuckoo, daft, delirious, demented, deranged, dingy, dippy, erratic, flaky, flipped, flipped out, freaked out, fruity, idiotic, kooky, lunatic, mad, maniacal, mental, moonstruck, nutty as fruitcake, of unsound mind, out of his tree, psycho, he's round the bend, a schizo, a screwball, he has a screw loose, silly, touched, unbalanced, unglued, unhinged, unzipped, wacky.
Right! Add all of them to the list of defendants as well!
But a monopoly on what? phone OSes? phones?
Loud hard drives do exist, even in the 7200 RPM range. Consider yourself lucky if you've never hard to make the decision of whether or not to swap out an otherwise decent drive simply because the thing won't shut up. We have some 5+ year old Dells at work with hard drives that chatter annoyingly,
Like some cow-orkers.
I hadn't heard that 2.2 was going to include podcast downloads. That's fantastic. It also explains why they shut down Podcaster, because Apple doesn't allow you to compete with their apps on the iPhone.
When microsoft do this, the EC and USA antimonopoly courts sue them to a fare-thee-well. I'm waiting for them to do it to apple.
Sigh, if having an iPhone meant unlimited data...
http://www.telstra.com.au/nextgnetwork/ipricing.htm
170M standard - pay big $$$ for extra, and there is no such thing as unlimited. Max is 9Gig. There are other carriers here (Aus) but none AFAIK offer unlimited plans.
Nothing, but it gets the respect it deserves.
Twitter? Who is this Twitter? I thought it was one of those mindless social networking tools.
Someone's probably posted it, but my immediate reaction reading about Azure was that MS had changed from BSOD to ASOD...
I am working on building a Drenaenei Shaman and since I started there have been some changes made to the Shaman Class that have been referred to as nerfs. It takes time to build a talent tree up and can be expensive to edit, have you considered allowing a free edit to a tree after changes have been made.
WTF? Some raids the toons respec a couple of times during. As a matter of course. Or respec, do dps tests on Dr Boom, then respec again, repeat, rinse. No, I don't buy gold. :)
"A really positive move would be to ban all advertisements targeted at kids. It traps parents into a neverending spending cycle many can barely afford in the first place."
I dunno...my parents had a VERY effective manner in dealing with this 'neverending spending cycle' you mention. It was the simple word, "no".
While I'd agree we have too much advertisement in general...just because it is advertised doesn't mean you have to buy it for yourself or your kid. That simple word "no", was quite effective when dealing with all sorts of issues during my upbringing.
WHy, of course you can have it dear... How are you going to pay for it though?
In the common usage of "Americans", which is vernacular, the most common usage by far is "Americans = People from the USA".
Common usage != correct usage
Regardless of this, USisans is not in any way a word. Argue with that until you realize I'm right.
USians is an ugly word. How about US citizens? It doesn't kill you to use two words.
Here's a probably dumb question.
Is transoceanic travel by ship feasible anymore? I've always wanted to visit Australia, and have always hated airports, etc. Are there still ships you can do that on?
Yes, and it's surprisingly cheap. Goto the UK, steal a loaf of bread, and voila!
:)
http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/articles/convicts/
--
Aussie with weird sense of humour
Most of the major cargo shipping companies also carry passengers.
http://thetravelersnotebook.com/how-to/how-to-travel-by-cargo-ship/
Yesss, I suppose you could fit out a container to be comfortable.
It also sucks to be a place nobody will want to visit, so, right back at you.
There, fixed it for you
It's your prerogative to use an double indirect method of voting for your president - don't complain about the results when they don't turn out how you like! Here's a thought. Have a ballot paper with the names of ppl who want to stand, count the votes, and the person with most votes wins! Saves with all the precandidate and college stuff.
I've had my laptop searched and I wasn't even going through Customs. Since then I refuse to take a computer onto a plane. I don't even know what they'll consider problem material anymore. It seems to change every week. They didn't let one guy on a plane because he was praying to Allah. Some oddball girl from MIT was harassed because she had a prototyping board with LEDs strapped to her shirt. What if I have text files of Slashdot comments on my desktop which often contain anti-US government sentiment? I'm more frightened of DHS right now than any terrorist. With that information, I don't need anyone's data.
Do we need to go back to the idea of 'Network computers' to deter them from doing this? Maybe not quite that far, but a computer that only contains application software, and all data is in RAM. (easily dumped RAM, too) Corporate security is already making noises about what to have on laptops for crossing USA borders.
Someone went through the password recovery dialog and was able to guess answer "Where did you meet your spouse?".
In the back row of this cinema...