I think what you want to say is that they are "A bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes."
Curiously enough, an edition of the Wikipedia which conveniently fell through a rift in the time-space continuum from 1000 years in the future describes them as: "A bunch of mindless jerks who were the first against the wall when the revolution came."
I just bought new hardware, because my CPU died and I decided that I wanted to spend money on a new machine instead of just a CPU. So I build the new machine (CPU, memory and mobo) added the PSU, disks and videocards. Booted the machine and that was it.
OK, I had to edit the software that looked at fan speeds and edit the router to link the IP to the correct MAC address, but that was it.
Next weekend I will do a system upgrade using this method and I do not expect any issues. Done it on several other systems as well, so I now just run a script to do it for me.
often deciding that they want to load into memory and stay there before you even use them
This is a GOOD thing. That is what memory is for: to be used as memory. Of my 16GB of memory, 13GB is used and my system is almost idle. If I would add another 16GB, the system would use that as well.
If my memory usage was NOT around 80-90% I would be feeling ripped off.
I am happy that my OS uses it, because I payed money for it. Why NOT use it?
So no, it should not figure out if it has been idle for 2 days. If something else needs it, my OS will decide what it will drop. Read this this and http://www.linuxatemyram.com/ Yes, directed at Linux, but I am sure that Apple uses the same things. No idea about Windows. I believe (as in not sure) that they now do this as well.
I have constantly 12 workspaces open with a multitude of programs and several panels with applets on them and I can easily add a LOT more if I so desire. Still a dream to work.
Add memory is you use swap a lot (because that slows things down) For your disk, go SSD. That will give you a great increase of speed. For startup use suspend or hibernate, which will give you a perceived increase of speed.
I use suspend and my PC is on before my monitor when I start them at the same time. 4 seconds from button press on the computer that is 'off' to working mode.
The "problem" is that is does generate less money for people who sell computers.
I make my computers myself as well and I have noticed a serious need in building a new machine. To me an upgrade mainly means new motherboard, CPU and memory. I recently bought a new one. Not because the 4 year old hardware was slow, but because the CPU broke.
Yes, I could have replaced just the CPU. Instead I build a new system that will last another 4-5 years at least.
The main speed increase I bought before that was an SSD disk.
And you might be the odd one out, because you are satisfied with good, while great is achievable at a reasonably low price: AMD FX-8350 8 core 190EUR GA-990XA-UD3 Mobo 105 EUR Zalman Z9 case 50 EUR (Medium tower fits better under my desk then a high tower) Enermax ELC 240 watercooler 100 EUR (old watercooler broke, burning the CPU. I forgot to add water) 16GB DDR3-1600 110EUR (and if I so desire I can add another
16GB)
I already had 2 video cards to have my 4x1920x1200 monitors running (No 3D needed, so GeForce 8400GS is enough). I already had my HDs and power. I already had my case fans.
So for a total of less then 560EUR (including 21% TVA. ) I have a system that runs great instead of good for the next 5-7 years. Drop the water cooler and the case and I am at 400EUR (incl TVA) Over the time that I had my system, that is 100 EUR per year.
For that amount of money why would I need to be satisfied with good if I can get great?
Slap them for selling it. Do not slap them for selling it to the highest bidder.
I already told my parents that if they leave anything for me to inherit, I will sell it. If they want something to be in the family in the future, they should give it NOW to my sister.
If they want somebody else to have it, they should give it NOW to whomever they want to have it.
So if he needs to slap somebody, he should slap himself for not seeing to it that it landed where he thought it should go. Or perhaps he did and he very well knew they would be selling it.
Something that may be even more important is if they read your resume on Monday morning or on Friday afternoon. Or if they gotten any at home or had to give it up at home. Or if the HR persons kids are sick.
It will depend a lot on the job. The best advice I have gotten is to be yourself. If they do not want to hire you because you use the wrong browser, you are better without them. If you just want the job for the money, there are other ones that pay better. (OK, some might not be legal or at least not socially accepted, depending on the country you live in.)
Indeed those countries are probably on my computer. Obviously the Americans are not on my computer. They do not have to be. They are on my providers provider computers. they are on my routers along the way. They are reading my mail. They analyze my postings. They look at my profile.
They are not targeting my computer or even my money. They who I am. I think I would settle for a few Russians, Chinese or Iranians. They just want my money. They do not want my ID (as in ID and Ego).
No, I am not paranoia. Paranoia is when you think you are being followed. I _KNOW_ that I am being followed.
From what I see on the site by clicking on the link in the summery: This page (http://www.shodanhq.com/) is currently offline. However, because the site uses CloudFlare's Always Onlineâ technology you can continue to surf a snapshot of the site. We will keep checking in the background and, as soon as the site comes back, you will automatically be served the live version.
http://susestudio.com/ and make your own. As light or as heavy as you desire. A starting point is JeOS. From the first page: You can export your custom operating system as a Virtual machine, Live USB Disk, CD/DVD-ROM, Hard Disk Image and so much more.
As you want something very specific a great way would be SUSE Studio. Because I might want just a little bit different configuration then what you would want.
Ending the cold war? Pulling down the wall? Just like me, she was alive when it happened. The ending of the cold war was not because of her. It was despite of her (and everybody else in Western politics.) She did not break down the wall. The people broke down the wall. The people of Eastern Europe broke down the wall.
When the wall was still up, I spoke to a high officer in the German army and he told me what would happen if the wall fell. He talked about the cost. He talked about the initial happiness and the later resentment from the wessies towards the ossies. He told about how it would happen and he gave 3 differnent ways it would happen.
One of those three was almost identical what happened. The others also included actions from the people.
He was sure and certain that there would be no real involvement from the West, because they were too scared to take actions. And perhaps rightfully so. All this some years before the wall fell and I and others thought he was an idiot. Now I know he was just telling more then he was allowed to.
The politicians where just, like everybody else in the west, asking to pull down the wall, but that is not the reason they did it. Even if nobody would have said anything in the west, they still would have broken down the wall to come and eat some banana's.
The only thing that was not certain was when it would happen. The predictions the officer was talking about was some 15 years later.
My grandfather sharpened the edges of coins, so they could put them between their fingers when fighting. Bar fights are done without the duct tape. Just use any glass or bottle and break the end while holding it.
Look at the average documentary about prisons and you will know that anything can be made into a weapon.
And if you are a danger with a nail clipper, you are a danger without it.
The next step would naturally be to force the companies to correct the data that they have wrong.
Just for your information: this is already law in Europe. Many people think that this means they can remove their details, but that is not possible because of other laws. e.g. for billing reasons you can not remove the customers data, but you are allowed to update it. This can also mean that in various cases, they will need proof. e.g. we asked a signed form if you want to change your address.
This does not mean that you need to hand over every detail you have on the customer. e.g. notes made do not need to be handed over (unless there is some sort of order by a judge, but then everything goes.)
This is your punishment for reading/. on April 1st. I think it is the best. I hope that for next year they say they close the site and not post anything at all.
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I think what you want to say is that they are "A bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes."
Curiously enough, an edition of the Wikipedia which conveniently fell through a rift in the time-space continuum from 1000 years in the future describes them as: "A bunch of mindless jerks who were the first against the wall when the revolution came."
because that is what the customers want. What? You thought you were the customer? Sorry, you are renting it from the REAL customers: the telco's.
All the rest will be around how good they can track you and how easy they can take money from you.
I just bought new hardware, because my CPU died and I decided that I wanted to spend money on a new machine instead of just a CPU.
So I build the new machine (CPU, memory and mobo) added the PSU, disks and videocards. Booted the machine and that was it.
OK, I had to edit the software that looked at fan speeds and edit the router to link the IP to the correct MAC address, but that was it.
Next weekend I will do a system upgrade using this method and I do not expect any issues. Done it on several other systems as well, so I now just run a script to do it for me.
This is a GOOD thing. That is what memory is for: to be used as memory. Of my 16GB of memory, 13GB is used and my system is almost idle.
If I would add another 16GB, the system would use that as well.
If my memory usage was NOT around 80-90% I would be feeling ripped off.
I am happy that my OS uses it, because I payed money for it. Why NOT use it?
So no, it should not figure out if it has been idle for 2 days. If something else needs it, my OS will decide what it will drop.
Read this this and http://www.linuxatemyram.com/
Yes, directed at Linux, but I am sure that Apple uses the same things. No idea about Windows. I believe (as in not sure) that they now do this as well.
I have constantly 12 workspaces open with a multitude of programs and several panels with applets on them and I can easily add a LOT more if I so desire. Still a dream to work.
Add memory is you use swap a lot (because that slows things down)
For your disk, go SSD. That will give you a great increase of speed.
For startup use suspend or hibernate, which will give you a perceived increase of speed.
I use suspend and my PC is on before my monitor when I start them at the same time. 4 seconds from button press on the computer that is 'off' to working mode.
Being a Mac guy, you went for the racing stripe.
(Laugh! It's funny)
The "problem" is that is does generate less money for people who sell computers.
I make my computers myself as well and I have noticed a serious need in building a new machine. To me an upgrade mainly means new motherboard, CPU and memory. I recently bought a new one. Not because the 4 year old hardware was slow, but because the CPU broke.
Yes, I could have replaced just the CPU. Instead I build a new system that will last another 4-5 years at least.
The main speed increase I bought before that was an SSD disk.
And you might be the odd one out, because you are satisfied with good, while great is achievable at a reasonably low price:
AMD FX-8350 8 core 190EUR
GA-990XA-UD3 Mobo 105 EUR
Zalman Z9 case 50 EUR (Medium tower fits better under my desk then a high tower)
Enermax ELC 240 watercooler 100 EUR (old watercooler broke, burning the CPU. I forgot to add water)
16GB DDR3-1600 110EUR (and if I so desire I can add another
16GB)
I already had 2 video cards to have my 4x1920x1200 monitors running (No 3D needed, so GeForce 8400GS is enough).
I already had my HDs and power. I already had my case fans.
So for a total of less then 560EUR (including 21% TVA. ) I have a system that runs great instead of good for the next 5-7 years. Drop the water cooler and the case and I am at 400EUR (incl TVA)
Over the time that I had my system, that is 100 EUR per year.
For that amount of money why would I need to be satisfied with good if I can get great?
I think it is good that he did this. Not just to make KDE lightweight. There are DEs that are lighter, but that he did it.
This is what hacking is about: because he can.
Slap them for selling it. Do not slap them for selling it to the highest bidder.
I already told my parents that if they leave anything for me to inherit, I will sell it. If they want something to be in the family in the future, they should give it NOW to my sister.
If they want somebody else to have it, they should give it NOW to whomever they want to have it.
So if he needs to slap somebody, he should slap himself for not seeing to it that it landed where he thought it should go. Or perhaps he did and he very well knew they would be selling it.
Anyway, it was theirs to do with as they pleased.
I also do not care. I also have no will. I want everybody to genuinely be grieving.
Something that may be even more important is if they read your resume on Monday morning or on Friday afternoon. Or if they gotten any at home or had to give it up at home. Or if the HR persons kids are sick.
It will depend a lot on the job. The best advice I have gotten is to be yourself. If they do not want to hire you because you use the wrong browser, you are better without them. If you just want the job for the money, there are other ones that pay better. (OK, some might not be legal or at least not socially accepted, depending on the country you live in.)
Is that not true for anything? And next you compare something to helium.
This makes it sound as if helium is dangerous when handled properly.
And what was the value of that gold? That is just as artificial as any currency. It is just as made up.
It still look a lot better then the iYacht.
Indeed those countries are probably on my computer. Obviously the Americans are not on my computer. They do not have to be. They are on my providers provider computers. they are on my routers along the way. They are reading my mail. They analyze my postings. They look at my profile.
They are not targeting my computer or even my money. They who I am. I think I would settle for a few Russians, Chinese or Iranians. They just want my money. They do not want my ID (as in ID and Ego).
No, I am not paranoia. Paranoia is when you think you are being followed. I _KNOW_ that I am being followed.
From what I see on the site by clicking on the link in the summery:
This page (http://www.shodanhq.com/) is currently offline. However, because the site uses CloudFlare's Always Onlineâ technology you can continue to surf a snapshot of the site. We will keep checking in the background and, as soon as the site comes back, you will automatically be served the live version.
http://susestudio.com/ and make your own. As light or as heavy as you desire.
A starting point is JeOS. From the first page:
You can export your custom operating system as a Virtual machine, Live USB Disk, CD/DVD-ROM, Hard Disk Image and so much more.
As you want something very specific a great way would be SUSE Studio. Because I might want just a little bit different configuration then what you would want.
Ending the cold war? Pulling down the wall?
Just like me, she was alive when it happened. The ending of the cold war was not because of her. It was despite of her (and everybody else in Western politics.)
She did not break down the wall. The people broke down the wall. The people of Eastern Europe broke down the wall.
When the wall was still up, I spoke to a high officer in the German army and he told me what would happen if the wall fell. He talked about the cost. He talked about the initial happiness and the later resentment from the wessies towards the ossies. He told about how it would happen and he gave 3 differnent ways it would happen.
One of those three was almost identical what happened. The others also included actions from the people.
He was sure and certain that there would be no real involvement from the West, because they were too scared to take actions. And perhaps rightfully so. All this some years before the wall fell and I and others thought he was an idiot. Now I know he was just telling more then he was allowed to.
The politicians where just, like everybody else in the west, asking to pull down the wall, but that is not the reason they did it. Even if nobody would have said anything in the west, they still would have broken down the wall to come and eat some banana's.
The only thing that was not certain was when it would happen. The predictions the officer was talking about was some 15 years later.
Freedom lovers who really love it will fight for it.
And one countries freedom fighter is another countries terrorist.
My grandfather sharpened the edges of coins, so they could put them between their fingers when fighting.
Bar fights are done without the duct tape. Just use any glass or bottle and break the end while holding it.
Look at the average documentary about prisons and you will know that anything can be made into a weapon.
And if you are a danger with a nail clipper, you are a danger without it.
Almost/ The lobbyist are paid by those who BECOME the winning side.
You can even go further. How about Microsoft devices like the mouse or the keyboard?
They died both?
Just for your information: this is already law in Europe.
Many people think that this means they can remove their details, but that is not possible because of other laws. e.g. for billing reasons you can not remove the customers data, but you are allowed to update it.
This can also mean that in various cases, they will need proof. e.g. we asked a signed form if you want to change your address.
This does not mean that you need to hand over every detail you have on the customer. e.g. notes made do not need to be handed over (unless there is some sort of order by a judge, but then everything goes.)
I do not care if he is unsympathetic. I do not care if he is not innocent.
What I want to know if he is guilty and to me he is not.
Not innocent is not the same as guilty (beyond any reasonable doubt).
This is your punishment for reading /. on April 1st. I think it is the best. I hope that for next year they say they close the site and not post anything at all.