OEM OS's don't come "never-booted". Every time I've booted a new computer with an OEM OS, it's already installed - not just some installer files waiting to be run. Where do you think all the crap like "Lenovo ThingMonitor Utility #'s 1-10" and "Dell FactoryReset My Disk Utility" come from? They're installed, at the factory, after the OS, before I ever see the hardware. First thing I do any time I get a computer with OEM OS installed is blank the drive and install the OS from optical.
There are reasons to conserve besides "it doant cost me so much". Ever hear of externalization? It cost *somebody*. I can argue that it cost *everybody*.
As the ancestor said: "If you have a good reason to get a fast, power hungry CPU, then fine, but otherwise is would be a waste"... of electricity if not of money.
because I detect some sour grapes over outsourcing in the tone of your message, please target your wrath at the rich Western CEOs [pocket] the cost differential
First of all, how is THAT *not* sour grapes over outsourcing?
Second of all, you're imagining quite a laughable scenario.
You're assuming that if the differential didn't exist, all other things would nevertheless remain equal.
That the CEOs would otherwise spend the money on the high priced laborers anyway. That the CEOs would charge the same price for the goods and services their companies produce anyway, though their labor costs are much higher. That the companies would actually have the money to pay the CEOs an amount that is equal to what the "cost differential" would have been if it had existed. That the customers would have the money to pay for this company's goods and services at the same volume which would have been possible, had this pricing efficiency in labor existed for all participants in the Western or global economy.
Inefficiency affects everybody. Outsourcing makes the whole pie bigger, not just the CEO's slice.
I went to the Save The Redwoods League annual meeting last year and saw a heatmap that was produced from LIDAR remote-sensing.
The heatmap was of a several-square-km's area of second-growth Coast Redwood forest. The "heat" metric represented the rate at which carbon was being sequestered in new biomass. Both height and girth of trees were important.
In another presentation, the LIDAR data yielded an unbelievably detailed 3D model of the entire forest at all levels, from ground to canopy. This informs conservation work on not only the redwoods but dozens of other threatened species and the Northern California coastal forest ecosystem on the whole.
These LIDAR were shot from airplanes, not NASA's satellites, so the resolution is orders of magnitude greater. But it goes to show this kind of data is valuable.
0.55% of 3 million iPhone 4 buyers == 16,500 complaints.
At the press conference today it's been said that 3 million have been sold, and that 1.7% have been returned. Three times as many people have just up and returned them as called to complain about them.
So we've got 67,500 iPhone 4 buyers pissed-off about it enough to do something which impacts Apple.
altering consciousness is something that humans have taken part in for literally thousands of years.
If Oklahoma is going to regulate activities which entrain brainwaves, they need to target the pushers purveying prayer and even training young kids and defenseless elders in its practice.
How about: "SOME liturature classes should be about exposing the students to works that they would probably not have discovered on their own... THIS YEAR"?
Otherwise you're judging that anything they already read is completely bereft of of any study potential whatsoever.
How about: "ANY literature class should be about exposing the students to ways of thinking that they would probably not have discovered on their own... EVER"?
I've long said that it would be no less valuable in teaching appreciation, criticism and "the language" to use the literature which they're already choosing for themselves than it is to make them bore through all the standard oldtimey crap before they want or care to do so.
Sure, that wouldn't be as valuable in teaching "the canon" specifically, but why can't that be another year's curriculum? Literature is about more than "These are the authors/works you need to read". It's about "These authors/works are widely appreciated, let's help you enjoy and appreciate them too".
It would be more effective to teach someone these works after they already have some experience at appreciating something, rather than trying to teach appreciation at the same time as forcing anachronistic material on somebody who doesn't otherwise have any reason for choosing that material.
It's like food: "Here, this is good for you, so figure out how to make some dish with it" is less likely to help a kid form a taste for that nutiritious food than is "Here, this dish is delicious, want to know how it's done and what to buy? ps it's good for you"
NetBSD's LFS is totally unexciting compared to MILFS 1.0, which everyone knows will go down on you, play rusty trombone with you, wrap her boobs around you, and otherwise get you off while her hubby and kids aren't home.
While Safari may have been ~released~ after the IE:Mac death, don't you doubt that Safari wasn't imagined, conceived, developed in part, or otherwise known to M$, ~before~ they stopped developing IE:Mac? They must have known of the "Apple browser".
Don't be amazed. Just gather the satire and appreciate what inspired it.
It's not an imaginary, deluded attack on the Red, White and Blue. It's rightful disgust at the path that's tread, particularly but not exclusively by the current administration.
I don't have a mouth, any hands, a telephone, no pen, paper or ink, a fax machine, no computer, no civil liberties at all, a voter registration, or any other means of acting like it's worth it to try even though it might seem... like... it's 1984.
So for a priveledged, able-bodied, sound-minded eligible citizen to blow off any notion of action really burns my ass.
I mean, do you feel bette arguing against making any effort? Or does it feel better to act upon your conscience in some way that is more sincere than blowing hot pus out your face?
Actually, the wave in the lake is carried by something akin to phonons (heck, they might be phonons - I hate fluid mech). That is, the wave is "transmitted" by quanta of the intermolecular forces, not by any particles in the medium itself.
What an unhelpful comment. Sure, the actual force is carried between charged poles and between particles By Pho[N]ons, uh huh, at rate C, of course, bravo for your brilliance.
The wave damn well does propagate through/via "particles in the medium itself". See that H2O bouncing up and down? Isn't the poor GP's illustration acceptable, Mr. Man?
Lastly, what the hell do photons have to do with fluid mech? It's not quantum electrodynamics, chummy.
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OEM OS's don't come "never-booted". Every time I've booted a new computer with an OEM OS, it's already installed - not just some installer files waiting to be run. Where do you think all the crap like "Lenovo ThingMonitor Utility #'s 1-10" and "Dell FactoryReset My Disk Utility" come from? They're installed, at the factory, after the OS, before I ever see the hardware. First thing I do any time I get a computer with OEM OS installed is blank the drive and install the OS from optical.
There are reasons to conserve besides "it doant cost me so much". Ever hear of externalization? It cost *somebody*. I can argue that it cost *everybody*.
As the ancestor said: "If you have a good reason to get a fast, power hungry CPU, then fine, but otherwise is would be a waste"... of electricity if not of money.
Do the word police exist outside the English speaking world?
because I detect some sour grapes over outsourcing in the tone of your message, please target your wrath at the rich Western CEOs [pocket] the cost differential
First of all, how is THAT *not* sour grapes over outsourcing?
Second of all, you're imagining quite a laughable scenario.
You're assuming that if the differential didn't exist, all other things would nevertheless remain equal.
That the CEOs would otherwise spend the money on the high priced laborers anyway.
That the CEOs would charge the same price for the goods and services their companies produce anyway, though their labor costs are much higher.
That the companies would actually have the money to pay the CEOs an amount that is equal to what the "cost differential" would have been if it had existed.
That the customers would have the money to pay for this company's goods and services at the same volume which would have been possible, had this pricing efficiency in labor existed for all participants in the Western or global economy.
Inefficiency affects everybody. Outsourcing makes the whole pie bigger, not just the CEO's slice.
I went to the Save The Redwoods League annual meeting last year and saw a heatmap that was produced from LIDAR remote-sensing.
The heatmap was of a several-square-km's area of second-growth Coast Redwood forest. The "heat" metric represented the rate at which carbon was being sequestered in new biomass. Both height and girth of trees were important.
In another presentation, the LIDAR data yielded an unbelievably detailed 3D model of the entire forest at all levels, from ground to canopy. This informs conservation work on not only the redwoods but dozens of other threatened species and the Northern California coastal forest ecosystem on the whole.
These LIDAR were shot from airplanes, not NASA's satellites, so the resolution is orders of magnitude greater. But it goes to show this kind of data is valuable.
0.55% of 3 million iPhone 4 buyers == 16,500 complaints.
At the press conference today it's been said that 3 million have been sold, and that 1.7% have been returned. Three times as many people have just up and returned them as called to complain about them.
So we've got 67,500 iPhone 4 buyers pissed-off about it enough to do something which impacts Apple.
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altering consciousness is something that humans have taken part in for literally thousands of years.
If Oklahoma is going to regulate activities which entrain brainwaves, they need to target the pushers purveying prayer and even training young kids and defenseless elders in its practice.
That's right, Oklahoma, go after the churches.
...one named YOU!
...which was when I started the trend whereby webmasters would badge their sites with "This site best viewed in MY browser"
How about: "SOME liturature classes should be about exposing the students to works that they would probably not have discovered on their own... THIS YEAR"?
Otherwise you're judging that anything they already read is completely bereft of of any study potential whatsoever.
How about: "ANY literature class should be about exposing the students to ways of thinking that they would probably not have discovered on their own... EVER"?
I've long said that it would be no less valuable in teaching appreciation, criticism and "the language" to use the literature which they're already choosing for themselves than it is to make them bore through all the standard oldtimey crap before they want or care to do so.
Sure, that wouldn't be as valuable in teaching "the canon" specifically, but why can't that be another year's curriculum? Literature is about more than "These are the authors/works you need to read". It's about "These authors/works are widely appreciated, let's help you enjoy and appreciate them too".
It would be more effective to teach someone these works after they already have some experience at appreciating something, rather than trying to teach appreciation at the same time as forcing anachronistic material on somebody who doesn't otherwise have any reason for choosing that material.
It's like food: "Here, this is good for you, so figure out how to make some dish with it" is less likely to help a kid form a taste for that nutiritious food than is "Here, this dish is delicious, want to know how it's done and what to buy? ps it's good for you"
NetBSD's LFS is totally unexciting compared to MILFS 1.0, which everyone knows will go down on you, play rusty trombone with you, wrap her boobs around you, and otherwise get you off while her hubby and kids aren't home.
cat smokeonthewater.mp3 >
"before time started"
:)
Now, ~that's~ nonsensical! (LWYNAY*)
You're the only one saying "before", everyone else is talking about the beginning or the start.
"If something started time, then that implies"...
Implies nothing, except that there's a zero moment. "Before" that? No time at all! Maybe something else, but not any time.
*Laughing with you not at you
While Safari may have been ~released~ after the IE:Mac death, don't you doubt that Safari wasn't imagined, conceived, developed in part, or otherwise known to M$, ~before~ they stopped developing IE:Mac? They must have known of the "Apple browser".
Don't be amazed. Just gather the satire and appreciate what inspired it.
It's not an imaginary, deluded attack on the Red, White and Blue. It's rightful disgust at the path that's tread, particularly but not exclusively by the current administration.
Pretending there's no prior art:
Priceless!
> All this does is call in to question ALL the election results.
Pretty good point.
It does indeed suggest one of two things:
Either
voters change their sentiments between elections
or
any election may be tampered.
Since the researchers don't consider the first, they judge that the second happened with surprising magnitude.
Personally, I'm not convinced either way, but, whichever of the options are closer to the truth, I will say that I too am surprised at the magnitude.
I don't have a mouth, any hands, a telephone, no pen, paper or ink, a fax machine, no computer, no civil liberties at all, a voter registration, or any other means of acting like it's worth it to try even though it might seem... like... it's 1984.
So for a priveledged, able-bodied, sound-minded eligible citizen to blow off any notion of action really burns my ass.
I mean, do you feel bette arguing against making any effort? Or does it feel better to act upon your conscience in some way that is more sincere than blowing hot pus out your face?
just kidding, I actually can write.
This might help with stolen CC's but that's not what identity theft is.
:)
If I apply for and receive a brand new CC in your name, you'll never know what my PIN will be
actually it will be 1234. OK?
> magazines offered a "bone fone."
Actually this is a different innovation, it's done with 900# technology.
Actually, the wave in the lake is carried by something akin to phonons (heck, they might be phonons - I hate fluid mech). That is, the wave is "transmitted" by quanta of the intermolecular forces, not by any particles in the medium itself.
What an unhelpful comment. Sure, the actual force is carried between charged poles and between particles By Pho[N]ons, uh huh, at rate C, of course, bravo for your brilliance.
The wave damn well does propagate through/via "particles in the medium itself". See that H2O bouncing up and down? Isn't the poor GP's illustration acceptable, Mr. Man?
Lastly, what the hell do photons have to do with fluid mech? It's not quantum electrodynamics, chummy.
Nothing does!
Anonymously, of course.
> Verizon: We were wondering. I've been getting calls all day.
Has a call center ever been slashdotted before?