...she explained to me when I called her a few days later. "Constantly being accessible makes you inaccessible." All so true. But during our conversation, some auditory clues led me to ask her one more question. "Linda," I asked, "are you taking this interview while driving your car?" She admitted that she was...
I really can't think of a better punchline than that.
Well, I'm glad you think that computers are for surfing and typing. However, there are other people that actually use their PCs for other things.
oh really? What precisely were you just using your computer for.
Try ripping some CDs to MP3 or OGG on there. It'll take you at least twice as long to rip 20 CDs as someone with a better computer.
What percentage of your time do you spend actually doing that?
Try doing some real research. It's not uncommon for me to have several Firefox sessions with 10+ tabs in each session. Not to mention having PuTTY up and listening to MP3s. On top of that, I'm running Word to type up my report. You could do the same; have fun watching your disk thrash as your pagefile fills up.
I counter your anecdotal evidence with my own!
While I don't have 10+ tabs open in each session (I admit, it only takes 3-4 tabs of pr0n to do the job) I run my home machine under a pretty similar load, and experience none of this thrashing you speak of. In fact, I am suprised when my hard drive powers up (p3 500, 512m ram, debian)
My home PC records TV for me, outputs recorded video to the entertainment center, has 3 users (with fast user switching) running multiple programs, rips DVDs and MP3s, plays games, and much more.
OMG I must admit, my machine won't do this! I am missing some TV that I could be recording. You sir have made me incredibly upset. On the upside, your suprise at the ability to run a machine capable of "3 users (with fast user switching) running multiple programs, rips DVDs and MP3s, plays games, and much more." is in fact amazing! MULTIPLE USERS! WTF?!~ MUCH MORE
If you are happy running a lightweight desktop on an ageing PC, fine. But realise that other people value their time. Other people hate watching the desktop while Firefox loads. Other people watch videos and listen to music. For you to sit behind your old-school box and pretend that 90% of the people out there are just like you is dumb.
You sir, have made at least one correct statement. I quote, "For you to sit behind your old-school box and pretend that 90% of the people out there are just like you is dumb." The only reason that statement is even close to correct, is because of people that have a mentality similar to yours. I will attempt to sum that mindset up in the following statement
OMG LOL!!!1!!!@2 YOU caint run FIREoeFOx & BURN MP14? YOU Sux0r KTHX, WIN XP OWNS JOO - i can run 3 programs, JAT THE SAME TIME MOFO!~
I entered UTD as a national merit scholar, under a full scholarship with a stipend.
I made absolutely no use of it.
Nothing.
I dropped out a year later to participate in the dot com boom. Absolutely the biggest mistake of my life.
I now spend hours each day trying to crib from the web information that is taught in college.
My advice is as follows,
No matter how stupid you think your fellow students are, no matter how smart you think you are, no matter what you think you know,
the hunger for knowledge is always going to be there and the advantage of spending time at a learning institution far out weighs the minor disadvantage of being held responsible for your thoughts.
Slashdot already uses a much more ingenius method.
People post comments (HITs)
Comments get moderated (Human Task) Moderations get meta-moderated (Approval of Result) Meta-moderators are more likely to get moderation points. (Payment)
The best part about this: Slashdot pays you for your work with more work!
Yeah, here, take your reality check, go cash it and here's the extra 90 cents you'll need to afford a Big Mac.
Based on the average price of a Big Mac ($2.90 USD) and your previous statements, I am of the opinion that you have seriously under estimated the value of a reality check.
I seriously doubt the money or market share that Apple would make would compensate for the droves of programmers it would take to create and protect a "crippled" version of mac os x.
If you are honestly interested in the product, you can head down to your local vendor (compusa, best buy, fry's, et al.) and check out the real deal.
Seriously, $20? That worth less than 1/2 hour of my time.
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Commala-come-come
In short, no.
The "new" technology is a clever application of existing silicon fabrication techniques.
Hell, I'll tell you how it works, this diagram will be the example, so imagine X is a radioactive particle.
The usefulness goes DOWN [tt] with the number of possible connections, when more and more of those connections are low-quality.
I would argue that the utility does not go down with the number of possible connections. It is more likely that the extremely low learning curve for user-friendly aol-type connections has removed knowledge barriers that perhaps aught to have been left in place.
You get the dregs, like AO-Hell users who click on spam, windows lusers whose boxes breed viruses, etc
Wasn't AO-Hell an old AOL chat hacking tool from back in the dial-up days?
We may have passed the optimal size for the current breed of network users. Hopefully, the next generation won't be as clueless..
It's all about the wizards first rule. The next generation will be clueless in new and exciting ways.
having SBC dsl gives you access to certain premium yahoo services, (2g email, 250mg for up to 10 sub accounts, supersized briefcase, and some other junk I don't remember)
The average price was about $1.30 a gallon in 01/05.
I would much rather buy at that price than my local price of around $1.70 a gallon. Especially if I was considering losing a few thousand pounds of it.
Googlezon (a theoretical google/amazon merger) would have such powerful market potential. I can see it now.
Did you mean to buy this instead?
But would it happen? The models do not seem compatible. One recommends what others actually purchased and offers consumer reviews, the other is marketing supplied by the manufacturer.
Slashdot Mirror
Should you ever need to do anything fancy with that domain, you will be regretting the choice of Yahoo.
They outsource their domain registration, and it takes some serious hoop jumping to change or do anything interesting.
I am speaking from both personal experience and from research. See the following:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=yahoo+domain+registration+nightmare&btnG=Google+Search
You are absolutely correct.
Thats the same thought that I had,
However when I looked at it, the distribution doesn't look like that of a normal sentence.
Also, if paragraphs without italics are meaningful, what of paragraphs with multple letters in italics.
>> Finally, the larget, most violent storm we know of, Jupter's
>> Great Red Spot, hovers around only 111K to 125K.
>111K is hurricane force wind.
He was referring to the temperature in Kelvin.
111 kelvin = -259.87 degrees Fahrenheit
Which doesn't prove or disprove your point. I just thought you should know.
From the Article
I really can't think of a better punchline than that.
Well, I'm glad you think that computers are for surfing and typing. However, there are other people that actually use their PCs for other things.
oh really? What precisely were you just using your computer for.
Try ripping some CDs to MP3 or OGG on there. It'll take you at least twice as long to rip 20 CDs as someone with a better computer.
What percentage of your time do you spend actually doing that?
Try doing some real research. It's not uncommon for me to have several Firefox sessions with 10+ tabs in each session. Not to mention having PuTTY up and listening to MP3s. On top of that, I'm running Word to type up my report. You could do the same; have fun watching your disk thrash as your pagefile fills up.
I counter your anecdotal evidence with my own!
While I don't have 10+ tabs open in each session (I admit, it only takes 3-4 tabs of pr0n to do the job)
I run my home machine under a pretty similar load, and experience none of this thrashing you speak of. In fact, I am suprised when my hard drive powers up (p3 500, 512m ram, debian)
My home PC records TV for me, outputs recorded video to the entertainment center, has 3 users (with fast user switching) running multiple programs, rips DVDs and MP3s, plays games, and much more.
OMG I must admit, my machine won't do this! I am missing some TV that I could be recording. You sir have made me incredibly upset. On the upside, your suprise at the ability to run a machine capable of "3 users (with fast user switching) running multiple programs, rips DVDs and MP3s, plays games, and much more." is in fact amazing! MULTIPLE USERS! WTF?!~ MUCH MORE
If you are happy running a lightweight desktop on an ageing PC, fine. But realise that other people value their time. Other people hate watching the desktop while Firefox loads. Other people watch videos and listen to music. For you to sit behind your old-school box and pretend that 90% of the people out there are just like you is dumb.
You sir, have made at least one correct statement. I quote, "For you to sit behind your old-school box and pretend that 90% of the people out there are just like you is dumb." The only reason that statement is even close to correct, is because of people that have a mentality similar to yours. I will attempt to sum that mindset up in the following statement
OMG LOL!!!1!!!@2 YOU caint run FIREoeFOx & BURN MP14? YOU Sux0r KTHX, WIN XP OWNS JOO - i can run 3 programs, JAT THE SAME TIME MOFO!~
fucking shit man, look around you
I have
Symantec Antivirus Corporate and Microsoft Antispyware
running side by side on two machines.
To date I have had no problems... and did not experience the described behavior.
My guess is that I must have my auto-update scheduled later than those folks and didn't get my updates till it was fixed.
I was in a similar situation years ago.
I entered UTD as a national merit scholar, under a full scholarship with a stipend.
I made absolutely no use of it.
Nothing.
I dropped out a year later to participate in the dot com boom.
Absolutely the biggest mistake of my life.
I now spend hours each day trying to crib from the web information that is taught in college.
My advice is as follows,
No matter how stupid you think your fellow students are,
no matter how smart you think you are,
no matter what you think you know,
the hunger for knowledge is always going to be there
and the advantage of spending time at a learning institution
far out weighs the minor disadvantage of being held responsible for your thoughts.
but it is equally likely that he saw this comment over week ago,o ld=3&commentsort=0&tid=190&tid=109&mode=nested&cid =13944438
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=167223&thresh
Slashdot already uses a much more ingenius method.
People post comments (HITs)
Comments get moderated (Human Task)
Moderations get meta-moderated (Approval of Result)
Meta-moderators are more likely to get moderation points. (Payment)
The best part about this:
Slashdot pays you for your work with more work!
I find your ideas intruiging and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Yeah, here, take your reality check, go cash it and here's the extra 90 cents you'll need to afford a Big Mac.
Based on the average price of a Big Mac ($2.90 USD) and your previous statements, I am of the opinion that you have seriously under estimated the value of a reality check.
I think everyones assumption that this is going to be some huge AJAX web office deal is crazy and wrong.
The most likely result of the collaboration between Google and Sun is going to result in a new Google Appliance/Solaris/StarOffice combination.
It will most likely be sold to corporations.
With that said, I think the possibilities are still pretty awesome.
I seriously doubt the money or market share that Apple would make would compensate for the droves of programmers it would take to create and protect a "crippled" version of mac os x.
If you are honestly interested in the product, you can head down to your local vendor (compusa, best buy, fry's, et al.) and check out the real deal.
Seriously, $20?
That worth less than 1/2 hour of my time.
STEPHEN KING DIES NEAR LOVELL HOME Popular Maine Writer Killed While Taking Afternoon Walk Insider Climas Man Driving Lethal Van "Took eyes off the road" As He Approached King On Route 7 ...
Commala-come-come
took a quick google, I thought for a moment that a new nation had formed that I had never heard of.
Benelux apparently stands for
BElguim, NEtherlands, and LUXembourg.
When I was in high school (5 years ago or so), I took sociology.
For a project we had to conduct a survey of 100 people.
My particular survey consisted of a page with symbols on them, with a space below for writing what they stood for.
Amongst others, included was the star of david, a pentagram, and a swastika.
There was a frightening amount of people who associated the star of david with satan, or the devil.
However, every single person associated the swastika with hitler or nazis.
Admittedly, it wasn't the most scientific test, and it was conducted in texas.
Draw your own conclusions.
This is related to the FCC regulation that requires Verizon and other telco's to port numbers.
Otherwise they wouldn't bother, as it is a lose/lose situation for them.
The usefulness goes DOWN [tt] with the number of possible connections, when more and more of those connections are low-quality.
I would argue that the utility does not go down with the number of possible connections. It is more likely that the extremely low learning curve for user-friendly aol-type connections has removed knowledge barriers that perhaps aught to have been left in place.
You get the dregs, like AO-Hell users who click on spam, windows lusers whose boxes breed viruses, etc
Wasn't AO-Hell an old AOL chat hacking tool from back in the dial-up days?
We may have passed the optimal size for the current breed of network users. Hopefully, the next generation won't be as clueless ..
It's all about the wizards first rule. The next generation will be clueless in new and exciting ways.
having SBC dsl gives you access to certain premium yahoo services, (2g email, 250mg for up to 10 sub accounts, supersized briefcase, and some other junk I don't remember)
here is a somewhat better link
sco hacked page
The average price was about $1.30 a gallon in 01/05.
_ publications/weekly_petroleum_status_report/curren t/pdf/table15.pdf/
I would much rather buy at that price than my local price of around $1.70 a gallon. Especially if I was considering losing a few thousand pounds of it.
Here is a link to a DOE pdf of the prices.
http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/data
I read this on the website a while back, and my memory may be rough.
There may be more, but that is what I recall
Was definately worth watching.
Googlezon (a theoretical google/amazon merger) would have such powerful market potential. I can see it now.
Did you mean to buy this instead?
But would it happen? The models do not seem compatible. One recommends what others actually purchased and offers consumer reviews, the other is marketing supplied by the manufacturer.