I requested it via FOIA and they danced around it and eventually refused. It'd be nice to see it come out, although I hope this "citizen's group" collectively sent in a few FOIA requests on this one.
Where DNA came from? It's called ribose/deoxyribose. Or if you wish to go further back, lets just say carbon oxygen and sugar.
Easy answer, done.
See, you think too complicated. All things are really not that complicated. Especially since we are carbon based life forms.
It is for this reason, you are marked redundant. Because we don't have a tag for "factually incorrect" because it would be abused.
Next time, accept that you essentially evolved from a monkey that evolved from a fish that evolved from an amoeba that evolved basically from a molecule and so forth and so forth.
If you refuse this explanation, then you refuse your own view as well.
The fact that this DECE will be easily crackable (there is nothing that isn't, especially when hackers have an incentive to spite riaa/mpaa), and a complete failure, apparently has been neglected.
I mean haven't these guys learned that renaming DRM doesn't make it any less annoying? Did they forget about that "digital enablement" or whatever it was called?
I agree with what you are saying, however reality is that you aren't going to know if an employer is using facebook to make their determination as I stated. Like I said, unless they are retarded, they will just say "you don't meet qualifications", etc, either way they have the information advantage if you have a facebook page available to be found without friending you.
It was in response to his "personal life should be off limits" that such things include, for example, facebook.
I can see your first problem is clearly thinking you have more value than people simply because they might want to hide their facebook. Maybe they don't want it to represent themselves? Maybe it's someone who simply is a democrat for example, and doesn't want that to show up. Or their religion. Or their ethnicity. There are things other than boozefests and smokin j's that can be reasons to hide your profile when you apply for employment.
Someone who hides their facebook (aka common sense, a sense of your internet presence) vs someone who doesn't hide their facebook (aka ignorant, probably bad profile). Which would you want to employ if those were your choices? I can tell you for a fact that if you are in category #2, you aren't going to get employed by smart workplaces. Just because they (workplaces) can't admit it's a factor doesn't mean they aren't smart enough enough to just deny you anyway and say they don't have a position available/you don't meet the qualifications they need.
However, if you are going to refuse to work with people because of having a facebook profile, I think you may want to rework your concept of employment (unless it is self employed small business where nobody gives a shit about you or even knows you exist in the first place). Even independent contractors need to remember who you are representing, and that is yourself.
Your last comment, well, I think it speaks for itself and explains plenty. If you think you are better than the people that you might work for, then it is quite evident that you are not someone to work with other people, period. Imagine being an engineer but talking down other engineers/bosses/managers? mission accomplished?
To add more response even, I'm sure that with a sufficient amount of money you'd shovel shit if it were paying you a million bucks a week, etc.
Actually it's not exactly legal in quite a few US states, (Illinois for example) it can be grounds for discrimination suits. I know of plenty of employers who have been sued for that. Warned in print is not an exception.
However, most people are smart enough to hide their facebook/etc. As a safe bet people should just google themselves.
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As noted: the more religion becomes irrelevant, the more people can no longer use it as an excuse for being retards, the more people have predicted that such a thing is somehow the end of days. Has anyone noticed that? (especially in regards to how the first 20 "end ohttp://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/10/1253226#f times" events were ~2000 years in total, and the last 10 were ~18 years in total)?
It's like "now who can we blame for refusing medical treatment to our child whose arm got ripped off and died from bleeding, if not god?"
Umm, let's not assume that discover would have to back down if someone threatened to give them service.
That scenario goes both ways.
If AmEX, visa, discover told them that they could pull processing, they'd be losing money themselves. Credit card acceptance is a convenience, not a requirement. Guess how much direct cash discover would lose? 0. They would just need to find someone else to route money through.
I prefer Kubuntu, but running vanilla at the moment.
However, as you note none of these are apples to apples. As the price increases, so does the disparity.
Let's not try to act like the 230-290$ range is the epitomy of the disparity. No, look at the percentage. Then you you are accurate if you reverse the direction of the disparity, as soon as things get to a real apples to apples level. A processor that performs similar to the celeron with the cpu/mobo/mem combo = $116.98. Well there goes part of your magic "self built is more expensive". Of amusement to the dell you found is that after a vista basic reimbursement the thing is probably almost free. Of course the components are even lower quality than the 116$ I could find. At least the $116 was up to date. Really, a 3 year old processor and 5+ year old graphics setup? You'd be lucky if the thing could even handle full screen youtube videos. I'd think if you could even find that set of components somewhere nowadays it'd be about 80$ or someone would be giving it away.
This is like comparing a 2008 honda civic to a yugo. It's not just not similar.
However, the guy is correct actually. There is a growing market due to the disparity between retail price and buying parts individually that is well over the cost of inconvenience.
I am seeing such interest increase actually, likewise I'm seeing an increase in the number of people interested in Linux as games are now being supported more and more (but not flawless, of course)
Thankfully, Linux comes pretty free of bloatware. I guess they don't like that artificially inflated revenues by shoving crapware in people's faces is now heading back towards "realistic revenues by giving people what they actually want"?
I seem to recall a time way back when some company actually installed gator with their pc's bloatware.
I get what you mean, but if you work competitively and do not sacrifice on quality then the customers will flock to you, and locking out will not become an issue nor a requirement. In fact people will get downright jealous as a result many times.
It's when companies get greedy and think they can get more than that in the short term succeed and in the long term completely fail. Look at the open office situation in many other countries and the linux adoption rate and both are skyrocketing more than things are showing publicly (as gaming has begun to be somewhat supported reliably on wine now). The market abhors an artificial scarcity, and will always route around it.
If Microsoft had focused on making the best product possible and legitimately, there wouldn't even be antitrust issues. Basically somewhere between legal, marketing and accounting people have tried to figure out whats the most illegal thing they can do and still call it ethical and add plausible denial to it.
And how many of them have worked without silverlight aka mono? Ooops, let me answer for you. 0.
Please, indulge the masses in that regards. After all, silverlight is you know, Microsoft proprietary. It's not like it's an actual open source solution to anything. I really wish people had researched just what kind of a threat (legally and otherwise) that stuff is to open source. It is in the "embrace+extinguish" part of MS's plan right now.
Right umm, the site is not the question or the issue at hand.
The issue is the VIDEO...of course the site loads in anything. You could run straight up netscape and probably get the site to load...but the video? Aww, proprietary solution huh?
Hows that choice of yours working out for you, especially with OSX?
agreed. This is the exact same setup as the olympics. Gotta hand it to microsoft, when they lock people out from anything other than their own solution, they go all the way.
So the fact that movies have gone from 780mb (dvdrips) to 4.8gb (straight up copies) to 25gig (blu ray) doesn't bear any significance to you?
Or how about games which have gone from 1mb to installations that are upwards of 10gigs now (warhammer IIRC is 9 something).
Not to mention MS's fiasco of their Office XML format where things take up a ridiculous amount of space in comparison to open office (10mb docx vs 2.9mb open office)...it's all about the level of tech knowledge of someone that determines their space usage.
I wouldn't mind 3-4 TB, I'd split it off into about 4 partitions or raid stripe and call it a day for a while.
However consumer use is indicative of business use, so I would expect things to head towards exabyte eventually.
okay so. Let's try this again, I will not insult you this time however as I apologize for being a bit over the top.
This intel system, nor the system in the mouse I referenced, are not necessarily degaussing fields. It would depend on the wavelengths and charges used. Just because it transmits power doesn't imply degaussing.
The systems already in place will indeed charge any existing battery of any device that is capable of holding a charge. see http://www.afrotechmods.com/cheap/arnoldpad/arnoldpad.htm if you are wondering about this technology...(too lazy to find a non entertaining link to the same). Just do it to a non rechargable battery for too long and you'll blow it up. Do it to a rechargable battery for too long and you'll kill the life on a battery before blowing it up.
Not all things need to touch a battery to charge it, etc.
At about 1/4 of an inch away from a pad (which can charge batteries OR enable a device which sits on the pad to be used without any batteries whatsoever - this is what the mouse I linked is), the efficiency is a lot better. Intel's extending the range.
It is a completely 100% universal adapter, and even works with things that are not rechargable and will give them some electrical charge (still diminshing).
The only thing is, it's not always safe as the stuff does tend to heat up.
Hello sir, are you retarded? I would presume from your response the answer is yes. Thank you for representing illogical fear of change with no actual basis, just like 80% of the population.
You could sit a flash drive on the charging device, and it wouldn't be wiped or even corrupted. I mean honestly, you think something would head towards consumer level with ridiculously uncontrolled magnetic field? In case you're wondering, batteries (as they exist now) already naturally pull the power towards them through wireless transmission of this technology, otherwise why the hell would someone suggest putting a phone/ipod on such a charger? On an equal level, do you not think that hard drives, ipods, etc don't even have a remote level of magnetic shielding? Are you that naive?
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I requested it via FOIA and they danced around it and eventually refused. It'd be nice to see it come out, although I hope this "citizen's group" collectively sent in a few FOIA requests on this one.
Where DNA came from? It's called ribose/deoxyribose. Or if you wish to go further back, lets just say carbon oxygen and sugar.
Easy answer, done.
See, you think too complicated. All things are really not that complicated. Especially since we are carbon based life forms.
It is for this reason, you are marked redundant. Because we don't have a tag for "factually incorrect" because it would be abused.
Next time, accept that you essentially evolved from a monkey that evolved from a fish that evolved from an amoeba that evolved basically from a molecule and so forth and so forth.
If you refuse this explanation, then you refuse your own view as well.
damnit, I knew this would be in the article before I'd get a chance to post it.
$25,000 pc's ought to be good enough for everyone.
Meanwhile, I wonder where the performance of this system is in comparison to other linux based systems?
For once, an accurate phrase.
The fact that this DECE will be easily crackable (there is nothing that isn't, especially when hackers have an incentive to spite riaa/mpaa), and a complete failure, apparently has been neglected.
I mean haven't these guys learned that renaming DRM doesn't make it any less annoying? Did they forget about that "digital enablement" or whatever it was called?
Sheesh.
Here's what I see when I try to go to the job description for this "windows guru" position:
Reason:
The Websense category "Phishing and Other Frauds" is filtered.
Anyone surprised?
I'm amused.
I agree with what you are saying, however reality is that you aren't going to know if an employer is using facebook to make their determination as I stated. Like I said, unless they are retarded, they will just say "you don't meet qualifications", etc, either way they have the information advantage if you have a facebook page available to be found without friending you.
It was in response to his "personal life should be off limits" that such things include, for example, facebook.
I can see your first problem is clearly thinking you have more value than people simply because they might want to hide their facebook. Maybe they don't want it to represent themselves? Maybe it's someone who simply is a democrat for example, and doesn't want that to show up. Or their religion. Or their ethnicity. There are things other than boozefests and smokin j's that can be reasons to hide your profile when you apply for employment.
Someone who hides their facebook (aka common sense, a sense of your internet presence) vs someone who doesn't hide their facebook (aka ignorant, probably bad profile). Which would you want to employ if those were your choices? I can tell you for a fact that if you are in category #2, you aren't going to get employed by smart workplaces. Just because they (workplaces) can't admit it's a factor doesn't mean they aren't smart enough enough to just deny you anyway and say they don't have a position available/you don't meet the qualifications they need.
However, if you are going to refuse to work with people because of having a facebook profile, I think you may want to rework your concept of employment (unless it is self employed small business where nobody gives a shit about you or even knows you exist in the first place). Even independent contractors need to remember who you are representing, and that is yourself.
Your last comment, well, I think it speaks for itself and explains plenty. If you think you are better than the people that you might work for, then it is quite evident that you are not someone to work with other people, period. Imagine being an engineer but talking down other engineers/bosses/managers? mission accomplished?
To add more response even, I'm sure that with a sufficient amount of money you'd shovel shit if it were paying you a million bucks a week, etc.
Actually it's not exactly legal in quite a few US states, (Illinois for example) it can be grounds for discrimination suits. I know of plenty of employers who have been sued for that. Warned in print is not an exception.
However, most people are smart enough to hide their facebook/etc. As a safe bet people should just google themselves.
I know you are not the one saying it, but I believe the answer to that will be "just like the last 30 times?"
As noted: the more religion becomes irrelevant, the more people can no longer use it as an excuse for being retards, the more people have predicted that such a thing is somehow the end of days. Has anyone noticed that? (especially in regards to how the first 20 "end ohttp://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/10/1253226#f times" events were ~2000 years in total, and the last 10 were ~18 years in total)?
It's like "now who can we blame for refusing medical treatment to our child whose arm got ripped off and died from bleeding, if not god?"
wow, read up on that one. Quite interesting. I'd love to see this go main page and see distrowatch get some heat for it.
Umm, let's not assume that discover would have to back down if someone threatened to give them service.
That scenario goes both ways.
If AmEX, visa, discover told them that they could pull processing, they'd be losing money themselves. Credit card acceptance is a convenience, not a requirement. Guess how much direct cash discover would lose? 0. They would just need to find someone else to route money through.
You can thank the Noerr Pennington doctrine for that. I'd love to see it challenged but I don't know how we can do so.
Get rid of that, and you won't see corporations with lobbyists. Would fix a TON of shit in the US.
So let me get this straight.
This has happened before, we're on the low point of a cycle according to even the wikipedia information. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Sunspot_Numbers.png
Is there really any significance other than that? I don't mean that in a smartass way, genuinely wondering here.
It seems to show the sun has active sunspot cycles, and less active sunspot cycles. Thus, we are at one of the less active cycles.
I prefer Kubuntu, but running vanilla at the moment.
However, as you note none of these are apples to apples. As the price increases, so does the disparity.
Let's not try to act like the 230-290$ range is the epitomy of the disparity. No, look at the percentage. Then you you are accurate if you reverse the direction of the disparity, as soon as things get to a real apples to apples level. A processor that performs similar to the celeron with the cpu/mobo/mem combo = $116.98. Well there goes part of your magic "self built is more expensive". Of amusement to the dell you found is that after a vista basic reimbursement the thing is probably almost free. Of course the components are even lower quality than the 116$ I could find. At least the $116 was up to date. Really, a 3 year old processor and 5+ year old graphics setup? You'd be lucky if the thing could even handle full screen youtube videos. I'd think if you could even find that set of components somewhere nowadays it'd be about 80$ or someone would be giving it away.
This is like comparing a 2008 honda civic to a yugo. It's not just not similar.
lol you should be modded funny.
However, the guy is correct actually. There is a growing market due to the disparity between retail price and buying parts individually that is well over the cost of inconvenience.
I am seeing such interest increase actually, likewise I'm seeing an increase in the number of people interested in Linux as games are now being supported more and more (but not flawless, of course)
Thankfully, Linux comes pretty free of bloatware. I guess they don't like that artificially inflated revenues by shoving crapware in people's faces is now heading back towards "realistic revenues by giving people what they actually want"?
I seem to recall a time way back when some company actually installed gator with their pc's bloatware.
I get what you mean, but if you work competitively and do not sacrifice on quality then the customers will flock to you, and locking out will not become an issue nor a requirement. In fact people will get downright jealous as a result many times.
It's when companies get greedy and think they can get more than that in the short term succeed and in the long term completely fail. Look at the open office situation in many other countries and the linux adoption rate and both are skyrocketing more than things are showing publicly (as gaming has begun to be somewhat supported reliably on wine now). The market abhors an artificial scarcity, and will always route around it.
If Microsoft had focused on making the best product possible and legitimately, there wouldn't even be antitrust issues. Basically somewhere between legal, marketing and accounting people have tried to figure out whats the most illegal thing they can do and still call it ethical and add plausible denial to it.
And how many of them have worked without silverlight aka mono? Ooops, let me answer for you. 0.
Please, indulge the masses in that regards. After all, silverlight is you know, Microsoft proprietary. It's not like it's an actual open source solution to anything. I really wish people had researched just what kind of a threat (legally and otherwise) that stuff is to open source. It is in the "embrace+extinguish" part of MS's plan right now.
Right umm, the site is not the question or the issue at hand.
The issue is the VIDEO...of course the site loads in anything. You could run straight up netscape and probably get the site to load...but the video? Aww, proprietary solution huh?
Hows that choice of yours working out for you, especially with OSX?
agreed. This is the exact same setup as the olympics. Gotta hand it to microsoft, when they lock people out from anything other than their own solution, they go all the way.
So the fact that movies have gone from 780mb (dvdrips) to 4.8gb (straight up copies) to 25gig (blu ray) doesn't bear any significance to you?
Or how about games which have gone from 1mb to installations that are upwards of 10gigs now (warhammer IIRC is 9 something).
Not to mention MS's fiasco of their Office XML format where things take up a ridiculous amount of space in comparison to open office (10mb docx vs 2.9mb open office)...it's all about the level of tech knowledge of someone that determines their space usage.
I wouldn't mind 3-4 TB, I'd split it off into about 4 partitions or raid stripe and call it a day for a while.
However consumer use is indicative of business use, so I would expect things to head towards exabyte eventually.
okay so. Let's try this again, I will not insult you this time however as I apologize for being a bit over the top.
This intel system, nor the system in the mouse I referenced, are not necessarily degaussing fields. It would depend on the wavelengths and charges used. Just because it transmits power doesn't imply degaussing.
The systems already in place will indeed charge any existing battery of any device that is capable of holding a charge. see http://www.afrotechmods.com/cheap/arnoldpad/arnoldpad.htm if you are wondering about this technology...(too lazy to find a non entertaining link to the same). Just do it to a non rechargable battery for too long and you'll blow it up. Do it to a rechargable battery for too long and you'll kill the life on a battery before blowing it up.
Not all things need to touch a battery to charge it, etc.
see anonymous comment above with this link: http://www.afrotechmods.com/cheap/arnoldpad/arnoldpad.htm
of course, skip the ahhnold humor.
At about 1/4 of an inch away from a pad (which can charge batteries OR enable a device which sits on the pad to be used without any batteries whatsoever - this is what the mouse I linked is), the efficiency is a lot better. Intel's extending the range.
It is a completely 100% universal adapter, and even works with things that are not rechargable and will give them some electrical charge (still diminshing).
The only thing is, it's not always safe as the stuff does tend to heat up.
Umm no. The mouse uses no batteries and also uses radio frequency to transmit the mouse tracking. It uses magnetic induction for power.
Hello sir, are you retarded? I would presume from your response the answer is yes. Thank you for representing illogical fear of change with no actual basis, just like 80% of the population.
You could sit a flash drive on the charging device, and it wouldn't be wiped or even corrupted. I mean honestly, you think something would head towards consumer level with ridiculously uncontrolled magnetic field? In case you're wondering, batteries (as they exist now) already naturally pull the power towards them through wireless transmission of this technology, otherwise why the hell would someone suggest putting a phone/ipod on such a charger? On an equal level, do you not think that hard drives, ipods, etc don't even have a remote level of magnetic shielding? Are you that naive?