I'm pretty sure he said less hours, not lesser hours.
from wikipedia: "The Cambridge Guide to English Usage notes that the "pressure to substitute fewer for less seems to have developed out of all proportion to the ambiguity it may provide in noun phrases like less promising results". It describes conformance with this pressure as a shibboleth and the choice "between the more formal fewer and the more spontaneous less" as a stylistic choice"
How many times was each tape reused? I find that for smaller budgets, tapes tend to get reused fairly often and they can't really last many write cycles.
A quick google search returns this: "LTO 4 is rated for 11200 end to end passes and 200 full read/write cycles". Doesn't sound very durable unless he buys several tapes and uses them sparingly. Hard drives are rated for magnitudes more use.
I usually don't trust oil additives, but while looking up STP treatment, I noticed their smoke treatment. That may work very well in my oil burning 77 chevy pickup.
Not just the electricity costs, but I can imagine running higher end GPUs 24/7 would cause much earlier hardware failures that, even if covered under warranty, involve downtime and shipping charges.
"Fact: A terrorist could hide stuff up his butt. Drug dealers do it all the time, that's how cell phones get into prisons, etc."
This somewhat obvious fact deserves a view by all the security theater appreciating folk out there and for those spending hundreds of thousands on high tech scanning machines.
Sometimes "treat others as you would want to be treated" can be open to interpretation. Suppose you where doing something, that without your knowledge, would condemn you to hell -- like wearing shorts. Wouldn't you want someone to notify you of this horrible transgression so that you can fix it and go to heaven?
"No. I think I don't want my 12 year old to buy the same without my permission."
So you are ok letting your 12 year old wander the city doing who knows what while unsupervised (since a supervised 12 year old would be unable to buy said game), but you don't want a store to be able to sell him a game with any amount of violence? Have fun with your kid turning to more destructive outlets while you're actively ignoring him/her.
That is silly. Of course ISPs will give their users what they want. They will not, however, lose money in the process of giving it to them.
If what you say is true, then why is google bothering to roll out 1gb fiber in Kansas City -- which already has Comcast and Time Warner giving their customers "what they want" at what you imply is a reasonable profit margin?
I'm pretty sure they just store that data on laptops that they leave at airports for foreign spies to pick up and the contractor gets a new laptop to replace their "stolen" one.
"The more layers you have the lower the chances are that you won't be hacked." I assume this is a typo and more layers should increase your chances of not getting hacked.
The only apple item I own is an iPhone 4, and it's not just a perception of quality. This phone - even ignoring the hardware inside - is a piece of art. It's so well crafted and built, I can literally balance it on any of its six sides. The little volume buttons on the side are precisely machined from aluminum. It basically comes off as a piece of technological art that no other phone I've ever owned has come close to. Just like having a nice home, television, furniture and kitchen are to people, so is having nice technological devices. I figure the other companies can catch up when they embrace apple's design philosophy.
Not true. Just read some of the stories at http://www.innocenceproject.org/ and see how in the last few years, 267 convicted felons have been exonerated of crimes they did not commit.
These devices aren't for actual wars. They are "non-lethal" alternatives more suitable for population control. Much like tasers, rubber bullets, sonic cannons, etc. Because they are classified as non-lethal, they incur a much lesser political hit when used -- which matters a lot in these days of population uprisings.
I like the concept as well, except for one thing -- false positives. I'm playing Shogun 2: Total War, and there's a lot of whining in the forums over the multiplayer online server tagging nearly everyone as dishonorable cowards. Maybe this little app has perfect piracy protection and this point is moot, but I'd be a little upset if I payed for the app and it ended up spamming all my friends and slandering me.
Maybe in the US $2.10 is throw-away territory, but what about in India or China? Even the way the dollar has fallen, that could well be a few hours worth of work in other countries.
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I'm pretty sure he said less hours, not lesser hours.
from wikipedia: "The Cambridge Guide to English Usage notes that the "pressure to substitute fewer for less seems to have developed out of all proportion to the ambiguity it may provide in noun phrases like less promising results". It describes conformance with this pressure as a shibboleth and the choice "between the more formal fewer and the more spontaneous less" as a stylistic choice"
Where oh where are my mod points. I agree that Robert Frost was mocking hipsters, and you've summed it up quite well.
Now that's a creepy phone app just waiting to be made.
I was thinking the same thing, though watching the video shortly shows their use.
How many times was each tape reused? I find that for smaller budgets, tapes tend to get reused fairly often and they can't really last many write cycles.
A quick google search returns this: "LTO 4 is rated for 11200 end to end passes and 200 full read/write cycles". Doesn't sound very durable unless he buys several tapes and uses them sparingly. Hard drives are rated for magnitudes more use.
I almost made a post about Unreal. I recall it taking me about 2 years to finish that game and it was a rather epic experience at the time.
I usually don't trust oil additives, but while looking up STP treatment, I noticed their smoke treatment. That may work very well in my oil burning 77 chevy pickup.
Not just the electricity costs, but I can imagine running higher end GPUs 24/7 would cause much earlier hardware failures that, even if covered under warranty, involve downtime and shipping charges.
"Fact: A terrorist could hide stuff up his butt. Drug dealers do it all the time, that's how cell phones get into prisons, etc."
This somewhat obvious fact deserves a view by all the security theater appreciating folk out there and for those spending hundreds of thousands on high tech scanning machines.
Sometimes "treat others as you would want to be treated" can be open to interpretation. Suppose you where doing something, that without your knowledge, would condemn you to hell -- like wearing shorts. Wouldn't you want someone to notify you of this horrible transgression so that you can fix it and go to heaven?
"No. I think I don't want my 12 year old to buy the same without my permission."
So you are ok letting your 12 year old wander the city doing who knows what while unsupervised (since a supervised 12 year old would be unable to buy said game), but you don't want a store to be able to sell him a game with any amount of violence? Have fun with your kid turning to more destructive outlets while you're actively ignoring him/her.
That is silly. Of course ISPs will give their users what they want. They will not, however, lose money in the process of giving it to them.
If what you say is true, then why is google bothering to roll out 1gb fiber in Kansas City -- which already has Comcast and Time Warner giving their customers "what they want" at what you imply is a reasonable profit margin?
I'm pretty sure they just store that data on laptops that they leave at airports for foreign spies to pick up and the contractor gets a new laptop to replace their "stolen" one.
"The more layers you have the lower the chances are that you won't be hacked."
I assume this is a typo and more layers should increase your chances of not getting hacked.
Just subtly change one character in your written passwords, and even someone who has your list wouldn't be able to use it.
Atlas Shrugged? Wasn't that written by a famous atheist?
Awesome. I don't actually have a boat, but that's a pretty cool use of ancient technology.
The only apple item I own is an iPhone 4, and it's not just a perception of quality. This phone - even ignoring the hardware inside - is a piece of art. It's so well crafted and built, I can literally balance it on any of its six sides. The little volume buttons on the side are precisely machined from aluminum. It basically comes off as a piece of technological art that no other phone I've ever owned has come close to. Just like having a nice home, television, furniture and kitchen are to people, so is having nice technological devices. I figure the other companies can catch up when they embrace apple's design philosophy.
Not true. Just read some of the stories at http://www.innocenceproject.org/ and see how in the last few years, 267 convicted felons have been exonerated of crimes they did not commit.
These devices aren't for actual wars. They are "non-lethal" alternatives more suitable for population control. Much like tasers, rubber bullets, sonic cannons, etc. Because they are classified as non-lethal, they incur a much lesser political hit when used -- which matters a lot in these days of population uprisings.
It's actually twenty cents -- at least on AT&T
I like the concept as well, except for one thing -- false positives. I'm playing Shogun 2: Total War, and there's a lot of whining in the forums over the multiplayer online server tagging nearly everyone as dishonorable cowards. Maybe this little app has perfect piracy protection and this point is moot, but I'd be a little upset if I payed for the app and it ended up spamming all my friends and slandering me.
Maybe in the US $2.10 is throw-away territory, but what about in India or China? Even the way the dollar has fallen, that could well be a few hours worth of work in other countries.
Thanks. This is just what I needed to read on a monday morning.