I swore off ever buying an expensive phone after I broke my old one by stepping on while taking off my pants after a night of drinking. I was only on it for half a second, but the stupid main LCD(the secondary one on the outside of the clamshell was fine) cracked. The phone still worked as a phone, but I could never tell what I was dialing and if I hit the wrong button I could end up in some weird menu and not even realize it. No SMS to boot. From then on, it was sub-$20 phones. If I break them, I don't really care.
Welcome to the club! On your application as editor, did you have to swear that you don't actually read slashdot as a precondition for employment like all the other editors?
I think the counterfeit goods is a great example of how this is all show for ebay. Ebay seems to either lack the will or the ability to really police their site, which is one of the reasons I only use it as a last resort. They seem to go on massive delistings on occasion just to make it look like they care so they won't get sued.
¥es, but the question becomes, does the court in Texas have the right to try this case? While the companies involved are all US based companies, the incident happened mostly in Japan. So do you try it in the US or Japan? Both? In front of the WTO? Who has juristiction?
Yes I'm aware, so 30% over what the other stuff costs I didn't have a calculator handy, x+.3x=$600, $461, a whopping $41 dollars. So you are telling me you can find a dual core small form factor PC for $461? You didn't actually refute my point, you just had to get very immature and call me "uneducated" despite the fact that I am more educated than you are(I read your bio on your website, before calling someone stupid maybe you should actually look at yourself, k?). By the way, it says you support OS X, so maybe I should start linking your comment with your website. Would be good for business, no?
Some will go in desperately believing that it will make them a lot of money then wind up losing a ton, some will be smart and/or lucky and go in and make a lot of money, and most will go in with the expecation that they will enjoy themselves, if they make some money great, if they lose it it sucks but they know that going in and set aside a small amount for that purpose. And of course, the house, aka Linden Labs, always winds up a winner.
Find me a small form factor dual core PC for less than $420. you claim that Apple stuff is 30% overpriced, so a dual core mac Mini is $600, so if it was overpriced by 30% then I should be able to find a machine out there that is similar to the mac mini for $420. I want to see what you come up with. I will even allow you to use Linux so you don't have to worry about the cost of the OS. But it has to have a small form factor and has to be dual core with at least 512 mb of ram and an 80 gig drive(you don't have to have a dvd burner, but it should have some sort of optical drive), also needs to have wireless. Go ahead, find it. I can wait.
You do realize that your priorities are not the same as everyone elses correct? You do realize you are not the end all be all of the world, correct? You do realize that you need actual evidence to claim something is overpriced, correct? Get over yourself. The iPod didn't work for you, that doesn't mean it is a flawed product. I don't want or need a ferrari, does that mean ferraris suck? Nope, just that I don't need one. You don't want or need an iPod. Does that really say anything about the iPod? Nope, just that you don't want one. As I said before, get over yourself.
Uh oh Apple! Some guy on the internet said your player sucks, better listen to him or else! Ignore the millions of sales every quarter, they obviously never met this guy on the internet! The INTERNET!
I guess they figure that if you don't drive a car then you don't have enough money to shop in their store.
Bingo! I am an American who has survived the first 26 years of his life without a drivers license, and I hope to never get one, but then again, I have been living overseas for 3 out of the past 4 years(the other was spent in college). I have lived in Germany and Japan and the only place where bike riding(as well as public transport) is synonomous with poverty is the US. Americans think you are either poor or there is something wrong with you if you don't drive everywhere. Hell, when I was home for a week at Christmas, I saw a commercial on TV for some sort of employment service. The commercial involved a woman "breaking up" with the bus because she found a job and thus could afford a car and no longer needed the bus. Pretty much blantantly stating that if you ride the bus, you are a poor person and undeserving of love. No wonder Americans consume so much god damned fuel. Its also probably that same attitude that convinces everyone to buy an SUV(If poor people have no cars, then rich people must have gigantic cars!) Oy...
Yes, but having the law on the books can inhibit innovation. Companies/individuals may not spend as much on R&D for promising tech if the end result will not be profitable unless a law is repealed. That is too much risk, both political and technical.
although not very successfully. I like the store, but the selection sucks. I fail to see how google will get more publishers than Sony, but I guess we will have to wait and see.
Ok, well, to be fair the past few "point releases" have been Panther: 2003 Tiger: 2005, Leopard: 2007, so it's pretty damn close to one release every 2 years, not annually. Also, you seem to deride them as "point releases" but that definition is pretty arbitrary. You are getting a lot of extra features. If you don't want/need them, then that is your call, but you make it out to seem like Apple isn't offering anything for the money.
People that have already used the released(for free) version of boot camp probably do. Have you ever used it? If not, maybe you should try it before spouting off things like this.
SpamAssasin is great, but it only solves part of the problem. We installed SpamAssasin where I work in July and it's a good thing we did it then, we have seen the spam we receive on a daily basis rise at an exponential rate starting in August(we have maybe 100 or so users). It does solve the spam problem from the end users point of view, SpamAssasin has almost no false positives or false negatives, but the increased volume of spam has still caused headaches. The bandwidth is obviously one, but another is that we installed spamassasin on an older server, naively thinking we wouldn't see said exponential increase in spam. However, now that 90+% of the messages that we receive are spam, the machine is starting to struggle. We are still ahead, but the fear is that if this rate of growth keeps up, the messages will come in faster than we can process them, which means more spent on hardware, manpower, electricity etc. The costs of spam are really being forced on the users of email.....
Hydrogen seems a bit over the top in this situation, why not just use a plug-in hybrid car? You may not totally eliminate the need for fossil fuel, but it is probably a better use of that extra power they generated than using a hydrogen, cheaper too.
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I swore off ever buying an expensive phone after I broke my old one by stepping on while taking off my pants after a night of drinking. I was only on it for half a second, but the stupid main LCD(the secondary one on the outside of the clamshell was fine) cracked. The phone still worked as a phone, but I could never tell what I was dialing and if I hit the wrong button I could end up in some weird menu and not even realize it. No SMS to boot. From then on, it was sub-$20 phones. If I break them, I don't really care.
Slashdot finishes dead last again!
Welcome to the club! On your application as editor, did you have to swear that you don't actually read slashdot as a precondition for employment like all the other editors?
2 duel-cores
Spelling Nazi time: It's dual! Dual! It's only "duel" if your processors are firing pistols at each other from 10 paces at dawn!
I think the counterfeit goods is a great example of how this is all show for ebay. Ebay seems to either lack the will or the ability to really police their site, which is one of the reasons I only use it as a last resort. They seem to go on massive delistings on occasion just to make it look like they care so they won't get sued.
Those rules would make voting totally unfair to Republicans!
Karma to burn!
¥es, but the question becomes, does the court in Texas have the right to try this case? While the companies involved are all US based companies, the incident happened mostly in Japan. So do you try it in the US or Japan? Both? In front of the WTO? Who has juristiction?
about how he "lost his lifes work and will probably get fired because he didn't listen to the IT guy."
Yes I'm aware, so 30% over what the other stuff costs I didn't have a calculator handy, x+.3x=$600, $461, a whopping $41 dollars. So you are telling me you can find a dual core small form factor PC for $461? You didn't actually refute my point, you just had to get very immature and call me "uneducated" despite the fact that I am more educated than you are(I read your bio on your website, before calling someone stupid maybe you should actually look at yourself, k?). By the way, it says you support OS X, so maybe I should start linking your comment with your website. Would be good for business, no?
... but I have to go have sex with my wife.
Dare I ask, what port are you using? DVI, Ethernet, USB, Firewire, ps2, they all look like they would be pretty painful....
Some will go in desperately believing that it will make them a lot of money then wind up losing a ton, some will be smart and/or lucky and go in and make a lot of money, and most will go in with the expecation that they will enjoy themselves, if they make some money great, if they lose it it sucks but they know that going in and set aside a small amount for that purpose. And of course, the house, aka Linden Labs, always winds up a winner.
Find me a small form factor dual core PC for less than $420. you claim that Apple stuff is 30% overpriced, so a dual core mac Mini is $600, so if it was overpriced by 30% then I should be able to find a machine out there that is similar to the mac mini for $420. I want to see what you come up with. I will even allow you to use Linux so you don't have to worry about the cost of the OS. But it has to have a small form factor and has to be dual core with at least 512 mb of ram and an 80 gig drive(you don't have to have a dvd burner, but it should have some sort of optical drive), also needs to have wireless. Go ahead, find it. I can wait.
You do realize that your priorities are not the same as everyone elses correct? You do realize you are not the end all be all of the world, correct? You do realize that you need actual evidence to claim something is overpriced, correct? Get over yourself. The iPod didn't work for you, that doesn't mean it is a flawed product. I don't want or need a ferrari, does that mean ferraris suck? Nope, just that I don't need one. You don't want or need an iPod. Does that really say anything about the iPod? Nope, just that you don't want one. As I said before, get over yourself.
Uh oh Apple! Some guy on the internet said your player sucks, better listen to him or else! Ignore the millions of sales every quarter, they obviously never met this guy on the internet! The INTERNET!
I guess they figure that if you don't drive a car then you don't have enough money to shop in their store.
Bingo! I am an American who has survived the first 26 years of his life without a drivers license, and I hope to never get one, but then again, I have been living overseas for 3 out of the past 4 years(the other was spent in college). I have lived in Germany and Japan and the only place where bike riding(as well as public transport) is synonomous with poverty is the US. Americans think you are either poor or there is something wrong with you if you don't drive everywhere. Hell, when I was home for a week at Christmas, I saw a commercial on TV for some sort of employment service. The commercial involved a woman "breaking up" with the bus because she found a job and thus could afford a car and no longer needed the bus. Pretty much blantantly stating that if you ride the bus, you are a poor person and undeserving of love. No wonder Americans consume so much god damned fuel. Its also probably that same attitude that convinces everyone to buy an SUV(If poor people have no cars, then rich people must have gigantic cars!) Oy...
Yes, but having the law on the books can inhibit innovation. Companies/individuals may not spend as much on R&D for promising tech if the end result will not be profitable unless a law is repealed. That is too much risk, both political and technical.
no mention on /. of China's newfound ability to shoot a satellite that is in orbit.
although not very successfully. I like the store, but the selection sucks. I fail to see how google will get more publishers than Sony, but I guess we will have to wait and see.
Ok, well, to be fair the past few "point releases" have been Panther: 2003 Tiger: 2005, Leopard: 2007, so it's pretty damn close to one release every 2 years, not annually. Also, you seem to deride them as "point releases" but that definition is pretty arbitrary. You are getting a lot of extra features. If you don't want/need them, then that is your call, but you make it out to seem like Apple isn't offering anything for the money.
People that have already used the released(for free) version of boot camp probably do. Have you ever used it? If not, maybe you should try it before spouting off things like this.
"How to bring a hooker back to life" Damn, I really neede....I mean, was interested in how you would do it in Perl, for curiosity's sake....
SpamAssasin is great, but it only solves part of the problem. We installed SpamAssasin where I work in July and it's a good thing we did it then, we have seen the spam we receive on a daily basis rise at an exponential rate starting in August(we have maybe 100 or so users). It does solve the spam problem from the end users point of view, SpamAssasin has almost no false positives or false negatives, but the increased volume of spam has still caused headaches. The bandwidth is obviously one, but another is that we installed spamassasin on an older server, naively thinking we wouldn't see said exponential increase in spam. However, now that 90+% of the messages that we receive are spam, the machine is starting to struggle. We are still ahead, but the fear is that if this rate of growth keeps up, the messages will come in faster than we can process them, which means more spent on hardware, manpower, electricity etc. The costs of spam are really being forced on the users of email.....
as opposed to slashdot? One may have a clue, the other can make beowulf cluster jokes. Which do you prefer?
place by not paying the bill 6 months in a row. It's amazing, your monthly electric costs will drop to 0 very quickly!
Hydrogen seems a bit over the top in this situation, why not just use a plug-in hybrid car? You may not totally eliminate the need for fossil fuel, but it is probably a better use of that extra power they generated than using a hydrogen, cheaper too.