In the end, the consumers will see none of it (who's really going to go through to paper work for a $3 rebate?), the lawyers will see millions, and the government will get the unclaimed payouts.
IOW, a complete waste of time.
The benefit to you as a consumer is that the next time you buy DRAM from one of those companies you can buy it with the expectation that prices are no longer being illegally fixed. In other words, you can expect memory to cost less than it would have if there had been no lawsuit. So, not a complete waste of time.
If the government told them that it *was* legal wouldn't that push legal liability onto the government?
If an 18-year-old private is told by his general to kill a prisoner who had just surrendered, the young soldier is expected to know that it's illegal and disobey the order. If he does something unlawful, he is criminally responsible even if he is told it is legal.
Likewise, the phone companies know damn well that customers' phone records are not to be handed over to the government without a warrant. Just because somebody from the Spy Department says it's legal, that doesn't make it so and that doesn't magically relieve them of responsiblity. The only thing that would relieve them of legal liability would be if a court ruled that the NSA program was legal. That hasn't happened, and I seriously doubt it ever will, even with Bush's hand-picked Supremes on the bench.
Hard disks may be physically larger and slower for random access, but they are faster than Flash for large sequential reads, much in the same way that the hare is faster than the turtle in that old fable.
"A HARE one day ridiculed the short feet and slow pace of the
Tortoise, who replied, laughing: "Though you be swift as the
wind, I will beat you in a race." The Hare, believing her
assertion to be simply impossible, assented to the proposal; and
they agreed that the Fox should choose the course and fix the
goal. On the day appointed for the race the two started
together. The Tortoise never for a moment stopped, but went on
with a slow but steady pace straight to the end of the course.
The Hare, lying down by the wayside, fell fast asleep. At last
waking up, and moving as fast as he could, he saw the Tortoise
had reached the goal, and was comfortably dozing after her
fatigue.
Do you seriously believe that people all of a sudden lose interest in what's going on in the world and in their community just because some highly paid NYT reporter is laid off from his cushy job? Because photographs are made with $200 digicams by amateurs, instead of $8000 SLR cameras wielded by Pulitzer-prize hungry press photographers trying to find the artistically most compelling composition and most disturbing photograph? I don't think so.
No, I don't think that at all. The demand for news will still be there. Amataeurs are more than welcome to try to fill the gap. But I think that (1)in many cases they won't bother, and (2)even if they do bother, they won't be given the same access as pros. Most news out there starts out as a report by a dead-tree journalist.
Newspapers are cutting staff left and right. That means fewer reporters producing fewer stories, and that means fewer reasons for people to buy newspapers. Which will force even more downsizing.
What's worse is the effect this will have on all media. TV and radio stations already have very slim news staffs. They rely on newspaper stories as the starting point for many of their own stories. As do magazines. And this will affect blogs as well, as they usually write about what's been published elsewhere.
News starts with reporters, and most of them work for newspapers.
More people might prefer to read their news on the Internet, but with newspapers declining, there simply won't be as many stories to read.
Couldn't they operate the station from a van legally parked outside the Astrodome? If they did that, FEMA would have a hard time shutting them down (but I'm sure they'd try).
So are there ISO images or do you still need to take several hours doing an FTP install?
I prefer an FTP install because
(1) it's faster if you don't use all the packages
(2) you don't waste time checking md5sums and burning CDs
(3) you don't waste media, except for the boot CD
Once you're done downloading, your install is almost complete.
I think the point of this bill is to conserve energy
DST might save a little electricity because fewer lights are needed, but it also wastes energy because if people stay out later that means they probably drive more.
While I agree 99% with this, the problem is that using UTC would cause it to switch from Monday to Tuesday in the middle of the day (at least where I live), which could be confusing.
To get around this, maybe we could refer to our days coloquially as beginning at dawn, and use utc time and date for anything semi-official.
I keep my deskop computer on UTC, which took all of a day or two to get used to.
When you first start, yes you are slower. But as you progress and get better, it becomes easier and faster. Come on, let's turn our brains on before we go posting idiocy for the whole world to read.
OK, here's what the learner said:
"I switched to dvorak and the pain vanished within about a week of using it."
I'll repeat: "within about a week of using it." I seriously doubt he was typing faster on the dvokak within the first week.
During the first week he was learning, he was typing slower, and voila, relief from the RSI.
Just when you think you've heard the stupidest post ever...
My post might be the 2nd stupidest post ever, but it can't be the stupidest, not after yours.
I had a *lot* of 10,000+ word essays to write, my hands and wrists were getting so painful I could barely type, yet the deadlines couldn't be put off.
I switched to dvorak and the pain vanished within about a week of using it.
Could it be that the reason the pain vanished was because you were learning a new KB layout, and you were therefore typing more slowly? RSI is associated with *rapid* repetitive motions.
If Morse code is so much better than using text messaging, why doesn't everyone do it?
Rhetorical question. The answer, obviously, is that it is a pain in the ass to learn and gain any serious encoding/decoding speed.
It's a lot like typing (which most of us take for granted). Objectively, it is the fastest way to transcribe data. However, it requires quite a bit of practice to get up to a level fast enough to make it better and more useful than normal writing.
No, it's not the fastest way to send data. For example you can type faster than you can send morse. The reason the morse coders won was because of the tools they used. A morse code key, which is an electrical switch, is optimized for extremely short contacts. It also can be fine-tuned for individual senders. Phone touchpads were originally designed for entering only short phone numbers, so speed was not really an issue. It was more important to prevent the user from dialing a wrong number. So there's a lot more resistance built in to the phone keys.
The results would have been closer if the morse coders had to use a cell phone to send their code, maybe just pressing the 1 button on and off. I think in that case the texters would have won.
From a caption accompanying the article: "Millimeter wave technology from security specialist Qinetiq is designed to detect not just metal but other threats, like ceramic knives and hidden drugs."
No more hidden drugs. I feel safer already.
Centos really is much better kept then Whitebox. Centos also has a much larger following, this is obvious from the fact that Centos 4 came out much faster then Whitebox.
Centos really is much better? How so? They're both clones of Red Hat with the artwork changed to protect the innocent. What's better about it?
Marissa Mayer, Google's director of consumer Web products, said the company's goal is to organize information and make it universally accessible, and that goes far beyond search.
But she downplays the suggestion that Google's tools could eventually overtake Microsoft's ubiquitous software, saying the company doesn't currently have such plans but "it's hard to speculate" what the future might bring. Chief executive Eric Schmidt has, however, ruled out developing a Google browser to compete with Microsoft's dominant Internet Explorer.
No Google browser. No OS. No office suite. Yeah, MS must be really shakin in their boots.
Maintaining a whitelist can't be any more complicated than adding and deleting dmail accounts. I don't see any advantage to dmail and the huge disadvantage is that you're relying on a single vender with a proprietary system with your important communications.
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If the government told them that it *was* legal wouldn't that push legal liability onto the government?
If an 18-year-old private is told by his general to kill a prisoner who had just surrendered, the young soldier is expected to know that it's illegal and disobey the order. If he does something unlawful, he is criminally responsible even if he is told it is legal.
Likewise, the phone companies know damn well that customers' phone records are not to be handed over to the government without a warrant. Just because somebody from the Spy Department says it's legal, that doesn't make it so and that doesn't magically relieve them of responsiblity. The only thing that would relieve them of legal liability would be if a court ruled that the NSA program was legal. That hasn't happened, and I seriously doubt it ever will, even with Bush's hand-picked Supremes on the bench.
Hard disks may be physically larger and slower for random access, but they are faster than Flash for large sequential reads, much in the same way that the hare is faster than the turtle in that old fable.
As I'm sure you know, the turtle was faster:
"A HARE one day ridiculed the short feet and slow pace of the Tortoise, who replied, laughing: "Though you be swift as the wind, I will beat you in a race." The Hare, believing her assertion to be simply impossible, assented to the proposal; and they agreed that the Fox should choose the course and fix the goal. On the day appointed for the race the two started together. The Tortoise never for a moment stopped, but went on with a slow but steady pace straight to the end of the course. The Hare, lying down by the wayside, fell fast asleep. At last waking up, and moving as fast as he could, he saw the Tortoise had reached the goal, and was comfortably dozing after her fatigue.
"Slow but steady wins the race."
Quite an extensive review (Score:4, Funny)
That was my first impression. Till I realized you had to click the links for the 5 distros tested, where they really did have extensive reviews.
The earth's natural mechanism for CO2 removal is limestone formation.
And photosynthesis. Plant a tree.
Do you seriously believe that people all of a sudden lose interest in what's going on in the world and in their community just because some highly paid NYT reporter is laid off from his cushy job? Because photographs are made with $200 digicams by amateurs, instead of $8000 SLR cameras wielded by Pulitzer-prize hungry press photographers trying to find the artistically most compelling composition and most disturbing photograph? I don't think so.
No, I don't think that at all. The demand for news will still be there. Amataeurs are more than welcome to try to fill the gap. But I think that (1)in many cases they won't bother, and (2)even if they do bother, they won't be given the same access as pros. Most news out there starts out as a report by a dead-tree journalist.
Newspapers are cutting staff left and right. That means fewer reporters producing fewer stories, and that means fewer reasons for people to buy newspapers. Which will force even more downsizing.
What's worse is the effect this will have on all media. TV and radio stations already have very slim news staffs. They rely on newspaper stories as the starting point for many of their own stories. As do magazines. And this will affect blogs as well, as they usually write about what's been published elsewhere.
News starts with reporters, and most of them work for newspapers.
More people might prefer to read their news on the Internet, but with newspapers declining, there simply won't be as many stories to read.
So Dvorak's saying that tech writers say Macs are better because they use Macs, not that tech writers use Macs because they think Macs are better?
Couldn't they operate the station from a van legally parked outside the Astrodome? If they did that, FEMA would have a hard time shutting them down (but I'm sure they'd try).
It'll never happen. The fact that it would put politicians out of a job is enough to stop that idea dead in its tracks.
So are there ISO images or do you still need to take several hours doing an FTP install?
I prefer an FTP install because
(1) it's faster if you don't use all the packages
(2) you don't waste time checking md5sums and burning CDs
(3) you don't waste media, except for the boot CD
Once you're done downloading, your install is almost complete.
I think the point of this bill is to conserve energy
DST might save a little electricity because fewer lights are needed, but it also wastes energy because if people stay out later that means they probably drive more.
While I agree 99% with this, the problem is that using UTC would cause it to switch from Monday to Tuesday in the middle of the day (at least where I live), which could be confusing. To get around this, maybe we could refer to our days coloquially as beginning at dawn, and use utc time and date for anything semi-official. I keep my deskop computer on UTC, which took all of a day or two to get used to.
When you first start, yes you are slower. But as you progress and get better, it becomes easier and faster. Come on, let's turn our brains on before we go posting idiocy for the whole world to read.
OK, here's what the learner said:
"I switched to dvorak and the pain vanished within about a week of using it."
I'll repeat: "within about a week of using it." I seriously doubt he was typing faster on the dvokak within the first week.
During the first week he was learning, he was typing slower, and voila, relief from the RSI.
Just when you think you've heard the stupidest post ever...
My post might be the 2nd stupidest post ever, but it can't be the stupidest, not after yours.
I had a *lot* of 10,000+ word essays to write, my hands and wrists were getting so painful I could barely type, yet the deadlines couldn't be put off.
I switched to dvorak and the pain vanished within about a week of using it.
Could it be that the reason the pain vanished was because you were learning a new KB layout, and you were therefore typing more slowly? RSI is associated with *rapid* repetitive motions.
If Morse code is so much better than using text messaging, why doesn't everyone do it?
Rhetorical question. The answer, obviously, is that it is a pain in the ass to learn and gain any serious encoding/decoding speed.
It's a lot like typing (which most of us take for granted). Objectively, it is the fastest way to transcribe data. However, it requires quite a bit of practice to get up to a level fast enough to make it better and more useful than normal writing.
No, it's not the fastest way to send data. For example you can type faster than you can send morse. The reason the morse coders won was because of the tools they used. A morse code key, which is an electrical switch, is optimized for extremely short contacts. It also can be fine-tuned for individual senders. Phone touchpads were originally designed for entering only short phone numbers, so speed was not really an issue. It was more important to prevent the user from dialing a wrong number. So there's a lot more resistance built in to the phone keys.
The results would have been closer if the morse coders had to use a cell phone to send their code, maybe just pressing the 1 button on and off. I think in that case the texters would have won.
From a caption accompanying the article: "Millimeter wave technology from security specialist Qinetiq is designed to detect not just metal but other threats, like ceramic knives and hidden drugs." No more hidden drugs. I feel safer already.
Sorry to reply to myself, but have to make a correction. I didn't see the word "kept," so the parent makes perfect sense and my post doesn't. Sorry.
Centos really is much better kept then Whitebox. Centos also has a much larger following, this is obvious from the fact that Centos 4 came out much faster then Whitebox.
Centos really is much better? How so? They're both clones of Red Hat with the artwork changed to protect the innocent. What's better about it?
There *will* be a decline in piracy of MSware as more and more people migrate to Linux.
The decline in Windows and Office sales will be accompanied by a corresponding decline in piracy of same.
Maintaining a whitelist can't be any more complicated than adding and deleting dmail accounts. I don't see any advantage to dmail and the huge disadvantage is that you're relying on a single vender with a proprietary system with your important communications.
it probably makes no sense for UNIX V on gameboy advance due to the lack of a keyword
unless your username is ABBA or BAABABBA or somesuch.