Your typical user, maybe. Off the top of my head I can guess: Online banking, ebay, e-mail, Reuters, and a search engine. I don't think my mother or father use more than 25 websites on a regular basis. Not even I do on a daily basis unless if I am looking into a specific topic.
Speed is everything, which is why I don't use it. Maybe if it didn't take more than 2 seconds to open a new tab (CTRL+T), I would be able to give IE7 some credit.
Guess how long it takes on Firefox? Instant! No "Connecting..." or locking up!
If they want odour, let them have it, full throttle. Eat chilli beans with garlic and cream cheese (or whatever supercharges your afterburner) a few hours before boarding a flight.
"I fart in your general direction! In fact, I fart uncontrollably in all directions!"
I seriously wonder if you could be denied onto a flight because of having uncontrollable flatulence. Only one way to find out...
Personally, I have no idea what he's talking about in the first place. Unless it's an abysmally low-quality rip, MP3 sounds just like any other format. No sizzle, nothing.
Play that decent-quality song over a set of high end speakers, then play something in FLAC and you will hear the difference.
Actually, it is likely that a lot of the water will come back to earth. In a LARGE number of years. The reason is that it will be used in LEO, and will have a relatively slow speed. IOW, it WILL come back slowly to earth.
Quiet, you. You're bringing logic to this conversation.
Wouldn't it be extremely expensive to send large quantities of water into orbit (also, our water supply is limited we can't be throwing it into space!)?
But it rains! The water will come right back down eventually!
The fact that so many great shows have been canceled on Fox over the years and yet MadTV somehow KEEPS GOING ON AND ON FOR SOME INEXPLICABLE REASON was what finally turned me into an atheist.
Good news, Everyone! I just found out that they were announced to be canceled in November 2008.
I don't have DVR or even digital cable. I know many people as well who don't. Making assumptions that swapping time slots because everybody has DVR is just as good of an idea that we should stop broadcasting in 4:3 in favor of HD because everybody has a HDTV.
I wouldn't blame them if they opted to go the straight to DVD route forever or try to work something out with Comedy Central.
Straight to DVD looks good... but please, I beg of you, NOT Comedy Central. That station lost my love the second they didn't renew their syndication deal with SNL in favor of MadTV. I'll choose reruns from the 90s over the garbage that is passed over as comedy on MadTV, which is yet another show that is pushed by Fox.
Fox is showing what they think people want to view versus what we want.* When you see the stupidity that is put on MadTV, you realize that this is what they think that the American audience wants to see. Maybe they put the SciFi shows on Friday nights because they think that the target audience doesn't have a social life and would take a break from their MMORPG or D&D game to watch an hour of TV and give the previous time slot to something that the mainstream audience (See: American Idol viewers) want to watch.
*Frankly, this is what every station does. But I'm bashing Fox specifically here.
That's generally what happens when you provide logistical support and a base of operations to a terrorist organization that attacks a Great Power. You think Afghanistan would have come out better if Bin Ladin had murdered ~3,000 Chinese or Russians instead of ~3,000 Americans?
I think it would be the same as it always has been. We would provide millions of dollars in aide for them, there would be peace rallies and movements to bring them supplies, but ultimately we (The US) would leave it to them to resolve the problem on their own.
the best thing to do in response to a nuclear attack by a terrorist organization would be to STFU and fucking NOT retaliate.
I'm playing devils advocate in my post, I forgot to mention it. The problem is that trying to explain that to the POTUS and the joint chiefs would prove to be far more complex after millions of citizens were killed and millions more will die from the fallout.
I would love nothing more than to have world unity and nothing but love all around, but look at after 9/11. Scorched fucking earth in Afghanistan. The American people called for retaliation, and they got it. Look in Israel, a few of their people are killed in suicide bombings and they level city blocks in neighboring countries. It always seems like the political figures take Sean Connery's line from The Untouchables to heart:
He pulls a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That's the Chicago way, and that's how you get Capone.
In the current global climate, there's no point in having nuclear missiles. Those who could strike us are no longer interested and are now allies and those who are hostile and nuclear capable can't reach us.
I think someone watched The Watchmen and thought it actually happened.
News flash: There are people who don't like us just as much as they did last summer before my 401k started plummeting. Just because Obama won doesn't mean everybody loves us. What the funding should go towards is creating weapons that do effectively just as much damage without the radiation fallout.
The point of having nuclear weapons is being able to have mutually assured destruction. Even if we have an enemy whose homeland is vague, if one is detonated on US soil expect something bad to happen to anybody we suspect.
You could always pay for hosting, and store your encrypted files on an FTP site, right?
This. $10 a month and I can have an off site backup. $20 a month and I can have TWO off site backups for my personal data, all encrypted using GnuPG/Trucrypt/whatever both on separate continents. Stop using the "GOOGLE IS MY ONLY OPTION" excuse, there's plenty of other ways to back up your data.
Personally, I use SSHFS and all my files are stored on my home server. Nightly they're archived, encrypted. and shot off to a datacenter in Chicago. It costs me $20 a month for the bandwidth and storage, and it's all encrypted.
So, because that's a ridiculous expense for practically everyone, you should just chill out. A morning without your email isn't going to kill you. In fact, it might even be good for you. Take some time out. Go for a walk. Spend a few hours with your wife/kids/friends/dog.
You're oversimplifying things. Many people rely on Gmail to be their primary source of e-mail for their business. People host their domains on it for their companies. For some people a few hours means money lost. Sure, it's their own fault for relying on "the cloud," but when you get used to a level of service and it suddenly cuts out it can be a major impact.
I don't understand all the hate for Bill. Unless if this e-mail was nothing more than a publicity stunt to make him look less evil, it shows that he wasn't happy with the way things were going. He clearly saw the direction the ship was going and he couldn't turn it in time.
Despite what you say about Microsoft now, Ballmer will always be funny to read about and watch on youtube.
Movie nerds are among the largest classes of nerds, dude.
Okay, fair point. But I just figured that/. was implicitly News for Technology Nerds; not other kinds of nerdiness.
We had this same argument during the earthquake in China over the summer. If you don't want to see this on the front page, use the firehose to mod it down. If you're using the beta index, mod it down so you don't see it. It's News For Nerds. Stuff that Matters. To many, this does matter. Not all of us participate in online forums (specifically that work doesn't block during the day) and it's nice to discuss it.
Just because this article doesn't pertain to your interests doesn't mean you have to come in and troll it. There's also many kinds of Technologies that go behind making movies from the start to finish.
I don't have any interest in the Mars Lander, but I don't go in trolling ABOUT THOSE DAMN NASAHOLES and how JUNIOR CANT READ GIVE THEM MONEY. Get over yourself and scroll down, it's not that big of an inconvenience to ignore one article.
Or allowing law abiding citizens to speak with their relatives in hostile countries without worry of big brother listening.
Well, they are hostile countries, you know.
I have a good friend in Lebanon who I keep in touch with on MSN and used to talk to on Skype (before his connection became too volatile). If the government really wants to listen in to us discussing (Well, at the time) World of Warcraft strategies and how the raid the night before went they can be my guest, but if I am discussing family matters with relatives who travel regularly, it's nobody's business.
In that clueless celebrity's world, it is the the "most prestigious award in the world." Do you really think she will ever get the Nobel Prize? Highly doubtful. Just let her enjoy her clueless life and go on with yours.
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(who only views 25 sites?)
Your typical user, maybe. Off the top of my head I can guess: Online banking, ebay, e-mail, Reuters, and a search engine. I don't think my mother or father use more than 25 websites on a regular basis. Not even I do on a daily basis unless if I am looking into a specific topic.
Speed is everything, which is why I don't use it. Maybe if it didn't take more than 2 seconds to open a new tab (CTRL+T), I would be able to give IE7 some credit.
Guess how long it takes on Firefox? Instant! No "Connecting..." or locking up!
If they want odour, let them have it, full throttle. Eat chilli beans with garlic and cream cheese (or whatever supercharges your afterburner) a few hours before boarding a flight. "I fart in your general direction! In fact, I fart uncontrollably in all directions!"
I seriously wonder if you could be denied onto a flight because of having uncontrollable flatulence. Only one way to find out...
WHO is the large target audience for these small screened, underpowered computers?
*cough*porn*cough*
Now you can have a netbook with smudgy fingerprints all over the screen to match your iPhone.
Personally, I have no idea what he's talking about in the first place. Unless it's an abysmally low-quality rip, MP3 sounds just like any other format. No sizzle, nothing.
Play that decent-quality song over a set of high end speakers, then play something in FLAC and you will hear the difference.
Actually, it is likely that a lot of the water will come back to earth. In a LARGE number of years. The reason is that it will be used in LEO, and will have a relatively slow speed. IOW, it WILL come back slowly to earth.
Quiet, you. You're bringing logic to this conversation.
Damn! Shut up already! The average moron will totally believe your rain concept.
Apparently they do, I just was modded insightful.
team of orbiting garbage collectors
Damn, the recession must be hitting the rocket scientists REALLY hard for them to resort to garbage collection.
Wouldn't it be extremely expensive to send large quantities of water into orbit (also, our water supply is limited we can't be throwing it into space!)?
But it rains! The water will come right back down eventually!
Don't question me. My logic is flawless.
The fact that so many great shows have been canceled on Fox over the years and yet MadTV somehow KEEPS GOING ON AND ON FOR SOME INEXPLICABLE REASON was what finally turned me into an atheist.
Good news, Everyone! I just found out that they were announced to be canceled in November 2008.
With DVR's becoming more and more popular
I don't have DVR or even digital cable. I know many people as well who don't. Making assumptions that swapping time slots because everybody has DVR is just as good of an idea that we should stop broadcasting in 4:3 in favor of HD because everybody has a HDTV.
I wouldn't blame them if they opted to go the straight to DVD route forever or try to work something out with Comedy Central.
Straight to DVD looks good... but please, I beg of you, NOT Comedy Central. That station lost my love the second they didn't renew their syndication deal with SNL in favor of MadTV. I'll choose reruns from the 90s over the garbage that is passed over as comedy on MadTV, which is yet another show that is pushed by Fox.
Fox is showing what they think people want to view versus what we want.* When you see the stupidity that is put on MadTV, you realize that this is what they think that the American audience wants to see. Maybe they put the SciFi shows on Friday nights because they think that the target audience doesn't have a social life and would take a break from their MMORPG or D&D game to watch an hour of TV and give the previous time slot to something that the mainstream audience (See: American Idol viewers) want to watch.
*Frankly, this is what every station does. But I'm bashing Fox specifically here.
Do what I did to my old printer that kept telling me to "PC load letter".
Hitting a thumb drive with a hammer is not nearly as satisfying as elbow dropping a printer. It's one and done.
That's generally what happens when you provide logistical support and a base of operations to a terrorist organization that attacks a Great Power. You think Afghanistan would have come out better if Bin Ladin had murdered ~3,000 Chinese or Russians instead of ~3,000 Americans?
I think it would be the same as it always has been. We would provide millions of dollars in aide for them, there would be peace rallies and movements to bring them supplies, but ultimately we (The US) would leave it to them to resolve the problem on their own.
the best thing to do in response to a nuclear attack by a terrorist organization would be to STFU and fucking NOT retaliate.
I'm playing devils advocate in my post, I forgot to mention it. The problem is that trying to explain that to the POTUS and the joint chiefs would prove to be far more complex after millions of citizens were killed and millions more will die from the fallout.
I would love nothing more than to have world unity and nothing but love all around, but look at after 9/11. Scorched fucking earth in Afghanistan. The American people called for retaliation, and they got it. Look in Israel, a few of their people are killed in suicide bombings and they level city blocks in neighboring countries. It always seems like the political figures take Sean Connery's line from The Untouchables to heart:
He pulls a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That's the Chicago way, and that's how you get Capone.
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In the current global climate, there's no point in having nuclear missiles. Those who could strike us are no longer interested and are now allies and those who are hostile and nuclear capable can't reach us.
I think someone watched The Watchmen and thought it actually happened.
News flash: There are people who don't like us just as much as they did last summer before my 401k started plummeting. Just because Obama won doesn't mean everybody loves us. What the funding should go towards is creating weapons that do effectively just as much damage without the radiation fallout.
The point of having nuclear weapons is being able to have mutually assured destruction. Even if we have an enemy whose homeland is vague, if one is detonated on US soil expect something bad to happen to anybody we suspect.
You could always pay for hosting, and store your encrypted files on an FTP site, right?
This. $10 a month and I can have an off site backup. $20 a month and I can have TWO off site backups for my personal data, all encrypted using GnuPG/Trucrypt/whatever both on separate continents. Stop using the "GOOGLE IS MY ONLY OPTION" excuse, there's plenty of other ways to back up your data.
Personally, I use SSHFS and all my files are stored on my home server. Nightly they're archived, encrypted. and shot off to a datacenter in Chicago. It costs me $20 a month for the bandwidth and storage, and it's all encrypted.
You're oversimplifying things. Many people rely on Gmail to be their primary source of e-mail for their business. People host their domains on it for their companies. For some people a few hours means money lost. Sure, it's their own fault for relying on "the cloud," but when you get used to a level of service and it suddenly cuts out it can be a major impact.
I don't understand all the hate for Bill. Unless if this e-mail was nothing more than a publicity stunt to make him look less evil, it shows that he wasn't happy with the way things were going. He clearly saw the direction the ship was going and he couldn't turn it in time.
Despite what you say about Microsoft now, Ballmer will always be funny to read about and watch on youtube.
Movie nerds are among the largest classes of nerds, dude.
Okay, fair point. But I just figured that /. was implicitly News for Technology Nerds; not other kinds of nerdiness.
We had this same argument during the earthquake in China over the summer. If you don't want to see this on the front page, use the firehose to mod it down. If you're using the beta index, mod it down so you don't see it. It's News For Nerds. Stuff that Matters. To many, this does matter. Not all of us participate in online forums (specifically that work doesn't block during the day) and it's nice to discuss it.
Just because this article doesn't pertain to your interests doesn't mean you have to come in and troll it. There's also many kinds of Technologies that go behind making movies from the start to finish.
I don't have any interest in the Mars Lander, but I don't go in trolling ABOUT THOSE DAMN NASAHOLES and how JUNIOR CANT READ GIVE THEM MONEY. Get over yourself and scroll down, it's not that big of an inconvenience to ignore one article.
Or allowing law abiding citizens to speak with their relatives in hostile countries without worry of big brother listening.
Well, they are hostile countries, you know.
I have a good friend in Lebanon who I keep in touch with on MSN and used to talk to on Skype (before his connection became too volatile). If the government really wants to listen in to us discussing (Well, at the time) World of Warcraft strategies and how the raid the night before went they can be my guest, but if I am discussing family matters with relatives who travel regularly, it's nobody's business.
I'm not going to enter an extended rant. But I do wish this kind of story didn't make the front page on /.
Yeah, and we can't even blame kdawson for this one.
In that clueless celebrity's world, it is the the "most prestigious award in the world." Do you really think she will ever get the Nobel Prize? Highly doubtful. Just let her enjoy her clueless life and go on with yours.
Or allowing law abiding citizens to speak with their relatives in hostile countries without worry of big brother listening.