Okay, I oversimplified, much.
Yes, the money on bank accounts is being used. I still prefer that money to be in the hands of a small-ish company providing a service, than in some bank's. People seem to make better use of money when it's their own, not their employer's.
Teehee, nice anecdot, but what have you got against rainbow-colored lampposts?
200k isn't all that much money, my town burns a lot more than that on the occasional parade or fair...
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Where's the waste?
They take rich people's money, which would otherwise be locked down in someone's personal possession, i.e. not in the economy. That's what I'd call wasted.
Look at the message and say "Gee actually I was thinking about buying one of those, that one looks perfect, but since they spamvertised it to me, I refuse to buy it." Sounds a little childish and stubborn. It does, but you can get pretty much anything through other channels - maybe a little more clicking is involved, but IMHO it's worth the effort.
That's the thing with the A9 - there are traffic jams, construction going on every 100km...
And yes, where the street's free and everyone goes at full speed, driving such a slow car tends to annoy others, especially on uphill parts.
Don't think it's as anoying as the occasional truck race - truck drivers trying to overtake each other though.
The slowest part of the journey was the Munich-Berchtesgaden part though.
Imagine you're driving for 10 hours, over really boring streets that just go straight most of the time (german autobahn for example).
You're mind's going to drift no matter what, but talking to someone or listening to an audiobook at least keeps you awake.
Interesting. Didn't know that, so I checked Wikipedia - which says they've sold their car division to Ford in 1999.
Seems they bought Jaguar and Land Rover too. Guess I'm not really up-to-date in the car business.
Anyways, when I think of reliable Swedish cars, my mind conjures the image of old Volvos, a lot older than 9 years. Also, even if Volvo Cars is owned by Ford, they still could be build the old way in old factories, and thus be as reliable as ever.
A lot of their income is through hardware sales, so they don't want any competition there.
Making their software run only on their hardware is one way to make there be no competition. Was a lot easier when they were still using PowerPC, not omnipresent PC hardware.
Now they only have an (uproven?) clause in their EULA and some bound-to-be-broken firmware lock to stop cloners.
It's an intended publicity stunt of course - the commision will not ban Microsoft. Unless there'll be serious climate changes in hell within six weeks.
And as such, I don't find it that bad - brings Microsoft's non-compliance back into public view, puts a little pressure in MS, though not too much..
That's a lot about being an opposition party is all about - spreading information (and sometimes propaganda of course) about something they care about.
How so?
The only example the article mentioned is that motion sensors won't "catch you picking your nose".
Yeah, that's what's privacy advocates are talking about - being caught picking your nose.
Okay, when I think of backup, it's data backup.
I wouldn't backup applications or operating systems, just their configuration files.
Anyway, what I'd try doing is diff(1)ing all those backed up system files with the originals.
Or am I missing something completely, and it's some weird rootkit that's embedded in some wm* media file?
I don't think so.
The fan heater's sole purpose is heating, so it will try to convert as much electrical energy into concentrated heat as possible.
In the case of the server, that energy is needed to drive electrons through circuits and stuff, which do get hot, but as they're scattered over a lot of space that heat isn't as concentrated as in the heater. By the time the hot air reaches the fan, it will already have cooled down a little.
Also, I'm pretty sure some of that electrical energy is converted to something else than heat.
I'm pretty sure they can distinguish different users behind a NAT gateway. Everyone uses NAT.
But that's besides the point - sure, you might have some defenses against that sort of thing, but about 99.9% of Internet users don't.
Meaning, your personally being less affected does not make any difference - they don't need any luck.
An US recession would drag the the rest of the world down, too.
The only nations I could imagine actually profiting in the end would be developing ones, e.g. China.
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Okay, I oversimplified, much.
Yes, the money on bank accounts is being used. I still prefer that money to be in the hands of a small-ish company providing a service, than in some bank's. People seem to make better use of money when it's their own, not their employer's.
Teehee, nice anecdot, but what have you got against rainbow-colored lampposts?
200k isn't all that much money, my town burns a lot more than that on the occasional parade or fair...
Where's the waste?
They take rich people's money, which would otherwise be locked down in someone's personal possession, i.e. not in the economy. That's what I'd call wasted.
That's the thing with the A9 - there are traffic jams, construction going on every 100km...
And yes, where the street's free and everyone goes at full speed, driving such a slow car tends to annoy others, especially on uphill parts.
Don't think it's as anoying as the occasional truck race - truck drivers trying to overtake each other though.
The slowest part of the journey was the Munich-Berchtesgaden part though.
Berlin-Berchtesgaden in an old VW bus.
Imagine you're driving for 10 hours, over really boring streets that just go straight most of the time (german autobahn for example).
You're mind's going to drift no matter what, but talking to someone or listening to an audiobook at least keeps you awake.
Interesting. Didn't know that, so I checked Wikipedia - which says they've sold their car division to Ford in 1999.
Seems they bought Jaguar and Land Rover too. Guess I'm not really up-to-date in the car business.
Anyways, when I think of reliable Swedish cars, my mind conjures the image of old Volvos, a lot older than 9 years. Also, even if Volvo Cars is owned by Ford, they still could be build the old way in old factories, and thus be as reliable as ever.
A lot of their income is through hardware sales, so they don't want any competition there.
Making their software run only on their hardware is one way to make there be no competition. Was a lot easier when they were still using PowerPC, not omnipresent PC hardware.
Now they only have an (uproven?) clause in their EULA and some bound-to-be-broken firmware lock to stop cloners.
You people take yourselves too seriously.
Seriously.
Yeah well, it can. But it seems it isn't the right tool for what you're trying to do.
You might want to try some vector drawing tool, like Inkscape.
Gah, my eyes!
Can't you please warn people when linking to sites this ugly?
The law has issues with that kind of behaviour.
It's an intended publicity stunt of course - the commision will not ban Microsoft. Unless there'll be serious climate changes in hell within six weeks.
And as such, I don't find it that bad - brings Microsoft's non-compliance back into public view, puts a little pressure in MS, though not too much..
That's a lot about being an opposition party is all about - spreading information (and sometimes propaganda of course) about something they care about.
Sorry, in 2007 actually.
RFID.
That way, they still don't track the real person, but their assigned tags.
I'm pretty sure you can tell if people have been swapping their tags.
That sort of tracking was demostrated in 2004: http://www.openbeacon.org/
First mentioned in "The Amazing Life and Deeds of Chuck Norris - Volume 42".
How so?
The only example the article mentioned is that motion sensors won't "catch you picking your nose".
Yeah, that's what's privacy advocates are talking about - being caught picking your nose.
*blink*
Okay, when I think of backup, it's data backup.
I wouldn't backup applications or operating systems, just their configuration files.
Anyway, what I'd try doing is diff(1)ing all those backed up system files with the originals.
Or am I missing something completely, and it's some weird rootkit that's embedded in some wm* media file?
Wow, you had 40GB drives last this long? :-/
Impressive. All mine were of the IBM Deathstar type
I don't think so.
The fan heater's sole purpose is heating, so it will try to convert as much electrical energy into concentrated heat as possible.
In the case of the server, that energy is needed to drive electrons through circuits and stuff, which do get hot, but as they're scattered over a lot of space that heat isn't as concentrated as in the heater. By the time the hot air reaches the fan, it will already have cooled down a little.
Also, I'm pretty sure some of that electrical energy is converted to something else than heat.
Huh?
Plus it's computationally, and therefore financially, expensive.
I'm pretty sure they can distinguish different users behind a NAT gateway. Everyone uses NAT.
But that's besides the point - sure, you might have some defenses against that sort of thing, but about 99.9% of Internet users don't.
Meaning, your personally being less affected does not make any difference - they don't need any luck.
An US recession would drag the the rest of the world down, too.
The only nations I could imagine actually profiting in the end would be developing ones, e.g. China.
So you can't imagine that breaking a finger might have some effect on your typing pattern?