The fact that "we spent billions on the Y2K problem" should tell you whether or not those companies would get "run out of business" by the free market.
My god... it's like voting in America. Everyone complains that both sides have all the same flaws, but no one is willing to admit that there's more than two options.
I would counter that if you make any hardware and you waste time and money making it handle things that don't even physically exist, you need to get the hell out of the business business. You are inefficient. Go find another line of work where the free market doesn't exist.
I used to know of a really thorough analysis on some forum some place that showed that even under the most magically perfect circumstances, it can never be a net energy gain to mine the moon and bring it back to earth. I think they even extended that to asteroids. Anyone know it?
Energy production in space and transmission to earth is another story, though.
The real distant future will see only absolute necessities travelling in or out of the massive gravity wells of planets, with almost all humans living their lives inside of one such well. The amount of energy required to move in and out is just too wasteful.
I see a lot of comments like this immediately following things modded to +5. It seems the Slashdot Groupthink is less powerful than some might imagine.
To be fair, the app in question duplicated functionality: it communicated with other machines over the internet to perform specific tasks. Apple can't allow any apps to do that! I'm glad there aren't any other ones breaking the rules like that...
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ComicRack is simply the best.
No, really, it is. But Comix is passable if you want a leaner program.
The fact that "we spent billions on the Y2K problem" should tell you whether or not those companies would get "run out of business" by the free market.
My god... it's like voting in America. Everyone complains that both sides have all the same flaws, but no one is willing to admit that there's more than two options.
Haha, that's exactly what I was thinking about!
Note to self: Next time I send pizzas to someone as a prank, don't pay for them before hand...
Don't they make most of their money by performing dozens of times a year, anyway?
That's not true! They're also paid quite well by the recording industry to speak out against piracy!
That's why I keep all my data on DVDs. That way, if one goes bad, I'll only lose 4 gigabytes!
Of course, if I really wanted to be safe, I should use CDs. That way I'd only lose a few hundred megabytes.
But then again, real safety is in 3 1/2" floppies. Then I'd only lose 1.44 megabytes!
5 1/4" floppies! 360 kb!
Single bits stored as rocks! 1/8th byte!
Or I could wait ten years and be the guy saying "1 petabyte drives!? Ha! I'll keep my nice old 3 terabyte drives, thank you very much."
I would counter that if you make any hardware and you waste time and money making it handle things that don't even physically exist, you need to get the hell out of the business business. You are inefficient. Go find another line of work where the free market doesn't exist.
I used to know of a really thorough analysis on some forum some place that showed that even under the most magically perfect circumstances, it can never be a net energy gain to mine the moon and bring it back to earth. I think they even extended that to asteroids. Anyone know it?
Energy production in space and transmission to earth is another story, though.
The real distant future will see only absolute necessities travelling in or out of the massive gravity wells of planets, with almost all humans living their lives inside of one such well. The amount of energy required to move in and out is just too wasteful.
Little known fact: soylent steaks were not actually made out of people.
It's really okay for you to just tell him he used it wrong.
I see a lot of comments like this immediately following things modded to +5. It seems the Slashdot Groupthink is less powerful than some might imagine.
No, no one had to say that.
No, it doesn't work. It's an adjective, not a verb.
e-lic-it/i`lisit/Verb
1. Evoke or draw out (a response or fact) from someone by actions or questions: "their moves elicit exclamations of approval".
2. Draw forth (something that is latent or potential) into existence: "war elicits all that is bad in us".
il-lic-it/i`lisit/
Adjective: Forbidden by law, rules, or custom: "illicit drugs"; "illicit sex".
Obi-Wan: I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
Giant =/= Powerful
Really? What are you, high?
Oh, now I see what you mean by "this." Irony, got it.
Thus solving the problem once and for all.
xkcd: The Rules of Acquisition for Non-Ferengi
Spammers are getting more shy? That's a relief!
So... 2.6 GB/month? That's pretty awful.
The ImageShack servers do the torrenting. You just tell them what to download so you can download it straight from them later.
To be fair, the app in question duplicated functionality: it communicated with other machines over the internet to perform specific tasks. Apple can't allow any apps to do that! I'm glad there aren't any other ones breaking the rules like that...
No, the real question is how the hell does $100 per message times 4.4 million messages equal $1 billion. $600 million in "punitive damages?"