You really think that the public data on monetary contributions is the only thing that is donated? Companies fund entire campaigns, houses, trips, hookers & blow, food, gifts.
Then there are entire campaigns that are geared specifically towards the politicians by interest groups funded by Koch Brothers and the like. They literally publish trade journals that are only distributed to specific politicians.
And then there is the media that convinces the public that these laws should be voted for in order to protect their jobs. Talk to your average person about pirating and copyright and you'll see they're full of wrong viewpoints brought on by the media.
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They're not all that rare. I bought a box of Lego Duplo for my daughter's first birthday from Amazon, I think it was $50 for ~140 pieces of Lego Duplo.
What I miss is the 12V Lego rail system. That was an AWESOME system.
HW RAID and SW RAID have been on par in performance for at least a decade. SW RAID these days is actually exceeding HW RAID performance because of the large difference in performance and calculation capabilities of the CPU (especially with data checksumming and compression).
Yep, just make data caps illegal. And 1.15Tb of bandwidth is not too big of a deal actually to get, it's only ~11 uplinks which should be what they already have (geographically distributed) if they were proper internet structures. But you can definitely oversell your subscription. 1:100 is do-able, 1:1000 is even do-able. The problem is that data caps do not NEED to exist. You don't buy wholesale internet-pipes by the Gigabyte (don't let anyone fool you into thinking they do). Internet-pipes (to the backbones and commercial-grade Internet) is sold by the Mbps (in most cases Gbps these days) however many GB you want to pump over them, nobody cares as it doesn't cost any more or less to send or receive a MB over the electronics (they have to be in place regardless).
Data caps are there only and ONLY to protect the parent company's interests. They own the media corporations that rely on advertising (Time Warner owns HBO, CW, Cartoon Network, CNN) and they can't have their own businesses being undercut by the Internet. They want to stop you from viewing things on the Internet, they want to stop you from playing video games (that's why the media always blames video games whenever there is a mass murder even though there is no statistical correlation) and they want you to go back to watching TV with commercials.
Is that because 3 and 5 year olds use the computer for real work or because you're equating yourself with 3 or 5 year olds?
Yes, it may work well for 1 app that a 3 or 5 year old may want by the parent putting it smack in the middle of the screen but for the rest of us that actually have work to do, Windows 8 is a horrible, horrible failure.
Multitasking, task switching, hell even completing a single task is simply too much to ask from Windows 8.
Cisco gear is as much a toy as Linksys gear. Especially once they started taking Linksys product lines and sell them as full-blown Cisco gear (especially the small business gear).
Cisco simply has brand recognition like Microsoft or Oracle. Their products suck, all technical people know it but managers keep buying it because it's "Enterprise"-grade and they've either locked them in or they've convinced them other stuff won't work as well with existing infrastructure.
Netgear, HP, Juniper and a host of others are eating Cisco's lunch right now.
Initially WBC wasn't even being hacked, they were being DDoS'ed by another hacktivist group that is fighting against discrimination of the LGBTQ community.
WBC claimed both Anonymous and that group were the same "criminals" and they would "burn in hell" and that nobody could hack their websites because "There is no force on this earth that can take out their message" and "the Internet was created by God" for the WBC to spread their message.
While the WBC representative was on this rant, Anonymous hacked and defaced their website (~10 mins).
In the mean time they keep provoking Anonymous and keep infringing on other people's rights so they are continuously being toyed with by the Internet communities.
He was talking about the ID protection "services". All they do is "monitor" your credit report and then whenever there is something suspicious they try to upsell you their next tier.
The people in charge get very, very rich in the case of BREIN. Tim Kuik not only gets a multi-million salary, he also gets his car(s), driver, offices, expenses etc. paid for. Then there are also the lawyers involved that make themselves very rich.
BREIN over the last couple of decades has not paid out a single cent to artists, there is actually another organization in the Netherlands that has been paying the artists (only if they are part of the big-5) over the last century. BREIN actually this year wanted to raise the rates and extend it because they said they are running low on funds.
- If you get infinite storage, do you have to pay infinite taxes? - Isn't there already a levy on the media carriers the company buys? - Don't most cloud storage solutions simply sync so you have already paid multiple times for each computer you own even though the media is identical? - When will the artists see any of these millions they must've collected so far. Every single artist should be a billionaire with the amount of media carriers produced in the world.
NX is no longer what you think it is. (Speaking from recent experience) The latest NoMachine clients are not entirely compatible with FreeNX and previous versions of NX (probably on purpose). There is a manual patch you can apply but it's not 1, 2, 3 finished as it used to be unless you pay for the commercial version. SSH+X is easier to set up imho.
Countries like Sweden have been doing it for years at a much lower rate and they are way less populated than the US.
How did we get phones and cable practically nationwide? How did we get electricity and water and sewage nationwide? Those are much more expensive investments than just blowing a fiber through a pipe. And fiber is already nationwide, there are fibers crossing the country in multiple directions, heck most phone companies have fiber in each street already.
It doesn't mean you have to have fiber to every house. The existing copper will do just fine for the last couple of miles, you can get gigabit speeds on it already, the companies simply don't want to invest in the uplink and rather hoard the profits as they have been doing over the last couple of decades.
Hopefully in the future developers will think twice before depending on someone else period.
This will happen within 5-10 years when the "cloud" market disappears. Companies will lose millions because Dropbox or Salesforce suddenly decides to shut down.
This has been the case since at least Reagan. At least he's the first one to do it overtly and every president since had been leaning his way politically. There is no left party in the US, only the right and the extreme right. You have bad choices, don't choose.
The only thing I can think of is browser stats which shows a 1% market share. There are more people running Linux, Blackberry and Symbian than Windows 8 at this point in time.
Not only OEM's but Enterprises as well and basically all Microsoft shops. You want Windows 7? You have to buy 8 with Software Assurance. You want Windows XP? You have to buy 8 with Software Assurance. You want Windows Server? You get 2 licenses of Windows 8 for their VirtualPC software. You want to build your own computer? Here's 8. You want to renew your contract for SA for 10,000 computers, they're now all eligible to run 8, also $1M please.
It's very possible we already tried the idea in the ~2000's with the convertible laptops... by Microsoft... called Tablets.... Microsoft Tablet PC anyone???
And then you go on to sell them an overly expensive solution right?
The thing is tablets work fine. Dead Tree Books are way heavier than tablets (the average tablet now weighs ~0.5kg and the better ones (Apple, Samsung) have never weighed over 0.6kg so your premise is BS).
8-10" is plenty, most books don't even get that big plus you can zoom and turn the brightness down to a comfortable reading level. Put a leather cover on and you won't even notice it's not real paper.
If you just want to lay back and read, you would need some type of retinal projection going on or those smart glasses (both may actually be more strenuous and unnatural than reading a book) or some kind of brain interface that can simply feed you the information but we're not there yet, give it about 5-10 years.
There is a light bulb somewhere in a fire station that has been on for over a hundred years. The thing is, projectors' light bulbs (which is what this is) have a life span of ~2000 hours. Nothing you can do about it or you should get a set of LED's as a light source (which brings it's own issues in manufacturing and image quality).
You may be better off with an Arduino for this. The power usage is way less and it's a microcontroller built for real time processing. There are shields for Ethernet and modules for relays, humidity and temperature that are really cheap if you're not good with electronics.
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You really think that the public data on monetary contributions is the only thing that is donated? Companies fund entire campaigns, houses, trips, hookers & blow, food, gifts.
Then there are entire campaigns that are geared specifically towards the politicians by interest groups funded by Koch Brothers and the like. They literally publish trade journals that are only distributed to specific politicians.
And then there is the media that convinces the public that these laws should be voted for in order to protect their jobs. Talk to your average person about pirating and copyright and you'll see they're full of wrong viewpoints brought on by the media.
They're not all that rare. I bought a box of Lego Duplo for my daughter's first birthday from Amazon, I think it was $50 for ~140 pieces of Lego Duplo.
What I miss is the 12V Lego rail system. That was an AWESOME system.
HW RAID and SW RAID have been on par in performance for at least a decade. SW RAID these days is actually exceeding HW RAID performance because of the large difference in performance and calculation capabilities of the CPU (especially with data checksumming and compression).
Congress?
Yep, just make data caps illegal. And 1.15Tb of bandwidth is not too big of a deal actually to get, it's only ~11 uplinks which should be what they already have (geographically distributed) if they were proper internet structures. But you can definitely oversell your subscription. 1:100 is do-able, 1:1000 is even do-able. The problem is that data caps do not NEED to exist. You don't buy wholesale internet-pipes by the Gigabyte (don't let anyone fool you into thinking they do). Internet-pipes (to the backbones and commercial-grade Internet) is sold by the Mbps (in most cases Gbps these days) however many GB you want to pump over them, nobody cares as it doesn't cost any more or less to send or receive a MB over the electronics (they have to be in place regardless).
Data caps are there only and ONLY to protect the parent company's interests. They own the media corporations that rely on advertising (Time Warner owns HBO, CW, Cartoon Network, CNN) and they can't have their own businesses being undercut by the Internet. They want to stop you from viewing things on the Internet, they want to stop you from playing video games (that's why the media always blames video games whenever there is a mass murder even though there is no statistical correlation) and they want you to go back to watching TV with commercials.
Is that because 3 and 5 year olds use the computer for real work or because you're equating yourself with 3 or 5 year olds?
Yes, it may work well for 1 app that a 3 or 5 year old may want by the parent putting it smack in the middle of the screen but for the rest of us that actually have work to do, Windows 8 is a horrible, horrible failure.
Multitasking, task switching, hell even completing a single task is simply too much to ask from Windows 8.
Cisco gear is as much a toy as Linksys gear. Especially once they started taking Linksys product lines and sell them as full-blown Cisco gear (especially the small business gear).
Cisco simply has brand recognition like Microsoft or Oracle. Their products suck, all technical people know it but managers keep buying it because it's "Enterprise"-grade and they've either locked them in or they've convinced them other stuff won't work as well with existing infrastructure.
Netgear, HP, Juniper and a host of others are eating Cisco's lunch right now.
Initially WBC wasn't even being hacked, they were being DDoS'ed by another hacktivist group that is fighting against discrimination of the LGBTQ community.
WBC claimed both Anonymous and that group were the same "criminals" and they would "burn in hell" and that nobody could hack their websites because "There is no force on this earth that can take out their message" and "the Internet was created by God" for the WBC to spread their message.
While the WBC representative was on this rant, Anonymous hacked and defaced their website (~10 mins).
In the mean time they keep provoking Anonymous and keep infringing on other people's rights so they are continuously being toyed with by the Internet communities.
He was talking about the ID protection "services". All they do is "monitor" your credit report and then whenever there is something suspicious they try to upsell you their next tier.
Solaris and it's derivatives can be had for free. You don't HAVE to buy it and it's derivatives like OpenIndiana are very stable.
The people in charge get very, very rich in the case of BREIN. Tim Kuik not only gets a multi-million salary, he also gets his car(s), driver, offices, expenses etc. paid for. Then there are also the lawyers involved that make themselves very rich.
BREIN over the last couple of decades has not paid out a single cent to artists, there is actually another organization in the Netherlands that has been paying the artists (only if they are part of the big-5) over the last century. BREIN actually this year wanted to raise the rates and extend it because they said they are running low on funds.
- If you get infinite storage, do you have to pay infinite taxes?
- Isn't there already a levy on the media carriers the company buys?
- Don't most cloud storage solutions simply sync so you have already paid multiple times for each computer you own even though the media is identical?
- When will the artists see any of these millions they must've collected so far. Every single artist should be a billionaire with the amount of media carriers produced in the world.
NX is no longer what you think it is. (Speaking from recent experience) The latest NoMachine clients are not entirely compatible with FreeNX and previous versions of NX (probably on purpose). There is a manual patch you can apply but it's not 1, 2, 3 finished as it used to be unless you pay for the commercial version. SSH+X is easier to set up imho.
Countries like Sweden have been doing it for years at a much lower rate and they are way less populated than the US.
How did we get phones and cable practically nationwide? How did we get electricity and water and sewage nationwide? Those are much more expensive investments than just blowing a fiber through a pipe. And fiber is already nationwide, there are fibers crossing the country in multiple directions, heck most phone companies have fiber in each street already.
It doesn't mean you have to have fiber to every house. The existing copper will do just fine for the last couple of miles, you can get gigabit speeds on it already, the companies simply don't want to invest in the uplink and rather hoard the profits as they have been doing over the last couple of decades.
Hopefully in the future developers will think twice before depending on someone else period.
This will happen within 5-10 years when the "cloud" market disappears. Companies will lose millions because Dropbox or Salesforce suddenly decides to shut down.
This has been the case since at least Reagan. At least he's the first one to do it overtly and every president since had been leaning his way politically. There is no left party in the US, only the right and the extreme right. You have bad choices, don't choose.
The only thing I can think of is browser stats which shows a 1% market share. There are more people running Linux, Blackberry and Symbian than Windows 8 at this point in time.
Not only OEM's but Enterprises as well and basically all Microsoft shops. You want Windows 7? You have to buy 8 with Software Assurance. You want Windows XP? You have to buy 8 with Software Assurance. You want Windows Server? You get 2 licenses of Windows 8 for their VirtualPC software. You want to build your own computer? Here's 8. You want to renew your contract for SA for 10,000 computers, they're now all eligible to run 8, also $1M please.
The only thing that changed with their current iteration is the resistive screen, the rest remains the same.
It's very possible we already tried the idea in the ~2000's with the convertible laptops... by Microsoft... called Tablets.... Microsoft Tablet PC anyone???
Does it also simulate who farted?
And then you go on to sell them an overly expensive solution right?
The thing is tablets work fine. Dead Tree Books are way heavier than tablets (the average tablet now weighs ~0.5kg and the better ones (Apple, Samsung) have never weighed over 0.6kg so your premise is BS).
8-10" is plenty, most books don't even get that big plus you can zoom and turn the brightness down to a comfortable reading level. Put a leather cover on and you won't even notice it's not real paper.
If you just want to lay back and read, you would need some type of retinal projection going on or those smart glasses (both may actually be more strenuous and unnatural than reading a book) or some kind of brain interface that can simply feed you the information but we're not there yet, give it about 5-10 years.
There is a light bulb somewhere in a fire station that has been on for over a hundred years. The thing is, projectors' light bulbs (which is what this is) have a life span of ~2000 hours. Nothing you can do about it or you should get a set of LED's as a light source (which brings it's own issues in manufacturing and image quality).
Apparently Samsung owns shares of Seagate...
This whole case doesn't make much sense. Throw out the patents and start over.
You may be better off with an Arduino for this. The power usage is way less and it's a microcontroller built for real time processing. There are shields for Ethernet and modules for relays, humidity and temperature that are really cheap if you're not good with electronics.