I think the article is crap on an even more basic level. Maybe a higher framerate game can beat Starfox but I bet Avatar will look a lot better than those 60fps games even shown at 24fps.
I think you should be comparing the colonialism situation to how the Africans were living before colonialism, not after. Otherwise, you're just comparing the effects of the same oppressive regime in two different regions.
Health care, ACTA, and the DMCA are three things that immediately come to mind, when I think of cases in which we would have been way better off if everybody got a vote. Only allowing certain people to vote, will only work for you if the people who agree with you are the ones who get to vote. I think a better idea would be if people only got to vote on matters concerning themselves. For instance, if the Patriot Act only applied to people who voted for it.
I think true journalism involves a bit of creativity, not just reporting facts. So the only way this can take people's jobs is if the companies settle for less just because the lesser product costs less. So yes, it will take people's jobs.
Right now, Kansas City is planning on installing those things, even though they're aware of the issues and risks. Apparently, the cost saving makes it all worthwhile to them.
At the time, I had been hired as the entire IT staff for a church. They told me Geek Squad wanted $150 to come out and assess a problem, not counting the price for actual labor or parts. So that was the exact price Geek Squad gave them. And this was for a problem with one computer, that I fixed in a couple of hours. And I remember Best Buy having a sign up that said virus removal for $39.99. I remember the MicroCenter guy telling me data recovery for my hard drive would be $1,500. I ended up getting the data back without them, and without the clean room they use to justify the cost. And those are costs for home users.
I also think they're underestimating how much people screw you over when you need their services. Out here,Geek Squad charges $150 USD just to come out, even if all they have to do is pull out a memory chip and push it back in. They're like auto mechanics who charge $25 to change lightbulbs. I wonder how much money businesses lose due to automotive failure...
I'm thinking (the people who use bittorrent to get all of their media) and (the people who buy eBooks for their Kindle) are generally two different crowds. Kindle users are probably the type who got all their music from CD's and iTunes and never noticed DRM because it doesn't stop you from playing your music on your iPod.
The only reason it affects me is because I like the media to be editable. For instance, if I had a Rocky DVD, I'd edit it so it ends with Rocky saying, "I'm scared, okay?" and then the credits roll. And the new Leona Lewis CD has two songs in one track at the end, seperated by more than a minute of silence. I split it into two seperate tracks with no silence. But how many people actually care about Rocky or a hidden track that much?
I just can't see any reason myself or an average Windows user would need a UNIX command line on their Windows computer. In fact, I think the whole point of Windows is to get away from the command line.
You have "Prime Mover" named Linus, who created for you, Linux, the one true religion. Anybody who believes in anything different is just uninformed and possibly evil. You have an explanation for why every flaw in your system is by design, and the way things should be, while every flaw in all other system is proof that yours is the only right one.
I could see it being something like the nicotine patch for a cocaine user, or maybe a lesser of two evils if its side effects are less damaging than cocaine.
My aunt got a Packard Bell computer in 1994. It's still working. She still uses it for work. I think she's still buying ink cartridges for the Canon BJ-100 connected to it.
In the United States, lawmakers use "think of the children" and "our nation's security" to justify any law, invasion, or restriction they want. Maybe the Chinese are just doing the same thing the United States does. Maybe they don't care about pornography at all, but it's a good excuse to only allow sites that they consider to be acceptable, and they can appear to be taking a moral stand in the process.
I think you should do an experiment. Find somebody who isn't the Slashdot type. Just some ordinary person you know who might actually use the search engine in their phone or web browser. Then see if they know how to change the default search provider, or if they even know what that is.
If you want to have even more fun, sit them in front of a computer with a first-time install of IE8 and Firefox. See which one makes it easier to change the default search provider.
Of course, you don't want to do this in real life because you'll lose the friend. But the point of these experiments is, Google's paid-for initial search placement is even better than Microsoft's deal, because they will still be the default search engine and they get to say they're giving everybody a choice. But they're not.
I guess this is as good a time as ever to mention that Google is the only search provider on my Nintendo DSi. I'd really like to be able to switch to another. It's not just Microsoft doing this. Also, having a search engine as the default is almost as good as having it be the only one there, since most people will never change it. Google's done a lot of that.
I was trying to figure out how a comment, which directly referenced both the subject of the thread and the subject of the post it was replying to, could be offtopic. Go Slashdot.
In my neighborhood, people will not hesitate to buy a $250 Chevrolet and put wheels on it that cost several thousand dollars. Several times, I have seen one of these cars stalled on the side of the road with shiny gold and chrome wheels. At least this guy could call for help.
I suspect what would happen then is they'd all make Windows versions and then install a virtual machine for Mac & Linux that emulates enough of Windows to make the program run. So the Mac & Linux versions would be slower and bigger than the Windows version with the same functionality. Or they'd do the whole thing in Java and make all three versions bigger and slower than they would be if they were native. Also, the Linux version would probably only run on one Linux.
Default the startup page to a Google search for "web browsers" and let the user pick which link to follow and download.
Then we'd need another "portable application" to let the user search for a search engine to use so the operating system wouldn't give an unfair advantage to Google.
As I said before, I seriously think women are avoiding computer science because there's no money in it anymore. At least that was the case for me and the women in my CS group. We all found it easier to get paid in other fields. And I've encouraged the male children in my family to avoid it too. If suddenly the pay and demand for computer scientists goes up while demand and pay for nurses goes down, you will see many more women in computer science and many less of them in nursing. Survival is a higher priority than passion or following your dream.
In Kansas City, apparently the Time Warner DVR's save all video to the hard drive and then output the recorded video to the screen in the form of "chasing play". At least it seemed that way because the DVR boxes looked like overly compressed versions of the video on the non-DVR cable boxes. When Rihanna was performing with Chris Brown on the MTV Music Awards (before he tried to eat her), there was a scene in which she had a flashing checkerboard background, kind of like a scene from Flashdance. This case in which most of the picture changed rapidly, combined with their incredibly high compression, made the video turn into a blocky mess in which the performer was hardly recognizable. I thought to myself, if they couldn't even set the bitrate high enough for standard definition, I'd hate to see what these guys will do with "high definition".
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I think the article is crap on an even more basic level. Maybe a higher framerate game can beat Starfox but I bet Avatar will look a lot better than those 60fps games even shown at 24fps.
I think you should be comparing the colonialism situation to how the Africans were living before colonialism, not after. Otherwise, you're just comparing the effects of the same oppressive regime in two different regions.
Health care, ACTA, and the DMCA are three things that immediately come to mind, when I think of cases in which we would have been way better off if everybody got a vote. Only allowing certain people to vote, will only work for you if the people who agree with you are the ones who get to vote. I think a better idea would be if people only got to vote on matters concerning themselves. For instance, if the Patriot Act only applied to people who voted for it.
I think true journalism involves a bit of creativity, not just reporting facts. So the only way this can take people's jobs is if the companies settle for less just because the lesser product costs less. So yes, it will take people's jobs.
Right now, Kansas City is planning on installing those things, even though they're aware of the issues and risks. Apparently, the cost saving makes it all worthwhile to them.
At the time, I had been hired as the entire IT staff for a church. They told me Geek Squad wanted $150 to come out and assess a problem, not counting the price for actual labor or parts. So that was the exact price Geek Squad gave them. And this was for a problem with one computer, that I fixed in a couple of hours. And I remember Best Buy having a sign up that said virus removal for $39.99. I remember the MicroCenter guy telling me data recovery for my hard drive would be $1,500. I ended up getting the data back without them, and without the clean room they use to justify the cost. And those are costs for home users.
I also think they're underestimating how much people screw you over when you need their services. Out here,Geek Squad charges $150 USD just to come out, even if all they have to do is pull out a memory chip and push it back in. They're like auto mechanics who charge $25 to change lightbulbs. I wonder how much money businesses lose due to automotive failure...
I'm thinking (the people who use bittorrent to get all of their media) and (the people who buy eBooks for their Kindle) are generally two different crowds. Kindle users are probably the type who got all their music from CD's and iTunes and never noticed DRM because it doesn't stop you from playing your music on your iPod.
The only reason it affects me is because I like the media to be editable. For instance, if I had a Rocky DVD, I'd edit it so it ends with Rocky saying, "I'm scared, okay?" and then the credits roll. And the new Leona Lewis CD has two songs in one track at the end, seperated by more than a minute of silence. I split it into two seperate tracks with no silence. But how many people actually care about Rocky or a hidden track that much?
I just can't see any reason myself or an average Windows user would need a UNIX command line on their Windows computer. In fact, I think the whole point of Windows is to get away from the command line.
You have "Prime Mover" named Linus, who created for you, Linux, the one true religion. Anybody who believes in anything different is just uninformed and possibly evil. You have an explanation for why every flaw in your system is by design, and the way things should be, while every flaw in all other system is proof that yours is the only right one.
I'm supposed have 8 or 12 or whatever Time Warner claims we get by now. I'd love to get at least the 1.5 in real life.
They should make the plaintiff prove somebody in the United States accessed the website.
I could see it being something like the nicotine patch for a cocaine user, or maybe a lesser of two evils if its side effects are less damaging than cocaine.
You'd just mod her to oblivion as soon as she told you something needs to change...
My aunt got a Packard Bell computer in 1994. It's still working. She still uses it for work. I think she's still buying ink cartridges for the Canon BJ-100 connected to it.
In the United States, lawmakers use "think of the children" and "our nation's security" to justify any law, invasion, or restriction they want. Maybe the Chinese are just doing the same thing the United States does. Maybe they don't care about pornography at all, but it's a good excuse to only allow sites that they consider to be acceptable, and they can appear to be taking a moral stand in the process.
I think you should do an experiment. Find somebody who isn't the Slashdot type. Just some ordinary person you know who might actually use the search engine in their phone or web browser. Then see if they know how to change the default search provider, or if they even know what that is.
If you want to have even more fun, sit them in front of a computer with a first-time install of IE8 and Firefox. See which one makes it easier to change the default search provider.
Of course, you don't want to do this in real life because you'll lose the friend. But the point of these experiments is, Google's paid-for initial search placement is even better than Microsoft's deal, because they will still be the default search engine and they get to say they're giving everybody a choice. But they're not.
I guess this is as good a time as ever to mention that Google is the only search provider on my Nintendo DSi. I'd really like to be able to switch to another. It's not just Microsoft doing this. Also, having a search engine as the default is almost as good as having it be the only one there, since most people will never change it. Google's done a lot of that.
Isn't the whole point of cryogenics was to keep the body frozen long enough to overcome that obstacle?
I was trying to figure out how a comment, which directly referenced both the subject of the thread and the subject of the post it was replying to, could be offtopic. Go Slashdot.
In my neighborhood, people will not hesitate to buy a $250 Chevrolet and put wheels on it that cost several thousand dollars. Several times, I have seen one of these cars stalled on the side of the road with shiny gold and chrome wheels. At least this guy could call for help.
I suspect what would happen then is they'd all make Windows versions and then install a virtual machine for Mac & Linux that emulates enough of Windows to make the program run. So the Mac & Linux versions would be slower and bigger than the Windows version with the same functionality. Or they'd do the whole thing in Java and make all three versions bigger and slower than they would be if they were native. Also, the Linux version would probably only run on one Linux.
Then we'd need another "portable application" to let the user search for a search engine to use so the operating system wouldn't give an unfair advantage to Google.
As I said before, I seriously think women are avoiding computer science because there's no money in it anymore. At least that was the case for me and the women in my CS group. We all found it easier to get paid in other fields. And I've encouraged the male children in my family to avoid it too. If suddenly the pay and demand for computer scientists goes up while demand and pay for nurses goes down, you will see many more women in computer science and many less of them in nursing. Survival is a higher priority than passion or following your dream.
In Kansas City, apparently the Time Warner DVR's save all video to the hard drive and then output the recorded video to the screen in the form of "chasing play". At least it seemed that way because the DVR boxes looked like overly compressed versions of the video on the non-DVR cable boxes. When Rihanna was performing with Chris Brown on the MTV Music Awards (before he tried to eat her), there was a scene in which she had a flashing checkerboard background, kind of like a scene from Flashdance. This case in which most of the picture changed rapidly, combined with their incredibly high compression, made the video turn into a blocky mess in which the performer was hardly recognizable. I thought to myself, if they couldn't even set the bitrate high enough for standard definition, I'd hate to see what these guys will do with "high definition".