Yes, Apple sells computers without Windows pre-installed. Shocking, isn't it?
alright point rudely taken. Lemme ask another way. Can I buy a Macbook air without an OS installed so I can put an alternate OS on it? Is there an "OS X" tax? How do I avoid the tax if I like the Macbook Air?
wouldn't it be possible for someone to figure out what the server is sending the gaming console as an acknowledgment code and then setup a local area network that directs the PS3's requests to that IP address to connect to your own computer and send the same key acknowledgment notification?
For gorram's sake, just buy the damn game and be done with it.
Seriously, I can't understand how you could possibly think someone else's phone call is any different than someone else having a conversation with someone sitting beside them.
Lack of, or reduced, sidetone with many cell phones causes many people to speak too loudly on them:
...not to mention the fact that the FX were worse than what we'd seen ten years ago. The sequence with the shuttle crashing into the shuttle bay is almost unwatchable...
I say this as an iPhone user, I'm not sure why it is commonly accepted that Apple provides this perfect user experience.
Because to the/. crowd 'the enemy of my enemy is my friend,' and what's the biggest meanest evilest enemy to the/. crowd? Microsoft. And no, I refuse to write MS with a dumb-ass dollar sign replacing the "s". If you want to write anything with a dollar sign, write "Apple $tore."
A Flickr Pro subscription allows unlimited photos for $25/yr with (optional) sharing of photos.
Yep - A second vote for Flickr Pro. That's where all my images are. You can upload as much as you want, in high-rez. I've got many many gigabytes of photos on Flickr. They've got several utilities that make managing the account pretty easy.
I know you think you're clever with these rebuttals you keep writing, but how about some context? Exactly what historical event (or events) are you trying to draw attention to? This visit to the new world? I'm sorry - It was a pretty safe assumption that if you stepped outside of your shelter in the new world you wouldn't immediately die. It was also a safe assumption there would be food to eat, both plant and animal. In terms of the ship journeys to get there, sure they were dangerous, but people had already been sailing out of sight of land for some time.
They - OH MY GOD - list their addresses publically!
...not the addresses of their currency distribution facilities or data centres they don't. I live near the processing centre of a large bank. The place doesn't have a sign, front door, receptionist, anything - Just armoured cars coming and going.
Rubbish. This might have applied in some frontier town in 1885, but today, and particularly post 9/11, Americans bow to the 'collective' to a greater degree than Europeans. You willingly shut down airports because someone a child got through security without a full body scan or a fondling, bring out the SWAT team because someone glued a robot to a centre-divider and on and on... As a majority you give up your rights left, right and centre willingly using the argument that says "They can search me - I have nothing to hide" - An argument that would turn the stomach of any European who has learned about Hitler.
So spare me this "freedom of the individual" BS. Americans like guns, plain and simple, particularly hand guns and assault weapons, and it makes no sense to the rest of us in jurisdictions where guns are banned.
Actually there are generally not many low-skilled jobs out there.. they slowly dissappear.
Well, depends on the jurisdiction, but in general there are often many low-skilled jobs out there. What there are not, however, are reasonably-well-paying low-skilled jobs.
The problem with web apps is that anyone can do the same. If they do it better than you, your customers will migrate.
Not always. Look at eBay. I would argue it would be nearly impossible for any "new" company to displace eBay. If you had an item to auction, where would you list it? An existing site (e.g. eBay), with millions of users who might view and bid on your item? Or a new site, with no critical mass? Heck, not even Yahoo! Auctions was able to displace eBay. Eventually they gave up. I think over time you'll see a few key web apps which dominate each vertical, with no one web app having full market share.
The difference is that "difficult" surveillance can't be mounted on a massive scale - they actually have to be frugal in its use.
So moving to following someone in a car (from being on foot or on a horse) was OK because it was still "difficult." Then moving to cars with radios was OK because it was still "difficult." Then moving to cell phones and encrypted radios was OK because it was still "difficult"... Then helicopters was OK because it was still "difficult"... You see my point? Suddenly now we're at the threshold of "difficult"-ness? The argument just doesn't seem to make sense to me....
What I find interesting about surveillance discussions is it seems to be the case that the consensus on/. is that surveillance is OK if it's difficult and expensive to the taxpayers, but it's not OK if it's easy and cheap to the taxpayers.
For example if you're a suspicious character, it's considered OK if a law enforcement surveillance team stealthily follows you everywhere you go for a week, without your knowledge, meticulously recording everything (at great expense). However, it's considered NOT OK to attach a GPS device to your car that basically does the exact same thing, only much more cheaply and efficiently.
Similarly, it's OK to track bad guys and keep an eye on a city with (very expensive) manned & piloted helicopters, complete with infrared night-vision gear and spotlights. It's not, however, acceptable to fly drones to do the same thing.
I'm not saying one is right and one is wrong, but I find the contrast confusing... Is it simply the case that surveillance is OK provided it's difficult? If that's the case, why do we allow helicopters at all? Or in the case of manned surveillance, why are the police allowed to use radios? Shouldn't they have to use call boxes? Either we're OK with the concept, or we're not...
Your investigation has to be framed around what the "believers" define "haunted" to mean. For example, if they define it to mean drawers opening and closing by themselves, well you need some night cameras set up to film if something moves. If they define 'haunted' to mean strange sounds, well, you need recording equipment. If it's defined as temperature drops, well, you get the idea.
If, however, 'haunted' is defined as 'We feel something in the house,' well, you can't measure that.
(I live in an old house - My wife and I sleep in the basement. I'm a light sleeper and from time to time I hear footsteps upstairs in the middle of the night. Creeps me out a little, but if I really cared that much I could set up some equipment to try to measure what I'm hearing. Same deal here.)
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Yes, Apple sells computers without Windows pre-installed. Shocking, isn't it?
alright point rudely taken. Lemme ask another way. Can I buy a Macbook air without an OS installed so I can put an alternate OS on it? Is there an "OS X" tax? How do I avoid the tax if I like the Macbook Air?
having people complain they want to buy MacOSX without the hardware
Aside from those sold by Apple
How do you buy a Macbook without an operating system? Can you exclude it in the shopping cart?
Here's a scene I see repeated every day - Notice his nose is down until he flares:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mdu7_2SjNQc
Not the best video, I admit, but what I found after 30 seconds of googling...
How do you manage getting a beam of light inside a cockpit that opens facing upward?
When the aircraft is in a landing approach it is angled downward. The nose is only 'up' when they flare out for landing.
wouldn't it be possible for someone to figure out what the server is sending the gaming console as an acknowledgment code and then setup a local area network that directs the PS3's requests to that IP address to connect to your own computer and send the same key acknowledgment notification?
For gorram's sake, just buy the damn game and be done with it.
Just using a urinal and having some urine spray on my pants disgusts me. Imagine 15 months worth of just that alone.
Urine is sterile - There's no bacteria in it. It does contain compounds that can cause mild skin irritation ("diaper rash") but it's largely harmless.
Seriously, I can't understand how you could possibly think someone else's phone call is any different than someone else having a conversation with someone sitting beside them.
Lack of, or reduced, sidetone with many cell phones causes many people to speak too loudly on them:
...much more loudly than they would in a conversation with someone sitting beside them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidetone
...not to mention the fact that the FX were worse than what we'd seen ten years ago. The sequence with the shuttle crashing into the shuttle bay is almost unwatchable...
I say this as an iPhone user, I'm not sure why it is commonly accepted that Apple provides this perfect user experience.
Because to the /. crowd 'the enemy of my enemy is my friend,' and what's the biggest meanest evilest enemy to the /. crowd? Microsoft. And no, I refuse to write MS with a dumb-ass dollar sign replacing the "s". If you want to write anything with a dollar sign, write "Apple $tore."
A Flickr Pro subscription allows unlimited photos for $25/yr with (optional) sharing of photos.
Yep - A second vote for Flickr Pro. That's where all my images are. You can upload as much as you want, in high-rez. I've got many many gigabytes of photos on Flickr. They've got several utilities that make managing the account pretty easy.
We [sic] exactly do we care if they are on the Internet?
Because they might have pr0n of course.
Americans mocking other countries... *Sigh* The impudence... the irony
I'm not American, but I have no issue with mocking the nutbars that make up the North Korean leadership. Those guys are batsh1t crazy.
I thought Apple was widely noted for its accessibility features
Are you joking? The iPad isn't even allowed to have arrow keys.
[Insert fanboy rants here about how arrow keys are 1970s technology, only losers need them and Jobs Knows Best.]
But when a company does something that is frowned upon, no one blames the exec
Are you joking? The hate that much of Slashdot had (and continues to has) on for Bill Gates verges on irrational lunacy....
History book.
Read one.
I know you think you're clever with these rebuttals you keep writing, but how about some context? Exactly what historical event (or events) are you trying to draw attention to? This visit to the new world? I'm sorry - It was a pretty safe assumption that if you stepped outside of your shelter in the new world you wouldn't immediately die. It was also a safe assumption there would be food to eat, both plant and animal. In terms of the ship journeys to get there, sure they were dangerous, but people had already been sailing out of sight of land for some time.
They - OH MY GOD - list their addresses publically!
...not the addresses of their currency distribution facilities or data centres they don't. I live near the processing centre of a large bank. The place doesn't have a sign, front door, receptionist, anything - Just armoured cars coming and going.
Thieves aren't generally very smart.
Generally this type of theft is just for the scrap value of the metal - The $1 - 2 they might get for the steel pizza-dish, pole and other hardware.
Alright, Cylons, I'll give you. Imperial probe droids? Sure. Ten-dollar plastic toy robots? Not so much.
In America, the collective tends to be mistrusted
Rubbish. This might have applied in some frontier town in 1885, but today, and particularly post 9/11, Americans bow to the 'collective' to a greater degree than Europeans. You willingly shut down airports because someone a child got through security without a full body scan or a fondling, bring out the SWAT team because someone glued a robot to a centre-divider and on and on... As a majority you give up your rights left, right and centre willingly using the argument that says "They can search me - I have nothing to hide" - An argument that would turn the stomach of any European who has learned about Hitler.
So spare me this "freedom of the individual" BS. Americans like guns, plain and simple, particularly hand guns and assault weapons, and it makes no sense to the rest of us in jurisdictions where guns are banned.
Actually there are generally not many low-skilled jobs out there.. they slowly dissappear.
Well, depends on the jurisdiction, but in general there are often many low-skilled jobs out there. What there are not, however, are reasonably-well-paying low-skilled jobs.
The problem with web apps is that anyone can do the same. If they do it better than you, your customers will migrate.
Not always. Look at eBay. I would argue it would be nearly impossible for any "new" company to displace eBay. If you had an item to auction, where would you list it? An existing site (e.g. eBay), with millions of users who might view and bid on your item? Or a new site, with no critical mass? Heck, not even Yahoo! Auctions was able to displace eBay. Eventually they gave up. I think over time you'll see a few key web apps which dominate each vertical, with no one web app having full market share.
The difference is that "difficult" surveillance can't be mounted on a massive scale - they actually have to be frugal in its use.
So moving to following someone in a car (from being on foot or on a horse) was OK because it was still "difficult." Then moving to cars with radios was OK because it was still "difficult." Then moving to cell phones and encrypted radios was OK because it was still "difficult"... Then helicopters was OK because it was still "difficult"... You see my point? Suddenly now we're at the threshold of "difficult"-ness? The argument just doesn't seem to make sense to me....
What I find interesting about surveillance discussions is it seems to be the case that the consensus on /. is that surveillance is OK if it's difficult and expensive to the taxpayers, but it's not OK if it's easy and cheap to the taxpayers.
For example if you're a suspicious character, it's considered OK if a law enforcement surveillance team stealthily follows you everywhere you go for a week, without your knowledge, meticulously recording everything (at great expense). However, it's considered NOT OK to attach a GPS device to your car that basically does the exact same thing, only much more cheaply and efficiently.
Similarly, it's OK to track bad guys and keep an eye on a city with (very expensive) manned & piloted helicopters, complete with infrared night-vision gear and spotlights. It's not, however, acceptable to fly drones to do the same thing.
I'm not saying one is right and one is wrong, but I find the contrast confusing... Is it simply the case that surveillance is OK provided it's difficult? If that's the case, why do we allow helicopters at all? Or in the case of manned surveillance, why are the police allowed to use radios? Shouldn't they have to use call boxes? Either we're OK with the concept, or we're not...
I have access to a supposedly haunted house
Your investigation has to be framed around what the "believers" define "haunted" to mean. For example, if they define it to mean drawers opening and closing by themselves, well you need some night cameras set up to film if something moves. If they define 'haunted' to mean strange sounds, well, you need recording equipment. If it's defined as temperature drops, well, you get the idea.
If, however, 'haunted' is defined as 'We feel something in the house,' well, you can't measure that.
(I live in an old house - My wife and I sleep in the basement. I'm a light sleeper and from time to time I hear footsteps upstairs in the middle of the night. Creeps me out a little, but if I really cared that much I could set up some equipment to try to measure what I'm hearing. Same deal here.)