If that's true, the he should suck it up and take it as the cost of doing business. But he isn't, he's being a whiny bitch. But from the sound of it, he moved, and didn't do his research. The article states he didn't find out till after the fact. And the prospective ISP (not to mention the former homeowner) should be able to tell you the availability of broadband, down to street level. Seriously paranoid? Have the to-be former homeowner sign up for high speed before you leave...
And learn the meaning of the word 'troll'. Your opinion does not factor into the meaning of it. Thanks.
Sucks, but seriously, do a little research before you move, if your business depends on it. Just reeks of irresponsibility. (Not to say not having broadband at 100% penetration doesn't suck, but I'm not gonna cry a river cause you didn't do your research ahead of time... )
They played by the rules of the ISO. The 'normal way things are supposed to work' are apparently not what they had in mind, if they allow anyone to join at any time and vote at short notice. I agree, its dumb, but they followed the rules to a tee.
By your logic, we should be sending up anorexic midget bikini model astronauts into space. And while that might made an interesting reality show, we don't, for some reason. Astronauts do get to bring trinkets up with them, in fact, this might be part of someone's budget. That figure you quote is the (total cost to refurbish, fuel, and pay everyone) divided by (mass). Adding a pound does not add to the numerator (except a few bucks of LOX and LH2, which are pennies a pound)... so if anything we are lowering the cost to orbit! High-Five!
There's a REASON there's such a huge pricetag on lifting anything in orbit, and you can't say "well the shuttle's gonna fly anyways so I might as well throw this trinket in", especially when there are a ton of legitimate things waiting YEARS for a chance of being lifted into space.
like what? We haven't used shuttle to loft satellites in awhile, besides some very minor experiments, and I doubt half a kilogram is going to bump anything. We've been using shuttle for station construction. Again, half a kilogram is rounding error. There are a hundred ways to account for it.
**I** expressed no confidence in the numbers presented, merely presented an error in the calculation... and growth is not linear, it is verymuch nonlinear, as the market begins to saturate the growth rate will rapidly taper off... as it does for all commodities.
Well, maybe, we will never know: the man decided to back out and trade his iPhone for a fancy car and 3 new iPhones. Either way, he made 30k + 3 iPhones.
The problem is getting enough new people to run the script so that the infection rate exceed the disinfection rate. Otherwise the "virus" will "die" when it is "in the wild".
Paid any attention to this greeting card thing that is running amok as we speak? there are plenty of noobs out there that will click something for no apparent good reason.
Nope. Microsoft's security model is badly broken in MANY places. Think back to their last anti-trust trial where they claimed that "integrating" IE's code with the OS was a "good thing".
Konqueror and KDE, last I checked. You can argue that KDE isn't an integral part of the OS, sure, to a dev, but to an end user it is indistinguishable.
By default, Ubuntu ships with NO open ports. On Windows, they're all open, but they have a software firewall sitting on top of them.
By default, Windows doesn't have half the services running/a command away from running that your average Linux distro does (I can't speak for Ubuntu... my personal flavor is Slack). XP doesn't come with a web server installed, or sendmail, or ping/ssh/ftp/sftp/scp/etc. services. Then again, Linux doesn't have the messenger service.
I'm not a windows apologist but things aren't always apples and oranges. I run both Slack and XP behind a router and neither has had a virus. The one that gets the most hack attempts (despite both being online and open to the world on the common http/scp/ftp ports?) the linux box. Daily. No one gets through thanks to only having 2 accounts (1 root, 1 user) and some hardcore passwords and everything I don't need locked down. But the Windows box is never touched. Is it because Linux is a more desirable host? More tools to attack? Or do hackers just rely on trojans for windows (my hypothesis) because it nets enough boxes and is the easiest method...
"just works"... believe it or not, for most people windows does just work. A lot of power users complain about the inflexibility of windows. Fair enough. Others complain about viruses, trojans, etc. because they are the idiots who open up junkmail offering them free shit. Fair enough. In between, though, there are millions of people who work fine in Windows. Like it or not. There is room for both Linux and Windows.
Northern Alabama. We were on the upper floor of a brick complex: heat rises. We also both grew up in Wisconsin, in drafty houses, where during winter often our indoor temperatures (up north) were cooler than the outdoor temperatures (in AL). A lot of winter days in Alabama it is in the low 50's. In Wisconsin, we'd be wearing shorts:)
I had one of those Pentium 90's with that division bug... I don't attribute any of those woes to Packard Bell, they did replace the processor, but we had nothing but trouble with the computer. The tech actually got pissed at me on his fifth or sixth visit (my parents were wise to purchase the service plan), he claimed I was intentionally screwing around with the motherboard (I wasn't)... we had several motherboard failures and expansion card failures.
I was paying roughly $425/month for insurance for my wife, myself and my son through United Health Care. Rent was $325 for a 1-bedroom apartment. Utilities, cable, internet ran under $125 (We lived in AL: we didn't need heat in the winter and ran the AC at a high temperature in the summer). We ate cheap, cooked our own food, rarely went out to eat: our food/sundries budget was well under $100 a month. 10-year term life insurance is cheap for a young male nonsmoker (I knew within 10 years I'd be graduated and have a better job... now I have a VUL [Variable Universal Life] which doubles as an investment vehicle). We were also tithing to our church.
It wasn't easy, but it is doable. You have to sit down and do the math and budget very carefully. My wife was very good at this, you need to go at it as a team and hold each other accountable. Again, you won't have spiffy computers, plasma TV's, multiple new cars (I changed my own oil, did maintenance, etc. on my older car), etc. But there is plenty of good old fashioned fun to be had for cheap. Especially when you are young and newly married:)
coverage is excellent. We live in AL, the parents and grandparents live in WI/SD/MO and we regularly roadtrip to all three with no gaps in coverage, except for some small (less than 5 mile) sections of I-90 through Minnesota... but what do you expect in Minnesota:P
My phone is a phone, I don't send pictures/text/etc. Can't speak for that.
They can enroll for health insurance only if they enroll their dependents as well, which is a problem because on their part time salary they can't afford the enrollment premiums.
I didn't work at Wal-Mart, but in college, married, with kids, I worked part-time for $7 or less an hour. And I paid for my own health insurance. My wife didn't work, she finished her degree quickly before our first kid was born, then was a permenant stay-at-home mom. I provided 100% of the money for the house in between taking classes. I was able to afford health insurance for the entire family: not subsidized, and still keep up with the rent, utilities, books for classes, food, etc. I had a decent life insurance policy on myself as well. Living on $7 is not impossible, and it isn't really even a challenge if you try. You make sacrifices (we didn't have a plasma screen TV, we didn't go out to eat every night of the week, etc.) but some of my fondest family memories were from back then.
Not just pirating, but releasing it before the theaters did. That's a key bit of information you and the summary missed out on. And he admits complete guilt. Game over, man.
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I thought that's what they said about XBOX?
If that's true, the he should suck it up and take it as the cost of doing business. But he isn't, he's being a whiny bitch. But from the sound of it, he moved, and didn't do his research. The article states he didn't find out till after the fact. And the prospective ISP (not to mention the former homeowner) should be able to tell you the availability of broadband, down to street level. Seriously paranoid? Have the to-be former homeowner sign up for high speed before you leave...
And learn the meaning of the word 'troll'. Your opinion does not factor into the meaning of it. Thanks.
Sucks, but seriously, do a little research before you move, if your business depends on it. Just reeks of irresponsibility. (Not to say not having broadband at 100% penetration doesn't suck, but I'm not gonna cry a river cause you didn't do your research ahead of time ... )
Once you hit a certain adoption level it will slow down dramatically. Look at any other market, the same tendancies apply. Solar is not unique.
They played by the rules of the ISO. The 'normal way things are supposed to work' are apparently not what they had in mind, if they allow anyone to join at any time and vote at short notice. I agree, its dumb, but they followed the rules to a tee.
By your logic, we should be sending up anorexic midget bikini model astronauts into space. And while that might made an interesting reality show, we don't, for some reason. Astronauts do get to bring trinkets up with them, in fact, this might be part of someone's budget. That figure you quote is the (total cost to refurbish, fuel, and pay everyone) divided by (mass). Adding a pound does not add to the numerator (except a few bucks of LOX and LH2, which are pennies a pound) ... so if anything we are lowering the cost to orbit! High-Five!
There's a REASON there's such a huge pricetag on lifting anything in orbit, and you can't say "well the shuttle's gonna fly anyways so I might as well throw this trinket in", especially when there are a ton of legitimate things waiting YEARS for a chance of being lifted into space.
like what? We haven't used shuttle to loft satellites in awhile, besides some very minor experiments, and I doubt half a kilogram is going to bump anything. We've been using shuttle for station construction. Again, half a kilogram is rounding error. There are a hundred ways to account for it.
... said the man who sold his company to Northrop Grumman, a 'Dinosaur' Aerospace firm.
Word, bitch, Phantoms like a mallfucker!
**I** expressed no confidence in the numbers presented, merely presented an error in the calculation ... and growth is not linear, it is verymuch nonlinear, as the market begins to saturate the growth rate will rapidly taper off... as it does for all commodities.
Well, maybe, we will never know: the man decided to back out and trade his iPhone for a fancy car and 3 new iPhones. Either way, he made 30k + 3 iPhones.
It's going to go from 0.00001% to 0.000015%. Great!
:)
No, silly, its gonna go up to 0.0000145%
The problem is getting enough new people to run the script so that the infection rate exceed the disinfection rate. Otherwise the "virus" will "die" when it is "in the wild".
... my personal flavor is Slack). XP doesn't come with a web server installed, or sendmail, or ping/ssh/ftp/sftp/scp/etc. services. Then again, Linux doesn't have the messenger service.
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Paid any attention to this greeting card thing that is running amok as we speak? there are plenty of noobs out there that will click something for no apparent good reason.
Nope. Microsoft's security model is badly broken in MANY places. Think back to their last anti-trust trial where they claimed that "integrating" IE's code with the OS was a "good thing".
Konqueror and KDE, last I checked. You can argue that KDE isn't an integral part of the OS, sure, to a dev, but to an end user it is indistinguishable.
By default, Ubuntu ships with NO open ports. On Windows, they're all open, but they have a software firewall sitting on top of them.
By default, Windows doesn't have half the services running/a command away from running that your average Linux distro does (I can't speak for Ubuntu
I'm not a windows apologist but things aren't always apples and oranges. I run both Slack and XP behind a router and neither has had a virus. The one that gets the most hack attempts (despite both being online and open to the world on the common http/scp/ftp ports?) the linux box. Daily. No one gets through thanks to only having 2 accounts (1 root, 1 user) and some hardcore passwords and everything I don't need locked down. But the Windows box is never touched. Is it because Linux is a more desirable host? More tools to attack? Or do hackers just rely on trojans for windows (my hypothesis) because it nets enough boxes and is the easiest method
"familiar" ... check
... believe it or not, for most people windows does just work. A lot of power users complain about the inflexibility of windows. Fair enough. Others complain about viruses, trojans, etc. because they are the idiots who open up junkmail offering them free shit. Fair enough. In between, though, there are millions of people who work fine in Windows. Like it or not. There is room for both Linux and Windows.
"just works"
Northern Alabama. We were on the upper floor of a brick complex: heat rises. We also both grew up in Wisconsin, in drafty houses, where during winter often our indoor temperatures (up north) were cooler than the outdoor temperatures (in AL). A lot of winter days in Alabama it is in the low 50's. In Wisconsin, we'd be wearing shorts :)
I had one of those Pentium 90's with that division bug ... I don't attribute any of those woes to Packard Bell, they did replace the processor, but we had nothing but trouble with the computer. The tech actually got pissed at me on his fifth or sixth visit (my parents were wise to purchase the service plan), he claimed I was intentionally screwing around with the motherboard (I wasn't) ... we had several motherboard failures and expansion card failures.
I was paying roughly $425/month for insurance for my wife, myself and my son through United Health Care. Rent was $325 for a 1-bedroom apartment. Utilities, cable, internet ran under $125 (We lived in AL: we didn't need heat in the winter and ran the AC at a high temperature in the summer). We ate cheap, cooked our own food, rarely went out to eat: our food/sundries budget was well under $100 a month. 10-year term life insurance is cheap for a young male nonsmoker (I knew within 10 years I'd be graduated and have a better job... now I have a VUL [Variable Universal Life] which doubles as an investment vehicle). We were also tithing to our church.
:)
It wasn't easy, but it is doable. You have to sit down and do the math and budget very carefully. My wife was very good at this, you need to go at it as a team and hold each other accountable. Again, you won't have spiffy computers, plasma TV's, multiple new cars (I changed my own oil, did maintenance, etc. on my older car), etc. But there is plenty of good old fashioned fun to be had for cheap. Especially when you are young and newly married
they'd need to add Packard Bell to create the Unholy Trinity. then, the suckiest computer ever could be conceived.
coverage is excellent. We live in AL, the parents and grandparents live in WI/SD/MO and we regularly roadtrip to all three with no gaps in coverage, except for some small (less than 5 mile) sections of I-90 through Minnesota... but what do you expect in Minnesota :P
My phone is a phone, I don't send pictures/text/etc. Can't speak for that.
They can enroll for health insurance only if they enroll their dependents as well, which is a problem because on their part time salary they can't afford the enrollment premiums.
I didn't work at Wal-Mart, but in college, married, with kids, I worked part-time for $7 or less an hour. And I paid for my own health insurance. My wife didn't work, she finished her degree quickly before our first kid was born, then was a permenant stay-at-home mom. I provided 100% of the money for the house in between taking classes. I was able to afford health insurance for the entire family: not subsidized, and still keep up with the rent, utilities, books for classes, food, etc. I had a decent life insurance policy on myself as well. Living on $7 is not impossible, and it isn't really even a challenge if you try. You make sacrifices (we didn't have a plasma screen TV, we didn't go out to eat every night of the week, etc.) but some of my fondest family memories were from back then.
(spell slut) ... J A N E T, I love you too!
Watch out for the masterbating angel!
Sigh.
Exactly. No one is considering his autograph to be a devaluation of the product.
Well, seeing as the autographed phone has 23 bids and is going for in excess of 3,000, I guess I'd find your statement a little odd.
you. are. not. the. target. market.
get. over. yourself.
His biggest complaint is that he would have to actually buy the Windows OS in order to use the internet again
... He's paying his lawyer how many dollars an hour to avoid paying for a Windows OS license?
Which is the funny part
Not just pirating, but releasing it before the theaters did. That's a key bit of information you and the summary missed out on. And he admits complete guilt. Game over, man.