Have Carpenters moved over to Hammer yet? Have Plumbers checked out the newest version of Wrench? Questions like this imply that you need to use one solution to every problem, which is how we end up with broken shit like Node to begin with.
>Facebook is redundant
One thing we agree on. My account there is basically vestigial at this point, used only to communicate with people who don't know me on Twitter or Google Plus and I don't feel like texting.
That said, the first half of your post has nothing to do with the last half. I get that reuniting with someone after a long way away is a nice feeling, but, in terms specifically of high school Reunions, is largely a fake feeling. It's not "Oh, here's my long lost aunt/niece/brother/friend I haven't seen in years, lets catch up", it's "Oh, here's a bunch of people who happened to be born around the same time as me, most of whom I don't care about." Maybe I'm just cynical for my age (I'm only a few years younger than you, born in '85), but most of the people I care about from high school I kept in touch with. The rest were noise to my life.
So? It seems like every few days we get some article from somewhere that basically amounts to "things are different now".
It's also bonus points when the thing that's changed was only something Baby Boomers really experienced, and they act like it was a universal, awesome thing that OH NO THE INTERNETS KILLING NOW.
How's it any different than going to SpeedTest.net. As far as I can tell, the only two differences are 1) broadband.gov doesn't give you a shiny little sig badge to wave your download speed around in and 2) SpeedTest.net isn't going to put pressure on Verizon/Comcast/etc. to provide better broadband.
ObjectDock is garbage, Konfabulator sucks up system resources, and DeskSpaces looks no different than YDOM, which made my system thrash like no tomorrow. (Granted, I don't have a 3D card)
I wonder how much StarDock paid to get top billing...
In other words, will the nightmare come true?
Depends.
I think we'll see a split. Some studio's will demand revocation, so won't. Hopefully, that will cause enough tension that this whole damn thing will fall apart.
> I'm thinking this relates to a word that starts with $.
How would money effect this? There's no money to really be made, and I can't think of a special interest that would pay for RFID for any reason.
You don't seem to get the point. The MPAA was INTENDED as a lobbying party. Why would lobbyist be in southern CA? They obviously would want to be near the politicians. They may work for the movie studios, but their job is in DC.
Allot of powerful companies have headquarters in/near Washington, DC. To imply that their power is relative to their distance from the guy who doesn't even MAKE the laws, just signs them, is stupid.
The music companies that make billions off of work done by artists? They have a system set up so that they perpetually earn money off of something they never did. An example is the lawsuit against napster sooooo many years ago. The whole thing went to the labels, none went to the artists.
Soon the people against the music and movie piracy will claim that the survey is flawed. it's the same thing that the Christian Scientists and similar do when presented with proof they're wrong.
I really wish i knew what you people are talking about with ANY firefox bloat. on my windows machine, with a bunch of tabs open, firefox is right now using a grand total of....
*drumroll please*
46 megs of ram. Not bad, in my opinion. Vidalia and TOR together use almost the same amount.
Note to Windows users: To help firefox slim down, go to about:config and add config.trim_on_minimize true to the screen as a boolene value.
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Have Carpenters moved over to Hammer yet? Have Plumbers checked out the newest version of Wrench? Questions like this imply that you need to use one solution to every problem, which is how we end up with broken shit like Node to begin with.
Yeah, but the spectacle of what we call a High School/College reunion now is largely a product of the Boomers.
>Facebook is redundant
One thing we agree on. My account there is basically vestigial at this point, used only to communicate with people who don't know me on Twitter or Google Plus and I don't feel like texting.
That said, the first half of your post has nothing to do with the last half. I get that reuniting with someone after a long way away is a nice feeling, but, in terms specifically of high school Reunions, is largely a fake feeling. It's not "Oh, here's my long lost aunt/niece/brother/friend I haven't seen in years, lets catch up", it's "Oh, here's a bunch of people who happened to be born around the same time as me, most of whom I don't care about." Maybe I'm just cynical for my age (I'm only a few years younger than you, born in '85), but most of the people I care about from high school I kept in touch with. The rest were noise to my life.
So? It seems like every few days we get some article from somewhere that basically amounts to "things are different now". It's also bonus points when the thing that's changed was only something Baby Boomers really experienced, and they act like it was a universal, awesome thing that OH NO THE INTERNETS KILLING NOW.
Why don't we just replace all state sales taxes with one federal sales tax?
How's it any different than going to SpeedTest.net. As far as I can tell, the only two differences are 1) broadband.gov doesn't give you a shiny little sig badge to wave your download speed around in and 2) SpeedTest.net isn't going to put pressure on Verizon/Comcast/etc. to provide better broadband.
ObjectDock is garbage, Konfabulator sucks up system resources, and DeskSpaces looks no different than YDOM, which made my system thrash like no tomorrow. (Granted, I don't have a 3D card) I wonder how much StarDock paid to get top billing...
You don't need to "Register" a copyright. The very act of creating something copyrights it.
Renaming a quasar CowboyNeil?
Creative Commons licenses are non-exclusive. So, does he have anything in the posting agreement that says that he has the right to change licenses?
"Crazy theories 1, regular theories a billion".
As they say on 4chan, >parent >Parent's parent Same person.
In other words, will the nightmare come true? Depends. I think we'll see a split. Some studio's will demand revocation, so won't. Hopefully, that will cause enough tension that this whole damn thing will fall apart.
Fool. You forgot to shoop da woop first.
Isn't it possible to run the software as a user without enough priv's to do whatever it is he's doing?
> I'm thinking this relates to a word that starts with $. How would money effect this? There's no money to really be made, and I can't think of a special interest that would pay for RFID for any reason.
Didn't the guys at Defcon read RFID from like, 60 feet away? And isn't it easy to clone RFID?
You don't seem to get the point. The MPAA was INTENDED as a lobbying party. Why would lobbyist be in southern CA? They obviously would want to be near the politicians. They may work for the movie studios, but their job is in DC.
Allot of powerful companies have headquarters in/near Washington, DC. To imply that their power is relative to their distance from the guy who doesn't even MAKE the laws, just signs them, is stupid.
The music companies that make billions off of work done by artists? They have a system set up so that they perpetually earn money off of something they never did. An example is the lawsuit against napster sooooo many years ago. The whole thing went to the labels, none went to the artists.
They probably count the whole thing as if people bought it. I wouldn't put it past the MPAA, etc. to use screwy statistics like that.
Soon the people against the music and movie piracy will claim that the survey is flawed. it's the same thing that the Christian Scientists and similar do when presented with proof they're wrong.
That's akin to saying It's not the fact that my car has no wheels. THE ROADS ARE BORKED!
I really wish i knew what you people are talking about with ANY firefox bloat. on my windows machine, with a bunch of tabs open, firefox is right now using a grand total of.... *drumroll please* 46 megs of ram. Not bad, in my opinion. Vidalia and TOR together use almost the same amount. Note to Windows users: To help firefox slim down, go to about:config and add config.trim_on_minimize true to the screen as a boolene value.
all the gamers who don't go will get 20ms pings :D