I'd keep the roommate who steals $2.50 out of my wallet every month for loopy dreams of space travel, and ditch the roommate who steals $100 out of my wallet every month to buy bullets and bombs with which he rains terror from the skies on some of our neighbors.
Liberals don't think government has no problems. They just think the solution is to fix them.
Problem: Inadequate response to Katrina/Gulf oil spill. Liberal proposal: Better funding and training so next disaster gets a better response. Conservative proposal: Disband FEMA and cut taxes.
Only one of these proposals is actually a solution.
The problem is that car crashes are boring but airplane crashes are exciting. So I know that a small plane landed on a highway in Kentucky and nobody was hurt, but I don't know a thing about the half dozen fatal car accidents that probably happened in my city this month.
It only took one airship accident for the entire concept of airships to be abandoned for generations.
In our world, the official system is still the path of least resistance. In the world you describe, that is no longer the case. Most people are lazy and just do whatever requires the minimum effort. So in your world, everyone is a pirate, because the official system has become more of a pain in the ass than using Bittorrent.
It's like countries with laws against non-official currency conversion, and an utterly ruinous official exchange rate. Everyone (*every* *single* *person*) uses the non-official system. Yes, sometimes the government tries to enforce its laws and throws people in jail. But this is viewed as a natural disaster like being struck by lightning. Nobody actually stops using the non-official system. They just accept the risk as a part of life.
When everyone is a pirate, the official distribution system stops providing any revenue to content creators. It no longer benefits Disney to declare a moratorium on a particular title, because when they open it up again, nobody buys it - they were watching it all along, through non-official channels. Disney, and all the other studios, either adapts to reality or goes out of business.
And that's why it will never happen. Any DRM so restrictive that consumers stop buying it will be dropped by the studios.
Phase-change memory offers as much or more promise as memristors for flash-type storage. Yes, memristors are also interesting for thousands of other applications and PCM isn't, but that doesn't make it a horse and buggy for this application.
I know nothing about it, but my guess is that it's only 1 Gbps to the router room of the Electric Power Board of Chattanooga. From there it presumably rides their T1 to the Internet. (Or whatever they have.) Also, it's probably 1 Gbps download / 128 Kbps upload.
What if they use that trick like in Wild Wild West where they shine a magic lantern light through your eyeballs to project the last thing you saw? Assuming you died while typing your password, that is.
There are. But the experience is not all he's making it out to be. Embarking on a cruise, you have to spend an hour or so standing in line and being "processed" by the cruise line, during which you get subjected to security screening entirely comparable to that of an airline. They don't confiscate your cutlery, but they X-ray you and all the rest.
If you want to travel on a ship without security screening, you have to own a private yacht. But if you had that much money, you'd already own or rent time on on a private plane.
It bears repeating that this is mostly a US problem - many non-US carriers are setting records for service quality. Emirates service is as good as any cruise line, and an airplane goes as far in an hour as a ship goes in a day.
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What mail client is better? Gmail's web interface?
The point is that someone probably already has.
I'd keep the roommate who steals $2.50 out of my wallet every month for loopy dreams of space travel, and ditch the roommate who steals $100 out of my wallet every month to buy bullets and bombs with which he rains terror from the skies on some of our neighbors.
Or, depending on who you are, the usefulness might be that no-one else can.
Thank you for what I assume was a well formed insult. What does it mean?
Liberals don't think government has no problems. They just think the solution is to fix them.
Problem: Inadequate response to Katrina/Gulf oil spill.
Liberal proposal: Better funding and training so next disaster gets a better response.
Conservative proposal: Disband FEMA and cut taxes.
Only one of these proposals is actually a solution.
If only that were true.
The problem is that car crashes are boring but airplane crashes are exciting. So I know that a small plane landed on a highway in Kentucky and nobody was hurt, but I don't know a thing about the half dozen fatal car accidents that probably happened in my city this month.
It only took one airship accident for the entire concept of airships to be abandoned for generations.
Name another product which went from zero to 20% of all worldwide PCs in one year. Or three years.
In our world, the official system is still the path of least resistance. In the world you describe, that is no longer the case. Most people are lazy and just do whatever requires the minimum effort. So in your world, everyone is a pirate, because the official system has become more of a pain in the ass than using Bittorrent.
It's like countries with laws against non-official currency conversion, and an utterly ruinous official exchange rate. Everyone (*every* *single* *person*) uses the non-official system. Yes, sometimes the government tries to enforce its laws and throws people in jail. But this is viewed as a natural disaster like being struck by lightning. Nobody actually stops using the non-official system. They just accept the risk as a part of life.
When everyone is a pirate, the official distribution system stops providing any revenue to content creators. It no longer benefits Disney to declare a moratorium on a particular title, because when they open it up again, nobody buys it - they were watching it all along, through non-official channels. Disney, and all the other studios, either adapts to reality or goes out of business.
And that's why it will never happen. Any DRM so restrictive that consumers stop buying it will be dropped by the studios.
The reality is that there is always something to repair.
Phase-change memory offers as much or more promise as memristors for flash-type storage. Yes, memristors are also interesting for thousands of other applications and PCM isn't, but that doesn't make it a horse and buggy for this application.
Well, that's why I said I know nothing about it.
Whatever it is that you get when you pay $349/month, it isn't the equivalent of a dedicated OC-12. I do know that.
I know nothing about it, but my guess is that it's only 1 Gbps to the router room of the Electric Power Board of Chattanooga. From there it presumably rides their T1 to the Internet. (Or whatever they have.) Also, it's probably 1 Gbps download / 128 Kbps upload.
Run under VMware ESX and limit the amount of CPU available to the VM.
He's talking about the caricature of France as understood by Americans.
By Grapthar's hammer, by the sons of Worvan, you shall be avenged.
So you only type 15 wpm?
What if they use that trick like in Wild Wild West where they shine a magic lantern light through your eyeballs to project the last thing you saw? Assuming you died while typing your password, that is.
You encrypt your MP3 player? What are you listening to, exactly?
You mean, only guilty of what you're actually guilty of, rather than also guilty of obstruction of justice as well?
Do we still have to talk about "burnout" every time we mention kernel maintenance?
Exactly which liberals told anyone except the very rich to make any sacrifices?
You mean like Norway and Iceland?
There are. But the experience is not all he's making it out to be. Embarking on a cruise, you have to spend an hour or so standing in line and being "processed" by the cruise line, during which you get subjected to security screening entirely comparable to that of an airline. They don't confiscate your cutlery, but they X-ray you and all the rest.
If you want to travel on a ship without security screening, you have to own a private yacht. But if you had that much money, you'd already own or rent time on on a private plane.
It bears repeating that this is mostly a US problem - many non-US carriers are setting records for service quality. Emirates service is as good as any cruise line, and an airplane goes as far in an hour as a ship goes in a day.