The comparison is somewhat poor. Imagine that the equipment in your coffee shop was mostly funded through tax dollars and that thanks to low expenses, you were able to spend a huge amount of money buying off politicians to guarantee that you were given a monopoly on coffee sales. Due to your mandatated monopoly and proximity to a bunch of coffee addicts, you started charging $10 a cup for coffee made from Maxwell House's rejected beans. Also pretend that Starbucks doesn't pay livable wages and provide health insurance at 35 hours a week. *then* you might have a good comparison.
Are they trying to deliberately kill the idea of movie downloads? Simultaneous release, same price... why should anyone wait for a few hours for a download when it's just as quick to get the actual DVD? And costs as much? The DVD can be passed on to others and there's no need to install special software on the PC to actually get it running.
There are advantages for the rental portion. You can queue up downloads in advance, watch it within a given window, don't have to worry about every copy being rented out, and don't have to return it. It's also a couple dollars cheaper than pay per view on cable, and you can pause it. Buying a DVD is only economical if you're going to watch movies several times. The vast majority of movies are worth watching exactly 1 time.
Consumers are realizing that Sony devices are expensive to own due to lock-in, making their products less desirable than the competition. Consumers are purchasing devices made by the competition, which don't have such issues. This is an example of the free market working perfectly.
Would a triple click be a derivative of both patents?
conntrack will only stick you with cleartext
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That's kind of sucky because then you're streaming your very important data across the internet in cleartext. You might be able to get connection tracking to route through a VPN, but I assume that would require an iptables firewall on both ends of the connection.
Our interim solution has been to rsync (over ssh) all remote data to the local disk on the tape backup server and then back that up. It's not the best thing at all, but it works. Ideally we'll stop using amanda entirely at some point and switch to afbackup which seems to not have these issues.
I disagree. Hundreds of thousands of people have died in order to protect the freedoms of this nation. I'm not willing to give them up for something which has a small risk of killing a relatively small number of people. There are many more things we can do to save lives which are far less risky. Making cigarette smoking illegal would save hundreds of times as many lives, and not push us much closer towards a fascist regime.
They have a limited selection and it's not full resolution, but the quality is actually pretty good. But it's pretty cheap. "Rentals" are even cheaper and the limitations on watching them is fairly reasonable.
Redhat has so many stupid defaults. The stupid path setup makes it tedious to compile anything yourself. Apache, postgres, php, etc stupidly do not have many features compiled in or compiled as modules, which forces you to compile things yourself. Their libc compiles have bizarre patches applied which tend to cause hard to trade bugs that only affect Redhat users. RPM is fairly painful to work with.
While you probably have your reasons for using or sticking with Redhat, I decided years ago to chuck it and have been much happier.
I'm not sure if this is true with AMD processors, but Intel chips actually seem to use less power at higher speeds while mostly idle. If I clock my 3.2GHz home system down to 300MHz, the power use increases by 10 or 20 watts. Supposedly this is due to the processors being really good at shutting down portions of the chip which are not in use.
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This won't provide a simple or cheap way to run XP. You'll have to reinstall your system as dual boot and buy an XP license. Not something many people would do in order to play a game.
Is this becoming a threat to "traditional" web development companies like the one I work for? Will Google be eating up development work for some of the larger sites?
You have no need to worry if your company writes applications which some day make it out of beta.
IE 7 is far more standards compliant than IE 6. You will create pages which render great in IE7 and Firefox, but look horrible in IE6. You can't have both installed at the same time.
How are the Iraqis fighting the US any different than the French resistance movement in WWII? Whether or not you think what the US is doing is right or wrong has nothing to do with these people's status.
If simple things such printing from a web browser, support macromedia flash, sound from more than 1 app at a time, and interfacing with mp3 players can work easily and reliably, then it has a chance. Until then, it is not fit for the masses.
Despite having a number of years of computer experience, these are things I have been unable to do. I can't print from firefox more than once per user profile clearing, and artsd tends to freeze every hour or two. If Novell has managed to package together very stable versions of the applications, utilities, and other programs which perform these tasks, then it has a chance.
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The comparison is somewhat poor. Imagine that the equipment in your coffee shop was mostly funded through tax dollars and that thanks to low expenses, you were able to spend a huge amount of money buying off politicians to guarantee that you were given a monopoly on coffee sales. Due to your mandatated monopoly and proximity to a bunch of coffee addicts, you started charging $10 a cup for coffee made from Maxwell House's rejected beans. Also pretend that Starbucks doesn't pay livable wages and provide health insurance at 35 hours a week. *then* you might have a good comparison.
Are they trying to deliberately kill the idea of movie downloads? Simultaneous release, same price... why should anyone wait for a few hours for a download when it's just as quick to get the actual DVD? And costs as much? The DVD can be passed on to others and there's no need to install special software on the PC to actually get it running. There are advantages for the rental portion. You can queue up downloads in advance, watch it within a given window, don't have to worry about every copy being rented out, and don't have to return it. It's also a couple dollars cheaper than pay per view on cable, and you can pause it. Buying a DVD is only economical if you're going to watch movies several times. The vast majority of movies are worth watching exactly 1 time.
Consumers are realizing that Sony devices are expensive to own due to lock-in, making their products less desirable than the competition. Consumers are purchasing devices made by the competition, which don't have such issues. This is an example of the free market working perfectly.
That's what I'd like to know
At the data transfer rate of 20Mbps, you would most likely be better off sending it over the network.
Use the openmanage stuff. It doesn't deal much with the lm_sensors stuff (which in imo sucks a lot), but it will let you read the sensors via snmp.
Would a triple click be a derivative of both patents?
That's kind of sucky because then you're streaming your very important data across the internet in cleartext. You might be able to get connection tracking to route through a VPN, but I assume that would require an iptables firewall on both ends of the connection.
Our interim solution has been to rsync (over ssh) all remote data to the local disk on the tape backup server and then back that up. It's not the best thing at all, but it works. Ideally we'll stop using amanda entirely at some point and switch to afbackup which seems to not have these issues.
I disagree. Hundreds of thousands of people have died in order to protect the freedoms of this nation. I'm not willing to give them up for something which has a small risk of killing a relatively small number of people. There are many more things we can do to save lives which are far less risky. Making cigarette smoking illegal would save hundreds of times as many lives, and not push us much closer towards a fascist regime.
Even the most theoretical scenarios I've seen using ungodly amounts of antimatter as fuel takes about 20 years.
How much time would pass for the occupants at those speeds? A couple of minutes?
Wouldn't this be similar to what is experienced from changes in acceleration from amusement park rides/orbiting the earth/riding elevators/etc?
They have a limited selection and it's not full resolution, but the quality is actually pretty good. But it's pretty cheap. "Rentals" are even cheaper and the limitations on watching them is fairly reasonable.
Redhat has so many stupid defaults. The stupid path setup makes it tedious to compile anything yourself. Apache, postgres, php, etc stupidly do not have many features compiled in or compiled as modules, which forces you to compile things yourself. Their libc compiles have bizarre patches applied which tend to cause hard to trade bugs that only affect Redhat users. RPM is fairly painful to work with.
While you probably have your reasons for using or sticking with Redhat, I decided years ago to chuck it and have been much happier.
I'm not sure if this is true with AMD processors, but Intel chips actually seem to use less power at higher speeds while mostly idle. If I clock my 3.2GHz home system down to 300MHz, the power use increases by 10 or 20 watts. Supposedly this is due to the processors being really good at shutting down portions of the chip which are not in use.
Distributed Disk Operating System?
This won't provide a simple or cheap way to run XP. You'll have to reinstall your system as dual boot and buy an XP license. Not something many people would do in order to play a game.
"Bring forth him that hath cursed without the camp; and let all that heard him lay their hands upon his head, and let all the congregation stone him."
Is inciting violence grounds for censorship? I can think of a certain book which does not waste time with mere suggestion.
Maybe he went on to take later class where they explained price collusion?
Is this becoming a threat to "traditional" web development companies like the one I work for? Will Google be eating up development work for some of the larger sites?
You have no need to worry if your company writes applications which some day make it out of beta.
Which is odd since gunshots kill many more kids than masturbation.
IE 7 is far more standards compliant than IE 6. You will create pages which render great in IE7 and Firefox, but look horrible in IE6. You can't have both installed at the same time.
Slashdot made fun of this. Now Gates made fun of it. Now we will see Slashdot slam Gates for making fun of it.
If you can find that the same people making fun of the computer are the ones making fun of gates, then you might have something.
I don't understand how comparing the opinions of one subset of a group of people with the opinions of another subset is "insightful".
How are the Iraqis fighting the US any different than the French resistance movement in WWII? Whether or not you think what the US is doing is right or wrong has nothing to do with these people's status.
If simple things such printing from a web browser, support macromedia flash, sound from more than 1 app at a time, and interfacing with mp3 players can work easily and reliably, then it has a chance. Until then, it is not fit for the masses.
Despite having a number of years of computer experience, these are things I have been unable to do. I can't print from firefox more than once per user profile clearing, and artsd tends to freeze every hour or two. If Novell has managed to package together very stable versions of the applications, utilities, and other programs which perform these tasks, then it has a chance.
It's better than GIMP