I k eep hearing this - is there an actual source? 'cause I"ve not seen anything to say that "funny" doesn't count for karma (except for periodic random posters stating it)...
Seriously, I think it's great. My web browser should not only track my location, but I'd also like to see the ability to compile C++ code, format my hard drive, and make coffee.
Oh, wait. Somebody already wrote vim! In that case, I"m baffled - why are we finding ways to add more bloat to a browser that used to advertise how lightweight it was?
The existence of adblock hasn't caused the collapse of the web yet. If anything, giving the viewer power to view or not will encourage advertisers to make ads people want to see. I can only see this as an improvement.
On the other hand, it's only a very small minority of people who are using adblock and similar products.
Somewhere in the world, at two difference advertising agencies, two overpaid campaign managers are explaining to their bosses how ads for car insurance and for supplementary health insurance could have been confused like that.
Thank you.
I thought that too, and was about to make a +5 insightful comment about how all the advertisements are getting us to remember them through the amusing stories they tell... how we remember the ads, but not the products anymore.
VMs are no panacea. CEntralizing your servers means centralizing your points of failure - as many thousands of VMWare customers discovered last month. When your underlying hardware takes a dive, now you've not lost 1 server, but 2 or 4 or dozens.
But what I'm referring to are those times when traffic exceeds predictions. In a call center environment - even a properly planned and managed one - it can happen however unlikely it may be. (Multiple network outages have been the primary cause I've seen, as opposed to simple increased traffic.) When every second your call center reps are speaking with customers (or asking them to hold) costs money, the electric costs are secondary.
That depends if your system has been tuned to boot in 5 seconds.
Or if it can return from suspend-to-ram nice and quick.
Actually it doesn't. When you're in an HA environment, that means/being/ HA - there must be/no/ wait time while a machine starts (even if it's only a couple of seconds).
Have you never avoided an accident on the highway by speeding up?
Regularly. And 55 to 80/65 to 80 gives plenty of room to speed up. The only time I've had to speed up to over 80 to avoid an accident is when I was already driving well over the speed limit.
I don't know of anybody (teenagers or adults) who have ever actually turned it off.
I do, and I object to this a lot more than I object to the speed governer. The '02-'04 Mustang GT has some/crappy/ traction control (maybe it's improved recently). Imagine hitting the gas hard to get out of someone's way when you're stopped or moving slowly . Because the system detects one tire moving faster than the other, it suddenly cuts the power to engine which bogs down, and you barely move. This almost got me killed once when someone was running a red light. Since then, I've gotten the chip mod that permanently disables it.
Thanks for the information - and you know, I never would've known I was wrong on the basis of the fact you so generously provided - but your telling me so at the end sure cleared that right up;)
So - maybe I'm missing something - under what theory of economics is creating 700bn out of thin air going to "fix" anything at all? Or do any good except to lower the value of the dollar even further?
Is it going to cost less than $360? Will it support other ebook formats so that people who have made purchases elsewhere don't have to throw them away?
Until it is cheaper, it's not going to gain a lot of popularity - paying almost $400 for the ability to read books never made sense to begin with; and as the economy gets worse, it will make even less sense.
I posted this elsewhere in the thread, but then I saw your name pop up, and figured it'd be the best place to ask;) What about trademarking the term "Open Source"? Combined with a liberal license (ie, free usage to anyone who releases software under a recognized Open Source license), wouldn't that put an end to the word games?
Sad thing is, that's actually true. There are such people.
That's the majority of people. At least some of them are quite intelligent - they just don't seem to want to use that intelligence on learning computers.
THe problem is that - much like Windows - linux swaps waaaay to early. It will swap out the working set of applications I was just using minutes ago if I start doing a large file copy operation - which means that it's swapping out/needed/ memory in exchange for/potential/ gains.
I dunno - I just turn off swap on Windows and Linux both. System remains responsive with no churning. I don't have memory issues, though I do have to pay a little more attention.
Wow, congratulations - you've done your high-school reading;) My point is that dumping unprecedented amounts of non-existent money into the economy is going to do Very Bad Things. That money is getting dumped into it anyway (I also don't know why nobody is noticing this); the 'bailout package' is just icing on the cake.
If we hand over a $700 billion check to the banks, they continue to operate and the economy *might* bounce back a little quicker. But--and here's the rub--that $700 billion comes from taxpayers like you and me. So we still take a hit. And who does this $700 billion go to? Rich Wall Street types so they can continue doing their business and keeping the profits in the end.
Actually, regardless of where it goes, it doesn't come from taxpayers. Our taxes won't raise. THe money won't get paid back by us - if it doesn't get paid by the businesses borrowing it, then it's just tacked onto the debt.
And in case you hadn't noticed, nobody's been paying the national debt for a very long time - even during the years of the vaunted budget surpluses, the national debt was getting bigger.
I would still object. The "safeguards" are a joke - what everyone is conveniently forgetting is that the taxpayer is not paying for this money! It is getting printed up out of nothing - the fed will turn around and say, "Yep, now there's 700b more in the economy."
It won't be paid back - just look at our current debt to see the truth of that. When both candidates were cornered with the question: "What we ill you differently to offset this cost", BOTH of them hemmed and hawed and committed to changing/nothing/.
All this crap about protecting 'taxpayer investment' is window dressing. We're proposing to print money to solve the crisis - but everyone is so focused on/how/ it's getting spent, nobody is looking at where it's/really/ coming from.
Pretty much my thought; I've no economics degree, but it seems eminently logical... I mean, I could be crazy, but since when is printing more money a solution to anything?
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Except we modded him Funny such that Karma=(+0).
I k eep hearing this - is there an actual source? 'cause I"ve not seen anything to say that "funny" doesn't count for karma (except for periodic random posters stating it)...
You are forgetting Brazil (God I love Brazil). There is a reason they call it a Brazilian wax
Erm, in Europe?
Seriously, I think it's great. My web browser should not only track my location, but I'd also like to see the ability to compile C++ code, format my hard drive, and make coffee.
Oh, wait. Somebody already wrote vim! In that case, I"m baffled - why are we finding ways to add more bloat to a browser that used to advertise how lightweight it was?
The existence of adblock hasn't caused the collapse of the web yet. If anything, giving the viewer power to view or not will encourage advertisers to make ads people want to see. I can only see this as an improvement.
On the other hand, it's only a very small minority of people who are using adblock and similar products.
Somewhere in the world, at two difference advertising agencies, two overpaid campaign managers are explaining to their bosses how ads for car insurance and for supplementary health insurance could have been confused like that.
Thank you.
I thought that too, and was about to make a +5 insightful comment about how all the advertisements are getting us to remember them through the amusing stories they tell... how we remember the ads, but not the products anymore.
Then I saved myself from looking silly by finding this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC0k8iJ-ZOg
VMs are no panacea. CEntralizing your servers means centralizing your points of failure - as many thousands of VMWare customers discovered last month. When your underlying hardware takes a dive, now you've not lost 1 server, but 2 or 4 or dozens.
But what I'm referring to are those times when traffic exceeds predictions. In a call center environment - even a properly planned and managed one - it can happen however unlikely it may be. (Multiple network outages have been the primary cause I've seen, as opposed to simple increased traffic.) When every second your call center reps are speaking with customers (or asking them to hold) costs money, the electric costs are secondary.
That depends if your system has been tuned to boot in 5 seconds.
Or if it can return from suspend-to-ram nice and quick.
Actually it doesn't. When you're in an HA environment, that means /being/ HA - there must be /no/ wait time while a machine starts (even if it's only a couple of seconds).
Actually, no. Traction control will give you the maximum traction possible in snow, so you will not need to rock the car in the first place.
Spoken like someone who's never tried to get a rear wheel drive out of the snow while traction control was turned on ;)
Have you never avoided an accident on the highway by speeding up?
Regularly. And 55 to 80/65 to 80 gives plenty of room to speed up. The only time I've had to speed up to over 80 to avoid an accident is when I was already driving well over the speed limit.
I don't know of anybody (teenagers or adults) who have ever actually turned it off.
I do, and I object to this a lot more than I object to the speed governer. The '02-'04 Mustang GT has some /crappy/ traction control (maybe it's improved recently). Imagine hitting the gas hard to get out of someone's way when you're stopped or moving slowly . Because the system detects one tire moving faster than the other, it suddenly cuts the power to engine which bogs down, and you barely move. This almost got me killed once when someone was running a red light. Since then, I've gotten the chip mod that permanently disables it.
Someone has a sig that's very appropriate to your current 40% troll rating for this post:
"-1 Uncomfortable Truth"
Thanks for the information - and you know, I never would've known I was wrong on the basis of the fact you so generously provided - but your telling me so at the end sure cleared that right up ;)
So - maybe I'm missing something - under what theory of economics is creating 700bn out of thin air going to "fix" anything at all? Or do any good except to lower the value of the dollar even further?
Until it is cheaper, it's not going to gain a lot of popularity - paying almost $400 for the ability to read books never made sense to begin with; and as the economy gets worse, it will make even less sense.
I posted this elsewhere in the thread, but then I saw your name pop up, and figured it'd be the best place to ask ;) What about trademarking the term "Open Source"? Combined with a liberal license (ie, free usage to anyone who releases software under a recognized Open Source license), wouldn't that put an end to the word games?
Hmm. I wonder if it would be possible for FSF to get a trademark on "Open Source"? That might put an end to the word games...
Sad thing is, that's actually true. There are such people.
That's the majority of people. At least some of them are quite intelligent - they just don't seem to want to use that intelligence on learning computers.
Good to know, thanks.
THe problem is that - much like Windows - linux swaps waaaay to early. It will swap out the working set of applications I was just using minutes ago if I start doing a large file copy operation - which means that it's swapping out /needed/ memory in exchange for /potential/ gains.
I dunno - I just turn off swap on Windows and Linux both. System remains responsive with no churning. I don't have memory issues, though I do have to pay a little more attention.
Yep, I was just pointing out that - accidents or no - there are places where blind people are allowed to drive. However bad an idea that may be...
we can't, for example, allow the blind to drive cars due to near certainty of accidents)
Don't be so sure of that.
Wow, congratulations - you've done your high-school reading ;) My point is that dumping unprecedented amounts of non-existent money into the economy is going to do Very Bad Things. That money is getting dumped into it anyway (I also don't know why nobody is noticing this); the 'bailout package' is just icing on the cake.
If we hand over a $700 billion check to the banks, they continue to operate and the economy *might* bounce back a little quicker. But--and here's the rub--that $700 billion comes from taxpayers like you and me. So we still take a hit. And who does this $700 billion go to? Rich Wall Street types so they can continue doing their business and keeping the profits in the end.
Actually, regardless of where it goes, it doesn't come from taxpayers. Our taxes won't raise. THe money won't get paid back by us - if it doesn't get paid by the businesses borrowing it, then it's just tacked onto the debt.
And in case you hadn't noticed, nobody's been paying the national debt for a very long time - even during the years of the vaunted budget surpluses, the national debt was getting bigger.
(See here: http://www.treasurydirect.gov/NP/BPDLogin?application=np)
It won't be paid back - just look at our current debt to see the truth of that. When both candidates were cornered with the question: "What we ill you differently to offset this cost", BOTH of them hemmed and hawed and committed to changing /nothing/.
All this crap about protecting 'taxpayer investment' is window dressing. We're proposing to print money to solve the crisis - but everyone is so focused on /how/ it's getting spent, nobody is looking at where it's /really/ coming from.
Pretty much my thought; I've no economics degree, but it seems eminently logical... I mean, I could be crazy, but since when is printing more money a solution to anything?