If a plumber did something like that: a. The customer would be able to report the incident and he would never be hired again. b. He would probably incur legal penalties. c. He would have to hope his customer was a peaceful person.
Your "protector": a. Could and would stop the incident from being reported. b. Would be under no law. c. Would have nothing to fear from its customer. d. Is a large group of people with little direct responsibility.
When you put a business in the position of a government, you can't expect it to be any better.
That's fine, but it does not make my point any less true. Someone who advocates a government is not an anarchist. Libertarianism advocates a (limited) government. It is not anarchism.
On a side note, why would one of these "protector" companies let you change to another "protector"?
Hard drive space is cheap and plentiful for desktops, but it is scarce, no matter how much you are willing to spend, for laptops. The biggest for a SATA drive is 120GB, and the biggest laptop drive is 160GB. And with a laptop, an external drive is not a convenient option.
I use 4x750 GB hard drives (RAID), purely for virtual memory. It increases the speed on the RAM preprocessing directive, but demodulates the core processing utility monitor. I find it to be a good setup, especially for running Naibed Linux.
"Ten years ago, Received Wisdom said that virtual memory should be, on the average, two to two-and-a-half times real memory. In these days, where 2G RAM is not unusual, and many times that not that uncommon, is this unreasonable? What's the sense of the community as to what is a reasonable size for swap these days?"
I don't claim to know the thoughts of 3/4 of all self labeled libertarians, but the United States Libertarian Party is not anarcho-capitalist. They support having a government, mainly for national defense and enforcement of safety and property rights.
As the GP pointed out, they are trying to make money on the software, not the hardware. If they could make the hardware cheaper and not lose any more money on each one, they would, because they would sell more and thus sell more games.
Do you sit in wait, looking for a chance to rant about "teh evil corporations"?
There's a very large group of very cowish cows who are deer. See, I can do that too! Libertarianism advocates a government, however limited, so it is not anarchism. Period. And L/libertarianism does advocate government-enforced laws against killing/stealing from people, taxes, and various other things, which apply to both individuals and businesses. Anarchism is when you don't have a government, and people magically never doing anything bad ^w^w^w^w^w^w^w^h^h.
No. If everyone replaced 154 traditional light bulbs with these, it would cover 200 million cars. So, if you want to cover your two cars' pollution, you can change all of your lightbulbs, and break into your neighbors homes and change theirs. This is all using your statistics, which I assume you gathered from hours of painstaking research.
True, but that's because they are sold as specialty items. If they were mass produced to be stacked up in every home depot, they wouldn't be nearly as expensive. Heh, they're more like 40x as much at the moment.
Somehow, it makes sense that Apple codenames their OSes after wild cats and Microsoft codenames theirs after cows. I'm not even going to get started with Ubuntu's naming scheme.
It's unusual in the industry to version that way. I think they just liked the X. And several companies change their versioning past 10. MS is worse. They jumped from 3.1 to 95 and XBox 1 to 360.
Bungie is the worst. They went from Marathon 2 to Marathon Infinity. Now they are at Aleph One.
Mac OS X "service packs" are free. Mac OS X 10.4 had a lot of new features, certainly as Vista vs. XP (Which costs more and took longer to come out). What do Windows service packs give you that 10.x.x updates don't? What do real Windows updates give you that 10.x updates don't?
Virtual Earth isn't as nice to use as Google Maps, and certainly Google Earth. The birds eye view is excellent, but it's just pictures, not an interactive globe.
First of all, our troll moderation is ridiculous. At least you are a good (+2) troll.
Wikipedia is generally right. It is a very good source of information. Oh sure, theoretically some evil cabal could mess with the information, but in practice it works very well. As far as linking to articles, I think it should generally be to a specific revision, but other than that it is fine. Until the flaws manifest themselves, they don't matter to someone using the encyclopedia.
My only issue with Wikipedia is its system for storing data. Metadata could make data storage, display, and update a lot better (As an example, I was looking up something about aircraft. There was a list of planes with summaries typed in to the page. Some relevant articles were missing. Properly done, everything would be "tagged" such that you could make an "autolist" and automatically have all of the articles with that "tag". There should also be a built in summary section of each article, so someone doesn't type in a summary each time the subject is listed in an article.)
Building a car is extremely difficult and takes a lot of skill. Building a computer is relatively very easy, and really only requires being able to read a manual. Also, it would take a lot of effort and money to build something comparable to a Lamborghini. Something like the Ariel Atom would be possible for a very skilled person, and it may perform better than a Lamborghini in many ways, but it isn't at all the same thing, even ignoring the out-of-the-box differences.
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If a plumber did something like that:
a. The customer would be able to report the incident and he would never be hired again.
b. He would probably incur legal penalties.
c. He would have to hope his customer was a peaceful person.
Your "protector":
a. Could and would stop the incident from being reported.
b. Would be under no law.
c. Would have nothing to fear from its customer.
d. Is a large group of people with little direct responsibility.
When you put a business in the position of a government, you can't expect it to be any better.
That's fine, but it does not make my point any less true. Someone who advocates a government is not an anarchist. Libertarianism advocates a (limited) government. It is not anarchism.
On a side note, why would one of these "protector" companies let you change to another "protector"?
Hard drive space is cheap and plentiful for desktops, but it is scarce, no matter how much you are willing to spend, for laptops. The biggest for a SATA drive is 120GB, and the biggest laptop drive is 160GB. And with a laptop, an external drive is not a convenient option.
I use 4x750 GB hard drives (RAID), purely for virtual memory. It increases the speed on the RAM preprocessing directive, but demodulates the core processing utility monitor. I find it to be a good setup, especially for running Naibed Linux.
This would be a redundant first post:
"Ten years ago, Received Wisdom said that virtual memory should be, on the average, two to two-and-a-half times real memory. In these days, where 2G RAM is not unusual, and many times that not that uncommon, is this unreasonable? What's the sense of the community as to what is a reasonable size for swap these days?"
I don't claim to know the thoughts of 3/4 of all self labeled libertarians, but the United States Libertarian Party is not anarcho-capitalist. They support having a government, mainly for national defense and enforcement of safety and property rights.
As the GP pointed out, they are trying to make money on the software, not the hardware. If they could make the hardware cheaper and not lose any more money on each one, they would, because they would sell more and thus sell more games.
Do you sit in wait, looking for a chance to rant about "teh evil corporations"?
Neutron stars aren't very big.
This is /. . You should have written your comment in Python.
Thus "anarchism," in its most general semantic meaning, is the belief that all forms of rulership are undesirable and should be abolished.-Wikipedia
Government is a "form of rulership".
anarchism does not provide a world view beyond the idea that imposed authority is undesirable and unnecessary-wikipedia
Government is imposed authority. How is anarchism not opposition to government?
Millenniuman is right, hah!-wikipedia
There's a very large group of very cowish cows who are deer. See, I can do that too! Libertarianism advocates a government, however limited, so it is not anarchism. Period. And L/libertarianism does advocate government-enforced laws against killing/stealing from people, taxes, and various other things, which apply to both individuals and businesses. Anarchism is when you don't have a government, and people magically never doing anything bad ^w^w^w^w^w^w^w^h^h.
How is it a form of anarchism? It advocates a government.
No. If everyone replaced 154 traditional light bulbs with these, it would cover 200 million cars. So, if you want to cover your two cars' pollution, you can change all of your lightbulbs, and break into your neighbors homes and change theirs. This is all using your statistics, which I assume you gathered from hours of painstaking research.
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True, but that's because they are sold as specialty items. If they were mass produced to be stacked up in every home depot, they wouldn't be nearly as expensive. Heh, they're more like 40x as much at the moment.
Apple has free "service packs", and they are just as major as Windows ones.
It comes with a big cat name, too.
Somehow, it makes sense that Apple codenames their OSes after wild cats and Microsoft codenames theirs after cows. I'm not even going to get started with Ubuntu's naming scheme.
It's unusual in the industry to version that way. I think they just liked the X. And several companies change their versioning past 10. MS is worse. They jumped from 3.1 to 95 and XBox 1 to 360.
Bungie is the worst. They went from Marathon 2 to Marathon Infinity. Now they are at Aleph One.
Mac OS X "service packs" are free. Mac OS X 10.4 had a lot of new features, certainly as Vista vs. XP (Which costs more and took longer to come out). What do Windows service packs give you that 10.x.x updates don't? What do real Windows updates give you that 10.x updates don't?
Does HP lose money when you do that, or are printers really cheap to make?
OpenOffice.org is possibly the stupidest name ever. Why is the ".org" there?
Virtual Earth isn't as nice to use as Google Maps, and certainly Google Earth. The birds eye view is excellent, but it's just pictures, not an interactive globe.
First of all, our troll moderation is ridiculous. At least you are a good (+2) troll. Wikipedia is generally right. It is a very good source of information. Oh sure, theoretically some evil cabal could mess with the information, but in practice it works very well. As far as linking to articles, I think it should generally be to a specific revision, but other than that it is fine. Until the flaws manifest themselves, they don't matter to someone using the encyclopedia. My only issue with Wikipedia is its system for storing data. Metadata could make data storage, display, and update a lot better (As an example, I was looking up something about aircraft. There was a list of planes with summaries typed in to the page. Some relevant articles were missing. Properly done, everything would be "tagged" such that you could make an "autolist" and automatically have all of the articles with that "tag". There should also be a built in summary section of each article, so someone doesn't type in a summary each time the subject is listed in an article.)
Fancy looking? They're some of the ugliest computer cases I have ever seen. Almost anything is better.
"Dell etc." also do the support.
Building a car is extremely difficult and takes a lot of skill. Building a computer is relatively very easy, and really only requires being able to read a manual. Also, it would take a lot of effort and money to build something comparable to a Lamborghini. Something like the Ariel Atom would be possible for a very skilled person, and it may perform better than a Lamborghini in many ways, but it isn't at all the same thing, even ignoring the out-of-the-box differences.