I'm paying $30 per month for 6 gb/sec for AT&T DSL. It's plenty fast, unless you have a big family (I live alone) or run a web server (unallowed by the TOS) and get slashdotted. You might want to check into it.
The thing is, they had a utopian society in that movie. I'd like my own surrogate! Bungee jumping without the bungee? Parachuting without fear of death or disability? Sounds good to me. Willis only destroyed the surrogates because his wife was a crazy bitch, and so was he.
Odd how I never heard of that movie until I saw it at WalMart.
TFA says "The affected customer modems make up about a third of the 350,000 to 400,000 internet users believed to still have the DNSChanger malware on either their modems or Windows computers."
I don't get it. Is this malware Windows specific? How does it infect modems? Is a Linux user affected by this? What if you have Linux cabled to your router and a Windows machine using wifi? How can one determine if they have an infected modem?
Those studies had many flaws. Had they actually recorded three 15kHz tones with different waveforms (one sine, one sawtooth and one square wave) in both digital 44k (not kHz; it's samples per second, not cycles per second) in both analog and digital the difference would have been apparent to almost anyone. They measured the reaction to music rather than discreet tones.
However, the new Dolby strategy isn't going to sound any different to most people, as most folks simply don't have speakers that good. The speaker is the most important part of your sound system, and today's are usually really BAD, little four inch two ways with a "sub" woofer when older high end speakers had fifteen inch or larger woofers (larger than your subwoofer) and "supertweeters" capable of reaching supersonic frequencies (usually up to about 30 kHz). The supertweeters would be useless to me, as most tweeters can reach close to 20 kHz, farther than I can hear, but some young folks can her tones up to 22 kHz.
Unless you have $1000 apiece speakers, you probably won't hear the difference.
Now we just need to take it a few steps further, and use a larger implant to get more bandwidth and from different regions, and implant it in healthy academics to computer-enchance their intellectual capacity in order to establish a self-reinforcing feedback loop.
Man you have to read between the lines. He wants a toy for his wrist. He doesn't seem to care about style too much. The geek stuff is just what he wants. I get that. It's fun. I could understand if you were saying this on the FHM website or the Gentlemen's Quarterly, but this is slashdot.
I guess you didn't notice his user name? As to his "Why would you be looking for a gadget with so small screen and that is always attached to your hand?" I use to have the attitude of "a wristwatch? How quaint!" but there are times I'd wished I had a wristwatch. Boring meeting with no clock on the wall, you can't show your boredom by pulling out your phone, but you could sneak a look at your wristwatch easily.
As to the submitter, if I ever buy a watch it'll be a Dick Tracy two way wrist radio watch.
Substitute your lies for fact I see right through your plastic mack I look all white but my dad was black My Chinese suit is really made out of sack
I this were Israel he would be white, but most mixed race Americans I've known identified themselves as black. Fifty years ago he would have been a "mulatto" but that's probably politically incorrect these days.
He looks black to me. I never saw a white man with hair that curly.
Well I don't think the Moonies or the Scientologists are anything but scams to suck money from suckers, but it would probably cost the government more in manpower and paperwork and lawsuits determining just which religions really are charities than they could collect from the fakes.
No, he's correct. Back in 1980 when I first got cable ($10 per month including HBO), none of the cable channels had commercials. Now? They run ads at the bottom of the screen while you're actually watching the show (History is really bad about that).
They have good salad (Burger King salad sucks but their hamburgers and fries are a lot better than McD's). Rather than making a salad, I'll go through the drive through and pick up a salad for a dollar, throw a steak on the grill and a potato in the microwave and ten minutes later I'm eating an excellent steak dinner for about four bucks.
You must live in Texas or somewhere, there are black people in expensive suits that work in my building, racist. I guess you never heard of Bill Cosby or Barack Obama, either.
You should relize that racism is a tool of the rich to keep the poor whites and blacks at each others' throats so they don't wake up and realize who the real enemy is, don't you? No, I guess not; I know a few racists, but they're all knuckle-dragging morons.
Yes there is. Everyone misunderstands that old, usually incorrect platitude. It's only true in the case of a salesman taking you to lunch, which is why that platitude was coined in the first place.
If I pay for your lunch, you just got a free lunch. My daughters get free lunches from me all the time.
Google should focus on making their search engine better while thinking up the next big thing. Unfortunately, Google is so engineering-driven that it has a hard time understanding people.
Ironic that you were modded "insightful" when they just rolled out Knowledge Graph today.
And your "Google needs to change its culture so that it places greater emphasis on design and human interaction rather than technical impressiveness" is just downright clueless. Compare Google's search page with Bing or even worse, Yahoo. People don't go to a search engine because the search page is pretty, they go there because they want to look something up. Besides, Bing is flashy and trashy like a rhinestone-studded velvet Elvis painting, while Google's search is simple and elegant (and Yahoo's is a disturbing mess).
You're also discounting Google Doodles.
G+ is as much more aestethically pleasing than Facebook as its search is than Bing's, but it's all about social networking. Facebook will stay on top until, like MySpace, they piss off all their users. Facebook started out as a college-only thing and grew slowly. By the time it was rolled out to the general public, almost everyone knew people with a FB account. It will take a LOT to unseat FB.
I've been using CFLs fof fiteen years, and the newer ones light up quickly. But even fifteen years ago, it was no more than two seconds, maybe five in sub-zero f weather.
I swear, you kids are even more impatient than we were when we were young and impatient. I can see the next generation: "This computer is too slow, it took three seconds to boot and a full five minutes to figure pi to a million decimal places! I don't have all damned year!
Because of the ad skips.... It's theft. Your contract with the network when you get the show is you're going to watch the spots.
I didn't sign any damned contract. This guy must have some great cocaine, he's tripping! "Stealing the program," my aching ass. The law (at least here) says you are under no obligation to pay for unordered merchandice. Those radio waves are on my property, as long as they are they belong to me, and I'll convert them to pictures and sound and watch or not, it's my choice. Kellner can go to hell. If he wants me to pay, then he should stop streaming those radio waves to my property.
You can't hand someone a candy bar, say "here you go" and then claim he stole it after he eats it. What a damned lying theif Kellner is.
Lets talk games, can you justify me downloading duke nukem forever for free to test it out to only have me delete it?
Of course you should.
Should i have bought the game to try it?
IMO, hell no. Do the publishers get a cut if you rent the game from Family Video? I' don['t know, they surely get a little something.
I personally think you should buy the game regardless to support the industry
If you like the game, buy it. Don't support "the industry," support the companies that produce good games by buying them. Don't encourage making crappy games. Paying for something that's useless to you is pretty dumb.
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I'm paying $30 per month for 6 gb/sec for AT&T DSL. It's plenty fast, unless you have a big family (I live alone) or run a web server (unallowed by the TOS) and get slashdotted. You might want to check into it.
If there were no victimless crimes, why would undercover work even be needed?
The thing is, they had a utopian society in that movie. I'd like my own surrogate! Bungee jumping without the bungee? Parachuting without fear of death or disability? Sounds good to me. Willis only destroyed the surrogates because his wife was a crazy bitch, and so was he.
Odd how I never heard of that movie until I saw it at WalMart.
TFA says "The affected customer modems make up about a third of the 350,000 to 400,000 internet users believed to still have the DNSChanger malware on either their modems or Windows computers."
I don't get it. Is this malware Windows specific? How does it infect modems? Is a Linux user affected by this? What if you have Linux cabled to your router and a Windows machine using wifi? How can one determine if they have an infected modem?
Those studies had many flaws. Had they actually recorded three 15kHz tones with different waveforms (one sine, one sawtooth and one square wave) in both digital 44k (not kHz; it's samples per second, not cycles per second) in both analog and digital the difference would have been apparent to almost anyone. They measured the reaction to music rather than discreet tones.
However, the new Dolby strategy isn't going to sound any different to most people, as most folks simply don't have speakers that good. The speaker is the most important part of your sound system, and today's are usually really BAD, little four inch two ways with a "sub" woofer when older high end speakers had fifteen inch or larger woofers (larger than your subwoofer) and "supertweeters" capable of reaching supersonic frequencies (usually up to about 30 kHz). The supertweeters would be useless to me, as most tweeters can reach close to 20 kHz, farther than I can hear, but some young folks can her tones up to 22 kHz.
Unless you have $1000 apiece speakers, you probably won't hear the difference.
10% crapping your pants in fear.
Police work isn't even in the top ten of the "dangerous jobs" list. Are you saying the cops are cowards? Odd, I've never seen a scared cop.
Now we just need to take it a few steps further, and use a larger implant to get more bandwidth and from different regions, and implant it in healthy academics to computer-enchance their intellectual capacity in order to establish a self-reinforcing feedback loop.
Did I just get wooshed?
Man you have to read between the lines. He wants a toy for his wrist. He doesn't seem to care about style too much. The geek stuff is just what he wants. I get that. It's fun. I could understand if you were saying this on the FHM website or the Gentlemen's Quarterly, but this is slashdot.
I guess you didn't notice his user name? As to his "Why would you be looking for a gadget with so small screen and that is always attached to your hand?" I use to have the attitude of "a wristwatch? How quaint!" but there are times I'd wished I had a wristwatch. Boring meeting with no clock on the wall, you can't show your boredom by pulling out your phone, but you could sneak a look at your wristwatch easily.
As to the submitter, if I ever buy a watch it'll be a Dick Tracy two way wrist radio watch.
I woosh the moderators would have paid attention to where the link led.
As The Who sang
Substitute your lies for fact
I see right through your plastic mack
I look all white but my dad was black
My Chinese suit is really made out of sack
I this were Israel he would be white, but most mixed race Americans I've known identified themselves as black. Fifty years ago he would have been a "mulatto" but that's probably politically incorrect these days.
He looks black to me. I never saw a white man with hair that curly.
That assumes they'll tell you and be truthful about it.
Well I don't think the Moonies or the Scientologists are anything but scams to suck money from suckers, but it would probably cost the government more in manpower and paperwork and lawsuits determining just which religions really are charities than they could collect from the fakes.
You don't HAVE to put the dressing on it, you know. And you don't have to put the whole package of dressing on it even if you use the dressing.
No, he's correct. Back in 1980 when I first got cable ($10 per month including HBO), none of the cable channels had commercials. Now? They run ads at the bottom of the screen while you're actually watching the show (History is really bad about that).
Why would someone go to MacD to get salads?
They have good salad (Burger King salad sucks but their hamburgers and fries are a lot better than McD's). Rather than making a salad, I'll go through the drive through and pick up a salad for a dollar, throw a steak on the grill and a potato in the microwave and ten minutes later I'm eating an excellent steak dinner for about four bucks.
You must live in Texas or somewhere, there are black people in expensive suits that work in my building, racist. I guess you never heard of Bill Cosby or Barack Obama, either.
You should relize that racism is a tool of the rich to keep the poor whites and blacks at each others' throats so they don't wake up and realize who the real enemy is, don't you? No, I guess not; I know a few racists, but they're all knuckle-dragging morons.
On the other hand, there's no free lunch.
Yes there is. Everyone misunderstands that old, usually incorrect platitude. It's only true in the case of a salesman taking you to lunch, which is why that platitude was coined in the first place.
If I pay for your lunch, you just got a free lunch. My daughters get free lunches from me all the time.
Google should focus on making their search engine better while thinking up the next big thing. Unfortunately, Google is so engineering-driven that it has a hard time understanding people.
Ironic that you were modded "insightful" when they just rolled out Knowledge Graph today.
And your "Google needs to change its culture so that it places greater emphasis on design and human interaction rather than technical impressiveness" is just downright clueless. Compare Google's search page with Bing or even worse, Yahoo. People don't go to a search engine because the search page is pretty, they go there because they want to look something up. Besides, Bing is flashy and trashy like a rhinestone-studded velvet Elvis painting, while Google's search is simple and elegant (and Yahoo's is a disturbing mess).
You're also discounting Google Doodles.
G+ is as much more aestethically pleasing than Facebook as its search is than Bing's, but it's all about social networking. Facebook will stay on top until, like MySpace, they piss off all their users. Facebook started out as a college-only thing and grew slowly. By the time it was rolled out to the general public, almost everyone knew people with a FB account. It will take a LOT to unseat FB.
I've been using CFLs fof fiteen years, and the newer ones light up quickly. But even fifteen years ago, it was no more than two seconds, maybe five in sub-zero f weather.
I swear, you kids are even more impatient than we were when we were young and impatient. I can see the next generation: "This computer is too slow, it took three seconds to boot and a full five minutes to figure pi to a million decimal places! I don't have all damned year!
That was the best satire of that spam I've seen yet, congrats! It actually made me laugh, unlike most of them.
Jamie Kellner is a bald faced liar.
Because of the ad skips.... It's theft. Your contract with the network when you get the show is you're going to watch the spots.
I didn't sign any damned contract. This guy must have some great cocaine, he's tripping! "Stealing the program," my aching ass. The law (at least here) says you are under no obligation to pay for unordered merchandice. Those radio waves are on my property, as long as they are they belong to me, and I'll convert them to pictures and sound and watch or not, it's my choice. Kellner can go to hell. If he wants me to pay, then he should stop streaming those radio waves to my property.
You can't hand someone a candy bar, say "here you go" and then claim he stole it after he eats it. What a damned lying theif Kellner is.
Good morning, Mr. Phelps...
Have a look at these two photos:
Springfield, Il in 1930
Springfield, Il today
Personally, I like my air clean.
Lets talk games, can you justify me downloading duke nukem forever for free to test it out to only have me delete it?
Of course you should.
Should i have bought the game to try it?
IMO, hell no. Do the publishers get a cut if you rent the game from Family Video? I' don['t know, they surely get a little something.
I personally think you should buy the game regardless to support the industry
If you like the game, buy it. Don't support "the industry," support the companies that produce good games by buying them. Don't encourage making crappy games. Paying for something that's useless to you is pretty dumb.
That's the entire problem with American health care, everything about it is business.