However even if you didn't look it up I don't suppose anyone thought it ran on our belief in Faeries.
Most people just don't think about it at all.
And if they do, they assume its absurdly cheap; "it must be far less than the fridge or stove" they might say, for example.
But that's not true, an even halfway modern energy star fridge spends 90%+ of its time idle; and the stove, which might peak at 400W+, also spends over 90%+ of its time drawing just enough power to run a clock. The PS3 uses more electricity by far than either of those appliances. The only appliance that comes halfway close to a PS3 running F@H is an air conditioner -- and even those spend a good part of the day, and a significant part of the year idle.
So part of the question is "should we work to save humanity, or the environment"?
I think the bigger question is: "Is $200/year towards F@H better spent than $200 towards the Cancer foundatation, or the ACLU, the Red Cross, or whatever your favorite charity is... if you think it is, then fine. But if you haven't asked the question because you assumed the cost was negligible then you really should. F@H shouldn't be receiving your donations simply because you erroneously thought it didn't cost anything.
Or unless you WANT to donate it's time and a bit of money via electricity to F@H.
Exactly. But don't you think it ought to be clear that you are doing that?
I have NO ISSUE with F@H's goals. I have no issue with people who WANT to donate $100 - $500 worth of electricity to them. I applaud them.
The -issue- here, is that most people contributing have no idea its costing them, on average $200+ per year.
To their credit, buried at the bottom of their FAQ they do have an (outdated) article that talks about Pentium's, costing.36 cents a day. (They don't do the math and give you the $131 figure per year though.) And they suggest turning off the monitor because it uses more power than the computer; which was true in the era of CRTs and Pentium's. But not true in the era of power hungry pentium 4's with LCDs. And the PS3 uses more juice than most Pentium 4's.
So between it's tone of downplaying the cost, and the fact that its significantly out of date it substantially misrepresents the cost. A PS3 in california could easily run $300 per year.
Note also that electrical rates are often on a sliding scale. The first X are at one price, the next X are at another higher price, etc. F@H uses enough power that it may easily bump you up into the next rate tier.
Electricity in BC and WA is around 7 cents a kWh actually. So it's cheaper for us.
Yeah, only ~$120.00 per year. Cheaper, sure, but you could have bought a couple games each year with that money instead. Or over a few years, it would be enough money to buy a PS4 when it comes out... and most people pay a hell of a lot more than 7 cents.
If you're already leaving it on anyway...
A decent system should go into standby, or at least a low power mode. Of couse the PS3 doesn't. Even idle the PS3 uses 177Wh. There is simply no good reason for it to be on all the time, unless you like paying for 100x as much electricity as you need or need an overpriced space heater.
The PS3 apparently runs a sustained 200W running folding @ home. That's 140kWh per month. Assuming a 0.12 kWh rate, you'll be paying ~$200 per year in electricity for folding at home..12 cents isn't high; its much higher in some places (Alaska, California, New York,...), and lower in others like most of Canada, Tenessee, Iowa, etc...)
But running with a.12 kWh, and assuming the "33,000 CPUs" for PS3s means indiviual PS3s, then that's over $7 million in 'donated' electricity PS3's are using for this project.
Now whether $200 represents a good value on the amount of science that's getting done with it is your call to make. Its a good cause, and I have no issue with it.
But for myself, I think there's more efficient/productive uses for the money. Plus I prefer to donate directly and get a tax deduction.
And it irks me that these projects are marketed as using the idle time of your console as if it were free. $100 - $500 a year to participate, depending on power rates where you live is a significant "hidden" cost.
And since the internet is where the support is, and since geeks provide all that support, end users can't possibly avoid the codename the moment they need help.
Additionally, the version number is useless. google ubuntu 7.10 , and maybe 1/3rd of the hits will be about ubuntu 7.10 while the rest will have a 7.10 randomly on the page; as part of a date, time, ipaddress, price, reference number...
google something like gutsy gibbon and you get far more results worth reading
I wonder if this is what my mom thought I could have been doing with my time when she kept yelling at me for wasting all my time touching myself when I was 12?
I'll have to ask her sometime.
Sometime. Not now though.
Because your much too busy right now.
What with alternating between reading slashdot, and touching yourself.;)
Clearly you dont know what it means to short a stock.
If he's shorted the stock, he needs to find someone willing to sell him stock, not willing to buy his stock. If it goes to zero that's the best possible case, as he gets to keep his money without having to return the stock at all.
Shorting stock is essentially selling shares you don't have and so you owe them to someone else (e.g. your broker). You do this in the expectation that the price will go down, whereby you can cover your debt of shares by buying the shares at a lower price than you sold them for, profitting on the difference).
It *sort* of works likes this:
You have 0$
You make a deal to 'borrow' 1000 shares valued at $1, which you'll have to return at some point. You immediately sell those shares for $1000, putting $1000 in your pocket. The shares have now been 'shorted'. You have $1000, you owe your broker 1000 shares.
Two weeks later the price is 0.50 cents, you buy 1000 shares for $500. Now you have 1000 shares and $500, and you owe your broker 1000 shares.
You return the 1000 shares.
You now have $500 in your pocket, that you didn't have before, and no debt.
Of course its more complex than this, there are transaction fees, interest charges, and if the stock goes up and your account crosses a particular threshold the broker can force you to buy the shares at the current higher market price to cover the shorted shores. (ie 'foreclose' on your loan).
Shorting is inherently riskier than going long (buying and holding and selling) because when long the worst that can happen is the stock can go to zero and you lose it all, and the best that can happen is that the stock will increase many times over.
With shorting you can lose your investment many times over as there is no limit to how high the stock goes, and at most can only gain 100% of the transaction value, should the stock become worthless.
In the example above, if the stock were to spike to $5 and your broker called you, you'd have to pay $5000 to return the shares you borrowed, putting you deep in the whole.
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Anyhow the OP was wondering, where exectly he could buy those shares he owes, if it gets delisted. And via OTC pink slips is where the action will be.
Being delisted doesn't mean SCO shares can't be traded, merely that they can't be traded on the exchange. Getting delisted tends to push the price even further down, because shares traded OTC are less liquid, therefore less desirable, therefore worth less. Of course, that's just more good news for the OP.:)
Having your trading halted on the other hand, means just that. No trading.
Assuming the lawsuit is successful, they'll just roll the $7 fee into the base price for ALL of their plans.
Which is as it should be.
They shouldn't be allowed to advertise free phones on a 19.95/per month plan where they charge you $20.00 to activate the phone and and that 19.95 plan after all the fees they tack on ends up over 30.00/month.
If they simply honestly advertised it as a $20 phone with $30/mo fees, I'd have no issue with it.
You aren't even comparing apples to oranges. You are comparing apples to post-it notes...not even in the same category.
So if the company dealing blood diamonds branched out, released a console, and managed to get 5 games on it that you wanted to play as 1st party or 3rd part exclusives, THEN you'd buy it?
Even though the company's other arm is still slave labor mining and funding a brutal war?
There, now its not Apples to Post-Its, Apples to Oranges, or even Apples to Apples. Its "Golden Delicious Apples from this Tree" to "Golden Delicious Apples from that Tree".
So your saying, "Its not the same because I can get diamonds anywhere?"
Ah, so the only reason you don't buy their diamonds is because you can get them elsewhere? IE If they were the only ones with diamonds then you'd buy from them?
I'd think a saner choice would be to just forego diamonds and switch to rubies or emeralds, even though they are different.
And to carry that line of thought... if the blood diamonds people released a decent video game, apparently you'd buy it.
I mean, otherwise you'd miss out!! And as a gamer that should be paramount over any feelings you might have about things as a human being. Pretty sad.
That means buying stuff (in this case, consoles) from companies that I don't like.
Its your choice. But it speaks a volumes about the strenth of your conviction. All they have to do is offer you a shiny treat you can't get somewhere else and you roll over take it.
Me, I don't get bent out of shape if I find out my laptop has a Sony panel in it, or if my camera uses features sony's patented. But I won't buy anything with a Sony tag on it, or directly from Sony or their child companies. And that means I play Warcraft instead of Everquest, have a Samsung HDTV instead of Sony, and Wii instead of a PS3. Am I missing out some games? Probably. But so what. Those 3rd party publishers you mention are free to release it on a PC, and in fact I encourage them too.
If enough people refused to buy a PS3 and made it known that they'd play it on the PC or whatever, 3rd party publishers would refuse to sign exclusive agreements with Sony for PS3 games. You are part of the problem.
Besides...if I didn't buy ANY games from ANY company that I didn'tlike, that means I would be stuck...
Normal people don't back themselves into a corner like this. Me, I don't care for Microsoft much either but I still buy Windows because I need to run windows applications. I don't get bent out of shape about it. But I don't buy Microsoft keyboards, microsoft consoles, microsoft office, etc.
Don't be a brand whore or even a brand-boycotter...Just because you don't like a company doesn't mean you can't enjoy their products
Do you buy blood diamonds too?
I mean, just because you don't 'agree' with the way the diamonds come from militant groups who have practically enslaved a people to do the mining and is using the money you give them to fund a brutal war where rape and dismemberment are common activities.
But hey, the diamonds are still shiny, and cheaper too than the competition. You'd be missing out if you didn't buy from them. Don't be a 'brand whore' or even a 'brand-boycotter'.
Yup its an extreme example, but its the same principle. If you don't like a company because of what it does, you should avoid dealing with them, even if their products are shiny.
Or do you think Sony cares in the least that you don't 'like' them, as long as you keep buying their stuff?
I bought a PP to Flash converter for 100 bucks that I dump any PP that needs to viewed online through. Its simple. It works. Everybody can view it. Occasionally the formatting gets munged a bit, but I can live with that.
all software projects take 50% of the effort to get to 90% complete, and 50% of the effort to finish the last 10. Mostly done means half the effort still remains; usually more than half.:)
that doesn't mean that the first one wasn't insanely expensive to produce.
That record has long since more than paid for itself. It spent 2 years on the charts. 16 years later on I think we can safely assume its been paid for.
We should be talking about the Dell's OEM system bundles.
Ok. Doesn't really change anything.
The guy who buys the package deal - with the large screen LCD monitor, the color printer-scanner, and so on. His Vista system will be up and running in a little more time than it takes to unpack the boxes and connect the cables.
Same goes for the guy who buys the Ubuntu bundle. His dell will likewise already have all the drivers for all his devices pre-installed. That is rather the point after all of these bundles.
And either system (Ubuntu or Vista) might choke when they try to attach their old scanner or printer from their last Dell bundle package deal into it...
Sorry but Tolkien wasn't the greatest story teller
I never said he was. I merely said lord of the rings was good writing.
Only someone who has read the WoT a few times can truely understand and appreciate the story.
The same can be said about any story. I wonder if its a sign of better writing if the reader can understand it the first time through.
Jordan doesn't just paint a complex and intricate picture of the world, he paints a CONSISTENT complex and intricate picture of the world. When Min is first introduced and it mentions a few examples of images she saw off hand, those images foretold minor events that unfolded in 'side stories' as much as 10 books and thousands of pages later.
You can find examples of foreshadowing like that in most any good writing where the author has notes on the back story before writing the novels.
As for consistency, yeah, I'll give him that. But that doesn't make it good.
That simply isn't true. The Wheel of Time is telling a very specific story and it only paints the trees that are of some significance in that story.
Its telling a very specific story? Well then, I reiterate... "what is that 'very specific story'"?
There are dozens of major and semi major characters but there isn't one who is fleshed out significantly for no reason at all, all of them play a part in the bigger picture.
"Dozens of major and semi major characters" doesn't make for a good story. Its true that most things are in actual fact the result of dozens of major and semi major characters -- like World War II, or the development of the nuclear bomb, or the story of cyptography (which themselves could both be subplots to World War II -- or vice versa), but a good story doesn't tell all their stories.
If you want to get a good sense of world war ii in its entirety there is no single novelization that tells it all. Nor could their be. If you want to know everything about world war ii, the way to go about it is to read multiple stories.
Jordon tries to cover a similiarly complex story, in its entirety, in one novel. And its as ineffective as trying to read a novel that contains everything from the rise of communism in russia, the Truman election, the fall of Imperial Japan, Patton's battles in Africa, Women's baseball in America, the story of the German National Socialism party and its perversion into the fascism of the Nazis, to the Canadian's on Juno Beach in the battle of Normandy, to the story of the Niland Brothers (upon which saving private ryan is apparently loosely based) to Oskar Schindler...
That Jordon was 'consistent' may be quite the feat, and indeed our understanding of our own World War II is far less complete and consistent. Regardless; mere consistency doesn't make the story good.
More than 70 percent of the 1,233 organizations surveyed in 51 countries failed to list training and raising employee awareness of information security issues as a top initiative
Whoop-de-doo. Apparently 70 percent of companies have more imporant 'top initiatives'. I'm surprised that its not even higher. And in fact, I suspect that most of the companies that put listed this in their top initiatives have more top initiatives than there are days in a year, ensuring most of them won't get any attention anyway, making 'top initiative 'rather meaningless in those companies.
In 2007, I can buy a copy of Windows XP, or a computer with Windows XP, and it works.
You *can* buy a computer with XP but its not easy. There isn't a single one in any B&M store I've been in in months.
Sure you can go online, and if you dodge past the shiny Vista units, you'll be able to find XP tucked away in the size as an alternative on some of their online line-up, or maybe even the default on the 'enterprise' line.
Unless you buy from a specialty computer store, or go online, you aren't going to come home with XP, even if you want it. IE if you are just a joe-sixpack buying a PC you are going to end up with Vista, and the hardware headaches.
Good point. We should be talking about Vista not XP. And I can assure you a whole HOST of stuff needs Vista drivers, many of which simply do not exist or are horridly buggy.
From cdma/1x/evdo or gsm/edge cards to older printers, faxes, modems, scanners, to cutting edge graphics cards.
is ipod integration. Nothing else, for any other device comes even within shooting distance. I bought one this spring. I was hesitant because it didn't have a CD player, but I haven't missed it.
real speed access to playlists, album art, browse by song, artist, genre, the works. The only thing it doesn't do is video. And frankly, I don't think that's a loss on a 2" screen in a car where I should be looking at the road anyway.
The problem with the Foundation series is that Asimov took every other page to congratulate himself on such a clever idea, with every character taking a turn to recap and blurble endlessly about Seldon's magnificent vision, etc etc.
Hmmm. In the first novel, yeah, and that was sort a propos, so it didn't grate on me. They avert a crises and a voice from the past congratulates them. Something like that would become almost a religious sense of destiny and entitlement - something that became very real as the series goes on. Its not surprising that the "chosen ones" would act like that.
Later on, when the nature the 2nd foundation is revealed. And they discover Seldon's magnificant vision was for them to be pawns; suddenly it wasn't so magnificent... and they reject it entirely. (At least from the foundation's point of view.)
I haven't gotten around to reading the full novels in the Robot series, but I suspect he's going to do the same thing there, and it'll be a lot less enjoyable to read.
Hmmm. I didn't get that so much out of the Robot stuff. And as for the novels, he ends up determining that the 3 laws of robotics aren't sufficient; I'll leave it at that.
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However even if you didn't look it up I don't suppose anyone thought it ran on our belief in Faeries.
Most people just don't think about it at all.
And if they do, they assume its absurdly cheap; "it must be far less than the fridge or stove" they might say, for example.
But that's not true, an even halfway modern energy star fridge spends 90%+ of its time idle; and the stove, which might peak at 400W+, also spends over 90%+ of its time drawing just enough power to run a clock. The PS3 uses more electricity by far than either of those appliances. The only appliance that comes halfway close to a PS3 running F@H is an air conditioner -- and even those spend a good part of the day, and a significant part of the year idle.
So part of the question is "should we work to save humanity, or the environment"?
I think the bigger question is: "Is $200/year towards F@H better spent than $200 towards the Cancer foundatation, or the ACLU, the Red Cross, or whatever your favorite charity is... if you think it is, then fine. But if you haven't asked the question because you assumed the cost was negligible then you really should. F@H shouldn't be receiving your donations simply because you erroneously thought it didn't cost anything.
Or unless you WANT to donate it's time and a bit of money via electricity to F@H.
.36 cents a day. (They don't do the math and give you the $131 figure per year though.) And they suggest turning off the monitor because it uses more power than the computer; which was true in the era of CRTs and Pentium's. But not true in the era of power hungry pentium 4's with LCDs. And the PS3 uses more juice than most Pentium 4's.
Exactly. But don't you think it ought to be clear that you are doing that?
I have NO ISSUE with F@H's goals. I have no issue with people who WANT to donate $100 - $500 worth of electricity to them. I applaud them.
The -issue- here, is that most people contributing have no idea its costing them, on average $200+ per year.
To their credit, buried at the bottom of their FAQ they do have an (outdated) article that talks about Pentium's, costing
So between it's tone of downplaying the cost, and the fact that its significantly out of date it substantially misrepresents the cost. A PS3 in california could easily run $300 per year.
Note also that electrical rates are often on a sliding scale. The first X are at one price, the next X are at another higher price, etc. F@H uses enough power that it may easily bump you up into the next rate tier.
Electricity in BC and WA is around 7 cents a kWh actually. So it's cheaper for us.
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Yeah, only ~$120.00 per year. Cheaper, sure, but you could have bought a couple games each year with that money instead. Or over a few years, it would be enough money to buy a PS4 when it comes out... and most people pay a hell of a lot more than 7 cents.
If you're already leaving it on anyway
A decent system should go into standby, or at least a low power mode. Of couse the PS3 doesn't. Even idle the PS3 uses 177Wh. There is simply no good reason for it to be on all the time, unless you like paying for 100x as much electricity as you need or need an overpriced space heater.
The PS3 apparently runs a sustained 200W running folding @ home. That's 140kWh per month. Assuming a 0.12 kWh rate, you'll be paying ~$200 per year in electricity for folding at home. .12 cents isn't high; its much higher in some places (Alaska, California, New York,...), and lower in others like most of Canada, Tenessee, Iowa, etc...)
.12 kWh, and assuming the "33,000 CPUs" for PS3s means indiviual PS3s, then that's over $7 million in 'donated' electricity PS3's are using for this project.
But running with a
Now whether $200 represents a good value on the amount of science that's getting done with it is your call to make. Its a good cause, and I have no issue with it.
But for myself, I think there's more efficient/productive uses for the money. Plus I prefer to donate directly and get a tax deduction.
And it irks me that these projects are marketed as using the idle time of your console as if it were free. $100 - $500 a year to participate, depending on power rates where you live is a significant "hidden" cost.
You've got yourself a pretty busy domain there, see. Be a real shame if something were to happen to it...
Turns out that performing simple tasks like scratching one's belly or sitting around doing jack squat requires no more than a pair of shorts.
/looks around for shorts...
Uh-oh.
At least it explains why my belly scratching was all laggy. I didn't meet the requirements.
And since the internet is where the support is, and since geeks provide all that support, end users can't possibly avoid the codename the moment they need help.
Additionally, the version number is useless. google ubuntu 7.10 , and maybe 1/3rd of the hits will be about ubuntu 7.10 while the rest will have a 7.10 randomly on the page; as part of a date, time, ipaddress, price, reference number...
google something like gutsy gibbon and you get far more results worth reading
I wonder if this is what my mom thought I could have been doing with my time when she kept yelling at me for wasting all my time touching myself when I was 12?
;)
I'll have to ask her sometime.
Sometime. Not now though.
Because your much too busy right now.
What with alternating between reading slashdot, and touching yourself.
Clearly you dont know what it means to short a stock.
:)
If he's shorted the stock, he needs to find someone willing to sell him stock, not willing to buy his stock. If it goes to zero that's the best possible case, as he gets to keep his money without having to return the stock at all.
Shorting stock is essentially selling shares you don't have and so you owe them to someone else (e.g. your broker). You do this in the expectation that the price will go down, whereby you can cover your debt of shares by buying the shares at a lower price than you sold them for, profitting on the difference).
It *sort* of works likes this:
You have 0$
You make a deal to 'borrow' 1000 shares valued at $1, which you'll have to return at some point. You immediately sell those shares for $1000, putting $1000 in your pocket. The shares have now been 'shorted'. You have $1000, you owe your broker 1000 shares.
Two weeks later the price is 0.50 cents, you buy 1000 shares for $500.
Now you have 1000 shares and $500, and you owe your broker 1000 shares.
You return the 1000 shares.
You now have $500 in your pocket, that you didn't have before, and no debt.
Of course its more complex than this, there are transaction fees, interest charges, and if the stock goes up and your account crosses a particular threshold the broker can force you to buy the shares at the current higher market price to cover the shorted shores. (ie 'foreclose' on your loan).
Shorting is inherently riskier than going long (buying and holding and selling) because when long the worst that can happen is the stock can go to zero and you lose it all, and the best that can happen is that the stock will increase many times over.
With shorting you can lose your investment many times over as there is no limit to how high the stock goes, and at most can only gain 100% of the transaction value, should the stock become worthless.
In the example above, if the stock were to spike to $5 and your broker called you, you'd have to pay $5000 to return the shares you borrowed, putting you deep in the whole.
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Anyhow the OP was wondering, where exectly he could buy those shares he owes, if it gets delisted. And via OTC pink slips is where the action will be.
Being delisted doesn't mean SCO shares can't be traded, merely that they can't be traded on the exchange. Getting delisted tends to push the price even further down, because shares traded OTC are less liquid, therefore less desirable, therefore worth less. Of course, that's just more good news for the OP.
Having your trading halted on the other hand, means just that. No trading.
Assuming the lawsuit is successful, they'll just roll the $7 fee into the base price for ALL of their plans.
Which is as it should be.
They shouldn't be allowed to advertise free phones on a 19.95/per month plan where they charge you $20.00 to activate the phone and and that 19.95 plan after all the fees they tack on ends up over 30.00/month.
If they simply honestly advertised it as a $20 phone with $30/mo fees, I'd have no issue with it.
You aren't even comparing apples to oranges. You are comparing apples to post-it notes...not even in the same category.
So if the company dealing blood diamonds branched out, released a console, and managed to get 5 games on it that you wanted to play as 1st party or 3rd part exclusives, THEN you'd buy it?
Even though the company's other arm is still slave labor mining and funding a brutal war?
There, now its not Apples to Post-Its, Apples to Oranges, or even Apples to Apples. Its "Golden Delicious Apples from this Tree" to "Golden Delicious Apples from that Tree".
65000 rows? In a spreadsheet?
Strikes me that most of them should probably be in a database.
I see.
So your saying, "Its not the same because I can get diamonds anywhere?"
Ah, so the only reason you don't buy their diamonds is because you can get them elsewhere? IE If they were the only ones with diamonds then you'd buy from them?
I'd think a saner choice would be to just forego diamonds and switch to rubies or emeralds, even though they are different.
And to carry that line of thought... if the blood diamonds people released a decent video game, apparently you'd buy it.
I mean, otherwise you'd miss out!! And as a gamer that should be paramount over any feelings you might have about things as a human being. Pretty sad.
That means buying stuff (in this case, consoles) from companies that I don't like.
Its your choice. But it speaks a volumes about the strenth of your conviction. All they have to do is offer you a shiny treat you can't get somewhere else and you roll over take it.
Me, I don't get bent out of shape if I find out my laptop has a Sony panel in it, or if my camera uses features sony's patented. But I won't buy anything with a Sony tag on it, or directly from Sony or their child companies. And that means I play Warcraft instead of Everquest, have a Samsung HDTV instead of Sony, and Wii instead of a PS3. Am I missing out some games? Probably. But so what. Those 3rd party publishers you mention are free to release it on a PC, and in fact I encourage them too.
If enough people refused to buy a PS3 and made it known that they'd play it on the PC or whatever, 3rd party publishers would refuse to sign exclusive agreements with Sony for PS3 games. You are part of the problem.
Besides...if I didn't buy ANY games from ANY company that I didn'tlike, that means I would be stuck...
Normal people don't back themselves into a corner like this. Me, I don't care for Microsoft much either but I still buy Windows because I need to run windows applications. I don't get bent out of shape about it. But I don't buy Microsoft keyboards, microsoft consoles, microsoft office, etc.
Don't be a brand whore or even a brand-boycotter...Just because you don't like a company doesn't mean you can't enjoy their products
Do you buy blood diamonds too?
I mean, just because you don't 'agree' with the way the diamonds come from militant groups who have practically enslaved a people to do the mining and is using the money you give them to fund a brutal war where rape and dismemberment are common activities.
But hey, the diamonds are still shiny, and cheaper too than the competition. You'd be missing out if you didn't buy from them. Don't be a 'brand whore' or even a 'brand-boycotter'.
Yup its an extreme example, but its the same principle. If you don't like a company because of what it does, you should avoid dealing with them, even if their products are shiny.
Or do you think Sony cares in the least that you don't 'like' them, as long as you keep buying their stuff?
I bought a PP to Flash converter for 100 bucks that I dump any PP that needs to viewed online through. Its simple. It works. Everybody can view it. Occasionally the formatting gets munged a bit, but I can live with that.
Hard work that was mostly done in
:)
"mostly done"
all software projects take 50% of the effort to get to 90% complete, and 50% of the effort to finish the last 10. Mostly done means half the effort still remains; usually more than half.
that doesn't mean that the first one wasn't insanely expensive to produce.
That record has long since more than paid for itself. It spent 2 years on the charts.
16 years later on I think we can safely assume its been paid for.
We should be talking about the Dell's OEM system bundles.
Ok. Doesn't really change anything.
The guy who buys the package deal - with the large screen LCD monitor, the color printer-scanner, and so on. His Vista system will be up and running in a little more time than it takes to unpack the boxes and connect the cables.
Same goes for the guy who buys the Ubuntu bundle. His dell will likewise already have all the drivers for all his devices pre-installed. That is rather the point after all of these bundles.
And either system (Ubuntu or Vista) might choke when they try to attach their old scanner or printer from their last Dell bundle package deal into it...
Maybe that's why these p1ra4t3d r0mz oneoneelevnone generally run on emulators, you shitcock?
Where do you think these emulators come from? Your ass?
So maybe they don't actually 'convert' old software, but writing a software emulation layer is hard work too.
Sorry but Tolkien wasn't the greatest story teller
I never said he was. I merely said lord of the rings was good writing.
Only someone who has read the WoT a few times can truely understand and appreciate the story.
The same can be said about any story. I wonder if its a sign of better writing if the reader can understand it the first time through.
Jordan doesn't just paint a complex and intricate picture of the world, he paints a CONSISTENT complex and intricate picture of the world. When Min is first introduced and it mentions a few examples of images she saw off hand, those images foretold minor events that unfolded in 'side stories' as much as 10 books and thousands of pages later.
You can find examples of foreshadowing like that in most any good writing where the author has notes on the back story before writing the novels.
As for consistency, yeah, I'll give him that. But that doesn't make it good.
That simply isn't true. The Wheel of Time is telling a very specific story and it only paints the trees that are of some significance in that story.
Its telling a very specific story? Well then, I reiterate... "what is that 'very specific story'"?
There are dozens of major and semi major characters but there isn't one who is fleshed out significantly for no reason at all, all of them play a part in the bigger picture.
"Dozens of major and semi major characters" doesn't make for a good story. Its true that most things are in actual fact the result of dozens of major and semi major characters -- like World War II, or the development of the nuclear bomb, or the story of cyptography (which themselves could both be subplots to World War II -- or vice versa), but a good story doesn't tell all their stories.
If you want to get a good sense of world war ii in its entirety there is no single novelization that tells it all. Nor could their be. If you want to know everything about world war ii, the way to go about it is to read multiple stories.
Jordon tries to cover a similiarly complex story, in its entirety, in one novel. And its as ineffective as trying to read a novel that contains everything from the rise of communism in russia, the Truman election, the fall of Imperial Japan, Patton's battles in Africa, Women's baseball in America, the story of the German National Socialism party and its perversion into the fascism of the Nazis, to the Canadian's on Juno Beach in the battle of Normandy, to the story of the Niland Brothers (upon which saving private ryan is apparently loosely based) to Oskar Schindler...
That Jordon was 'consistent' may be quite the feat, and indeed our understanding of our own World War II is far less complete and consistent. Regardless; mere consistency doesn't make the story good.
More than 70 percent of the 1,233 organizations surveyed in 51 countries failed to list training and raising employee awareness of information security issues as a top initiative
Whoop-de-doo. Apparently 70 percent of companies have more imporant 'top initiatives'. I'm surprised that its not even higher. And in fact, I suspect that most of the companies that put listed this in their top initiatives have more top initiatives than there are days in a year, ensuring most of them won't get any attention anyway, making 'top initiative 'rather meaningless in those companies.
In 2007, I can buy a copy of Windows XP, or a computer with Windows XP, and it works.
You *can* buy a computer with XP but its not easy. There isn't a single one in any B&M store I've been in in months.
Sure you can go online, and if you dodge past the shiny Vista units, you'll be able to find XP tucked away in the size as an alternative on some of their online line-up, or maybe even the default on the 'enterprise' line.
Unless you buy from a specialty computer store, or go online, you aren't going to come home with XP, even if you want it. IE if you are just a joe-sixpack buying a PC you are going to end up with Vista, and the hardware headaches.
2007 is the new 1996.
That's great, but it's 2007 now.
Good point. We should be talking about Vista not XP.
And I can assure you a whole HOST of stuff needs Vista drivers, many of which simply do not exist or are horridly buggy.
From cdma/1x/evdo or gsm/edge cards to older printers, faxes, modems, scanners, to cutting edge graphics cards.
FM transmitters are not ipod integration.
Even those cluzy ipod adapters you can use that makes your ipod/generic mp3 player behave like a clunky cd changer aren't ipod integration.
This:
http://crunchgear.com/2007/04/18/alpines-ida-x001-ipod-deck-available-early/
is ipod integration. Nothing else, for any other device comes even within shooting distance. I bought one this spring. I was hesitant because it didn't have a CD player, but I haven't missed it.
real speed access to playlists, album art, browse by song, artist, genre, the works. The only thing it doesn't do is video. And frankly, I don't think that's a loss on a 2" screen in a car where I should be looking at the road anyway.
The problem with the Foundation series is that Asimov took every other page to congratulate himself on such a clever idea, with every character taking a turn to recap and blurble endlessly about Seldon's magnificent vision, etc etc.
Hmmm. In the first novel, yeah, and that was sort a propos, so it didn't grate on me. They avert a crises and a voice from the past congratulates them. Something like that would become almost a religious sense of destiny and entitlement - something that became very real as the series goes on. Its not surprising that the "chosen ones" would act like that.
Later on, when the nature the 2nd foundation is revealed. And they discover Seldon's magnificant vision was for them to be pawns; suddenly it wasn't so magnificent... and they reject it entirely. (At least from the foundation's point of view.)
I haven't gotten around to reading the full novels in the Robot series, but I suspect he's going to do the same thing there, and it'll be a lot less enjoyable to read.
Hmmm. I didn't get that so much out of the Robot stuff. And as for the novels, he ends up determining that the 3 laws of robotics aren't sufficient; I'll leave it at that.
As for your comment on Heinlein. Amen.