That's what we call being "fiscally conservative." You sign off on massive debt for wars and other pointless silliness even as you cut funding to tiny projects that are likely to lead to prosperity in the future. To put it into perspective, anything that costs less than about $15b isn't worth obsessing a lot over. That's about $1 a week per person for the year, sure it adds up but we're not going broke on that. We're going broke on big budget items like the overspending on the DoD and welfare for billionaires.
Precisely, it's pretty well established that we can't view all of the universe. Given the speed of light and that we're using light or various waves that travel at or near the speed of light, I think it's pretty inescapable that we aren't seeing everything. For all we know just outside our range of observation is a giant window in some sort of even larger department store display case. Sure it's incredibly unlikely, but beyond the range of what we can sense all sorts of weird things could be happening.
It's only a sphere if it's finite in size, which is the problem. If you're defining the universe to be spherical then you're defining it to be finite in size. Which is largely fine at this point as we can't observe the furthest reaches that current theory predicts, but if we ever can see beyond it then we'll have to start really worrying about things like that.
Actually, you're confounding the problem. The observable universe is always going to be finite until such a time as the observable universe and the universe are the same and the universe itself proves to have some sort of a limit in dimension.
I don't personally like the idea of confusing mass and energy with the dimension of the universe as you don't measure mass or energy with meters. If you're able to do that without any other units of measure, then you might have a point, but as it is there isn't any good reason to believe the things are related in that fashion.
I'll have to try that. I had tried ADE in crossover a while back and didn't have it work. I googled the subject and didn't find any information to correct me on it. But yes, in every other respect Nook is just a generic mass storage device as far as the OS goes. And with the microsd slot, you've always got that possibility for the worst case.
At this point, there's very little that makes me log into Windows. Most of the time it's because a particular game doesn't run in Crossover. It had been that and Backblaze not being supported under Linux. Now that I've ditched it for Crashplan there's nothing tying me to Windows. Now if only I could get most of those things running under FreeBSD on AMD64...
Back in college, not that long ago, my roomates managed to score some nextstep gear. A couple of cubes, monitors and whatever that other box was, it was really nice stuff, assuming you could handle the monitor being black and white.
If you don't like it just stay out of the ebook market or go with one of the ebooks that supports the epub standard. Personally I've got my Nook and I haven't had any trouble loading it up with free content, books checked out from the library or other stores than the official B&N store. It is a bit of a hassle buying elsewhere, but it's not really that hard, most of them support Adobe Editions. My main complaint is that it isn't supported by Linux or anything outside the Mac/Windows world.
That was what I was wondering. I could see an advantage to loading content that you know you'll need in the near future at times when the network is relatively quiet, but loading content that you might need seems to be a bad idea. It's sort of like leaving your AC on even though you've got your windows open because some of the cold air will settle near the floor.
You think that somebody that makes $300k isn't rich? Less than 4% of all households make that much money according to the census. Income Distribution in the U.S.
I'm not really sure how you can say that somebody that's in the top 5% of all households isn't rich. 90% of all house holds are making a third of that. You have a really strange definition of rich.
Actually it's really important. Revenue isn't the same thing as profit. I might own a restaurant and observe that last year to this I doubled my revenue. I might very well still be going out of business because the revenue might still be insufficient to cover my costs. Which is the GP's point to an extent, doubling from $13 to $26 is doubling, even if it's less pocket change than all the employees put together possess.
Getting an AMD chipset in a computer which is sold by a major retailer has been challenging for some time, due in large part to Intel bribing companies not to offer any. In the last 10 years there's been plenty of times when AMD was wiping the floor with Intel, but it never really got anywhere because most people had issues finding AMD based computers from major integrators.
Right now, yes, but had it not been for Intel bribing companies to refuse to use AMD's chips, I'm not really sure that would be the case. R&D is expensive, and while historically AMD has been quite far ahead of Intel at points, it's never really gotten the advantage of being able to sell it's products on merit.
I can't blame you on that. Diamonds weren't popular for engagement rings until DeBeers started one of the most successful ad campaigns in history to convince women that if their man didn't fork over a wad for a diamond that he wasn't really serious.
Personally, I prefer sapphires, rubies and emeralds, because at least they're pleasing to the eye. If I had the money I'd totally get a Mario ring with the appropriate stones.
That's always a problem, there's a balance, you can't give away something that expensive for every bug no matter how tiny. But you also do have to compensate researchers enough to make it worth their while for more important bugs.
That's partially because we're used to bug reports that go somewhere, and we have absolutely no clue as to what exactly is done with the information. And often times we're not told what information is being sent anyways. I don't know what things are like where you're working, but I do know that a lot of people aren't going to trust random strangers. Which in a sense is odd, given that there's enough trust to run the program, but there you go.
That's completely false. MPEG-LA does charge a licensing fee for using their patents on this. They only waived the licensing fee for streaming H.264 streams. The encoder and decoder still have to be licensed, they also cut a break for those that don't hit the minimum threshold. But they do expect you to pay in full for all the licenses that are used once you hit the threshold.
In other words, the H.264 is most certainly not free and projects which use its patents run the risk of being sued if they don't pay up.
And end up with the bad situation they have in Alabama with their bajillion page state constitution? No thanks. What really needs to happen is for people to recognize that the constitution was never intended to be all inclusive and literal in its nature. Or have you missed the bit where nowhere in the constitution does it state that everything is to be taken literally as you choose to interpret it later on? It was written to handle events in the future which couldn't be foreseen by them, which would be impossible to do if they were making everything completely literal in nature.
That works better if you're not in control of the files. From personal experience searching does precisely bupkiss for backing files up or excluding ones that you don't want backed up. It also doesn't do you much in terms of figuring out which files are duplicates and deciding which files should be deleted.
Right now I've got several folders for the importance of the files under it to me, and I've named them based upon the duration of backups that I feel I could afford to lose without being distraught. Some by the hour and some by the month. It's a little bit of a pain, but it makes it a lot easier to make sure that my backups are done because I don't have to set up rules for individual files all over my HDD in random places.
The solution to that is to create a folder which is for things you've downloaded recently then move, either manually or via script, any of the ones you haven't used in the last X days to say an attic folder. If you use a file from the attic you move it back to the original folder and periodically you create a new attic and delete the old one. Which should work fine as long as you're not really picky or likely to not use something for a long period of time and then suddenly find a use for it.
Alternatively you could sort the files into 3 or 4 categories, purchases, free, trial and personal or similar. The main thing which causes people trouble with your approach is not getting the level of control right, either trying to have too much or failing to have enough.
In the past that was more of a necessity, these days at the rate that storage capacity is increases other priorities tend to arise. For instance the number of files I have is more contingent upon my ability to organize and keep organized the files as well as perform regular backups. Given that a standard DVD is somewhat less than 9gb and that you can get a 1tb disk for under a hundred dollars, that's enough for a fairly typical DVD collection right there, considering most DVDs don't use anywhere near the full capacity of a dual layer disk. Uncompressed Bluray is of course a completely different matter.
Right now I only have about a half terabyte or so of data that I have to keep backed up and something like 3tb of hard disk capacity. My main issue is making sure that I can find my files and ensure that they aren't succumbing to bit rot.
So, personally, I stick to a file system convention where possible and sort those basically by priority for backup. Certain folders like my downloads I tend not to delete until I need space, which shouldn't be for quite a while.
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That's what we call being "fiscally conservative." You sign off on massive debt for wars and other pointless silliness even as you cut funding to tiny projects that are likely to lead to prosperity in the future. To put it into perspective, anything that costs less than about $15b isn't worth obsessing a lot over. That's about $1 a week per person for the year, sure it adds up but we're not going broke on that. We're going broke on big budget items like the overspending on the DoD and welfare for billionaires.
Precisely, it's pretty well established that we can't view all of the universe. Given the speed of light and that we're using light or various waves that travel at or near the speed of light, I think it's pretty inescapable that we aren't seeing everything. For all we know just outside our range of observation is a giant window in some sort of even larger department store display case. Sure it's incredibly unlikely, but beyond the range of what we can sense all sorts of weird things could be happening.
It's only a sphere if it's finite in size, which is the problem. If you're defining the universe to be spherical then you're defining it to be finite in size. Which is largely fine at this point as we can't observe the furthest reaches that current theory predicts, but if we ever can see beyond it then we'll have to start really worrying about things like that.
Actually, you're confounding the problem. The observable universe is always going to be finite until such a time as the observable universe and the universe are the same and the universe itself proves to have some sort of a limit in dimension.
I don't personally like the idea of confusing mass and energy with the dimension of the universe as you don't measure mass or energy with meters. If you're able to do that without any other units of measure, then you might have a point, but as it is there isn't any good reason to believe the things are related in that fashion.
I'll have to try that. I had tried ADE in crossover a while back and didn't have it work. I googled the subject and didn't find any information to correct me on it. But yes, in every other respect Nook is just a generic mass storage device as far as the OS goes. And with the microsd slot, you've always got that possibility for the worst case.
At this point, there's very little that makes me log into Windows. Most of the time it's because a particular game doesn't run in Crossover. It had been that and Backblaze not being supported under Linux. Now that I've ditched it for Crashplan there's nothing tying me to Windows. Now if only I could get most of those things running under FreeBSD on AMD64...
Back in college, not that long ago, my roomates managed to score some nextstep gear. A couple of cubes, monitors and whatever that other box was, it was really nice stuff, assuming you could handle the monitor being black and white.
If you don't like it just stay out of the ebook market or go with one of the ebooks that supports the epub standard. Personally I've got my Nook and I haven't had any trouble loading it up with free content, books checked out from the library or other stores than the official B&N store. It is a bit of a hassle buying elsewhere, but it's not really that hard, most of them support Adobe Editions. My main complaint is that it isn't supported by Linux or anything outside the Mac/Windows world.
That was what I was wondering. I could see an advantage to loading content that you know you'll need in the near future at times when the network is relatively quiet, but loading content that you might need seems to be a bad idea. It's sort of like leaving your AC on even though you've got your windows open because some of the cold air will settle near the floor.
You think that somebody that makes $300k isn't rich? Less than 4% of all households make that much money according to the census. Income Distribution in the U.S.
I'm not really sure how you can say that somebody that's in the top 5% of all households isn't rich. 90% of all house holds are making a third of that. You have a really strange definition of rich.
The main irritation I have with the delays is that there's still functionality in my Nexus One that Google hasn't unlocked.
Actually it's really important. Revenue isn't the same thing as profit. I might own a restaurant and observe that last year to this I doubled my revenue. I might very well still be going out of business because the revenue might still be insufficient to cover my costs. Which is the GP's point to an extent, doubling from $13 to $26 is doubling, even if it's less pocket change than all the employees put together possess.
Did Glenn Beck rape, torture and kill the Lindbergh baby before framing OJ for murdering those people?
Getting an AMD chipset in a computer which is sold by a major retailer has been challenging for some time, due in large part to Intel bribing companies not to offer any. In the last 10 years there's been plenty of times when AMD was wiping the floor with Intel, but it never really got anywhere because most people had issues finding AMD based computers from major integrators.
Right now, yes, but had it not been for Intel bribing companies to refuse to use AMD's chips, I'm not really sure that would be the case. R&D is expensive, and while historically AMD has been quite far ahead of Intel at points, it's never really gotten the advantage of being able to sell it's products on merit.
The old version was better. I haven't bothered to meta mod since they took away the up or down vote on it.
I can't blame you on that. Diamonds weren't popular for engagement rings until DeBeers started one of the most successful ad campaigns in history to convince women that if their man didn't fork over a wad for a diamond that he wasn't really serious.
Personally, I prefer sapphires, rubies and emeralds, because at least they're pleasing to the eye. If I had the money I'd totally get a Mario ring with the appropriate stones.
That's always a problem, there's a balance, you can't give away something that expensive for every bug no matter how tiny. But you also do have to compensate researchers enough to make it worth their while for more important bugs.
Let me guess, you work at Microsoft, don't you?
That's partially because we're used to bug reports that go somewhere, and we have absolutely no clue as to what exactly is done with the information. And often times we're not told what information is being sent anyways. I don't know what things are like where you're working, but I do know that a lot of people aren't going to trust random strangers. Which in a sense is odd, given that there's enough trust to run the program, but there you go.
That's completely false. MPEG-LA does charge a licensing fee for using their patents on this. They only waived the licensing fee for streaming H.264 streams. The encoder and decoder still have to be licensed, they also cut a break for those that don't hit the minimum threshold. But they do expect you to pay in full for all the licenses that are used once you hit the threshold.
In other words, the H.264 is most certainly not free and projects which use its patents run the risk of being sued if they don't pay up.
Controls? It's far more likely that they're controlled by the mob.
And end up with the bad situation they have in Alabama with their bajillion page state constitution? No thanks. What really needs to happen is for people to recognize that the constitution was never intended to be all inclusive and literal in its nature. Or have you missed the bit where nowhere in the constitution does it state that everything is to be taken literally as you choose to interpret it later on? It was written to handle events in the future which couldn't be foreseen by them, which would be impossible to do if they were making everything completely literal in nature.
That works better if you're not in control of the files. From personal experience searching does precisely bupkiss for backing files up or excluding ones that you don't want backed up. It also doesn't do you much in terms of figuring out which files are duplicates and deciding which files should be deleted.
Right now I've got several folders for the importance of the files under it to me, and I've named them based upon the duration of backups that I feel I could afford to lose without being distraught. Some by the hour and some by the month. It's a little bit of a pain, but it makes it a lot easier to make sure that my backups are done because I don't have to set up rules for individual files all over my HDD in random places.
The solution to that is to create a folder which is for things you've downloaded recently then move, either manually or via script, any of the ones you haven't used in the last X days to say an attic folder. If you use a file from the attic you move it back to the original folder and periodically you create a new attic and delete the old one. Which should work fine as long as you're not really picky or likely to not use something for a long period of time and then suddenly find a use for it.
Alternatively you could sort the files into 3 or 4 categories, purchases, free, trial and personal or similar. The main thing which causes people trouble with your approach is not getting the level of control right, either trying to have too much or failing to have enough.
In the past that was more of a necessity, these days at the rate that storage capacity is increases other priorities tend to arise. For instance the number of files I have is more contingent upon my ability to organize and keep organized the files as well as perform regular backups. Given that a standard DVD is somewhat less than 9gb and that you can get a 1tb disk for under a hundred dollars, that's enough for a fairly typical DVD collection right there, considering most DVDs don't use anywhere near the full capacity of a dual layer disk. Uncompressed Bluray is of course a completely different matter.
Right now I only have about a half terabyte or so of data that I have to keep backed up and something like 3tb of hard disk capacity. My main issue is making sure that I can find my files and ensure that they aren't succumbing to bit rot.
So, personally, I stick to a file system convention where possible and sort those basically by priority for backup. Certain folders like my downloads I tend not to delete until I need space, which shouldn't be for quite a while.