Because in the past, small = expensive, and all the sheeple consumers accept that.
Think about it - smaller - less material - higher manufacturing capacity - they should cost less. But they're priced more. Which means Sony is making an obscene amount of profit out of their smallest ultraportables.
They're just afraid people will begin to agree "smaller should be less expensive".
Who cares about Javascript performance when a single script running at any speed can freeze the entire browser?
Or a few Youtube tabs can slow the browser to a halt? (Hint: Firefox REALLY need to delegate Flash rendering to an external process, something I can renice 19. Just like how Konqueror uses nspluginviewer)
If I just 1. pull the plug 2. pull your RAM 3. insert your RAM into my computer
How about 1. use a master password to generate a passphrase at login-time. This passphrase is stored in and only in the memory controller. 2. this key will be used to real-time encrypt the RAM contents with a symmetric key cipher - so plaintext would only exist on the FSB between the CPU and the Northbridge. 3. this small, special storage in the memory controller is guaranteed to be zeroed within a short hard limit if not powered.
Of course you can design new RAM that does this, but assume this new RAM is more expensive, sparing a KB or two of some special storage just for the key would be enough.
Of course, the short key vs the large memory capacity, and the fact that memory is used piece-by-piece, would mean a lot of potential for known-ciphertext-attacks.
However, cracking with partially-damaged ciphertext is quite a bit more difficult than with either intact ciphertext or damaged plaintext.
I don't know how I should pity you or your knowledge of history. Mine was roughly based on my classes without looking up on Wikipedia every time like some people do - thank you.
My recollection of the timeline is not as precise as Wikipedia of course. Plus or minus 100 years does not make ANY difference to my argument. You could pick any event as early as 300 AD and say that it marked the declined of the nation. Yeah, thank you.
Opium Wars? Boxer Rebellion? Thank you - they're in the 1800's and that was what exactly marked the beginning of the decline - at the end of a dynasty coincide with invasion of "foreign devils", after their Industrial Revolution.
It's a fact that civilizations leapfrog each other. Just that the Chinese weren't really leapfrogged AT ALL by anyone except the Persians until the Industrial Revolution. And then the invasions pushed the civilizations back 100s of years. No big deal, see it with your own eyes that they're rebounding.
Your problem is that you assume people to "take whatever viewpoint" when you have no idea who you're talking to. Get a viewpoint of my own? Thanks I have one already, and I believe that's above yours.
a society civilized a thousand years before the West, and having had a far larger population for far longer, has nevertheless consistently lagged behind the West in terms of invention and innovation, at least on a per capita basis
You must not know world history very well. From who knows when BC up until early 1800s the Chinese have consistently been the pinnacle of world innovation and inventions along with the Arab nations.
The situation only changed after the Industrial Revolution in Europe, which snowballed into the invasion of these countries in the late 1800s until WW2.
After a revolution of its own they're using their large resource to play catch-up with speeds never seen before: 200 years of progress in 60 years.
Granted, some copying took place, but it's impressive nonetheless and everyone copies in some point of history anyway.
Imagine, were it not for its relative geographical isolation, the USA would have been similarly devastated during the wars and definitely would not have been the superpower it is today.
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> Apparently offshore mirrors are still available.
They may not be, very soon. The information there is worth our 15GB or so of space - mirror them and creat BT seeds while they last.
Why not make it customer only for limited time and then you can buy more time?
I can understand the price being there to deal with the freeloaders, but when I buy something there, they used to give me 30 minutes of free Wifi (that was 4 years ago).
Now, customer or not they're charging. Those who called the shot were boneheaded.
However, having only 1 X chromosome sometimes create beneficial effects that would have been masked/averaged out by having 2 X chromosomes.
That's why statistically, the female aggregate more towards the average, while the male polarize from the extreme retarded to the extreme genius, from jails to Nobel Prizes.
To get back to the question. Is Men Obsolete? Read this article and make up your own mind.
There's a difference, and the difference is not so subtle - everyone can see it.
Hints: 1. A ballooning enrollment 2. A higher drop-out in senior years 3. An increasing amount of CS students who are downright horrible at mathematics and statistics
1. Abolish Soft Money in politics 2. Repeal Corporate Personhood 3. Repeal Patriot Act 4. Strip telecom immunity in relation to illegal surveillance 5. Drastically reduce military presence overseas 6. Stand behind Palestinians, not Isreali - the modern day aggressors 7. Rectify Kyoto 8. Enforce Net Neutrality 9. Pass the Public Domain Enhancement Act 10. Limit Pharmaceuticl Patents to 10 years and Software Patent to 5 years 11. Rollback Copyright extensions to life of author + 25 years. 12. Expand Stem Cell research fundings 13. Abolish Abstinence-only sex education 14. Remove Intelligent Design from Science classes and put it back to Religion or Philosophy classes 15. Make Political fiddling of scientific findings illegal 16. Tax reform such that Warren Buffet actually will pay more than his secretary.
You get my ideas, just do things that Make Sense (R).
Hey kids, how about, outdoors on a windy day (i'll explain later), take a video of yourself:
1. surround yourself with beer bottles 2. opening a can of ginger ale and pouring into a red plastic cup. 3. hide ginger ale bottle 4. drink it.
Post the video of part 3 and 4 - wait for someone to report on you, then launch a lawsuit.
Outdoors on a windy day just makes it unmistakable that the video is not edited (moving trees and whatnot). Make sure the entire video is taken in 1 shot.
And, how would anyone know it's not just WATER in those beer containers? I bet the person who takes these pictures to the police would just get laughed at and maybe charged for wasting police time.
Slashdot Mirror
Intel 910 works mighty fine on Compiz-Fusion with almost all eye candies enabled.
If Aero cannot work well on Intel 910, it's probably because Aero is an incompetent pile of junk compared to Compiz.
Because in the past, small = expensive, and all the sheeple consumers accept that.
Think about it - smaller - less material - higher manufacturing capacity - they should cost less. But they're priced more. Which means Sony is making an obscene amount of profit out of their smallest ultraportables.
They're just afraid people will begin to agree "smaller should be less expensive".
Doesn't stop someone from buying a house with a briefcase of $100 notes, right?
Exactly what I think.
Who cares about Javascript performance when a single script running at any speed can freeze the entire browser?
Or a few Youtube tabs can slow the browser to a halt? (Hint: Firefox REALLY need to delegate Flash rendering to an external process, something I can renice 19. Just like how Konqueror uses nspluginviewer)
If I just
1. pull the plug
2. pull your RAM
3. insert your RAM into my computer
How about
1. use a master password to generate a passphrase at login-time. This passphrase is stored in and only in the memory controller.
2. this key will be used to real-time encrypt the RAM contents with a symmetric key cipher - so plaintext would only exist on the FSB between the CPU and the Northbridge.
3. this small, special storage in the memory controller is guaranteed to be zeroed within a short hard limit if not powered.
Of course you can design new RAM that does this, but assume this new RAM is more expensive, sparing a KB or two of some special storage just for the key would be enough.
Of course, the short key vs the large memory capacity, and the fact that memory is used piece-by-piece, would mean a lot of potential for known-ciphertext-attacks.
However, cracking with partially-damaged ciphertext is quite a bit more difficult than with either intact ciphertext or damaged plaintext.
I don't know how I should pity you or your knowledge of history. Mine was roughly based on my classes without looking up on Wikipedia every time like some people do - thank you.
My recollection of the timeline is not as precise as Wikipedia of course. Plus or minus 100 years does not make ANY difference to my argument.
You could pick any event as early as 300 AD and say that it marked the declined of the nation. Yeah, thank you.
Opium Wars? Boxer Rebellion? Thank you - they're in the 1800's and that was what exactly marked the beginning of the decline - at the end of a dynasty coincide with invasion of "foreign devils", after their Industrial Revolution.
It's a fact that civilizations leapfrog each other. Just that the Chinese weren't really leapfrogged AT ALL by anyone except the Persians until the Industrial Revolution. And then the invasions pushed the civilizations back 100s of years. No big deal, see it with your own eyes that they're rebounding.
Your problem is that you assume people to "take whatever viewpoint" when you have no idea who you're talking to.
Get a viewpoint of my own? Thanks I have one already, and I believe that's above yours.
You must not know world history very well. From who knows when BC up until early 1800s the Chinese have consistently been the pinnacle of world innovation and inventions along with the Arab nations.
The situation only changed after the Industrial Revolution in Europe, which snowballed into the invasion of these countries in the late 1800s until WW2.
After a revolution of its own they're using their large resource to play catch-up with speeds never seen before: 200 years of progress in 60 years. Granted, some copying took place, but it's impressive nonetheless and everyone copies in some point of history anyway. Imagine, were it not for its relative geographical isolation, the USA would have been similarly devastated during the wars and definitely would not have been the superpower it is today.
> Apparently offshore mirrors are still available.
They may not be, very soon. The information there is worth our 15GB or so of space - mirror them and creat BT seeds while they last.
with social means is doomed to fail, at least in the technical sense.
Respect has to be earned. So far I have not seen the pro-DMCA side doing anything worthy of earning our respect.
Why not make it customer only for limited time and then you can buy more time?
I can understand the price being there to deal with the freeloaders, but when I buy something there, they used to give me 30 minutes of free Wifi (that was 4 years ago).
Now, customer or not they're charging. Those who called the shot were boneheaded.
Iran's enemies are currently all more Internet-savvy than Iran.
Severing Iran's connections would hinder Iran's enemies' surveillance activities more than Iran.
However, having only 1 X chromosome sometimes create beneficial effects that would have been masked/averaged out by having 2 X chromosomes.
That's why statistically, the female aggregate more towards the average, while the male polarize from the extreme retarded to the extreme genius, from jails to Nobel Prizes.
To get back to the question. Is Men Obsolete? Read this article and make up your own mind.
http://www.denisdutton.com/baumeister.htm
Anyone? I got suck a kick when I first cracked it myself. I still remember it being on Data East's Robocop.
Crisis Mountain, Lady Tut, Lode Runner, Dark Lord, every single Ultima, and.... ... ... ...
THE MAGIC CANDLE
There's a difference, and the difference is not so subtle - everyone can see it.
Hints:
1. A ballooning enrollment
2. A higher drop-out in senior years
3. An increasing amount of CS students who are downright horrible at mathematics and statistics
From some articles it seems that the affected cities are from Central and South America, including some in Mexico.
WHICH bloody cities???
1. Abolish Soft Money in politics
2. Repeal Corporate Personhood
3. Repeal Patriot Act
4. Strip telecom immunity in relation to illegal surveillance
5. Drastically reduce military presence overseas
6. Stand behind Palestinians, not Isreali - the modern day aggressors
7. Rectify Kyoto
8. Enforce Net Neutrality
9. Pass the Public Domain Enhancement Act
10. Limit Pharmaceuticl Patents to 10 years and Software Patent to 5 years
11. Rollback Copyright extensions to life of author + 25 years.
12. Expand Stem Cell research fundings
13. Abolish Abstinence-only sex education
14. Remove Intelligent Design from Science classes and put it back to Religion or Philosophy classes
15. Make Political fiddling of scientific findings illegal
16. Tax reform such that Warren Buffet actually will pay more than his secretary.
You get my ideas, just do things that Make Sense (R).
Hey kids, how about, outdoors on a windy day (i'll explain later), take a video of yourself:
1. surround yourself with beer bottles
2. opening a can of ginger ale and pouring into a red plastic cup.
3. hide ginger ale bottle
4. drink it.
Post the video of part 3 and 4 - wait for someone to report on you, then launch a lawsuit.
Outdoors on a windy day just makes it unmistakable that the video is not edited (moving trees and whatnot). Make sure the entire video is taken in 1 shot.
How do you know the kid drank?
How do you know that bottle didn't contain water?
How do you know the kid lied?
Ah I know. Because the kid is a kid? Nice, logical conclusion.
And, how would anyone know it's not just WATER in those beer containers? I bet the person who takes these pictures to the police would just get laughed at and maybe charged for wasting police time.
Antigua population: 69000 (wikipedia)
Damage of infriging every single piece of all US IP per year: $21 million
Damage per capita per year = $304.35, to share within a circle of 69000 people.
Do you mean "poses the question"?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question
Everyone here knows that 2 browsers in the same box is only secure if both are restrictive...
A better solution without buying more hardware is use a Linux or FreeBSD live CD for the "secure" browsing.
A compromise without physically rebooting would be to do your "insecure" browsing under virtualization.
A further step down is to do your "secure" browsing under virtualization with encrypted volume.
Any one of the above is a lot more secure than TFA.