You usually pay EXTRA to get the daylight (bluish compared to incandescent) CF bulbs. I don't understand where this stereotype continues to come for as the most widely available CF bulbs all have an incandescent-like, extremely warm color temperature.
That may be true, but you also have to consider the cost of your insurance premium increasing that you avoided by getting out of the ticket. I seriously doubt it would amount to anywhere near $2425, but you're oversimplifying things.
They don't care about that so much as just not wanting to provide you with the bandwidth for which you paid. This is Cheap Bastards Syndrome, not Copyright Police.
It also has nothing to do with being a law either. It's just a guideline as to what we may expect for the development of microprocessors.
Well, maybe it's a corporate policy^W^W law over at Intel, but as they seem to be keeping on track, we still don't know what to expect for Gordon's Wrath.
There's definitely some irony in how you were modded up for giving us the link to help us do something so esoteric as looking up what Wikipedia is./obvious
That works a lot better with shoes than it does with MAC addresses. It's a heck of a lot easier to make a computer disappear than change the size of a household member's foot (the shoes themselves are probably easier to get rid of than a computer). I should think that in either situation if the criminal was in the house that he/she would be smart enough to remove the incriminating object, or at least that a jury would assume that this had occurred. That said, we still theoretically have an innocent-until-proven-guilty approach for this kind of thing.
I doubt it, honestly. The only music/movie distribution that would effect is delaying things hitting the torrent sites by maybe an hour or two. I think it's straight-up the ISPs looking for yet another excuse to deny you the use of the bandwidth for which you're paying.
If the RIAA is able to successfully sue/prosecute people based off of IP logs, you can be damn sure the CP police can. At least when you're in control of the router, you may be able to trawl through logs and find the MAC associated with the illegal download and hunt down the right person, but don't count on it.
I was damn glad that I did, because my BOSS at my uni went on looked at my facebook account before he hired me
This, good sir, is why you set privacy controls.
You're right about their data-mining though; Facebook's ads are really starting to concern me. "Single geek age 20? Visit eHarmony today!" Obviously my relationship status and age are right there in my profile, but them dynamically generating personality keywords based off of my interests and then proving them to advertisers... yeah, I should probably leave Facebook too.
new features that made new Blu-Ray discs incompatible with older players
I've heard this before but I'm not sure if there's any truth to it; however, the fact that this concept is even out there is more than enough to make sure I never purchase a Blu-Ray disc.
I now get 15 mod points at a time, rather than the traditional five. I assume (in addition to recent changes to/.) that this is related to being meta-moderated well. I also could swear that I get mod points more often than I used to, but I think that may also be somehow related to my Slashdotter extension (which pings slashdot all the time and if I have points it shows an icon in the corner of the browser; I wouldn't be at all surprised to find visit frequency affecting time between getting mod points).
I agree and disagree about this. I built my own systems for years, and at well below the typical manufacturer's pricing. And now I buy Macs. Yes, it costs more, dollar-for-dollar, when you're just comparing hardware. The premium is, as any proper fanboy will tell you, in the "Apple Experience". Or, rather, in not having the PC experience. Apple's closed approach is bad in quite a few ways, but the fact that I haven't had to deal with shoddy drivers from nVidia for the past year and a half alone is well worth the added cost. Then consider the times that random control panel windows refuse to open, the much more frequent crashing (yes, my Mac crashes on occasion. Mac users who say they're crashproof are either lucky or full of shit, most likely the latter), waiting for driver updates to download from Taiwanese motherboard manufacturer websites at dial-up speeds, etc.
At least for me, it's not a matter of ease of use. It's a matter of things not being continually screwed up. My work Dell is the same spec as my home MBP, and probably at 60% or so of the cost. The software that I'm selling (and thus have installed) certainly doesn't help matters as it's not meant to be run on a laptop, but I waste a ridiculous amount of time waiting for things to load, upgrades to take place, emails to get searched, etc. I've certainly never had Mail.app or Gmail flatly refuse to load with a cryptic error, unlike Outlook which does that at least once a week. For all of the problems that my MBP has had, they were all either hardware-related (shit happens) or some stupid software change I made in the terminal (sudo why the hell did I do that again?).
Maybe it's largely a matter of luck above everything else. Yes, if you only compare hardware, Apple is almost always very overpriced. But if you value your time, it's probably worth the premium.
What do you mean "Apple's idea of a quad core system"? A computer either has four cores or it doesn't. Whether it's PowerPC, Xeon, or Via-powered is irrelevant; Apple has not managed to redefine the number four.
I'm pretty sure that quite a while back one of my moderations was meta-modded as stupid (or whatever, I can't be bothered with meta anymore) and I got an email for it and the user in question lost (or regained) the point. I don't think that Slashdot really needs to hand out gold stars for doing a decent job of moderating.
Define "fool". I can look at my 10MP photos and be more than aware that I'm not looking at the actual landscape. It's not due to a lack of detail; probably mostly a function of the display medium. The same holds true for movies at the theatre - there's no lack of detail, but you can still tell that you're not looking at an actual scene (and disregard bad acting). 24FPS is way too low, even 60FPS probably won't cut it - not due to choppy playback, but because real life doesn't have a framerate (or it's at some sort of quantum/fourth dimension level; stop being argumentative).
But hell, you could have a card with no memory if the bus it to which it's attached has the bandwidth.
It's just the nature of the architecture. It's why my 32-bit dell laptop only has 3.5GB of addressable RAM where my MBP has its full 4GB, and why systems with beefy graphics subsystems and 4GB often only show 3.25GB. This card is well past the point where it's counterproductive on a 32-bit system for exactly that reason.
It's an e-penis thing. Surely you walked by a 256MB Radeon 9200 in a Best Buy at some point. The chip on that card could hardly make use of 32MB, but I'll be damned if they won't add useless memory if it helps part a fool with his money.
Well yeah, if you have a habit of using unstable apps;) Gotta keep an eye out for the threaded while(1); though, that one will really kick your ass.
(not that I should talk, having locked up my machine a couple times with a bad loop trying to write a few lines of code to parse through 2.5gb of sql with some ungodly number of rows that simply can't be restored as one on any machine in the building)
Slashdot Mirror
Yes indeed. That website triggered positively explosive reactions in my retinas. :(
I'll be sending you a bill.
To: coders@example.com
Subject: Working on main.c, leave it the frig alone until further notice. EOM.
Problem solved :D
You usually pay EXTRA to get the daylight (bluish compared to incandescent) CF bulbs. I don't understand where this stereotype continues to come for as the most widely available CF bulbs all have an incandescent-like, extremely warm color temperature.
That may be true, but you also have to consider the cost of your insurance premium increasing that you avoided by getting out of the ticket. I seriously doubt it would amount to anywhere near $2425, but you're oversimplifying things.
They don't care about that so much as just not wanting to provide you with the bandwidth for which you paid. This is Cheap Bastards Syndrome, not Copyright Police.
It also has nothing to do with being a law either. It's just a guideline as to what we may expect for the development of microprocessors.
Well, maybe it's a corporate policy^W^W law over at Intel, but as they seem to be keeping on track, we still don't know what to expect for Gordon's Wrath.
There's definitely some irony in how you were modded up for giving us the link to help us do something so esoteric as looking up what Wikipedia is. /obvious
That works a lot better with shoes than it does with MAC addresses. It's a heck of a lot easier to make a computer disappear than change the size of a household member's foot (the shoes themselves are probably easier to get rid of than a computer). I should think that in either situation if the criminal was in the house that he/she would be smart enough to remove the incriminating object, or at least that a jury would assume that this had occurred. That said, we still theoretically have an innocent-until-proven-guilty approach for this kind of thing.
I doubt it, honestly. The only music/movie distribution that would effect is delaying things hitting the torrent sites by maybe an hour or two. I think it's straight-up the ISPs looking for yet another excuse to deny you the use of the bandwidth for which you're paying.
The urge is uncontrollable. Acting on it is not.
If the RIAA is able to successfully sue/prosecute people based off of IP logs, you can be damn sure the CP police can. At least when you're in control of the router, you may be able to trawl through logs and find the MAC associated with the illegal download and hunt down the right person, but don't count on it.
This, good sir, is why you set privacy controls.
You're right about their data-mining though; Facebook's ads are really starting to concern me. "Single geek age 20? Visit eHarmony today!" Obviously my relationship status and age are right there in my profile, but them dynamically generating personality keywords based off of my interests and then proving them to advertisers... yeah, I should probably leave Facebook too.
I've heard this before but I'm not sure if there's any truth to it; however, the fact that this concept is even out there is more than enough to make sure I never purchase a Blu-Ray disc.
I actually wouldn't be at all surprised to find something like that, as my old code just refuses to compile properly anymore.
I now get 15 mod points at a time, rather than the traditional five. I assume (in addition to recent changes to /.) that this is related to being meta-moderated well. I also could swear that I get mod points more often than I used to, but I think that may also be somehow related to my Slashdotter extension (which pings slashdot all the time and if I have points it shows an icon in the corner of the browser; I wouldn't be at all surprised to find visit frequency affecting time between getting mod points).
I agree and disagree about this. I built my own systems for years, and at well below the typical manufacturer's pricing. And now I buy Macs. Yes, it costs more, dollar-for-dollar, when you're just comparing hardware. The premium is, as any proper fanboy will tell you, in the "Apple Experience". Or, rather, in not having the PC experience. Apple's closed approach is bad in quite a few ways, but the fact that I haven't had to deal with shoddy drivers from nVidia for the past year and a half alone is well worth the added cost. Then consider the times that random control panel windows refuse to open, the much more frequent crashing (yes, my Mac crashes on occasion. Mac users who say they're crashproof are either lucky or full of shit, most likely the latter), waiting for driver updates to download from Taiwanese motherboard manufacturer websites at dial-up speeds, etc.
At least for me, it's not a matter of ease of use. It's a matter of things not being continually screwed up. My work Dell is the same spec as my home MBP, and probably at 60% or so of the cost. The software that I'm selling (and thus have installed) certainly doesn't help matters as it's not meant to be run on a laptop, but I waste a ridiculous amount of time waiting for things to load, upgrades to take place, emails to get searched, etc. I've certainly never had Mail.app or Gmail flatly refuse to load with a cryptic error, unlike Outlook which does that at least once a week. For all of the problems that my MBP has had, they were all either hardware-related (shit happens) or some stupid software change I made in the terminal (sudo why the hell did I do that again?).
Maybe it's largely a matter of luck above everything else. Yes, if you only compare hardware, Apple is almost always very overpriced. But if you value your time, it's probably worth the premium.
But of course, to each his own. YMMV.
What do you mean "Apple's idea of a quad core system"? A computer either has four cores or it doesn't. Whether it's PowerPC, Xeon, or Via-powered is irrelevant; Apple has not managed to redefine the number four.
You don't know that - the two companies could have been privately sniping at each other for months.
I'm pretty sure that quite a while back one of my moderations was meta-modded as stupid (or whatever, I can't be bothered with meta anymore) and I got an email for it and the user in question lost (or regained) the point. I don't think that Slashdot really needs to hand out gold stars for doing a decent job of moderating.
And when you've done that, feel free to mod me up too :)
Define "fool". I can look at my 10MP photos and be more than aware that I'm not looking at the actual landscape. It's not due to a lack of detail; probably mostly a function of the display medium. The same holds true for movies at the theatre - there's no lack of detail, but you can still tell that you're not looking at an actual scene (and disregard bad acting). 24FPS is way too low, even 60FPS probably won't cut it - not due to choppy playback, but because real life doesn't have a framerate (or it's at some sort of quantum/fourth dimension level; stop being argumentative).
But hell, you could have a card with no memory if the bus it to which it's attached has the bandwidth.
It's just the nature of the architecture. It's why my 32-bit dell laptop only has 3.5GB of addressable RAM where my MBP has its full 4GB, and why systems with beefy graphics subsystems and 4GB often only show 3.25GB. This card is well past the point where it's counterproductive on a 32-bit system for exactly that reason.
It's an e-penis thing. Surely you walked by a 256MB Radeon 9200 in a Best Buy at some point. The chip on that card could hardly make use of 32MB, but I'll be damned if they won't add useless memory if it helps part a fool with his money.
Well yeah, if you have a habit of using unstable apps ;) Gotta keep an eye out for the threaded while(1); though, that one will really kick your ass.
(not that I should talk, having locked up my machine a couple times with a bad loop trying to write a few lines of code to parse through 2.5gb of sql with some ungodly number of rows that simply can't be restored as one on any machine in the building)
You know as well as I do that the RIAA is searching for God if only to send him a bill.