Damn, I hit 'Submit' too fast. I meant to say "my wife and I are moving soon and cable TV isn't." We figure the move is the best time for a change like that.
My wife and I are moving soon. Between Netflix (streaming + discs), Hulu, and Amazon we feel pretty well covered. If anybody has any suggestions for streaming news they would be well appreciated.
How should this thread play out? Are unlicensed vendors the noble poor today? Are we supposed to be pro-regulations or anti-regulations?
Well, if I don't help the underdog because screw him its his own fault for not making himself smarter, then I'm an asshole and people will become vocal against me and I think I should be allowed to talk and they should all shut up. If I do want to help him then I'm an SJW and, for reasons that will grace us with their presence at a later time once a sufficient number of people take the right side, and that will make me a hypocrite.
Hmm... do I want to be an asshole and rely on the philosophy of 'tough love' to let me sleep through the night, or do I want to suffer the indignity of manufactured hypocrisy. Decisions... decisions.
Ah, well, while I'm making that decision I might as well go read the article!:D
Snowden is 'vapid sounding' because he's popular. That was all the substance I had to work with. It's quite common for nerds to take a non-mainstream stance in order to appear 'cooler' to their colleagues.
To put it another way: You liked Snowden when he was underground.
I recently battled the flu for six weeks. I don't have AIDS, in fact I have a healthy immune system. Maybe you don't catch anything because your mother cleans the basement regularly.
Prices and rents will increase, and suddenly whatever the basic income is will no longer be sufficient. And then what?
That's entirely dependent on what people do. If they respond by getting work to pay those higher prices then the prices will rise. If people respond by saying "Tough, this is what I'm paying." then the prices will flatten out.
Supply and demand still applies. Now you know why sodas remained at 50 cents for as long as they did.
I was of the understanding that the issue was that demand for child porn would mean more of it gets made, i.e. children being sexually abused. At least that was the defense for drawings of child porn being made legal. (I don't recall if that ever succeeded.)
I'm not sure I agree that computer speed has flattened out over the last five years, the new computers I get at work are definitely significantly faster at each turn. I'll concede that it's hard to gauge because different components have different bottlenecks, what I do is very GPU heavy for example.
The reason I've observed is that newer computers don't actually open any new doors. Back when I first got into PCs in the early 90's, we went from choppy side-scrollers, point and click adventures, and flat-shaded polygon flight simulators to Doom, Quake, and eventually GTA. In the last ten years I've gone from Quake to GTA to.. umm.. whatever the current run-around-and-shoot game is everybody plays now. My laptop is 4 years old, if I buy a top of the line machine I'll.. umm... make WinRar go faster.
We've reached the goal we wanted with computing and so far noone has set a new one. When that happens we'll start seeing that again. In the mean time we're in the "shrink it all!" phase. (That's going to plateau soon, too.)
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Damn, I hit 'Submit' too fast. I meant to say "my wife and I are moving soon and cable TV isn't." We figure the move is the best time for a change like that.
My apologies.
My wife and I are moving soon. Between Netflix (streaming + discs), Hulu, and Amazon we feel pretty well covered. If anybody has any suggestions for streaming news they would be well appreciated.
How should this thread play out? Are unlicensed vendors the noble poor today? Are we supposed to be pro-regulations or anti-regulations?
Well, if I don't help the underdog because screw him its his own fault for not making himself smarter, then I'm an asshole and people will become vocal against me and I think I should be allowed to talk and they should all shut up. If I do want to help him then I'm an SJW and, for reasons that will grace us with their presence at a later time once a sufficient number of people take the right side, and that will make me a hypocrite.
Hmm... do I want to be an asshole and rely on the philosophy of 'tough love' to let me sleep through the night, or do I want to suffer the indignity of manufactured hypocrisy. Decisions ... decisions.
Ah, well, while I'm making that decision I might as well go read the article! :D
Hmm ... I dunno... when I had a 486 I bought a 300+ meg drive. When i got my first Pentium (120) I had a 1.2 gig drive.
I'm not trying to be pedantic, I just remember Windows 95 coming on a CD, I can't picture it installing on a 160 meg drive.
For those wondering, the Compaq LTE 5280 comes with a 120MHz Intel Pentium processor, up to "80MB" of RAM, and up to 16MB of HDD.
Remember back in the Pentium days when RAM was cheaper than hard-disc space?
Snowden is 'vapid sounding' because he's popular. That was all the substance I had to work with. It's quite common for nerds to take a non-mainstream stance in order to appear 'cooler' to their colleagues.
To put it another way: You liked Snowden when he was underground.
The anti-Snowden hipster attacks begin.
So does the hotel, that's why they're using his photos.
We all know this car's running Windows cos Linux ain't got no good nVidia drivers!
I don't think he heard you.
Maybe they tell you they don't have FB because they don't want a friend request from you. ;)
Heh. All that statement proved is that YOU aren't a scientist... or even know what one is.
What were the comments about?
Whatever you say, man. ;) Have a good weekend!
I recently battled the flu for six weeks. I don't have AIDS, in fact I have a healthy immune system. Maybe you don't catch anything because your mother cleans the basement regularly.
Now... you could be worried that maybe one year Valve goes bankrupt (it's not going to)...
Heh. Yeah, because if there's one thing game companies are known for it's being around forever.
Heh. Whatever you say man. I hope you're having a nice day! :)
Prices and rents will increase, and suddenly whatever the basic income is will no longer be sufficient. And then what?
That's entirely dependent on what people do. If they respond by getting work to pay those higher prices then the prices will rise. If people respond by saying "Tough, this is what I'm paying." then the prices will flatten out.
Supply and demand still applies. Now you know why sodas remained at 50 cents for as long as they did.
I was of the understanding that the issue was that demand for child porn would mean more of it gets made, i.e. children being sexually abused. At least that was the defense for drawings of child porn being made legal. (I don't recall if that ever succeeded.)
Heh. No, it didn't.
Whatever. Enjoy your day.
Reread the second line of my post.
I'm not sure I agree that computer speed has flattened out over the last five years, the new computers I get at work are definitely significantly faster at each turn. I'll concede that it's hard to gauge because different components have different bottlenecks, what I do is very GPU heavy for example.
The reason I've observed is that newer computers don't actually open any new doors. Back when I first got into PCs in the early 90's, we went from choppy side-scrollers, point and click adventures, and flat-shaded polygon flight simulators to Doom, Quake, and eventually GTA. In the last ten years I've gone from Quake to GTA to.. umm.. whatever the current run-around-and-shoot game is everybody plays now. My laptop is 4 years old, if I buy a top of the line machine I'll.. umm... make WinRar go faster.
We've reached the goal we wanted with computing and so far noone has set a new one. When that happens we'll start seeing that again. In the mean time we're in the "shrink it all!" phase. (That's going to plateau soon, too.)
Seconded. Opera was the browser you used if you were curious about what new features were coming to Firefox in a year or two.