What about those of us outside the US? In places like Australia, our bandwidth is limited by the undersea cables connecting us to the rest of the world, so even those of us with ADSL2+ have limited connection speed to international sites. Apparently they're going to be installing a new line soon, but it's worthwhile realising that not everyone lives in the USA, and internet speed varies considerably when you look at connections from outside your continent.
Sure, but how long is it until someone writes a script that does exactly the same thing?
A method of actually ripping the videos sounds more likely and popular though - I often do the same thing to Youtube videos because seeking seems to mess up the buffering.
If they really are married to Microsoft's applications, and PC games, then they need to spend about three times as much and buy a laptop from Dell.
I highly doubt that the difference in price would be great. And even if it were, it would reinforce the single greatest PR problem that Linux has - they see free/cheap as indicative of shoddy work.
IMO, far more needs to be done to correct the perception of Linux as 'cheap' (with negative connotations).
Good luck making a profit on that - 99% (I'm totalling making this no. up, but you get the point) of people don't even know what Linux is. Generally you increase the size of your target market if you want to make a profit.
I would argue that as one grows/matures/changes, one ceases to be one's former self. That is, your 'self' does not remain constant. It changes, and it is possible for two past selves to be very different.
if I am not me then who the hell am I?
You are the person you are right now, at this very instant. Tht person is very different to the person you were when you were a kid, and will probably be very different to the person you will be when you die.
To change personality you'd have to change both the source lesson, if it's still remembered at all, and the memory of the habit of that personality. It may not necessarily be more difficult but it's more complicated than simply erasing the memory of a discrete event from the past.
Not necessarily - instead of erasing the memory, you could just 'override' it with a new, more powerful memory. At the time, the source lesson was much more influential than other memories. But if you were to receive a new, more influential memory that was more relevant than the source lesson, that would theoretically be able to negate some or all of the influence of that source memory on your personality. It would need to be a very strong memory, but there's no reason it shouldn't work.
JavaFX can fight it by being bundled with JRE (or installed when JRE is auto-updated).
Except that the end user still has to install Java. If they're going to do that, then it's not so much of a leap for them to install an alternate browser or some sort of addin for IE that enables decent HTML5 rendering (maybe by swapping out the rendering engine?) I'd only expect that to happen if IE really sucks at HTML5, and the technology just hasn't gained the momentum for us to be judging Microsoft on it yet. Apart from Youtube's experiments, I don't know of anyone that's considering HTML5.
I can confirm this. Back when I ran AVG, I thought my system was clean and only downloaded Avast to see what it was like. I was pretty surprised to see how many viruses it found!
AVG appears to work, but it doesn't come close to Avast.
Bullets are metallic (usually). Just just a magnetic alloy and stick a magnet near the jets to make sure that none go in. Of course, you'd have to find a way to do it without interfering with the engine, but is shouldn't be too difficult...
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That would be awesome! We could call them Telephone And Restrooms Designed for Intelligent Species!
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Weren't you paying attention? They just did
What about those of us outside the US? In places like Australia, our bandwidth is limited by the undersea cables connecting us to the rest of the world, so even those of us with ADSL2+ have limited connection speed to international sites. Apparently they're going to be installing a new line soon, but it's worthwhile realising that not everyone lives in the USA, and internet speed varies considerably when you look at connections from outside your continent.
Only one way to find out: submit an article which contains blue, underlined text instead of a link. Then watch the comments...
Who the hell modded this as Insightful?
Looks like the first quantum computers are already here!
And you think it won't be?
That's only because Microsoft knows that no-one ever bothers installing their updates...
Sure, but how long is it until someone writes a script that does exactly the same thing? A method of actually ripping the videos sounds more likely and popular though - I often do the same thing to Youtube videos because seeking seems to mess up the buffering.
can play music and video...
With or without the DRM-du-jour?
If they really are married to Microsoft's applications, and PC games, then they need to spend about three times as much and buy a laptop from Dell.
I highly doubt that the difference in price would be great. And even if it were, it would reinforce the single greatest PR problem that Linux has - they see free/cheap as indicative of shoddy work. IMO, far more needs to be done to correct the perception of Linux as 'cheap' (with negative connotations).
Good luck making a profit on that - 99% (I'm totalling making this no. up, but you get the point) of people don't even know what Linux is. Generally you increase the size of your target market if you want to make a profit.
Solution: build an open-source gun.
So what you're saying is, we should run Linux on IE? That sounds a lot worse...
if I am not me then who the hell am I?
You are the person you are right now, at this very instant. Tht person is very different to the person you were when you were a kid, and will probably be very different to the person you will be when you die.
I don't know about you, but I trust myself a hell of a lot more than I do any other person.
To change personality you'd have to change both the source lesson, if it's still remembered at all, and the memory of the habit of that personality. It may not necessarily be more difficult but it's more complicated than simply erasing the memory of a discrete event from the past.
Not necessarily - instead of erasing the memory, you could just 'override' it with a new, more powerful memory. At the time, the source lesson was much more influential than other memories. But if you were to receive a new, more influential memory that was more relevant than the source lesson, that would theoretically be able to negate some or all of the influence of that source memory on your personality. It would need to be a very strong memory, but there's no reason it shouldn't work.
There will be no paying extra for additional IPs.
You mean there will be no reason to. Chances are, Comcast will increase the cost of IPs under the excuse of recouping the costs of the switch.
Guess its just another entry to add to this list of (IMHO) ridiculous and disproportionate punishments.
JavaFX can fight it by being bundled with JRE (or installed when JRE is auto-updated).
Except that the end user still has to install Java. If they're going to do that, then it's not so much of a leap for them to install an alternate browser or some sort of addin for IE that enables decent HTML5 rendering (maybe by swapping out the rendering engine?) I'd only expect that to happen if IE really sucks at HTML5, and the technology just hasn't gained the momentum for us to be judging Microsoft on it yet. Apart from Youtube's experiments, I don't know of anyone that's considering HTML5.
Sure they will, there'll just be a lot more "Get off my lawn!"-style posts :)
I can confirm this. Back when I ran AVG, I thought my system was clean and only downloaded Avast to see what it was like. I was pretty surprised to see how many viruses it found! AVG appears to work, but it doesn't come close to Avast.
...or you could just design bullets that are soft enough to disintegrate on contact, so that they wouldn't be a problem for the engines.
Bullets are metallic (usually). Just just a magnetic alloy and stick a magnet near the jets to make sure that none go in. Of course, you'd have to find a way to do it without interfering with the engine, but is shouldn't be too difficult...