Wow, your informative well thought out post was so incredible, I just had a brain aneurysm processing the wealth of intelligence it contained. You obviously understand programming, especially platform-independent programming, so well it is scary. It is just not fair that one AC should have so much divine knowledge.
Or you could just be a total trolling choad who has no concept of back-end and front-end when it comes to databases.
And this is the second unsolicited advertisement you have done for your book in this thread so far. Please stop spamming/. now, and put me on your remove list.
Right, and I have some lake front property that Apple would like to sell you in the Sahara Desert. Just because it's Apple's cheapest computer doesn't mean it is the "World's Cheapest Computer". There are plenty of other PCs for under $600 that even include a monitor, keyboard, and mouse.
No, sense of humor is just fine. If your post been modded "Funny", that would be appropriate. And I actually do think it was funny. But I stick by my statement that only here would it get modded "Insightful". My criticism is with the moderators, not the statement. What is even more humourous is that I'm sure some of the folks who rant about stupid knee-jerk reactions to things will actually agree with your statements. Shoe is on the other foot sort of thing...
Advocating murder for the "heinous" crime of domain squatting. Only on/. would this get modded insightful. Besides, didn't this already happen to a Russian Spamlord? I believe that Spam still exists, so I don't think your idea would work so well either...
Next up - murdering jaywalkers and those people who rip the tags off their mattresses. Why not just kill every petty criminal? Then there would be no petty crime!
Only if you let them have the information by being dumb and posting it yourself somewhere else. If people would just realize that EVERY bit of information you put online about yourself, no matter how random and scattered, can be assembled to give a single wealth of information about you. Which is why I never use my real full name in email addresses, or social networking sites. I can't believe the information some people are just willing to put out there for anyone sometimes...
And for the record posting your information would not be "slanderous". Only if information is falsified or completely made up do you get into "libel". Slander = spoken, libel = printed. It would be hard to "slander" someone on the internet unless you were posting mp3 rants, or podcasts about them.
"I wonder what they had in mind exactly when they put that maximum on that category?"
Oh I don't know, maybe deterrence? If some person knows they can get up to 20 years in jail for doing something so dumb and completely unbeneficial to anyone, they may think twice about doing it.
It doesn't matter who the creators actually are. It matters who holds the rights. Unless you are already an established artist, most record deals transfer all the rights from the artist to the recording company.
Generally, the manufacturers are barely breaking even or taking a small loss on the hardware end of selling printers. Consumables (paper and ink) and accessories (the $30 USB cable) are where all the profits are made in the printing category. This is especially true in the ultra-cheap low end printers. From what I have seen, the more you spend initially on a printer, the less you spend in the long run. And for any sort of volume, always buy lasers.
Depends on how you buy it. I buy 2-liter bottles all the time for about $1.29 or $1.39 (or sometimes even on sale for 99 cents) at the local gas station. This way, the price of Pepsi only works out to roughly $2.50 per gallon, give or take. When I worked at restaurants, we bought the 5 gallon syrup bags for around $45. They mixed 5 to 1 with water so each would make about about 30 gallons of Pepsi for about $1.50 per gallon, not counting water or water filter expenses. Pepsi gave us the dispenser to use free of charge, so no extra expense there either. The cup, lid, and straw were definitely the most expensive part of selling a cup of soda.
It isn't that hard. Try to put the hole somewhere inconspicuous - I put mine in the corner of my closet and ran the wire under the carpet along the wall. The plate mounting is as easy as putting in a wall switch/receptacle etc. if you have ever done that before. I just bought a cheap punch kit at Radio Schack for $10 and downloaded a diagram of the wiring configuration. If you have a little technical know-how, and some power tools it really isn't a big job.
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Wow, your informative well thought out post was so incredible, I just had a brain aneurysm processing the wealth of intelligence it contained. You obviously understand programming, especially platform-independent programming, so well it is scary. It is just not fair that one AC should have so much divine knowledge.
Or you could just be a total trolling choad who has no concept of back-end and front-end when it comes to databases.
And this is the second unsolicited advertisement you have done for your book in this thread so far. Please stop spamming /. now, and put me on your remove list.
Or just kill a few trees and make hard copies. Those tend to never go "obsolete" and can be re-created in any of the current formats.
That would be pretty tough for a Ph. D. candidate to grasp....
Right, and I have some lake front property that Apple would like to sell you in the Sahara Desert. Just because it's Apple's cheapest computer doesn't mean it is the "World's Cheapest Computer". There are plenty of other PCs for under $600 that even include a monitor, keyboard, and mouse.
Apple? I wouldn't hold my breath for Apple to make "The World's Cheapest Computer" anytime soon...
Touché. I completely overlooked that the first time through.
No, sense of humor is just fine. If your post been modded "Funny", that would be appropriate. And I actually do think it was funny. But I stick by my statement that only here would it get modded "Insightful". My criticism is with the moderators, not the statement. What is even more humourous is that I'm sure some of the folks who rant about stupid knee-jerk reactions to things will actually agree with your statements. Shoe is on the other foot sort of thing...
Advocating murder for the "heinous" crime of domain squatting. Only on /. would this get modded insightful. Besides, didn't this already happen to a Russian Spamlord? I believe that Spam still exists, so I don't think your idea would work so well either...
Next up - murdering jaywalkers and those people who rip the tags off their mattresses. Why not just kill every petty criminal? Then there would be no petty crime!
Apparently Australian journalists have never watched the Simpsons before...
Haven't seen a Vuitton PC yet, but you can get a Ferrari laptop.
Only if you let them have the information by being dumb and posting it yourself somewhere else. If people would just realize that EVERY bit of information you put online about yourself, no matter how random and scattered, can be assembled to give a single wealth of information about you. Which is why I never use my real full name in email addresses, or social networking sites. I can't believe the information some people are just willing to put out there for anyone sometimes...
And for the record posting your information would not be "slanderous". Only if information is falsified or completely made up do you get into "libel". Slander = spoken, libel = printed. It would be hard to "slander" someone on the internet unless you were posting mp3 rants, or podcasts about them.
But does it run Linux? I mean, could you imagine a Beowulf cluster of.... oh forget it. I must be new here.
Nuke it from orbit. It is the only way to be sure...
"I wonder what they had in mind exactly when they put that maximum on that category?"
Oh I don't know, maybe deterrence? If some person knows they can get up to 20 years in jail for doing something so dumb and completely unbeneficial to anyone, they may think twice about doing it.
No. When the government does it it is censorship. When a corporation does it, it is Business As Usual (TM).
Not if you take enough acid.
It doesn't matter who the creators actually are. It matters who holds the rights. Unless you are already an established artist, most record deals transfer all the rights from the artist to the recording company.
Generally, the manufacturers are barely breaking even or taking a small loss on the hardware end of selling printers. Consumables (paper and ink) and accessories (the $30 USB cable) are where all the profits are made in the printing category. This is especially true in the ultra-cheap low end printers. From what I have seen, the more you spend initially on a printer, the less you spend in the long run. And for any sort of volume, always buy lasers.
You do know gold can be in liquid form also, right?
Depends on how you buy it. I buy 2-liter bottles all the time for about $1.29 or $1.39 (or sometimes even on sale for 99 cents) at the local gas station. This way, the price of Pepsi only works out to roughly $2.50 per gallon, give or take. When I worked at restaurants, we bought the 5 gallon syrup bags for around $45. They mixed 5 to 1 with water so each would make about about 30 gallons of Pepsi for about $1.50 per gallon, not counting water or water filter expenses. Pepsi gave us the dispenser to use free of charge, so no extra expense there either. The cup, lid, and straw were definitely the most expensive part of selling a cup of soda.
Likewise I am still waiting for the first OS/2 exploit. Crossing my fingers it will be soon. Then on to infect my TRS-80, and my old Atari 800.
It isn't that hard. Try to put the hole somewhere inconspicuous - I put mine in the corner of my closet and ran the wire under the carpet along the wall. The plate mounting is as easy as putting in a wall switch/receptacle etc. if you have ever done that before. I just bought a cheap punch kit at Radio Schack for $10 and downloaded a diagram of the wiring configuration. If you have a little technical know-how, and some power tools it really isn't a big job.
"Can I plug my NIC card into my AP point?"
Only if you enter your PIN number into an ATM machine.
Yeah, I am from Minneapolis and feel the same way. Ain't it crazy how many conservatives are running the show in our supposedly liberal city?