And yet, those recycling kiosks at the grocery store are still running Windows 98.
Thats not the scary part.
Most POS terminals are XP based. A lot of them un patched with IE6 accessible by simply closing down or alt tabbing out of Pronto (or similar POS software). One of the saddest things I have ever seen is a POS terminal with the Ask toolbar installed.
This is why I refuse to run my card in 99% of stores.
Apple apparently charge $800, he bought it for $200. That is by definition cheap 3rd party memory.
Apple charge $800 for the same part. Apple's memory is off the shelf Crucial memory. As the GP said, he simply went up the supply chain. BTW, Apple RAM is still marked with the original manufacturers logo and part numbers, if you knew anything about diagnosing hardware problems for yourself you would have noticed this..
And $200 is not cheap, Crucial is far from cheap in case you didn't notice. $20 for Kingston RAM is cheap and in all the motherboards I've put cheap RAM in it's killed exactly zero of them.
"Since normal diagnostics haven't shown anything, and it's out of Apple's warranty, I have to figure it out on my own.
So he's used Apple's own diagnositcs yet still has symptoms.
He most certainly doesn't "know what his problem is
WRONG AGAIN.
He knows what the problem is, he doesn't have a solution that's cheap enough to be worth it. If you bothered to read his post instead of going off on a fanboy flame fest you'd know this.
Why the hell should he waste his time to go to an Apple store and have them price the components he's already priced for himself?
But you do appear to jump to conclusions without bothering to read all of a post.
Nope, I understood the OP, you didn't and you made the same mistake with my post. I said crucial was not cheap third party RAM, Kingston was cheap third party RAM. If you have trouble figuring out cheap was the operative word and not "3rd party" you have serious comprehension issues.
Furthermore, the combination of lasily couch-surfing and not having to deal with hardware/software issues and constant upgrading, has made me a consolegamer.
Not dealing with network issues, features revoked by software "updates" or the high risk of hardware failure (RROD, YLOD) as well as the lower price of PC games has kept me PC gamer. I've spent less time in the last 3 years fixing drivers then most console gamers have waiting for XBL/PSN updates.
"The survey focused on "solar radiation management", which involves reflecting energy from the Sun away from the Earth's surface, and received support from 72% of respondents."
Exactly like a nuclear winter. Except with 72% support. You really can artificially get any result from a survey.
The problem is, if the UK allowed the world to warm, the Brits could no longer complain about cold, dreary England. Without this, the fabric of their entire society would fall down (has already done so if you're a xenophobic, clueless daily fail reader) and without something to complain about the English would slip into a coma and die..
Warming must be stopped so that English can continue to complain.
1) Gives a shit.
2) Knows their shit.
3) Low tolerance for shit.
4) Understands the difference between shit that needs to be acted on and shit that needs to be ignored.
5) Is allowed to get on with shit and not interfered with by mummy Snowflake getting up teachers and administrators because she's worried that Little Johnny Snowflake might get the idea that he's not the most special snowflake in the entire world.
Number 5 is the biggest problem facing educators. Some parents cant discipline their crotchspawns. Worse yet, they will sue the pants of anyone who tries to. Granted these parents are in the extreme minority but they make life difficult for everyone. Teachers are not permitted to discipline students these days out of fear of legal retribution from parents, who dont want to be parents, who are made to look bad because their crotchspawn is undisciplined.
Whilst I'm not one myself, I lived in a sharehouse with 2 teachers for over a year. At the end of every term (approx 3 months for the Americans playing along at home) they would dread writing reports for one or two of their students because those students were little shits they weren't permitted to discipline, hell the private school teacher was not even permitted to fail a student who didn't even bother to sit half his tests (instant fail). In the end, the report would say "Tom needs to pay more attention in class" when it should really say "Tom is a selfish, undisciplined little shit who cant keep his hands of other students".
Oh, and the phrase "zero tolerance policy" usually means "zero thought put into proper enforcement or deciding what constitutes infringement" which means "zero respect for authority learned at an early age."
Couldn't agree more. Bans will simply make kids want to break the rule more.
So you say you fitted some cheap third party memory, and now the machine is overheating.
Crucial is not cheap 3rd party memory, Kingston is cheap 3rd party memory and in the 100 odd Windows machines I've fitted with cheap Kingston sticks I've had zero overheat from them (A few sticks die early on but that's about it). In fact I've had zero overheat from RAM at all. RAM is not one of the big heat producers, any semi retarded cooling system should be able to handle it.
Over a decade of building my own boxes has taught me that your CPU, GFX card and HDD's are your big heat sources, RAM is nothing on that. Also how to build a system so that heat is expelled properly. Something that I found Mac's lack in my travels to tropical nations.
They'll diagnose your problem and give you a price for repair.
He already priced a repair, it's the same cost as building a top end gaming rig from new components. CPU, Mainboard, GFX card, the lot.
And the diagnosis part won't cost you anything.
Except his time, considering he already knows what the problem is.
Even us neck-beareded, deoderant-fearing, hippy Linux users know that our time isn't free.
I know several people who fully expect their next "laptop" to actually be a tablet.
We call these people clueless.
PHB: My next Laptop will be a tablet. IT: How will you type on it? PHB: Then you'll get me a keyboard. IT: 10" is too small, you can barely read the 15" laptop you have. PHB:Then you'll get me an external monitor. IT: OK, next question, will you give up all your windows programs. PHB: Absolutely not. IT: So It'll have to be windows based. PHB:Yes. IT: So I'll have to buy a new mouse as well. PHB: Make it so. IT: Why dont I just add a pair of 5 KG weights to your existing laptop. It'll be exactly the same but cheaper.
People who think the laptop is going anywhere any time soon are deluding themselves. I've worked with tablet computers for years, they never took off from their niche because of ergonomics, it's a PITA to use a tablet for 4 hours a day, let alone 8 to 12. Dont give me any guff about OS either 1) everything the business world does is on Windows, OS X and even Android does not even come close. 2) we've had a tablet capable windows UI for years (since Vista) and nothing has happened. Everyone who's tried to replace their computer with an Ipad has failed miserably, I see a sales drone try to do this at least once a month. None has lasted more then 2 days without their laptop.
but i couldnt help but wonder, if 2005 era hardware (and let's be honest, in 2005 my PC was stronger then the 360 already) can pull this off, what would be possible with a console built on todays technology?
The problem is not a question of technology, look at what we can do with modern gaming PC's. The problem is a question of economics.
For Sony and Microsoft to refresh their console lines after only 5 years means taking a huge loss on the last generation of consoles. It took them 3-4 years to stop making a loss on every bit of HW sold, they still haven't paid back the R&D yet. The PS3 in particular really does need a 10 year life span to pay itself off. Both MS and Sony subsidise their console divisions from more profitable areas (OS and Office from MS, TV's and computers for Sony). The hardware was designed to be a loss leader, with the profit being made up in game licensing (this is why BF3 for console is $10-20 more expensive then the same game for PC. There are no per-disc licenses for PC's)
Nintendo does not have this problem. They made a profit from the word go so they've paid off all costs incurred in producing the Wii. This realistically should put the final nail in the coffin for the PC-alike consoles. Console gamers want actual consoles that are fun to play, not weak PC's with limited control schemes. I dont think we'll see another "high powered" console war like we saw between the Xbox360 and PS3 after the low powered Wii ate their lunch. MS will likely copy Nintendo with the next Xbox. Sony may not be so quick to learn and another loss like the PS3 may sink the PS brand.
How many people can play Brawl on one Wii console at once?
This is why the Wii is the only true console of this generation. It's fundamentally different to PC, ergo it's designed for a different type of game and audience. Historically, consoles have always done well with simple, casual game with a shallow learning curve, PC's have been the home of complex, long drawn out or difficult games.
Ask the same question of a PC and Xbox, Most Xbox and PS3 games are designed for one player per copy the same as PC games. Realistically, they are consoles trying to be PC's which is wrong and why Nintendo is making money hand over fist whilst MS and Sony are struggling just to make it into the black.
PC gamers and console gamers should not be at odds. They should occupy different sections of the gaming market as the Wii and PC do. The PS3 and Xbox are oddities that will be corrected in the next generation or two. Personally I have a PC and Wii, previously I owned a PC, Xbox and PS2 but this generation, I have a PC to game on so I dont need two low powered, limited PC's to game on. If I'm going to play for 4 or more hours on single player or with other gamers I'll hop on my PC and play a bit of CIV or Battlefield, if I'm going to play with non-gamer friends, I'll get the Wii out, this normally lasts 2 or 3 hours at most. Consoles and PC's should be fundamentally different beasts, both enjoyable in their own rights.
If you're a spam cannon you're not using Office to blast those emails, if you have half a brain.
You've never met a Sales manager at a medium business, have you?
Unfortunately I have.
I had a limit of 40 recipients on my Exchange server. When the Sales drones complained I told them to use the CRM system that we paid umpteen thousand dollars for (this is pretty much what it was bought for). Only one didn't get the message, he would continue to Spam 300 people through outlook, 40 recipients at a time.
Hell, we even had a command line mailer used by the marketing staff, you'd drop in an xls with email addresses in column 1 and first names in column 2 and your email in HTML form into the same directory as the emailer and script. Then all you had to do was run the script.
I have to wonder if the 16GB "requirement" is more of a recommendation and/or a bunch of default settings that deliberately avoid the disk as much as possible
I have to wonder if the 16 GB requirement is real.
Reading the blog linked to in the summary, there is no source mentioned. The author completely fails to mention how they came across this information. Even ignoring their bad English (obviously not their first language).
I think I'll wait for a more trustworthy source to confirm or deny this.
The book delves into Jobs' decision to delay surgery for nine months after learning in October 2003 that he had a neuroendocrine tumor — a relatively rare type of pancreatic cancer that normally grows more slowly and is therefore more treatable.
Instead, he tried a vegan diet, acupuncture, herbal remedies and other treatments he found online, and even consulted a psychic.
He seems to be a poster child for alternative medicine.
Exactly how not to treat a perfectly treatable cancer.
If, the author is telling the truth. Whilst I'm not Mr Jobs' biggest fan, I do have to take this source with a huge grain of salt given it was published after his death. OTOH, it would fit with Mr Jobs' narcissism to have a scathing biography ready-written for his demise.
"Okay then. No harm done. You just proved yourself to be an idiot, yes?"
"Uhh..."
Random person on the street:
"tqk is a pedo who hurts small children".
Headline in the Daily Fail:
Mr tqk is a known Paedophile who has done great harm to a great number of children.
Both are lies to be sure but one has the potential to destroy your life the other will be dismissed as insane ramblings.
If your name connected to an accusation of paedophilia is published by a large publisher with readership in the millions would you not be upset. Further more would you not want the publisher punished for this? Libel laws grew to their woeful state because certain publishers began to lie in their headlines to influence the public. When an organisation has the ability to influence what a large number of people think, should they not be held responsible for what they say. It's the old "fire in a crowded theatre" argument, sure, you can yell fire in a crowded theatre but you'll be charged for it because you knew what you were doing was wrong yet did it deliberately.
Libel laws were created to add responsibility to speech, not to take away free speech. They are still needed for this purpose. Exactly how they should fulfil that purpose is a matter of some debate.
So the real question is, should defamatory anonymous on-line posting be regarded as similar to defamatory graffiti on a toilet door, where although someone is strictly speaking liable for it, there is general acceptance that to find them would be impossible? Or should it be regarded as something closer to a newspaper or television station which republishes someone's defamatory comments? In that scenario, the newspaper/TV station along with the person who made the comments would all be potentially liable.
It depends on who is saying it.
Obviously ACoward posting on the Coward forums holds little weight in the eye of the average person. But a media personality or organisation begins to pass of malicious lies as fact with the express intent of destroying a business then those lies could do real damage. When discussing libel, we need to understand the intent and the scope of the message.
I'm well aware of the woeful state of Australia's Libel laws but given the crud that the likes of Andrew Bolt and Alan Jones spew out, without these laws we would be much worse off. If the chains were taken off personalities like Bolt, lives would actually be destroyed as he tries to push his agenda. As it is, he is held responsible for only the worst of what he says.
Also, this has already been tested in court. The Whirlpool vs 2Clix saga. 2Clix sued Whirlpool Forums founder Simon Wright over comments a Whirlpool user made over 2Clix' software. 2Clix dropped the case when they realised there was no hope in winning it. 2Clix bought more negative publicity on it by suing Mr Wright then the comments ever did.
Libel is no easy law to come up with, laws that are too loose will be abused as much as laws that is too restrictive. Personally I think they should be loosened for average people and tightened a lot for publishers. Defining "publisher" is also a problem as I dont consider a forum a publication yet it is a publication under some definitions, so considering the intent of the publisher is key (I'm sure CmdrTaco didn't design/. for the benefit GNAA trolls).
Adaptations of this quote to every possible privacy or liberty issue deeply offend me.
This poem was the poignant reflection of a German theologian who was actually very humble and self-effacing in his phrasing.
Sir, if I had mod points I'd mod this up.
I 100% agree with you, the "first they came for" poem has been perverted to mean "anything I dont like" and is used just as much to justify an extremist philosophy. In reality it's meant to be a reflection of your own actions in the face of something you know is wrong, not as a thought terminating cliche to push an ideology.
If you absolutely most invoke it, at least quote the original rather than making indulgent, self-righteous parodies,
That Airbus A380 can't even travel at supersonic speeds
Sigh,
why in every article even remotely related to aviation does some moron bring up this.
Modern airliners are safer and far more fuel efficient then older airliners because that's what the customers wanted. Try putting the blended winglets of a B737-800 or A330 onto a 1970's era 747, then launch it and watch it crash as the pilot struggles to control it without modern avionics.
They want to carry more passengers for less money. For crying out loud, how much did it cost to fly in the 60's? Could everyone do it? Hell, in the 80's flying was considered a luxury for most Australians, now we dont even think twice before booking a flight on the cheapest airline of the day. The fact I can get a return flight from Perth to Kuala Lumpur for Three fucking Hundred and Fifty Australian Dollars ONLY is your god damn advancement.
The same with passenger cars, they aren't any faster then they were 30 years ago but they are cheaper to buy, run on less fuel and kill a hell of a lot less people each year.
We can fly faster, we can put a passenger jet a mach 3, but it would hold all of six people, a third of them would crash due to stress alone and no-one would fucking pay the astronomical price for it. The Concorde was not grounded because of technical difficulties, it was grounded because of economics. No-one wanted to pay for the luxury of supersonic flight.
So in future, kindly think of the actual advancements in aviation before quoting a bit of inaccurate and moronic pop trivia.
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Colony collapse disorder
Morroco, Libya, Lebanon, Cambodia, Vietnam, Canada. France knows a lot about colony collapse.
And yet, those recycling kiosks at the grocery store are still running Windows 98.
Thats not the scary part.
Most POS terminals are XP based. A lot of them un patched with IE6 accessible by simply closing down or alt tabbing out of Pronto (or similar POS software). One of the saddest things I have ever seen is a POS terminal with the Ask toolbar installed.
This is why I refuse to run my card in 99% of stores.
Children in Amarillo are advised not to shout "boo" too loudly, lest they startle the workers just as they are disassembling B53.
Yes the bald children around the nuclear weapon assembly plant in Amarillo are already scary enough.
Isn't Amarillo Spanish for yellow?
It's funny that ANY ONE here is defending this sort of nonsense.
Who's defending it? I'm just describing it.
Nope, you utterly failed to do that. The simple fact you couldn't figure out $200 is not cheap for RAM proves it.
Apple apparently charge $800, he bought it for $200. That is by definition cheap 3rd party memory.
Apple charge $800 for the same part. Apple's memory is off the shelf Crucial memory. As the GP said, he simply went up the supply chain. BTW, Apple RAM is still marked with the original manufacturers logo and part numbers, if you knew anything about diagnosing hardware problems for yourself you would have noticed this..
And $200 is not cheap, Crucial is far from cheap in case you didn't notice. $20 for Kingston RAM is cheap and in all the motherboards I've put cheap RAM in it's killed exactly zero of them.
"Since normal diagnostics haven't shown anything, and it's out of Apple's warranty, I have to figure it out on my own.
So he's used Apple's own diagnositcs yet still has symptoms.
He most certainly doesn't "know what his problem is
WRONG AGAIN. He knows what the problem is, he doesn't have a solution that's cheap enough to be worth it. If you bothered to read his post instead of going off on a fanboy flame fest you'd know this.
Why the hell should he waste his time to go to an Apple store and have them price the components he's already priced for himself?
But you do appear to jump to conclusions without bothering to read all of a post.
Nope, I understood the OP, you didn't and you made the same mistake with my post. I said crucial was not cheap third party RAM, Kingston was cheap third party RAM. If you have trouble figuring out cheap was the operative word and not "3rd party" you have serious comprehension issues.
Furthermore, the combination of lasily couch-surfing and not having to deal with hardware/software issues and constant upgrading, has made me a consolegamer.
Not dealing with network issues, features revoked by software "updates" or the high risk of hardware failure (RROD, YLOD) as well as the lower price of PC games has kept me PC gamer. I've spent less time in the last 3 years fixing drivers then most console gamers have waiting for XBL/PSN updates.
The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
I was going to use "we are at war with Eurasia, we have always been at war with Eurasia" but sir, I submit to your superior quoting powers.
"The survey focused on "solar radiation management", which involves reflecting energy from the Sun away from the Earth's surface, and received support from 72% of respondents." Exactly like a nuclear winter. Except with 72% support. You really can artificially get any result from a survey.
The problem is, if the UK allowed the world to warm, the Brits could no longer complain about cold, dreary England. Without this, the fabric of their entire society would fall down (has already done so if you're a xenophobic, clueless daily fail reader) and without something to complain about the English would slip into a coma and die..
Warming must be stopped so that English can continue to complain.
Their accomplishments for humanity are in their actual work...
So that covers RMS....
What about Steve Jobs? Surely that cult of his counts for something (not the betterment of man kind but it must count for something).
1) Gives a shit.
2) Knows their shit.
3) Low tolerance for shit.
4) Understands the difference between shit that needs to be acted on and shit that needs to be ignored.
5) Is allowed to get on with shit and not interfered with by mummy Snowflake getting up teachers and administrators because she's worried that Little Johnny Snowflake might get the idea that he's not the most special snowflake in the entire world.
Number 5 is the biggest problem facing educators. Some parents cant discipline their crotchspawns. Worse yet, they will sue the pants of anyone who tries to. Granted these parents are in the extreme minority but they make life difficult for everyone. Teachers are not permitted to discipline students these days out of fear of legal retribution from parents, who dont want to be parents, who are made to look bad because their crotchspawn is undisciplined.
Whilst I'm not one myself, I lived in a sharehouse with 2 teachers for over a year. At the end of every term (approx 3 months for the Americans playing along at home) they would dread writing reports for one or two of their students because those students were little shits they weren't permitted to discipline, hell the private school teacher was not even permitted to fail a student who didn't even bother to sit half his tests (instant fail). In the end, the report would say "Tom needs to pay more attention in class" when it should really say "Tom is a selfish, undisciplined little shit who cant keep his hands of other students".
Oh, and the phrase "zero tolerance policy" usually means "zero thought put into proper enforcement or deciding what constitutes infringement" which means "zero respect for authority learned at an early age."
Couldn't agree more. Bans will simply make kids want to break the rule more.
Crucial is not cheap 3rd party memory, Kingston is cheap 3rd party memory and in the 100 odd Windows machines I've fitted with cheap Kingston sticks I've had zero overheat from them (A few sticks die early on but that's about it). In fact I've had zero overheat from RAM at all. RAM is not one of the big heat producers, any semi retarded cooling system should be able to handle it.
Over a decade of building my own boxes has taught me that your CPU, GFX card and HDD's are your big heat sources, RAM is nothing on that. Also how to build a system so that heat is expelled properly. Something that I found Mac's lack in my travels to tropical nations.
They'll diagnose your problem and give you a price for repair.
He already priced a repair, it's the same cost as building a top end gaming rig from new components. CPU, Mainboard, GFX card, the lot.
And the diagnosis part won't cost you anything.
Except his time, considering he already knows what the problem is.
Even us neck-beareded, deoderant-fearing, hippy Linux users know that our time isn't free.
I know several people who fully expect their next "laptop" to actually be a tablet.
We call these people clueless.
PHB: My next Laptop will be a tablet.
IT: How will you type on it?
PHB: Then you'll get me a keyboard.
IT: 10" is too small, you can barely read the 15" laptop you have.
PHB:Then you'll get me an external monitor.
IT: OK, next question, will you give up all your windows programs.
PHB: Absolutely not.
IT: So It'll have to be windows based.
PHB:Yes.
IT: So I'll have to buy a new mouse as well.
PHB: Make it so.
IT: Why dont I just add a pair of 5 KG weights to your existing laptop. It'll be exactly the same but cheaper.
People who think the laptop is going anywhere any time soon are deluding themselves. I've worked with tablet computers for years, they never took off from their niche because of ergonomics, it's a PITA to use a tablet for 4 hours a day, let alone 8 to 12. Dont give me any guff about OS either 1) everything the business world does is on Windows, OS X and even Android does not even come close. 2) we've had a tablet capable windows UI for years (since Vista) and nothing has happened. Everyone who's tried to replace their computer with an Ipad has failed miserably, I see a sales drone try to do this at least once a month. None has lasted more then 2 days without their laptop.
Or, more in the spirit of Slashdot: "What is the best way to combat pushers of pseudo-science like deniers of anthropogenic climate change?"
I think his response to that would engender a much stronger response here.
Phil Plait is an Astronomer. This is the sort of specific question I'd be asking experts from NOAA, NASA GISS and USGS.
But Phil Plait's thoughts on combating pseudo-science or better yet, ignorance of science in general would be something I'd be interested in reading.
but i couldnt help but wonder, if 2005 era hardware (and let's be honest, in 2005 my PC was stronger then the 360 already) can pull this off, what would be possible with a console built on todays technology?
The problem is not a question of technology, look at what we can do with modern gaming PC's. The problem is a question of economics.
For Sony and Microsoft to refresh their console lines after only 5 years means taking a huge loss on the last generation of consoles. It took them 3-4 years to stop making a loss on every bit of HW sold, they still haven't paid back the R&D yet. The PS3 in particular really does need a 10 year life span to pay itself off. Both MS and Sony subsidise their console divisions from more profitable areas (OS and Office from MS, TV's and computers for Sony). The hardware was designed to be a loss leader, with the profit being made up in game licensing (this is why BF3 for console is $10-20 more expensive then the same game for PC. There are no per-disc licenses for PC's)
Nintendo does not have this problem. They made a profit from the word go so they've paid off all costs incurred in producing the Wii. This realistically should put the final nail in the coffin for the PC-alike consoles. Console gamers want actual consoles that are fun to play, not weak PC's with limited control schemes. I dont think we'll see another "high powered" console war like we saw between the Xbox360 and PS3 after the low powered Wii ate their lunch. MS will likely copy Nintendo with the next Xbox. Sony may not be so quick to learn and another loss like the PS3 may sink the PS brand.
How many people can play Brawl on one Wii console at once?
This is why the Wii is the only true console of this generation. It's fundamentally different to PC, ergo it's designed for a different type of game and audience. Historically, consoles have always done well with simple, casual game with a shallow learning curve, PC's have been the home of complex, long drawn out or difficult games.
Ask the same question of a PC and Xbox, Most Xbox and PS3 games are designed for one player per copy the same as PC games. Realistically, they are consoles trying to be PC's which is wrong and why Nintendo is making money hand over fist whilst MS and Sony are struggling just to make it into the black.
PC gamers and console gamers should not be at odds. They should occupy different sections of the gaming market as the Wii and PC do. The PS3 and Xbox are oddities that will be corrected in the next generation or two. Personally I have a PC and Wii, previously I owned a PC, Xbox and PS2 but this generation, I have a PC to game on so I dont need two low powered, limited PC's to game on. If I'm going to play for 4 or more hours on single player or with other gamers I'll hop on my PC and play a bit of CIV or Battlefield, if I'm going to play with non-gamer friends, I'll get the Wii out, this normally lasts 2 or 3 hours at most. Consoles and PC's should be fundamentally different beasts, both enjoyable in their own rights.
Try building a gaming PC using 2007 components, that'll give you a good indication of what consoles can do in 2012.
If you're a spam cannon you're not using Office to blast those emails, if you have half a brain.
You've never met a Sales manager at a medium business, have you?
Unfortunately I have.
I had a limit of 40 recipients on my Exchange server. When the Sales drones complained I told them to use the CRM system that we paid umpteen thousand dollars for (this is pretty much what it was bought for). Only one didn't get the message, he would continue to Spam 300 people through outlook, 40 recipients at a time.
Hell, we even had a command line mailer used by the marketing staff, you'd drop in an xls with email addresses in column 1 and first names in column 2 and your email in HTML form into the same directory as the emailer and script. Then all you had to do was run the script.
I have to wonder if the 16 GB requirement is real.
Reading the blog linked to in the summary, there is no source mentioned. The author completely fails to mention how they came across this information. Even ignoring their bad English (obviously not their first language).
I think I'll wait for a more trustworthy source to confirm or deny this.
And no matter what any advertising tells you, you never look cool while holding or using one.
Two words:
Hands free.
I cook all the time on the phone, phone is in the pocket, headphones in the ears.
REMEMBER what the Iphone looked like pre-LG Prada. So, do you want to admit that:
1. Ideas develop simultaneously.
or
2. Apple stole the LG Prada designs.
Either way, it proves your point is full of crap.
I'm sorry that you're upset that Android it better, but please you're just embarrassing yourself here.
The book delves into Jobs' decision to delay surgery for nine months after learning in October 2003 that he had a neuroendocrine tumor — a relatively rare type of pancreatic cancer that normally grows more slowly and is therefore more treatable. Instead, he tried a vegan diet, acupuncture, herbal remedies and other treatments he found online, and even consulted a psychic.
He seems to be a poster child for alternative medicine.
Exactly how not to treat a perfectly treatable cancer.
If, the author is telling the truth. Whilst I'm not Mr Jobs' biggest fan, I do have to take this source with a huge grain of salt given it was published after his death. OTOH, it would fit with Mr Jobs' narcissism to have a scathing biography ready-written for his demise.
"You're a pedophile and hurt small chidren!"
"Got any proof of that?"
"Ur, no. But you still are!"
"Okay then. No harm done. You just proved yourself to be an idiot, yes?"
"Uhh ..."
Random person on the street:
"tqk is a pedo who hurts small children".
Headline in the Daily Fail:
Mr tqk is a known Paedophile who has done great harm to a great number of children.
Both are lies to be sure but one has the potential to destroy your life the other will be dismissed as insane ramblings.
If your name connected to an accusation of paedophilia is published by a large publisher with readership in the millions would you not be upset. Further more would you not want the publisher punished for this? Libel laws grew to their woeful state because certain publishers began to lie in their headlines to influence the public. When an organisation has the ability to influence what a large number of people think, should they not be held responsible for what they say. It's the old "fire in a crowded theatre" argument, sure, you can yell fire in a crowded theatre but you'll be charged for it because you knew what you were doing was wrong yet did it deliberately.
Libel laws were created to add responsibility to speech, not to take away free speech. They are still needed for this purpose. Exactly how they should fulfil that purpose is a matter of some debate.
It depends on who is saying it.
/. for the benefit GNAA trolls).
Obviously ACoward posting on the Coward forums holds little weight in the eye of the average person. But a media personality or organisation begins to pass of malicious lies as fact with the express intent of destroying a business then those lies could do real damage. When discussing libel, we need to understand the intent and the scope of the message.
I'm well aware of the woeful state of Australia's Libel laws but given the crud that the likes of Andrew Bolt and Alan Jones spew out, without these laws we would be much worse off. If the chains were taken off personalities like Bolt, lives would actually be destroyed as he tries to push his agenda. As it is, he is held responsible for only the worst of what he says.
Also, this has already been tested in court. The Whirlpool vs 2Clix saga. 2Clix sued Whirlpool Forums founder Simon Wright over comments a Whirlpool user made over 2Clix' software. 2Clix dropped the case when they realised there was no hope in winning it. 2Clix bought more negative publicity on it by suing Mr Wright then the comments ever did.
Libel is no easy law to come up with, laws that are too loose will be abused as much as laws that is too restrictive. Personally I think they should be loosened for average people and tightened a lot for publishers. Defining "publisher" is also a problem as I dont consider a forum a publication yet it is a publication under some definitions, so considering the intent of the publisher is key (I'm sure CmdrTaco didn't design
Adaptations of this quote to every possible privacy or liberty issue deeply offend me.
This poem was the poignant reflection of a German theologian who was actually very humble and self-effacing in his phrasing.
Sir, if I had mod points I'd mod this up.
I 100% agree with you, the "first they came for" poem has been perverted to mean "anything I dont like" and is used just as much to justify an extremist philosophy. In reality it's meant to be a reflection of your own actions in the face of something you know is wrong, not as a thought terminating cliche to push an ideology.
If you absolutely most invoke it, at least quote the original rather than making indulgent, self-righteous parodies,
Sigh,
why in every article even remotely related to aviation does some moron bring up this.
Modern airliners are safer and far more fuel efficient then older airliners because that's what the customers wanted. Try putting the blended winglets of a B737-800 or A330 onto a 1970's era 747, then launch it and watch it crash as the pilot struggles to control it without modern avionics.
They want to carry more passengers for less money. For crying out loud, how much did it cost to fly in the 60's? Could everyone do it? Hell, in the 80's flying was considered a luxury for most Australians, now we dont even think twice before booking a flight on the cheapest airline of the day. The fact I can get a return flight from Perth to Kuala Lumpur for Three fucking Hundred and Fifty Australian Dollars ONLY is your god damn advancement.
The same with passenger cars, they aren't any faster then they were 30 years ago but they are cheaper to buy, run on less fuel and kill a hell of a lot less people each year.
We can fly faster, we can put a passenger jet a mach 3, but it would hold all of six people, a third of them would crash due to stress alone and no-one would fucking pay the astronomical price for it. The Concorde was not grounded because of technical difficulties, it was grounded because of economics. No-one wanted to pay for the luxury of supersonic flight.
So in future, kindly think of the actual advancements in aviation before quoting a bit of inaccurate and moronic pop trivia.