Most of it IS done by robots. That giant tractor looking machine that resurfaces the road while it has a driver is 90% automated and makes the process MUCH faster than we could in past. There is no point in removing the rest of the crew because for the remaining jobs they do humans are still cheaper.
"Robots don't need air, food, or water. They can work for long periods of time in utterly hostile environments with little to no supervision. They don't get sick or bored. They can be mass produced. When you are done with them, they don't want to go home. And, they have yet to rise up and try to enslave humanity, which is more than we can say for humanity."
Wow... China when it was building the great wall must have confused people with robots. Thats probably why so many people died while they were building the wall. People != robots... i gotta remember that for future reference.
nope those numbers are just all BS. World clocks for 75$ clearly BS. Anyways this was clearly written by a pro-mac person. Like blatently they looked for the most expensive options available. And they put that WindowsMobile doesn't even have a web browser. The whole list is a lie. Windows mobile obviously comes with IE, wmp a photo browser and so on. On my phone (that has only windows installed no extras) I have almost everything on that list. Just missing part of worldmate, tv, a good mp3 player. Thats it. And i'm sure you can get those cheap enough.
A healthy person getting sick so that he can use the tax money he paid results in no net gain or loss for the individual. But results in a net loss for the country and temporary discomfort for the individual. So it IS throwing away money. But instead of getting a pointless novelty out of it all you get is hurt. So he proved that commodore64_love is vindictive to the point of idiocy if nothing else. That and he is made irrational by his ideals. Though it totally is ad hominem since i do agree with "Status symbols are for fools". I also learned that crazy right-wingers can also be anti-culture anti-spending which seems unusual.
I don't think it matters though, he adhominems himself in his sig (pro fox news is worse than any views he could possibly hold on healthcare).
How'd this get modded up? The GP was saying you can't export houses. Which should be pretty fucking obvious. And he gets modded up for being offtopic?
Anyways its apples and oranges. Japanese places are usually apartments and their value is based on how close it is to a train stop. Alot of japanese places have smaller baths because space is expensive as fuck if you are living in tokyo. And their are public onsen or pools that people go to. Fireplaces would be really stupid in most of japan and are unavailable in alot of new houses in the us anyways. Its a relic of a historical period in the US why would they exist in japan? You'd have to go miles to get wood and you would really look insane chopping down a tree in japan its something that is not done. Cultural differences. US houses last longer, Japanese houses are newer, its a trade off. Japanese places are more communal. They have way faster internet(for the/.ers) they have better appliances and are convenient! In the US you can live in endless suburbia where you drive a few miles past houses until you get to the city. In japan you walk 2minutes, wait at a station for 2minutes and read the paper, watch tv or text people while you wait to get to work. This wouldn't be possible if Japan used the US' system. Totally different beasts.
"inherent value in using the lowest level language available" Not for aps sure. But in a competitive gaming situation? Absolutely! Low level languages CAN always be better than high level languages. The cost of entry is just higher. If you coded everything in assembly you could make a GTA twice as fast as once coded in something like C++ or VB (pretty sure you actually couldnt get it running at all in VB but still). You can be alot more direct. high level languages just allow you to give more generalized commands thats all. If you want it to be easy pick the highest level language you want, but it you want it to be bleeding edge fast, sucks but use lower level languages. In some places where code is ran alot you actually will see noticable speed increases by coding your own asm implementation. As you said, its all about the right tool for the job.
Is it just me... All I got from that was "Japanese users are way more pro than American users, we clearly aren't 1337 enough to use their phones, so we have to use noob iPhones"
Trollll. Don't talk about places you haven't been to. There is some anti-gaijin feelings but there are pro-gaijin feelings as well. A lot of japanese style/music emulates the west. Often parents will feel weird about their japanese daughters dating a gaijin. But they like hanging out w/ us being friends. And they have no problem using our products if they are better. iPod is one example. Japanese products are often better for electronics. DS > PSP in japan, hotspots free games better selection and better suport for japan. PS3 >>> xbox in japan the ps3 is cheaper and has many more games, and games are more targeted towards japanese people. And japanese people are fussy about food (though that mentality is changing). So i call BS.
LoL windows doesn't have any responsibility to make some companies DRM work. Windows is a big power. If they didn't have it available DRM making companies for bluray w/e would fold soooo fast. So really they are sucking up to Sony. They are at no risk of being sued though...
man, I've never been screwed so bad by not RTFA. Maybe from now on i shoul..... nah that'd be breaking tradition. Thanks for the info though, good to know people arent totally evil.
Busy Cali... nothing nothing nothing hicks nothing angry hicks nothing old folks homes nothing East coast. Come on, try to say 'Utah is the new silicon valley' or 'Iowa is too much of a party state for me'... 'Texas is full of bright forward thinkers'... 'As a black transexual I only feel comfortable in Tennessee'
Why not just dump pollution into their lake? It would have the same effect making them retarded. I don't know how this could be thought of as a solution. If you cut their legs off (just 2) they wont be coming back to the city either. But will we do that? no because its cruel punishment.
Measuring downtime as a SOLID downtime over 3 minutes long. You can't honestly say your productivity was severely impacted by a 2minute downtime. Because ou are right, you can't measure it otherwise.
Google has a better uptime than any pay email service I know of anyways. I'm pegging Gmail at around 4 9s and the search engine to around 5~6. Most ISPs get 2 9s and business ISPs 3, 4 if you hit the ISP jackpot (even then i'd be shocked). So how are people so up in arms about this? Sheesh if you saved it up you'd get a day off once every 30 years. Which reminds me, nevermind ISPs. You get less uptime for ELECTRICITY in north america than you do google, going just on the continent wide outage a few years back.
He did say IRC... and ftp has existed forever too. I remember back in 2000 i had access to a server with 5MB/5MB connection and a 2TB raid of shows. So really... things have gone downhill for traders since then, though finding things is easier.
The real news is that a site so poorly run that they cannot release the winners code after years... Did NOT get slashdotted. How is this even remotely possible.
'new' being the operative word. Sorry KDE fans (myself included) but xubuntu makes more sense for older/slower netbooks. It takes less than KDE. KDE certainly is shinier though... Just like picking programming languages, we might have ones we fangirl over but you know the right tool for the job.
Same with the vista-ready label/lawsuits. And no, i'm not talking about microsoft. What kind of stupid company running older machines would bother upgrading OSes? What would be the point? To make the machine run slower and cause compatibility issues? Let home users work out all the bugs over a year or so and then upgrade AS you upgrade machines. I never upgraded my old dos machine to windows when it came out because even if it could run it would run slow as shit. Same reason i wouldn't install KDE on a netbook. New OSes shouldn't HAVE to explicitly support old hardware. People on old hardware should use the OS that they had when they bought it, maybe the next gen.
I know Linux is pro and can support like every part made but is there a requirement to do this? No, its the same as putting linux on a toaster. Windows should be keeping minimal winXP support for a few more years and have win7 be for only new machines, fuck supporting outdated hardware. This is one of the reasons ps3 games suck, because they are supporting xbox, pandering to the lowest common denominator.
I salute both the pro and anti MS crowds who shall soon mod me troll.
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Most of it IS done by robots. That giant tractor looking machine that resurfaces the road while it has a driver is 90% automated and makes the process MUCH faster than we could in past. There is no point in removing the rest of the crew because for the remaining jobs they do humans are still cheaper.
"Robots don't need air, food, or water. They can work for long periods of time in utterly hostile environments with little to no supervision. They don't get sick or bored. They can be mass produced. When you are done with them, they don't want to go home. And, they have yet to rise up and try to enslave humanity, which is more than we can say for humanity."
Wow... China when it was building the great wall must have confused people with robots. Thats probably why so many people died while they were building the wall. People != robots... i gotta remember that for future reference.
"You couldn't really do an "Hi, I'm a Mac" ad"
orly?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHwNEyRipkE
nope those numbers are just all BS. World clocks for 75$ clearly BS. Anyways this was clearly written by a pro-mac person. Like blatently they looked for the most expensive options available. And they put that WindowsMobile doesn't even have a web browser. The whole list is a lie. Windows mobile obviously comes with IE, wmp a photo browser and so on. On my phone (that has only windows installed no extras) I have almost everything on that list. Just missing part of worldmate, tv, a good mp3 player. Thats it. And i'm sure you can get those cheap enough.
A healthy person getting sick so that he can use the tax money he paid results in no net gain or loss for the individual. But results in a net loss for the country and temporary discomfort for the individual. So it IS throwing away money. But instead of getting a pointless novelty out of it all you get is hurt. So he proved that commodore64_love is vindictive to the point of idiocy if nothing else. That and he is made irrational by his ideals. Though it totally is ad hominem since i do agree with "Status symbols are for fools". I also learned that crazy right-wingers can also be anti-culture anti-spending which seems unusual.
I don't think it matters though, he adhominems himself in his sig (pro fox news is worse than any views he could possibly hold on healthcare).
Really? America must be pissed at Canada on and off then (softwood lumber, cattle). Oh and hate anyone living in a poor country.
How'd this get modded up? The GP was saying you can't export houses. Which should be pretty fucking obvious. And he gets modded up for being offtopic?
/.ers) they have better appliances and are convenient! In the US you can live in endless suburbia where you drive a few miles past houses until you get to the city. In japan you walk 2minutes, wait at a station for 2minutes and read the paper, watch tv or text people while you wait to get to work. This wouldn't be possible if Japan used the US' system. Totally different beasts.
Anyways its apples and oranges. Japanese places are usually apartments and their value is based on how close it is to a train stop. Alot of japanese places have smaller baths because space is expensive as fuck if you are living in tokyo. And their are public onsen or pools that people go to. Fireplaces would be really stupid in most of japan and are unavailable in alot of new houses in the us anyways. Its a relic of a historical period in the US why would they exist in japan? You'd have to go miles to get wood and you would really look insane chopping down a tree in japan its something that is not done. Cultural differences. US houses last longer, Japanese houses are newer, its a trade off. Japanese places are more communal. They have way faster internet(for the
"inherent value in using the lowest level language available" Not for aps sure. But in a competitive gaming situation? Absolutely! Low level languages CAN always be better than high level languages. The cost of entry is just higher. If you coded everything in assembly you could make a GTA twice as fast as once coded in something like C++ or VB (pretty sure you actually couldnt get it running at all in VB but still). You can be alot more direct. high level languages just allow you to give more generalized commands thats all. If you want it to be easy pick the highest level language you want, but it you want it to be bleeding edge fast, sucks but use lower level languages. In some places where code is ran alot you actually will see noticable speed increases by coding your own asm implementation. As you said, its all about the right tool for the job.
snes is easier to code for than ps1.
Is it just me... All I got from that was "Japanese users are way more pro than American users, we clearly aren't 1337 enough to use their phones, so we have to use noob iPhones"
Trollll. Don't talk about places you haven't been to. There is some anti-gaijin feelings but there are pro-gaijin feelings as well. A lot of japanese style/music emulates the west. Often parents will feel weird about their japanese daughters dating a gaijin. But they like hanging out w/ us being friends. And they have no problem using our products if they are better. iPod is one example. Japanese products are often better for electronics. DS > PSP in japan, hotspots free games better selection and better suport for japan. PS3 >>> xbox in japan the ps3 is cheaper and has many more games, and games are more targeted towards japanese people. And japanese people are fussy about food (though that mentality is changing). So i call BS.
LoL windows doesn't have any responsibility to make some companies DRM work. Windows is a big power. If they didn't have it available DRM making companies for bluray w/e would fold soooo fast. So really they are sucking up to Sony. They are at no risk of being sued though...
man, I've never been screwed so bad by not RTFA. Maybe from now on i shoul..... nah that'd be breaking tradition. Thanks for the info though, good to know people arent totally evil.
To be fair as you look from west to east you see.
... nothing nothing nothing hicks nothing angry hicks nothing old folks homes nothing East coast. Come on, try to say 'Utah is the new silicon valley' or 'Iowa is too much of a party state for me' ... 'Texas is full of bright forward thinkers' ... 'As a black transexual I only feel comfortable in Tennessee'
Busy Cali
Why not just dump pollution into their lake? It would have the same effect making them retarded. I don't know how this could be thought of as a solution. If you cut their legs off (just 2) they wont be coming back to the city either. But will we do that? no because its cruel punishment.
Measuring downtime as a SOLID downtime over 3 minutes long. You can't honestly say your productivity was severely impacted by a 2minute downtime. Because ou are right, you can't measure it otherwise.
Google has a better uptime than any pay email service I know of anyways. I'm pegging Gmail at around 4 9s and the search engine to around 5~6. Most ISPs get 2 9s and business ISPs 3, 4 if you hit the ISP jackpot (even then i'd be shocked). So how are people so up in arms about this? Sheesh if you saved it up you'd get a day off once every 30 years. Which reminds me, nevermind ISPs. You get less uptime for ELECTRICITY in north america than you do google, going just on the continent wide outage a few years back.
What next? They'll tell me linux has more developers than windows. And that they work for free.
On a somewhat related note, Stephen King has a book out that is Kindle only. So it might work there...
He did say IRC... and ftp has existed forever too. I remember back in 2000 i had access to a server with 5MB/5MB connection and a 2TB raid of shows. So really... things have gone downhill for traders since then, though finding things is easier.
The real news is that a site so poorly run that they cannot release the winners code after years ... Did NOT get slashdotted. How is this even remotely possible.
'new' being the operative word. Sorry KDE fans (myself included) but xubuntu makes more sense for older/slower netbooks. It takes less than KDE. KDE certainly is shinier though... Just like picking programming languages, we might have ones we fangirl over but you know the right tool for the job.
How do you cite something unknown....
Same with the vista-ready label/lawsuits. And no, i'm not talking about microsoft. What kind of stupid company running older machines would bother upgrading OSes? What would be the point? To make the machine run slower and cause compatibility issues? Let home users work out all the bugs over a year or so and then upgrade AS you upgrade machines. I never upgraded my old dos machine to windows when it came out because even if it could run it would run slow as shit. Same reason i wouldn't install KDE on a netbook. New OSes shouldn't HAVE to explicitly support old hardware. People on old hardware should use the OS that they had when they bought it, maybe the next gen.
I know Linux is pro and can support like every part made but is there a requirement to do this? No, its the same as putting linux on a toaster. Windows should be keeping minimal winXP support for a few more years and have win7 be for only new machines, fuck supporting outdated hardware. This is one of the reasons ps3 games suck, because they are supporting xbox, pandering to the lowest common denominator.
I salute both the pro and anti MS crowds who shall soon mod me troll.
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/reader_2/reader-interstitial.html
Or just make google open all your pdfs so that you aren't forced too even if its ugly its fast and secure.