"Also, but I'm not sure if it's because of my browser's ineptitude, posting something to undo moderation doesn't give you the modpoints back."
That is intentional, check the moderation FAQ. The stated reason is that it allows an abusive mod to mod up/down a post in a new article, then post once it comes off the front page (making it a lot less important) and get the points back to use again.
No, he is actively infringing by distributing unlicensed copyrighted materials. TPB isn't the guy selling DVDs on the corner, they're a post board for those guys to announce their wares. If you want to argue against TPB, then argue against that post board.
This sounds like an analysis of how memory is used by an app being used to optimize that app's performance with regard to what/how/where it keeps in memory. To the extent that Linux and Windows differ in how they handle memory, such profiling will be meaningless from one OS to the other. Presumably, they are different enough that the profiles are not of any use going from one to the other.
There's also the implementation to keep in mind. If the Windows team had time to implement but the Linux team did not, then there's your problem. I'm not sure about the above reason, but I'm positive that dev work done for one platform requires more than a mere second run through the compiler to work on another. As to why the Windows team would have more time... I would imagine it's because they have more devs to service the more popular platform.
No, the reasoning is for more sales to occur, fraudulent or otherwise. They don't want merchants turning away plastic for any reason, because the credit processing companies (Visa, MC, Amex, Discover, etc. NOT the creditor banks) make money on fees they charge to the merchant on a peer sale basis. If the customer pulls out credit, the processor doesn't want the merchant to say no for any reason at all.
Incidentally, you can actually run a small business into the ground using credit for too many small purchases... they can easily end up costing the merchant almost 100% of the sale amount and destroy margins just to process. The solution used to be posting a minimum purchase amount for credit, or charging a small fee to cover processing, but virtually all cards have put into their terms that merchants cannot do those things because it ate into their profits. They're doing similar things to stores that attempt to offer discounts for cash customers (which is, in all fairness, just a thinly veiled process fee). As usual, the big guys win and the little guys lose.
Could you maybe throw some of your apparently overflowing free time into a cure for cancer, or world peace, or developing DNF? I mean, filks on cult classic Saturday morning cartoons from the mid 90s are great and all... but seriously.
"Hardcore gamers", the ones that aren't a myth, tend to own all 3 consoles, and as a market to dominate, they're somewhere on the list between "80 year old grandmothers" and "residents of Lancaster county PA" in terms of market value. MS can crow all they want about "winning" that one, but even if it wasn't nearly a 3-way tie it's still not a worthwhile market unto itself.
"Calling something from Der Spiegel an authoritative citation is like calling something from The National Enquirer or Vogue an authoritative citation."
What if they ARE the primary source, though? Obviously if your research is about one of those publications you are obligated to use it as a reference, but there are other cases where they might just be the most authoritative source available. Vogue, for example, publishes a fairly large number of interviews with people of interest, and research on these individuals would be correct to include such publications, and they also publish many primary source articles on fashion and design which would be absolutely valid sources for someone researching those topics. You might not care about such research, or see any valid reason to conduct it, but the world does not revolve around your preferences or interests.
Granted for an example like this one, a newspaper probably isn't the most appropriate source, but that hardly means a newspaper never can be.
You forgot just plain old prison walls. Reinforced concrete ones. We have the highest adult incarceration rate of any industrialized Western nation by a huge margin.
You honestly think that 360s are outselling Wiis here? As somebody who actually works in a store selling video game consoles, I assure you that is not the case. If we could keep Wiis in stock for more than a day or two at a time I'm sure they'd sell even better, but as it is I've probably seen as many Wiis sold as PS3s and 360s combined.
"Densely populated areas subsidize sparsely populated ones. Inner city "projects" are an exception, but from highway spending to general government services, urban areas receive less return per capita for their tax remits than rural areas do.
This is especially true at the federal level, where "countryside" amd "small-town" states receive far more funding, both per capita, and as a proportion of taxes remitted, than urban states (like MA & NJ) do."
While I agree with your premise, this does have limits. For example, being from MA I can assure you that the bulk of our tax dollars are spent either state-wide or in Boston... the former roughly benefiting everyone equally (as in, per capita) and the latter benefiting the sea-board urbanized area almost exclusively. This is possible because both of our state legislative bodies are strongly loaded against Western Mass, the House by there being a higher population and the Senate by there being more (and geographically smaller) towns in the Eastern portion (also known as the Greater Boston Metropolitan Area), thus creating a huge power divide between the different regions of the state. We've been subsidizing Boston for decades, and it is pretty common to see changes in taxation which effectively lower them in Boston while raising them in the rest of the state.
There's definitely a case to be made out here for giving Boston to Rhode Island and merging with Vermont.
Just because something is not found in plants doesn't make it a non-viable energy source... or do you really mean to tell me that because nature never found a way to burn petroleum or coal for energy that they aren't effective? Heck, almost nothing except for humans even uses FIRE for energy, and that one's dead obvious.
That fallacy aside, think about what would actually be required for a plant to use wind or tidal power effectively in terms of habitat and engineering. Wind would actually require free-moving parts just to function, and they'd probably use solar too (it works well, so it would be a distinct disadvantage NOT having it as an energy source). Tidal would require plants to grow, essentially, semi-submerged along open coast, vulnerable to things like crashing waves and migrating sand... even seaweed has trouble growing along beaches because the habitat is so turbulent and marginal.
That said, I agree that solar is by far the most obvious and readily available renewable energy source we have, and I still don't get why we're so concerned with the others when so little has been done so far with that one.
Generally it's the prosecutors who have offices in or near the courts. Defense attorneys are usually not city, county or even state employees, so their offices are rarely housed in court facilities and their computers are rarely connected to those networks.
But I'm sure Houston is going to be the one place in the country where that's not the case, just to show me up.
"Is a person who doesn't have the skill to use a drill or a hammer a carpenter?"
Are they outputting carpentry? If yes, then it is surprising because they clearly aren't doing it the "right" way (read: the way everyone else does it), but they are a carpenter nonetheless. It used to be that carpentry was all done with un-powered hand tools... is someone incapable of building a house exclusively with such tools a carpenter?
"Is someone who creates a little javascript using a wizard in an HTML editing program a programmer?"
Are they outputting code which they wrote using whatever tool was most appropriate for them? Programmers need not use butterflies if that's not what they find most efficient.
He is correct, patents do not require sale or commercial implementation by ANY party to be enforceable. Most patent holders won't go after DIY types who violate for personal use, but that's not because they have no legal ability to do so... rather it is because there is generally very little to gain by doing so other than bad publicity.
'I never figured anyone in their right mind would want to do that'
I read a history of rock music at one pint, and I can't remember the author's name, but he had an apogryphal quote from the guy generally credited as the first guitarist to ever install a pickup and plug into an amplifier to that same effect... this genius had found a way to make a guitar loud enough to fill any sort of space and facilitate large venue shows, but he couldn't fathom turning the amplification up "too high" and causing distortion as an artistic decision... let alone getting rid of the hollow body altogether and using his invention exclusively to actually generate audible sound.
It never fails to surprise how unimaginative visionaries can be.
My parents' generation just enslaved mine to the Chinese for several trillion dollars rather than face the prospect that they might have royally fucked themselves in their attempts to extract money from nothing.
The only way this kind of financial planning makes any sense is if you plan on being dead before the bills come due.
That's a very ineffective use of time. It can take minutes just to make reliable oral contact with a cock that is in the process of fucking, and once achieved this contact is rarely any improvement on the previous status of the cock even in those cases where it is not an uncomfortable hindrance.
This is, of course, assuming that the orifice in question cannot accommodate a human head positioned such that sucking is possible from the inside. In that case, it's really questionable if what's happening can be called "fucking", or if it's really more like thrusting uselessly into a giant gaping void in reality.
The only thing "intrusive" about NoScript is that my girlfriend occaisonally feels the need to bash around crappy websites on my computer and refuses to understand why she can't see 50% of every site out there or how to fix that "problem". On the plus side, she gets so frustrated every time she tries that she's almost given up.
See all those other people around you, you know, the ones who are just shopping, as though that's all that life means to them? They're dead, or the next worst thing. This device might not help you see them directly, but I suppose by doing all of this work for you quickly and effectively it might free up some of your conventional senses and allow you to notice them when otherwise you'd be too busy.
I work in retail, and some mornings I really do wonder if the zombie apocalypse has finally come, or if this is just another day at work.
I suppose that the alternative explanation, Mac/iPhone users are full of shit and grossly overrate those products, has not occurred to you.
I've given OSX a fair shot, and it just isn't that great. Based on that experience, I have zero interest in blowing $200 plus a *very* expensive monthly cell phone plan on a provider I dislike just to give such a shot to device that is intended to be as similar as possible to a platform I'm not thrilled with AND doesn't have a real keypad (sorry, I like my "tactile feedback" too much to trade it for a sheer screen that just gets scratched and fingerprinted every time I use it).
In other words, the only people who use Macs are the people who like them... but that doesn't mean that nobody else has a valid opinion on them, it just means they don't want to pay more for a product they like less. Don't expect us to respect your choice of overrated electronics.
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"Also, but I'm not sure if it's because of my browser's ineptitude, posting something to undo moderation doesn't give you the modpoints back."
That is intentional, check the moderation FAQ. The stated reason is that it allows an abusive mod to mod up/down a post in a new article, then post once it comes off the front page (making it a lot less important) and get the points back to use again.
No, he is actively infringing by distributing unlicensed copyrighted materials. TPB isn't the guy selling DVDs on the corner, they're a post board for those guys to announce their wares. If you want to argue against TPB, then argue against that post board.
This sounds like an analysis of how memory is used by an app being used to optimize that app's performance with regard to what/how/where it keeps in memory. To the extent that Linux and Windows differ in how they handle memory, such profiling will be meaningless from one OS to the other. Presumably, they are different enough that the profiles are not of any use going from one to the other.
There's also the implementation to keep in mind. If the Windows team had time to implement but the Linux team did not, then there's your problem. I'm not sure about the above reason, but I'm positive that dev work done for one platform requires more than a mere second run through the compiler to work on another. As to why the Windows team would have more time... I would imagine it's because they have more devs to service the more popular platform.
No, the reasoning is for more sales to occur, fraudulent or otherwise. They don't want merchants turning away plastic for any reason, because the credit processing companies (Visa, MC, Amex, Discover, etc. NOT the creditor banks) make money on fees they charge to the merchant on a peer sale basis. If the customer pulls out credit, the processor doesn't want the merchant to say no for any reason at all.
Incidentally, you can actually run a small business into the ground using credit for too many small purchases... they can easily end up costing the merchant almost 100% of the sale amount and destroy margins just to process. The solution used to be posting a minimum purchase amount for credit, or charging a small fee to cover processing, but virtually all cards have put into their terms that merchants cannot do those things because it ate into their profits. They're doing similar things to stores that attempt to offer discounts for cash customers (which is, in all fairness, just a thinly veiled process fee). As usual, the big guys win and the little guys lose.
Kind of sick, isn't it?
Having eaten a McFilet once or twice before... I simply cannot fathom wanting to eat fish from McDonald's ever again.
Unless that something bad is gonorrhea.
O. M. F. G.
Could you maybe throw some of your apparently overflowing free time into a cure for cancer, or world peace, or developing DNF? I mean, filks on cult classic Saturday morning cartoons from the mid 90s are great and all... but seriously.
"Hardcore gamers", the ones that aren't a myth, tend to own all 3 consoles, and as a market to dominate, they're somewhere on the list between "80 year old grandmothers" and "residents of Lancaster county PA" in terms of market value. MS can crow all they want about "winning" that one, but even if it wasn't nearly a 3-way tie it's still not a worthwhile market unto itself.
"Calling something from Der Spiegel an authoritative citation is like calling something from The National Enquirer or Vogue an authoritative citation."
What if they ARE the primary source, though? Obviously if your research is about one of those publications you are obligated to use it as a reference, but there are other cases where they might just be the most authoritative source available. Vogue, for example, publishes a fairly large number of interviews with people of interest, and research on these individuals would be correct to include such publications, and they also publish many primary source articles on fashion and design which would be absolutely valid sources for someone researching those topics. You might not care about such research, or see any valid reason to conduct it, but the world does not revolve around your preferences or interests.
Granted for an example like this one, a newspaper probably isn't the most appropriate source, but that hardly means a newspaper never can be.
You forgot just plain old prison walls. Reinforced concrete ones. We have the highest adult incarceration rate of any industrialized Western nation by a huge margin.
With that in mind, your metaphor is apt indeed.
You honestly think that 360s are outselling Wiis here? As somebody who actually works in a store selling video game consoles, I assure you that is not the case. If we could keep Wiis in stock for more than a day or two at a time I'm sure they'd sell even better, but as it is I've probably seen as many Wiis sold as PS3s and 360s combined.
They actually ask you for papers? Lucky bastard. They just scan my RFID chip then throw me in a holding cell without ever saying a word...
I'm not really techie, I'm just here because I want to learn a bit more about tech.
No, seriously. I'm not a tech. I work in sales and study liberal arts. Although people who REALLY aren't techs always seem to think I am.
"Densely populated areas subsidize sparsely populated ones. Inner city "projects" are an exception, but from highway spending to general government services, urban areas receive less return per capita for their tax remits than rural areas do.
This is especially true at the federal level, where "countryside" amd "small-town" states receive far more funding, both per capita, and as a proportion of taxes remitted, than urban states (like MA & NJ) do."
While I agree with your premise, this does have limits. For example, being from MA I can assure you that the bulk of our tax dollars are spent either state-wide or in Boston... the former roughly benefiting everyone equally (as in, per capita) and the latter benefiting the sea-board urbanized area almost exclusively. This is possible because both of our state legislative bodies are strongly loaded against Western Mass, the House by there being a higher population and the Senate by there being more (and geographically smaller) towns in the Eastern portion (also known as the Greater Boston Metropolitan Area), thus creating a huge power divide between the different regions of the state. We've been subsidizing Boston for decades, and it is pretty common to see changes in taxation which effectively lower them in Boston while raising them in the rest of the state.
There's definitely a case to be made out here for giving Boston to Rhode Island and merging with Vermont.
"mine's shorter"
Sorry, but that point never wins an argument. Ever.
Just because something is not found in plants doesn't make it a non-viable energy source... or do you really mean to tell me that because nature never found a way to burn petroleum or coal for energy that they aren't effective? Heck, almost nothing except for humans even uses FIRE for energy, and that one's dead obvious.
That fallacy aside, think about what would actually be required for a plant to use wind or tidal power effectively in terms of habitat and engineering. Wind would actually require free-moving parts just to function, and they'd probably use solar too (it works well, so it would be a distinct disadvantage NOT having it as an energy source). Tidal would require plants to grow, essentially, semi-submerged along open coast, vulnerable to things like crashing waves and migrating sand... even seaweed has trouble growing along beaches because the habitat is so turbulent and marginal.
That said, I agree that solar is by far the most obvious and readily available renewable energy source we have, and I still don't get why we're so concerned with the others when so little has been done so far with that one.
Generally it's the prosecutors who have offices in or near the courts. Defense attorneys are usually not city, county or even state employees, so their offices are rarely housed in court facilities and their computers are rarely connected to those networks.
But I'm sure Houston is going to be the one place in the country where that's not the case, just to show me up.
"Is a person who doesn't have the skill to use a drill or a hammer a carpenter?"
Are they outputting carpentry? If yes, then it is surprising because they clearly aren't doing it the "right" way (read: the way everyone else does it), but they are a carpenter nonetheless. It used to be that carpentry was all done with un-powered hand tools... is someone incapable of building a house exclusively with such tools a carpenter?
"Is someone who creates a little javascript using a wizard in an HTML editing program a programmer?"
Are they outputting code which they wrote using whatever tool was most appropriate for them? Programmers need not use butterflies if that's not what they find most efficient.
He is correct, patents do not require sale or commercial implementation by ANY party to be enforceable. Most patent holders won't go after DIY types who violate for personal use, but that's not because they have no legal ability to do so... rather it is because there is generally very little to gain by doing so other than bad publicity.
'I never figured anyone in their right mind would want to do that'
I read a history of rock music at one pint, and I can't remember the author's name, but he had an apogryphal quote from the guy generally credited as the first guitarist to ever install a pickup and plug into an amplifier to that same effect... this genius had found a way to make a guitar loud enough to fill any sort of space and facilitate large venue shows, but he couldn't fathom turning the amplification up "too high" and causing distortion as an artistic decision... let alone getting rid of the hollow body altogether and using his invention exclusively to actually generate audible sound.
It never fails to surprise how unimaginative visionaries can be.
It's not theft, it's enslavement.
My parents' generation just enslaved mine to the Chinese for several trillion dollars rather than face the prospect that they might have royally fucked themselves in their attempts to extract money from nothing.
The only way this kind of financial planning makes any sense is if you plan on being dead before the bills come due.
That's a very ineffective use of time. It can take minutes just to make reliable oral contact with a cock that is in the process of fucking, and once achieved this contact is rarely any improvement on the previous status of the cock even in those cases where it is not an uncomfortable hindrance.
This is, of course, assuming that the orifice in question cannot accommodate a human head positioned such that sucking is possible from the inside. In that case, it's really questionable if what's happening can be called "fucking", or if it's really more like thrusting uselessly into a giant gaping void in reality.
The only thing "intrusive" about NoScript is that my girlfriend occaisonally feels the need to bash around crappy websites on my computer and refuses to understand why she can't see 50% of every site out there or how to fix that "problem". On the plus side, she gets so frustrated every time she tries that she's almost given up.
See all those other people around you, you know, the ones who are just shopping, as though that's all that life means to them? They're dead, or the next worst thing. This device might not help you see them directly, but I suppose by doing all of this work for you quickly and effectively it might free up some of your conventional senses and allow you to notice them when otherwise you'd be too busy.
I work in retail, and some mornings I really do wonder if the zombie apocalypse has finally come, or if this is just another day at work.
I suppose that the alternative explanation, Mac/iPhone users are full of shit and grossly overrate those products, has not occurred to you.
I've given OSX a fair shot, and it just isn't that great. Based on that experience, I have zero interest in blowing $200 plus a *very* expensive monthly cell phone plan on a provider I dislike just to give such a shot to device that is intended to be as similar as possible to a platform I'm not thrilled with AND doesn't have a real keypad (sorry, I like my "tactile feedback" too much to trade it for a sheer screen that just gets scratched and fingerprinted every time I use it).
In other words, the only people who use Macs are the people who like them... but that doesn't mean that nobody else has a valid opinion on them, it just means they don't want to pay more for a product they like less. Don't expect us to respect your choice of overrated electronics.