That's still no reason for doing it. I live in Sweden and we pay about $50 for a 8/1 ADSL line and AFAIK there is no packetshaping or throttling. It's possible to get connections with a bandwidth cap but it's more common to have a connection without a cap. Why is the US market so different from almost every other fairly developed country? Hell even France beats you in the broad band sector.
Because they can't differentiate from internal messages and external ones. The computer never lies so everything on the computer is true. Possibly anyway.
There is no bloody lock in what so ever in the IM-buisness. ATM I'm using a client which supports ICQ, MSN, AIM, and jabber or gabber. Ich a bloody miracle that MSN is doing as well as it is and the only reason it does well is that it was bundled with XP. It is just recently that it has become possible to send offline messages via the MSN protocol. I haven't used the stock ICQ-client since 99 or 00 but I haven't needed to either.
Gaim, Miranda and Trillian are the three alternative multi-clients I know of.
It's probably due to selection bias. I play games way to much and my friends reflect that so AMD usage among us was probably as high as 80% before core 2 duo. I would consider the Steam population a little more diversified with a lot of pre-built boxes from Dell and other such companies. Almost all my gamer friends put together their own boxes that is not true of many "casual" gamers.
I'd say that's a good thing. The reason I use wikipedia more than any other resource is that I can find verbose information on almost any subject no matter how obscure. If that means that I can find the exact colors of some comic book hero's underwear in the 1956 edition of the comic so be it.
AMD had as much as 50% of Steam users desktops when Valve did their last hardware survey. That is very impressive, going from almost nothing to 50% in a few years.
I don't get this either. To me it looks like identity theft is mostly an north American problem. In Sweden we've got personal identification numbers that are used in all dealings with the state and sometimes when dealing with banks etc. It's your birth date followed by four digits and the last digits signifies male of female by being even or uneven. I haven't ever heard of any identity theft cases reported in the media. They may happen but they're not on the news or anywhere else.
I've seen a lot of ID-theft reported on different US sites and TV programs but I still don't get how it's possible. If someone issues a loan to a con man it should be their loss entirely and should be easily fixable. I cannot understand how this is an issue.
Can someone please tell me how this can me more than a small nuisance (i.e. that's not me fix it now please)?
I could disagree with a few of those but you made your point clear. It wasn't immediately clear to me what you were referring to. I blame this on to much reading and not seeing many older Sci-Fi movies.
Thank you for elaborating and not telling me to piss off.
That sounds really really weird. If you have a certain track and want to use it as a ring tone simply convert it to the correct file type and transfer it to the phone and you're done. Are you saying that you aren't allowed to do that according to law, that you can't do it because your phone is locked or because you don't have cable/IR/Bluetooth?
Swedish Social Democratic Party (who are supposedly "left wing socialists") can propose allowing citizens to invest 20% of their social insurance deductions into the free market and it isn't controversial at all, but in the supposedly "capitalist" United States even a Republican President and Congress can't allow U.S. citizens to invest 9% of their social security deductions into the free market without being accused of "trying to starve old people". It is a myth, an absolute myth, that the U.S. is somehow a "free market" country, and the Scandinavians are somehow "socialist".
I agree with everything you say apart from the quote above. Well said.
That said I can't resist in Sweden bashing (I am Swedish). It is true that our corporate taxes are comparatively low but that isn't true for a small time buissness. The overall tax burden on the GDP is slightly less than 50%. The tax burden on middle incomes is about 60-67 percent when you include all taxes like VAT and tax on gasoline. I wouldn't call that laissez faire nor free.
I would imagine that the US is more free in some areas but freer overall at least if the economic growth rate is any indicator of economic freedom. I do believe that our deregulation of state owned companies have gone a lot better than yours at least from what I've gleamed off Slashdot.
Linux, meanwhile, has continued to lag behind in hardware and software support because of this.
Have you actually installed a non slipstreamed version of Windows lately? The last time I tried linux it was ubuntu 5.04 it installed perfectly save for the screen resolution which could be solved by asking on the forums. Everything else just worked(TM) and that was two years ago.
The employee either takes care of his own pension or has an agreement that the employer (or pension fund manager) takes care of their pension. If it's the former the employee and the other guy has no worries. If it's the latter the other guy is down right criminal and the employee is fucked. But that's what a monetary buffer and/or lawyers are for.
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That's still no reason for doing it. I live in Sweden and we pay about $50 for a 8/1 ADSL line and AFAIK there is no packetshaping or throttling. It's possible to get connections with a bandwidth cap but it's more common to have a connection without a cap. Why is the US market so different from almost every other fairly developed country? Hell even France beats you in the broad band sector.
Mod parent up.
Moral police is just a literal translation of a Swedish expression.
That's just Garry's mod with the serial number filed off.
Because they can't differentiate from internal messages and external ones. The computer never lies so everything on the computer is true. Possibly anyway.
There is no bloody lock in what so ever in the IM-buisness. ATM I'm using a client which supports ICQ, MSN, AIM, and jabber or gabber. Ich a bloody miracle that MSN is doing as well as it is and the only reason it does well is that it was bundled with XP. It is just recently that it has become possible to send offline messages via the MSN protocol. I haven't used the stock ICQ-client since 99 or 00 but I haven't needed to either. Gaim, Miranda and Trillian are the three alternative multi-clients I know of.
It's probably due to selection bias. I play games way to much and my friends reflect that so AMD usage among us was probably as high as 80% before core 2 duo. I would consider the Steam population a little more diversified with a lot of pre-built boxes from Dell and other such companies. Almost all my gamer friends put together their own boxes that is not true of many "casual" gamers.
I'd say that's a good thing. The reason I use wikipedia more than any other resource is that I can find verbose information on almost any subject no matter how obscure. If that means that I can find the exact colors of some comic book hero's underwear in the 1956 edition of the comic so be it.
I laughed out loud. The mod who moderated you offtopic must have had his sense of (dry) humor surgically removed.
AMD had as much as 50% of Steam users desktops when Valve did their last hardware survey. That is very impressive, going from almost nothing to 50% in a few years.
I don't get this either. To me it looks like identity theft is mostly an north American problem. In Sweden we've got personal identification numbers that are used in all dealings with the state and sometimes when dealing with banks etc. It's your birth date followed by four digits and the last digits signifies male of female by being even or uneven. I haven't ever heard of any identity theft cases reported in the media. They may happen but they're not on the news or anywhere else.
I've seen a lot of ID-theft reported on different US sites and TV programs but I still don't get how it's possible. If someone issues a loan to a con man it should be their loss entirely and should be easily fixable. I cannot understand how this is an issue.
Can someone please tell me how this can me more than a small nuisance (i.e. that's not me fix it now please)?
To me it looks like a specific case of the general rule: "don't give your (secure) pasword to anyone, period".
Are you sure you aren't seeing misogyny where there isn't any because that's the way you look at things?
One of the better WiFi analogies. Kudos.
You're right. Hemvärnet doesn't have the AK5 yet I should've picked up on that.
Tiny tiny nitpick: FN FNC not FN FAL.
Install the updates but don't click on the popup. Just drag it down to a corner and it won't nag you. That's what I usually do.
I've use the "download updates but ask to install" option and that works for me. I'm not sure what happens if you use any of the other options.
I could disagree with a few of those but you made your point clear. It wasn't immediately clear to me what you were referring to. I blame this on to much reading and not seeing many older Sci-Fi movies. Thank you for elaborating and not telling me to piss off.
Can you give some examples of other cyberpunk movies that were inspired by Blade Runner? In which way were the movies inspired by Blade Runner?
Småland is not Sweden ;)
That sounds really really weird. If you have a certain track and want to use it as a ring tone simply convert it to the correct file type and transfer it to the phone and you're done. Are you saying that you aren't allowed to do that according to law, that you can't do it because your phone is locked or because you don't have cable/IR/Bluetooth?
Sorry about the poor grammar.
That said I can't resist in Sweden bashing (I am Swedish). It is true that our corporate taxes are comparatively low but that isn't true for a small time buissness. The overall tax burden on the GDP is slightly less than 50%. The tax burden on middle incomes is about 60-67 percent when you include all taxes like VAT and tax on gasoline. I wouldn't call that laissez faire nor free.
I would imagine that the US is more free in some areas but freer overall at least if the economic growth rate is any indicator of economic freedom. I do believe that our deregulation of state owned companies have gone a lot better than yours at least from what I've gleamed off Slashdot.
I agree that we should think about the children.
The thing i opposed whas the part about materialism.
Yeah, I got that. I just don't understand why criminal and immoral behavior is relevant.
Do we disallow public speaking due to (Goodwin, here I come) Adolf as well?
The employee either takes care of his own pension or has an agreement that the employer (or pension fund manager) takes care of their pension. If it's the former the employee and the other guy has no worries. If it's the latter the other guy is down right criminal and the employee is fucked. But that's what a monetary buffer and/or lawyers are for.
Sorry about the poor language it's two AM here.