Comment Re:Stereotypes much? (Score 1) 272
And for anyone else who is not an economist "negative income elasticity" means "prefer cheaper, lower quality, goods".
And for anyone else who is not an economist "negative income elasticity" means "prefer cheaper, lower quality, goods".
Depends, I don't see many people using wordpad/gedit instead of MS-word/OO-writer. Features always matter, and they often matter more than speed/security/usability (all of which have their fans who ask "why can't all apps. consider X, and stop being bloated")
leaving you with a junk file
That's why the minimum recommendation for updates like that is to "write to tempfile, close, check that close is happy and then rename". Unless you can deal with someone pulling the power at any point as you update.
According to that page on that site, _minimum_ pay for a pilot is 67k (which I would put a lot of money on being BS). Of course a different page (http://www.avjobs.com/salaries-wages-pay/historical-aviation-wages.asp) says 16k-60k or 23k-250k (depending on if you are "regional" or "national"). And I assume for "average" they are using mean and not median which, from all I've heard of the industry, will make the numbers higher.
People want free, anytime they can get it. Not a good business model.
I think the PS3 "video rental" is a good counter example, I'm a happy netflix subscriber
If you then look at "buying" instead of renting, the product is a little cheaper but a lot worse -- and there are even weirdos with the price (like their "sales" which are much more arbitrary than any real shop could get away with). Plus the "instant download" feature isn't as big a hook.
I use the Amazon mp3 store all the time, I hear iTunes is doing great
When it was launched, the DS was an experimental console, Nintendo's so-called "3rd leg". Nintendo had no significant faith in it, but threw it out there anyhow as an experiment while working on a proper Game Boy.
One consequence of this is that the components of the DS weren't necessarily picked as they would have been for a handheld designed to match the long life of a Game Boy.
It was an "experiment" sure, they didn't know it would succeed and likely had some backup plans. But to pretend it wasn't meant to succeed is just insanity. Nintendo haven't made a "top of the current gen. specs." console since the N64, so the fact they do that for the DS means nothing.
Meanwhile in Sony-land, manufacturing technology has finally caught up with the ridiculously overbuilt PSP, which was an absolute brick when launched. The Go has some pricing/design issues
hahaha
I was interested in the PSP Go, when I first heard about it 3-6 months ago (mainly due to the size), but there's no way I'm getting one atm.
SELinux has this capability: http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/28545.html
Glad mine were [...] consolidated to 3% after I graduated a few years back (and then subsequently paid in full within 2-3 years)
Math FAIL.
http:org/slashdot/tech/story/... (use SRV record)
I've always liked that idea (which I've seen before) because it treats subdomains in the same way it treats subdirectories under the document root
This seems like a really bad idea, to me, for that reason. Given the above, the client now has to do 4 DNS lookups (org, slashdot.org, tech.slashdot.org, story.tech.slashdot.org
It's also well-known that if I had invested in the market back in last summer (2008), I would have lost about half the value of my investment.
No, not even if you were insanely unlucky. Even if you were stupid enough to put all your money into the market around the beginning of May 2008: the S&P is about 76% of what it was (not including the dividends you would have got) and the DJIA is about 75% of what it was (again, not including dividends you would have got) -- note that the worst day to invest was different in both cases, by a week or two.
And, again, a professional financial advisor would likely have told you to use Dollar Cost Averaging
You mean those persons that worked for Lehman and other bankrupt firms?
Personally I use Edward Jones, but I'm sure there were plenty of good and honest people working for some of the companies that went bankrupt
Well it's starting with the F11 (been and gone) and F12 changes to x86 support: F11 moves to i586+ and F12 moves to i686+
The stats. used to backup these plans were from smolt data, and download stats.
The other point that was made (maybe on fedora-devel, maybe on IRC) was that the smolt arch. data is misleading as to usage of i?86, as that has been on a steady decline
Sure, someone will fix it
How many processes have you seen complain that they are out of address space with only 4GB?
To be fair, there are now realistic cases where you want to mmap()/etc. a 4GB+ file. It's not always needed, and there are workarounds, but it's pretty soon going to be the case that 99% of users won't care if the developer starts making those assumptions.
On a related point within the next 12-18 months Fedora are supposed to have x86_64 as the only primary arch. so some code requires 8GB of virtual memory, it won't even be a primary bug anymore in Fedora.
Yeah I know. It's only there temporarily, until I can decide if the stock market is going up-or-down.
Newsflash, by the time you've worked it out it'll have gone up already so it'll be too late. Second newsflash
It's well known that when people try and guess/decide on perfect timing of the market, they lose money. Which is why no credible financial advisor recommends trying to do that. Go speak to one.
After Goliath's defeat, giants ceased to command respect. - Freeman Dyson