I don't know what kind of applications you run to need 8gb of ram; video editing, big games?
Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom, and image files at either ~21MP or 5300 DPI (depending on whether I used a full-frame DSLR or scanned 35mm negatives). At a mere 16GB RAM in my primary workstation, I'm due for an upgrade.
Ok, yes, if the owner has left the keys in the ignition, the doors unlocked, and walked away leaving a big sign on the car saying "please steal me".
Of course, because no otherwise secure system has ever been compromised by a zero-day attack.
Did you not notice how 7.8 has a longer cycle than 8?
Did you notice that 7.8 was released more recently than 8?
Fucking know-nothing ar-tards, the only material to use for geologic time scales is unobtanium.
Bah! Clearly wonderflonium would be the better substance for this particular application.
Right, so like going to a store and asking for a product that they don't have and being directed to similar products. As mentioned in the case and equally insane.
Oh, I'm fully supportive of Amazon's business model, and believe that the lawsuit had no merit; the judge should have hurled the gavel into the general direction of the plaintiff's lawyers heads. It's simply quite wearisome to watch people comment on things they haven't made the most basic effort to understand.
(I know full well that the response to that should be "welcome to Slashdot.")
Go to a store and you'll generally see competing products next to each other and that's okay. But try to do something similar on-line?
...writes the person who clearly didn't read the article. I say that because if you did, you'd know that the products in question quite specifically aren't actually available on Amazon.com.
The file copy ones used to drive me nuts. If I'm moving files from one source to one destination, you'd think the transfer speeds would be pretty consistent and the time estimates pretty accurate. I can't pretend to know why they used to be so bad, but they do seem better now.
If you're referring to moving files from one disk to another one nearby, then it was probably due to fragmentation. When drives were smaller, it was more likely for a single file to end up scattered across the disk. They were also slower back then, which only served to exacerbate the problem.
There's also a read penalty that increases when dealing with larger and larger numbers of smaller and smaller files. The original estimate is based upon the raw size of the data, but doesn't immediately factor what it might require to move that amount in small segments.
Credit card? Cash baby! You get the benefit of a lower cost per gallon
Oh, yeah, there are some gas stations that charge more for using a credit card... just not anywhere near where I live and work. Aside from that, my credit card pays me 4% back when I use it at a gas station.
They do, however, believe in the threat of various, very real, viral contagions. You know. Like the flu?
*yawn*
You say that, but there are underlying causes for depression.
Very often, those underlying causes are related to brain chemistry, not external factors.
Let's get the entire population of US citizens to file a suit against the government, and all the politicians individually, for wasting our money bailing out failing companies.
That would be something, if the US government hadn't earned a profit of $22.7 billion on the AIG bailout. If I recall correctly, that's part of the substance of AIG's complaint that's being discussed here.
We don't need to do that; we still have laws, and we can still pass laws that rein in corporations.
That would be useful if we could pass laws and enforce them retroactively. However, Article 1 of our Constitution forbids ex post facto laws, so that's a problem.
That is fine for photos in your phone...
...which brings us back to the subject we're discussing, at least if you've read the article/summary.
That, and most people never really read their hiring agreements or workplace policies.
The part that's worked in my favor is that most HR people don't actually read the hiring agreements that have been signed and submitted; they typically merely check for a signature and file them away. I've had those documents (hiring agreement, non-compete, and non-disclosure) sent to me in Word format, and no one has ever seemed to notice when I've edited them before adding my signature, turning them into PDFs, and sending them back.
I've done things like agree to a two-week non-compete, and have even removed entire sentences I didn't like on principle.
I don't know anyone who used the start menu for anything but search and shut down.
This statement is significant because, of course, the plural form of "anecdote" is "data."
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