historically in much of the world cooking was done apart from living spaces - either outside or in an alcove or courtyard. So many of today's houses and apartments really are not that well thought out, if you stop to think about it.
Oh, yes, especially considering how often we cook by burning wood or charcoal inside our homes today. It's a wonder that no one has pointed out the danger of our anachronistic cooking methods before.
Most cost overruns are due to scope creep.
See also, The Pentagon Wars .
It's sensless to compare software and cars age-wise.
Cars get degraded as the years pass. Software is identical, it's not worn of or anything like that.
Although it's true that the car analogy was highly flawed, it's also unwise to imply that Windows installations do not degrade over time. There was a time, in the not-too-distant-past, when Microsoft would recommend periodic re-installation of Windows.
(Do user-choosable errors even count as problems?)
Of course they do. There's even a specific category for that.
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.
The key elements in human thinking are not numbers but labels of fuzzy sets. -- L. Zadeh
