t would be interesting if Apple did a test where they removed samples from say from the top 1000 songs, then provided 30 second samples for say 50 and calculated how much the 30 second sample actually generated in sales revenue.
Why bother. Just make up a number for lost revenue like the RIAA.
I KNOW this is ASCAP and not RIAA, but they're starting to look the same...
a banks advertising their service to e-mail you with the details of every purchase your teen makes using their debt card in real time
Why the hell do that? If the teen wants to squander their money, so what? They earned it... Right? Right?
Jeez, it's not a hard concept. If you haven't raised your children to make intelligent decisions, then don't give them money. If you trust your kid enough to give them a debit card to your account then trust them. If not, get them their own account, and let them fill it. (Even if that means little Timmy did the dishes every day this week so he gets ten bucks)
I did a very basic, in-class only driving course (10 hrs of instruction). Tell ya what, paid for itself in two years through lower insurance.
I also learned a thing or two. I think every ten years or so, people should have to-retake their driver's test (at lest the written part).
I have often thought, however, that it is too damn easy to get a license. I never even had to hit the freeway to get my license, just a ride around blocks surrounding the DMV. Ten minutes and done.
The biggest nuisance for me in my 30 mile urban freeway commute is people who get in front of me and use their brakes simply to control their speed.
When I learned to drive (only about 6 years ago) I was taught that the goal on the highway is to avoid using the brakes as much as possible, as that is inefficient. Besides, there should always be enough space between you and the car in front of you so that, should they begin to slow down a little, all that is needed from you is to left off the gas.
This simple guideline enforces safe driving distance, prevents hard-braking, reduces fluctuations in speed and reduces wear on your brakes. This is simple, now if only we could get people to signal lane changes and stop weaving unnecessarily, we would be halfway there.
Directional Antennas. One watt in all directions vs One watt directed at the AP can make a big difference. Long distance point-to-point links have been made with 802.11b tech and pringles cans. If you know where the AP is actually located, Yes, a better antenna can definitely help.
If the economy wasn't so bad, I bet there would be a lot of printouts of this article nailed to manager's doors come Monday morning.
I read somewhere that roughly 30% of the nation's income is earned by 1% of the people. The Economy wouldn't be so bad if the other 99% of people had money to spend somewhere.
The difference is that the wireless card's manufacturer doesn't support linux, and that is something that needs to be researched when changing OS. If you run XP on a MacBook or build a 'Hackintosh' you are going to have to be sure you have supported hardware.
Why should anyone expect different from linux? Just because it very often "Just works" on linux doesn't mean it always has to.
Have you ever installed vanilla XP on a machine and had to hunt down drivers for 10 different devices that are difficult to identify? Windows Update Driver search helps, but not if both the wireless and wired network cards aren't working.
Not picking on you, just suggesting something. VNC is best used local network only. If you need to access VNC from the internet, you might be better off setting up an SSH server and using an SSH tunnel to connect to VNC. This ensures that traffic is encrypted and at the least uses an encrypted password. Additionally, kind of method allows you to reduce the number of open-ports style vulnerabilities, as the only port needed to be opened to the internet is SSH.
Putty for windows makes this very easy ( I often use Putty Portable and a VNC viewer app), or refer to the internet for how to do so from a command line.
I'm not sure I buy this argument... lock-in only requires that nothing else can open your files.
Only thing is, you're still not locked in, because you can pay ANYONE capable, or use your own expertise to write a relatively simple (compared to the original software) translator to put the data into another format.
This is because, since you have the source, you know the exact format of the data, and can thus extract it in any way you like.
I work for an on-campus tech support group at a Big Ten University. 14,000 Students live on campus. Most of them use windows.
When our network detects traffic to a known bot controller from a students computer, the computer gets locked out of the campus network until we perform a full reformat/update/secure process. We have been formatting at least 15 computers a day for the last 3 weeks (since students arrive for fall) and we still have a wait list.
We also do virus/spyware troubleshooting for computers that are not locked out, and see about 3-4 a day that have malware infections. I can only imagine how many computers are infected that the users either can't tell or just ignore. (they usually only come to us after their computer is so infected to hell that a reformat is the only way to be sure it's clean again.
Removing these is often a major pain, and doing updates requires restart after restart after restart.
Being an Ubuntu user, Windows has NO IDEA what low maintenance means.
That's because it IS a novelty! It's ooh shiny, look how clearly I can see the grass and the ads around the stands at the superbowl stadium! But really, the game as it unfolds it what people want to know about, and watching the game on regular TV with a camera guy zoomed in on the action is going to give you a better sense of the action than being in your average stadium seat.
The biggest things that cause me trouble is class size and 'little things'.
(in College, btw)
For some subjects, if instead of a 1 hr lecture with a class of 40 students, two, 30 minute lectures with 20 students, or better still, only 10, would be much better, with plenty of room for guided practice. (e.g everyone does practice problems / quiz at the same time and has the teacher or two to answer questions and provide hints)
As for the little things, I can't tell you how many times I've had trouble following a lecture because a teacher speaks a foreign language, or talks faster when an important point comes up, making themselves harder to understand.
Another big one is dirty chalk boards that you cannot read from. Water and a sponge after every lecture people! Its not complex technology!
Irrelevant, it involves a company who operates in America who was demanded a specific standard of huge amount of damages as if it was based in morals and some kind of inalienable right. It is only fair that they should be held to the same standard.
Because 1,176 people is a miniscule (0.0168 %) amount compared to 7 million, so there is room for a LARGE margin of error, in either direction. The sample size is too small for the number of people they are trying to represent.
YES! Why can't schools / colleges figure this out? You don't need to memorize a million math equations to be educated. You need to understand them. Math should not be taught as math for math's sake, but as a tool to accomplish larger, more useful tasks.
one question: WHY Ki? Why not k for kilo and K for "kibi" (which I think is retarded.) But besides, in the rest of the world Context is King, if you notice all of your example are base2-style for storage amounts and base10-style for rates (except where HD manufacturers decided to game the system, the bastards). I cannot understand why people think this is a problem. It is simply not that confusing.
Good point. There is a difference between how much data is contained in this file and needs to be transmitted if I mail/ftp/whatever it and if I store it on a flashdrive/tape/hdd. I would like to be able to access both values.
This world is so absurd. I'm sorry, but if YOUR signal hits MY antenna, it's now my signal too. If your throw your ball into my yard, you better believe I'll keep it if I so desire, as you were the one who intentionally put it in my possession, so It must be ok. Encryption is irrelevant, if I can figure out how to read it, tough shit.
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t would be interesting if Apple did a test where they removed samples from say from the top 1000 songs, then provided 30 second samples for say 50 and calculated how much the 30 second sample actually generated in sales revenue.
Why bother. Just make up a number for lost revenue like the RIAA.
I KNOW this is ASCAP and not RIAA, but they're starting to look the same...
Torrent. This is exactly what is was designed for.
a banks advertising their service to e-mail you with the details of every purchase your teen makes using their debt card in real time
Why the hell do that? If the teen wants to squander their money, so what? They earned it... Right? Right?
Jeez, it's not a hard concept. If you haven't raised your children to make intelligent decisions, then don't give them money. If you trust your kid enough to give them a debit card to your account then trust them. If not, get them their own account, and let them fill it. (Even if that means little Timmy did the dishes every day this week so he gets ten bucks)
I did a very basic, in-class only driving course (10 hrs of instruction). Tell ya what, paid for itself in two years through lower insurance.
I also learned a thing or two. I think every ten years or so, people should have to-retake their driver's test (at lest the written part).
I have often thought, however, that it is too damn easy to get a license. I never even had to hit the freeway to get my license, just a ride around blocks surrounding the DMV. Ten minutes and done.
The biggest nuisance for me in my 30 mile urban freeway commute is people who get in front of me and use their brakes simply to control their speed.
When I learned to drive (only about 6 years ago) I was taught that the goal on the highway is to avoid using the brakes as much as possible, as that is inefficient. Besides, there should always be enough space between you and the car in front of you so that, should they begin to slow down a little, all that is needed from you is to left off the gas.
This simple guideline enforces safe driving distance, prevents hard-braking, reduces fluctuations in speed and reduces wear on your brakes. This is simple, now if only we could get people to signal lane changes and stop weaving unnecessarily, we would be halfway there.
You could be in an RV with an AP less than 20 t, with a 10+ db radio and get 1 bar of signal, but move to a window and it'll go to 4-5 bars?
Note: being inside an RV is similar to being inside a Faraday Cage.
Directional Antennas. One watt in all directions vs One watt directed at the AP can make a big difference. Long distance point-to-point links have been made with 802.11b tech and pringles cans. If you know where the AP is actually located, Yes, a better antenna can definitely help.
If the economy wasn't so bad, I bet there would be a lot of printouts of this article nailed to manager's doors come Monday morning.
I read somewhere that roughly 30% of the nation's income is earned by 1% of the people. The Economy wouldn't be so bad if the other 99% of people had money to spend somewhere.
The difference is that the wireless card's manufacturer doesn't support linux, and that is something that needs to be researched when changing OS. If you run XP on a MacBook or build a 'Hackintosh' you are going to have to be sure you have supported hardware.
Why should anyone expect different from linux? Just because it very often "Just works" on linux doesn't mean it always has to.
Have you ever installed vanilla XP on a machine and had to hunt down drivers for 10 different devices that are difficult to identify? Windows Update Driver search helps, but not if both the wireless and wired network cards aren't working.
Not picking on you, just suggesting something. VNC is best used local network only. If you need to access VNC from the internet, you might be better off setting up an SSH server and using an SSH tunnel to connect to VNC. This ensures that traffic is encrypted and at the least uses an encrypted password. Additionally, kind of method allows you to reduce the number of open-ports style vulnerabilities, as the only port needed to be opened to the internet is SSH.
Putty for windows makes this very easy ( I often use Putty Portable and a VNC viewer app), or refer to the internet for how to do so from a command line.
I'm not sure I buy this argument... lock-in only requires that nothing else can open your files.
Only thing is, you're still not locked in, because you can pay ANYONE capable, or use your own expertise to write a relatively simple (compared to the original software) translator to put the data into another format.
This is because, since you have the source, you know the exact format of the data, and can thus extract it in any way you like.
use split, or multi-volume tar.
I work for an on-campus tech support group at a Big Ten University. 14,000 Students live on campus. Most of them use windows.
When our network detects traffic to a known bot controller from a students computer, the computer gets locked out of the campus network until we perform a full reformat/update/secure process. We have been formatting at least 15 computers a day for the last 3 weeks (since students arrive for fall) and we still have a wait list.
We also do virus/spyware troubleshooting for computers that are not locked out, and see about 3-4 a day that have malware infections. I can only imagine how many computers are infected that the users either can't tell or just ignore. (they usually only come to us after their computer is so infected to hell that a reformat is the only way to be sure it's clean again.
Removing these is often a major pain, and doing updates requires restart after restart after restart.
Being an Ubuntu user, Windows has NO IDEA what low maintenance means.
That's because it IS a novelty! It's ooh shiny, look how clearly I can see the grass and the ads around the stands at the superbowl stadium! But really, the game as it unfolds it what people want to know about, and watching the game on regular TV with a camera guy zoomed in on the action is going to give you a better sense of the action than being in your average stadium seat.
haha, funny, I do that for entering ethernet MACs at work all the time!
The biggest things that cause me trouble is class size and 'little things'.
(in College, btw)
For some subjects, if instead of a 1 hr lecture with a class of 40 students, two, 30 minute lectures with 20 students, or better still, only 10, would be much better, with plenty of room for guided practice. (e.g everyone does practice problems / quiz at the same time and has the teacher or two to answer questions and provide hints)
As for the little things, I can't tell you how many times I've had trouble following a lecture because a teacher speaks a foreign language, or talks faster when an important point comes up, making themselves harder to understand.
Another big one is dirty chalk boards that you cannot read from. Water and a sponge after every lecture people! Its not complex technology!
Irrelevant, it involves a company who operates in America who was demanded a specific standard of huge amount of damages as if it was based in morals and some kind of inalienable right. It is only fair that they should be held to the same standard.
Because 1,176 people is a miniscule (0.0168 %) amount compared to 7 million, so there is room for a LARGE margin of error, in either direction. The sample size is too small for the number of people they are trying to represent.
YES! Why can't schools / colleges figure this out? You don't need to memorize a million math equations to be educated. You need to understand them. Math should not be taught as math for math's sake, but as a tool to accomplish larger, more useful tasks.
Interesting Point, but how about deniability. PROVE that the creation was created using the laptop and not a VM on any other machine.
Is there only one road where you live? and Flapping Heads? :)
one question: WHY Ki? Why not k for kilo and K for "kibi" (which I think is retarded.) But besides, in the rest of the world Context is King, if you notice all of your example are base2-style for storage amounts and base10-style for rates (except where HD manufacturers decided to game the system, the bastards). I cannot understand why people think this is a problem. It is simply not that confusing.
Good point. There is a difference between how much data is contained in this file and needs to be transmitted if I mail/ftp/whatever it and if I store it on a flashdrive/tape/hdd. I would like to be able to access both values.
It takes up a lot less bandwidth to do one 1024p HD channel on a dedicated line than streaming the same content to millions of viewers.
And this is why, someday, IPV6 will take over.
Doing this is considered signal theft.
This world is so absurd. I'm sorry, but if YOUR signal hits MY antenna, it's now my signal too. If your throw your ball into my yard, you better believe I'll keep it if I so desire, as you were the one who intentionally put it in my possession, so It must be ok. Encryption is irrelevant, if I can figure out how to read it, tough shit.