Ask anyone who works for a big pharma - cure is a 4 letter word! Cures are the worst possible thing that can be discoverde in the pharma industry. What they look for is treatments because then they can make money from the suffering of fellow humans for YEARS to come.
I get about 5 frames per second when shooting raw. That's enough speed for me.
I'd prefer people to start focussing on dynamic range and noise issues over megapixels personally because these actually impact me every day. Megapixels only hurt me when I'm trying to print poster sized prints.
My wife had a boating accident and lost a large portion of her right thumb. As she is right handed, this is even more of an issue.
About a year later she finally got her prosthetic through the NHS, and while it's functional, it's visibly unattractive. She prefers to struggle without the thumb rather than have the extension on. People seem to notice the prosthetic more than they do the abscence of her thumb.
On a side note, she would pay very good money for someone who built a console controller with the buttons on the left and the analog stick on the right!
I see a lot of people bashing this guy, but I don't really understand why. He's not saying that he is pressuring these people, just asking if he should be more forceful. I think maybe that is the keyword here.
Forceful doesn't mean refusing to fix their computer if they don't do what you want, it just means being a better sales person and pushing the sale more.
If people like this don't offer OSS replacements to Windows and various applications when users come to them, how are these users every going to even know that they have other options? It's all well and good to say that it should be the user's choice and if he isn't asking for OSS don't give it to him, but how is this user supposed to even know that he has a choice?
You'll discover that when you're 9000KMs from home and you find out that you forgot to ask someone for permission to play the music that you bought on another device.
Never again will I purchase any music encumbered with DRM!
That still doesn't make your original statement true.
Also, I was under the impression that the RIAA was bringing the lawsuits. Is this not correct? If not, that would have been some very useful information to impart.
I think you may be confused. There was NO attack on any London airport. A plot was uncovered and some people were arrested, but there was no attack.
The people arrested had no plane tickets let alone a fixed timetable. To be clear, none of these people was anywhere near an airport.
Furthermore, their entire 'plan of attack' is thought to be unfeasible by most people in the know. Most of the people involved have been charged with 'failing to disclose information to the police'. One has been charged with this because he didn't disclose information about his brother to the police. Sadly, his brother has not yet been charged with anything, so no-one is clear what this person failed to disclose so his case doesn't exactly look airtight.
When you said that people had attacked some planes, I thought, you know... that someone had actually attacked something. My bad.
The RIAA isn't American. 3 of the 4 members of the cartel are "offshore corporations"
I was under the impression that RIAA stood for Recording Industry Association of America. That kinda implies that they might in some way be American. The RIAA have no pull in the UK. Sure, we have a similar organisation (BPI), but the RIAA do not operate here.
He then goes on to say 3 of the 4 members of the cartel "offshore corporations"
For starters, looking at the RIAA membership list there are a lot more than 4 members of the cartel.
I am deeply concerned by the lack of accurate detail in this answer!
Can MythTV work with Satellite systems? I'm specifically interested in getting it to work with Sky Digital in the UK, but I've never been able to get a definitive answer as to whether or not it can be made to work:(
I change jobs roughly every 6 months to 2 years. My last change was 7 weeks ago. I approved the credit check, but nothing else.
My question was about the 'implicit agreement' that would allow them to get hold of my telephone records without a subpoena. Publicly available information is fair game as far as I'm concerned. Private information that requires lying to aquire is NOT fair game, and there is no implicit agreement that I have ever seen that would allow for this.
I'm not sure where you work, but I have NEVER given permission to an employer or potential employer to investigate any of my activities outside of work.
I consent to having my computer usage and e-mails monitored, as well as all phone calls on company property recorded (FSA requirement). But I do not and never will consent to having anything outside of work investigated, monitored or data mined, implicitly or otherwise.
Please back this statement up with a contract excerpt, not because I don't believe you, but because I am very curious to see how a company would word this 'implicit agreement'.
I noticed iTunes DRM. I was going home to visit family and at the last minute I dumped some stuff that I knew my dad would like a listen to onto my laptop (from my main machine). 9000KM later, I fired up the laptop and tried to play the tracks for my dad, only to get told that the machine wasn't authorised to play these tracks. WTF? I PAID for these didn't I?
I know that some of you will tell me that I should have checked this and tested it before I left, and to you I have one message - FOAD. I buy something, I should be able to use it wherever, whenever. I shouldn't have to ask permission just to listen to my CDs in the car when I bought them for my CD player in the living room. At least when I rip music from CDs it is totally portable, and buying CDs second hand saves me a fortune and denies the RIAA sales revenue.
So there I was, a long way away from the nearest Internet connection with a bunch of 1's and 0's that I couldn't do a damn thing with.
I bought 4 tracks from the itunes music store before that trip. I'll never buy another one.
We have never, and I mean NEVER had such a sweeping attack on our liberties as we currently face in the UK. And none of this is going to end, the government don't even try to pretend that.
How about having your DNA on file forever just because you are arrested. Not charged mind you, just arrested? And don't give me any crap about 'then don't get arrested'. There are so many silly laws that if the police want to arrest you, they will be able to find a way. They may have to release you without charge, but they still get your DNA.
Or how about 28 day detention without trial? It's only 28 days because the Lords beat them down from 90.
What about stupid bullshit like reducing the amount of carry-on luggage by 20% and stopping you taking water from airside through security with you. Care to explain how that makes you even slightly safer ?
You're giving up your rights for security theatre. Don't get me wrong, I like theatre as much as the next guy, but I'd prefer to just pay for a seat in the stalls rather than with my rights.
The US may not match us point for point here, but it's so bad over there that I just won't travel there anymore. Before things got stupid, I used to spend about £5000 per year on US vacations. That's £5000 per year that your tourist economy has lost and I'm not the only person doing that. My last vacation was even more and I put $1000 into one small business alone and another $300 into a small DZ in socal.
I guess we're not going to convince each other on this topic, but since I've just shown you 3 things that DON'T give us any extra real security, how about you show me three losses of freedom that actually do improve security in a measurable and meaningful way.
I disagree - I think she made the right choice, causing this fuss. I've just cancelled a contract I took through carphone warehouse (still in the 7 day cancellation period) because of their discriminatory practices.
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At the very least, could book reviewers and submitters please learn the difference between these two words!
Ask anyone who works for a big pharma - cure is a 4 letter word! Cures are the worst possible thing that can be discoverde in the pharma industry. What they look for is treatments because then they can make money from the suffering of fellow humans for YEARS to come.
I get about 5 frames per second when shooting raw. That's enough speed for me.
I'd prefer people to start focussing on dynamic range and noise issues over megapixels personally because these actually impact me every day. Megapixels only hurt me when I'm trying to print poster sized prints.
My wife had a boating accident and lost a large portion of her right thumb. As she is right handed, this is even more of an issue.
About a year later she finally got her prosthetic through the NHS, and while it's functional, it's visibly unattractive. She prefers to struggle without the thumb rather than have the extension on. People seem to notice the prosthetic more than they do the abscence of her thumb.
On a side note, she would pay very good money for someone who built a console controller with the buttons on the left and the analog stick on the right!
I see a lot of people bashing this guy, but I don't really understand why. He's not saying that he is pressuring these people, just asking if he should be more forceful. I think maybe that is the keyword here.
Forceful doesn't mean refusing to fix their computer if they don't do what you want, it just means being a better sales person and pushing the sale more.
If people like this don't offer OSS replacements to Windows and various applications when users come to them, how are these users every going to even know that they have other options? It's all well and good to say that it should be the user's choice and if he isn't asking for OSS don't give it to him, but how is this user supposed to even know that he has a choice?
No DRM is 'the right kind.' No DRM is 'nice.'
You'll discover that when you're 9000KMs from home and you find out that you forgot to ask someone for permission to play the music that you bought on another device.
Never again will I purchase any music encumbered with DRM!
I think he was just a patent examiner, not an attorney.
I am waiting now because I heard about battery fires, macs not being allowed to be used on planes
Neither are Dell and with Toshiba's recent announcement, they will also be banned from Virgin soon. So who does that leave you with?
Any manufacturer who uses a sony battery is being hit by problems right now, and that's a large number of them.
Are you going to buy a crap laptop just because it doesn't have a sony battery ?
'For example, one of the projects that we completed recently... features terrorists taking over the Alienware computer factory.
I'm not the biggest Dell fan, but that seems needlessly harsh :)
That still doesn't make your original statement true.
Also, I was under the impression that the RIAA was bringing the lawsuits. Is this not correct? If not, that would have been some very useful information to impart.
I think you may be confused. There was NO attack on any London airport. A plot was uncovered and some people were arrested, but there was no attack.
The people arrested had no plane tickets let alone a fixed timetable. To be clear, none of these people was anywhere near an airport.
Furthermore, their entire 'plan of attack' is thought to be unfeasible by most people in the know. Most of the people involved have been charged with 'failing to disclose information to the police'. One has been charged with this because he didn't disclose information about his brother to the police. Sadly, his brother has not yet been charged with anything, so no-one is clear what this person failed to disclose so his case doesn't exactly look airtight.
When you said that people had attacked some planes, I thought, you know... that someone had actually attacked something. My bad.
Excuse me? I fly internationally at least once a month and I FULLY believe in that saying.
They attacked some airplanes in other countries that were headed here, but that's about it.
Can you please point me to some articles about this? I can't find anything about multiple aircraft destined for the US being used in an attack.
The RIAA isn't American. 3 of the 4 members of the cartel are "offshore corporations"
I was under the impression that RIAA stood for Recording Industry Association of America. That kinda implies that they might in some way be American. The RIAA have no pull in the UK. Sure, we have a similar organisation (BPI), but the RIAA do not operate here.
He then goes on to say 3 of the 4 members of the cartel "offshore corporations"
For starters, looking at the RIAA membership list there are a lot more than 4 members of the cartel.
I am deeply concerned by the lack of accurate detail in this answer!
Can MythTV work with Satellite systems? I'm specifically interested in getting it to work with Sky Digital in the UK, but I've never been able to get a definitive answer as to whether or not it can be made to work :(
I change jobs roughly every 6 months to 2 years. My last change was 7 weeks ago. I approved the credit check, but nothing else.
My question was about the 'implicit agreement' that would allow them to get hold of my telephone records without a subpoena. Publicly available information is fair game as far as I'm concerned. Private information that requires lying to aquire is NOT fair game, and there is no implicit agreement that I have ever seen that would allow for this.
I'm not sure where you work, but I have NEVER given permission to an employer or potential employer to investigate any of my activities outside of work.
I consent to having my computer usage and e-mails monitored, as well as all phone calls on company property recorded (FSA requirement). But I do not and never will consent to having anything outside of work investigated, monitored or data mined, implicitly or otherwise.
Please back this statement up with a contract excerpt, not because I don't believe you, but because I am very curious to see how a company would word this 'implicit agreement'.
I noticed iTunes DRM. I was going home to visit family and at the last minute I dumped some stuff that I knew my dad would like a listen to onto my laptop (from my main machine). 9000KM later, I fired up the laptop and tried to play the tracks for my dad, only to get told that the machine wasn't authorised to play these tracks. WTF? I PAID for these didn't I?
I know that some of you will tell me that I should have checked this and tested it before I left, and to you I have one message - FOAD. I buy something, I should be able to use it wherever, whenever. I shouldn't have to ask permission just to listen to my CDs in the car when I bought them for my CD player in the living room. At least when I rip music from CDs it is totally portable, and buying CDs second hand saves me a fortune and denies the RIAA sales revenue.
So there I was, a long way away from the nearest Internet connection with a bunch of 1's and 0's that I couldn't do a damn thing with.
I bought 4 tracks from the itunes music store before that trip. I'll never buy another one.
We have never, and I mean NEVER had such a sweeping attack on our liberties as we currently face in the UK. And none of this is going to end, the government don't even try to pretend that.
How about having your DNA on file forever just because you are arrested. Not charged mind you, just arrested? And don't give me any crap about 'then don't get arrested'. There are so many silly laws that if the police want to arrest you, they will be able to find a way. They may have to release you without charge, but they still get your DNA.
Or how about 28 day detention without trial? It's only 28 days because the Lords beat them down from 90.
What about stupid bullshit like reducing the amount of carry-on luggage by 20% and stopping you taking water from airside through security with you. Care to explain how that makes you even slightly safer ?
You're giving up your rights for security theatre. Don't get me wrong, I like theatre as much as the next guy, but I'd prefer to just pay for a seat in the stalls rather than with my rights.
The US may not match us point for point here, but it's so bad over there that I just won't travel there anymore. Before things got stupid, I used to spend about £5000 per year on US vacations. That's £5000 per year that your tourist economy has lost and I'm not the only person doing that. My last vacation was even more and I put $1000 into one small business alone and another $300 into a small DZ in socal.
I guess we're not going to convince each other on this topic, but since I've just shown you 3 things that DON'T give us any extra real security, how about you show me three losses of freedom that actually do improve security in a measurable and meaningful way.
but my *opinion* is that sometimes survival means giving up *some* freedoms
Laydees and gennelmen! I give you the perfect example of those who ignore history being doomed to repeat it!
The MP3 is a marketing hype, it is the armature's music format. SanDisk, take revenge! Just say sorry and switch to Ogg and FLAC.
What the hell do electric motors have to do with choice of codecs ? :D
The term wasn't much in use before 9/11
Really? Try Rhodesia, 1976.
Please read the following:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_0
On any monolithic kernel, all drivers have supervisor access. I don't know of anything that you can do in the OS to protect yourself against these.
Hell, most of Windows Bluescreens were because of shonky drivers for this same reason.
I disagree - I think she made the right choice, causing this fuss. I've just cancelled a contract I took through carphone warehouse (still in the 7 day cancellation period) because of their discriminatory practices.
Think of the children? Hell no! This is for ME! :D