I enjoy watching movies at my "cabin" in the woods, because that's when I have the time to do it. I have a blu-ray player and an hdtv in my cabin BECAUSE I don't have internet access. If I had internet access I'd just download movies. I don't have a phone line and cell phones don't work, which is why I have time to enjoy the movies.
I'm pretty happy with my Comcast Business Class Cable access. It's $59.95/month for decent speed, a TOS that allows me to run servers, and no cable TV service.
Quick, better ban all the crowbars and jackhammers then! Of course, one might argue that the hundreds of millions of dollars that hunting brings into the Colorado economy is a productive use of guns. Then there's the fact that > 80% of the money for ALL game conservation programs in the US are funded by hunting licenses. And the fact that armed citizens are responsible for stopping millions of crimes every year in the US. And the fact that recreational target shooting is sill one of sports most commonly practiced by Americans......
Hmm, seems like there actually are some constructive uses for guns after you think about it for a while.
Where's the logical problem with that? An unborn baby can't make any decisions and so can't choose to do anything to hurt anyone else. After being born, though, a person can choose to hurt or kill another person. If he does decide to hurt or kill someone else, the only practical response is for his victim to respond in kind.
Yes! A kindred soul! I absolutely love doing that. When they press, I tell them I'll give them a driver's license if they're going to let me drive, otherwise my carry permit is a "government-issued photo ID."
I think the most worrying thing about this is not the law itself. It's the fact that someone will quickly realize that in order to implement the law it will be necessary for anyone accessing the Internet to be reliably identified. We really could be only a few years away from needing a "RealID" card to log on to a public wireless terminal in a coffee shop.
Hear, hear! I'm going to start calling the "shortscreen" laptops, to! I'd go for a "widescreen" if you could pivot it into portrait mode, though. That would me a much nicer feature than a folding keyboard.
A hybrid diesel makes a lot of sense to me. Diesels already get great mileage, but slow acceleration makes them much less fun to drive. An electric motor should provide much better acceleration, while the diesel's great constant-speed efficiency is perfect for running a charging system. A diesel/electric hybrid seems like a much more natural combination than the diesel/gas hybrids the car companies have been selling. By the way, I live in Colorado where more pick-up trucks use diesel than gas, apparently, so there's plenty of diesel around.
The big problem is where to go to get better terms. I've had a virtual server at tektonic.net for over five years, just so I could VPN to it and get around these kinds of restrictions. Recently, and unknown to me, tektonic rewrote their TOS to include stuff just like what Comcast has. One day my server was just down, with no warning. When I contacted them, they told me I was violating the TOS by running tinyproxy and danted on my server.
I spent a few days, researching, but I can't find any hosts or ISPs that don't have ridiculous TOS statements that include BS like Comcast's. I found a lot of FUD about russian hosts, but couldn't find one I could sign up with. So now I'm trying Comcast's business service. (I can't get DSL, and they're the only cable company.)
BTW, in case that wasn't clear, I strongly recommend you avoid tektonic. Service is terrible, but I put up with it for years because I rarely needed anything and they hadn't bothered me about using my server for whatever I wanted.
You are very right. And IBM is definitely one of those cultures that rewards high hours over high output! But I suppose it's because they're billing by the hour and nobody else is big enough to compete on really big projects.
Everybody's talking about limiting user's bandwidth by limiting the number of bits they can download. It's not like the cable company has a finite supply of bits to pass out. We should be talking about BANDWIDTH, not BITS. A "fair" plan would allow users to pay for a priority ranking, and then divide BANDWIDTH among users based on priority. For example, if the infrastructure can handle 10mbps, three users are trying to download a large file, and one user has a higher priority than the other two then the high priority user would get 6mbps and the other two would get 2mbps each, or whatever the agreed-on formula is.
Doesn't anyone else think it's sad that basically all the reasons people are giving that "it won't work" are that government regulations will not allow it to work?
If I could get a real air-car, I certainly wouldn't insist that it have bumpers and side impact protection.
The parent of this post at least holds out some hope. I wonder if there's some way to license it as an experimental aircraft for FAA purposes and as a motorcycle for road purposes? None of my motorcycles have airbags, bumpers, side impact protection, etc....
Sorry, I think there's a simpler answer to the question, "Why shouldn't people get paid for the hours they work?" It's because the hours you work aren't valuable, it's only the result of that labor that's valuable. We [should] get paid because we're doing something valuable, NOT because we spent a certain amount of time doing it. Historically, time spent has been used as a way to measure value, because it's an easy way to measure the amount of work done. When the work being done is so standardized that there's no way for one person to do more than another in the same amount of time, hours provides a good measurement. However, it has only ever been an approximation.
I'm totally against any govenment intervention in how I get paid because I know that I am more productive than almost anyone I work with. And while my greater productivity doesn't always result in my getting paid as much as I think I should get, the fact that my pay is more based on my getting the work done than on spending a certain amount of time doing means that there is a possible upside, and at least it means I have some flexibility. I can read slashdot during the day, for example, because I know I'll still be able to get my work done.
I'm not trying to be rude, but have you ever used iTunes?
you've lost the ability to organize your music based on your specifications
In the "Advanced" section of the preferences window is a checkbox called "Keep iTunes Music folder organized." If you uncheck that, iTunes won't move or rename anything.
All I want from Apple is the ability to specify multiple libraries in various locations
On the Mac, hold down the option key while iTunes is starting up and you'll get a dialog box that lets you create a new library or choose an existing one. You can have as many libraries as you want. I'm sure there's a way to do the same thing in Windows.
If I have all my media on a media server, I don't want iTunes to touch the layout of the files on that server.
I have all my music on a file server, and four different computers access that music. Each one can update tags, but none of them mess with the layout.
You said, "The band is quite popular locally. It's so popular, in fact, that people bootleg their music and share it across the internet." You also said, "Also, concert attendance has stayed flat. The pirating of their music hasn't suddenly increased attendance like they hoped it would."
So you brother has a band that some people like. Why does that translate into an expectation that he should make lots of money? The fact that music trading "hasn't suddenly increased attendance like they hoped it would," just sounds like your brother had some false expectations. It certainly doesn't sound like anybody is stealing something from him.
I would absolutely fly on the "Fly-At-Your-Own-Risk" airline, and I'd love to see the terrorist that could get me and 100 other flying-at-our-own-risk passengers to let him run our plane into a building!
The point is that it's NOT at equal switching speeds. If you have an application for a computer that doesn't need to switch very often, but does need to be extremely reliable, this might help.
Are you joking? It's when you're by yourself that right and wrong are most obvious. It's only the fact that people have been being nice to you that lets you think there's any such thing as a grey area.
If you eat the "wrong" plant, when you're by yourself, you die. If you plant your seeds at the "wrong" time, you starve. If you attack the "wrong" wild animal it eats you instead of you eating it. If you build your house in the "wrong" place the flood washes it away and you freeze to death. When you are by yourself, what is right results in you living and what is wrong results in your death.
If we lived in a just society, the same would be true. It is only to the degree that society is unjust that you are able to escape the consequences of your decisions and think that "opinion" has anything to do with right and wrong.
"Representative democracy as practiced in the US doesn't serve the minority except as an afterthought, or when cornered."
That may be true, but what is the alternative? True democracy doesn't serve the minority at all. The founding fathers were generally more concerned about a tyranny of the majority than they were of a tyrant like King George. This is a common refrain in the Federalist Papers--which are highly-recommended reading because they provide excellent insight into why the Constitution and the Bill of Rights were written the way they were.
The main problem with "representative democracy as practiced today," is that so many of the protections encoded in the Constitution have been effective gutted, so that the majority can trample individual rights.
Since there already is a Mac Mini, and since the phone runs Mac OS X, could the call it the Mac Micro. Or to follow the iPod naming conventions, the Mac Nano?
Can you please define "fix?" As far as I'm concerned, this one isn't broken. The fact that it will be exhausted by the time your grandkids want to use it doesn't affect me. And no matter what we might do, today, there are some things we can't possibly "fix." Like the fact that the sun will eventually run out of fuel. Nothing in the universe is permanently in equilibrium, so where is the value in trying to force Earth some kind of unnatural equilibrium? The universe IS change. We have to find ways to change with it.
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I enjoy watching movies at my "cabin" in the woods, because that's when I have the time to do it. I have a blu-ray player and an hdtv in my cabin BECAUSE I don't have internet access. If I had internet access I'd just download movies. I don't have a phone line and cell phones don't work, which is why I have time to enjoy the movies.
I'm pretty happy with my Comcast Business Class Cable access. It's $59.95/month for decent speed, a TOS that allows me to run servers, and no cable TV service.
Quick, better ban all the crowbars and jackhammers then! Of course, one might argue that the hundreds of millions of dollars that hunting brings into the Colorado economy is a productive use of guns. Then there's the fact that > 80% of the money for ALL game conservation programs in the US are funded by hunting licenses. And the fact that armed citizens are responsible for stopping millions of crimes every year in the US. And the fact that recreational target shooting is sill one of sports most commonly practiced by Americans......
Hmm, seems like there actually are some constructive uses for guns after you think about it for a while.
Where's the logical problem with that? An unborn baby can't make any decisions and so can't choose to do anything to hurt anyone else. After being born, though, a person can choose to hurt or kill another person. If he does decide to hurt or kill someone else, the only practical response is for his victim to respond in kind.
Yes! A kindred soul! I absolutely love doing that. When they press, I tell them I'll give them a driver's license if they're going to let me drive, otherwise my carry permit is a "government-issued photo ID."
I'll reply, since I don't have moderator points. I'd have rated this +1 Funny.
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I'm making that my new
I think the most worrying thing about this is not the law itself. It's the fact that someone will quickly realize that in order to implement the law it will be necessary for anyone accessing the Internet to be reliably identified. We really could be only a few years away from needing a "RealID" card to log on to a public wireless terminal in a coffee shop.
Hear, hear! I'm going to start calling the "shortscreen" laptops, to! I'd go for a "widescreen" if you could pivot it into portrait mode, though. That would me a much nicer feature than a folding keyboard.
A hybrid diesel makes a lot of sense to me. Diesels already get great mileage, but slow acceleration makes them much less fun to drive. An electric motor should provide much better acceleration, while the diesel's great constant-speed efficiency is perfect for running a charging system. A diesel/electric hybrid seems like a much more natural combination than the diesel/gas hybrids the car companies have been selling. By the way, I live in Colorado where more pick-up trucks use diesel than gas, apparently, so there's plenty of diesel around.
The big problem is where to go to get better terms. I've had a virtual server at tektonic.net for over five years, just so I could VPN to it and get around these kinds of restrictions. Recently, and unknown to me, tektonic rewrote their TOS to include stuff just like what Comcast has. One day my server was just down, with no warning. When I contacted them, they told me I was violating the TOS by running tinyproxy and danted on my server.
I spent a few days, researching, but I can't find any hosts or ISPs that don't have ridiculous TOS statements that include BS like Comcast's. I found a lot of FUD about russian hosts, but couldn't find one I could sign up with. So now I'm trying Comcast's business service. (I can't get DSL, and they're the only cable company.)
BTW, in case that wasn't clear, I strongly recommend you avoid tektonic. Service is terrible, but I put up with it for years because I rarely needed anything and they hadn't bothered me about using my server for whatever I wanted.
You are very right. And IBM is definitely one of those cultures that rewards high hours over high output! But I suppose it's because they're billing by the hour and nobody else is big enough to compete on really big projects.
Everybody's talking about limiting user's bandwidth by limiting the number of bits they can download. It's not like the cable company has a finite supply of bits to pass out. We should be talking about BANDWIDTH, not BITS. A "fair" plan would allow users to pay for a priority ranking, and then divide BANDWIDTH among users based on priority. For example, if the infrastructure can handle 10mbps, three users are trying to download a large file, and one user has a higher priority than the other two then the high priority user would get 6mbps and the other two would get 2mbps each, or whatever the agreed-on formula is.
Doesn't anyone else think it's sad that basically all the reasons people are giving that "it won't work" are that government regulations will not allow it to work?
If I could get a real air-car, I certainly wouldn't insist that it have bumpers and side impact protection.
The parent of this post at least holds out some hope. I wonder if there's some way to license it as an experimental aircraft for FAA purposes and as a motorcycle for road purposes? None of my motorcycles have airbags, bumpers, side impact protection, etc....
Sorry, I think there's a simpler answer to the question, "Why shouldn't people get paid for the hours they work?" It's because the hours you work aren't valuable, it's only the result of that labor that's valuable. We [should] get paid because we're doing something valuable, NOT because we spent a certain amount of time doing it. Historically, time spent has been used as a way to measure value, because it's an easy way to measure the amount of work done. When the work being done is so standardized that there's no way for one person to do more than another in the same amount of time, hours provides a good measurement. However, it has only ever been an approximation.
I'm totally against any govenment intervention in how I get paid because I know that I am more productive than almost anyone I work with. And while my greater productivity doesn't always result in my getting paid as much as I think I should get, the fact that my pay is more based on my getting the work done than on spending a certain amount of time doing means that there is a possible upside, and at least it means I have some flexibility. I can read slashdot during the day, for example, because I know I'll still be able to get my work done.
I'm not trying to be rude, but have you ever used iTunes?
you've lost the ability to organize your music based on your specifications
In the "Advanced" section of the preferences window is a checkbox called "Keep iTunes Music folder organized." If you uncheck that, iTunes won't move or rename anything.
All I want from Apple is the ability to specify multiple libraries in various locations
On the Mac, hold down the option key while iTunes is starting up and you'll get a dialog box that lets you create a new library or choose an existing one. You can have as many libraries as you want. I'm sure there's a way to do the same thing in Windows.
If I have all my media on a media server, I don't want iTunes to touch the layout of the files on that server.
I have all my music on a file server, and four different computers access that music. Each one can update tags, but none of them mess with the layout.
You said, "The band is quite popular locally. It's so popular, in fact, that people bootleg their music and share it across the internet." You also said, "Also, concert attendance has stayed flat. The pirating of their music hasn't suddenly increased attendance like they hoped it would."
So you brother has a band that some people like. Why does that translate into an expectation that he should make lots of money? The fact that music trading "hasn't suddenly increased attendance like they hoped it would," just sounds like your brother had some false expectations. It certainly doesn't sound like anybody is stealing something from him.
I would absolutely fly on the "Fly-At-Your-Own-Risk" airline, and I'd love to see the terrorist that could get me and 100 other flying-at-our-own-risk passengers to let him run our plane into a building!
The point is that it's NOT at equal switching speeds. If you have an application for a computer that doesn't need to switch very often, but does need to be extremely reliable, this might help.
Are you joking? It's when you're by yourself that right and wrong are most obvious. It's only the fact that people have been being nice to you that lets you think there's any such thing as a grey area.
If you eat the "wrong" plant, when you're by yourself, you die. If you plant your seeds at the "wrong" time, you starve. If you attack the "wrong" wild animal it eats you instead of you eating it. If you build your house in the "wrong" place the flood washes it away and you freeze to death. When you are by yourself, what is right results in you living and what is wrong results in your death.
If we lived in a just society, the same would be true. It is only to the degree that society is unjust that you are able to escape the consequences of your decisions and think that "opinion" has anything to do with right and wrong.
9. Most people know it is wrong to file-share copyright infringing material but won't stop till the law makes them.
Copyright infringment may be illegal, but "illegal" is not the same thing as "wrong."
That may be true, but what is the alternative? True democracy doesn't serve the minority at all. The founding fathers were generally more concerned about a tyranny of the majority than they were of a tyrant like King George. This is a common refrain in the Federalist Papers--which are highly-recommended reading because they provide excellent insight into why the Constitution and the Bill of Rights were written the way they were.
The main problem with "representative democracy as practiced today," is that so many of the protections encoded in the Constitution have been effective gutted, so that the majority can trample individual rights.
Since there already is a Mac Mini, and since the phone runs Mac OS X, could the call it the Mac Micro. Or to follow the iPod naming conventions, the Mac Nano?
macrumors is to news as pro wrestling is to sport. It's purely entertainment.
I check out macrumors and thinksecret several times a week, but I sure don't make purchasing plans based on them!
That's my only concern,too. I sure don't want my pork to taste like fish.
Can you please define "fix?" As far as I'm concerned, this one isn't broken. The fact that it will be exhausted by the time your grandkids want to use it doesn't affect me. And no matter what we might do, today, there are some things we can't possibly "fix." Like the fact that the sun will eventually run out of fuel. Nothing in the universe is permanently in equilibrium, so where is the value in trying to force Earth some kind of unnatural equilibrium? The universe IS change. We have to find ways to change with it.