The world will be a better place for most people if the freedom that generally exists on the Internet is preserved, but if that freedom is abused by a vocal minority, the rest of us will all get shafted by the consequences.
How can you call it freedom if it's removed if you take advantage of it? If I have freedom, you cannot remove it. If you can, it's not freedom. That's sort of the point.
TPB is not the enemy here. TPB is an indicator on how corrupt our political overlords are, especially in Italy. Once a fascists...
Who says the OS is stored on Microsoft's centralized über server? What if my ISP decided to host the OS for their customers, or my employer for the stations at work?
Why of course, but 1) now you know that such software exists and 2) if you can't find such software for your cell, get your Windows laptop and investigate the noise level at your location...... and it is here that I realize that it is not wifi connections we're talking about. So, unless noise levels on the wifi band says something about wifi levels on the GSM/3G bands, nevermind:D
Remaining power is of course dependent on what you are doing with your computer or cell phone, so making it linear isn't entirely obvious. Especially with cell phones, if the signal quality decreases, the battery drainage will increase as it takes more power to keep a weak/low quality signal steady. So if your distance to the nearest GSM tower increases, the remaining battery life will decrease exponentially.
As far as I know, Windows Zero Configuration offers no information about noise ratio, only signal strength. However, lots of third party wifi connection software for Windows offers this information along with the signal strength. So to answer your question, I guess one way to find out what is happening is to use one of these programs to figure out the noise ratio.
In my experience people of the caliber you're mentioning doesn't give a damn about which browser they use. Try replacing all easily accessible IE shortcuts with FF and make FF the default browser and voila, you will have a few new FF adopters and they won't know it, nor will they care.
So, just because it is a console there is no room for innovation? As I said, I prefer gaming on my PC, but to say RTS is forever dead on the PS3 because its default controller is limited to... to... well, exactly what can you do well with that damned thing? RTS is as you've clearly showed out of the question, FPS is absurd... so that leaves what, NHL?
NO! Because there is massive innovation in this business and to name drop a few Blizzard titles to prove RTS is forever impossible on a PlayStation is just... well, it reminds be of something about 640K of RAM.
This is true as of today. Sure, when I first installed Vista and installed new software and hardware constantly, UAC was a hassle. At the moment however, the only time it bugs me is when I start Apache (which I'm glad for), install new drivers (which I'm glad for) or moves mplayerc.exe into a new folder in the Program folder (a 4 warning process, not to happy but then again, I don't do this every day).
I think UAC was probably a bitch before I got Vista, but these days, you have to be pretty stuck up to find it annoying.
so if the people who make content earn money from their work, they are evil money grabbing fascists
Stop right there. Who said that? I sure as hell didn't. I think very few agree with what you tried to pull there, what people generally disagree with is the methods of the content lobby and those methods' impact on daily lives (freedom, democracy, justice system, and why the hell I can't play a recently bought DVD on my computer/music on my mp3 player).
So, when exactly did this change in things happen? TPB was booted up loooooong before BitTorrent hit the mainstream and in all things that matter, it was at best in the margin of anything important for years.
And those kids with the bad skin has been at the rudder since the very start. So if I were to buy your trolling, I would in the process accept that they, when their project hit the news, soled out to some evil overlord, exposing themselves to some serious jail time etc. just to get a small slize of the total amount of ad revenue? That is, if anything, an insult to those poor kids.
And of course they make money, but as a previous poster mentioned, who gives a damn?
I've been staying at 1600 Pennsylvania ave. for going on 6 years and no one has so much a blinked.
Well, maybe they have blinked but since the address is what it is, it would only be reasonable they went to 1600 Pen. ave. with their latex gloves. The person living there might very well have been through quite a rough time the last 6-7 years because of you, and you wouldn't even know it.
Well, the beauty of democracies is that they are suitable for generalizations. Since the US is a democracy in the sense that the people collectively actually could make changes if they would want to, one can easily generalize and blame stupid regulation (f.ex. unlimited private funding to political campaigns) on general stupidity among the people.
And yes, this is largely a US site, but the topic and the discussion is clearly non-US. Thus, from an international perspective, it is only common sense and common manners to not take for granted everyone defaults a "we" to "the US population". But then again: All Americans suck because they don't realize "international perspective" does NOT mean "the international community's perspecitve on the US".
Incorrect. GP is making a good point and staying very much on topic doing so:
He uses the term incorrectly, but since most people would understand what he means, normally they would let it pass without notice. However, since he points out that he is not interested in responders mentioning the incorrectness, responders will instantly point it out. This relates to TFA (I'm not sure he realized it himself).
Italians voted for Berlusconi. When it comes to human rights, democracy, liberties, etc., Italians are stupid. It's no coincidence that Italy is the home of the most publicly visible crime organizations in Europe, the most totalitarian political leader in Europe and the most corrupted football league in the world. Italians just don't seem to care.
No one remembers a retract statement. At least a retract usually creates a lesser fuzz than a groundbreaking peace of info, i.e. "we found green men on Mars". This would be especially true if the initial statement is more or less unbelievable. So the net outcome would be positive.
First, yes, that is what I mean by "you have to hide it":-)
Second, it's the same as giving your credit card details to the Dell salesperson when you order a new computer over the phone. This salesperson could very well use this information fraudulently, but due to ethics, laws and regulations, you trust him with it. Same with the border guard: you trust him following the ethics and regulations that comes with his job. (rather "you better trust him"...)
And the smart thing for NASA to do these days when their budget is under constant pressure, would be to release spectacular, tabloidish news to raise interest in the agency. The whole water on Mars thing could thus very well be a publicity stunt, in lack of more solid evidence (after reading comments here, there seem to be such evidence, still, critical thinking is of the essence when it comes to NASA).
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The world will be a better place for most people if the freedom that generally exists on the Internet is preserved, but if that freedom is abused by a vocal minority, the rest of us will all get shafted by the consequences.
How can you call it freedom if it's removed if you take advantage of it? If I have freedom, you cannot remove it. If you can, it's not freedom. That's sort of the point.
TPB is not the enemy here. TPB is an indicator on how corrupt our political overlords are, especially in Italy. Once a fascists...
Who says the OS is stored on Microsoft's centralized über server? What if my ISP decided to host the OS for their customers, or my employer for the stations at work?
Just speculating, didn't bother with TFA.
Why of course, but 1) now you know that such software exists and 2) if you can't find such software for your cell, get your Windows laptop and investigate the noise level at your location... ... and it is here that I realize that it is not wifi connections we're talking about. So, unless noise levels on the wifi band says something about wifi levels on the GSM/3G bands, nevermind :D
Remaining power is of course dependent on what you are doing with your computer or cell phone, so making it linear isn't entirely obvious. Especially with cell phones, if the signal quality decreases, the battery drainage will increase as it takes more power to keep a weak/low quality signal steady. So if your distance to the nearest GSM tower increases, the remaining battery life will decrease exponentially.
As far as I know, Windows Zero Configuration offers no information about noise ratio, only signal strength. However, lots of third party wifi connection software for Windows offers this information along with the signal strength. So to answer your question, I guess one way to find out what is happening is to use one of these programs to figure out the noise ratio.
In my experience people of the caliber you're mentioning doesn't give a damn about which browser they use. Try replacing all easily accessible IE shortcuts with FF and make FF the default browser and voila, you will have a few new FF adopters and they won't know it, nor will they care.
So, just because it is a console there is no room for innovation? As I said, I prefer gaming on my PC, but to say RTS is forever dead on the PS3 because its default controller is limited to... to... well, exactly what can you do well with that damned thing? RTS is as you've clearly showed out of the question, FPS is absurd... so that leaves what, NHL?
NO! Because there is massive innovation in this business and to name drop a few Blizzard titles to prove RTS is forever impossible on a PlayStation is just... well, it reminds be of something about 640K of RAM.
This is true as of today. Sure, when I first installed Vista and installed new software and hardware constantly, UAC was a hassle. At the moment however, the only time it bugs me is when I start Apache (which I'm glad for), install new drivers (which I'm glad for) or moves mplayerc.exe into a new folder in the Program folder (a 4 warning process, not to happy but then again, I don't do this every day).
I think UAC was probably a bitch before I got Vista, but these days, you have to be pretty stuck up to find it annoying.
What you're saying is that there is an issue because ONE company out there refuses to develop for the game consoles?
I prefer gaming on my PC, but you can't build an argument on Blizzard's money making strategy alone.
so if the people who make content earn money from their work, they are evil money grabbing fascists
Stop right there. Who said that? I sure as hell didn't. I think very few agree with what you tried to pull there, what people generally disagree with is the methods of the content lobby and those methods' impact on daily lives (freedom, democracy, justice system, and why the hell I can't play a recently bought DVD on my computer/music on my mp3 player).
So, when exactly did this change in things happen? TPB was booted up loooooong before BitTorrent hit the mainstream and in all things that matter, it was at best in the margin of anything important for years.
And those kids with the bad skin has been at the rudder since the very start. So if I were to buy your trolling, I would in the process accept that they, when their project hit the news, soled out to some evil overlord, exposing themselves to some serious jail time etc. just to get a small slize of the total amount of ad revenue? That is, if anything, an insult to those poor kids.
And of course they make money, but as a previous poster mentioned, who gives a damn?
Your "informative" mod is what makes it funny.
I've been staying at 1600 Pennsylvania ave. for going on 6 years and no one has so much a blinked.
Well, maybe they have blinked but since the address is what it is, it would only be reasonable they went to 1600 Pen. ave. with their latex gloves. The person living there might very well have been through quite a rough time the last 6-7 years because of you, and you wouldn't even know it.
Well, the beauty of democracies is that they are suitable for generalizations. Since the US is a democracy in the sense that the people collectively actually could make changes if they would want to, one can easily generalize and blame stupid regulation (f.ex. unlimited private funding to political campaigns) on general stupidity among the people.
And yes, this is largely a US site, but the topic and the discussion is clearly non-US. Thus, from an international perspective, it is only common sense and common manners to not take for granted everyone defaults a "we" to "the US population". But then again: All Americans suck because they don't realize "international perspective" does NOT mean "the international community's perspecitve on the US".
Incorrect. GP is making a good point and staying very much on topic doing so:
He uses the term incorrectly, but since most people would understand what he means, normally they would let it pass without notice. However, since he points out that he is not interested in responders mentioning the incorrectness, responders will instantly point it out. This relates to TFA (I'm not sure he realized it himself).
Italians voted for Berlusconi. When it comes to human rights, democracy, liberties, etc., Italians are stupid. It's no coincidence that Italy is the home of the most publicly visible crime organizations in Europe, the most totalitarian political leader in Europe and the most corrupted football league in the world. Italians just don't seem to care.
No one remembers a retract statement. At least a retract usually creates a lesser fuzz than a groundbreaking peace of info, i.e. "we found green men on Mars". This would be especially true if the initial statement is more or less unbelievable. So the net outcome would be positive.
First, yes, that is what I mean by "you have to hide it" :-)
Second, it's the same as giving your credit card details to the Dell salesperson when you order a new computer over the phone. This salesperson could very well use this information fraudulently, but due to ethics, laws and regulations, you trust him with it. Same with the border guard: you trust him following the ethics and regulations that comes with his job. (rather "you better trust him"...)
I would like to answer "uh, yeah, like free countries and democracies" but I guess that just wouldn't be true.
Talk about downward spiral.
You would have to hide it, otherwise they would treat your harddrive as they would treat your briefcase if you refused to open it, i.e. seizing it.
And the smart thing for NASA to do these days when their budget is under constant pressure, would be to release spectacular, tabloidish news to raise interest in the agency. The whole water on Mars thing could thus very well be a publicity stunt, in lack of more solid evidence (after reading comments here, there seem to be such evidence, still, critical thinking is of the essence when it comes to NASA).
Lets just hope they don't mix up UK and US time.
The police officer who flipped from the force to Warner has allegedly flopped back and is again in uniform.
Swedish newspaper Sydsvenskan on the matter:
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fsydsvenskan.se%2Fnojen%2Farticle331913.ece&hl=en&ie=UTF8&sl=sv&tl=en