Some people may have learned to fool the polygraph, and it may be tough to pass a polygraph test, but it is not that tough to break the system and screw up the test. Bottom line is that to get even half-way reliable results you need a willing and cooperating subject who will follow instructions. Yes, a trained operator can tweak the dials to adjust to changing conditions, but if you're all over the place they'll never get a baseline on you, and the whole thing will be inconclusive.
Oh yeah, 'official' history notwithstanding, Yahoo evolved from a page of links, to a big page of links, to several pages of links, to a portal, to whatever it is they call it now.
Our IT department still refuses to let XP on the network, because it's such a piece of shit.
Don't confuse what IT says with reality. My experience with IT support has been that they will say whatever they need to avoid creating trouble. When their workload decreases significantly, or a round of lay-offs is around the corner, expect a sudden rush to XP migration, because suddenly 'it makes sense for the business'.
You miss a VERY important point: We're paying for it!
I don't think he's missing any point. You're paying alright, paying to play the game. Is this 'freedom of speech' in your service contract somewhere? Just because you're paying doesn't mean you can do anything you want. If you have a subscription to your local paper it doesn't mean they're obligated to print out anything you send them.
Want to make hardware? Either play the Microsoft Ballgame, or forget over 90% of the end users out there.
What, writing a driver for your device too much work for you? Would you rather play the Apple ballgame? What is this Microsoft Ballgame you're talking about anyways?
But how big is it compared to the Sears Tower? Or how heavy compared to a VW Bug? I think we need a common frame of referance... I just don't know how big a 5lb block of cheddar is.
The ISP does not need to be involved. The tap order will force the VOIP provider to route your call through a proxy which will tap the stream, instead of having it go IP2IP.
Cringely must be suggesting that the community will have to become tighter about the way it accepts code.
Why will it have to? It Microsoft strict about the code it accepts from its programmers? Is there a horde of lawyers going over every line of Windows source comparing it to GPL and BSD code? What's to stop a developer from copying a bunch of GPL code from somewhere, getting it past review (not the greatest challenge I assume), and hey, as long as the daily build doesn't break, who cares, right?
I'm actually not against car insurance. I agree that it is a good thing, and it's a form of communal escrow. But in most of its forms it does seem quite unfair to a large group of people (most the young and poor ones, lacking any kind of voice or influence, as one conspiracy theory would have it) and it also seems to be headed in a bad direction, like medical practice/doctor insurance, and with huge incentives to charge as much as possible for something that is required by law in many cases.
But, to add to the other reply to your comment, it's really punishment. Insurance is mandatory. If you get pulled over for anything and don't have insurance, you'll get a stiff fine.
If insurance is mandatory, why doesn't it start out low, and remain low as long as you're a safe driver, and go up if you're not? As it is now, I'm being punished with high rates for the first 5 years of my driving record, then punished some more until I'm 25, then punished more still until I get married. With a perfect driving record. What gives?
This would be SOMEWHAT reasonable if insurance was optional, and then people would buy it for, well, insurance and peace of mind. It would be a service to limit financial risk. But it isn't. It's required by law, and it's provided by private for-profit companies with, frankly, very little regulation and oversight.
GPS tracking will not catch bad drivers. It will, at best, only get speeders, and proably only those who speed vrey excessively (to allow for some error margin inherent in consumer GPS). It will not get peopel running stop signs and red lights, it will not get people changing lanes without signalling, people cutting off others, people tail-gating, people... well, you get the idea. In other words, there's next to zero benefit you're getting, no added safety on the roads, and a WHOLE slew of interesting info the insurance company now has on you than many marketers and researchers would be very interested in. The pittance you'll get in exchange in the form of reduced rates is nothing compared to what the insurers stand to receive.
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Well, that's true, the fields are not taken very seriously, since any real research into them has yielded overwhelmingly negative results. It's a catch-22 situation. No one will take the topic seriously and do research until more solid data is available to build on, but no base data will be available until serious research is done. Personally, I think the lack of interest is justified, and that the parapsychology fields are mostly fruitless.
But still, you CAN apply the scientific method to them, it's just that you won't be taken very seriously by your peers, or by the locals.
You probably can... if you can't directly connect to a stream, you can use the Windows Media Player, and Open a URL. It will use your browser's proxy settings, unlike Winamp. But for me that only plays for an hour or so. Try making an ASX file and load that into WMP.
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They're fields of study, and as such you CAN do scientific work in them. Very few endevour to do so, and virtually all work done to date has been less than scientific, even if it claims to be.
Rentals, well, that may explain it. I don't have 6th Sense (didn't think enough of it to buy it)... I know Disney put in previews for sure, but those are always skippable, and I think Paramount (or MGM?) started putting some in. That's about it.
I don't know much about DVD programming, but I wouldn't have thought there were multiple levels of 'do not skip' flag, so I don't see how some players would let you skip some unskippable cotent while not allowing you to do the same with other. Oh well, it is a pain in the ass sometimes, but I'm far more pissed about these retarded animated menus than not being able to skip the FBI warning screen.
Everyone keeps bitching about not being able to skip previews and warnings on DVD. I have a Sony player, so I know a thing or two about 'locked down', but I NEVER had a problem skipping previews, and for FBI warnings usually Menu or Next Track does the trick.
And someone PLEASE tell me what these DVDs with previews, especially unskippable previews are. I think I have one or two from what I recall, but I never had to sit through them.
So, really, I'd like to know, so I can avoid buying them if possible. Because this excuse comes up every time someone bashes DVDs.
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Some people may have learned to fool the polygraph, and it may be tough to pass a polygraph test, but it is not that tough to break the system and screw up the test. Bottom line is that to get even half-way reliable results you need a willing and cooperating subject who will follow instructions. Yes, a trained operator can tweak the dials to adjust to changing conditions, but if you're all over the place they'll never get a baseline on you, and the whole thing will be inconclusive.
Oh yeah, 'official' history notwithstanding, Yahoo evolved from a page of links, to a big page of links, to several pages of links, to a portal, to whatever it is they call it now.
Don't confuse what IT says with reality. My experience with IT support has been that they will say whatever they need to avoid creating trouble. When their workload decreases significantly, or a round of lay-offs is around the corner, expect a sudden rush to XP migration, because suddenly 'it makes sense for the business'.
I don't think he's missing any point. You're paying alright, paying to play the game. Is this 'freedom of speech' in your service contract somewhere? Just because you're paying doesn't mean you can do anything you want. If you have a subscription to your local paper it doesn't mean they're obligated to print out anything you send them.
What, writing a driver for your device too much work for you? Would you rather play the Apple ballgame? What is this Microsoft Ballgame you're talking about anyways?
Same with software.
Such as? An installer? Win32 API? What?
Well, why not go for the simpler and less troublesome solution, and send men AND women to Mars? You know, together. Hmm, but on separate ships maybe.
The ID3v2.4 specification has tags for just such information.
Right, because in the last 20 years the rate of inflation has been 0, and $20 still goes as far as it did 20 years ago.
iPod vs iTunes... one makes Apple lots of money, the other does not.
But how big is it compared to the Sears Tower? Or how heavy compared to a VW Bug? I think we need a common frame of referance... I just don't know how big a 5lb block of cheddar is.
The ISP does not need to be involved. The tap order will force the VOIP provider to route your call through a proxy which will tap the stream, instead of having it go IP2IP.
And for some people 40GB isn't nearly enough to hold their entire CD collection. Now, when a 200GB iPod comes out, give me a call.
Oh yeah, compiling a kernel is 'quick', for unuslally large values of 'quick'...
Why will it have to? It Microsoft strict about the code it accepts from its programmers? Is there a horde of lawyers going over every line of Windows source comparing it to GPL and BSD code? What's to stop a developer from copying a bunch of GPL code from somewhere, getting it past review (not the greatest challenge I assume), and hey, as long as the daily build doesn't break, who cares, right?
Unelss somehow you manage to figure out his /. id from that post, yeah, he's still an Anonymous Coward.
I'm actually not against car insurance. I agree that it is a good thing, and it's a form of communal escrow. But in most of its forms it does seem quite unfair to a large group of people (most the young and poor ones, lacking any kind of voice or influence, as one conspiracy theory would have it) and it also seems to be headed in a bad direction, like medical practice/doctor insurance, and with huge incentives to charge as much as possible for something that is required by law in many cases.
But, to add to the other reply to your comment, it's really punishment. Insurance is mandatory. If you get pulled over for anything and don't have insurance, you'll get a stiff fine.
If insurance is mandatory, why doesn't it start out low, and remain low as long as you're a safe driver, and go up if you're not? As it is now, I'm being punished with high rates for the first 5 years of my driving record, then punished some more until I'm 25, then punished more still until I get married. With a perfect driving record. What gives?
This would be SOMEWHAT reasonable if insurance was optional, and then people would buy it for, well, insurance and peace of mind. It would be a service to limit financial risk. But it isn't. It's required by law, and it's provided by private for-profit companies with, frankly, very little regulation and oversight.
GPS tracking will not catch bad drivers. It will, at best, only get speeders, and proably only those who speed vrey excessively (to allow for some error margin inherent in consumer GPS). It will not get peopel running stop signs and red lights, it will not get people changing lanes without signalling, people cutting off others, people tail-gating, people... well, you get the idea. In other words, there's next to zero benefit you're getting, no added safety on the roads, and a WHOLE slew of interesting info the insurance company now has on you than many marketers and researchers would be very interested in. The pittance you'll get in exchange in the form of reduced rates is nothing compared to what the insurers stand to receive.
Well, that's true, the fields are not taken very seriously, since any real research into them has yielded overwhelmingly negative results. It's a catch-22 situation. No one will take the topic seriously and do research until more solid data is available to build on, but no base data will be available until serious research is done. Personally, I think the lack of interest is justified, and that the parapsychology fields are mostly fruitless.
But still, you CAN apply the scientific method to them, it's just that you won't be taken very seriously by your peers, or by the locals.
You probably can... if you can't directly connect to a stream, you can use the Windows Media Player, and Open a URL. It will use your browser's proxy settings, unlike Winamp. But for me that only plays for an hour or so. Try making an ASX file and load that into WMP.
They're fields of study, and as such you CAN do scientific work in them. Very few endevour to do so, and virtually all work done to date has been less than scientific, even if it claims to be.
It's just a typical pep rally to get the troops excited. Whether it happens at Amway or Microsoft or a high school, it's the same idea.
Rentals, well, that may explain it. I don't have 6th Sense (didn't think enough of it to buy it)... I know Disney put in previews for sure, but those are always skippable, and I think Paramount (or MGM?) started putting some in. That's about it.
I don't know much about DVD programming, but I wouldn't have thought there were multiple levels of 'do not skip' flag, so I don't see how some players would let you skip some unskippable cotent while not allowing you to do the same with other. Oh well, it is a pain in the ass sometimes, but I'm far more pissed about these retarded animated menus than not being able to skip the FBI warning screen.
Hey, no fair cheating! You can't use the no-clip code!
Everyone keeps bitching about not being able to skip previews and warnings on DVD. I have a Sony player, so I know a thing or two about 'locked down', but I NEVER had a problem skipping previews, and for FBI warnings usually Menu or Next Track does the trick.
And someone PLEASE tell me what these DVDs with previews, especially unskippable previews are. I think I have one or two from what I recall, but I never had to sit through them.
So, really, I'd like to know, so I can avoid buying them if possible. Because this excuse comes up every time someone bashes DVDs.