How do they expect a DRM encumbered download which costs as much as the DVD to succeed
I don't think they do expect it to succeed. When their half-assed attempt at legal downloads fails they'll have more FUD to spread to lawmakers about evil downloading hurting their bottom line.
At least their accountants will work out a way to write off the losses for the hardware, networking and other things required for this.
Only 70 years ago they were selling to Nazis to track people for "processing".
Today the Nazis could make some spiffy looking spreadsheets with bar charts showing throughput and other cool things. They really were ahead of their time.
Again, the numbers were relative to his case at the time, which was about 7 years ago. The numbers were in fact accurate, as was my initial statement that if he were in Canada at the time, he would have died. A big part of the reason he took a job in the US was because of the health care here.
Fair enough. Of course when a case is serious people to get bumped to the front of the line here and every case is unique. Of course having a good plan or lots of cash makes the US system attractive, not so much for the millions who have no way of paying for their medical care.
My dad had prostate cancer and was operated on a few weeks after it was detected (it wasn't life threatening) so that worked well for him.. And we're expecting our first baby in July, I'll let you know how the system works for me then.:)
A big part of the reason Canadian healthcare is getting a huge influx of money is due to US customers buying drugs from Canada.
Friends of our family own one of the websites which sells (mainly) to Americans. Other than regular taxes, how does Health Canada benefit?
10 MRIs? We have two right here in our building in Manitoba (population ~1.1M) and some smaller bore ones for research (7T and 11T) There are 2 or 3 others at least at hospitals in the city, etc. Not saying there are 10000 MRI machines but 10 is an old stat.
Oddly, it was the horrible Matrox Mystique video card that signalled the end for SGI. It wasn't the first 3D PC card, but for many people, it was the first one they owned and used. It ran Tomb Raider with 3d acceleration.
Haha! You've just described "me". I remember getting a Mystique on the recommendation of a friend and installing the Tomb Raider patch for 3D acceleration. It was my first 3D accelerated game.
[T]he commodity hardware was getting to the level of being able to handle it. People now longer had to pay the premium for the SGI equipment.
How true. Over the past few years ago we've cut maintenance on our last SGI systems (Origin 2000, Origin 2200, Origin 3200, SAN, CXFS, etc.) Two new Linux clusters (33x dual Xeons and 14x dual Opterons) are now doing the lion's share of the work. Less money for more raw crunching.
He did say that, but then his pizza budget hit an all-time high so he decided to milk this withered udder one more time. Until the release on BluRay and HD-DVD are available, that is.
20 minutes to remove the laptop from the bag, smash the window and pound
on the steering column with it? They must be using those modern,
fancy-pants, lightweight laptops. In the old days we could get a car in under 5 minutes
with a Mac Portable.
[I had to google for HIPPA;)] You're right, though; if you weren't one to stand up for your rights, you'd probably have face cancer or a huge bill now.
You seem to lack any imagination whatsoever to visualize how things could possible be worse than anyone else.
He referred to Nth hand information claiming that the Canadian system took months to have a painful tooth looked at, I just presented my first hand experience from a couple of weeks ago.
My dentist looked at the infection, sent me home with antibiotics and a Tylenol 3s and a referral to an oral surgeon. About 2 weeks later at my appointment he surgeon asked me if I wanted it out then or if I wanted to schedule it for later as it wasn't bothering me anymore. I opted for then and less than an hour later I was at home watching crappy movies for the day. And I left the office without owing a dime.
is so overburdened and inefficient that it takes months, MONTHS to get to a dentist for a painful tooth problem.
BULLSHIT. Absolute bullshit. I had an impacted wisdom tooth, had an appointment to see an oral surgeon after the infection went away and had the tooth out the same day as the scheduled appointment, only 3 days after I finished my antibiotics. Check my journal, I have an entry there written the day I had my tooth out.
I've witnessed it, too. Usually warranted (imho) as the person won't read the FAQs or manpages. Or won't listen to reason. Or expects the lists to be a google-proxy.
My point was that he didn't yell "Upgrade to -current, you mindless fucking retard!" or whatever people may assume he'd write. And his subsequent mail was just as cordial.
He's always been cordial when I've had dealings with him. In fact recently on the misc@ list I mentioned problems with getting both cores on an AMD64X2 going with 3.9, pasted dmesgs, etc. and he wrote me off-list suggesting I compile up to -current. His suggestion worked and saved my sanity.
Keeping loads of various architectures 'live' helps the developers spot odd bugs in the common that may compile Just Fine on x86 but cause glitches on esoteric platforms. Thus weird bugs get cleaned up.
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How do they expect a DRM encumbered download which costs as much as the DVD to succeed
I don't think they do expect it to succeed. When their half-assed attempt at legal downloads fails they'll have more FUD to spread to lawmakers about evil downloading hurting their bottom line.
At least their accountants will work out a way to write off the losses for the hardware, networking and other things required for this.
had to drink it?! Infidel! Fort Garry Dark is one of the finest beers ever. Love the stuff! (yep, from Winnipeg
Fort Garry Dark Ale
Only 70 years ago they were selling to Nazis to track people for "processing".
Today the Nazis could make some spiffy looking spreadsheets with bar charts showing throughput and other cool things.
They really were ahead of their time.
Again, the numbers were relative to his case at the time, which was about 7 years ago. The numbers were in fact accurate, as was my initial statement that if he were in Canada at the time, he would have died. A big part of the reason he took a job in the US was because of the health care here.
Fair enough. Of course when a case is serious people to get bumped to the front of the line here and every case is unique. Of course having a good plan or lots of cash makes the US system attractive, not so much for the millions who have no way of paying for their medical care.
My dad had prostate cancer and was operated on a few weeks after it was detected (it wasn't life threatening) so that worked well for him.. And we're expecting our first baby in July, I'll let you know how the system works for me then.
A big part of the reason Canadian healthcare is getting a huge influx of money is due to US customers buying drugs from Canada.
Friends of our family own one of the websites which sells (mainly) to Americans. Other than regular taxes, how does Health Canada benefit?
Ah, gotta love google
10 MRIs? We have two right here in our building in Manitoba (population ~1.1M) and some smaller bore ones for research (7T and 11T) There are 2 or 3 others at least at hospitals in the city, etc. Not saying there are 10000 MRI machines but 10 is an old stat.
Oddly, it was the horrible Matrox Mystique video card that signalled the end for SGI. It wasn't the first 3D PC card, but for many people, it was the first one they owned and used. It ran Tomb Raider with 3d acceleration.
Haha! You've just described "me". I remember getting a Mystique on the recommendation of a friend and installing the Tomb Raider patch for 3D acceleration. It was my first 3D accelerated game.
[T]he commodity hardware was getting to the level of being able to handle it. People now longer had to pay the premium for the SGI equipment.
How true. Over the past few years ago we've cut maintenance on our last SGI systems (Origin 2000, Origin 2200, Origin 3200, SAN, CXFS, etc.) Two new Linux clusters (33x dual Xeons and 14x dual Opterons) are now doing the lion's share of the work. Less money for more raw crunching.
We may know software, but we know shit about hotels
Perhaps he's hoping one of us stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night.
He did say that, but then his pizza budget hit an all-time high so he decided to milk this withered udder one more time. Until the release on BluRay and HD-DVD are available, that is.
20 minutes to remove the laptop from the bag, smash the window and pound on the steering column with it? They must be using those modern, fancy-pants, lightweight laptops. In the old days we could get a car in under 5 minutes with a Mac Portable.
[I had to google for HIPPA
You seem to lack any imagination whatsoever to visualize how things could possible be worse than anyone else.
He referred to Nth hand information claiming that the Canadian system took months to have a painful tooth looked at, I just presented my first hand experience from a couple of weeks ago.
My dentist looked at the infection, sent me home with antibiotics and a Tylenol 3s and a referral to an oral surgeon. About 2 weeks later at my appointment he surgeon asked me if I wanted it out then or if I wanted to schedule it for later as it wasn't bothering me anymore. I opted for then and less than an hour later I was at home watching crappy movies for the day. And I left the office without owing a dime.
is so overburdened and inefficient that it takes months, MONTHS to get to a dentist for a painful tooth problem.
BULLSHIT. Absolute bullshit. I had an impacted wisdom tooth, had an appointment to see an oral surgeon after the infection went away and had the tooth out the same day as the scheduled appointment, only 3 days after I finished my antibiotics. Check my journal, I have an entry there written the day I had my tooth out.
If he were in Canada, his brain tumor never would have been diagnosed because he wouldn't have had access to the equipment necessary.
Such as what? I guess the MRI machines at my workplace here in Canada don't exist, right?
I've witnessed it, too. Usually warranted (imho) as the person won't read the FAQs or manpages. Or won't listen to reason. Or expects the lists to be a google-proxy.
My point was that he didn't yell "Upgrade to -current, you mindless fucking retard!" or whatever people may assume he'd write. And his subsequent mail was just as cordial.
He's always been cordial when I've had dealings with him. In fact recently on the misc@ list I mentioned problems with getting both cores on an AMD64X2 going with 3.9, pasted dmesgs, etc. and he wrote me off-list suggesting I compile up to -current. His suggestion worked and saved my sanity.
From the site: Back to the high-def rips, sans commercials, of the shows for those who follow them...
Ha! I've had one payment already!
You don't want to be left out, send that dollar!
Is Coffee the Persuasion Bean?
Excellent question.
I'd recommend sending $1.00 to paypal@grub.net. Will post the results in my journal later this week.
Subject says it all.
I should Preview ;)
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Keeping loads of various architectures 'live' helps the developers spot odd bugs in the common that may compile Just Fine on x86 but cause glitches on esoteric platforms. Thus weird bugs get cleaned up.