you could try a very cheap guitar wireless unit. It'd be quite the hack, with a lot of 1/4"-1/8" adapters (and vice versa), but it'd work. My cheap wireless (a Nady Wireless One) has a range of about 1500 feet via a 235-ish mHz transmitter/receiver combo.
"Sales of recorded music are down 10% in the United States over the last year. The recording industry blames this downturn not on the economic recession, not on the crappy music that they've released in the past few years, but on Internet piracy."
It's funny, but Mr. Fraase just wrecked his whole bastardization of the music industry!
"... blames this downturn not on the economic recession..."
Yes, the economic downturn where the comsumption share of GDP only decreased by very negligable amounts.
"... not on the crappy music..."
It's a simple fact that no matter how crappy the music is, people are going to buy it. Just look at <insert whoever it's cool to make fun of nowadays>.
"but on Internet piracy."
This does seem like the logical end, doesn't it? I mean, nobody wants to be a criminal and so it's easy to justify our actions here, but I know I'm buying at LEAST 10% less CDs now than I was five years ago before I got my first CD-R.
We can't be pirates and then turn around and act all snippy when someone accuses us of being so.
Perhaps that last bit was a crass generalization, but you get my point...
as an offerer of a good or service, you don't. Imagine on the front page of the New York Times: "$0.65 for those who buy everday; $1.65 otherwise," or, "$0.65 for visible minorities; $1.65 otherwise."
it's a free country... those who "troll" should have access to the same fees as those who don't (although that line is so blurry taht I don't want to touch it). Price discrimination, last I checked, was still illegal.
Integration in an organization is key. Depending on how "modern" the management in the company is, an idea you might want to try is a participatory, cross-functional team.
Try having people from different areas (Finance, Marketing, Human Resources, Operations, etc.) with different levels of authority coming together to work as a part of the team. This will give your department the decision-making power it needs in the organization, while maintaining a broad perspective in terms of everything you will need to successfully set up and run the site.
"At 19:50 a user logged in to the PDNS webpage edit program from arky.voltage.net using the user identification and password of CRTI employee, James W. McCoy Jr. An [sic] FBI interview of Mr. McCoy determined that he did not access the PDNS webpage edit program on Februray 1, 2000 and did not authorize anyone to use his user identification and password."
I think, by the letter of the law, that that's wire fraud.
What they meant was that, with the air conditioning on, there would have been more noise in the car, which would have made it harder to hear any outside noise.
it's a one-time thing. $150 from one year, none ever again. The government's plan is to help roll out the access. It doesn't (I hope) include maintainence and re-development after the cable's been laid.
However, Even with only 2/3 of all Canadians paying taxes, it'd only be $200 ea. That's how much the Ontario government gave back in tax rebate cheques last year (with litte end economic result, btw). That money would have been good in health care or education, too, but.... I guess the point I'm trying to make is that there's lots of places that money could come from to help out those two very underfunded programs.
Just to clarify this guys' GREAT point (I'm a jerk, I know):
$4.5 Billion / ~30 Million Canadians = ~150/yr.
I would be very proud to say that $150 of my tax dollars go to the broad expansion of broadband in Canada. Very proud.
And finally, I've got to get rid of this myth ASAP: The government would, most likely, not set up some sort of crown ISP to run all this! Throughout both articles, it is stressed that this is a government/private sector joint venture!
There's not going to be what's left of our army banging on my door because I'm running a FTP server!
There's not going to be any monopoly to drive prices through the roof!
Besides, we're Canadians... we wouldn't do that anyway.
When you honestly think about it, they're running at a $13 billion surplus on top of their projected surplus right now. Why *not* use some of it towards some good social programs like that.
I live two hours north of Toronto, and at least an hour from any *city* in Ontario (I'm in Grey County -- out in the middle of nowhere), yet I'm sitting here, next to my cable modem, where I only pay CA$29.99/mnth. You honestly can not tell me that that's not an accomplishment!
btw, I think the hike in pay you're talking about is the MPPs for Ontario(?) 20-42%, IIRC.
"Why would Canada be wasting perfectly good loonies on a project like this, instead of trying to salvage what's left of their healthcare system?"
Health care, like education, is mainly a provincial thing in Canada. $4.5 billion into our health care system here in Ontario wouldn't even scratch the surface, unfortunately..
If we are going to blame anyone, blame the Tories. Publically funded golf tournaments, income tax rebate cheques, and corporate cuddling are generally more of a priority, in their eyes.
This is not reinventing the wheel -- it's an investment in the economy.
If the US buys their design, that'll pump needed money into these leading tech companies. I'm sure wall street would be happy to hear that tech companies are actually going to *shudder* meet the year's expectations.
Given the recent beating the NASDAQ has been taking, how can this be bad?
And I don't even want to hear the anti-microsoft stuff ("...I don't even trust them to count right..."). I am sure that as mature adults, they'd do their duty to make as sucessful a package as possible for this. And I would hope that, as mature adults, our community would embrace a good design.
This is NOT Gates' attempt to take over the world -- it's three sane businesses getting together to build something that will help an obviously flawed voting system.
I'm sure I'm not going to be the only one to point this out, but here in Canada, our election will have been called, the campagning will be done, the votes will be counted, and a party will be in power in less time than it's taken the states to interpret their results.
I don't meant to point my finger or blame anyone; I just think it's kinda funny..
notice that since GIS stopped being done regularily, all the episode have been *filled* with lots and lots of swearing? How is this getting passed thesync? I thought they edited.
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you could try a very cheap guitar wireless unit. It'd be quite the hack, with a lot of 1/4"-1/8" adapters (and vice versa), but it'd work. My cheap wireless (a Nady Wireless One) has a range of about 1500 feet via a 235-ish mHz transmitter/receiver combo.
There's one here on eBay right now for $25.
I can't speak for the masses, but I would assume that you are the minority. You just see too many others doing it. It's sickening.
:)
Sometimes, the only way you can win is to be a criminal.. it's fun
You make a good point tho: you are being punished for a crime you don't commit. That's unfair.
But just becuase some people being punished as such does not cast a shadow on the fact that piracy _is_ a huge _problem_.
From the article:
..."
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"Sales of recorded music are down 10% in the United States over the last year. The recording industry blames this downturn not on the economic recession, not on the crappy music that they've released in the past few years, but on Internet piracy."
It's funny, but Mr. Fraase just wrecked his whole bastardization of the music industry!
"... blames this downturn not on the economic recession
Yes, the economic downturn where the comsumption share of GDP only decreased by very negligable amounts.
"... not on the crappy music
It's a simple fact that no matter how crappy the music is, people are going to buy it. Just look at <insert whoever it's cool to make fun of nowadays>.
"but on Internet piracy."
This does seem like the logical end, doesn't it? I mean, nobody wants to be a criminal and so it's easy to justify our actions here, but I know I'm buying at LEAST 10% less CDs now than I was five years ago before I got my first CD-R.
We can't be pirates and then turn around and act all snippy when someone accuses us of being so.
Perhaps that last bit was a crass generalization, but you get my point...
"... learning should be cheap..."
You're a Canadian? I didn't think us Canadians were fimiliar with that concept.
..
as an offerer of a good or service, you don't. Imagine on the front page of the New York Times: "$0.65 for those who buy everday; $1.65 otherwise," or, "$0.65 for visible minorities; $1.65 otherwise."
it's a free country... those who "troll" should have access to the same fees as those who don't (although that line is so blurry taht I don't want to touch it). Price discrimination, last I checked, was still illegal.
Integration in an organization is key. Depending on how "modern" the management in the company is, an idea you might want to try is a participatory, cross-functional team.
Try having people from different areas (Finance, Marketing, Human Resources, Operations, etc.) with different levels of authority coming together to work as a part of the team. This will give your department the decision-making power it needs in the organization, while maintaining a broad perspective in terms of everything you will need to successfully set up and run the site.
In the affidavit, it says:
"At 19:50 a user logged in to the PDNS webpage edit program from arky.voltage.net using the user identification and password of CRTI employee, James W. McCoy Jr. An [sic] FBI interview of Mr. McCoy determined that he did not access the PDNS webpage edit program on Februray 1, 2000 and did not authorize anyone to use his user identification and password."
I think, by the letter of the law, that that's wire fraud.
http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/industry/07/25/hacker .reut/index.html
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r .reut/index.html
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r ime.ap/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/internet/07/24/hacke
http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/industry/07/24/hacke
http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/internet/07/24/cyber
http://www.cnn.com/2001/LAW/07/20/ashcroft.cyberc
What they meant was that, with the air conditioning on, there would have been more noise in the car, which would have made it harder to hear any outside noise.
if it's just technical support, as the article outlines, I don't see why there would be a problem with using *any* license.
It's not as if microsoft is writing code for them.
it's a one-time thing. $150 from one year, none ever again. The government's plan is to help roll out the access. It doesn't (I hope) include maintainence and re-development after the cable's been laid.
However, Even with only 2/3 of all Canadians paying taxes, it'd only be $200 ea. That's how much the Ontario government gave back in tax rebate cheques last year (with litte end economic result, btw). That money would have been good in health care or education, too, but.... I guess the point I'm trying to make is that there's lots of places that money could come from to help out those two very underfunded programs.
yeah, that's what I was sayin'... I don't think our MP's paycheques are going to be growing too much bigger any time soon.
(note the proper spelling of "cheque," yankees!)
Just to clarify this guys' GREAT point (I'm a jerk, I know):
$4.5 Billion / ~30 Million Canadians = ~150/yr.
I would be very proud to say that $150 of my tax dollars go to the broad expansion of broadband in Canada. Very proud.
And finally, I've got to get rid of this myth ASAP: The government would, most likely, not set up some sort of crown ISP to run all this! Throughout both articles, it is stressed that this is a government/private sector joint venture!
There's not going to be what's left of our army banging on my door because I'm running a FTP server!
There's not going to be any monopoly to drive prices through the roof!
Besides, we're Canadians... we wouldn't do that anyway.
HUGE *federal* surplus.
When you honestly think about it, they're running at a $13 billion surplus on top of their projected surplus right now. Why *not* use some of it towards some good social programs like that.
I live two hours north of Toronto, and at least an hour from any *city* in Ontario (I'm in Grey County -- out in the middle of nowhere), yet I'm sitting here, next to my cable modem, where I only pay CA$29.99/mnth. You honestly can not tell me that that's not an accomplishment!
btw, I think the hike in pay you're talking about is the MPPs for Ontario(?) 20-42%, IIRC.
"Why would Canada be wasting perfectly good loonies on a project like this, instead of trying to salvage what's left of their healthcare system?"
Health care, like education, is mainly a provincial thing in Canada. $4.5 billion into our health care system here in Ontario wouldn't even scratch the surface, unfortunately..
If we are going to blame anyone, blame the Tories. Publically funded golf tournaments, income tax rebate cheques, and corporate cuddling are generally more of a priority, in their eyes.
I'm in a "programming" type Union job.
I program food to go on the shelf at my local grocery store.
It's all about interpretation.
a b = |a||b|cos(t)
(t should be a theta)
Yeah, sure, that's true if you want to get technical :)
I was just making a point that paper ballots are indeed a *good* possibility.
There's another good point.
Here in Canada, our National election was counted and the winner was decided less than 4 hours after the polls closed. Using paper ballots.
It seems inevitable, though, that we will move fully into electronic voting in the next 10-20 years.
This is not reinventing the wheel -- it's an investment in the economy.
If the US buys their design, that'll pump needed money into these leading tech companies. I'm sure wall street would be happy to hear that tech companies are actually going to *shudder* meet the year's expectations.
Given the recent beating the NASDAQ has been taking, how can this be bad?
And I don't even want to hear the anti-microsoft stuff ("...I don't even trust them to count right..."). I am sure that as mature adults, they'd do their duty to make as sucessful a package as possible for this. And I would hope that, as mature adults, our community would embrace a good design.
This is NOT Gates' attempt to take over the world -- it's three sane businesses getting together to build something that will help an obviously flawed voting system.
I'm sure I'm not going to be the only one to point this out, but here in Canada, our election will have been called, the campagning will be done, the votes will be counted, and a party will be in power in less time than it's taken the states to interpret their results.
I don't meant to point my finger or blame anyone; I just think it's kinda funny..
notice that since GIS stopped being done regularily, all the episode have been *filled* with lots and lots of swearing? How is this getting passed thesync? I thought they edited.
Keep up the good work!
it's .net as in the net that people are caught in if they use it, correct?
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