Um, hate to tell you this, but the ammo shortage is because there's not enough production. The ammo companies aren't going to increase their production lines too much because the increased buying was caused first by Obama's anti-gun tendencies and has continued because of the extremely large expansion in government power, which tends to worry people who stockpile ammo. In another year or two, the ammo shortage should ease up. Unless the dems make a serious push for any type of gun control.
I don't know why this was modded Flamebait. It was a little Flamebait, but it was mostly Insightful, because he's right. There is a major ammo shortage because everybody is afraid that Obama will impose heavy taxes, or possibly full bans, on ammunition, so they're all buying up as much as they can.
Using a version of Internet Explorer that is how old, and knows how little about modern web technologies?
email,
And how many features does your Outlook have? I know you can't use webmail because you're using a version of IE that can't do shit.
games up to things like Q3 and derivatives (assuming proper video card,)
The capabilities of Quake 3 are nowhere near those of modern games.
can do video
Ah, but can you do 1080p video?
and hell I can run fruity Loops and cool Edit pro at the same time so I can compose and master musical scores.
I'll give you that one.
Fuck, I only need maybe 2K of RAM to have an operating calculator, and with a calculator alone of today's power I could design a fucking nuke, which they did back then on a machine bigger than any house you've ever been in that used vacuum tubes and required two air conditioners for every ten linear feet of computer.
Calculators do simple math. I bet your calculator can't brute force an MD5 hash at 600 million attempts per second.
You're probably too young to know this but the very same shit you're doing today was done many years ago on less capable hardware with good programmers sitting in the chair. Most programmers today ARE NOT WORTH SHIT AND THAT IS WHY 256MB OF RAM IS NOT ENOUGH.
The very same shit in a much more simple incarnation.. Sorry old man, but computers from 10 years ago just aren't capable of things that today's computers are.
That 256 megs of 4GHz XDR eats up your puny 4GB of 1066MHz DDR2 without thinking twice, in clock speed, latency, and actual bandwidth throughput.
But it doesn't beat it in capacity, and faster read/write cycles and bandwidth does not mean more capacity. RAM is for storing data, not processing it, so when you don't have adequate capacity for the data you need to store, then extra speed isn't going to help you one bit. Sure, when you're talking the difference between 2GB of XDR and 4GB of DDR2, I'll take the XDR any day... but 256MB just isn't enough to be useful for anything.
Now that you're up to date, we have a new American President who is not beholden to special interests
LOL the fact that you said that pretty much tells me that you're one of those people that voted for Obama because he's a "symbol of hope" (yes, somebody actually told me that that's why they're voting for him). I hold no disdain for anybody who votes for someone based on the person's beliefs, but to imply (or, God forbid, explicitly state) that ANY politician is not beholden to special interests... well... any further argument you may have might as well be ignored because you obviously have a very clouded sense of judgement.
Can anybody tell me why they are measuring different types of Internet usage as a percentage of total Internet usage, rather than using an absolute number (say, Gbps)? Of course P2P traffic is going to increase in use at night when you look at the percentages, because P2P downloads (and uploads) are often left running overnight while people are sleeping while the rest of the Internet slows down because it requires direct human interaction. Basically, they are using real graphs conveyed from extremely misleading information to prove their wild point in an extremely sensitive ongoing political debate. Please stop validating the enemy (Comcast, Time Warner, The MAFIAA, etc)'s PR tactics by using them yourself. It is extremely counter-productive.
Point is, majority of people don't understand that they have choice because they are lead to believe that they do not.
Who the hell has never heard of TiVo? It is almost a brother to Kleenex in that even people with DVRs (that know theirs isn't a TiVo-brand DVR) still talk about how they "TiVo" shows. The problem with TiVo is that it's just so damned expensive. The HD box that only stores 20 hours of HD is $300... the one that stores 150 hours is $600... and then you have to pay $13/mo on top of that and you would still have to pay a rental fee from the cable company for the CableCARD. I pay $10/mo extra for my HD DVR from Comcast... it sucks balls. It must have been coded by monkeys. It's all sorts of glitchy. But I get it for almost free (relatively). If TiVo would allow me to rent equipment instead of having to buy it, I probably would. I used to have a TiVo (back in the day that you had to make it dial in to download program information), and the interface was amazingly intuitive and very snappy, and I would get it again now that it's even better. They just have to come up with a way to solve this whole price problem.
Let me clarify - it's not a Flash-heavy site, because it's not a site. It's a course. It's an online course entirely written in Flash, not a Flash-heavy web site.
I'd say that "entirely Flash" is just about as Flash-heavy as you can get.
He then created a cloned card, and with help from another technology expert, changed all the data on the new card. This included the physical details of the bearer, name, fingerprints and other information.
Lets hope this puts the final nail in the coffin for this stupid idea.
If they had any sense whatsoever, all that data would be stored on the server and the card would simply have an ID number (and MAYBE a name) programmed into it. The fact that their system simply believes what's on the card and doesn't check a central database to make sure that the card hasn't been tampered with is just plain stupid.
"A mythical deep packet inspection device that could block illegal P2P transfers with 100 percent accuracy would still be allowed."
Sorry just had to snicker at that line, especially since nothing is 100%.
Exactly. That's why such a system will never be allowed.
A compromised keyboard does not automatically have admin access to the OS.
I didn't say it would have access to the OS? When was that ever brought up? A compromised keyboard has access to everything you type, so it will have access to all your computer account passwords (because software won't need to be running before login because it will be hardcoded into your keyboard), your bank account and PayPal passwords (because none of them allow your browser to store it), your chats with young children online... everything. That can be considered even worse than having admin access to the OS, because wipe your hard drive to get rid of it as many times as you want and it will still be there.
Any security vulnerability like this is a big deal... ESPECIALLY when security is one of the primary things that Apple advertises about its OS and hardware. What's to stop the compromised keyboard from sending the keylogged data to an FTP server like just about every other trojan on the planet? Also, a virus scanner could easily remove a trojan from the OS, while finding it in the keyboard's firmware would be a somewhat more difficult task.
A phone is the piece of tech that you can never really own.
That's strage, because I bought my phone, therefore transferring the ownership of it from Verizon to me, which would mean that I own it. What are you talking about?
I said "no decent games were released in June" and you told me I was wrong and said "no major games are released in the summer." How is that any different? Get a fucking grip.
So, in reply to just about every commenter that replied to me...
Basically, by your definition of "antitrust violation", you're basically telling me that Microsoft is not allowed to bundle any software in their OS because that would be an abuse of their monopoly. At least... any Microsoft software. So that means Notepad, Wordpad, Paint, Explorer (the windows shell; we've already covered IE), Remote Desktop, Command Prompt, Calculator, Windows Media Player, Sound Recorder, built-in image burning functions (in Win7), all have to be removed from Windows because they are all in direct competition with other software (to name a few, Notepad++/ConTEXT, Word/OpenOffice, Photoshop/Paint Shop, LiteStep/SharpE (alternative windows shells), etc) and that including said software is a direct abuse of their monopoly.
So basically, you're all saying that since Microsoft has a monopoly with their OS, by law they can only provide the OS kernel and you have to build everything else on top of that.
Sounds kind of foolish to me... but if they can't include IE, why should they be able to include any other of their own software?
But the thing is... why is Microsoft a Monopoly and Apple isn't?
The way it looks to me is that Apple holds WAY more control over their OS and other such products, while Microsoft tends to be much more open about letting developers actually..... develop..... and manufacturers actually..... manufacture.
If you ask me, Apple is a monopoly, and Microsoft is not. And I have yet to find an explanation as to why nobody sees it that way.
There was really no reason for them not to be able to bundle their own software in their own OS. Why isn't Apple being told not to include Safari and iTunes and iCal and iWhateverthefuck in their OS? A software company should be able to include whatever they want, and if people don't like it then either don't buy it or stop complaining. But the fact of the matter is... anybody who currently uses Internet Explorer either likes it better than everything else, has no clue of the difference between it and Firefox and whatever else, or the more likely reason that their company forces them to, and that is not going to change no matter how many browsers are included in the OS.
But anyway the point of this comment is to say that of course Microsoft is going to do their best to make sure they meet all of the requirements and then some, because they are pissed. If Microsoft were a sole proprietorship and I was the sole proprietor, I would certainly tell the EU to fuck off by making things as hard as possible for them as a result of their stupid decision.
Also, great work on the unbiased summary there jbeale53 and samzenpus.
(As an aside - holy shit is Google getting scary! To calculate that, I typed in "1.92 million * 3.5 megabytes" and it said "6.40869141 terabytes". Then I asked it "6.41 terabytes / 256kbps" and got 6.81574337 years. I'm starting to think we should be referring to Google as 'a logic called Joe'.:S )
I've been plugging calculations like that into Google for years... it's nothing new.
Because otherwise you end up with the case that no one codec works in all browsers, so websites will have to support both formats by encoding all their videos twice.
Because people shouldn't have to be prompted to install codecs in order to view in-browser videos.
etc
Then why not skip all the bullshit and put both codecs in the spec, and only those codecs in the spec and tell the browser developers to get over it. Both codecs are free, so it's not like any vendor is going to be out a significant amount of money to implement either. Give the right to choose to those who make use of the Internet. If a particular web designer prefers Ogg over H.264, then let him use it by making sure that every browser that sports "HTML 5 compliance" will support it. Same for those who prefer H.264. Why does there have to be a concrete bias hard-coded into the spec?
Hey AMD, I have a challenge for you. Instead of bitching about Intel rigging their battery life testing mechanisms, why not design your chips to beat Intel at those very same tests?
Also, frankly, I don't want a CPU that uses a noticeable amount more electricity than others when it's IDLING. So at this point, just for this reason, I'm glad my computer has an Intel chip in it. But if you can beat those tests of Intel's that you say are "unfair", and you win the battery life tests that you say are rigged against you, then you definitely have a one-up on Intel in that rite.
No, they're getting a random sample of their user base to test a ready-for-release patch so that in case there are a couple cases not within their testing scenarios where the patch is unstable or a security hole is present, they will be able to address that (if it's serious enough) before releasing it to the whole world. This is so much better than the current way of doing things, because patches are still tested in the shop to the same degree as they would be without Omaha, except this way there's even more to be sure that the patch works correctly.
There are lots of things that Comcast makes more difficult than it needs to be.
True... but is it really THAT big of a deal? No. Besides, there's the possibility that there's something a little more technical going on than just entering a MAC Address. Oh and there's also the enormous possibility that some fuck will buy his own modem for whatever reason and then call Comcast when it doesn't work right when he programs it and bitch about "your damn little web system isn't working right."
Don't you consider having to make that phone call in the first place a problem?
How does that even make sense? Of course you're gonna have to call them... they don't give away internet for free, so yes you have to talk to them to have your modem registered to the account so that the DHCP server will talk to you. I think it's awesome that they let him use a third-party modem at all.
Frankly, I love Comcast. Yeah, they have a tendency to be jewish, but they're a huge corporation. Yeah, they have outages, but who the hell doesn't? Yeah, they were throttling peoples' torrents, but I never experienced them throttling mine so I don't really give a damn. I've never had any real problems with Comcast. Their outsourced phone support sucks, but you only get that about half the time, so you just have to ask the person who gives him a paycheck and tell him to transfer you to a Comcast call center.
I really don't see why so many people have a problem with Comcast. And I mean, problems with Comcast as a company, not with regards to your stupid commie philosophy big corporations are bad bullshit, because we are a nation built upon Capitalism, and we always will be, and even with all the problems of Capitalism it's way better than Communism (see also Russia).
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Um, hate to tell you this, but the ammo shortage is because there's not enough production. The ammo companies aren't going to increase their production lines too much because the increased buying was caused first by Obama's anti-gun tendencies and has continued because of the extremely large expansion in government power, which tends to worry people who stockpile ammo. In another year or two, the ammo shortage should ease up. Unless the dems make a serious push for any type of gun control.
I don't know why this was modded Flamebait. It was a little Flamebait, but it was mostly Insightful, because he's right. There is a major ammo shortage because everybody is afraid that Obama will impose heavy taxes, or possibly full bans, on ammunition, so they're all buying up as much as they can.
Bam, I've got web,
Using a version of Internet Explorer that is how old, and knows how little about modern web technologies?
email,
And how many features does your Outlook have? I know you can't use webmail because you're using a version of IE that can't do shit.
games up to things like Q3 and derivatives (assuming proper video card,)
The capabilities of Quake 3 are nowhere near those of modern games.
can do video
Ah, but can you do 1080p video?
and hell I can run fruity Loops and cool Edit pro at the same time so I can compose and master musical scores.
I'll give you that one.
Fuck, I only need maybe 2K of RAM to have an operating calculator, and with a calculator alone of today's power I could design a fucking nuke, which they did back then on a machine bigger than any house you've ever been in that used vacuum tubes and required two air conditioners for every ten linear feet of computer.
Calculators do simple math. I bet your calculator can't brute force an MD5 hash at 600 million attempts per second.
You're probably too young to know this but the very same shit you're doing today was done many years ago on less capable hardware with good programmers sitting in the chair. Most programmers today ARE NOT WORTH SHIT AND THAT IS WHY 256MB OF RAM IS NOT ENOUGH.
The very same shit in a much more simple incarnation.. Sorry old man, but computers from 10 years ago just aren't capable of things that today's computers are.
That 256 megs of 4GHz XDR eats up your puny 4GB of 1066MHz DDR2 without thinking twice, in clock speed, latency, and actual bandwidth throughput.
But it doesn't beat it in capacity, and faster read/write cycles and bandwidth does not mean more capacity. RAM is for storing data, not processing it, so when you don't have adequate capacity for the data you need to store, then extra speed isn't going to help you one bit. Sure, when you're talking the difference between 2GB of XDR and 4GB of DDR2, I'll take the XDR any day... but 256MB just isn't enough to be useful for anything.
Now that you're up to date, we have a new American President who is not beholden to special interests
LOL the fact that you said that pretty much tells me that you're one of those people that voted for Obama because he's a "symbol of hope" (yes, somebody actually told me that that's why they're voting for him). I hold no disdain for anybody who votes for someone based on the person's beliefs, but to imply (or, God forbid, explicitly state) that ANY politician is not beholden to special interests... well... any further argument you may have might as well be ignored because you obviously have a very clouded sense of judgement.
Can anybody tell me why they are measuring different types of Internet usage as a percentage of total Internet usage, rather than using an absolute number (say, Gbps)? Of course P2P traffic is going to increase in use at night when you look at the percentages, because P2P downloads (and uploads) are often left running overnight while people are sleeping while the rest of the Internet slows down because it requires direct human interaction. Basically, they are using real graphs conveyed from extremely misleading information to prove their wild point in an extremely sensitive ongoing political debate. Please stop validating the enemy (Comcast, Time Warner, The MAFIAA, etc)'s PR tactics by using them yourself. It is extremely counter-productive.
Ahhh no son, apparently you should become An Hero...
I see you've discovered 4chan. How is it? I haven't been there in about 3 years.
Point is, majority of people don't understand that they have choice because they are lead to believe that they do not.
Who the hell has never heard of TiVo? It is almost a brother to Kleenex in that even people with DVRs (that know theirs isn't a TiVo-brand DVR) still talk about how they "TiVo" shows. The problem with TiVo is that it's just so damned expensive. The HD box that only stores 20 hours of HD is $300... the one that stores 150 hours is $600... and then you have to pay $13/mo on top of that and you would still have to pay a rental fee from the cable company for the CableCARD. I pay $10/mo extra for my HD DVR from Comcast... it sucks balls. It must have been coded by monkeys. It's all sorts of glitchy. But I get it for almost free (relatively). If TiVo would allow me to rent equipment instead of having to buy it, I probably would. I used to have a TiVo (back in the day that you had to make it dial in to download program information), and the interface was amazingly intuitive and very snappy, and I would get it again now that it's even better. They just have to come up with a way to solve this whole price problem.
Let me clarify - it's not a Flash-heavy site, because it's not a site. It's a course. It's an online course entirely written in Flash, not a Flash-heavy web site.
I'd say that "entirely Flash" is just about as Flash-heavy as you can get.
I unfortunately read the article...
He then created a cloned card, and with help from another technology expert, changed all the data on the new card. This included the physical details of the bearer, name, fingerprints and other information.
Lets hope this puts the final nail in the coffin for this stupid idea.
If they had any sense whatsoever, all that data would be stored on the server and the card would simply have an ID number (and MAYBE a name) programmed into it. The fact that their system simply believes what's on the card and doesn't check a central database to make sure that the card hasn't been tampered with is just plain stupid.
"A mythical deep packet inspection device that could block illegal P2P transfers with 100 percent accuracy would still be allowed." Sorry just had to snicker at that line, especially since nothing is 100%.
Exactly. That's why such a system will never be allowed.
A compromised keyboard does not automatically have admin access to the OS.
I didn't say it would have access to the OS? When was that ever brought up? A compromised keyboard has access to everything you type, so it will have access to all your computer account passwords (because software won't need to be running before login because it will be hardcoded into your keyboard), your bank account and PayPal passwords (because none of them allow your browser to store it), your chats with young children online... everything. That can be considered even worse than having admin access to the OS, because wipe your hard drive to get rid of it as many times as you want and it will still be there.
Any security vulnerability like this is a big deal... ESPECIALLY when security is one of the primary things that Apple advertises about its OS and hardware. What's to stop the compromised keyboard from sending the keylogged data to an FTP server like just about every other trojan on the planet? Also, a virus scanner could easily remove a trojan from the OS, while finding it in the keyboard's firmware would be a somewhat more difficult task.
A phone is the piece of tech that you can never really own.
That's strage, because I bought my phone, therefore transferring the ownership of it from Verizon to me, which would mean that I own it. What are you talking about?
What a moron.
Here is what you, sir, need to know:
I said "no decent games were released in June" and you told me I was wrong and said "no major games are released in the summer." How is that any different? Get a fucking grip.
It's all piracy's fault. It's definitely not due to the recession or the fact that absolutely no decent games were released in June.
Damn pirates.
Basically, by your definition of "antitrust violation", you're basically telling me that Microsoft is not allowed to bundle any software in their OS because that would be an abuse of their monopoly. At least... any Microsoft software. So that means Notepad, Wordpad, Paint, Explorer (the windows shell; we've already covered IE), Remote Desktop, Command Prompt, Calculator, Windows Media Player, Sound Recorder, built-in image burning functions (in Win7), all have to be removed from Windows because they are all in direct competition with other software (to name a few, Notepad++/ConTEXT, Word/OpenOffice, Photoshop/Paint Shop, LiteStep/SharpE (alternative windows shells), etc) and that including said software is a direct abuse of their monopoly.
So basically, you're all saying that since Microsoft has a monopoly with their OS, by law they can only provide the OS kernel and you have to build everything else on top of that.
Sounds kind of foolish to me... but if they can't include IE, why should they be able to include any other of their own software?
But the thing is... why is Microsoft a Monopoly and Apple isn't?
The way it looks to me is that Apple holds WAY more control over their OS and other such products, while Microsoft tends to be much more open about letting developers actually..... develop..... and manufacturers actually..... manufacture.
If you ask me, Apple is a monopoly, and Microsoft is not. And I have yet to find an explanation as to why nobody sees it that way.
Bracing for modded down... but here goes.
There was really no reason for them not to be able to bundle their own software in their own OS. Why isn't Apple being told not to include Safari and iTunes and iCal and iWhateverthefuck in their OS? A software company should be able to include whatever they want, and if people don't like it then either don't buy it or stop complaining. But the fact of the matter is... anybody who currently uses Internet Explorer either likes it better than everything else, has no clue of the difference between it and Firefox and whatever else, or the more likely reason that their company forces them to, and that is not going to change no matter how many browsers are included in the OS.
But anyway the point of this comment is to say that of course Microsoft is going to do their best to make sure they meet all of the requirements and then some, because they are pissed. If Microsoft were a sole proprietorship and I was the sole proprietor, I would certainly tell the EU to fuck off by making things as hard as possible for them as a result of their stupid decision.
Also, great work on the unbiased summary there jbeale53 and samzenpus.
But I've yet to meet the man that can outsmart Bullitt.
(As an aside - holy shit is Google getting scary! To calculate that, I typed in "1.92 million * 3.5 megabytes" and it said "6.40869141 terabytes". Then I asked it "6.41 terabytes / 256kbps" and got 6.81574337 years. I'm starting to think we should be referring to Google as 'a logic called Joe'. :S )
I've been plugging calculations like that into Google for years... it's nothing new.
Because otherwise you end up with the case that no one codec works in all browsers, so websites will have to support both formats by encoding all their videos twice.
Because people shouldn't have to be prompted to install codecs in order to view in-browser videos.
etc
Then why not skip all the bullshit and put both codecs in the spec, and only those codecs in the spec and tell the browser developers to get over it. Both codecs are free, so it's not like any vendor is going to be out a significant amount of money to implement either. Give the right to choose to those who make use of the Internet. If a particular web designer prefers Ogg over H.264, then let him use it by making sure that every browser that sports "HTML 5 compliance" will support it. Same for those who prefer H.264. Why does there have to be a concrete bias hard-coded into the spec?
Hey AMD, I have a challenge for you. Instead of bitching about Intel rigging their battery life testing mechanisms, why not design your chips to beat Intel at those very same tests?
Also, frankly, I don't want a CPU that uses a noticeable amount more electricity than others when it's IDLING. So at this point, just for this reason, I'm glad my computer has an Intel chip in it. But if you can beat those tests of Intel's that you say are "unfair", and you win the battery life tests that you say are rigged against you, then you definitely have a one-up on Intel in that rite.
No, they're getting a random sample of their user base to test a ready-for-release patch so that in case there are a couple cases not within their testing scenarios where the patch is unstable or a security hole is present, they will be able to address that (if it's serious enough) before releasing it to the whole world. This is so much better than the current way of doing things, because patches are still tested in the shop to the same degree as they would be without Omaha, except this way there's even more to be sure that the patch works correctly.
There are lots of things that Comcast makes more difficult than it needs to be.
True... but is it really THAT big of a deal? No. Besides, there's the possibility that there's something a little more technical going on than just entering a MAC Address. Oh and there's also the enormous possibility that some fuck will buy his own modem for whatever reason and then call Comcast when it doesn't work right when he programs it and bitch about "your damn little web system isn't working right."
Don't you consider having to make that phone call in the first place a problem?
How does that even make sense? Of course you're gonna have to call them... they don't give away internet for free, so yes you have to talk to them to have your modem registered to the account so that the DHCP server will talk to you. I think it's awesome that they let him use a third-party modem at all.
Frankly, I love Comcast. Yeah, they have a tendency to be jewish, but they're a huge corporation. Yeah, they have outages, but who the hell doesn't? Yeah, they were throttling peoples' torrents, but I never experienced them throttling mine so I don't really give a damn. I've never had any real problems with Comcast. Their outsourced phone support sucks, but you only get that about half the time, so you just have to ask the person who gives him a paycheck and tell him to transfer you to a Comcast call center.
I really don't see why so many people have a problem with Comcast. And I mean, problems with Comcast as a company, not with regards to your stupid commie philosophy big corporations are bad bullshit, because we are a nation built upon Capitalism, and we always will be, and even with all the problems of Capitalism it's way better than Communism (see also Russia).