You missed that since AT&T own the local phone lines, you pay them with dialup as well either directly or indirectly, and it is often the same case with DSL. I know my first DSL was a local provider but it was all AT&T equipment up to my modem.
Unfortunately only the ones that get what is going on. It isn't like this is front page headlines on anywhere other than here. The last AP article was slanted to praise the RIAA for giving up its PR dog of suing individual sharers.
If you feel the cost/benefit relationship is worth it, there is nothing wrong with you taking every precaution with your child. However, having a child myself, I do like to listen to the experts in the field (childless or not) when making my decisions on the costs. The program advertised to us was like in the original post $1000/yr, which to me is a bit excessive for the chance to have access to a treatment that is at the early stages of development. In comparison, that is about 1/3 of my annual health insurance costs.
I've recently begun concidering swapping up the answers on my security questions for important websites that don't let me ask my own. Or just completely making up arbitrary but consistent answers for common questions. It doesn't protect me from credit card or loan application fraud but it does make my financial institution logins harder to guess.
to better understand stem cells. The information I ran across indicated those really working with stem cell treatments generally concidered those programs dubious and some programs around the world are just plain taking the money and running. While you are probably in a semi-ethical location that probably wouldn't be the case outright. The concerns were that at this level of research: They aren't sure what they will be able to practically do with banked stem cells. They aren't sure that they won't be able to get them for free out of your own body when they finally get to the treatment phase. Just donate, it will be useful for researchers and may be a poor investment on your end otherwise.
I'm not saying protectionism is a good answer, nor do I have a better one. I am worried that the greed that drives the free market will bite us when it is too late to do anything about it, and in a much bigger way than my retirement savings swirling the drain. The idea that my child will grow up in a society where there will be no tangible value for intellectual growth is extremely scary. More scary than any anti-intellectual movement could ever pose.
Of course on the upswing the people who will live in the rotting apartment in the bad part of town so they can send what is essentially a fortune in their local currency to their family back home will be hired first. Teaching our children the wonderful lesson that no matter how intelligent or skilled you are the company will always pass you up for someone cheaper given the option. So it doesn't really matter to excell in school, people working with their brain should be paid little better than the people flipping hamburgers or saying "Hello welcome to Walmart." Why do we not have enough locals for the jobs? Because the companies insist on making an artificial wage hole to shrink their costs, which also shrinks the motivation of local children to become interested in those fields. I love what I do but there is a floor to where I can no longer work at what I love and still be able to provide reasonable safety and security to the ones I love.
A whisper quiet shutter sound, where my cell phone as the result of this law would need to make a loud annoying sound probably loud enough to be heard over normal crowd noise.
The volume makes it reasonably quiet compared to background noise in crowded places, but in quiet places it is horrendously loud. Lets start putting it on all digital cameras, good luck every getting a shot of that cute deer family that visits your back yard or that rare shot of some endangered bird as your camera flashes and plays a siren just so that everyone can be sure you aren't a pervert. Because in both of those cases you are going to be sure to have your expensive professional shooting rig on hand and ready to go...
Sorry you are blatently wrong. A bunch of no-name cheap electronics manufacturers just made off with some of your money in a way that they never would have had the opportunity otherwise without your consent in a perfectly legal manner. Sounds pretty win for them.
I'll believe the government can do that when they can prove they can keep:
1) My social security number
2) My finacial information
3) Any other personal identifiable information
safe (well you know what) just in their own systems much less the internet as a whole. If it isn't technically feasible to protect me from people that are actively looking to ruin my entire life, then they don't have a shot at keeping my kids "safe" from whatever might possibly someday have a potentially negative effect on them in some way.
I haven't had much trouble with Vista; definitely no more trouble than I ever had with XP. I wouldn't have Vista if the computer hadn't come preloaded but it does everything I need it to do. I get essentially the UAC stuff in Fedora Core at work, so I don't mind that. I guess I've just been lucky, but then again after a patch the machine was able to reasonably run Crysis on low settings so I'm sure I'm not typical experience.
"Anybody who says vista is good is somebody who only tries websurfing- not actually trying to get something done."
While I don't have it at work, I do have a machine that I bought with Vista on it at home. I do alot of websurfing on it, but I have had no trouble writing code, using blender, using GIMP, setting up source control of various types and flavors for team projects in grad school, playing games (even uncompatible ones like Diablo 2), watching streaming video from Netflix, editing documents. Actually the only real problem I have had is a cheap HP printer that is semi-incompatible tends to get lost on occasion.
It has been awhile since I've been excited about upgrading to a new OS. Why should I go to Windows 7? I just haven't seen the feature jump with the latest windows versions that seemed to happen between earlier versions.
"Want security?
Fix the fucking problems, like lame policies, lax standards, etc.
want efficiency?
make every department actually use their people and time properly."
Just so you know, from experience, every time security standards are tightened then at least most, but often all workers are forced to waste some period of time dealing with the new policy often on an ongoing basis. For instance, the switch from passwords to smartcard/pin costs about 10 extra seconds of time every time I log in and if I leave my computer I must lock it via policy. So the new policy costs about a minute a day, which adds up to about 4 hours a year, which is half a standard work day. It takes less than a thousand employees for that policy switch to cost the collective a manyear of labor over the course of a year, just for the extra login time (not counting getting the card, dealing with hardware/software failures, training, etc.). And that example is pretty cheap and useful. Fast, cheap, good(secure) choose two.
What's next, "Obama decides to eat breakfast" and we all drool and slaver over THAT piece of minutiae?
Obviously you missed CNNs inauguration coverage yesterday.
A negative comment about the tech industry in the state of Alabama. The older I get the less I care to hear people spreading the stereotype that southerners are idiots. But I'm willing to change your status if I misunderstood what you meant.
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I also would wager it closely resembles the attendence count of the psych 101 class taught by the person running the experiment.
You missed that since AT&T own the local phone lines, you pay them with dialup as well either directly or indirectly, and it is often the same case with DSL. I know my first DSL was a local provider but it was all AT&T equipment up to my modem.
Unfortunately only the ones that get what is going on. It isn't like this is front page headlines on anywhere other than here. The last AP article was slanted to praise the RIAA for giving up its PR dog of suing individual sharers.
If you feel the cost/benefit relationship is worth it, there is nothing wrong with you taking every precaution with your child. However, having a child myself, I do like to listen to the experts in the field (childless or not) when making my decisions on the costs. The program advertised to us was like in the original post $1000/yr, which to me is a bit excessive for the chance to have access to a treatment that is at the early stages of development. In comparison, that is about 1/3 of my annual health insurance costs.
I've recently begun concidering swapping up the answers on my security questions for important websites that don't let me ask my own. Or just completely making up arbitrary but consistent answers for common questions. It doesn't protect me from credit card or loan application fraud but it does make my financial institution logins harder to guess.
Nice list. Any chance I can get one somewhere other than California?
to better understand stem cells. The information I ran across indicated those really working with stem cell treatments generally concidered those programs dubious and some programs around the world are just plain taking the money and running. While you are probably in a semi-ethical location that probably wouldn't be the case outright. The concerns were that at this level of research: They aren't sure what they will be able to practically do with banked stem cells. They aren't sure that they won't be able to get them for free out of your own body when they finally get to the treatment phase. Just donate, it will be useful for researchers and may be a poor investment on your end otherwise.
I thought they took Jack Thompson's licence to practice law... http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/03/23/
I'm not saying protectionism is a good answer, nor do I have a better one. I am worried that the greed that drives the free market will bite us when it is too late to do anything about it, and in a much bigger way than my retirement savings swirling the drain. The idea that my child will grow up in a society where there will be no tangible value for intellectual growth is extremely scary. More scary than any anti-intellectual movement could ever pose.
Of course on the upswing the people who will live in the rotting apartment in the bad part of town so they can send what is essentially a fortune in their local currency to their family back home will be hired first. Teaching our children the wonderful lesson that no matter how intelligent or skilled you are the company will always pass you up for someone cheaper given the option. So it doesn't really matter to excell in school, people working with their brain should be paid little better than the people flipping hamburgers or saying "Hello welcome to Walmart." Why do we not have enough locals for the jobs? Because the companies insist on making an artificial wage hole to shrink their costs, which also shrinks the motivation of local children to become interested in those fields. I love what I do but there is a floor to where I can no longer work at what I love and still be able to provide reasonable safety and security to the ones I love.
A whisper quiet shutter sound, where my cell phone as the result of this law would need to make a loud annoying sound probably loud enough to be heard over normal crowd noise.
Score one for closed source. Now if we can only find a way to get a cameraphone installed into every motherboard. -Microsoft
The volume makes it reasonably quiet compared to background noise in crowded places, but in quiet places it is horrendously loud. Lets start putting it on all digital cameras, good luck every getting a shot of that cute deer family that visits your back yard or that rare shot of some endangered bird as your camera flashes and plays a siren just so that everyone can be sure you aren't a pervert. Because in both of those cases you are going to be sure to have your expensive professional shooting rig on hand and ready to go...
How many (Microsoft) end-users are going to cut out any significant pieces further than what they can already do with the installer/uninstaller?
If I turn it off that means I have to do something else, like sleep or bathe...
Sorry you are blatently wrong. A bunch of no-name cheap electronics manufacturers just made off with some of your money in a way that they never would have had the opportunity otherwise without your consent in a perfectly legal manner. Sounds pretty win for them.
If he is in the hospital, where are they going to get the wind from?
The great firewall of Kentucky...
I'll believe the government can do that when they can prove they can keep:
1) My social security number
2) My finacial information
3) Any other personal identifiable information
safe (well you know what) just in their own systems much less the internet as a whole. If it isn't technically feasible to protect me from people that are actively looking to ruin my entire life, then they don't have a shot at keeping my kids "safe" from whatever might possibly someday have a potentially negative effect on them in some way.
I haven't had much trouble with Vista; definitely no more trouble than I ever had with XP. I wouldn't have Vista if the computer hadn't come preloaded but it does everything I need it to do. I get essentially the UAC stuff in Fedora Core at work, so I don't mind that. I guess I've just been lucky, but then again after a patch the machine was able to reasonably run Crysis on low settings so I'm sure I'm not typical experience.
"Anybody who says vista is good is somebody who only tries websurfing- not actually trying to get something done."
While I don't have it at work, I do have a machine that I bought with Vista on it at home. I do alot of websurfing on it, but I have had no trouble writing code, using blender, using GIMP, setting up source control of various types and flavors for team projects in grad school, playing games (even uncompatible ones like Diablo 2), watching streaming video from Netflix, editing documents. Actually the only real problem I have had is a cheap HP printer that is semi-incompatible tends to get lost on occasion.
It has been awhile since I've been excited about upgrading to a new OS. Why should I go to Windows 7? I just haven't seen the feature jump with the latest windows versions that seemed to happen between earlier versions.
"Want security? Fix the fucking problems, like lame policies, lax standards, etc. want efficiency? make every department actually use their people and time properly."
Just so you know, from experience, every time security standards are tightened then at least most, but often all workers are forced to waste some period of time dealing with the new policy often on an ongoing basis. For instance, the switch from passwords to smartcard/pin costs about 10 extra seconds of time every time I log in and if I leave my computer I must lock it via policy. So the new policy costs about a minute a day, which adds up to about 4 hours a year, which is half a standard work day. It takes less than a thousand employees for that policy switch to cost the collective a manyear of labor over the course of a year, just for the extra login time (not counting getting the card, dealing with hardware/software failures, training, etc.). And that example is pretty cheap and useful. Fast, cheap, good(secure) choose two.
What's next, "Obama decides to eat breakfast" and we all drool and slaver over THAT piece of minutiae?
Obviously you missed CNNs inauguration coverage yesterday.
A negative comment about the tech industry in the state of Alabama. The older I get the less I care to hear people spreading the stereotype that southerners are idiots. But I'm willing to change your status if I misunderstood what you meant.