Its because you need to be a good little consumer and do as you're told. Or more likely, because you're not trying hard enough. Borderline off topic, but I think you can still get away with emailing the ringtone to @vzwpics.com. It comes through as a picture/audio message and you can save that as a ringtone. At least it works on my Verizon Chocolate
Reminds me altogether too well of the old 70s scifi novel Birth of Fire http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth_of_Fire. The way the government acted throughout the story was also quite visionary.
Furthermore, if you ask it a simple whole number division question, such as 4/4, it comes out being wrong. I think there could be some issue with the way it does rounding, because I tried something such as 6/2 and I got 3.
Okay mister Anonymous Crackpot, you along with so many others realize that. What would you have us do about it? Oh, you haven't gotten that far yet? Ah, my apologies. Let me know when you figure that out. I would be very interested to find out myself.
Do they picture a bunch of people running a hidden music speakeasy upstairs of some dingy storefront? I know piracy is somewhat 'organized' in China with the bootleg market, but I did not think most of that stuff occurs everywhere this abomination would affect. I've never been able to drive down the road, knock 4 times on a door and get myself a $2 copy of whatever the kids are listening to nowadays.
Thats been the long standing theory on why its still around now. With the Thomson merger, I'm sure either Bridge or Thomson's equivalent will get the axe. Maybe both. Everyone I've talked to seems adamant that their IDN service is the future, but I guess only time will tell.
Thomson Reuters has a version of the BridgeFeed Toolkit (acquired by Thomson via Bridge, and then Reuters) in both C++ and Java APIs that works on Linux. The feed provides live quotes, historical data, and wire news, as well as cross-references and ticker lookup. It's not F/OSS, but it runs there. The product is very expensive.
And unfortunately is going away within 2 years, along with Reuters Plus. Their replacement product, 3000 Xtra, is Windows-only.
As far as being able to use a FOSS platform, Reuters provides data/infrastructure software that is specifically geared toward *nix use, including C++ and Java APIs, however, most of it is enterprise level and typically outside of the scope of the individual user. If you're running a moderate to large scale firm full of day traders, it would be the way to go, if not, I'm sure something like E-Trade (ugh) would work just fine in Firefox.
Abit was the only brand of motherboards I knew of that acknowledged the capacitors problem and claimed to use 100% known-good Japanese caps in their boards. With them gone, does that leave any good companies, or will all motherboards still be doomed to leaky budging and exploding capacitors?
Can you please explain when this started happening? Cause unless this is a recent development, and if you would like to pay shipping, I can offer you a motherboard that says otherwise.
On a slightly unrelated note most security articles seem to point out the obvious flaws instead of the clever ones (clearly the iphone lock function is only a slight deterrent)
Well, yeah. It helps to understand it before posting "ZOMG IPHONE SUX HAHAHA", otherwise, you just get lost in all the "details" and wander off.
This is still a close but somewhat incorrect analogy. Having a picture of it implies proof of such a thing happening. I think a more accurate analogy would be along the lines of, "OK Mr Roberts, we know you killed your wife, because these two people said they clearly remember seeing a hand sticking out of the trunk. OK lets have it, where is your car?"
IANAL, as usual, so I have no idea how telling them to piss off would go over, but I would imagine it would still leave you feeling uncomfortable.
There is a little concept known as opportunity cost. The theory behind it is (with the scope of watching "free" tv) that even though you may not pay MONEY to see it, you are paying with your time and attention (unless you change the channel). You watch 40 minutes of Olympics, and throughout you have to sit through 20 minutes of people pitching you ads. Truthfully, I have no interest in the Olympics myself, but I would imagine in this day and age, they would increase that even more for the occasion, and make it about 35 minutes Olympics and 25 minutes ads, if not worse.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity_cost
Clearly someone has never known anyone to get hit by an uninsured driver. Or gotten sick. Or been the victim of someone else doing something completely god-damn stupid (see above). Or even have a knife slip while they were cutting something. I am in considerably good health. Does that mean that I have no health insurance? You never know when something MIGHT happen, and its far better than dying out in the street (minus the scumbags that would force their expenses on others). Really, we look disdainfully of people who operate beyond their means when they know better, like banks who give out loans they know people will never replay anyone. So why should we not hold people to the same standard who refuse to keep health insurance? I suppose there is the issue of affordability, but as far as I'm concerned, there is no intelligent reason for NOT WANTING health insurance.
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Its because you need to be a good little consumer and do as you're told. Or more likely, because you're not trying hard enough. Borderline off topic, but I think you can still get away with emailing the ringtone to @vzwpics.com. It comes through as a picture/audio message and you can save that as a ringtone. At least it works on my Verizon Chocolate
Reminds me altogether too well of the old 70s scifi novel Birth of Fire http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth_of_Fire. The way the government acted throughout the story was also quite visionary.
Furthermore, if you ask it a simple whole number division question, such as 4/4, it comes out being wrong. I think there could be some issue with the way it does rounding, because I tried something such as 6/2 and I got 3.
Okay mister Anonymous Crackpot, you along with so many others realize that. What would you have us do about it? Oh, you haven't gotten that far yet? Ah, my apologies. Let me know when you figure that out. I would be very interested to find out myself.
Copyright != Patent.
Course, having that been said, if you feel like doing so with a Limewire knockoff, then go right on ahead.
...and I'll never understand people in marketing.
Do they picture a bunch of people running a hidden music speakeasy upstairs of some dingy storefront? I know piracy is somewhat 'organized' in China with the bootleg market, but I did not think most of that stuff occurs everywhere this abomination would affect. I've never been able to drive down the road, knock 4 times on a door and get myself a $2 copy of whatever the kids are listening to nowadays.
Thats been the long standing theory on why its still around now. With the Thomson merger, I'm sure either Bridge or Thomson's equivalent will get the axe. Maybe both. Everyone I've talked to seems adamant that their IDN service is the future, but I guess only time will tell.
Thomson Reuters has a version of the BridgeFeed Toolkit (acquired by Thomson via Bridge, and then Reuters) in both C++ and Java APIs that works on Linux. The feed provides live quotes, historical data, and wire news, as well as cross-references and ticker lookup. It's not F/OSS, but it runs there. The product is very expensive.
And unfortunately is going away within 2 years, along with Reuters Plus. Their replacement product, 3000 Xtra, is Windows-only.
As far as being able to use a FOSS platform, Reuters provides data/infrastructure software that is specifically geared toward *nix use, including C++ and Java APIs, however, most of it is enterprise level and typically outside of the scope of the individual user. If you're running a moderate to large scale firm full of day traders, it would be the way to go, if not, I'm sure something like E-Trade (ugh) would work just fine in Firefox.
This, and people who play them are pretty sad too.
This should be tagged 'gaitcrime'.
Abit was the only brand of motherboards I knew of that acknowledged the capacitors problem and claimed to use 100% known-good Japanese caps in their boards. With them gone, does that leave any good companies, or will all motherboards still be doomed to leaky budging and exploding capacitors?
Can you please explain when this started happening? Cause unless this is a recent development, and if you would like to pay shipping, I can offer you a motherboard that says otherwise.
On a slightly unrelated note most security articles seem to point out the obvious flaws instead of the clever ones (clearly the iphone lock function is only a slight deterrent)
Well, yeah. It helps to understand it before posting "ZOMG IPHONE SUX HAHAHA", otherwise, you just get lost in all the "details" and wander off.
This is still a close but somewhat incorrect analogy. Having a picture of it implies proof of such a thing happening. I think a more accurate analogy would be along the lines of, "OK Mr Roberts, we know you killed your wife, because these two people said they clearly remember seeing a hand sticking out of the trunk. OK lets have it, where is your car?" IANAL, as usual, so I have no idea how telling them to piss off would go over, but I would imagine it would still leave you feeling uncomfortable.
Johnny Mnemonic did it first!
There is a little concept known as opportunity cost. The theory behind it is (with the scope of watching "free" tv) that even though you may not pay MONEY to see it, you are paying with your time and attention (unless you change the channel). You watch 40 minutes of Olympics, and throughout you have to sit through 20 minutes of people pitching you ads. Truthfully, I have no interest in the Olympics myself, but I would imagine in this day and age, they would increase that even more for the occasion, and make it about 35 minutes Olympics and 25 minutes ads, if not worse. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity_cost
Clearly someone has never known anyone to get hit by an uninsured driver. Or gotten sick. Or been the victim of someone else doing something completely god-damn stupid (see above). Or even have a knife slip while they were cutting something. I am in considerably good health. Does that mean that I have no health insurance? You never know when something MIGHT happen, and its far better than dying out in the street (minus the scumbags that would force their expenses on others). Really, we look disdainfully of people who operate beyond their means when they know better, like banks who give out loans they know people will never replay anyone. So why should we not hold people to the same standard who refuse to keep health insurance? I suppose there is the issue of affordability, but as far as I'm concerned, there is no intelligent reason for NOT WANTING health insurance.