Guess what...Not everyone can have their own top level domain to match their last name. Lets for a second imagine a world where we even wanted to try this...Think of how many top level domains we would need before all of the smiths could have their own top level domain. I can imagine it now, "Hey! I just opened my new webpage www.smith.0xA48C549B...isn't it catchy? But when you figure out there are 3 million people with the last name smith. Good luck making 3 million tlds that have meaning. Okay, so your last name isn't quite so common as Smith, lets see how many McGrews are out there...10,795...Please give me a list of 10795 meaningful top level domains when you get a chance.
I personally am a little luckier. There are only 330 people with my last name, and I am the only one with my first name. Yet my lastname.com is not available.:-( Like I'd even want it if it was. Isn't the point of the internet anonymity?
I think the part that gets me the most angry is, have you ever tried to tell someone your email address over the phone when it doesn't end in com/org/edu? My company was apparently late to market with their webpage, so we have a 20 character dot com address and an incredibly short.biz address. I used to choose the.biz because I thought it would be simple for people to understand. I'm very careful to enunciate my letters, but these people are clueless. No matter how much I tell them B as in Bravo, I as in Indiana, Z as in Zebra, they end up with DIC...Seriously, if there even was a.dic TLD, would you want to be there???
I've asked this same question myself about SNES Roms. For instance, I loved Final Fantasy 6 for the SNES (Released as FF3 in the USA), but there isn't a good place to buy it any more. I used this to justify playing the ROM. And then you have some roms like the sequel to Secret of Mana that was NEVER released in the USA, but some guys translated it and released the ROM. How can I feel guilty if Squaresoft wont release the game in the USA? The trick to these types of justifications is that if you do justify your actions based on these pretenses, you will have to make sure to pay attention to the situation to see if those pretenses change. For instance, if Square releases FF6 on Nintendo DS, I'll feel inclined to purchase a DS and FF6. In your example, if the publisher ever releases an eText version, you'll need to actually purchase it.
There was a session at Defcon this year about using a "Death Envelope" to pass this information on. Their technique involved using a wax seal and a signet ring to make the envelope tamper evident. I guess giving someone passwords wouldn't be as bad if you knew that you could tell if they had gotten into them prematurely.
If I create something, and I never agreed to give the content to a 3rd party...It's mine, mine, mine. If the university has some sort of policy in place that makes all submitted content permanent property of the university, then I should have gone to a different university.
There is a policy on the server end that you can have the device wipe itself if the battery gets below X%. I'm not sure who would want to use that, but if some company had it turned on, it could be annoying.
I'm not a smoker. I have never been a smoker. I know I am not alone in being pissed off at smokers and the allowance of smoking at the workplace. I'm not pissed off at smokers because they are hurting their bodies, the smell, or second hand smoke. I'm pissed off because they get to take a 5-15 minute break (typically towards the 15 minute end of the spectrum) 3-4 times a day, on top of their lunch hour and 2 scheduled breaks. If I told my boss that I was taking a 15 minute nap in the middle of the day, he'd flip. Yet my coworkers can take a 15 minute smoke break at 4:55 and actually get overtime for 10 minutes of his smoke break. WTF?!?!?!?! Yet if I complain about this to my boss or my bosses boss, I just get told that I'm not being sensitive to the needs of other people. I just don't understand how people can't limit their smoke breaks to the two scheduled breaks and lunch times. If you want to smoke, do it on your own time, not on the clock. Tell people they have to punch out to take an extra break and we'd have a riot break out.
By the way, I've seen this happening at a few different places now. If I claimed I was addicted to Hacky sack, do you think I could take extra hacky sack break times through out the day?
Yeah, but if you look at the history of Windows, the best OSes have been rehashes of older ones. Sometimes it takes a bit of tweaking to make a good OS.
Who's to say that these people aren't just liars? If I wanted my candidate to win bad enough that I would compromise my integrity, I might just lie about what was happening to my voting machine. It's just you in the voting booth. No one can prove you aren't telling the truth any more than they can prove you are. If it raises doubt, it could be enough to help your cause.
My guess is that Nintendo is pissed that everyone hasn't been buying their branded SD cards, and if they don't support SDHC, at some point when you can't buy SD cards from other vendors, Nintendo will start making even more money selling you their cards.
My company has around 2500 computers. Office 2007 standard costs 300-350 for each license. Assuming each computer has an Office Std license that would cost us $750,000 to $875,000 to license the entire company. Now, depending on how often you upgrade, that's probably $200,000 a year just for Office licenses. Now, I'm sure that there will need to be retraining, but 200k a year in savings should more than make up for it.
I wonder which will happen first...the FBI will break into your house and beat you till you admit you are a terrorist, or the terrorists you work with will bust into your house and beat you for leaking their code onto the internet. Either way, I'd take some Advil, cause you are going to have a killer of a headache in a little while.
The use they had when I've seen them was for playing online games without using a credit card. Believe it or not, many people who play MMORPGs are under age. Some of them either can't, or don't want to give their parent power over them by having them pay for the games directly. Instead, they go to Best Buy every month and purchase the game cards themselves. This system really isn't a bad one, and it doesn't really take advantage of anyone. The trick is, it needs to remain what it is and not become something more. If I am forced to buy game cards instead of use my credit card, I would be a little angry. I don't want to drive to the store to purchase these cards, nor do I want to purchase extras so I don't have to go back. I quit online games fairly often, so paying for them in advance has always been a bad deal for me.
Well, placebos should never be a first choice, but if there is someone who either doesn't need any real treatment or if all other courses of action have failed, then a placebo should be an option available to doctors. Will it cure everyone? No. If it cures even 5% of people who otherwise wouldn't have been cured, even if only for a short time, is it worth it? I believe it is. Obviously I wouldn't want the drug to have any bad effects, and I would also want it to be as cheap as possible.
If placebos didn't work, then doctors wouldn't prescribe them. I guess the better question is how can we give people placebos without them realizing it's a placebo? I don't personally agree with giving out antibiotics as placebos. The trick is, with the internet, deceiving your patients is getting pretty hard.
The problem is that a lot of us have multiple computers. Who wants to spend $50 a year on each computer? I've got three computers I take responsibility for in my house (and 2 that I don't). So that's $150-$250 a YEAR for an AV solution. I know a few vendors have a discounted system, but that still is a lot of cash a year. If I could spend $50 a computer and get lifetime virus def updates...I would do it, but this yearly crap is bull.
Strapping a jet fighter engine to a car isn't considered innovation in my book. If they came up with some new technology or developed something new, I might be impressed. Until then, this is just a bunch of rich people wasting good money that could be better spent else ware.
Some of the worst power supplies I've ever had were name brand power supplies. I spent $100 for what I thought was a solid power supply, but when my system started getting flaky a month after the 1yr warranty ran up, I was quite glad I still had my old power supply that came with the case.
Saying "Anymore then $100 on a case and you're pushing it" is like saying "No one needs more than 640k of ram". PC enthusiasts drop $200 on a video card or CPU that they'll only keep a year or two and don't bat an eye, so what's wrong with dropping $200 on a case that you'll keep 3 or 4 years?
The point isn't that $200 is way to much for a case, it's that going from $100 to $200 doesn't really give you much in return for your cash. I would rather spend $100 on a case and then spend the extra $100 on a video card or processor. Does that extra $100 get you a better case? It's possible, but for those of us who aren't rich, it's totally not worth it. Some of the best cases I've had were less than $50. My most recent case purchase (6 years ago) was $120, and I don't know how you could get much better than it. My case also came with a 500 watt power supply, but it passed away a few years ago.
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The said thing is, part of the reason I give them the .biz name is because I only give people I care about the .com. That way I can filter out people.
Guess what...Not everyone can have their own top level domain to match their last name. Lets for a second imagine a world where we even wanted to try this...Think of how many top level domains we would need before all of the smiths could have their own top level domain. I can imagine it now, "Hey! I just opened my new webpage www.smith.0xA48C549B...isn't it catchy? But when you figure out there are 3 million people with the last name smith. Good luck making 3 million tlds that have meaning. Okay, so your last name isn't quite so common as Smith, lets see how many McGrews are out there...10,795...Please give me a list of 10795 meaningful top level domains when you get a chance.
:-( Like I'd even want it if it was. Isn't the point of the internet anonymity?
I personally am a little luckier. There are only 330 people with my last name, and I am the only one with my first name. Yet my lastname.com is not available.
Awesome! Rogers.tel is still available. I'll be rich!
As if we don't have enough TLD's already...
.biz address. I used to choose the .biz because I thought it would be simple for people to understand. I'm very careful to enunciate my letters, but these people are clueless. No matter how much I tell them B as in Bravo, I as in Indiana, Z as in Zebra, they end up with DIC...Seriously, if there even was a .dic TLD, would you want to be there???
I think the part that gets me the most angry is, have you ever tried to tell someone your email address over the phone when it doesn't end in com/org/edu? My company was apparently late to market with their webpage, so we have a 20 character dot com address and an incredibly short
Exactly.
I've asked this same question myself about SNES Roms. For instance, I loved Final Fantasy 6 for the SNES (Released as FF3 in the USA), but there isn't a good place to buy it any more. I used this to justify playing the ROM. And then you have some roms like the sequel to Secret of Mana that was NEVER released in the USA, but some guys translated it and released the ROM. How can I feel guilty if Squaresoft wont release the game in the USA? The trick to these types of justifications is that if you do justify your actions based on these pretenses, you will have to make sure to pay attention to the situation to see if those pretenses change. For instance, if Square releases FF6 on Nintendo DS, I'll feel inclined to purchase a DS and FF6. In your example, if the publisher ever releases an eText version, you'll need to actually purchase it.
There was a session at Defcon this year about using a "Death Envelope" to pass this information on. Their technique involved using a wax seal and a signet ring to make the envelope tamper evident. I guess giving someone passwords wouldn't be as bad if you knew that you could tell if they had gotten into them prematurely.
If I create something, and I never agreed to give the content to a 3rd party...It's mine, mine, mine. If the university has some sort of policy in place that makes all submitted content permanent property of the university, then I should have gone to a different university.
There is a policy on the server end that you can have the device wipe itself if the battery gets below X%. I'm not sure who would want to use that, but if some company had it turned on, it could be annoying.
I'm not a smoker. I have never been a smoker. I know I am not alone in being pissed off at smokers and the allowance of smoking at the workplace. I'm not pissed off at smokers because they are hurting their bodies, the smell, or second hand smoke. I'm pissed off because they get to take a 5-15 minute break (typically towards the 15 minute end of the spectrum) 3-4 times a day, on top of their lunch hour and 2 scheduled breaks. If I told my boss that I was taking a 15 minute nap in the middle of the day, he'd flip. Yet my coworkers can take a 15 minute smoke break at 4:55 and actually get overtime for 10 minutes of his smoke break. WTF?!?!?!?! Yet if I complain about this to my boss or my bosses boss, I just get told that I'm not being sensitive to the needs of other people. I just don't understand how people can't limit their smoke breaks to the two scheduled breaks and lunch times. If you want to smoke, do it on your own time, not on the clock. Tell people they have to punch out to take an extra break and we'd have a riot break out.
By the way, I've seen this happening at a few different places now. If I claimed I was addicted to Hacky sack, do you think I could take extra hacky sack break times through out the day?
Maybe they just didn't want to drive home drunk? A whomobile is a lot harder to drive than a car.
Only if we are talking about the steroids that make your balls shrivel up.
Bob wasn't an OS. It was just a front end for an OS.
Yeah, but if you look at the history of Windows, the best OSes have been rehashes of older ones. Sometimes it takes a bit of tweaking to make a good OS.
Windows 3 to 3.1
Win 95 to Win 98
Win 2000 to Win XP
Who's to say that these people aren't just liars? If I wanted my candidate to win bad enough that I would compromise my integrity, I might just lie about what was happening to my voting machine. It's just you in the voting booth. No one can prove you aren't telling the truth any more than they can prove you are. If it raises doubt, it could be enough to help your cause.
My guess is that Nintendo is pissed that everyone hasn't been buying their branded SD cards, and if they don't support SDHC, at some point when you can't buy SD cards from other vendors, Nintendo will start making even more money selling you their cards.
My company has around 2500 computers. Office 2007 standard costs 300-350 for each license. Assuming each computer has an Office Std license that would cost us $750,000 to $875,000 to license the entire company. Now, depending on how often you upgrade, that's probably $200,000 a year just for Office licenses. Now, I'm sure that there will need to be retraining, but 200k a year in savings should more than make up for it.
I wonder which will happen first...the FBI will break into your house and beat you till you admit you are a terrorist, or the terrorists you work with will bust into your house and beat you for leaking their code onto the internet. Either way, I'd take some Advil, cause you are going to have a killer of a headache in a little while.
The use they had when I've seen them was for playing online games without using a credit card. Believe it or not, many people who play MMORPGs are under age. Some of them either can't, or don't want to give their parent power over them by having them pay for the games directly. Instead, they go to Best Buy every month and purchase the game cards themselves. This system really isn't a bad one, and it doesn't really take advantage of anyone. The trick is, it needs to remain what it is and not become something more. If I am forced to buy game cards instead of use my credit card, I would be a little angry. I don't want to drive to the store to purchase these cards, nor do I want to purchase extras so I don't have to go back. I quit online games fairly often, so paying for them in advance has always been a bad deal for me.
Well, placebos should never be a first choice, but if there is someone who either doesn't need any real treatment or if all other courses of action have failed, then a placebo should be an option available to doctors. Will it cure everyone? No. If it cures even 5% of people who otherwise wouldn't have been cured, even if only for a short time, is it worth it? I believe it is. Obviously I wouldn't want the drug to have any bad effects, and I would also want it to be as cheap as possible.
If placebos didn't work, then doctors wouldn't prescribe them. I guess the better question is how can we give people placebos without them realizing it's a placebo? I don't personally agree with giving out antibiotics as placebos. The trick is, with the internet, deceiving your patients is getting pretty hard.
The problem is that a lot of us have multiple computers. Who wants to spend $50 a year on each computer? I've got three computers I take responsibility for in my house (and 2 that I don't). So that's $150-$250 a YEAR for an AV solution. I know a few vendors have a discounted system, but that still is a lot of cash a year. If I could spend $50 a computer and get lifetime virus def updates...I would do it, but this yearly crap is bull.
Strapping a jet fighter engine to a car isn't considered innovation in my book. If they came up with some new technology or developed something new, I might be impressed. Until then, this is just a bunch of rich people wasting good money that could be better spent else ware.
Some of the worst power supplies I've ever had were name brand power supplies. I spent $100 for what I thought was a solid power supply, but when my system started getting flaky a month after the 1yr warranty ran up, I was quite glad I still had my old power supply that came with the case.
Saying "Anymore then $100 on a case and you're pushing it" is like saying "No one needs more than 640k of ram". PC enthusiasts drop $200 on a video card or CPU that they'll only keep a year or two and don't bat an eye, so what's wrong with dropping $200 on a case that you'll keep 3 or 4 years?
The point isn't that $200 is way to much for a case, it's that going from $100 to $200 doesn't really give you much in return for your cash. I would rather spend $100 on a case and then spend the extra $100 on a video card or processor. Does that extra $100 get you a better case? It's possible, but for those of us who aren't rich, it's totally not worth it. Some of the best cases I've had were less than $50. My most recent case purchase (6 years ago) was $120, and I don't know how you could get much better than it. My case also came with a 500 watt power supply, but it passed away a few years ago.