Despite al the socialist programs, like medicare, social security, etc that people won't give up
You forgot an important one most people don't think of and its too big to fit under the 'etc' category. Corporate Welfare. Having that been said, I'd give them all up in a heartbeat.
Does the power company actually maintain your lines? A couple years ago there was an ice storm that knocked out power in the St. Louis area that completely took out older lines that were supposed to be "maintained", but instead the budget for them went into the shareholders' pockets. It took them over a week in the middle of winter to get power restored to most areas, and then a few were still without power. What was the resolution afterward? Why, to increase rates to cover the additional maintenance needed to bring those lines back up. Okay, fine. Why am I still paying for that years later? Surely the maintenance has been done. Power line "maintenance" is similar to the black hole that is broadband "maintenance". This is why the power flickers when there is a stiff breeze or a storm. This is why the fastest connection I can get in my area is still just a 4.5 mbps. My heart goes out to them for "losing" money, but until they show me that they're doing continual maintenance justifying a fee, they can get bent.
Before then, I'll bet there were cases of kids knifing others, and before that, I'll bet there were cases of people hitting people with rocks. The moral of the story is that people kill people. Stop trying to fix the problem after it happens by worrying about who can call the cops as its happening, and start spending time/money trying to understand/prevent why it happens in the first place.
As an afterthought, I did not intend on implying that cattle lay eggs, nor did I wish to imply that decrease in cattle-farming indicates increase in cost of eggs.
Change cattle-farming to livestock-farming above please. Thanks.
Actually, most farmers I've known (and there are a few, I'm from non-Chicago Illinois, after all), have more money than they'd care to admit. In fact, to a certain extent, the Government pays them to NOT harvest as much as they can. Nowadays, its more like Farmer breaks a sweat climbing into his closed-top, air conditioned tractor, and Farmer finishes in the black because of the fact that he's only planting corn because that's the 'in' thing nowadays, causing a decrease in cattle-farming which lets us 'enjoy' a carton of eggs at $1.50 and a gallon of milk at $4.00.
Out of curiosity, where do you get your groceries?
But what is unauthorized access? At my company, there are legal notices right before hitting the login page telling you that if you are not authorized to access this computer, you should disconnect at that point. If you don't have that, whats to tell if you fat fingered the ip you were connecting to and happened into a radically different box than you intended? Incredibly unlikely, but I bet stranger things have happened. Additionally, if thats not a good enough argument, I could always point out that according to the computer (and by extension, the people who set it up), he must have been authorized, because he was able to log in without any exploits.:)
The way I understand the way the current Zune store works is that you pay a monthly fee and get to listen to as much music as you want as long as you are paying that fee. Now, I'm sure there has to be some limitations somewhere, and I've not actually tried it myself, but it sounds like it sidesteps this issue altogether.
It is somewhat ambiguous, but I had read it 0.3%, not 3%, which implies that you'd lose 0-1 emails/day if you were averaging 50 total a day. Still higher that way than your current method, but nowhere near as bad as 7-8 daily.
Except that the guy behind you is racing up to your bumper and then slams on the brakes right before he hits you, completely undoing all the good you thought you were doing. There's no fixing the problem when people aren't paying attention/are assholes.
Its not about the algorithm for movie sorting. Imagine situations where having a 10% more accurate guess would actually count for something important. Now imagine licensing and patenting that algorithm and building revenue from that.
Your stuff is hit and miss, but I gotta say I was thinking something very similar. How do these people have time to lounge around in coffeeshops screwing around on facebook, myspace, ad nauseum that often? It might be a huge difference in priorities, but I haven't had time to set foot in a coffeeshop, let alone sit around in one, since I was in college. And don't tell me you're actually WORKING in that Starbucks. There's way too many distractions.
I think the change is that there is no longer a barrier to entry. Before, you had the editor picking out which letters actually MADE it into the newspaper. As a result, most of the less eloquent riff-raff could be cut out. That's why you never saw any "ZOMG Obama is teh monkey!!!11!one" in the NYT. There was an implied minimum level of intelligence necessary to have access to Usenet and create your own website previously as well. Sadly, when you have the voice of the lowest common denominator, its always that of the stupidest person in the mob.
He can still use it. The only DRM that is in it is that every 30 seconds, it starts to flash goatse on the screen for 5 seconds while playing the badger song at top volume.
Well, if they don't provide the data so that you can attempt to recreate their analysis and side-step any possible way to double-check their numbers, then its not science, so the steps on your debate make perfect sense. The researchers also eat babies.
That doesn't include: I don't like the search features, I don't like the fact that 512 megs of my 2 gigs of ram that I don't use anyhow are taken up, I want my 5 extra frames of Counter-strike back that were way above my monitor's response time and refresh rate back.
I understand what you are and why I should not be responding to you, but you force a good question: Why don't those count? If I had an "upgrade" that forced uncomfortable functionality and a drop in performance (excluding hardware incompatibilities like the giant printer fiasco) on me without bringing anything new to the table (you DID just say that its just as stable as XP), AND I had to shell out $$$ for it, I'd be pissed too. Even if I didn't have to shell out $$$ for it, its something I would avoid. It was enough to make me go from KDE to Gnome.
You're trying to make the arguement that its not that bad, when you overlook the stuff that is that bad. I counter with that a dumb terminal CLI with keyboard only interface isn't that bad, when you exclude the fact that you don't get WYSIWYG, graphic editing applications are pretty much impractical, and you have to remember long arcane command line statements to do anything, but hey, its responsive and EVEN MORE STABLE THAN XP!!!
Oh, and I happen to use all 3 GB of my RAM, thankyouverymuch.
Nuclear power scares me less than orbital microwave cannons. At least we've been playing with nuclear power long enough to have a pretty good understanding of long term effects.
Yeah, I was going to say something about the unhealthy obsession with sports not going along too well with the frequent posting to Slashdot. I'm guessing the amazon profile is you though. Between the programming books on the wish list and the Ayn Rand book, it screams Slashdot subculture.
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Despite al the socialist programs, like medicare, social security, etc that people won't give up
You forgot an important one most people don't think of and its too big to fit under the 'etc' category. Corporate Welfare. Having that been said, I'd give them all up in a heartbeat.
Does the power company actually maintain your lines? A couple years ago there was an ice storm that knocked out power in the St. Louis area that completely took out older lines that were supposed to be "maintained", but instead the budget for them went into the shareholders' pockets. It took them over a week in the middle of winter to get power restored to most areas, and then a few were still without power. What was the resolution afterward? Why, to increase rates to cover the additional maintenance needed to bring those lines back up. Okay, fine. Why am I still paying for that years later? Surely the maintenance has been done. Power line "maintenance" is similar to the black hole that is broadband "maintenance". This is why the power flickers when there is a stiff breeze or a storm. This is why the fastest connection I can get in my area is still just a 4.5 mbps. My heart goes out to them for "losing" money, but until they show me that they're doing continual maintenance justifying a fee, they can get bent.
I think someone didn't get the joke.
Before then, I'll bet there were cases of kids knifing others, and before that, I'll bet there were cases of people hitting people with rocks. The moral of the story is that people kill people. Stop trying to fix the problem after it happens by worrying about who can call the cops as its happening, and start spending time/money trying to understand/prevent why it happens in the first place.
As an afterthought, I did not intend on implying that cattle lay eggs, nor did I wish to imply that decrease in cattle-farming indicates increase in cost of eggs.
Change cattle-farming to livestock-farming above please. Thanks.
Actually, most farmers I've known (and there are a few, I'm from non-Chicago Illinois, after all), have more money than they'd care to admit. In fact, to a certain extent, the Government pays them to NOT harvest as much as they can. Nowadays, its more like Farmer breaks a sweat climbing into his closed-top, air conditioned tractor, and Farmer finishes in the black because of the fact that he's only planting corn because that's the 'in' thing nowadays, causing a decrease in cattle-farming which lets us 'enjoy' a carton of eggs at $1.50 and a gallon of milk at $4.00.
Out of curiosity, where do you get your groceries?
But what is unauthorized access? At my company, there are legal notices right before hitting the login page telling you that if you are not authorized to access this computer, you should disconnect at that point. If you don't have that, whats to tell if you fat fingered the ip you were connecting to and happened into a radically different box than you intended? Incredibly unlikely, but I bet stranger things have happened. Additionally, if thats not a good enough argument, I could always point out that according to the computer (and by extension, the people who set it up), he must have been authorized, because he was able to log in without any exploits. :)
The way I understand the way the current Zune store works is that you pay a monthly fee and get to listen to as much music as you want as long as you are paying that fee. Now, I'm sure there has to be some limitations somewhere, and I've not actually tried it myself, but it sounds like it sidesteps this issue altogether.
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This is about the best analogy I've heard yet. I'd mod you up if I did not post already.
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When GM went bankrupt they didn't come and take away everybody's car keys.
They don't care. Providing product isn't in their business model anyway.
Ah, right. For some reason, I was reading 50 emails a day total. I seem to have taken my stupid pills today.
It is somewhat ambiguous, but I had read it 0.3%, not 3%, which implies that you'd lose 0-1 emails/day if you were averaging 50 total a day. Still higher that way than your current method, but nowhere near as bad as 7-8 daily.
Except that the guy behind you is racing up to your bumper and then slams on the brakes right before he hits you, completely undoing all the good you thought you were doing. There's no fixing the problem when people aren't paying attention/are assholes.
In the St. Louis area, asshats typically refuse to let you keep even a 2-3 car distance.
Its not about the algorithm for movie sorting. Imagine situations where having a 10% more accurate guess would actually count for something important. Now imagine licensing and patenting that algorithm and building revenue from that.
Don't forget Adam Sandler movies.
Homeless.
Yours In Socialism, Kilgore Trout
Your stuff is hit and miss, but I gotta say I was thinking something very similar. How do these people have time to lounge around in coffeeshops screwing around on facebook, myspace, ad nauseum that often? It might be a huge difference in priorities, but I haven't had time to set foot in a coffeeshop, let alone sit around in one, since I was in college. And don't tell me you're actually WORKING in that Starbucks. There's way too many distractions.
I think the change is that there is no longer a barrier to entry. Before, you had the editor picking out which letters actually MADE it into the newspaper. As a result, most of the less eloquent riff-raff could be cut out. That's why you never saw any "ZOMG Obama is teh monkey!!!11!one" in the NYT. There was an implied minimum level of intelligence necessary to have access to Usenet and create your own website previously as well. Sadly, when you have the voice of the lowest common denominator, its always that of the stupidest person in the mob.
He can still use it. The only DRM that is in it is that every 30 seconds, it starts to flash goatse on the screen for 5 seconds while playing the badger song at top volume.
Well, if they don't provide the data so that you can attempt to recreate their analysis and side-step any possible way to double-check their numbers, then its not science, so the steps on your debate make perfect sense. The researchers also eat babies.
That doesn't include: I don't like the search features, I don't like the fact that 512 megs of my 2 gigs of ram that I don't use anyhow are taken up, I want my 5 extra frames of Counter-strike back that were way above my monitor's response time and refresh rate back.
I understand what you are and why I should not be responding to you, but you force a good question: Why don't those count? If I had an "upgrade" that forced uncomfortable functionality and a drop in performance (excluding hardware incompatibilities like the giant printer fiasco) on me without bringing anything new to the table (you DID just say that its just as stable as XP), AND I had to shell out $$$ for it, I'd be pissed too. Even if I didn't have to shell out $$$ for it, its something I would avoid. It was enough to make me go from KDE to Gnome.
You're trying to make the arguement that its not that bad, when you overlook the stuff that is that bad. I counter with that a dumb terminal CLI with keyboard only interface isn't that bad, when you exclude the fact that you don't get WYSIWYG, graphic editing applications are pretty much impractical, and you have to remember long arcane command line statements to do anything, but hey, its responsive and EVEN MORE STABLE THAN XP!!!
Oh, and I happen to use all 3 GB of my RAM, thankyouverymuch.
Nuclear power scares me less than orbital microwave cannons. At least we've been playing with nuclear power long enough to have a pretty good understanding of long term effects.
Yeah, I was going to say something about the unhealthy obsession with sports not going along too well with the frequent posting to Slashdot. I'm guessing the amazon profile is you though. Between the programming books on the wish list and the Ayn Rand book, it screams Slashdot subculture.