I don't. I'm often wandering the net on my laptop and pay more attention to that during commercials. I also get up to pee, get food from the kitchen, pay more attention to tidying up and cleaning, etc. during commercials. I'm 32. A previous roommate did skip commercials when he watched TV, though he's not that much younger. He did pick on me for not doing the same. I just don't care I guess. A bad AV switch helped sortof, it did a poor job of passing through bright scenery signals, and things like the Macbook Air commercial went out of valid signal range to my projector and I didn't see them.:) Happened during shows and games too so I trashed that and bought a better switch, now I see all those commercials again.
"ZDNet blogger Jason Perlow and Centrify's Tom Kemp discover that 80 percent of all Microsoft server protocols are un-patented. What exactly then, did SAMBA license?
Perhaps something from that other 20%? Or maybe a different kind of license and not a patent license?
The HDDVD drive didn't add anything to the Xbox360 gaming experience in any way, the one and only thing it did was allow the 360 to play HDDVD movie disks. My 360 is pretty loud, and I'd rather get a quieter stand-alone movie player to use instead. If movies would be the only benefit of a 360 bluray drive, then I simply do not want one.
I do think that thinking internet download as the one and only exclusive delivery for HD movies, as is rumored to be MS's plan, is a bad idea. I know of too many places where broadband simply isn't available, and of too many people that absolutely cannot afford the continuing monthly expense where it is available, to believe that it's a good idea to make that the only way to get content. People out in the sticks can still have HD equipment. Low income people can afford the occasional purchase, and seem to like buying the occasional expensive thing like a nice TV that maybe they shouldn't have bought but did anyway, but would not be able to keep a fast net connection going for very long. These two groups of people could rent or buy HD movies on physical media from time to time, but would be excluded from broadband internet-only distribution. I don't think it's fair or nice to exclude such people from the market, and I can't understand why MS or any company would be happy doing exactly that.
If people aren't smart enough to protect their wireless routers, how are they going to know anyone used them at all, let alone know how to track down who did it for prosecution?
I don't want to pay those retards $5/month for their crap. I buy CDs or iTunes downloads when there's something I want. Which isn't very often these days. Most of the crap they sell, I do not want. I do not steal. And I do not want to pay $5 that I will get nothing in return for. Besides, these guys will still go on sueing people, right? We know they will. If they're going to sue for damages, they don't deserve a tax from us honest folks, and they don't deserve to be double-dipping into the wallets of the people they will sue.
I think it would be a terrible idea to say that people in one category should or should not date people from another category. Let people decide what they want for themselves.
OK, the articles I've seen show some sort of rocket taking off. How about a picture of an explosion at the other end? Surely with such a highly publicized thing as this there were telescopes pointed in that direction, perhaps some photographic satellites as well?
nyway, the only way to change the game is to play it - if the congress is run by corporate types, then you need to become a corporate type to change congress. Revolution happens, but it's pretty rare - and frankly I don't think that Lessig has it in him.
If one does it this way, is he still in a position to change congress, or has the system changed him into yet another broken piece of the same-old?
While I really should be doing something better with my time, I'm glad to see this is over. I'd hate to find myself flipping through nothing but "reality" shows. I just hope that the language in the new contract is not specifically tied to any particular technologies by name so we have to do this every 10 years or so when technology changes. I'd like to see them get what they want regardless of how delivery technologies evolve and change into completely different and new things.
Strage seeing this. I had checked my hotmail not 5 minutes ago, using Centos and Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070515 Firefox/2.0.0.4 I did switch to the classic hotmail style a few weeks ago as I just didn't like the navigation of their fancier version, I kept back-arrowing thinking it'd take me back to the message list but it dumped me back out of the entire email script and I had to go back in. I don't like the fancy interface, and maybe that's the one that's broke, but the classic style one doesn't seem to have any problems this morning...
OK, so what about having NDAed documentation that you've agreed not to share with anyone? For example, nonpublic specs for CPUs, graphics chips, etc. that you're using in a system design, and you take work with you for something to do on a plane to visit a supplier or manufacturer or something like that? Look up the BGA pattern as a refresher to talk about metal spacing, via sizing etc with a PCB fab, but you've signed an NDA to keep the document including that PGA spec secret? What is the procedure for that kind of thing? PGP such files? FileVault them on OSX, though after logging in those files can then be copied...
According to a few web forms asking me how I feel about issues, my best pick for my primaries is Ron Paul. For real. But as I expect he will not be getting the Republican party behind him, my second best republican pick is McCain on these web forms. (OK, one of them put Huckabee as my second R pick, but after seeing some of his super-religious stuff he wants ammended to the Constitution then he's out for me) So I'll vote Paul in the Primaries and expect to see McCain on the final election ballot.
But even though I'm registered R, I may find myself voting D in the finals. I like the oldschool R ideals of small government and things like that, but in recent years Dubya has tossed that ideal in the trash. Things my dad still uses as reasons to support the R party no longer seem to apply at all. Bush is for big government. I can see him and Cheney and friends taking our guns away someday. (I'm not a gun nut, but my dad is and this is one of the big reason's he uses to talk people out of going D, the other being that he doesn't want the Ds to turn America into a socialist state)
Obama Is A Muslim Terrorist Trying To Dismantle The USA
My dad is one of those people. But according to various web forms asking me how I feel about issues, Obama is my best pick since Kucinich stepped out of the race. And even if Hillary was listed above Obama I'd most likely stil pick him because I want to see someone other than Bush/Clinton in office. Maybe it's silly, but I don't want our country under a two-family government for such a long time. I was certainly happier with Bill Clinton than I am with Dubya, but still...
I'd like my Senators to sponsor what I like to call the Save America from Bad People Act. This law, if enacted, would allow me to publically aplaud or shame any and all federal politicians once a year, at a tax funded event. For politicians who I personally think did a good job, I'll shake their hand and say thank you. For politicians who I think did a poor job, I get to smack them upside the head and say "boo! booo! You suck! We want Bender! Boo!" Participation by politicians will be compulsory, and anyone attempting to duck out on this event would be subject to 2000 years in jail and a $5trillion fine on their personal estate, payable in 5 easy payments of $1trillion per year, or subject to 42%APR for any remaining balance past the due dates, with me and my descendants as first creditor on all their assets. The event will of course be televised, in HD where available. A new holiday will be born, where non-government employees have the day off work, but government employees must toil away at their jobs, and if federal politicians, ANY federal politician and ALL advisors/lobbyists of same (don't want to leave out the likes of Mr. Rove now do we?), that this day their job description absolutely requires them to have their hand shaken by me or their head smacked by me. In the event of my unfortunate demise, my place at this event will be filled by random drawing from a list of names of my choosing, and if that list is also extinguished, then I guess we'll need to figure that out.
I seek support from you and your Senators and Representatives to pass this bill for the betterment of our country. It's got a nice sounding name, so it must be good for everyone, right?
Strange that most of the engineers I know are relatively liberal. And I work at a chip design center full of EEs. But, if you think about it, terrorist leaders probably find knowledge making one able to design and build timed or remote triggers more useful to their cause than they find the knowledge making one able to write a haiku. This, reqruitment will limit how many haiku writers are brought in to the plan. Unless it's Vogon haiku, which I understand would be pretty freakin scary to the victim. But really, how many experts are there on Vogon poetry anyway?
I would have thought that if the donor's immune system took over the recipient's, then OK it would not attack the new liver which it recognized as its own, but I'd be concerned about it attacking EVERYTHING ELSE that was the recipient's own. So the liver donor, who would have rejected anything translplanted into him from this girl, is NOT rejcting her entire (less liver) body?? Weird...
Just keep in mind, I'm buying less music right now because the economy is in the pits and probably about to get worse, NOT because I'm copying stuff, G-darnit. We all know we'll see that reasoning coming up in the next year sometime as to why sales are down and to get DRM back.
That's what I've been hoping for for quite a while now. Anything else is just bonus or even wasted space for my particular desires, but I love the idea of Konsole on my Mac!
Our network has project data distributed all over various workstations, and we have people on various projects at work very late or logging in from home to check on things. Ican't turn off my workstation because my supervisor's remote login session runs on it, and he does stuff at home after his kids go to sleep. I can't turn off my workstation because there's project data stored there that may be needed or updated "after hours", as well as for long computer jobs that can't be suspended and restarted partway through, and part of these longrunning jobs is to do them overnight so they're complete in the morning, or complete in 3 days instead of 9 days with the workers doing nothing while they wait those longer times. Not all situations even allow turning things off to be very practical.
I haven't seen Cloverfield yet but would like to. But first a question to those who have and liked it.
Did you also enjoy the Blair Witch Project?
I'm just curious if it may be the style or the movies themselves or what. For the record, I didn't want to see BWP, and never would have except that my aunt gave me the VHS for christmas one year and I felt obligated at that point, and I did not enjoy it at all. A friend of mine who was there at the time fell asleep during it. If Cloverfield is too similar, then I'd rather wait for it in Redbox and not pay $10 at the theater...
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I don't. I'm often wandering the net on my laptop and pay more attention to that during commercials. I also get up to pee, get food from the kitchen, pay more attention to tidying up and cleaning, etc. during commercials. I'm 32. A previous roommate did skip commercials when he watched TV, though he's not that much younger. He did pick on me for not doing the same. I just don't care I guess. A bad AV switch helped sortof, it did a poor job of passing through bright scenery signals, and things like the Macbook Air commercial went out of valid signal range to my projector and I didn't see them. :) Happened during shows and games too so I trashed that and bought a better switch, now I see all those commercials again.
"ZDNet blogger Jason Perlow and Centrify's Tom Kemp discover that 80 percent of all Microsoft server protocols are un-patented. What exactly then, did SAMBA license?
Perhaps something from that other 20%? Or maybe a different kind of license and not a patent license?
The HDDVD drive didn't add anything to the Xbox360 gaming experience in any way, the one and only thing it did was allow the 360 to play HDDVD movie disks. My 360 is pretty loud, and I'd rather get a quieter stand-alone movie player to use instead. If movies would be the only benefit of a 360 bluray drive, then I simply do not want one.
I do think that thinking internet download as the one and only exclusive delivery for HD movies, as is rumored to be MS's plan, is a bad idea. I know of too many places where broadband simply isn't available, and of too many people that absolutely cannot afford the continuing monthly expense where it is available, to believe that it's a good idea to make that the only way to get content. People out in the sticks can still have HD equipment. Low income people can afford the occasional purchase, and seem to like buying the occasional expensive thing like a nice TV that maybe they shouldn't have bought but did anyway, but would not be able to keep a fast net connection going for very long. These two groups of people could rent or buy HD movies on physical media from time to time, but would be excluded from broadband internet-only distribution. I don't think it's fair or nice to exclude such people from the market, and I can't understand why MS or any company would be happy doing exactly that.
If people aren't smart enough to protect their wireless routers, how are they going to know anyone used them at all, let alone know how to track down who did it for prosecution?
I don't want to pay those retards $5/month for their crap. I buy CDs or iTunes downloads when there's something I want. Which isn't very often these days. Most of the crap they sell, I do not want. I do not steal. And I do not want to pay $5 that I will get nothing in return for. Besides, these guys will still go on sueing people, right? We know they will. If they're going to sue for damages, they don't deserve a tax from us honest folks, and they don't deserve to be double-dipping into the wallets of the people they will sue.
I think it would be a terrible idea to say that people in one category should or should not date people from another category. Let people decide what they want for themselves.
Fingerprint + Children = bad combo.
Indeed. Children should not be allowed to have fingerprints, until they turn 18.
OK, the articles I've seen show some sort of rocket taking off. How about a picture of an explosion at the other end? Surely with such a highly publicized thing as this there were telescopes pointed in that direction, perhaps some photographic satellites as well?
nyway, the only way to change the game is to play it - if the congress is run by corporate types, then you need to become a corporate type to change congress. Revolution happens, but it's pretty rare - and frankly I don't think that Lessig has it in him.
If one does it this way, is he still in a position to change congress, or has the system changed him into yet another broken piece of the same-old?
While I really should be doing something better with my time, I'm glad to see this is over. I'd hate to find myself flipping through nothing but "reality" shows. I just hope that the language in the new contract is not specifically tied to any particular technologies by name so we have to do this every 10 years or so when technology changes. I'd like to see them get what they want regardless of how delivery technologies evolve and change into completely different and new things.
Strage seeing this. I had checked my hotmail not 5 minutes ago, using Centos and
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070515 Firefox/2.0.0.4
I did switch to the classic hotmail style a few weeks ago as I just didn't like the navigation of their fancier version, I kept back-arrowing thinking it'd take me back to the message list but it dumped me back out of the entire email script and I had to go back in. I don't like the fancy interface, and maybe that's the one that's broke, but the classic style one doesn't seem to have any problems this morning...
After they switched from hardware to software emulation, I'm curious as to how removing the software helps to reduce production costs.
OK, so what about having NDAed documentation that you've agreed not to share with anyone? For example, nonpublic specs for CPUs, graphics chips, etc. that you're using in a system design, and you take work with you for something to do on a plane to visit a supplier or manufacturer or something like that? Look up the BGA pattern as a refresher to talk about metal spacing, via sizing etc with a PCB fab, but you've signed an NDA to keep the document including that PGA spec secret? What is the procedure for that kind of thing? PGP such files? FileVault them on OSX, though after logging in those files can then be copied...
Great. Now the bad guys know they can do this. Thanks a lot.
According to a few web forms asking me how I feel about issues, my best pick for my primaries is Ron Paul. For real. But as I expect he will not be getting the Republican party behind him, my second best republican pick is McCain on these web forms. (OK, one of them put Huckabee as my second R pick, but after seeing some of his super-religious stuff he wants ammended to the Constitution then he's out for me) So I'll vote Paul in the Primaries and expect to see McCain on the final election ballot.
But even though I'm registered R, I may find myself voting D in the finals. I like the oldschool R ideals of small government and things like that, but in recent years Dubya has tossed that ideal in the trash. Things my dad still uses as reasons to support the R party no longer seem to apply at all. Bush is for big government. I can see him and Cheney and friends taking our guns away someday. (I'm not a gun nut, but my dad is and this is one of the big reason's he uses to talk people out of going D, the other being that he doesn't want the Ds to turn America into a socialist state)
Obama Is A Muslim Terrorist Trying To Dismantle The USA
My dad is one of those people. But according to various web forms asking me how I feel about issues, Obama is my best pick since Kucinich stepped out of the race. And even if Hillary was listed above Obama I'd most likely stil pick him because I want to see someone other than Bush/Clinton in office. Maybe it's silly, but I don't want our country under a two-family government for such a long time. I was certainly happier with Bill Clinton than I am with Dubya, but still...
I'd like my Senators to sponsor what I like to call the Save America from Bad People Act. This law, if enacted, would allow me to publically aplaud or shame any and all federal politicians once a year, at a tax funded event. For politicians who I personally think did a good job, I'll shake their hand and say thank you. For politicians who I think did a poor job, I get to smack them upside the head and say "boo! booo! You suck! We want Bender! Boo!" Participation by politicians will be compulsory, and anyone attempting to duck out on this event would be subject to 2000 years in jail and a $5trillion fine on their personal estate, payable in 5 easy payments of $1trillion per year, or subject to 42%APR for any remaining balance past the due dates, with me and my descendants as first creditor on all their assets. The event will of course be televised, in HD where available. A new holiday will be born, where non-government employees have the day off work, but government employees must toil away at their jobs, and if federal politicians, ANY federal politician and ALL advisors/lobbyists of same (don't want to leave out the likes of Mr. Rove now do we?), that this day their job description absolutely requires them to have their hand shaken by me or their head smacked by me. In the event of my unfortunate demise, my place at this event will be filled by random drawing from a list of names of my choosing, and if that list is also extinguished, then I guess we'll need to figure that out.
I seek support from you and your Senators and Representatives to pass this bill for the betterment of our country. It's got a nice sounding name, so it must be good for everyone, right?
Strange that most of the engineers I know are relatively liberal. And I work at a chip design center full of EEs. But, if you think about it, terrorist leaders probably find knowledge making one able to design and build timed or remote triggers more useful to their cause than they find the knowledge making one able to write a haiku. This, reqruitment will limit how many haiku writers are brought in to the plan. Unless it's Vogon haiku, which I understand would be pretty freakin scary to the victim. But really, how many experts are there on Vogon poetry anyway?
I would have thought that if the donor's immune system took over the recipient's, then OK it would not attack the new liver which it recognized as its own, but I'd be concerned about it attacking EVERYTHING ELSE that was the recipient's own. So the liver donor, who would have rejected anything translplanted into him from this girl, is NOT rejcting her entire (less liver) body?? Weird...
Just keep in mind, I'm buying less music right now because the economy is in the pits and probably about to get worse, NOT because I'm copying stuff, G-darnit. We all know we'll see that reasoning coming up in the next year sometime as to why sales are down and to get DRM back.
That's what I've been hoping for for quite a while now. Anything else is just bonus or even wasted space for my particular desires, but I love the idea of Konsole on my Mac!
Isn't that a year late? I was excited to see this subject title, but a little disappointed that it won't be here before we choose our president. :(
Our network has project data distributed all over various workstations, and we have people on various projects at work very late or logging in from home to check on things. Ican't turn off my workstation because my supervisor's remote login session runs on it, and he does stuff at home after his kids go to sleep. I can't turn off my workstation because there's project data stored there that may be needed or updated "after hours", as well as for long computer jobs that can't be suspended and restarted partway through, and part of these longrunning jobs is to do them overnight so they're complete in the morning, or complete in 3 days instead of 9 days with the workers doing nothing while they wait those longer times. Not all situations even allow turning things off to be very practical.
Sometimes, but in this case it's the fault of an audience with a lacking imagination.
For me I think it was more a lack of being afraid of the forest.
I haven't seen Cloverfield yet but would like to. But first a question to those who have and liked it.
Did you also enjoy the Blair Witch Project?
I'm just curious if it may be the style or the movies themselves or what. For the record, I didn't want to see BWP, and never would have except that my aunt gave me the VHS for christmas one year and I felt obligated at that point, and I did not enjoy it at all. A friend of mine who was there at the time fell asleep during it. If Cloverfield is too similar, then I'd rather wait for it in Redbox and not pay $10 at the theater...