The first is that you can usually make out the time further away, and in poorer lighting conditions, from an analog clock versus a digital.
The second is that you can use your analog watch as an impromptu compass. In the northern hemisphere, hold the watch flat and point the hour hand towards the sun. Now bisect the angle between the hour hand and the figure 12 (ie. noon) on your watch to give you a North-South line. In the southern hemisphere, hold the watch dial and point the figure 12 (ie. noon) towards the sun. The line that bisects the angle between the hour hand and the figure 12 is the North-South line.
So if I toss in my Dark Side of the Moon CD into the player and only listen to one song am I also doing a disservice to the artist? Should I only be allowed to play the entire contents of the CD, in order?
I see no difference between not being allowed to buy an individual song and not being allowed to play an individual song from a CD you own, other than the excess money the industry gets in the former for things you don't want.
Kind of makes you wonder if such things would affect ratings for those shows marked with such, and therefore advertising bottom line, though I would imagine they would for the most part be movies broadcast rather than the average sitcom.
I'm not sure how many ratings are compiled with people who timeshift in mind, but I know that most of my friends rarely watch their favorite shows at the time when they're actually on these days.
In the later case, wouldn't it then become a self-correcting situation?
Those states that want to tax such online corporations will either collect the money and lose the company or not tax the company and get money that filters into their economy. As long as there's at least one state willing to bet that the latter is better than the former, the companies will have a reason to move, and if the states want them, they too will have to barter in taxation to keep them.
You are of course correct, however, I firmly do not believe they shouldn't expect to be able to get into the seat and go without at least the equivalent of a automobile driver's ed course.
The thing that bugged me the most about doing telephone technical support at a previous company was the sheer number of young secretaries who kept calling asking how to do this or that basic task in Microsoft Office. It would be like an accountant calling us up and asking how to use the calculator.
The problem is that not only do people not feel the need to educate themselves, they wear their computer ignorance with pride. Even when you try to show them how to fix a common problem they'll give you the "don't tell me how, just fix it" all while constantly mentioning how they "know nothing about these computers".
The sheer number of people in the corporate world who seem to refuse to learn about their tools is astounding.
Many colleges will, if asked ahead of time, permit you to take a test at a computer if you show that you're having a physical problem with writing out the answers. It's not something that it would be all that hard to get a doctor's note regarding.
However, his point was about how a completely different user of the mailing list in which he participates in had been infected by a virus, which like many modern viruses sends out infected emails with faked "from:" fields in order to better hide the source of the infection.
With the growing number of such viruses, it's not a bad idea to use a pgp signature, or even a bog-standard text signature line that says "Don't trust this email unless it has this line attached", so that it's easier to tell whether a message has been sent by the legitimate address.
What you say is true, but it doesn't necessarily contradict what the previous poster is saying.
The good liars can fool you, yes, but the bad ones are far less likely too, even online, so once you meet them in person, you're where someone who meets another at a bar, with the exception that you've already eliminated the easy to spot wastes of time.
Your statement that "online it's massively simple to social engineer" is only true if someone relies on another to be 100% honest about themselves, something which is dangerous to do both online and off.
I would say that both you and the previous poster are correct on some points, but the net effect is that there are equal, but different, dangers and benefits to both online and offline meeting of people early in any relationship.
I take it you haven't even played the game, in which you as a player can play any of the three sides.
If anything, the game is a commercial for the might of the Chinese army, being that the last time I looked at the stats, they were on average the most successful in online multiplayer matches.
I only play the American forces because I prefer the capabilities of their units, not because I think they're any more morally correct than the others.
It's kind of sadly humorous how topical the RTS game C&C:Generals is, with the US fighting a vague arabic terrorist organization with chemical weapons and the Chinese forces which use hackers extensively as electronic warfare as well as money source from stolen bank accounts.
If there isn't a mod out there to change the Chinese over to the North Koreans, there should be.
Many ISPs actually provide you as the end-user the ability to turn this feature on or off through a simple website form, which to me would be the best option.
Requiring it as an option in the email client puts just another task on the end-user's computer that's better handled back at the server.
One of the teams that competed earlier on in the series, The N.E.R.D.S., have their thoughts on this here.
The short answer is that yes, there are parts there that one wouldn't find in a normal junkyard due to safety concerns, and that yes, there are a higher number of "good junk" than the average real world junk heap, but honestly it's not like it's still not difficult as hell.
The "Junkyard" concept is only that, a concept designed to hold the show together, not an absolute reality that must be adheared to or else.
Plaintiff Samuel Kim said he unwittingly became a victim in February after making a purchase at a Best Buy store in Los Angeles with his debit card. At checkout, a store employee scanned Kim's debit card and, without any explanation to him, scanned a trial MSN compact disc and placed it in his shopping bag, the lawsuit said.
Now I'll be the first to note that the man should have paid closer attention to his receipt, but this is definitely not uncommon at many Best Buys.
The Best Buy corporation likes to make a marketting bullet point about how their salespeople are not paid commissions and therefore aren't going to pressure you into sales you don't need. However, they conveniently forget to mention that the sales records of these employees are carefully tracked and while they don't get the positive re-enforcement of a commission income, they get plenty of negative re-enforcement for failing to push MSN, Netflix, service plans or anything else the corporate HQ wants customers to buy into.
Besides seeing such happen as a customer, I worked myself at a Best Buy for an entire eight hours in their computer department a year back and watched one the saleskids first try to push the MSN subscription on a customer who refused it the eight times it was asked, and then had it put on his credit card by the worker anyways.
When I asked the sales manager about the legality of this he merely muttered something about it being the customer's responsibility to keep track of their receipt and that he rewarded such agressive tactics.
I quit that job right then and there.
More horror stories for those look for an entertaining, though depressing read.
Sure... How about the Ohio Taxpayers Association, which has a report available about how the existence of open source software is a threat to property rights and innovation.
The report even goes on to bring out the boogeyman of terrorism by mentioning that the GPL has "infected" the NSA, making it possible that "any person with an Internet connection can now logon to the NSA and print out the blueprint for NSA's Enhanced Linux software".
After the September 11th attacks occurred, Congress was pretty quick to start investigations into what the intelligence and law enforcement communities could have or should have done to prevent it.
In many ways, the idea of "opening up for review" the processes of those organizations isn't all that different than having the source code open for those interested in the security of a particular codebase to be able to serve as an outside monitor of the developer's security team.
Few people would suggest that the law enforcement and intelligence communities would be better off doing their own reviews, when such practices prior to 9/11 showed such little progress.
... and yet neither the GC nor the PS2 are really stomping them when it comes to online games.
I own a Playstation 2, and in many ways am jealous of the support the XBox owners get in terms of their online package.
Sure, it cost them $50, but they get the ability to log onto Live through one account, see where their buddies are online and what games they're playing and join them in that game. They even get a cheap little headset.
Of course, as a PS2 owner, I can get a headset too, provided I pay $60 for a copy of SOCOMM that comes with it.
You are correct that Microsoft's model isn't enticing to developers who want to make money off of their own subscription model, but the truth is the majority of games that could have online support aren't MMORPGs that can get away with charging monthly fees on their own on top of anything else you might have to pay.
The trouble for the PS2 is that in trying to develop online support for, say, your fighting game, you don't get anywhere near the pre-built support you do for the XBox, and have to reinvent the wheel in many places, which is why so few games are coming out that do support that feature, even when they should.
Sony needs to push online features far more than it is with their completely hands off approach.
Wouldn't a 2003 (perhaps even 2004) release hurt Sony in the meantime, as people hold off on purchasing PS2 consoles in anticipation of the new unit? Sony gives such large lead announced times for release dates that it gives consumers time to consider purchasing already existing hardware, knowing that they've got X months until the next big thing comes out.
If anything, such a rumor could help the competition.
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Two things I like about analog timepieces:
The first is that you can usually make out the time further away, and in poorer lighting conditions, from an analog clock versus a digital.
The second is that you can use your analog watch as an impromptu compass. In the northern hemisphere, hold the watch flat and point the hour hand towards the sun. Now bisect the angle between the hour hand and the figure 12 (ie. noon) on your watch to give you a North-South line. In the southern hemisphere, hold the watch dial and point the figure 12 (ie. noon) towards the sun. The line that bisects the angle between the hour hand and the figure 12 is the North-South line.
So if I toss in my Dark Side of the Moon CD into the player and only listen to one song am I also doing a disservice to the artist? Should I only be allowed to play the entire contents of the CD, in order?
I see no difference between not being allowed to buy an individual song and not being allowed to play an individual song from a CD you own, other than the excess money the industry gets in the former for things you don't want.
Well, it's not like Microsoft themselves support Windows 95 and NT anymore.
Kind of makes you wonder if such things would affect ratings for those shows marked with such, and therefore advertising bottom line, though I would imagine they would for the most part be movies broadcast rather than the average sitcom.
I'm not sure how many ratings are compiled with people who timeshift in mind, but I know that most of my friends rarely watch their favorite shows at the time when they're actually on these days.
In the later case, wouldn't it then become a self-correcting situation?
Those states that want to tax such online corporations will either collect the money and lose the company or not tax the company and get money that filters into their economy. As long as there's at least one state willing to bet that the latter is better than the former, the companies will have a reason to move, and if the states want them, they too will have to barter in taxation to keep them.
Kind of a free-market equation for taxation.
You are of course correct, however, I firmly do not believe they shouldn't expect to be able to get into the seat and go without at least the equivalent of a automobile driver's ed course.
The thing that bugged me the most about doing telephone technical support at a previous company was the sheer number of young secretaries who kept calling asking how to do this or that basic task in Microsoft Office. It would be like an accountant calling us up and asking how to use the calculator.
The problem is that not only do people not feel the need to educate themselves, they wear their computer ignorance with pride. Even when you try to show them how to fix a common problem they'll give you the "don't tell me how, just fix it" all while constantly mentioning how they "know nothing about these computers".
The sheer number of people in the corporate world who seem to refuse to learn about their tools is astounding.
Many colleges will, if asked ahead of time, permit you to take a test at a computer if you show that you're having a physical problem with writing out the answers. It's not something that it would be all that hard to get a doctor's note regarding.
At that point, yes, he would be in trouble.
However, his point was about how a completely different user of the mailing list in which he participates in had been infected by a virus, which like many modern viruses sends out infected emails with faked "from:" fields in order to better hide the source of the infection.
With the growing number of such viruses, it's not a bad idea to use a pgp signature, or even a bog-standard text signature line that says "Don't trust this email unless it has this line attached", so that it's easier to tell whether a message has been sent by the legitimate address.
What you say is true, but it doesn't necessarily contradict what the previous poster is saying.
The good liars can fool you, yes, but the bad ones are far less likely too, even online, so once you meet them in person, you're where someone who meets another at a bar, with the exception that you've already eliminated the easy to spot wastes of time.
Your statement that "online it's massively simple to social engineer" is only true if someone relies on another to be 100% honest about themselves, something which is dangerous to do both online and off.
I would say that both you and the previous poster are correct on some points, but the net effect is that there are equal, but different, dangers and benefits to both online and offline meeting of people early in any relationship.
I take it you haven't even played the game, in which you as a player can play any of the three sides.
If anything, the game is a commercial for the might of the Chinese army, being that the last time I looked at the stats, they were on average the most successful in online multiplayer matches.
I only play the American forces because I prefer the capabilities of their units, not because I think they're any more morally correct than the others.
It's kind of sadly humorous how topical the RTS game C&C:Generals is, with the US fighting a vague arabic terrorist organization with chemical weapons and the Chinese forces which use hackers extensively as electronic warfare as well as money source from stolen bank accounts.
If there isn't a mod out there to change the Chinese over to the North Koreans, there should be.
Many ISPs actually provide you as the end-user the ability to turn this feature on or off through a simple website form, which to me would be the best option.
Requiring it as an option in the email client puts just another task on the end-user's computer that's better handled back at the server.
Kinda missed that "Only if you count the useless miles that the shuttle takes on its circuitous route" comment in his post, didn't you? ;)
One of the teams that competed earlier on in the series, The N.E.R.D.S., have their thoughts on this here.
The short answer is that yes, there are parts there that one wouldn't find in a normal junkyard due to safety concerns, and that yes, there are a higher number of "good junk" than the average real world junk heap, but honestly it's not like it's still not difficult as hell.
The "Junkyard" concept is only that, a concept designed to hold the show together, not an absolute reality that must be adheared to or else.
It's not my site, but the navigation menu was done in flash so obviously it won't appear for those who have it disabled. (Flash menus suck).
There's a direct link to the employee comments section here and customer comments here.
Not my page ... However I will agree that flash menues are horrible.
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Now I'll be the first to note that the man should have paid closer attention to his receipt, but this is definitely not uncommon at many Best Buys.
The Best Buy corporation likes to make a marketting bullet point about how their salespeople are not paid commissions and therefore aren't going to pressure you into sales you don't need. However, they conveniently forget to mention that the sales records of these employees are carefully tracked and while they don't get the positive re-enforcement of a commission income, they get plenty of negative re-enforcement for failing to push MSN, Netflix, service plans or anything else the corporate HQ wants customers to buy into.
Besides seeing such happen as a customer, I worked myself at a Best Buy for an entire eight hours in their computer department a year back and watched one the saleskids first try to push the MSN subscription on a customer who refused it the eight times it was asked, and then had it put on his credit card by the worker anyways.
When I asked the sales manager about the legality of this he merely muttered something about it being the customer's responsibility to keep track of their receipt and that he rewarded such agressive tactics.
I quit that job right then and there.
More horror stories for those look for an entertaining, though depressing read.
Most of my "childhood memories" were ruined simply by me growing up and seeing those cartoons again on cable re-runs.
The crass corporate sponsored half-hour toy commercials that were the cartoons of my youth look completely different in my eyes today.
Sure ... How about the Ohio Taxpayers Association, which has a report available about how the existence of open source software is a threat to property rights and innovation.
The report even goes on to bring out the boogeyman of terrorism by mentioning that the GPL has "infected" the NSA, making it possible that "any person with an Internet connection can now logon to the NSA and print out the blueprint for NSA's Enhanced Linux software".
Those damn Open Source terrorists!
After the September 11th attacks occurred, Congress was pretty quick to start investigations into what the intelligence and law enforcement communities could have or should have done to prevent it.
In many ways, the idea of "opening up for review" the processes of those organizations isn't all that different than having the source code open for those interested in the security of a particular codebase to be able to serve as an outside monitor of the developer's security team.
Few people would suggest that the law enforcement and intelligence communities would be better off doing their own reviews, when such practices prior to 9/11 showed such little progress.
Apparently so ...
It was a stuntman, and not Macquire, hanging upside down in the Spidey costume in the raining kiss scene.
There are some sample hacks on the O'Reilly webpage for the book, which is also available as part of the O'Reilly Safari Bookshelf for those that subscribe to the service.
... and yet neither the GC nor the PS2 are really stomping them when it comes to online games.
I own a Playstation 2, and in many ways am jealous of the support the XBox owners get in terms of their online package.
Sure, it cost them $50, but they get the ability to log onto Live through one account, see where their buddies are online and what games they're playing and join them in that game. They even get a cheap little headset.
Of course, as a PS2 owner, I can get a headset too, provided I pay $60 for a copy of SOCOMM that comes with it.
You are correct that Microsoft's model isn't enticing to developers who want to make money off of their own subscription model, but the truth is the majority of games that could have online support aren't MMORPGs that can get away with charging monthly fees on their own on top of anything else you might have to pay.
The trouble for the PS2 is that in trying to develop online support for, say, your fighting game, you don't get anywhere near the pre-built support you do for the XBox, and have to reinvent the wheel in many places, which is why so few games are coming out that do support that feature, even when they should.
Sony needs to push online features far more than it is with their completely hands off approach.
... and yet even with all that marketting, they're losing customers in swarms, be it to cheaper services, broadband or plain less AOL-like entities.
Wouldn't a 2003 (perhaps even 2004) release hurt Sony in the meantime, as people hold off on purchasing PS2 consoles in anticipation of the new unit? Sony gives such large lead announced times for release dates that it gives consumers time to consider purchasing already existing hardware, knowing that they've got X months until the next big thing comes out.
If anything, such a rumor could help the competition.