Precisely. I could put a solid brick of steel in a box and label it fragile. Sure, you take said brick and slam it into something else solid at a million miles an hour, I'm pretty sure you'll "break" it.
It's freight shipping. Assume your package will be dropped from a height of 6ft, possibly repeatedly, and package your goods to compensate. There's a reason why whenever I order something off NewEgg, it comes in its original package (which is designed for shipping, as is) which is then stuffed inside another box with 12+ inches of packing peanuts on all sides, and the outer box is packed to the brim with peanuts so settling and shifting isn't possible.
Possibly not overlords in the "ruling over you" sense, but what would happen if a few mice got out, which never aged or died from cancer? Sure, mice get preyed upon, but if even a few of these mice made it to the wild, you'd see billions and billions of them in a few years. Mouse Armageddon, I think so!
It takes an almost imperceptible amount of water flow to achieve maximum convection. All you need to do is ensure there isn't a "pocket" of warm/cold air/water/other fluid next to the object and that's it. Try it sometime with some frozen steaks or something. Put one under the tap, turn it on halfway with cold water and time how long it takes to thaw, then do it again with the water on a tiny trickle. Sure, full on it will be faster, but only marginally, and at the cost of using 100x or more water.
Really? I watched that video and I would NEVER want to have to try to give a presentation on that piece of crap. Seriously, you connected a screen and have to turn around and put your back to the audience to see the slides? You've got to be kidding. Then you have to tap a ridiculously small square on the completely blank screen to go back a slide? Guess you could just use the arrow keys to do that...oh, wait...
Oh, maybe you could just plug one of the cheap and nifty Logitech presentation-oriented mice into the usb slot...oh, never mind, can't do that...
Hell, you can buy a laptop perfectly powerful enough to run Powerpoint 2003, 2007 or 2010, a logitech presentation style mouse, a vga cable and a freaking projector suitable for a small to medium sized conference room (sure, it'll need to be darkened, as the cheapie projectors aren't very bright at all) and still have enough money left over for a nice steak dinner compared to the price of a stupid iPad.
Your "in practice" video pretty much absolutely reinforces the post you are replying to about needing to use a laptop to give a presentation, since the iPad is utterly worthless for doing so, as demonstrated in that video.
Wow, Microsoft sure must have optimized Vista a TON, since it needed 1024 megabytes of memory to run comfortably, while you are claiming that 7 runs in 1/2000th as much!
I don't believe the problem is PEBCAK as we like to think. Browser plugs are a serious issue. They're just not being updated
So how the hell is failing to properly update one's computer NOT PEBCAK? Here's a car analogy: that's like saying it's not the owner's fault when cars seize up due to never having the oil changed. If one installs crappy insecure software such as Java, Adobe-anything, etc, and doesn't keep it updated and run routine virus scans to keep the possible damage from exploits to a minimum, one deserves what one gets. It's actually a shame these people aren't getting scammed out of more than just $30-40. Let these idiots get taken for a few thousand each and they'll wise up pretty quickly...either that or not have enough money to keep a computer and internet access. Either way, they are no longer MY problem.
In short, DRM is entirely ineffective. All it's doing is making it a hair more inconvenient to pirate than to buy.
I think you meant it's making it more convenient to pirate than to buy. It takes 15 seconds to find and click on a torrent, and just as long to download (or less) than the "legal" content. When I'm done, I have music/video that I can listen to on any device I want, watch on anything I want, easily put on my phone, transcode, etc. Until the content is available DRM free and at reasonable prices ($0.05 a song, $0.20 per 30 minute tv show, $1 a movie at most) I'll continue to use torrents. Even at a mere $0.05 a track, it will still cost MORE than I paid for my droid phone to fill up its SD card once.
Unless your desktop system is still running a 386, transcoding on the fly isn't going to drastically increase sync times. USB maxes out at about 29MB/s, and most devices you'd sync max at even less than that. The mid-range microSD card in my droid tops out at about 15-20MB/s write speed. My desktop has no issues transcoding songs at 1 song every 5-10 seconds, which is as fast as the receiving media can handle.
Yes, that's what the constitution says, but that doesn't mean either that it shouldn't be "no one" nor does it mean that anyone else should have the power to stifle free speech. In a modern society, one should have the freedom to say and do ANYTHING they want, UNTIL it imposes on the rights of others. If I want to post of facebook true and factual information about the working conditions at Acme Co, I should be able to do so. If I post truth, and the truth hurts Acme Co, then that's their problem, and they may take me to court over it and, having proved what I said is true, lose. If I post lies, I should be held liable for slander/libel and treated as such. Whether it's a private company owned by one person or a multi-national corporation, they should, in no way, be allowed to coerce, punish, or harm anyone, employee or not, for expressing opinions or stating factual information in a public setting.
Viruses/spyware are easily avoided by not being an idiot. There's plenty of applications "close to iLife", some good ones are made by Microsoft and are free no less. Apple hardware is pretty much "middle of the pack" in terms of build quality and durability, being beaten pretty badly by Asus and Sony. Windows 7 + Microsoft Security Essentials (free) + Microsoft Live apps suite + Google Apps suite = everything 99% of home users will ever need. Not to mention if iLife isn't enough, Adobe products on Windows have features left out in Mac versions. I don't remember which, but I watched dozens and dozens of Adobe TV programs teaching myself some Photoshop skills, and I distinctly remember hearing, more than once, "if you are on the Windows platform, you can click here and do so-and-so shortcut feature, sadly Mac users, this feature doesn't exist on the Mac version", never once did I hear the opposite (not claiming there may not be cases of such, just that in dozens and dozens of videos I didn't see it).
I'm no fanboy either, but having to do IT support all day at work and "free" IT support for friends and family, I make sure they don't drink any of the Apple koolaid just so I don't have to deal with endless "how do I get program X from work to install" and "why doesn't my popcap game work" calls.
"Test scores" are exactly WHY the department of education needs abolished. This crap of "teaching the test" needs to stop. Every teacher I know spends all year teaching the proficiency test and doesn't have time to actually teach anything, so the only thing kids learn now is how to pass a test.
And if you lived in New York, would you want someone in Iowa to cast a ballot that has the same voting power as 3 or 4 votes in NY? The electoral college is a horrible idea and needs scrapped. Each person's vote should all count equally, and it currently doesn't.
Or you use your brain, look at the price of X and Y, which has more servings/uses/etc, which looks more durable (if applicable), compare ingredient lists (if applicable), etc etc and then make a decision based on that, rather than "durr I think this one is shiny".
That is incorrect. All chemical reactions result in a change in mass, it's drastically smaller than the change in mass from nuclear reactions, but it's still a change. The structure of crystals indeed affects the mass of the crystal due to binding energy and mass deficit.
No, the problem is, if I slip and die in my tub, that's my own fault.
There is NO SUCH THING as an "accident". If I'm driving down the road, and someone runs into my car, they were doing something wrong. Going too fast, not paying attention, running a red light, whatever. It's no different than if you "accidentally" shot someone.
EVERY SINGLE "accident" needs to be investigated, and the at fault needs to be charged with murder, assault with a deadly weapon, attempted murder, etc depending on whether someone died, was gravely injured or just a bit injured. I GUARANTEE "accident" rates will go down considerably if people realize that hitting another human with a 4,000+ LB object moving at 60+ MPH will land them in jail for 10 years or more. People should be scared shitless about hitting another car every time they get behind the wheel and should thoroughly evaluate whether driving where they are driving is really necessary.
Or you download some file from M$ that does the same thing as that command. Do you honestly believe M$ would EVER tell a user to run something on a command line?
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Precisely. I could put a solid brick of steel in a box and label it fragile. Sure, you take said brick and slam it into something else solid at a million miles an hour, I'm pretty sure you'll "break" it. It's freight shipping. Assume your package will be dropped from a height of 6ft, possibly repeatedly, and package your goods to compensate. There's a reason why whenever I order something off NewEgg, it comes in its original package (which is designed for shipping, as is) which is then stuffed inside another box with 12+ inches of packing peanuts on all sides, and the outer box is packed to the brim with peanuts so settling and shifting isn't possible.
Possibly not overlords in the "ruling over you" sense, but what would happen if a few mice got out, which never aged or died from cancer? Sure, mice get preyed upon, but if even a few of these mice made it to the wild, you'd see billions and billions of them in a few years. Mouse Armageddon, I think so!
It takes an almost imperceptible amount of water flow to achieve maximum convection. All you need to do is ensure there isn't a "pocket" of warm/cold air/water/other fluid next to the object and that's it. Try it sometime with some frozen steaks or something. Put one under the tap, turn it on halfway with cold water and time how long it takes to thaw, then do it again with the water on a tiny trickle. Sure, full on it will be faster, but only marginally, and at the cost of using 100x or more water.
People end up with gaps in their resume when they don't know the difference between "there" and "their"...
Really? I watched that video and I would NEVER want to have to try to give a presentation on that piece of crap. Seriously, you connected a screen and have to turn around and put your back to the audience to see the slides? You've got to be kidding. Then you have to tap a ridiculously small square on the completely blank screen to go back a slide? Guess you could just use the arrow keys to do that...oh, wait...
Oh, maybe you could just plug one of the cheap and nifty Logitech presentation-oriented mice into the usb slot...oh, never mind, can't do that...
Hell, you can buy a laptop perfectly powerful enough to run Powerpoint 2003, 2007 or 2010, a logitech presentation style mouse, a vga cable and a freaking projector suitable for a small to medium sized conference room (sure, it'll need to be darkened, as the cheapie projectors aren't very bright at all) and still have enough money left over for a nice steak dinner compared to the price of a stupid iPad.
Your "in practice" video pretty much absolutely reinforces the post you are replying to about needing to use a laptop to give a presentation, since the iPad is utterly worthless for doing so, as demonstrated in that video.
Since when does Microsoft have a capital S?
Wow, Microsoft sure must have optimized Vista a TON, since it needed 1024 megabytes of memory to run comfortably, while you are claiming that 7 runs in 1/2000th as much!
I don't believe the problem is PEBCAK as we like to think. Browser plugs are a serious issue. They're just not being updated
So how the hell is failing to properly update one's computer NOT PEBCAK? Here's a car analogy: that's like saying it's not the owner's fault when cars seize up due to never having the oil changed. If one installs crappy insecure software such as Java, Adobe-anything, etc, and doesn't keep it updated and run routine virus scans to keep the possible damage from exploits to a minimum, one deserves what one gets. It's actually a shame these people aren't getting scammed out of more than just $30-40. Let these idiots get taken for a few thousand each and they'll wise up pretty quickly...either that or not have enough money to keep a computer and internet access. Either way, they are no longer MY problem.
Physical media existed LONG before Gutenberg...LONG LONG before...
In short, DRM is entirely ineffective. All it's doing is making it a hair more inconvenient to pirate than to buy.
I think you meant it's making it more convenient to pirate than to buy. It takes 15 seconds to find and click on a torrent, and just as long to download (or less) than the "legal" content. When I'm done, I have music/video that I can listen to on any device I want, watch on anything I want, easily put on my phone, transcode, etc. Until the content is available DRM free and at reasonable prices ($0.05 a song, $0.20 per 30 minute tv show, $1 a movie at most) I'll continue to use torrents. Even at a mere $0.05 a track, it will still cost MORE than I paid for my droid phone to fill up its SD card once.
Unless your desktop system is still running a 386, transcoding on the fly isn't going to drastically increase sync times. USB maxes out at about 29MB/s, and most devices you'd sync max at even less than that. The mid-range microSD card in my droid tops out at about 15-20MB/s write speed. My desktop has no issues transcoding songs at 1 song every 5-10 seconds, which is as fast as the receiving media can handle.
Yes, that's what the constitution says, but that doesn't mean either that it shouldn't be "no one" nor does it mean that anyone else should have the power to stifle free speech. In a modern society, one should have the freedom to say and do ANYTHING they want, UNTIL it imposes on the rights of others. If I want to post of facebook true and factual information about the working conditions at Acme Co, I should be able to do so. If I post truth, and the truth hurts Acme Co, then that's their problem, and they may take me to court over it and, having proved what I said is true, lose. If I post lies, I should be held liable for slander/libel and treated as such. Whether it's a private company owned by one person or a multi-national corporation, they should, in no way, be allowed to coerce, punish, or harm anyone, employee or not, for expressing opinions or stating factual information in a public setting.
You'd be lucky if all they did was harass you. They have been known to KILL people: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_McPherson
I could find other people they've killed, but I'm at work and have better things to do.
Viruses/spyware are easily avoided by not being an idiot. There's plenty of applications "close to iLife", some good ones are made by Microsoft and are free no less. Apple hardware is pretty much "middle of the pack" in terms of build quality and durability, being beaten pretty badly by Asus and Sony. Windows 7 + Microsoft Security Essentials (free) + Microsoft Live apps suite + Google Apps suite = everything 99% of home users will ever need. Not to mention if iLife isn't enough, Adobe products on Windows have features left out in Mac versions. I don't remember which, but I watched dozens and dozens of Adobe TV programs teaching myself some Photoshop skills, and I distinctly remember hearing, more than once, "if you are on the Windows platform, you can click here and do so-and-so shortcut feature, sadly Mac users, this feature doesn't exist on the Mac version", never once did I hear the opposite (not claiming there may not be cases of such, just that in dozens and dozens of videos I didn't see it).
I'm no fanboy either, but having to do IT support all day at work and "free" IT support for friends and family, I make sure they don't drink any of the Apple koolaid just so I don't have to deal with endless "how do I get program X from work to install" and "why doesn't my popcap game work" calls.
How in the fucking hell do you honestly think that FOR-PROFIT health care is somehow cheaper than a not-for-profit government run one? Seriously?
"Test scores" are exactly WHY the department of education needs abolished. This crap of "teaching the test" needs to stop. Every teacher I know spends all year teaching the proficiency test and doesn't have time to actually teach anything, so the only thing kids learn now is how to pass a test.
And if you lived in New York, would you want someone in Iowa to cast a ballot that has the same voting power as 3 or 4 votes in NY? The electoral college is a horrible idea and needs scrapped. Each person's vote should all count equally, and it currently doesn't.
Or you use your brain, look at the price of X and Y, which has more servings/uses/etc, which looks more durable (if applicable), compare ingredient lists (if applicable), etc etc and then make a decision based on that, rather than "durr I think this one is shiny".
That is incorrect. All chemical reactions result in a change in mass, it's drastically smaller than the change in mass from nuclear reactions, but it's still a change. The structure of crystals indeed affects the mass of the crystal due to binding energy and mass deficit.
Both patience and patients are correct, whether the AC was using "lots of patients" as a word-play.
I've known humans much older who think their magic jesus in the sky to somehow be any more real than superman, spiderman, santa and the like...
The orb is less than 1/2" in diameter...oh, sorry about your luck.
We can only hope that no only do they lose their money, but the fake "viagra" causes their member to shrivel and fall off too.
No, the problem is, if I slip and die in my tub, that's my own fault.
There is NO SUCH THING as an "accident". If I'm driving down the road, and someone runs into my car, they were doing something wrong. Going too fast, not paying attention, running a red light, whatever. It's no different than if you "accidentally" shot someone.
EVERY SINGLE "accident" needs to be investigated, and the at fault needs to be charged with murder, assault with a deadly weapon, attempted murder, etc depending on whether someone died, was gravely injured or just a bit injured. I GUARANTEE "accident" rates will go down considerably if people realize that hitting another human with a 4,000+ LB object moving at 60+ MPH will land them in jail for 10 years or more. People should be scared shitless about hitting another car every time they get behind the wheel and should thoroughly evaluate whether driving where they are driving is really necessary.
Or you download some file from M$ that does the same thing as that command. Do you honestly believe M$ would EVER tell a user to run something on a command line?