>You get a tuner on dish network also. But I am cancelling mine when my contract's up because satellite sucks (we had a pretty weak rainstorm and my dish went out) Even if I wanted to keep a satellite, I will cancel dish network because of the bullying lawsuits.
Wow, that's too bad.
You do realize that satellite technology is far more reliable than even cable TV? That virtually all stations on cable TV, and often off air antenna, are fed from satellites?
You just needed a bigger dish. A 30" dish (permitted on any home by federal law in the USA) will receive the signal even if a fat kid stands infront of it.
> According to the Associated Press article that was in my newspaper, this wasn't done by Microsoft. It was done by the Gates Foundation, a non-profit fund run by Bill G. and his wife.
o...And FUNDED by Bill G's plunder.
Let's not forget that. It's important to know when charities are funded by legitimate cash sources, such as freely given donations, and when the charities are funded by money paid from the swag of a convicted felon.
The question is, would people feel just as fine about "The Mafia Foundation" funding such things? How about "The Columbian Drug Cartel Foundation"?
Hey, it's just a foundation, right? The founders ideals would never seep their way in and poison the true intent of it.
>So the waiter serves 10 tables an hour, each table leaves a $5 tip, that waiter just earned $50 an hour.
Because in most restaurants that don't serve you cafeteria style, they're only busy for 4 hours a day. And out of those 4 hours, a waiter is only likely to work 2 of them.
The other 6 hours are spent cleaning up and preparing.
So, yes, the waiter earned $100, and also earned $20 in wages. And that's on a good day. On a slow day, like a monday, it's going to be far less. Maybe even just wages.
Remember, you make more money sitting down than standing up. Almost always.
Maybe it is, but it *IS* linux based, and *IS* a shining example of "desktopizing" linux. Once it's installed, it's so easy to use it's a joke.
If admins were to take some time and secure it up, while maintaining the simplicity, it'd be a great option. This blaster virus shows that admins are already taking copius amounts of time doing it for windows -- why not just do it right in the first place, once?
>Secondly, what the hell is wrong with you thinking that in school is the only place high school students use a computer, and what makes you think that if they use a computer at home that their family has enough money to afford a mac!?
Alright, no problem. I think you're just proving that computers are so easy to use that learning two OSes, one of them "untaught" (that being the windows PC at home) that expecting someone to learn another that is comparable in simplicity isn't too much to ask.
>Thrid, suppose Linux were mandatory at Universities, are you volunteering your time to explain to students how to properly secure their machines, and explain that all those little.exe programs aren't going to run on their computers anymore?
No, and it wouldn't need to be mandatory. It wouldn't make any sense for it to be mandatory. A university is a learning institute. Learning takes place using computers of many forms, from windows, to Mac, to Linux, to mainframe. Simply offering a good linux distro as an option should be fair enough.
>And you're going to tell them personally that the $700+ office software mommy bought them can't be used?
ROTFLMAO! I run a computer store and I can tell you "mommy" is so cheap with their kid's computer that simply getting them not to pirate the OS is a task and a half itself. 90% of the systems that come through my doors for repair won't install SP1 and are going to get infected OVER and OVER because they use the windows pirate key. Sure, I turn on the firewall, but the users just shut that feature down when they get it home and kazaa seems "slower". No, I won't help them fix their pirate OS to work like a normal one. I don't assist in piracy.
I've not sold a single copy of office, despite the fact that the real price of it is about $289.99 CDN. Although I'm a new store, openoffice (Free, of course) is turning out to be a hugely popular alternative, even if the computer just gets a pirated copy of office installed by the user when it leaves the store. Even my $259.99 CDN special is a tough sell to some parents. A lot of them are buying used systems for less from me.
The fact is a fully supported, even if optional, linux install at a university will help break it into the desktop market. And that can only be a good thing for society (and my store -- my profit margins on software are next to nil, so I don't care to sell it anyways).
Seems to me that students coming from the Mac world (many highschools are Mac only) have no problems switching to windows when their university requires it.
What makes it so difficult for them to run lindows instead?
>The design of the device isn't yours and you didn't make it.
Sure, but I don't plan to build one of these horrid devices, just maybe buy one pre-built. Why would I care about the design of the device?
>Just because you think some feature of a product isn't benificial doesn't give you the license to undermine the protections that were built into it.
The locking mechanism of my old locker lock (way back when) wasn't convenient when I forgot the combination. But I'm not a licensed locksmith, and I'm certainly not licensed by the manufacturer of the lock to undermine the protections of the lock. Am I to leave everything locked in the locker forever, or should I break "licenses" and cut the lock?
>The satellite transmission is limited to Dolby Pro Logic sound at best (because that can be encoded into a stereo stream), so no Dolby Digital or DTS sound for you.
Actually, the DVB transport stream can support *anything* (raw data included) so the likely reasons they aren't broadcasting DD are that either some older receivers are crap and get confused on private/unknown data streams (wouldn't surprise me) or that they are running out of space on the transponders. Well, there is one more reason: Lack of demand.
In Canada, some broadcasters are already doing HDTV via MPEG-2 on DVB satellite (such as on ExpressVU / Nimiq 2), widescreen of course, 17 mbps (basically 1 HDTV signal + 1 low-quality "regular" signal per transponder), with dolby digital sound. MPEG-4 test streams are in the works for certain higher-end private users, I hear...
>Nope. "I Agree" is agreement. Maybe you're thinking of Counter-Offer?
On many programs, "I Agree" is labelled next. And who are you agreeing to be bound to? Your computer? Because that's the only thing that really knows you've agreed to the terms. No human was present to witness your "signing" (which never happened) and nobody is available to answer any questions you have about the contract.
>Plenty of consideration. It's part of the sale. If not for the EULA, theoretically, software would be more expensive.
Up to now, I've not seen a single piece of software with the EULA ouside the box. More importantly, I've not seen a single piece of software which software vendors feel safe selling opened (thay may get accused of leasing it then, which is illegal without a special, pre-signed contract).
The sale is made without opening the box. AFTER the sale has occurred, you are made aware of new terms to the sale (the EULA) which were never presented pre-sale. New changes to the contract that you _already_ agreed to by the shopkeeper accepting your money. Changes you might not like, but that you have to accept to use what you've already paid for.
This isn't much different than buying a TV, only to find out that if you want it to work, you'll need to contact the manufacturer to give you an unlock code, and, at the same time, agree to terms like:
-- If this TV burns down your house, it's not our fault and we won't pay to fix it
-- If this TV gives you cancer, too bad
-- If you sue us, you have to pay all the manufacturers losses
-- You must tell all your friends this is the best TV on earth, or else we'll come over to your house and smash it up with baseball bats
It seems when it comes to software, though, this isn't a problem. I disagree.
>If we started in with cutting off hands for petty theft, castration for drunk driving, public execution for murder, and putting lit cherry bombs up the anuses of virus writers and spammers, the world would get to be a better place VERY FUCKING QUICKLY.
Things like that were light punishments during the middle ages.
Yet just walking through the woods at the time was a good way to get raped/killed/mugged, and it never changed until society reined in the ability of governments to kill people for any reason they liked.
Is that because they didn't hold the trials in the woods?
>Is there a single example you can give me which would show me why it is more convenient to have to scroll to get to the bottom of a large image than to just get the whole thing at about 80% of full-size?
>Aren't you aware that clicking the image will restore it?
Sure I am, but clicking the image should shrink it, not "restore" it. The image should be the standard pixel:pixel size by default. That only makes sense.
>but I'd find it hard to justify a blade like that rather than, say a letter-opener
You might, but does a law like that?
Unfortunately, that law is just one more reason I'm not visiting the UK ever again. It gets lumped in with "Guilty Before Innocent" if you use encryption, and having police officers watch me scratch my ass ass day.
Sorry, I guess it's just a different set of ideals. In my world you're assumed to be a good guy with good intentions until you do bad things. However, I can see that in the UK you're assumed to always have bad intentions and have to prove your good intentions.
>I seriously doubt that the average speed on the 401 was only 106.4 before photo radar.
When one considers the sections of the 401 that, during popular hours, average approximately 5 km/h, I don't see why not.
Although, on "normal" sections of that road, as a fairly frequent driver on it myself, most people in the middle lane are doing 120 km/h, and very safely, I might add.;-)
Yes, the report is flawed, but these are the types of data Ontario used to decide on photo radar. The entire premise they based it on was flawed, unfortunately.
Well, it was longer than 3 inches, so I guess that's why he wanted it imported!;-)
Now, I really hope that page isn't serious! Those reasons frighten me!
But use your loaf - a knife has no place at a football match, in a pub, nightclub or school and becomes an offensive weapon in these circumstances in just the same way as a screwdriver, or any other innanimate tool.
So, nobody at a school or football match has ever wanted to cut some rope? Had a hard time opening a condiment packet? Needed to sharpen a pencil in a rush? Thought you'd tidy up the place by screwing in that loose screw? I could come up with a pile of other good reasons to carry a knife to school or football match (yes, at my school they let me bring my swiss army knife. It was pretty handy, too, although, now, in Canada, we've been infected by such silly rules also).
You may carry a larger cutting tool if it is associated with your work (for instance a chef may carry a 9.0" butchers knife roll to and from work), or if it is associated with your sport, (for instance a fisherman may carry a 6.0" fillet knife, or a hunter may carry a 4.0" fixed blade hunting knife).
Well, that's nice. I can't think of a single job which doesn't involve the use of a knife, so I guess anyone can carry one. Even secretaries use paper knives (the more lavish of which tend to be designed like small swords).
The most recent law to affect knives in Great Britain effectively banned the sale of any knife suitable for combat. Although in theory this could mean literally ANY knife, the spirit of the law is there to protect us all. It's left "grey" enough to exercise a little self control for those clearly seeking a collectable path, yet shuts down any avenue for violent use.
Loosely defined laws are always favoured by the state. If everyone can be called a criminal, it's so much easier to put suspicious looking people in jail...
>What I said was that photo radar was effective in reducing the speed of traffic on the 401, which it was, and which your report shows.
I guess that comes down to opinions. 5.6% is not effective, IMHO. If 5.6% is considered effective, then putting fans blowing the opposite direction on the 401 is also likely to be "effective".
But, hey, whatever. If the desired amount of slowdown is 5.6%, then photo radar would do it. I somehow expected that the government really wanted to stop people speeding, not just slow people down, which this technology DID NOT DO, at all (the average is _still_ above the speed limit).
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>You get a tuner on dish network also. But I am cancelling mine when my contract's up because satellite sucks (we had a pretty weak rainstorm and my dish went out) Even if I wanted to keep a satellite, I will cancel dish network because of the bullying lawsuits.
Wow, that's too bad.
You do realize that satellite technology is far more reliable than even cable TV? That virtually all stations on cable TV, and often off air antenna, are fed from satellites?
You just needed a bigger dish. A 30" dish (permitted on any home by federal law in the USA) will receive the signal even if a fat kid stands infront of it.
>Give me a fucking break.
Why don't you give the world a fucking break and realise that you can't break federal laws and get away with it unscathed.
> According to the Associated Press article that was in my newspaper, this wasn't done by Microsoft. It was done by the Gates Foundation, a non-profit fund run by Bill G. and his wife.
...And FUNDED by Bill G's plunder.
o
Let's not forget that. It's important to know when charities are funded by legitimate cash sources, such as freely given donations, and when the charities are funded by money paid from the swag of a convicted felon.
The question is, would people feel just as fine about "The Mafia Foundation" funding such things? How about "The Columbian Drug Cartel Foundation"?
Hey, it's just a foundation, right? The founders ideals would never seep their way in and poison the true intent of it.
>So the waiter serves 10 tables an hour, each table leaves a $5 tip, that waiter just earned $50 an hour.
Because in most restaurants that don't serve you cafeteria style, they're only busy for 4 hours a day. And out of those 4 hours, a waiter is only likely to work 2 of them.
The other 6 hours are spent cleaning up and preparing.
So, yes, the waiter earned $100, and also earned $20 in wages. And that's on a good day. On a slow day, like a monday, it's going to be far less. Maybe even just wages.
Remember, you make more money sitting down than standing up. Almost always.
>Ok, first off, Lindows is a garbage OS.
.exe programs aren't going to run on their computers anymore?
Maybe it is, but it *IS* linux based, and *IS* a shining example of "desktopizing" linux. Once it's installed, it's so easy to use it's a joke.
If admins were to take some time and secure it up, while maintaining the simplicity, it'd be a great option. This blaster virus shows that admins are already taking copius amounts of time doing it for windows -- why not just do it right in the first place, once?
>Secondly, what the hell is wrong with you thinking that in school is the only place high school students use a computer, and what makes you think that if they use a computer at home that their family has enough money to afford a mac!?
Alright, no problem. I think you're just proving that computers are so easy to use that learning two OSes, one of them "untaught" (that being the windows PC at home) that expecting someone to learn another that is comparable in simplicity isn't too much to ask.
>Thrid, suppose Linux were mandatory at Universities, are you volunteering your time to explain to students how to properly secure their machines, and explain that all those little
No, and it wouldn't need to be mandatory. It wouldn't make any sense for it to be mandatory. A university is a learning institute. Learning takes place using computers of many forms, from windows, to Mac, to Linux, to mainframe. Simply offering a good linux distro as an option should be fair enough.
>And you're going to tell them personally that the $700+ office software mommy bought them can't be used?
ROTFLMAO! I run a computer store and I can tell you "mommy" is so cheap with their kid's computer that simply getting them not to pirate the OS is a task and a half itself. 90% of the systems that come through my doors for repair won't install SP1 and are going to get infected OVER and OVER because they use the windows pirate key. Sure, I turn on the firewall, but the users just shut that feature down when they get it home and kazaa seems "slower". No, I won't help them fix their pirate OS to work like a normal one. I don't assist in piracy.
I've not sold a single copy of office, despite the fact that the real price of it is about $289.99 CDN. Although I'm a new store, openoffice (Free, of course) is turning out to be a hugely popular alternative, even if the computer just gets a pirated copy of office installed by the user when it leaves the store. Even my $259.99 CDN special is a tough sell to some parents. A lot of them are buying used systems for less from me.
The fact is a fully supported, even if optional, linux install at a university will help break it into the desktop market. And that can only be a good thing for society (and my store -- my profit margins on software are next to nil, so I don't care to sell it anyways).
What's missing is the time duration:
>Scenario A-
Probably about 2 hours. That's a 25% total productivity loss for a day, if you happen to include lunch as being productive.
>Scenario B-
Okay, lets say the virus hangs about for a week, and causes a 10% productivity loss. Compressed to one day, that's a 50% productivity loss.
Seems to be scenario A is the best choice...
>Slashdot is trying to report as much as it can about this because there is an agenda you can't deny.
Right you are. Slashdot has a pro-security agenda. This story fits well with that.
Or are you trying to snidely (and incorrectly) point something else out?
Seems to me that students coming from the Mac world (many highschools are Mac only) have no problems switching to windows when their university requires it.
What makes it so difficult for them to run lindows instead?
>The design of the device isn't yours and you didn't make it.
Sure, but I don't plan to build one of these horrid devices, just maybe buy one pre-built. Why would I care about the design of the device?
>Just because you think some feature of a product isn't benificial doesn't give you the license to undermine the protections that were built into it.
The locking mechanism of my old locker lock (way back when) wasn't convenient when I forgot the combination. But I'm not a licensed locksmith, and I'm certainly not licensed by the manufacturer of the lock to undermine the protections of the lock. Am I to leave everything locked in the locker forever, or should I break "licenses" and cut the lock?
Choices, choices, choices.
>The satellite transmission is limited to Dolby Pro Logic sound at best (because that can be encoded into a stereo stream), so no Dolby Digital or DTS sound for you.
Actually, the DVB transport stream can support *anything* (raw data included) so the likely reasons they aren't broadcasting DD are that either some older receivers are crap and get confused on private/unknown data streams (wouldn't surprise me) or that they are running out of space on the transponders. Well, there is one more reason: Lack of demand.
In Canada, some broadcasters are already doing HDTV via MPEG-2 on DVB satellite (such as on ExpressVU / Nimiq 2), widescreen of course, 17 mbps (basically 1 HDTV signal + 1 low-quality "regular" signal per transponder), with dolby digital sound. MPEG-4 test streams are in the works for certain higher-end private users, I hear...
Just my 2 cents, but I do believe china is becoming less communist.
What it isn't becoming, though, is much less of a dictatorship, when compared with the strides much of the rest of the world has made.
There's one infamous capitalist-dictatorship party I can think of, but there's some "usenet law" beeper going off that I can't ignore...
>I had a Jaton VX board and that's what convinced me that I need to stop playing with Wintendo hardware and pick a real platform....
The question is, was it warped by 20 degrees like the last jaton modem I had to install (5 years ago)?
That was interesting, making that fit...
Yatta!
(Hey, it seems appropriate for this story)
>Nope. "I Agree" is agreement. Maybe you're thinking of Counter-Offer?
On many programs, "I Agree" is labelled next. And who are you agreeing to be bound to? Your computer? Because that's the only thing that really knows you've agreed to the terms. No human was present to witness your "signing" (which never happened) and nobody is available to answer any questions you have about the contract.
>Plenty of consideration. It's part of the sale. If not for the EULA, theoretically, software would be more expensive.
Up to now, I've not seen a single piece of software with the EULA ouside the box. More importantly, I've not seen a single piece of software which software vendors feel safe selling opened (thay may get accused of leasing it then, which is illegal without a special, pre-signed contract).
The sale is made without opening the box. AFTER the sale has occurred, you are made aware of new terms to the sale (the EULA) which were never presented pre-sale. New changes to the contract that you _already_ agreed to by the shopkeeper accepting your money. Changes you might not like, but that you have to accept to use what you've already paid for.
This isn't much different than buying a TV, only to find out that if you want it to work, you'll need to contact the manufacturer to give you an unlock code, and, at the same time, agree to terms like:
-- If this TV burns down your house, it's not our fault and we won't pay to fix it
-- If this TV gives you cancer, too bad
-- If you sue us, you have to pay all the manufacturers losses
-- You must tell all your friends this is the best TV on earth, or else we'll come over to your house and smash it up with baseball bats
It seems when it comes to software, though, this isn't a problem. I disagree.
>Thats fucking funny because my fucking Dell came with like 40 fucking copies of the fucking license agreement in the fucking box
Well, that explains where his copies of the license agreement went.
Dell needs to fix their paper stuffing machines!
>If we started in with cutting off hands for petty theft, castration for drunk driving, public execution for murder, and putting lit cherry bombs up the anuses of virus writers and spammers, the world would get to be a better place VERY FUCKING QUICKLY.
Things like that were light punishments during the middle ages.
Yet just walking through the woods at the time was a good way to get raped/killed/mugged, and it never changed until society reined in the ability of governments to kill people for any reason they liked.
Is that because they didn't hold the trials in the woods?
Or are you just full of shit?
>Is there a single example you can give me which would show me why it is more convenient to have to scroll to get to the bottom of a large image than to just get the whole thing at about 80% of full-size?
Sure.
Why don't you view my store's map on at 640x480.
That applies for a lot of other pictures that include text, as well.
>Aren't you aware that clicking the image will restore it?
Sure I am, but clicking the image should shrink it, not "restore" it. The image should be the standard pixel:pixel size by default. That only makes sense.
>Oh no, wait! it's actually brilliant!
You would say spending 5 minutes downloading images that are resized to the point they may as well have been enlarged thumbnails is brilliant?
Sorry, I don't agree.
Yes, even water is toxic.
Just like taking too much flouride is toxic, drinking too much water *will* kill you.
Just goes to prove that anything done without moderation will kill you.
Ask any doctor, "The Dose Makes the Poison".
>but I'd find it hard to justify a blade like that rather than, say a letter-opener
You might, but does a law like that?
Unfortunately, that law is just one more reason I'm not visiting the UK ever again. It gets lumped in with "Guilty Before Innocent" if you use encryption, and having police officers watch me scratch my ass ass day.
Sorry, I guess it's just a different set of ideals. In my world you're assumed to be a good guy with good intentions until you do bad things. However, I can see that in the UK you're assumed to always have bad intentions and have to prove your good intentions.
>Until the spammers start spoofing the from address the spam comes from to make it look as though it is coming from someone on your whitelist.
If a spammer knows me so well that they know who I have whitelisted, I suppose I might just *want* their spam.
Maybe.
>I seriously doubt that the average speed on the 401 was only 106.4 before photo radar.
;-)
When one considers the sections of the 401 that, during popular hours, average approximately 5 km/h, I don't see why not.
Although, on "normal" sections of that road, as a fairly frequent driver on it myself, most people in the middle lane are doing 120 km/h, and very safely, I might add.
Yes, the report is flawed, but these are the types of data Ontario used to decide on photo radar. The entire premise they based it on was flawed, unfortunately.
Well, it was longer than 3 inches, so I guess that's why he wanted it imported! ;-)
:-)
Now, I really hope that page isn't serious! Those reasons frighten me!
But use your loaf - a knife has no place at a football match, in a pub, nightclub or school and becomes an offensive weapon in these circumstances in just the same way as a screwdriver, or any other innanimate tool.
So, nobody at a school or football match has ever wanted to cut some rope? Had a hard time opening a condiment packet? Needed to sharpen a pencil in a rush? Thought you'd tidy up the place by screwing in that loose screw? I could come up with a pile of other good reasons to carry a knife to school or football match (yes, at my school they let me bring my swiss army knife. It was pretty handy, too, although, now, in Canada, we've been infected by such silly rules also).
You may carry a larger cutting tool if it is associated with your work (for instance a chef may carry a 9.0" butchers knife roll to and from work), or if it is associated with your sport, (for instance a fisherman may carry a 6.0" fillet knife, or a hunter may carry a 4.0" fixed blade hunting knife).
Well, that's nice. I can't think of a single job which doesn't involve the use of a knife, so I guess anyone can carry one. Even secretaries use paper knives (the more lavish of which tend to be designed like small swords).
The most recent law to affect knives in Great Britain effectively banned the sale of any knife suitable for combat. Although in theory this could mean literally ANY knife, the spirit of the law is there to protect us all. It's left "grey" enough to exercise a little self control for those clearly seeking a collectable path, yet shuts down any avenue for violent use.
Loosely defined laws are always favoured by the state. If everyone can be called a criminal, it's so much easier to put suspicious looking people in jail...
But thanks for the link, anyways!
>What I said was that photo radar was effective in reducing the speed of traffic on the 401, which it was, and which your report shows.
I guess that comes down to opinions. 5.6% is not effective, IMHO. If 5.6% is considered effective, then putting fans blowing the opposite direction on the 401 is also likely to be "effective".
But, hey, whatever. If the desired amount of slowdown is 5.6%, then photo radar would do it. I somehow expected that the government really wanted to stop people speeding, not just slow people down, which this technology DID NOT DO, at all (the average is _still_ above the speed limit).