this ISN'T possession though since it doesn't put illegal stuff on there it just makes users who don't understand computers very well panick and think it may have.
Even if everything in your electronic good was made in developed countries with good rights, unions, pay and so on how about the raw materials? What about conflict minerals for tantalum caps since coltan quite possibly conflict mined? Hmm maybe not so clear now eh?
sometimes old stuff is better, I understand new tech all too well and sometimes it's better sometimes worse but in the latter it is marketed as better still.
The "less is more" marketing or selling something by spinning it's weakness as a desirable quality. The cost cutting, outsourcing labour overseas with poor QC and fall in production standards even in industrialised countries like EU, US, JPN etc. can sometimes mean newer stuff is poor quality compared to old stuff.
Often these days it is made to be limited life, considered disposable compared to previous tech which was made to last longer and be repaired rather than replaced. Tried and tested design at often lower price is something you can bet your business on without a gamble. Newer only has the edge if it supports features the old stuff doesn't. If it ain't broke why fix it.
as for buckets of cash that's a naive comment. Many may be in similar situation to me, I work with CS5 which is legally bought as part of role for a large UK charity, one of the none profit ones which has 100% volunteers right the way to the top and money it cost to change to CS6 is something we can't justify. Even if we had it, and tbh we have other budget priorities so don't, the groups who oversee us including charities commission may see it as pissing away money needlessly and get in hot water for it. Creative accountancy is not something we do as part of policy nor is acquiring through other channels (stealing it) since we get audited and that stuff is always picked up.
Yeah, it's exactly what it sounds like. My natural sleeping pattern makes me go to bed around 3-4am. And sleep for ~8-9 hours. And no, just waking early in the weekend does not help. This has been going on since before I started school, and nothing tried the last 20 years have changed that one bit.
I'm tired of friends and complete strangers saying stuff like "Just change your rhythm" or "You're just lazy, I did it just fine!" - I have tried, it Does Not Help. It does not change a thing.
In fact, the disorder is sometimes referred to as "social jet lag" - it might even be the exact disorder the article is hinting at.
Your comment sounds like an asshole seeing a guy in wheelchair, and saying "He's just lazy. Look, I can walk just fine, and so can my friends!"
thanks for that link on delayed sleep phase disorder. I have that exact same issue and have been called lazy despite often sleeping less than those saying it since I am forced to get up at same early times but haven't slept as even going to bed early I don't sleep.
As for routine I've had this since young child and went through school, high school, college, university and so on with the problem. I'd crash when i got home and my parents would scream at me and force me up complaining about being lazy. If anything it just turned me into an angry tired person and didn't motivate me further since I was already f****ing motivated.
no I completely agree as had same thing happen and people thought it was funny. I got stalked for few years by friends sister who is 2 years younger than me, it went way too far and freaked me out. I've also been seriously groped by female coppers who stopped to search me. This isn't a subtle thing, I mean pressing against me and digging deep in my pockets to the SIDE for a rather long time and she seemed to understand what she found should be there and seemed pleased yet unconcerned so it wasn't exactly mistaken for a weapon. Neither exactly deeply disturbed me but it pissed me off no-one took it seriously yet I'd have a legal case and a lot of support if I was female.
Yeah I hear same thing, that's a myth. I've got Dutch family (granted most are in Utrecht but those in Amsterdam admit many Dutch don't smoke it although some do it's more the toursists.
I thought they'd changed that policy now due to many complaining and they actually delete it now rather than put in suspension as they used to. Could be wrong but that was impression I got last time I checked to delete an account.
damn it hit post before finished... even if the actual idea or principle is something they couldn't care less about, if demand or public backing is high enough (which for this IMO it probably is) many will considered adhering to such policies. Eg. you really think most corps supplying organic food produce or fair traded products care about environmental policies or workers rights? probably not but they care about increased profits from tapping a niche, wider public acceptance and support, pretty much anything which improves their image and results in more profit / positive public support.
I disagree that this may not go somewhere. Doesn't sound like an opt-in only scheme and there are different ways of enforcing such things that appeal to large bodies. Even if it was pushed in an unavoidable way at country level legislation many groups would find ways of circumventing it if it didn't suit.
The reason things work is less to do with it being enforced and more to do with those adopting it see it has something in it for them. Many people are behind such ideas so thats a big plus for many large agencies and business etc etc since adopting something many are asking for can be very attractive even if the actual
yeah the key is it notifies ya BEFORE ya stumble in the area. I'm from UK (merseyside) and grew up in shady places so am pretty relaxed around such stuff but if i can avoid it I will. Worse thing I did which this app would've been a god send is getting lost in Sao Paulo city, you can just tell instantly it was a wrong turn but being followed instantly by 3 guys it ain't smart to suddenly turn and go past them inidicating I am indeed lost so i acted like I knew where I was going, relaxed and took my time. They checked me out on 3 passes and wandered off as i found way back into main area (from frequency of busroutes and peopel I could tell it was cool again).
An old lady a few min I wandered into the worst of it pointed to my camera she'd clocked I had on me, shook her head and did a punch / punch / sleep gestures to which I concealed my stuff better than I had and she wandered off. Thanks to her I didn't get murdered for it. App like this would've been better as not everyone has an old lady giving them the first indication of something amiss. Still hard to believe how poor that place is, I mean I've been a few homeless shelters here and I even got benefit money when i was homeless!
it only goes brittle if lignin is left in or it's unbuffered so acid can react on aforementioned lignin. Alpha cellulose papers (aka wood free although it does come from trees), cotton papers, long life acid free wood papers and so on would thereby make this idea futureproof. I look forward to owning one of those fancy futurisic scrolls, they wont even need power which beats the likes of nooks battery life.
I use mumble on a zenwalk box and found it is as good as skype I use on win side of things and if anything a bit more flexible on the sound tweaks. Still easy to set up and tweak etc. I've also used ekiga before now and there are plenty of sip clients out there. From an admin POV they are better too since they don't encrypt traffic by default so you can see whats coming and going on the network including stuff that piggybacks on skype. You can of course run encryption for when it's needed. Best thing is due to being open source there is never issues like skype has had due to proprietary nature and also more reliable in that doesn't rely on supernodes (although they don't go down much) like skype so will work as long as the machines that wish to communicate are up where as the node reliance means you have an extra 3rd party needed for comms to be up and running. A 3rd party you have no control over too I may add so if it's down it's down until it's sorted and nothing you can do about it.
It's not as clear cut as just calories or just fat or carb intake. For a start people have certain amount of adipose tissue and along with lifestyle and diet etc this kind of thing varies wildly. I'm also skinny and can eat more than friends twice my waist size. Seems some people can fill their fat stores easier than others when they hit the "wrong" sweetspot of incorrect foods, inappropriate amounts or meal times and so on. Obviously your body prefers to burn fats at rest (except the brain since they can't cross blood brain barrier hence uses ketobodies in emergencies where glucose and glycogen store used up). This means if you eat fair amount of fat and keep topping up with simple sugars constantly then insulin will be constantly mopping up the sugar and the snacking means you have this constant state where the prefered energy source (fats) are not used at all, usually carbs are only the prefered source during aerobic exercise.
WTF you talking 'bout Willis? No-one said anything about have an in house exclusive rights store like apple store here. There was simply the reasonable and sane suggestion of vetting apps rather than an anything goes attitude. You could still have apps coming from assorted 3rd party devs but just filter out the obviously rogue stuff that is more likely to decrease your userbase and hence profits. I personally don't use it, have never and will never and am a smug elitist twat about it haha!
admittedly it's a double edged sword on profits front though as quite a few music releases I would not buy if I couldn't trial it and many who steal it would never had bought it to start with. My taste never gets radio play etc and I'm often the first to buy it before friends. I do actually buy it if it is any good and like to encode stuff myself anyway as have particular size/quality/format consideration and higher end headphones. I used to buy CDs from stores and return them if they were notto my liking and the stores had no problem but these days the "piracy measures" prevent this as most stores stopped this returns policy over piracy paranoia thereby meaning piracy first and buying after evaluating is more attractive than chancing buying a "duffer". It was actually easier to sit at home and download than go to a store and buy physical cd, rip, take back etc so imagined pirates never followed that route often. Reviews are often unreliable, plenty of reviews for some Sonic Youth releases for one were good but turned out to be expensive aural turds "NYC ghosts and flowers" I'm glaring menacingly at you! I don't chance many sales now especially on lesser known stuff I find in independent stores from artists I'd never find a download of (man some of Daevid Allens projects (not gong who are very well known) are awful but some gems such as UoE2) so now I just dont chance buying them so it's a lost sale.
Admittedly I've done much worse to the small beggar child in Deus Ex when it first came out and that looked much better than GTA ever did. As for morrowind and the like my crimes were much greater than I ever managed in GTA including exterminating towns but I think these things are overdone and sensationalised as in RL I'd always act the opposite, I'm a pacifist for one and jumped in on many fights to split them up including getting some heavy kickings whilst doing so but not retaliating so that isn't synonymous with coward btw. GTA 1 and 2 were only so successful due to Max Clifford hyping it so much. Yeah it was playable but appeared to be another clone similar to many other Atari ST games and 386 pc games I had before GTA came out much later, memory ain't what it used ot be but Hill street blues comes to mind which looked virtually the same and had similar dynamics for the out of car bits.
I hear some Hare Krishnas were happy about it as people saw the word. Admittedly I suspect many would be upset but there are enough round my part of the world who spraypaint motorway bridges or grafitti/poster bins with it to convince me of the truth that some are more than happy for it to appear in the game as it gets the word seen. Personally I find the extremist breed of Krishnas to be cheapening their beliefs and values by writing it on bins and spamming it on walls without permission across a city. Thankfully they seem to grow up eventually.
like America will be around forever. I mean how long can America last being a "great" nation. How much longer do you think your own country will last? Forever? As long as the frog?
the post isn't about how to best mess with ATC systems it is about how overreliance on GPS without paying attention to the fact it is failure prone in rl situations and pointing out drawbacks predicated to get worse since. It is feasable people could have jammers such as truckers but when it comes to chaff launchers, floating clusters of foil balloons around runways, explosives etc etc there isn't any reason significant number of Joe Public's are going to be packing them in their car for some other minor infringement such as avoiding tolls. Such things are not uncommon and are thought of as being as "heavy" as stealing cable TV in the minds of many people, the consequences people are oblivious to and completely ignorant of which is more the point of the article.
I mean as far as major disruption to cost ratio goes you can shut down an entire airport for the price of a phone call and all you need is to speak a few magic words to get your ass deservedly I may add locked up hopefully in state prison.
don't be quick to judge it is out of order without the full facts here. It is if there was no reason for it but why the f**k would the feds put a tracking device on random civillians car? That is an awful lot of effort, time and money to do randomly. I'm guessing the guy was targeted for a "possibly" valid reason. Not all evidence can be gathered by pulling people in and sometimes covert approach is necessary. Sure I'd be pissed if it was me but there is little reason to do that to me and if I was linked in some way to some major federal crime I wouldn't be surprised even if I wasn't happy about it. Now if it was added to the article that he funded his education from unknown sources and had large funds and seemed to splash out alot but didn't work or have affluent family background, associated with people with prior convictions and so on I'm sure the sympath would change.
Linux in '97 was not old school at all. I've been a user since around '97 - '98 and don't consider myself old school. In fact compared to folks who started using it at least 3 or 4 years before a lot had changed enabling clueless users like me to experiment with it and get by without much help. I settled on slackware too as easiest as other distros had started trying to automate things and made it complicated when not ideal configs were guessed at and slack just worked better for me as being clueless it was harder to tune the other distors and slack didn't try and configure much automatically which meant I learned simple bits to do only what I needed making it the easier choice.
I don't think it was so different back then as it is now from a user pov. I still don't know the OS inside out and just have passable experience to make everything I need to work or to refine bits TBH. Even compiling kernels etc which many consider hard, once someone explains what to do and you've tried it it is easy in reality. Now compared to friends who used it 4 or 5 years or so before me that is a complete different world and IS old school. I would have been totally lost with that.
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this ISN'T possession though since it doesn't put illegal stuff on there it just makes users who don't understand computers very well panick and think it may have.
Even if everything in your electronic good was made in developed countries with good rights, unions, pay and so on how about the raw materials? What about conflict minerals for tantalum caps since coltan quite possibly conflict mined? Hmm maybe not so clear now eh?
sometimes old stuff is better, I understand new tech all too well and sometimes it's better sometimes worse but in the latter it is marketed as better still. The "less is more" marketing or selling something by spinning it's weakness as a desirable quality. The cost cutting, outsourcing labour overseas with poor QC and fall in production standards even in industrialised countries like EU, US, JPN etc. can sometimes mean newer stuff is poor quality compared to old stuff. Often these days it is made to be limited life, considered disposable compared to previous tech which was made to last longer and be repaired rather than replaced. Tried and tested design at often lower price is something you can bet your business on without a gamble. Newer only has the edge if it supports features the old stuff doesn't. If it ain't broke why fix it.
And it has only been released for purchase for a few DAYS. It was released this week (the week of the 7th).
Almost makes me wonder if they new about the problem and only acknowledged it now so they didn't have to patch it for free. captcha revenues
As others have mentioned in the above comments they did know, it's been marked as known bug for 7 or 8 months
as for buckets of cash that's a naive comment. Many may be in similar situation to me, I work with CS5 which is legally bought as part of role for a large UK charity, one of the none profit ones which has 100% volunteers right the way to the top and money it cost to change to CS6 is something we can't justify. Even if we had it, and tbh we have other budget priorities so don't, the groups who oversee us including charities commission may see it as pissing away money needlessly and get in hot water for it. Creative accountancy is not something we do as part of policy nor is acquiring through other channels (stealing it) since we get audited and that stuff is always picked up.
Delayed sleep phase disorder
Yeah, it's exactly what it sounds like. My natural sleeping pattern makes me go to bed around 3-4am. And sleep for ~8-9 hours. And no, just waking early in the weekend does not help. This has been going on since before I started school, and nothing tried the last 20 years have changed that one bit.
I'm tired of friends and complete strangers saying stuff like "Just change your rhythm" or "You're just lazy, I did it just fine!" - I have tried, it Does Not Help. It does not change a thing.
In fact, the disorder is sometimes referred to as "social jet lag" - it might even be the exact disorder the article is hinting at.
Your comment sounds like an asshole seeing a guy in wheelchair, and saying "He's just lazy. Look, I can walk just fine, and so can my friends!"
thanks for that link on delayed sleep phase disorder. I have that exact same issue and have been called lazy despite often sleeping less than those saying it since I am forced to get up at same early times but haven't slept as even going to bed early I don't sleep. As for routine I've had this since young child and went through school, high school, college, university and so on with the problem. I'd crash when i got home and my parents would scream at me and force me up complaining about being lazy. If anything it just turned me into an angry tired person and didn't motivate me further since I was already f****ing motivated.
no I completely agree as had same thing happen and people thought it was funny. I got stalked for few years by friends sister who is 2 years younger than me, it went way too far and freaked me out. I've also been seriously groped by female coppers who stopped to search me. This isn't a subtle thing, I mean pressing against me and digging deep in my pockets to the SIDE for a rather long time and she seemed to understand what she found should be there and seemed pleased yet unconcerned so it wasn't exactly mistaken for a weapon. Neither exactly deeply disturbed me but it pissed me off no-one took it seriously yet I'd have a legal case and a lot of support if I was female.
Yeah I hear same thing, that's a myth. I've got Dutch family (granted most are in Utrecht but those in Amsterdam admit many Dutch don't smoke it although some do it's more the toursists.
there is a price for flying cars my friend http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nq2GWRG8s0s
I thought they'd changed that policy now due to many complaining and they actually delete it now rather than put in suspension as they used to. Could be wrong but that was impression I got last time I checked to delete an account.
damn it hit post before finished... even if the actual idea or principle is something they couldn't care less about, if demand or public backing is high enough (which for this IMO it probably is) many will considered adhering to such policies. Eg. you really think most corps supplying organic food produce or fair traded products care about environmental policies or workers rights? probably not but they care about increased profits from tapping a niche, wider public acceptance and support, pretty much anything which improves their image and results in more profit / positive public support.
I disagree that this may not go somewhere. Doesn't sound like an opt-in only scheme and there are different ways of enforcing such things that appeal to large bodies. Even if it was pushed in an unavoidable way at country level legislation many groups would find ways of circumventing it if it didn't suit. The reason things work is less to do with it being enforced and more to do with those adopting it see it has something in it for them. Many people are behind such ideas so thats a big plus for many large agencies and business etc etc since adopting something many are asking for can be very attractive even if the actual
yeah the key is it notifies ya BEFORE ya stumble in the area. I'm from UK (merseyside) and grew up in shady places so am pretty relaxed around such stuff but if i can avoid it I will. Worse thing I did which this app would've been a god send is getting lost in Sao Paulo city, you can just tell instantly it was a wrong turn but being followed instantly by 3 guys it ain't smart to suddenly turn and go past them inidicating I am indeed lost so i acted like I knew where I was going, relaxed and took my time. They checked me out on 3 passes and wandered off as i found way back into main area (from frequency of busroutes and peopel I could tell it was cool again). An old lady a few min I wandered into the worst of it pointed to my camera she'd clocked I had on me, shook her head and did a punch / punch / sleep gestures to which I concealed my stuff better than I had and she wandered off. Thanks to her I didn't get murdered for it. App like this would've been better as not everyone has an old lady giving them the first indication of something amiss. Still hard to believe how poor that place is, I mean I've been a few homeless shelters here and I even got benefit money when i was homeless!
it only goes brittle if lignin is left in or it's unbuffered so acid can react on aforementioned lignin. Alpha cellulose papers (aka wood free although it does come from trees), cotton papers, long life acid free wood papers and so on would thereby make this idea futureproof. I look forward to owning one of those fancy futurisic scrolls, they wont even need power which beats the likes of nooks battery life.
I use mumble on a zenwalk box and found it is as good as skype I use on win side of things and if anything a bit more flexible on the sound tweaks. Still easy to set up and tweak etc. I've also used ekiga before now and there are plenty of sip clients out there. From an admin POV they are better too since they don't encrypt traffic by default so you can see whats coming and going on the network including stuff that piggybacks on skype. You can of course run encryption for when it's needed. Best thing is due to being open source there is never issues like skype has had due to proprietary nature and also more reliable in that doesn't rely on supernodes (although they don't go down much) like skype so will work as long as the machines that wish to communicate are up where as the node reliance means you have an extra 3rd party needed for comms to be up and running. A 3rd party you have no control over too I may add so if it's down it's down until it's sorted and nothing you can do about it.
It's not as clear cut as just calories or just fat or carb intake. For a start people have certain amount of adipose tissue and along with lifestyle and diet etc this kind of thing varies wildly. I'm also skinny and can eat more than friends twice my waist size. Seems some people can fill their fat stores easier than others when they hit the "wrong" sweetspot of incorrect foods, inappropriate amounts or meal times and so on. Obviously your body prefers to burn fats at rest (except the brain since they can't cross blood brain barrier hence uses ketobodies in emergencies where glucose and glycogen store used up). This means if you eat fair amount of fat and keep topping up with simple sugars constantly then insulin will be constantly mopping up the sugar and the snacking means you have this constant state where the prefered energy source (fats) are not used at all, usually carbs are only the prefered source during aerobic exercise.
WTF you talking 'bout Willis? No-one said anything about have an in house exclusive rights store like apple store here. There was simply the reasonable and sane suggestion of vetting apps rather than an anything goes attitude. You could still have apps coming from assorted 3rd party devs but just filter out the obviously rogue stuff that is more likely to decrease your userbase and hence profits. I personally don't use it, have never and will never and am a smug elitist twat about it haha!
admittedly it's a double edged sword on profits front though as quite a few music releases I would not buy if I couldn't trial it and many who steal it would never had bought it to start with. My taste never gets radio play etc and I'm often the first to buy it before friends. I do actually buy it if it is any good and like to encode stuff myself anyway as have particular size/quality/format consideration and higher end headphones. I used to buy CDs from stores and return them if they were notto my liking and the stores had no problem but these days the "piracy measures" prevent this as most stores stopped this returns policy over piracy paranoia thereby meaning piracy first and buying after evaluating is more attractive than chancing buying a "duffer". It was actually easier to sit at home and download than go to a store and buy physical cd, rip, take back etc so imagined pirates never followed that route often. Reviews are often unreliable, plenty of reviews for some Sonic Youth releases for one were good but turned out to be expensive aural turds "NYC ghosts and flowers" I'm glaring menacingly at you! I don't chance many sales now especially on lesser known stuff I find in independent stores from artists I'd never find a download of (man some of Daevid Allens projects (not gong who are very well known) are awful but some gems such as UoE2) so now I just dont chance buying them so it's a lost sale.
Admittedly I've done much worse to the small beggar child in Deus Ex when it first came out and that looked much better than GTA ever did. As for morrowind and the like my crimes were much greater than I ever managed in GTA including exterminating towns but I think these things are overdone and sensationalised as in RL I'd always act the opposite, I'm a pacifist for one and jumped in on many fights to split them up including getting some heavy kickings whilst doing so but not retaliating so that isn't synonymous with coward btw. GTA 1 and 2 were only so successful due to Max Clifford hyping it so much. Yeah it was playable but appeared to be another clone similar to many other Atari ST games and 386 pc games I had before GTA came out much later, memory ain't what it used ot be but Hill street blues comes to mind which looked virtually the same and had similar dynamics for the out of car bits.
I hear some Hare Krishnas were happy about it as people saw the word. Admittedly I suspect many would be upset but there are enough round my part of the world who spraypaint motorway bridges or grafitti/poster bins with it to convince me of the truth that some are more than happy for it to appear in the game as it gets the word seen. Personally I find the extremist breed of Krishnas to be cheapening their beliefs and values by writing it on bins and spamming it on walls without permission across a city. Thankfully they seem to grow up eventually.
like America will be around forever. I mean how long can America last being a "great" nation. How much longer do you think your own country will last? Forever? As long as the frog?
the post isn't about how to best mess with ATC systems it is about how overreliance on GPS without paying attention to the fact it is failure prone in rl situations and pointing out drawbacks predicated to get worse since. It is feasable people could have jammers such as truckers but when it comes to chaff launchers, floating clusters of foil balloons around runways, explosives etc etc there isn't any reason significant number of Joe Public's are going to be packing them in their car for some other minor infringement such as avoiding tolls. Such things are not uncommon and are thought of as being as "heavy" as stealing cable TV in the minds of many people, the consequences people are oblivious to and completely ignorant of which is more the point of the article. I mean as far as major disruption to cost ratio goes you can shut down an entire airport for the price of a phone call and all you need is to speak a few magic words to get your ass deservedly I may add locked up hopefully in state prison.
yes I imagine your testicles would appreciate it less than the FCC and I bet you care more about what they think than the FCC hehe
don't be quick to judge it is out of order without the full facts here. It is if there was no reason for it but why the f**k would the feds put a tracking device on random civillians car? That is an awful lot of effort, time and money to do randomly. I'm guessing the guy was targeted for a "possibly" valid reason. Not all evidence can be gathered by pulling people in and sometimes covert approach is necessary. Sure I'd be pissed if it was me but there is little reason to do that to me and if I was linked in some way to some major federal crime I wouldn't be surprised even if I wasn't happy about it. Now if it was added to the article that he funded his education from unknown sources and had large funds and seemed to splash out alot but didn't work or have affluent family background, associated with people with prior convictions and so on I'm sure the sympath would change.
Linux in '97 was not old school at all. I've been a user since around '97 - '98 and don't consider myself old school. In fact compared to folks who started using it at least 3 or 4 years before a lot had changed enabling clueless users like me to experiment with it and get by without much help. I settled on slackware too as easiest as other distros had started trying to automate things and made it complicated when not ideal configs were guessed at and slack just worked better for me as being clueless it was harder to tune the other distors and slack didn't try and configure much automatically which meant I learned simple bits to do only what I needed making it the easier choice. I don't think it was so different back then as it is now from a user pov. I still don't know the OS inside out and just have passable experience to make everything I need to work or to refine bits TBH. Even compiling kernels etc which many consider hard, once someone explains what to do and you've tried it it is easy in reality. Now compared to friends who used it 4 or 5 years or so before me that is a complete different world and IS old school. I would have been totally lost with that.