I am a Quicken 2000 user. My online services were turned off a year ago.
I will give them not one more cent of my hard-earned money. I started with Quicken back before they used years as version numbers, and bought 5 or 6 upgrades. 2000 was "good enough" although they didn't easily handle put/call options.
But after last year, FUCK THEM! And they didn't even learn from it, I mean, it's not like my packets between me and my bank have to go through Intuit's servers and thus they have costs that they want to keep down by turning off my ability to communicate with my bank.
This is a money grab, pure and simple, one that I had to deal with last year and never will again.
All digital goods manufacturers are fighting a losing battle with copyright infringement.
Soon all physical goods manufacturers will be fighting a losing battle with... we need a new term for it, copying a Corvette or Big Mac or Athlon without paying for it.
Nanotechnology is going to completely change things. We're heading down a bad road on our way to it, because we are so concerned with making a buck. In the future, there won't be the need to make a buck. There may still be currency, but if you can copy any physical item you will have all the food and shelter you desire; thus, you will have no need for cash.
Most people don't understand this, or (perhaps rightly) call me insane. But your point, that both the games and movie industries are concerned with advancing technology, is going to encompass all industries within the next 20 years.
I don't get that mentality (although I did just see the episode where Shake says your sig, which I loved).
It's like, some people say "I'd rather see normal people campaign to make pot legal than see NORML people doing it."
Why should it matter? When the goal will benefit the campaigner, and everyone else as well (less jails, less of the economy wasted on punishing users, more can be spent on treatment, tax it heavily and it'll still be less than it is now but those taxes can benefit society, prisons will have a lower percentage of non-violent offenders (which is bad for the folks that do end up non-violently in prison, but much better for those folks whose only crime is toking up on their own property), in fact I even saw a sign on MA 90, driving from Amherst to Boston, which was promoting legalization saying "$250 million more taxpayer dollars for our schools" or something similar), why does that make the ultimate benefit less simply because "they just want to smoke their pot"?
Or, to look at it from a different perspective, the people who are being damaged by wrong laws or infections are those people who are most likely to do something about it. The law against walking your alligator without a leash just doesn't bother me nearly as much as losing my uncle (and my dog!) to cancer. So if I were to campaign, it would more likely be to help defeat cancer or blue laws like prohibition, than it would be to get that town in Florida to allow people to walk their alligators down Main Street without a leash.
There was a (music) CD a year ago or so which did exactly this: if you put it in your computer, it would install some shit that broke your CD-ROM drive from being able to rip CDs.
Holding down the shift key (or removing autorun from the Registry) would circumvent this, so the joke went that "teaching someone to hold down a key while inserting the CD could get you jail time."
I don't think anyone went to jail. Least of all, the asshats who wrote the trojan.
I remember a short story (no idea where or who; probably an old Analog or Asimov's Sci-Fi Magazine) in which a "life-boat" had left Earth, and about halfway to Alpha Centauri they were awoken by a klaxon and saw a flash.
Then they went back to sleep.
When they finally got there (only 4 light years away), they came upon a civilization of humans thousands of years advanced beyond ours, and the worst part was that the travelers stank like pigs (apparently the olfactory sense and sweat glands had evolved in the humans who "passed" them).
Neat story, and completely fits with "he who leaves last, arrives first."
I thought the explanation for the firewall hack was preposterous: "a lot more traffic on the 'Internet' and the nuclear plants will somehow not detect intrusion."
First of all, the traffic was not going to or coming from the nucular plants, so they wouldn't have been affected by it (other than to slow down those two secretaries who actually have internet access at a nuke facility).
Second of all, no amount of packets can mask an intrusion with no chance of being logged: if the intrusion is able to get in, then there has to be enough spare cycles to log it as well.
Now, if they were cracking in some other way that would make sense, and my friend said "well perhaps there was some other method, but a) the writers didn't want to tell the (real) terrorists how to do it; or b) it will be revealed later in the series."
I really liked that the first "crisis" was resolved in the first 6 hours; at this rate, they will have four "mini-stories" at the end of the day (and countless subplots, like Edgar reluctantly being that conniving ladder-climber's bitch).
Maine Yankee was decommissioned last year. Perhaps that part of the dialog had already been written, or they researched in books instead of the Intraweb?
The simulations suggest that over the next hundred years we could see average rises of average temperatures of up to 11K, more than twice what was previously thought.
So we previously thought we'd be 5,500 degrees hooter than we are currently? (That's half of eleven kay.)
And hey, as long as you're using stuff from work, why not just take your printer home, too? They'll never miss it.
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Because printers are physical goods, and cannot be duplicated. Yet.
Software is a digital good, and is available in abundance. It's only our backwards politicians (controlled by the corporations) who are trying to force scarcity into an abundant world.
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If you find copying software bothers you, just wait 20 years until you'll be able to copy your friend's computer! Or TV, Big Mac, Corvette, house, spaceship, nuclear device...
I love your posts but have to call you on this one. You sound a lot like my sister after the first three episodes of The Simple Life (Denise Ritchie and Paris Hilton's show): she was convinced it was actual reality filming, and that Paris and Denise were incompetent boobs.
It served their interests for her to think that. ("I'm better than them" is a good hook; and it kept her watching their ads.)
It serves Bush's interests for you to think that he's an idiot. I, too, believe that he looks like an idiot. I do not for an instant believe the lie, though. He's building an empire[1] and is very good at social engineering.
[1] -- another article discussed military robots, and someone posted saying that if we have warfare in which the two sides are unbalanced wrt robots, especially if one side is all robots and the other side is all meat, then it's going to look very bad to everyone involved when the robots keep mowing down the meat. Countries which use robots in battle, the poster continued, should be seen as empire-building because you should be willing to lay down your life for democracy. Which shows just how corrupt Bush's new war is; he's unwilling to lay down the lives of his daughters.
$55/month I have Verizon Freedom plan. I can call anywhere in the US and Canada, 24x7, for free.
So I have little interest in sharing my phone line, and even less interest in paying $0.02/minute via cheap VOIP providers.
Now, if they decided to extend the idea to, say, set up a couple Verizon Freedom lines in every state (actually, "in every state" is not necessary; just set up a couple hundred lines anywhere), and then use those to call out from, then it might make more sense.
I still wouldn't offer my phone line, though, because: what's in it for me? (Other than headaches, extra charges, and possible fines/jail time for someone else using my property to commit crimes, which is totally fucking ridiculous: the person committing the crime should be the guilty party, and that he used my property in the commission of it should mean that I am a victim as well, not a co-conspirator!)
2.) when calling someone an "idoit", it would be best to spell it correctly
Heh, I thought his space bar malfunctioned and he was saying, "Simple math, I do it." (The unwritten part being "It appears that the fine gentleman I am replying to is incapable of mathematics.")
I guess it isn't really a black market if nobody is exchanging money for goods or services; more of a "null market". (It also flies in the face of economics: supply is unlimited, therefore demand doesn't matter? (Because the price is $0 anyway...))
I'm not sure I agree with the pricing model, though... I'd rather just pay a single charge to own the movie in digital form. None of this "your movie will self-destruct" funny business that (the original) DiVX tried.
Yes, in fact, it is: the definition of "real-time" says nothing about the uptime of the machine, only that the machine must guarantee a process a certain amount of CPU time within a given period of time while the machine is running.
From your answer I gather that you didn't understand the point I was trying to make: just because it's working for you and hasn't failed in 4 years doesn't make it "Real-Time" (TM).
I still smile when I see/hear Mr. Roboto, because back in junior high we didn't say "shit" we said "B.M." (short for "bowel movement") and therefore, when in the chorus the lyrics go "My brain I.B.M.", I thought he was saying "I shit my brain out!"
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I will give them not one more cent of my hard-earned money. I started with Quicken back before they used years as version numbers, and bought 5 or 6 upgrades. 2000 was "good enough" although they didn't easily handle put/call options.
But after last year, FUCK THEM! And they didn't even learn from it, I mean, it's not like my packets between me and my bank have to go through Intuit's servers and thus they have costs that they want to keep down by turning off my ability to communicate with my bank.
This is a money grab, pure and simple, one that I had to deal with last year and never will again.
Soon all physical goods manufacturers will be fighting a losing battle with ... we need a new term for it, copying a Corvette or Big Mac or Athlon without paying for it.
Nanotechnology is going to completely change things. We're heading down a bad road on our way to it, because we are so concerned with making a buck. In the future, there won't be the need to make a buck. There may still be currency, but if you can copy any physical item you will have all the food and shelter you desire; thus, you will have no need for cash.
Most people don't understand this, or (perhaps rightly) call me insane. But your point, that both the games and movie industries are concerned with advancing technology, is going to encompass all industries within the next 20 years.
That's where the nubile folks come from.
Now that's funny... ex-pee, so Microsoft is in the sewage treatment business?
I've heard of this place called Nubia but can never find it on a map. (/me waves to Terry Pratchett.)
It's like, some people say "I'd rather see normal people campaign to make pot legal than see NORML people doing it."
Why should it matter? When the goal will benefit the campaigner, and everyone else as well (less jails, less of the economy wasted on punishing users, more can be spent on treatment, tax it heavily and it'll still be less than it is now but those taxes can benefit society, prisons will have a lower percentage of non-violent offenders (which is bad for the folks that do end up non-violently in prison, but much better for those folks whose only crime is toking up on their own property), in fact I even saw a sign on MA 90, driving from Amherst to Boston, which was promoting legalization saying "$250 million more taxpayer dollars for our schools" or something similar), why does that make the ultimate benefit less simply because "they just want to smoke their pot"?
Or, to look at it from a different perspective, the people who are being damaged by wrong laws or infections are those people who are most likely to do something about it. The law against walking your alligator without a leash just doesn't bother me nearly as much as losing my uncle (and my dog!) to cancer. So if I were to campaign, it would more likely be to help defeat cancer or blue laws like prohibition, than it would be to get that town in Florida to allow people to walk their alligators down Main Street without a leash.
Stupid webmaster, can't even protect the site from eyeballs! Muahaha.
PS He just wants the referer to be from his domain...
There was a (music) CD a year ago or so which did exactly this: if you put it in your computer, it would install some shit that broke your CD-ROM drive from being able to rip CDs.
Holding down the shift key (or removing autorun from the Registry) would circumvent this, so the joke went that "teaching someone to hold down a key while inserting the CD could get you jail time."
I don't think anyone went to jail. Least of all, the asshats who wrote the trojan.
Then they went back to sleep.
When they finally got there (only 4 light years away), they came upon a civilization of humans thousands of years advanced beyond ours, and the worst part was that the travelers stank like pigs (apparently the olfactory sense and sweat glands had evolved in the humans who "passed" them).
Neat story, and completely fits with "he who leaves last, arrives first."
You won't get any green aliens with that attitude, my friend...
First of all, the traffic was not going to or coming from the nucular plants, so they wouldn't have been affected by it (other than to slow down those two secretaries who actually have internet access at a nuke facility).
Second of all, no amount of packets can mask an intrusion with no chance of being logged: if the intrusion is able to get in, then there has to be enough spare cycles to log it as well.
Now, if they were cracking in some other way that would make sense, and my friend said "well perhaps there was some other method, but a) the writers didn't want to tell the (real) terrorists how to do it; or b) it will be revealed later in the series."
I really liked that the first "crisis" was resolved in the first 6 hours; at this rate, they will have four "mini-stories" at the end of the day (and countless subplots, like Edgar reluctantly being that conniving ladder-climber's bitch).
Maine Yankee was decommissioned last year. Perhaps that part of the dialog had already been written, or they researched in books instead of the Intraweb?
Global Luke-Warming.
So we previously thought we'd be 5,500 degrees hooter than we are currently? (That's half of eleven kay.)
The surface of the sun is about 5,600 degrees.
I know, lame joke, but teh degree symbol is a standard HTML object (°).
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Because printers are physical goods, and cannot be duplicated. Yet.
Software is a digital good, and is available in abundance. It's only our backwards politicians (controlled by the corporations) who are trying to force scarcity into an abundant world.
<pedantic mode=off>
If you find copying software bothers you, just wait 20 years until you'll be able to copy your friend's computer! Or TV, Big Mac, Corvette, house, spaceship, nuclear device...
They? They who? AFAIK, only Slashdot admins have the server logs. They barely have time to look for duplica...
Oh. So that's why they barely have time. Thanks!
It served their interests for her to think that. ("I'm better than them" is a good hook; and it kept her watching their ads.)
It serves Bush's interests for you to think that he's an idiot. I, too, believe that he looks like an idiot. I do not for an instant believe the lie, though. He's building an empire[1] and is very good at social engineering.
[1] -- another article discussed military robots, and someone posted saying that if we have warfare in which the two sides are unbalanced wrt robots, especially if one side is all robots and the other side is all meat, then it's going to look very bad to everyone involved when the robots keep mowing down the meat. Countries which use robots in battle, the poster continued, should be seen as empire-building because you should be willing to lay down your life for democracy. Which shows just how corrupt Bush's new war is; he's unwilling to lay down the lives of his daughters.
So I have little interest in sharing my phone line, and even less interest in paying $0.02/minute via cheap VOIP providers.
Now, if they decided to extend the idea to, say, set up a couple Verizon Freedom lines in every state (actually, "in every state" is not necessary; just set up a couple hundred lines anywhere), and then use those to call out from, then it might make more sense.
I still wouldn't offer my phone line, though, because: what's in it for me? (Other than headaches, extra charges, and possible fines/jail time for someone else using my property to commit crimes, which is totally fucking ridiculous: the person committing the crime should be the guilty party, and that he used my property in the commission of it should mean that I am a victim as well, not a co-conspirator!)
Heh, I thought his space bar malfunctioned and he was saying, "Simple math, I do it." (The unwritten part being "It appears that the fine gentleman I am replying to is incapable of mathematics.")
I'm not sure I agree with the pricing model, though... I'd rather just pay a single charge to own the movie in digital form. None of this "your movie will self-destruct" funny business that (the original) DiVX tried.
Yeah I was thinking of suggesting "tomatoes" as well. The college kind, that is. ;-)
Yes, in fact, it is: the definition of "real-time" says nothing about the uptime of the machine, only that the machine must guarantee a process a certain amount of CPU time within a given period of time while the machine is running.
From your answer I gather that you didn't understand the point I was trying to make: just because it's working for you and hasn't failed in 4 years doesn't make it "Real-Time" (TM).
That's all. I'm happy that it works for you.
Much better imagery. ;-)
Now, when you remove the "i" from the "RoboRecital" it approaches similar functionality...
No, just ban skiing down that particular slope.