But 1 person in 30 in the USA are in jail are because of drug crimes
According to the DOJ, 1 in 31 people in the US are on probation, parole, or in jail or prison. That would certainly contradict your statistic. Although, if you meant 1 in 30 people in the prison population is in on drug crimes, that would be much too low. From stopthedrugwar.org:
"the Justice Department number-crunchers found that people sentenced for drug crimes accounted for 21% of state prisoners and 55% of all federal prisoners."
"an earlier BJS report put the percentage of jail inmates doing time for drug crime at 24.7% in 2002"
"the total number of people doing time for drugs in the United States last year exceeded 530,000."
My point is you can buy a computer with the same if not better hardware specs for the same price as the xbox
Where? I looked on NewEgg and Pricewatch and I was unable to find a computer that retails for as little as the XBox. The cheapest computer I could find on Pricewatch that had somewhat comparable specs was $208.99 (plus $65 for the cheapest vid card with TV out, plus $20 more if you want a DVD drive [like the XBox]) and the case doesn't look nearly as nice in an AV rack. If you want a nice low profile case you will probably spend $50-$100 more. Then you will need to buy at least 1 game controller/joystick and a remote/IR receiver, probably the bare minimum for those items is $30 each. That's getting pretty spendy for "the same price as the xbox".
and then you aren't limited to one os.
Since when is the XBox limited to one OS? I run Linux with MythTV on the 3 XBoxes in my home, but there is also the option to run XBMC or the standard MS Xbox OS. In addition to being a decent computer for multimedia playback, it also plays XBox games! Can your fictional $100 computer do that?
The XBox makes a serviceable multimedia playback machine that integrates well with existing AV components. Prior to using XBoxes for my MythTV frontends I used computers and the setup pains (and price) were greater with the PCs. Granted, it has been more than a year since I purchased an XBox, but when I was pricing components for my MythTV system the XBox was by far the most cost-effective frontend.
then the content operators will just quietly shut down and lay themselves off? Without this wonderous protection, they'll simply decide it's not worthwhile?
That is why public defenders exist, and if someone knows some tricks, they can make it real hard for the "big company" to win.
No, public defenders do not exist to defend you in a civil case (like a copyright violation case). They exist to defend you against criminal charges if you do not have the means to provide your own lawyer.
All you have to do is say that the chunks you downloaded were poisoned bits. Are those copyrighted as well?
Technically, once data is put into a tangible medium it is copyrighted. Hence HBO owns the copyright on the garbage chunks as well, although it could probably be argued that they gave implicit permission for you to download them since they (the copyright holder) made them available on a p2p network.
Name a task you consider impossible of accomplishment, and I will define a schedule and a budget and a plan to complete it.
OK, I'll play. How about you give me a budget and schedule for developing spaceships that travel faster than light? How about a time machine or a matter transporter?
No the problem is that the Shuttles endanger the lifes of the Astronauts. The Apollo program (and for that matter Mercury) was a lot safer. Fewer people died in those two programs than in the shuttle program. The shuttle fleet has been grounded 3 times on an indefinite basis (that I can think of) because people keep dying or the risks involved.
Quick quiz: How many Apollo missions were there in comparision to the number of shuttle missions?
The HREF attribute allows non-javascript (or just people using "open link in new window") to open the link correctly.
The onclick event handler grabs control in javascript-aware browsers, and opens a new window.
The problem with this method is that most (browsers|people) block the window.open method to prevent pop-up advertisments.
A great deal of productivity can be realized by just building out the email system so that users can send and receive their files and use the email as storage.
The problem with this approach is that email is one of the most inefficient ways to transfer files. MIME encoding was just a hack on top of a text-based system. Sending files via email tends to add about 50% to the size of the file (i.e. if you send a 10MB file it will make a 15mb email). To use email in lieu of a file server you need 50% more space.
- For the price of 1 normally purchased Trek, DBZ etc Seasonal dvd you can literally buy 2 full name brand DVD players. I kid you not. For the $120 you're paying for say, DS9 season 1 you can walk into Walmart and get 2 nice dvd players. When you can buy the god damn hardware cheaper than the dvd....
Yep, content is more expensive than hardware. What's your point?
- There are no other mass media storage of seasonal shows sold. When's the last time you say, walked into ANY store that sells a good bit of movies/tv shows and saw say, E.R. Season 1 on VHS? Now I realize it's come to the point and has been for a while that DVD is the current format for media being produced for home collection of movies and tv shows right? So if I wanna buy Spiderman 2 I can pick up the $6 VHS tape at Walmart. If I wanna by E.R. season 1 on VHS, I'm fucked cause THEY DON'T PRODUCE THEM. Our ONLY option for buying in stores is DVD.
Other than a few exceptions, that's all there ever has been. Before the advent of the DVD the back catalog of TV shows were generally not available to the consumer.
- Options for storage at home in the form of recording yourself are limited.
Limited by what?
You got VHS which for the price, limit and actual size it takes to store a large quantity of them it is not practical. You figure you can fit what, 6 hours on a VHS? (less it's been upped ot 8 since last I checked). That's 6 episodes of something. 5 if you count all commericals and such.
I don't follow your math here. A 1 hour episode is 1 hour with commercials, about 44 minutes without.
Average season of a tv show is 20+eps sometimes 30+ multiply that by say an average of 5 or 6 seasons and you got a fuck load of VHS tapes taking up room, which means you gotta shell out MORE money for a shelf or bookcase for them.
So even though VHS tapes are recorders are dirt cheap, you are complaining about having to buy bookshelves to hold them? What's next, complaining about the price of stickers and Sharpies to label your tapes?
DVD's while cheaper and can store more, require something to record from. A DVR, Tivo, video card with tv in/output and dvd burner etc Again more money to be spent to simply record tv shows.
You're right, you shouldn't have to spend money to record TV shows, you should get everything for free. The producers should buy you a TV, TiVo, VHS tapes (and shelves to hold them) and blank DVDs. While they're at it, they should pay your rent and buy you some food-after all you are giving them the huge gift of watching their show.
If you think that prices for TV shows are too high, feel free to make your own kick-ass show and sell it for less.
From the article: There seem to be plenty of retailers only too willing to flog PCs to companies, but no-one around to help when the e-mail stops working or an essential spreadsheet refuses to open.
These companies can't afford expensive support contracts with computer service organisations - and they haven't got the time to pack up the computer and take it to a shop, and then wait a week or so for it to be fixed.
These 2 paragraphs directly contradict each other. Contrary to the first paragraph, there is somebody around to help when the essential spreadsheet fails to open. You are dealing with what the author claims are the most complex machines that a consumer is likely to own, yet he demands that the service be cheap as well. Cars are comparatively simple but shops charge an arm and a leg for a mechanic, why should computer mechanics be giving their service away? The author says the companies "can't afford expensive support contracts" and "haven't got the time" to take it to a shop. Maybe these people shouldn't be using these massively complex machines if they can't afford to run them. A factory manager doesn't expect his factory to run without maintenance. The fact is, computers ARE complex and take some skill to maintain. If you are not willing to pay for a qualified technician then you will get what you pay for.
The reason there aren't more people doing home/small business support is because these types of customers always want something for nothing. If you fix a home user's machine, every time something goes wrong in the future YOU are they one they blame and the one that they call. Since they don't know how computers work anything that goes wrong with the machine is associated with your earlier repair. Dealing with established businesses is much easier because they accept IT as a cost of doing business are they are willing to pay for it.
You bought software or your hardware from somewhere I would guess (if you built this stuff on your own you have enough knowledge to fix it on your own). Take it to them. Dell, Gateway, Apple, whoever. If you're talking about software issues, call the company of the software you installed, oooh, it's Spyware problems.
The difference between a computer repair and a car repair, is that the computer repair center can claim your computer broke from a software issue that isn't their doing, whereas a car mechanic isn't going to say, "take this car back to the station you got gas from, they gave you bad gas".
I think that is a bad analogy. An automotive analogy to spyware is taking your car to the mechanic after you installed a 'SUPER BOOSTING FUEL PUMP!!!!!111!!!11' that actually diverts half your fuel to the company that gave it to you. Did I mention that 'ITS TOTALLY FREE!!!!'?
On the contrary: most "former" members of the church were either ex-communicated for a very short list of reasons, or they left the church because they had an axe to grind with someone or some "well-meaning" "Anti" used the usual Anti-Mormon rhetoric, lies and deception on them.
I would think that excommunications are a very tiny minority of all ex-mormons. Do you have any statistics on that? I know many ex-mormons and I have never met anyone who has been excommunicated. While some may have left for interpersonal issues, I think the majority just didn't believe in the basic principles of the church.
The sad thing about your point is that there is so much Anti-LDS crap out there that it's difficult to separate the genuine facts from supposition, conjecture and outright lies.
Why is there so much anti-LDS crap? What do these people have to gain by discrediting the LDS church?
My Grandfather made an excellent point concerning this: You don't go to see an Electrician to get advice on plumbing.
Isn't one of the the foundations of evolution that all living organisms came from a "primordial soup"? If so, that violates the "fact" that you layed out above.
I don't think there is anything in evolutionary theories that define how the first living things came to be. Evolution just describes how living things gradually develop into more complex living things. The source of the first living things on this planet could have been the primordial soup, living things brought here on comets or asteroids, 'seeding' by extraterrestrial life forms or by divine intervention. To evolution, it doesn't matter where the life come from, it just decribes what happens to the life over time.
You certainly have a valid point, but one wonders why you would even click through to a discussion on using TV equipment if you have no TV. Just pure flamebait?
People with no TVs always seem to feel the need to proclaim it from the rooftops, like they are somehow morally superior to people with TVs. And since you have never had a TV, what is your basis for recommending people with TVs get rid of them? You have only experienced not having a TV, what makes you an authority on having a TV?
industrial hemp plant, Cannabis sativa, should not be confused with the marijuana plant, which is its cousin.
I think you made my point. Cannabis Sativa is the taxonomic name for BOTH marijuana and hemp. When they say MJ is hemp's "cousin" they mean they are different subspecies of the same species. They are like 2 different varieties of tomatoes, they may taste a little different or have different characteristics but they are both still tomatoes. My point was it would be exceedingly difficult to spot MJ plants in a field of hemp using IR spectroscopy.
different crops will show up as different colors in the IR specturm based on the photosynthesis rates which affect the amoutn of C02 the plant gives off
Are you serious? We are talking about the same plant. One variety of it has been bred to produce better fiber and oil, and one had been bred to produce more THC, but they are still the same plant and will produce the same spectrum. Trying to spot a few marijuana plants in a hemp field using IR spectroscopy would be like trying to find a piece of straw in a haystack with a telescope.
How the hell do I get these Anime stories off my homepage? I have selected the "Anime" option under the "Exclude Stories From The Homepage" section of my preferences, but I still get the full gamut of stories. Anyone know how to (really) turn them off?
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But 1 person in 30 in the USA are in jail are because of drug crimes
According to the DOJ, 1 in 31 people in the US are on probation, parole, or in jail or prison. That would certainly contradict your statistic. Although, if you meant 1 in 30 people in the prison population is in on drug crimes, that would be much too low. From stopthedrugwar.org:
"the Justice Department number-crunchers found that people sentenced for drug crimes accounted for 21% of state prisoners and 55% of all federal prisoners."
"an earlier BJS report put the percentage of jail inmates doing time for drug crime at 24.7% in 2002"
"the total number of people doing time for drugs in the United States last year exceeded 530,000."
My point is you can buy a computer with the same if not better hardware specs for the same price as the xbox
Where? I looked on NewEgg and Pricewatch and I was unable to find a computer that retails for as little as the XBox. The cheapest computer I could find on Pricewatch that had somewhat comparable specs was $208.99 (plus $65 for the cheapest vid card with TV out, plus $20 more if you want a DVD drive [like the XBox]) and the case doesn't look nearly as nice in an AV rack. If you want a nice low profile case you will probably spend $50-$100 more. Then you will need to buy at least 1 game controller/joystick and a remote/IR receiver, probably the bare minimum for those items is $30 each. That's getting pretty spendy for "the same price as the xbox".
and then you aren't limited to one os.
Since when is the XBox limited to one OS? I run Linux with MythTV on the 3 XBoxes in my home, but there is also the option to run XBMC or the standard MS Xbox OS. In addition to being a decent computer for multimedia playback, it also plays XBox games! Can your fictional $100 computer do that?
The XBox makes a serviceable multimedia playback machine that integrates well with existing AV components. Prior to using XBoxes for my MythTV frontends I used computers and the setup pains (and price) were greater with the PCs. Granted, it has been more than a year since I purchased an XBox, but when I was pricing components for my MythTV system the XBox was by far the most cost-effective frontend.
The movie production industry has already given up.
That is why public defenders exist, and if someone knows some tricks, they can make it real hard for the "big company" to win.
No, public defenders do not exist to defend you in a civil case (like a copyright violation case). They exist to defend you against criminal charges if you do not have the means to provide your own lawyer.
All you have to do is say that the chunks you downloaded were poisoned bits. Are those copyrighted as well?
Technically, once data is put into a tangible medium it is copyrighted. Hence HBO owns the copyright on the garbage chunks as well, although it could probably be argued that they gave implicit permission for you to download them since they (the copyright holder) made them available on a p2p network.
OK, I'll play. How about you give me a budget and schedule for developing spaceships that travel faster than light? How about a time machine or a matter transporter?
No the problem is that the Shuttles endanger the lifes of the Astronauts. The Apollo program (and for that matter Mercury) was a lot safer. Fewer people died in those two programs than in the shuttle program. The shuttle fleet has been grounded 3 times on an indefinite basis (that I can think of) because people keep dying or the risks involved.
Quick quiz: How many Apollo missions were there in comparision to the number of shuttle missions?
Yep, we started spelling it independence.
Managerium is also what makes electronics work: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/06/20/bofh_2005_ episode_19/
The problem with this method is that most (browsers|people) block the window.open method to prevent pop-up advertisments.
A great deal of productivity can be realized by just building out the email system so that users can send and receive their files and use the email as storage.
The problem with this approach is that email is one of the most inefficient ways to transfer files. MIME encoding was just a hack on top of a text-based system. Sending files via email tends to add about 50% to the size of the file (i.e. if you send a 10MB file it will make a 15mb email). To use email in lieu of a file server you need 50% more space.
Give people the ability to ignore those who are.
How about an "Ignore all anonymous users" option instead?
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- For the price of 1 normally purchased Trek, DBZ etc Seasonal dvd you can literally buy 2 full name brand DVD players. I kid you not. For the $120 you're paying for say, DS9 season 1 you can walk into Walmart and get 2 nice dvd players. When you can buy the god damn hardware cheaper than the dvd....
Yep, content is more expensive than hardware. What's your point?
- There are no other mass media storage of seasonal shows sold. When's the last time you say, walked into ANY store that sells a good bit of movies/tv shows and saw say, E.R. Season 1 on VHS? Now I realize it's come to the point and has been for a while that DVD is the current format for media being produced for home collection of movies and tv shows right? So if I wanna buy Spiderman 2 I can pick up the $6 VHS tape at Walmart. If I wanna by E.R. season 1 on VHS, I'm fucked cause THEY DON'T PRODUCE THEM. Our ONLY option for buying in stores is DVD.
Other than a few exceptions, that's all there ever has been. Before the advent of the DVD the back catalog of TV shows were generally not available to the consumer.
- Options for storage at home in the form of recording yourself are limited.
Limited by what?
You got VHS which for the price, limit and actual size it takes to store a large quantity of them it is not practical. You figure you can fit what, 6 hours on a VHS? (less it's been upped ot 8 since last I checked). That's 6 episodes of something. 5 if you count all commericals and such.
I don't follow your math here. A 1 hour episode is 1 hour with commercials, about 44 minutes without.
Average season of a tv show is 20+eps sometimes 30+ multiply that by say an average of 5 or 6 seasons and you got a fuck load of VHS tapes taking up room, which means you gotta shell out MORE money for a shelf or bookcase for them.
So even though VHS tapes are recorders are dirt cheap, you are complaining about having to buy bookshelves to hold them? What's next, complaining about the price of stickers and Sharpies to label your tapes?
DVD's while cheaper and can store more, require something to record from. A DVR, Tivo, video card with tv in/output and dvd burner etc Again more money to be spent to simply record tv shows.
You're right, you shouldn't have to spend money to record TV shows, you should get everything for free. The producers should buy you a TV, TiVo, VHS tapes (and shelves to hold them) and blank DVDs. While they're at it, they should pay your rent and buy you some food-after all you are giving them the huge gift of watching their show.
If you think that prices for TV shows are too high, feel free to make your own kick-ass show and sell it for less.
One word: Outlook
From the article:
There seem to be plenty of retailers only too willing to flog PCs to companies, but no-one around to help when the e-mail stops working or an essential spreadsheet refuses to open.
These companies can't afford expensive support contracts with computer service organisations - and they haven't got the time to pack up the computer and take it to a shop, and then wait a week or so for it to be fixed.
These 2 paragraphs directly contradict each other. Contrary to the first paragraph, there is somebody around to help when the essential spreadsheet fails to open. You are dealing with what the author claims are the most complex machines that a consumer is likely to own, yet he demands that the service be cheap as well. Cars are comparatively simple but shops charge an arm and a leg for a mechanic, why should computer mechanics be giving their service away? The author says the companies "can't afford expensive support contracts" and "haven't got the time" to take it to a shop. Maybe these people shouldn't be using these massively complex machines if they can't afford to run them. A factory manager doesn't expect his factory to run without maintenance. The fact is, computers ARE complex and take some skill to maintain. If you are not willing to pay for a qualified technician then you will get what you pay for.
The reason there aren't more people doing home/small business support is because these types of customers always want something for nothing. If you fix a home user's machine, every time something goes wrong in the future YOU are they one they blame and the one that they call. Since they don't know how computers work anything that goes wrong with the machine is associated with your earlier repair. Dealing with established businesses is much easier because they accept IT as a cost of doing business are they are willing to pay for it.
I think that is a bad analogy. An automotive analogy to spyware is taking your car to the mechanic after you installed a 'SUPER BOOSTING FUEL PUMP!!!!!111!!!11' that actually diverts half your fuel to the company that gave it to you. Did I mention that 'ITS TOTALLY FREE!!!!'?
On the contrary: most "former" members of the church were either ex-communicated for a very short list of reasons, or they left the church because they had an axe to grind with someone or some "well-meaning" "Anti" used the usual Anti-Mormon rhetoric, lies and deception on them.
I would think that excommunications are a very tiny minority of all ex-mormons. Do you have any statistics on that? I know many ex-mormons and I have never met anyone who has been excommunicated. While some may have left for interpersonal issues, I think the majority just didn't believe in the basic principles of the church.
The sad thing about your point is that there is so much Anti-LDS crap out there that it's difficult to separate the genuine facts from supposition, conjecture and outright lies.
Why is there so much anti-LDS crap? What do these people have to gain by discrediting the LDS church?
My Grandfather made an excellent point concerning this: You don't go to see an Electrician to get advice on plumbing.
You do if he is an ex-plumber.
Isn't one of the the foundations of evolution that all living organisms came from a "primordial soup"? If so, that violates the "fact" that you layed out above.
I don't think there is anything in evolutionary theories that define how the first living things came to be. Evolution just describes how living things gradually develop into more complex living things. The source of the first living things on this planet could have been the primordial soup, living things brought here on comets or asteroids, 'seeding' by extraterrestrial life forms or by divine intervention. To evolution, it doesn't matter where the life come from, it just decribes what happens to the life over time.
I do not have a TV (never had, never will),
You certainly have a valid point, but one wonders why you would even click through to a discussion on using TV equipment if you have no TV. Just pure flamebait?
People with no TVs always seem to feel the need to proclaim it from the rooftops, like they are somehow morally superior to people with TVs. And since you have never had a TV, what is your basis for recommending people with TVs get rid of them? You have only experienced not having a TV, what makes you an authority on having a TV?
Crawl This - http://darkry.net/test/test.php [darkry.net]
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I would recommend 'display_errors = Off' in php.ini, or you are giving free information to the 12 year olds and they will pwn you.
care to share how to mod an XBox without a mod chip before I fork out the cash for one?
A great place to start:
http://www.xbox-linux.org/Getting_Started
I think you made my point. Cannabis Sativa is the taxonomic name for BOTH marijuana and hemp. When they say MJ is hemp's "cousin" they mean they are different subspecies of the same species. They are like 2 different varieties of tomatoes, they may taste a little different or have different characteristics but they are both still tomatoes. My point was it would be exceedingly difficult to spot MJ plants in a field of hemp using IR spectroscopy.
Are you serious? We are talking about the same plant. One variety of it has been bred to produce better fiber and oil, and one had been bred to produce more THC, but they are still the same plant and will produce the same spectrum. Trying to spot a few marijuana plants in a hemp field using IR spectroscopy would be like trying to find a piece of straw in a haystack with a telescope.
How the hell do I get these Anime stories off my homepage? I have selected the "Anime" option under the "Exclude Stories From The Homepage" section of my preferences, but I still get the full gamut of stories. Anyone know how to (really) turn them off?
I know it was covered on slashdot...
Here is an article about the problem on IEEE Spectrum. I have had to replace many motherboards because of this problem, all MSI or Epox.