Alias Being Human Degrassi Outer Limits xxx And so on. It's not that hard to find stuff. As for Microsoft's flops, they were able to weather M.e. because they were able to quickly replace it with the bugfixed version of Windows 5/2000 (called XP). Most people just jumped from 98 to XP without even realizing M.e. ever existed.
But Vista? That ~5 years of lost time really really hurt the company, damaged their reputation, and made them lose a lot of users to Apple and Google (phones). I don't think they can weather another half decade of bad OS (Win8) or they might lose their OS monopoly the same way they lost their browser monopoly.
>>>The CIA has ties to Facebook, the NSA has ties to Google.
So Alex Jones was actually correct when he said facebook and google were working with the government? Every time I heard him say that I was like, "Yeah sure alex." Wow. That blows my mind.
What on earth do you need to fix prices on books for? I could understand the argument for things people need (milk, gasoline, electricity), but price fixing for entertainment that is not a necessity??? Nuts.
Seems to be working for anti-censorship, anti-ACTA Ron Paul. (He carries 70-80% of the 18-30 year old vote in every election.) Those people will demand freedom of the net as they grow older and become middle age citizens, and they'll be electing politicians who share the same view.
Ahhh two people with the same answer. Thanks. Sounds like a good reason to move to another nearby hotel that has almost no residents (and therefore less sharing of the Wifi). Also it's cheaper.
Also explains why the dialup, with its dedicated phone line, never drops connection. No sharing with anybody else (though 5 KB/s is rather slow).
When the children grow-up, as they will fairly quickly, I'm sure they'd rather live in a society where they are free to speak, create, and express themselves without restriction, rather than live in a world where their ideas are censored by internet police (Obama's ACTA, Bush's DHS, and so on).
Those companies should no longer be given monopoly status over local markets. Let them compete for customers amongst one another. (Or else if they are granted monopoly status, they should be strictly regulated like the electricity, water, and natural gas monopolies.)
The article says the Wifi net will cost $22,000 per year to maintain. That sounds too cheap?
the city has been striving for years to get workers to leave their offices and make the district more lively and lucrative for small businesses.
If this plan works, all it does is transfer the workers' spending money from the cafeterias/vending companies inside the offices to the street restaurants. It doesn't create any new wealth or boost to the economy.
Just bought my first Wifi modem last week to connect to my hotel's internet. It only streams at 30-40 kilobyte/second (slower than DSL at home) and keeps dropping the connection with a message that says "acquiring network ID". Windows XP reports the signal is "very good" to "excellent".
At this point I'm wondering if I wasted my my money. The Wifi is only good for uTorrent downloads (it doesn't mind the intermittent connection), and my dialup connection is actually more reliable for web browsing, facebook, etc.
Oh and yes I've tried moving the modem around which improved the signal, but not the frequent lost connections. Surely this isn't normal for Wifi?
They booed Ron Paul when he said we should follow the Golden Rule in foreign policy. (Treat others the way you would want to be treated - do not bomb and kill them.) So called Christians often don't follow their own principles. I was surprised to discover the rate of premarital pregnancy and divorce was actually HIGHER among church-going Christians then the general population.
I've had many physics and engineering professors who ALSO believed in Intelligent Design. Should these people be fired simply because they believe there is a Creator the originated the Big Bang and Evolution?
I think your comment "demoted for rejecting the whole basis?...Who would have thought," shows a definite prejudice against religious persons.
I wonder how these people pay their bills? I mean if they took their philosophy to its natural end (everything should be open source, and they work on OSS as volunteers), then they'd be doing their full time jobs for free too. How would they pay their bills.
>>>"Geek Squad to get their computer fixed. They'll balk at the $40/hour charges, and see no reason why you can't spend the 20 hours it takes to fix up their computer."
And then they play the "I would help you if you needed help" card. Twelve years later and I'm still waiting for that payback. I don't provide much free support anymore (or free machines); if their computer really did become screwed-up badly I would copy as many files as I could to my USB: drive, insert the Windows CD, watch tv for an hour while it's being wiped, and then Copy usb: to c:
The family member can waste their time sorting it all out.
"Some people say..." - FOX News, MicrosoftNBC, CNN,.....
I don't have any problem with profit. The more you make the sooner you can retire and enjoy life. (Or keep working and hand-out the excess to homeless people.)
And it appears the original decision saying Kaleidoscape was "not infringing" was appealed by the DVD group to the Superior Court. Next it would go to the CA Appeals court, and then the CA Supreme Court. (Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer.)
This judge ran for election, and likely received money from corporate backers to fund the campaign (and will receive money in the future). So he is far from "independent" but instead bought-and-paid for just like the top poster said.
All true BUT if you could buy the new HBO episodes of Season 2; Game of Thrones the very first day, why would you subscribe to the channel? The answer is that you wouldn't. HBO releasing the DVD or online episodes immediately would be the same as committing suicide. They would lose subscribers to their channel (ditto any of the other cable channels).
They hold back the product in order to attract people to join Comcast or Dish, and then subscribe to HBO's new episodes.
I had the opposite effect. I can no longer stand Salt or Sugar in my food, unless it's the low-salt/sugar option. Just this past Christmas my mother gave me some cake and she said, "Isn't that icing tasty?" Um. No. Yuck. (It was so sweet I had to scrape it off.)
Considering all the problems that simply engineering Foods have caused (they generate their own pesticide; which either we or our animals eat), I'm not ready to start messing with human beings. It would get screwed-up.
If the concern is too many people on this planet soiling our own nest, then a better solution is to try to reduce the population (like China is attempting with its 1 child per couple policy) (or through Mother Nature starving us like she does with other species).
My 60 watt equivalents are 15 not 12 watts. Also they never last 5000 hours..... more like 1/2 a year which figuring 6 hours in the morning + evening == 1100 hours. Adjusting your math I get:
36 kWh saved. 128 MJ saved. That's just 3.6 liters of gasoline. I could easily burn that up in the drive to the landfill + shipping the CFL from China to the EU or US (and probably shipping it back since most electronics are recycled in China not here) + transport of the mercury to the disposal site. Net production-to-recycle cost: More energy was used by my CFL than an incandescent bulb.
I know I would never buy another CFL if it wasn't for Congress forcing me too (because they outlawed incandescents). CFLs are the perfect example of an "improved" product that is actually worse than what it is replacing. Kinda like Windows 8 or Vista.
And I suspect if anybody did a study, they'd find CFLs actually use more energy & increase the carbon footprint more than incandescents, because of the extra energy needed to ship them from China & then drive the dead CFL to a recycling center to dispose of the hazardous mercury. It would be similar to how the ACEEE's study showed EVs are no cleaner than a 45mpg gasoline vehicle (and less clean than a natural gas Civic or 88mpg Lupo TDI).
I hate CFLs, but if she was unable to get a 60-watt incandescent she could just substitute a 70-watt CFL (200 equivalent) and get about the same level of heat.
Or a small portable heater (they make them in small 60 watt sizes).
What if, in some future iPod, the Apple corporation gave us the ability not just to rip CDs but also DVDs, so we could listen to music or watch shows on-the-go?
Would the DVD Cartel.... er, Forum smack them down too? Or is Apple part of the cartel?
LEDs are about ~$30 on amazon. They've dropped about half what they were two years ago, so not really that expensive (they last a lifetime). I'm tempted to buy one sometime.
CFLs: - are dim for the first 4-5 minutes, so you have to sit and wait before you can read your book (or walk down the basement steps) - filled with mercury - have to drive the burned-out ones to the landfill (thus increasing carbon footprint) (and no I don't CFL or battery recycling where I live) - have to ship them in from China (again increasing the carbon footprint) - they don't last long in my fixtures because they are upside down (trapped heat kills CFL electronics) - or startup when outside (subfreezing temps) - and every dimmable CFL I've ever tried went "zzztt" and died within an hour.
I wish the incandescent bulbs were still available. They didn't use as much power as the CFLs do (I'm including the power to ship from China & drive them to the landfill). Or frustrate me. Or require special handling. And they were built here on this continent (close to market).
You are spot-on with the pricing (Bluray cheaper than download version). Nuts. And it's not only DVD/Blurays, but also books. It's ridiculous that I have to pay the same price for a Kindle book as the real thing.
At least with the real thing, I can sell it on eBay/Amazon and recoup my money. So the net-cost of the physical item is only ~25% of the list price. Why on earth would I pay 100% for an e-book that I'm stuck with forever? (Or until my license runs out.)
The corporations need to wake-up to the fact that digital media should be much much cheaper. Like the magazine I have linked in my signature where the Kindle version is 1/3rd the paper price. That's how all pricing should operate.
Xbox and AppleTV let you copy all of your DVDs to their hard drive, and then put the DVDs back into storage? I didn't think they had that capability, which would mean they aren't the same as the Kaleidoscape (which is more like a large iPod that rips DVDs instead of CDs).
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Alias
Being Human
Degrassi
Outer Limits
xxx
And so on. It's not that hard to find stuff. As for Microsoft's flops, they were able to weather M.e. because they were able to quickly replace it with the bugfixed version of Windows 5/2000 (called XP). Most people just jumped from 98 to XP without even realizing M.e. ever existed.
But Vista? That ~5 years of lost time really really hurt the company, damaged their reputation, and made them lose a lot of users to Apple and Google (phones). I don't think they can weather another half decade of bad OS (Win8) or they might lose their OS monopoly the same way they lost their browser monopoly.
>>>The CIA has ties to Facebook, the NSA has ties to Google.
So Alex Jones was actually correct when he said facebook and google were working with the government? Every time I heard him say that I was like, "Yeah sure alex." Wow. That blows my mind.
What on earth do you need to fix prices on books for? I could understand the argument for things people need (milk, gasoline, electricity), but price fixing for entertainment that is not a necessity??? Nuts.
Seems to be working for anti-censorship, anti-ACTA Ron Paul. (He carries 70-80% of the 18-30 year old vote in every election.) Those people will demand freedom of the net as they grow older and become middle age citizens, and they'll be electing politicians who share the same view.
Ahhh two people with the same answer. Thanks. Sounds like a good reason to move to another nearby hotel that has almost no residents (and therefore less sharing of the Wifi). Also it's cheaper.
Also explains why the dialup, with its dedicated phone line, never drops connection. No sharing with anybody else (though 5 KB/s is rather slow).
>>>Think of the children!
Okay.
When the children grow-up, as they will fairly quickly, I'm sure they'd rather live in a society where they are free to speak, create, and express themselves without restriction, rather than live in a world where their ideas are censored by internet police (Obama's ACTA, Bush's DHS, and so on).
Those companies should no longer be given monopoly status over local markets. Let them compete for customers amongst one another. (Or else if they are granted monopoly status, they should be strictly regulated like the electricity, water, and natural gas monopolies.)
The article says the Wifi net will cost $22,000 per year to maintain. That sounds too cheap?
the city has been striving for years to get workers to leave their offices and make the district more lively and lucrative for small businesses.
If this plan works, all it does is transfer the workers' spending money from the cafeterias/vending companies inside the offices to the street restaurants. It doesn't create any new wealth or boost to the economy.
Just bought my first Wifi modem last week to connect to my hotel's internet. It only streams at 30-40 kilobyte/second (slower than DSL at home) and keeps dropping the connection with a message that says "acquiring network ID". Windows XP reports the signal is "very good" to "excellent".
At this point I'm wondering if I wasted my my money. The Wifi is only good for uTorrent downloads (it doesn't mind the intermittent connection), and my dialup connection is actually more reliable for web browsing, facebook, etc.
Oh and yes I've tried moving the modem around which improved the signal, but not the frequent lost connections. Surely this isn't normal for Wifi?
They booed Ron Paul when he said we should follow the Golden Rule in foreign policy. (Treat others the way you would want to be treated - do not bomb and kill them.) So called Christians often don't follow their own principles. I was surprised to discover the rate of premarital pregnancy and divorce was actually HIGHER among church-going Christians then the general population.
I've had many physics and engineering professors who ALSO believed in Intelligent Design. Should these people be fired simply because they believe there is a Creator the originated the Big Bang and Evolution?
I think your comment "demoted for rejecting the whole basis? ...Who would have thought," shows a definite prejudice against religious persons.
>>>to get laid at LUGs
What?!?!?
I wonder how these people pay their bills? I mean if they took their philosophy to its natural end (everything should be open source, and they work on OSS as volunteers), then they'd be doing their full time jobs for free too. How would they pay their bills.
>>>"Geek Squad to get their computer fixed. They'll balk at the $40/hour charges, and see no reason why you can't spend the 20 hours it takes to fix up their computer."
And then they play the "I would help you if you needed help" card. Twelve years later and I'm still waiting for that payback. I don't provide much free support anymore (or free machines); if their computer really did become screwed-up badly I would copy as many files as I could to my USB: drive, insert the Windows CD, watch tv for an hour while it's being wiped, and then Copy usb: to c:
The family member can waste their time sorting it all out.
"Some people say..." - FOX News, MicrosoftNBC, CNN, .....
I don't have any problem with profit. The more you make the sooner you can retire and enjoy life. (Or keep working and hand-out the excess to homeless people.)
+1 informative.
And it appears the original decision saying Kaleidoscape was "not infringing" was appealed by the DVD group to the Superior Court. Next it would go to the CA Appeals court, and then the CA Supreme Court. (Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer.)
This judge ran for election, and likely received money from corporate backers to fund the campaign (and will receive money in the future). So he is far from "independent" but instead bought-and-paid for just like the top poster said.
All true BUT if you could buy the new HBO episodes of Season 2; Game of Thrones the very first day, why would you subscribe to the channel? The answer is that you wouldn't. HBO releasing the DVD or online episodes immediately would be the same as committing suicide. They would lose subscribers to their channel (ditto any of the other cable channels).
They hold back the product in order to attract people to join Comcast or Dish, and then subscribe to HBO's new episodes.
Wow.
I had the opposite effect. I can no longer stand Salt or Sugar in my food, unless it's the low-salt/sugar option. Just this past Christmas my mother gave me some cake and she said, "Isn't that icing tasty?" Um. No. Yuck. (It was so sweet I had to scrape it off.)
Considering all the problems that simply engineering Foods have caused (they generate their own pesticide; which either we or our animals eat), I'm not ready to start messing with human beings. It would get screwed-up.
If the concern is too many people on this planet soiling our own nest, then a better solution is to try to reduce the population (like China is attempting with its 1 child per couple policy) (or through Mother Nature starving us like she does with other species).
My 60 watt equivalents are 15 not 12 watts. Also they never last 5000 hours..... more like 1/2 a year which figuring 6 hours in the morning + evening == 1100 hours. Adjusting your math I get:
36 kWh saved. 128 MJ saved.
That's just 3.6 liters of gasoline.
I could easily burn that up in the drive to the landfill + shipping the CFL from China to the EU or US (and probably shipping it back since most electronics are recycled in China not here) + transport of the mercury to the disposal site. Net production-to-recycle cost: More energy was used by my CFL than an incandescent bulb.
Well put.
I know I would never buy another CFL if it wasn't for Congress forcing me too (because they outlawed incandescents). CFLs are the perfect example of an "improved" product that is actually worse than what it is replacing. Kinda like Windows 8 or Vista.
And I suspect if anybody did a study, they'd find CFLs actually use more energy & increase the carbon footprint more than incandescents, because of the extra energy needed to ship them from China & then drive the dead CFL to a recycling center to dispose of the hazardous mercury. It would be similar to how the ACEEE's study showed EVs are no cleaner than a 45mpg gasoline vehicle (and less clean than a natural gas Civic or 88mpg Lupo TDI).
I hate CFLs, but if she was unable to get a 60-watt incandescent she could just substitute a 70-watt CFL (200 equivalent) and get about the same level of heat.
Or a small portable heater (they make them in small 60 watt sizes).
What if, in some future iPod, the Apple corporation gave us the ability not just to rip CDs but also DVDs, so we could listen to music or watch shows on-the-go?
Would the DVD Cartel.... er, Forum smack them down too? Or is Apple part of the cartel?
(ponder)
LEDs are about ~$30 on amazon. They've dropped about half what they were two years ago, so not really that expensive (they last a lifetime). I'm tempted to buy one sometime.
CFLs:
- are dim for the first 4-5 minutes, so you have to sit and wait before you can read your book (or walk down the basement steps)
- filled with mercury
- have to drive the burned-out ones to the landfill (thus increasing carbon footprint) (and no I don't CFL or battery recycling where I live)
- have to ship them in from China (again increasing the carbon footprint)
- they don't last long in my fixtures because they are upside down (trapped heat kills CFL electronics)
- or startup when outside (subfreezing temps)
- and every dimmable CFL I've ever tried went "zzztt" and died within an hour.
I wish the incandescent bulbs were still available. They didn't use as much power as the CFLs do (I'm including the power to ship from China & drive them to the landfill). Or frustrate me. Or require special handling. And they were built here on this continent (close to market).
You are spot-on with the pricing (Bluray cheaper than download version). Nuts. And it's not only DVD/Blurays, but also books. It's ridiculous that I have to pay the same price for a Kindle book as the real thing.
At least with the real thing, I can sell it on eBay/Amazon and recoup my money. So the net-cost of the physical item is only ~25% of the list price. Why on earth would I pay 100% for an e-book that I'm stuck with forever? (Or until my license runs out.)
The corporations need to wake-up to the fact that digital media should be much much cheaper. Like the magazine I have linked in my signature where the Kindle version is 1/3rd the paper price. That's how all pricing should operate.
Xbox and AppleTV let you copy all of your DVDs to their hard drive, and then put the DVDs back into storage? I didn't think they had that capability, which would mean they aren't the same as the Kaleidoscape (which is more like a large iPod that rips DVDs instead of CDs).