I find it hard to believe the planet is actually overpopulated.
I am surprised that no one else has mentioned this site:
http://overpopulationisamyth.com/
Well, what you need then is a wireless extension cord or more correctly, wireless power! http://www.google.com/search?&q=tesla+wireless+power/ We could just download more electrons over our cell phones or an antenna on the vehicle. This stuff is so last century! After all, Tesla was working on wireless electricity around 1900.
When I first read the headline, I thought to myself, "That's great, but shouldn't we try to feed them first, so they are alive long enough to utilize their eyeballs?" Perhaps those people can "work from home in their spare time" as phone technical support or other and raise their standard of living.
All right, I have to go into the "Captain Obvious zone". . .
How about not putting the information on the internet?? *GASP*
I can see many problems with using pseudo-anonymous methods, like initials--the info is easily deduced in many cases, data may be lost as to who the initials are, and on and on.
Yeah and these are the same people that insist the new printer is broken, when they just don't know or can't figure out how to adjust from draft/economode to final/full quality mode. End users, where ignorance, is not my bliss.
I can't agree more!!! I go out of my way to ignore any personal information as well.
Unfortunately some people go out of their way to attempt to show me that which I'd much rather ignore, like a problem which I have most likely deduced a solution for.
"Well, thanks for coming. Let me show you what it's doing."
"AGH, no. Get out of my way so I can fix it and leave."
I think that's one of the points pro-gun folks use: "When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns."
If clones are made illegal, only clones will have clones!
Not taking into account anything agreed to in the Wii "click-thru" licensing agreement, you can do anything you want to with the unit, but it just might not work after you do. I understand where you are coming from though and find it equally aggravating. I knew that I should have just stuck with my Atari 2600!
Agreed. I won't purchase one because of the exclusivity to AT&T here in the U.S. I really wanted to get an iPhone when Jobs was touting it in his keynote the first time, but he lost me at "This is corporate suite X guy from [then SBC, now AT&T] who we are trying to make look cool and we are partnering exclusively with his company".
The consumer should be allowed to choose brand/type of phone, service type, carrier, etc. and not limited by some short-sighted business agreement. Additionally, if I have to jail-break my $300-500 device to be able to load my own software / get it to do what I want it to / use with another carrier, etc. that's just absurd!
I've looked at the SDK for google android, which looks promising. Between android and openmoko, perhaps we can get real choice.
Agreed, users are hard headed. I and some co-workers ran into the exact same problem. Based off of some people's response of "I've just always used Internet Explorer, so I keep clicking the icon for it." we just simply remapped the IE icon to launch Firefox and also defaulted Firefox to be the main browser. Sad, but h00mans are creatures of habit!
I've been fairly satisfied with Applecare Support (read: extremely less aggravated than by say Dell or HP desktop support) and I'm not going to start to rant about Apple stores and authorized repair centers in my area.
From my experience, the iMac is fairly easy to replace the hard drive, but it really depends on the model, as they differ significantly. The older versions actually come apart in two pieces that then allow for easy hard drive access, but the "newer" DV models require slightly more work for hard drive replacement.
Perhaps you meant the eMac? Those are a major pain to dissect; nearly every screw and part needs to be removed to get the fscking hard drive. IMHO, they were designed as a throw away device, not meant for servicing whatsoever. The eMac was nearly as aggravating to repair as the iBook and Powerbook G4 laptops!
I guess luck of the draw brought you a new, inexperienced, or incompetent tech!:(
Yeah, so next time you have to reinstall it and they ask you "WHY ARE YOU RE-INSTALLING WINDOWS?", simply respond, "WHY, I GUESS I DON'T KNOW!?!?! THE THOUGHT NEVER OCCURRED TO ME UNTIL JUST NOW TO INSTALL ANYTHING ELSE!" and then hang up. Re-activate it if you must!:)
Shortly after WGA was released, I had a legitimate XP license expire because of WGA.
Eleven years prior (~1996), I was mostly fed up with Microsoft's business practices--quasi-monopoly, and vowed to switch to Redhat Linux or FreeBSD exclusively as I'd used them for server OSes. That proved more effort at the time than it was worth, so I resolved to use Windows 98. Once WGA expired my workstation license, rather than bother with phone calls to customer service, etc., I vowed this was THE straw that broke the camel's back, promptly loaded Kubuntu 5.10 and haven't looked back since. Microsoft OS won't be a first choice for any projects, nor will it run outside of a virtual machine on any hardware I oversee in the future.
Furthermore, I think Microsoft should grant every computer geek/technician at least one free license as we're the people that help keep them in business, recommend them, etc.
Too little, too late Microsoft; Goodbye and good riddance!
I just wonder how long it will take for an OEM to make a drive/player that will support both Blue Ray and HD-DVD. This really seems similar to "Will DVD+R or DVD-R win?"; film at 11. Move along, nothing to see here...
Though other posters have alluded to this, I'm going to come right out and state:
I think being banned from the internet falls under "Cruel and unusual punishment".
Although currently, many products and services still have a "physical world" work around, e.g., snail mailing your bill, subscribing to a magazine, enrolling in college and college classes, interacting with a bank account, some services do not, e.g., Slashdot, e-mail.
In present times, one can live without the internet (yes, yes, I know, but it's true!), but one will be greatly inconvenienced at the very least. Perhaps though, sometime in the not so distant future (10-20 years), one will not be able to fully operate in society without internet access.
This doesn't really address who is responsible for determining if the convicted person is using an internet enabled device, e.g., Tivo, Wii, PS3, cell phone, for terms of violating parole. They very well should have just banned him from using anything that uses electricity, takes batteries, etc.; Just absurd.
At any rate, this case helps further a dangerous and unjust precedent, such as used against Mitnick and countless others.
Yes, he was being an nuisance. Yes, he should get community service. No, he should not be banned from the internet.
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I don't get it either; I guess this is why my good friend always tells me: "But it doesn't have to make sense."
The team working on the current Amiga architecture are just as backward as Commodore ever was. They apparently can't learn from Commodore's mistakes and are doomed to repeat them. Perhaps it's because Amiga is Spanish for girlfriend; no rationality included?
So this "new" update to AmigaOS is out. There isn't any hardware to run it on because the designers wanted to lock people in to their hardware--Well, produce more proprietary hardware darn it! Yes, I understand it was a reference board and that there was at least a second production run of the reference board in an ITX form factor, but this is all hype with none of the backing.
Amiga's website isn't very forthcoming about hardware non-availability and I spent quite a bit of time researching a few months ago t find that I couldn't even purchase a reference board, but my hopes were up that I could purchase the OS and load it into a virtual machine of my choice! NOPE! (It reminds me of back in the late 1980's or early 1990's when I wanted a 2 line cordless phone with caller ID and all I got was laughed at, but now said phone is less than $20 at Walmart!)
Although, with as long as I've been waiting for a Nintendo Wii, maybe I'll be able to get an Amiga mainboard before quantities are sufficient to get a Wii.
What a waste to lock people into hardware when the hardware isn't being mass produced or readily available; pick an off the shelf PowerPC board with standard BIOS / boot firmware and run with that, then see if more people will buy your OS! Wait a few OS revisions after adoption, then begin the proprietary hardware lock-in if necessary. I think Apple made this same silly mistake, locking people into their hardware after switching to x86 platform. How many OS licenses do you think Apple would sell if your average Joe could purchase OS X and load it on their Dell for $90-150? (Oh, but that's too many drivers and hardware configurations to support--boohoo, at least two "competitors" already leverage this "feature")
It saddens me to see that everyone must take on such a polarized view of such things as municipal wireless projects, etc.
Perhaps we could look at this a different way?:
* Secondary / Auxilary / backup internet access (granted this point is slightly mooted because corporations were allowed to layout where the fiber runs between cities, most places only having one local loop, etc. I know that I would sure like a backup internet connection--maybe we need burstable packet radio between these municipal wireless city projects or something?
* Faster internet access for people that can't regularly afford broadband. Yes, these people are out there--they don't prioritize internet access as something they are willing to pay much if at all for and let us face it, dialup is rather antiquated.
Also, although broadband is available in many rural areas, the universal service fund that we all contribute to when we pay our cell/phone bills, still isn't living up to the expectations and/or rollout of broadband that it was supposed to provide to rural areas--dialup doesn't cut it.
We definately do not need any more regulation of pretty much anything in the states.
"Can't we all just get along? Sitting around campfires, singing Kumbaya?":)
Yet again, my two cents (that are getting inflated by the minute.)
3t3rn4l
Argh and Ahoy! Give me a freaking beer again already, Matey!
The RIAA never ceases to floor me with their lame attempts at control.
Watching a few different news shows in the past, I became aware of people that are born with a rare skin disease that renders them without fingerprints for life. As you can well guess, it's a major pain to exist in our society without fingerprints for identification.
What about these people? Will they have to resort to some other sort of fair use tactic just to listen to music they've paid for?
A little googling turned up that these people with out fingerprints can still be identified, but what a pain!
(http://www.scafo.org/library/130102.html)
I can say for sure, that I won't be purchasing one of these new devices.
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I find it hard to believe the planet is actually overpopulated. I am surprised that no one else has mentioned this site: http://overpopulationisamyth.com/
http://www.myharddrivedied.com/
Well, what you need then is a wireless extension cord or more correctly, wireless power! http://www.google.com/search?&q=tesla+wireless+power/ We could just download more electrons over our cell phones or an antenna on the vehicle. This stuff is so last century! After all, Tesla was working on wireless electricity around 1900.
When I first read the headline, I thought to myself, "That's great, but shouldn't we try to feed them first, so they are alive long enough to utilize their eyeballs?" Perhaps those people can "work from home in their spare time" as phone technical support or other and raise their standard of living.
All right, I have to go into the "Captain Obvious zone". . .
How about not putting the information on the internet?? *GASP*
I can see many problems with using pseudo-anonymous methods, like initials--the info is easily deduced in many cases, data may be lost as to who the initials are, and on and on.
Near me, we have a case going on, where they've issued a gag-order on the persons involved and court ordered them, where possible, to go back and remove blog entries, etc. Here's a link to the latest developments: http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2008/aug/19/federal_judge_orders_release_yellow_house_owners_c/
Yeah and these are the same people that insist the new printer is broken, when they just don't know or can't figure out how to adjust from draft/economode to final/full quality mode. End users, where ignorance, is not my bliss.
Doh, I hope they took away his iPhone or other cellular PDA. :)
I can't agree more!!! I go out of my way to ignore any personal information as well.
Unfortunately some people go out of their way to attempt to show me that which I'd much rather ignore, like a problem which I have most likely deduced a solution for.
"Well, thanks for coming. Let me show you what it's doing."
"AGH, no. Get out of my way so I can fix it and leave."
P.S. Race you to the 9600 admin line.
P.P.S GET OFF MY LAWN!
If clones are made illegal, only clones will have clones!
Not taking into account anything agreed to in the Wii "click-thru" licensing agreement, you can do anything you want to with the unit, but it just might not work after you do. I understand where you are coming from though and find it equally aggravating. I knew that I should have just stuck with my Atari 2600!
Agreed. I won't purchase one because of the exclusivity to AT&T here in the U.S. I really wanted to get an iPhone when Jobs was touting it in his keynote the first time, but he lost me at "This is corporate suite X guy from [then SBC, now AT&T] who we are trying to make look cool and we are partnering exclusively with his company".
The consumer should be allowed to choose brand/type of phone, service type, carrier, etc. and not limited by some short-sighted business agreement. Additionally, if I have to jail-break my $300-500 device to be able to load my own software / get it to do what I want it to / use with another carrier, etc. that's just absurd!
I've looked at the SDK for google android, which looks promising. Between android and openmoko, perhaps we can get real choice.
They were unfortunately unable to recover the exact percentage. :(
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"Everything right is wrong again, just like in a long, long trailer." --They Might Be Giants
Wanted to point out this article that is seemingly related, although goes unmentioned within the Story blurb or the linked article:
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Russian Human Genome Project discovers Extraterrestrial abilities to modify DNA through a "biological internet" http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com/home/Frontpage/2
I also wanted to comment that I've spoken to this whole "junk DNA" thing before, so I get to say "I told you so!": http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=45367&cid=469
Agreed, users are hard headed. I and some co-workers ran into the exact same problem. Based off of some people's response of "I've just always used Internet Explorer, so I keep clicking the icon for it." we just simply remapped the IE icon to launch Firefox and also defaulted Firefox to be the main browser. Sad, but h00mans are creatures of habit!
I've been fairly satisfied with Applecare Support (read: extremely less aggravated than by say Dell or HP desktop support) and I'm not going to start to rant about Apple stores and authorized repair centers in my area.
:(
From my experience, the iMac is fairly easy to replace the hard drive, but it really depends on the model, as they differ significantly. The older versions actually come apart in two pieces that then allow for easy hard drive access, but the "newer" DV models require slightly more work for hard drive replacement.
Perhaps you meant the eMac? Those are a major pain to dissect; nearly every screw and part needs to be removed to get the fscking hard drive. IMHO, they were designed as a throw away device, not meant for servicing whatsoever. The eMac was nearly as aggravating to repair as the iBook and Powerbook G4 laptops!
I guess luck of the draw brought you a new, inexperienced, or incompetent tech!
Nope--First thing that came to my mind also!
Yeah, so next time you have to reinstall it and they ask you "WHY ARE YOU RE-INSTALLING WINDOWS?", simply respond, "WHY, I GUESS I DON'T KNOW!?!?! THE THOUGHT NEVER OCCURRED TO ME UNTIL JUST NOW TO INSTALL ANYTHING ELSE!" and then hang up. Re-activate it if you must! :)
Eleven years prior (~1996), I was mostly fed up with Microsoft's business practices--quasi-monopoly, and vowed to switch to Redhat Linux or FreeBSD exclusively as I'd used them for server OSes. That proved more effort at the time than it was worth, so I resolved to use Windows 98. Once WGA expired my workstation license, rather than bother with phone calls to customer service, etc., I vowed this was THE straw that broke the camel's back, promptly loaded Kubuntu 5.10 and haven't looked back since. Microsoft OS won't be a first choice for any projects, nor will it run outside of a virtual machine on any hardware I oversee in the future.
Furthermore, I think Microsoft should grant every computer geek/technician at least one free license as we're the people that help keep them in business, recommend them, etc.
Too little, too late Microsoft; Goodbye and good riddance!
I just wonder how long it will take for an OEM to make a drive/player that will support both Blue Ray and HD-DVD. This really seems similar to "Will DVD+R or DVD-R win?"; film at 11. Move along, nothing to see here...
AH!!! BUT.... Which Witch is which?
Though other posters have alluded to this, I'm going to come right out and state:
I think being banned from the internet falls under "Cruel and unusual punishment".
Although currently, many products and services still have a "physical world" work around, e.g., snail mailing your bill, subscribing to a magazine, enrolling in college and college classes, interacting with a bank account, some services do not, e.g., Slashdot, e-mail.
In present times, one can live without the internet (yes, yes, I know, but it's true!), but one will be greatly inconvenienced at the very least. Perhaps though, sometime in the not so distant future (10-20 years), one will not be able to fully operate in society without internet access.
This doesn't really address who is responsible for determining if the convicted person is using an internet enabled device, e.g., Tivo, Wii, PS3, cell phone, for terms of violating parole. They very well should have just banned him from using anything that uses electricity, takes batteries, etc.; Just absurd.
At any rate, this case helps further a dangerous and unjust precedent, such as used against Mitnick and countless others.
Yes, he was being an nuisance. Yes, he should get community service. No, he should not be banned from the internet.
I don't get it either; I guess this is why my good friend always tells me: "But it doesn't have to make sense."
The team working on the current Amiga architecture are just as backward as Commodore ever was. They apparently can't learn from Commodore's mistakes and are doomed to repeat them. Perhaps it's because Amiga is Spanish for girlfriend; no rationality included?
So this "new" update to AmigaOS is out. There isn't any hardware to run it on because the designers wanted to lock people in to their hardware--Well, produce more proprietary hardware darn it! Yes, I understand it was a reference board and that there was at least a second production run of the reference board in an ITX form factor, but this is all hype with none of the backing.
Amiga's website isn't very forthcoming about hardware non-availability and I spent quite a bit of time researching a few months ago t find that I couldn't even purchase a reference board, but my hopes were up that I could purchase the OS and load it into a virtual machine of my choice! NOPE! (It reminds me of back in the late 1980's or early 1990's when I wanted a 2 line cordless phone with caller ID and all I got was laughed at, but now said phone is less than $20 at Walmart!)
Although, with as long as I've been waiting for a Nintendo Wii, maybe I'll be able to get an Amiga mainboard before quantities are sufficient to get a Wii.
What a waste to lock people into hardware when the hardware isn't being mass produced or readily available; pick an off the shelf PowerPC board with standard BIOS / boot firmware and run with that, then see if more people will buy your OS! Wait a few OS revisions after adoption, then begin the proprietary hardware lock-in if necessary. I think Apple made this same silly mistake, locking people into their hardware after switching to x86 platform. How many OS licenses do you think Apple would sell if your average Joe could purchase OS X and load it on their Dell for $90-150? (Oh, but that's too many drivers and hardware configurations to support--boohoo, at least two "competitors" already leverage this "feature")
"The Amiga is dead, long live the Amiga!!!"
It saddens me to see that everyone must take on such a polarized view of such things as municipal wireless projects, etc.
:)
Perhaps we could look at this a different way?:
* Secondary / Auxilary / backup internet access (granted this point is slightly mooted because corporations were allowed to layout where the fiber runs between cities, most places only having one local loop, etc. I know that I would sure like a backup internet connection--maybe we need burstable packet radio between these municipal wireless city projects or something?
* Faster internet access for people that can't regularly afford broadband. Yes, these people are out there--they don't prioritize internet access as something they are willing to pay much if at all for and let us face it, dialup is rather antiquated.
Also, although broadband is available in many rural areas, the universal service fund that we all contribute to when we pay our cell/phone bills, still isn't living up to the expectations and/or rollout of broadband that it was supposed to provide to rural areas--dialup doesn't cut it.
We definately do not need any more regulation of pretty much anything in the states.
"Can't we all just get along? Sitting around campfires, singing Kumbaya?"
Yet again, my two cents (that are getting inflated by the minute.)
3t3rn4l
Argh and Ahoy! Give me a freaking beer again already, Matey!
The RIAA never ceases to floor me with their lame attempts at control.
Watching a few different news shows in the past, I became aware of people that are born with a rare skin disease that renders them without fingerprints for life. As you can well guess, it's a major pain to exist in our society without fingerprints for identification.
What about these people? Will they have to resort to some other sort of fair use tactic just to listen to music they've paid for?
A little googling turned up that these people with out fingerprints can still be identified, but what a pain!
(http://www.scafo.org/library/130102.html)
I can say for sure, that I won't be purchasing one of these new devices.