Perhaps if the airplane can slow itself down enough so the parachute-deployment wouldn't kill the passengers, it could just shed a lot of heavy parts (engines, cargo... just about everything but the fuselage) it would be light enough so that a couple hundred similar parachutes or a couple dozen bigg'ns could drop 'er down easy.
...and CD purchases are bought with disposable income. With the US in a recession, these purchases are the first to go.
Even if the RIAA adjusts for the slowdown in consumer spending, I seriously doubt that they're weighing in the fact that CD's purchases are more volitile to swings in consumer confidence (both negative and positive) than things like cars or houses.
And most computer run Windows. Open up your mind a little.
The pink is pretty useless. Maybe a thumb on both sides of the 'palm' would mean less maneuvering to position the hand to it's needed state. Maybe a palm that folds and fingers that rotate 360 degrees. Perhaps a finger at the bottom of the palm.
There's no reason that these design changes would make the new machine useless with things designed for human hands.
They create them for the same reason they create standards for the way we distribute electricity. It's not a mater of safety, it's a matter of somebody stepping up to declare and enforce standards (and private business can't do this).
If they didn't, we'd have all sorts of incompatible standards being pushed by public companies. So to watch a show that's broadcast by Viacom, you'd have to buy a Viacom-compatible television.
Now it's possible, of course, to just never update the standards but that doesn't quite serve the people either. And if that's REALLY what the majority wanted, that's what the fed would do (democracy in action -- intentionally simplified).
Well, Using SlashWallace, I did an experiment. Highly scientific, of course. Here's the transcript (I took the liberty of sorting it top-down)...
Human: Say "Hi", Alice!
SlashWallace: " Hi"
Human: You're not Alice, are you? SlashWallace: Do I look like it?
Human: Why does it hurt when I pee? SlashWallace: Perhaps it is just fate.
Human: I am starting to think you are stupid. SlashWallace: I will remember you said that when robots take over the World.
Number five is not alive. But it DOES seem to have a chip on its shoulder!
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Conclusion: A sucker is born every minute! (give or take a few)
Give or take a few suckers or minutes?
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I'd love to use it, but it's impractical for me. When I asked the folks at SONICBlue if and when they'd release a firmware update for my RioVolt that would allow me to play.ogg's, they made it clear that there's not really a chance.
What about other companies? Will there be any adoption of this format, or will vorbis only be useful on computers?
I suppose I COULD convert/rerip my music to ogg's and then just convert them to mp3's when I want to burn a CDRW for my RioVolt, but why would I? That's too much trouble.
Of course. Because dog-bite victims don't own American senators. But the people that suffer the most from hackers (crackers) have shit-piles of cash and power.
This is obviously a law that's not 'for the welfare of the people'.
Perhaps this is just my paranoid fantasy, but this is what I predict we'll be complaining about this time next year.
This sort of technology married with something like Passport of PayPal or other private information store.
You innocently buy a book from the web and unknowingly register your credit card information with a service that will do you a favor and make it 'simple' to order things by simply clicking a link from a member site, etc. They'll sell it as secure, convenient, cutting edge goodness and you'll figure 'what the hell'.
From now on, they automatically send you merchandise you never asked for, but they think you'll be interested in. You opted in. This is YOUR problem, now. They send you books, CD's, new credit cards, address labels, elbow pads,...
The burden is on you to remove yourself from their lists, now. But they have a policy that you didn't read - to opt out now, you owe them a fee for terminating the contact. You are embarrassed because you got yourself into this mess and just want it to end. You spend an hour or so a week returning goods that you never ordered. Just praying that they will credit your account. You'll later find that every return was 'lost' or received damaged. You can't prove that the goods were okay when you sent them back. And you didn't insure them because it didn't seem necessary for a $20 book that was being shipped on your dime.
If you are lucky, by the time it ends you are out about 200 bucks. Not much in the grand scheme of things. But the hassle was a GRAND pain. You briefly think about a lawsuit, but you are too embarrassed to admit your stupidity to a lawyer and judge, so you rack it up to a life lesson.
If you were to sue, you'd simply find that the criminals packed up shop. There are no phone numbers, no addresses. Any numbers you saw before were likely fakes.
So talk about writing new laws or shutting this shit down. You try that while I sit back and laugh as I get rich off your technically un-savvy aunts and uncles. As they stupidly march with blind trust straight forward. I'm fat and happy on caviar. Fucking lemmings. God bless you.
This is a free service (by Novell) that has free mail with web access, POP and IMAP. They do a phenominal job in filtering out spam for you. I think I've seen two spam's slip through since I started using this service several years ago.
Wow! This has got to be the coolest toy in the world.
It'll be even more appealing when it can perform more intelligent tasks. Such as feeding my dog, laying out my clothes for the day, making me soup when I'm sick in bed, fetching items from across the room,...
These would make great Christmas presents, but for Mars, how would one control these? You can't navigate directly, since the latency is too great. Do these have little insect-brains that allow you to give an instruction ("go to point b") and it takes care of the details of lifting off, flying while adjusting for turbulence and other atmospheric factors, and finally landing?
15 minutes later, you'd 'hear' back from the insect on how its trip went and where, exactly, it is.
I wonder how many proponents of hacking someone's system (or writing a worm to do so) to remove Nimda for someone who isn't willing to patch their stuff feels about this. Although nobody would admit it, there's a huge double-standard here.
Of course the RIAA should not be allowed to decide what you can or can't have on your computer. We all agree on that, I think.
Granting them this right would be like deputizing them. But they'd really just be vigilante's.
The RIAA has every right to try and protect their propery, and ALREADY has a legal mechanism to do so. The court system.
I can't see this going very far. I can, however, see the RIAA encouraging politicians to write some new laws that make it more cost effective for them to seek legal remedy in the courts. We all know that the RIAA can't sue each of us for $500. Even they don't have enough money to pull that off.
It's so difficult to change the associated program for a file type he is able to describe the procedure in exactly one, awkwardly written run-on sentence.
Scott Rosenberg is a nim-wad for writing this article. Not everything is a conspiracy.
I don't mean to nitpick, but I suppose a few people may know know who this guy is and, since everything2 seems to be out for the count right now, this may make Google-searches a bit easier.
because of the active-user paradox, most people have no idea how much this damages their productivity. They're like frogs in boiling water.
'Like frogs boiling in water'? What the hell does that even *mean*?
I'm not sure of the point of this article. Is it supposed to be a shocking revelation that 'the Internet changed personal computing'? That non-technical people don't adapt to technology well?
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Perhaps if the airplane can slow itself down enough so the parachute-deployment wouldn't kill the passengers, it could just shed a lot of heavy parts (engines, cargo... just about everything but the fuselage) it would be light enough so that a couple hundred similar parachutes or a couple dozen bigg'ns could drop 'er down easy.
...and CD purchases are bought with disposable income. With the US in a recession, these purchases are the first to go.
Even if the RIAA adjusts for the slowdown in consumer spending, I seriously doubt that they're weighing in the fact that CD's purchases are more volitile to swings in consumer confidence (both negative and positive) than things like cars or houses.
...PapaJohns.com online ordering doesn't work with Konqueror. Now THAT's a REAL problem.
"She's gone from suck to blow!"
That was one evil vacuum...
And they used to burn women at the stake for being witches. Fear of the unknown, man. It makes politicians do irrational things.
And most computer run Windows. Open up your mind a little.
The pink is pretty useless. Maybe a thumb on both sides of the 'palm' would mean less maneuvering to position the hand to it's needed state. Maybe a palm that folds and fingers that rotate 360 degrees. Perhaps a finger at the bottom of the palm.
There's no reason that these design changes would make the new machine useless with things designed for human hands.
I wonder if they chose this configuration because it was the best (has evolution gotten it exactly right already?) or because it's familiar.
They create them for the same reason they create standards for the way we distribute electricity. It's not a mater of safety, it's a matter of somebody stepping up to declare and enforce standards (and private business can't do this).
If they didn't, we'd have all sorts of incompatible standards being pushed by public companies. So to watch a show that's broadcast by Viacom, you'd have to buy a Viacom-compatible television.
Now it's possible, of course, to just never update the standards but that doesn't quite serve the people either. And if that's REALLY what the majority wanted, that's what the fed would do (democracy in action -- intentionally simplified).
I'd love to use it, but it's impractical for me. When I asked the folks at SONICBlue if and when they'd release a firmware update for my RioVolt that would allow me to play .ogg's, they made it clear that there's not really a chance.
What about other companies? Will there be any adoption of this format, or will vorbis only be useful on computers?
I suppose I COULD convert/rerip my music to ogg's and then just convert them to mp3's when I want to burn a CDRW for my RioVolt, but why would I? That's too much trouble.
Of course. Because dog-bite victims don't own American senators. But the people that suffer the most from hackers (crackers) have shit-piles of cash and power.
This is obviously a law that's not 'for the welfare of the people'.
They serve free beer at your school? Excellent!
Would it be less sad if it also played chess?
Perhaps this is just my paranoid fantasy, but this is what I predict we'll be complaining about this time next year.
...
This sort of technology married with something like Passport of PayPal or other private information store.
You innocently buy a book from the web and unknowingly register your credit card information with a service that will do you a favor and make it 'simple' to order things by simply clicking a link from a member site, etc. They'll sell it as secure, convenient, cutting edge goodness and you'll figure 'what the hell'.
From now on, they automatically send you merchandise you never asked for, but they think you'll be interested in. You opted in. This is YOUR problem, now. They send you books, CD's, new credit cards, address labels, elbow pads,
The burden is on you to remove yourself from their lists, now. But they have a policy that you didn't read - to opt out now, you owe them a fee for terminating the contact. You are embarrassed because you got yourself into this mess and just want it to end. You spend an hour or so a week returning goods that you never ordered. Just praying that they will credit your account. You'll later find that every return was 'lost' or received damaged. You can't prove that the goods were okay when you sent them back. And you didn't insure them because it didn't seem necessary for a $20 book that was being shipped on your dime.
If you are lucky, by the time it ends you are out about 200 bucks. Not much in the grand scheme of things. But the hassle was a GRAND pain. You briefly think about a lawsuit, but you are too embarrassed to admit your stupidity to a lawyer and judge, so you rack it up to a life lesson.
If you were to sue, you'd simply find that the criminals packed up shop. There are no phone numbers, no addresses. Any numbers you saw before were likely fakes.
So talk about writing new laws or shutting this shit down. You try that while I sit back and laugh as I get rich off your technically un-savvy aunts and uncles. As they stupidly march with blind trust straight forward. I'm fat and happy on caviar. Fucking lemmings. God bless you.
This is a free service (by Novell) that has free mail with web access, POP and IMAP. They do a phenominal job in filtering out spam for you. I think I've seen two spam's slip through since I started using this service several years ago.
Wow! This has got to be the coolest toy in the world.
...
It'll be even more appealing when it can perform more intelligent tasks. Such as feeding my dog, laying out my clothes for the day, making me soup when I'm sick in bed, fetching items from across the room,
These would make great Christmas presents, but for Mars, how would one control these? You can't navigate directly, since the latency is too great. Do these have little insect-brains that allow you to give an instruction ("go to point b") and it takes care of the details of lifting off, flying while adjusting for turbulence and other atmospheric factors, and finally landing?
15 minutes later, you'd 'hear' back from the insect on how its trip went and where, exactly, it is.
Bah. What do I know...?
Speakeasy is a despicable, dishonest, hateful company that abuses their customers with fine print and underhanded business tactics.
Speakeasy DSL is a good gift to get for your worst enemy.
If the recruiter knew ASP from a hole in the ground, she'd be a web developer and be making twice the cash.
Recruiters aren't in that job because they love making cold calls. It's because they aren't qualified for anything else.
I wonder how many proponents of hacking someone's system (or writing a worm to do so) to remove Nimda for someone who isn't willing to patch their stuff feels about this. Although nobody would admit it, there's a huge double-standard here.
Of course the RIAA should not be allowed to decide what you can or can't have on your computer. We all agree on that, I think.
Granting them this right would be like deputizing them. But they'd really just be vigilante's.
The RIAA has every right to try and protect their propery, and ALREADY has a legal mechanism to do so. The court system.
I can't see this going very far. I can, however, see the RIAA encouraging politicians to write some new laws that make it more cost effective for them to seek legal remedy in the courts. We all know that the RIAA can't sue each of us for $500. Even they don't have enough money to pull that off.
Bah.
It's so difficult to change the associated program for a file type he is able to describe the procedure in exactly one, awkwardly written run-on sentence.
Scott Rosenberg is a nim-wad for writing this article. Not everything is a conspiracy.
You mean Kandinsky, of course.
I don't mean to nitpick, but I suppose a few people may know know who this guy is and, since everything2 seems to be out for the count right now, this may make Google-searches a bit easier.
-C
So, then, there are two types of people in this world. Those who occasionally empty their desktop trash and those who don't.
I'm not sure of the point of this article. Is it supposed to be a shocking revelation that 'the Internet changed personal computing'? That non-technical people don't adapt to technology well?
No kidding, genius! Bah.