So video over IP is wasting BT's bandwidth eh? How about increasing the bandwidth instead of reducing the share of it subscribers are allowed to get? This is typical greedy telco mentality: let's milk the existing infrastructure for all it's worth, instead of investing in said infrastructure. Heck, if Japan or Korea ISPs can provide very high bandwidth residential internet to their customers, why couldn't the UK? This is called investing in the future, and it's what we need in times of economic crisis.
1 - I don't want to spend ages rooting out an ebook torrent from shady sites. I want a well-stocked digital library that I can browse and download books from easily.
2 - I want to pay for books from living authors. I want the authors I like to profit from their work, so they keeps on writing for me. What a concept eh?
Book search engines aren't the problem. The problem is, book search engines require books to be digitized, and from there it's only a short hop to selling digital books, something publishers really REALLY don't want. They definitely don't want books to be on the same road as MP3s, because the digitized music cat has slipped out of the record companies' bag and it hasn't been a good thing for them.
And no, I think you're wrong, a great many people would stop buying real books (or newspapers or magazines) in favor of electronic books, given the choice. What's killing the ebook market is the lack of choice: I you're into Gutemberg project-like books that are in the public domain, then you're fine, but virtually no new books are release in digital format. I for one read a lot of SF, and if I could get, say, the latest Iain M. Banks on file, I would buy it in an instant. However, I can't, so I have to order the damn hardcover from the UK, wait a million years for it to be delivered, instead of getting my fix in 2 minutes, for a premium that I'd be willing to pay, to read on an ebook reader that I'd be willing to pay dearly too - if I had a great choice of books to read on it.
Regardless of Google's supposed faults/shortcomings/evilness, the real problem lies with the book industry as a whole. They have witnessed what has happened to the media industries and they're trying their hardest to hold off progress and not get into the same mess. We should have had great ebook readers for a long long time now, as well as all manners of easing ways to read, the technology is there, but the book industry is clutching to their old dead tree business model like a rabid dog on a child's arm. They're way worse than the **AAs, and the more technology encroaches on their monopoly, the nastier they'll turn.
What this is is a virtual monopoly (Google) trying to phagocyte another (publishers), and I suspect the real losers in the end, just like movies and music, will be the consumers.
one condensed matter theorist said, "It took two years and two 1000-page books of dense mathematics, but I learned string theory and got kind of enchanted by it.
Contracts for garbage collection eh? I knew Sun was in cahoots with the mafia. Just ask these guys if they don't wish they had stuck with the old Java...
You're correct that, if an elevator cable is frayed and the auditor missed it, he should be sued. However, audits aren't a way for businesses to shift the blame onto the auditor: they're a way for honest businesses to confirm that everybody (employees and contractors) and everything is in order at a certain point in time. If the auditor finds something that isn't right, his job is to inform his client, and perhaps propose remedies, but that's all. It's the business' job to implement the remedies. What I mean is, audits are a tools *for the client* to help do things right, that's all.
For instance, I once subcontracted in a company that used all manners of cracked software. A day or two before the IT audit was due, the manager used to go around telling employees to uninstall anything shady and put away copied CDs. The auditor would come, say everything was good, and the day after, all the cracked software were reinstalled. Is this the auditor's fault? The problem in this case is that the company needed the audit to be this-or-that-certified, in order to work for a certain customer. They didn't see the audit as a tool to help them do business better, but as an annoyance that could prevent them to do IT on the cheap.
It can be: use streamripper or something similar and download your streamed music.
I for one don't download music through P2P or "pirate" sites (which in fact don't really exist anymore) anymore, but I download music from net radio streams, and quite a few tracks from Youtube too. Why? Because it shifts the blame away from me. When I rip a stream, it's undetectable. When I extract audio from a Youtube video (shitty, granted), it's undetectable. Not that there's much of a risk using P2P anyway, but when using high-profile sources, there's ZERO risk.
IMHO, that is the real reason why people seem to like net radios so much: they rip tracks just like they used to record radio hits on cassette in years past.
I pirated a piece of software just a week ago: it's a very specialized database application on steels that refuses to work if it doesn't find the original CD in the drive. Very useful indeed to use on a CD-less notebook... And I paid the damn thing almost $500!
Needless to say, a NOP has found its way into the executable. For the next version, I'll pay the license, but I'll download the ISO from emule, which not only doesn't require the CD, but also doesn't require the activation key.
This is the strange world of software and movies: when you're honest, you're hassled. If you pirate, your life suddenly becomes a lot easier.
People prefer files that aren't troublesome to play and aren't tied to some publisher's good will, to files that are troublesome to play and tied to some publisher's good will. News at 11...
I use the Wiimote all the time with Smoothboard, which incidentally is a much MUCH better application than Johny Lee's.
But really, the Wiimote's BT implementation sucks pond water from the bottom: you need to use the BlueSoleil stack, which is $$$ and can be quirky, unless you're really lucky and your Broadcomm or Toshiba stack works as-is, and the Wiimote doesn't autoconnect.
Quite frankly, all the Wiimote needs is a small firmware fix to be perfect. No need for Microsoft to reinvent things, just make it compatible.
If I'm allowed to choose the question, I use the time-tested method that was used in 80s games, which is "word in page x, line x, x-th word". If I'm not, it's usually a "pet" or "mother's name" question and I use the characters names or animals in the book.
I also use the book as a source for passwords for the many accounts I have everywhere on the internet. I spell out the login name in the book (say "Mylogin") by looking for the first word starting with "M", then the next word with "y", then the nex word with "l", etc... until I find a word that starts with "n", use the very next word that's 8 characters or more, append the line number, and that's my password.
I usually remember most passwords I use all the time, but for the accounts I seldom use, the book title is the only thing I need to remember to recover my passwords. Given the size of my library and the fact that the book is a huge, boring French novel, tough luck even for a burglar to find it.
I'll tell you the answer, because I've done it myself: he should get the degree, THEN pursue basket weaving. IT isn't the great job market it used to be (unless you're willing to move to India), and you'd be surprised how much money and how satisfying a career you can get in manual jobs.
I myself have a 4 year degree in computer science, and now work as a gunsmith. All my pals who stayed working in computing are looking for work, I don't. And on the plus side, if gunsmithing tanks, I can always go back to computing.
I am certain you do your best to be a good, honest journalist. However, I'm also quite sure that, if it hasn't happened already, you will find it difficult to run a story on things like, say, Palin or Exxon unabridged, if at all, depending on your newspaper's political leanings and those of its owner(s). You can't possibly tell me your stories haven't ever been edited, and/or you haven't been told to "soften up" on this or that by your editor, right?
As for supposed illuminati, free mason or jewish stranglehold on world affairs, I don't believe in any of that crap, but that doesn't mean one can't be realistic about the partiality of the media.
We, in the free world, didn't learn the lesson that people with tightly controlled media learned a long time ago [...] We grew up with free press and the idea that you can tell it the way it is.
How quaint. You have free press? Please let me know where your free world is, I'm moving today.
Seriously though, the press in "the free world" - which is for you, I'm assuming, roughly whatever rich country that didn't fall under Soviet influence at the end of WW2 - isn't free or impartial by a long shot, because most media outfits are owned by corporations. Whatever the press is biased towards whatever furthers their owners' agenda. The only free-ish sort of media is the internet, and traditional media do their best to belittle the quality of the information there, not entirely without reason incidentally, given the low S/N ratio on the net.
As to the outbreak of swine flu, it will be controlled in no time by our modern sanitary responses, but in the meantime, it's a godsend for corporations and banks, because while it lasts, people fear the flu instead of growing a hatred for the people responsible for the economic crisis.
might be a good idea, epidemiologically speaking, to catch the flu now vs. later.
That's silly: why would the solution to eradicating a disease be catching it when it's already out there?
A better solution would be to treat the causes of the disease in the first place. In this case, H1N1 is a variant of the Spanish flu. Spain, Mexico? see a pattern? Of course, the solution is to ban Spanish and classical guitar worldwide.
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So video over IP is wasting BT's bandwidth eh? How about increasing the bandwidth instead of reducing the share of it subscribers are allowed to get? This is typical greedy telco mentality: let's milk the existing infrastructure for all it's worth, instead of investing in said infrastructure. Heck, if Japan or Korea ISPs can provide very high bandwidth residential internet to their customers, why couldn't the UK? This is called investing in the future, and it's what we need in times of economic crisis.
Yes, trouble is:
1 - I don't want to spend ages rooting out an ebook torrent from shady sites. I want a well-stocked digital library that I can browse and download books from easily.
2 - I want to pay for books from living authors. I want the authors I like to profit from their work, so they keeps on writing for me. What a concept eh?
Phagocyte doesn't have to be verbed, it is a verb already. Have a good day Sir.
Book search engines aren't the problem. The problem is, book search engines require books to be digitized, and from there it's only a short hop to selling digital books, something publishers really REALLY don't want. They definitely don't want books to be on the same road as MP3s, because the digitized music cat has slipped out of the record companies' bag and it hasn't been a good thing for them.
And no, I think you're wrong, a great many people would stop buying real books (or newspapers or magazines) in favor of electronic books, given the choice. What's killing the ebook market is the lack of choice: I you're into Gutemberg project-like books that are in the public domain, then you're fine, but virtually no new books are release in digital format. I for one read a lot of SF, and if I could get, say, the latest Iain M. Banks on file, I would buy it in an instant. However, I can't, so I have to order the damn hardcover from the UK, wait a million years for it to be delivered, instead of getting my fix in 2 minutes, for a premium that I'd be willing to pay, to read on an ebook reader that I'd be willing to pay dearly too - if I had a great choice of books to read on it.
Regardless of Google's supposed faults/shortcomings/evilness, the real problem lies with the book industry as a whole. They have witnessed what has happened to the media industries and they're trying their hardest to hold off progress and not get into the same mess. We should have had great ebook readers for a long long time now, as well as all manners of easing ways to read, the technology is there, but the book industry is clutching to their old dead tree business model like a rabid dog on a child's arm. They're way worse than the **AAs, and the more technology encroaches on their monopoly, the nastier they'll turn.
What this is is a virtual monopoly (Google) trying to phagocyte another (publishers), and I suspect the real losers in the end, just like movies and music, will be the consumers.
one condensed matter theorist said, "It took two years and two 1000-page books of dense mathematics, but I learned string theory and got kind of enchanted by it.
Boy, long winter evenings must just fly.
Contracts for garbage collection eh? I knew Sun was in cahoots with the mafia. Just ask these guys if they don't wish they had stuck with the old Java...
This outperforms every browser on the planet, especially over dialup or flaky wifi. As for the Acid3 test, it passes provided you squint hard enough.
You're correct that, if an elevator cable is frayed and the auditor missed it, he should be sued. However, audits aren't a way for businesses to shift the blame onto the auditor: they're a way for honest businesses to confirm that everybody (employees and contractors) and everything is in order at a certain point in time. If the auditor finds something that isn't right, his job is to inform his client, and perhaps propose remedies, but that's all. It's the business' job to implement the remedies. What I mean is, audits are a tools *for the client* to help do things right, that's all.
For instance, I once subcontracted in a company that used all manners of cracked software. A day or two before the IT audit was due, the manager used to go around telling employees to uninstall anything shady and put away copied CDs. The auditor would come, say everything was good, and the day after, all the cracked software were reinstalled. Is this the auditor's fault? The problem in this case is that the company needed the audit to be this-or-that-certified, in order to work for a certain customer. They didn't see the audit as a tool to help them do business better, but as an annoyance that could prevent them to do IT on the cheap.
It can be: use streamripper or something similar and download your streamed music.
I for one don't download music through P2P or "pirate" sites (which in fact don't really exist anymore) anymore, but I download music from net radio streams, and quite a few tracks from Youtube too. Why? Because it shifts the blame away from me. When I rip a stream, it's undetectable. When I extract audio from a Youtube video (shitty, granted), it's undetectable. Not that there's much of a risk using P2P anyway, but when using high-profile sources, there's ZERO risk.
IMHO, that is the real reason why people seem to like net radios so much: they rip tracks just like they used to record radio hits on cassette in years past.
I pirated a piece of software just a week ago: it's a very specialized database application on steels that refuses to work if it doesn't find the original CD in the drive. Very useful indeed to use on a CD-less notebook... And I paid the damn thing almost $500!
Needless to say, a NOP has found its way into the executable. For the next version, I'll pay the license, but I'll download the ISO from emule, which not only doesn't require the CD, but also doesn't require the activation key.
This is the strange world of software and movies: when you're honest, you're hassled. If you pirate, your life suddenly becomes a lot easier.
People prefer files that aren't troublesome to play and aren't tied to some publisher's good will, to files that are troublesome to play and tied to some publisher's good will. News at 11...
I use the Wiimote all the time with Smoothboard, which incidentally is a much MUCH better application than Johny Lee's.
But really, the Wiimote's BT implementation sucks pond water from the bottom: you need to use the BlueSoleil stack, which is $$$ and can be quirky, unless you're really lucky and your Broadcomm or Toshiba stack works as-is, and the Wiimote doesn't autoconnect.
Quite frankly, all the Wiimote needs is a small firmware fix to be perfect. No need for Microsoft to reinvent things, just make it compatible.
If they want the depression back, they can have it.
Umm.. bullshit. I've had patches accepted that were definitely not the "right way".. they were stubs that did "return 0" for an entire function..
Say, I have a pet project to rewrite this utility, but I can't seem to get it working right. Would you care to contribute a patch?
So you ping and then you sleep()? Not much of a flood ping really...
exploits flaws in Adobe software to install malware
With all the better alternatives out there, anybody who uses Adobe software deserve to get malware. Think of it as evolution in action.
If I'm allowed to choose the question, I use the time-tested method that was used in 80s games, which is "word in page x, line x, x-th word". If I'm not, it's usually a "pet" or "mother's name" question and I use the characters names or animals in the book.
I also use the book as a source for passwords for the many accounts I have everywhere on the internet. I spell out the login name in the book (say "Mylogin") by looking for the first word starting with "M", then the next word with "y", then the nex word with "l", etc... until I find a word that starts with "n", use the very next word that's 8 characters or more, append the line number, and that's my password.
I usually remember most passwords I use all the time, but for the accounts I seldom use, the book title is the only thing I need to remember to recover my passwords. Given the size of my library and the fact that the book is a huge, boring French novel, tough luck even for a burglar to find it.
I'll tell you the answer, because I've done it myself: he should get the degree, THEN pursue basket weaving. IT isn't the great job market it used to be (unless you're willing to move to India), and you'd be surprised how much money and how satisfying a career you can get in manual jobs.
I myself have a 4 year degree in computer science, and now work as a gunsmith. All my pals who stayed working in computing are looking for work, I don't. And on the plus side, if gunsmithing tanks, I can always go back to computing.
CmdrTaco is a plain white-bread murriken who has had a couple of decades to practice the language.
So are you saying he was mute (or spoke native Klingon) until 13 years of age? No wonder he has hard times with english today...
Actual, yes there was. It's a very subtly new rule on the properly use of adverbs and adjectives.
I am certain you do your best to be a good, honest journalist. However, I'm also quite sure that, if it hasn't happened already, you will find it difficult to run a story on things like, say, Palin or Exxon unabridged, if at all, depending on your newspaper's political leanings and those of its owner(s). You can't possibly tell me your stories haven't ever been edited, and/or you haven't been told to "soften up" on this or that by your editor, right?
As for supposed illuminati, free mason or jewish stranglehold on world affairs, I don't believe in any of that crap, but that doesn't mean one can't be realistic about the partiality of the media.
We, in the free world, didn't learn the lesson that people with tightly controlled media learned a long time ago [...] We grew up with free press and the idea that you can tell it the way it is.
How quaint. You have free press? Please let me know where your free world is, I'm moving today.
Seriously though, the press in "the free world" - which is for you, I'm assuming, roughly whatever rich country that didn't fall under Soviet influence at the end of WW2 - isn't free or impartial by a long shot, because most media outfits are owned by corporations. Whatever the press is biased towards whatever furthers their owners' agenda. The only free-ish sort of media is the internet, and traditional media do their best to belittle the quality of the information there, not entirely without reason incidentally, given the low S/N ratio on the net.
As to the outbreak of swine flu, it will be controlled in no time by our modern sanitary responses, but in the meantime, it's a godsend for corporations and banks, because while it lasts, people fear the flu instead of growing a hatred for the people responsible for the economic crisis.
might be a good idea, epidemiologically speaking, to catch the flu now vs. later.
That's silly: why would the solution to eradicating a disease be catching it when it's already out there?
A better solution would be to treat the causes of the disease in the first place. In this case, H1N1 is a variant of the Spanish flu. Spain, Mexico? see a pattern? Of course, the solution is to ban Spanish and classical guitar worldwide.