I'm avoiding work, so I'll answer your rhetorical question:/MainCategory/Artist/Album/Track - Title.flac
My main categories are artist albums, classical, books, children, and training. Motion Picuture soundtracks go under Main/OMPS; Broadway shows get similar "artist" inconsistency labelling. Compilations get stuck in Main/Various, and one hit wonders in Main/Various/Singles. It makes it easy for me to find things on the drive, and I've got MediaMonkey and meta-tags when I want to sort more finely.
I currently have my flacs all on line, and for a while had a second directory auto-sync'd to 160kb MP3 for the portable. Computers are getting fast enough - and I have a couple players with very picky decoders - so I auto-transcode each sync now.
Edwards: Why the big secret? People are smart. They can handle it. Kay: A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it.
When actually confronted with the condition that the government must tax to raise money to spend for programs, and every dollar out means a dollar in, just like your family budget. It takes some reasoning because nobody thinks of it that way (I don't know why, really). But let them vote on things and they'll spend far more money than they'll ever pay in taxes, and they'll still rail against taking any more money from them.
I say we start charging people for school, and let the market sort it out. You'd be amazed how many people couldn't afford to send their kids to school, even if you set their taxes at zero.
You probably shouldn't worry about dependency with the vaccine. Unlike a chemical medication which augments or replaces your natural response to influenza, the vaccine "tricks" your body into thinking you have the flu and spurs your immune system to learn how to destroy the infection. It's actually providing a small exercise for your immune system.
I get the vaccine each year primarily because I can't be out of work for a week. Because I happen to be an employer, rather than employed, I can expect to lose about $8000 in income if I get the flu. Small business has it's down side. I also happen to have a pragmatic minimalist view of medication. I have about 8 different head/chest/cold medications in my cabinet. Each does one specific thing - I don't buy "combination" medications like Nyquil or Contac Cold & Flu. On the rare occasion I don't feel well, I take what I need to ensure that I get a good night's sleep and avoid sinusitis (to which I'm sensitive) - no more, no less.
As an engineer, I look at the problem logically and find the most efficient solution I'm aware of. The vaccine has a very low incidence of problems. The payback is cutting my chance in half (or better) of losing $8000 for a $10 copay with my insurance. I figure the possible complications from actually getting the flu are just as bad - and more likely to occur - as complications from the influenza vaccine, so the worst case is it's a wash. Plus, it reduces the chance that my wife and daughter will get it, though they get vaccinated as well - no sense in them feeling like crap for a week. It's not perfect, but it's better than the alternative.
As soon as we get H1N1 in my area, I'm getting it. My local school system is offering it free of charge to students (note: not requiring it). Smart, if you ask me, as the schools and school age children are the number 1 vector for local spread of the virus (business travelers are the number 1 vector for spread between localities, imho).
Actually the act of sipping coffee is as much about sucking in air and coffee together, with the essential oils released at high temperature allowing the stimulation of both smell and taste. It's also why you take small sips when the coffee is fresh. 90C may be on the high side, but 80-85C is definitely in the right range. 50C is downright nasty, and also a full 10C below most (if not all) local health dept requirements that all food be kept above 140F or below 40F at all times (sorry for the mixed units, I know HD rules in F and am too lazy to convert).
My local PD even has a "vacation" service, where they'll drive by your house while you're away and make sure everything looks sound.
BTW - For those so paranoid that they think the cops are going to rob them, what do you do about your paper and mail? You can't tell the delivery boy or post office, or they might rob you, and you can't ask a neighbor to pick up your stuff - either they'll rob you, or robbers will notice that somebody else is picking up your stuff, and you can't leave it sit there while you're gone or somebody will notice and rob you.
Yeah, that's what I thought too. Since more and more devices use both BT and WiFi, why have to power two RF transmitters and associated electronics. BT is a very poor serial link which is only marginally compatible across a wide range of devices. The trick with subbing in WiFi is to get good, power efficient profiles which allows much lower Tx/Rx power for close sources, modulating upwards for weaker connections.
Not to mention that high quality stereo over a multi-Mb connection is going to be much better than anything BT can provide.
The same problem with keyboard shortcuts will haunt the ten finger interface - too many options. Two button mice are too complicated for mac users, and half of the windows users forget about the right button. The interface is slick, but requires too much training. It has the added problem of significant manual dexterity required. I have all sorts of problems with my touch phone mis-interpreting taps at the beginning of glides. My netbook has no barrier between the space bar and the touchpad, resulting in the occasional cursor jump if my thumb or palm should stray too close during a spacebar strike.
Picking and clicking, as the CAD guys like to call it, is very inefficient - but it also requires very little training. I use keyboard shortcuts for as much as I can, and in CAD I know most commands by name and can type them (or the 1 to 3 letter shortcuts) very quickly. Far quicker than my drafter who uses toolbars. Still, he's not inefficient - he could get 10% faster, but it would require more training and practice. It's not worth it to him.
I agree it's a cool interface - and if I had a drafting table that was a 62", QHD touchscreen, it might be awesome...if I could keep my hands from accidentally registering clicks when I didn't want them too.
That's alright, in college I once got an "overpayment" refund from Virginia for $60 and change (on a $200-240 tax bill, as I remember). As a college student I foolishly cashed the check and spent the money. Four years later, I got a letter stating I underpaid my taxes by that $60, and I then owed them that money plus penalties and interest (close to $100). I didn't keep the letter or a copy of the check, so I was stuck paying. I count it as a $40 life lesson in proper record keeping.:-)
That's from the Social Security website, and the data is for 2007, so just a couple of months before the economy went into the shitter. Yes, you're in pretty rarified territory if you're making 80/hr (or 120/hr). I happen to bill between 115-130/hr, but I take home $33/hr before taxes. The rest is administrative, overhead, and everyone else who seems to get a little bit of my money before it finally gets to me. Now, that $33/hr doesn't include the profit I take out (which may be as high as my salary in very good years) - but that's also partly the result of many years building my client base, time that I didn't get any profit, and some years when I took nearly zero salary, too.
I agree that the average person, when looking at two weeks (or more) of their total wages to purchase Photoshop/CS4 is going to be highly motivated to procure a cheaper copy. The fact that it's sold at that rate "for people who use it for a living" and they're only going to use it for "personal use" bolsters the moral case they make to themselves. Yes, Elements exists...but why should an individual have less features when messing with little Johnny's soccer pics? Might as well download the whole thing and not have to worry about not having that one thing that only the full CS4 has that you "need."
So, if it's not sending a video signal, I presume that I'm getting audio only? And this would be useful how...
Okay, I just RTFA. Unlike the "cool" option of actually transmitting low power ATSC on an (unused) channel, which would make this potentially useful, it requires a hardwired dongle (UWB receiver) at any TV you want to connect. So the "any TV" just turned into "any TV you decide you want to buy a dongle for and manually wire up to receive the proprietary signal." An, of course, that's where the 10m comes in, since the UWB receiver has USB ports on it (for those who are cool enough to have one of these, and so antiquated that the have a wired printer).
No, this is the redneck center for NASA - it's par for the course down there.
The reason it doesn't make sense is that it's not the way we(they) usually do things. However, this is a cheap way of doing it. Instead of comping up with a bunch of mechanisms, they're going just doing it on a macro scale. I suspect - but have no proof - that someone made the conjecture if we could observe a small asteroid hitting the moon, we could observe the debris and get data from a good depth below the surface. Somebody else suggested not waiting for an asteroid, since we're already pretty good at high velocity impacts. The up side is that it's cheap, the down side is that you only get one shot.
Well, Marshall is kind of the redneck branch of the NASA family. Imagine you suspect that lighting a fart will blow the door off the out house, and all you get is a barely visible blue flame. It's still cool, just not as dramatic as you thought it might be.
Oh, you know darned well that "100s of years" is, like, on standby when you're in a totally great signal area. It'll still only last 4-6 hours if your surfing and playing flash games on it.;-)
If the system hasn't been patched as of Monday night, there is no real danger to leaving it unpatched until Tuesday night. You're not required to implement a patch the second it's available. Code you're patch and reboot to occur at 2am local time. The only people who get bunched about "when" updates happen to require a reboot are Linux folks who don't understand how Windows works or do, and just want to M$ bash. I've only been inconvenienced by a windows update once, and it was on my personal workstation - I happen to have my cursor set to jump to the default value of dialog boxes, and windows popped up a dialog with the option to reboot just as I was clicking in another window. Oops. I lost almost 8 minutes of working time waiting for the system to come back up - well, 8 minutes if you count the time I spent getting a coffee refill.
As for your movies - damn. Not only do you not know how to manage your winbox for updates (how much simpler can it get?), but you don't know how to auto-restart a download in the middle after a failure. Now, you might have a dual redundant UPS and an autostart generator with 72 hours of fuel powering your PC. If you do, then good for you. Otherwise, you can hand in your geek card on your way out the door.;-)
Well, what I want is a 62", quad-HD touchscreen - stylus is fine - for reviewing architectural prints. They rarely come in larger than E size (30x42) which would fit well on a 62" widescreen monitor at 100% scale. Let me mark them up with a stylus and send them off. Make it responsive (i.e. - don't let Adobe or Autodesk code the reader) so can "flip" through a set quickly. And make it cost under $5k. That last one is mostly just quantity, since all I'm really looking for a 62" tablet computer with a decent i7 quad core and the new Radeon graphics card. The card can run the resolution and crunch the numbers in 2D or 3D (for models). The i7 can do the background work and keep things moving. That resolution isn't in vogue - yet - but it's already on drawing boards, and the pixel pitch is larger than current monitors. Touch surfaces seem less and less novel each day now that they're incorporated into practically everything.
Problem is, even if it existed today, there are likely no more than a ten thousand that would be sold at the $5k price point, and less than 1000 at the $10-15k price point needed to get production ramped up.
I was under the impression that VASMIR was a low-thrust technology (high energy, low propellant mass = high Isp, but normally with low absolute thrust). The proposed 200kW model was expected to have a thrust of 5 Newtons, according to wikipedia. Now, that's nice, but it's on the order of the smallest black powder Estes engines used to fly 50-100gram rockets for fun. It will move a space ship, but it will provide relatively low acceleration.
Since sail circumnavigation of the earth can be done in less than 180 days, it's a bit premature to expect us to circumnavigate the 12 billion kM diameter disc which houses our solar system in anything approaching that kind of time frame. Even if you allow for 1000 of these engines running continuously (all 300 metric tons of engines, plus the 200MW power source, plus the ship, shielding, etc. needed), 5kN is going to take quite a while to bring an interplanetary vessel up to any useful speed.
Don't get me wrong - it's cool technology...but it's still a couple of orders of magnitude from sailing around the world.
So we've got a _really smart_ guy we've paid to educate, paid for many years to perform exactly 7 times, paid to direct a "cool" program, and now that we've shelled out all that money, he's investing some of it in hopes of selling us some product we spent years paying him to learn about.
By the way...how do you amass enough cash to personally invest significantly in this kind of endeavor, considering otherwise "normal" governmental salaries in the 70-130k/year range? Or is he primarily a front man - a very smart one - who is helping to get money from others (perhaps old colleagues with strings to government funds?) to pursue this research.
I'm not saying he's not doing interesting, and possibly valuable, research, but I'm not about to give him a free pass just because he's got a doctorate and a handful of mission patches. Now, if he's made a bunch of money doing other things (dot com bubble investor?), and is pursuing this as a purely speculative path, then good for him.
Why would you want to? Unless there is some specific portion of the flu vaccine which is _not_ related to increasing your body's own resistance to standard influenza and is causing these people to be more susceptible to H1N1, I'd say you're lucky to have gotten the shot. Why?
Let's presume that the vaccine, which teaches your immune system to recognize and address the common influenza strains, results in a higher susceptibility to H1N1. It would likely follow that actually getting the seasonal flu (which, in a much more dramatic fashion, teaches your immune system to recognize and address the common influenza strain) will do the same thing. So now you're body has spent an enormous amount of energy fighting the flu, and now that it's run down, you're again at an elevated risk to catch H1N1. Sounds like a bad idea to me.
I've probably only had the flu 4 times in my 40 years of life. I started getting the vaccine four years ago, when my (then new) business started picking up. I can't afford to be out of the office for a week or more on short notice. Aside from the fact that I don't get paid when I'm out, I have three employees who depend on me to provide work for them. The flu, for me, has a cost of roughly $8000. The vaccine is $10, and likely cuts my chances of getting it in half (or more). I also have a school-aged child...so I'm connected to the prime vector for the disease. It just makes sense.
Verner never installed the software, and therefore never accepted a shrink-wrapped license. What we really want is an install-remove-resell case that the defendant wins. This is a good start though. Autodesk makes Microsoft look like the best, most consumer friendly corporate citizen ever. Their software is bloated and buggy (their text editor can't keep up with a 60wpm typist on a modern 2GHz single core machine), their CS is horrific when it exists, and their licensing is draconian. They own such a large share of the market in certain industries that they just don't care.
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I'm avoiding work, so I'll answer your rhetorical question: /MainCategory/Artist/Album/Track - Title.flac
My main categories are artist albums, classical, books, children, and training. Motion Picuture soundtracks go under Main/OMPS; Broadway shows get similar "artist" inconsistency labelling. Compilations get stuck in Main/Various, and one hit wonders in Main/Various/Singles. It makes it easy for me to find things on the drive, and I've got MediaMonkey and meta-tags when I want to sort more finely.
I currently have my flacs all on line, and for a while had a second directory auto-sync'd to 160kb MP3 for the portable. Computers are getting fast enough - and I have a couple players with very picky decoders - so I auto-transcode each sync now.
My first though was from Men in Black:
Edwards: Why the big secret? People are smart. They can handle it.
Kay: A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it.
When actually confronted with the condition that the government must tax to raise money to spend for programs, and every dollar out means a dollar in, just like your family budget. It takes some reasoning because nobody thinks of it that way (I don't know why, really). But let them vote on things and they'll spend far more money than they'll ever pay in taxes, and they'll still rail against taking any more money from them.
I say we start charging people for school, and let the market sort it out. You'd be amazed how many people couldn't afford to send their kids to school, even if you set their taxes at zero.
You probably shouldn't worry about dependency with the vaccine. Unlike a chemical medication which augments or replaces your natural response to influenza, the vaccine "tricks" your body into thinking you have the flu and spurs your immune system to learn how to destroy the infection. It's actually providing a small exercise for your immune system.
I get the vaccine each year primarily because I can't be out of work for a week. Because I happen to be an employer, rather than employed, I can expect to lose about $8000 in income if I get the flu. Small business has it's down side. I also happen to have a pragmatic minimalist view of medication. I have about 8 different head/chest/cold medications in my cabinet. Each does one specific thing - I don't buy "combination" medications like Nyquil or Contac Cold & Flu. On the rare occasion I don't feel well, I take what I need to ensure that I get a good night's sleep and avoid sinusitis (to which I'm sensitive) - no more, no less.
As an engineer, I look at the problem logically and find the most efficient solution I'm aware of. The vaccine has a very low incidence of problems. The payback is cutting my chance in half (or better) of losing $8000 for a $10 copay with my insurance. I figure the possible complications from actually getting the flu are just as bad - and more likely to occur - as complications from the influenza vaccine, so the worst case is it's a wash. Plus, it reduces the chance that my wife and daughter will get it, though they get vaccinated as well - no sense in them feeling like crap for a week. It's not perfect, but it's better than the alternative.
As soon as we get H1N1 in my area, I'm getting it. My local school system is offering it free of charge to students (note: not requiring it). Smart, if you ask me, as the schools and school age children are the number 1 vector for local spread of the virus (business travelers are the number 1 vector for spread between localities, imho).
Actually the act of sipping coffee is as much about sucking in air and coffee together, with the essential oils released at high temperature allowing the stimulation of both smell and taste. It's also why you take small sips when the coffee is fresh. 90C may be on the high side, but 80-85C is definitely in the right range. 50C is downright nasty, and also a full 10C below most (if not all) local health dept requirements that all food be kept above 140F or below 40F at all times (sorry for the mixed units, I know HD rules in F and am too lazy to convert).
I'd mod up you up, but you're already at +5.
My local PD even has a "vacation" service, where they'll drive by your house while you're away and make sure everything looks sound.
BTW - For those so paranoid that they think the cops are going to rob them, what do you do about your paper and mail? You can't tell the delivery boy or post office, or they might rob you, and you can't ask a neighbor to pick up your stuff - either they'll rob you, or robbers will notice that somebody else is picking up your stuff, and you can't leave it sit there while you're gone or somebody will notice and rob you.
Yeah, that's what I thought too. Since more and more devices use both BT and WiFi, why have to power two RF transmitters and associated electronics. BT is a very poor serial link which is only marginally compatible across a wide range of devices. The trick with subbing in WiFi is to get good, power efficient profiles which allows much lower Tx/Rx power for close sources, modulating upwards for weaker connections.
Not to mention that high quality stereo over a multi-Mb connection is going to be much better than anything BT can provide.
First think I thought of when I read the summary...
Don't you find it interesting that all the open source proponents here turn tail and defend RIM when it suits their purpose?
The same problem with keyboard shortcuts will haunt the ten finger interface - too many options. Two button mice are too complicated for mac users, and half of the windows users forget about the right button. The interface is slick, but requires too much training. It has the added problem of significant manual dexterity required. I have all sorts of problems with my touch phone mis-interpreting taps at the beginning of glides. My netbook has no barrier between the space bar and the touchpad, resulting in the occasional cursor jump if my thumb or palm should stray too close during a spacebar strike.
Picking and clicking, as the CAD guys like to call it, is very inefficient - but it also requires very little training. I use keyboard shortcuts for as much as I can, and in CAD I know most commands by name and can type them (or the 1 to 3 letter shortcuts) very quickly. Far quicker than my drafter who uses toolbars. Still, he's not inefficient - he could get 10% faster, but it would require more training and practice. It's not worth it to him.
I agree it's a cool interface - and if I had a drafting table that was a 62", QHD touchscreen, it might be awesome...if I could keep my hands from accidentally registering clicks when I didn't want them too.
And one of the most obvious choices in a slashdot poll...how can you go wrong?
That's alright, in college I once got an "overpayment" refund from Virginia for $60 and change (on a $200-240 tax bill, as I remember). As a college student I foolishly cashed the check and spent the money. Four years later, I got a letter stating I underpaid my taxes by that $60, and I then owed them that money plus penalties and interest (close to $100). I didn't keep the letter or a copy of the check, so I was stuck paying. I count it as a $40 life lesson in proper record keeping. :-)
That's from the Social Security website, and the data is for 2007, so just a couple of months before the economy went into the shitter. Yes, you're in pretty rarified territory if you're making 80/hr (or 120/hr). I happen to bill between 115-130/hr, but I take home $33/hr before taxes. The rest is administrative, overhead, and everyone else who seems to get a little bit of my money before it finally gets to me. Now, that $33/hr doesn't include the profit I take out (which may be as high as my salary in very good years) - but that's also partly the result of many years building my client base, time that I didn't get any profit, and some years when I took nearly zero salary, too.
I agree that the average person, when looking at two weeks (or more) of their total wages to purchase Photoshop/CS4 is going to be highly motivated to procure a cheaper copy. The fact that it's sold at that rate "for people who use it for a living" and they're only going to use it for "personal use" bolsters the moral case they make to themselves. Yes, Elements exists...but why should an individual have less features when messing with little Johnny's soccer pics? Might as well download the whole thing and not have to worry about not having that one thing that only the full CS4 has that you "need."
...is the name you're looking for.
So, if it's not sending a video signal, I presume that I'm getting audio only? And this would be useful how...
Okay, I just RTFA. Unlike the "cool" option of actually transmitting low power ATSC on an (unused) channel, which would make this potentially useful, it requires a hardwired dongle (UWB receiver) at any TV you want to connect. So the "any TV" just turned into "any TV you decide you want to buy a dongle for and manually wire up to receive the proprietary signal." An, of course, that's where the 10m comes in, since the UWB receiver has USB ports on it (for those who are cool enough to have one of these, and so antiquated that the have a wired printer).
No, this is the redneck center for NASA - it's par for the course down there.
The reason it doesn't make sense is that it's not the way we(they) usually do things. However, this is a cheap way of doing it. Instead of comping up with a bunch of mechanisms, they're going just doing it on a macro scale. I suspect - but have no proof - that someone made the conjecture if we could observe a small asteroid hitting the moon, we could observe the debris and get data from a good depth below the surface. Somebody else suggested not waiting for an asteroid, since we're already pretty good at high velocity impacts. The up side is that it's cheap, the down side is that you only get one shot.
Well, Marshall is kind of the redneck branch of the NASA family. Imagine you suspect that lighting a fart will blow the door off the out house, and all you get is a barely visible blue flame. It's still cool, just not as dramatic as you thought it might be.
Oh, you know darned well that "100s of years" is, like, on standby when you're in a totally great signal area. It'll still only last 4-6 hours if your surfing and playing flash games on it. ;-)
If the system hasn't been patched as of Monday night, there is no real danger to leaving it unpatched until Tuesday night. You're not required to implement a patch the second it's available. Code you're patch and reboot to occur at 2am local time. The only people who get bunched about "when" updates happen to require a reboot are Linux folks who don't understand how Windows works or do, and just want to M$ bash. I've only been inconvenienced by a windows update once, and it was on my personal workstation - I happen to have my cursor set to jump to the default value of dialog boxes, and windows popped up a dialog with the option to reboot just as I was clicking in another window. Oops. I lost almost 8 minutes of working time waiting for the system to come back up - well, 8 minutes if you count the time I spent getting a coffee refill.
As for your movies - damn. Not only do you not know how to manage your winbox for updates (how much simpler can it get?), but you don't know how to auto-restart a download in the middle after a failure. Now, you might have a dual redundant UPS and an autostart generator with 72 hours of fuel powering your PC. If you do, then good for you. Otherwise, you can hand in your geek card on your way out the door. ;-)
Actually, the correct answer is NT3.5, and that was in the last century. Rock solid. Then they f'd it up.
Sure - just provide a fee-free, unrestricted license. Patenting something means you control it, including setting it free.
Well, what I want is a 62", quad-HD touchscreen - stylus is fine - for reviewing architectural prints. They rarely come in larger than E size (30x42) which would fit well on a 62" widescreen monitor at 100% scale. Let me mark them up with a stylus and send them off. Make it responsive (i.e. - don't let Adobe or Autodesk code the reader) so can "flip" through a set quickly. And make it cost under $5k. That last one is mostly just quantity, since all I'm really looking for a 62" tablet computer with a decent i7 quad core and the new Radeon graphics card. The card can run the resolution and crunch the numbers in 2D or 3D (for models). The i7 can do the background work and keep things moving. That resolution isn't in vogue - yet - but it's already on drawing boards, and the pixel pitch is larger than current monitors. Touch surfaces seem less and less novel each day now that they're incorporated into practically everything.
Problem is, even if it existed today, there are likely no more than a ten thousand that would be sold at the $5k price point, and less than 1000 at the $10-15k price point needed to get production ramped up.
I was under the impression that VASMIR was a low-thrust technology (high energy, low propellant mass = high Isp, but normally with low absolute thrust). The proposed 200kW model was expected to have a thrust of 5 Newtons, according to wikipedia. Now, that's nice, but it's on the order of the smallest black powder Estes engines used to fly 50-100gram rockets for fun. It will move a space ship, but it will provide relatively low acceleration.
Since sail circumnavigation of the earth can be done in less than 180 days, it's a bit premature to expect us to circumnavigate the 12 billion kM diameter disc which houses our solar system in anything approaching that kind of time frame. Even if you allow for 1000 of these engines running continuously (all 300 metric tons of engines, plus the 200MW power source, plus the ship, shielding, etc. needed), 5kN is going to take quite a while to bring an interplanetary vessel up to any useful speed.
Don't get me wrong - it's cool technology...but it's still a couple of orders of magnitude from sailing around the world.
So we've got a _really smart_ guy we've paid to educate, paid for many years to perform exactly 7 times, paid to direct a "cool" program, and now that we've shelled out all that money, he's investing some of it in hopes of selling us some product we spent years paying him to learn about.
By the way...how do you amass enough cash to personally invest significantly in this kind of endeavor, considering otherwise "normal" governmental salaries in the 70-130k/year range? Or is he primarily a front man - a very smart one - who is helping to get money from others (perhaps old colleagues with strings to government funds?) to pursue this research.
I'm not saying he's not doing interesting, and possibly valuable, research, but I'm not about to give him a free pass just because he's got a doctorate and a handful of mission patches. Now, if he's made a bunch of money doing other things (dot com bubble investor?), and is pursuing this as a purely speculative path, then good for him.
Why would you want to? Unless there is some specific portion of the flu vaccine which is _not_ related to increasing your body's own resistance to standard influenza and is causing these people to be more susceptible to H1N1, I'd say you're lucky to have gotten the shot. Why?
Let's presume that the vaccine, which teaches your immune system to recognize and address the common influenza strains, results in a higher susceptibility to H1N1. It would likely follow that actually getting the seasonal flu (which, in a much more dramatic fashion, teaches your immune system to recognize and address the common influenza strain) will do the same thing. So now you're body has spent an enormous amount of energy fighting the flu, and now that it's run down, you're again at an elevated risk to catch H1N1. Sounds like a bad idea to me.
I've probably only had the flu 4 times in my 40 years of life. I started getting the vaccine four years ago, when my (then new) business started picking up. I can't afford to be out of the office for a week or more on short notice. Aside from the fact that I don't get paid when I'm out, I have three employees who depend on me to provide work for them. The flu, for me, has a cost of roughly $8000. The vaccine is $10, and likely cuts my chances of getting it in half (or more). I also have a school-aged child...so I'm connected to the prime vector for the disease. It just makes sense.
Verner never installed the software, and therefore never accepted a shrink-wrapped license. What we really want is an install-remove-resell case that the defendant wins. This is a good start though. Autodesk makes Microsoft look like the best, most consumer friendly corporate citizen ever. Their software is bloated and buggy (their text editor can't keep up with a 60wpm typist on a modern 2GHz single core machine), their CS is horrific when it exists, and their licensing is draconian. They own such a large share of the market in certain industries that they just don't care.