I fully agree with local governments regulating and using tax payer money for the the last mile construction and maintenance. In the US now, it is already "kind of" government controlled with franchise agreements but that single company gets exclusive use after that. The users/residents are paying the same exact amount for the lines one way of the other, why not have them opened up for competition? I'd much rather pay my local government for the lines and the choice to pay Comcast for service than be stuck and forced to pay Comcast for both.
Or the people that use their dog, favorite football teams etc.. for their picture. Since most FB friends are probably not your real friends, you don't know a lot of that stuff.
Strange. I figured everyone who likes PF already ripped their CD's to flac or compressed to listen on the go years ago. For me personally, even with VBR with high avg bit rates using various encoders and options, I notice annoying artifacts and it is just not appealing when loud. A lot of PF source material has flaws and glitches (including the various remasters, SDAC, golds, that I've heard etc) and even with that, I really can't enjoy PF in compressed format. 95% of the other music I've heard uncompressed and compressed doesn't bother me.
I did not say it was MS specific at all. I stated that MS's incentive to support DRM is for their benefit, just as it is for Apples and Sonys benefit to support it as well. If you buy a TV episode from iTunes and it has DRM, you will only be watching that show on a device that Apple approves of. If you buy hundreds of them over a two year period, you will always have to watch them on an Apple approved device. If I buy a movie from the Sony store, I will only be able to watch that on a device that Sony approves of like my PSP. If I buy a video with DRM from iTunes, can I and play it on my PSP, Zune, Evo, N800, or my Linux netbook or what ever other cool device that has not come to market yet? The choices you are using obviously have no DRM mechanism, therefore you are not locked in. What part of that is confusing?
You really don't know? With DRM, the media companies get on board because it provides a relative sense of security that their media is protected from unauthorized and uncontrolled use (through technical AND legal measures), win for them. Using MS DRM gets to lock you in to the MS suite of licensed proprietary codecs, software, and hardware. The more MS codecs, software, and hardware you are using, the harder it is for you to take your media to a non MS licensed software and/or hardware solution, win for them. The system is marketed as everyone wins with DRM! The flaw.. Although you are winning as well because you have limited access to the media, you are definitely winning a lot less then they are because of the DRM restrictions and the lock-in. Repeat the same reasons for Apple.
The prosecution can and does use anything and everything they can against you. But.. giving information to the police or an investigating officer of the law is not the same as being in court and testifying and providing information in front of a jury and/or judge.
Not quite. MS did not have an OS at a price point that made sense for makers of netbooks. MS saw Linux catching on in the netbooks and released a scaled down version of XP and more recently Win7 starter at a reduced price and artificial limitations put on what hardware it could run on (amount of memory limited to 1GB, screen size at 10.2, HD size etc..). This was a version specifically created for only netbooks. There was pressure on the hardware vendors to include this as an option to the Linux versions and the deals were sweet. Shortly there after, Linux is rarely an option on netbooks any more and you wont find any at most retailers. Basically, Linux had an inroad, MS saw it, sweetened the deal for hardware companies and Linux netbooks went away. The netbook market could be more robust now but with MS's standards for what hardware can be used to run their cheap version of the OS, the hardware netbook market is 100% defined and lives and dies by MS's requirements of there OS. The "consumer" demand had little to do the process because the Linux netbooks were doing fine before MS got involved and if netbooks could evolve without MS's limitations, it would be better for everyone involved except MS.
Yes, consumer demand pushed up sales of MS netbooks but the demand was driven by a strategic effort to give the consumers less to choose from.
If you're connecting an air hose to an IV, there is something really wrong. Any nurse who does something like this is purely incompetent. I know several RNs and talk to a few on a daily basis. It is a somewhat stressful and fast-paced job, but you cannot ethically exceed your working pace.
I understand your position on this but realistically, people make mistakes. If the mistake is common, why not reduce the non human part of the problem. The air conditioning system in your car has a high pressure and a low pressure access port. They are standardized and two different sizes to prevent someone from attaching a refrigerant charging apparatus to the high side which could blow something up. Not only that but the old R12 A/C systems have two completely different sized ports than the newer R134A systems. That prevents someone from putting the wrong refrigerant in the system. Sure, anyone can follow the lines back to the compressor and see if they are working on the low or high side but the "human" fix of using different port sizes helps prevent mistakes.
Mine is Time Machine from Data East. A close second was Funhouse, Black Knight, T2, or Rollergames. I guess I liked just about all of them except for one machine circa mid 80's which had a wavy no flat glass play field, a magnetic hole, and a lot of proximity sensors but I don't remember the name.
That's an inevitable and unfortunate side effect of basing public policy on extreme visceral emotions, like the loss of a loved one. The idea that someone you care about is hurt, maimed, or killed because of the completely preventable, blatant irresponsibility and disregard for life of a drunk driver is quite naturally an extreme and very emotional position.
DUI is only an issue BECAUSE there is a loss of life, if no one was dying or getting hurt from it, no one would care and it would be perfectly legal. If you ignore the emotional impact of the loss of life then DUI doesn't look to bad but in reality, that loss of live is there what you are trying to prevent. Using the emotions makes sense to show the impact and the real danger. That being said, using DUI as a soap box to push prohibition is taking it to far.
Not only the tires but the I've noticed a trend of car makers using smaller thinner rotors as well. The rotors on some cars are basically throw away and on some cars wear to the point that they should probably be replaced when the pads wear out. For the DIY car guy, that's not a big deal in cost but for someone that has to pay $400-500 to have a "full" brake job (pads and rotors replaced), it could offset the saving in gas the lighter rotors create.
I have a cover over mine that is painted to look like some light green bushes so I think I'm safe. I did notice a strange white van from some flower shop I never heard of before (Irene's Flowers maybe) parked across the street recently.. Maybe they are on to my pool.
Interesting, I use Ubuntu mainly because I get the desktop and layout like I want to see it. I've been pretty happy using screenlets, hiding or unloading the panels, and using Compiz (I like the "simple compizconfig setting manager" which is much friendlier than the standard compizsettings manager), Emerald, and Avant. It took be about an hour or so and some Google searches to get it all going and another few hours playing with the options to get it the way I liked it the first time but now it only takes me a 20 or so minutes to recreate "my setup" on a new machine.
I don't have to have all of those things running and configured and I don't mind the standard Ubuntu layout with Gnome (like on my Mini that is cpu/graphics challenged) but that's why I chose to use a Linux desktop, because I CAN configure it to how I want it to "look and feel".
When the real caps are listed, you are still free to complain but at least you can comparison shop. If company A has an unlimited plan for 5GB/month, and company B has an unlimited plan with 10GB/month and both are CLEARLY stated and made well known while you are browsing the offerings; You the consumer can compare service and price and take the best one. With "unlimited" being undefined, hidden, tucked away in some web portal under account options--> service -> data -> limits -> your limit -> "amount used" or the last page of your agreement in a size 3 gray font, you can not compare service. These companies go out of their way to call the service unlimited and also go equally out of there way to hide the fact that is it not unlimited.
It is NOT everyone wanting something for nothing, it is about having all of the factors in front of you to choose the lesser of the evils.
I still use a LJ4+ with 12MB ram at home. I spend about $20 for a Xerox branded toner for it about every three years and get about 5000-7000 pages out of it. It's slower than newer laser printers and has a page count of over 150,000 but still going strong and producing quality output on a wide variety of paper.
Twain planned to republish every one of his works the moment it went out of copyright with one-third more content, hoping that availability of such 'premium' version will make prints based on the out-of-copyright version less desirable on the market."
Exactly why the limits SHOULD be less then they are now. Back then, the length of the copyright period was actually promoting the publishing of new material.
Most reputable ones do. The Consumer Electronics Association has many standards for measurement and ratings that manufacturers can follow if they chose to. Some use them, some do not, some use them but bury the standard CEA qualified specs way in the back of the manual too.
Stereo and speaker makers have been using that same type of advertising for years and no one has done anything about it. Yes it puts out 1000W max but that is for 0.0001 seconds at 3 khz with 48% distortion. Verizon says blazing fast 100mbit but fails to tell you that is only for 1.4 minutes every hour. Looks like the same type of advertising to me.
Ideally you would never use a system like that with a single point of failure. If you did, the "point of failure" would be who ever made that decision. The technology is there for redundancy and standard practice in the VM server world already. The problem comes from trying to justify the cost of that redundancy for the desktops. That is the main reason the ROI is just not there for the average deployment yet. 100GB of storage and 4GB ram on a desktop computer is cheap, 100GB of storage stored on a FC SAN and replicated and backed up or snapshots and 4GB memory for each desktop that is virtualized is not as cheap. The costs can be offset with thin provisioning and memory over commitment/sharing but it is still costing a lot more. It will be a few years before virtualizing desktops will be considered cost effective. Right now, the availability and consistent product or desktop presented to the end users coming in remotely or locally is the main selling point.
They are gaining in some segments. The disadvantage is the dust on "standards" for virtual desktops is FAR from settling and the ROI is still not even close, some suggest it is still 1.5-2 times more for thin clients overall compared to plain old desktops when you add the additional backend storage and CPU and additional NOC and admins compared to the plain old Tier 1/2 and hardware techs that support full desktops. Even basic things like what communications protocol to use for them is changing daily along with what codecs to translate and accelerate locally and how to do it, how to integrate your companies VOIP suite into the thin clients, different methods of handling USB etc.. We've been testing some WYSE and HP thin clients for some time now with Xen and VMView. They work but they are FAR from being "there" yet.
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Substitute "real life groups of friends you hang out with in person" and "Facebook friends" and you have the same exact problems and anxieties.
I hope no one actually paid to conduct or review the results of that survey.
I fully agree with local governments regulating and using tax payer money for the the last mile construction and maintenance. In the US now, it is already "kind of" government controlled with franchise agreements but that single company gets exclusive use after that. The users/residents are paying the same exact amount for the lines one way of the other, why not have them opened up for competition? I'd much rather pay my local government for the lines and the choice to pay Comcast for service than be stuck and forced to pay Comcast for both.
Or the people that use their dog, favorite football teams etc.. for their picture. Since most FB friends are probably not your real friends, you don't know a lot of that stuff.
Strange. I figured everyone who likes PF already ripped their CD's to flac or compressed to listen on the go years ago. For me personally, even with VBR with high avg bit rates using various encoders and options, I notice annoying artifacts and it is just not appealing when loud. A lot of PF source material has flaws and glitches (including the various remasters, SDAC, golds, that I've heard etc) and even with that, I really can't enjoy PF in compressed format. 95% of the other music I've heard uncompressed and compressed doesn't bother me.
Way back in the day, I had a 45 of "Another Brick in the Wall II" with "One of my Turns" on the B side.
I did not say it was MS specific at all. I stated that MS's incentive to support DRM is for their benefit, just as it is for Apples and Sonys benefit to support it as well. If you buy a TV episode from iTunes and it has DRM, you will only be watching that show on a device that Apple approves of. If you buy hundreds of them over a two year period, you will always have to watch them on an Apple approved device. If I buy a movie from the Sony store, I will only be able to watch that on a device that Sony approves of like my PSP. If I buy a video with DRM from iTunes, can I and play it on my PSP, Zune, Evo, N800, or my Linux netbook or what ever other cool device that has not come to market yet? The choices you are using obviously have no DRM mechanism, therefore you are not locked in. What part of that is confusing?
You really don't know? With DRM, the media companies get on board because it provides a relative sense of security that their media is protected from unauthorized and uncontrolled use (through technical AND legal measures), win for them. Using MS DRM gets to lock you in to the MS suite of licensed proprietary codecs, software, and hardware. The more MS codecs, software, and hardware you are using, the harder it is for you to take your media to a non MS licensed software and/or hardware solution, win for them. The system is marketed as everyone wins with DRM! The flaw.. Although you are winning as well because you have limited access to the media, you are definitely winning a lot less then they are because of the DRM restrictions and the lock-in. Repeat the same reasons for Apple.
The prosecution can and does use anything and everything they can against you. But.. giving information to the police or an investigating officer of the law is not the same as being in court and testifying and providing information in front of a jury and/or judge.
This was posted to /. in the past and worth watching.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4097602514885833865#
Not quite. MS did not have an OS at a price point that made sense for makers of netbooks. MS saw Linux catching on in the netbooks and released a scaled down version of XP and more recently Win7 starter at a reduced price and artificial limitations put on what hardware it could run on (amount of memory limited to 1GB, screen size at 10.2, HD size etc..). This was a version specifically created for only netbooks. There was pressure on the hardware vendors to include this as an option to the Linux versions and the deals were sweet. Shortly there after, Linux is rarely an option on netbooks any more and you wont find any at most retailers. Basically, Linux had an inroad, MS saw it, sweetened the deal for hardware companies and Linux netbooks went away. The netbook market could be more robust now but with MS's standards for what hardware can be used to run their cheap version of the OS, the hardware netbook market is 100% defined and lives and dies by MS's requirements of there OS. The "consumer" demand had little to do the process because the Linux netbooks were doing fine before MS got involved and if netbooks could evolve without MS's limitations, it would be better for everyone involved except MS.
Yes, consumer demand pushed up sales of MS netbooks but the demand was driven by a strategic effort to give the consumers less to choose from.
If you're connecting an air hose to an IV, there is something really wrong. Any nurse who does something like this is purely incompetent. I know several RNs and talk to a few on a daily basis. It is a somewhat stressful and fast-paced job, but you cannot ethically exceed your working pace.
I understand your position on this but realistically, people make mistakes. If the mistake is common, why not reduce the non human part of the problem. The air conditioning system in your car has a high pressure and a low pressure access port. They are standardized and two different sizes to prevent someone from attaching a refrigerant charging apparatus to the high side which could blow something up. Not only that but the old R12 A/C systems have two completely different sized ports than the newer R134A systems. That prevents someone from putting the wrong refrigerant in the system. Sure, anyone can follow the lines back to the compressor and see if they are working on the low or high side but the "human" fix of using different port sizes helps prevent mistakes.
Mine is Time Machine from Data East. A close second was Funhouse, Black Knight, T2, or Rollergames. I guess I liked just about all of them except for one machine circa mid 80's which had a wavy no flat glass play field, a magnetic hole, and a lot of proximity sensors but I don't remember the name.
That's an inevitable and unfortunate side effect of basing public policy on extreme visceral emotions, like the loss of a loved one. The idea that someone you care about is hurt, maimed, or killed because of the completely preventable, blatant irresponsibility and disregard for life of a drunk driver is quite naturally an extreme and very emotional position.
DUI is only an issue BECAUSE there is a loss of life, if no one was dying or getting hurt from it, no one would care and it would be perfectly legal. If you ignore the emotional impact of the loss of life then DUI doesn't look to bad but in reality, that loss of live is there what you are trying to prevent. Using the emotions makes sense to show the impact and the real danger. That being said, using DUI as a soap box to push prohibition is taking it to far.
Not only the tires but the I've noticed a trend of car makers using smaller thinner rotors as well. The rotors on some cars are basically throw away and on some cars wear to the point that they should probably be replaced when the pads wear out. For the DIY car guy, that's not a big deal in cost but for someone that has to pay $400-500 to have a "full" brake job (pads and rotors replaced), it could offset the saving in gas the lighter rotors create.
I have a cover over mine that is painted to look like some light green bushes so I think I'm safe. I did notice a strange white van from some flower shop I never heard of before (Irene's Flowers maybe) parked across the street recently.. Maybe they are on to my pool.
Interesting, I use Ubuntu mainly because I get the desktop and layout like I want to see it. I've been pretty happy using screenlets, hiding or unloading the panels, and using Compiz (I like the "simple compizconfig setting manager" which is much friendlier than the standard compizsettings manager), Emerald, and Avant. It took be about an hour or so and some Google searches to get it all going and another few hours playing with the options to get it the way I liked it the first time but now it only takes me a 20 or so minutes to recreate "my setup" on a new machine.
I don't have to have all of those things running and configured and I don't mind the standard Ubuntu layout with Gnome (like on my Mini that is cpu/graphics challenged) but that's why I chose to use a Linux desktop, because I CAN configure it to how I want it to "look and feel".
Slashdot's Third Law of Apple stories...
For every vocal Apple hater, there is an equal and opposite vocal Apple lover.
When the real caps are listed, you are still free to complain but at least you can comparison shop. If company A has an unlimited plan for 5GB/month, and company B has an unlimited plan with 10GB/month and both are CLEARLY stated and made well known while you are browsing the offerings; You the consumer can compare service and price and take the best one. With "unlimited" being undefined, hidden, tucked away in some web portal under account options--> service -> data -> limits -> your limit -> "amount used" or the last page of your agreement in a size 3 gray font, you can not compare service. These companies go out of their way to call the service unlimited and also go equally out of there way to hide the fact that is it not unlimited.
It is NOT everyone wanting something for nothing, it is about having all of the factors in front of you to choose the lesser of the evils.
I still use a LJ4+ with 12MB ram at home. I spend about $20 for a Xerox branded toner for it about every three years and get about 5000-7000 pages out of it. It's slower than newer laser printers and has a page count of over 150,000 but still going strong and producing quality output on a wide variety of paper.
Twain planned to republish every one of his works the moment it went out of copyright with one-third more content, hoping that availability of such 'premium' version will make prints based on the out-of-copyright version less desirable on the market."
Exactly why the limits SHOULD be less then they are now. Back then, the length of the copyright period was actually promoting the publishing of new material.
Most reputable ones do. The Consumer Electronics Association has many standards for measurement and ratings that manufacturers can follow if they chose to. Some use them, some do not, some use them but bury the standard CEA qualified specs way in the back of the manual too.
http://www.ce.org/Standards/listings.asp
Stereo and speaker makers have been using that same type of advertising for years and no one has done anything about it. Yes it puts out 1000W max but that is for 0.0001 seconds at 3 khz with 48% distortion. Verizon says blazing fast 100mbit but fails to tell you that is only for 1.4 minutes every hour. Looks like the same type of advertising to me.
What bank do you use? Just asking because I'd like to consider that bank.
I'll add my own pun to the list but this one really fits..
EMI is attempting to ride the gravy train and probably asking "Oh by the way, which one is Pink?"
Ideally you would never use a system like that with a single point of failure. If you did, the "point of failure" would be who ever made that decision. The technology is there for redundancy and standard practice in the VM server world already. The problem comes from trying to justify the cost of that redundancy for the desktops. That is the main reason the ROI is just not there for the average deployment yet. 100GB of storage and 4GB ram on a desktop computer is cheap, 100GB of storage stored on a FC SAN and replicated and backed up or snapshots and 4GB memory for each desktop that is virtualized is not as cheap. The costs can be offset with thin provisioning and memory over commitment/sharing but it is still costing a lot more. It will be a few years before virtualizing desktops will be considered cost effective. Right now, the availability and consistent product or desktop presented to the end users coming in remotely or locally is the main selling point.
They are gaining in some segments. The disadvantage is the dust on "standards" for virtual desktops is FAR from settling and the ROI is still not even close, some suggest it is still 1.5-2 times more for thin clients overall compared to plain old desktops when you add the additional backend storage and CPU and additional NOC and admins compared to the plain old Tier 1/2 and hardware techs that support full desktops. Even basic things like what communications protocol to use for them is changing daily along with what codecs to translate and accelerate locally and how to do it, how to integrate your companies VOIP suite into the thin clients, different methods of handling USB etc.. We've been testing some WYSE and HP thin clients for some time now with Xen and VMView. They work but they are FAR from being "there" yet.