While I agree with your critique of religious fanatics, I do have to step in and correct you on the "single greatest cause of death." Mao and Stalin lead that charge (I forget which one has more blood on his hands), and if you're going to lump "religion" in as one big cause of death it'd be hard to avoid lumping "socialist totalitarian states" as one big cause of death.
If you want to claim that each of them were essentially demanding that society treat the State as sacrosanct, and the leadership of said State as worthy of worship, well, that's a different argument.
But lets keep our facts straight; they're what separates science from superstition.
Well, technically I'm using company electricity, too. However, I strongly suspect that this machine will be swapped out with a newer model in a few years (they're leased, I think) which will be well before the sheet feeder wears out. Most copiers die when the paper feed/print mechanisms wear out, not when the scanner does (at least in my experience).
I'll second this. My office has a networked Xerox Multi-function, and it handles scan-to-pdf very nicely, depositing a PDF in my inbox. Since I'm not using any paper or toner (as I would if I were making copies at the office) no one cares if I stay a few minutes late to run a sheaf or two through the scanner.
I have a standard process by which I do a full-zero format on all drives I receive, whether bought new or acquired with other parts (I don't tend to buy "refurb" disks on their own). It's a good process, and if you can document it, it will help. It won't prevent the original question from being asked, but it might help down the road.
You're right; it would raise the price for all hard drives, since manufacturers would be forced to maintain infrastructure that's really of no use to them in order to be able to sell small quantities to end users. They'll have to hire additional personnel, and set up infrastructure to collect sales taxes. Congratulations, you've just raised the price of the disks on NewEgg, and the price of every computer sold (hint: if WD and Seagate can't offer Dell a super-cheap price on disks because they bought 10 million of them, then Dell can't sell PC's for $300).
Buying through NewEgg is really your best possible situation. They have volume discounts for the amount of volume they move, and you see a lower price, most of the time. Everyone suffered from the supply chain disruption caused by the floods; our EMC rep was getting nervous because they have to fulfill warranty orders on disks in all their storage, and it was becoming harder to source those disks at a reasonable cost.
You're thinking in terms that are very optimistic. Tunisia et al. worked for the same reason that every non-violent protest in history has; the threat of someone else's force. All of these are predicated on the idea that there's someone else out there that won't let the current rulers (British Colonial rulers for Gandhi, Mubarak in Egypt, etc.) treat people that way, and will intervene.
In the US, there is no one who could intervene. The rest of the world may stand there horrified, but if the US government decided to put down a protest, they could do so with impunity; no one has the firepower to challenge them (maybe Russia, but their government supports the Right to Suppress the Populace), and no one with the economic power to leverage would care (China's ruling party also supports the Right to Suppress the Populace).
That's "a few" in common parlance. "Several" would be more than "a handful," which is generally accepted to be five (the number of fingers on the average hand).
Okay, I'll bite. I think he meant "Cue fanboy," in the way that a director on set would say "Cue woman in red dress." You could also queue your fanboys.
Or, we could all be mistaken and he could be trying and failing to type in Spanish (to keep this on topic, one thing that Macs have always done far more easily than their counterparts running other operating systems is allow easy typing of accent characters). "Qué fanboy?" would be appropriate in this case also. Perhaps he was indicating that he expected a fanboy remark, and was surprised to see facts (on Slashdot!) causing him to remark "What fanboy? I don't see no stinkin' fanboy!"
How many highly educated scientists have you met? I'd have to say their ratio of ability to "easily support their own systems" is about even with the general population, at best.
If I were to look at the model number, and discover that it's one-off from what I find at real stores online, I'd put it down and walk out of the store. The one retailer that is most famous for this tactic is WalMart, and their "exclusive" items are all trash that's made to be cheaper than otherwise possible. If target goes that route, I'll have to stop shopping there; I wouldn't be able to trust the merchandise.
Think back to when you had an NES. How many used games did you own? How many games did you buy new?
I didn't have very many games for my NES (wasn't allowed to play very much), but I had friends who did, and they loved used games. The same practices applied then as now; people bought games, played through them, and passed them to another player or sold them, or even more often, traded them. The games that weren't resold or passed around were ones with high re-playability value, or ones with good multiplayer options (e.g., you could sit down with a buddy and run through "Contra" whenever - it never got old).
There was also a very big game rental market: the video rental places in my town had a Nintendo section and a Sega section, and you could rent the latest game cartridge the same way you rented movie cartridges (aka VHS tapes). You would rent the cartridge, take it home and play it for the weekend, then bring it back. Again, this wasn't something I did much, but I had friends who did. The rental game market also doesn't work very well if content is hard-locked to the first purchaser.
Given that even true musicians still need to eat, most of them (that I've met) still do care about copyright, at least inasmuch as it is part of the field in which they operate.
I remember having to set a registry key to disable this in Outlook 97 or 98, and maybe even Outlook 2000. It wouldn't auto-launch a.exe (I don't think), but would automatically run ActiveX or other "active" content code. It was a long time ago, but it definitely did happen.
He's not arguing about them stealing the passphrase. He's arguing about them stealing the passphrase, then using that stolen passphrase to plant evidence, and using the existence of the passphrase (and their alleged ignorance of it) as evidence that they couldn't have planted the evidence.
Is this paranoid? Sure, but that doesn't make it an unreasonable fear.
A friend of mine once suggested that the best way for me to catch up on all the movies he thinks I should've seen by now is to just give him my Netflix password, and see what shows up in the mail.
That said, a cross-rating system where friends can suggest movies and have them actually show up in your Netflix queue might be entertaining. Perhaps you could use some kind of approval process (I see the notification, I click OK and it shows up in my queue) or even moderation (Slashdot style? Do all your friends moderate your queue? +1 Funny? +1 Action? -1 Ben Stiller?).
Interesting to think about, probably a nuisance to implement, beyond my scope and skills, certainly. But, still amusing.
I had a friend (acquaintance?) yell at me for that once, and I presented the same argument you just did (I hold the door for whomever is there). Handily, another friend was there, too, and backed me up.
Me: "I held the door for Mike, too, and he didn't find it condescending." Mike: "It's true, he did hold the door for me. Yesterday when you weren't here, even." Kate: "..."
I understand your wanting to "dig a hole and drop into it" reflex; it took me a while to adjust, too. Just remember that some people can't handle it when someone else is nice to them.
The explanation I get from my female friends is that the men seem to all want little copies of themselves running around. The ages-old quest for immortality continues...
Well sure, if you only watched things that had already aired, but 4D broadcasting will let you watch TV from any point in the time stream! You could watch tomorrow's news of the big backup on the interstate, saving you time on your commute. Or you can watch weather predictions that are better than 50% accurate!
Actually, all the other examples I can think of have serious causality implications. Sports betting becomes boring, but political campaigns just get scary. Nevermind, you can keep your 4D TV.
Like encryption, the key is to have a lot of people doing this. Then, attempts to scrutinize people with "preposterous hair" would overtax the system. If two people are doing it, then your authorities will just target those two. If two thousand are doing it, then they'll have to pick and choose, and are back to square one.
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While I agree with your critique of religious fanatics, I do have to step in and correct you on the "single greatest cause of death." Mao and Stalin lead that charge (I forget which one has more blood on his hands), and if you're going to lump "religion" in as one big cause of death it'd be hard to avoid lumping "socialist totalitarian states" as one big cause of death.
If you want to claim that each of them were essentially demanding that society treat the State as sacrosanct, and the leadership of said State as worthy of worship, well, that's a different argument.
But lets keep our facts straight; they're what separates science from superstition.
Well, technically I'm using company electricity, too. However, I strongly suspect that this machine will be swapped out with a newer model in a few years (they're leased, I think) which will be well before the sheet feeder wears out. Most copiers die when the paper feed/print mechanisms wear out, not when the scanner does (at least in my experience).
I'll second this. My office has a networked Xerox Multi-function, and it handles scan-to-pdf very nicely, depositing a PDF in my inbox. Since I'm not using any paper or toner (as I would if I were making copies at the office) no one cares if I stay a few minutes late to run a sheaf or two through the scanner.
I have a standard process by which I do a full-zero format on all drives I receive, whether bought new or acquired with other parts (I don't tend to buy "refurb" disks on their own). It's a good process, and if you can document it, it will help. It won't prevent the original question from being asked, but it might help down the road.
You're right; it would raise the price for all hard drives, since manufacturers would be forced to maintain infrastructure that's really of no use to them in order to be able to sell small quantities to end users. They'll have to hire additional personnel, and set up infrastructure to collect sales taxes. Congratulations, you've just raised the price of the disks on NewEgg, and the price of every computer sold (hint: if WD and Seagate can't offer Dell a super-cheap price on disks because they bought 10 million of them, then Dell can't sell PC's for $300).
Buying through NewEgg is really your best possible situation. They have volume discounts for the amount of volume they move, and you see a lower price, most of the time. Everyone suffered from the supply chain disruption caused by the floods; our EMC rep was getting nervous because they have to fulfill warranty orders on disks in all their storage, and it was becoming harder to source those disks at a reasonable cost.
but the relevant Bash.org quote is here:
http://bash.org/?98
Major version numbers should be for major features, not for bug fixes.
You're thinking in terms that are very optimistic. Tunisia et al. worked for the same reason that every non-violent protest in history has; the threat of someone else's force. All of these are predicated on the idea that there's someone else out there that won't let the current rulers (British Colonial rulers for Gandhi, Mubarak in Egypt, etc.) treat people that way, and will intervene.
In the US, there is no one who could intervene. The rest of the world may stand there horrified, but if the US government decided to put down a protest, they could do so with impunity; no one has the firepower to challenge them (maybe Russia, but their government supports the Right to Suppress the Populace), and no one with the economic power to leverage would care (China's ruling party also supports the Right to Suppress the Populace).
That's "a few" in common parlance. "Several" would be more than "a handful," which is generally accepted to be five (the number of fingers on the average hand).
Okay, I'll bite. I think he meant "Cue fanboy," in the way that a director on set would say "Cue woman in red dress." You could also queue your fanboys.
Or, we could all be mistaken and he could be trying and failing to type in Spanish (to keep this on topic, one thing that Macs have always done far more easily than their counterparts running other operating systems is allow easy typing of accent characters). "Qué fanboy?" would be appropriate in this case also. Perhaps he was indicating that he expected a fanboy remark, and was surprised to see facts (on Slashdot!) causing him to remark "What fanboy? I don't see no stinkin' fanboy!"
How many highly educated scientists have you met? I'd have to say their ratio of ability to "easily support their own systems" is about even with the general population, at best.
If I were to look at the model number, and discover that it's one-off from what I find at real stores online, I'd put it down and walk out of the store. The one retailer that is most famous for this tactic is WalMart, and their "exclusive" items are all trash that's made to be cheaper than otherwise possible. If target goes that route, I'll have to stop shopping there; I wouldn't be able to trust the merchandise.
I think you're looking for this shirt:
http://www.despair.com/madeinusa.html
Think back to when you had an NES. How many used games did you own? How many games did you buy new?
I didn't have very many games for my NES (wasn't allowed to play very much), but I had friends who did, and they loved used games. The same practices applied then as now; people bought games, played through them, and passed them to another player or sold them, or even more often, traded them. The games that weren't resold or passed around were ones with high re-playability value, or ones with good multiplayer options (e.g., you could sit down with a buddy and run through "Contra" whenever - it never got old).
There was also a very big game rental market: the video rental places in my town had a Nintendo section and a Sega section, and you could rent the latest game cartridge the same way you rented movie cartridges (aka VHS tapes). You would rent the cartridge, take it home and play it for the weekend, then bring it back. Again, this wasn't something I did much, but I had friends who did. The rental game market also doesn't work very well if content is hard-locked to the first purchaser.
Given that even true musicians still need to eat, most of them (that I've met) still do care about copyright, at least inasmuch as it is part of the field in which they operate.
That is awesome. Well played, sir, well played.
I remember having to set a registry key to disable this in Outlook 97 or 98, and maybe even Outlook 2000. It wouldn't auto-launch a .exe (I don't think), but would automatically run ActiveX or other "active" content code. It was a long time ago, but it definitely did happen.
He's not arguing about them stealing the passphrase. He's arguing about them stealing the passphrase, then using that stolen passphrase to plant evidence, and using the existence of the passphrase (and their alleged ignorance of it) as evidence that they couldn't have planted the evidence.
Is this paranoid? Sure, but that doesn't make it an unreasonable fear.
A friend of mine once suggested that the best way for me to catch up on all the movies he thinks I should've seen by now is to just give him my Netflix password, and see what shows up in the mail.
That said, a cross-rating system where friends can suggest movies and have them actually show up in your Netflix queue might be entertaining. Perhaps you could use some kind of approval process (I see the notification, I click OK and it shows up in my queue) or even moderation (Slashdot style? Do all your friends moderate your queue? +1 Funny? +1 Action? -1 Ben Stiller?).
Interesting to think about, probably a nuisance to implement, beyond my scope and skills, certainly. But, still amusing.
I had a friend (acquaintance?) yell at me for that once, and I presented the same argument you just did (I hold the door for whomever is there). Handily, another friend was there, too, and backed me up.
Me: "I held the door for Mike, too, and he didn't find it condescending."
Mike: "It's true, he did hold the door for me. Yesterday when you weren't here, even."
Kate: "..."
I understand your wanting to "dig a hole and drop into it" reflex; it took me a while to adjust, too. Just remember that some people can't handle it when someone else is nice to them.
The explanation I get from my female friends is that the men seem to all want little copies of themselves running around. The ages-old quest for immortality continues...
Imagine going into a theater where 15% of your fellow patrons are screaming at the screen, talking on cell phones, or using laser pointers.
That article was last month.
And no, I don't go to the theater anymore, due to those 15%.
(Excellent point, though.)
If you didn't buy the active-shutter glasses to go with it, then you did pay less for the same TV without 3D.
Well sure, if you only watched things that had already aired, but 4D broadcasting will let you watch TV from any point in the time stream! You could watch tomorrow's news of the big backup on the interstate, saving you time on your commute. Or you can watch weather predictions that are better than 50% accurate!
Actually, all the other examples I can think of have serious causality implications. Sports betting becomes boring, but political campaigns just get scary. Nevermind, you can keep your 4D TV.
Like encryption, the key is to have a lot of people doing this. Then, attempts to scrutinize people with "preposterous hair" would overtax the system. If two people are doing it, then your authorities will just target those two. If two thousand are doing it, then they'll have to pick and choose, and are back to square one.