Punish that damn ATI for not having an open source driver. Punish them by buying hardware from another company that doesn't have open source drivers!!!
Give your friend a deck of cards. Turn around and have them shuffle it, select a card at random, memorize the card and put it back in the deck. Have them shuffle it some more (without you looking at it). Take the deck from them and take a card from it and say 'this was your card'.
In the long run, you'll be right about 1 in 52 times. If you happen to be right the first time with a particular friend, and never do the trick again, they will be scratching their head for a long time trying to figure out how you did it.
So, the point I'm trying to make is that it could take longer than the life of a hard drive to crack the super secret code, or you get get it right on the first guess (or the second one, or the third one...). So it seems rather silly to claim that it is uncrackable.
I'm guessing that not everyone who makes music uses Cubase, thus all the tools you need to make music does not necessarily include Cubase.
I happen to know a guy who knows a guy who knew a guy who knew Jimi Hendrix, and while he tried Cubase he ended up not using it for most of his earlier works.
The planet simply can't sustain the 6.5 billion of us there are now, let alone the billions more to be born in the next few decades
I think you underestimate the size of the planet - it's pretty big.
There are 6.5 billion people on the earth (well, roughly - last time I counted, I think I lost count at about 4 billion, but I'm pretty sure I was more than halfway at that point).
Assuming everyone lived in households of 3, and each household had it's own acre of land, you would be able to fit the entire population of the world in the US. That would leave the rest of the world empty - like empty - with no people.
Of course you are somewhat correct in that any finite resource (no matter how big) can not stand up to infinite growth however to imply that it will happen in our lifetime (or even the lifetime of a child born tomorrow) is absolutely absurd!
Without either confirming or denying my geekiness...Why would you predict anything less than disappointment?
Without having tried the service, I'm guessing that for the same amount of money ($4) and less time, I could drive (or bike) to the video store, rent a DVD and get home and be watching it in less time than it would take to download - if this was a new release I would have 48 hours to watch - if it was not a new release I would have a week to watch it.
Oh yeah - I could watch it on any TV to which I could hook up a $30 DVD player.
If I watched 5 movies per month, a blockbuster online subscription would be much cheaper and allow me to watch many more movies for the same effort (pointing and clicking) and would not require my to have a broadband internet access at my house (which I do have, but many don't).
I highly doubt that the quality of the downloadable movies is higher than that of a DVD, and I would expect that it is actually inferior to the quality of a DVD.
I am supposed to be happy with paying the same amount of money for a lower quality less convenient option than I already have?
I think a nickel a pop would be a bit too cheap for what they are offering, but I think that $1/download would probably still be too costly for what you get.
You're kidding right? Verizon has the best network in the states - I will give them that. It takes much more than that to be the best carrier. Their customer service is far less than desirable, their phones are so crippled it makes me cringe (until visiting Howard Forums and learning to de-cripple them).
As for technology? Cell Phones? In America? Compared to the phones in most of Europe and Asia, the phones here are bricks. Dumber than a bag of hammers.
Only if you need a bunch of gigabytes - what if you need only 4 GB? What if size and power consumption matter? A 6GB compactFlash microdrive goes for a couple of hundred dollars. That's over $30/GB. They are creating them and selling them, so there are people willing to pay that price for the size/power consumption.
Even if size doesn't matter that much, a standard 10 GB IDE drive is about $20.
More people have died in the 20th century from car accidents than have died from both murders and war combined. It is the single most common way to die accidentally, outranking the next reason by four to one, yet noone does anything about that.
So all the additional safety feature of modern cars are nothing?
Airbags, traction control, abs, crumple zones - well I could go on...but this sounds like a heck of a lot more than nothing already.
okay, so now it's time to close and there is a tool missing.
Where is it? In the patient, on the floor, stuck on some assistants sleeve, or pocket? Or behind the spleen, stuck in the intestines somewhere.
a quick swipe over the patient 'suggests' it is not there. It doesn't confirm it as there might be something faulty with the tag, but it means the doc can search elsewhere first, before digging around internal organs (which they can't like...)
Seriously dude, you think anything that could remotely help in some situations wouldn't be a good idea?
Go back to your little ideal world where everything works like it is supposed, and no-one makes mistakes and we'll stay here in the real world.
I don't know that I've ever heard of a no workplace romance policy. And the policy that this article links to certainly isn't a no workplace romance policy. There are policies that deal with romances between employees and their supervisors and employees and contractors, and employees and beneficiaries because that opens up a whole realm of legal implications, and should be avoided, or if they are not avoided need to be dealt with very specifically in order to keep conflict of interest accusations out of the picture.
Let me explain it to you in simple terms - you are in charge of deciding whether company A gets a million dollar grant, or company B gets a million dollar grant. You are banging the CEO of company A. Company A legitimately deserves the money over company B so you make the decision to give the million to company A (regardless f your current relationship with the CEO). Company B finds out you are in a relationship with the CEO of comapny A and sues over a conflict of interest. Whether they are successful with the lawsuit or not, you've just cost the company a lot of money in legal fees.
The policy states (as does the policy in most corporations I've seen) that you should try to avoid those situations, but if you find yourself in that situation, talk to HR about it, and they will assign that decision to someone else if applicable, or make sure the decision process is monitored and well documented to provide a quick defense of any decision.
And why are you bringing 'small business' into a discussion that involves a multi billion dollar foundation started by a man who until recently ran a multi billion dollar company? The story has absolutely nothing to do with small business.
Putting out mp3's that weren't perhaps what the user was expecting to download can hardly be compared suing people.
I'm sure BNL and the other bands preferred back then and would still prefer that people actually paid them for their music. They don't however want the RIAA to sue the people who downloaded and don't want to encumber their music with DRM.
You can be "for" copyright and "against" DRM and against DMCA.
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MP3s won't stop until all the MP3 players that people own die. And all new players that people buy support something else.
If all I've got is a cassette player, I'm not going to buy CDs, no matter how much better they are.
Good thinking!
Punish that damn ATI for not having an open source driver. Punish them by buying hardware from another company that doesn't have open source drivers!!!
but I do know this nifty card trick:
Give your friend a deck of cards. Turn around and have them shuffle it, select a card at random, memorize the card and put it back in the deck. Have them shuffle it some more (without you looking at it). Take the deck from them and take a card from it and say 'this was your card'.
In the long run, you'll be right about 1 in 52 times. If you happen to be right the first time with a particular friend, and never do the trick again, they will be scratching their head for a long time trying to figure out how you did it.
So, the point I'm trying to make is that it could take longer than the life of a hard drive to crack the super secret code, or you get get it right on the first guess (or the second one, or the third one...). So it seems rather silly to claim that it is uncrackable.
That's a string bet - the end result is you are calling F9090211749D5BE341D8C5565663C088. Always announce your intent to raise first.
I'm guessing that not everyone who makes music uses Cubase, thus all the tools you need to make music does not necessarily include Cubase.
I happen to know a guy who knows a guy who knew a guy who knew Jimi Hendrix, and while he tried Cubase he ended up not using it for most of his earlier works.
making free long distance phone calls.
That is Phreaking...
Yeah Texas is pretty big - you can only fit about 3 and a half of them in Ontario...
The planet simply can't sustain the 6.5 billion of us there are now, let alone the billions more to be born in the next few decades
I think you underestimate the size of the planet - it's pretty big.
There are 6.5 billion people on the earth (well, roughly - last time I counted, I think I lost count at about 4 billion, but I'm pretty sure I was more than halfway at that point).
Assuming everyone lived in households of 3, and each household had it's own acre of land, you would be able to fit the entire population of the world in the US. That would leave the rest of the world empty - like empty - with no people.
Of course you are somewhat correct in that any finite resource (no matter how big) can not stand up to infinite growth however to imply that it will happen in our lifetime (or even the lifetime of a child born tomorrow) is absolutely absurd!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular_repeater
but your iPod could... http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/Feature Comparison
ipod+rockbox+(line in | fm transmitter) = ogg in car
Does the 8525 play your existing music that you've purchased via iTunes? Well then I guess it doesn't do EVERYTHING the iPhone does.
Does it come with 8GB of memory ->Nope Does it have a 320x480 screen?
And somehow it does all this and is smaller.
Without either confirming or denying my geekiness...Why would you predict anything less than disappointment?
Without having tried the service, I'm guessing that for the same amount of money ($4) and less time, I could drive (or bike) to the video store, rent a DVD and get home and be watching it in less time than it would take to download - if this was a new release I would have 48 hours to watch - if it was not a new release I would have a week to watch it.
Oh yeah - I could watch it on any TV to which I could hook up a $30 DVD player.
If I watched 5 movies per month, a blockbuster online subscription would be much cheaper and allow me to watch many more movies for the same effort (pointing and clicking) and would not require my to have a broadband internet access at my house (which I do have, but many don't).
I highly doubt that the quality of the downloadable movies is higher than that of a DVD, and I would expect that it is actually inferior to the quality of a DVD.
I am supposed to be happy with paying the same amount of money for a lower quality less convenient option than I already have?
I think a nickel a pop would be a bit too cheap for what they are offering, but I think that $1/download would probably still be too costly for what you get.
Although, at 19 years of employment and months away from retirement (don't you retire at 20yrs?)
WTF does 20 years have to do with anything? I'll have 20 years at my company in 7 more years, but I don't think I'll be retiring at 43...
Depending upon what you believe, there is no new energy. The big bang released all the energy there is and ever would be.
who cares if we figure out, say, how to meet 10% of our energy needs with new tech when our consumption rises 10% (or more).
It a heck of a lot better than having our consumption rise and not having a better way to deal with it...
Who cares if we find a cure for cancer when people are just going to die in car accidents?
Oh, and IANAL, but you quash subpoenas :] There's no 's' in quash.
IANASP (IANASpellingPerson), but I believe that there is one 's' in quash
You're kidding right? Verizon has the best network in the states - I will give them that. It takes much more than that to be the best carrier. Their customer service is far less than desirable, their phones are so crippled it makes me cringe (until visiting Howard Forums and learning to de-cripple them).
As for technology? Cell Phones? In America? Compared to the phones in most of Europe and Asia, the phones here are bricks. Dumber than a bag of hammers.
Smurf rhymes with smut?
Apparently spelling and rhyming need extra attention...
My gas station still charges me PER GALLON of gasoline, so when I go to rent a movie it costs me an additional amount to pay for the gas to get there.
Hard Disk Drives now are about $0.50 a Gigabyte.
Only if you need a bunch of gigabytes - what if you need only 4 GB? What if size and power consumption matter? A 6GB compactFlash microdrive goes for a couple of hundred dollars. That's over $30/GB. They are creating them and selling them, so there are people willing to pay that price for the size/power consumption.
Even if size doesn't matter that much, a standard 10 GB IDE drive is about $20.
More people have died in the 20th century from car accidents than have died from both murders and war combined. It is the single most common way to die accidentally, outranking the next reason by four to one, yet noone does anything about that.
So all the additional safety feature of modern cars are nothing?
Airbags, traction control, abs, crumple zones - well I could go on...but this sounds like a heck of a lot more than nothing already.
okay, so now it's time to close and there is a tool missing.
Where is it? In the patient, on the floor, stuck on some assistants sleeve, or pocket? Or behind the spleen, stuck in the intestines somewhere.
a quick swipe over the patient 'suggests' it is not there. It doesn't confirm it as there might be something faulty with the tag, but it means the doc can search elsewhere first, before digging around internal organs (which they can't like...)
Seriously dude, you think anything that could remotely help in some situations wouldn't be a good idea?
Go back to your little ideal world where everything works like it is supposed, and no-one makes mistakes and we'll stay here in the real world.
Apparently floppies aren't dead as this person uses them often.
There are lots of older PCs that don't have a working CD and tons more that don't have usb ports, or don't have a bios capable of booting from USB.
I don't know that I've ever heard of a no workplace romance policy. And the policy that this article links to certainly isn't a no workplace romance policy. There are policies that deal with romances between employees and their supervisors and employees and contractors, and employees and beneficiaries because that opens up a whole realm of legal implications, and should be avoided, or if they are not avoided need to be dealt with very specifically in order to keep conflict of interest accusations out of the picture.
Let me explain it to you in simple terms - you are in charge of deciding whether company A gets a million dollar grant, or company B gets a million dollar grant. You are banging the CEO of company A. Company A legitimately deserves the money over company B so you make the decision to give the million to company A (regardless f your current relationship with the CEO). Company B finds out you are in a relationship with the CEO of comapny A and sues over a conflict of interest. Whether they are successful with the lawsuit or not, you've just cost the company a lot of money in legal fees.
The policy states (as does the policy in most corporations I've seen) that you should try to avoid those situations, but if you find yourself in that situation, talk to HR about it, and they will assign that decision to someone else if applicable, or make sure the decision process is monitored and well documented to provide a quick defense of any decision.
And why are you bringing 'small business' into a discussion that involves a multi billion dollar foundation started by a man who until recently ran a multi billion dollar company? The story has absolutely nothing to do with small business.
So this system seems highly worthless to me.
So although something may not help you specifically it is worthless? Do you have cancer? No? Then I suppose a cure for cancer is worthless too?
Putting out mp3's that weren't perhaps what the user was expecting to download can hardly be compared suing people.
I'm sure BNL and the other bands preferred back then and would still prefer that people actually paid them for their music. They don't however want the RIAA to sue the people who downloaded and don't want to encumber their music with DRM.
You can be "for" copyright and "against" DRM and against DMCA.