And I'm sure you can point to lots of examples where people changed the world by doing nothing?
The reality is that inaction wont lead to change. If you want something different to the world we have now you have to get organised with other like-minded people, agree on what your alternative is and then work really fucking hard to achieve it. Staying at home wont solve anything and you're deluded if you think it will. People in power will just tell any journalists who ask that low voter turnout is a sign of general contentment, that people don't have any problems with the political system and so don't feel the need to vote.
I realise you're advocating mass abstention from voting but that in itself would be a lot harder than simply staying at home, you'd need to campaign for it, and even after you'd built up a big consensus you'd still have to get agreement on an alternative. The left have been failing at doing exactly that for well over a hundred years now, so good luck!
Read a bit closer. The iPhone is clearly a GSM device. My OP clearly shows understanding of this fact. I assumed that GSM was somehow a new or uncommon thing in America, i.e. it was new enough that the people who work for O'Reilly, a very well known tech publishing firm, hadn't heard of this GSM artefact.
So this whole thread is just a misunderstanding on my part combined with a cheeky little comment leading sense of humour failure somewhere between me and today's moderators.
I assume it's because I insinuated that the USA is technologically inferior. I actually didn't realise that the USA has GSM, I assumed it was all CDMA. That was the only explanation that popped into my head as to why the guys at O'Reilly hadn't heard the GSM buzz before.
That buzz in GTA drove me mental. Each time I heard it I instinctively looked at my phone assuming I had received a txt! I agree that it was a very cool touch.
It works in real life too like at house parties, people that have their phones on vibrate sneak a quick look at their phones when the PA gives off the GSM buzz.
Maybe it's just because you guys aren't used to GSM cellphones but over here in the UK everyone recognises that noise. Anytime you put a mobile next to speakers you get that noise.
According to the Working Time Regulations you have to provide at least one unbroken twenty minute break that's not near the start or end of the day. There are additional health & safety concerns too, i.e. if an employee has an accident and says on their report form it was because they were knackered due to not having sat down for a brew for 4hrs that can cause problems. That's why most firms here in the UK give at least a thirty minute unpaid lunch break and a paid fifteen or twenty minute tea break.
There are eSATA connectors. These days you just get a bog standard SATA drive and put it in an enclosure. The OP was mistaken in assuming that anyone buying one of these drives for external use (no mention of USB or Firewire in the OP) would be using a low speed bus.
OK, I didn't realise isopropyl was so bad for other parts, PCB and chip packages are pretty much the only things I've cleaned. I guess a mixture of approaches is needed for cleaning whole devices then!
...but instead I'll add to the clamour pointing out how dangerous your suggestions are.
It shouldn't really damage tin solder or chip packages but who knows. You're probably better off with distilled water and bleach for mold. Maybe give it a wash with isopropyl afterwards, but use the 50-70% cheap stuff.
99% Isopropyl alcohol is the preferred method of cleaning chip packages. If you ever remove the heatsinks from your CPU/motherboard/gfx card then it's what you use to clean away all the old gunk. Don't use bleach, as everyone else says. It's corrosive. Don't use the 70% stuff, it's no good. It leaves water behind.
To clean electronics, you use 99% isopropyl alcohol. Wipe down with a non-static cloth until it evaporates without leaving any marks. The item will then be clean.
there is a big difference between a physical product and something that can be duplicated at nearly no cost.
The only difference between the two things you mentioned is a technicality: if we're discussing the ethics of taking them without consent, they are the same.
Dismissing the fact that one object is expensive to duplicate whilst the other costs almost nothing is not a technicality. Look at it the other way: if cars were as easy to duplicate as bits everyone would be doing it - it'd be a Star Trek future!
As it stands duplication of bits is essentially free so it's not possible to steal them. The ethical question is different, it's not a case of physically taking something that belongs to someone else, it's about depriving artists/authors of money. That's why it's clearly wrong to download a game/album/film and then not buy it if you like it. I'd even agree that it's wrong to download said media in the first place, it's just that there's no legal alternative in place for downloading lots of stuff and figuring out what you like. I imagine P2P for most people is just a bit of immoral laziness like this.
As all the.nfo's say, "buy it if you like it!" but that's really all it comes down to.
It's actually not all or nothing. Progressive enhancement means that you can treat it as either a hyperlink or a button to trigger JavaScript.
Example: When you reply to my comment, if you've got tabbed browsing turned on, you should be able to middle-click on the "Reply to This" button and open it in a new tab. Or you can simply click on it, and it will expand inside this page,
Which is exactly what he's saying works in the original applications (like Gmail) but is broken in the new iGoogle...
It sucks when that happens, but that's not the AJAX itself. That's when people decide to not provide both options
...and you seem to acknowledge that here. I think the point being made is that turning a link into a javascript function breaks it by default. The developer has to figure out a way to make opening a link work as expected for new windows and tabs.
The new iGoogle doesn't seem to provide that functionality, therefore it's still a bit broken.
Yea, because I'd want to keep my number. I've had a PAYG phone lost and I reported it just so my network would send me a new SIM registered with my old number. My lost phones IMEI was barred as part of the procedure.
Newer Nokia phones, in fact newer phones in general are quite hard to change the IMEI on. They've started storing it in a proper write-once ROM. Having said that, I suppose one could just get a compatible ROM chip and install it.
The 5yr prison sentence for changing IMEI is quite justified. The only reason you'd want to change your IMEI is because your phone is stolen which means your knowingly handling stolen goods and most probably reprogramming stolen phones for other people too. I can't think of a single legitimate reason to change your IMEI, it's not like ethernet where MAC spoofing is useful for lots of reasons.
I know of a working O2 SIM, 2yrs old, unregistered. I also got, last year, at least one working unregistered Fresh SIM and I assume the 6 others still sealed worked too; they only accept top-up via card payment making anonymity a moot point unless you get one of those prepay debit cards you can top-up using PayPoints in shops. I've been on T-Mobile PAYG for about 4 years and I only had to register my SIM because I wanted to use the features on their website.
Are you sure that's really meant to be the case for all SIMs on all networks?
All the networks bar stolen IMEI numbers. Most likely what will happen is that people will just find ways to acquire both phones and SIM cards without using ID.
As it stands this wont cause any problems in the short term. I've got quite a few SIM cards lying round for various networks, none of which are associated with any names. As it happens my current PAYG sim is registered to my name just so I can use the control panel on my networks website.
Trading mobile phones and accessories happens to attract a fair few dealers (it's a big cash in hand business so easy to make it look like your making money selling phones, not coke) so I think as soon as word of this law hits then people will just start stockpiling SIMs. In the short term this wont make any difference, it's only over the longer term as unregistered SIMs start to become scarce that it'll cause problems. Getting unregistered mobile phones, however, will be as easy as a trip to mainland Europe.
I'd argue that in a shrinking economy, being known to your boss as "the one that went over his head" might be detrimental to your career.
Unless it's being known as "the one that went over his head saving tens of thousands of dollars". If he can find some uses in their organisation where there is a comparable or better FOSS alternative then they could probably save lots of money.
If you were to assume that we lived in a GPL'd world, game companies could still charge money for their game assets (sound, textures, models, etc). To the end user there wouldn't be anything different except their discs would have a "src" directory. Most companies would probably go down this route anyway if there were a decent FOSS game engine around, as it stands it's just cheaper for them to license some middleware like Unreal Engine 3 or Gamebryo.
As it stands though, selling service for a tool like Reason and expecting it to support development costs would be insane. The software is the product! People going off on the whole "sell support" nonsense don't seem to understand that certain types of software only have value insofar as they work as advertised. You don't buy support for a workbench, it either holds your tools and lets you work or it doesn't. If it doesn't you're not gonna use it no matter how free it is.
The space stage has one drawback, which makes it unplayable after a few hours: you have only one spaceship. As your empire grows, you're going to need more. And if you ever hope to conquer the entire galaxy, as the game is supposed to allow, you're going to need a LOT more.
You can deploy Uber Turrents on all your planets to make almost all enemy attacks fail, although pirates still occasionally get away with spice, but there's no way to completely turn off the attack spam. I was buying huge quantities (sell a full load of pink, purple, or blue spice for lots of creds) of Uber Turrents, deploying them and concentrating on building turrents for colonies first. That meant I could go anywhere in the galaxy and ignore attack warnings. The colonists got annoyed next time I saw them but that didn't seem to have any consequences.
That didn't solve the ecological collapse missions though. It was such a pain having to remember which wormholes navigate to where and if I failed to respond to those missions either one of my planets would start to collapse or an ally would get annoyed with me for not sorting out their problem!
Spore is so close to being a great game, it's just not quite there yet. They should have held onto it for another year for some massive playtesting and tuning and they should've released this forthcoming away mission add-on as part of the game.
It's about killing the resale market. You can get pirate copies for PC & 360 regardless of any protection they put on. I don't know about PS3 but I expect it will be forthcoming.
I was sad that even Betty page bought into christian bullshit... pretty, great personality, and even did good in school but in that one way she was dumb as rocks apparently. People compartmentalize, it's a fear of death thing unfortunately. It's been theorized that religion is an evolutionary reaction to awareness of ones own death.
You do realise that, with that comment, you represent the atheist opposite of the YECs? By simplifying peoples' religious views as nothing more than "fear of death" you're just making up your own straw man to fight; that's similar to the way that YECs misrepresent the facts about evolution.
Some people believe in Dietys. Some of those belief systems contradict the observed physical facts about the universe we live in. Faith really doesn't seem to be about intelligence, it's about a wide variety of other cultural factors.
Being so heavily prejudiced against people with religious views means you stand no chance of really understanding them or, more importantly, convincing them as to why they're wrong.
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The problem with the Real Media DVD copying box was that the DVDCCA thinks it violates the license that RM signed. Regardless of the legal status of any such boxes, companies that have signed license agreements with the DVDCCA can't produce them.
A problem with death + 5 years is that for very lucrative works (e.g. Harry Potter) then it becomes profitable for people to assassinate the author simply in order to get rid of copyright on a work.
Uhm, do you live in a rough part of the world or are you always that paranoid? I'm not convinced that shortening post-death copyright terms would lead to an increase in authors being bumped off!
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And I'm sure you can point to lots of examples where people changed the world by doing nothing?
The reality is that inaction wont lead to change. If you want something different to the world we have now you have to get organised with other like-minded people, agree on what your alternative is and then work really fucking hard to achieve it. Staying at home wont solve anything and you're deluded if you think it will. People in power will just tell any journalists who ask that low voter turnout is a sign of general contentment, that people don't have any problems with the political system and so don't feel the need to vote.
I realise you're advocating mass abstention from voting but that in itself would be a lot harder than simply staying at home, you'd need to campaign for it, and even after you'd built up a big consensus you'd still have to get agreement on an alternative. The left have been failing at doing exactly that for well over a hundred years now, so good luck!
Read a bit closer. The iPhone is clearly a GSM device. My OP clearly shows understanding of this fact. I assumed that GSM was somehow a new or uncommon thing in America, i.e. it was new enough that the people who work for O'Reilly, a very well known tech publishing firm, hadn't heard of this GSM artefact.
So this whole thread is just a misunderstanding on my part combined with a cheeky little comment leading sense of humour failure somewhere between me and today's moderators.
I assume it's because I insinuated that the USA is technologically inferior. I actually didn't realise that the USA has GSM, I assumed it was all CDMA. That was the only explanation that popped into my head as to why the guys at O'Reilly hadn't heard the GSM buzz before.
That buzz in GTA drove me mental. Each time I heard it I instinctively looked at my phone assuming I had received a txt! I agree that it was a very cool touch.
It works in real life too like at house parties, people that have their phones on vibrate sneak a quick look at their phones when the PA gives off the GSM buzz.
Maybe it's just because you guys aren't used to GSM cellphones but over here in the UK everyone recognises that noise. Anytime you put a mobile next to speakers you get that noise.
Welcome to the 1990s, America!
According to the Working Time Regulations you have to provide at least one unbroken twenty minute break that's not near the start or end of the day. There are additional health & safety concerns too, i.e. if an employee has an accident and says on their report form it was because they were knackered due to not having sat down for a brew for 4hrs that can cause problems. That's why most firms here in the UK give at least a thirty minute unpaid lunch break and a paid fifteen or twenty minute tea break.
One would assume hand delivered to his house, as opposed to emailing or even texting him, which my ISP does when they want my attention.
There are eSATA connectors. These days you just get a bog standard SATA drive and put it in an enclosure. The OP was mistaken in assuming that anyone buying one of these drives for external use (no mention of USB or Firewire in the OP) would be using a low speed bus.
So, GP was being sarcastic but not a troll.
OK, I didn't realise isopropyl was so bad for other parts, PCB and chip packages are pretty much the only things I've cleaned. I guess a mixture of approaches is needed for cleaning whole devices then!
...but instead I'll add to the clamour pointing out how dangerous your suggestions are.
It shouldn't really damage tin solder or chip packages but who knows. You're probably better off with distilled water and bleach for mold. Maybe give it a wash with isopropyl afterwards, but use the 50-70% cheap stuff.
99% Isopropyl alcohol is the preferred method of cleaning chip packages. If you ever remove the heatsinks from your CPU/motherboard/gfx card then it's what you use to clean away all the old gunk. Don't use bleach, as everyone else says. It's corrosive. Don't use the 70% stuff, it's no good. It leaves water behind.
To clean electronics, you use 99% isopropyl alcohol. Wipe down with a non-static cloth until it evaporates without leaving any marks. The item will then be clean.
there is a big difference between a physical product and something that can be duplicated at nearly no cost.
The only difference between the two things you mentioned is a technicality: if we're discussing the ethics of taking them without consent, they are the same.
Dismissing the fact that one object is expensive to duplicate whilst the other costs almost nothing is not a technicality. Look at it the other way: if cars were as easy to duplicate as bits everyone would be doing it - it'd be a Star Trek future!
As it stands duplication of bits is essentially free so it's not possible to steal them. The ethical question is different, it's not a case of physically taking something that belongs to someone else, it's about depriving artists/authors of money. That's why it's clearly wrong to download a game/album/film and then not buy it if you like it. I'd even agree that it's wrong to download said media in the first place, it's just that there's no legal alternative in place for downloading lots of stuff and figuring out what you like. I imagine P2P for most people is just a bit of immoral laziness like this.
As all the .nfo's say, "buy it if you like it!" but that's really all it comes down to.
It's actually not all or nothing. Progressive enhancement means that you can treat it as either a hyperlink or a button to trigger JavaScript.
Example: When you reply to my comment, if you've got tabbed browsing turned on, you should be able to middle-click on the "Reply to This" button and open it in a new tab. Or you can simply click on it, and it will expand inside this page,
Which is exactly what he's saying works in the original applications (like Gmail) but is broken in the new iGoogle...
It sucks when that happens, but that's not the AJAX itself. That's when people decide to not provide both options
...and you seem to acknowledge that here. I think the point being made is that turning a link into a javascript function breaks it by default. The developer has to figure out a way to make opening a link work as expected for new windows and tabs.
The new iGoogle doesn't seem to provide that functionality, therefore it's still a bit broken.
Yea, because I'd want to keep my number. I've had a PAYG phone lost and I reported it just so my network would send me a new SIM registered with my old number. My lost phones IMEI was barred as part of the procedure.
Newer Nokia phones, in fact newer phones in general are quite hard to change the IMEI on. They've started storing it in a proper write-once ROM. Having said that, I suppose one could just get a compatible ROM chip and install it.
The 5yr prison sentence for changing IMEI is quite justified. The only reason you'd want to change your IMEI is because your phone is stolen which means your knowingly handling stolen goods and most probably reprogramming stolen phones for other people too. I can't think of a single legitimate reason to change your IMEI, it's not like ethernet where MAC spoofing is useful for lots of reasons.
All the networks bar stolen IMEI numbers.
Certainly not all. For example, Rogers, the largest cell phone company in Canada (and the only company with a GSM network in Canada), doesn't.
This is about the UK. All networks in the UK bar stolen IMEI numbers.
I know of a working O2 SIM, 2yrs old, unregistered. I also got, last year, at least one working unregistered Fresh SIM and I assume the 6 others still sealed worked too; they only accept top-up via card payment making anonymity a moot point unless you get one of those prepay debit cards you can top-up using PayPoints in shops. I've been on T-Mobile PAYG for about 4 years and I only had to register my SIM because I wanted to use the features on their website.
Are you sure that's really meant to be the case for all SIMs on all networks?
The TFA doesn't mention it but it'd be ridiculous if they didn't apply the same rules to acquiring SIM cards.
All the networks bar stolen IMEI numbers. Most likely what will happen is that people will just find ways to acquire both phones and SIM cards without using ID.
As it stands this wont cause any problems in the short term. I've got quite a few SIM cards lying round for various networks, none of which are associated with any names. As it happens my current PAYG sim is registered to my name just so I can use the control panel on my networks website.
Trading mobile phones and accessories happens to attract a fair few dealers (it's a big cash in hand business so easy to make it look like your making money selling phones, not coke) so I think as soon as word of this law hits then people will just start stockpiling SIMs. In the short term this wont make any difference, it's only over the longer term as unregistered SIMs start to become scarce that it'll cause problems. Getting unregistered mobile phones, however, will be as easy as a trip to mainland Europe.
I'd argue that in a shrinking economy, being known to your boss as "the one that went over his head" might be detrimental to your career.
Unless it's being known as "the one that went over his head saving tens of thousands of dollars". If he can find some uses in their organisation where there is a comparable or better FOSS alternative then they could probably save lots of money.
If you were to assume that we lived in a GPL'd world, game companies could still charge money for their game assets (sound, textures, models, etc). To the end user there wouldn't be anything different except their discs would have a "src" directory. Most companies would probably go down this route anyway if there were a decent FOSS game engine around, as it stands it's just cheaper for them to license some middleware like Unreal Engine 3 or Gamebryo.
As it stands though, selling service for a tool like Reason and expecting it to support development costs would be insane. The software is the product! People going off on the whole "sell support" nonsense don't seem to understand that certain types of software only have value insofar as they work as advertised. You don't buy support for a workbench, it either holds your tools and lets you work or it doesn't. If it doesn't you're not gonna use it no matter how free it is.
The space stage has one drawback, which makes it unplayable after a few hours: you have only one spaceship. As your empire grows, you're going to need more. And if you ever hope to conquer the entire galaxy, as the game is supposed to allow, you're going to need a LOT more.
You can deploy Uber Turrents on all your planets to make almost all enemy attacks fail, although pirates still occasionally get away with spice, but there's no way to completely turn off the attack spam. I was buying huge quantities (sell a full load of pink, purple, or blue spice for lots of creds) of Uber Turrents, deploying them and concentrating on building turrents for colonies first. That meant I could go anywhere in the galaxy and ignore attack warnings. The colonists got annoyed next time I saw them but that didn't seem to have any consequences.
That didn't solve the ecological collapse missions though. It was such a pain having to remember which wormholes navigate to where and if I failed to respond to those missions either one of my planets would start to collapse or an ally would get annoyed with me for not sorting out their problem!
Spore is so close to being a great game, it's just not quite there yet. They should have held onto it for another year for some massive playtesting and tuning and they should've released this forthcoming away mission add-on as part of the game.
It's about killing the resale market. You can get pirate copies for PC & 360 regardless of any protection they put on. I don't know about PS3 but I expect it will be forthcoming.
I was sad that even Betty page bought into christian bullshit... pretty, great personality, and even did good in school but in that one way she was dumb as rocks apparently. People compartmentalize, it's a fear of death thing unfortunately. It's been theorized that religion is an evolutionary reaction to awareness of ones own death.
You do realise that, with that comment, you represent the atheist opposite of the YECs? By simplifying peoples' religious views as nothing more than "fear of death" you're just making up your own straw man to fight; that's similar to the way that YECs misrepresent the facts about evolution.
Some people believe in Dietys. Some of those belief systems contradict the observed physical facts about the universe we live in. Faith really doesn't seem to be about intelligence, it's about a wide variety of other cultural factors.
Being so heavily prejudiced against people with religious views means you stand no chance of really understanding them or, more importantly, convincing them as to why they're wrong.
The problem with the Real Media DVD copying box was that the DVDCCA thinks it violates the license that RM signed. Regardless of the legal status of any such boxes, companies that have signed license agreements with the DVDCCA can't produce them.
A problem with death + 5 years is that for very lucrative works (e.g. Harry Potter) then it becomes profitable for people to assassinate the author simply in order to get rid of copyright on a work.
Uhm, do you live in a rough part of the world or are you always that paranoid? I'm not convinced that shortening post-death copyright terms would lead to an increase in authors being bumped off!