Don't be too sure of that. The world's crop-surplus is very low actually.
Except for in the US, which he was referring to, which has roughly a 2 year surplus. Of course, that is a grain surplus and not a fruit/vegetable/meat/dairy surplus which is much more important for ones diet.
The MPAA would hire a couple of "consulting" companies to carry out these acts.
These consulting firms would attack and disable some script kiddies computer who is serving MP3s.
So, what does the script kiddie do? He and his bunch of script kiddies go and shut down the offending consulting firms internet connection(s) with a DoS that's about 100 times more massive (because they can use everyone elses poorly protected servers to do it). And that's just if they pick on a teenager in the US.
Say they try and shut down some actual knowledgable hacker in, say, Russia. Wait a second... why are the bank account numbers, credit card numbers, home address and telephone for the head of the MPAA up on MPAA.com? Weird.
My question is, how does this web site even stay up?
I'm sure the script kiddies internet provider will just be pleased as punch that the MPAA just hacked one of it's customers and possibly used a DoS attack to do it (there by degrading the quality of service for all their clients)
Sounds great to me. It'll work like a charm this new law (if passed).
And why does the MPAA sound like a police orginization to me? From their website: To battle the problem, in 2000, the MPA launched over 60,000 investigations into suspected pirate activities, and more than 18,000 raids against pirate operations in coordination with local authorities around the world.
The MPAA/MPA directs its worldwide anti-piracy activities from headquarters in Encino, California. Regional offices are also located in Brussels (Europe, Middle and Africa), Mexico (Latin America) Canada and Hong Kong (Asia/Pacific).
I was responding mostly to the part in which he said: "Of course if you call the manufacturer they tell you that warranty service is available through the dealer you bought it from."
And the post I reposnded to never said anything about them buying an extended warranty
not to try and advertise and my company but Circuit City's extended warranty doesn't make you ship the monitor in. they just send you the replacement monitor to your house, and then you throw the broken one into the box, and it's sent back to our service centers, prepaid shipping both ways
Of course, that's why our service plans cost more (sometimes twice as much)
Man... me posting this kind of stuff makes me really realize that I need to quit my job...
yes but in order to get something serviced by best buy you have to have their (extra charge) warranty otherwise you get to play the ship it to the manufacturer game. Of course if you call the manufacturer they tell you that warranty service is available through the dealer you bought it from.
Again, mostly wrong. Why again do people believe that retailers are responsible for servicing the products they sell? When did this belief start? Of course you have to get Best Buys/Circuit City's extended warranties for them to service it. Why else should they? Just to be nice? The manufacturer covers the computer for a year. Call them. If you want a little bit better service (and I stress the word little) get the manufacturers or stores extended service plan and they'll always take a lot better care of you (because they just made a bunch more money off of you).
It's almost as bad as the people who think they should be able to return a product any time they want to. We have people call up all the time who want us to exchange a product they've been using for 6+ months.
I work for the #2 electronics company (where savings used to be state of the art) selling computers (until I finish off my Comp Sci degree). When you call the manufacturer, which I have done for customers on several occasions, they never just tell you "oh, well, you should go back and buy the stores extended warranty to get this item fixed". That's just ridiculous to say something like that. As far as getting to play the "ship it to the manufacturers game". For most small repairs (video card, modem, hard drive), the manufacturer is more than happy to ship you the replacement part and have you install it yourself.
The warranty Best Buy and Circuit City "offer" for HP printers, is just HPs warranty. Which, if you buy at least a half-way decent printer is 12 months part/12 months labor.
Dell has this weird policy of including a decent 1 year warranty as part of the package and offering extended warranties if you want them
When you buy a HP/Sony/Compaq computer from Best Buy/Circuit City, it has a 1 year warranty as well, included from the manufacturer. All of the above brands include the ability of purchasing extended service contracts from the manufacturer, or, if you want, both of the stores also do as well. Same as Dell.
People seem to have this weird idea that the store they buy from dictates how long the original manufacturers warranty is and what it should cover.
The thing with printers it that the money to be made is in the ink cartridges and printer cables, and not the printers themselves. That's why HP's printer business is its most profitable one.
And then how does the database get updated via user input?
Again, works great for static web sites, but doesn't help much for dynamic.
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If you do get flamed it's probably because you chose to read into the post something that wasn't there in order to exercise your predisposed opinion
Predisposed opinion towards what? I love open source stuff as much as the next guy. The last job I worked at I pushed to allow a lot more of the code for the software to be open to the end-user/consumer, an idea which many of the long time programmers were against, but is also an idea that they end up using. It didn't become a truely open source software package, but it allowed the end-user a lot more control of the package.
I personally think using open source software is a great idea for a lot of companies, but it is a great idea because it saves them money.
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I interpret the original poster as meaning that OS is viable option for companies to *use*, not *develop* They can save money by using OS software.
Ahh... yes, I believe I interpreted it as a viable option to develop.
A viable option to use, definitely.
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that Open Source developments are a viable option for companies these
How has it showed this?
I'll probably get flamed for this, but where are all the open source Linux companies that are currently truely making a profit (and not just using some creative accounting tricks)?
Or maybe I'm just oblivious to all of the open source success stories....
Lets see... this $2000 computer comes with 256MB of RAM. What a great deal.
Ok, let's upgrade.
How much for another $128mb? Oh... only $75. Strange, I swore you could buy that much in pretty much any store for around $15-20.
Hmmm... how much for another $256? Oh... only $150. Again, I'm pretty sure that I saw that in a store for $60 yesterday (and that was before a $20 mail in rebate)
Ok... how much for a 512MB DIMM. Oh, only $250 more. Again, $119.99 in the store.
And for 1 GIG... 2 512 DIMMS. That's an additional $550. Strange, that would be less than $250 in any store around.
Oh... there must be a labor charge to install that RAM. Hmm... takes about 2 minutes max to put it in, so... I guess they're charging $9000/hour to install RAM. Sweet deal!
I wouldn't pay for the 'file losing' feature, the 'crash when you really, really don't want it to' feature, and the 'it takes forever to start up' feature. I guess I'll continue to run Win98 for my games and such until that version comes out.
Well, if you'd stop using your Win98 box (and stop comparing it to OSX which is a stupid comparison) and upgrade to Win2k/XP you'd be all set.
Been using Win2k/XP both for quite some time now, and I don't think I've ever crashed it. Also, I don't know what "file losing feature" you're describing. I've never had a file disappear on me, and I've been using Windows/MS-DOS since MS-DOS 5.5 was the latest thing (I've even read the MS-DOS 5.5 manual... but that's a different story).
Also, as far as a slow boot up time. Recently purchased a P4/2.26GHz/512 DDR and the boot time is roughly 15 seconds, maybe less.
The problem with a lot of people is that they like to compare something new with something old, and, strangely enough, the new thing is better lot of the time.
A very small group of people who can afford the $1400 price tag do.
And as far as those wings being 300 pounds... come on now, most of them are fibre glass or aluminum, or plastic... they're no where near 300 pounds... I doubt if any of them weigh over 100 pounds.
yes, the answer was obvious and it was depressing that someone would spend a whole article writing about it
on a related side note... anyone ever watch CNN headline news anymore? That drastic stupid change they went through makes me want to shoot my TV.
Here's a real life example I've seen several times now: "Hey, thanks for watching CNN Headline News! We'll leave you with music by 'Insert Lame Band Here' who just happened to stop by our studios to play for us"
Oh... and I bet they just happen to be signed by a AOL/Time Warner record label.
WTF is up with that. CNN Headline News used to be a somewhat reliable source of important news. Now they lead with how Britney Spears is starting her concert tour, and then 18 minutes into the half our, they mention a little blurb about bombing in Israel or something
The problem with your take on the sequals is that the matrix powers the robots, or at least the computer that controls the robots
of course, they could have stored tons of energy in capacitors and batteries and maybe even have hundreds of nuclear fusion/fision plants. Heck, if they were so smart they could just put a ton of solar pannels on the moon and send the juice back to earth via microwaves scattered across the earth... so they could still have power =)
But, somebody on one of the forums said that since the entire game is rendered in 3D, the FPS is quite irrelvent (the frame does not actually refresh, but each element on the screen moves at its own pace)
This is quite correct. The game is extremely playable with a "lowly" 1.2 GHz Athlon with a Geforce 2 Ultra. I usually play it at either 1024x768 or 1152x864 resolution.
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Don't be too sure of that. The world's crop-surplus is very low actually.
Except for in the US, which he was referring to, which has roughly a 2 year surplus.
Of course, that is a grain surplus and not a fruit/vegetable/meat/dairy surplus which is much more important for ones diet.
Even on HDTV (a friend of mine has a PlayStation2, an HDTV & is using s-video from one to the other.) it still can't beat my PC in graphic quality.
Why is your friend using s-video for to hook up a PS2 to a HDTV? Use component and get far superior video.
HP paper is made by Burlington.
actually sony makes both
their computers come with DVD-RW drives
they sell DVD+RW drives in retail
it's strange
The MPAA would hire a couple of "consulting" companies to carry out these acts.
These consulting firms would attack and disable some script kiddies computer who is serving MP3s.
So, what does the script kiddie do? He and his bunch of script kiddies go and shut down the offending consulting firms internet connection(s) with a DoS that's about 100 times more massive (because they can use everyone elses poorly protected servers to do it). And that's just if they pick on a teenager in the US.
Say they try and shut down some actual knowledgable hacker in, say, Russia. Wait a second... why are the bank account numbers, credit card numbers, home address and telephone for the head of the MPAA up on MPAA.com? Weird.
My question is, how does this web site even stay up?
I'm sure the script kiddies internet provider will just be pleased as punch that the MPAA just hacked one of it's customers and possibly used a DoS attack to do it (there by degrading the quality of service for all their clients)
Sounds great to me. It'll work like a charm this new law (if passed).
And why does the MPAA sound like a police orginization to me?
From their website:
To battle the problem, in 2000, the MPA launched over 60,000 investigations into suspected pirate activities, and more than 18,000 raids against pirate operations in coordination with local authorities around the world.
The MPAA/MPA directs its worldwide anti-piracy activities from headquarters in Encino, California. Regional offices are also located in Brussels (Europe, Middle and Africa), Mexico (Latin America) Canada and Hong Kong (Asia/Pacific).
Uhmm... that scares me
Did you read my post?
I was responding mostly to the part in which he said: "Of course if you call the manufacturer they tell you that warranty service is available through the dealer you bought it from."
And the post I reposnded to never said anything about them buying an extended warranty
not to try and advertise and my company but Circuit City's extended warranty doesn't make you ship the monitor in.
they just send you the replacement monitor to your house, and then you throw the broken one into the box, and it's sent back to our service centers, prepaid shipping both ways
Of course, that's why our service plans cost more (sometimes twice as much)
Man... me posting this kind of stuff makes me really realize that I need to quit my job...
yes but in order to get something serviced by best buy you have to have their (extra charge) warranty otherwise you get to play the ship it to the manufacturer game. Of course if you call the manufacturer they tell you that warranty service is available through the dealer you bought it from.
Again, mostly wrong. Why again do people believe that retailers are responsible for servicing the products they sell? When did this belief start? Of course you have to get Best Buys/Circuit City's extended warranties for them to service it. Why else should they? Just to be nice? The manufacturer covers the computer for a year. Call them. If you want a little bit better service (and I stress the word little) get the manufacturers or stores extended service plan and they'll always take a lot better care of you (because they just made a bunch more money off of you).
It's almost as bad as the people who think they should be able to return a product any time they want to. We have people call up all the time who want us to exchange a product they've been using for 6+ months.
I work for the #2 electronics company (where savings used to be state of the art) selling computers (until I finish off my Comp Sci degree). When you call the manufacturer, which I have done for customers on several occasions, they never just tell you "oh, well, you should go back and buy the stores extended warranty to get this item fixed". That's just ridiculous to say something like that. As far as getting to play the "ship it to the manufacturers game". For most small repairs (video card, modem, hard drive), the manufacturer is more than happy to ship you the replacement part and have you install it yourself.
The warranty Best Buy and Circuit City "offer" for HP printers, is just HPs warranty. Which, if you buy at least a half-way decent printer is 12 months part/12 months labor.
Dell has this weird policy of including a decent 1 year warranty as part of the package and offering extended warranties if you want them
When you buy a HP/Sony/Compaq computer from Best Buy/Circuit City, it has a 1 year warranty as well, included from the manufacturer. All of the above brands include the ability of purchasing extended service contracts from the manufacturer, or, if you want, both of the stores also do as well. Same as Dell.
People seem to have this weird idea that the store they buy from dictates how long the original manufacturers warranty is and what it should cover.
The thing with printers it that the money to be made is in the ink cartridges and printer cables, and not the printers themselves. That's why HP's printer business is its most profitable one.
It's a freeware program idiot.
Strangely, you don't get a lot of money pandering freeware programs.
It's actually somewhat of a neat program
And then how does the database get updated via user input?
Again, works great for static web sites, but doesn't help much for dynamic.
If you do get flamed it's probably because you chose to read into the post something that wasn't there in order to exercise your predisposed opinion
Predisposed opinion towards what? I love open source stuff as much as the next guy. The last job I worked at I pushed to allow a lot more of the code for the software to be open to the end-user/consumer, an idea which many of the long time programmers were against, but is also an idea that they end up using. It didn't become a truely open source software package, but it allowed the end-user a lot more control of the package.
I personally think using open source software is a great idea for a lot of companies, but it is a great idea because it saves them money.
I interpret the original poster as meaning that OS is viable option for companies to *use*, not *develop* They can save money by using OS software.
Ahh... yes, I believe I interpreted it as a viable option to develop.
A viable option to use, definitely.
that Open Source developments are a viable option for companies these
How has it showed this?
I'll probably get flamed for this, but where are all the open source Linux companies that are currently truely making a profit (and not just using some creative accounting tricks)?
Or maybe I'm just oblivious to all of the open source success stories....
Lets see... this $2000 computer comes with 256MB of RAM. What a great deal.
Ok, let's upgrade.
How much for another $128mb? Oh... only $75. Strange, I swore you could buy that much in pretty much any store for around $15-20.
Hmmm... how much for another $256? Oh... only $150. Again, I'm pretty sure that I saw that in a store for $60 yesterday (and that was before a $20 mail in rebate)
Ok... how much for a 512MB DIMM. Oh, only $250 more. Again, $119.99 in the store.
And for 1 GIG... 2 512 DIMMS. That's an additional $550. Strange, that would be less than $250 in any store around.
Oh... there must be a labor charge to install that RAM. Hmm... takes about 2 minutes max to put it in, so... I guess they're charging $9000/hour to install RAM. Sweet deal!
I wouldn't pay for the 'file losing' feature, the 'crash when you really, really don't want it to' feature, and the 'it takes forever to start up' feature. I guess I'll continue to run Win98 for my games and such until that version comes out.
Well, if you'd stop using your Win98 box (and stop comparing it to OSX which is a stupid comparison) and upgrade to Win2k/XP you'd be all set.
Been using Win2k/XP both for quite some time now, and I don't think I've ever crashed it. Also, I don't know what "file losing feature" you're describing. I've never had a file disappear on me, and I've been using Windows/MS-DOS since MS-DOS 5.5 was the latest thing (I've even read the MS-DOS 5.5 manual... but that's a different story).
Also, as far as a slow boot up time. Recently purchased a P4/2.26GHz/512 DDR and the boot time is roughly 15 seconds, maybe less.
The problem with a lot of people is that they like to compare something new with something old, and, strangely enough, the new thing is better lot of the time.
IT and engineering students using Macs?
Are you smoking crack?
no, the public does not
A very small group of people who can afford the $1400 price tag do.
And as far as those wings being 300 pounds... come on now, most of them are fibre glass or aluminum, or plastic... they're no where near 300 pounds... I doubt if any of them weigh over 100 pounds.
The answer is as obvious as it is depressing
yes, the answer was obvious
and it was depressing that someone would spend a whole article writing about it
on a related side note... anyone ever watch CNN headline news anymore? That drastic stupid change they went through makes me want to shoot my TV.
Here's a real life example I've seen several times now:
"Hey, thanks for watching CNN Headline News! We'll leave you with music by 'Insert Lame Band Here' who just happened to stop by our studios to play for us"
Oh... and I bet they just happen to be signed by a AOL/Time Warner record label.
WTF is up with that. CNN Headline News used to be a somewhat reliable source of important news. Now they lead with how Britney Spears is starting her concert tour, and then 18 minutes into the half our, they mention a little blurb about bombing in Israel or something
But if it really works like is shown on the site, it'd definitely be something worth looking into.
I could just imagine it:
"Die you worthless demon die!"
"Billy! Stop pointing that thing at Grandma"
The problem with your take on the sequals is that the matrix powers the robots, or at least the computer that controls the robots
of course, they could have stored tons of energy in capacitors and batteries and maybe even have hundreds of nuclear fusion/fision plants. Heck, if they were so smart they could just put a ton of solar pannels on the moon and send the juice back to earth via microwaves
scattered across the earth... so they could still have power =)
I thought it was fairly obvious from reading the article, but you probably didn't read the article.
2nd movie: primarily inside the Matrix (Neo destroys the Matrix?)
3rd movie: primarily outside the Matrix (Neo and humans destroy the robots?)
simple enough, I think
When Neo isn't in the Matrix, he's a wuss.
Unfortunately this route (the Linksys route) is no where near as secure as the ClosedBSD route. And that's the whole point, to have an secure setup.
Give me $15 and I'll take your computer
But, somebody on one of the forums said that since the entire game is rendered in 3D, the FPS is quite irrelvent (the frame does not actually refresh, but each element on the screen moves at its own pace)
This is quite correct. The game is extremely playable with a "lowly" 1.2 GHz Athlon with a Geforce 2 Ultra. I usually play it at either 1024x768 or 1152x864 resolution.