Although this is common knowledge to most males, women constantly state that this is in fact false, and not only do they say it, they seem to truly believe it. Of course this "belief" seems to have no basis in reality as they talk to their "nice" guy friends about how they wish they could just find a "nice" guy, all the while ignoring him to chase the guys they constantly complain about...
yes... I've had that speech from women far too often "you're so nice, why can't the guys I date be more like you?" (ummm... maybe you would consider dating the person you want your guys to be like???)
Unfortunately, I'm stuck with Mr Pretentious... err... Prentice as my MP...
I have written him several letters regarding this, and other issues that matter to me. Generally the response I get is along the lines of "I don't care" (though worded much more politely of course) of course perhaps I should just be thankful that I get a reply...
Here it's almost the opposite, if a police officer makes a mistake (either on, or off duty) they prosecute more fully than any criminal, just to avoid the appearance of corruption.
There was a case here a few years ago of a police officer who was attacked by a prisoner in a cell, he shot and killed the prisoner, the cop claimed self defence (that the criminal had grabbed for his gun and was shot in the struggle over the weapon). The case went to trial 3 times before the cop was finally convicted (first 2 cases resulted in hung juries) I can't think of any criminal that would have been tried 3 times to get the conviction, the case would have been dropped after the second trial for sure, but there was too much pressure to make it look like they were doing right, even if it meant going farther than they would ever normally do.
This cop's life is now ruined over a decision that he had less than a second to make, that had potential life and death consequences for both him and the prisoner, and was analysed for several years afterwards.
This definitely appears to be the case, I recently picked up some expensive electronics, the sales person helped us carry them to the car (we didn't need any help, but he informed us he had to as per store policy on large purchases) and even though the employee was escorting us out, and he was the one carrying the items, the loss prevention fellow still needed to see the receipt and compare each item to it to make sure they match... It would suck to work somewhere where management assumes all employees are thieves... now the next question is... how corruptable is the loss prevention fellow...
meanwhile I live in Canada, and the last few winters have been colder and harsher than any I can remember... if anything it seems we are having more extreme weather all around, hotter summers, colder winters, rainier springs and drier summers...
I'm not sure if where I live is on average warmer or colder than years gone by, but there is one thing I'm sure of, looking at any one small area is basically meaningless on the global scale.
>> "Ubuntu 7.04," but most people think that means version 7, revision 4. (April-2007, if you didn't know) but it is mostly irrelevant, as long as the next version has a higher number (which it will unless they start time travelling) then it doesn't matter what it MEANS, people will still know that a higher number means a more recent version. it's not like windows 95 or 98 meant version 95 or version 98, and at least with a number you can tell what is newer than what. Without any windows knowledge how is one supposed to know which is newer, 3.11, 95, NT4, 2000, ME, XP, Vista? they're all meaningless. at least with something like Ubuntu 7.04 it's obvious what version is newer or older even if you don't have a clue what the number actually means.
>> It happened here in Australia, and from what I can tell it's pretty rare for any country to "regress" once the change in the publics "mindset" has taken place.
Unfortunately, there is a lot of pressure here in Canada to "privatize" health care... we may be one of the first places (my province specifically) in the world to go the other way...
>> It hasn't worked too well for SCO, so why does Microsoft think they'll fare better with the same strategy?
Money. MS has lots of it, and can afford to drag this out... look at how long the SCO case has dragged on, imagine MS doing that for each and every one of those 200+ patents, one at a time. They have the lawyers, they have the money, they can keep whichever linux vendor they want in court permanently, and they can file against other linux vendors at the same time.
>> placing my trust in my HP Travel Companion perhaps a bit too much I too have one of those devices and I love it, however I do not trust it to navigate for me, only to provide me some additional information to help me navigate. as an example, I have yet to find any way to convince it to take the only reasonable route from Calgary to Vancouver, it always goes a minimum of about 4-5 hours out of the way instead of taking the main highway that connects the 2 cities. that's only one of many errors I have found in it's navigation. I learnt long ago how to read a map, and I carry paper maps, I use the travel companion to plot routes, but I always use my own knowledge of the areas to supplement that, and anytime it tries to route me somewhere that doesn't seem right I always check it on a paper map. I never trust the device over the actual road in front of me, the people who programmed it aren't there, I am.
the Telco I work for also provides fibre, I didn't mention it as it was not relevant to this discussion, fibre is much more expensive than T1 on the install side (and the customer pays that portion) however I can't speak for the monthly fees. I was pointing out that as a TELCO we don't want people on T1s, we would prefer people take fibre, or even DSL, hence the pricing. unfortunately some companies won't budge, in which case it will be priced to be worth our while.
I work for a telco, and while I'm not privy to the marketing decisions that go in to the whole thing, I can give the reasoning as I've always seen it.
T1s do an amazing job, they are rock solid, and work at distances that DSL simply can't, they have guaranteed bandwidth and service level agreements that involve penalties to the telco if they go down. For companies that truly NEED that connection they're irreplaceable. All that said, for an awful lot of businesses our DSL packages at 4meg down and 1 meg up are plenty, and a fraction of the cost.
Now for the reasoning, T1s are a royal pain from the telco side of things, they work so well because they use such high powers to make sure that they are heard (close to 300V instead of 52 for telephone) but this causes all sorts of trouble, due to the crosstalk these things put out every T1 line that's installed reduces the number of ADSL customers we can put in the same cable, one T1 line can easily destroy the ability to carry DSL in the same binder group (25 pairs) and over longer distances or with several T1 lines can wipe out the whole cable for DSL. This is a major problem for us, so if we're going to have to work around these sorts of issues, we want it to be worth our while. that doesn't even go in to factors such as the equipment, a DSL modem costs about $50 or less these days, but a T1 "modem" is in the thousands, same deal with the equipment at the other end of the line, then you add the line conditioning that has to be done on longer lines when provisioning a T1, and the list goes on.
DSL is a great product, if you don't absolutely need a T1, then by all means take advantage of the fact that DSL lines are dirt cheap these days. but when you need a T1 and nothing else will do, don't complain about the cost, it is after all your choice.
One of my friends (another Canadian) is currently posted in the states, when he came back up to visit both he and his wife agreed, the thing they missed most in Canada was the food, even the foods they thought should be the same were lousy copies of such, chocolate was however their biggest disappointment down there and they couldn't seem to get enough of it on their short visit north.
At least if the trains aren't running they stay on the track... what's up with CN's record there anyway? Why are all the derailments CN when CP has at least as much traffic...
have you ever talked to ANYONE who has actually been charged for being over the limit on TELUS? their top residential plans give 60Gb/month transfer and the business ones are 80 and 120Gb/month... once you reach almost double that amount they send you an email, and I've never heard of anyone ever getting more than just that email... (they do reserve the right to bill, but I've never heard of it happening...)
>> Again, with IPTV, there's a realistic limit on how much you're going to watch in a given month
while that is technically true, many IPTV customers are lazy and leave the set top box on even when the TV is off, the set top box continues to "watch" even though the person is not.
the ISP I work for provides IPTV service which consumes over 2 meg per set top box (current maximum of 2 set top boxes on a 7 meg DSL connection)
luckily for our customers their IPTV usage does not count toward their monthly bandwidth limit (which depends on their DSL package) as it would eat up their entire monthly limit in a couple of days.
>> moving to more efficient vehicles has other advantages than just reduced CO2 emmissions,
no no no! you don't understand! the ONLY reason anyone would ever do anything good for the environment is because of man-made global warming, if you don't believe in that then you are pro-pollution!!!
for the sarcastically challenged... that SHOULD have been a ridiculous statement... but somehow it seems to be the prevailing thought pattern. I personally don't think that humans have caused the whole global warming problem, and I hate the way that theory is revered as it's own religion and anyone opposing it is instantly ostersized... however at the same time I also believe we need to reduce polution, we need to be more efficient with our energy, and we need to find more renewable sources of energy... for many reasons, think smog and cancer, and acid rain, and polluted waterways, and the finite supply of oil, there are many reasons to want to reduce pollution, we don't have to use the global warming religion to justify it.
kids mimic... but do you know who they mimic the most? it's not other kids, it's their parents! so if the kid is going to get the idea to drive, they are unlikely to get it from the commercial, they are most likely to get it from watching their parents drive... do you advocate stopping all parents from driving?
the correct way to deal with this is with responsible parenting, but that has gone so out of fashion these days....
>> The fact you don't plan to buy something doesn't mean you're entitled to have it for free.
That is actually an entirely different argument, but for the sake of this particular study it is actually irrelevant. the study was about whether P2P affected sales, not about whether people downloaded music/movies illegally. These are entirely different unless you believe that every download would have in fact been a sale had the person not been able to download it, as opposed to the more sensible idea that people would not watch/read/listen to as much "stuff" if they had to pay for all of it (who really believes that the 14 year old with several hundred gigs of music and movies would actually have as much were he/she forced to pay for it?). The study sticks to facts, morality and legality are left out of it.
>> Of course P2P affects sales. but there is a debate about which direction it affects them, some say that P2P causes people to buy less because they can get it for free, some say it causes people to buy more because they are exposed to new music they might not have otherwise heard (or movies seen, etc) Would it be that much of a stretch to say that both sides are correct and that the net effect is somewhere close to zero? (or as the article claims, 0.7%)
>> Well, us Canucks were stupid enough to elect the Tory government
only partially... we elected them in a MINORITY government... which basically means we told them that they were the lesser of all the evils, but that we still didn't trust them enough to let them rule on their own... as such we need at least 2 parties to agree to screw us over before it can become law... (of course it's usually not hard to find more than one political party willing to screw over the general population...)
unless you have a poorly designed flip phone that happened to have 3 buttons on the outside, and one of them was both the keyboard unlock, and the redial last number button... I CONSTANTLY had that phone calling people from my pocket even though it had both the flip closed AND the keyboard locked! (what idiot designs a phone where the keyguard is turned off by one of only 3 buttons that were NOT covered by the flip cover??? (hint: Samsung SCH-3500 ))
>> Removing the financial incentive is the only effective way to stop spam
actually, it's worse than that, you have to not only remove the financial incentive, you also have to remove the PERCEIVED financial incentive. the former is actually not that hard, and in some cases is already accomplished. the big problem is that even if people aren't able to make a penny off of spam you will still have people who THINK they can make money off it, and that will continue to cause people to try.
what is needed most is for people to expect to get caught. people do their own risk/benefit analysis and if they think they are likely to get some benefit, and don't think there is any risk they will continue. the way to solve this is to make people think that the risk isn't worth it. which means better investigation, better prosecution, and better computer security making it harder for people to hide the origin of the spam.
>> Really what I miss is what Randle_Revar pointed out, the search box beside the URL field.
And that's the part I DESPISE every time I have to use firefox, in seamonkey it's easy, there's only one field, if you want to go to a url you press enter, if you want to search for a term you press the down arrow and then enter, all the functionality, but only one box. in firefox I always find I'm in the wrong box for whatever I want to do, in seamonkey it's just so much easier.
that's ok... he'll probably get sentanced to 202 6 month sentances to be carried our concurrently... (WTF is with concurrent sentances anyway? do we really want to tell people that it doesn't matter if they do something once or a hundred times it's all the same???) I won't even go in to my thoughts on the parole system as that's a completely seperate rant...
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Although this is common knowledge to most males, women constantly state that this is in fact false, and not only do they say it, they seem to truly believe it. Of course this "belief" seems to have no basis in reality as they talk to their "nice" guy friends about how they wish they could just find a "nice" guy, all the while ignoring him to chase the guys they constantly complain about...
yes... I've had that speech from women far too often "you're so nice, why can't the guys I date be more like you?" (ummm... maybe you would consider dating the person you want your guys to be like???)
Unfortunately, I'm stuck with Mr Pretentious... err... Prentice as my MP...
I have written him several letters regarding this, and other issues that matter to me. Generally the response I get is along the lines of "I don't care" (though worded much more politely of course) of course perhaps I should just be thankful that I get a reply...
Here it's almost the opposite, if a police officer makes a mistake (either on, or off duty) they prosecute more fully than any criminal, just to avoid the appearance of corruption.
There was a case here a few years ago of a police officer who was attacked by a prisoner in a cell, he shot and killed the prisoner, the cop claimed self defence (that the criminal had grabbed for his gun and was shot in the struggle over the weapon). The case went to trial 3 times before the cop was finally convicted (first 2 cases resulted in hung juries) I can't think of any criminal that would have been tried 3 times to get the conviction, the case would have been dropped after the second trial for sure, but there was too much pressure to make it look like they were doing right, even if it meant going farther than they would ever normally do.
This cop's life is now ruined over a decision that he had less than a second to make, that had potential life and death consequences for both him and the prisoner, and was analysed for several years afterwards.
But then again... I don't live in the USA...
This definitely appears to be the case, I recently picked up some expensive electronics, the sales person helped us carry them to the car (we didn't need any help, but he informed us he had to as per store policy on large purchases) and even though the employee was escorting us out, and he was the one carrying the items, the loss prevention fellow still needed to see the receipt and compare each item to it to make sure they match...
It would suck to work somewhere where management assumes all employees are thieves... now the next question is... how corruptable is the loss prevention fellow...
meanwhile I live in Canada, and the last few winters have been colder and harsher than any I can remember... if anything it seems we are having more extreme weather all around, hotter summers, colder winters, rainier springs and drier summers...
I'm not sure if where I live is on average warmer or colder than years gone by, but there is one thing I'm sure of, looking at any one small area is basically meaningless on the global scale.
>> "Ubuntu 7.04," but most people think that means version 7, revision 4. (April-2007, if you didn't know)
but it is mostly irrelevant, as long as the next version has a higher number (which it will unless they start time travelling) then it doesn't matter what it MEANS, people will still know that a higher number means a more recent version. it's not like windows 95 or 98 meant version 95 or version 98, and at least with a number you can tell what is newer than what. Without any windows knowledge how is one supposed to know which is newer, 3.11, 95, NT4, 2000, ME, XP, Vista? they're all meaningless. at least with something like Ubuntu 7.04 it's obvious what version is newer or older even if you don't have a clue what the number actually means.
>> It happened here in Australia, and from what I can tell it's pretty rare for any country to "regress" once the change in the publics "mindset" has taken place.
Unfortunately, there is a lot of pressure here in Canada to "privatize" health care... we may be one of the first places (my province specifically) in the world to go the other way...
>> It hasn't worked too well for SCO, so why does Microsoft think they'll fare better with the same strategy?
Money. MS has lots of it, and can afford to drag this out... look at how long the SCO case has dragged on, imagine MS doing that for each and every one of those 200+ patents, one at a time. They have the lawyers, they have the money, they can keep whichever linux vendor they want in court permanently, and they can file against other linux vendors at the same time.
SCO was floundering when they started, MS isn't.
>> placing my trust in my HP Travel Companion perhaps a bit too much
I too have one of those devices and I love it, however I do not trust it to navigate for me, only to provide me some additional information to help me navigate.
as an example, I have yet to find any way to convince it to take the only reasonable route from Calgary to Vancouver, it always goes a minimum of about 4-5 hours out of the way instead of taking the main highway that connects the 2 cities. that's only one of many errors I have found in it's navigation.
I learnt long ago how to read a map, and I carry paper maps, I use the travel companion to plot routes, but I always use my own knowledge of the areas to supplement that, and anytime it tries to route me somewhere that doesn't seem right I always check it on a paper map.
I never trust the device over the actual road in front of me, the people who programmed it aren't there, I am.
the Telco I work for also provides fibre, I didn't mention it as it was not relevant to this discussion, fibre is much more expensive than T1 on the install side (and the customer pays that portion) however I can't speak for the monthly fees.
I was pointing out that as a TELCO we don't want people on T1s, we would prefer people take fibre, or even DSL, hence the pricing. unfortunately some companies won't budge, in which case it will be priced to be worth our while.
I work for a telco, and while I'm not privy to the marketing decisions that go in to the whole thing, I can give the reasoning as I've always seen it.
T1s do an amazing job, they are rock solid, and work at distances that DSL simply can't, they have guaranteed bandwidth and service level agreements that involve penalties to the telco if they go down. For companies that truly NEED that connection they're irreplaceable.
All that said, for an awful lot of businesses our DSL packages at 4meg down and 1 meg up are plenty, and a fraction of the cost.
Now for the reasoning, T1s are a royal pain from the telco side of things, they work so well because they use such high powers to make sure that they are heard (close to 300V instead of 52 for telephone) but this causes all sorts of trouble, due to the crosstalk these things put out every T1 line that's installed reduces the number of ADSL customers we can put in the same cable, one T1 line can easily destroy the ability to carry DSL in the same binder group (25 pairs) and over longer distances or with several T1 lines can wipe out the whole cable for DSL. This is a major problem for us, so if we're going to have to work around these sorts of issues, we want it to be worth our while. that doesn't even go in to factors such as the equipment, a DSL modem costs about $50 or less these days, but a T1 "modem" is in the thousands, same deal with the equipment at the other end of the line, then you add the line conditioning that has to be done on longer lines when provisioning a T1, and the list goes on.
DSL is a great product, if you don't absolutely need a T1, then by all means take advantage of the fact that DSL lines are dirt cheap these days.
but when you need a T1 and nothing else will do, don't complain about the cost, it is after all your choice.
One of my friends (another Canadian) is currently posted in the states, when he came back up to visit both he and his wife agreed, the thing they missed most in Canada was the food, even the foods they thought should be the same were lousy copies of such, chocolate was however their biggest disappointment down there and they couldn't seem to get enough of it on their short visit north.
>> Like I am really enjoying the CN rail strike
At least if the trains aren't running they stay on the track... what's up with CN's record there anyway? Why are all the derailments CN when CP has at least as much traffic...
the tricky part is getting the smoke back in to the item ;)
have you ever talked to ANYONE who has actually been charged for being over the limit on TELUS? their top residential plans give 60Gb/month transfer and the business ones are 80 and 120Gb/month... once you reach almost double that amount they send you an email, and I've never heard of anyone ever getting more than just that email... (they do reserve the right to bill, but I've never heard of it happening...)
>> Again, with IPTV, there's a realistic limit on how much you're going to watch in a given month
while that is technically true, many IPTV customers are lazy and leave the set top box on even when the TV is off, the set top box continues to "watch" even though the person is not.
the ISP I work for provides IPTV service which consumes over 2 meg per set top box (current maximum of 2 set top boxes on a 7 meg DSL connection)
luckily for our customers their IPTV usage does not count toward their monthly bandwidth limit (which depends on their DSL package) as it would eat up their entire monthly limit in a couple of days.
>> moving to more efficient vehicles has other advantages than just reduced CO2 emmissions,
no no no! you don't understand! the ONLY reason anyone would ever do anything good for the environment is because of man-made global warming, if you don't believe in that then you are pro-pollution!!!
for the sarcastically challenged... that SHOULD have been a ridiculous statement... but somehow it seems to be the prevailing thought pattern. I personally don't think that humans have caused the whole global warming problem, and I hate the way that theory is revered as it's own religion and anyone opposing it is instantly ostersized... however at the same time I also believe we need to reduce polution, we need to be more efficient with our energy, and we need to find more renewable sources of energy... for many reasons, think smog and cancer, and acid rain, and polluted waterways, and the finite supply of oil, there are many reasons to want to reduce pollution, we don't have to use the global warming religion to justify it.
kids mimic... but do you know who they mimic the most? it's not other kids, it's their parents! so if the kid is going to get the idea to drive, they are unlikely to get it from the commercial, they are most likely to get it from watching their parents drive... do you advocate stopping all parents from driving?
the correct way to deal with this is with responsible parenting, but that has gone so out of fashion these days....
>> The fact you don't plan to buy something doesn't mean you're entitled to have it for free.
That is actually an entirely different argument, but for the sake of this particular study it is actually irrelevant. the study was about whether P2P affected sales, not about whether people downloaded music/movies illegally. These are entirely different unless you believe that every download would have in fact been a sale had the person not been able to download it, as opposed to the more sensible idea that people would not watch/read/listen to as much "stuff" if they had to pay for all of it (who really believes that the 14 year old with several hundred gigs of music and movies would actually have as much were he/she forced to pay for it?). The study sticks to facts, morality and legality are left out of it.
>> Of course P2P affects sales.
but there is a debate about which direction it affects them, some say that P2P causes people to buy less because they can get it for free, some say it causes people to buy more because they are exposed to new music they might not have otherwise heard (or movies seen, etc)
Would it be that much of a stretch to say that both sides are correct and that the net effect is somewhere close to zero? (or as the article claims, 0.7%)
>> Well, us Canucks were stupid enough to elect the Tory government
only partially... we elected them in a MINORITY government... which basically means we told them that they were the lesser of all the evils, but that we still didn't trust them enough to let them rule on their own... as such we need at least 2 parties to agree to screw us over before it can become law... (of course it's usually not hard to find more than one political party willing to screw over the general population...)
>> No keyboard locking necessary.
unless you have a poorly designed flip phone that happened to have 3 buttons on the outside, and one of them was both the keyboard unlock, and the redial last number button... I CONSTANTLY had that phone calling people from my pocket even though it had both the flip closed AND the keyboard locked! (what idiot designs a phone where the keyguard is turned off by one of only 3 buttons that were NOT covered by the flip cover??? (hint: Samsung SCH-3500 ))
>> Removing the financial incentive is the only effective way to stop spam
actually, it's worse than that, you have to not only remove the financial incentive, you also have to remove the PERCEIVED financial incentive. the former is actually not that hard, and in some cases is already accomplished. the big problem is that even if people aren't able to make a penny off of spam you will still have people who THINK they can make money off it, and that will continue to cause people to try.
what is needed most is for people to expect to get caught. people do their own risk/benefit analysis and if they think they are likely to get some benefit, and don't think there is any risk they will continue. the way to solve this is to make people think that the risk isn't worth it. which means better investigation, better prosecution, and better computer security making it harder for people to hide the origin of the spam.
>> Really what I miss is what Randle_Revar pointed out, the search box beside the URL field.
And that's the part I DESPISE every time I have to use firefox, in seamonkey it's easy, there's only one field, if you want to go to a url you press enter, if you want to search for a term you press the down arrow and then enter, all the functionality, but only one box. in firefox I always find I'm in the wrong box for whatever I want to do, in seamonkey it's just so much easier.
that's ok... he'll probably get sentanced to 202 6 month sentances to be carried our concurrently... (WTF is with concurrent sentances anyway? do we really want to tell people that it doesn't matter if they do something once or a hundred times it's all the same???) I won't even go in to my thoughts on the parole system as that's a completely seperate rant...