When I look for phones, I always use the filters and I exclude phones that don't have the 3.5 jack. You can follow like a lemmings if you want but headphone jacks haven't disappeared for people who won't buy a phone without one. I don't even see phones that don't have one so as far as I'm concerned, they all still have them.
The worst alternative it's not George Lucas doing the same thing. It's the more likely alternative that he would spend another decade just sitting on it doing nothing, and then releasing a couple new remasterings or anniversary cuts just for a payday. At least Disney is making new films.
I agree. Blaming the user is so sysadmin isn't it? In what other industry would you do that? "My engine just shut off in the middle of rush hour traffic." "Well what were you doing driving a consumer-rated car during rush hour, moron?"
Sometimes people buy things and simply want them to work. An automatic upgrade IS NOT NORMAL for Windows. Updates yes but upgrades, no. Mr. Harmann is the victim of a special, hopefully one-time rule change.
The guy who does "IT" for him is the guy working the sound equipment and this guy is also a lawyer. How good can his IT skills be?
The Thom Hartmann syndicated radio show got a rude introduction to Microsoft's new upgrade policy yesterday when their YouTube live stream server went offline and started upgrading while they were on the air. Thom Hartmann was freaking out and asking if listeners could help them switch to Ubuntu. They simulcast on terrestrial radio, Siriusxm, YouTube, and Free Speech TV. Hartmann was updating viewers on the upgrade completion percentage because viewers were complaining about losing their feed. He was livid but what can one do at that point?
I've begun to hear many TV talking heads dumping on "the selfie" lately. Anything that gets over-hyped will reach burnout. But come on guys, really? A selfie brought down the plane? Should be only a matter of hours before some politician jumps onto a soap box and calls for anti-selfie legislation. Maybe they can vilify selfies like they did vaccinations.
Remember Sarah Palin's sad story about the little girl who "came down" with autism after getting some vaccines? Well that's nothing. Take a selfie on a plane...and you'll die in an inferno of brimstone as new-fangled selfie-demons destroy your plane! This is nothing but the typical hype/anti-hype cycle but taken to a new level due to 24-hour news media. This may have influenced investigators.
Having spent time behind the wheel of a Cesna myself, I can't imagine this. This is a plane you can fly literally hands-off. It will fly straight and level. Even if you take your hands off in the middle of a turn the plane will continue that direction for a short time while starting a slow drift. A selfie couldn't cause the plane to go down unless he was fumbling with the phone to film the critical point of a risky maneuver in which case the maneuver would be the catalyst. Do we know that he was fumbling with the phone?
This has been a hot issue for a couple years now and there is no doubt the FCC has been studying this for some time. Obama has allowed the agency to be filled with Telecom industry cronies and lobbyists who stand to get sizable golden parachutes from the likes of Comcast and Time Warner if they hold the line. Obama's only card to play if they stonewall is to fire Director Wheeler and replace him with a pro-neutrality director, who will staff the agency with members who will vote the way he wants. If they can delay until the new Congressional session begins in January, then Republicans can block any pro-neutrality nominee. So firing Wheeler after the new session begins is very risky and will likely fail.
The only way Obama can affect the change he wants is to move on the director now. As long as this issue has been discussed, why should we wait another year for the FCC to rule on this? They clearly already know what they want to do. They are just stalling. I hope Obama can see that.
There are a couple of factors that are worth considering. Unlike fiber or coax transport systems, satellites are usually used for very long distance communications. Because of this, it is quite frequent that your link will terminate in another country or even continent. This will make standards compliance and procurement a challenge from day one since you can't guarantee everyone has access to the same equipment.
Secondly encryption standards have to be agreed upon and quite often, equipment from different manufacturers can't be cross-utilized, so you can't just assume that off-the-shelf crypto will be an option to everyone who will participate.. This means everyone has to agree what to use in advance, which could lead to still other challenges. So it's not as easy as the question implies.
The way I translate this is that the US Gvt waited patiently for this to fold under its own weight and collapse. Now it looks like it's catching on so they've decided to try to kill it. Good Luck. I guess the creator remained anonymous for a reason.
Dude the live sports situation is awesome! I am streaming live NBA and NFL games and watching their archives directly from the respective sources. You don't need Fox or ESPN for anything besides college football right now.
It pisses people off because Mozilla has inflated their versioning system. They are incrementing quickly not because they are integrating major, watershed features but because they want to pump up the version number quickly. This is because marketers believe consumers view version numbers as an indicator of a product's maturity. To such people, Chrome would seem to be way out in front. So they are forcing all of these reinstalls and obsoleting extensions over and over for little gain, all because their marketing folks think this will help with market share.
I don't know why Mozilla doesn't just skip the next few decimals and just match Chrome's version number with their next release since that's clearly what they are trying to do. I've read the articles claiming that consumers are too dim-witted to know that the version number doesn't necessarily indicate which browser is the most advanced and Mozilla is trying to regain lost mind-share. But it's a waste of time and bandwidth to install a new version every week just because they want to actually use all of the numbers along the way. It all seems a bit childish to me.
That cannot be more incorrect. The banks that got clobbered by derivative and other debt trading in the '08 crunch disappeared almost 3 Trillion dollars from wealth management accounts. That's retirement accounts, trusts, and life savings. Someone once said, "A billion here, a billion there and pretty soon you are talking about real money."
By the way: the excuse that big banks give you conveniently placed ATM machines is bunk. I have an E-Trade account and they reimburse all ATM fees no matter how high. I never have to search for a particular bank and the fee is automatically returned. You can't beat that.
There is NO REASON to do business with a big bank.
I last had a B of A account when I was 19. They had the highest credit card rates of any major bank in the country. I shopped around for a day and found a bank with an interest rate 7 points lower than theirs. I moved accounts and a few years later found a credit union with a rate 3 pts lower than the new bank. So I cut my rate from 19.8 to 9.9 just by not being too lazy to shop around. For some reason however, 19 out of 20 people I tell this story to have ump-teen superficial reasons why switching banks would be too much trouble. The truth of it is, they are complacent and lazy.
There shouldn't be even a single person complaining about the bank bailouts or Wall Street who still has an account with these money pimps. If you do business with them, you are an enabler and partially responsible for the bank meltdown of '08.
The thing that irritates me is all of this nonsense about him being a great "American innovator." Hasn't it been more than a decade since he built ANYTHING in America? He was a great innovator of Chinese products.
I participated in an interesting Ubuntu forum discussion about a data corruption in the ext4 file system and Canonical's decision to deploy the OS despite some misgivings of some of its engineers. I gave a link where bug chasers trying to build the final release suggested that they install ext3 as default since there were some unresolved bugs allegedly in ext4 when transferring large files. One engineer took over responsibility of the bug and said it was not conclusive enough to change their plans.
It was very obvious that the priority was sticking to the schedule and the published feature set at all costs. You can find the post here: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?26,18172 The reference cited contains the entire text from which the excerpt was taken. I think it gives a clear example of why these problems persist. Canonical won't be accused of vaporware like Microsoft is when it is late delivering RTM versions. What it is being accused of is far worse I think and may have a long term cost. Especially if this is not a one time thing.
1. Most people commenting think this software is a ZoneAlarm clone. They don't understand the anonymity aspect.
2. This is something we will have to be used to when there are so few Linux users compared to Windows, and such an overwhelming number of the Linux users seem to think it's taboo to pay for anything. I've seen this in discussion threads for many different software packages. "Why should I pay for {softwareX}, when {softwareY & Z} will do the same thing for free. Then when someone wants to save the software they ask for a petition or emails sent in to save it. 80% of the people writing in haven't bought any software in years.
It's just like when you write to your senator and he throws away your letter when he sees that you are not on his list of registered voters. If you don't vote, your voice doesn't count. If you don't buy software, you give up your voice on the direction of the software industry. Imagine Zero Knowledge getting 1500 emails tomorrow, only 3 of which come from paying customers. Make any sense?
I think we would all agree. It's the guy who's wife refuses to use anything but AOL who needs this. I'm sure there are gals whose hubbies won't use anything else who will benefit too. We've got folks on our newgroups who spend half there time trying to find a way to get AOL and quicken to work on linux so there other half will finally let them fdisk windows.
Like I said, it sucked anyway so no loss. He should have known not to make a deal with TNT suits anyway. These types never get the point of a series like that and are bound to screw it up. I also don't think it makes sense to compare this season 1 to B5 season 1 because now we have an established universe and everyone knows the rules and races. The idea is that it was supposed to continue from where the Drak war left off. THAT was exciting, this should have been too. It wasn't. Lastly, I'll say it again: Excalibur is too big. What enemy in their right mind is going to manuever into the sights of that main gun? Of course, it would be a good strategy if you want to sacrifice a ship and then have a helpless target afterward. I say, start a new series on SciFi with a next generation white star.
Good for you. Crusade was crap! A cheap Star Trek TNG wannabe. Waaaay too cerebral. Didn't like any of the changes they made to the storyline. B5 was far better. The Whitestars kick butt over the Excalibur for action scenes. TNT really screwed up the B5 universe.
As usual, it looks like everyone is overreacting over some inconsequential legal red tape meant only to cover Corel's butt. They of course have no intention of denying use of this product to minors but as minors they cannot enter into this type of contract without parental consent (in the US). Do you really think Corel is going to send "software cops" to little Jonny's house? I think not.
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Hmmm extrasolar, I understand where you are coming from and can relate, but I disagree. Most of us crossing over from Windows are not on a crusade to purge ourselves of MS or entirely displeased with the Windows interface. Speaking for myself, I'm not looking for something different. I just can't stand the danged computer crashing every time you look at it, or for that matter, crashing even if you don't look at it. I agree that we don't want to create a linux Windows 98 duplicate, but anything that can be done to minimize the learning curve for newbies only strengthens linux's userbase over the long run. The appeal of Windows is learning an interface once and being able to apply it to any application. It makes it so any idiot can sit down with a keyboard and a mouse and be productive. The way to make linux soar among the masses is to offer the same ease. Make it so any idiot can use it (think AOL). The people at GNOME and KDE know that! They are not trying to clone Windows, they are trying to win over its users. If you look at if from that perspective, KDE and GNOME can't help but have similarities to Windows. As far as a standard desktop, I hope we will continue to have choices but the different desktops should adopt specifications that allow a program written for either to run on the other. That shouldn't be too difficult if developers are flexible and think of the good of the linux community instead of making their way the standard.
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When I look for phones, I always use the filters and I exclude phones that don't have the 3.5 jack. You can follow like a lemmings if you want but headphone jacks haven't disappeared for people who won't buy a phone without one. I don't even see phones that don't have one so as far as I'm concerned, they all still have them.
The worst alternative it's not George Lucas doing the same thing. It's the more likely alternative that he would spend another decade just sitting on it doing nothing, and then releasing a couple new remasterings or anniversary cuts just for a payday. At least Disney is making new films.
I agree. Blaming the user is so sysadmin isn't it? In what other industry would you do that? "My engine just shut off in the middle of rush hour traffic." "Well what were you doing driving a consumer-rated car during rush hour, moron?"
Sometimes people buy things and simply want them to work. An automatic upgrade IS NOT NORMAL for Windows. Updates yes but upgrades, no. Mr. Harmann is the victim of a special, hopefully one-time rule change.
The guy who does "IT" for him is the guy working the sound equipment and this guy is also a lawyer. How good can his IT skills be?
The Thom Hartmann syndicated radio show got a rude introduction to Microsoft's new upgrade policy yesterday when their YouTube live stream server went offline and started upgrading while they were on the air. Thom Hartmann was freaking out and asking if listeners could help them switch to Ubuntu. They simulcast on terrestrial radio, Siriusxm, YouTube, and Free Speech TV. Hartmann was updating viewers on the upgrade completion percentage because viewers were complaining about losing their feed. He was livid but what can one do at that point?
I've begun to hear many TV talking heads dumping on "the selfie" lately. Anything that gets over-hyped will reach burnout. But come on guys, really? A selfie brought down the plane? Should be only a matter of hours before some politician jumps onto a soap box and calls for anti-selfie legislation. Maybe they can vilify selfies like they did vaccinations.
Remember Sarah Palin's sad story about the little girl who "came down" with autism after getting some vaccines? Well that's nothing. Take a selfie on a plane...and you'll die in an inferno of brimstone as new-fangled selfie-demons destroy your plane! This is nothing but the typical hype/anti-hype cycle but taken to a new level due to 24-hour news media. This may have influenced investigators.
Having spent time behind the wheel of a Cesna myself, I can't imagine this. This is a plane you can fly literally hands-off. It will fly straight and level. Even if you take your hands off in the middle of a turn the plane will continue that direction for a short time while starting a slow drift. A selfie couldn't cause the plane to go down unless he was fumbling with the phone to film the critical point of a risky maneuver in which case the maneuver would be the catalyst. Do we know that he was fumbling with the phone?
This has been a hot issue for a couple years now and there is no doubt the FCC has been studying this for some time. Obama has allowed the agency to be filled with Telecom industry cronies and lobbyists who stand to get sizable golden parachutes from the likes of Comcast and Time Warner if they hold the line. Obama's only card to play if they stonewall is to fire Director Wheeler and replace him with a pro-neutrality director, who will staff the agency with members who will vote the way he wants. If they can delay until the new Congressional session begins in January, then Republicans can block any pro-neutrality nominee. So firing Wheeler after the new session begins is very risky and will likely fail.
The only way Obama can affect the change he wants is to move on the director now. As long as this issue has been discussed, why should we wait another year for the FCC to rule on this? They clearly already know what they want to do. They are just stalling. I hope Obama can see that.
There are a couple of factors that are worth considering. Unlike fiber or coax transport systems, satellites are usually used for very long distance communications. Because of this, it is quite frequent that your link will terminate in another country or even continent. This will make standards compliance and procurement a challenge from day one since you can't guarantee everyone has access to the same equipment.
Secondly encryption standards have to be agreed upon and quite often, equipment from different manufacturers can't be cross-utilized, so you can't just assume that off-the-shelf crypto will be an option to everyone who will participate.. This means everyone has to agree what to use in advance, which could lead to still other challenges. So it's not as easy as the question implies.
The way I translate this is that the US Gvt waited patiently for this to fold under its own weight and collapse. Now it looks like it's catching on so they've decided to try to kill it. Good Luck. I guess the creator remained anonymous for a reason.
Dude the live sports situation is awesome! I am streaming live NBA and NFL games and watching their archives directly from the respective sources. You don't need Fox or ESPN for anything besides college football right now.
I don't even have a need for copying content but every time the RIAA opens the bung hole they call a mouth it makes me want to do it any way.
It pisses people off because Mozilla has inflated their versioning system. They are incrementing quickly not because they are integrating major, watershed features but because they want to pump up the version number quickly. This is because marketers believe consumers view version numbers as an indicator of a product's maturity. To such people, Chrome would seem to be way out in front. So they are forcing all of these reinstalls and obsoleting extensions over and over for little gain, all because their marketing folks think this will help with market share.
I think we've all been insulted.
I don't know why Mozilla doesn't just skip the next few decimals and just match Chrome's version number with their next release since that's clearly what they are trying to do. I've read the articles claiming that consumers are too dim-witted to know that the version number doesn't necessarily indicate which browser is the most advanced and Mozilla is trying to regain lost mind-share. But it's a waste of time and bandwidth to install a new version every week just because they want to actually use all of the numbers along the way. It all seems a bit childish to me.
Yea, it's safer under your mattress.
That cannot be more incorrect. The banks that got clobbered by derivative and other debt trading in the '08 crunch disappeared almost 3 Trillion dollars from wealth management accounts. That's retirement accounts, trusts, and life savings. Someone once said, "A billion here, a billion there and pretty soon you are talking about real money."
By the way: the excuse that big banks give you conveniently placed ATM machines is bunk. I have an E-Trade account and they reimburse all ATM fees no matter how high. I never have to search for a particular bank and the fee is automatically returned. You can't beat that.
There is NO REASON to do business with a big bank.
I last had a B of A account when I was 19. They had the highest credit card rates of any major bank in the country. I shopped around for a day and found a bank with an interest rate 7 points lower than theirs. I moved accounts and a few years later found a credit union with a rate 3 pts lower than the new bank. So I cut my rate from 19.8 to 9.9 just by not being too lazy to shop around. For some reason however, 19 out of 20 people I tell this story to have ump-teen superficial reasons why switching banks would be too much trouble. The truth of it is, they are complacent and lazy.
There shouldn't be even a single person complaining about the bank bailouts or Wall Street who still has an account with these money pimps. If you do business with them, you are an enabler and partially responsible for the bank meltdown of '08.
The thing that irritates me is all of this nonsense about him being a great "American innovator." Hasn't it been more than a decade since he built ANYTHING in America? He was a great innovator of Chinese products.
I participated in an interesting Ubuntu forum discussion about a data corruption in the ext4 file system and Canonical's decision to deploy the OS despite some misgivings of some of its engineers. I gave a link where bug chasers trying to build the final release suggested that they install ext3 as default since there were some unresolved bugs allegedly in ext4 when transferring large files. One engineer took over responsibility of the bug and said it was not conclusive enough to change their plans.
It was very obvious that the priority was sticking to the schedule and the published feature set at all costs. You can find the post here: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?26,18172
The reference cited contains the entire text from which the excerpt was taken. I think it gives a clear example of why these problems persist. Canonical won't be accused of vaporware like Microsoft is when it is late delivering RTM versions. What it is being accused of is far worse I think and may have a long term cost. Especially if this is not a one time thing.
I don't know what you guys are talking about. I blocked steam from the internet and HL2 still works fine for me. These complaints are nothing but FUD!
Well I see two problems:
1. Most people commenting think this software is a ZoneAlarm clone. They don't understand the anonymity aspect.
2. This is something we will have to be used to when there are so few Linux users compared to Windows, and such an overwhelming number of the Linux users seem to think it's taboo to pay for anything. I've seen this in discussion threads for many different software packages. "Why should I pay for {softwareX}, when {softwareY & Z} will do the same thing for free. Then when someone wants to save the software they ask for a petition or emails sent in to save it. 80% of the people writing in haven't bought any software in years.
It's just like when you write to your senator and he throws away your letter when he sees that you are not on his list of registered voters. If you don't vote, your voice doesn't count. If you don't buy software, you give up your voice on the direction of the software industry. Imagine Zero Knowledge getting 1500 emails tomorrow, only 3 of which come from paying customers. Make any sense?
I think we would all agree. It's the guy who's wife refuses to use anything but AOL who needs this. I'm sure there are gals whose hubbies won't use anything else who will benefit too. We've got folks on our newgroups who spend half there time trying to find a way to get AOL and quicken to work on linux so there other half will finally let them fdisk windows.
Like I said, it sucked anyway so no loss. He should have known not to make a deal with TNT suits anyway. These types never get the point of a series like that and are bound to screw it up. I also don't think it makes sense to compare this season 1 to B5 season 1 because now we have an established universe and everyone knows the rules and races. The idea is that it was supposed to continue from where the Drak war left off. THAT was exciting, this should have been too. It wasn't. Lastly, I'll say it again: Excalibur is too big. What enemy in their right mind is going to manuever into the sights of that main gun? Of course, it would be a good strategy if you want to sacrifice a ship and then have a helpless target afterward. I say, start a new series on SciFi with a next generation white star.
Good for you. Crusade was crap! A cheap Star Trek TNG wannabe. Waaaay too cerebral. Didn't like any of the changes they made to the storyline. B5 was far better. The Whitestars kick butt over the Excalibur for action scenes. TNT really screwed up the B5 universe.
As usual, it looks like everyone is overreacting over some inconsequential legal red tape meant only to cover Corel's butt. They of course have no intention of denying use of this product to minors but as minors they cannot enter into this type of contract without parental consent (in the US). Do you really think Corel is going to send "software cops" to little Jonny's house? I think not.
Hmmm extrasolar, I understand where you are coming from and can relate, but I disagree. Most of us crossing over from Windows are not on a crusade to purge ourselves of MS or entirely displeased with the Windows interface. Speaking for myself, I'm not looking for something different. I just can't stand the danged computer crashing every time you look at it, or for that matter, crashing even if you don't look at it. I agree that we don't want to create a linux Windows 98 duplicate, but anything that can be done to minimize the learning curve for newbies only strengthens linux's userbase over the long run. The appeal of Windows is learning an interface once and being able to apply it to any application. It makes it so any idiot can sit down with a keyboard and a mouse and be productive. The way to make linux soar among the masses is to offer the same ease. Make it so any idiot can use it (think AOL). The people at GNOME and KDE know that! They are not trying to clone Windows, they are trying to win over its users. If you look at if from that perspective, KDE and GNOME can't help but have similarities to Windows. As far as a standard desktop, I hope we will continue to have choices but the different desktops should adopt specifications that allow a program written for either to run on the other. That shouldn't be too difficult if developers are flexible and think of the good of the linux community instead of making their way the standard.