Not only that, they could vary their charges based on how long you are willing to wait for the movie. Want it ASAP, that'll be $4, don't care when it gets dropped onto your local harddrive movie queue, that'll be $2.
A lot of good points. It should also be noted that a keystroke logger will destroy completely the ability to have a valid audit trail. The guy reading the keystroke logger can become anyone because they capture passwords. That should terrify pretty much anyone, especially managers.
I think the only reasonably successful "new" religion that has arisen in recent times is the Latter Day Saints, and even that was over 150 years ago and it's only a variation of Christianity.
Don't forget about our good old freind L. Ron Hubbard. If religion is the opiate for the masses, Scientology appears to be crack for the rich and bored.
Don't forget the lazy assed ISPs that let spoofed traffic originate from their networks. Thats gotta be one of the most annoying things to find when trying to track down someone thats screwing with your stuff. If you can't take the time to configure your own shit right, you shouldn't be allowed in the game at all.
If it were up to me, I think satellites would only be owned by government bodies so that the services that were provided by these planetary companions would be made available to all citizens.
I honestly just don't even know where to start with this comment. Other than maybe, who let the troll in?
I think a full HD MPEG2 stream takes up 18Mb/s, however many cable companies and definitely satellite companies compress it down from that.
What I do know, is that analog channels on cable, look like utter and complete crap on an HD monitor. That, and the Sci-Atlanta box that COX uses upconverts about as well as a OU plays in the Orange Bowl... Digital cable is such a misnomer, I can't believe they get away with selling it as digital.
Really? Wow. Try using something like CiscoWorks. I used to use their native X application which worked great, was really fast, and I don't remember it ever crashing. Now I have to live with this complete turd of an application that runs like a dog on hardware 5x as fast as what the old X stuff ran better on, worry about which version of the JVM I've got loading the app because half the apps want a specific version, and have to restart the app because it crashes constantly. Maybe its not Java's fault, but the fault of poor programming, but I've pretty much had it with these bullshit apps.
Perhaps we should approach the music industry in the same way we approach drugs. Since many people are apparently willing to do just about anything for drugs, including break laws to get them, we've made them illegal to distribute/purchase. Clearly people are willing to break laws to obtain this "music" that the RIAA distributes, without this "music", people would be able to get on about their lives. We should ban all forms of music.
Yes yes, I'm trying to be witty, sarcastic, and a bunch of other stuff, I'm just not very good at it. Perhaps someone else can take this idea and turn it into a Monty Python "witches float therefor they are made of wood" type of argument.
I second the magnet suggestion. I bought a selection of the 1" models, and they've been a blast, though you do have to be really careful with them. I took some to a day-long training class a while back, and it was a hoot. As they made their way around the table you would hear "CLICK...Ouch!" about every couple of minutes.
Yes, I know, you're not supposed to let them click together, and you're not supposed to handle them with you bare hands. They will chip if you're not careful, and they'll make a pressure hole in clothing if you let them click through a polo shirt. The most fun is handing one to a friend, then tossing them the second one. Its almost as much fun as tossing a charged capacitor (oh how I miss high school science class)to someone not expecting it.
Yeah, being 6'4" I do. I think every damn one of em picked a fight with me in gradeschool. I was somewhat softspoken, and switched schools a few times due to family moves, so my reputation for not being a pushover didn't follow. I kinda feel bad for some of those little guys now...
So we need a proxy for google that you run your searches through that strips out any results from a blacklist of domains or URLs or something along those lines.
Thats what he said, they make it easier to find stuff. Considering there are thousands of albums released every month now, how do you make it easy to find one? You hype the hell out of it. Make it stand out, make it easy for people to find...
Damnit you fool, we were counting on you last night. You totally missed out when we took down the Commander and Highmane. BTW, I've got a great epic mace for you when you log in next.
I've successfully used Cisco's VOIP Communicator software running over a dial-up 56k connection (so thats 53k max down and 33.6k max up). It wasn't great quality, but it was tolerable.
Jitter is definitely the kicker for VOIP, delay isn't that big of a deal. It takes some getting used to in regular conversation to have a >200ms delay, but I'd say anything under 1500ms could be tolerable with some experience.
My understanding is that having an HDTV tuner card doesn't get you anything in terms of the broadcast flag, unless you happen to get one that ignores the broadcast flag, which either are or shortly will be illegal to purchase.
Also, for cable, you still need to have a HDTV cable box or HDTV cablecard that is compatible with your cable provider's service.
For satellite you would obviously need their equipment.
For OTA broadcasts you can just use an antenna to pick up whatever the local channels are. Even those will eventually only carry flagged programming, barring a revelation in the industry.
I just wonder how long before states start putting up a "toll booth" on all roads that cross their border, and requiring you to swipe your drivers license for the gate to open.
The best thing I ever bought at Best Buy was a microwave oven. It has worked spectacularly in preparing items (purchased along with a 3 year warranty) to be sent off for replacement.:)
Just what I need is the security company showing up at my house every time my wife goes out of town because the number of phone calls to the pizza guy, beer purchased on the credit card, and payperview porn selections have just stepped several standard deviations outside the norm.
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Not only that, they could vary their charges based on how long you are willing to wait for the movie. Want it ASAP, that'll be $4, don't care when it gets dropped onto your local harddrive movie queue, that'll be $2.
A lot of good points. It should also be noted that a keystroke logger will destroy completely the ability to have a valid audit trail. The guy reading the keystroke logger can become anyone because they capture passwords. That should terrify pretty much anyone, especially managers.
I think the only reasonably successful "new" religion that has arisen in recent times is the Latter Day Saints, and even that was over 150 years ago and it's only a variation of Christianity.
Don't forget about our good old freind L. Ron Hubbard. If religion is the opiate for the masses, Scientology appears to be crack for the rich and bored.
OTA doesn't mean its analog, its just the physical media. Is a wireless access point analog?
Don't forget the lazy assed ISPs that let spoofed traffic originate from their networks. Thats gotta be one of the most annoying things to find when trying to track down someone thats screwing with your stuff. If you can't take the time to configure your own shit right, you shouldn't be allowed in the game at all.
Mavericks games?
Go for it. I think you may have found the one time that the old axiom "If you build it, they will come" would completely fail.
Are you talking about this Checkpoint? http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=CHKP&d=t
Damn man, you've been out of it for a while.
If it were up to me, I think satellites would only be owned by government bodies so that the services that were provided by these planetary companions would be made available to all citizens.
I honestly just don't even know where to start with this comment. Other than maybe, who let the troll in?
I think a full HD MPEG2 stream takes up 18Mb/s, however many cable companies and definitely satellite companies compress it down from that.
What I do know, is that analog channels on cable, look like utter and complete crap on an HD monitor. That, and the Sci-Atlanta box that COX uses upconverts about as well as a OU plays in the Orange Bowl... Digital cable is such a misnomer, I can't believe they get away with selling it as digital.
Really? Wow. Try using something like CiscoWorks. I used to use their native X application which worked great, was really fast, and I don't remember it ever crashing. Now I have to live with this complete turd of an application that runs like a dog on hardware 5x as fast as what the old X stuff ran better on, worry about which version of the JVM I've got loading the app because half the apps want a specific version, and have to restart the app because it crashes constantly. Maybe its not Java's fault, but the fault of poor programming, but I've pretty much had it with these bullshit apps.
Possibly, but for a long time scientists believed (at least publicly) a lot of silly things because the church told them to.
Hmm, that sounds an aweful lot like slashdot "karma" doesn't it?
Perhaps we should approach the music industry in the same way we approach drugs. Since many people are apparently willing to do just about anything for drugs, including break laws to get them, we've made them illegal to distribute/purchase. Clearly people are willing to break laws to obtain this "music" that the RIAA distributes, without this "music", people would be able to get on about their lives. We should ban all forms of music.
Yes yes, I'm trying to be witty, sarcastic, and a bunch of other stuff, I'm just not very good at it. Perhaps someone else can take this idea and turn it into a Monty Python "witches float therefor they are made of wood" type of argument.
I second the magnet suggestion. I bought a selection of the 1" models, and they've been a blast, though you do have to be really careful with them. I took some to a day-long training class a while back, and it was a hoot. As they made their way around the table you would hear "CLICK...Ouch!" about every couple of minutes.
Yes, I know, you're not supposed to let them click together, and you're not supposed to handle them with you bare hands. They will chip if you're not careful, and they'll make a pressure hole in clothing if you let them click through a polo shirt. The most fun is handing one to a friend, then tossing them the second one. Its almost as much fun as tossing a charged capacitor (oh how I miss high school science class)to someone not expecting it.
I've seen a lot of geeks waltz into a manager's office with attitude...If they don't act nice after then rm their user directory. ;)
A manager's user directory? That would be what, "c:\" or even more likely these days, "My Desktop"?
Yeah, being 6'4" I do. I think every damn one of em picked a fight with me in gradeschool. I was somewhat softspoken, and switched schools a few times due to family moves, so my reputation for not being a pushover didn't follow. I kinda feel bad for some of those little guys now...
So we need a proxy for google that you run your searches through that strips out any results from a blacklist of domains or URLs or something along those lines.
Either that, or the net needs a Karma system.
wow, non-interlaced even... fancy.
Thats what he said, they make it easier to find stuff. Considering there are thousands of albums released every month now, how do you make it easy to find one? You hype the hell out of it. Make it stand out, make it easy for people to find...
Damnit you fool, we were counting on you last night. You totally missed out when we took down the Commander and Highmane. BTW, I've got a great epic mace for you when you log in next.
I've successfully used Cisco's VOIP Communicator software running over a dial-up 56k connection (so thats 53k max down and 33.6k max up). It wasn't great quality, but it was tolerable.
Jitter is definitely the kicker for VOIP, delay isn't that big of a deal. It takes some getting used to in regular conversation to have a >200ms delay, but I'd say anything under 1500ms could be tolerable with some experience.
My understanding is that having an HDTV tuner card doesn't get you anything in terms of the broadcast flag, unless you happen to get one that ignores the broadcast flag, which either are or shortly will be illegal to purchase.
Also, for cable, you still need to have a HDTV cable box or HDTV cablecard that is compatible with your cable provider's service.
For satellite you would obviously need their equipment.
For OTA broadcasts you can just use an antenna to pick up whatever the local channels are. Even those will eventually only carry flagged programming, barring a revelation in the industry.
I just wonder how long before states start putting up a "toll booth" on all roads that cross their border, and requiring you to swipe your drivers license for the gate to open.
The best thing I ever bought at Best Buy was a microwave oven. It has worked spectacularly in preparing items (purchased along with a 3 year warranty) to be sent off for replacement. :)
Just what I need is the security company showing up at my house every time my wife goes out of town because the number of phone calls to the pizza guy, beer purchased on the credit card, and payperview porn selections have just stepped several standard deviations outside the norm.
Yeah, umm, no thanks.