I take issue with your assumptions. As stated many times above, starvation has never been an issue of production, it's a matter of distribution. If this planet has more people it's better for production, i.e. more farmers and more channels for distribution.
More room for everyone is mainly a matter of geography. Do all the Japanese *really* need to be crammed into 6x8 apartments? No, they can move, or Japan can build out it's shores in the same way Singapore came about. Tension is mainly the result of people being stupid enough to stay put when real estate becomes a rare commodity (see New York City apartment prices).
Poverty and suffering are both human-induced threads throughout history. There have always been the 'lame', the sick, and the broke-off, and there always will be. If a man puts his mind to it, he can acquire what he needs to survive in most countries. Suffering, on the other hand, is usually intertwined with poverty. If a man can work his way out of poverty he can reduce or eliminate needless suffering. Ignore strict caste systems like India where you're fucked from birth if you're born into a poor family, most countries don't handle it this way.
Less disease..well, you may be right there, but with less disease, the population is more vulnerable to outbreaks of unknown viruses and illnesses. The more mild diseases you come into contact with regularly, the more robust your immune system is. For this very reason I never take antibiotics or flu shots unless it's life-threatening.
The ultimate solution to overpopulation is land distribution. We have a surplus of land all over the world. Some of it is barely habitable, but most of it is just fine. Ever drive across America? Here's what you'll see - flat farm land or rolling hills with nothing there...for hours at a time. This is particularly true of the north. I'm sure it's like this in South America as well as most of Canada.
What it comes down to is that people like other people, and the more the merrier. When people congregate into big cities, all the numbers rise for everything. More crime but more business owners which create more jobs and a larger tax base. This in turn makes public, free healthcare economically viable and helps maintain the infrastructure required to support a large metropolitan area. Also you get alot of diversity in densely populated areas, so your chance of meeting the 'right person' shoots up exponentially. Your chances of meeting interesting people grows as well, which enriches your life.
The types of commercials included in the download could be advertisements for ISP's and other internet-related companies. The companies advertising could be donating bandwidth and torrent farms to distribute content. This way local affiliates lose nothing and the bandwidth is paid for.
Furthermore they're the ones doing the distribution, so they could arrange various models to generate revenue. They could stagger download releases to make them a few days later than the aired shows and create a fileplanet-style paid login to get shows faster, earlier, etc.
The only thing missing from this whole debacle is foresight on the part of the networks. But then again, huge monopolies have NEVER been known to be quick to move or smart in planning when faced with something as potentially damaging as this. They generally wait until things 'get bad' then sic their lawyers on everyone.
If content creators and distributors would work together on making internet delivery feasible and affordable, they would make alot more money.
KDM did the same thing when my mother's monitor died suddenly. They got her CC number, overnighted a new monitor which she received the very next day, and had her send the old one back (and they covered shipping). Meanwhile I had a Sony PS2, first batch, that had the dvd lens die. Sony said they wouldn't replace it since I had a third party unlicensed peripheral plugged in (a pelican dvd remote). Sony blows, pure and simple.
13 months? Try 91 days. Still pissed about being a first adopter when the PS2 was released...but with Gran Turismo 4 coming, I *have* to buy another one.
These people are saints to me. When you charge $50 per hour to clean up personal computers, you rejoice when you see a shitload of spyware on a computer. That's lots of cleaning time, and money in the bank.
If they're really serious about not getting re-infected, I'll leave them a Knoppix or PCLinuxOS disc and a brief tutorial.
I've noticed an interesting trend with AMD lately. They're phasing out their XP chips and trying to get everyone to go to AMD64. The less than stellar Sempron is priced where the XP's used to be, and the lower-powered 64's are priced where the higher end XP's are.
From an economic standpoint, they're encouraging you to buy an AMD64 chip for the same money a somewhat slower XP chip costs. If you want a cheaper XP-powered machine, you buy Sempron. I think they're going to stop building XP chips very soon.
Ok, this is getting wacky. I've always believed that RPM = Redhat Package Manager. An RPM file, on the other hand, is generically known as a Redhat Package or just a package. So RPM is really RPM Package Manager? Weird.
I second that. Multiplayer is what gives single player games (like doom3) life after you've beaten them. Once you beat the game, you get online and beat real people over the internet. After all, the game IS an FPS.
Yeah, but the image search will only match if the filenames match. Imagine a copyrighted image called cockandballs.jpg. It's on dudes4u.com. Now, let's say on the EXTREMELY RARE chance that you do a search specifically for cock and balls in google's image search, and the image comes back. Is google responsible for sites that copy copyrighted works and are too lazy to even change the damn file names? Google's image search, afaik, isn't that sophisticated. It generally works from the filenames of the actual image files and maybe some code from the originating page.
At the end of the day, can you really say it's google's fault? Not really. Not unless you think that search engines aren't supposed to work right.
Canada seems a little different in that they can see their money going to good causes. Causes like a public health program, extremely clean cities, environmental controls, etc. Again, the main beef most of us Americans have is that we see ourselves being taxed more all the time but there's no tangible result. Quality of life just isn't improving, Social Security is still getting raped, the highways are no better, etc. Show me where that extra penny sales tax is going, in concrete form, and I won't complain if I feel it's a worthy improvement.
Hey, don't diss the C64's sound chip. It remains one of the best analog synth chips ever. It takes a very fast PC to even think about emulating it and the filters it contains. Don't forget it was created by the geniuses at Ensoniq also.
The coolest synth I've seen is the portable SID player, that thing is tight.
That may be true to some extent, but it doesn't come right out and say which CD. Again, the content is up to the sharers. Any P2P app becomes illegal when people trade copyrighted works using them, and legal when people are sharing free works. The MPAA and other goons are right in going after the sharers of copyrighted works rather than the companies making this possible (or at least making it easy for normal Internet using retards to do it so it reaches critical mass, see Napster).
I think the RIAA and the MPAA finally realized that a brick can have many purposes. I can use it to build a house, or I can throw it through a storefront window in order to steal jewelry. The brick isn't the problem, it's the use of the brick by myself that creates a problem. If millions of people are going around throwing bricks through windows but millions more are using bricks for building, you can't sue the brick company for making this all possible.
I'm not on the side of greedy entities like the MPAA and the RIAA, but you have to see the big picture. Corporate america has a duty to protect itself when there's a perceived loss, whether or not that loss is accurately perceived or quantized is another argument altogether.
That'd be an effective solution to users outsmarting you. Just make IE's homepage goatse or tubgirl, and make Firefox's the default or google. That'll teach those weaselly parents.
That's similar to my admin buddy. Hardcore windows admin, loves it and Intel to death. Now that there are 3 linux boxen of mine on his network, he's shocked at the uptime and solidity of them. So much so that rather than pay out the ass for a Cisco VOIP solution, he asked me what I thought about a linux box running Asterisk. Now we're building a fresh new voip system for his office and their overseas partners.
Oh yeah, and the last 6 workstations he's ordered and built have all been AMDs. The latest baby is the AMD64 with a gig of ddr400 that I'm 'testing' before the CAD teams get it. It's hard to argue with price/performance ratios with them.
Back in the day, when Netscape had more of a presence, you'd see all sites support both Netscape and IE. Then Netscape kinda lost overnight, and everyone stopped coding for Netscape. Now things are changing again, and you're going to start to see some damn standards compliant coding again. Thank god.
The reason they did it this way on linux was to be consistent with MacOS. Macs have always had preference settings under the Edit menu, I believe it's part of Apple's gui standards. Makes sense for it to be there to me since I was using Macs before I was using Windows.
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I take issue with your assumptions. As stated many times above, starvation has never been an issue of production, it's a matter of distribution. If this planet has more people it's better for production, i.e. more farmers and more channels for distribution.
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More room for everyone is mainly a matter of geography. Do all the Japanese *really* need to be crammed into 6x8 apartments? No, they can move, or Japan can build out it's shores in the same way Singapore came about. Tension is mainly the result of people being stupid enough to stay put when real estate becomes a rare commodity (see New York City apartment prices).
Poverty and suffering are both human-induced threads throughout history. There have always been the 'lame', the sick, and the broke-off, and there always will be. If a man puts his mind to it, he can acquire what he needs to survive in most countries. Suffering, on the other hand, is usually intertwined with poverty. If a man can work his way out of poverty he can reduce or eliminate needless suffering. Ignore strict caste systems like India where you're fucked from birth if you're born into a poor family, most countries don't handle it this way.
Less disease..well, you may be right there, but with less disease, the population is more vulnerable to outbreaks of unknown viruses and illnesses. The more mild diseases you come into contact with regularly, the more robust your immune system is. For this very reason I never take antibiotics or flu shots unless it's life-threatening.
The ultimate solution to overpopulation is land distribution. We have a surplus of land all over the world. Some of it is barely habitable, but most of it is just fine. Ever drive across America? Here's what you'll see - flat farm land or rolling hills with nothing there...for hours at a time. This is particularly true of the north. I'm sure it's like this in South America as well as most of Canada.
What it comes down to is that people like other people, and the more the merrier. When people congregate into big cities, all the numbers rise for everything. More crime but more business owners which create more jobs and a larger tax base. This in turn makes public, free healthcare economically viable and helps maintain the infrastructure required to support a large metropolitan area. Also you get alot of diversity in densely populated areas, so your chance of meeting the 'right person' shoots up exponentially. Your chances of meeting interesting people grows as well, which enriches your life.
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The types of commercials included in the download could be advertisements for ISP's and other internet-related companies. The companies advertising could be donating bandwidth and torrent farms to distribute content. This way local affiliates lose nothing and the bandwidth is paid for.
Furthermore they're the ones doing the distribution, so they could arrange various models to generate revenue. They could stagger download releases to make them a few days later than the aired shows and create a fileplanet-style paid login to get shows faster, earlier, etc.
The only thing missing from this whole debacle is foresight on the part of the networks. But then again, huge monopolies have NEVER been known to be quick to move or smart in planning when faced with something as potentially damaging as this. They generally wait until things 'get bad' then sic their lawyers on everyone.
If content creators and distributors would work together on making internet delivery feasible and affordable, they would make alot more money.
KDM did the same thing when my mother's monitor died suddenly. They got her CC number, overnighted a new monitor which she received the very next day, and had her send the old one back (and they covered shipping). Meanwhile I had a Sony PS2, first batch, that had the dvd lens die. Sony said they wouldn't replace it since I had a third party unlicensed peripheral plugged in (a pelican dvd remote). Sony blows, pure and simple.
I wonder how many miles of classified documents they or the Pentagon have under wraps, just waiting to be discovered?
13 months? Try 91 days. Still pissed about being a first adopter when the PS2 was released...but with Gran Turismo 4 coming, I *have* to buy another one.
I'm asking the same question. Attention editors: please create a -1 WTF?!? or a -1 Retarded mod option.
These people are saints to me. When you charge $50 per hour to clean up personal computers, you rejoice when you see a shitload of spyware on a computer. That's lots of cleaning time, and money in the bank.
If they're really serious about not getting re-infected, I'll leave them a Knoppix or PCLinuxOS disc and a brief tutorial.
"and i could no longer boot Windows."
Well at least that's a step in the right direction. There are many fine Linux distributions that you'll never have this problem with.
I've noticed an interesting trend with AMD lately. They're phasing out their XP chips and trying to get everyone to go to AMD64. The less than stellar Sempron is priced where the XP's used to be, and the lower-powered 64's are priced where the higher end XP's are.
From an economic standpoint, they're encouraging you to buy an AMD64 chip for the same money a somewhat slower XP chip costs. If you want a cheaper XP-powered machine, you buy Sempron. I think they're going to stop building XP chips very soon.
Here's their new tagline.
"Cricket Communications. If you can hear one, you're out of range!"
In Soviet Russia, Wife finds you!
Ok, this is getting wacky. I've always believed that RPM = Redhat Package Manager. An RPM file, on the other hand, is generically known as a Redhat Package or just a package. So RPM is really RPM Package Manager? Weird.
I second that. Multiplayer is what gives single player games (like doom3) life after you've beaten them. Once you beat the game, you get online and beat real people over the internet. After all, the game IS an FPS.
Yeah, but the image search will only match if the filenames match. Imagine a copyrighted image called cockandballs.jpg. It's on dudes4u.com. Now, let's say on the EXTREMELY RARE chance that you do a search specifically for cock and balls in google's image search, and the image comes back. Is google responsible for sites that copy copyrighted works and are too lazy to even change the damn file names? Google's image search, afaik, isn't that sophisticated. It generally works from the filenames of the actual image files and maybe some code from the originating page.
At the end of the day, can you really say it's google's fault? Not really. Not unless you think that search engines aren't supposed to work right.
Canada seems a little different in that they can see their money going to good causes. Causes like a public health program, extremely clean cities, environmental controls, etc. Again, the main beef most of us Americans have is that we see ourselves being taxed more all the time but there's no tangible result. Quality of life just isn't improving, Social Security is still getting raped, the highways are no better, etc. Show me where that extra penny sales tax is going, in concrete form, and I won't complain if I feel it's a worthy improvement.
You forgot the perennial favorite: a Texas-sized pile of dollars. That's Mr. Gates' bank account statement.
Hey, don't diss the C64's sound chip. It remains one of the best analog synth chips ever. It takes a very fast PC to even think about emulating it and the filters it contains. Don't forget it was created by the geniuses at Ensoniq also.
The coolest synth I've seen is the portable SID player, that thing is tight.
That may be true to some extent, but it doesn't come right out and say which CD. Again, the content is up to the sharers. Any P2P app becomes illegal when people trade copyrighted works using them, and legal when people are sharing free works. The MPAA and other goons are right in going after the sharers of copyrighted works rather than the companies making this possible (or at least making it easy for normal Internet using retards to do it so it reaches critical mass, see Napster).
I think the RIAA and the MPAA finally realized that a brick can have many purposes. I can use it to build a house, or I can throw it through a storefront window in order to steal jewelry. The brick isn't the problem, it's the use of the brick by myself that creates a problem. If millions of people are going around throwing bricks through windows but millions more are using bricks for building, you can't sue the brick company for making this all possible.
I'm not on the side of greedy entities like the MPAA and the RIAA, but you have to see the big picture. Corporate america has a duty to protect itself when there's a perceived loss, whether or not that loss is accurately perceived or quantized is another argument altogether.
That'd be an effective solution to users outsmarting you. Just make IE's homepage goatse or tubgirl, and make Firefox's the default or google. That'll teach those weaselly parents.
Huh, really? I guess that would explain my firewall's constant bombardment from 0wned computers looking to zombify another one.
That's similar to my admin buddy. Hardcore windows admin, loves it and Intel to death. Now that there are 3 linux boxen of mine on his network, he's shocked at the uptime and solidity of them. So much so that rather than pay out the ass for a Cisco VOIP solution, he asked me what I thought about a linux box running Asterisk. Now we're building a fresh new voip system for his office and their overseas partners.
Oh yeah, and the last 6 workstations he's ordered and built have all been AMDs. The latest baby is the AMD64 with a gig of ddr400 that I'm 'testing' before the CAD teams get it. It's hard to argue with price/performance ratios with them.
Back in the day, when Netscape had more of a presence, you'd see all sites support both Netscape and IE. Then Netscape kinda lost overnight, and everyone stopped coding for Netscape. Now things are changing again, and you're going to start to see some damn standards compliant coding again. Thank god.
The best idea is to fool the users. Keep the E icon for Internet Explorer, but have it point to the Firefox executable. That's idiot-proofing.
Yeah, I was talking pre-OSX. I haven't used a Mac in years. :)
The reason they did it this way on linux was to be consistent with MacOS. Macs have always had preference settings under the Edit menu, I believe it's part of Apple's gui standards. Makes sense for it to be there to me since I was using Macs before I was using Windows.