I think he was replying to the anonymous coward that replied to my original post. Since the anonymous coward's post score is 0 by default, it isnt shown. This makes any response to the ac post look like a response to mine. Quite confusing.
O: Another favorite quote you tend to bring up in interviews is, "If there are any gods whose chief concern is man, they can't be very important gods." Can you expound on that?
ACC: [Laughs.] Well, I was rather a cynic once. But now I've combined all my beliefs into this phrase I've been circulating: "Religion is the most malevolent of all mind viruses." It's adapted from a phrase by the British writer and scientist Richard Dawkins, who said that religion was a mind virus, an idea that infected the mind. He said that not all mind-viruses are malignant; some may even be beneficial. But many are harmful--racist theories, for instance.
You also don't need to buy a subscription when buying a tivo. You can purchase just the hardware if you want. Of course not having the program listings and scheduling features kinda defeats the main benefit of PVRs.
To be really useful, a homemade pvr has to solve the problem of obtaining program listings.
I've had the same issue. One way of solving it is to enable exit confirmation. That way, when you hit the main exit button, it will ask if you really want to close or not. Kind of a trade off since that can get annoying too, but at least you won't lose all the browser tabs you have open.
So you're actually arguing that lower prices are bad and higher prices are good. Ok.
To me lowering prices, killing your competition, THEN raising prices is bad. As an example, IE killed Netscape, but Microsoft hasn't started charging for IE yet, have they. If they did start charing, THAT would be an abuse.
Anti-trust legislation exists to keep companies from illegally abusing their market position. In your example, the raising of prices after killing the competition would be the abuse, not the lowering of prices. Lowering prices is the entire point of competition from the point of view of the consumer.
take a deep breath. I wasn't endorsing or disagreeing with the "correctness" of SUVs. The comment I replied to said that Landrover owners didn't take their machines offroad.
I found a website (and there are many others) that disproved their point.
But keep your over-sized, gas-guzzling, luxury follies the fuck away from my commute.
I'm sure you could find many motorcyclists (or bicyclists) that could use the EXACT same argument against you and your Volvo. But I guess they're wrong because your opinion is "right".
...practically nobody uses an SUV for the kinds of things an SUV is capable of. I know Landrover owners you *freak* if they get mud on it... wtf did they buy a Landrover for, then?
Hmmm, generalizations are fun. To break your convienient stereotype, here is a website with hundreds of Landrover owners who most definitely take their vehicles off-road.
Now the question of if this is a smart thing to do with a $40k vehicle is whole other issue.
The music industry owns the music it produces. It can set the price for that music at whatever level it wants. You must decided if that price is reasonable enough for you to purchase it (including all possible future costs). If it is then buy it, if not then look for alternative music sources.
Hi. we're from Ford, you bought this car from us 6 months ago, it now costs $3K more and we want our money.
If this possibility was in the contract to buy a car from Ford, then I wouldn't buy one. Similarly, if I were a webcaster and the RIAA told me they could raise their rates whenever they wanted to, then I WOULDN'T BASE MY BUISNESS OFF OF THEM.
Why not switch to other music sources that are more affordable? You only have to deal with the RIAA if you play their music.
Why do webcasters have ANY say in what the RIAA charges for allowing them to broadcast their music? If they think it is too much, then why not play music from another group that is more affordable?
How is this any different than somebody deciding to sell Ford cars and then complaining that Ford won't give them the cars to sell for $1 each?
If somebody owns something, then they can charge whatever they want to allow other people to use it. If you think that the charge is too much for the product, then DON'T BUY IT!
(It's possible that I'm completely missing some pertinent facts about this issue. If so please reply.)
Look at the top of the comments page for a story. See where you can change the viewing threshold (-1,1,2,3...) and the nested/flat comment display options? Just the right of that area is a button labeled "reply". This button is the answer to all your problems.
I have the odd feeling that I'm being trolled in some way...
If you link then you have to worry about being slashdotted, thus making it less viewable. You could, however, link to a google cache version if it has been spidered recently.
The point of SCSI is that it allows the disk access and such to be offloaded from the CPU to the processor on the SCSI card. This way your programs don't freeze when heavy disk access occurs.
My friend and I bought gamecubes on the release day from the same store. His has crashed multiple times while playing games, but I've had no problems with mine.
The crashs happened while using different games, which leads one to think that this is a hardware problem.
Globalization can be classified as a polarizing issue. Often seen in politics, it is simply an issue that one can use to easily separate people into two groups; those for, and those against.
Somewhere in the middle exists a rational argument, but either sides probably aren't interested in hearing it.
Instead of connecting to the Internet, just connect your NaN to the NaN in the next neighborhood.
Recurse.
Now we have an network without centralized control. Reliability problems could be handled by making sure your NaN is connected to as many surrounding NaN's as possible.
Of course routing might become one of those interesting NP problems...
About TV: I agree with you with respect to network news coverage, but the News Hour with Jim Lehrer on PBS spends much more time than normal on each story. They quite often have a roundtable discussion with the people involved in the stories afterwards. This last part is very useful because you often hear the actual participants speaking for themselves rather than some reporter's version of what they said.
I find they have much less of the "Are Your Children in Danger Too" type of reporting as well.
Also, PBS's Frontline documentaries have great background information on things from the drug war to the current terrorist situation.
I think you can actually use the same type of technique used on hard drives to tell what was stored in RAM (ie. the values stored are not exactly 0/1, but close enough to within a certain threshold, and previous charges have measurable affects on subsequent charges ). I read a paper describing the technique somewhere. It all depends on how long it was stored for.
It is probably more difficult to analyze the RAM though.
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I think he was replying to the anonymous coward that replied to my original post. Since the anonymous coward's post score is 0 by default, it isnt shown. This makes any response to the ac post look like a response to mine. Quite confusing.
ACC: [Laughs.] Well, I was rather a cynic once. But now I've combined all my beliefs into this phrase I've been circulating: "Religion is the most malevolent of all mind viruses." It's adapted from a phrase by the British writer and scientist Richard Dawkins, who said that religion was a mind virus, an idea that infected the mind. He said that not all mind-viruses are malignant; some may even be beneficial. But many are harmful--racist theories, for instance.
The shady side of hackerdom has been using this very technique to hide their backdoors from port scanning admins. Or, uh, so I've heard...
You also don't need to buy a subscription when buying a tivo. You can purchase just the hardware if you want. Of course not having the program listings and scheduling features kinda defeats the main benefit of PVRs.
To be really useful, a homemade pvr has to solve the problem of obtaining program listings.
I've had the same issue. One way of solving it is to enable exit confirmation. That way, when you hit the main exit button, it will ask if you really want to close or not. Kind of a trade off since that can get annoying too, but at least you won't lose all the browser tabs you have open.
They are creating a dominant environment for all their products by dumping (giving away, selling at a loss) a handful of core components.
Isn't this exactly what the open source/free software movement is trying to do?
Standards bodies should really be not for profit.
I agree with that. Also, if mpeg4 was a free standard, then Microsoft would be forced to compete on quality alone, and not price.
Killing your competition is not bad. Raising your prices after killing all your competition IS.
So you're actually arguing that lower prices are bad and higher prices are good. Ok.
To me lowering prices, killing your competition, THEN raising prices is bad. As an example, IE killed Netscape, but Microsoft hasn't started charging for IE yet, have they. If they did start charing, THAT would be an abuse.
Anti-trust legislation exists to keep companies from illegally abusing their market position. In your example, the raising of prices after killing the competition would be the abuse, not the lowering of prices. Lowering prices is the entire point of competition from the point of view of the consumer.
I found a website (and there are many others) that disproved their point.
But keep your over-sized, gas-guzzling, luxury follies the fuck away from my commute.
I'm sure you could find many motorcyclists (or bicyclists) that could use the EXACT same argument against you and your Volvo. But I guess they're wrong because your opinion is "right".
Hmmm, generalizations are fun. To break your convienient stereotype, here is a website with hundreds of Landrover owners who most definitely take their vehicles off-road.
Now the question of if this is a smart thing to do with a $40k vehicle is whole other issue.
Hi. we're from Ford, you bought this car from us 6 months ago, it now costs $3K more and we want our money. If this possibility was in the contract to buy a car from Ford, then I wouldn't buy one. Similarly, if I were a webcaster and the RIAA told me they could raise their rates whenever they wanted to, then I WOULDN'T BASE MY BUISNESS OFF OF THEM.
Why not switch to other music sources that are more affordable? You only have to deal with the RIAA if you play their music.
Why do webcasters have ANY say in what the RIAA charges for allowing them to broadcast their music? If they think it is too much, then why not play music from another group that is more affordable?
How is this any different than somebody deciding to sell Ford cars and then complaining that Ford won't give them the cars to sell for $1 each?
If somebody owns something, then they can charge whatever they want to allow other people to use it. If you think that the charge is too much for the product, then DON'T BUY IT!
(It's possible that I'm completely missing some pertinent facts about this issue. If so please reply.)
I have the odd feeling that I'm being trolled in some way...
If you link then you have to worry about being slashdotted, thus making it less viewable. You could, however, link to a google cache version if it has been spidered recently.
The point of SCSI is that it allows the disk access and such to be offloaded from the CPU to the processor on the SCSI card. This way your programs don't freeze when heavy disk access occurs.
Take it one step further and put it on shaped cds.
It's written in C++? :)
Try Red Faction. You can blow holes in the ceiling, floor, walls...the game actually depends on you doing this to advance through the levels.
Really fun in deathmatch mode since you can blow a hole in the wall and hide in it.
My friend and I bought gamecubes on the release day from the same store. His has crashed multiple times while playing games, but I've had no problems with mine.
The crashs happened while using different games, which leads one to think that this is a hardware problem.
Globalization can be classified as a polarizing issue. Often seen in politics, it is simply an issue that one can use to easily separate people into two groups; those for, and those against.
Somewhere in the middle exists a rational argument, but either sides probably aren't interested in hearing it.
Instead of connecting to the Internet, just connect your NaN to the NaN in the next neighborhood.
Recurse.
Now we have an network without centralized control. Reliability problems could be handled by making sure your NaN is connected to as many surrounding NaN's as possible.
Of course routing might become one of those interesting NP problems...
About TV: I agree with you with respect to network news coverage, but the News Hour with Jim Lehrer on PBS spends much more time than normal on each story. They quite often have a roundtable discussion with the people involved in the stories afterwards. This last part is very useful because you often hear the actual participants speaking for themselves rather than some reporter's version of what they said.
I find they have much less of the "Are Your Children in Danger Too" type of reporting as well.
Also, PBS's Frontline documentaries have great background information on things from the drug war to the current terrorist situation.
I think you can actually use the same type of technique used on hard drives to tell what was stored in RAM (ie. the values stored are not exactly 0/1, but close enough to within a certain threshold, and previous charges have measurable affects on subsequent charges ). I read a paper describing the technique somewhere. It all depends on how long it was stored for.
It is probably more difficult to analyze the RAM though.