The only reason 'native hardware' (i assume you mean hard-wired logic) is so stable is because its absolutely as simple as you can get, its the equivelent of half a dozen lines of code that have been looked over and tested to death, if you make those logic circuits any more complex, to add more features you will end up with a mess worse than if it was run on a CPU. I agree though, the actual car part of a car should be very very simple and very well tested, unfortunately this doesn't quite work in real life business. People want engine management, drive modes and all sorts of features. For most people, safety comes in second place because they just assume the car they are about to buy must be safe - otherwise how would it be allowed on the road? This leads to car manufacturers being forced to race eachother for features - if they don't, then someone else will.
Hey its not _my_ fault, its the fault of society for making keyboards so damn cheap. If they were a little more expensive I would have to look after them. That's what you get with capitalism and cheap foreign labour...
I know what your saying, but if you try a few cheap brands out you might just find one that you like, thats what i did, it even has the added benefit: when you smash your keyboard in windows-rage you're always missing at least one key when you put them back in - just grab the spare key off the previous keyboard before you chuck it away. Ahhh the throw-away culture, im just doing my bit to fill the world with non-degradable bits of plastic for animals to choke on.
This article is way out of date, most keyboards aren't worth money anymore - they're disposable items. I buy a new one every few months because keep smashing the old one's - its a great tension relief, especially for Windows. Just find a cheap brand of keyboard that you like the feel of and keep buying the same one, theres no need for this fancy crap.
"I don't understand why RIAA wants streaming stations to pay them for what amounts to advertising for their members. Do radio stations pay to play music? I'm thinking not."
Thats because most of the crap stations are out-sourced to a big company with a building full of generic DJs who just play the same record industry generated play lists and pretend to be in some town they've never heard of between songs. The whole thing is just one big advert. A few years ago, a radio station would have a massive library, now days people have an even bigger library stored in the palm of their hand and with full control over what they listen to - how can a radio compete? New music is more likely to be played online rather than a real radio station so you'll get every band, not just the ones that have been heard by a producer. All thats left is talk radio which is great and has a real future (theres never any shortage of things to talk about) ironically, radio stations seem scared to carry people like Howard Stern in the US because of the pussy FCC.
Its funny because all the school kids will just log on to Kazaa right after this lesson...
Seriously you can't brainwash 14-17 year olds its too late by then, at this age they are already burning CDR's, smoking behind the wall and trying to use the colour laser to print fake ID's and £5 notes for the local off-license! Ah the good old days, when VCD's where as easy to come by as that slutty girl in your class, and everyone was discovering sharing, memories... Kids these days with their Napsters and Torrents, they have it easy!
If Microsoft seriously wants to brainwash then they're going to have to aim for the 8 year olds or lower. Do some classes where kids make macaroni and glitter pictures and then someone takes them and pretends they made them and then beats the kid to within an inch of their lives while playing Beethoven too loud, now that's brainwashing!
I heard there was this device that allowed a person to kill others by simply pointing at them. Apparently it involves bits of metal propelled at high speeds by explosive charges. You reckon they'll be able to find instructions for one of these things so they can censor it?
They're just way ahead of us:\ I only wish police would push me up against walls and demand ID, hell I only wish I had some sort of mandatory ID! I put my passport in the wash so I can't even pretend:\ We've all got a long way to go in the rest of the world - when bus drivers don't even want to see your ticket we've got allot of problems to fix.
WHY!? why can't we enjoy the security and peace of mind that Russia has??
Its basically a trade off between safety and what passengers are prepared to go through to get on a plane and of course what financial benefits might be gained from allowing or disallowing certain products on board, we all remember the lighters and matches allowance. It certainly would be beneficial to airlines to have all consumer electronics banned - then they can charge passengers to use air phones, watch movies, or listen to music. Its all a big game really, security is not the main issue - if it was, then you would be stripped and given a full cavity search before being x-rayed, chained to your seat and sedated - first class passengers would be able to enjoy the full package where they would fall asleep on entering the airport and wake up at their destination without all that hassle, bliss!
Is this anything like exploding capacitors? I remember a class where my teacher accidentally turned a capacitor into a toxic smoke-grenade, it was a pretty impressive sight to see all that stuff come out of one little cylinder.
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No, all that matters now is that when the press runs a story with the words 'iPod' and 'exploded' it won't matter how much you talk about LiIon batteries, people are going to believe that iPods are the problem and that they randomly explode.
Im happy with adverts but when you pay for your TV _and_ get adverts thats just taking the piss. Also in some places, the shows you want just aren't on TV yet - especially American shows in other countries, I want to see shows right now and im prepared to pay or watch adverts, but unless they're coming on TV or DVD right now, im going to go to other sources because theres no reason to delay their release.
My celeron 333mhz with about 128mb of ram ran about 3 different distros with kde, it was unusable, when even a simple file manager or note pad take 10 seconds to load you have an awful lot of paint drying time on your hands. Stuck windows 2000 on the exact same machine, out of the box win2k is perfectly usable, beating a tweaked kde - i even tried the linking hack with kdeinit!
The iPod is a pda, it just has a crappy screen, your pda is basically a phone, but with out a mobile adaptor card and your phone is an mp3 player but it doesn't have a hard-drive. All these devices should naturally be one general purpose computer.
I think he's right. At the end of the day, everyone wants a cell phone, an mp3 player, a camera, and a pda (games etc) and they don't want to have to carry 4 things around. The technology is there, hell, even the products are already there, its just a question of economics - is it more profitable to make devices that only do one thing or that do everything? and will people wan't to spend lots more money on one gadget?
Most of congress didn't even read the bloody thing 4 years ago, all they are going to do is use this schedule as an excuse to actually take some time to study a copy of the act to make sure they didn't sign anything stupid, in fact they will most likely end up using it as a coffee-mat. There should be a list of which politicians have actually read which bills and to get on the list you should have to pass a short test.
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Erm.. software runs on hardware??
The only reason 'native hardware' (i assume you mean hard-wired logic) is so stable is because its absolutely as simple as you can get, its the equivelent of half a dozen lines of code that have been looked over and tested to death, if you make those logic circuits any more complex, to add more features you will end up with a mess worse than if it was run on a CPU. I agree though, the actual car part of a car should be very very simple and very well tested, unfortunately this doesn't quite work in real life business. People want engine management, drive modes and all sorts of features. For most people, safety comes in second place because they just assume the car they are about to buy must be safe - otherwise how would it be allowed on the road? This leads to car manufacturers being forced to race eachother for features - if they don't, then someone else will.
Hey its not _my_ fault, its the fault of society for making keyboards so damn cheap. If they were a little more expensive I would have to look after them. That's what you get with capitalism and cheap foreign labour...
I know what your saying, but if you try a few cheap brands out you might just find one that you like, thats what i did, it even has the added benefit: when you smash your keyboard in windows-rage you're always missing at least one key when you put them back in - just grab the spare key off the previous keyboard before you chuck it away. Ahhh the throw-away culture, im just doing my bit to fill the world with non-degradable bits of plastic for animals to choke on.
This article is way out of date, most keyboards aren't worth money anymore - they're disposable items. I buy a new one every few months because keep smashing the old one's - its a great tension relief, especially for Windows. Just find a cheap brand of keyboard that you like the feel of and keep buying the same one, theres no need for this fancy crap.
Governments should be careful to make laws that can be enforced, otherwise the law looses respect, it becomes a joke.
£5 = £5
off-license = liquor store
"I don't understand why RIAA wants streaming stations to pay them for what amounts to advertising for their members. Do radio stations pay to play music? I'm thinking not."
Think again...
Thats because most of the crap stations are out-sourced to a big company with a building full of generic DJs who just play the same record industry generated play lists and pretend to be in some town they've never heard of between songs. The whole thing is just one big advert. A few years ago, a radio station would have a massive library, now days people have an even bigger library stored in the palm of their hand and with full control over what they listen to - how can a radio compete? New music is more likely to be played online rather than a real radio station so you'll get every band, not just the ones that have been heard by a producer. All thats left is talk radio which is great and has a real future (theres never any shortage of things to talk about) ironically, radio stations seem scared to carry people like Howard Stern in the US because of the pussy FCC.
Burn it with a lighter/match?
Its funny because all the school kids will just log on to Kazaa right after this lesson...
Seriously you can't brainwash 14-17 year olds its too late by then, at this age they are already burning CDR's, smoking behind the wall and trying to use the colour laser to print fake ID's and £5 notes for the local off-license! Ah the good old days, when VCD's where as easy to come by as that slutty girl in your class, and everyone was discovering sharing, memories... Kids these days with their Napsters and Torrents, they have it easy!
If Microsoft seriously wants to brainwash then they're going to have to aim for the 8 year olds or lower. Do some classes where kids make macaroni and glitter pictures and then someone takes them and pretends they made them and then beats the kid to within an inch of their lives while playing Beethoven too loud, now that's brainwashing!
I heard there was this device that allowed a person to kill others by simply pointing at them. Apparently it involves bits of metal propelled at high speeds by explosive charges. You reckon they'll be able to find instructions for one of these things so they can censor it?
That all depends on whether you have any tooth decay...
They're just way ahead of us :\ I only wish police would push me up against walls and demand ID, hell I only wish I had some sort of mandatory ID! I put my passport in the wash so I can't even pretend :\ We've all got a long way to go in the rest of the world - when bus drivers don't even want to see your ticket we've got allot of problems to fix.
WHY!? why can't we enjoy the security and peace of mind that Russia has??
Ahh good old CAM and 3rd world labour.
Its basically a trade off between safety and what passengers are prepared to go through to get on a plane and of course what financial benefits might be gained from allowing or disallowing certain products on board, we all remember the lighters and matches allowance. It certainly would be beneficial to airlines to have all consumer electronics banned - then they can charge passengers to use air phones, watch movies, or listen to music. Its all a big game really, security is not the main issue - if it was, then you would be stripped and given a full cavity search before being x-rayed, chained to your seat and sedated - first class passengers would be able to enjoy the full package where they would fall asleep on entering the airport and wake up at their destination without all that hassle, bliss!
Is this anything like exploding capacitors? I remember a class where my teacher accidentally turned a capacitor into a toxic smoke-grenade, it was a pretty impressive sight to see all that stuff come out of one little cylinder.
No, all that matters now is that when the press runs a story with the words 'iPod' and 'exploded' it won't matter how much you talk about LiIon batteries, people are going to believe that iPods are the problem and that they randomly explode.
Good bye iPods in planes, trains, work-places and public buildings...
Im happy with adverts but when you pay for your TV _and_ get adverts thats just taking the piss. Also in some places, the shows you want just aren't on TV yet - especially American shows in other countries, I want to see shows right now and im prepared to pay or watch adverts, but unless they're coming on TV or DVD right now, im going to go to other sources because theres no reason to delay their release.
My celeron 333mhz with about 128mb of ram ran about 3 different distros with kde, it was unusable, when even a simple file manager or note pad take 10 seconds to load you have an awful lot of paint drying time on your hands. Stuck windows 2000 on the exact same machine, out of the box win2k is perfectly usable, beating a tweaked kde - i even tried the linking hack with kdeinit!
Exactly! In Soviet Russia you show your papers, in George Bush's America, papers show you!
In the old days you would be asked for your papers and then told to move along, but now they can just tell you to move along, much more efficient.
Well i guess this evens out since windows seems to run fine on an old 333, but KDE requires at least a P4 to be usable.. /ducks
The iPod is a pda, it just has a crappy screen, your pda is basically a phone, but with out a mobile adaptor card and your phone is an mp3 player but it doesn't have a hard-drive. All these devices should naturally be one general purpose computer.
I think he's right. At the end of the day, everyone wants a cell phone, an mp3 player, a camera, and a pda (games etc) and they don't want to have to carry 4 things around. The technology is there, hell, even the products are already there, its just a question of economics - is it more profitable to make devices that only do one thing or that do everything? and will people wan't to spend lots more money on one gadget?
Agreed, i think this story should read "mental illness causes lost productivity"
Most of congress didn't even read the bloody thing 4 years ago, all they are going to do is use this schedule as an excuse to actually take some time to study a copy of the act to make sure they didn't sign anything stupid, in fact they will most likely end up using it as a coffee-mat. There should be a list of which politicians have actually read which bills and to get on the list you should have to pass a short test.