actually thats true.. in my last place of employment, they had some people take apart some keyboards and clean them, then calculated at their pay rate how long it took, and came to the conclusion that it would be cheaper to just replace the keyboards than pay somone to clean them...
then later on they felt that it was huge waste in resources to just throw out dirty keyboards, so in the end they never cleaned them OR replaced them... and ironicly they would then all wonder why 2/3 of the work force there would call in sick several times a year whenever a virus/bug/flu was going around...
how can that be modded flamebait? are you so ashamed fo the truth? how much health care do you really get if you're poor and have no insurance?
seriously, i would like to know how many people are offended by the parent post, and how many agree, and then see how many of those offended actaully have had experience with hospitals, and the health care system while not having sufficient insurance?
"My anticipation is that patients who try this on a temporary basis will agree that paying $17,000 is worthwhile"
hehe i can see the infomercial now... you can get rid of that expensive $100/hr hooker cause this baby will pay for itself in only 170 days!
and what about that talk of "temporary basis"?? could they really legally reposess it if you refuse to pay once its been "installed" ? or do they just remotely set it on 'dissapointing'?
Anyone else horrified by the thought of this? i mean the first thing i thought of was the jack to my headphones, how every pair maybe lasts 2 weeks before either channel starts going out, or gets huge static.
just happily walking down the street someday with your new artificial leg, and all of a sudden the "nerves" give out and you take a face dive.. or in the case of the static, you could have the physical equivalent to tourettes; standing in line at the bank when all of a sudden your arm goes and punches the guy in front of you in the back of the head, and then yourself in the face a few times.. gives a new meaning to frayed nerves..
most metals just dont last long with a large amount of torsion. (for lack of a better word)
i have a problem with nostalgia in video games.. i always think back to how many many many hours of fun i had with my snes crpgs.. but when i go back to them, i can only stand the slow game play, crappy gfx, and horrible sound for only an hour or two, and i give up in frustration...
and it makes me sad.. like the song...
Where are you going, my little console? turn around and you're new turn around and you're old and you suck turn around and you're selling for $2 at the flea market, and still no one will buy you
if it revolves around a sun, its a planet, if it revolves around a planet, its a moon, and if it flies through space out of any orbit, its an asteroid?
thats true.. thats where it gets sticky, because the actual wording is "communicating to the public by telecommunication"
its definately going to get down to splitting hairs as i said before. Whoever tries this in court is going to have to both establish that having a file available on said computer is actually doing the "communicating to the public" (im sure creative lawyers could argue both ways on that one) as well as an internet connection quallifying as "telecomunication"
why does that last part matter? well i think i've already established that IANAL, but it seems to me that the government *doesn't* want internet connections to be counted as telecomunications (such as telephones) because then my internet connection will be protected by privacy laws just like my voice calls are. and the CRIA is pretty much doing the equivalent as asking my phone company for my phone records. which im pretty sure can only be done by a law enforcement agency who'se already obtained a warrant.
also.. if i say that no one representing the interests of the CRIA or any related group is allowed access to my computer, the act of them acessing my shared files (inside my computer) over telecomunication lines, i could maybe possibly countersue them for phreaking or something akin to that, as they are using telecomunication lines to gain unauthorized access to my system. Previous rulings in court have already made it clear that my lack of network sucurity doesnt give them the right to walk right in and snoop around, as well they base their own lawsuits under the premis of "i didn't know it was ilegal" is no excuse. so they cant use the fact that i didn't make it clear to them that they were not authorized to snoop through my files as a defense for gaining unauthorized access to my computer resources and protected data. its a really far stretch, but someone has to start playing their own game to shut them up.
on a final note, and this arguement might just piss the judge off for taking it to this level, but they'd also have to define what a "distance" is.. websters defines telecomunications as the act of comunicating over a distance (such as telephones). technically, copying a cd to my tape recorder is transmitting the music over a distance.. that RCA cable is technically a distance. how much distance is requied to be classified as "a distance", and if my adsl or cable internet can be called telecomunications, then so should an rca cable, or any cable used to transmit data of any kind. would it be ilegal for me to copy my cd-mp3 over my wireless nic through my wireless router into my desktop pc be considered telecomunicating it over a distance?
by my count to make this fly in court, either way, alot of words ae going to have to be redefined, and laws will need to be rewritten to be more specific.
i'll agree with everyone here about mhz not really meaning a whole lot by itself..
whenever i had to consult people about their pc purchases, i found the best way that they understood was basically the 3 parts of the cpu.. mhz, bus speed, and cache memory..
your cpu is a vehicle.. the mhz is the speed the vehicle can carry stuff from one place to another (this is what you are buying this ehicle to do - moving stuff) the bus speed is how fast you can load your stuff onto your vehicle.. and the cache memory is the amount of stuff the vehicle can carry...
then i go to explain how whats the point in having vehicle A that can go 1.5 times faster than vehicle B, but vehicle B can carry twice as much stuff each trip.. in the end Vehicle B is the one that gets more done.. until you get into things like it doesnt matter how fast vehicle A can go, if vehicle B can be loaded and on its way and back in the same time that A is still being loaded (bus speed)
its probly not the most refined explaination, but its the way i've talked many people into getting athelons instead of celerons, and in the end getting a better computer (dunno about the states but up here i can get an XP2200 for about the same price as a celeron 2ghz -give or take $5- and we're talking HUGE difference in performance)
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what? why is no one suggesting Kylix? then i could recompile with delphi and have Gnome running on my windows boxes too :)
actually thats true.. in my last place of employment, they had some people take apart some keyboards and clean them, then calculated at their pay rate how long it took, and came to the conclusion that it would be cheaper to just replace the keyboards than pay somone to clean them...
then later on they felt that it was huge waste in resources to just throw out dirty keyboards, so in the end they never cleaned them OR replaced them... and ironicly they would then all wonder why 2/3 of the work force there would call in sick several times a year whenever a virus/bug/flu was going around...
how can that be modded flamebait? are you so ashamed fo the truth? how much health care do you really get if you're poor and have no insurance?
seriously, i would like to know how many people are offended by the parent post, and how many agree, and then see how many of those offended actaully have had experience with hospitals, and the health care system while not having sufficient insurance?
hehe the isp i used to do tech support for could definately apply for the "longest outage" section
yes, but now the left hand can not know what the right is doing in REAL time
hmm maybe its a honeypot? trap all them nasty terrorists on a gov-run p2p network?
now that i finally got my moded window case and green light kit, you're gonna tell me theres stuff living in there? at a toasty 46 degrees no less??
now im gonna have trapper keeper nightmares
Thats why i always made it a point to scratch my balls before logging off any shared computer at work..
no, do i actually have to say the words "im not serious" ?
now all lysol corp has to do is come out with a freon based non corrosive antibactrial spray
either that or Nortons will start comming in a bottle.
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maybe that shoulda been "can you ping me now?"
and thanks for appreciating my humor :)
i usually get a troll mod for my attempts
i got an old zx81 that im sure i could mod to do that
now i can download my mp3's and screener iso's while leading the RIAA and MPAA's lawyers on a high speed chase!
:P :P
you cant sue me until you catch me and serve me with a summons
nyah nyah now im in mexico
can you IM me now? good....
"My anticipation is that patients who try this on a temporary basis will agree that paying $17,000 is worthwhile"
hehe i can see the infomercial now... you can get rid of that expensive $100/hr hooker cause this baby will pay for itself in only 170 days!
and what about that talk of "temporary basis"?? could they really legally reposess it if you refuse to pay once its been "installed" ? or do they just remotely set it on 'dissapointing'?
i was flipping through the photos and for the life of me i couldnt remember which eppisode of ST had a Steve Wozniak...
no, it just goes through her 80 billion times faster.. whether thats a good thing or not is a matter of personal view
thats what i was gonna say... last i heard DSL was physical connection method..
in other news AMD has developed a new architecture 80 billion times faster than grapefruit
Anyone else horrified by the thought of this? i mean the first thing i thought of was the jack to my headphones, how every pair maybe lasts 2 weeks before either channel starts going out, or gets huge static.
just happily walking down the street someday with your new artificial leg, and all of a sudden the "nerves" give out and you take a face dive.. or in the case of the static, you could have the physical equivalent to tourettes; standing in line at the bank when all of a sudden your arm goes and punches the guy in front of you in the back of the head, and then yourself in the face a few times.. gives a new meaning to frayed nerves..
most metals just dont last long with a large amount of torsion. (for lack of a better word)
the same could be said of porno DVDs then?
oh come on, SOMEONE was gonna say it
i have a problem with nostalgia in video games.. i always think back to how many many many hours of fun i had with my snes crpgs.. but when i go back to them, i can only stand the slow game play, crappy gfx, and horrible sound for only an hour or two, and i give up in frustration...
and it makes me sad.. like the song...
Where are you going, my little console?
turn around and you're new
turn around and you're old and you suck
turn around and you're selling for $2 at the flea market, and still no one will buy you
if it revolves around a sun, its a planet, if it revolves around a planet, its a moon, and if it flies through space out of any orbit, its an asteroid?
thats true.. thats where it gets sticky, because the actual wording is "communicating to the public by telecommunication"
its definately going to get down to splitting hairs as i said before. Whoever tries this in court is going to have to both establish that having a file available on said computer is actually doing the "communicating to the public" (im sure creative lawyers could argue both ways on that one) as well as an internet connection quallifying as "telecomunication"
why does that last part matter? well i think i've already established that IANAL, but it seems to me that the government *doesn't* want internet connections to be counted as telecomunications (such as telephones) because then my internet connection will be protected by privacy laws just like my voice calls are. and the CRIA is pretty much doing the equivalent as asking my phone company for my phone records. which im pretty sure can only be done by a law enforcement agency who'se already obtained a warrant.
also.. if i say that no one representing the interests of the CRIA or any related group is allowed access to my computer, the act of them acessing my shared files (inside my computer) over telecomunication lines, i could maybe possibly countersue them for phreaking or something akin to that, as they are using telecomunication lines to gain unauthorized access to my system. Previous rulings in court have already made it clear that my lack of network sucurity doesnt give them the right to walk right in and snoop around, as well they base their own lawsuits under the premis of "i didn't know it was ilegal" is no excuse. so they cant use the fact that i didn't make it clear to them that they were not authorized to snoop through my files as a defense for gaining unauthorized access to my computer resources and protected data. its a really far stretch, but someone has to start playing their own game to shut them up.
on a final note, and this arguement might just piss the judge off for taking it to this level, but they'd also have to define what a "distance" is.. websters defines telecomunications as the act of comunicating over a distance (such as telephones). technically, copying a cd to my tape recorder is transmitting the music over a distance.. that RCA cable is technically a distance. how much distance is requied to be classified as "a distance", and if my adsl or cable internet can be called telecomunications, then so should an rca cable, or any cable used to transmit data of any kind. would it be ilegal for me to copy my cd-mp3 over my wireless nic through my wireless router into my desktop pc be considered telecomunicating it over a distance?
by my count to make this fly in court, either way, alot of words ae going to have to be redefined, and laws will need to be rewritten to be more specific.
i'll agree with everyone here about mhz not really meaning a whole lot by itself..
whenever i had to consult people about their pc purchases, i found the best way that they understood was basically the 3 parts of the cpu.. mhz, bus speed, and cache memory..
your cpu is a vehicle.. the mhz is the speed the vehicle can carry stuff from one place to another (this is what you are buying this ehicle to do - moving stuff) the bus speed is how fast you can load your stuff onto your vehicle.. and the cache memory is the amount of stuff the vehicle can carry...
then i go to explain how whats the point in having vehicle A that can go 1.5 times faster than vehicle B, but vehicle B can carry twice as much stuff each trip.. in the end Vehicle B is the one that gets more done.. until you get into things like it doesnt matter how fast vehicle A can go, if vehicle B can be loaded and on its way and back in the same time that A is still being loaded (bus speed)
its probly not the most refined explaination, but its the way i've talked many people into getting athelons instead of celerons, and in the end getting a better computer (dunno about the states but up here i can get an XP2200 for about the same price as a celeron 2ghz -give or take $5- and we're talking HUGE difference in performance)