Heistad: "Call the guy [from customer service]! Say, 'This is really hard to understand! Can you please walk us through it?' "
Ross: "But?you should really be able to..."
Heistad: "Call him, bitch!"
Ha hahaha. That's classic. I can just imagine this long haired chubby guy with red hair, glasses, and a goatee on the computer, saying that to a skinny short brown haired guy with freckles. hahaha
F**k the average user. All they do is read emails all f**ckin' day. I use the internet, and for me to use the internet, I have to have some pretty high speeds. Hell, even my email requires some high speeds! Unfortunately, the price that I pay my ISP is apparently not enough for the promised "unlimited" bandwidth. I know that if there was a high speed ISP with unlimited bandwidth for maybe 10 or even 15 (~5 to 10$ amu'rican) dollars more, I would DEFINITELY switch to their system.
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step away from the computer, pull down your pants and await the Patriot RFID insertion specialists.
Support your selected President in your actions and your thoughts or we'll know about it.
Sounds like you'll know about my bowel movements as well.
...to the point where it can be used as a blunt weapon in case of home invasion...
Next you'll be seeing a NKA (National Keyboard Association)=P
It's our _right_ to bear arm... er... peripherals!
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Personally, I'd like to hear more specifics about alternative systems, and less about how the RIAA is the Great Satan
I don't understand why _we_ are the ones that are supposed to come up with a business model for the RIAA...? Do we have to come up with a business model for every failing business that sues us when they lose money? That's _their_ job, not ours.
I don't think that was a minority who wanted civil rights for everyone. Even if it was a minority, I would attribute ignorance to the majority who was not in favour of the movement. With this day and age of fast education and information I expect that a lot more people are able to decide which is good or bad for themselves.
This is precisely what I am talking about though.. We need to change the way we think about distributing music and how to create a viable business model off it. Of course, getting rid of the RIAA wouldn't hurt either. These companies have consistently shown their inability to adapt to a changing market and refuse to let go of their draconian business model, choosing instead to hurt their own customers! It's rediculous!
Of course I still reserve _my_ point of view. =D From what you are saying, you're basically accepting the fuzzyness inherent in society and affording a reasonable amount of difference and still calling something different. But, I still think that == should be reserved for programming and it's precisely defined rules. =D
Although, I don't necessarily think that the "higher" notion of equality is fuzzier than what is defined in programming, to me equality in logic is something used to explain the fuzzier notions of equality, but to have valid statements in logic we need to have rules that are solidly defined. I think you are getting into the fuzzy logic realm in which I have no experience, so I'm gonna clam up right now. =D
Are you saying then that using "==" is valid english? Aren't these missapplicated symbols ones are normally used in english literature, ie. punctuation symbols?
I'm curious to see a poem with a missaplication of computer programming or logic symbols. I think it would make for an interesting read. =) Maybe I can even tie in some sort of english poem writing with my computer programming. =D
_partially_ true is still not true. Something in classical logic is considered false when it is not true. Of course there are statements like "This sentence is a lie" that can't be defined in convential logic, but == uses classical logic in all senses.
A lot of these posts raise the question of ethics. I doubt that there is any single person that would be able to define ethics. This is one of those studies in Philosophy, along with Aesthetics, Metaphysics, etc, that raise the classic questions that cannot be answered. Even though many have tried to prove their arguments, questions such as "Is there a god?", "What is thought?" etc.. are still hotly debated. If you think about it though, generally the ethics of a society is decided by the society. In a democracy, this means that the majority decides the rules.
For me, I think that we shouldn't be basing our argument on "ethics" of pirating or copyright enfringement. I definitely think that the majority rules. Apparently there are a couple billion users of Kazaa every day. This seems to be a majority of people out there, who believe either that what they are doing is right, or they know it's "wrong" and still do it. In either case, it's the _majority_ that is deciding to download these songs and thus I think that these copyright laws are not democratic.
a system that's only good to transmit bits with a guarantee that the recipient will be able to detect if someone else is reading the traffic.
It's more than that. If the person snooping on the flow of photons "views" the stream, they will completely destroy any information that may be passing through the system. Not only that, but there is no chance of the malicious user guessing the correct viewing angles for the photons, and therefore is completely secure. When quantum computing comes, and it eventually will, it will take seconds for a quantum computer to break traditional encryption techniques, making RSA completely useless. Quantum cryptography, however, cannot be broken by any computation and will be destroyed once the user views the photon "stream". It's really an exciting thing!
It doesn't make any sense for a company to keep building something that requires a patch every few days. Are they actually making money off of these patches?
It's just that I've never heard of anything so blatantly broken that is so successful.
Maybe I'm just angry because some scumware got into my computer system.
Yes, to you or I, walking is no big problem. But we're not talking about the _average_ computer user geek here are we? =P
Imagine a huge guy who stays on his computer for days on end.. Or even the malnourished walking stick variety. Is he going to want to actually walk around when he can get some computerized device to do it for him?
Interesting.. I think maybe cats are the answer to all of lifes little mysteries. Electricity storage, Quantum Mechanics--ever heard of Shrodinger's Cat?
Maybe we should be putting a little bit more research into Cat Dynamics.
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I believe the correct term is:
wakka wakka wakka!
=D
For those who don't know where that is from, look up fozzie from the Muppets =D.
Heistad: "Call the guy [from customer service]! Say, 'This is really hard to understand! Can you please walk us through it?' "
..."
Ross: "But?you should really be able to
Heistad: "Call him, bitch!"
Ha hahaha. That's classic. I can just imagine this long haired chubby guy with red hair, glasses, and a goatee on the computer, saying that to a skinny short brown haired guy with freckles. hahaha
F**k the average user. All they do is read emails all f**ckin' day. I use the internet, and for me to use the internet, I have to have some pretty high speeds. Hell, even my email requires some high speeds! Unfortunately, the price that I pay my ISP is apparently not enough for the promised "unlimited" bandwidth. I know that if there was a high speed ISP with unlimited bandwidth for maybe 10 or even 15 (~5 to 10$ amu'rican) dollars more, I would DEFINITELY switch to their system.
step away from the computer, pull down your pants and await the Patriot RFID insertion specialists.
Support your selected President in your actions and your thoughts or we'll know about it.
Sounds like you'll know about my bowel movements as well.
...to the point where it can be used as a blunt weapon in case of home invasion...
Next you'll be seeing a NKA (National Keyboard Association)=P
It's our _right_ to bear arm... er... peripherals!
Personally, I'd like to hear more specifics about alternative systems, and less about how the RIAA is the Great Satan
I don't understand why _we_ are the ones that are supposed to come up with a business model for the RIAA...? Do we have to come up with a business model for every failing business that sues us when they lose money? That's _their_ job, not ours.
For canadians and any other _englsih_ speaking people out there, that's cheque, not "check".
=P Just clarifying..
I don't think that was a minority who wanted civil rights for everyone. Even if it was a minority, I would attribute ignorance to the majority who was not in favour of the movement. With this day and age of fast education and information I expect that a lot more people are able to decide which is good or bad for themselves.
This is precisely what I am talking about though.. We need to change the way we think about distributing music and how to create a viable business model off it. Of course, getting rid of the RIAA wouldn't hurt either. These companies have consistently shown their inability to adapt to a changing market and refuse to let go of their draconian business model, choosing instead to hurt their own customers! It's rediculous!
I see your point of view.
Of course I still reserve _my_ point of view. =D From what you are saying, you're basically accepting the fuzzyness inherent in society and affording a reasonable amount of difference and still calling something different. But, I still think that == should be reserved for programming and it's precisely defined rules. =D
Although, I don't necessarily think that the "higher" notion of equality is fuzzier than what is defined in programming, to me equality in logic is something used to explain the fuzzier notions of equality, but to have valid statements in logic we need to have rules that are solidly defined. I think you are getting into the fuzzy logic realm in which I have no experience, so I'm gonna clam up right now. =D
Thanks for the added experience and knowledge!
Are you saying then that using "==" is valid english? Aren't these missapplicated symbols ones are normally used in english literature, ie. punctuation symbols?
I'm curious to see a poem with a missaplication of computer programming or logic symbols. I think it would make for an interesting read. =) Maybe I can even tie in some sort of english poem writing with my computer programming. =D
_partially_ true is still not true.
Something in classical logic is considered false when it is not true. Of course there are statements like "This sentence is a lie" that can't be defined in convential logic, but == uses classical logic in all senses.
A lot of these posts raise the question of ethics. I doubt that there is any single person that would be able to define ethics. This is one of those studies in Philosophy, along with Aesthetics, Metaphysics, etc, that raise the classic questions that cannot be answered. Even though many have tried to prove their arguments, questions such as "Is there a god?", "What is thought?" etc.. are still hotly debated. If you think about it though, generally the ethics of a society is decided by the society. In a democracy, this means that the majority decides the rules.
For me, I think that we shouldn't be basing our argument on "ethics" of pirating or copyright enfringement. I definitely think that the majority rules. Apparently there are a couple billion users of Kazaa every day. This seems to be a majority of people out there, who believe either that what they are doing is right, or they know it's "wrong" and still do it. In either case, it's the _majority_ that is deciding to download these songs and thus I think that these copyright laws are not democratic.
Wouldn't SCO then be able to just copy from linux and then the comparisons would also be equal?
"Master's level Introductory Java Programming class"
...is that a joke?
a system that's only good to transmit bits with a guarantee that the recipient will be able to detect if someone else is reading the traffic.
It's more than that. If the person snooping on the flow of photons "views" the stream, they will completely destroy any information that may be passing through the system. Not only that, but there is no chance of the malicious user guessing the correct viewing angles for the photons, and therefore is completely secure. When quantum computing comes, and it eventually will, it will take seconds for a quantum computer to break traditional encryption techniques, making RSA completely useless. Quantum cryptography, however, cannot be broken by any computation and will be destroyed once the user views the photon "stream". It's really an exciting thing!
Here is a link to a list of all the RIAA members. Remember _never_ to buy a CD from any of these labels _EVER_ again.
RIAA members
Oh, you just wait til after the election, then Governor Coleman will come around and kick your ass! :)
Watchoo talkin' bout phyllis? =P
Monster Garage!
famous == successful
Society returned FALSE
Ever hear of Gary Coleman? Right. Everyone has. He's not successful by any means.
For some reason I instantly thought of Microsoft when reading this.... ?
It doesn't make any sense for a company to keep building something that requires a patch every few days. Are they actually making money off of these patches?
It's just that I've never heard of anything so blatantly broken that is so successful.
Maybe I'm just angry because some scumware got into my computer system.
Yes, to you or I, walking is no big problem. But we're not talking about the _average_ computer user geek here are we? =P
Imagine a huge guy who stays on his computer for days on end.. Or even the malnourished walking stick variety. Is he going to want to actually walk around when he can get some computerized device to do it for him?
I didn't think so either. =D
Interesting.. I think maybe cats are the answer to all of lifes little mysteries. Electricity storage, Quantum Mechanics--ever heard of Shrodinger's Cat?
Maybe we should be putting a little bit more research into Cat Dynamics.
Just move overseas!
Might be more fun if it were a trash talking walking talking trash can
...named R2D2.