I used to work for a collections agency.
Most of the calls where I could actually talk to someone, they had no idea they even had any balance on their card. This is because the store waits 3 months to send it to collections, and by that time they've already got $100 in late fees and finance charges. Even not paying $0.01 is enough to get a huge late fee.
Well, if you're with a college, your residence will probably have a 100MBps connection, but it'll be heavily shared.
As for general living, it depends on the area. Cities usually have several choices of DSL/cable providers, but the speeds seem to be mostly below 5MBps.
Right now, I have 1.5m down and 256k up, and I'm paying $40/mo with Bellsouth DSL.
Hey, great idea. Make something from capacitors that could very well charge themselves spontaniously. You're in for some fun when you zap random electronics that could be expensive, and cost you an arm and a leg.
Trust and accountability have no place in today's workplace apparently.
But then again, technical solutions for social problems don't really work. You can track WPM/typing, but everyone has to take a break, and taht would drop the WPM substantially. Even if they type 100WPM when typing, they might average 10WPM with the logistical legwork added (paper shuffling, lunch, breaks, bathroom runs, etc).
Why not just monitor internet usage normally and find some better way (like how many things you've done that day in the system?) rather than raw keylogging.
I'd be pretty pissed if I found I was being keylogged at work. They didn't tell me, and have thus stolen my passwords and possibly my bank account information, since its in a file of theirs someplace. Isn't that opening up to be sued for privacy violations?
Paint a picture that everyone is a half-black DJ that is spinning their own beats every night, mixing it up with all the other half-black DJs, in a world where white people are all boring and sitting at home knitting/farming, while everything is being 'remixed'.
That's good enough material for a new book that everyone non-white will immediately by and start telling us white folks we have to drink out of another water fountain.
The most annoying thing is that they often don't know they're infected, with obvious signs.
Case in point. Friend gets on, messages me to download smileysmileyface.com somethingoranother, and tried to send me the file three times, immediately after I cancelled it.
I told them their computer was infected with a horrible virus (thats what spyware is, legal viruses), and she was like..oh that's just my smiley program. Its cool.
I immediately went over, uninstalled it for her, cleaned the machine (2 hours) and then found a tame smiley program so that she have her smiley fetish with something that wasn't spamming so incredibly hard.
Stop right there. It isn't for wordplay, to insult someone behind their backs, or to make suggestions.
Its direct communication.
That being said, someone using 'definately' instead of 'definitely' or 'should of' rather than 'should have' should never render something annoying/unreadable.
Believe me. I've had to decypher some pretty cryptic messages. Badly spelled doesn't annoy me one-third as much as badly written. As long as the message is coherent and I can understand it, spelling isn't too big of a deal.
Of course I would want to look professional in front of management or customers. But the very act of being called unprofessional or inept over a misspelling when the message is loud-and-clear just means that someone's a tight ass that wants everyone to play by their rules.
We, existing in this universe, are on a crash course toward the future.
There's no stopping it or slowing down of time, in the traditional sense. However, it might be possible (with the help of absolute zero) to stop all things in the area of the absolute zero. This would be akin to stopping time, as nothing could be happening within that area.
Unbaking a cake or uncracking an egg is a good example of going back in time. Hey, if you can take a fully-baked cake, reverse the steps, and make it back into cake-mix-egg-and-milk-inna-bowl, that's good enough time travel for me.
Not to protect the government, but to protect companies in their artificial scarcity rules.
Cars, for example. Some engines can only be read/serviced by proprietary software. Software that is probably found at the dealer, which is known for being too expensive.
Before, someone would just crack their encryptation, and release a module to service machines to make them able to communicate.
Now they have to wonder if they're going to get sued to hell and back, and would just move on to doing something else thats as profittable, but less dangerous.
You could say..its your car..I want to use whatever parts I want. No, you'll use the parts specified by your supplier in the future, or you'll be sued into oblivion.
You've gotta have a lot of infrastructure outside the facility to be able to support 1.4MW. Infrastructure that is probably taken care of by the power company, for a fee.
And the more power you push down the line, the more power that is lost to the environment. Especially if you're overcharging the lines, which causes acceleration of the loss the more power you pump into them.
If I ever get filthy rich, I'm not going to tell anyone.
My lifestyle is going to remain virtually the same. Its just that I'll be able to do things I wasn't able to before.
Like travel. I'd travel occasionally, but I doubt anyone would know. If they got nosy, I'd just tell them that I got a grand promotion at my job and a big bonus.
Because no one needs to know that I'd be unbelievably rich. The only way it would affect their lives is if they were going to try to get a piece of the money.
What would I do with the money if I were rich? I'd get out. I'd see the world. I'd invest the majority of it and probably donate about a third of the returns on those investments into various research institutions.
In no part of my plan is 'giving large sums of money to the rest of my family so they can use it on cigarettes, alcohol, and possibly drugs'. If someone really needed the money, I might give it to them as a loan.
Its not about being generous, its about getting people to leave you the fuck alone about it. A lottery winner is like a person carrying a loaf of bread down at the duck pond. They'll soon be surrounded and possibly killed by said ducks, because they know where the food comes from!
If you want a game that's truly a challenge, it will have to be against human opponents.
Things like Counter-Strike (without cheats), fighting games (Tekken, DoA, etc), or occasionally strategy games (C&C, Empire Earth, Civ).
Everything else is too easy. The only difference between easy and hard on some games is the amount of enemies. Granted, yes, that does make it harder, it doesn't make it any more exciting. There's only so much enemy-slaying you can do before it loses its excitement.
Somewhere in my family, someone was awarded about $100,000 in medical damages for gross negligence when their doctor did some really stupid shit.
And you know? They kept their job (they had been living about the middle-low range of middle class before) and after they spent the $100,000, they ended up in the middle range of poor.
They still can't explain how it happened. Only thing they have to show for it is a cheap fishing boat tht cost all of 2% of their winnings.
These farmers, rather than demand restitution from the government got off their asses and turned lemons into lemonade.
Of course, a certain government might turn their lemonade into military action when they decide they want a piece of the pie.
If spent stages from a US rocket hit some home in the US, it would be removed overnight, the family would be given a check for 20% of the value of what they lost, forced to sign an NDA, and no one would ever hear about it again.
This is an important decision. It will affect the lives of millions. Its obviously more important than things like..say..not letting completely unrelated 'riders' along on bills for something like..you know..helping our troops to survive in a battlefield environment.
This is more about control over things they've already sold than about stopping piracy.
Just think. Now there's nothing stopping Lucas Films from releasing 20 copies of the same movie, and FORCING you to buy them all if you want to continue to be able to watch it.
Lets assume its adware/malware instead of some kind of virus or worm.
Some lab traces the spyware..back to the spyware company. A court order is dropped on the spyware company to reveal its operation to the authorities.
Spyware company says..oh..ok..we were advertising for (insert giant company, or spyware removal company). Said company says..oh sorry..we're not responsible for what our hired guns do. We pay them for their help in generating revenue for our product, which they do.
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I used to work for a collections agency. Most of the calls where I could actually talk to someone, they had no idea they even had any balance on their card. This is because the store waits 3 months to send it to collections, and by that time they've already got $100 in late fees and finance charges. Even not paying $0.01 is enough to get a huge late fee.
Well, if you're with a college, your residence will probably have a 100MBps connection, but it'll be heavily shared.
As for general living, it depends on the area. Cities usually have several choices of DSL/cable providers, but the speeds seem to be mostly below 5MBps.
Right now, I have 1.5m down and 256k up, and I'm paying $40/mo with Bellsouth DSL.
Hey, great idea. Make something from capacitors that could very well charge themselves spontaniously. You're in for some fun when you zap random electronics that could be expensive, and cost you an arm and a leg.
Trust and accountability have no place in today's workplace apparently.
But then again, technical solutions for social problems don't really work. You can track WPM/typing, but everyone has to take a break, and taht would drop the WPM substantially. Even if they type 100WPM when typing, they might average 10WPM with the logistical legwork added (paper shuffling, lunch, breaks, bathroom runs, etc).
Why not just monitor internet usage normally and find some better way (like how many things you've done that day in the system?) rather than raw keylogging.
I'd be pretty pissed if I found I was being keylogged at work. They didn't tell me, and have thus stolen my passwords and possibly my bank account information, since its in a file of theirs someplace. Isn't that opening up to be sued for privacy violations?
Paint a picture that everyone is a half-black DJ that is spinning their own beats every night, mixing it up with all the other half-black DJs, in a world where white people are all boring and sitting at home knitting/farming, while everything is being 'remixed'.
That's good enough material for a new book that everyone non-white will immediately by and start telling us white folks we have to drink out of another water fountain.
The most annoying thing is that they often don't know they're infected, with obvious signs.
Case in point. Friend gets on, messages me to download smileysmileyface.com somethingoranother, and tried to send me the file three times, immediately after I cancelled it.
I told them their computer was infected with a horrible virus (thats what spyware is, legal viruses), and she was like..oh that's just my smiley program. Its cool.
I immediately went over, uninstalled it for her, cleaned the machine (2 hours) and then found a tame smiley program so that she have her smiley fetish with something that wasn't spamming so incredibly hard.
Find a way to shotgun a connection from, say, 5 different WAPs and surf on the ultimate free bandwidth.
The point of language is communication.
Stop right there. It isn't for wordplay, to insult someone behind their backs, or to make suggestions.
Its direct communication.
That being said, someone using 'definately' instead of 'definitely' or 'should of' rather than 'should have' should never render something annoying/unreadable.
Believe me. I've had to decypher some pretty cryptic messages. Badly spelled doesn't annoy me one-third as much as badly written. As long as the message is coherent and I can understand it, spelling isn't too big of a deal.
Of course I would want to look professional in front of management or customers. But the very act of being called unprofessional or inept over a misspelling when the message is loud-and-clear just means that someone's a tight ass that wants everyone to play by their rules.
We, existing in this universe, are on a crash course toward the future.
There's no stopping it or slowing down of time, in the traditional sense. However, it might be possible (with the help of absolute zero) to stop all things in the area of the absolute zero. This would be akin to stopping time, as nothing could be happening within that area.
Unbaking a cake or uncracking an egg is a good example of going back in time. Hey, if you can take a fully-baked cake, reverse the steps, and make it back into cake-mix-egg-and-milk-inna-bowl, that's good enough time travel for me.
Only if you're prepared to go fishing daily. And catch more with the net than the line.
Missile technology is basically a guided, long range bullet.
What if people in communities banded together to buy a super-expensive laser-design-type machine for cutting metal/plastic?
Just so you could make widgets for fairly cheap. Invention rates +1000%.
Why do you think the DMCA exists?
Not to protect the government, but to protect companies in their artificial scarcity rules.
Cars, for example. Some engines can only be read/serviced by proprietary software. Software that is probably found at the dealer, which is known for being too expensive.
Before, someone would just crack their encryptation, and release a module to service machines to make them able to communicate.
Now they have to wonder if they're going to get sued to hell and back, and would just move on to doing something else thats as profittable, but less dangerous.
You could say..its your car..I want to use whatever parts I want. No, you'll use the parts specified by your supplier in the future, or you'll be sued into oblivion.
Diminishing returns.
You've gotta have a lot of infrastructure outside the facility to be able to support 1.4MW. Infrastructure that is probably taken care of by the power company, for a fee.
And the more power you push down the line, the more power that is lost to the environment. Especially if you're overcharging the lines, which causes acceleration of the loss the more power you pump into them.
If I ever get filthy rich, I'm not going to tell anyone.
My lifestyle is going to remain virtually the same. Its just that I'll be able to do things I wasn't able to before.
Like travel. I'd travel occasionally, but I doubt anyone would know. If they got nosy, I'd just tell them that I got a grand promotion at my job and a big bonus.
Because no one needs to know that I'd be unbelievably rich. The only way it would affect their lives is if they were going to try to get a piece of the money.
What would I do with the money if I were rich? I'd get out. I'd see the world. I'd invest the majority of it and probably donate about a third of the returns on those investments into various research institutions.
In no part of my plan is 'giving large sums of money to the rest of my family so they can use it on cigarettes, alcohol, and possibly drugs'. If someone really needed the money, I might give it to them as a loan.
Its not about being generous, its about getting people to leave you the fuck alone about it. A lottery winner is like a person carrying a loaf of bread down at the duck pond. They'll soon be surrounded and possibly killed by said ducks, because they know where the food comes from!
Its so true.
If you want a game that's truly a challenge, it will have to be against human opponents.
Things like Counter-Strike (without cheats), fighting games (Tekken, DoA, etc), or occasionally strategy games (C&C, Empire Earth, Civ).
Everything else is too easy. The only difference between easy and hard on some games is the amount of enemies. Granted, yes, that does make it harder, it doesn't make it any more exciting. There's only so much enemy-slaying you can do before it loses its excitement.
This is so very very very true.
Somewhere in my family, someone was awarded about $100,000 in medical damages for gross negligence when their doctor did some really stupid shit.
And you know? They kept their job (they had been living about the middle-low range of middle class before) and after they spent the $100,000, they ended up in the middle range of poor.
They still can't explain how it happened. Only thing they have to show for it is a cheap fishing boat tht cost all of 2% of their winnings.
These farmers, rather than demand restitution from the government got off their asses and turned lemons into lemonade.
Of course, a certain government might turn their lemonade into military action when they decide they want a piece of the pie.
If spent stages from a US rocket hit some home in the US, it would be removed overnight, the family would be given a check for 20% of the value of what they lost, forced to sign an NDA, and no one would ever hear about it again.
Also seeks out John Conner.
Star Wars VII: The Search for More Money
This is an important decision. It will affect the lives of millions. Its obviously more important than things like..say..not letting completely unrelated 'riders' along on bills for something like..you know..helping our troops to survive in a battlefield environment.
This is more about control over things they've already sold than about stopping piracy.
Just think. Now there's nothing stopping Lucas Films from releasing 20 copies of the same movie, and FORCING you to buy them all if you want to continue to be able to watch it.
Lets assume its adware/malware instead of some kind of virus or worm.
Some lab traces the spyware..back to the spyware company. A court order is dropped on the spyware company to reveal its operation to the authorities.
Spyware company says..oh..ok..we were advertising for (insert giant company, or spyware removal company). Said company says..oh sorry..we're not responsible for what our hired guns do. We pay them for their help in generating revenue for our product, which they do.
Nothing changes.
If this were in the US, 'informed' would mean "Well, he was getting great offers..so in effect..we're practically putting money in his pocket!"
At least they're doing something that could benefit the public that doesn't include 'an exciting new offer and great deal!'