But no-one is walking in to the company's property, their radio waves are leaking out in to public spaces. It's more like the bank dumping 500K on the pavement, and then complaining because someone temporarily removes 50 dollars. As banks don't want this to happen they generally don't dump their money out in public places; similary companies could avoid war chalkers by keeping their networks on private property (by shielding their walls, or simply avoiding wire-less LANs).
\Theft\, n. [OE. thefte, AS. [thorn]i['e]f[eth]e, [thorn][=y]f[eth]e, [thorn]e['o]f[eth]e. See Thief.] 1. (Law) The act of stealing; specifically, the felonious taking and removing of personal property, with an intent to deprive the rightful owner of the same; larceny.
Note: To constitute theft there must be a taking without the owner's consent, and it must be unlawful or felonious; every part of the property stolen must be removed, however slightly, from its former position; and it must be, at least momentarily, in the complete possession of the thief. See Larceny, and the Note under Robbery.
It is only theft if, by using the companies network you deprive them of its use. Now, unless the company is using a 28.8K modem simply checking your hotmail account is not going to do this. Ergo, it is not theft, but simply using the network with permission. Calling it theft is like calling music copying theft, it is nothing but factually incorrect media whoring.
It is very easy to program C/C++ without memory leaks/seg faults just as long as you have some grasp of software engineering. I've been programming for many years and can now happily churn out C/C++ applications (many of which are multi-threaded) which (post-testing) never suffer unrecoverable errors. They also require less CPU time/memory than their Java equivalents. The myth that C/C++ is difficult is spread by poor programmers and people with a vested interest in other languages (e.g. Sun with Java, and MS with.NET).
Just for the record I do use Java a lot (along with Perl and Python) and it is a nice language. But it is no 'easier' than C++, its just that the bugs are less obvious (usually performance related) and so seem to be less serious.
Two BT models that operated over standard telephone lines. As no-one else in the town had them we could only use them to phone between the Physics and IT departments.
The other problem was that the quality was utterly terrible - mainly due to the lack of bandwidth, and crappy compression. It was kind of usable if you didn't move too much - but if you moved around, or worse, moved the camera the image descended into blurry Lego vision. Also the audio quality was pretty piss poor too.
One thing I will say it their favour (and to answer some of the other posts) was that having the camera mounted about the screen didn't seem to cause any problems. Given the range at which you use it, and the size of the screen, it looks like the other person is looking right at you - which is nice.
I imagine the much faster processor, and better compression means the new models are an order of magnitude better that the ones 10 years ago. Still doesn't help if you're the only one in town who as one though...
That's because blokes over the again of 18 aren't 'boys', they're men - who should be able to withstand the odd insult. Especially if its warranted by their living with their parents past said age of majority.
Because I want my phone to be as tiny as possible (I've got a Nokia 8890, and won't tolerate any phone larger than that) but I want my PDA to be large enough to display a decent amount of information and still be readable (like my Visor).
A PDA/Phone is either a too-large phone, or a too-small PDA. For me this is a very sub-optimal solution to the problem at hand.
If you like ugly nerd type birds with big glasses and tooth related metal work then you're sorted mate!
If however you like women who are actually physically attractive then you're better off shutting down your webserver, selling your iMac and going down to the pub.
That's three more than any helicopter currently in use can manage.
If they can make these things cheap enough then you've got a cost effective way to deliver an entire armour brigade to just about anywhere on Earth (assuming air superiority, which the US should always have). Avoids the need for slow sea-bourne troop build up and means the enemy can't just defend the coast, they have to spread themselves much more thinly.
As long as the picture has to be decoded before it is sent to the TV (via your SVHS/Scart/RF lead) we'll be able to record it. Admittedly not digitally, but then very little of what's shown on TV would *really* benefit from HD-TV super-hires digital quality.
Of course the MPAA could just make all TVs without builtin digital decoders illegal but even their (very strong) lobbying ability is powerful enough for that. Yet.
Apple in good product design, bad business descisions shock!
This isn't the first time that Apple has produced a fantastic piece of hardware then shot themselves in the foot when it comes to selling it, and I doubt it will be the last. However as long as Mr Jobs is in charge this is unlikely to change any time soon - great ideas, lousy execution.
... don't use encrypt, period. They find it confusing, obscure, and not worth the effort as most 'normal' users don't email anything of any value. Even commercial implementations (like the excellent PGPTray) are far too complex for your average AOL monkey.
For encrypt to really take off amongst technical lay-people someone like AOL will have to seamlessly integrate it into their mailer: complete with automagic key-fetching and hiding all that nasty ASCII armoured 'garbage' (like KMail does). Unless the PGP or GNUPG creators can solve this problem then neither of them are any use to the average email user.
I am still waiting for the phone line to be installed at my new flat so I'm stuck with checking my emails on my palmtop using my mobile. Assuming I've used all my minutes up (which I usually have by the end of the month) its costing my about 10 pence a minute to get my emails. Now given that about 20% of my email is unsolicited crap and the spam is usually overblown HTML (i.e. larger than real messages) I estimate it costs me about 30 pence a day to download spam.
While this may not sound like much its still two quid a week I could spend on beer. Instead its stolen from me by spammers selling products I don't want (and usually can't get as the spam is American in origin).
Personally I think there should be a concerted DDOS of all spammers' websites and email servers until the cost of hosting a spammer becomes more than any ISP is willing to take on (extra points if the spammer is charged for all this unsolicited bandwidth use:).
... is tri-band. I bought one before a business trip to SF and it worked like a dream. I was able to text my mates back in London as soon as I stepped off the plane. The only downside was that whenever someone phoned me I got hit by the roaming charge, this resulted in most of my incoming phonecalls being greeted with "fuck off, I'll phone you when I get back to the UK".
... the United States would still be a British territory. The ability to change the way the laws of a country are an intrinsic part of democracy, especially in cases like this where the change is simply undoing a past wrong.
While its true that unsigned bands make their living with gigs its not true of the more popular signed bands. Live tours are used (like singles) as a way of selling albums and as such are a cost center. It is hugely expensive to put on big live shows, the insurance cost alone (lots of people + beer + big lighting/sound rigs = big risk) is vast and without labels to cover it all but the richest bands would be limited to small gigs.
The only 'facist' thing about the UKIP is the European super state they are opposed to. Their stance on immigration is far less facist than the Tories, and their stance on personal freedoms is far less facist than Labour. The only people who seem to spread FUD about the UKIP are those that leach off the state and have can't compete in a fair labour market.
... are the worst of all. Comitted to increasing government interference and taxation (nanny state ahoy!). I'm voting UKIP as it's made up of some uber-capitalists and is the closest to a Libertarian party in the UK.
I've got a PS2, Dreamcast and an Xbox. None of these machine is the alpha-omega of video-gaming and all have at least one excellent game. While its not perfect the XBox is a damn good machine with some really well thought out features (same as the PS2 and DC). Unfortunately because its made by Microsoft it gets bashed by the Anti-MS lobby as well as the Sega/Sony/Nintendo fanboys (why such loyalty to a single multinational?). Obviously if it ran Windows 9x/ME/XP I wouldn't have touched it with Richard Stallman's beard: but as it stands its not half bad.
Actually a true libertarian would never endorse imperialist actions like those of the CIA in South America. Those are the actions of a large government in league with big business: libertarians want a small (as in as small as possible) government.
Replace the word 'Libertarian' with 'Republican' and you'd be correct.
Bear in mind that both the music single and box-office takings charts have been doing this for decades. The only reason the music charts were started was as a marketing tool: yet more proof (if it were needed) that the buying public are sheep.
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I didn't realise people were stealing Cable/DSL services. How does one acquire service from a hard wire without the providers permission?
But no-one is walking in to the company's property, their radio waves are leaking out in to public spaces. It's more like the bank dumping 500K on the pavement, and then complaining because someone temporarily removes 50 dollars. As banks don't want this to happen they generally don't dump their money out in public places; similary companies could avoid war chalkers by keeping their networks on private property (by shielding their walls, or simply avoiding wire-less LANs).
Just for the record I do use Java a lot (along with Perl and Python) and it is a nice language. But it is no 'easier' than C++, its just that the bugs are less obvious (usually performance related) and so seem to be less serious.
The other problem was that the quality was utterly terrible - mainly due to the lack of bandwidth, and crappy compression. It was kind of usable if you didn't move too much - but if you moved around, or worse, moved the camera the image descended into blurry Lego vision. Also the audio quality was pretty piss poor too.
One thing I will say it their favour (and to answer some of the other posts) was that having the camera mounted about the screen didn't seem to cause any problems. Given the range at which you use it, and the size of the screen, it looks like the other person is looking right at you - which is nice.
I imagine the much faster processor, and better compression means the new models are an order of magnitude better that the ones 10 years ago. Still doesn't help if you're the only one in town who as one though ...
That's because blokes over the again of 18 aren't 'boys', they're men - who should be able to withstand the odd insult. Especially if its warranted by their living with their parents past said age of majority.
A PDA/Phone is either a too-large phone, or a too-small PDA. For me this is a very sub-optimal solution to the problem at hand.
Taken to extremes it's an excellent way to lose weight in the long term as well!
If however you like women who are actually physically attractive then you're better off shutting down your webserver, selling your iMac and going down to the pub.
If they can make these things cheap enough then you've got a cost effective way to deliver an entire armour brigade to just about anywhere on Earth (assuming air superiority, which the US should always have). Avoids the need for slow sea-bourne troop build up and means the enemy can't just defend the coast, they have to spread themselves much more thinly.
Of course the MPAA could just make all TVs without builtin digital decoders illegal but even their (very strong) lobbying ability is powerful enough for that. Yet.
This isn't the first time that Apple has produced a fantastic piece of hardware then shot themselves in the foot when it comes to selling it, and I doubt it will be the last. However as long as Mr Jobs is in charge this is unlikely to change any time soon - great ideas, lousy execution.
For encrypt to really take off amongst technical lay-people someone like AOL will have to seamlessly integrate it into their mailer: complete with automagic key-fetching and hiding all that nasty ASCII armoured 'garbage' (like KMail does). Unless the PGP or GNUPG creators can solve this problem then neither of them are any use to the average email user.
While this may not sound like much its still two quid a week I could spend on beer. Instead its stolen from me by spammers selling products I don't want (and usually can't get as the spam is American in origin).
Personally I think there should be a concerted DDOS of all spammers' websites and email servers until the cost of hosting a spammer becomes more than any ISP is willing to take on (extra points if the spammer is charged for all this unsolicited bandwidth use :).
... is tri-band. I bought one before a business trip to SF and it worked like a dream. I was able to text my mates back in London as soon as I stepped off the plane. The only downside was that whenever someone phoned me I got hit by the roaming charge, this resulted in most of my incoming phonecalls being greeted with "fuck off, I'll phone you when I get back to the UK".
... the United States would still be a British territory. The ability to change the way the laws of a country are an intrinsic part of democracy, especially in cases like this where the change is simply undoing a past wrong.
You should not be teaching children to like (or believe) anything. You should give them the facts and let them make their own mind up.
While its true that unsigned bands make their living with gigs its not true of the more popular signed bands. Live tours are used (like singles) as a way of selling albums and as such are a cost center. It is hugely expensive to put on big live shows, the insurance cost alone (lots of people + beer + big lighting/sound rigs = big risk) is vast and without labels to cover it all but the richest bands would be limited to small gigs.
The only 'facist' thing about the UKIP is the European super state they are opposed to. Their stance on immigration is far less facist than the Tories, and their stance on personal freedoms is far less facist than Labour. The only people who seem to spread FUD about the UKIP are those that leach off the state and have can't compete in a fair labour market.
... are the worst of all. Comitted to increasing government interference and taxation (nanny state ahoy!). I'm voting UKIP as it's made up of some uber-capitalists and is the closest to a Libertarian party in the UK.
I've got a PS2, Dreamcast and an Xbox. None of these machine is the alpha-omega of video-gaming and all have at least one excellent game. While its not perfect the XBox is a damn good machine with some really well thought out features (same as the PS2 and DC). Unfortunately because its made by Microsoft it gets bashed by the Anti-MS lobby as well as the Sega/Sony/Nintendo fanboys (why such loyalty to a single multinational?). Obviously if it ran Windows 9x/ME/XP I wouldn't have touched it with Richard Stallman's beard: but as it stands its not half bad.
Replace the word 'Libertarian' with 'Republican' and you'd be correct.
I assume its just an old-skool RF jack. I guess SCART/SVHS would be overkill for VCS2600 style graphics.
Bear in mind that both the music single and box-office takings charts have been doing this for decades. The only reason the music charts were started was as a marketing tool: yet more proof (if it were needed) that the buying public are sheep.
Time to start rebuilding (now I wish I hadn't cleaned up the source directories) ...