Isn't it reaching a bit to assume that the reason eBooks failed is the public's rejection of DRM, rather than the readers costing hundreds of dollars and the books themselves costing as much or more as the paperback?
The site key is not a bad idea for those users who actually use it, but yes most people aren't paying attention. But I think it really ignores the more obvious solution. This is to frequently remind users to NEVER CLICK A LINK THROUGH E-MAIL.
I have an account at US Bank. They send me advertisements full of links, some of which are tied to my account in some fashion (namely, the ones that control what advertisements they send you). They all go to pages on a totally different domain than the one that their corporate site is on. How are you ever going to convince users that following these is bad idea so long as the banks themselves are regularly sending out mail indistinguishable from what the phishers are sending?
...you can choose to target to "Unmarried Men in the age group of 30-35 in the state of New York with incomes in the rage of $100,000". (We all know what those ads are;)) I saw this and was like "WHAT ?! How the hell are they supposed to have so much information on a person who's just opened a website to see some stuff.."
Well, the simplest possible answer would be that they don't have any such information, are simply lying about being able to target that demographic, and the ads will be either completely random or will be for whoever pays them the most.
Sorry, I didn't word that as well as I could have. You'd likely never make up the difference, since up to about $8/gal that Metro is cheaper to run than the electric vehicles. We've already passed the point where it's cost-effective to tap the Canadian oil sands, so I'll be (unpleasently) surprised if gas actually gets that high.
You're right that none of this addresses shortages, though. The only way around that is to not make oneself completely dependant on any one resource--gasoline -OR- electricity.
Ah, yes. That would absorb much of the initial cost. I admit that since I've always looked at this from the perspective of simply wanting to spend less on fuel, I haven't looked too closely at these kits. How would a low-end conversion kit like this perform as compared with something mundane like an old econobox? If you go by the USDOE's numbers[1], a '94 Metro would actually be cheaper still, mileage-wise, and can be had for considerably less than eight grand.
Perhaps I'm missing something, but even if you're saving $629/yr in fuel ($1429/yr in gas vs. $800/yr in electricity), it's still going to take almost thirteen years just to recoup the cost of the conversion kit.
This is horribly off topic, but shouldn't that be {g,k}panel? KDE and Gnome are just collections of apps that are intended to look similar and play well together.
When was the last time you had to pay $8,000+ to hit the delete button in your mail client? Besides, it's not like there aren't ways to avoid getting spammed.
Jeeze, that guy scares the hell out of me sometimes... "400 million dead today as a chunk of the west cost fell off into the ocean, but that's not important, have I told you how much I love my Bose Acoustic Wave radio?"
if I have a thirty year old peice of equipment, I still want to be able to find a thirty year old document to describe it in detail. Even better -- thirty years of accumulated information describeing it in detail.
I have a CNet (CN600Eplus) ethernet card, and a boot rom for it, but the rom apparently uses the RPL protocol. Anyone know where I can get a RPL daemon for Linux, or of a place that has some information on the RPL protocol?
Humans, especially Americans, are a waste of flesh and blood, because all they do is breed, and want more and more money
You're absolutely right. There are no artists, charity workers, religious persons, inventors anywhere in the world -- especially in the United States.
Theu continue to fight the same wars of their pathetic ancestors; they continue to have the same ideals as their pathetic ancestors; and they are born, they grow up, they get married, they have children, they get a job, they grow old, they work themselves to death, and then they die. And yet, people, in this day and age continue to believe that these ideals are GOOD
Yeah, we call that culture, and there's a bit more to it than working, aging and breeding. Isn't it amazing how children tend to follow the example set by their parents?
Do you people want to continue to reproduce at an alarming rate like a bunch of maggots? I believe the answer is YES because most of the people in this pathetic world (about 80%) don't even know how to tie their own damn shoes.
Hmm... you assume they all own shoes. And for the record, I bet even the ones who don't own shoes could teach you (and probably me as well) a thing or two.
Do these kinds of people deserve nanotechnology? Do these people with an IQ below 70 deserve to pass on their crippled genes for another thousand years or so? Do these people even deserve to live? I think not.
Well I do. My mother has a glass cat fashioned and hand painted by a "retarded" person. It's hands down a better job than I could ever hope to do. Intelligence (or lack thereof) is an extremely poor measure of a man.
Another reason why humanity does not deserve Nanotechnology is because of their governments. Knowledge is being kept away from students and non-students; people aren't really learning new - instead they are learning the material in which the goverment wants them to learn.
So true, the college I go to (a GOVERNMENT financed organization) shamelessly forces me to learn basic electronics theories rather than immediately allowing me to start advanced research projects. The bastards! Worse, every government in the world is conspiring against me!
With limits such as this, how can people be educated enough to handle such a wonderful, yet very deadly, technology? The answer is, that they can't - they're too stupid - especially Americans. You don't understand my logic? I'll give an example - the first thing Americans would do with Nanotechnology, without even thinking is they would try to heal AIDS victims
The assholes! How dare they cure AIDS!?
even though most americans are so uneducated, they don't even know that AIDS was manmade and that the cure was right under their noses all along - and that the governemt that most of them pledge their idiotic allegiance to is the one who administered and created the 'virus strand' to begin with to keep them in fear, so that they would be more easily controlled. - end of example.
Well, I'm ashamed to admit it, but I'm one of those uneducated Americans can't see the brutally obvious. Perhaps you would like to share the cure to AIDS with all us morons, and those idiots who are conducting AIDS research? Too bad that dastardly government plot is totally ineffective. I've yet to run screaming and sobbing to the home of my congressman, begging him to protect me from the big bad bug.
I do not think that even 1 billion people deserve to live. That is way to many people - therefore, I have come up with a plan to execute them all.
Oh goodie!!! Can I be a member of your master race? I promise I'll only pass my good genes on to future generations.
If everything were free in the world - knowledge, material goods, education - then there would not be any problems with humanity actually grasping this sort of technology. If everyone worked together as a team, instead of being in competetion with one another, then we literally demi-gods right now.
Yeah, look how well that worked in the U.S.S.R.
Just out of curiosity, how many people do you suppose will actually want to live forever? It seems to me that many people consider earthly life to be a spiritual development stage in their existence. It would seem to me that at least some of these inbred hicks will eventually want to move on to the next level.
Of course, that's just my opinion, I could be wrong
Perhaps emulators could be written so they read ROMs from the cartridge on startup, and have no support for loading ROMs off of a disk. I don't know specifics of the ROM hardware, but it shouldn't be too difficult to wire the ROM directly to the ISA bus.
Woah, look at the vein in that guy's head!
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I remember reading that the internal versions of this were so difficult to use they caused strokes in some people... I wonder how different this technology is.
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Isn't it reaching a bit to assume that the reason eBooks failed is the public's rejection of DRM, rather than the readers costing hundreds of dollars and the books themselves costing as much or more as the paperback?
I have an account at US Bank. They send me advertisements full of links, some of which are tied to my account in some fashion (namely, the ones that control what advertisements they send you). They all go to pages on a totally different domain than the one that their corporate site is on. How are you ever going to convince users that following these is bad idea so long as the banks themselves are regularly sending out mail indistinguishable from what the phishers are sending?
Funny you should choose that example, as Doom 3 will run on a Voodoo2.
Pray tell how ignoring a packet is an illegal act of hacking by US standards.
Well, the simplest possible answer would be that they don't have any such information, are simply lying about being able to target that demographic, and the ads will be either completely random or will be for whoever pays them the most.
Sorry, I didn't word that as well as I could have. You'd likely never make up the difference, since up to about $8/gal that Metro is cheaper to run than the electric vehicles. We've already passed the point where it's cost-effective to tap the Canadian oil sands, so I'll be (unpleasently) surprised if gas actually gets that high.
You're right that none of this addresses shortages, though. The only way around that is to not make oneself completely dependant on any one resource--gasoline -OR- electricity.
Ah, yes. That would absorb much of the initial cost. I admit that since I've always looked at this from the perspective of simply wanting to spend less on fuel, I haven't looked too closely at these kits. How would a low-end conversion kit like this perform as compared with something mundane like an old econobox? If you go by the USDOE's numbers[1], a '94 Metro would actually be cheaper still, mileage-wise, and can be had for considerably less than eight grand.
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[1] http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/2001cartablef.jsp?
Perhaps I'm missing something, but even if you're saving $629/yr in fuel ($1429/yr in gas vs. $800/yr in electricity), it's still going to take almost thirteen years just to recoup the cost of the conversion kit.
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This is horribly off topic, but shouldn't that be {g,k}panel? KDE and Gnome are just collections of apps that are intended to look similar and play well together.
Good lord people, that was a JOKE.
Lighten up.
Aw, calm down. One of the fantastic things about being human is you can make decisions independant of what you're told.
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Personally, I didn't even read the post, skipped right to the web page and the comments
Easy, play whilst compileing.
When was the last time you had to pay $8,000+ to hit the delete button in your mail client? Besides, it's not like there aren't ways to avoid getting spammed.
Jeeze, that guy scares the hell out of me sometimes... "400 million dead today as a chunk of the west cost fell off into the ocean, but that's not important, have I told you how much I love my Bose Acoustic Wave radio?"
I dunno about everyone else, but my machine actually has a different IP and name, depending on what phone line I dial into.
talk, write, ftp would work fine if there were a server somewhere keeping track of everyone.
This time, I move we have some posts besides "Patents are stupid, I should patent a biological waste disposal system and sue everybody's ass."
Of course, that doesn't leave much to say about this article... Never mind. Flame on, Sparky.
Doom is awesome, no matter what you compare it to.
Outdated information != useless information
if I have a thirty year old peice of equipment, I still want to be able to find a thirty year old document to describe it in detail. Even better -- thirty years of accumulated information describeing it in detail.
I have a CNet (CN600Eplus) ethernet card, and a boot rom for it, but the rom apparently uses the RPL protocol. Anyone know where I can get a RPL daemon for Linux, or of a place that has some information on the RPL protocol?
You're absolutely right. There are no artists, charity workers, religious persons, inventors anywhere in the world -- especially in the United States.
Theu continue to fight the same wars of their pathetic ancestors; they continue to have the same ideals as their pathetic ancestors; and they are born, they grow up, they get married, they have children, they get a job, they grow old, they work themselves to death, and then they die. And yet, people, in this day and age continue to believe that these ideals are GOOD
Yeah, we call that culture, and there's a bit more to it than working, aging and breeding. Isn't it amazing how children tend to follow the example set by their parents?
Do you people want to continue to reproduce at an alarming rate like a bunch of maggots? I believe the answer is YES because most of the people in this pathetic world (about 80%) don't even know how to tie their own damn shoes.
Hmm... you assume they all own shoes. And for the record, I bet even the ones who don't own shoes could teach you (and probably me as well) a thing or two.
Do these kinds of people deserve nanotechnology? Do these people with an IQ below 70 deserve to pass on their crippled genes for another thousand years or so? Do these people even deserve to live? I think not.
Well I do. My mother has a glass cat fashioned and hand painted by a "retarded" person. It's hands down a better job than I could ever hope to do. Intelligence (or lack thereof) is an extremely poor measure of a man.
Another reason why humanity does not deserve Nanotechnology is because of their governments. Knowledge is being kept away from students and non-students; people aren't really learning new - instead they are learning the material in which the goverment wants them to learn.
So true, the college I go to (a GOVERNMENT financed organization) shamelessly forces me to learn basic electronics theories rather than immediately allowing me to start advanced research projects. The bastards! Worse, every government in the world is conspiring against me!
With limits such as this, how can people be educated enough to handle such a wonderful, yet very deadly, technology? The answer is, that they can't - they're too stupid - especially Americans. You don't understand my logic? I'll give an example - the first thing Americans would do with Nanotechnology, without even thinking is they would try to heal AIDS victims
The assholes! How dare they cure AIDS!?
even though most americans are so uneducated, they don't even know that AIDS was manmade and that the cure was right under their noses all along - and that the governemt that most of them pledge their idiotic allegiance to is the one who administered and created the 'virus strand' to begin with to keep them in fear, so that they would be more easily controlled. - end of example.
Well, I'm ashamed to admit it, but I'm one of those uneducated Americans can't see the brutally obvious. Perhaps you would like to share the cure to AIDS with all us morons, and those idiots who are conducting AIDS research?
Too bad that dastardly government plot is totally ineffective. I've yet to run screaming and sobbing to the home of my congressman, begging him to protect me from the big bad bug.
I do not think that even 1 billion people deserve to live. That is way to many people - therefore, I have come up with a plan to execute them all.
Oh goodie!!! Can I be a member of your master race? I promise I'll only pass my good genes on to future generations.
If everything were free in the world - knowledge, material goods, education - then there would not be any problems with humanity actually grasping this sort of technology. If everyone worked together as a team, instead of being in competetion with one another, then we literally demi-gods right now.
Yeah, look how well that worked in the U.S.S.R.
Just out of curiosity, how many people do you suppose will actually want to live forever? It seems to me that many people consider earthly life to be a spiritual development stage in their existence. It would seem to me that at least some of these inbred hicks will eventually want to move on to the next level.
Of course, that's just my opinion, I could be wrong
But then you'd have to promote MS Windows. Ewwwwwwwwwwww
Perhaps emulators could be written so they read ROMs from the cartridge on startup, and have no support for loading ROMs off of a disk. I don't know specifics of the ROM hardware, but it shouldn't be too difficult to wire the ROM directly to the ISA bus.
I remember reading that the internal versions of this were so difficult to use they caused strokes in some people... I wonder how different this technology is.