I have a standard Apple airport (not extreme) basestation and a tiBook 667MHz. Reception is awfull, and I'm only 15m away from the basestation which is hanging out of the window, so NO walls between us. It is really frustrating, especially since this mac can't upgrade to airport extreme (wrong antenna they told me at the apple shop).
One common misconception is that being stupid somehow changes your case. When you got your drivers licence, you agreed to carefull driving. By not doing so, you broke "the contract".
status symbols exist in all layers of society. African tribesmen have multiple wives as status symbols. Or a cupholder in their underlip. More western, GSMs became status symbol among lowerclass and gradschool students after the elite noticed that it was affordable by everyone.
Overtuning your car with bathtub-sized spoilers & exhausts can cost far more than 5000 and is considered status by some brainfarts where other consider it a sign of underdevelopment. Similarly, the segway is status among some social groups (groups that do not flirt with armani or rolex)
Stop associating status with absolute amounts of money. It's all about how much more your can spend than the rest of your social class.
This is kind of like saying that a few shoplifters are going to destroy civilization as we know it.
Bad comparision. The analogy would be that, if shops had, all of a sudden, nothing to prevent people from walking away with (copies of) their goods, civilization as we know it would not be destroyed, but quite hefty shaken at th very least.
I do agree with your point that creative arts can live perfectly withou DRM. It's the arts-suffocating business around the arts that would die. Which would be a tremendeously good thing !
I wouldn't be so hard to throw around 'naj' arguments. Many people argued they didn't need 1000 songs in their pocket, or a 3D card that can render at 1600x1200, or a 7.1 sound system, or HDTV, or a SMART car, or throw-away cameras,...
I'm probably forgetting a lot of useless stuff here that went out and became a huge success anyway, despite crushung critiques about it's uselessness.
My point? When status symbols becomes affordable, people will find reasons to buy it. Look at me : I just bought a 1600Euro race-bicycle where a 900EURO would have been good enough. But i wanted shimano ultegra gear (Dura Ace was a total nono from the wife:-)
Segway isn't oriented towards the same market segment as a bicycle. They deliberately keep the thing expensive to make it a status symbol. If you compare a $100.000 rolex to a $5 plastic watch, you'll find they both display time within an acceptable measure of accuracy. Why do dorks buy a rolex ? Status symbol.
The same holds for ferrari and other luxury cars. Apart from race circuits and some highways in Germany, there are few places in the world where you can do 250mph. Yet they buy these fuel-suckers and pay $20.000 a year in taxes and insurance. Why ? Status symbol.
From this point of view, seqway is doing amazingly well.
segway contains practically only comodity hardware. Nothing fancy in it, no rare materials. The cost of a segway are due to research & the fact that they are manfactured in low quantities. About exactly the problems the computer industry had 20 years ago.
There is no reason at all for the segway to remain this expensive for a long time, unless the company wants to keep its elite status. But unfortunately, there is no telling when the price will drop
initial price is not an issue. My first mac (a Mac II with a 15inch color monitor) cost $5000 too. Without the printer or extra SCSI harddisk. One can't say that it was a barrier for mass adoption, eh ?
The rich (or enterpreneurs) pay the initial batch. After that, profit is met and the price goes down. Segway offcourse has larger obstacles to handle than price.
kinda funny : the tone of the register was rather mocking, considering the segway drivers a bunch of rich-asses with to much time on their hands, and the segway a silly, expensive toy that never could deliver what was promised.
On/., it becomes a revolutionary device that makes sports better.
Probably, the submitter intended irony, but failed to convince
the more common abuse is to take 2 same items of different category and swap'em. For instance a GeForce4MX and a GForce4ti. Who would notice ? And at a 200$ price difference, the store would lose bigtime.
But i guess read-only tags will appear soon, as well as tag-writer-scanners or blockers
i have seen pranksters swap prices tags on items many times before (no special equipment needed). The only more or less robust system seems barcodes...
Do you really really expect just about anyone to do do this ? It simply kills the whole purpose of the web ! It's like the typical MS security apporach to the IE activeX scripting problem : "disable everything".
Jeez... is that's your view on safety, i bet you never come out of the house. Come to think of it , when was the last time you had a breath ?
yes, i find it fascinating indeed that a paradigm genius hasn't show up in the past 30 years. Or at least not on a scientific level with global implications... Has our science grown so specialised indeed ? Copernicus, Newton and to a certain degree also einstein & planck were universal scientists. Modern day scientists work themselves deeper & deeper in smaller and smaller subfields of an allready tiny science topic... Could it be that we are killing global paradigms ?
For chrissakes (as you call him. Beware when playing grammar nazi), OFFCOURSE they take performance enhancing substances ! Loads of'em ! Sugared water is a performance enhancher ! Powerbars are !
The points i'm trying to make are multiple:
1) these guys take a very balanced diet that contains loads of stuff that is on the edge of what is allowed. But as long as it's on the right side, it's ok for me.
2) they don't prepare the diet themselves. If the doctor makes a mistake, they're fucked
3) there is stuff in our environment or in ordinary food that you can't know about, but can result in tiny traces of illegal products which cause a positive test
4) those racers know very well that, when caught, they hang. For good. Trust me that they take no risks. Especially the top racers : they are tested after every stage. Not like tennis or other sports where doping tests are a rarity. No other sport is so serious about doping as bicycle racing.
I know that, in the past there have been doping scandals, but why generalize like mad ? Give the gus a break for chrissake (sic:-) They practice the toughest sport on earth.
you clearly have no idea what top athles eat. Do yo really think these guys eat sandwiches during the race ???
Please dude, inform yourself before making a joke. racing food is developed by laboratories that also work on food for astronauts and fighter-pilots : i.e. eating under extreme conditions.
As i said in my previous post : top-athletes like Armstrong & Ullrich burn up to 12.000 calories in 6 hours. That would be about 100 sandwiches i guess.... No way you can intake such amount of energy trhu ordinary food. They eat liquid food & powerbars during the race. Food that is made in proportion to what their body needs and can absorb. There are dozens of vitamin and mineral additions in it that we probably don't even know. They have a team of doctors and food specialists to balance the diet and add whatever the body seems to lack (they have blood taken before & after every race to balance the diet). Do you really think these racers have time or energy or interest to follow tat up ? They blindly trust their doctors and hope nobody messes it up. Armstrong will never take any drink from a spectator offering it, even during the heaviest climb when he badly wants to drink. The risk that there's something forbidden in it is just not worth it. Do you think that these guys would just go hupla and as you phrase it "have a methadon sandwich" ?
like i said : it it doesn't help you cycle better... shall I repeat it again ? Do you think that an athlete on heroin would perform better ? Maybe for sprinters, who need to unleash all their energy in 10 seconds and not feel the pain they are inflicting on their muscles, but for cycling, where you're on a bycicle for 6 hours, it's all about being clear in the head and knowing how to plan the race. narcotics are the last thing you want.
I really can't imagine that Brandt would take Methadon in such small dose. It's simply ridiculous.
there we go again... Brandt was tested positive on Methadon, a substance that DOES NOT HELP cycling better. It's some sort of pain killer.
Additionally, the dose was miniscule. So small that it is impossible to have any advantage or even effect whatshowever. It is very likely that he's the victim of eating something which contained some Methadon without his knowledge. (did you know for instance that tap water in many cities contains high traces of Oestrogen ? Does that make you a transexual ?)
Those athletes work and live on the edge where NONE OF US HERE has ever been and will ever be. Cycling, especially the Tour de France is the most intense and demanding sport on earth. Those guys burn up to 12.000calories in one day (insert lame joke here) andthey have no choice but to nurse their bodies at perfection. That includes vitamins and food supplements that are on the edge of what's allowed. But ON THE EDGE is not equal to OVER THE EDGE. Each of these guys goes as far as his doctor tells him. The slightest mistake tests them positive.
Don't be one of those bystanders booing 'cycling is all about dope !'. The sport is insane, the competition is insane, the food is insane too. There are surely some dopeheads, as in every sport. But armstrong for instance, gets tested EVERY DAY. Also at home, at unexpected times. Outside racing season.
irst come to live in a racing country (I'm from Belgium) and experience cycling first handed. There's probably less than 1% of the/. population that would make it up alpe d'huez... even with all the dope they wanted.
all of these free GB mail accounts have 1 bad aura : you never know how long the conditions, the account, or even the complete system wil last. I have a DSL connection which came with 5 mailboxes 4 years ago still going strong. I used to have usa.net account that was canceled when their service stopped, a spam-blown free.net account, and a yahoo acount that all of a sudden stopped working.
okay, sorry for my singlesided point of view. I forgot that the backboners get hit harder by spam than end users.
But my point stays : many users don't percieve spam as a big issue, and therefore will not move to this system. Additionally, youth has never lived without spam, and consider it a normality
I'm gonna say something very ugly here : i find spam not to be a really serious problem. I get approx 50 spams per day, and 45 of these go straight to my MacOSX Junk folder. I hardly notice them at all. At the end of the day I quickly glance trough the folder. Never found a false positive in 1,5 years. The 5 spams that do wind up in my inbox are no problem either, since all known correspondents in my addressbook have their own sub-box. So only new peeps end up in my inbox, which is quick to scan.
I sure as hell ain't gonna pay for something that I don't need.
this advert-article reminds me of how much fileplanet sucks... And to think that when this community started years ago, it was so promising ! They are the RealPlayer equivalent of free downloads. A billion buttons for payed services, and a tiny hidden one somewhere for a free download. I really despise these guys !
we tried 5 or 6 products. None of them could remove the glue. That's glue put on in the 1950's... serious stuff, and they were pretty damd generous with it (i.e. a fully covered floor) on a wooden floor that we want to get back to its orinigal wooden state. With that particular product, it goes pretty fast. But it's one damd SOB of a product:-(
the only alternative would be to put carpet again. But that's not hygienic (sic?) and with kids age 1-3-5, you're asking for trouble. A kork floor would be cool, but tha's really expensive.
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I have a standard Apple airport (not extreme) basestation and a tiBook 667MHz. Reception is awfull, and I'm only 15m away from the basestation which is hanging out of the window, so NO walls between us. It is really frustrating, especially since this mac can't upgrade to airport extreme (wrong antenna they told me at the apple shop).
Anyone any advice on increasing my radius ?
ploughed over people BY MISTAKE.
One common misconception is that being stupid somehow changes your case. When you got your drivers licence, you agreed to carefull driving. By not doing so, you broke "the contract".
Safari is lobotomized too.... Someone suggested killing cookies, but that is against my religion
Well, you got me going here, and I did some lookups. Sarcasm is a form of verbal irony.
:-)
So if it's not irony, it's no sarcasm either
status symbols exist in all layers of society. African tribesmen have multiple wives as status symbols. Or a cupholder in their underlip. More western, GSMs became status symbol among lowerclass and gradschool students after the elite noticed that it was affordable by everyone.
Overtuning your car with bathtub-sized spoilers & exhausts can cost far more than 5000 and is considered status by some brainfarts where other consider it a sign of underdevelopment. Similarly, the segway is status among some social groups (groups that do not flirt with armani or rolex)
Stop associating status with absolute amounts of money. It's all about how much more your can spend than the rest of your social class.
This is kind of like saying that a few shoplifters are going to destroy civilization as we know it.
Bad comparision. The analogy would be that, if shops had, all of a sudden, nothing to prevent people from walking away with (copies of) their goods, civilization as we know it would not be destroyed, but quite hefty shaken at th very least.
I do agree with your point that creative arts can live perfectly withou DRM. It's the arts-suffocating business around the arts that would die. Which would be a tremendeously good thing !
I wouldn't be so hard to throw around 'naj' arguments. Many people argued they didn't need 1000 songs in their pocket, or a 3D card that can render at 1600x1200, or a 7.1 sound system, or HDTV, or a SMART car, or throw-away cameras, ...
:-)
I'm probably forgetting a lot of useless stuff here that went out and became a huge success anyway, despite crushung critiques about it's uselessness.
My point? When status symbols becomes affordable, people will find reasons to buy it. Look at me : I just bought a 1600Euro race-bicycle where a 900EURO would have been good enough. But i wanted shimano ultegra gear (Dura Ace was a total nono from the wife
Segway isn't oriented towards the same market segment as a bicycle. They deliberately keep the thing expensive to make it a status symbol. If you compare a $100.000 rolex to a $5 plastic watch, you'll find they both display time within an acceptable measure of accuracy. Why do dorks buy a rolex ? Status symbol.
The same holds for ferrari and other luxury cars. Apart from race circuits and some highways in Germany, there are few places in the world where you can do 250mph. Yet they buy these fuel-suckers and pay $20.000 a year in taxes and insurance. Why ? Status symbol.
From this point of view, seqway is doing amazingly well.
segway contains practically only comodity hardware. Nothing fancy in it, no rare materials. The cost of a segway are due to research & the fact that they are manfactured in low quantities. About exactly the problems the computer industry had 20 years ago.
There is no reason at all for the segway to remain this expensive for a long time, unless the company wants to keep its elite status. But unfortunately, there is no telling when the price will drop
initial price is not an issue. My first mac (a Mac II with a 15inch color monitor) cost $5000 too. Without the printer or extra SCSI harddisk. One can't say that it was a barrier for mass adoption, eh ?
The rich (or enterpreneurs) pay the initial batch. After that, profit is met and the price goes down. Segway offcourse has larger obstacles to handle than price.
kinda funny : the tone of the register was rather mocking, considering the segway drivers a bunch of rich-asses with to much time on their hands, and the segway a silly, expensive toy that never could deliver what was promised.
/., it becomes a revolutionary device that makes sports better.
On
Probably, the submitter intended irony, but failed to convince
the more common abuse is to take 2 same items of different category and swap'em. For instance a GeForce4MX and a GForce4ti. Who would notice ? And at a 200$ price difference, the store would lose bigtime.
But i guess read-only tags will appear soon, as well as tag-writer-scanners or blockers
i have seen pranksters swap prices tags on items many times before (no special equipment needed). The only more or less robust system seems barcodes...
copy and paste the URL rather than click it
Com'on puhlease !!!
Do you really really expect just about anyone to do do this ? It simply kills the whole purpose of the web ! It's like the typical MS security apporach to the IE activeX scripting problem : "disable everything".
Jeez... is that's your view on safety, i bet you never come out of the house. Come to think of it , when was the last time you had a breath ?
yes, i find it fascinating indeed that a paradigm genius hasn't show up in the past 30 years. Or at least not on a scientific level with global implications... Has our science grown so specialised indeed ? Copernicus, Newton and to a certain degree also einstein & planck were universal scientists. Modern day scientists work themselves deeper & deeper in smaller and smaller subfields of an allready tiny science topic... Could it be that we are killing global paradigms ?
For chrissakes (as you call him. Beware when playing grammar nazi), OFFCOURSE they take performance enhancing substances ! Loads of'em ! Sugared water is a performance enhancher ! Powerbars are !
:
:-) They practice the toughest sport on earth.
The points i'm trying to make are multiple
1) these guys take a very balanced diet that contains loads of stuff that is on the edge of what is allowed. But as long as it's on the right side, it's ok for me.
2) they don't prepare the diet themselves. If the doctor makes a mistake, they're fucked
3) there is stuff in our environment or in ordinary food that you can't know about, but can result in tiny traces of illegal products which cause a positive test
4) those racers know very well that, when caught, they hang. For good. Trust me that they take no risks. Especially the top racers : they are tested after every stage. Not like tennis or other sports where doping tests are a rarity. No other sport is so serious about doping as bicycle racing.
I know that, in the past there have been doping scandals, but why generalize like mad ? Give the gus a break for chrissake (sic
you clearly have no idea what top athles eat. Do yo really think these guys eat sandwiches during the race ???
Please dude, inform yourself before making a joke. racing food is developed by laboratories that also work on food for astronauts and fighter-pilots : i.e. eating under extreme conditions.
As i said in my previous post : top-athletes like Armstrong & Ullrich burn up to 12.000 calories in 6 hours. That would be about 100 sandwiches i guess.... No way you can intake such amount of energy trhu ordinary food. They eat liquid food & powerbars during the race. Food that is made in proportion to what their body needs and can absorb. There are dozens of vitamin and mineral additions in it that we probably don't even know. They have a team of doctors and food specialists to balance the diet and add whatever the body seems to lack (they have blood taken before & after every race to balance the diet). Do you really think these racers have time or energy or interest to follow tat up ? They blindly trust their doctors and hope nobody messes it up. Armstrong will never take any drink from a spectator offering it, even during the heaviest climb when he badly wants to drink. The risk that there's something forbidden in it is just not worth it. Do you think that these guys would just go hupla and as you phrase it "have a methadon sandwich" ?
puhlease...
like i said : it it doesn't help you cycle better... shall I repeat it again ? Do you think that an athlete on heroin would perform better ? Maybe for sprinters, who need to unleash all their energy in 10 seconds and not feel the pain they are inflicting on their muscles, but for cycling, where you're on a bycicle for 6 hours, it's all about being clear in the head and knowing how to plan the race. narcotics are the last thing you want.
I really can't imagine that Brandt would take Methadon in such small dose. It's simply ridiculous.
there we go again... Brandt was tested positive on Methadon, a substance that DOES NOT HELP cycling better. It's some sort of pain killer.
/. population that would make it up alpe d'huez... even with all the dope they wanted.
Additionally, the dose was miniscule. So small that it is impossible to have any advantage or even effect whatshowever. It is very likely that he's the victim of eating something which contained some Methadon without his knowledge. (did you know for instance that tap water in many cities contains high traces of Oestrogen ? Does that make you a transexual ?)
Those athletes work and live on the edge where NONE OF US HERE has ever been and will ever be. Cycling, especially the Tour de France is the most intense and demanding sport on earth. Those guys burn up to 12.000calories in one day (insert lame joke here) andthey have no choice but to nurse their bodies at perfection. That includes vitamins and food supplements that are on the edge of what's allowed. But ON THE EDGE is not equal to OVER THE EDGE. Each of these guys goes as far as his doctor tells him. The slightest mistake tests them positive.
Don't be one of those bystanders booing 'cycling is all about dope !'. The sport is insane, the competition is insane, the food is insane too. There are surely some dopeheads, as in every sport. But armstrong for instance, gets tested EVERY DAY. Also at home, at unexpected times. Outside racing season.
irst come to live in a racing country (I'm from Belgium) and experience cycling first handed. There's probably less than 1% of the
all of these free GB mail accounts have 1 bad aura : you never know how long the conditions, the account, or even the complete system wil last. I have a DSL connection which came with 5 mailboxes 4 years ago still going strong. I used to have usa.net account that was canceled when their service stopped, a spam-blown free.net account, and a yahoo acount that all of a sudden stopped working.
okay, sorry for my singlesided point of view. I forgot that the backboners get hit harder by spam than end users.
But my point stays : many users don't percieve spam as a big issue, and therefore will not move to this system. Additionally, youth has never lived without spam, and consider it a normality
I'm gonna say something very ugly here : i find spam not to be a really serious problem. I get approx 50 spams per day, and 45 of these go straight to my MacOSX Junk folder. I hardly notice them at all. At the end of the day I quickly glance trough the folder. Never found a false positive in 1,5 years. The 5 spams that do wind up in my inbox are no problem either, since all known correspondents in my addressbook have their own sub-box. So only new peeps end up in my inbox, which is quick to scan.
I sure as hell ain't gonna pay for something that I don't need.
there's a difference between making a living and cheating on your customers
this advert-article reminds me of how much fileplanet sucks... And to think that when this community started years ago, it was so promising ! They are the RealPlayer equivalent of free downloads. A billion buttons for payed services, and a tiny hidden one somewhere for a free download. I really despise these guys !
we tried 5 or 6 products. None of them could remove the glue. That's glue put on in the 1950's... serious stuff, and they were pretty damd generous with it (i.e. a fully covered floor) on a wooden floor that we want to get back to its orinigal wooden state. With that particular product, it goes pretty fast. But it's one damd SOB of a product :-(
the only alternative would be to put carpet again. But that's not hygienic (sic?) and with kids age 1-3-5, you're asking for trouble. A kork floor would be cool, but tha's really expensive.