I was watching Jay Leno the other night and James Woods was his guest. James made a statement something to the effect that this was a different kind of war because "other side" had no clear objective. If the US wanted to surrender what would the terms be. Since the terrorists don't have a clear end game (other than simple fear) what could the US offer to give up to concede defeat.
My thought on this were, would the "war on terror" end if Osama bin Laden all of a sudden came out of hiding and said "I give up". I doubt it. The focus would shift to some other theater but the "war" would continue. That is the great thing about declaring war on an idea. There is no end game and you can play it as long as people are willing to follow you.
I am assuming you must live in Toronto. Unfortunately Toronto isn't Canada. As someone that happens to live at the other end of Ontario I can tell you that not everyone has access to DSL or cable (at any price). Some of us in Canada have to put up with dial-up service that will max out at a lowly 26.4k. If this service were available to me $29 would seem like a steal.
Not to sound snarky (is that even a word) but it could they aren't lucky but that you are unlucky. As with anything that is mass produced there will be a percentage that lasts forever and a percentage that dies right away. I have been unfortunate to have a USB drive die on me but I have also had my current drive (Lexar Jumpdrive Sport) hanging on my key chain for more than a year now. Are USB drive indestructable? No. Can they become corrupted and stop working? Yes. As I said earlier this holds true for most manufactured items.
I really hope no one is suggesting you use more than 1 anti-virus program. If you do have more than one on your systme I suggest removing all but one right now. I know from experience (and it just makes logical sense) that if you have more than one AV program your system will not run smoothly. Though I too hate the latest editions of Norton I would much rather see just Norton on a system than Norton and another AV program. Having more than one AV doesn't make you more secure they will just "butt heads" with each other and cause a drain on resources.
Unfortunately Bush cannot be voted out of office (by the general population). He is serving his second term of office and is not able to run for a third term.
Your stuck with George W. until 2009 whether you like it or not.
The supposed reason for this research was to eventually help couple that have problems conceiving a child, have children. I may be totally clueless here but, maybe if you are having troubles conceiving you shouldn't be having children. This may seem rather harsh but I would hazard to guess that a lot of the reason that people can't have children is due to incompatible genes (either one of the parents or the combination of the two at conception).
If we are going to embrace evolution and the "survival of the fittest" strategy than we have to accept that maybe some people won't be able to have children. It would be great to be able to jump ahead a few centuries and see what the result of all our current "baby medicine" will result in.
I have no idea how Microsoft plans to implement this "feature" but...
I would think that it would be relatively easy to look at the iTunes "logs" on a person's computer to see what music was purchased. This of course would be predicated on the fact that iTunes keeps some kind of local record of purchases. The other way to implement the scheme would be to search the computer for AAC files (that contain Apple DRM) and allow purchases accordingly.
I don't think it should be necessary for Microsoft to ask Apple for the purchase data.
I'm actually glad that the product key is on a sticker on the side of the computer instead of the recovery CD. My reason for this stance, I do computer repairs for a living. It is much more convenient to have the sticker on the computer than to try and get the customer to find the recovery CD.
When a name brand computer comes in and needs a reinstall I use a generic OEM or retail CD. It does get to be a pain to have to call in to have the machine activated but as yet I have always gotten a validation code with question (ok once or twice they may ask me the brand of computer and where it was bought but they have yet to refuse to give me a code).
I will readily admit though that it would be a lot better if any CD (OEM, retail, Volume License, etc.) could be used with any code so that reinstalling could be easier for us technicians that have to service Windows machines.
Sorry but I just had to reply. I found this statement rather humorous.
Treating a symptom with technology will not fix the problem.
So if using technology to fix a problem is not the way to go about things then you should be looking for another way to be contacted when you are at the theater. You can't take the advantages of tech (being contacted by cell when there is an emergency) but ignore tech when it inconveniences you (cell transmissions being blocked).
I know you will say this isn't what you were intending to say and I agree that your solutions to the problem will work for those that are as enlightened as you are (e.g. setting the phone to vibrate and leaving when a message does come in). Unfortunately not all cell phone users are so enlightened.
no one mentioned the fact that the speed of DSL decreases the farther you are from the central office. If you are a fair distance from the CO you will have a much slower connection.
And the heads on your hard drive can crash at any moment so you shouldn't use that either.
I'm not sure if I would use SSD yet since the cost of standard hard drives are so inexpensive. Although, I'm not sure I would be too concerned with the failure rate of SSDs if I did use one.
It must be nice to have the choice of several ISPs. Unfortunately for a lot of people there is only one choice in providers. Even if there are more than one provider what is stopping them from both doing the same "tiering" of their access and then you still have no real option but to live with it.
The way I read things was that the infringements on the constitution that were talked about only apply to government agencies. This is not to say that the *IAAs were not doing anything illegal. The statements were indicating that the constitutional restriction just didn't apply in this case.
If someone breaks into your house and finds that you are engaged in some form of illegal activity they can call the authorities and have you arrested. YOU could then turn around and have the person arrested for break and enter. The evidence against you would hold up in court though.
If NPR were our major news source, the post Sept 11 coverage would have consisted of story after story about how the big, evil Americans had "pushed these poor, defenseless Muslims to acts of violence."
That is your spin on thing so here is mine.
Instead of your scenario what actually happened post 9/11 was that the executive branch tried to scare the population into believing that the only way to be safe was to strip the population of their freedoms in the name of security.
How else do you explain the fact that it is now acceptable to tap phones with out any judicial oversight?
How do you explain that it is perfectly ok to imprison people indefinitely without charges or access to lawyers just by calling them terrorists (no proof is necessary for these claims by the way)?
Do you really believe that the government could have gotten away with tapping citizen's phones without a warrant pre 9/11?
It may be true that 'Being liberal does NOT make you "intellectual."' but it is also true that being president doesn't make you "intellectual".
If a person tries to disrupt physical traffic, soon enough a police officer comes along
This is essentially what the FCC was intended to do. Instead of coming along after the fact to fix the problem they try to solve the problem ahead of time by making sure the broadcasters weren't stomping on each other's signal. The proliferation of Wi-Fi is starting to cause problems like this. Since the 2.4GHz frequency is free for use and everyone and their mother is making a device that operates at this frequency, saturation of the frequency is occuring. That is why some people have trouble using Wi-Fi in their location.
I don't think this was anymore over hyped than a lot of Apple "announcements". It's been said before and I'll say it again...
If Steve Jobs had announced this as the next Ipod everyone would be talking about how amazing it is.
Second, the analogy is stupid: "Would it be okay to make the car with a non-functioning radio..." If you had any lick of sense, you'd test drive the car and find out, oh shit! the radio doesn't work! I'm not going to buy this car!
The analogy isn't the stupid part of the equation. The sad part is that you can take a car for a test drive to find out that the radio doesn't work but with software (for the most part) you are unable to take it for a test drive. Yes there are demos available for some programs but alot of these have limited feature sets so you can't be sure that there isn't a problem in the full retail package. It would be nice if it was possible to take the software for a "test drive" by purchasing the package and trying it out. Unfortunately, far too many stores won't accept the return of openned software packages.
A more realistic way of looking at this is to figure out how many hours of connection time this limit imposes. For the purposes of this calculation I will assume that the average connection speed is actually 250kbs. Using your 40,000,000,000 bits limit the amount of connection time this would offer is 40000000000/250000/60/60=44.44 hours (or just under 2 days) of continuous downloading (less if the actual speed is higher). This means that if you are like to download files you will max out your connection in the first 2 days of the month and then pay the rest of the month for any additional downloads. Fortunately a few highspeed providers do offer unlimited downloads during late night (e.g. 11pm-7am) which means that the access is vertually unlimited but these providers are few and far between.
Just for comparison. If you were able to max out the line you could conceivabley download 1000000x60x60x24x30/1000000000=2592GB (using 1MB=1000000 Bytes, etc.) or over 2.5TB of data a month. Which I hope no one on a $30/mnth plan should expect to receive.
People lie!
If you remember this simple truth;-) when reading memoires then you won't be suprised when you find out the author might have stretched the truth.
I'm not trying to be a troll here but if the margins are so tight that a swing of 25 cents is going to make or break your business I think it is time to find something else to sell.
I realize that your figures were probably pulled out of the air but if not installing a 25 cent chip doubles your profit it would mean that you are only making ~50 cents per board made. If you added the chip and charged an extra 25 cents you would come out even. You could even sell the board with a larger mark up and market it as having an advanced feature set over other boards.
Unfortunately the iPod situation you use is would only be possible if patent law was revoked and has nothing to do with copyright law (don't worry there are many posts here that do the same thing).
How do you fit thousands of stars into the space of a full moon. Our moon wouldn't even fit a single earth size planet let alone several thousands of stars.
8-P
This has got to be the worst argument I have ever heard. They're in charge so we should just shut up and take what ever they dish out?
Give me a break!
And your whole child/parent rant is way off base too. It should be the other way around. The populous should be the parents, telling the government what they are doing is wrong. I have no faith in a government that does things in secrecy and tells me it is for my own good. I am old enough to decide if I what I am doing is right or wrong. As long as I am not harming others what right does the government have telling me I shouldn't be doing something?
Finally, I would like to know when it would be convenient to come over and install those open circuit cameras in your house. After all "[i]f you're not doing anything wrong, what do you care if somebody knows about it"?
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I was watching Jay Leno the other night and James Woods was his guest. James made a statement something to the effect that this was a different kind of war because "other side" had no clear objective. If the US wanted to surrender what would the terms be. Since the terrorists don't have a clear end game (other than simple fear) what could the US offer to give up to concede defeat. My thought on this were, would the "war on terror" end if Osama bin Laden all of a sudden came out of hiding and said "I give up". I doubt it. The focus would shift to some other theater but the "war" would continue. That is the great thing about declaring war on an idea. There is no end game and you can play it as long as people are willing to follow you.
I am assuming you must live in Toronto. Unfortunately Toronto isn't Canada. As someone that happens to live at the other end of Ontario I can tell you that not everyone has access to DSL or cable (at any price). Some of us in Canada have to put up with dial-up service that will max out at a lowly 26.4k. If this service were available to me $29 would seem like a steal.
Not to sound snarky (is that even a word) but it could they aren't lucky but that you are unlucky. As with anything that is mass produced there will be a percentage that lasts forever and a percentage that dies right away. I have been unfortunate to have a USB drive die on me but I have also had my current drive (Lexar Jumpdrive Sport) hanging on my key chain for more than a year now. Are USB drive indestructable? No. Can they become corrupted and stop working? Yes. As I said earlier this holds true for most manufactured items.
I really hope no one is suggesting you use more than 1 anti-virus program. If you do have more than one on your systme I suggest removing all but one right now. I know from experience (and it just makes logical sense) that if you have more than one AV program your system will not run smoothly. Though I too hate the latest editions of Norton I would much rather see just Norton on a system than Norton and another AV program. Having more than one AV doesn't make you more secure they will just "butt heads" with each other and cause a drain on resources.
Unfortunately Bush cannot be voted out of office (by the general population). He is serving his second term of office and is not able to run for a third term. Your stuck with George W. until 2009 whether you like it or not.
The supposed reason for this research was to eventually help couple that have problems conceiving a child, have children. I may be totally clueless here but, maybe if you are having troubles conceiving you shouldn't be having children. This may seem rather harsh but I would hazard to guess that a lot of the reason that people can't have children is due to incompatible genes (either one of the parents or the combination of the two at conception). If we are going to embrace evolution and the "survival of the fittest" strategy than we have to accept that maybe some people won't be able to have children. It would be great to be able to jump ahead a few centuries and see what the result of all our current "baby medicine" will result in.
I have no idea how Microsoft plans to implement this "feature" but... I would think that it would be relatively easy to look at the iTunes "logs" on a person's computer to see what music was purchased. This of course would be predicated on the fact that iTunes keeps some kind of local record of purchases. The other way to implement the scheme would be to search the computer for AAC files (that contain Apple DRM) and allow purchases accordingly. I don't think it should be necessary for Microsoft to ask Apple for the purchase data.
I'm actually glad that the product key is on a sticker on the side of the computer instead of the recovery CD. My reason for this stance, I do computer repairs for a living. It is much more convenient to have the sticker on the computer than to try and get the customer to find the recovery CD. When a name brand computer comes in and needs a reinstall I use a generic OEM or retail CD. It does get to be a pain to have to call in to have the machine activated but as yet I have always gotten a validation code with question (ok once or twice they may ask me the brand of computer and where it was bought but they have yet to refuse to give me a code). I will readily admit though that it would be a lot better if any CD (OEM, retail, Volume License, etc.) could be used with any code so that reinstalling could be easier for us technicians that have to service Windows machines.
Treating a symptom with technology will not fix the problem.
So if using technology to fix a problem is not the way to go about things then you should be looking for another way to be contacted when you are at the theater. You can't take the advantages of tech (being contacted by cell when there is an emergency) but ignore tech when it inconveniences you (cell transmissions being blocked).
I know you will say this isn't what you were intending to say and I agree that your solutions to the problem will work for those that are as enlightened as you are (e.g. setting the phone to vibrate and leaving when a message does come in). Unfortunately not all cell phone users are so enlightened.
no one mentioned the fact that the speed of DSL decreases the farther you are from the central office. If you are a fair distance from the CO you will have a much slower connection.
And the heads on your hard drive can crash at any moment so you shouldn't use that either. I'm not sure if I would use SSD yet since the cost of standard hard drives are so inexpensive. Although, I'm not sure I would be too concerned with the failure rate of SSDs if I did use one.
It must be nice to have the choice of several ISPs. Unfortunately for a lot of people there is only one choice in providers. Even if there are more than one provider what is stopping them from both doing the same "tiering" of their access and then you still have no real option but to live with it.
The way I read things was that the infringements on the constitution that were talked about only apply to government agencies. This is not to say that the *IAAs were not doing anything illegal. The statements were indicating that the constitutional restriction just didn't apply in this case. If someone breaks into your house and finds that you are engaged in some form of illegal activity they can call the authorities and have you arrested. YOU could then turn around and have the person arrested for break and enter. The evidence against you would hold up in court though.
That is your spin on thing so here is mine. Instead of your scenario what actually happened post 9/11 was that the executive branch tried to scare the population into believing that the only way to be safe was to strip the population of their freedoms in the name of security. How else do you explain the fact that it is now acceptable to tap phones with out any judicial oversight? How do you explain that it is perfectly ok to imprison people indefinitely without charges or access to lawyers just by calling them terrorists (no proof is necessary for these claims by the way)? Do you really believe that the government could have gotten away with tapping citizen's phones without a warrant pre 9/11? It may be true that 'Being liberal does NOT make you "intellectual."' but it is also true that being president doesn't make you "intellectual".
This is essentially what the FCC was intended to do. Instead of coming along after the fact to fix the problem they try to solve the problem ahead of time by making sure the broadcasters weren't stomping on each other's signal. The proliferation of Wi-Fi is starting to cause problems like this. Since the 2.4GHz frequency is free for use and everyone and their mother is making a device that operates at this frequency, saturation of the frequency is occuring. That is why some people have trouble using Wi-Fi in their location.
I don't think this was anymore over hyped than a lot of Apple "announcements". It's been said before and I'll say it again... If Steve Jobs had announced this as the next Ipod everyone would be talking about how amazing it is.
The analogy isn't the stupid part of the equation. The sad part is that you can take a car for a test drive to find out that the radio doesn't work but with software (for the most part) you are unable to take it for a test drive. Yes there are demos available for some programs but alot of these have limited feature sets so you can't be sure that there isn't a problem in the full retail package. It would be nice if it was possible to take the software for a "test drive" by purchasing the package and trying it out. Unfortunately, far too many stores won't accept the return of openned software packages.
A more realistic way of looking at this is to figure out how many hours of connection time this limit imposes. For the purposes of this calculation I will assume that the average connection speed is actually 250kbs. Using your 40,000,000,000 bits limit the amount of connection time this would offer is 40000000000/250000/60/60=44.44 hours (or just under 2 days) of continuous downloading (less if the actual speed is higher). This means that if you are like to download files you will max out your connection in the first 2 days of the month and then pay the rest of the month for any additional downloads. Fortunately a few highspeed providers do offer unlimited downloads during late night (e.g. 11pm-7am) which means that the access is vertually unlimited but these providers are few and far between. Just for comparison. If you were able to max out the line you could conceivabley download 1000000x60x60x24x30/1000000000=2592GB (using 1MB=1000000 Bytes, etc.) or over 2.5TB of data a month. Which I hope no one on a $30/mnth plan should expect to receive.
People lie! If you remember this simple truth ;-) when reading memoires then you won't be suprised when you find out the author might have stretched the truth.
I'm not trying to be a troll here but if the margins are so tight that a swing of 25 cents is going to make or break your business I think it is time to find something else to sell. I realize that your figures were probably pulled out of the air but if not installing a 25 cent chip doubles your profit it would mean that you are only making ~50 cents per board made. If you added the chip and charged an extra 25 cents you would come out even. You could even sell the board with a larger mark up and market it as having an advanced feature set over other boards.
Unfortunately the iPod situation you use is would only be possible if patent law was revoked and has nothing to do with copyright law (don't worry there are many posts here that do the same thing).
Not to nit pick but Toronto isn't in the states. It's in Canada. 8-D
How do you fit thousands of stars into the space of a full moon. Our moon wouldn't even fit a single earth size planet let alone several thousands of stars. 8-P
This has got to be the worst argument I have ever heard. They're in charge so we should just shut up and take what ever they dish out? Give me a break! And your whole child/parent rant is way off base too. It should be the other way around. The populous should be the parents, telling the government what they are doing is wrong. I have no faith in a government that does things in secrecy and tells me it is for my own good. I am old enough to decide if I what I am doing is right or wrong. As long as I am not harming others what right does the government have telling me I shouldn't be doing something? Finally, I would like to know when it would be convenient to come over and install those open circuit cameras in your house. After all "[i]f you're not doing anything wrong, what do you care if somebody knows about it"?
Obviously you have never driven the 401 (the highway in southern Ontario for those who may not know).