Hell, in 20 years, Amazon will control most of the book market in this country, and if they dont' have it, you're fucked.
LOL... sure, whatever.
Suppose Big-Chain-Store stops carrying X. That's when a small shop opens up and starts carrying X. The only way BCS can keep the little guys out of the market is to continue to sell everything they can.
Look at Netflix. They're taking over the rental market by storm. However, they won't shut out all the stores... because they don't carry porn. As long as they don't carry porn, there will be an independent that does. Sure, those indies might have to charge much more, but as long as there is a demand, as long as BCS doesn't carry the product, there will be room for independent retailers.
Yeah, there's no way to directly compete with BCS... that's what small mom-n-pop stores have slowly learned. You can't compete on price, but you can compete on service, convenience, and maybe even selection.
This would be hard for me, considering I kept little record of online purchases over the past year.
Can we claim ignorance? I've heard that you were supposed to claim it even before they added a line specifically for it. Anyway I was kinda suprised to see the line on NY's form this year. I didn't keep track of my purchases, hope I can claim ignorance. But next year, it'll be harder to do so.
How will marine animals that rely on the currents be affected by this?
Hmm... i pictured the sea turtles from Finding Nemo riding the currents, passing through a "snail farm", and ending up as minced meat on the other side...
Really, there's no economic benefit to a rail line that connects two points that are closer by sea.
If that's the case, why'd they bother with the Chunnel? There's many more factors to consider; cargo trains can deliver smaller shipments much more rapidly than cargo ships. Cargo ships require deep ports, whereas trains yards can be built where ever there's enough open space. There's a rapid turnaround rate for trains as opposed to cargo ships, which take much longer to load and unload. Cargo ships are much more cost effective only because they can haul so much more cargo with much fewer personnel involved.
My laptop has a ATI Mobility Radeon 9200 w/32MB DDR. It's on a small card/module. You can upgrade to other ATI Mobility cards; the only place to buy them at this point seems to be from the manufacturers as "replacement" parts and thus you'll pay $$$.
We're all kinda hoping that sooner or later resellers will start selling the cards, that they'll be available in the retail market.
Unless you're fine with blowing that much money, take a step back and think of convenience vs. necessity.
For you it may not make sense. For some people who have high disposable incomes but not much living space (like those in NYC), a high power laptop capable of gaming is a fantastic option. Saving $1500 is nothing compared to not having a huge desk (with a massive 21" CRT and a huge tower) eating up a huge chunk of your space. Since you're going to buy a $2000 laptop anyway, adding another $1000 to make it a kick-ass gaming system is not a big deal.
It would be nice if you could easily upgrade the video/ram/cpu/etc without having to rip the whole laptop apart.
Have you looked at a laptop recently? My HP Pavilion has three removable covers in the base; one for the hard drive, one for memory, one for the video card. All it takes to upgrade any of the three is a small screwdriver to remove the single screw and removing the plastic cover. Piece of cake.
"The report says programmers should be held personally accountable for security holes in the software they write."
Now we see, a shift of responsibility, to the programmers.
Ok, if they want to make me "accountable" for the code I write, then they better transfer ownership, legal rights, and any profits derived from that code back to me. If they say "it's our code" and "you get no extra cash for writing it" then they can damn well take responsibility for what the code does.
Until Ive seen a product that works well I unfortunately have to remain skeptical.
ScanSoft's Dragon Naturally Speaking is amazing, does some outstanding voice recognition. Of course, you're shelling out $600 (plus $75 on a good mike) so it damn better work well, and it does.
I didn't see an price listed in the Opera press release. If it incorporates the full ViaVoice software, then it may work well. Of course, you still need a good mic, that makes a huge difference in the quality of voice recognition.
How are they going to save the data if the power goes out? That's a lot of data to store on hard copies.
Of course, possible power outages were considered before the system was purchased. To prevent the loss of information, they hired 35,000 people to watch console screens and transcribe the data from the screen onto legal pads 24x7.
I don't have time to read a document hundreds of pages long, especially not one that's packed with information: I need a quick summary.
Could someone post a one line summary? For example,
Here you go.
P2P- hot issue, good. Spam- hot issue, bad, no fix.
This software was being used responsibly and as intended.
Not according to the article. The article says the manufacturer claimed the sofware allowed for four or less blocks. The technician using the software thought, from reading the manual (the article doesn't go into detail), that she could use a fifth block, and that she could define five blocks as one composite shape.
So was the software being used responsibly? If I'm working with a machine that's sending possibly lethal amounts of radiation into a patient, and I'm not sure but I *think* I've found a shortcut that allows me to do something, you can bet your ass that I'm going to check with the manufacturer to see if I'm doing it correctly.
I stopped using hardcover encyclopedias a long time ago, probably back in the early 80's. By the time I'd reached high school, I didn't ever touch an encyclopedia.
In grade school, when you did a report on Texas or something, you grabbed World Book and basically copied the article; paraphrasing somewhat so the teacher wouldn't yell at you for plagarizing. I don't know about everyone else, but by high school I found the encyclopedias just didn't have enough depth of information. Once I started using the card catalog to find books on related subjects, that's where I went first instead of to the encyclopedias.
Looking back, the card catalog was a simple version of Google... with very limited options, but still a search engine. Online card catalogs made the search easier. Then in college I had access to Archie, WAIS, gopher, all the early protocols that allowed me to do online, remote research.
Google didn't kill the encyclopedia; perhaps it's the death knell. But online research has been around for quite a long time, the encyclopedia industry had two decades to see the writing on the wall.
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Aside from that, quite a few third world countries are responsible for a lot of the spam
According to Spamhaus.org, most of the known spammers are from the US, responsible for 90% of the spam.
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And #5... wasn't Linux legally unencumbered until SCO filed the lawsuits?
until the Western Digital drive I purchased to put in that RAID (slightly over a year ago, heh...) noisily died yesterday. When I explained that we would have lost everything if not for the RAID I'd installed, she immediately became much more understanding.
If the new drive in the RAID failed... doesn't it mean the original drive was still fine and therefore the RAID didn't actually make a difference?
Hell, call them Tycho and Brahe. Leonardo and Michaelangelo.
Tycho is used quite a bit for astronomical things, would get confusing. Leonardo is a science module on the ISS (along with Donatello and Raphael but no Michaelangelo). Hubble wasn't well known, but then again Brahe is probably just as obscure to the common public.
I think they're saving "Bill and Ted" when they start doing quantum foam teleportation (ALA Timeline).
Am I the only one disapointed by the names of these probes? When I think about space projects, I think they should be named after great scientists...not names generated by 4th graders as part of a contest.
Can you think of a name that *hasn't* already been used at some point in the last 40 years? Yeah, names of great scientists would be nice, but any name that could be remotely related to the mission has already been used. It seems kinda pointless to have named the two rovers "Salk" and "Pasteur" simply because they were important scientists...
Hello? Support? Yes, I'm calling because my vibrator is offline... third time this week. What? Software update? No, I don't want it soft. Firmwhat update? Ok, whatever that is, I want it firm, better send that to me.
Outstanding post! Used my mod points this morning on something silly, wish I'd saved one.
Photoshop is one of the cheapest professional grade software apps on the market. Compare it with AutoCad at $3500 or Mathematica at $3200... it's a bargain.
As for acquiring experience and practice... you can get that by using any graphics software. That you understand color theory is more important than you know PS's keyboard shortcuts for most jobs, and the basics can be learned with any graphics program.
Which does not mean that clause has any validity in court - I could put a clause in a contract requiring you to wear a rubber duck on your head when you sleep. However, should you challenge it in court, it would most likely be held to be unenforcable.
Yeah, but since most people can't afford the monetary risk of going to court, they'll just wear the duck and curse under their breath.
2. My local carrier says I can have unlimited time on the phone for a flat rate so I don't monitor the usage.
Your broadband carrier essentially promised you number 2 but is treating you like you've got number 1 and you're saying you're more than happy to LIMIT YOURSELF while they continue to imply to new customers that there's no limit.
Not quite. Hook your modem up to #2. How much data can you transfer? A max of 56kbps. You get unlimited connection time, but the amount of data is capped at 56kbps. The same logic applies to "unlimited broadband". You have unlimited connect time, but the amount of data you can send is capped, although this time not by the technical limitations of the line (although you may be capped there as well) but an arbitrary limit set by the ISP to ensure the *average* user has enough bandwidth but still make boatloads of cash.
So, hunter/gatherer types never foraged for fruit? While meat would be a big part of a nomadic tribe's diet, I'm pretty sure they'd also eat any fruit or vegetables that were in the area and didn't kill anyone. Starch might have been harder to come by, but there are lots of kinds of fruit and berries around -- all of which have tons of sugar (just not processed sugar).
Fruits do not exist year round, they're only available for a short period. Humans cannot live on fruits and berries alone; without meat the body has no proteins to sustain the muscles which will soon begin to atrophy. Survivalists have shown that you can suvive for a short time, but not for any prolonged period.
Remember too we're talking about "natural" fruits, not the cross/selective breeded fruits you see on the stands today. Remember that natural strawberries are the size of pencil erasers. Apples were half the size and certainly not as plentiful as we see in orchards. You also had to compete with bears, who were more numerous and and bigger back then.
Atkins is a balanced diet. Induction, the first phase of Atkins, is not balanced, but is the ONLY phase that is NO-CARB. The last phase is controlled, moderated carb diet. Atkins stressed you have a balanced diet; those yahoos who eat only bacon and claim to be on Atkins are as misguided as those who say Atkins is unbalanced.
but for people who think they are fat, and don't want to excercise, a little more balance would seem better.
Atkins is a balanced diet. That's what most people who deride it don't understand.
Yes, the "induction" phase, restricts what you can drink and eat, and there you can't eat any carbs or sugars. This is what most people consider the "Atkins" diet, but it's only the beginning phase. Induction is not the diet, but the cleansing period before you really get into Atkins.
After induction, when you get into the long term maintenance phase, you can eat carbs, although the idea is to limit the carbs, especially the "useless" types like sugar in drinks and white bread. I've been doing this for three months, lost 22lbs. I don't eat any bread, but I didn't eat much bread before. The only thing's I've really given up are sugared drinks, donuts, pastries, and pasta. I get all the carbs I need from fruits and veggies, more than enough actually. I take a host of vitamins and supplements, but well I've always taken a slew of them to meet the required trace elements not found in my usual fare.
Unhealthy diet? That's a load of crock. Yeah, sure, you get some guy *claiming* to be on Atkins who eats nothing but bacon and yeah, he's gonna have problems with cholesterol. But those who've actually follow the program in the book, it's more "balanced" than your average American diet.
Oh yeah, I work out 2 hours a day five days a week, burning off 4000-5000 calories a day. And yeah, I'm still on Atkins since it's not a diet but a change of eating habits for life. I eat basically anything I want, but no extra carbs. I've always had an athletic build, but now I'm cut. Defined. Lean... it feels awesome.
Another point people miss... you can eat carbs. Atkins pointed out clearly that you can indulge once in a while, after you reach the maintenance phase. You can eat a cake at a birthday, eat pasta at a family gathering. Just don't do it every day, and get back onto the diet as soon as possible.
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Hell, in 20 years, Amazon will control most of the book market in this country, and if they dont' have it, you're fucked.
LOL... sure, whatever.
Suppose Big-Chain-Store stops carrying X. That's when a small shop opens up and starts carrying X. The only way BCS can keep the little guys out of the market is to continue to sell everything they can.
Look at Netflix. They're taking over the rental market by storm. However, they won't shut out all the stores... because they don't carry porn. As long as they don't carry porn, there will be an independent that does. Sure, those indies might have to charge much more, but as long as there is a demand, as long as BCS doesn't carry the product, there will be room for independent retailers.
Yeah, there's no way to directly compete with BCS... that's what small mom-n-pop stores have slowly learned. You can't compete on price, but you can compete on service, convenience, and maybe even selection.
This would be hard for me, considering I kept little record of online purchases over the past year.
Can we claim ignorance? I've heard that you were supposed to claim it even before they added a line specifically for it. Anyway I was kinda suprised to see the line on NY's form this year. I didn't keep track of my purchases, hope I can claim ignorance. But next year, it'll be harder to do so.
How will marine animals that rely on the currents be affected by this?
Hmm... i pictured the sea turtles from Finding Nemo riding the currents, passing through a "snail farm", and ending up as minced meat on the other side...
Really, there's no economic benefit to a rail line that connects two points that are closer by sea.
If that's the case, why'd they bother with the Chunnel? There's many more factors to consider; cargo trains can deliver smaller shipments much more rapidly than cargo ships. Cargo ships require deep ports, whereas trains yards can be built where ever there's enough open space. There's a rapid turnaround rate for trains as opposed to cargo ships, which take much longer to load and unload. Cargo ships are much more cost effective only because they can haul so much more cargo with much fewer personnel involved.
My laptop has a ATI Mobility Radeon 9200 w/32MB DDR. It's on a small card/module. You can upgrade to other ATI Mobility cards; the only place to buy them at this point seems to be from the manufacturers as "replacement" parts and thus you'll pay $$$.
We're all kinda hoping that sooner or later resellers will start selling the cards, that they'll be available in the retail market.
Unless you're fine with blowing that much money, take a step back and think of convenience vs. necessity.
For you it may not make sense. For some people who have high disposable incomes but not much living space (like those in NYC), a high power laptop capable of gaming is a fantastic option. Saving $1500 is nothing compared to not having a huge desk (with a massive 21" CRT and a huge tower) eating up a huge chunk of your space. Since you're going to buy a $2000 laptop anyway, adding another $1000 to make it a kick-ass gaming system is not a big deal.
It would be nice if you could easily upgrade the video/ram/cpu/etc without having to rip the whole laptop apart.
Have you looked at a laptop recently? My HP Pavilion has three removable covers in the base; one for the hard drive, one for memory, one for the video card. All it takes to upgrade any of the three is a small screwdriver to remove the single screw and removing the plastic cover. Piece of cake.
"The report says programmers should be held personally accountable for security holes in the software they write." Now we see, a shift of responsibility, to the programmers.
Ok, if they want to make me "accountable" for the code I write, then they better transfer ownership, legal rights, and any profits derived from that code back to me. If they say "it's our code" and "you get no extra cash for writing it" then they can damn well take responsibility for what the code does.
Aren't wireless cards with 00:30 usually Apple AirPort cards? fwiw.
No, MAC addresses are the first three bytes, not the first two. 0030BD is a Belkin device.
Until Ive seen a product that works well I unfortunately have to remain skeptical.
ScanSoft's Dragon Naturally Speaking is amazing, does some outstanding voice recognition. Of course, you're shelling out $600 (plus $75 on a good mike) so it damn better work well, and it does.
I didn't see an price listed in the Opera press release. If it incorporates the full ViaVoice software, then it may work well. Of course, you still need a good mic, that makes a huge difference in the quality of voice recognition.
How are they going to save the data if the power goes out? That's a lot of data to store on hard copies.
Of course, possible power outages were considered before the system was purchased. To prevent the loss of information, they hired 35,000 people to watch console screens and transcribe the data from the screen onto legal pads 24x7.
I don't have time to read a document hundreds of pages long, especially not one that's packed with information: I need a quick summary. Could someone post a one line summary? For example,
Here you go.
P2P- hot issue, good. Spam- hot issue, bad, no fix.
This software was being used responsibly and as intended.
Not according to the article. The article says the manufacturer claimed the sofware allowed for four or less blocks. The technician using the software thought, from reading the manual (the article doesn't go into detail), that she could use a fifth block, and that she could define five blocks as one composite shape.
So was the software being used responsibly? If I'm working with a machine that's sending possibly lethal amounts of radiation into a patient, and I'm not sure but I *think* I've found a shortcut that allows me to do something, you can bet your ass that I'm going to check with the manufacturer to see if I'm doing it correctly.
I stopped using hardcover encyclopedias a long time ago, probably back in the early 80's. By the time I'd reached high school, I didn't ever touch an encyclopedia.
In grade school, when you did a report on Texas or something, you grabbed World Book and basically copied the article; paraphrasing somewhat so the teacher wouldn't yell at you for plagarizing. I don't know about everyone else, but by high school I found the encyclopedias just didn't have enough depth of information. Once I started using the card catalog to find books on related subjects, that's where I went first instead of to the encyclopedias.
Looking back, the card catalog was a simple version of Google... with very limited options, but still a search engine. Online card catalogs made the search easier. Then in college I had access to Archie, WAIS, gopher, all the early protocols that allowed me to do online, remote research.
Google didn't kill the encyclopedia; perhaps it's the death knell. But online research has been around for quite a long time, the encyclopedia industry had two decades to see the writing on the wall.
Aside from that, quite a few third world countries are responsible for a lot of the spam
According to Spamhaus.org, most of the known spammers are from the US, responsible for 90% of the spam.
And #5... wasn't Linux legally unencumbered until SCO filed the lawsuits?
until the Western Digital drive I purchased to put in that RAID (slightly over a year ago, heh...) noisily died yesterday. When I explained that we would have lost everything if not for the RAID I'd installed, she immediately became much more understanding.
If the new drive in the RAID failed... doesn't it mean the original drive was still fine and therefore the RAID didn't actually make a difference?
Hell, call them Tycho and Brahe. Leonardo and Michaelangelo.
Tycho is used quite a bit for astronomical things, would get confusing. Leonardo is a science module on the ISS (along with Donatello and Raphael but no Michaelangelo). Hubble wasn't well known, but then again Brahe is probably just as obscure to the common public.
I think they're saving "Bill and Ted" when they start doing quantum foam teleportation (ALA Timeline).
Am I the only one disapointed by the names of these probes? When I think about space projects, I think they should be named after great scientists...not names generated by 4th graders as part of a contest.
Can you think of a name that *hasn't* already been used at some point in the last 40 years? Yeah, names of great scientists would be nice, but any name that could be remotely related to the mission has already been used. It seems kinda pointless to have named the two rovers "Salk" and "Pasteur" simply because they were important scientists...
Can you imagine the tech support nightmare?
Hello? Support? Yes, I'm calling because my vibrator is offline... third time this week. What? Software update? No, I don't want it soft. Firmwhat update? Ok, whatever that is, I want it firm, better send that to me.
Outstanding post! Used my mod points this morning on something silly, wish I'd saved one.
Photoshop is one of the cheapest professional grade software apps on the market. Compare it with AutoCad at $3500 or Mathematica at $3200... it's a bargain.
As for acquiring experience and practice... you can get that by using any graphics software. That you understand color theory is more important than you know PS's keyboard shortcuts for most jobs, and the basics can be learned with any graphics program.
Which does not mean that clause has any validity in court - I could put a clause in a contract requiring you to wear a rubber duck on your head when you sleep. However, should you challenge it in court, it would most likely be held to be unenforcable.
Yeah, but since most people can't afford the monetary risk of going to court, they'll just wear the duck and curse under their breath.
2. My local carrier says I can have unlimited time on the phone for a flat rate so I don't monitor the usage. Your broadband carrier essentially promised you number 2 but is treating you like you've got number 1 and you're saying you're more than happy to LIMIT YOURSELF while they continue to imply to new customers that there's no limit.
Not quite. Hook your modem up to #2. How much data can you transfer? A max of 56kbps. You get unlimited connection time, but the amount of data is capped at 56kbps. The same logic applies to "unlimited broadband". You have unlimited connect time, but the amount of data you can send is capped, although this time not by the technical limitations of the line (although you may be capped there as well) but an arbitrary limit set by the ISP to ensure the *average* user has enough bandwidth but still make boatloads of cash.
So, hunter/gatherer types never foraged for fruit? While meat would be a big part of a nomadic tribe's diet, I'm pretty sure they'd also eat any fruit or vegetables that were in the area and didn't kill anyone. Starch might have been harder to come by, but there are lots of kinds of fruit and berries around -- all of which have tons of sugar (just not processed sugar).
Fruits do not exist year round, they're only available for a short period. Humans cannot live on fruits and berries alone; without meat the body has no proteins to sustain the muscles which will soon begin to atrophy. Survivalists have shown that you can suvive for a short time, but not for any prolonged period.
Remember too we're talking about "natural" fruits, not the cross/selective breeded fruits you see on the stands today. Remember that natural strawberries are the size of pencil erasers. Apples were half the size and certainly not as plentiful as we see in orchards. You also had to compete with bears, who were more numerous and and bigger back then.
Atkins is a balanced diet. Induction, the first phase of Atkins, is not balanced, but is the ONLY phase that is NO-CARB. The last phase is controlled, moderated carb diet. Atkins stressed you have a balanced diet; those yahoos who eat only bacon and claim to be on Atkins are as misguided as those who say Atkins is unbalanced.
but for people who think they are fat, and don't want to excercise, a little more balance would seem better.
Atkins is a balanced diet. That's what most people who deride it don't understand.
Yes, the "induction" phase, restricts what you can drink and eat, and there you can't eat any carbs or sugars. This is what most people consider the "Atkins" diet, but it's only the beginning phase. Induction is not the diet, but the cleansing period before you really get into Atkins.
After induction, when you get into the long term maintenance phase, you can eat carbs, although the idea is to limit the carbs, especially the "useless" types like sugar in drinks and white bread. I've been doing this for three months, lost 22lbs. I don't eat any bread, but I didn't eat much bread before. The only thing's I've really given up are sugared drinks, donuts, pastries, and pasta. I get all the carbs I need from fruits and veggies, more than enough actually. I take a host of vitamins and supplements, but well I've always taken a slew of them to meet the required trace elements not found in my usual fare.
Unhealthy diet? That's a load of crock. Yeah, sure, you get some guy *claiming* to be on Atkins who eats nothing but bacon and yeah, he's gonna have problems with cholesterol. But those who've actually follow the program in the book, it's more "balanced" than your average American diet.
Oh yeah, I work out 2 hours a day five days a week, burning off 4000-5000 calories a day. And yeah, I'm still on Atkins since it's not a diet but a change of eating habits for life. I eat basically anything I want, but no extra carbs. I've always had an athletic build, but now I'm cut. Defined. Lean... it feels awesome.
Another point people miss... you can eat carbs. Atkins pointed out clearly that you can indulge once in a while, after you reach the maintenance phase. You can eat a cake at a birthday, eat pasta at a family gathering. Just don't do it every day, and get back onto the diet as soon as possible.