I was a Dish customer a few years back (till I moved) and I have to disagree. In Missouri DirecTV is marketed to sports fans while Dish Network was marketed to movie lovers. I picked Dish for the movies and not the DirecTV sports package. This was (and still is to some extent) evident in the TV adds that run on broadcast locals and local cable.
Can you give me a scene by scene analysis for us since you are intellectually superior to the 99% of us you refer to?
1) The train transports programs from one world to the other, what other world? So, if I put $1 Billion US Dollars on the train while in the Matrix, will it replicate into $1 Billion in real money in the "real world"?
2) How can Neo stop machines when he is in the "real world"? If he is still connected to the computer, then how and when did that happen? Is it a form of psycokinesis between human and machine?
3) If the sky was destroyed during war with the machines (1st movie) and the machines could not use solar power, where does the oxygen on the surface come from? (Hint: the humans breathe in a liquid state within the pods and last I checked machines do not breathe oxygen.)
First you need to stop and think how 1k became equal to 1024. Computer information is stored in a base 2 system. When they came up with the term "kilobytes" they kept things in base 2, therefore 1 kilobyte = 1024 bytes. 1000 = 1K is a base 10 system.
As far as my support for the suit, when I view file sizes by byte, 1 kilobyte = 1024 bytes. When I look at the format utility on my Apple iBook, it tells drive size by base 2 or 37.25GB. To prove my point try this, go to your Mac OS X machine, and load "Apple System Profiler". Click on the "Devices and Volumes" tab and then expand the details for your hard drive. You should see a line something like "Disk Size 37.26GB (1K = 1024) 41GB (1K = 1000)".
Now ctrl+click on a file and select "Get Info". You will notice a line that says something like "Size: 988 KB on disk (1,009,052 bytes).
In the case of Mac OS 10.2, it is clearly evident that data is stored with the 1K = 1024 system. Because of this, using a 1K = 1000 system for hard drive sales is what Americans calls underweighing. It is a form of fraud, no matter what people say in relation to metric. In America, when a unit of measure becomes accepted as standard by the trade community for which it belongs, it cannot be mixed with a competing measure. For example, If I were a bagels maker I can not conspire with other bagel makers to make a dozen mean 11 knowing that with donuts it means 12. Since file size information is reported by the operating system as 1K = 1024, hard drive manufactures will need to use the same system.
Contrary to common opinion, Equal Opportunity only covers protected classes under the Civil Rights Act of 1963. The Civil Rights Act does not protect people based on where they worked before and it never will. There are many justified reasons not hire an employee from a certain company. A company could decide to not accept applications from a competitor that has been involved in corporate espionage to protect trade secrets.
Before judging Damage Studios, one must know whether they have a reason to fear SCO. Do they fear being sued by SCO for stealing their human resources? Do they do in house programming and contribute to the GNU/Linux source code? Any company that does contribute code to GNU/Linux should not hire ex-SCO employees because that will give reason for SCO to accuse them of adding illegal code.
Has anyone else noticed that the "sidebar" looks like a ripoff of QNX, and the free drive space bars is a ripoff of OpenTracker in the BeOS? Of course we also have virtual desktop like Linux and the big clock remainds me of Object Desktop a theme program for MS Windows.
"Yeah, the article says they're just trying to prevent abusers..."
I don't know about elsewhere, but where I am at we pay a set fee for a min. and max range in bandwidth available for a continuous connection. Therefore it is NOT abuse for one to use the Max. bandwidth they were allowed to use by thier contract for 24 hr 7 day usage. The problem is not that some people are maximising thier usage provided by a legal contract, but the idea that they can increase profits by charging by usage (or at least till DSL is able to underprice Cable modems).
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I was a Dish customer a few years back (till I moved) and I have to disagree. In Missouri DirecTV is marketed to sports fans while Dish Network was marketed to movie lovers. I picked Dish for the movies and not the DirecTV sports package. This was (and still is to some extent) evident in the TV adds that run on broadcast locals and local cable.
Can you give me a scene by scene analysis for us since you are intellectually superior to the 99% of us you refer to?
1) The train transports programs from one world to the other, what other world? So, if I put $1 Billion US Dollars on the train while in the Matrix, will it replicate into $1 Billion in real money in the "real world"?
2) How can Neo stop machines when he is in the "real world"? If he is still connected to the computer, then how and when did that happen? Is it a form of psycokinesis between human and machine?
3) If the sky was destroyed during war with the machines (1st movie) and the machines could not use solar power, where does the oxygen on the surface come from? (Hint: the humans breathe in a liquid state within the pods and last I checked machines do not breathe oxygen.)
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First you need to stop and think how 1k became equal to 1024. Computer information is stored in a base 2 system. When they came up with the term "kilobytes" they kept things in base 2, therefore 1 kilobyte = 1024 bytes. 1000 = 1K is a base 10 system. As far as my support for the suit, when I view file sizes by byte, 1 kilobyte = 1024 bytes. When I look at the format utility on my Apple iBook, it tells drive size by base 2 or 37.25GB. To prove my point try this, go to your Mac OS X machine, and load "Apple System Profiler". Click on the "Devices and Volumes" tab and then expand the details for your hard drive. You should see a line something like "Disk Size 37.26GB (1K = 1024) 41GB (1K = 1000)". Now ctrl+click on a file and select "Get Info". You will notice a line that says something like "Size: 988 KB on disk (1,009,052 bytes). In the case of Mac OS 10.2, it is clearly evident that data is stored with the 1K = 1024 system. Because of this, using a 1K = 1000 system for hard drive sales is what Americans calls underweighing. It is a form of fraud, no matter what people say in relation to metric. In America, when a unit of measure becomes accepted as standard by the trade community for which it belongs, it cannot be mixed with a competing measure. For example, If I were a bagels maker I can not conspire with other bagel makers to make a dozen mean 11 knowing that with donuts it means 12. Since file size information is reported by the operating system as 1K = 1024, hard drive manufactures will need to use the same system.
Contrary to common opinion, Equal Opportunity only covers protected classes under the Civil Rights Act of 1963. The Civil Rights Act does not protect people based on where they worked before and it never will. There are many justified reasons not hire an employee from a certain company. A company could decide to not accept applications from a competitor that has been involved in corporate espionage to protect trade secrets.
Before judging Damage Studios, one must know whether they have a reason to fear SCO. Do they fear being sued by SCO for stealing their human resources? Do they do in house programming and contribute to the GNU/Linux source code? Any company that does contribute code to GNU/Linux should not hire ex-SCO employees because that will give reason for SCO to accuse them of adding illegal code.
Has anyone else noticed that the "sidebar" looks like a ripoff of QNX, and the free drive space bars is a ripoff of OpenTracker in the BeOS? Of course we also have virtual desktop like Linux and the big clock remainds me of Object Desktop a theme program for MS Windows.
"Yeah, the article says they're just trying to prevent abusers..."
I don't know about elsewhere, but where I am at we pay a set fee for a min. and max range in bandwidth available for a continuous connection. Therefore it is NOT abuse for one to use the Max. bandwidth they were allowed to use by thier contract for 24 hr 7 day usage. The problem is not that some people are maximising thier usage provided by a legal contract, but the idea that they can increase profits by charging by usage (or at least till DSL is able to underprice Cable modems).
They moved to a new site due to atheists mac users. The new url is http://objectiveministries.tripod.com/
Therefore, I'm paying for the delivery network, not the content.
No, actually at least half of the stations you get on cable are subscription based.