Easy and hard. Best bet would be to filter out all MAC addresses like colleges do, then allow certain ones when a purchase is made. If you're going to be buying wifi time, then you should know your MAC address anyway. It's not like it's not printed on your system or card (if PCMCIA). Now this is still cumbersome so they could do it with one of those coffee card things so you only need to give them the address once.
Hell, automatically redirect any http requests from an invalid MAC address to a local page where they can order their next beverage.
If you make a song, I can't sell it for personal profit, nor can I sell it in any medium for the same purpose, or may I make money off of the lyrics, or sheet music, or any derivative therein.
I may with or without your permission make a recording of the sheet music, or sing your lyrics, and make money off of that, with no royalties or money owed of any kind.
These may or may not be the law, but this is acceptable to me. Basically the only thing that an artist at all owns is the performance itself. Thus, no sampling from the song can be done without permission. However duplicate performances are perfectly fine--if someone else's rendition of your song is more popular than yours, hey, that's capitalism for you. Next time write the music instead of playing it.
So, how do you make money again? Oh yeah, actually performing your songs. A song doesn't (shouldn't) rely on just one performance on MTV to launch CD sales. No: a song is performed at a hundred concerts a year raking in tens of millions of dollars for the group a year. What, you don't do concerts? Then you're not a performer, don't complain about money.
I'm sorry this whole thing seems real durf durf. If you want to make money, go earn it.
Well, that's an extremely good question no matter how you try to belittle it. The only valid reason I can think of is the perception that it's safer (not security) and easier to use a Mac, which is likely true to a varing degree depending on implementation.
What better way to waste my money than to require me to pay for an Internet connection to download a movie that I paid for! Not only that but I don't get it instantaneously and I have to slow down the rest of my home network while maxing my upstream helping the content distributer not spend so much on bandwith costs.
What method do you consider instantaneous that you are comparing this to? Ordering through something like Netflix and waiting a few days? Driving to the store? "What better way to waste my money than to require me to pay for transportation to the store to buy a movie!" Perhaps you're close, but it's not fair to call that instant. I'm assuming that the Internet doesn't close for holidays, unlike video stores.
Ok just before some calls this a new idea, why don't we (extremely expensive now, not so bad later) use fiber optics to create windows between windows and route them to inner offices so someone without any wall of the building can have an apparent window?
I'm just really tired of me thinking of something then seeing it proclaimed as new several years later.:P
Companies don't answer to people. Despite popular belief, no you can't vote with the dollar. You know how when electing a candidate you need to pick the one that you agree with the most, but will still disagree on many issues? With companies it's much worse. With maybe 3 or 4 companies most industries, what are you voting for? If you move from company A to company B, and they disagree on 50 issues, who's to say which reason they'll assume? (a lower rate? a specific feature? a privacy issue? due to what? something company A just did? something company B just did? something one of them mentioned doing in the future?)
I'm much more trustworthy of entities which are not in it for the money, and are actually forced to accept feedback.
You know, the population density argument can only be taken so far. Yes, South Korea has an advantage over the US in general for implementing a new system. It's not just population density there: the simply fact that it's small does the trick.
Now move to Europe. If they are to implement standards as a whole, they need to reach all of the European rural areas, just how it hasn't been reached in the US. As the article explains, those areas have been reached there. Whether you're in no-mans land in Scotland, Spain, Italy, Germany, Malta, Lithuania etc... you're connected.
Again my point is that population density doesn't matter much-- land area itself matters more. While a higher population in rural areas (high population rural areas?) would increase incentive for a company to spread there, that only matters so far. Every bit of land you don't cover, even where the population density is zero, will make you lose customers in the more populated areas. I'm from a rural area in Maine. I live in upstate NY. I did not buy a Verizon plan because it did not service my Maine location. Think I'm the only one? Nah.
I'm not advocating anything, I am just seriously wondering. Is there a reason that emergency services could not be just as easily offered over FM at least in South Korea? Are they already?
I remember reading specs and what it seemed to me was Blu-ray was simply better from the users point of view. I think it took more work on the manufacturers side and forced them to do a lot of extra work for it to be able to read traditional DVDs, but that shouldn't be as important.
Am I on the ball here or is there really not a complete performance domination by Blu-ray?
Life doesn't begin. It's a continuum, passing unbroken from mother to baby and so on through generations.
Well I have two things to contend. Firstly (and most importantly/obviously) is that life does not have to come directly from other living things. In another XXX years I'll assemble an amoeba for you atom by atom, then a more complicated creature. Now while this would be me indirectly creating life, it shows that given the right conditions the same could happen with the absence of me. Could a badger assemble itself? Absolutely. Probably won't though. Also you suggest that a first cell formed. Perhaps not? Perhaps there were a few environments especially conducive to producing cells and not all cells have a single parent. Perhaps once there was a first cell but it and its brood died, then later more cells appeared. At any rate it's pretty silly to think that at one point one cell was created "unnaturally" (or whatever term we want to use) and then never again. Also you said there is no moment when life begins, then you neatly specify this cell as that moment.
Secondly I have to wonder if life does pass unbroken from mother to child, generation to generation. I'm interested in knowing what's considered of the frogs that freeze solid then revive. Are they alive when solid? Then I argue that soil is alive because it is merely in between states of being one creature or another. I also ignorantly wonder about things like seeds, pollen etc.
I have an iRiver. I have found shuffle does not shuffle well. I'm not claiming that they are doing it on purpose, I just think it's a crappy sorting algorithm. Until I added a song, two of my songs would always play in order (unless I started the shuffle with the second one). I deliberately tested it and found it to do it about 80% of the time. Given two equal sized folders, there seems to be about a 75% chance that the next song will be picked from the same folder. Now this is also how the songs appear in memory because I uploaded them folder at a time.
And lastly, yes my iRiver does favor songs. By that I mean if I kill the shuffle and restart it, every time of the first 10 songs, 4 never change. They might appear in a different spot in the first ten, but they are always there. Nothing fancy, just a crappy algorithm.
Not only that but who says the bible can't have deliberate lies. That is, it contains what it is supposed to contain, it's just not all true. People try to rigidly defend the bible instead of actually looking at it. Has it completely flown everyone that perhaps not every sentence is supposed to be correct? Why should it be when what it is supposed to say may be better than the truth?
Err, to which particular part of the UN are you referring? The general assembly? Oil for food? Congrats, that has nothing to do with it. That's like saying that the US shouldn't aid rural schools because Amtrak is having financial trouble.
It's different people, different department, different goals.
We're talking about the country which doesn't admit smoking causes cancer until ~ twenty years after it's proved. Then we don't admit second-hand smoking causes cancer until... wait have we admitted it yet? Wait, we're still using land-mines?
Calling the Kyoto treaty unfair is irrelevant. Pointing out other countries engaging in the same ignorance as our own is irrelevant. The US drags its feet when it comes to international and social issues. I don't know which is more depressing.
I hate to have to keep doing this: This not a troll. This post contains only facts (except the ~ twenty is a guess). If you feel a violent reaction to this post I suggest you start thinking before you post.
Yah, seriously just as he said I'd welcome it as well. NIMBY is the most destructive philosophy possible to a democracy. Sure, we could NIMBY away the schools to get rid of the punk teenages. We could NIMBY away the shops to get rid of traffic. We could also NIMBY away the radioactive storage / coal mine / oil derrick / whatever to eliminate power.
"Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country" Try not to be a self-serving bastard for five minutes. If you have a problem with a particular technology and lose against it in a vote, you suck it up and accept the fact it's what other people want, and that matters more than what you want.
fyi the actual lyrics (as appeared on one particular bag of meow mix) are:
Not only does,
Meow mix taste great,
It is nutriently [sic] complete too.
Salmon flavor,
Chicken flavor,
There is more of too!
Notice that, yes, they rhymed too with too. I never understood why no one else ever picked this up. Even doing a google search of "not only does" "meow mix taste great" nets zero results. Am I the last source of this knowledge on the planet? I suddenly feel my own impending doom.
Excuse me, this is not a troll. I'm not looking for an argument and everything I've stated is true. You can't mod something down just because you don't like it. (Well you can, but it sure isn't nice).
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Easy and hard. Best bet would be to filter out all MAC addresses like colleges do, then allow certain ones when a purchase is made. If you're going to be buying wifi time, then you should know your MAC address anyway. It's not like it's not printed on your system or card (if PCMCIA). Now this is still cumbersome so they could do it with one of those coffee card things so you only need to give them the address once.
Hell, automatically redirect any http requests from an invalid MAC address to a local page where they can order their next beverage.
If you make a song, I can't sell it for personal profit, nor can I sell it in any medium for the same purpose, or may I make money off of the lyrics, or sheet music, or any derivative therein.
I may with or without your permission make a recording of the sheet music, or sing your lyrics, and make money off of that, with no royalties or money owed of any kind.
These may or may not be the law, but this is acceptable to me. Basically the only thing that an artist at all owns is the performance itself. Thus, no sampling from the song can be done without permission. However duplicate performances are perfectly fine--if someone else's rendition of your song is more popular than yours, hey, that's capitalism for you. Next time write the music instead of playing it.
So, how do you make money again? Oh yeah, actually performing your songs. A song doesn't (shouldn't) rely on just one performance on MTV to launch CD sales. No: a song is performed at a hundred concerts a year raking in tens of millions of dollars for the group a year. What, you don't do concerts? Then you're not a performer, don't complain about money.
I'm sorry this whole thing seems real durf durf. If you want to make money, go earn it.
Well, that's an extremely good question no matter how you try to belittle it. The only valid reason I can think of is the perception that it's safer (not security) and easier to use a Mac, which is likely true to a varing degree depending on implementation.
Err actually rosebud refers to one of Orson Welles' many consort's genitalia. It just had to be put in a movie.
/Not Kidding
//The More You Know
What better way to waste my money than to require me to pay for an Internet connection to download a movie that I paid for! Not only that but I don't get it instantaneously and I have to slow down the rest of my home network while maxing my upstream helping the content distributer not spend so much on bandwith costs.
What method do you consider instantaneous that you are comparing this to? Ordering through something like Netflix and waiting a few days? Driving to the store? "What better way to waste my money than to require me to pay for transportation to the store to buy a movie!" Perhaps you're close, but it's not fair to call that instant. I'm assuming that the Internet doesn't close for holidays, unlike video stores.
It's a clear liquid, how can it possibly clear a clog?
(Sorry, it's an Ad I've seen here in upstate NY for a drain remover appealing to the stupidity in people)
Ok just before some calls this a new idea, why don't we (extremely expensive now, not so bad later) use fiber optics to create windows between windows and route them to inner offices so someone without any wall of the building can have an apparent window?
:P
I'm just really tired of me thinking of something then seeing it proclaimed as new several years later.
I just wasn't getting the goth experience I was looking for.
Keep practicing your punctuation; you'll get it right some day.
;)
-or-
Keep practicing your punctuation: you'll get it right some day.
(Depending on who you ask, but the point of this post was that you're wrong.
Companies don't answer to people. Despite popular belief, no you can't vote with the dollar. You know how when electing a candidate you need to pick the one that you agree with the most, but will still disagree on many issues? With companies it's much worse. With maybe 3 or 4 companies most industries, what are you voting for? If you move from company A to company B, and they disagree on 50 issues, who's to say which reason they'll assume? (a lower rate? a specific feature? a privacy issue? due to what? something company A just did? something company B just did? something one of them mentioned doing in the future?)
I'm much more trustworthy of entities which are not in it for the money, and are actually forced to accept feedback.
You know, the population density argument can only be taken so far. Yes, South Korea has an advantage over the US in general for implementing a new system. It's not just population density there: the simply fact that it's small does the trick.
Now move to Europe. If they are to implement standards as a whole, they need to reach all of the European rural areas, just how it hasn't been reached in the US. As the article explains, those areas have been reached there. Whether you're in no-mans land in Scotland, Spain, Italy, Germany, Malta, Lithuania etc... you're connected.
Again my point is that population density doesn't matter much-- land area itself matters more. While a higher population in rural areas (high population rural areas?) would increase incentive for a company to spread there, that only matters so far. Every bit of land you don't cover, even where the population density is zero, will make you lose customers in the more populated areas. I'm from a rural area in Maine. I live in upstate NY. I did not buy a Verizon plan because it did not service my Maine location. Think I'm the only one? Nah.
Oh yeah oh yeah. Poland too.
But how heavy will it be? Surely we need to know the number of TB/VBTC.
(terabytes per Volkswagen Beetle Towing Capacity)
Is AM necessary in Japan? How about South Korea?
I'm not advocating anything, I am just seriously wondering. Is there a reason that emergency services could not be just as easily offered over FM at least in South Korea? Are they already?
I remember reading specs and what it seemed to me was Blu-ray was simply better from the users point of view. I think it took more work on the manufacturers side and forced them to do a lot of extra work for it to be able to read traditional DVDs, but that shouldn't be as important.
Am I on the ball here or is there really not a complete performance domination by Blu-ray?
Life doesn't begin. It's a continuum, passing unbroken from mother to baby and so on through generations.
Well I have two things to contend. Firstly (and most importantly/obviously) is that life does not have to come directly from other living things. In another XXX years I'll assemble an amoeba for you atom by atom, then a more complicated creature. Now while this would be me indirectly creating life, it shows that given the right conditions the same could happen with the absence of me. Could a badger assemble itself? Absolutely. Probably won't though. Also you suggest that a first cell formed. Perhaps not? Perhaps there were a few environments especially conducive to producing cells and not all cells have a single parent. Perhaps once there was a first cell but it and its brood died, then later more cells appeared. At any rate it's pretty silly to think that at one point one cell was created "unnaturally" (or whatever term we want to use) and then never again. Also you said there is no moment when life begins, then you neatly specify this cell as that moment.
Secondly I have to wonder if life does pass unbroken from mother to child, generation to generation. I'm interested in knowing what's considered of the frogs that freeze solid then revive. Are they alive when solid? Then I argue that soil is alive because it is merely in between states of being one creature or another. I also ignorantly wonder about things like seeds, pollen etc.
I have an iRiver. I have found shuffle does not shuffle well. I'm not claiming that they are doing it on purpose, I just think it's a crappy sorting algorithm. Until I added a song, two of my songs would always play in order (unless I started the shuffle with the second one). I deliberately tested it and found it to do it about 80% of the time. Given two equal sized folders, there seems to be about a 75% chance that the next song will be picked from the same folder. Now this is also how the songs appear in memory because I uploaded them folder at a time.
And lastly, yes my iRiver does favor songs. By that I mean if I kill the shuffle and restart it, every time of the first 10 songs, 4 never change. They might appear in a different spot in the first ten, but they are always there. Nothing fancy, just a crappy algorithm.
Not only that but who says the bible can't have deliberate lies. That is, it contains what it is supposed to contain, it's just not all true. People try to rigidly defend the bible instead of actually looking at it. Has it completely flown everyone that perhaps not every sentence is supposed to be correct? Why should it be when what it is supposed to say may be better than the truth?
Err, to which particular part of the UN are you referring? The general assembly? Oil for food? Congrats, that has nothing to do with it. That's like saying that the US shouldn't aid rural schools because Amtrak is having financial trouble.
It's different people, different department, different goals.
What number sense is that little radar thing in the top of your nose that can sense when an object is close to your face (about 1 inch away)?
We're talking about the country which doesn't admit smoking causes cancer until ~ twenty years after it's proved. Then we don't admit second-hand smoking causes cancer until... wait have we admitted it yet? Wait, we're still using land-mines?
Calling the Kyoto treaty unfair is irrelevant. Pointing out other countries engaging in the same ignorance as our own is irrelevant. The US drags its feet when it comes to international and social issues. I don't know which is more depressing.
I hate to have to keep doing this: This not a troll. This post contains only facts (except the ~ twenty is a guess). If you feel a violent reaction to this post I suggest you start thinking before you post.
um that's not a sentence... As I wrote
Not only does Meow Mix taste great, it is nutriently complete too.
With rearranged comas to unfit the song. Congrats.
Yah, seriously just as he said I'd welcome it as well. NIMBY is the most destructive philosophy possible to a democracy. Sure, we could NIMBY away the schools to get rid of the punk teenages. We could NIMBY away the shops to get rid of traffic. We could also NIMBY away the radioactive storage / coal mine / oil derrick / whatever to eliminate power.
"Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country" Try not to be a self-serving bastard for five minutes. If you have a problem with a particular technology and lose against it in a vote, you suck it up and accept the fact it's what other people want, and that matters more than what you want.
fyi the actual lyrics (as appeared on one particular bag of meow mix) are:
Not only does,
Meow mix taste great,
It is nutriently [sic] complete too.
Salmon flavor,
Chicken flavor,
There is more of too!
Notice that, yes, they rhymed too with too. I never understood why no one else ever picked this up. Even doing a google search of "not only does" "meow mix taste great" nets zero results. Am I the last source of this knowledge on the planet? I suddenly feel my own impending doom.
Excuse me, this is not a troll. I'm not looking for an argument and everything I've stated is true. You can't mod something down just because you don't like it. (Well you can, but it sure isn't nice).
We yell at Iran for making nukes, N. Korea for having nukes, and now China for supporting ignorance. It sounds like they take after us quite well.