It is possible. The wealth that the top 2-5% of 1st world people have can be spread. When it is, the 3rd world will be the 1st to 2nd world, and the 1st world non-millionaires will still be in the 1st world. Some people will have to sacrifice to level the playing field, but the poor in 1st world countries won't actually see a difference other than the costs of some items (luxury mostly) go up some amount (maybe a factor of 2x or 3x) which they most likely couldn't have afforded in the first place.
But where we get our cheap resources if that happens?
Your comment is one of the main reasons I'm a humanist. Would you want to be exploited if you were a citizen of a 3rd world country? (I live in Canada and am above the poverty line)
Aren't you willing (in the near future) to pay more so that people in other countries can have a life similar in quality and quantity to yours?
When a politician is willing to sell his services (law creation for money or votes) then you don't live in a democracy, but rather a capitalistic federal republic where everything and everyone is for sale and expoitable.
Isn't it kind of funny that lawmakers would rather create more laws rather then fix the ones that are broken or unnecessary?
I wasn't saying that communisn is a good form of government. I corrected the parent as to why communism failed.
And in the second part of my previous comment I stated that the quality of life is usually better in socialist (not communist) countries than it is in capitalistic countries. Look how many people are below the poverty line in the United States. Most poor people actually do work, BUT their pay is so low (Walmart, etc. I'm looking at you) that they can't get by properly. How can anyone claim that capitalism is the best form of government when it allows so many people to suffer.
BTW What little freedom you still do have in the US is quite quickly being taken away by Bush and Co. in their fight "for" freedom.
Commies tried to outlaw greed and look what happened to them.
Communism failed because of mismanagement and corruption, not because capitalism is "better" than communism. Countries which are more socialist than capitalistic actually have better quality of life.
It always reminds me of that drooling kid that sits idly in a sandbox and throws a fit any time someone else wants to play with their tiny plastic shovel, which they brough to the sandbox and haven't ever used, but whenever someone touches "his" toys, all hell breaks loose.
With the patent reform that Congress is promissing to do in 2006 I really hope that they address this issue and change the law so that you have to actively (even in the slightest way possible) be trying to develop the "thing" that you patented. Hopefully that will remove most of these patent holding Shell corporations.
The difference is that the ISP are offering a faster service for a bit more, but they also want to charge more if your info needs to be delivered to your bank instead of your crappy hobby website. They want to be able to redirect traffic based on where you're going.
To follow you're e.g. A truck full of cold beer would be FORCED to travel on the 407 (paying the extra cost), but a family van would be allowed to travel on the free 401.
When a store has something returned to them, they LEGALLY can't resell it as new. The only options are selling it as used or sending it back to the manufacturer to have it certified as refurbished. I don't know about you but I don't think I've ever seen Walmart sell any used or refurbished items.
It would've been nice to have someone unwittingly receive a hacked Santa, but (un)fortunately laws meant to protect consumers from getting ripped off by unsrupulous retailers are also protecting us against this type of practical joke. Although that doesn't mean that YOU can't buy one of these Santas, do the hacking yourself and give it to someone you know.
What they should do is start selling a 800x600 (or preferably 1024x768), 14.1" or 15" display that can replace a laptop's LCD panel. Then laptop manufacturers could agree on a standard where you disable the LCD and plug in a e-ink panel.
With solid state storage already at 8GB, Speed-Step technology and an e-ink display one could use a 3-4 hour laptop for well over 8 hours and still have it be very usable.
I'd be willing to pay $100 for a B/W and $200 for a COLOR e-ink display that I could use to replace a laptop's LCD panel TEMPORARILY.
5) Bank investigates and finds IP address of thief matches your friends computer.
6) Your friend gets arrested and charged with fraud and does one of the following:
7A) Doesn't rat you out.
8A) You give him your "profit money" to cover some of his court costs.
9A) He ends up in jail for a few years and you lost your profit and possibly a friend.
7B) He accepts a reduced sentence by ratting you out.
8B) The Police seize the money and you go to jail as well.
A computer system is NOT like your body. There is no immune system that will clean up once the infection has been controlled. Rootkits CANNOT be safely removed. The analogies that these security companies make to biology do NOT make sense in the context of computing.
Actually their comparison of a computer to the human body is accurate enough, BUT what they don't tell us is that most Anti-Virus/Anti-Spyware/Firewall programs only work as well as a tablet of extra strength Tylenol does in trying to fight AIDS. They absolutely suck at it.
It seems that corportations are more and more willing to risk alienating their customers (thru lawsuits and stupid moves like Sony rootkit) and yet they want those customers to buy their stuff.
In almost all situations you CAN NOT have your cake and eat it too.
You can't complain about search engines using your content (while providing a link to your site) while at the same time demanding that the search engines list your company (and above your competitors).
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Audio -- the only decent 5.1 audio solutions for the Mini are USB or Firewire hardware from M-Audio. The cheapest one I could find that does proper AC3 passthrough was something like $80-$100, and it was just some cheezy little USB thing!
Last year I bought myself a Creative Soundblaster MP3+ (paid around $42 US then, its $36 now with FREE ship). The device works great with my iBook G4 and provides me with 1/8", 2 RCA, and OPTICAL inputs and outputs. When connected to the iBook it doesn't require any drivers and all the outputs are recognized under Mac OS X 10.3 and 10.4.
Because I for one am constantly staring at my mouse when I have a gigantic monitor right in front of me.
Most people don't stare at their mouse constantly, BUT a flashing LED on your mouse will be quite visible in your pheripheral vision. Actually it will probably be more visible then a small icon or text flashing in one of the corners of the screen. Our pheripheral vision is quite good at recognizing movement, bright colors and flashing light, all of which were very useful to our cavemen anscenstors and as still useful to us today.
I think its a good idea, but some people might find this feature annoying after a while (e.g. teenagers who send messages per hour than speak sentences during the day).
If you can't make the switch to Mac or don't want to support both OSes in your shop then you should wait until Intel iBooks or Powerbooks come out. You'll have a laptop with great battery life (for a regular-sized laptop - ultra portables aren't really laptops), great design and you'll be able to run Windows, Mac OS X and Linux on one machine.
If you're going to scout at Best Buy or Circuit City the best you can expect is that they'll know the difference between a power cable and a ethernet one AFTER they get shocked with 110V a couple of times.
Rogers recently switched (a couple of months ago) to out-sourcing Usenet service from Giganews and only allowed 2 connections @ 32KB/s each.
What they used to do earlier is they had their own usenet servers which if you're a big ISP and you know what you're doing is the best way to go. Then you only have to copy that 2TB from another ISP (at ISP to ISP lowered rates) and then serve it to your coustomers for free over your own network (no extra cost).
With only 3% of the customers using it I understand why they drop it, but considering that their outsourcing it how much can 3% of customers cost (realistically).
From what I've read on the web Canada has finished seeking input from the public, but has not made any decision yet. We have no mandatory transition cut-off date yet.
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It is possible. The wealth that the top 2-5% of 1st world people have can be spread. When it is, the 3rd world will be the 1st to 2nd world, and the 1st world non-millionaires will still be in the 1st world. Some people will have to sacrifice to level the playing field, but the poor in 1st world countries won't actually see a difference other than the costs of some items (luxury mostly) go up some amount (maybe a factor of 2x or 3x) which they most likely couldn't have afforded in the first place.
But where we get our cheap resources if that happens?
Your comment is one of the main reasons I'm a humanist. Would you want to be exploited if you were a citizen of a 3rd world country? (I live in Canada and am above the poverty line)
Aren't you willing (in the near future) to pay more so that people in other countries can have a life similar in quality and quantity to yours?
You're right that it isn't a form of government.
When a politician is willing to sell his services (law creation for money or votes) then you don't live in a democracy, but rather a capitalistic federal republic where everything and everyone is for sale and expoitable.
Isn't it kind of funny that lawmakers would rather create more laws rather then fix the ones that are broken or unnecessary?
Did you even read my comment?
I wasn't saying that communisn is a good form of government. I corrected the parent as to why communism failed.
And in the second part of my previous comment I stated that the quality of life is usually better in socialist (not communist) countries than it is in capitalistic countries. Look how many people are below the poverty line in the United States. Most poor people actually do work, BUT their pay is so low (Walmart, etc. I'm looking at you) that they can't get by properly. How can anyone claim that capitalism is the best form of government when it allows so many people to suffer.
BTW What little freedom you still do have in the US is quite quickly being taken away by Bush and Co. in their fight "for" freedom.
Commies tried to outlaw greed and look what happened to them.
Communism failed because of mismanagement and corruption, not because capitalism is "better" than communism. Countries which are more socialist than capitalistic actually have better quality of life.
It always reminds me of that drooling kid that sits idly in a sandbox and throws a fit any time someone else wants to play with their tiny plastic shovel, which they brough to the sandbox and haven't ever used, but whenever someone touches "his" toys, all hell breaks loose.
With the patent reform that Congress is promissing to do in 2006 I really hope that they address this issue and change the law so that you have to actively (even in the slightest way possible) be trying to develop the "thing" that you patented. Hopefully that will remove most of these patent holding Shell corporations.
The difference is that the ISP are offering a faster service for a bit more, but they also want to charge more if your info needs to be delivered to your bank instead of your crappy hobby website. They want to be able to redirect traffic based on where you're going.
To follow you're e.g. A truck full of cold beer would be FORCED to travel on the 407 (paying the extra cost), but a family van would be allowed to travel on the free 401.
When a store has something returned to them, they LEGALLY can't resell it as new. The only options are selling it as used or sending it back to the manufacturer to have it certified as refurbished. I don't know about you but I don't think I've ever seen Walmart sell any used or refurbished items.
It would've been nice to have someone unwittingly receive a hacked Santa, but (un)fortunately laws meant to protect consumers from getting ripped off by unsrupulous retailers are also protecting us against this type of practical joke. Although that doesn't mean that YOU can't buy one of these Santas, do the hacking yourself and give it to someone you know.
Probably because I created the comment too late (not many viewers or moderators were viewing/modding it anymore).
What they should do is start selling a 800x600 (or preferably 1024x768), 14.1" or 15" display that can replace a laptop's LCD panel. Then laptop manufacturers could agree on a standard where you disable the LCD and plug in a e-ink panel.
With solid state storage already at 8GB, Speed-Step technology and an e-ink display one could use a 3-4 hour laptop for well over 8 hours and still have it be very usable.
I'd be willing to pay $100 for a B/W and $200 for a COLOR e-ink display that I could use to replace a laptop's LCD panel TEMPORARILY.
You forgot the rest of the steps:
5) Bank investigates and finds IP address of thief matches your friends computer.
6) Your friend gets arrested and charged with fraud and does one of the following:
7A) Doesn't rat you out.
8A) You give him your "profit money" to cover some of his court costs.
9A) He ends up in jail for a few years and you lost your profit and possibly a friend.
7B) He accepts a reduced sentence by ratting you out.
8B) The Police seize the money and you go to jail as well.
If you don't hand over your encryption keys (even if you don't remember or don't know/have them) you could be sent to jail for 2 years.
Nice little POLICE STATE that the World is turning into with Europe and the U.S. leading the way.
A computer system is NOT like your body. There is no immune system that will clean up once the infection has been controlled. Rootkits CANNOT be safely removed. The analogies that these security companies make to biology do NOT make sense in the context of computing.
Actually their comparison of a computer to the human body is accurate enough, BUT what they don't tell us is that most Anti-Virus/Anti-Spyware/Firewall programs only work as well as a tablet of extra strength Tylenol does in trying to fight AIDS. They absolutely suck at it.
Giving you 2 weeks pay (IF you gave 2 weeks notice) and telling you to not come back is akin to spitting in your face.
It seems that corportations are more and more willing to risk alienating their customers (thru lawsuits and stupid moves like Sony rootkit) and yet they want those customers to buy their stuff.
In almost all situations you CAN NOT have your cake and eat it too.
You can't complain about search engines using your content (while providing a link to your site) while at the same time demanding that the search engines list your company (and above your competitors).
There's a newer version of Winamp (2.95) available at http://www.oldversion.com/program.php?n=winamp
p _id=82303&package_id=84358
BTW. From personal experience Media Player Classic is the best video player for Windows. You can get it here http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?grou
The Soundblaster MP3+ does do 2.1 (RCA outputs) and 5.1 (optical outputs) although the only place I found this information was in the Quick Start pamphlet and in a review on http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/10/27/creative_s oundblaster_mp3/ (second last paragraph).
Audio -- the only decent 5.1 audio solutions for the Mini are USB or Firewire hardware from M-Audio. The cheapest one I could find that does proper AC3 passthrough was something like $80-$100, and it was just some cheezy little USB thing!
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Last year I bought myself a Creative Soundblaster MP3+ (paid around $42 US then, its $36 now with FREE ship). The device works great with my iBook G4 and provides me with 1/8", 2 RCA, and OPTICAL inputs and outputs. When connected to the iBook it doesn't require any drivers and all the outputs are recognized under Mac OS X 10.3 and 10.4.
Here's the link to the Creative Sounblaster MP3+ on Amazon.com:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000095IMS/102-1
Because I for one am constantly staring at my mouse when I have a gigantic monitor right in front of me.
Most people don't stare at their mouse constantly, BUT a flashing LED on your mouse will be quite visible in your pheripheral vision. Actually it will probably be more visible then a small icon or text flashing in one of the corners of the screen. Our pheripheral vision is quite good at recognizing movement, bright colors and flashing light, all of which were very useful to our cavemen anscenstors and as still useful to us today.
I think its a good idea, but some people might find this feature annoying after a while (e.g. teenagers who send messages per hour than speak sentences during the day).
If that makes him dishonest then there isn't a single honest person in the world ESPECIALLY in MANAGEMENT!
If you can't make the switch to Mac or don't want to support both OSes in your shop then you should wait until Intel iBooks or Powerbooks come out. You'll have a laptop with great battery life (for a regular-sized laptop - ultra portables aren't really laptops), great design and you'll be able to run Windows, Mac OS X and Linux on one machine.
If you're going to scout at Best Buy or Circuit City the best you can expect is that they'll know the difference between a power cable and a ethernet one AFTER they get shocked with 110V a couple of times.
Rogers recently switched (a couple of months ago) to out-sourcing Usenet service from Giganews and only allowed 2 connections @ 32KB/s each.
What they used to do earlier is they had their own usenet servers which if you're a big ISP and you know what you're doing is the best way to go. Then you only have to copy that 2TB from another ISP (at ISP to ISP lowered rates) and then serve it to your coustomers for free over your own network (no extra cost).
With only 3% of the customers using it I understand why they drop it, but considering that their outsourcing it how much can 3% of customers cost (realistically).
I use Mac OS X, you insensetive clod!
From what I've read on the web Canada has finished seeking input from the public, but has not made any decision yet. We have no mandatory transition cut-off date yet.
For info: http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/INFO_SHT/b319.htm#ana