I could buy the air I need to breath -- it's certainly worth enough to me, being necessary for life and all, and people do sell bottled air for underwater use and the like -- but since I'm not under water and here air is superabundant ("not scarce") I don't have to pay anything for it, and quite logically choose not to.
People pay for bottled water all the time. What's your point? Nobody is trying to make a living making air for you to breathe.
Seriously. Here's a legal service with decent prices and a good selection. Why wouldn't you support it? There's *NO DRM, PEOPLE*.
I'm buying all my music from Amazon MP3 store from now on, strictly out of principal. If this thing takes off it will kill DRM services. Better selection will come when the labels realize how many people are willing to buy easy to download music for a fair price.
I'm sure you're average mac head has been using Google Groups, Maps, Gmail etc "Betas" for ever with no problems whatsoever. Now they run into a real "BETA" and scream when it breaks! HA!
The need another term for whatever that extended state is that all their products go through after launching.
That's funny. My wife lost her ID when we were travelling. When we went to the airport and told them (at the ticket counter) that she didn't have ID. They said that was fine but she's have to submit to 'extra' security screening. They marked her boarding card with a symbol of some sort, I can't remember what it was. The extra sreening consisted of going through a different line and getting a few extra questions and a hand wand.
ACDSee is great. It will do pretty much everything I need done, and very easily. I have Photoshop and can't be bothered to use it any more for photos.
The best features are the preview and thumbnails (easy browsing), auto rotate based on exif information, fix levels, curves, or use auto exposure, resize, crop, and excellent printing options.
So Dvorak not only writes a crappy article, he hasn't even checked out all the other options before bitching.
Does anyone know of a CD boot distro that is forensics specific? Seems like booting off a knoppix type distro with scanning tools would be a good way to find rootkits.
A lot of French people now do speak English, but won't unless you *try* to speak French first. After you try (and fail), many French people will say 'Why don't we speak English, it will be much easier' or something along those lines. This happened over and over while travelling with a marginal French speaker in Paris.
Would be great when someone reverse engineers their tagging and sets tags themselves. Or would they use standard QOS tagging? It'd be hard to imagine a telco deploying a new router OS in their network to support some propreitary QOS scheme...
Yes, much stricter. Almost no merchant in Europe will take an unsigned card, or one that says Ask For ID. I even had mine rejected when the signature rubbed off from swiping the card too much! I re-signed it, and still couldn't get anyone to take it. Had to get a new card (and sign it).
They are also very good about checking the sig against the receipt.
No reason... except that its so cheap. When WiFi and VoIP drive cell phone carriers to offer international at $.02 a minute I'll call all day on my cell phone. Same when they drop that $1 per minute international roaming charge... until then, if I can get that price from a VoIP phone I'm all over it.
This can easily be done now with Bar Codes. Print your favorite UPC code and stick it over another one. 5 minute job. Might even be less obvious than wantering around waving an RFID reprogrammer around in the air...
I wonder what percentage of assult weapons are used to kill people... I know mod chips don't kill but it must be said, the same "legit usage" arguement frequently comes up with guns. Most people don't have a legit use for an assult weapon. You're not going hunting. Most people don't have a legit use for modding their playstation... they're bootlegging games. It won't stop it anyway, just make it a bit harder and push it underground.
Why has nobody made a "Rubbernecker screen"? After an accident or incident, clear the roadway and put a screen up. Nobody can see the accident, and therefore they start moving again once the road is clear.
You could even pay for it by selling ad space!! (I can't beleive I suggested that!!)
I have been looking for a class in Photography, based around using a digital camera. Classes available today are either "traditional" and teach photo technique, composition, and LOTS of darkroom; or digital, with minimal technique, composition and TONS of computer image manipulation.
What are needed are classes to teach digital photographers how to *take good pictures*!! No darkroom, no manipulation, just technique!! It's very hard to find this right now.
While you're at it, why not make the switch to Dvorak? I did, and now that I've remapped my CAPS LOCK and ctrl I've never been happier! Or more ergonomic!!
And make your school offer Dvorak! Why are we teaching kids on old, badly designed key layouts???
Sounds like what you need is a Trash-80. It'll take notes and it's ancient enough that you really won't feel like your using a computer! Also, it's not flash enough to attract attention when travelling. A quick homemade serial interface when you get home and you're formatting in Word before you know it!!
Funny, it is integrated into McAfee. I use it in my 100 person company and it works pretty well. The feature is called "Find Unwanted Programs" or something. It's all set up with EPO so I know every desktop has it, and nobody can turn it off. Catches most spyware, and McAfee is good about updating.
There is one major drawback. McAfee decides what is an "unwanted program" and you can't change it. It stops some tools that I would rather it didn't. However, I've found this trade off to be well worth it as I spend exactly *nill* time cleaning spyware.
I get calls all the time about the "virus" someone or other just got though.
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Seriously. Here's a legal service with decent prices and a good selection. Why wouldn't you support it? There's *NO DRM, PEOPLE*.
I'm buying all my music from Amazon MP3 store from now on, strictly out of principal. If this thing takes off it will kill DRM services. Better selection will come when the labels realize how many people are willing to buy easy to download music for a fair price.
Actually, it's HAMR. Which isn't much better.
HAMR those terabits. All 8 of 'em.
I blame Google for confusing the meaning of Beta.
I'm sure you're average mac head has been using Google Groups, Maps, Gmail etc "Betas" for ever with no problems whatsoever. Now they run into a real "BETA" and scream when it breaks! HA!
The need another term for whatever that extended state is that all their products go through after launching.
It's not for their product reliability, that's for sure.
At least we had class actions to help with new Ipod batteries and burned out Powerbook main boards.
That's funny. My wife lost her ID when we were travelling. When we went to the airport and told them (at the ticket counter) that she didn't have ID. They said that was fine but she's have to submit to 'extra' security screening. They marked her boarding card with a symbol of some sort, I can't remember what it was. The extra sreening consisted of going through a different line and getting a few extra questions and a hand wand.
ACDSee is great. It will do pretty much everything I need done, and very easily. I have Photoshop and can't be bothered to use it any more for photos. The best features are the preview and thumbnails (easy browsing), auto rotate based on exif information, fix levels, curves, or use auto exposure, resize, crop, and excellent printing options. So Dvorak not only writes a crappy article, he hasn't even checked out all the other options before bitching.
Does anyone know of a CD boot distro that is forensics specific? Seems like booting off a knoppix type distro with scanning tools would be a good way to find rootkits.
A lot of French people now do speak English, but won't unless you *try* to speak French first. After you try (and fail), many French people will say 'Why don't we speak English, it will be much easier' or something along those lines. This happened over and over while travelling with a marginal French speaker in Paris.
That's a very common problem with Netgears. So common in fact that there's a class action lawsuit against Netgear about it - http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,12918191.
I fail to see how that helps the oil companies profit.
Would be great when someone reverse engineers their tagging and sets tags themselves. Or would they use standard QOS tagging? It'd be hard to imagine a telco deploying a new router OS in their network to support some propreitary QOS scheme...
Yup, did that. Now I'm deaf and need 1 ,2, and 3 in every room.
Yes, much stricter. Almost no merchant in Europe will take an unsigned card, or one that says Ask For ID. I even had mine rejected when the signature rubbed off from swiping the card too much! I re-signed it, and still couldn't get anyone to take it. Had to get a new card (and sign it). They are also very good about checking the sig against the receipt.
No reason... except that its so cheap. When WiFi and VoIP drive cell phone carriers to offer international at $.02 a minute I'll call all day on my cell phone. Same when they drop that $1 per minute international roaming charge... until then, if I can get that price from a VoIP phone I'm all over it.
This can easily be done now with Bar Codes. Print your favorite UPC code and stick it over another one. 5 minute job. Might even be less obvious than wantering around waving an RFID reprogrammer around in the air...
Jeez, this is terrible. What's next? A virus that slashdots Slashdot? How would we ever find out about it if Slashdot was down?
I wonder what percentage of assult weapons are used to kill people... I know mod chips don't kill but it must be said, the same "legit usage" arguement frequently comes up with guns. Most people don't have a legit use for an assult weapon. You're not going hunting. Most people don't have a legit use for modding their playstation... they're bootlegging games. It won't stop it anyway, just make it a bit harder and push it underground.
I'm sure the Nigerian human trafficers are making tons of money. This is so much worse than US prostitution rings.
Does anyone know what breakdown of browser use for Slashdot is?
Why has nobody made a "Rubbernecker screen"? After an accident or incident, clear the roadway and put a screen up. Nobody can see the accident, and therefore they start moving again once the road is clear.
You could even pay for it by selling ad space!! (I can't beleive I suggested that!!)
I have been looking for a class in Photography, based around using a digital camera. Classes available today are either "traditional" and teach photo technique, composition, and LOTS of darkroom; or digital, with minimal technique, composition and TONS of computer image manipulation.
What are needed are classes to teach digital photographers how to *take good pictures*!! No darkroom, no manipulation, just technique!! It's very hard to find this right now.
While you're at it, why not make the switch to Dvorak? I did, and now that I've remapped my CAPS LOCK and ctrl I've never been happier! Or more ergonomic!!
And make your school offer Dvorak! Why are we teaching kids on old, badly designed key layouts???
Sounds like what you need is a Trash-80. It'll take notes and it's ancient enough that you really won't feel like your using a computer! Also, it's not flash enough to attract attention when travelling. A quick homemade serial interface when you get home and you're formatting in Word before you know it!!
Funny, it is integrated into McAfee. I use it in my 100 person company and it works pretty well. The feature is called "Find Unwanted Programs" or something. It's all set up with EPO so I know every desktop has it, and nobody can turn it off. Catches most spyware, and McAfee is good about updating.
There is one major drawback. McAfee decides what is an "unwanted program" and you can't change it. It stops some tools that I would rather it didn't. However, I've found this trade off to be well worth it as I spend exactly *nill* time cleaning spyware.
I get calls all the time about the "virus" someone or other just got though.