But a TV can be of educational value. It's not the technology that's the problem, it's the content. If TV was all news broadcasts, educational shows and perhaps the odd edu-gameshow (I've learned a lot of weird facts from Jeopardy etc) then people could have a choice of not watch and live better, or watch and learn something.
TV isn't always about entertainment though. When 9-11 happened the first thing I did on hearing about it was flip the tube on to see the news reports. Yes, radio also broadcasts news but sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words.
For some, a TV can be a window into the rest of the world. Much as I think television is overwatched, it still does have some redeeming qualities.
Yes and no. Most companies would hope that some downloads lead to sales, or increased popularity will lead to improved company image. The "Atlantic Swim" also harness a lot of publicity itself, making the company and browser, etc more visible.
To put it simply... much of the MS GUI is pretty good. People are used to the MS GUI. People don't like change. Therefore, emulating the MS GUI means less change, which makes it easier for the average person to familiarize himself/herself with.
They cannot go after you for having a file "available" online, as they cannot with strong assurance say that the file you are 'sharing' is in fact a copyrighted work and not just something of similar name or attributes...
Going with my previous post, this then assumes they have downloaded the file and verified its legitimacy (or illegitimacy, as it were)
With downloads being legal in Canada, here's my take on the whole uploading thing:
-User has a file available for uploading. As no upload has occurred no infringement has occurred
-Music company (which owns rights to said material) downloads music from an uploader. As they own the rights to the material, uploading machine has not transferred data to anyone who wasn't legally entitled. Likely ditto for anyone they hire to sniff uploaders, they are then RIAA/etc employees
So the law is actually broken when you upload the file to someone else who doesn't have legal rights. The RIAA does have legal rights. Now you might argue that the shills who download for them don't, but that's a fairly fine line... as in some ways they have hired somebody to entrap you into an "illegal" act. Hell, if downloading is illegal in the US, and they have hired somebody else to download from you that is not in Canada.. then they've either sanctioned an illega act or they've legitimized it because they have ownership.
As for the files they don't own, well they can't sue you for somebody else's copyrighted work...
In a windows world you have a manufacturer from whom you can get detailed specs on hardware, etc.
In the linux world it's a rarity to get such information, which means that you can only test what you have. So yes, the devs can test a "brand X rev 1.02" video card up the wazoo and have it working perfectly, but it becomes something of a feedback-from-users loop when the r1.03 card breaks the compatability of the 1.02 driver.
Let's face it, there are way too many configurations out there to test for all combinations, or even for all common ones given the cost of hardware/etc
Yes, there are stupid non-hardware related bugs as well, those could perhaps be tested better. But with the advent of constant new hardware people are clamoring for something that works at all, nevermind just works well. Hell, I'd suffer bugs happily just to get the integrated cardreader on my zd7000 laptop to work in 'nix.
Companies like MS can get specs for hardware, get samples of hardware, and get support from manufacturers. Companies want the gorilla to support their hardware (generally they write their own drivers too, but OS compatability is still an issue).
For open-source projects a question like "hey, our RE'd linux drivers for your card X is behaving oddly under this circumstance, can you explain" is quite likely to get a response of 'sod off' if any at all.
Something I'd like to see is a place where I could pay a kernel dev for work on a specific driver etc that is important to me. Say if I want the soundcard drivers fixed up, or a driver that runs my cardreader... I'm happy to pay a bit for something that works if somebody is happy to put in the effort (and understand that I'm not rich, but perhaps a few contributors can make it more worthwhile).
I had enough teasing being a geek and/or because my mom was somewhat classified as a MILF by other students. I'd hate to see what things would have been like if my mom were also a dad...
Maybe if I were a foster kid I would appreciate any family better than none... depends on the rest of the environment around me. Am I a bigot when I consider such an environment hostile for a child? Schools can be a pretty harsh place, and sometimes I'm surprised I survived through some of the stuff I dealt with in them. Remember, your kids might be able to deal with the alternate sexuality of same-gender parents, but how well will they deal with playground beatings and/or when their friend Billy's dad won't let him stay over for a sleepover?
There is still a lot of your so-called bigots in the world today. I think that the overall attitude in regards to homosexuality is definately becoming more tolerant, but I'm not sure we've whittled down the bigot population enough that I'd support raising kids in a same-sex environment.
What you are describing is at the most an induced fetish, and more likely simply a physical response to a given stimulus. Yes, a gay man can have sex with a women (provided that he can get it up), physically he would probably even enjoy it to some extent.
You might even have sex with a 300LB woman and physically enjoy it, you might enjoy a donkey or a sheep or just a magazine and a tub of vasaline.
But loving somebody, being attracted to a person, and enjoying physical sensation is something entirely different. What you describe could just as easily be used to have a person associate something non-sexual. Perhaps you could associate the sound of a bell with having to pee... if you held your bladder constantly and only let it go when a bell rang.
We're not talking about sex here though. Sexual orientation is misleading as a term, though that part perhaps deals with the more visible interactions between those individuals. We are talking about deeper feelings between two individuals, which - though I myself don't share such an attraction - I can understand their desire and even need to persue.
Seeing as though my parents recently seperated, I have a fairly fresh take on this.
Nowadays there is very little reason to stay married and/or faithful, unless you were rich to start with (and didn't have a pre--nup) then you stand little to lose by walking out. You can meet somebody new, take your half of the shared ownings, and left your spouse in the cold. Between that and the other person's half of his/her life you can start fresh with very little loss.
I'm a little bitter yes, but in the end it seems that most of the marriages I know that have held together were religious ones, with state weddings meaning too little and being too easily broken.
even when I game I tend to have background tasks going (downloads, background services, etc)... so in such a case wouldn't it balance the load of the game on one and the background apps on another?
That would be a little different than an abstraction layer though wouldn't it? Rather than replacing the windows calls with native ones, you are simply running windows in a virtual environment on top of linux/etc.... more compatability perhaps, but with a performance hit.
Indeedy, I'd much rather run windows on top of linux, preferably through an abstraction layer. Part of this is accomplished by Wine et al.
Seriously, if MS actually released an abstraction-based Windows-on-Linux OS I would happily pay for it. Linux-on-windows has been done already, and while it does benefit me in that I can use some of the Linux functionality, I'm still lacking the inherent security/reliability.
I'm not from the US so I'm not really familiar with the weapons laws, especially since they seem to vary by state. Does this mean then that with a "concealed weapon permit" you must in fact keep the weapon concealed, or that you are allowed to conceal, or perhaps either depending on the State?
He lived alone, got sick and was bedridden. Because of this his blood-sugar levels went haywire, and he died from diabetes. Yes, he know all about the levels of insulin etc he needed to take, but sometimes circumstance renders you unable to take it.
As for the rejection medicine... I'd assume that if you missed that then you would more likely reject the organ, and then be back to square 1. But square 1 is better than dead.
Not a bad speed considering that my first DVD-writer took about 15 minutes to write a disc... but still a long time if you're making a live backup, etc.
I think you'd need to compare "highway travel" VS "as-the-crow-flies."
In some places the ground-based travel is going to win out... all you need it thrust to go forward not stay aloft. In many places though, airborn travel is a much more direct route. Highways have to move around large obstacles such as mountains/hills, (some) forests, large water bodies etc. This means that the path to your destination is shorter, so while the vehicle is less efficient fuel-wise, it is more efficient distance-wise.
What are the circumstances though? Two years is a long time... I know people who have been married after such a length of online relationship. Did the employee intend a sexual relation (the timeline indicates that he must have been damn patient if he did), or perhaps he was just a lonely but not-so-smart dude who met an equally lonely girl.
In the early two years, perhaps they started as friends and it bloomed to a type of relationship. Is there something saying a 20-yr-old can't be friend with a 15-something? If years down the road that friendship becomes something else... well that's a bit odd but it wasn't premeditated.
It's a good way to meet people of all types, rather than just geeks.
I have dated geek-girls... many of them have even more issues than geek guys (particularly in regards to sexual issues). Common interests is great, but my experience with dating all-out-geeks has definately been less than spectacular in many cases.
*Yes I know it is slashdot, given the number of visits to the site I think you can assume that *some* of us actually do date girls and/or even get lucky, get over it.
Part of the nature of "disposible" hardware is that yes, it doesn't last all that long, but it also tends to obsolete itself fast.
My 4x DVD-burner cost near $200CAD. Within about a year there are now better 16x burners for under $100. If the burner tanks then it becomes a forced upgrade.
As you mentioned, your expensive CD player still works great, but with the older DAC it sounds crappy...
I think a good investment might be in a warrantee (not the Best-Buy type). A good number of places will stop stocking older drives, which means that when yours croaks bringing it in on warrantee gives you a newer drive.
P2P users don't actively upload. The terminology is that data coming from the source PC is generally uploaded, and the destination PC downloads it. However, there is no active attempt to send data to anyone, but rather the recipients are connecting on their own. You are not intentionally sending an "illegal" file to a recipient, but rather making it available, and recipients with either legal rights (already own it) or not may retrieve it.
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I run a high-school on a 550Mhz P3. It runs file, print, backup, mail, web, and many other services...
In general the school runs very well... and there's lots of room for more load....
But a TV can be of educational value. It's not the technology that's the problem, it's the content. If TV was all news broadcasts, educational shows and perhaps the odd edu-gameshow (I've learned a lot of weird facts from Jeopardy etc) then people could have a choice of not watch and live better, or watch and learn something.
TV isn't always about entertainment though. When 9-11 happened the first thing I did on hearing about it was flip the tube on to see the news reports. Yes, radio also broadcasts news but sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words.
For some, a TV can be a window into the rest of the world. Much as I think television is overwatched, it still does have some redeeming qualities.
Yes and no. Most companies would hope that some downloads lead to sales, or increased popularity will lead to improved company image. The "Atlantic Swim" also harness a lot of publicity itself, making the company and browser, etc more visible.
To put it simply... much of the MS GUI is pretty good. People are used to the MS GUI. People don't like change. Therefore, emulating the MS GUI means less change, which makes it easier for the average person to familiarize himself/herself with.
They cannot go after you for having a file "available" online, as they cannot with strong assurance say that the file you are 'sharing' is in fact a copyrighted work and not just something of similar name or attributes...
Going with my previous post, this then assumes they have downloaded the file and verified its legitimacy (or illegitimacy, as it were)
With downloads being legal in Canada, here's my take on the whole uploading thing:
-User has a file available for uploading. As no upload has occurred no infringement has occurred
-Music company (which owns rights to said material) downloads music from an uploader. As they own the rights to the material, uploading machine has not transferred data to anyone who wasn't legally entitled. Likely ditto for anyone they hire to sniff uploaders, they are then RIAA/etc employees
So the law is actually broken when you upload the file to someone else who doesn't have legal rights. The RIAA does have legal rights. Now you might argue that the shills who download for them don't, but that's a fairly fine line... as in some ways they have hired somebody to entrap you into an "illegal" act. Hell, if downloading is illegal in the US, and they have hired somebody else to download from you that is not in Canada.. then they've either sanctioned an illega act or they've legitimized it because they have ownership.
As for the files they don't own, well they can't sue you for somebody else's copyrighted work...
In a windows world you have a manufacturer from whom you can get detailed specs on hardware, etc.
In the linux world it's a rarity to get such information, which means that you can only test what you have. So yes, the devs can test a "brand X rev 1.02" video card up the wazoo and have it working perfectly, but it becomes something of a feedback-from-users loop when the r1.03 card breaks the compatability of the 1.02 driver.
Let's face it, there are way too many configurations out there to test for all combinations, or even for all common ones given the cost of hardware/etc
Yes, there are stupid non-hardware related bugs as well, those could perhaps be tested better. But with the advent of constant new hardware people are clamoring for something that works at all, nevermind just works well. Hell, I'd suffer bugs happily just to get the integrated cardreader on my zd7000 laptop to work in 'nix.
Companies like MS can get specs for hardware, get samples of hardware, and get support from manufacturers. Companies want the gorilla to support their hardware (generally they write their own drivers too, but OS compatability is still an issue).
For open-source projects a question like "hey, our RE'd linux drivers for your card X is behaving oddly under this circumstance, can you explain" is quite likely to get a response of 'sod off' if any at all.
Something I'd like to see is a place where I could pay a kernel dev for work on a specific driver etc that is important to me. Say if I want the soundcard drivers fixed up, or a driver that runs my cardreader... I'm happy to pay a bit for something that works if somebody is happy to put in the effort (and understand that I'm not rich, but perhaps a few contributors can make it more worthwhile).
I had enough teasing being a geek and/or because my mom was somewhat classified as a MILF by other students. I'd hate to see what things would have been like if my mom were also a dad...
Maybe if I were a foster kid I would appreciate any family better than none... depends on the rest of the environment around me. Am I a bigot when I consider such an environment hostile for a child? Schools can be a pretty harsh place, and sometimes I'm surprised I survived through some of the stuff I dealt with in them. Remember, your kids might be able to deal with the alternate sexuality of same-gender parents, but how well will they deal with playground beatings and/or when their friend Billy's dad won't let him stay over for a sleepover?
There is still a lot of your so-called bigots in the world today. I think that the overall attitude in regards to homosexuality is definately becoming more tolerant, but I'm not sure we've whittled down the bigot population enough that I'd support raising kids in a same-sex environment.
What you are describing is at the most an induced fetish, and more likely simply a physical response to a given stimulus. Yes, a gay man can have sex with a women (provided that he can get it up), physically he would probably even enjoy it to some extent.
You might even have sex with a 300LB woman and physically enjoy it, you might enjoy a donkey or a sheep or just a magazine and a tub of vasaline.
But loving somebody, being attracted to a person, and enjoying physical sensation is something entirely different. What you describe could just as easily be used to have a person associate something non-sexual. Perhaps you could associate the sound of a bell with having to pee... if you held your bladder constantly and only let it go when a bell rang.
We're not talking about sex here though. Sexual orientation is misleading as a term, though that part perhaps deals with the more visible interactions between those individuals. We are talking about deeper feelings between two individuals, which - though I myself don't share such an attraction - I can understand their desire and even need to persue.
Seeing as though my parents recently seperated, I have a fairly fresh take on this.
Nowadays there is very little reason to stay married and/or faithful, unless you were rich to start with (and didn't have a pre--nup) then you stand little to lose by walking out. You can meet somebody new, take your half of the shared ownings, and left your spouse in the cold. Between that and the other person's half of his/her life you can start fresh with very little loss.
I'm a little bitter yes, but in the end it seems that most of the marriages I know that have held together were religious ones, with state weddings meaning too little and being too easily broken.
even when I game I tend to have background tasks going (downloads, background services, etc)... so in such a case wouldn't it balance the load of the game on one and the background apps on another?
That would be a little different than an abstraction layer though wouldn't it? Rather than replacing the windows calls with native ones, you are simply running windows in a virtual environment on top of linux/etc.... more compatability perhaps, but with a performance hit.
Indeedy, I'd much rather run windows on top of linux, preferably through an abstraction layer. Part of this is accomplished by Wine et al.
Seriously, if MS actually released an abstraction-based Windows-on-Linux OS I would happily pay for it. Linux-on-windows has been done already, and while it does benefit me in that I can use some of the Linux functionality, I'm still lacking the inherent security/reliability.
I'm not from the US so I'm not really familiar with the weapons laws, especially since they seem to vary by state. Does this mean then that with a "concealed weapon permit" you must in fact keep the weapon concealed, or that you are allowed to conceal, or perhaps either depending on the State?
Ahhh, but you do want to keep somebody from pulling a "prison-break" and getting your data out...
He lived alone, got sick and was bedridden. Because of this his blood-sugar levels went haywire, and he died from diabetes. Yes, he know all about the levels of insulin etc he needed to take, but sometimes circumstance renders you unable to take it.
As for the rejection medicine... I'd assume that if you missed that then you would more likely reject the organ, and then be back to square 1. But square 1 is better than dead.
Could take a long time to write one of these suckers to capacity though:
The HDS-200R, would ship this year with a 20-Mbyte transfer rate
OK, so 200GB=200,000MB.
200,000MB / 20MB/sec = 10000 sec 10000 sec / 3600sec/hour = 2.8h (2h48m approx).
Not a bad speed considering that my first DVD-writer took about 15 minutes to write a disc... but still a long time if you're making a live backup, etc.
Indeed... IE and many other products are open in a much very similar to the goatse dude.
No, but we might want a window that does. Have it close up on a cold night and open to a warm summer morning to let the fresh air in...
I think you'd need to compare "highway travel" VS "as-the-crow-flies."
In some places the ground-based travel is going to win out... all you need it thrust to go forward not stay aloft. In many places though, airborn travel is a much more direct route. Highways have to move around large obstacles such as mountains/hills, (some) forests, large water bodies etc. This means that the path to your destination is shorter, so while the vehicle is less efficient fuel-wise, it is more efficient distance-wise.
What are the circumstances though? Two years is a long time... I know people who have been married after such a length of online relationship. Did the employee intend a sexual relation (the timeline indicates that he must have been damn patient if he did), or perhaps he was just a lonely but not-so-smart dude who met an equally lonely girl.
In the early two years, perhaps they started as friends and it bloomed to a type of relationship. Is there something saying a 20-yr-old can't be friend with a 15-something? If years down the road that friendship becomes something else... well that's a bit odd but it wasn't premeditated.
It's a good way to meet people of all types, rather than just geeks.
I have dated geek-girls... many of them have even more issues than geek guys (particularly in regards to sexual issues). Common interests is great, but my experience with dating all-out-geeks has definately been less than spectacular in many cases.
*Yes I know it is slashdot, given the number of visits to the site I think you can assume that *some* of us actually do date girls and/or even get lucky, get over it.
Part of the nature of "disposible" hardware is that yes, it doesn't last all that long, but it also tends to obsolete itself fast.
My 4x DVD-burner cost near $200CAD. Within about a year there are now better 16x burners for under $100. If the burner tanks then it becomes a forced upgrade.
As you mentioned, your expensive CD player still works great, but with the older DAC it sounds crappy...
I think a good investment might be in a warrantee (not the Best-Buy type). A good number of places will stop stocking older drives, which means that when yours croaks bringing it in on warrantee gives you a newer drive.
P2P users don't actively upload. The terminology is that data coming from the source PC is generally uploaded, and the destination PC downloads it. However, there is no active attempt to send data to anyone, but rather the recipients are connecting on their own. You are not intentionally sending an "illegal" file to a recipient, but rather making it available, and recipients with either legal rights (already own it) or not may retrieve it.