If they can take the time to remove the DRM, they can also take the time to insert other code which does bad things. Movies and music are probably pretty safe when downloaded from pirate sites, but I wouldn't trust anything that's an executable. Anyone with the skill to remove the DRM probably has enough skill to insert a virus and make it hard to detect.
I use SageTV and an old analog tuner. My cable company still sends out the first 70 channels in the old analog format. I'm wondering when, if at all they are going to drop that. While I can't PVR everything, the first 70 channels is enough for me.Especially when the only PVR now offered by my cable company is the HD one which costs $25 a month.
I'm still waiting for them to fix the "hide file extensions for known file types" exploit. It's the first thing I change anytime I install Windows. And as far as I know, it can't be changed system wide, only per each user account. When executable files can specify their own icon, for instance, look like an image, or a Word document, this is very dangerous behaviour. What purpose does hiding the file extension have? Other then hiding "scary technical things" from dumb users (if they don't have the information, they'll remain stupid) I don't see any reason why this should exist. And it definitely shouldn't be turned on by default if they insist on the feature even existing.
THIS. Obviously you don't want to pay for students who are never there, but as long as the students show up for some minimum number of days, they should be fully funded. They shouldn't tie the funding so closely to attendance. It's not like you can call in a substitute child when little Johnny is sick for the day. They take up resources whether or not they are in class for the day.
Bombardier/Skidoo already makes something like this. The problem is that their version costs $18,000 for the cheapest model. If you could make one for $3000, I suspect that quite a few people would be interested in them. The Bombardier one has a 998 cc engine. You could make something suitable for booting around town in with something as small as as 250 cc engine.
I'm going to go with the AC sibling of mine. Android to me is a terrible operating system, I don't know enough about it to know whether it's better in newer versions (jellybean etc) or whether it's something specific to my phone and the phones I've seen, but Android isn't my idea of a good OS. I would much rather run Linux on the Raspberry Pi, and don't care to run Android. I only have an Android phone because there really isn't a whole lot else out there. iPhone is nice but expensive. Windows Phone is almost non existent. Nokia (symbian) had some really nice phones but there are almost no apps available. Don't even get me started on BlackBerry. The entire phone ecosystem is actually pretty terrible as far as I'm concerned.
This is very true. I like cycling and one thing that always comes up on cycling forums when people ask how they can improve, is to spend more time in the saddle. There's very little training alternates forms of training (or reading) can do to compare to spending 5 hours straight on a real ride. I know a lot of people in university did well in all their classes, learned everything they were supposed to, but couldn't actually program that well. Books are a good starting off point, to let you know what's possible, but you always have to follow up with using whatever you have learned for a real life project.
Maybe it's just me, but we read some truly awesome stuff in high school. Here's a list just to name a few.
Lord Of The Flies
The Chrysalids
To Kill a Mockingbird
Wuthering Heights
Cue For Treason
The Hobbit
1984*
Brave New World*
It's been a while so I don't remember all the assigned books, but I only really remember one which was really bad, plus all the Shakespeare, which I never really cared for. Most of my classmates didn't like Wuthering Heights, but I think a lot of that was just prejudice against the book and they never really gave it a fair chance. The ones with the * were books where we got to pick anything we wanted to read, and there were a few other of those as well. I'm not sure what other schools do, but my highschool had some pretty good books.
Obviously you can't cut people off just because they don't pay taxes, because that would cut off a lot of the poor from healthcare. The current rules are that you can only leave for 6 months (7 in Ontario, 8 in Newfoundland) before they cut off your health insurance. There's probably quite a few people who just haven't told the goverment that they left and still keep their health card. There's also quite a few snowbirds who move down south for the 6 months minus a day in the winter and are still able to keep their health coverage.
I'm trying to think of a game that requires high quality graphics but that doesn't need a low input delay. Card games, chess, turn based strategy games could work on this, but you really don't need graphics for this. Something like Final Fantasy (old ones anyway, don't know if the new ones have changed). Some tower defense games would probably work out fine. However, even the really visually stunning games like these don't require fast computers to play. The games that required fast computers are the ones that have a bunch of stuff moving on the screen at the same time, and have to respond to a lot of inputs, and therefore, can't be played on a remote server because the input delay is too big. Any games that would work on a remote server could be easily run on even a very low power client computer.
Go ahead is right. It's good publicity for them, and you aren't going to find too many people with a pipe big enough to upload terabytes of data. First you would need a pretty fast upload speed, which discounts most home users, and you would also need to be able to use a terabyte of bandwidth in a billing period, or space it out over multiple billing periods. They are probably already limiting how fast they accept data from any one upload. For every guy they find who wants to upload terabytes of data, there's probably 10 or 100 who only ever use less than 1 GB.
How does one make ketchup blue or green? I guess if you start with green tomatoes it could work, but I think that would completely throw the taste off. How much food coloring do they have to add to turn red tomatoes blue or green? I see how purple could work, red + blue = purple, but you can't add anything to red to make it green. Unless Heinz have stopped using tomatoes completely, and just go with artificial flavouring too.
I think this is why the Apple model will win out in the long run for the vast majority of people. Most people won't take the time to learn about proper security practices. Some people think it will be better in 10 years, once most people have grown up with computers. But even the more savvy computer users I know, who aren't specifically into programming or computer security, are extremely stupid when it comes to computer security. Even many of the developers I know are downright blockheaded sometimes when it comes to security. Kids who grew up on the things aren't any more versed at computer security or even general computer use than people who are 50 or over and have only been using a computer for 5 years. Some people will install anything if it's for free. Which is a very bad thing to do, because if you don't know where it's coming from, you have no idea what kind of malware has been loaded into that tempting free software. This is the main reason I really try to stay away from pirated software, even when I just want to try something out. It's just not worth the risk.
The problem with wireless is that the range sucks. 802.11n has a maximum speed of 600 mbps but I've never been able to get anywhere close to that. The speed is respectable if I'm standing right next to the router, but if I'm 2 floors away (router in bottom floor of 3 storey no basement house) then the speed is just atrocious. 60 GHz won't travel that far anyway. The only thing that's good for is when you're right next to the router, which means you might as well have a wired connection.
Yeah, and the movie was really weak in terms of kid on kid violence. I found they skipped over the fighting scenes too much. In fact, I found they skipped way too many details in the movie to the point where a lot of stuff didn't even make sense. The book, though short, was so fast paced, and had so much content that the movie could have easily been longer than any of the Lord of the Rings films. To contrast with those books, which are probably 3 times as long, but contain so much that could be stripped out without losing the whole meaning of the story. Too much walking in LOTR.
Agreed. Guessed ending about half way through. However, It's supposed to be a young adult novel, and I read it as an adult. So that might have had some influence on my ability to guess the ending. Also, I've always been pretty good at guessing the endings of movies and books. I find most of them pretty predictable. Sixth sense, I guessed the ending in the first 5 minutes. Moving wasn't very enjoyable once you had guessed the ending.
What's the point of the control over the "parameters of performance" when you can't get any better performance than buying one off the lot. The range sucks. I'm guessing the handling, acceleration and top speed aren't any better than what you would get off the stock electric cars either. Sure it's fun to tinker with things, and say you built it yourself. Which is the only real reason for doing something like this.
Sure, it's not as safe as being on the ground, but the shuttle had exactly 0 fatalities from the position of LEO whereas the shuttle (correcting my previous post) had 1 failure on launch, and had 1 failure on re-entry. While LEO may not be the best environment to be in, just looking at the numbers it's hard to equate miles in LEO to miles travelled during take-off and re-entry. Even with all the miles travelled in LEO, there was still no fatalities during that time. I still think it this case it's much better to talk about fatalities or failure per trip, and not per mile travelled. It might also be useful to look at fatalities per hour of operation. The space shuttle had a total flight days of 1330. So for 31920 hours of operation, the shuttle program had 2 crashes. If the same was true for your car, you could expect 1 fatal crash ever 5 years assuming you drove 17 minutes a day. Obviously this isn't the case, as just about everybody would die in a car crash at some point in their life from just driving to work.
Ok, that space shuttle thing sounds a little odd. Are those numbers counting the trips it made around the earth while in orbit? Because I wouldn't really count those as actual distance travelled. I would probably only want to count the take-off and reentry. Everything else, the thing is basically just coasting. Both of the failures have been due to massive engine failure. According to wikipedia there's been 135 space shuttle flights. And 2 crashes. That means that there's 1.5% chance that any shuttle flight will end in death. Which is probably much more than the number of car trips that end in death.
Kids going outside seems less common now too. I am a parent, so this is something I have noticed a lot. Me and a couple of my neighbors always take our kids outside to play on the weekends. They are all 6 and under, so we still stick around outside, but give them freedom to roam a bit. Or we take them to the park. But there are a lot of kids in the neighbourhood who you never see outside. We only know they exist because you see them going form their front door to the car. Otherwise, they never go outside. That park is almost always empty, except for my kinds and my neighbours.
This is the real reason. I'm actually happy that I've started seeing fixies and single speeds at Walmart. Because that is the one bike you could probably make that isn't terrible in the Walmart price range. 8 years ago when I decided to start cycling to work I got a $500 bike store hybrid bike. I rode that thing 15000 km an only had to replace brakepads, tubes, and one set of tires. You can't expect that kind of lifetime from a $200 Walmart bike. I would have had to buy a new bike every year or two from Walmart, meaning it would cost more in the end, and I wouldn't enjoy riding it at all.
I'm very much the same way. For those who are familiar with Canada's Wonderland, I really feel uneasy on the viking boat, but had no problems on the jet scream. I really don't like not being secured in. I have no problem rock climbing or bungee jumping, but really don't like standing near the edge of a cliff if I'm not strapped in. Similarly carnival rides kind of freak me out. They often look really badly maintained and like they could break at any moment.
I think that this argument only works because you it's not the soup kitchen who is giving away free food but rather the best restaurant in town. When you can get Photoshop, MS Office, or Final Cut Pro for free there's very little reason to seek out alternatives, because the one that you already know about from the big name vendor does everything you need. If it was indeed impossible to pirate photoshop, or the risk was so high (chance of getting caught and punishment resulting) that it wasn't worth it, then a lot of people who just use it to do minor editing of photos would probably seek out alternative such as GIMP However, once you start looking at music, things get a little trickier. People like whichever music they like, and you can't hand someone an album by a different artist and say it "has all the same features" so you can just go and use the free one instead. It's simply a different album by a different artist and they can't even really be compared. Anyway this whole thing doesn't make sense because there's no way to stop piracy, and even if it was stopped, I think that most people would just go out and buy whatever is most advertised rather than spend hours or their life hunting down music from obscure artists even if that music is free.
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If they can take the time to remove the DRM, they can also take the time to insert other code which does bad things. Movies and music are probably pretty safe when downloaded from pirate sites, but I wouldn't trust anything that's an executable. Anyone with the skill to remove the DRM probably has enough skill to insert a virus and make it hard to detect.
I use SageTV and an old analog tuner. My cable company still sends out the first 70 channels in the old analog format. I'm wondering when, if at all they are going to drop that. While I can't PVR everything, the first 70 channels is enough for me.Especially when the only PVR now offered by my cable company is the HD one which costs $25 a month.
I'm still waiting for them to fix the "hide file extensions for known file types" exploit. It's the first thing I change anytime I install Windows. And as far as I know, it can't be changed system wide, only per each user account. When executable files can specify their own icon, for instance, look like an image, or a Word document, this is very dangerous behaviour. What purpose does hiding the file extension have? Other then hiding "scary technical things" from dumb users (if they don't have the information, they'll remain stupid) I don't see any reason why this should exist. And it definitely shouldn't be turned on by default if they insist on the feature even existing.
THIS. Obviously you don't want to pay for students who are never there, but as long as the students show up for some minimum number of days, they should be fully funded. They shouldn't tie the funding so closely to attendance. It's not like you can call in a substitute child when little Johnny is sick for the day. They take up resources whether or not they are in class for the day.
Bombardier/Skidoo already makes something like this. The problem is that their version costs $18,000 for the cheapest model. If you could make one for $3000, I suspect that quite a few people would be interested in them. The Bombardier one has a 998 cc engine. You could make something suitable for booting around town in with something as small as as 250 cc engine.
I'm going to go with the AC sibling of mine. Android to me is a terrible operating system, I don't know enough about it to know whether it's better in newer versions (jellybean etc) or whether it's something specific to my phone and the phones I've seen, but Android isn't my idea of a good OS. I would much rather run Linux on the Raspberry Pi, and don't care to run Android. I only have an Android phone because there really isn't a whole lot else out there. iPhone is nice but expensive. Windows Phone is almost non existent. Nokia (symbian) had some really nice phones but there are almost no apps available. Don't even get me started on BlackBerry. The entire phone ecosystem is actually pretty terrible as far as I'm concerned.
This is very true. I like cycling and one thing that always comes up on cycling forums when people ask how they can improve, is to spend more time in the saddle. There's very little training alternates forms of training (or reading) can do to compare to spending 5 hours straight on a real ride. I know a lot of people in university did well in all their classes, learned everything they were supposed to, but couldn't actually program that well. Books are a good starting off point, to let you know what's possible, but you always have to follow up with using whatever you have learned for a real life project.
Maybe it's just me, but we read some truly awesome stuff in high school. Here's a list just to name a few.
Lord Of The Flies
The Chrysalids
To Kill a Mockingbird
Wuthering Heights
Cue For Treason
The Hobbit
1984*
Brave New World*
It's been a while so I don't remember all the assigned books, but I only really remember one which was really bad, plus all the Shakespeare, which I never really cared for. Most of my classmates didn't like Wuthering Heights, but I think a lot of that was just prejudice against the book and they never really gave it a fair chance. The ones with the * were books where we got to pick anything we wanted to read, and there were a few other of those as well. I'm not sure what other schools do, but my highschool had some pretty good books.
Obviously you can't cut people off just because they don't pay taxes, because that would cut off a lot of the poor from healthcare. The current rules are that you can only leave for 6 months (7 in Ontario, 8 in Newfoundland) before they cut off your health insurance. There's probably quite a few people who just haven't told the goverment that they left and still keep their health card. There's also quite a few snowbirds who move down south for the 6 months minus a day in the winter and are still able to keep their health coverage.
I'm trying to think of a game that requires high quality graphics but that doesn't need a low input delay. Card games, chess, turn based strategy games could work on this, but you really don't need graphics for this. Something like Final Fantasy (old ones anyway, don't know if the new ones have changed). Some tower defense games would probably work out fine. However, even the really visually stunning games like these don't require fast computers to play. The games that required fast computers are the ones that have a bunch of stuff moving on the screen at the same time, and have to respond to a lot of inputs, and therefore, can't be played on a remote server because the input delay is too big. Any games that would work on a remote server could be easily run on even a very low power client computer.
Go ahead is right. It's good publicity for them, and you aren't going to find too many people with a pipe big enough to upload terabytes of data. First you would need a pretty fast upload speed, which discounts most home users, and you would also need to be able to use a terabyte of bandwidth in a billing period, or space it out over multiple billing periods. They are probably already limiting how fast they accept data from any one upload. For every guy they find who wants to upload terabytes of data, there's probably 10 or 100 who only ever use less than 1 GB.
How does one make ketchup blue or green? I guess if you start with green tomatoes it could work, but I think that would completely throw the taste off. How much food coloring do they have to add to turn red tomatoes blue or green? I see how purple could work, red + blue = purple, but you can't add anything to red to make it green. Unless Heinz have stopped using tomatoes completely, and just go with artificial flavouring too.
I think this is why the Apple model will win out in the long run for the vast majority of people. Most people won't take the time to learn about proper security practices. Some people think it will be better in 10 years, once most people have grown up with computers. But even the more savvy computer users I know, who aren't specifically into programming or computer security, are extremely stupid when it comes to computer security. Even many of the developers I know are downright blockheaded sometimes when it comes to security. Kids who grew up on the things aren't any more versed at computer security or even general computer use than people who are 50 or over and have only been using a computer for 5 years. Some people will install anything if it's for free. Which is a very bad thing to do, because if you don't know where it's coming from, you have no idea what kind of malware has been loaded into that tempting free software. This is the main reason I really try to stay away from pirated software, even when I just want to try something out. It's just not worth the risk.
The problem with wireless is that the range sucks. 802.11n has a maximum speed of 600 mbps but I've never been able to get anywhere close to that. The speed is respectable if I'm standing right next to the router, but if I'm 2 floors away (router in bottom floor of 3 storey no basement house) then the speed is just atrocious. 60 GHz won't travel that far anyway. The only thing that's good for is when you're right next to the router, which means you might as well have a wired connection.
Yeah, and the movie was really weak in terms of kid on kid violence. I found they skipped over the fighting scenes too much. In fact, I found they skipped way too many details in the movie to the point where a lot of stuff didn't even make sense. The book, though short, was so fast paced, and had so much content that the movie could have easily been longer than any of the Lord of the Rings films. To contrast with those books, which are probably 3 times as long, but contain so much that could be stripped out without losing the whole meaning of the story. Too much walking in LOTR.
Agreed. Guessed ending about half way through. However, It's supposed to be a young adult novel, and I read it as an adult. So that might have had some influence on my ability to guess the ending. Also, I've always been pretty good at guessing the endings of movies and books. I find most of them pretty predictable. Sixth sense, I guessed the ending in the first 5 minutes. Moving wasn't very enjoyable once you had guessed the ending.
What's the point of the control over the "parameters of performance" when you can't get any better performance than buying one off the lot. The range sucks. I'm guessing the handling, acceleration and top speed aren't any better than what you would get off the stock electric cars either. Sure it's fun to tinker with things, and say you built it yourself. Which is the only real reason for doing something like this.
Except that Samsung had internal documents that stated how they wanted to copy the iPhone. I think that's where they made the big mistake here.
Sure, it's not as safe as being on the ground, but the shuttle had exactly 0 fatalities from the position of LEO whereas the shuttle (correcting my previous post) had 1 failure on launch, and had 1 failure on re-entry. While LEO may not be the best environment to be in, just looking at the numbers it's hard to equate miles in LEO to miles travelled during take-off and re-entry. Even with all the miles travelled in LEO, there was still no fatalities during that time. I still think it this case it's much better to talk about fatalities or failure per trip, and not per mile travelled. It might also be useful to look at fatalities per hour of operation. The space shuttle had a total flight days of 1330. So for 31920 hours of operation, the shuttle program had 2 crashes. If the same was true for your car, you could expect 1 fatal crash ever 5 years assuming you drove 17 minutes a day. Obviously this isn't the case, as just about everybody would die in a car crash at some point in their life from just driving to work.
Nope, but it's kind of hard to collect a lease payment from a dead man.
Ok, that space shuttle thing sounds a little odd. Are those numbers counting the trips it made around the earth while in orbit? Because I wouldn't really count those as actual distance travelled. I would probably only want to count the take-off and reentry. Everything else, the thing is basically just coasting. Both of the failures have been due to massive engine failure. According to wikipedia there's been 135 space shuttle flights. And 2 crashes. That means that there's 1.5% chance that any shuttle flight will end in death. Which is probably much more than the number of car trips that end in death.
Kids going outside seems less common now too. I am a parent, so this is something I have noticed a lot. Me and a couple of my neighbors always take our kids outside to play on the weekends. They are all 6 and under, so we still stick around outside, but give them freedom to roam a bit. Or we take them to the park. But there are a lot of kids in the neighbourhood who you never see outside. We only know they exist because you see them going form their front door to the car. Otherwise, they never go outside. That park is almost always empty, except for my kinds and my neighbours.
This is the real reason. I'm actually happy that I've started seeing fixies and single speeds at Walmart. Because that is the one bike you could probably make that isn't terrible in the Walmart price range. 8 years ago when I decided to start cycling to work I got a $500 bike store hybrid bike. I rode that thing 15000 km an only had to replace brakepads, tubes, and one set of tires. You can't expect that kind of lifetime from a $200 Walmart bike. I would have had to buy a new bike every year or two from Walmart, meaning it would cost more in the end, and I wouldn't enjoy riding it at all.
I'm very much the same way. For those who are familiar with Canada's Wonderland, I really feel uneasy on the viking boat, but had no problems on the jet scream. I really don't like not being secured in. I have no problem rock climbing or bungee jumping, but really don't like standing near the edge of a cliff if I'm not strapped in. Similarly carnival rides kind of freak me out. They often look really badly maintained and like they could break at any moment.
I think that this argument only works because you it's not the soup kitchen who is giving away free food but rather the best restaurant in town. When you can get Photoshop, MS Office, or Final Cut Pro for free there's very little reason to seek out alternatives, because the one that you already know about from the big name vendor does everything you need. If it was indeed impossible to pirate photoshop, or the risk was so high (chance of getting caught and punishment resulting) that it wasn't worth it, then a lot of people who just use it to do minor editing of photos would probably seek out alternative such as GIMP However, once you start looking at music, things get a little trickier. People like whichever music they like, and you can't hand someone an album by a different artist and say it "has all the same features" so you can just go and use the free one instead. It's simply a different album by a different artist and they can't even really be compared. Anyway this whole thing doesn't make sense because there's no way to stop piracy, and even if it was stopped, I think that most people would just go out and buy whatever is most advertised rather than spend hours or their life hunting down music from obscure artists even if that music is free.