What about a picture in a Zip file. The ISPs can't download and scan every zip file on the internet, looking for files that match a certain signature. "The Bad Guys" TM will find a way around the filters, and everybody else will be inconvenienced, by legitimate stuff that ends up on the filter list.
I support the girl scouts because the sell yummy cookies. The boy scouts sell apples. At least that's how it works in Canada. It's a wonder the boy scouts are able to raise any money.
If you're gullible why wouldn't someone scam you. This didn't just come around recently. There's been people trying to scam other people for thousands of years.
With the large amount of email that people seem to accumulate, and the importance of being able to find email, I don't know why there isn't a good email client that uses a real database engine to store the data. Searching and sorting could be much quicker, and much more functional. You also wouldn't have to worry about large email collection, as most DBs can handle quite a bit of data very well. Something like a light version of Postgres or MySQL would work well. SQLLite might work alright, but some people have some very large collections of mail and it may not perform so well. The storage engine and the client could be developed separately, so different clients could be designed for different needs. And the storage engine could be located anywhere.
Banks don't send email, the phishers aren't copying HTML from anybody. What makes phishing possible, isn't HTML, and it isn't crooks. It's the people who fall for it.
What about not driving absolutely everywhere? I see a lot of people drive from my apartment complex to the convenience store next to it. Total time to walk is about 2 minutes. When you add up going to the underground parking, starting your car, exiting the underground parking, waiting for traffic to turn onto the main road, drive down 30 feet of road, and then wait for traffic again as you drive into the parking lot of the store. It takes more time to just get to the store than if you walk. Sure that short drive isn't going to cost too much in gas, or cause too much harm to the environment, but the whole attitude of having to drive absolute everywhere is just terrible.
I find that that study is quite surprising. SDTV on an HDTV looks worse than SDTV on an SDTV. Either these people are delusional, or they need their eyes checked. I don't doubt the study, it's probably quite indicative of what people actually think. But it's amazing how little people know about a TV that they spend hundreds or thousands of dollars on.
Especially considering that most people buying these will be big tech geeks. Which are mostly men. Most men don't have very good abilities at differentiating a lot of different colours. But who's to say you have to have people using them. Who knows though. They could get a considerable market share of the mantis shrimp population.
Most people I see driving SUVs are in their 40's, or older. They probably have quite a bit of money, and usually a family to transport. Most of the younger crowd drives around either in sports cars, if they have a lot of money, or in more economical sedans and hatchbacks if they don't have a lot of money, and just want to get from A to B.
You don't have a lot of choice with.Net. You pretty much can only choose VS.Net. It's the only really good tool. However, it's great. There's a couple things that could be changed, and it would be nice of the price was a little lower, but it's really an awesome tool. VS.Net is much better than any other IDE, at least as far as I've seen. I like open source software, and try to push it whenever I can, but VS.Net is one area where MS got it right for once, and really did turn out a better system then open source.
The good thing is that Harper is the leader of a minority government. So him and his friends just can't run around making whatever laws they want. He hasn't been able to cause any really big problems. The Liberals and the NDP don't want anything to do with helping him please Bush.
I've seen a lot of games get low scores just based on one aspect of the game. Possibly some aspect that the gamer doesn't even care about. I've seen a ratings breakdown like Controls=95% , Replay Value = 95%, Enjoyment=95%, Graphics=85%. And then the final rating ends up being around 85%. In some ways that makes sense. If the control is really bad, it's going to affect everything about the game. If the graphics aren't quite as good as they could be, then most of the time, it doesn't affect the game too badly.
Why shouldn't iTunes just let them put it up, and see what happens. If nobody buys it, then they should have it removed. However, they'd probably sell a lot more than a lot of other artists taking up space on the iTunes server. I can understand a store not wanting to stock a particular product, because it doesn't make them any money.
The 99 cent thing works both ways. There's probably a lot of artists who would be willing to sell their music for less, if only Apple would allow them.
Are you saying he was wrong? I mean, look around. Wouldn't you agree that most people are stupid. The only problem with having a philosopher king is that absolute power corrupts absolutely. In reality, people don't elect the best leaders, and don't make the best decision for themselves for the short term, or the long term. Most of the time, they make the stupid, impulsive decision.
What's next though? just buying the chorus, or the guitar solo? Ringtones have that covered, but how long until you can actually buy them on iTunes. Personally, I love albums, and wish that more artists would produce albums, rather than a bunch of random songs which happen to be on the same disk.
But would any of them be full speed. By your argument, based solely on flops, you could get a cluster of pentium II's to run Crysis. Given enough of them, you could get enough instructions to run many instances of it. However, could you ever accomplish the task of displaying it full screen, with a high frame rate? The game only runs as many threads as it is programmed to run. You can only parallelize it out to as many processors as you have threads. And then the distribution and gathering of the data streams in order to put the actual game on the screen would be so slow, that the game would be unplayable. FLOPS is not the only measure of speed that is important.
Yes, you are right. However most are just certain songs you can only get if you buy the whole album. Usuallly all but one of the songs is available as singles, with one or two requiring that you buy the album. What RadioHead wanted was for the whole album to only be available, and no singles at all. It's a different case. Although I would argue for RadioHead. If that's how they want to sell their music, iTunes should let them do it. Apple's head is getting way too big lately.
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Beginning of the end? My ISP (Rogers, Ottawa) removed their usenet servers years ago.
What about a picture in a Zip file. The ISPs can't download and scan every zip file on the internet, looking for files that match a certain signature. "The Bad Guys" TM will find a way around the filters, and everybody else will be inconvenienced, by legitimate stuff that ends up on the filter list.
I support the girl scouts because the sell yummy cookies. The boy scouts sell apples. At least that's how it works in Canada. It's a wonder the boy scouts are able to raise any money.
How is it any worse, than the pledge of allegiance? You can choose not to join the Boy Scouts. Not going to school is another matter entirely.
If you're gullible why wouldn't someone scam you. This didn't just come around recently. There's been people trying to scam other people for thousands of years.
With the large amount of email that people seem to accumulate, and the importance of being able to find email, I don't know why there isn't a good email client that uses a real database engine to store the data. Searching and sorting could be much quicker, and much more functional. You also wouldn't have to worry about large email collection, as most DBs can handle quite a bit of data very well. Something like a light version of Postgres or MySQL would work well. SQLLite might work alright, but some people have some very large collections of mail and it may not perform so well. The storage engine and the client could be developed separately, so different clients could be designed for different needs. And the storage engine could be located anywhere.
Banks don't send email, the phishers aren't copying HTML from anybody. What makes phishing possible, isn't HTML, and it isn't crooks. It's the people who fall for it.
What about not driving absolutely everywhere? I see a lot of people drive from my apartment complex to the convenience store next to it. Total time to walk is about 2 minutes. When you add up going to the underground parking, starting your car, exiting the underground parking, waiting for traffic to turn onto the main road, drive down 30 feet of road, and then wait for traffic again as you drive into the parking lot of the store. It takes more time to just get to the store than if you walk. Sure that short drive isn't going to cost too much in gas, or cause too much harm to the environment, but the whole attitude of having to drive absolute everywhere is just terrible.
I find that that study is quite surprising. SDTV on an HDTV looks worse than SDTV on an SDTV. Either these people are delusional, or they need their eyes checked. I don't doubt the study, it's probably quite indicative of what people actually think. But it's amazing how little people know about a TV that they spend hundreds or thousands of dollars on.
Especially considering that most people buying these will be big tech geeks. Which are mostly men. Most men don't have very good abilities at differentiating a lot of different colours. But who's to say you have to have people using them. Who knows though. They could get a considerable market share of the mantis shrimp population.
Most people I see driving SUVs are in their 40's, or older. They probably have quite a bit of money, and usually a family to transport. Most of the younger crowd drives around either in sports cars, if they have a lot of money, or in more economical sedans and hatchbacks if they don't have a lot of money, and just want to get from A to B.
You don't have a lot of choice with .Net. You pretty much can only choose VS.Net. It's the only really good tool. However, it's great. There's a couple things that could be changed, and it would be nice of the price was a little lower, but it's really an awesome tool. VS.Net is much better than any other IDE, at least as far as I've seen. I like open source software, and try to push it whenever I can, but VS.Net is one area where MS got it right for once, and really did turn out a better system then open source.
The good thing is that Harper is the leader of a minority government. So him and his friends just can't run around making whatever laws they want. He hasn't been able to cause any really big problems. The Liberals and the NDP don't want anything to do with helping him please Bush.
I've seen a lot of games get low scores just based on one aspect of the game. Possibly some aspect that the gamer doesn't even care about. I've seen a ratings breakdown like Controls=95% , Replay Value = 95%, Enjoyment=95%, Graphics=85%. And then the final rating ends up being around 85%. In some ways that makes sense. If the control is really bad, it's going to affect everything about the game. If the graphics aren't quite as good as they could be, then most of the time, it doesn't affect the game too badly.
Metal Buttons? I thought the iPhone didn't have any buttons.
Journalling isn't always good. Just ask Hans Reiser.
Why shouldn't iTunes just let them put it up, and see what happens. If nobody buys it, then they should have it removed. However, they'd probably sell a lot more than a lot of other artists taking up space on the iTunes server. I can understand a store not wanting to stock a particular product, because it doesn't make them any money.
The 99 cent thing works both ways. There's probably a lot of artists who would be willing to sell their music for less, if only Apple would allow them.
Are you saying he was wrong? I mean, look around. Wouldn't you agree that most people are stupid. The only problem with having a philosopher king is that absolute power corrupts absolutely. In reality, people don't elect the best leaders, and don't make the best decision for themselves for the short term, or the long term. Most of the time, they make the stupid, impulsive decision.
What's next though? just buying the chorus, or the guitar solo? Ringtones have that covered, but how long until you can actually buy them on iTunes. Personally, I love albums, and wish that more artists would produce albums, rather than a bunch of random songs which happen to be on the same disk.
But would any of them be full speed. By your argument, based solely on flops, you could get a cluster of pentium II's to run Crysis. Given enough of them, you could get enough instructions to run many instances of it. However, could you ever accomplish the task of displaying it full screen, with a high frame rate? The game only runs as many threads as it is programmed to run. You can only parallelize it out to as many processors as you have threads. And then the distribution and gathering of the data streams in order to put the actual game on the screen would be so slow, that the game would be unplayable. FLOPS is not the only measure of speed that is important.
Yes, you are right. However most are just certain songs you can only get if you buy the whole album. Usuallly all but one of the songs is available as singles, with one or two requiring that you buy the album. What RadioHead wanted was for the whole album to only be available, and no singles at all. It's a different case. Although I would argue for RadioHead. If that's how they want to sell their music, iTunes should let them do it. Apple's head is getting way too big lately.
By can it run Crysis?
The moon does rotate, but it does so at such a speed, that the same side always faces the earth.