Digital keys are not physical items. This is like them demanding that you hand over your thoughts. In the US, and many other countries, there are laws stating that you have the right to remain silent, and that you don't have to testify against yourself. If you don't hand over the keys to your house, car, or safety deposit box, there's other ways of retrieving such physical objects by just taking them from you. If you don't hand them over, and they have a search warrant, they are allowed to break the lock. They can't do that with thoughts in your head.
Couldn't they re-record the albums under a different title, and sell those? From what I know, most labels only own the rights to the mechanical reproduction of the originally recorded album, and not to the actual song. They could re-record their old songs and release the songs again, under a new album name.
On a related note, I hate the whole, "you have to leave a tip" attitude. A tip should be a little extra money when they do an extraordinary job. It should not be the main source of income for the waitstaff. Just charge me whatever it costs so that the waitstaff can be paid a decent wage, and stop trying to make me guess what level of tip is acceptable in whatever city and restaurant I happen to be in. Also, tips seem be be getting a little ridiculous. Some waiters say 20% is what is expected. So if I go out for a $50 meal, and spend 1 hour in the restaurant, then the waiter gets $10 from me. But they probably were serving at least 2 other tables, meaning they make $30 an hour. That's way too much for somebody with no specialized skills.
So are lions and tigers the same species because they can mate, and produce a liger? This has been reported as happen in nature, and not just in the lab, or when put in close captivity by humans (which would still be nature).
In my grade 11 English class, we learned about the history of the English language. As part of this, we read a passage from Beowulf. After reading that, you truly understand that language does change from time to time. And what once was a rule, is now considered false. Read anything written more than 200 years ago, and you will see a very different language from what we have today. English isn't what a bunch of high-brows say it is, but rather the contrary. Languages like French (especially in Quebec) have committees to decide what is official French, and what it no. Meanwhile, English tends to accept any word which happens to be in use by a lot of people. Such as using "Google" as a verb.
I run into this all the time when arguing with my wife. She comes up with some non-sensical argument, and my brain goes into shutdown. It's hard to argue with someone who doesn't used proper logic. Explains why she always wins the arguments.
If you use Truecrypt or similar to encrypt the data, then you are quite safe. The key isn't stored anywhere. At least that's my understanding. Use a strong passphrase, and there is probably no way anybody will break the encryption in your lifetime, or even the planet's lifetime.
How are foreign students being funded? Aren't the foreign students funding the university? From what I know, foreign students pay much much more to go to American schools than Americans do. At least the schools that are funded by tax dollars. You shouldn't be complaining. All those foreign students are bringing extra bucks into the school.
And every car should be shipped with a full schematic for each and every part of the car. As well as documenting the complete manufacturing process. Who cares if the competing car company then uses all that technology you took years to develop.
We'd even have good reason to switch back to detergents with phosphates. From what I remember they took the phosphates out because it was causing increased algae production, which killed off a lot of the other life in the lake. If we're just using the water to feed the algae, we might as well put phosphates in the soap.
I bought a vista laptop with only 512 MB of ram. It booted, quite slowly, but it worked. Anyway, I promptly installed Mandriva and it runs very smoothly. Vista is still installed though. It runs like a pig towing a tractor.
Living in Canada I see this a lot. The French (the ones from Quebec) don't understand you if you speak broken French (or don't speak their version of broken French), yet most of the English people I know have no problem understanding those who speak broken English.
You can stand around the polling station and make sure the box is empty when the polling station opens, make sure that nobody tampers with it while voting is in progress, and watch was they open it and count the votes by hand. Now, not every voter needs to stand around and watch, but the fact that anyone can cuts down the oppurtinity for corruption. Not only that, it takes a lot of effort to influence a large number of votes. With paper voting, you might be able to change a few votes. With electronic voting, every vote can be changed with the press of a button. Also with electronic voting, you have no way of verifying that the vote it's showing on the screen, or the one that gets printed on your receipt is the one that's actually recorded on the memory card, or that the one on the memory card is the one that's sent to the central database that aggregates the votes. Or that the count returned by the final tally is actually accurate. Only a very small percentage of the people in the country could possibly understand the system and verify that there aren't any problems, and even from those who could understand it, the time investment to understand the system is extremely burdensome. With paper and humans counting, any voter can verify that things are being done correctly. Not so with electronic voting systems.
Yeah, too bad they use the budget surplus to pay down the national debt. I mean, we'd much rather pay for years of interest on these loans, just so we can have a little extra money right now.
What's the saying? Don't attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. I don't think that many of the people who are in favour of electronic voting are really corrupt, being paid off, or trying to manipulate the vote, but are just ignorant of its downsides, and think that electronic voting will actually create a better system, with more accurate counts, and less corruption.
I know it's not a perfect solution, but there exists organizations that will give free IDs (funded by donations) to homeless and other less well-to-do people for the purpose of voting. It would be better if they were free in the first place, but there are solutions.
500,000 hours is a long time. That's 57 years. I've had many traditional drives die. And none of them had anywhere close to 57 years. The oldest operational drive I have is 10 years old, but it probably only has 4-5 years maximum of time that it's been on. Are you really going to care about your hard drive 57 years after you buy it? And those are old smaller capacity drives. The newer higher capacity drives tend not to last as long. Most drives I wouldn't trust past 5 years of usage.
I could buy a 10 GB drive for most of my OS and software, and just keep my media on a traditional hard drive. You don't need a super fast drive for your MP3s and Videos, but it would be nice to increase boot times as well as application start up times.
Couldn't you mostly boot from it by putting your boot information on a standard drive, just enough to load up the controller for this drive, and then loading everything else off the solid state? I mean, it wouldn't be quite as fast, but you'd still save quite a bit of time.
Hey, I just thought of something. How about using the waste heat from our air conditioners (more likely central air) to make hot water. Most people don't have those "instant hot water" heaters and instead are keeping a very large volume of water hot 24 hours a day. Couldn't we use the heat extracted from the air to heat the water. I may not provide all the electricity necessary, but it would use the heat for something, instead of just releasing it into the atmosphere. May not matter much to those using natural gas for their water heating needs, but there's still a lot of people on electric water heating.
Also, I think the argument of servers used to generate heat is terrible. Most of the time, the air from whatever room the computer is in isn't actively circulated to the rest of the house, and therefore results in higher temperatures in the single room, and probably doesn't affect how much your furnace is running. Unless you attach your thermostat to the back of the server and leave it set at 70 degress F. The rest of your house will be pretty cold, but you'll probably save a lot in heating costs.
I've always found that the community mods was what really set PC and console gaming apart. Argue all you want about graphics, controls, sound, and every other aspect of the game that's different, and the place where PC games really shine is on community mods. This gives the games a lot more playability.
You do realize that hydroelectric power requires lots and lots of water. It's not without it's own environmental effects. It takes a lot of land that could otherwise be forest, or something else, to create the reservoir for a hydroelectric plant. There's only a few places in the world that actually have the right geography for natural hydroelectric plants.
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Digital keys are not physical items. This is like them demanding that you hand over your thoughts. In the US, and many other countries, there are laws stating that you have the right to remain silent, and that you don't have to testify against yourself. If you don't hand over the keys to your house, car, or safety deposit box, there's other ways of retrieving such physical objects by just taking them from you. If you don't hand them over, and they have a search warrant, they are allowed to break the lock. They can't do that with thoughts in your head.
Couldn't they re-record the albums under a different title, and sell those? From what I know, most labels only own the rights to the mechanical reproduction of the originally recorded album, and not to the actual song. They could re-record their old songs and release the songs again, under a new album name.
On a related note, I hate the whole, "you have to leave a tip" attitude. A tip should be a little extra money when they do an extraordinary job. It should not be the main source of income for the waitstaff. Just charge me whatever it costs so that the waitstaff can be paid a decent wage, and stop trying to make me guess what level of tip is acceptable in whatever city and restaurant I happen to be in. Also, tips seem be be getting a little ridiculous. Some waiters say 20% is what is expected. So if I go out for a $50 meal, and spend 1 hour in the restaurant, then the waiter gets $10 from me. But they probably were serving at least 2 other tables, meaning they make $30 an hour. That's way too much for somebody with no specialized skills.
So are lions and tigers the same species because they can mate, and produce a liger? This has been reported as happen in nature, and not just in the lab, or when put in close captivity by humans (which would still be nature).
In my grade 11 English class, we learned about the history of the English language. As part of this, we read a passage from Beowulf. After reading that, you truly understand that language does change from time to time. And what once was a rule, is now considered false. Read anything written more than 200 years ago, and you will see a very different language from what we have today. English isn't what a bunch of high-brows say it is, but rather the contrary. Languages like French (especially in Quebec) have committees to decide what is official French, and what it no. Meanwhile, English tends to accept any word which happens to be in use by a lot of people. Such as using "Google" as a verb.
Shouldn't that be "Wow that's awesome."
I run into this all the time when arguing with my wife. She comes up with some non-sensical argument, and my brain goes into shutdown. It's hard to argue with someone who doesn't used proper logic. Explains why she always wins the arguments.
If you use Truecrypt or similar to encrypt the data, then you are quite safe. The key isn't stored anywhere. At least that's my understanding. Use a strong passphrase, and there is probably no way anybody will break the encryption in your lifetime, or even the planet's lifetime.
How are foreign students being funded? Aren't the foreign students funding the university? From what I know, foreign students pay much much more to go to American schools than Americans do. At least the schools that are funded by tax dollars. You shouldn't be complaining. All those foreign students are bringing extra bucks into the school.
And every car should be shipped with a full schematic for each and every part of the car. As well as documenting the complete manufacturing process. Who cares if the competing car company then uses all that technology you took years to develop.
We'd even have good reason to switch back to detergents with phosphates. From what I remember they took the phosphates out because it was causing increased algae production, which killed off a lot of the other life in the lake. If we're just using the water to feed the algae, we might as well put phosphates in the soap.
I bought a vista laptop with only 512 MB of ram. It booted, quite slowly, but it worked. Anyway, I promptly installed Mandriva and it runs very smoothly. Vista is still installed though. It runs like a pig towing a tractor.
Living in Canada I see this a lot. The French (the ones from Quebec) don't understand you if you speak broken French (or don't speak their version of broken French), yet most of the English people I know have no problem understanding those who speak broken English.
You can stand around the polling station and make sure the box is empty when the polling station opens, make sure that nobody tampers with it while voting is in progress, and watch was they open it and count the votes by hand. Now, not every voter needs to stand around and watch, but the fact that anyone can cuts down the oppurtinity for corruption. Not only that, it takes a lot of effort to influence a large number of votes. With paper voting, you might be able to change a few votes. With electronic voting, every vote can be changed with the press of a button. Also with electronic voting, you have no way of verifying that the vote it's showing on the screen, or the one that gets printed on your receipt is the one that's actually recorded on the memory card, or that the one on the memory card is the one that's sent to the central database that aggregates the votes. Or that the count returned by the final tally is actually accurate. Only a very small percentage of the people in the country could possibly understand the system and verify that there aren't any problems, and even from those who could understand it, the time investment to understand the system is extremely burdensome. With paper and humans counting, any voter can verify that things are being done correctly. Not so with electronic voting systems.
Yeah, too bad they use the budget surplus to pay down the national debt. I mean, we'd much rather pay for years of interest on these loans, just so we can have a little extra money right now.
What's the saying? Don't attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. I don't think that many of the people who are in favour of electronic voting are really corrupt, being paid off, or trying to manipulate the vote, but are just ignorant of its downsides, and think that electronic voting will actually create a better system, with more accurate counts, and less corruption.
I know it's not a perfect solution, but there exists organizations that will give free IDs (funded by donations) to homeless and other less well-to-do people for the purpose of voting. It would be better if they were free in the first place, but there are solutions.
Try creating an index (most likely unique) on the Sim_ID column.
500,000 hours is a long time. That's 57 years. I've had many traditional drives die. And none of them had anywhere close to 57 years. The oldest operational drive I have is 10 years old, but it probably only has 4-5 years maximum of time that it's been on. Are you really going to care about your hard drive 57 years after you buy it? And those are old smaller capacity drives. The newer higher capacity drives tend not to last as long. Most drives I wouldn't trust past 5 years of usage.
I could buy a 10 GB drive for most of my OS and software, and just keep my media on a traditional hard drive. You don't need a super fast drive for your MP3s and Videos, but it would be nice to increase boot times as well as application start up times.
Couldn't you mostly boot from it by putting your boot information on a standard drive, just enough to load up the controller for this drive, and then loading everything else off the solid state? I mean, it wouldn't be quite as fast, but you'd still save quite a bit of time.
Hey, I just thought of something. How about using the waste heat from our air conditioners (more likely central air) to make hot water. Most people don't have those "instant hot water" heaters and instead are keeping a very large volume of water hot 24 hours a day. Couldn't we use the heat extracted from the air to heat the water. I may not provide all the electricity necessary, but it would use the heat for something, instead of just releasing it into the atmosphere. May not matter much to those using natural gas for their water heating needs, but there's still a lot of people on electric water heating.
Also, I think the argument of servers used to generate heat is terrible. Most of the time, the air from whatever room the computer is in isn't actively circulated to the rest of the house, and therefore results in higher temperatures in the single room, and probably doesn't affect how much your furnace is running. Unless you attach your thermostat to the back of the server and leave it set at 70 degress F. The rest of your house will be pretty cold, but you'll probably save a lot in heating costs.
I've always found that the community mods was what really set PC and console gaming apart. Argue all you want about graphics, controls, sound, and every other aspect of the game that's different, and the place where PC games really shine is on community mods. This gives the games a lot more playability.
I believe trolling is also applicable.
You do realize that hydroelectric power requires lots and lots of water. It's not without it's own environmental effects. It takes a lot of land that could otherwise be forest, or something else, to create the reservoir for a hydroelectric plant. There's only a few places in the world that actually have the right geography for natural hydroelectric plants.