The neo-cons are going to find a way to discover that I voted for a non-neo-con? Or that I voted for a member of the Green Party for a parks position because they wanted to increase funding for parks instead of further limit the parks' hours?
I smell a revolution. It smells like Doritos and KFC. Unfortunately, this revolution will result in skyrocketing stock values of Yum! Brands, Inc. and PepsiCo, Inc, and a void of political action.
The summary doesn't state who is at risk here. For all I know, these could be hard drives for servers. I suppose the files autorun.inf and ghost.pif hint that it's targeting Windows. Would this also be a security issue if someone attempted to execure those files within Wine or Parallels?
But comparing a regular keyboard to a MS Natural keyboard is like comparing a Chevy Nova to a Cadillac CTS. Sure, they both get you there, but one is a hell of a lot more comfortable than the other.
I'm a much bigger fan of the original MS Natural keyboards than any of the later designs. I especially hate the ones where the keys between the letters and the keypad are all rearranged. I was fortunate to find a Microsoft Natural Keyboard Pro on Craigslist, and I honestly believe that this keyboard was the best thing I've ever bought off of there.
Maybe you can clear something up for me. I built a Myth frontend using an ASUS board (M2 NPV-VM) that supposedly had hdtv out on board, but I never got the fancy video options to work. I've ended up just using the VGA out (my 42" Panasonic HDTV has a computer input). It actually looks really good -- at 10' it's hard to distinguish the PVR signal from broadcast HDTV. I was surprised.
So I guess the two questions are: 1. Are you sure VGA won't do the job, and 2. What am I missing? Not all TV's have a VGA input. So if they only have Component, Composite, S-Video, and HDMI, then you're SOL if you have only VGA. I suppose you could get a converter to change a VGA plug to a DVI, but then you still have to use a DVI-HDMI cable.
But then again, I am posting this 3 hours after being at the bars. Have fun figuring out what the hell I said.
I'd be tempted to get this, but then I saw that it only has VGA output. If I'm getting something like this, it's not to use it as a desktop: it's to turn it into a PVR or a frontend for Myth. But no S-Video or DVI? That's suicide for this board. This means I'd have to go buy a video card for this, since all of my spare video cards are AGP, which just gets added on to the bill.
I guess I'll have to look elsewhere for a VIA board for my next PVR. I suppose I'll also have to wait until some cable-card device supports Linux, too.
Then how the hell do they explain this, this, this, and this? For those of you too lazy to look, the first and fourth have to do with how starving slows down your body, resulting in you living longer because your body doesn't wear itself out as quickly. The second has to do with starving reduces your changes of getting Parkinson's Disease. The third has to do with starving delays Huntington's Disease. And by "starving," they mean being hungry, not killing yourself by being anorexic.
So TimeMachine doesn't have a filesize limit? I suppose you could work around this by creating a partition just for your timemachine files, but that would probably require too much work for you too, since you havn't done it yet.
Is this number just from Radiohead's site? Or does this also include torrents used by other people? I'd ask if it includes any other filesharing, but the only person I know that's dumb enough to be using something like Ares is one of my roommates. But then again, other people must be to, since she's still using it. Or maybe she's just the only person using that program these days....
"Sorry, my battery died." or "I didn't have service."
Since half of the buildings I spend a significant amount of time don't have service, the first is more of a cop-out, but the second is a damn good reason (and not an excuse.) Those damn lecture halls built in the 60's with who knows how many tonnes of concrete aren't known for letting radio waves in too deep.
My brother has had our family's PS2 for the past 3 or 4 years. I havn't wanted to shell out money for another PS2 because I figured I'd be getting a PS3 in the next year or so and I could play my old games on that (since I'm still attending university and will probably graduate in May, I'll hopefully have enough disposable income to get a TV and a PS3.) But since the PS3 doesn't have PS2 emulation any more, and I havn't heard a thing about PS1 emulation (yes, some people still have PS1 games), this thing looks like a great object. Plus, the psychology of a 2-digit price instead of a 3-digit price is pretty important. Dropping a price from $120 to $109 has nowhere near the effect of $110 to $99, even though they're both basically 10% drops.
If owning www.whatever.com, and you claim that you have any rights for any URL that includes "whatever", that's clearly bullshit. Others have the right to own www.whatever.org, whatever.net, whatever.co.uk, whatever.tv, and they should have the right to own whatever.xxx. As long as the non-first person doesn't establish their site to resemble a sight with a similar URL (whatever.com and whatever.net, or simpledog.com and thesimpledog.com), there's no chance of fraud or IP infringement.
Is something that can override cell phone preferences and force them into silent mode. Preferably into Silent & No Vibrate. That way people can still make calls, but nobody knows if they receive them. I find that incoming calls are the ones that end up being found incosiderate. People generally know not to make calls when they're in places like restaurants, theatres, cinemas, etc.
Also, I remember reading about it on I think the BBC, but if restaurants could bring back the phone booths, that would be awesome. If this were to happen, then I would really love to see some sort of jamming system that ONLY allows notification of incoming calls and messages, but doesn't let you actually call or receive calls (receiving SMS's isn't that big of an issue.) Then, if people wanted to make calls or receive calls, they have to go to the phone booths.
I also seem to think that if the jammers were limited to just the building or the unit in a building (if it's in a mall), then it would be perfectly legal as long as there was some sort of reasonable notification before customers enter the unit/building (such as a sign next to/on the front door.)
With SNES games costing sometimes $70 when they were launched (I have no clue what NES games cost when they were released), I'm surprised video games are as "cheap" as they are. Sure, some games have a rediculously high price now, like Guitar Hero and Rock Band come to mind. But there, you're also paying for new hardware, which doesn't cost *that* much more than a typical controller, and given that they're made in smaller quantities and require more materials, it makes sense that they cost more than a typical controller.
If games cost $60-$70 for the SNES, if video games were subject to inflation, and given a modest 3% inflation rate, they would be costing between $93.48 and $109.06. Yes, I know that not all games cost $60-70 back fifteen years ago, but some very popular ones did.
I'm perfectly happy with the 12 or 14 gauge Phillips speaker cable I bought at the hardware store. Given that I don't have $10K speakers and a $10K receiver and a $10K amplifier and a $1k power "cleaner", I think it's more than acceptable. I think it only cost $20 for a 50' roll. Maybe less.
Or, they could install XP and the average user would run Office and whichever browser of their choice with no problems. My sister still uses the same 733mhz P3 that got her through college years ago as her primary computer. Her only complaint is that she can't play the Sims 2, but she figures that game is more complexe than she wants and sticks to The Sims and Civilization 2, since they both don't require as big of time commitments
They're also required to account for their spending and for keeping costs down. If they proposed a completely open player and it was a significant amount of money more than the Microsoft one then they would have to justify why they went with the costly option.
Granted I've not worked in a non-profit organisation, but even so, I think that justifying a larger spend on something that affects less than 0.004% of visitors is going to be a very tough sell for anyone. Well, I have worked for a non-profit corporation, and in all likelyhood, I will work in another one soon. Sure, they're supposed to keep costs down to a minimum, but they're also expected to either run a loss or break even overall. This is where donations come in and help support the non-profit. Most importantly, all of their actions are supposed to be directly related to their mission statement.
Here's the BBC's mission statement:
BBC Beyond 2000 - Mission Statement We aim to be the world's most creative and trusted broadcaster and programme maker, seeking to satisfy all our audiences in the UK with services that inform, educate and entertain and that enrich their lives in ways that the market alone will not.
We aim to be guided by our public purposes; to encourage the UK's most innovative talents; to act independently of all interests; to aspire to the highest ethical standards; to offer the best value for money; to be accountable to our licence payers; to endeavour to be the world's leading international broadcaster; and to be the best - or to learn from the best - in everything we do. Emphasis mine.
By ignoring any market: Mac or Linux, they're flat-out defying their mission statement.
For the obligatory automotive analogy, would people take advantage of the improvements in engine design, lighter materials, etc. by buying large trucks rather than getting improved fuel efficiency with cars of the same size? For your information, there is no way in HELL my penis can fit in a Ford Pinto. That is why I rotate between driving theseArmy-issuedHumvees and Bigfoot.
Many banks don't even own the ATM's. They're often owned by 3rd parties who then charge the banks service fees.
The main difference is that the ATM is there for convenience. They're everywhere and can fit in places that banks can't. They also are available 24/7. Meanwhile, voting machines are much less convenient than absentee ballots, as you have to go to the voting precinct, rather than having them sent to you, resulting in you being able to fill them out anywhere and deposit in those seemingly ubiquitous (and somehow, surprisingly, absent when you need them) mail drops. And unlike the ATM, which you can pass on and go to the bank's branch, the only way to pass on voting machines is to send in a request form weeks in advance and wait for the processing time. Then you have the option to either mail it back or have it dropped off at the local precinct. You still have the paper trail, btw, and you have as much evidence as possible that your vote will be counted properly (since you can ask a court to be able to have a separate group recount after the results are reported)
Now all we need are some calls that query and listen to when Diebold changes people's votes, then automatically record & report the events to an independent 3rd-party.
With Diebold's incompetence, this shouldn't be too hard to do, should it?
You may not remember this, but back in the days before wides-spread computer projectors, professors actually used overhead projectors. They treat powerpoint the same way that they treat overhead slides. In fact, some professors *still* use overhead projectors. Even more surprising, some professors even use, get this, BOTH powerpoint AND overhead projectors! It's not the tool that's inherently bad, it's how the tool is used.
A chainsaw, wielded by the wrong person, can destroy a house. Wielded by the right person, it can create a sculpture made of ice.
T-Mobile offers more minutes and, when I signed my 1-year contract over two years ago (I'm on a month-to-month now, as I don't want to get in to another contract since I may be moving in less than a year), and when I first signed up with them, SMS cost me $0.05 per messeage sent and received. Now, it costs $0.15. Their explaination, after I confronted them on this, was because it's what everyone else is charging.
I see the logic there: nobody is willing to switch to T-Mobile just because they offer a lower SMS rate. Hell, they offer 600 minutes for the same price as AT&T offers for 500 minutes, yet so many people stick with AT&T (even those without iPhones!). So why not bump up the price to match everyone else? If you don't, you're basically missing out on $0.10 of profit per message.
However, this leads to yet another interesting conclusion: collusion. If anyone can *prove* that cell phone companies are colluding (which shouldn't be too difficult, since prices are increasing despite the infrastructure not expanding drastically,) then there would be a gigantic class-action lawsuit, whereby each customer/account is refunded $5 per account they hold.
"How I stopped nuclear war." We can thank this guy for being insubordinate and not following procedures. Because if he *had* followed orders, then it's incredibly likely that none of us would be here today.
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The neo-cons are going to find a way to discover that I voted for a non-neo-con? Or that I voted for a member of the Green Party for a parks position because they wanted to increase funding for parks instead of further limit the parks' hours?
I smell a revolution. It smells like Doritos and KFC. Unfortunately, this revolution will result in skyrocketing stock values of Yum! Brands, Inc. and PepsiCo, Inc, and a void of political action.
The summary doesn't state who is at risk here. For all I know, these could be hard drives for servers. I suppose the files autorun.inf and ghost.pif hint that it's targeting Windows. Would this also be a security issue if someone attempted to execure those files within Wine or Parallels?
But comparing a regular keyboard to a MS Natural keyboard is like comparing a Chevy Nova to a Cadillac CTS. Sure, they both get you there, but one is a hell of a lot more comfortable than the other.
I'm a much bigger fan of the original MS Natural keyboards than any of the later designs. I especially hate the ones where the keys between the letters and the keypad are all rearranged. I was fortunate to find a Microsoft Natural Keyboard Pro on Craigslist, and I honestly believe that this keyboard was the best thing I've ever bought off of there.
So I guess the two questions are: 1. Are you sure VGA won't do the job, and 2. What am I missing? Not all TV's have a VGA input. So if they only have Component, Composite, S-Video, and HDMI, then you're SOL if you have only VGA. I suppose you could get a converter to change a VGA plug to a DVI, but then you still have to use a DVI-HDMI cable.
But then again, I am posting this 3 hours after being at the bars. Have fun figuring out what the hell I said.
I'd be tempted to get this, but then I saw that it only has VGA output. If I'm getting something like this, it's not to use it as a desktop: it's to turn it into a PVR or a frontend for Myth. But no S-Video or DVI? That's suicide for this board. This means I'd have to go buy a video card for this, since all of my spare video cards are AGP, which just gets added on to the bill.
I guess I'll have to look elsewhere for a VIA board for my next PVR. I suppose I'll also have to wait until some cable-card device supports Linux, too.
Then how the hell do they explain this, this, this, and this? For those of you too lazy to look, the first and fourth have to do with how starving slows down your body, resulting in you living longer because your body doesn't wear itself out as quickly. The second has to do with starving reduces your changes of getting Parkinson's Disease. The third has to do with starving delays Huntington's Disease. And by "starving," they mean being hungry, not killing yourself by being anorexic.
So TimeMachine doesn't have a filesize limit? I suppose you could work around this by creating a partition just for your timemachine files, but that would probably require too much work for you too, since you havn't done it yet.
Is this number just from Radiohead's site? Or does this also include torrents used by other people? I'd ask if it includes any other filesharing, but the only person I know that's dumb enough to be using something like Ares is one of my roommates. But then again, other people must be to, since she's still using it. Or maybe she's just the only person using that program these days....
My typical response is either:
"Sorry, my battery died."
or
"I didn't have service."
Since half of the buildings I spend a significant amount of time don't have service, the first is more of a cop-out, but the second is a damn good reason (and not an excuse.) Those damn lecture halls built in the 60's with who knows how many tonnes of concrete aren't known for letting radio waves in too deep.
My brother has had our family's PS2 for the past 3 or 4 years. I havn't wanted to shell out money for another PS2 because I figured I'd be getting a PS3 in the next year or so and I could play my old games on that (since I'm still attending university and will probably graduate in May, I'll hopefully have enough disposable income to get a TV and a PS3.) But since the PS3 doesn't have PS2 emulation any more, and I havn't heard a thing about PS1 emulation (yes, some people still have PS1 games), this thing looks like a great object. Plus, the psychology of a 2-digit price instead of a 3-digit price is pretty important. Dropping a price from $120 to $109 has nowhere near the effect of $110 to $99, even though they're both basically 10% drops.
If owning www.whatever.com, and you claim that you have any rights for any URL that includes "whatever", that's clearly bullshit. Others have the right to own www.whatever.org, whatever.net, whatever.co.uk, whatever.tv, and they should have the right to own whatever.xxx. As long as the non-first person doesn't establish their site to resemble a sight with a similar URL (whatever.com and whatever.net, or simpledog.com and thesimpledog.com), there's no chance of fraud or IP infringement.
Is something that can override cell phone preferences and force them into silent mode. Preferably into Silent & No Vibrate. That way people can still make calls, but nobody knows if they receive them. I find that incoming calls are the ones that end up being found incosiderate. People generally know not to make calls when they're in places like restaurants, theatres, cinemas, etc.
Also, I remember reading about it on I think the BBC, but if restaurants could bring back the phone booths, that would be awesome. If this were to happen, then I would really love to see some sort of jamming system that ONLY allows notification of incoming calls and messages, but doesn't let you actually call or receive calls (receiving SMS's isn't that big of an issue.) Then, if people wanted to make calls or receive calls, they have to go to the phone booths.
I also seem to think that if the jammers were limited to just the building or the unit in a building (if it's in a mall), then it would be perfectly legal as long as there was some sort of reasonable notification before customers enter the unit/building (such as a sign next to/on the front door.)
With SNES games costing sometimes $70 when they were launched (I have no clue what NES games cost when they were released), I'm surprised video games are as "cheap" as they are. Sure, some games have a rediculously high price now, like Guitar Hero and Rock Band come to mind. But there, you're also paying for new hardware, which doesn't cost *that* much more than a typical controller, and given that they're made in smaller quantities and require more materials, it makes sense that they cost more than a typical controller.
If games cost $60-$70 for the SNES, if video games were subject to inflation, and given a modest 3% inflation rate, they would be costing between $93.48 and $109.06. Yes, I know that not all games cost $60-70 back fifteen years ago, but some very popular ones did.
I thought that, given their hip status, that they'd be having sex instead of watching porn. Does this make them as pathetic as Windows users, yet?
Good!
I'm perfectly happy with the 12 or 14 gauge Phillips speaker cable I bought at the hardware store. Given that I don't have $10K speakers and a $10K receiver and a $10K amplifier and a $1k power "cleaner", I think it's more than acceptable. I think it only cost $20 for a 50' roll. Maybe less.
Or, they could install XP and the average user would run Office and whichever browser of their choice with no problems. My sister still uses the same 733mhz P3 that got her through college years ago as her primary computer. Her only complaint is that she can't play the Sims 2, but she figures that game is more complexe than she wants and sticks to The Sims and Civilization 2, since they both don't require as big of time commitments
Granted I've not worked in a non-profit organisation, but even so, I think that justifying a larger spend on something that affects less than 0.004% of visitors is going to be a very tough sell for anyone. Well, I have worked for a non-profit corporation, and in all likelyhood, I will work in another one soon. Sure, they're supposed to keep costs down to a minimum, but they're also expected to either run a loss or break even overall. This is where donations come in and help support the non-profit. Most importantly, all of their actions are supposed to be directly related to their mission statement.
Here's the BBC's mission statement: BBC Beyond 2000 - Mission Statement
We aim to be the world's most creative and trusted broadcaster and programme maker, seeking to satisfy all our audiences in the UK with services that inform, educate and entertain and that enrich their lives in ways that the market alone will not.
We aim to be guided by our public purposes; to encourage the UK's most innovative talents; to act independently of all interests; to aspire to the highest ethical standards; to offer the best value for money; to be accountable to our licence payers; to endeavour to be the world's leading international broadcaster; and to be the best - or to learn from the best - in everything we do. Emphasis mine.
By ignoring any market: Mac or Linux, they're flat-out defying their mission statement.
Many banks don't even own the ATM's. They're often owned by 3rd parties who then charge the banks service fees.
The main difference is that the ATM is there for convenience. They're everywhere and can fit in places that banks can't. They also are available 24/7. Meanwhile, voting machines are much less convenient than absentee ballots, as you have to go to the voting precinct, rather than having them sent to you, resulting in you being able to fill them out anywhere and deposit in those seemingly ubiquitous (and somehow, surprisingly, absent when you need them) mail drops. And unlike the ATM, which you can pass on and go to the bank's branch, the only way to pass on voting machines is to send in a request form weeks in advance and wait for the processing time. Then you have the option to either mail it back or have it dropped off at the local precinct. You still have the paper trail, btw, and you have as much evidence as possible that your vote will be counted properly (since you can ask a court to be able to have a separate group recount after the results are reported)
Now all we need are some calls that query and listen to when Diebold changes people's votes, then automatically record & report the events to an independent 3rd-party.
With Diebold's incompetence, this shouldn't be too hard to do, should it?
You may not remember this, but back in the days before wides-spread computer projectors, professors actually used overhead projectors. They treat powerpoint the same way that they treat overhead slides. In fact, some professors *still* use overhead projectors. Even more surprising, some professors even use, get this, BOTH powerpoint AND overhead projectors! It's not the tool that's inherently bad, it's how the tool is used.
A chainsaw, wielded by the wrong person, can destroy a house. Wielded by the right person, it can create a sculpture made of ice.
T-Mobile offers more minutes and, when I signed my 1-year contract over two years ago (I'm on a month-to-month now, as I don't want to get in to another contract since I may be moving in less than a year), and when I first signed up with them, SMS cost me $0.05 per messeage sent and received. Now, it costs $0.15. Their explaination, after I confronted them on this, was because it's what everyone else is charging.
I see the logic there: nobody is willing to switch to T-Mobile just because they offer a lower SMS rate. Hell, they offer 600 minutes for the same price as AT&T offers for 500 minutes, yet so many people stick with AT&T (even those without iPhones!). So why not bump up the price to match everyone else? If you don't, you're basically missing out on $0.10 of profit per message.
However, this leads to yet another interesting conclusion: collusion. If anyone can *prove* that cell phone companies are colluding (which shouldn't be too difficult, since prices are increasing despite the infrastructure not expanding drastically,) then there would be a gigantic class-action lawsuit, whereby each customer/account is refunded $5 per account they hold.
Anyone?
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"How I stopped nuclear war." We can thank this guy for being insubordinate and not following procedures. Because if he *had* followed orders, then it's incredibly likely that none of us would be here today.