I have often thought of what could be next as well. How about blowing up *regular* apartment buildings or houses? Impossible to defend against - yet just a couple would scare the jeebies out of most of the nation. We insist on "protecting" dams and nuclear facilities - but ignore where people actually *are*.
Here in Oregon we had a 90+ year old run over a family on a sidewalk. With that and the Santa Monica market - maybe Al Quaida has recruited our seniors and trained them to be an elite terrorist force?
Fellow USA-ers - instead of whining on/. - lets go out and vote these guys out of office. They attack us - we fight back. Hit them where it hurts. "I'm a file swapper - AND I VOTE".;) As Cartman would say: "Seriously guys!"
I wonder if anyone will have an opinion on this one...
Mine is - What's the difference? Universities have the liberty of thinking about theory and all that jazz. In the rest of the industry, we just want tools to do our jobs. If that tool works but looks like crap on the inside - who cares? Just make the tool the customers want. If it is *too* quick-n-dirty they won't want it. If you take too long to make it nice and elegant - they will have long since lost the need for it. It's just a tool. Make it the best you can in the time you can.
I agree - unless the technology is used to help enjoy the world. For example - working on code via VPN while sitting in a park along the river is a *lot* nicer than in the office. But taking your laptop and GPS device so you can see exactly where in the middle of nowhere on I40 you are at all times is annoying. Having the phone to plan to meet up so you can catch a movie starting in 12 minutes is great. Sitting on the train discussing your family reuinion with your parents is annoying. There is a time and place for everything...;)
You would have to give more specs than just the processor speed for people to find an equivalent. But just based on your comment, I would say the 800Mhz iBook is at least equivalent for $999. True - it is not a Powerbook. But all the Powerbooks are better equipped - so the closest equivalent is the iBook.
I often speak to everyone on the street asking them the same question over and over. I have been known to blow up a rock formation looking for a store, and I sometimes will just wander back and forth in the same section of park hoping that I will eventually find the graveyard if I just keep trying...
But I also eat magic mushrooms and ride on turtle shells battling fire breathing man eating plants...
I have debated this as well. I have a shirt. Someone "steals" my shirt - I no longer have a shirt. That is theft. I have a shirt. Someone uses mine makes a shirt exactly like it, I still have a shirt. Not theft.
Copying music without paying for it is a violation of RIGHTS - not theft. An artist has a right to control the distribution of his/her work. If someone circumvents that - they have violated the artists rights. But the artists STILL has the work - nothing has been *taken*. Semantics are a wonderful thing, right?
It is the same old argument. "My morality is better than your morality." - Just in the contexts of nations. We are obviously right because we are us. But they are obviously wrong because they are not us. In the end, young people die in foxholes on either side of the fence...
I don't care *what* OS you use - if I have *physical* access, there is *no* security that can protect the computer.
Now if you encrypt EVERY file on your box with a good key - that can slow people down a bit, but never stop them if they want the data. Lets see - we can boot off CD, we can remove hard disks and attach them to other computers... Nothing is impossible.
This would only work if they were *personal* email addresses, because most politicians don't read their "official" email any more than they read their letters or answer their phones. Maybe in small states or districts - but for most places, you just get some assistant who MAYBE keeps a count...
What "mercer island exclusive" lanes? The carpool lanes go all the way through mercer island, and can be used by people crossing over lake washington as well as to/from mercer island. However they do "switch direction" to match the peak travel direction... Did I miss something?
Of course you (I) can never "trust" just *one* source. However, in just about every review out there the Escort Pasport 8500 trounces the Valentine 1. But that is a consumer decision, and I would hope that anyone spending $300 on a radar detector would make that research before the decision...
But It is good for people to know that police radar has advanced at a rapid pace as of late. Google is our friend...
You would be suprised. For example - Volkswagen has had Electronic Skid Prevention for several years in their cars. It monitors all sorts of things, yaw - acceleration - speed - steering wheel position - wheel locks. Then if it "detects" skids - it applies the breaks to the wheel best suited to prevent the skid. I am pretty sure Cadillac and Mercades have had them as well, for some time. I don't see this new Honda system as being much different. I am sure there is much more involved details then what we know or what they talk about in press releases. Their engineers are good at what they do, and they don't put something out there without having thought of and tested far more than we/.ers could come up with...
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I have often thought of what could be next as well. How about blowing up *regular* apartment buildings or houses? Impossible to defend against - yet just a couple would scare the jeebies out of most of the nation. We insist on "protecting" dams and nuclear facilities - but ignore where people actually *are*.
Here in Oregon we had a 90+ year old run over a family on a sidewalk. With that and the Santa Monica market - maybe Al Quaida has recruited our seniors and trained them to be an elite terrorist force?
Fellow USA-ers - instead of whining on /. - lets go out and vote these guys out of office. They attack us - we fight back. Hit them where it hurts. "I'm a file swapper - AND I VOTE". ;) As Cartman would say: "Seriously guys!"
Who listens to Britney? I thought her CD's simply included a large poster and that's why they sell so well. Mmmmm. Pepsi... ;)
What was your IP again?
One man's "flamebait" is another man's "funny".
Hehe - tell these guys about it:
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So you have to ask yourself, what kind of organization do you want to be a part of?
The kind with jobs.
I wonder if anyone will have an opinion on this one...
Mine is - What's the difference? Universities have the liberty of thinking about theory and all that jazz. In the rest of the industry, we just want tools to do our jobs. If that tool works but looks like crap on the inside - who cares? Just make the tool the customers want. If it is *too* quick-n-dirty they won't want it. If you take too long to make it nice and elegant - they will have long since lost the need for it. It's just a tool. Make it the best you can in the time you can.
I agree - unless the technology is used to help enjoy the world. For example - working on code via VPN while sitting in a park along the river is a *lot* nicer than in the office. But taking your laptop and GPS device so you can see exactly where in the middle of nowhere on I40 you are at all times is annoying. Having the phone to plan to meet up so you can catch a movie starting in 12 minutes is great. Sitting on the train discussing your family reuinion with your parents is annoying. There is a time and place for everything... ;)
I send it by US Mail. About 7 to 12 weeks later he recieves them.
We had that same problem in New Mexico.
You would have to give more specs than just the processor speed for people to find an equivalent. But just based on your comment, I would say the 800Mhz iBook is at least equivalent for $999. True - it is not a Powerbook. But all the Powerbooks are better equipped - so the closest equivalent is the iBook.
ROTFL
I often speak to everyone on the street asking them the same question over and over. I have been known to blow up a rock formation looking for a store, and I sometimes will just wander back and forth in the same section of park hoping that I will eventually find the graveyard if I just keep trying...
But I also eat magic mushrooms and ride on turtle shells battling fire breathing man eating plants...
What does it all mean? (tm)Nintendo.
Mod +1 informative. Thank you. Makes sense - at least to me.
I have debated this as well. I have a shirt. Someone "steals" my shirt - I no longer have a shirt. That is theft. I have a shirt. Someone uses mine makes a shirt exactly like it, I still have a shirt. Not theft.
Copying music without paying for it is a violation of RIGHTS - not theft. An artist has a right to control the distribution of his/her work. If someone circumvents that - they have violated the artists rights. But the artists STILL has the work - nothing has been *taken*. Semantics are a wonderful thing, right?
It is the same old argument. "My morality is better than your morality." - Just in the contexts of nations. We are obviously right because we are us. But they are obviously wrong because they are not us. In the end, young people die in foxholes on either side of the fence...
And taking a Bible from the motel would be called .....
Sad?
Mod points. Mod points. This man has my vote... How many politicians employ "willful blindness" in their operating paradigm?
I don't care *what* OS you use - if I have *physical* access, there is *no* security that can protect the computer.
Now if you encrypt EVERY file on your box with a good key - that can slow people down a bit, but never stop them if they want the data. Lets see - we can boot off CD, we can remove hard disks and attach them to other computers... Nothing is impossible.
We should get rid of Road signs - they discriminate against the blind as well.
This would only work if they were *personal* email addresses, because most politicians don't read their "official" email any more than they read their letters or answer their phones. Maybe in small states or districts - but for most places, you just get some assistant who MAYBE keeps a count...
Well,I have issues about animal testing
;)
I have no problem with Animal Testing. Without it, we would have no way of knowing which college to admit them to.
With Mac OSX - you don't need #s 8 and 9.
(It's a funny, laugh people.....)
What "mercer island exclusive" lanes? The carpool lanes go all the way through mercer island, and can be used by people crossing over lake washington as well as to/from mercer island. However they do "switch direction" to match the peak travel direction... Did I miss something?
Of course you (I) can never "trust" just *one* source. However, in just about every review out there the Escort Pasport 8500 trounces the Valentine 1. But that is a consumer decision, and I would hope that anyone spending $300 on a radar detector would make that research before the decision...
But It is good for people to know that police radar has advanced at a rapid pace as of late. Google is our friend...
You would be suprised. For example - Volkswagen has had Electronic Skid Prevention for several years in their cars. It monitors all sorts of things, yaw - acceleration - speed - steering wheel position - wheel locks. Then if it "detects" skids - it applies the breaks to the wheel best suited to prevent the skid. I am pretty sure Cadillac and Mercades have had them as well, for some time. I don't see this new Honda system as being much different. I am sure there is much more involved details then what we know or what they talk about in press releases. Their engineers are good at what they do, and they don't put something out there without having thought of and tested far more than we /.ers could come up with...