Since most of Canada have metered internet anyway, even if you had this you'd probably rack up a fortune in overages trying to actually use it. I'm sure it's only a coincidence that the major internet providers in Canada are all television providers. I feel like I'm in the internet dark ages up here.
I've gotten back into Chess lately, and I agree. The gameplay never changes, but there's a whole world of strategy and tactics in there to discover, and it's seriously good brain exercise. It's also nice not having to worry about DLC to buy the new Warlock piece that can move in a Q shape just to compete, or Ubisoft's restrictive DRM making your chess board not work if it's not sitting on a certain kind of table. Now if I only I didn't suck so much.:)
Thankfully there's a mod to allow you to level up those pieces of gear with you. It adds some doohickey to your inventory, and using it replaces all of your level-specific gear with the version for your current level. I don't remember what it's called since I haven't played Oblivion in months, but it's something generic like Quest Reward Leveller. I love Oblivion, but it'd be unplayable without mods. Still, considering how long it's been out, I got my money's worth.
Michelin and Goodyear are teaming up to produce a series of PSAs aimed at getting young people to increase the rate at which they burn tires. The ads will consist of "hip" actors like Freddie Prinze, Jr. and Mayim Bialik addressing kids with "rad" lingo, and talking about how awesome it is sit around the tire fire with your "buds" and drink a cold Ovaltine.
Linksys quit producing good hardware the second they were bought out by Cisco. This is why the older versions of the WRT54G are the most desirable for flashing, because they had better hardware, more RAM, etc.
It's more like the person who built your house (that YOU own) says that he doesn't want Sasha Grey in the house that YOU own. And actively stops you from having her as a guest.
The copyright nazis tell me that I can't watch that interview since I'm in Canada, but I watch the show and saw the interview as it ran (presumably edited), and had no issues with it. Assange was saying that part of the promise they make to their sources is that they will use the material they receive for maximum political effect. They put the full video out there for people to make their own conclusions, and even though Assange said himself that only 1 in 10 watched the full video after seeing the edited one, I happen to think that's because most people saw enough to convince them the whole affair was execrable. I'm not sure the full video could have added any context that would have excused the soldiers laughing and being flippant about machine gunning children.
My point about trust with Wikileaks is that if people trust them enough to protect their identity while leaking documents to them that could get them executed for treason, or imprisoned for the rest of their natural life, I'd trust them to run anonymous email. I'm fine with them having an agenda. Everyone has an agenda. You're not going to find someone who cares enough about privacy to run an anonymous email service and thumb their nose at authority who does not have an agenda that fulfills some base personal need by running the service or flaunting authority.
The point of Hushmail was to make PGP-encrypted email easier to use for people who don't understand PGP encryption. As part of this, Hushmail has/had some sort of java client to encrypt your messages for you. They were logging that data and giving it to the DEA. Not everyone who'd like to protect their privacy has the time or faculties to educate themselves on cryptosystems.
Hushmail is notorious in certain circles for sharing people's PGP keys with investigators who come knocking. This was in relation to DEA and Customs investigations in Operation Web Tryp to crack down on people using the internet to get ahold of research chemical indoleethylamines and phenethylamines (read: designer psychedelics). A lot of these people were using Hushmail, and when the investigators went to Hushmail, the provider burned their users. If they'll rat you out to the DEA and Customs, bet your sweet ass they'll rat you out to the NSA. Fuck, read this article at Cryptome.
If you need any expectation at all of ACTUAL privacy (the kind that'll keep you out of prison), don't use Hushmail. Someone people actually trust, like maybe the people behind Wikileaks, should start a real anonymous mail network.
He's saying that Orange and Apple both uses batteries, but that Orange will let you exchange batteries on the fly, while Apple wants you to send your device to them to exchange the batteries for you. He is indeed comparing Apples and Oranges, but he's making a point about fruit in general.
If you think everyone who disagrees with you is a Troll, then I suppose so. Which is pretty much par for the course here, home of the -1 I Disagree mod.
My point, which likewise seems to go over your head, is that it's probably not that they can't find work as journalists, but that they won't, or perhaps don't want to. If they're such gifted writers-- and I believe you that they are-- then if journalism are what they wanted to do, they wouldn't have any trouble getting a job, since their credentials are so unassailable.
It's interesting that you simultaneously declare your friends to be great journalists, and simultaneously admit they can't find work. What's it to me if we lose a generation of (bad) reporters? How is this not just one more industry where centralization, ease of communication between vast distances, etc., has lead to less of a demand for redundant workers?
You're just not going to beat google in search. It's just not going to happen. You might split the market, but you're not going to replace them, and I realize that's a bold prediction, but I'm being practical. You have to beat google by outgoogling them. You have to come up with a cool new idea that fulfills an old, common need in a new and interesting way; ie: you have to innovate. Rupert Murdoch is not an innovator. He has made his name taking things that were already there and hyping them by appealing to a small but very loud niche market.
If he made a search engine with Apple it would return only hits on conservative websites, and it'd be Applefied so that you can't pick your own search terms-- you just have to take what Apple gives you. Now, they might let you add certain search terms that other people make for them, but they have to approve them first, and they'll cost you 99 cents. You see where I'm going with this.
I'm not saying the guy's not intelligent, I'm just saying he's not flexible enough. Give it a decade and we're done with him. He'll be as obsolete as Standard Oil. All the money isn't going to go away overnight by any means, but his star will fade.
They could maybe go out and do some real journalism instead of thinking they deserve a check for writing an article about who Britney is fucking. There will always be room in journalism, in some form, for the good writers who do good work. The problem is that there are a lot more hacks who can be replaced by a monkey, and their job has suddenly gotten a hell of a lot more competitive.
I meant that my post was apropos of nothing, not yours. I just found it interesting that the price in India and the price in Canada are basically the same.
I can have many many netbooks for half the price that do everything the iPod does and more. That was my point. There's none of this, "your laptop that costs twice as much" stuff, because that's ridiculous. I'm not some kind of bearded supernerd who's setting up Ubuntu netbook remix on all my machines or anything. Usability out of the box and whatnot are all important to me, but I *gasp* feel that Windows pretty much offers that, and without all of the hardware lockdown and lack of expansion options in the Apple offering.
I'm not saying anyone shouldn't buy an iPad, but I'm expressing surprise that so many people seem to want to, and I am firmly convinced that they've been sucked in by the Cupertino Reality Distortion Vortex, and they've bought into the hype. Personally, I'm waiting for the Microsoft Courier, which actually looks like it'll do some things that are innovative.
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Since most of Canada have metered internet anyway, even if you had this you'd probably rack up a fortune in overages trying to actually use it. I'm sure it's only a coincidence that the major internet providers in Canada are all television providers. I feel like I'm in the internet dark ages up here.
Apparently the law enforcement lab for examining iPhones is on Manhattan.
Mistakes happens
Clearly. So I guess you're, like, a senior editor?
I've gotten back into Chess lately, and I agree. The gameplay never changes, but there's a whole world of strategy and tactics in there to discover, and it's seriously good brain exercise. It's also nice not having to worry about DLC to buy the new Warlock piece that can move in a Q shape just to compete, or Ubisoft's restrictive DRM making your chess board not work if it's not sitting on a certain kind of table. Now if I only I didn't suck so much. :)
Thankfully there's a mod to allow you to level up those pieces of gear with you. It adds some doohickey to your inventory, and using it replaces all of your level-specific gear with the version for your current level. I don't remember what it's called since I haven't played Oblivion in months, but it's something generic like Quest Reward Leveller. I love Oblivion, but it'd be unplayable without mods. Still, considering how long it's been out, I got my money's worth.
Indeed, the entire nation of Florida will have to face the ramifications of this man's decisions.
Michelin and Goodyear are teaming up to produce a series of PSAs aimed at getting young people to increase the rate at which they burn tires. The ads will consist of "hip" actors like Freddie Prinze, Jr. and Mayim Bialik addressing kids with "rad" lingo, and talking about how awesome it is sit around the tire fire with your "buds" and drink a cold Ovaltine.
Linksys quit producing good hardware the second they were bought out by Cisco. This is why the older versions of the WRT54G are the most desirable for flashing, because they had better hardware, more RAM, etc.
The Canadian TV show InnerSPACE reports the same thing (specifically in relation to his cameo role as William Bell on Fringe). It's not just the Mail.
It's more like the person who built your house (that YOU own) says that he doesn't want Sasha Grey in the house that YOU own. And actively stops you from having her as a guest.
There is also the nuclear option: Amazon refuses to ship to North Carolina, owing to the higher costs of compliance.
The copyright nazis tell me that I can't watch that interview since I'm in Canada, but I watch the show and saw the interview as it ran (presumably edited), and had no issues with it. Assange was saying that part of the promise they make to their sources is that they will use the material they receive for maximum political effect. They put the full video out there for people to make their own conclusions, and even though Assange said himself that only 1 in 10 watched the full video after seeing the edited one, I happen to think that's because most people saw enough to convince them the whole affair was execrable. I'm not sure the full video could have added any context that would have excused the soldiers laughing and being flippant about machine gunning children.
My point about trust with Wikileaks is that if people trust them enough to protect their identity while leaking documents to them that could get them executed for treason, or imprisoned for the rest of their natural life, I'd trust them to run anonymous email. I'm fine with them having an agenda. Everyone has an agenda. You're not going to find someone who cares enough about privacy to run an anonymous email service and thumb their nose at authority who does not have an agenda that fulfills some base personal need by running the service or flaunting authority.
The point of Hushmail was to make PGP-encrypted email easier to use for people who don't understand PGP encryption. As part of this, Hushmail has/had some sort of java client to encrypt your messages for you. They were logging that data and giving it to the DEA. Not everyone who'd like to protect their privacy has the time or faculties to educate themselves on cryptosystems.
Hushmail is notorious in certain circles for sharing people's PGP keys with investigators who come knocking. This was in relation to DEA and Customs investigations in Operation Web Tryp to crack down on people using the internet to get ahold of research chemical indoleethylamines and phenethylamines (read: designer psychedelics). A lot of these people were using Hushmail, and when the investigators went to Hushmail, the provider burned their users. If they'll rat you out to the DEA and Customs, bet your sweet ass they'll rat you out to the NSA. Fuck, read this article at Cryptome.
If you need any expectation at all of ACTUAL privacy (the kind that'll keep you out of prison), don't use Hushmail. Someone people actually trust, like maybe the people behind Wikileaks, should start a real anonymous mail network.
He's saying that Orange and Apple both uses batteries, but that Orange will let you exchange batteries on the fly, while Apple wants you to send your device to them to exchange the batteries for you. He is indeed comparing Apples and Oranges, but he's making a point about fruit in general.
Microsoft spends almost twice as much as Apple as a percentage of revenue on marketing. Apple spends about the same amount as Dell.
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2009/10/28/apples-2009-ad-budget-half-a-billion/
Could it be that people actually want products that you don't?
I considered this, but it's just not likely. I mean, I can't see why they'd want it.
If you think everyone who disagrees with you is a Troll, then I suppose so. Which is pretty much par for the course here, home of the -1 I Disagree mod.
As opposed to the iPhone, where you have your choice of fart apps, or clones of crayon physics games.
My point, which likewise seems to go over your head, is that it's probably not that they can't find work as journalists, but that they won't, or perhaps don't want to. If they're such gifted writers-- and I believe you that they are-- then if journalism are what they wanted to do, they wouldn't have any trouble getting a job, since their credentials are so unassailable.
It's interesting that you simultaneously declare your friends to be great journalists, and simultaneously admit they can't find work. What's it to me if we lose a generation of (bad) reporters? How is this not just one more industry where centralization, ease of communication between vast distances, etc., has lead to less of a demand for redundant workers?
You're just not going to beat google in search. It's just not going to happen. You might split the market, but you're not going to replace them, and I realize that's a bold prediction, but I'm being practical. You have to beat google by outgoogling them. You have to come up with a cool new idea that fulfills an old, common need in a new and interesting way; ie: you have to innovate. Rupert Murdoch is not an innovator. He has made his name taking things that were already there and hyping them by appealing to a small but very loud niche market.
If he made a search engine with Apple it would return only hits on conservative websites, and it'd be Applefied so that you can't pick your own search terms-- you just have to take what Apple gives you. Now, they might let you add certain search terms that other people make for them, but they have to approve them first, and they'll cost you 99 cents. You see where I'm going with this.
I'm not saying the guy's not intelligent, I'm just saying he's not flexible enough. Give it a decade and we're done with him. He'll be as obsolete as Standard Oil. All the money isn't going to go away overnight by any means, but his star will fade.
They could maybe go out and do some real journalism instead of thinking they deserve a check for writing an article about who Britney is fucking. There will always be room in journalism, in some form, for the good writers who do good work. The problem is that there are a lot more hacks who can be replaced by a monkey, and their job has suddenly gotten a hell of a lot more competitive.
I meant that my post was apropos of nothing, not yours. I just found it interesting that the price in India and the price in Canada are basically the same.
Apropos of nothing, the current price in southern Ontario is about 1.00 CAD / litre.
I can have many many netbooks for half the price that do everything the iPod does and more. That was my point. There's none of this, "your laptop that costs twice as much" stuff, because that's ridiculous. I'm not some kind of bearded supernerd who's setting up Ubuntu netbook remix on all my machines or anything. Usability out of the box and whatnot are all important to me, but I *gasp* feel that Windows pretty much offers that, and without all of the hardware lockdown and lack of expansion options in the Apple offering.
I'm not saying anyone shouldn't buy an iPad, but I'm expressing surprise that so many people seem to want to, and I am firmly convinced that they've been sucked in by the Cupertino Reality Distortion Vortex, and they've bought into the hype. Personally, I'm waiting for the Microsoft Courier, which actually looks like it'll do some things that are innovative.