I think something like that actually happened in the UK once - a burglar got attacked by the owner of the home they were trying to burgle, and later sued the owner for loss of earnings.
I think the point is that use of CCTV cameras in public places isn't an invasion of privacy, because there is no privacy in a public place anyway.
So then you won't mind being stripped naked, having everything you purchase being shown to everyone at all times, and having your entire life outside private buildings being broadcast to everyone Truman Show-style, then?
it's used in public places and you can see the cameras
I live in Middlesbrough, and actually there are tons of little cameras in the town centre that are very well hidden inside those little silver domes in the roof. As far as I know, they have even better hidden ones that I haven't seen.
I have not run in to any system instability or data loss. [...] it is a fine OS
WTF? You're setting the bar for 'fine OS' pretty low there, especially in the year 2007. I wouldn't expect any half-decent OS to give me instability or data loss. That's the goddamn minimum. XP does that for me.
Actually, i don't go to that uni, I go to another; and this one wanted us to use Harvard-style citation. But I ignored them and used IEEE, because their style of notation sucked. I may lose a few marks. *shrug*
By that logic, if you don't worry about stepping on ants, you shouldn't mind some giant race stepping on and killing hundreds of humans. There's a very easy way to get around the difficulty of experimenting on animals. It's something like, "humans (and animals more advanced than humans, we don't know of any yet) are fundamentally more important than any other kind of animal, and that means we can afford them fewer or no rights." Might sound like a cop-out, but it's one I tend to take. The alternative (worrying about all creatures' rights) is too much of a pain in the ass, and to be fair, they don't worry about our rights either.
The ISP doesn't have to provide 'unlimited' internet access; the term is referring to the amount of monthly transfer allotted. The maximum kb/s * seconds in month will naturally determine how much they may have to offer. It's more like a cake company saying they'll provide you with an 'unlimited' amount of this chocolate cake they just made, but actually secretly preventing you from eating more than half.
I think it's worth commending Virgin Media whose cable broadband service, as far as I can tell, is the only 'unlimited' service in the UK that ACTUALLY provides you with unlimited download bandwidth. It's not even capped in the fair use. This probably has a lot to do with BT's charging ISPs per megabyte to use their precious telephone network.
But maybe you could do something like spend 15 minutes with everyone (this would take a while, I know) and ask them questions about what they wrote, or have them give a presentation on the topic.
Ever heard of a viva? Actually, dictionary.com says it's a British and European thing, so maybe you don't have them in the US, but we do.
They asked if they could drive from New York to Chicago, to New Orleans. They were thinking they could do it in maybe a day! They had no idea just how much time it would take to do that.
And you forgot to mention that they'd also need a boat.
Irrespective of all this, Vista will take off within 18 months as people start requiring more than 4 gigs of RAM. XP doesn't support more than 4gig unless you go to XP 64 bit, which is a dead end product if you ask me...
4 GIGABYTES should be enough for anyone.
No, really, this isn't a Bill Gates joke; aside from gamers, things are getting absolutely ridiculous if the average user needs more than this in the near future. Even video applications and Photoshop, etc. don't need 4 gigs to function perfectly.
I remember talking to a guy, a few years ago, who had 4GB of RAM in his web server so he could load a large DB into memory. I remember thinking how enormous that figure sounded. How absurd that anybody is seriously suggesting that more might be needed for general use PCs soon.
I think I can see the other point of view on this one, though.
Look at the value part of the product.
With a chair, the value part of the product is mainly in the physical materials used to make it, and the labour used to manufacture it. If one is having to reproduce a chair, they're basically having to pay (in money and also perhaps significant time) for the large majority of the value part of the product.
In digital/computerized products (a musical recording), the value part of the product is almost entirely in the semantic 'design' of the product; the wave samples, or whatever. If you copy this, you're not having to pay for the large majority of the value part of the product.
Whilst I detest the overzealousness of the enforcement of IP laws (and the laws themselves to some extent, eg. copyright expiration being way too long), I think you surely have to realise the difference between where the value of the product lies in these different cases.
Just tried it on this machine, and the functionality isn't obvious. But, try right clicking on an.iso, going for 'send to' then 'CD drive' or whatever your cd burner drive is described as. It should then give you a balloon or something telling you files are waiting to be written to CD, and Windows will allow you to do it.
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I think something like that actually happened in the UK once - a burglar got attacked by the owner of the home they were trying to burgle, and later sued the owner for loss of earnings.
I think the point is that use of CCTV cameras in public places isn't an invasion of privacy, because there is no privacy in a public place anyway.
So then you won't mind being stripped naked, having everything you purchase being shown to everyone at all times, and having your entire life outside private buildings being broadcast to everyone Truman Show-style, then?
it's used in public places and you can see the cameras
I live in Middlesbrough, and actually there are tons of little cameras in the town centre that are very well hidden inside those little silver domes in the roof. As far as I know, they have even better hidden ones that I haven't seen.
I have not run in to any system instability or data loss. [...] it is a fine OS
WTF? You're setting the bar for 'fine OS' pretty low there, especially in the year 2007. I wouldn't expect any half-decent OS to give me instability or data loss. That's the goddamn minimum. XP does that for me.
# pre-load applications and documents you commonly open so that if you do open them they load more quickly and if you don't you've lost nothing
How much extra wear does that put on the hard drive over the course of an average year?
Actually, i don't go to that uni, I go to another; and this one wanted us to use Harvard-style citation. But I ignored them and used IEEE, because their style of notation sucked. I may lose a few marks. *shrug*
I don't agree, that's a completely false dilemma.
By that logic, if you don't worry about stepping on ants, you shouldn't mind some giant race stepping on and killing hundreds of humans. There's a very easy way to get around the difficulty of experimenting on animals. It's something like, "humans (and animals more advanced than humans, we don't know of any yet) are fundamentally more important than any other kind of animal, and that means we can afford them fewer or no rights." Might sound like a cop-out, but it's one I tend to take. The alternative (worrying about all creatures' rights) is too much of a pain in the ass, and to be fair, they don't worry about our rights either.
Agree with you on most of it, but...
Use white/yellow text on dark background if you can, it is easier to read.
No way! That totally does my eyes in. Black on white, please god.
Care to tell us the secret, then? How does your country manage to stop corps from imposing these ridiculous caps on internet connections?
The ISP doesn't have to provide 'unlimited' internet access; the term is referring to the amount of monthly transfer allotted. The maximum kb/s * seconds in month will naturally determine how much they may have to offer. It's more like a cake company saying they'll provide you with an 'unlimited' amount of this chocolate cake they just made, but actually secretly preventing you from eating more than half.
I think it's worth commending Virgin Media whose cable broadband service, as far as I can tell, is the only 'unlimited' service in the UK that ACTUALLY provides you with unlimited download bandwidth. It's not even capped in the fair use. This probably has a lot to do with BT's charging ISPs per megabyte to use their precious telephone network.
But maybe you could do something like spend 15 minutes with everyone (this would take a while, I know) and ask them questions about what they wrote, or have them give a presentation on the topic.
Ever heard of a viva? Actually, dictionary.com says it's a British and European thing, so maybe you don't have them in the US, but we do.
Mock footnotes? It's called IEEE Citation.
I think it's called an 'executive summary', isn't it? Perhaps they should have courses in how to write those.
They asked if they could drive from New York to Chicago, to New Orleans. They were thinking they could do it in maybe a day! They had no idea just how much time it would take to do that.
And you forgot to mention that they'd also need a boat.
They might be stupid zealots, but I'm not sure I'd liken them to slaves.
the UK [...] continues to have world-class TV and music.
.....
Hahaha. That would be why the shows I (a Brit) do actually watch are The Simpsons, House, South Park, Family Guy, Futurama, CSI,
In Korea, only old people get April Fooled.
Please GOD tell me this is an April Fools' joke.
Irrespective of all this, Vista will take off within 18 months as people start requiring more than 4 gigs of RAM. XP doesn't support more than 4gig unless you go to XP 64 bit, which is a dead end product if you ask me...
4 GIGABYTES should be enough for anyone.
No, really, this isn't a Bill Gates joke; aside from gamers, things are getting absolutely ridiculous if the average user needs more than this in the near future. Even video applications and Photoshop, etc. don't need 4 gigs to function perfectly.
I remember talking to a guy, a few years ago, who had 4GB of RAM in his web server so he could load a large DB into memory. I remember thinking how enormous that figure sounded. How absurd that anybody is seriously suggesting that more might be needed for general use PCs soon.
(this will change of course when you can no longer buy XP easily)
I wasn't aware that Messrs. eMule and devils0wn had any short-term XP retirement plans.
How is this different from Blackboard on any other OS?
I think I can see the other point of view on this one, though.
Look at the value part of the product.
With a chair, the value part of the product is mainly in the physical materials used to make it, and the labour used to manufacture it. If one is having to reproduce a chair, they're basically having to pay (in money and also perhaps significant time) for the large majority of the value part of the product.
In digital/computerized products (a musical recording), the value part of the product is almost entirely in the semantic 'design' of the product; the wave samples, or whatever. If you copy this, you're not having to pay for the large majority of the value part of the product.
Whilst I detest the overzealousness of the enforcement of IP laws (and the laws themselves to some extent, eg. copyright expiration being way too long), I think you surely have to realise the difference between where the value of the product lies in these different cases.
Just tried it on this machine, and the functionality isn't obvious. But, try right clicking on an .iso, going for 'send to' then 'CD drive' or whatever your cd burner drive is described as. It should then give you a balloon or something telling you files are waiting to be written to CD, and Windows will allow you to do it.