...apparently, than creating fresh. That's the point, it's actually cheaper to be efficient than to ship everything to part of the planet you don't like. Not to mention that eventually you run out of new raw material for plastics.
But you've thrown me a bit there - I wasn't talking about recycling. Dumping rubbish, whilst wasteful, isn't anything much to do with global warming. Though recycling can, through its energy efficiency, reduce our carbon emissions a little.
If you have the weird idea that more recycling is what the global warming debate is about you might want to read up on things a bit.
1. Yes, we could, until such point as the CO2 concentration in our atmosphere became unhealthy. I supose then we could all wear filters or live underground.
2. Of course!
3. Umm, yes, I was more thinking that you'd need to provide a consistent thrust but that the earth is rotating at high speed and it's not so simple as a result.
4. Ok, good, so pushing on one point on the crust (and of course moving the core) isn't going to cause massive changes to seismic patterns and pressures and drown half the planet in lava then?
5. At least you admit the possibility.
6. Hmm, become more energy efficient and look into non carbon-producing power sources OR engage in a highly, highly risky engineering project on a titanic scale, a feat unequaled in human history, which may just render the world completely uninhabitable...
I'd go for efficient/clean tach (which we're already able to do in a lot of ways) rather than that. Whilst the idea of a global human effort to buiuld a great big machine to move us further from the sun and save our skins is quite an uplifting proposal, it does seem to be both overkill and utterly ridiculous to build such a device rather than clean up our act a bit.
Yes, but the original poster made it sound like you'd be waiting weeks or months for the outcome of legal battles and tracking the money and stuff. You aren't. You tell the bank that the transactions were not authorised and they refund them. It may take 48 hours. 48 hours is an inconvenience but not the end of the world.
I'm fairly sure debit cards have the same protections here in the UK. That's why I asked if things worked differently.
On that topic I'm constantly amused by this one credit card firm that markets online fraud protection as one of their major features. I'm amused because all consumers are protected from that by law. As the gp said - people don't realise these things.
The money that isn't in your account comes back to you after a short delay. Maybe a couple of days, which is an inconvenience but not usually the end of the world.
It comes back because the bank are legally bound to give it back the moment you tell them that you didn't authorise that transaction. The bank also remove the bounced check and overdraft charges because what happened was their fault, not yours.
"* Oops, I don't mean "steal". I mean "infringe the copyright of". Because the difference totally matters, and makes the latter totally okay. Because the copyright system is so, "broken", you know. Gotcha. My bad."
Shut the hell up.
Seriously. Leave this alone, it's absolute nonsense. Stealing is theft of physical items, depriving another person or entity of their posession. Copyright infringement is a DIFFERENT THING. Copyright is a government granted monopoly on the distribution of a piece of data.
Does that make infringement "OK". No. Is infringement OK for other reasons? There's an argument to be made here, especially in light of the fact that copyright was intended to encourage cultural progress and the creation of artistic works for the commons, yet governments have repeatedly extended terms and now try to treat "IP" like real, physical property.
So repeat after me "Copyright infringement and theft are different phenomena that have different laws and different reasons behind the laws."
Or are you too simple minded to hold multiple ideas in your head at the same time and need everything reduced to a nice soundbite?
Whilst it's true to a small extent, it's not entirely.
You simply call the bank and tell them that the charge you are disputing was not authorised. The same rules apply. You may have to wait a few days, but that's it.
Or do things work differently in the great US of A?
Well woord processing software has looked that way for many years now, back as far as the mid 90s when I started. What do you want? How different can it be and still be a WYSIWYG document editor?
IBM kit is rock solid, I do like the thinkpads. I have a T60 at work. Not sure they're as capable as the vaio (in terms of Core 2 duo + nvidia) for the size and weight, but they are indeed rock solid machines.
Dell I just don't like. They have *some* good kit, but to be honest, much as I like buying stuff mail order, I don't like the idea of buying a whole laptop that way.
I don't really know what toys you're referring to and they didn't factor on my purchase. It has fingerprint recognition which I don't care about and haven't investigated in Linux. Otherwise.... I'm at a loss.
Those Vaio's do come loaded with crap don'ty they?
Took ages to clean mine off. It was only after that I found a pice of software on the web called the PC Decrpifier that automates a lot of the work.
What I found particularly offensive was that there was 4 GiB of Spiderman movies on the hard drive and I was inviterds to activate them for only $12 each.
"haven't had startup programs blocked and not runnable. At worse, I'm notified and its easy to tell Windows to allow the program to run."
I get a popup each time and have to then click on the program from a dialog off the systray. EVERY damned boot. When i go into the control centre thingy I can see the various trust ratings and it lists the program as unrated, but gives me no way to rate it or allow it myself. this is a serious annoyance.
It's made worse by the fact that every boot Vista announces, almost proudly, that it has done this for me.
(The program is ext2fsd, an ext2 embeddable filesystem).
I forget the details of the other problems I had, it's weeks since I booted Vista now.
It's horrible. It tells me that my system administrator has set up policies to stop certain things (I haven't, and neither can I find where it claims these policies are set). It refuses to run some programs on startup and has no button for "Just run it, asshole", admin privileges or no.
It's confusing and restricting. That and the enormous system hoggery have really put me off. I always used Windows for my main system before, the machine that came with Vista finally pushed me to use linux full time.
(why yes I am a geek. And no, I don't expect everyone and their granny to make the same switch. But for *me* vista finally became more trouble to run than Linux)
I'll agree with your main point though - XP was plenty good enough for me to be going on with, though many many people do get into virus/malware hell. But of course now some new hardware has no XP drivers so I'm forced not to downgrade.
...their company to stop or cut back on 'cowboy coding' and adopt best practices?"
I didn't need to, I work for a competent company that aren't going to compromise the quality of their product on the whims of a single customer.
I also happen to think my code's great, thankyou very much. I couldn't imagine going through life thinking my code was awful. I'd lose the will to live and find another career.
Personally I think it's got to the stage of self-propelling hype.
Yes, the gameplay is innovative (I have one, I know) for things like sports and play. Not for everything, but it's pretty cool.
Doesn't have lasting appeal, to me, though. Nor anyone else. I know a lot of folks with Wii's sitting there getting dusty because the initial "WOO! I'm playing tennis" thing wore off. Still good when your have a few people over, sure.
Anyhow, it's good system, but doesn't warrant quite the hype it gets, I think.
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...apparently, than creating fresh. That's the point, it's actually cheaper to be efficient than to ship everything to part of the planet you don't like. Not to mention that eventually you run out of new raw material for plastics.
But you've thrown me a bit there - I wasn't talking about recycling. Dumping rubbish, whilst wasteful, isn't anything much to do with global warming. Though recycling can, through its energy efficiency, reduce our carbon emissions a little.
If you have the weird idea that more recycling is what the global warming debate is about you might want to read up on things a bit.
1. Yes, we could, until such point as the CO2 concentration in our atmosphere became unhealthy. I supose then we could all wear filters or live underground.
2. Of course!
3. Umm, yes, I was more thinking that you'd need to provide a consistent thrust but that the earth is rotating at high speed and it's not so simple as a result.
4. Ok, good, so pushing on one point on the crust (and of course moving the core) isn't going to cause massive changes to seismic patterns and pressures and drown half the planet in lava then?
5. At least you admit the possibility.
6. Hmm, become more energy efficient and look into non carbon-producing power sources OR engage in a highly, highly risky engineering project on a titanic scale, a feat unequaled in human history, which may just render the world completely uninhabitable...
I'd go for efficient/clean tach (which we're already able to do in a lot of ways) rather than that. Whilst the idea of a global human effort to buiuld a great big machine to move us further from the sun and save our skins is quite an uplifting proposal, it does seem to be both overkill and utterly ridiculous to build such a device rather than clean up our act a bit.
1. It's a temporary measure
2. Where are you going to find that sort of power?
3. Where are you going to fix the engines?
4. Have you considered the seismic implications?
5. Are you insane?
6. It would be cheaper and safer to cut back now...
Yes, but the original poster made it sound like you'd be waiting weeks or months for the outcome of legal battles and tracking the money and stuff. You aren't. You tell the bank that the transactions were not authorised and they refund them. It may take 48 hours. 48 hours is an inconvenience but not the end of the world.
I'm fairly sure debit cards have the same protections here in the UK. That's why I asked if things worked differently.
On that topic I'm constantly amused by this one credit card firm that markets online fraud protection as one of their major features. I'm amused because all consumers are protected from that by law. As the gp said - people don't realise these things.
The money that isn't in your account comes back to you after a short delay. Maybe a couple of days, which is an inconvenience but not usually the end of the world.
It comes back because the bank are legally bound to give it back the moment you tell them that you didn't authorise that transaction. The bank also remove the bounced check and overdraft charges because what happened was their fault, not yours.
"* Oops, I don't mean "steal". I mean "infringe the copyright of". Because the difference totally matters, and makes the latter totally okay. Because the copyright system is so, "broken", you know. Gotcha. My bad."
Shut the hell up.
Seriously. Leave this alone, it's absolute nonsense. Stealing is theft of physical items, depriving another person or entity of their posession.
Copyright infringement is a DIFFERENT THING. Copyright is a government granted monopoly on the distribution of a piece of data.
Does that make infringement "OK". No.
Is infringement OK for other reasons? There's an argument to be made here, especially in light of the fact that copyright was intended to encourage cultural progress and the creation of artistic works for the commons, yet governments have repeatedly extended terms and now try to treat "IP" like real, physical property.
So repeat after me "Copyright infringement and theft are different phenomena that have different laws and different reasons behind the laws."
Or are you too simple minded to hold multiple ideas in your head at the same time and need everything reduced to a nice soundbite?
If the bill's about what I'm expecting then why check every single item?
I could be doing something fun instead.
And I sure as hell don't keep receipts to check what I think I've spent against what the bank think, I'd be drowning in paperwork.
It's all a hassle and largely unnecessary.
Whilst it's true to a small extent, it's not entirely.
You simply call the bank and tell them that the charge you are disputing was not authorised. The same rules apply. You may have to wait a few days, but that's it.
Or do things work differently in the great US of A?
Yeah, seems both sony and apple have gone for the glossy screns now. And fingermarks are a bit of an issue.
It's nothing like photoshop at all.
And as for OpenOffice...
Well woord processing software has looked that way for many years now, back as far as the mid 90s when I started. What do you want? How different can it be and still be a WYSIWYG document editor?
It's a well recognised bug. At the (I forget which) 2 or 4 GiB threshold exchange corrupts its own mail databases. Google it, it's out there.
IBM kit is rock solid, I do like the thinkpads. I have a T60 at work. Not sure they're as capable as the vaio (in terms of Core 2 duo + nvidia) for the size and weight, but they are indeed rock solid machines.
Dell I just don't like. They have *some* good kit, but to be honest, much as I like buying stuff mail order, I don't like the idea of buying a whole laptop that way.
I don't really know what toys you're referring to and they didn't factor on my purchase. It has fingerprint recognition which I don't care about and haven't investigated in Linux. Otherwise.... I'm at a loss.
Those Vaio's do come loaded with crap don'ty they?
Took ages to clean mine off. It was only after that I found a pice of software on the web called the PC Decrpifier that automates a lot of the work.
What I found particularly offensive was that there was 4 GiB of Spiderman movies on the hard drive and I was inviterds to activate them for only $12 each.
"haven't had startup programs blocked and not runnable. At worse, I'm notified and its easy to tell Windows to allow the program to run."
I get a popup each time and have to then click on the program from a dialog off the systray. EVERY damned boot. When i go into the control centre thingy I can see the various trust ratings and it lists the program as unrated, but gives me no way to rate it or allow it myself. this is a serious annoyance.
It's made worse by the fact that every boot Vista announces, almost proudly, that it has done this for me.
(The program is ext2fsd, an ext2 embeddable filesystem).
I forget the details of the other problems I had, it's weeks since I booted Vista now.
The screens are great, they're powerful, slim and light.
Seriously, I'll be pissed off (I got one recently) but I'd love to be shown something better. I looked.
Where did I say linux was perfect? I just said Ubuntu was finally less effort for me, a geek, than windows this time around.
I listed the problems I've had with it, that's not a rant.
I'm saying that it's a nice fast, light little machine, though pricy.
Tell me, have I missed something better (small, light, powerful) ? or did the original poster just want to sling mud at sony?
I beg to differ.
It's horrible.
It tells me that my system administrator has set up policies to stop certain things (I haven't, and neither can I find where it claims these policies are set).
It refuses to run some programs on startup and has no button for "Just run it, asshole", admin privileges or no.
It's confusing and restricting. That and the enormous system hoggery have really put me off. I always used Windows for my main system before, the machine that came with Vista finally pushed me to use linux full time.
(why yes I am a geek. And no, I don't expect everyone and their granny to make the same switch. But for *me* vista finally became more trouble to run than Linux)
I'll agree with your main point though - XP was plenty good enough for me to be going on with, though many many people do get into virus/malware hell. But of course now some new hardware has no XP drivers so I'm forced not to downgrade.
Viva Ubuntu.
Vaio laptops are small, light and powerful. Sure they cost a premium for the looks and weight, but the Vaio SZ range is shit-hot.
I almost completely agree with you, other than that one weird throwaway comment.
...their company to stop or cut back on 'cowboy coding' and adopt best practices?"
I didn't need to, I work for a competent company that aren't going to compromise the quality of their product on the whims of a single customer.
I also happen to think my code's great, thankyou very much. I couldn't imagine going through life thinking my code was awful. I'd lose the will to live and find another career.
Personally I think it's got to the stage of self-propelling hype.
Yes, the gameplay is innovative (I have one, I know) for things like sports and play. Not for everything, but it's pretty cool.
Doesn't have lasting appeal, to me, though. Nor anyone else. I know a lot of folks with Wii's sitting there getting dusty because the initial "WOO! I'm playing tennis" thing wore off. Still good when your have a few people over, sure.
Anyhow, it's good system, but doesn't warrant quite the hype it gets, I think.
Sure, it's no +5 post, but it expands slightly on what it's replying to.
And also had a pretty cool soundtrack on the CD.
That sounds to me like a recipe for FAIL. I guess they could make the connection high latency and low bandwidth - i.e. crappy.