Once again, it's in the article: Michael's only accepts PayPal. The reviewer wasn't about to drop a couple thousand for a story, and from what he had been able to find out, wasn't likely to get a computer to test even if he did.
Now if you could just legally obtain music for it, you'd be all set!
If you don't like the iTunes Music Store, you can always buy CDs or borrow them from friends, rip them, and put them on your iPod.
Hell, even iTunes can't offer The Beatles.
The Beatles' record label is once again being stubborn about adopting a new method of distribution. They also took a long time to allow Beatles albums to be released on CD. They haven't made a deal with any music download service, and it's anyone's guess when they will choose to make the Beatles' music available electronically.
As noted above, however, you can still buy the CDs.
In Chicago, my dad actually had a cable modem/VoIP thing sitting outside his house with a little UPS. He had no idea it wasn't using traditional phones lines.
Does he know whether he will continue to have a phone, and for how long, if the power goes out? The setup had a UPS, but how long would that UPS last, and how long will the one at the cable company's end of things last?
Does he know whether he is guaranteed to be able to connect to 911 in case of emergency?
Will he have a telephone if the cable goes out? How often did the cable go out compared with the phone, back when he had a phone? Is the new "phone" as reliable as the old one?
These are all risky questions with VoIP. If you do your research before selecting a service, you should be safe--or at worst, you're knowingly and willingly giving up your safety. For a cable company to offer a service like that without even telling the customer that the phone service isn't over a traditional phone line is terribly irresponsible marketing.
I don't think this is the free advertising you take it as. Rather, it's something consumers have learned to do in order to survive. Phone companies are not always very forthcoming about their prices, but it's unlikely that a customer of theirs would lie to make them look better. So, people talk to one another about their phone service, and for those who have spent time shopping around for a good provider, perhaps their own service seems like an obvious thing to bring up in a conversation about phone companies.
The problem is that they don't want to take any risk--in particular, they don't want to risk not getting reelected. They probably figure if they help Diebold get the contract, Diebold will help them keep their jobs--it's the bureaucratic "I scratch your back, you scratch mine" philosophy.
When people buy their CDs because they want to actually own them, free and clear. I do that a lot--I like the album covers, the liner notes, the specially printed CDs themselves. I'll be less inclined to, though, if my rights are restricted, i.e. I don't really own the album once I've paid for it if I can't rip it to AAC to listen to it without subjecting the CD to wear and tear, or burn a copy for use in my car, in case my collection gets stolen. Will the RIAA members replace my CDs if someone breaks into my car? I didn't think so.
The other one is a Dr. Strangelove reference. The CRM114 was the code module in the radio in the bomber that ultimately blew up the world. It kept the signal to turn back from its mission from getting to the pilot.
A system that's right half the time would be a coin toss, but this system is right all the time--it just only gives an answer half the time. So while it doesn't get rid of all spam, it cuts it down so that other filters have less to deal with.
So, you were surprised that your Airport base station was using DHCP to assign IP addresses? Did you think it was using BOOTP? Or do you just assign all your IP addresses manually and hope there aren't any collisions?
If you want access to your PowerBook's "innards", fire up Terminal. If you can handle Linux, I'm sure you can figure out Darwin.
You know, as long as you're going to buy a Mac just for the hardware, Mac OS X is free in a sense as well. It, too, works, and if you stick with Linux solely because you're used to it, then you vindicate all those Windows users we love to hate.
I have nothing against Linux (no flames please), including Linux on PPC, I just don't think those are good reasons to use it.
Saying someone has a psychiatric condition without proof is perfectly legal if what you say isn't likely to be construed as a diagnosis. The student was expressing an opinion. I haven't seen the reviews that started the argument, but somehow I doubt the student claimed to be a psychologist qualified to make a diagnosis like that; the review couldn't have been read as anything other than a student straining to find words to insult a teacher he doesn't like. The fact that the accusation isn't true is a given, so the words "Bipolar Paranoid Schizophrenic" should be understood as nonsense syllables inserted to add emphasis to the reviewer's general theme.
I agree, however, that the solution is moderation.
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Once again, it's in the article: Michael's only accepts PayPal. The reviewer wasn't about to drop a couple thousand for a story, and from what he had been able to find out, wasn't likely to get a computer to test even if he did.
The real danger of such technology is that is falls into the hands of primitive societies in which a primal warmongering mindset dominates.
You mean societies such as the U.S.?
Now if you could just legally obtain music for it, you'd be all set!
If you don't like the iTunes Music Store, you can always buy CDs or borrow them from friends, rip them, and put them on your iPod.
Hell, even iTunes can't offer The Beatles.
The Beatles' record label is once again being stubborn about adopting a new method of distribution. They also took a long time to allow Beatles albums to be released on CD. They haven't made a deal with any music download service, and it's anyone's guess when they will choose to make the Beatles' music available electronically.
As noted above, however, you can still buy the CDs.
In Chicago, my dad actually had a cable modem/VoIP thing sitting outside his house with a little UPS. He had no idea it wasn't using traditional phones lines.
Does he know whether he will continue to have a phone, and for how long, if the power goes out? The setup had a UPS, but how long would that UPS last, and how long will the one at the cable company's end of things last?
Does he know whether he is guaranteed to be able to connect to 911 in case of emergency?
Will he have a telephone if the cable goes out? How often did the cable go out compared with the phone, back when he had a phone? Is the new "phone" as reliable as the old one?
These are all risky questions with VoIP. If you do your research before selecting a service, you should be safe--or at worst, you're knowingly and willingly giving up your safety. For a cable company to offer a service like that without even telling the customer that the phone service isn't over a traditional phone line is terribly irresponsible marketing.
I don't think this is the free advertising you take it as. Rather, it's something consumers have learned to do in order to survive. Phone companies are not always very forthcoming about their prices, but it's unlikely that a customer of theirs would lie to make them look better. So, people talk to one another about their phone service, and for those who have spent time shopping around for a good provider, perhaps their own service seems like an obvious thing to bring up in a conversation about phone companies.
The problem is that they don't want to take any risk--in particular, they don't want to risk not getting reelected. They probably figure if they help Diebold get the contract, Diebold will help them keep their jobs--it's the bureaucratic "I scratch your back, you scratch mine" philosophy.
WHEN ARE THEY SUPPOSED TO GET PAID?!
When people buy their CDs because they want to actually own them, free and clear. I do that a lot--I like the album covers, the liner notes, the specially printed CDs themselves. I'll be less inclined to, though, if my rights are restricted, i.e. I don't really own the album once I've paid for it if I can't rip it to AAC to listen to it without subjecting the CD to wear and tear, or burn a copy for use in my car, in case my collection gets stolen. Will the RIAA members replace my CDs if someone breaks into my car? I didn't think so.
Also, when they give concerts.
The other one is a Dr. Strangelove reference. The CRM114 was the code module in the radio in the bomber that ultimately blew up the world. It kept the signal to turn back from its mission from getting to the pilot.
I think there's a lesson in there somewhere.
A system that's right half the time would be a coin toss, but this system is right all the time--it just only gives an answer half the time. So while it doesn't get rid of all spam, it cuts it down so that other filters have less to deal with.
There is not going to be a magic bullet that fixes spam. We will just have to use a lot of ordinary lead ones.
So I'm authorized to shoot spammers now? Yay!
I'll just have to track a few of them down...
And the number would be totally screwed when you opened the bottle.
Somebody set up us the song!
Maybe it's just from the huge quantity of sugar water in my stomach, but I gagged when I read that comment.
That's "ado", though in SCO's case I think "adieu" might be more appropriate.
I do. Want some?
IANAL, but I think that's called "insider trading".
Wouldn't a deal that's fucking Goofy be a Minnie Mouse deal?
I'll drop a stack of paper from 5' and you drop a touch screen from 5', we'll see which one survives
The paper might survive, but I bet the stack doesn't!
...don't belong. What a lineup!
The windows machines (two of them) are currently unpluged in a corner so I feel they're pretty safe at the moment. :)
The only effective security patch for Windows: Unplug the box.
So, you were surprised that your Airport base station was using DHCP to assign IP addresses? Did you think it was using BOOTP? Or do you just assign all your IP addresses manually and hope there aren't any collisions?
If you want access to your PowerBook's "innards", fire up Terminal. If you can handle Linux, I'm sure you can figure out Darwin.
You know, as long as you're going to buy a Mac just for the hardware, Mac OS X is free in a sense as well. It, too, works, and if you stick with Linux solely because you're used to it, then you vindicate all those Windows users we love to hate.
I have nothing against Linux (no flames please), including Linux on PPC, I just don't think those are good reasons to use it.
Saying someone has a psychiatric condition without proof is perfectly legal if what you say isn't likely to be construed as a diagnosis. The student was expressing an opinion. I haven't seen the reviews that started the argument, but somehow I doubt the student claimed to be a psychologist qualified to make a diagnosis like that; the review couldn't have been read as anything other than a student straining to find words to insult a teacher he doesn't like. The fact that the accusation isn't true is a given, so the words "Bipolar Paranoid Schizophrenic" should be understood as nonsense syllables inserted to add emphasis to the reviewer's general theme.
I agree, however, that the solution is moderation.
I wouldn't want to drink while reassembling a computer. That's cannabis time. Drinking comes later.
Don't forget to either get small snack-pack rubbermaid containers to hold the screws/bits, or those yellow plastic stopper tubes...
I'm a college student. I'll stick to shot glasses--they're plentiful.