"Features" that make the device larger, worse on battery power, and less effective for a single purpose are far more of a hassle than they are worth. I want a cell phone to be a cell phone. Yes its handy if it holds my address. Yes its handy if it has voice recognition. Yes it can be handy if it can check my email/browse the web (pushing it, personally i would rather go for the smaller phone than something like a blackberry, which are actually very useful though).
But NO, I dont want my phone to hold 50 mins of poor quality music which I will never use.
If I want music, I want something that can store 20-60 gigs.
Or I could buy a gun and shoot myself. A much better way to go.
Or, rather, drown myself. A much better way to go.
Or hire some people to torture me, while keeping me alive on life support, for the remaining years of my life, and beyond my natural lifespan. A much better way to go.
Or I could sell my soul to the devil. Errr...thats the same as your post....nevermind.
Maybe its just in Canada they accept it, but as a university student, I get quite a few air miles a month.
I have also bought alcohol based upon what had an "air miles bonus". Imagine getting 8 free air miles just to drink a different kind of vodka! Like you can tell after the 10th shot!
What everyone needs...is some of that "smart tint" they have for rear view mirrors (so that at night if there is a car with its brights on you dont get glare). Basically what it does is darkens when a current is passed through it. Install some of this in front of your front/rear license plates. Enter your car, turn it on. See a police/po-po/five-oh, turn it off. Magically...they cannot track you!
Everyone also needs one of those fake nose/sunglasses. Sure you look ridiculous, but they cannot track you with the face recognition.
These very simple tracking systems are very simply bypassed as well.
Or, trade cars with your friends daily to really throw them off!
Altho you could always rely on security through obscurity like windows users...
If US marines trooper helmets are webservers...or networked at all...I say we backdoor these!
Think of all the xdcc bots we could have!
Or how big our DDOS net would be!
And really...how will the American government prosecute the marines!
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I actually read it as (following the "architecture queen")
'We have a gay team'
'On a scale of one to gay, all of our developers are at least nine'
'We hire only the top two percent. Of gay people.'
Just teasing of course, but come on now, the 99.9th percentile?
I want to go shopping at a mall without worrying about being robbed. I want to drive to work without dying in a car accident.
The world isnt perfect. People certainly are not. If the biggest worry you have is virii, ads, spyware and other "problems" which are easily solved with a little common sense, go open a beer and enjoy your afternoon in the sunshine.
While millions starve and havent heard of computers.
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Apparently they dont want to hook me up with any prostitutes in my area. Cock blockers.
But QWERTY was designed to put commonly used letters far apart to prevent typewriters from sticking and such.
So this is "better" just because it is consistent?
I could hit my head against the wall every hour on the hour...but this isnt necessarily a great idea, even if it is consistent.
Alphabetic isnt all bad, im sure you could type the same speed on a normal keyboard if you were used to alphabetic. Perhaps even faster than a QWERTY since some common letters will be close together, thus making less finger reaches and quicker typing.
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in
waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the
frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae.
The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm.
Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but
the wrod as a wlohe.
"Words can be typed by pressing the raised keys, and numbers by pressing the four keys that surround a particular number. "
So ya...that kind of sucks.
It would be much better I would think if they DID leave the numeric funtions intact.
I am tired of you being so DELICIOUS
Why must you be so damned NOURISHING and TASTY
I like your CRAYONS with the PRETTY colours
FOOD is USELESS. YOU are GOOD TO EAT.
Even my gibberish is hungry...
"You're one of those people who would walk into a grocery store and walk over to the bulk foods aisle. You'd grab granola from the bin and stuff it in your pocket. You'd then grab raisins and stuff them in there"
Except that would cost the store owner money. I dont seem to recall reading anywhere where recording artists, or their labels, or the RIAA, buy the bits on your hard drive...
Yes actually, the if you calculate the probability of actually getting sued, multiplied by the average settlement, you are definately winning.
35 million American adults (lets only include those of which are likely to get sued by the RIAA, the 12 year olds are getting their settlement paid for them by legitimate online downloading companies)
So far the RIAA has sued at the most 5,000 people, but hell lets say 10,000.
10,000/35,000,000 = 1/3500
Then multiply that by the average settlement which is, lets say, $10,000.
That gives us a $2.86 expected value for file sharers.
Cheap way to get music! I say all 35 million adult americans throw $2.86 in a bank account used to settle RIAA cases, and lets download like its going out of style! (legally! well, kind of)
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bit torrent is the way to go i bet bit torrent cant be
Completely agree with you hear.
"Features" that make the device larger, worse on battery power, and less effective for a single purpose are far more of a hassle than they are worth. I want a cell phone to be a cell phone. Yes its handy if it holds my address. Yes its handy if it has voice recognition. Yes it can be handy if it can check my email/browse the web (pushing it, personally i would rather go for the smaller phone than something like a blackberry, which are actually very useful though).
But NO, I dont want my phone to hold 50 mins of poor quality music which I will never use.
If I want music, I want something that can store 20-60 gigs.
Ya...I want to stick with the old plan tho.
With like 100 companies. Tomorrow. The run.
Oh Canada! We stand on guard for thee!
Or I could buy a gun and shoot myself. A much better way to go.
Or, rather, drown myself. A much better way to go.
Or hire some people to torture me, while keeping me alive on life support, for the remaining years of my life, and beyond my natural lifespan. A much better way to go.
Or I could sell my soul to the devil. Errr...thats the same as your post....nevermind.
I just use my Air Miles at liquor stores.
Maybe its just in Canada they accept it, but as a university student, I get quite a few air miles a month.
I have also bought alcohol based upon what had an "air miles bonus". Imagine getting 8 free air miles just to drink a different kind of vodka! Like you can tell after the 10th shot!
What everyone needs...is some of that "smart tint" they have for rear view mirrors (so that at night if there is a car with its brights on you dont get glare). Basically what it does is darkens when a current is passed through it. Install some of this in front of your front/rear license plates. Enter your car, turn it on. See a police/po-po/five-oh, turn it off. Magically...they cannot track you!
Everyone also needs one of those fake nose/sunglasses. Sure you look ridiculous, but they cannot track you with the face recognition.
These very simple tracking systems are very simply bypassed as well.
Or, trade cars with your friends daily to really throw them off!
Altho you could always rely on security through obscurity like windows users...
If US marines trooper helmets are webservers...or networked at all...I say we backdoor these!
Think of all the xdcc bots we could have!
Or how big our DDOS net would be!
And really...how will the American government prosecute the marines!
I actually read it as (following the "architecture queen")
'We have a gay team'
'On a scale of one to gay, all of our developers are at least nine'
'We hire only the top two percent. Of gay people.'
Just teasing of course, but come on now, the 99.9th percentile?
He must be using a MAGIC scale...with MAGIC!
I want to go shopping at a mall without worrying about being robbed. I want to drive to work without dying in a car accident.
The world isnt perfect. People certainly are not. If the biggest worry you have is virii, ads, spyware and other "problems" which are easily solved with a little common sense, go open a beer and enjoy your afternoon in the sunshine.
While millions starve and havent heard of computers.
Is there a way to put his name on the "Do call" list?
/.er's speed dial...maybe thats why im getting busy signals
Isnt there some law passing that forces telemarketers to only phone numbers on a "do call" list?
Even if theres not...hes now on a lot of
Undernet allows the federalis to sniff their servers/hubs and view channel conversations without being in the channel!
Altho they use this to track those crazy haq0rs, not so much the pedios.
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Apparently they dont want to hook me up with any prostitutes in my area. Cock blockers.
Fifteen *tick tock tick* words *tick tock tick* per *tick tock tick* minute *tick tock tick* would *tick tock tick* drive *tick tock tick* me *tick tock tick* crazy!
No fast typing and no beer makes Homer something something...and i dont mind if i do!
But QWERTY was designed to put commonly used letters far apart to prevent typewriters from sticking and such.
So this is "better" just because it is consistent?
I could hit my head against the wall every hour on the hour...but this isnt necessarily a great idea, even if it is consistent.
Alphabetic isnt all bad, im sure you could type the same speed on a normal keyboard if you were used to alphabetic. Perhaps even faster than a QWERTY since some common letters will be close together, thus making less finger reaches and quicker typing.
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in
waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae.
The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm.
Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
However.....................
Lnog wrods are "eapslcileliy dilifufct"
You need a special dialing wand. *cough* Simpsons *cough*
If you read the article...
"Words can be typed by pressing the raised keys, and numbers by pressing the four keys that surround a particular number. " So ya...that kind of sucks.
It would be much better I would think if they DID leave the numeric funtions intact.
Silly rabbit! Voting is for the minority!
If the majority of Americans voted, the sun would explode. And not with skittles.
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Because if you do sensor this, you are one of them!
I am tired of you being so DELICIOUS
Why must you be so damned NOURISHING and TASTY
I like your CRAYONS with the PRETTY colours
FOOD is USELESS. YOU are GOOD TO EAT.
Even my gibberish is hungry...
Isnt that the pot calling the kettle black...
Or is it the pot calling the african american black...
Or is it the geek calling the geek a geek...
I just dont know anymore...im too "LIBERTARIAN"
This will bring nothing but criticism.
Banks are pretty damned secure. You cant steal money from them easily. Otherwise, they wouldnt be very good banks.
The software they have is very secure. It is also very well tested and designed for the most part.
The users flaming Microsoft and its worms have a legitimate reason - for their home PC security.
It is much easier for someone to trojan your computer and steal your online banking/cc info than it is to root the gibson at an ATM.
It isnt nearly as easy as it was in T2...
"You're one of those people who would walk into a grocery store and walk over to the bulk foods aisle. You'd grab granola from the bin and stuff it in your pocket. You'd then grab raisins and stuff them in there"
Except that would cost the store owner money. I dont seem to recall reading anywhere where recording artists, or their labels, or the RIAA, buy the bits on your hard drive...
Nice logic...*cough*
Yes actually, the if you calculate the probability of actually getting sued, multiplied by the average settlement, you are definately winning.
35 million American adults (lets only include those of which are likely to get sued by the RIAA, the 12 year olds are getting their settlement paid for them by legitimate online downloading companies)
So far the RIAA has sued at the most 5,000 people, but hell lets say 10,000.
10,000/35,000,000 = 1/3500
Then multiply that by the average settlement which is, lets say, $10,000.
That gives us a $2.86 expected value for file sharers.
Cheap way to get music! I say all 35 million adult americans throw $2.86 in a bank account used to settle RIAA cases, and lets download like its going out of style! (legally! well, kind of)