This issue has little to do with the iPhone and much to do with AT&T Mobility/Cingular Wireless' odd record keeping. My BlackBerry service also generates a massive bill -- length, not cost -- every month. Nothing new here, folks.
I saw a 10pm showing of Ghost in the Shell 2 at the Westside Pavilion in Los Angeles, only to have it ruined by some couple who felt said film was appropriate for a toddler. The movie begins, the kid start crying, and the couple resists leaving the theater. It wasn't until everyone started to complain aloud about the crying child that they left, nearly twenty minutes into the film.
As a 2004 I.T. graduate from the University of California I can attest that your post is spot on.
I don't mind outsourcing, but when companies outsource I.T. they are killing off the entire generation of domestic employees. As much as I want to embrace free market values in every instance, it is my sincere belief that many companies just don't understand the true tradeoff they have made. I don't think they will ever comprehend that it is the young domestic engineers that must eventually replace the aging domestic engineers...because foreign engineers do not have "our" best interests at heart.
To you as well. Know this, however: it's not a matter of giving up. It's all about managing expectations. We need to expect our climate to change, because the rock record shows it happens pretty darn regularly. We need to be prepared for a climate change instead of trying to prevent it. We need to work on preparation for this "feature" of the planet instead of trying to disable it.
Keep resorting to wit and myopic retorts such as "cheerleading" or "broken records." Continue insulting someone you're arguing with. It makes you look very insightful, and I'm sure the equally insightful/. moderators will reward you for your unique interventionist agenda.
Yellowstone was most certainly a victim of an active solution.
Our gov't and those who they gave the responsibility treated that park as their own playground of nature. They thought they knew better, that their methods would somehow preserve the "nature" of the park in some awesome way. What they did was simply display their own ignorance and arrogance, exactly what our current breed of climatologists does so well.
If it wasn't Global Cooling it was Global Warming. If it wasn't preserving Old Growth Forest it was using Managed Foresting approaches. If it wasn't carbon pollution it was an overactive carbon sink. These are all perversions of science and a pox on humanity. A big "FOR SHAME" from this Hebrew to You, and anyone else who thinks we'll ever comprehend global systems. The best we can do is learn to coexist to changing climates, for if anything is a constant it is this planet's ability to change at whim, so to speak. A bit of planet personification.
In short, I'm no cheerleader. I'm merely the loudspeaker blaring out the truth nobody wants to hear.
Humanity is arrogant, fickle and unreliable. Don't put your faith in it.
Active Solutions are what lead to the downfall of nature, such as what has occurred in Yellowstone National Park over the last several decades. It is a crying shame that we still allow people to pave our way to hell with their good intentions. We need to come to terms with what our species requires to continue growing and what it takes to ensure a habitat that is sustainable. What we do not need is a bunch of politicized pseudo-science dictating our course of action.
All the folks so intent on speaking out against the GWB administration should have burning ears right now...
...either you recognize the world for what it is -- a terribly complex and mystifying place -- or you don't, and we all wind up getting fucked in the ass because of it.
You've not read either The Skeptical Environmentalist nor that study particularly well, then.
The ice is most certainly thickening in the center, something that is most peculiar considering the claims made by folks intent on assuming humans are responsible for global climate change. For heavens sake, why is everyone so arrogant to think that our species is capable of uprooting the climate cycle of a [b]planet[/b]?
We should be conserving energy and controlling emissions, but we do not need to start assuming things that are still widely debated. In fact, we should be especially hesitant to believe any claims on how to maintain the status quo. We've not been so successful at manipulating nature thus far, so better we get re-acquainted with coexisting with it.
There's a reason you were modded off-topic, Beh, and it wasn't because of your insight.
Kyoto is a fucking joke, one that was designed to cripple the U.S. economy by allowing third-world countries to pollute to their heart's content. Instead, how about the world signs on to the ingenius notion of pollution credits. That way the free market can decide what is a cost-effective way of managing the environment.
Allowing a multinational accord do that job is like letting France lecture folks on cultural integration...
Please recognize that the term "global warming" is a misnomer. It is climate change we are concerned about, and it's not warming that will be the problem. It's not cooling either. It's idiots supposedly acting in our best interests to try and prevent something that may be completely out of our control. Volcanism, for instance, is responsible for tons of greenhouse gas emissions every year -- moreso than every vehicle on the road today combined. This debate should be about focusing on more renewable energy sources, not pollution controls. This debate shouldn't be led by environmentalists, because these are the same asshats who fucked up Yellowstone National Park.
We need to stop listening to the Mass Media and start using common sense.
Trying to inspire sympathy for global warming because of the entirely unrelated Atlantic Hurricane Season (which has seen very comparable hurricanes in that area before) is just fucking stupid. Climate change is a lot more complex than the resulting damage from hurricane season. Cry me a fucking river.
It is those concerned with "saving" the enviornment that frighten me the most, for they are the ones most willing to recklessly change the status quo using the trendy science of the decade. We still don't know shit about the climate cycles of this planet and what we do know is hindered by all sorts of complexity. The systems interaction alone is enough to make me doubtful of anyone's claims of understanding this spinning rock.
And if climate change does occur on a drastic scale, my money is on it being irreversible and the result of natural (read: not human), cyclical actions of the long-term (read: more than a 650,000 year time frame).
Cable companies -- by law -- have to offer a box with FireWire.
Call and ask yours which one they offer and threaten a lawsuit if they don't offer one.;)
"This is true to a point... BUT no DRM, you must not have come up against any 5c flagged material on your cable box."
Oh, so very true. The OnDemand and PPV features are disabled for FireWire recording.
I completely understand why the cable companies do this. They host quite a bit of programming via OnDemand & PPV, programming that I don't necessarily feel entitled to copy. The OnDemand library is fairly static and part of my subscription fee, so there's little need to record it. The PPV stuff is mostly DVD release material and widely available in other media. But subscription channels (local, basic, extended, premium) are not. As such, recording from those sources proves to be the most "rewarding."
In any case, this is indeed one of the downsides of my suggestion.
OTOH, adding additional storage capacity to my suggestion is trivial. FireWire/USB/FireWire800 storage devices can be daisy chained to maximize capacity as needed. And playback is not at all restricted, so the files can be burnt to DVD, streamed over a network or copied to infinite iPods.
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What a troll. At least have the balls to not post as AC.
This issue has little to do with the iPhone and much to do with AT&T Mobility/Cingular Wireless' odd record keeping. My BlackBerry service also generates a massive bill -- length, not cost -- every month. Nothing new here, folks.
You think THAT is bad...
I saw a 10pm showing of Ghost in the Shell 2 at the Westside Pavilion in Los Angeles, only to have it ruined by some couple who felt said film was appropriate for a toddler. The movie begins, the kid start crying, and the couple resists leaving the theater. It wasn't until everyone started to complain aloud about the crying child that they left, nearly twenty minutes into the film.
Feh. I felt my $11 admission was well spent...
An entire post on stereotypes...
...and not one mention of the two bags of gold I keep around my neck.
For shame, Slashdot. For shame.
Um, not to be insensitive or anything, but antisemitic genocide is also a "feature" of this planet, of long standing.
It's at most 5000 years old, Jon...
That's a blip on the radar screen, not a long standing feature.
But way to somehow relate this to Israel, a country whose existence I do not support.
As a 2004 I.T. graduate from the University of California I can attest that your post is spot on.
I don't mind outsourcing, but when companies outsource I.T. they are killing off the entire generation of domestic employees. As much as I want to embrace free market values in every instance, it is my sincere belief that many companies just don't understand the true tradeoff they have made. I don't think they will ever comprehend that it is the young domestic engineers that must eventually replace the aging domestic engineers...because foreign engineers do not have "our" best interests at heart.
Your mileage may vary.
You're not thinking of "Cheeseburger in Paradise," are you?
I don't recall J.B. ever singing about coding...
Please *preview* pithy posts.
Good luck to you.
/. moderators will reward you for your unique interventionist agenda.
To you as well. Know this, however: it's not a matter of giving up. It's all about managing expectations. We need to expect our climate to change, because the rock record shows it happens pretty darn regularly. We need to be prepared for a climate change instead of trying to prevent it. We need to work on preparation for this "feature" of the planet instead of trying to disable it.
Keep resorting to wit and myopic retorts such as "cheerleading" or "broken records." Continue insulting someone you're arguing with. It makes you look very insightful, and I'm sure the equally insightful
Yellowstone was most certainly a victim of an active solution.
Our gov't and those who they gave the responsibility treated that park as their own playground of nature. They thought they knew better, that their methods would somehow preserve the "nature" of the park in some awesome way. What they did was simply display their own ignorance and arrogance, exactly what our current breed of climatologists does so well.
If it wasn't Global Cooling it was Global Warming. If it wasn't preserving Old Growth Forest it was using Managed Foresting approaches. If it wasn't carbon pollution it was an overactive carbon sink. These are all perversions of science and a pox on humanity. A big "FOR SHAME" from this Hebrew to You, and anyone else who thinks we'll ever comprehend global systems. The best we can do is learn to coexist to changing climates, for if anything is a constant it is this planet's ability to change at whim, so to speak. A bit of planet personification.
In short, I'm no cheerleader. I'm merely the loudspeaker blaring out the truth nobody wants to hear.
Humanity is arrogant, fickle and unreliable. Don't put your faith in it.
Active Solutions are what lead to the downfall of nature, such as what has occurred in Yellowstone National Park over the last several decades. It is a crying shame that we still allow people to pave our way to hell with their good intentions. We need to come to terms with what our species requires to continue growing and what it takes to ensure a habitat that is sustainable. What we do not need is a bunch of politicized pseudo-science dictating our course of action.
...either you recognize the world for what it is -- a terribly complex and mystifying place -- or you don't, and we all wind up getting fucked in the ass because of it.
All the folks so intent on speaking out against the GWB administration should have burning ears right now...
You've not read either The Skeptical Environmentalist nor that study particularly well, then.
The ice is most certainly thickening in the center, something that is most peculiar considering the claims made by folks intent on assuming humans are responsible for global climate change. For heavens sake, why is everyone so arrogant to think that our species is capable of uprooting the climate cycle of a [b]planet[/b]?
We should be conserving energy and controlling emissions, but we do not need to start assuming things that are still widely debated. In fact, we should be especially hesitant to believe any claims on how to maintain the status quo. We've not been so successful at manipulating nature thus far, so better we get re-acquainted with coexisting with it.
There's a reason you were modded off-topic, Beh, and it wasn't because of your insight.
Kyoto is a fucking joke, one that was designed to cripple the U.S. economy by allowing third-world countries to pollute to their heart's content. Instead, how about the world signs on to the ingenius notion of pollution credits. That way the free market can decide what is a cost-effective way of managing the environment.
Allowing a multinational accord do that job is like letting France lecture folks on cultural integration...
Assume away.
-Max Bialystock, The Producers
"Until then, about all we can do in the political arena is to just keep beating on the anecdotes and keep chanting "global warming"."
http://www.globalclimate.org/Newsweek.htm
From April 28, 1975.
Please recognize that the term "global warming" is a misnomer. It is climate change we are concerned about, and it's not warming that will be the problem. It's not cooling either. It's idiots supposedly acting in our best interests to try and prevent something that may be completely out of our control. Volcanism, for instance, is responsible for tons of greenhouse gas emissions every year -- moreso than every vehicle on the road today combined. This debate should be about focusing on more renewable energy sources, not pollution controls. This debate shouldn't be led by environmentalists, because these are the same asshats who fucked up Yellowstone National Park.
We need to stop listening to the Mass Media and start using common sense.
What a fucking tool.
Discussing climate-related issues with folks like Beh is like masturbating with a glove made of steel wool.
You missed the entire point.
Trying to inspire sympathy for global warming because of the entirely unrelated Atlantic Hurricane Season (which has seen very comparable hurricanes in that area before) is just fucking stupid. Climate change is a lot more complex than the resulting damage from hurricane season. Cry me a fucking river.
What a terrifically insightful post!
It is those concerned with "saving" the enviornment that frighten me the most, for they are the ones most willing to recklessly change the status quo using the trendy science of the decade. We still don't know shit about the climate cycles of this planet and what we do know is hindered by all sorts of complexity. The systems interaction alone is enough to make me doubtful of anyone's claims of understanding this spinning rock.
And if climate change does occur on a drastic scale, my money is on it being irreversible and the result of natural (read: not human), cyclical actions of the long-term (read: more than a 650,000 year time frame).
What bullshit hyperbole.
Should we hold a memorial for those who lost property and life in the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in AD 79?
Just because shit happens doesn't mean it rolls uphill...
It conveys zero information
;)
Since when? I always thought that money talks.
I suppose history teachers got sick of reading papers about the Civil War begining with the assault on "Fort Summer".
Uhh....
Are you making reference to Fort Sumter or Fort Sumner?
Not sure how much time is spent on New Mexican history these days, so I shall assume you meant Sumter.
Insightful? Where's the Funny moderation...?
I guess it is insightful, too, if not a bit snarky.
Please correct me if I am wrong...
...but didn't these "Compact Discs" also contain DRM for the Mac platform as well?
What if your cable company doesn't use Motorola boxes? What if they like Scientific Atlanta? Are suitable boxes available under that brand?
w ire-on-all-cable-boxes-015708.php
;)
Great question.
I point you here: http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/fcc-requires-fire
Pardon the unformated link, but I really dislike embedding them and adding the url in [brackets].
Cable companies -- by law -- have to offer a box with FireWire.
Call and ask yours which one they offer and threaten a lawsuit if they don't offer one.
"This is true to a point... BUT no DRM, you must not have come up against any 5c flagged material on your cable box."
Oh, so very true. The OnDemand and PPV features are disabled for FireWire recording.
I completely understand why the cable companies do this. They host quite a bit of programming via OnDemand & PPV, programming that I don't necessarily feel entitled to copy. The OnDemand library is fairly static and part of my subscription fee, so there's little need to record it. The PPV stuff is mostly DVD release material and widely available in other media. But subscription channels (local, basic, extended, premium) are not. As such, recording from those sources proves to be the most "rewarding."
In any case, this is indeed one of the downsides of my suggestion.
OTOH, adding additional storage capacity to my suggestion is trivial. FireWire/USB/FireWire800 storage devices can be daisy chained to maximize capacity as needed. And playback is not at all restricted, so the files can be burnt to DVD, streamed over a network or copied to infinite iPods.