The old circumsicion argument
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A bit off topic, but I just had to listen to a similar argument used for circumsicion. He'll be different from every body else, so you better clip the tip of his penis off. I figure if he's that worried about fitting in when he's older he can make that decision himself.
Or the truly disturbing one. "I want him to look like me when he's older".
I never understood that last one. Do the kids eventually say - "Uh no Dad, lets not compare units today."
Region coding just increases costs and prohibits a "free economy". If the same movie sells in China for 50 cents instead of $20 and I can save money by having it shipped here for $5 don't they see that they are keeping costs high by artifically infating prices?
If companies can get laws to protect their content from begin copied and sold elsewhere and that's a good thing, why are people trying to protect their jobs from being copied and performed elsewhere doing a bad thing?
Can we apply their copyright "IP" logic to the out sourcing argument?
The obvious solution is to have the computer create a new proof that shows that the algorithm it used to create the original proof is, in fact correct.
And to prove that the proof of the proof can be trusted, have the computer create a proof of the proof of the proof.
And to prove that the proof of the proof of the proof can be trusted,...
I've seen this guys work before. He does some incredible snow sculptures. Much better then the stuff I've seen at Michgan Tech.;) It's all planned out in Mathmatica, then sculpted from a huge block of snow.
This looks interesting, although I haven't had a chance to try it out yet. I wouldn't dwell on the open source aspects of it too much. It's a tool, not a product. Extending it will just give them more reach into other systems, or like Mono let others do the porting work for them.
Microsoft has a released other tools for free to developers such as the Embedded Visual Tools for handhelds and phones. It was part of the larger effort to get a large software base for their CE platform when palm was the leader. It's so bug ridden they should release that to open source.
Then there was that browser they gave away for free, and Services For UNIX, event Dakimakura pillows in Japan.
Still it makes me wonder how for off this prediction is that says Microsoft will produce software for Linux in 2004. It's always fun to go back and see what people thought was going to happen.
RIAA and the like like to point to their falling sales to try to pass these laws. Personally I think it's just that with current poor economy people are buying less frivilous things like music and CD systems. I think I did read a study some one did that even showed a correlation, but I can't find it right now.
No one ever shows basic supply/demand graphs for file sharing either.
How many people would buy a CD for $10? Now how many would you buy music for 10 Megabytes of storage space and 30 seconds of search time. It downloads in the background while your doing other things so it doesn't even cost you download time. I'm not saying it's right, but neither is $10,000 or jail time for sharing a few songs.
Millions will trade songs for pennies a piece, and now they can. Patching the damn with lawsuits isn't going to stop the flood. That's why everything is moving to digital. Gotta "plug that analog hole"
You may be interested to know that Dishnetwork is running an upgrade to the 510 PVR for $99 + one year contract and it's amazingly available to existing customers. Call the 800 number on the website and ask them about PVR upgrades for existing customers.
I'm just a bit pissed because we bought a house and the owners left the satellite system with an old 3000. We thought great and transferred it to our name, but then couldn't get the multi-room PVR offer because we were not a new customer any more.
Maybe it's showing my age, but I remember when I bought my first computer and printer they both came with schematics in the user manual. Of course things were big and simple enough at that time that was realistic and almost life size. I skipped buying a hard drive because I figured for $400 I could swap a lot of floppy disks.:o)
I know this is a bit off topic, but could you tell me about your DishNetwork PVR? What model do you have and how does it work? I've been thinking about getting one, but I've seen reports that say everything from you can't live without them ones that say DishNetwork sucks. I was looking at the 510 model, but I would be interested in hearing about whatever you have if you would take the time to post.
Absolutely Right. It's just a plot to get geeks outside to lower their programming skills by taking time away from the computer.
Just remember when your friends try to convince you to go to a game by saying there is 802.11 there, the bleachers DO NOT have power strips! Don't go or you'll be trapped in Actual Reality.
I like knowing that it costs them real money to try to contact me. I like that at least the post office is making money so my stamp prices won't have to increase so much. I like the satisfaction of watching the letters burn that you just don't get from deleting an email. Much more satisfying.
Advertisers money would be better spent operating porn sites.
The NYT article states that
"ComScore also collects data on Internet pornography-viewing habits, although that was not part of the online publishers' report. According to the company, more than 70 percent of men from 18 to 34 visit a pornographic site in a typical month, and those men make up 25 percent of the visitors to such sites."
TV networks are expensive, actors, satellites, cameras, etc all paid for by advertising, having to buy a TV to watch it all, etc, yet it's all free to me the consumer.
Porn sites are much cheaper to run and seriously less to produce content. I doubt any porn star gets a Million a pop.
OK, so we know where the guys are, it's cheaper to operate, plus you can even determine if they saw and/or clicked on your ad.
QED
Advertisers should pay porn sites and they should all be free. Free porn brought to you by Doritos, Mountain Dew, and the new Mitsubishi.
Lower anything on the right to lower the cost. If they pay stars less, they will be able to offer cheaper advertising, or make more off advertising. Friends still sucks if you pay the stars less and even then it won't necessarily bring the viewers back.
Everyone (in theory) pays taxes, so lowering taxes only lowers government revenue. The government isn't trying to attract those darn 18-35 year olds. They have a captive audience. So lowering taxes just reduces how much money they have to spend.
I'll leave who gets taxed argument for another day. You may be interested to see this chart of just how much Senators and Representatives make each year. That's 3 to 5 times the median income as determined by the US census.
Anyway what the article really means is "Hold on! No discount to advertisers until we double check the numbers ourselves". Screw them. Make good products, at low prices and get good ratings in Consumer Reports or something similar.
Why would someone pay that much when they didn't have to? Maybe because they will have no choice. Secure Computing DRM, etc means you wouldn't want to let some insecure software run on your hardware. DCMA could do something like copy right the bootloader or BIOS so you have to get a license to work with it.
You have to do it slowly though, so people don't notice your slipping the reigns on. A little bit at a time, let them get used to it, then do the next part.
Printers have started down this path. Imagine if computers do too. Damn, my PC has a Virus... well I might as well just get a new one - cheaper then buying AV software.
My kids know what their body parts are and what they are used for where babies come from etc. I've always answered all their questions about sex or whatever since they were 3. Having pets helps a lot with that. At their age it's about the grossest thing they can think of.
I'm having a much harder time explaining why they show people getting shot, stabbed, strangled, or mass graves or other gross stuff they show on TV, especially the news when it's real. If someone flashed pics like that at us, it would mark that person as weird cause that's not normal, but I don't think we would faint or anything.
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A bit off topic, but I just had to listen to a similar argument used for circumsicion. He'll be different from every body else, so you better clip the tip of his penis off. I figure if he's that worried about fitting in when he's older he can make that decision himself.
Or the truly disturbing one.
"I want him to look like me when he's older".
I never understood that last one. Do the kids eventually say - "Uh no Dad, lets not compare units today."
Region coding just increases costs and prohibits a "free economy". If the same movie sells in China for 50 cents instead of $20 and I can save money by having it shipped here for $5 don't they see that they are keeping costs high by artifically infating prices?
If companies can get laws to protect their content from begin copied and sold elsewhere and that's a good thing, why are people trying to protect their jobs from being copied and performed elsewhere doing a bad thing?
Can we apply their copyright "IP" logic to the out sourcing argument?
The obvious solution is to have the computer create a new proof that shows that the algorithm it used to create the original proof is, in fact correct.
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And to prove that the proof of the proof can be trusted, have the computer create a proof of the proof of the proof.
And to prove that the proof of the proof of the proof can be trusted,
Intestines work great for keeping your cables together. Check ebay for some used badgers. They make great conduits.
Yes, but that's just to get you interested in part 2 when she does it all again completely naked
After all not even a company like google could keep track of that much information. :P
I've seen this guys work before. He does some incredible snow sculptures. Much better then the stuff I've seen at Michgan Tech. ;) It's all planned out in Mathmatica, then sculpted from a huge block of snow.
Check out the first few links from his webpage.
http://www.stanwagon.com/wagon.html
This looks interesting, although I haven't had a chance to try it out yet. I wouldn't dwell on the open source aspects of it too much. It's a tool, not a product. Extending it will just give them more reach into other systems, or like Mono let others do the porting work for them.
Microsoft has a released other tools for free to developers such as the Embedded Visual Tools for handhelds and phones. It was part of the larger effort to get a large software base for their CE platform when palm was the leader. It's so bug ridden they should release that to open source.
Then there was that browser they gave away for free, and Services For UNIX, event Dakimakura pillows in Japan.
Still it makes me wonder how for off this prediction is that says Microsoft will produce software for Linux in 2004. It's always fun to go back and see what people thought was going to happen.
No superpowers, but I bet it includes a free pack of stickers.
$60/year vs $500 up front.
I don't think I'll get 6 years out of the PVR to make it worthwhile. Maybe if it goes on sale. Sounds very nice though.
The Microsoft Mouse adds 10% to the cost of the computer. Pretty amazing considering not so long ago, $300 was 10% of the cost of the computer.
RIAA and the like like to point to their falling sales to try to pass these laws. Personally I think it's just that with current poor economy people are buying less frivilous things like music and CD systems. I think I did read a study some one did that even showed a correlation, but I can't find it right now.
No one ever shows basic supply/demand graphs for file sharing either.
How many people would buy a CD for $10? Now how many would you buy music for 10 Megabytes of storage space and 30 seconds of search time. It downloads in the background while your doing other things so it doesn't even cost you download time. I'm not saying it's right, but neither is $10,000 or jail time for sharing a few songs.
Millions will trade songs for pennies a piece, and now they can. Patching the damn with lawsuits isn't going to stop the flood. That's why everything is moving to digital. Gotta "plug that analog hole"
You may be interested to know that Dishnetwork is running an upgrade to the 510 PVR for $99 + one year contract and it's amazingly available to existing customers. Call the 800 number on the website and ask them about PVR upgrades for existing customers.
I'm just a bit pissed because we bought a house and the owners left the satellite system with an old 3000. We thought great and transferred it to our name, but then couldn't get the multi-room PVR offer because we were not a new customer any more.
Maybe it's showing my age, but I remember when I bought my first computer and printer they both came with schematics in the user manual. Of course things were big and simple enough at that time that was realistic and almost life size. I skipped buying a hard drive because I figured for $400 I could swap a lot of floppy disks. :o)
And I liked it.
I know this is a bit off topic, but could you tell me about your DishNetwork PVR? What model do you have and how does it work? I've been thinking about getting one, but I've seen reports that say everything from you can't live without them ones that say DishNetwork sucks. I was looking at the 510 model, but I would be interested in hearing about whatever you have if you would take the time to post.
Thanks.
Absolutely Right. It's just a plot to get geeks outside to lower their programming skills by taking time away from the computer.
Just remember when your friends try to convince you to go to a game by saying there is 802.11 there, the bleachers DO NOT have power strips! Don't go or you'll be trapped in Actual Reality.
He piles up the regular SCO employees and investors underneath him to make a nice soft landing he can walk away from.
I like knowing that it costs them real money to try to contact me. I like that at least the post office is making money so my stamp prices won't have to increase so much. I like the satisfaction of watching the letters burn that you just don't get from deleting an email. Much more satisfying.
The NYT article states that
TV networks are expensive, actors, satellites, cameras, etc all paid for by advertising, having to buy a TV to watch it all, etc, yet it's all free to me the consumer.
Porn sites are much cheaper to run and seriously less to produce content. I doubt any porn star gets a Million a pop.
OK, so we know where the guys are, it's cheaper to operate, plus you can even determine if they saw and/or clicked on your ad.
QED
Advertisers should pay porn sites and they should all be free. Free porn brought to you by Doritos, Mountain Dew, and the new Mitsubishi.
Cost = Fixed Costs + Expenses + Profit
Lower anything on the right to lower the cost. If they pay stars less, they will be able to offer cheaper advertising, or make more off advertising. Friends still sucks if you pay the stars less and even then it won't necessarily bring the viewers back.
Everyone (in theory) pays taxes, so lowering taxes only lowers government revenue. The government isn't trying to attract those darn 18-35 year olds. They have a captive audience. So lowering taxes just reduces how much money they have to spend.
I'll leave who gets taxed argument for another day. You may be interested to see this chart of just how much Senators and Representatives make each year. That's 3 to 5 times the median income as determined by the US census.
Anyway what the article really means is "Hold on! No discount to advertisers until we double check the numbers ourselves". Screw them. Make good products, at low prices and get good ratings in Consumer Reports or something similar.
Why would someone pay that much when they didn't have to? Maybe because they will have no choice. Secure Computing DRM, etc means you wouldn't want to let some insecure software run on your hardware. DCMA could do something like copy right the bootloader or BIOS so you have to get a license to work with it.
You have to do it slowly though, so people don't notice your slipping the reigns on. A little bit at a time, let them get used to it, then do the next part.
Printers have started down this path. Imagine if computers do too. Damn, my PC has a Virus... well I might as well just get a new one - cheaper then buying AV software.
Thank You Very Much! :o)
Now there is a reason why Word is better. I can't see any of the old versions of the file using OpenOffice.org.
All Microsoft DOC files at Microsoft.com
Over 22,000 word files on their site. Assuming they are all still there, that is a lot of cleaning up to do. I wonder what else people will find.
Perhaps more Microsoft employees should Check this link out
Right. Just people having sex, no big deal.
My kids know what their body parts are and what they are used for where babies come from etc. I've always answered all their questions about sex or whatever since they were 3. Having pets helps a lot with that. At their age it's about the grossest thing they can think of.
I'm having a much harder time explaining why they show people getting shot, stabbed, strangled, or mass graves or other gross stuff they show on TV, especially the news when it's real. If someone flashed pics like that at us, it would mark that person as weird cause that's not normal, but I don't think we would faint or anything.