The standard consumer is getting stupider and stupider. Never in history have people been so crappy at their own finances. Look at the amount of debt in this country. Sure, I would literaly kill someone to get a new 60' Sony HDTV. However, I am not going to ruin my future and retirment because of my tech lust.
Debt Debt Debt. This apathy has carried into our government with a NEW RECORD BREAKING DEBT AMOUNT!
Tell me one person who would be against putting these executives in JAIL. They were entrusted with data on almost every human being in the United States and they FAILED US. Get the stake, timbers, gasoline, and matches. Heaven knows I am ready for blood.
This is what you get when consumer information is obtained and stored behind a cloak of secrecy. This is what you get when privacy laws are not enforced or valued. This is what you get when the standard consumer is ignorant and apathetic to the importance of person information.
I bought the HD-3000 card from PCHDTV because of their warning about the broadcast flag. Little did I know it really don't WORK unless you are a freaking linux genius. I have had mine for about 2 months now, still doesn't work.
I don't know why I cant just download a freaking driver (there is a driver but it doesn't make it work) like in windows and have it work immediatly.
I am glad you can tell the Americans who are genuinely good people apart from the rest who are running our country into the ground (in the eye of the world and financially)
It feels good to know that people in the world know we are not all redneck-gay-hating-world-screwing people! Thank you.
Exactly. If it could have recorded and watched it myself, how the hell can you say I pirated it? After all, I "own" the original by seeing it or having automatic timeshift files on my DVR's hard drive.
There is a cliché saying that must be said here, but applies.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
If you were brought up in some culture (heaven forbid) that says fat, bitchy white women are as hot as hell, your going to be turned on by fat, bitchy white women. Your sense of beauty only applies to you and people brought up in your culture. Even close friends differ on if a girl is hot or not.
Stupid TV networks, I am WAITING (yes WAITING!) to pay them MONEY so I can download even DRMed TV shows! They _just_dont_get_it_ (Read my comment below)
This makes perfect sense. With the proliferation of boradband and the anger of watching TV shows a year or more after their American counterparts, it it understandable. I know what it feels like because Europe got to watch Battlestar Galactica before we did, so I just donwloaded it.
Didn't have to watch comercials and it was better quality then the crap Comcast quality I get. I would have paid money to see them in high resolution and with better sound, but these executives just don't seem to get it. I can download a TV show in less than an hour, in fact, I can download faster than I can watch. It is all about the industry clinging to a dieing business model and not seeing the future. Fine, do a 5-computer iTunes thing with DRM, it is not like music where I need to listen to them anywhere.
People pay for the connections and therefore already own that bandwidth. It is up to the ISP/big bell to make sure their infrastructure can handle it. They are being paid for that connection so it is not like the money has to appear out of nowhere.
There is a difference between how fast a server is and how fast a connection is. It could be very well possible it is serving pages faster than the internet connection could ever handle. However, like always, it is the internet connection that hurts performance and not the server in many cases.
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Where did you ever get that idea?
Light years are a measure of DISTANCE, not TIME!
(Stupid Mean Girls quote)"Anything else is like...against the laws of feminism or something!"
Why not just use SHA-2048, that wont be broken for like...6 years.
Jesus people, I passed 8th grade....or did I? =)
SHA-1? pshhhh. They should be using SHA+1. Thats 2 more!
2^69 attempts instead of 2^80 seems like only 11 times faster, then again, thats just me.
Debt Debt Debt. This apathy has carried into our government with a NEW RECORD BREAKING DEBT AMOUNT!
Pity the souls so caught up in their own greed and blind money-grubing they would invest in this company.
Tell me one person who would be against putting these executives in JAIL. They were entrusted with data on almost every human being in the United States and they FAILED US. Get the stake, timbers, gasoline, and matches. Heaven knows I am ready for blood.
This is what you get when consumer information is obtained and stored behind a cloak of secrecy. This is what you get when privacy laws are not enforced or valued. This is what you get when the standard consumer is ignorant and apathetic to the importance of person information.
I dont know where you live, but around here a user can hit the next bu ton 50 times.
I don't know why I cant just download a freaking driver (there is a driver but it doesn't make it work) like in windows and have it work immediatly.
It feels good to know that people in the world know we are not all redneck-gay-hating-world-screwing people! Thank you.
Exactly. If it could have recorded and watched it myself, how the hell can you say I pirated it? After all, I "own" the original by seeing it or having automatic timeshift files on my DVR's hard drive.
Oops, replace "Grant Snow" with "Elisabeth Harnois"
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
If you were brought up in some culture (heaven forbid) that says fat, bitchy white women are as hot as hell, your going to be turned on by fat, bitchy white women. Your sense of beauty only applies to you and people brought up in your culture. Even close friends differ on if a girl is hot or not.
Take for example Grant Snow on Fox's Point Pleasant (Image:http://www.elisabeth-harnois.net/images/alb ums/events/fox2005winterparty/004.jpg). I think she is hot (I am a teenager, so don't go all yelling pervert on me) but my best friend says she looks freaky. Eye of the beholder my friend.
Stupid TV networks, I am WAITING (yes WAITING!) to pay them MONEY so I can download even DRMed TV shows! They _just_dont_get_it_ (Read my comment below)
Didn't have to watch comercials and it was better quality then the crap Comcast quality I get. I would have paid money to see them in high resolution and with better sound, but these executives just don't seem to get it. I can download a TV show in less than an hour, in fact, I can download faster than I can watch. It is all about the industry clinging to a dieing business model and not seeing the future. Fine, do a 5-computer iTunes thing with DRM, it is not like music where I need to listen to them anywhere.
People pay for the connections and therefore already own that bandwidth. It is up to the ISP/big bell to make sure their infrastructure can handle it. They are being paid for that connection so it is not like the money has to appear out of nowhere.
I don't know about you but I PAY (in real money, not taxes) for my garbage to be picked up. Where the hell are you living?
There is a difference between how fast a server is and how fast a connection is. It could be very well possible it is serving pages faster than the internet connection could ever handle. However, like always, it is the internet connection that hurts performance and not the server in many cases.
Wouldn't that be insanely pointless? You have phone coverage, you are using minutes, why bother?
If they don't care enough to lock down their connection, then it is free for the taking.
You mean they used motors to put robot's feet down instead of gravity? Wow.