What gets me about Christianity is that when you take communion, you have to literally believe that that host is literally the body of Christ. Not a symbol, not a reference, not simile nor metaphor, but the literal body of Christ.
I always laughed when I was in 'religous education' as a youngster once I parsed that line and it's... um... belief requirements.
RIAA Strategist #1: Wait! I got it! Let's put our future customers in financial ruin! RIAA Strategist #2: Brilliant! Then they'll have more money to buy from us! RIAA Strategist #1: What should we do about the rampant piracy in eastern europe and asia? RIAA Strategist #2: Sorry, repeat that? I was listening to the satisfying sound of ruining everyone's lives.
Games teach you tons of real-world problem solving.
Just think of RIGHT NOW as an RPG. Now you're not encumbered by a clunky interface, but the law is less to be trifled with.
The point is that in games, you have fewer options of actions to take, so you have to learn to think within the bounds of the abilities of the system/game. Translate these previously considered problem-solving exercises into real experiences, and you've got to be a better problem-solver. And not just in the sense of:
Oh no, shall I use my +5 Longsword of Flaming Death or my Scroll of Invisibility to get past this dragon?!!?!
I've always thought that the more time you spend doing something (especially if you're doing it seriously), the better you will be at it.
You're off by an order of 10... I said 2,500 dpi not 25,000 dpi.
It sounds like you're the kind of person I'd be happy to meet in an online arena - more score padding.
Per-pixel movement at 1600x1200 makes a difference in high-end situations. If you owned one, you'd understand better. Optical mice only get 400-450 dpi.
As good as this may all be, I will never give up my Razer Boomslang. At 1000/2000/2500 dpi, it's the best thing going for input. Sounds totally gratuitous, but for graphic design and counter-strike, I don't leave home without it.
The Wachowski brothers have already raised this question. As Stanley Kubrick did before him. I'm sure we've all seen The Animatrix and AI. What about this talk is new?
Although, the cyborg phallus is an improvement on anything I've seen yet.
At the cyborg bar:
~Did you see that sheborg?
~Yeah, pretty ho...oh dude, she seems to be sprouting one...
I was, however, comparing a 2nd tier (i.e. a step above basic) DSL service which is 1.5 down, 256 up to cable, as I've found those DL rates to be roughly the same.
You'd think it'd be worse for business to lose a customer entirely (as with my case) to a competitor and as a result take $0/month from them than it would be to offer the "service of last resort" and then take $70/month from them.
I suppose nobody has accused Verizon of brilliance, either.
I've found that for comparable DL rates on DSL (vs. Cable), I had to buy a 2nd tier DSL plan - 1.5Mbit down and 256K up, thus the $60. Also, I should mention I'm in the US, so we're all relatively screwed anyway.
DSL @ $49.90 reaches many, many more people's budgets.
I may be wrong, but I'm not sure if all phone companies offer the "connection dial tone." I'm pretty sure at least Verizon doesn't offer this, which for many people, would mean the $30 cost as a "DSL connector". CIP, I talked to a Cust. Serv. manager at Verizon a few weeks ago to try to get a cheaper "DSL connector," and he never mentioned or offered the "$3-10 dial tone," which clearly would make DSL a smarter decision.
Anyway, I think you're in the minority of people who prefer land lines to cellphones. Cellphones are...simply a better product - all the benefits of a land line with far fewer of the geographical limitations - you mention lack of long distance costs, charging your phone, etc. features that are obviously available with current cellphones, and are being improved both performance-wise and economically with time. I suppose land lines have their place in a number of uses, but I think in the future their advantages over mobile phones will become fewer.
It certainly is worth the time to see what services are available to you, but at least where I am (which, a poster correctly identified as not canada - i'm in the US), dsl faces a difficult future for the reasons I've mentioned. I suppose I must admit that my posts include a degree of jealousy of the Canadians over having a relatively rational government.
Indeed, this is what I'm talking about. DSL has the burden of requiring the subscription of a service you already pay for (given that you have a cellphone). With cable, you at least get a non-redundant service for a similar amount of money. Hopefully, this competition will drive DSL prices down far enough so they are significantly lower than cable, and cause the price of (cable + internet) to also fall in response.
However, we'll all be wireless before too long, and there will be no place for DSL - unless this market competition drives the overall costs down. Who wants to pay for local phone service (if you're already paying for it with your wireless plan) if you just want DSL, which would then be an additional cost to the local line?
$30 local phone +$60 DSL service ----------------- ($50) Digital Cable + ($45) Cable Internet
Assumption: You already pay $35 for a cellphone.
Sure, I'll take 125 channels as a perk for my decision making skills.
I hope this will make it harder for my decision making skills, it's amazing how quickly you learn that you have 125 channels and nothing is ever on!
Actually, we don't need to wait for new technology. I can't remember exactly where I gained the information to follow, but I can leave this to a karma-hungry slashdotter.
Anyway, an otherwise cold-case about a child's abduction/murder was recently solved by the police covertly attaching a gps transmitter to a suspect's car, and tracking his movements. Granted, he eventually led the police to her shallow grave as they retraced his steps - so in a way justice was served, but scarier is the fact that police can do this without a warrant! It did, in fact, hold up in court that this was legal, or at least admissible, under the defense that the GPS served the same purpose as human surveillence. I don't know about the legal precedents here but can only imagine that $25-devices will only make these kinds of issues all the more prominent.
Anyway, my $.02 on a potentially important law-enforcement abuse of this technology...
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True... they're definitely not getting anything good out of it. Nope... no publicity or anything.
In Solviet Russia, the DNA computes YOU!
"Raspberry! I hate Raspberry!"
Black holes might not destroy information, but the /. effect, on the other hand, has rendered this server into a smoldering pile of silicon.
BBC is expecting to be threatened with a lawsuit for neglecting to mention the Phantom Gaming Console.
PS3, 32M est european sales by 2010
XB2, 10M est european sales by 2010
GC2, Oblivion, except in Japan
Phantom Gaming Console, 55m est vaporware sales by 2010.
What gets me about Christianity is that when you take communion, you have to literally believe that that host is literally the body of Christ. Not a symbol, not a reference, not simile nor metaphor, but the literal body of Christ.
I always laughed when I was in 'religous education' as a youngster once I parsed that line and it's... um... belief requirements.
They didn't like my blasphemy as a 4th grader.
RIAA Strategist #1: Wait! I got it! Let's put our future customers in financial ruin!
RIAA Strategist #2: Brilliant! Then they'll have more money to buy from us!
RIAA Strategist #1: What should we do about the rampant piracy in eastern europe and asia?
RIAA Strategist #2: Sorry, repeat that? I was listening to the satisfying sound of ruining everyone's lives.
There are tons of ways to do it.
To get more serious security, you'd have to have encryption from file and decryption at the speaker-hardware level.
Then it's simply a matter of using any number of password-prime number-encryption crackers overnight on a file to tease out the key.
Security is like being the gerbil, anti-sercurity is like spinning the wheel.
DOWN WITH ALBUMS!
UP WITH ONE HIT WONDERS!
Maybe after a few years this will cause the kind folks at VH1 to make "Where are they now" a weekly series...
Games teach you tons of real-world problem solving.
Just think of RIGHT NOW as an RPG. Now you're not encumbered by a clunky interface, but the law is less to be trifled with.
The point is that in games, you have fewer options of actions to take, so you have to learn to think within the bounds of the abilities of the system/game. Translate these previously considered problem-solving exercises into real experiences, and you've got to be a better problem-solver. And not just in the sense of:
Oh no, shall I use my +5 Longsword of Flaming Death or my Scroll of Invisibility to get past this dragon?!!?!
I've always thought that the more time you spend doing something (especially if you're doing it seriously), the better you will be at it.
You're off by an order of 10...
I said 2,500 dpi not 25,000 dpi.
It sounds like you're the kind of person I'd be happy to meet in an online arena - more score padding.
Per-pixel movement at 1600x1200 makes a difference in high-end situations. If you owned one, you'd understand better. Optical mice only get 400-450 dpi.
As good as this may all be, I will never give up my Razer Boomslang. At 1000/2000/2500 dpi, it's the best thing going for input. Sounds totally gratuitous, but for graphic design and counter-strike, I don't leave home without it.
To read more:
www.razerzone.com
Now I can have more storage on my digital camera than I can on my laptop!
I wonder if I can run a Kazaa node from my Canon D60...
The Wachowski brothers have already raised this question. As Stanley Kubrick did before him. I'm sure we've all seen The Animatrix and AI. What about this talk is new?
Although, the cyborg phallus is an improvement on anything I've seen yet.
At the cyborg bar:
~Did you see that sheborg?
~Yeah, pretty ho...oh dude, she seems to be sprouting one...
You're right, I live in the US.
I was, however, comparing a 2nd tier (i.e. a step above basic) DSL service which is 1.5 down, 256 up to cable, as I've found those DL rates to be roughly the same.
You'd think it'd be worse for business to lose a customer entirely (as with my case) to a competitor and as a result take $0/month from them than it would be to offer the "service of last resort" and then take $70/month from them.
I suppose nobody has accused Verizon of brilliance, either.
Either way, a good bit of info!
True, my math is different -
I've found that for comparable DL rates on DSL (vs. Cable), I had to buy a 2nd tier DSL plan - 1.5Mbit down and 256K up, thus the $60. Also, I should mention I'm in the US, so we're all relatively screwed anyway.
DSL @ $49.90 reaches many, many more people's budgets.
I may be wrong, but I'm not sure if all phone companies offer the "connection dial tone." I'm pretty sure at least Verizon doesn't offer this, which for many people, would mean the $30 cost as a "DSL connector". CIP, I talked to a Cust. Serv. manager at Verizon a few weeks ago to try to get a cheaper "DSL connector," and he never mentioned or offered the "$3-10 dial tone," which clearly would make DSL a smarter decision.
Anyway, I think you're in the minority of people who prefer land lines to cellphones. Cellphones are...simply a better product - all the benefits of a land line with far fewer of the geographical limitations - you mention lack of long distance costs, charging your phone, etc. features that are obviously available with current cellphones, and are being improved both performance-wise and economically with time. I suppose land lines have their place in a number of uses, but I think in the future their advantages over mobile phones will become fewer.
It certainly is worth the time to see what services are available to you, but at least where I am (which, a poster correctly identified as not canada - i'm in the US), dsl faces a difficult future for the reasons I've mentioned. I suppose I must admit that my posts include a degree of jealousy of the Canadians over having a relatively rational government.
Indeed, this is what I'm talking about. DSL has the burden of requiring the subscription of a service you already pay for (given that you have a cellphone). With cable, you at least get a non-redundant service for a similar amount of money. Hopefully, this competition will drive DSL prices down far enough so they are significantly lower than cable, and cause the price of (cable + internet) to also fall in response.
Interesting - let the competition begin.
However, we'll all be wireless before too long, and there will be no place for DSL - unless this market competition drives the overall costs down. Who wants to pay for local phone service (if you're already paying for it with your wireless plan) if you just want DSL, which would then be an additional cost to the local line?
$30 local phone
+$60 DSL service
-----------------
($50) Digital Cable + ($45) Cable Internet
Assumption: You already pay $35 for a cellphone.
Sure, I'll take 125 channels as a perk for my decision making skills.
I hope this will make it harder for my decision making skills, it's amazing how quickly you learn that you have 125 channels and nothing is ever on!
Actually, we don't need to wait for new technology. I can't remember exactly where I gained the information to follow, but I can leave this to a karma-hungry slashdotter. Anyway, an otherwise cold-case about a child's abduction/murder was recently solved by the police covertly attaching a gps transmitter to a suspect's car, and tracking his movements. Granted, he eventually led the police to her shallow grave as they retraced his steps - so in a way justice was served, but scarier is the fact that police can do this without a warrant! It did, in fact, hold up in court that this was legal, or at least admissible, under the defense that the GPS served the same purpose as human surveillence. I don't know about the legal precedents here but can only imagine that $25-devices will only make these kinds of issues all the more prominent. Anyway, my $.02 on a potentially important law-enforcement abuse of this technology...