Her behavior was 10s of miles away. She sent a text message. The couple are douchebags for suing her. Next they'll be suing the tire service center for balancing the tires, the oil change service center for changing the oil so the car could drive, and what about that evil gas station that provided the gas to car? After all, they all have "moral responsibility" for the driving douchebag that caused the accident. Might as well go all the way and nail the bank that financed the car (Hey, they have lots of cash - bailout money no less, the people's money being returned to the people!) or the car manufacturer. Heck, what about those miners that mined the iron ore?
As for distributing empathy, the victim couple still get some for the horrible losses they suffered in an accident, and I agree the driver should certainly be charged with a whole lot more than a minor driving offense. But it ends there, as far as the accident went. The girl get empathy for getting dragged into court by this apparently vicious couple who want to punish everyone they can for something that is 1 specific person's fault: the driver.
You are correct. I was unaware that the Swift Boat Veterans campaign had been that successful. Either way, whoever won the next term was screwed, since there pretty much was nothing that could be done within 4 years that would have prevented anything that occurred between 2005-2009 from happening and cementing yourself as a "bad president". Never mind that the blame lay largely with the actions of Bush and several previous congresses.
You're still not getting it. The water, once used, cannot be reclaimed for power. The bandwidth not used cannot be utilized later. A slight difference.
It only has to do with the size of the pipes, and if they charged you by the guaranteed bandwidth you were to get during peak times, that would be about the right approach. Perhaps peak times you would be guaranteed 500Kbps down, and for double the costs 1Mbps. Then it would make more sense. For networks which are limited by bandwidth, quantity without a time makes no sense at all, and pricing without load makes little sense.
I agree with you - unfortunately, it's gone from who's the better man to who can I absolutely not tolerate in office. A sad state of affairs indeed. A side note, with McCain, it wasn't so much McCain, as Palin. Could you imagine that shining bulb among 7K people living in a mudhole in Alaska by choice potentially being one small medical condition away from the presidency? Had she just smiled like the trophy wife shark she was meant to be, that might actually have happened. Instead, she proved the ancient saying: better to be thought a fool than open your mouth and prove it. Biden wasn't even in the running for biggest idiot.
I think the issue with metering usage is that there's no difference in cost to be connected or using the full available bandwidth. The only problem occurs when upstream bandwidth capacity becomes saturated. So if you're downloading GB during a slow period where your activity doesn't saturate available pipes, there's no effective difference in costs.
Put another way - it's kind of like buying a newspaper filled with x's, and being charged more for additional letters, to actually be able to read the stories.
Actually, the popular vote went to Kerry, despite the Swift Boat Veterans attacks, which did more to smear Kerry than anything he himself did or said. Odds are he would have been a better president than Bush, even if you consider Bush only in his first term. After all, we're still cleaning up Bush's first term messes - Iraq and Afghanistan. "Mission Accomplished" indeed.
a RAID 10 setup, with snapshotted backups, and tape, runs into peanuts these days for businesses, unless they're such penny pinchers that they'll balk at the $1 extra cost per GB of name brand memory.
You were already at 5, so thank you for concisely correcting the summary. Essentially we can realistically expect 8-10 TB drives by 2016, until something like HAMR comes along which may get us to 60TB. Even 8TB drives will be close to the sweet spot for a mass store drive for me, I'd only need a couple on line plus enough for a couple of backup copies. Just think how long the backup process would be with a 60TB drive!
Copyright Infringement is a crime (or at least an infraction) that you can commit in the privacy of your own home.
That's not entirely true. You must have external activities for copyright laws to be violated. Note that copyright is the right to distribute copies, not make copies. You can create 1000 copies of something, and until you distribute (or have the intent to distribute which AFAIK, IANAL, has always been shown after you have distributed something else) you have not violated copyright.
This process is called "compromise", and many people need to relearn what it entails.
I've been fortunate, over the past 7 or so years, I've been almost windows free, only needing to run it in a VM on occasion to support a project, but otherwise being windows free. My ideals of not using a subpar OS were realizable due to a combination of circumstance and personal effort, yet I still had to compromise occasionally.
The problem with these companies is that they comprise almost all the options for service in more than 80% of the residences in the US. Unless you're willing to buy your own line, there's not much you can do if you want both high speed and relatively inexpensive service. (both terms used loosely) I predict that what thisnew policy will give rise to is encrypted decentralized darknets that any user can utilize and tracing becomes a non-trivial process. Think TOR with better performance and a decentralized directory. Using 1 or 2 levels of indirection with potentially a different concept for transfers could have tremendous performance gains in file transfers with significantly lowered traffic. It also makes tracking such activity require a warrant and a lot more effort than merely sniffing packets.
Even our mothers would like a separate account(s) for the kid(s) so they wouldn't mess up the main system, and maybe not access or screw up each other's photos, games, other files. Or they would, if Windows remotely knew how to handle this properly.
While Linux and other unix-a-likes were ahead of the game in server related areas for a long time; there are a lot of things in desktop environments that just work out of the box now and that we therefore take for granted that either did not work at all or did not work without much user effort five or ten years ago (when they were working well enough in the Windows desktop world).
The only reason I recall them working well enough in Windows back around 10 years ago was because of the introduction of DirectX a few years before and the relative forced standardization of drivers etc to support AC97 and DirectX over a few years, along with the rather fast conversion to a mostly monolithic sound card culture. Prior to that, even Windows had issues with sound cards. Or do you not recall having to load the "latest" sound drivers for a card, much like we still do today for graphics drivers? (Graphics cards are still evolving and pushing limits)
Except that they don't. All the studies done have shown that experience really counts for code quality and productivity.
Of course, that's assuming the rest of the development chain is working. If the management have poorly-conceived ideas and don't listen to their techies about what's feasible in the first place, then they might as well employ actual monkeys in the coding role because the project's going to fail regardless.
The sad part is that a large segment of "coders" don't get any better with experience. For those that do, the improvement is significant, but for the rest, once trained in using SCM, and whatever passes for SDLC, they've effectively peaked. Now, granted, that large segment may work in organizations that pigeonhole you into one specific task, or hold that concept of programmers being interchangeable burger flippers (unfortunately I've seen both in practice) which will ruin almost any budding programmer.
There is no ceiling that I'm aware of, but there is a major reluctance to pay wages above the initial 3-5 years. Especially when most of those 5 year folks churn out almost the same quality code as brand new grads.
DVDs serve only one purpose, a media to insert into my computer to be ripped so that I have the generally rich viewing capabilities available to me in VLC, or even Plex, as well as the ability for viewing in the car etc.
All the content producers are doing is driving people to this option as fast as they can. Every time they add another UPO "feature" to a DVD/BD, or add yet another useless DRM option to BD that eats up yet another 10s of an already too long startup time, the argument against ripping drops yet another notch.
And no, I'm not being unreasonable. When I put in the disk, I wish to watch the movie. Now. Not in 75s. Since this is the situation with my media server, there's absolutely no reason it cannot be the case for the disks, provided some control freaks would let their death grip loosen just a smidgen. As for the argument that DRM prevents piracy, it has exactly 0 effect, just as everyone predicted before BD's draconian DRM was codified.
I think a little quote from the GP explains a lot:
who take any available job and try to work their way up, but opportunities never appear.
You see, the thing about emigrants is that they are not satisfied by staying within the system they know, going for the steady plod up and hopeing that luck will land them with a big opportunity. The passive way never works unless you're born in the right family with the right connections.
Immigrants go out there and make their own way: they seek or maketheir own opportunities.
and perhaps you should check the number of immigrants who "make" it as entrepreneurs vs those that fail entirely? I'll bet both ends are higher percentages than the average. Why? Because when you try more risky endeavors, you tend to fail more. Also, a reason someone might try riskier things is because as an immigrant, say a doctor, PhD, dentist, etc back in your home country, you could practice, but upon arriving in the US, you cannot, because you need X/Y/Z certification and/or 4+ years from an accredited program, 100K in debt, etc. At that point, those are not options for them, and working at BurgerHut loses its appeal quickly. Starting your own business, however, doesn't require all those prerequisites. So you might look at the high number of immigrant entrepreneurs as people driven by desperation to do something other than the mediocre dream deadening tasks the native society deems they should be happy with.
Tyner: Argue what point? He was not arrested. He was also making a point, exercising his right to free speech and, honestly, standing up for his rights.
Regarding Aguilar, find me the law that was violated. I looked, there is no mention of such law. Note: I did not visit the TSA run sites, since the TSA itself seems to be violating several federal laws. Their credibility on anything they say outside of known facts should be challenged. There are plenty of stories out there about TSA or their agents violating all sorts of laws and nothing really happening about it. The scary thing is that if they are true, we don't need to worry about devolving into a police state, the Gestapo is already here.
Apparently not. He was escorted away by police, not arrested. And he could face a civil fine? Since when does violating a federal "law" result in a civil lawsuit and/or fine?
Anything more no longer borders on a police state.
I agree with you. But that does not disprove my point, although it does neatly summarize my objection to the existing laws.
I'm glad we agree on that much. BTW, my original statement about not being charged was in relation to the only stated arrest - the woman in Tx. You can be arrested for a lot of things. Many arrests end with no charges filed. You can think of it as honest mistakes or harassment, however you wish or the facts around the particular case lead you to believe. Given the TSA's history, I wouldn't give them the benefit of the doubt.
... but there was a woman in Texas who was, in fact, arrested for refusing to complete the screening (she had been raped several years earlier and would not allow TSA to touch her).
And I'll bet she was released with no charges filed, because there was nothing to charge her with. IIRC, there is no obligation to be screened, you just won't fly. Anything more no longer borders on a police state.
Drive to Mexico or Canada - and be a lot freer in your travel. It's almost worth it at this point.
Last I checked - you can still refuse the scanner. The day they attempt to force me through one will be the first day I miss a flight voluntarily, because nothing says I cannot walk right back out the front door.
I'll have to take another look at color lasers for quick prints. I happen to own a recent Samsung color laser, but haven't printed any photos on it. Maybe it's time to try it out, see how bad it is.:) After that, I'll at least have an idea of how bad it can be with today's tech.
Last I knew, it was still heavily debated exactly how much of an effect humans have had on global warming compared to natural causes
Among scientists, yes there is still debate.
...about how much of an effect - all warming or only 95% of warming? I'm pretty sure the base statement about man causing warming is no longer in question.
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Her behavior was 10s of miles away. She sent a text message. The couple are douchebags for suing her. Next they'll be suing the tire service center for balancing the tires, the oil change service center for changing the oil so the car could drive, and what about that evil gas station that provided the gas to car? After all, they all have "moral responsibility" for the driving douchebag that caused the accident. Might as well go all the way and nail the bank that financed the car (Hey, they have lots of cash - bailout money no less, the people's money being returned to the people!) or the car manufacturer. Heck, what about those miners that mined the iron ore?
As for distributing empathy, the victim couple still get some for the horrible losses they suffered in an accident, and I agree the driver should certainly be charged with a whole lot more than a minor driving offense. But it ends there, as far as the accident went. The girl get empathy for getting dragged into court by this apparently vicious couple who want to punish everyone they can for something that is 1 specific person's fault: the driver.
You are correct. I was unaware that the Swift Boat Veterans campaign had been that successful. Either way, whoever won the next term was screwed, since there pretty much was nothing that could be done within 4 years that would have prevented anything that occurred between 2005-2009 from happening and cementing yourself as a "bad president". Never mind that the blame lay largely with the actions of Bush and several previous congresses.
You're still not getting it. The water, once used, cannot be reclaimed for power. The bandwidth not used cannot be utilized later. A slight difference.
It only has to do with the size of the pipes, and if they charged you by the guaranteed bandwidth you were to get during peak times, that would be about the right approach. Perhaps peak times you would be guaranteed 500Kbps down, and for double the costs 1Mbps. Then it would make more sense. For networks which are limited by bandwidth, quantity without a time makes no sense at all, and pricing without load makes little sense.
I agree with you - unfortunately, it's gone from who's the better man to who can I absolutely not tolerate in office. A sad state of affairs indeed. A side note, with McCain, it wasn't so much McCain, as Palin. Could you imagine that shining bulb among 7K people living in a mudhole in Alaska by choice potentially being one small medical condition away from the presidency? Had she just smiled like the trophy wife shark she was meant to be, that might actually have happened. Instead, she proved the ancient saying: better to be thought a fool than open your mouth and prove it. Biden wasn't even in the running for biggest idiot.
I think the issue with metering usage is that there's no difference in cost to be connected or using the full available bandwidth. The only problem occurs when upstream bandwidth capacity becomes saturated. So if you're downloading GB during a slow period where your activity doesn't saturate available pipes, there's no effective difference in costs.
Put another way - it's kind of like buying a newspaper filled with x's, and being charged more for additional letters, to actually be able to read the stories.
Actually, the popular vote went to Kerry, despite the Swift Boat Veterans attacks, which did more to smear Kerry than anything he himself did or said. Odds are he would have been a better president than Bush, even if you consider Bush only in his first term. After all, we're still cleaning up Bush's first term messes - Iraq and Afghanistan. "Mission Accomplished" indeed.
a RAID 10 setup, with snapshotted backups, and tape, runs into peanuts these days for businesses, unless they're such penny pinchers that they'll balk at the $1 extra cost per GB of name brand memory.
You were already at 5, so thank you for concisely correcting the summary. Essentially we can realistically expect 8-10 TB drives by 2016, until something like HAMR comes along which may get us to 60TB. Even 8TB drives will be close to the sweet spot for a mass store drive for me, I'd only need a couple on line plus enough for a couple of backup copies. Just think how long the backup process would be with a 60TB drive!
Copyright Infringement is a crime (or at least an infraction) that you can commit in the privacy of your own home.
That's not entirely true. You must have external activities for copyright laws to be violated. Note that copyright is the right to distribute copies, not make copies. You can create 1000 copies of something, and until you distribute (or have the intent to distribute which AFAIK, IANAL, has always been shown after you have distributed something else) you have not violated copyright.
This process is called "compromise", and many people need to relearn what it entails.
I've been fortunate, over the past 7 or so years, I've been almost windows free, only needing to run it in a VM on occasion to support a project, but otherwise being windows free. My ideals of not using a subpar OS were realizable due to a combination of circumstance and personal effort, yet I still had to compromise occasionally.
The problem with these companies is that they comprise almost all the options for service in more than 80% of the residences in the US. Unless you're willing to buy your own line, there's not much you can do if you want both high speed and relatively inexpensive service. (both terms used loosely) I predict that what thisnew policy will give rise to is encrypted decentralized darknets that any user can utilize and tracing becomes a non-trivial process. Think TOR with better performance and a decentralized directory. Using 1 or 2 levels of indirection with potentially a different concept for transfers could have tremendous performance gains in file transfers with significantly lowered traffic. It also makes tracking such activity require a warrant and a lot more effort than merely sniffing packets.
Even our mothers would like a separate account(s) for the kid(s) so they wouldn't mess up the main system, and maybe not access or screw up each other's photos, games, other files. Or they would, if Windows remotely knew how to handle this properly.
While Linux and other unix-a-likes were ahead of the game in server related areas for a long time; there are a lot of things in desktop environments that just work out of the box now and that we therefore take for granted that either did not work at all or did not work without much user effort five or ten years ago (when they were working well enough in the Windows desktop world).
The only reason I recall them working well enough in Windows back around 10 years ago was because of the introduction of DirectX a few years before and the relative forced standardization of drivers etc to support AC97 and DirectX over a few years, along with the rather fast conversion to a mostly monolithic sound card culture. Prior to that, even Windows had issues with sound cards. Or do you not recall having to load the "latest" sound drivers for a card, much like we still do today for graphics drivers? (Graphics cards are still evolving and pushing limits)
Except that they don't. All the studies done have shown that experience really counts for code quality and productivity.
Of course, that's assuming the rest of the development chain is working. If the management have poorly-conceived ideas and don't listen to their techies about what's feasible in the first place, then they might as well employ actual monkeys in the coding role because the project's going to fail regardless.
The sad part is that a large segment of "coders" don't get any better with experience. For those that do, the improvement is significant, but for the rest, once trained in using SCM, and whatever passes for SDLC, they've effectively peaked. Now, granted, that large segment may work in organizations that pigeonhole you into one specific task, or hold that concept of programmers being interchangeable burger flippers (unfortunately I've seen both in practice) which will ruin almost any budding programmer.
There is no ceiling that I'm aware of, but there is a major reluctance to pay wages above the initial 3-5 years. Especially when most of those 5 year folks churn out almost the same quality code as brand new grads.
Actually, he said "science is a method dingbat," whatever that means.
The importance of commas....
DVDs serve only one purpose, a media to insert into my computer to be ripped so that I have the generally rich viewing capabilities available to me in VLC, or even Plex, as well as the ability for viewing in the car etc.
All the content producers are doing is driving people to this option as fast as they can. Every time they add another UPO "feature" to a DVD/BD, or add yet another useless DRM option to BD that eats up yet another 10s of an already too long startup time, the argument against ripping drops yet another notch.
And no, I'm not being unreasonable. When I put in the disk, I wish to watch the movie. Now. Not in 75s. Since this is the situation with my media server, there's absolutely no reason it cannot be the case for the disks, provided some control freaks would let their death grip loosen just a smidgen. As for the argument that DRM prevents piracy, it has exactly 0 effect, just as everyone predicted before BD's draconian DRM was codified.
I think a little quote from the GP explains a lot:
You see, the thing about emigrants is that they are not satisfied by staying within the system they know, going for the steady plod up and hopeing that luck will land them with a big opportunity. The passive way never works unless you're born in the right family with the right connections.
Immigrants go out there and make their own way: they seek or maketheir own opportunities.
and perhaps you should check the number of immigrants who "make" it as entrepreneurs vs those that fail entirely? I'll bet both ends are higher percentages than the average. Why? Because when you try more risky endeavors, you tend to fail more. Also, a reason someone might try riskier things is because as an immigrant, say a doctor, PhD, dentist, etc back in your home country, you could practice, but upon arriving in the US, you cannot, because you need X/Y/Z certification and/or 4+ years from an accredited program, 100K in debt, etc. At that point, those are not options for them, and working at BurgerHut loses its appeal quickly. Starting your own business, however, doesn't require all those prerequisites. So you might look at the high number of immigrant entrepreneurs as people driven by desperation to do something other than the mediocre dream deadening tasks the native society deems they should be happy with.
Tyner: Argue what point? He was not arrested. He was also making a point, exercising his right to free speech and, honestly, standing up for his rights.
Regarding Aguilar, find me the law that was violated. I looked, there is no mention of such law. Note: I did not visit the TSA run sites, since the TSA itself seems to be violating several federal laws. Their credibility on anything they say outside of known facts should be challenged. There are plenty of stories out there about TSA or their agents violating all sorts of laws and nothing really happening about it. The scary thing is that if they are true, we don't need to worry about devolving into a police state, the Gestapo is already here.
IIRC, there is no obligation to be screened, you just won't fly.
And you are wrong:
Apparently not. He was escorted away by police, not arrested. And he could face a civil fine? Since when does violating a federal "law" result in a civil lawsuit and/or fine?
Anything more no longer borders on a police state.
I agree with you. But that does not disprove my point, although it does neatly summarize my objection to the existing laws.
I'm glad we agree on that much. BTW, my original statement about not being charged was in relation to the only stated arrest - the woman in Tx. You can be arrested for a lot of things. Many arrests end with no charges filed. You can think of it as honest mistakes or harassment, however you wish or the facts around the particular case lead you to believe. Given the TSA's history, I wouldn't give them the benefit of the doubt.
... but there was a woman in Texas who was, in fact, arrested for refusing to complete the screening (she had been raped several years earlier and would not allow TSA to touch her).
And I'll bet she was released with no charges filed, because there was nothing to charge her with. IIRC, there is no obligation to be screened, you just won't fly. Anything more no longer borders on a police state.
Drive to Mexico or Canada - and be a lot freer in your travel. It's almost worth it at this point.
Last I checked - you can still refuse the scanner. The day they attempt to force me through one will be the first day I miss a flight voluntarily, because nothing says I cannot walk right back out the front door.
Because there's lots of money to be made.
Of course the AC didn't read the whole post. Sigh. I am getting old I guess.
And apparently forgetful of what trolls are... What's the 3rd sign of getting old?
I'll have to take another look at color lasers for quick prints. I happen to own a recent Samsung color laser, but haven't printed any photos on it. Maybe it's time to try it out, see how bad it is. :) After that, I'll at least have an idea of how bad it can be with today's tech.
Last I knew, it was still heavily debated exactly how much of an effect humans have had on global warming compared to natural causes
Among scientists, yes there is still debate.
...about how much of an effect - all warming or only 95% of warming? I'm pretty sure the base statement about man causing warming is no longer in question.