You laugh now, but just wait until you're stranded in the middle of Blackheath England, needing a ride from a conservative British History Scholar who has his son with him playing Pokemon Gold. Won't be so smug then, will you. I bet you won't even have your towel on you when this all goes down.
No, it's really more about exploiting a security hole in order to gain back-door access. I've also heard of some hardware hacks that allow for input to the audio output port. You have to be careful though, as this causes poor audio output, sudden junk output, and in extreme cases cutting of the hardline. If you need more then three input ports total, you're best off to go with a Beowulf Cluster.
[/sarcasm] Yes, because America is strapping bomb jackets on the suicide bombers in order to blow up Americans.[sarcasm] While everyone deserves to be treated fairly, that rarely happens in the real world. You have a group of people who have distorted aspects of their religion (I'm no scholar on Islam, but most of the reports I've seen from main stream Islamic clerics say that the concept of a jihad reward for suicide bombing is a distortion of Islam by extremists,) in order to create cannon fodder from people who see the reward in the afterlife as a better situation then they are in currently (there are also theories that suicide bombing tactics are also used more in countries that are in a transition of power and politically unstable, which also fits Iraq, but I'm using the above argument in that it's the bait that is used to recruit bombers in this instance.) It's not a function of being born in America or not, it's a function of being born into a extreme faction of a larger culture that has these people convinced they are to be rewarded by their sacrifice. The individuals who are in power of these factions are only to happy to use these people, demonstrating that they do not value human life equally. You need to go lecture ethics to them if you have a problem with how the human life a suicide bombers if valued.
As far as the singling out of America, I also notice there is a lack of suicide bombers produced in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Japan (well, since the end of the kamikaze in World War II), and other developed nations. So by your logic, you should take out your subtle slam on the US, and instead slam all developed nations that don't have this suicide bomber culture. After all, I could say "Right, because people who don't have the good fortune to be born in Canada don't deserve to be treated like actual human beings." And before you come back, I did not agree with invading Iraq from the beginning, not even following the logic used at the start of war. I'm responding because I just hate seeing people use flawed logic to attack a comment the didn't fully understand in the first place.
The MacBook Pro does have DVI-Out, and the above adaptor will give you the S-video. I've heard thought that a lot of the new TV's coming out have DVI inputs as well, which is why they probably dropped the S-video.
Your logic is a bit backwards. The last thing you would want to do is get people used to the "box" system you're talking about without first implimenting the DRM. The reason people complain about DRM and anti-copying measures today is because we've always had the ability to make copies of physical media we own (for archive/limited use). Since this "box" would be a new type of physical media, you don't want to give the impression that it is copyable, only to later take away that impression. Starting out with DRM would be the way to go to "train" people into the system you're proposing, to get them to accept that they don't want you copying it at all. The un-DRM encumbered format almost goes completely against your idea, since most will copy the songs to their hard drive, and use the stick for other purposes. Also, considering that the band offers downloads of several of their concerts (a lot actually) on their site in either MP3 or FLAC (comes out to around a dollar a song, and again, no DRM,) I don't think they're using this as some big evil control method you make this out to be.
As far as the vastly more expensive, you get 29 songs for $30, on par with itunes. While yes, a CDROM would hold more data with the songs in MP3 form, it would actually hold less songs if they were just plain audio tracks on the CD. The basic point is, if you like the band, you are basically getting a double album for a decent price, a free USB stick, and some pictures/comentaries/videos. On the flip side, you are getting a USB stick that for about $5-10 (depending on the price) more, comes with a free double album.
Seems like 1/3 of the comments so far are neat idea, 1/3 are audiophiles bitching because each song isn't in looseness format, and the other 1/3 bitching about DRM/it's not OGG/why do I need an overpriced USB stick. Hell, I'm tempted to buy it just to encourage the sales of non-DRM music (RTFA, it's in good old MP3). It's funny, the crowd that is against DRM'd music will never adopt any online distribution system that isn't completely free to them. Yeah, the RIAA sucks, but at least be prepared to fork over something for the music. Problem is, as soon as money gets involved, someone wants it at a certain bit rate/wants it in his or her format of choice/claims that it's only the unpopular bands/claims that it's only the popular bands. Are you sure that all you guys are techs, because reading through all these comments reminds me more of a manager who will spend days going over the format of a weekly status chart.
Oh for christ sake, RTFA already. It's DRM free MP3 format, completely able to be moved onto your computer or music player of choice. You end up paying as much as you would on itunes, plus you get pictures and video, plus a free USB stick. Not sure what the compression rate is (not mentioned in the article,) but I'm sure it's on par with itunes. If you want to complain, pretend to be an audiophile and bitch about bad sound quality.
Don't know about you, but the only time I listen to the radio while driving is on short errands when I don't bother to bring my ipod with me to play in the car. It seems that during these trips all I hear is commercials on the radio anyways.
"The city says its goal is bringing high-speed data access to low income areas to break the poverty cycle, stating a link between broadband access and education and employment."
Hate to break it to you, but I don't call pivot tables useless. At least in Quality Engineering we process a lot of data, and pivot tables is one of the things we use on a day-to-day basis. It's actually listed on all our job reqs as a desired skill. I wish that in that one crap microcomputer course it seems everyone has to take in college... they would teach pivot tables. It would have saved me and a lot of other new hires a lot of time right off the bat.
I'd love to use Open Office, but I rely on pivot tables to switch.
Text to columns works really great, especially when you have a field for the date, but need it by month, or year.
Concatenate I also use a lot, mostly in conjunction with text to columns.
I pretty much just use excel to get large blocks of data formated, and then copy and past into Mini-Tab to run it through statistics formulas.
A pivot table can be used to combine data in a similar set together. Say you have a lot of data points in a spreadsheet, say inventory levels for socks by the purchase order they come in on. You have the number of socks, it's PO number, it's color, and the date the shipment is received.
You can use a pivot table turn this data points (all data for that point is contained on a row, with the top row giving the header for each column quantity, color, PO, date,) into a table. This way you can have a table for the total number sock delivered each week by color. Or just the number of shipments of socks of a particular color in a month.
Might not sound really useful, but if you get a lot of data on a day to day basis out of some SQL query and need to reorganize it into a more readable format (or make some nice charts for the PHB,) it is a life saver. I've also found other quick uses for when you need all your data in a certain format and either lack the skill or time to program a custom SQL query to get the data out in the right format. Pivot Tables, Text-to-Columns, and the CONCATENATE function in excel have been life savers for me before on projects once I get to the number crunching point.
About 4 years ago I got feed up with windows and heard about Linux from some friends at college. Went out and got a copy of Mandrake Linux, and could not for the life of me get it to go anywhere. Sometime later those same friends who told me about Linux gave me a copy of Slackware, and I was able to get that running fine. Sure I had to do everything in config files and didn't have a nice gui, but with some expirementation and the occasional RTFM from friends, I got the hang of it.
Recommend Slackware if you want someone to learn Linux and it's structure. Recommend a gui driven distro if you just want to get someone off MS.
I don't think the bark would do much unless it sounded realistic. Though I've always though strapping a taser or something would be a useful mod for an AIBO.
Yeah, I was on the math team in high school for the exact same reasons, and all the hot girls there as well. It was a little like band camp during the overnight trips.
As far as being recognized as a sport... really? I wasn't looking to be anymore of a social outcast. The principle actually gave the option of having a mention of the math team and acedemic bowl during a pep rally. We all turned it down. Didn't feel like getting outed to the whole school as a nerd, and it was frozen orange-and-sock day at the pep rally.
I lucked out. I usually drink either Mountain Dew or Diet Coke, but switched to Diet Pepsi for the itunes promotion. Between the one's I found, and the ones all my co-workers got and gave to me (they all drink Diet Pepsi,) I got about 25 free songs. It seemed like pretty good odds in Missouri.
"Stop being so selfish with your fantasy desires and make something happen in reality, where it counts."
When was Slashdot considered reality? Not that I'd mind with it being reality. We'd come full circle, with trolls being a reality, just like in fantasy games.
"If the student is really researching something and they require more bandwidth, they should either justify it to the university or get their own private connection."
First, in most dorms rooms with ethernet, bandwidth is set. At least at my old school you didn't get the option of getting more bandwidth in your room, or anywhere else on campus.
Private connection? In a dorm room? This is not available at any college I've ever heard of. The only place you could live while going to college and have a private connection would be off campus, and then the ICARUS program wouldn't be an issue.
I wouldn't mind this program except that the University has a monopoly over ISPs during a students freshman and sophmore year. Usually you have to live in a dorm those two years, and since the dorm controls you cable and ethernet, you don't have an option, unless you go with a local ISP over the phone line. If you want to go to college and use the internet your first two years, you have no option but to use the campus network.
"If they've got probable cause, they can do just about anything. If you've murdered someone, I want the government to be able to find out how long it takes for you to shit if it will help them any."
I think that in the case of some information, more then probable cause is needed. I remember at some point in history, people were presumed innocent till proven guilty. Did that go the way of new coke and parachute pants?
I'm a smoker too, but I plan to be there (assuming there is a theater close to me doing this) and watching with fellow smokers. It makes our ritual of standing outside the theater smoking and discussing the movie that much better.
Now, if only I could get some of that shire weed Gandalf is always going on about...
While you are right that freedom of speech is protected from governmental interferance, this can still be considered censorship. Just because you are not the federal government doesn't mean that you can't censor someone.
"to examine in order to suppress or delete anything considered objectionable"
They are deleting accounts which they find objectionable, and it is perfectly right for them to do it, it's there website, their rules, their "house". If these fakesters don't like it, they can go someplace else. But that doesn't change the fact that is still is considered censorship.
I have a lot of friends who use Linux, so I know all the parts about how it's open source, anyone can improve upon it, etc. I think that putting that in the realm of quality would at least cause more businesses to come around.
I'm in a manufacturing plant working on outlining our quality system, and it is all about looking at a process for continually making our product better. This is exactly how Linux is made better, not just the kernel, but all the open source software for it. It's like you have a workforce of everybody who uses Linux, and they're all working to make the product better through continual revisions. You mention that to any Quality engineer in manufacturing, you've just sold him on Linux.
Yeah, Microsoft releases patchs all the time. These though are coded by what, about 10% of the people out there who improve the code of Linux. This makes Linux far more robust and able to handle different situations. Then add to that the fact that these "patchs" are marketed and priced as a new OS.
Once companies, and home users, start realizing this, they'll start converting. The problem is that most people don't know what Linux is, or think you have to have a computer science degree to even use it. Once Linux starts getting away from that image, and people start understanding what kernels and distributions are, that's when we'll see an end to Windows
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You laugh now, but just wait until you're stranded in the middle of Blackheath England, needing a ride from a conservative British History Scholar who has his son with him playing Pokemon Gold. Won't be so smug then, will you. I bet you won't even have your towel on you when this all goes down.
No, it's really more about exploiting a security hole in order to gain back-door access. I've also heard of some hardware hacks that allow for input to the audio output port. You have to be careful though, as this causes poor audio output, sudden junk output, and in extreme cases cutting of the hardline. If you need more then three input ports total, you're best off to go with a Beowulf Cluster.
[/sarcasm] Yes, because America is strapping bomb jackets on the suicide bombers in order to blow up Americans.[sarcasm] While everyone deserves to be treated fairly, that rarely happens in the real world. You have a group of people who have distorted aspects of their religion (I'm no scholar on Islam, but most of the reports I've seen from main stream Islamic clerics say that the concept of a jihad reward for suicide bombing is a distortion of Islam by extremists,) in order to create cannon fodder from people who see the reward in the afterlife as a better situation then they are in currently (there are also theories that suicide bombing tactics are also used more in countries that are in a transition of power and politically unstable, which also fits Iraq, but I'm using the above argument in that it's the bait that is used to recruit bombers in this instance.) It's not a function of being born in America or not, it's a function of being born into a extreme faction of a larger culture that has these people convinced they are to be rewarded by their sacrifice. The individuals who are in power of these factions are only to happy to use these people, demonstrating that they do not value human life equally. You need to go lecture ethics to them if you have a problem with how the human life a suicide bombers if valued.
As far as the singling out of America, I also notice there is a lack of suicide bombers produced in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Japan (well, since the end of the kamikaze in World War II), and other developed nations. So by your logic, you should take out your subtle slam on the US, and instead slam all developed nations that don't have this suicide bomber culture. After all, I could say "Right, because people who don't have the good fortune to be born in Canada don't deserve to be treated like actual human beings." And before you come back, I did not agree with invading Iraq from the beginning, not even following the logic used at the start of war. I'm responding because I just hate seeing people use flawed logic to attack a comment the didn't fully understand in the first place.
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The MacBook Pro does have DVI-Out, and the above adaptor will give you the S-video. I've heard thought that a lot of the new TV's coming out have DVI inputs as well, which is why they probably dropped the S-video.
Your logic is a bit backwards. The last thing you would want to do is get people used to the "box" system you're talking about without first implimenting the DRM. The reason people complain about DRM and anti-copying measures today is because we've always had the ability to make copies of physical media we own (for archive/limited use). Since this "box" would be a new type of physical media, you don't want to give the impression that it is copyable, only to later take away that impression. Starting out with DRM would be the way to go to "train" people into the system you're proposing, to get them to accept that they don't want you copying it at all. The un-DRM encumbered format almost goes completely against your idea, since most will copy the songs to their hard drive, and use the stick for other purposes. Also, considering that the band offers downloads of several of their concerts (a lot actually) on their site in either MP3 or FLAC (comes out to around a dollar a song, and again, no DRM,) I don't think they're using this as some big evil control method you make this out to be.
As far as the vastly more expensive, you get 29 songs for $30, on par with itunes. While yes, a CDROM would hold more data with the songs in MP3 form, it would actually hold less songs if they were just plain audio tracks on the CD. The basic point is, if you like the band, you are basically getting a double album for a decent price, a free USB stick, and some pictures/comentaries/videos. On the flip side, you are getting a USB stick that for about $5-10 (depending on the price) more, comes with a free double album.
Seems like 1/3 of the comments so far are neat idea, 1/3 are audiophiles bitching because each song isn't in looseness format, and the other 1/3 bitching about DRM/it's not OGG/why do I need an overpriced USB stick. Hell, I'm tempted to buy it just to encourage the sales of non-DRM music (RTFA, it's in good old MP3). It's funny, the crowd that is against DRM'd music will never adopt any online distribution system that isn't completely free to them. Yeah, the RIAA sucks, but at least be prepared to fork over something for the music. Problem is, as soon as money gets involved, someone wants it at a certain bit rate/wants it in his or her format of choice/claims that it's only the unpopular bands/claims that it's only the popular bands. Are you sure that all you guys are techs, because reading through all these comments reminds me more of a manager who will spend days going over the format of a weekly status chart.
Oh for christ sake, RTFA already. It's DRM free MP3 format, completely able to be moved onto your computer or music player of choice. You end up paying as much as you would on itunes, plus you get pictures and video, plus a free USB stick. Not sure what the compression rate is (not mentioned in the article,) but I'm sure it's on par with itunes. If you want to complain, pretend to be an audiophile and bitch about bad sound quality.
Don't know about you, but the only time I listen to the radio while driving is on short errands when I don't bother to bring my ipod with me to play in the car. It seems that during these trips all I hear is commercials on the radio anyways.
"The city says its goal is bringing high-speed data access to low income areas to break the poverty cycle, stating a link between broadband access and education and employment."
Won't someone think of the children!
Hey, it always works for everyone else.
Hate to break it to you, but I don't call pivot tables useless. At least in Quality Engineering we process a lot of data, and pivot tables is one of the things we use on a day-to-day basis. It's actually listed on all our job reqs as a desired skill. I wish that in that one crap microcomputer course it seems everyone has to take in college... they would teach pivot tables. It would have saved me and a lot of other new hires a lot of time right off the bat. I'd love to use Open Office, but I rely on pivot tables to switch.
Text to columns works really great, especially when you have a field for the date, but need it by month, or year. Concatenate I also use a lot, mostly in conjunction with text to columns. I pretty much just use excel to get large blocks of data formated, and then copy and past into Mini-Tab to run it through statistics formulas.
I would, at my place of work that will get you major bonus points when applying for a job.
A pivot table can be used to combine data in a similar set together. Say you have a lot of data points in a spreadsheet, say inventory levels for socks by the purchase order they come in on. You have the number of socks, it's PO number, it's color, and the date the shipment is received.
You can use a pivot table turn this data points (all data for that point is contained on a row, with the top row giving the header for each column quantity, color, PO, date,) into a table. This way you can have a table for the total number sock delivered each week by color. Or just the number of shipments of socks of a particular color in a month.
Might not sound really useful, but if you get a lot of data on a day to day basis out of some SQL query and need to reorganize it into a more readable format (or make some nice charts for the PHB,) it is a life saver. I've also found other quick uses for when you need all your data in a certain format and either lack the skill or time to program a custom SQL query to get the data out in the right format. Pivot Tables, Text-to-Columns, and the CONCATENATE function in excel have been life savers for me before on projects once I get to the number crunching point.
Actually I just started up Diablo II yesterday for old times sake. Didn't notice any major problems on a Second-gen 12" PB with 256 MB or Ram.
About 4 years ago I got feed up with windows and heard about Linux from some friends at college. Went out and got a copy of Mandrake Linux, and could not for the life of me get it to go anywhere. Sometime later those same friends who told me about Linux gave me a copy of Slackware, and I was able to get that running fine. Sure I had to do everything in config files and didn't have a nice gui, but with some expirementation and the occasional RTFM from friends, I got the hang of it.
Recommend Slackware if you want someone to learn Linux and it's structure. Recommend a gui driven distro if you just want to get someone off MS.
I don't think the bark would do much unless it sounded realistic. Though I've always though strapping a taser or something would be a useful mod for an AIBO.
Yeah, I was on the math team in high school for the exact same reasons, and all the hot girls there as well. It was a little like band camp during the overnight trips. As far as being recognized as a sport... really? I wasn't looking to be anymore of a social outcast. The principle actually gave the option of having a mention of the math team and acedemic bowl during a pep rally. We all turned it down. Didn't feel like getting outed to the whole school as a nerd, and it was frozen orange-and-sock day at the pep rally.
I lucked out. I usually drink either Mountain Dew or Diet Coke, but switched to Diet Pepsi for the itunes promotion. Between the one's I found, and the ones all my co-workers got and gave to me (they all drink Diet Pepsi,) I got about 25 free songs. It seemed like pretty good odds in Missouri.
"Stop being so selfish with your fantasy desires and make something happen in reality, where it counts."
When was Slashdot considered reality? Not that I'd mind with it being reality. We'd come full circle, with trolls being a reality, just like in fantasy games.
"If the student is really researching something and they require more bandwidth, they should either justify it to the university or get their own private connection."
First, in most dorms rooms with ethernet, bandwidth is set. At least at my old school you didn't get the option of getting more bandwidth in your room, or anywhere else on campus.
Private connection? In a dorm room? This is not available at any college I've ever heard of. The only place you could live while going to college and have a private connection would be off campus, and then the ICARUS program wouldn't be an issue.
I wouldn't mind this program except that the University has a monopoly over ISPs during a students freshman and sophmore year. Usually you have to live in a dorm those two years, and since the dorm controls you cable and ethernet, you don't have an option, unless you go with a local ISP over the phone line. If you want to go to college and use the internet your first two years, you have no option but to use the campus network.
"Because, nobody ever suspects the butterfly"
-Bart Simpson-
"If they've got probable cause, they can do just about anything. If you've murdered someone, I want the government to be able to find out how long it takes for you to shit if it will help them any."
I think that in the case of some information, more then probable cause is needed. I remember at some point in history, people were presumed innocent till proven guilty. Did that go the way of new coke and parachute pants?
I'm a smoker too, but I plan to be there (assuming there is a theater close to me doing this) and watching with fellow smokers. It makes our ritual of standing outside the theater smoking and discussing the movie that much better.
Now, if only I could get some of that shire weed Gandalf is always going on about...
While you are right that freedom of speech is protected from governmental interferance, this can still be considered censorship. Just because you are not the federal government doesn't mean that you can't censor someone.
censor
"to examine in order to suppress or delete anything considered objectionable"
They are deleting accounts which they find objectionable, and it is perfectly right for them to do it, it's there website, their rules, their "house". If these fakesters don't like it, they can go someplace else. But that doesn't change the fact that is still is considered censorship.
I have a lot of friends who use Linux, so I know all the parts about how it's open source, anyone can improve upon it, etc. I think that putting that in the realm of quality would at least cause more businesses to come around. I'm in a manufacturing plant working on outlining our quality system, and it is all about looking at a process for continually making our product better. This is exactly how Linux is made better, not just the kernel, but all the open source software for it. It's like you have a workforce of everybody who uses Linux, and they're all working to make the product better through continual revisions. You mention that to any Quality engineer in manufacturing, you've just sold him on Linux. Yeah, Microsoft releases patchs all the time. These though are coded by what, about 10% of the people out there who improve the code of Linux. This makes Linux far more robust and able to handle different situations. Then add to that the fact that these "patchs" are marketed and priced as a new OS. Once companies, and home users, start realizing this, they'll start converting. The problem is that most people don't know what Linux is, or think you have to have a computer science degree to even use it. Once Linux starts getting away from that image, and people start understanding what kernels and distributions are, that's when we'll see an end to Windows