More than a few years ago, the big AT&T was forced to split up to remove a monopoly they had. Well, lets see, now SBC, Bellsouth, Cingular, DishNetwork and probably more I don't know of all fly under that AT&T banner. All reports of Qwest suck, and I have my own hatred for Vonage but it was a choice some found to be good. Where is all my choice going and why isn't someone in the government stopping this? The telecoms are raping the people AGAIN, and although not a monopoly yet, its getting to the point of being one if not something worse.
Now that VoIP is being challenged, that could effectively eliminate even more plays like Charter and Comcast.
Because obviously they all use something ANTI-MS which isn't what they want you to do. For you windows users who read and post here, you are guilty by association.
Down with Vonage!! I had the service for 11 months. First 3 months was great, but then nothing but trouble after I deployed to the Gulf for 6 months. My wife tried to call them repeatedly to have it fixed and they kept blaming my ISP which after I got home I ruled out as it happened on my COMCAST, neighbors ATT, and Clearwire in local area. I could see one ISP being the problem, but not 3, and after I called again they said I wasn't qualified to make such assumptions. Funny, I can sure manage to make UHF/VHF, and SAT links and manage the LAN on a US Guided Missile Cruiser, but I wasn't technically smart enough to call the bullshit flag on the blame they focused on my ISP. Further, when the 10 month mark rolled around, I had military orders requiring me to move and at the time it was to a place I wouldn't have broadband, or hell, access at all, and they tried to pressure me into keeping the service and singing another year anyway. They just didn't get the fact that small islands sometimes don't have access. Then, they argued with me about how I owed them an early cancellation fee even though I was also canceling due to shitty service THEY couldn't fix. I had to end up also telling them a lie that I was not married, and I had no family who could make use of the account before they would close it. I had read horror stories at the time about people who had went over the 12 month period already and Vonage had refused to cancel the account, or had verbally said they would and the charges kept coming. I feared this so I even canceled the card. And low and behold, I started getting statements from my bank who issued a new card telling me about the activity that they were refusing.
Your assuming that the election is not proved to have been rigged by an outside party and as the only real solution left after that would be leaving in the current president until a full and "timely" investigation could be accomplished. Sounds far fetched to you?
A lot of security wholes are worse than they should be simply because people don't understand, or find it inconvenient to run at a lower privileged level. Most unix vulnerabilities are going to be contained by the user that they are ran under. For me personally, I run "every" service in a jail separate from the host environment. I can do this from read only images, or mounted directories, and preserve write privs to JUST the jail. If the jail gets attacked, I can just restore it from one of the backed up images I make of it nightly. With windows, you don't have this kind of separation where an app can be ran outside of the host environment. With windows also, most users run as a admin user with or without knowing it. This makes small attacks that could be reduced to virtually nothing a real serious issue as it has complete control now. Vista was a step in the right direction as far as users running with escalated privileges, but it has already been shown that there are ways around those warnings and that they 'COULD' be faked. Another problem is the users themselves. You can have the most secure OS in the world, but your weakest link is always going to be the user. Does it matter if you get a popup saying "STOP! you are about to install a virus that will cause death and mayhem across the world, and release nuclear munitions into the air with unknown targets!!!" if the person doesn't even read it and clicks the OK button out of habit? Most unix users are unix users because they know it and took the time to learn something. They also are mostly aware running as root for your user is dangerous. Most windows users can't be bothered to type in a password, or be bothered actually researching an app before installing. Security is only as good as the mentality of the users, and windows doesn't instill that mentality thus reducing it in my eyes to a much lower position of security.
What is this guy supposed to do when he does purchase music for an ipod, then his ipod breaks? What if ipod becomes unavailable to him, or he purchases another music player that now want play his itunes music? You fail to see that he wasn't ignorant as he also tried to play the music on allowed devices but the license wouldn't come through so he could. You my friend have fallen into the trap it seems. This should not be difficult, this sould just work. Like most things we 'purchase', we expect to be able to get fair use out of them. Hell, fair use even carries a warranty in some circles. What, your car broke down after 200 miles?!?! We can fix that under warranty.. You don't hear, 'I'm sorry, you traveled down a road without proper guide rails, and the reason your engine blew up was because it feared of running over the cliff, please, next time buy a car with a fearless engine so it will be compatible with that type of road'..
I have a collection starting on vinyl I inherited. I have many many old vinyls, and I have cassettes and cd's of many of these as well. To think, I have media pre-dating all this non-sense about RIAA, and who owns what. If I take a digital rip of a Elvis song now, I supposedly owe the RIAA money for it. Even though I realistically own multiple copies on media of various types. It seems to me especially on older classics that I should have a right to do with the music as I wish now. Is there a grandfather clause for such old media? Can I legally just acquire a new digital format for free now if I wished as to archive and preserve my collection?
More batteries!! That's gonna be a lot of wasted solar energy. I need to double up on cells, and make sure I have enough batteries to store as much as possible. (Granted, I'm not account for 1% loss per day of total capacity of the store).
I have put off buying ATi in favor of nVidia for years. nVidia used to have the hands down better hardware, and the drivers have been outstanding for years. ATi has gotten the slight upper hand on hardware for the price point now most of the time with slight model deviations between them and nvidia. However, what's the point of better hardware if you can't take advantage of it?
Its better to shutdown when you know where your drop point is going to be instead of let flight continue and possibly endanger life with an unpredictable drop point.
I live in Brighton, IL and my 8 neighbors within 10 miles who barely make ends meet growing corn and soy are surely happy with growing corn cost. Remember, there are more people in the world than just those who consume fuel and resources. Some people have made it a way of life to help supply those things we take for granted with little to no thanks and in the past falling prices on the goods they produce. Its little to no concern for many that the American farmer is selling his land left and right so someone can build a new sub-division or a brand new super-mega-spectacular Wal-Mart. The more and more they sell, the more and more we grow dependent on foreign goods. And the problem with that is, someday they can just say 'No oil for you, we invade instead'. Ethanol is good for the American farmer. Support ethanol.
There is a difference between a reusable media, and a consumable. The media you are licensed to use. The actual storage method and or backup shouldn't matter. As far as a light bulb, its a kind of lock in. Light bulb dies, you buy a new one. The smart consumer will of course buy a longer lasting light, and preferably not get an incandescent(new discussion I know), that will be cost effective and still save them money.
Very true. The MMPA and RIAA have made backups a very gray area for some. Its a damned if you do, damned if you don't scenario when it comes to making your own backups, or archival method. If they want to play this method, they should give you an actual piece of paper that gives you rights to the content, and they could be as specific as HD, non-HD, mpeg*, or whatever, but they should be then legally required to replace damaged good. I'd find service fee and media charges fine, they should no where equal the original cost of license.
I think you are missing one big important point. Kids are humans, and human mistakes and accidents happen. Making backup copies is not about babying your kids. Its about secure source backup of originals. Then again, I guess in all the years, you have never had a disc tray scratch a CD or DVD, or just had one go bad due to old decaying, disc that lose there ability to store data. A kid is also far more susceptible to accidents, and if you had any kids, this is something you would know. They aren't perfect, and no amount of teaching in the world is gonna make them perfect.
Its funny how I get modded flamebait and then a reply gets insightful for expounding on the same point I was making. Only problem is I already have the movie server that stores HD content without compression. I also own a sony 400 disc changer (the menu is slow as hell, and non HD) that really does help with archival of part of my my collection. 3 more players and some switch boxes and I guess I could 'legally' store all my NON-hd content safely.
Great, now I can watch all the legal stuff I have valid licenses for. What about my HD rips I make from my legally owned collection for viewing among any of the tv's in my house and for safe archiving of original content?
The problem is you assumed. The proper answer should have been you researched and came up with a suitable answer pro or negative of IQ testing from that. That would make an educated guess that would raise your overall intelligence.
The problem with relying on companies to do this is that instead of a having a average of all companies usually basing the work day around the same times. If you leave it to companies to decided work hours, everyone will have different hours. Although, this could be beneficial as well. Who's ever wanted to go to the bank before or after work and always worked the same exact hours, or drive time made you just a minute or two late?
IQ isn't about how 'smart' you are, but more about how you can deductively solve a problem. A person can be smarter that a person with a higher IQ cause they spend more time actively using there lower IQ. Its like the pipe problem. If you have a 1" pipe and a 2" pipe, the 2 inch pipe will fill a bucket twice as fast. Right? Well, what if the 2" pipe only gets a quarter the flow of water the 1" pipe gets?
What you are saying is, I'm a fairly bright person, with an IQ I could do great things with, but alas, I'm fairly lazy and stick to what I already know.
It wasn't a pencil. As the requirements also included being able to be used underwater, a pencil surely as you can imagine did not work. They used grease pens.
Someone should just patent the process of filing patents. Prior art obviously doesn't matter anymore so this should be quite a simple process. Then we can charge fees of say $1m for any software patents that will be used in closed source software. This money could then go to a fund to further OSS which could file for free. This fee would not be levied if the fee to lisence was free.
Just another place the white male is becoming a minority. I mean come on..We have African Heritage month, Hispanic Heritage month. Not to mention some womens apprecition week/month. About the only holiday besides the generic Christmas(sorry the holiday we celebrate on the 25th of December), and Thanksgiving we really get is fathers day..And that is still generic. Where is White Male day at least for gods sake. I am really starting to feel like the minority. I don't have lawas to protect me. I can't claim racial discrimination even though I can assure you I have worked for "minorities" who have made my life hell. Look at the US NAVY for instance. There is a known "filipino mafia" in existence. Granted, its not like the olden day mafia. And now the internet!
For the record, I am a married geek. And I am not from "one of those states".
(should I edit my post to read causcasian?)
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More than a few years ago, the big AT&T was forced to split up to remove a monopoly they had. Well, lets see, now SBC, Bellsouth, Cingular, DishNetwork and probably more I don't know of all fly under that AT&T banner. All reports of Qwest suck, and I have my own hatred for Vonage but it was a choice some found to be good. Where is all my choice going and why isn't someone in the government stopping this? The telecoms are raping the people AGAIN, and although not a monopoly yet, its getting to the point of being one if not something worse. Now that VoIP is being challenged, that could effectively eliminate even more plays like Charter and Comcast.
Because obviously they all use something ANTI-MS which isn't what they want you to do. For you windows users who read and post here, you are guilty by association.
They are only young if you don't count the fact they were the next evolutionary step from such things as MUD's.
In the 18 years I have been around the net, I can honestly admit to being AOL free..I did have a prodigy account at one time though.
Down with Vonage!! I had the service for 11 months. First 3 months was great, but then nothing but trouble after I deployed to the Gulf for 6 months. My wife tried to call them repeatedly to have it fixed and they kept blaming my ISP which after I got home I ruled out as it happened on my COMCAST, neighbors ATT, and Clearwire in local area. I could see one ISP being the problem, but not 3, and after I called again they said I wasn't qualified to make such assumptions. Funny, I can sure manage to make UHF/VHF, and SAT links and manage the LAN on a US Guided Missile Cruiser, but I wasn't technically smart enough to call the bullshit flag on the blame they focused on my ISP. Further, when the 10 month mark rolled around, I had military orders requiring me to move and at the time it was to a place I wouldn't have broadband, or hell, access at all, and they tried to pressure me into keeping the service and singing another year anyway. They just didn't get the fact that small islands sometimes don't have access. Then, they argued with me about how I owed them an early cancellation fee even though I was also canceling due to shitty service THEY couldn't fix. I had to end up also telling them a lie that I was not married, and I had no family who could make use of the account before they would close it. I had read horror stories at the time about people who had went over the 12 month period already and Vonage had refused to cancel the account, or had verbally said they would and the charges kept coming. I feared this so I even canceled the card. And low and behold, I started getting statements from my bank who issued a new card telling me about the activity that they were refusing.
Your assuming that the election is not proved to have been rigged by an outside party and as the only real solution left after that would be leaving in the current president until a full and "timely" investigation could be accomplished. Sounds far fetched to you?
A lot of security wholes are worse than they should be simply because people don't understand, or find it inconvenient to run at a lower privileged level. Most unix vulnerabilities are going to be contained by the user that they are ran under. For me personally, I run "every" service in a jail separate from the host environment. I can do this from read only images, or mounted directories, and preserve write privs to JUST the jail. If the jail gets attacked, I can just restore it from one of the backed up images I make of it nightly. With windows, you don't have this kind of separation where an app can be ran outside of the host environment. With windows also, most users run as a admin user with or without knowing it. This makes small attacks that could be reduced to virtually nothing a real serious issue as it has complete control now. Vista was a step in the right direction as far as users running with escalated privileges, but it has already been shown that there are ways around those warnings and that they 'COULD' be faked. Another problem is the users themselves. You can have the most secure OS in the world, but your weakest link is always going to be the user. Does it matter if you get a popup saying "STOP! you are about to install a virus that will cause death and mayhem across the world, and release nuclear munitions into the air with unknown targets!!!" if the person doesn't even read it and clicks the OK button out of habit? Most unix users are unix users because they know it and took the time to learn something. They also are mostly aware running as root for your user is dangerous. Most windows users can't be bothered to type in a password, or be bothered actually researching an app before installing. Security is only as good as the mentality of the users, and windows doesn't instill that mentality thus reducing it in my eyes to a much lower position of security.
What is this guy supposed to do when he does purchase music for an ipod, then his ipod breaks? What if ipod becomes unavailable to him, or he purchases another music player that now want play his itunes music? You fail to see that he wasn't ignorant as he also tried to play the music on allowed devices but the license wouldn't come through so he could. You my friend have fallen into the trap it seems. This should not be difficult, this sould just work. Like most things we 'purchase', we expect to be able to get fair use out of them. Hell, fair use even carries a warranty in some circles. What, your car broke down after 200 miles?!?! We can fix that under warranty.. You don't hear, 'I'm sorry, you traveled down a road without proper guide rails, and the reason your engine blew up was because it feared of running over the cliff, please, next time buy a car with a fearless engine so it will be compatible with that type of road'..
I have a collection starting on vinyl I inherited. I have many many old vinyls, and I have cassettes and cd's of many of these as well. To think, I have media pre-dating all this non-sense about RIAA, and who owns what. If I take a digital rip of a Elvis song now, I supposedly owe the RIAA money for it. Even though I realistically own multiple copies on media of various types. It seems to me especially on older classics that I should have a right to do with the music as I wish now. Is there a grandfather clause for such old media? Can I legally just acquire a new digital format for free now if I wished as to archive and preserve my collection?
More batteries!! That's gonna be a lot of wasted solar energy. I need to double up on cells, and make sure I have enough batteries to store as much as possible. (Granted, I'm not account for 1% loss per day of total capacity of the store).
I have put off buying ATi in favor of nVidia for years. nVidia used to have the hands down better hardware, and the drivers have been outstanding for years. ATi has gotten the slight upper hand on hardware for the price point now most of the time with slight model deviations between them and nvidia. However, what's the point of better hardware if you can't take advantage of it?
Its better to shutdown when you know where your drop point is going to be instead of let flight continue and possibly endanger life with an unpredictable drop point.
I live in Brighton, IL and my 8 neighbors within 10 miles who barely make ends meet growing corn and soy are surely happy with growing corn cost. Remember, there are more people in the world than just those who consume fuel and resources. Some people have made it a way of life to help supply those things we take for granted with little to no thanks and in the past falling prices on the goods they produce. Its little to no concern for many that the American farmer is selling his land left and right so someone can build a new sub-division or a brand new super-mega-spectacular Wal-Mart. The more and more they sell, the more and more we grow dependent on foreign goods. And the problem with that is, someday they can just say 'No oil for you, we invade instead'. Ethanol is good for the American farmer. Support ethanol.
There is a difference between a reusable media, and a consumable. The media you are licensed to use. The actual storage method and or backup shouldn't matter. As far as a light bulb, its a kind of lock in. Light bulb dies, you buy a new one. The smart consumer will of course buy a longer lasting light, and preferably not get an incandescent(new discussion I know), that will be cost effective and still save them money.
Very true. The MMPA and RIAA have made backups a very gray area for some. Its a damned if you do, damned if you don't scenario when it comes to making your own backups, or archival method. If they want to play this method, they should give you an actual piece of paper that gives you rights to the content, and they could be as specific as HD, non-HD, mpeg*, or whatever, but they should be then legally required to replace damaged good. I'd find service fee and media charges fine, they should no where equal the original cost of license.
I think you are missing one big important point. Kids are humans, and human mistakes and accidents happen. Making backup copies is not about babying your kids. Its about secure source backup of originals. Then again, I guess in all the years, you have never had a disc tray scratch a CD or DVD, or just had one go bad due to old decaying, disc that lose there ability to store data. A kid is also far more susceptible to accidents, and if you had any kids, this is something you would know. They aren't perfect, and no amount of teaching in the world is gonna make them perfect.
Its funny how I get modded flamebait and then a reply gets insightful for expounding on the same point I was making. Only problem is I already have the movie server that stores HD content without compression. I also own a sony 400 disc changer (the menu is slow as hell, and non HD) that really does help with archival of part of my my collection. 3 more players and some switch boxes and I guess I could 'legally' store all my NON-hd content safely.
Great, now I can watch all the legal stuff I have valid licenses for. What about my HD rips I make from my legally owned collection for viewing among any of the tv's in my house and for safe archiving of original content?
The problem is you assumed. The proper answer should have been you researched and came up with a suitable answer pro or negative of IQ testing from that. That would make an educated guess that would raise your overall intelligence.
The problem with relying on companies to do this is that instead of a having a average of all companies usually basing the work day around the same times. If you leave it to companies to decided work hours, everyone will have different hours. Although, this could be beneficial as well. Who's ever wanted to go to the bank before or after work and always worked the same exact hours, or drive time made you just a minute or two late?
IQ isn't about how 'smart' you are, but more about how you can deductively solve a problem. A person can be smarter that a person with a higher IQ cause they spend more time actively using there lower IQ. Its like the pipe problem. If you have a 1" pipe and a 2" pipe, the 2 inch pipe will fill a bucket twice as fast. Right? Well, what if the 2" pipe only gets a quarter the flow of water the 1" pipe gets? What you are saying is, I'm a fairly bright person, with an IQ I could do great things with, but alas, I'm fairly lazy and stick to what I already know.
It wasn't a pencil. As the requirements also included being able to be used underwater, a pencil surely as you can imagine did not work. They used grease pens.
Someone should just patent the process of filing patents. Prior art obviously doesn't matter anymore so this should be quite a simple process. Then we can charge fees of say $1m for any software patents that will be used in closed source software. This money could then go to a fund to further OSS which could file for free. This fee would not be levied if the fee to lisence was free.
What happens if I post the linux source code here?
Just another place the white male is becoming a minority. I mean come on..We have African Heritage month, Hispanic Heritage month. Not to mention some womens apprecition week/month. About the only holiday besides the generic Christmas(sorry the holiday we celebrate on the 25th of December), and Thanksgiving we really get is fathers day..And that is still generic. Where is White Male day at least for gods sake. I am really starting to feel like the minority. I don't have lawas to protect me. I can't claim racial discrimination even though I can assure you I have worked for "minorities" who have made my life hell. Look at the US NAVY for instance. There is a known "filipino mafia" in existence. Granted, its not like the olden day mafia. And now the internet! For the record, I am a married geek. And I am not from "one of those states". (should I edit my post to read causcasian?)