Sadly, I have recently found out that at my library, we now have to type in our library card number to log on to their very, very secured computers to access the internet.
Never thought I'd have to steal a peak at someone else's library card before...
The spread of pay phones and possible security breaches by terminal criminals? Don't get me wrong, I'd love to have easy access to calling people on my coffee break. But what is to prevent a person from using a pay phone, which probably isn't as closely monitored (user by user), to avoid restrictions/restraints on their personal dialing? It seems like until we have methods for identifying criminals on a pay phone, and locking down security, public access is extended to even those who would abuse it.
Is there anyone 2 year old who is better versed on this matter who can enlighten my dumb ass as to security procedures in these "pay phones" that the article praises?
Anyway, there's still a desire to access these as data, not just as music. In fact, mostly due to the metadata that is constantly being updated to the songs at the artist, album, and track level.
I'm still impressed with the formats that new one works with that you mentioned, but I still want PC access to them. When you find something commercially made that the PC can access, you won't get anything close to that size, and definately nothing close that price.
"Recycling high grade waste to lower-grade waste like newsprint and toilet paper makes much more sense."
Quite a few years ago when we were getting our weekly newspaper printed, one of the old timers told us a story on how when he was a kid, he remember how stark-white newsprint was back then compared to today.
Sorry, I didn't know we were playing make believe from the future.
All I'm saying is you can get a TB RAID 5 going for only $800, right now. Some of us who thought it was cool to have a 10-bay super tower case 5 years ago, are now looking at smaller sized cases (Shuttles,etc) and thus can stick their unsightly hunk of metal in the basement as a central file server.
No doubt about the convenience...
But DVD-R's are not $3 each.
One of the best brands, Princo, can be had under a dollar each. Well under if you're buying that QTY.
What exactly are you using in your RAID? A bunch of old 12GB drives you found for free?
Give me a break, your argument is worthless when the costs of very reasonable hard drives are in the range of $100 each. (200GB drives for $101 at pricewatch). To even consider RAID-5 you would have be wanting to do this with a minimum of 3 drives. Probably more. 3 drives comes to $300.
If this is getting too rich for you as your post seems to claim, you shouldn't be even talking about RAID-5. Not because of the price of the controller card, but because of the cost of the hard drives alone.
"To store my MP3's, pictures, docs, etc its not exactly cheap"
I sit pretty securely in the privacy/liberal/conspiracy range of the spectrum. And even I think cameras downtown is a good idea. I don't feel like my privacy is threatened when a police cruiser drives through my neigborhood, or my picture is taken at an ATM.
And the non-PC side of me says, who gives a damn if they monitor a section of town I'd be too scared to walk through at night!!
Well they only have 2 donors that make up about 3/4 of the donations
That I did not know. Disappointing to know that the bulk of the power from MoveOn is simply coming from rich people. I liked the idea that a grass roots campaign (power in numbers) concept seemed to be working a little bit in politics.
I agree that simply being anti-Bush is quite childish. I like anti-Dumb better, which they clearly are not when their last newsletter was talking about handing out flyers at the "Day After Tomorrow" movie.... which they labeled as "The movie George Bush doesn't want you to see!"
Anyway, I still don't think they're fringe or kooky. I think to be an extremist, your goals and actions need to be extreme. Their actions are mobilization, and to get people to active. Mostly through emails, web site, etc. Not very extreme there. Their goals... to get Bush out of office. Again, not very extreme considering anyone who votes for Kerry could be labeled the same. (which is at least 40% right now)
"They don't care what someone else stands for, as long as they're not Bush."
Well, you know, in the bipartisan republic we're in, I think options are limited when you want to oppose the status quo. The status quo in question would be the Bush dynasty.
I don't want to get into a debate on the pros and con of George W., but I do NOT feel like he is representing my interests and goals. I feel that corporations, Dick Cheney's big oil business, and rich people are getting more favorable treatment from George W. than I am. This is just my opinion. My parents have lost their 25-year business and can't find jobs at their age. During the Clinton years, being a college student was great. Again, just my opinion.
So what are my options? Well, voting for Clark didn't help. So now I have to consider Kerry. On one hand we have Bush who I don't like. However, he has powerful friends and get his agenda done no problem. The problem is, do I like his agenda. On the other hand is Kerry. Here's a guy who is not Bush, is Democratic (whatever that means nowadays) but what is his agenda? Does he know? He votes for the Patriot Act but now apposes it. Or does he just oppose Bush.
Sorry for the rambling, but if the founders of MoveOn want Bush out of office, picking apart Bush is fine with me. I like to watch what they print, not that I agree with all of it. But hey... it's not like I'm going to get anything but propaganda from Bush, either.
I like to think of MoveOn.org like a childish version of the NPR radio station. If you haven't noticed, they're very tilted against Bush. But I wouldn't consider them fringe either.
I don't think MoveOn is extremist. Newsletters pointing out Bush's fuckups and not-really-fuckups-but-lets-propaganda-it-anyway is no worse than Bush's ads trying to make Kerry look like a military weakling. LOL. I disagree about you saying MoveOn isn't changing people's minds. I don't think that's their goal at all. Personally, I think they're just trying to motivate people into action. (Who are probably already on the anti-Bush side of the fence already) Considering we're about 40-60 kerry/Bush, I'd say it's a useful approach.
I think following Bush blindly is kooky. Can you imagine being from Ohio, having lost your manufacturing job, and Bush rolls to your town 2 months ago and tells you that jobs are up in Ohio, and the economy is up?
Anyway, I think MoveOn simply wants Bush out of the office. The fact they jump on anything anti-Bush is just... pushy, short-sighted, etc, that's all.
To me, kooky is committing suicide so that the spaceship will pick you up... or killing doctors because you oppose abortion... or killing blacks in the name of god. Oh, and Californians voting for Arnold, of course.
heheh. I'm curious to know your reasons on why MoveOn.org is a kook fringe organization.
From what I can see, they seem to stand for anything anti-Bush (without question). And fringe?? They have some massive numbers on their side. They can raise 20 million in a few days notice from donations.
Well, I doubt the RIAA would back this if they didn't think (or know) that they could get the DOJ to do ALL the cases they want them to do.
Sounds like a hella lot of work for the DOJ. I thought they were busy with Criminal cases of bootlegging, not to mention oh... all the other real crimes they're busy with.
Where did I say slower? I said at their own pace. And not under orders from the RIAA. I brought this question up because I don't see how the Church of Scientology could automatically get the DOJ to file suits.
The biggest surprise of this method is that you're better off to keep a partner, even though you reduce your chances of Three Of A Kind.
Your math is flawed when you think it's better to keep a partner. When you calculated the odds of keep the 2,2,8... you added up the odds of getting three 2's, or getting 2 pair.
But when you calculated the odds of keeping just the 2,2, you only calculated the odds of getting three 2's. You should have also added the odds of getting a 2nd pair.
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Never thought I'd have to steal a peak at someone else's library card before...
Is there anyone 2 year old who is better versed on this matter who can enlighten my dumb ass as to security procedures in these "pay phones" that the article praises?
I do remember having to test and read the DiscID to make sure they're name brand Princo.
Anyway, there's still a desire to access these as data, not just as music. In fact, mostly due to the metadata that is constantly being updated to the songs at the artist, album, and track level.
I'm still impressed with the formats that new one works with that you mentioned, but I still want PC access to them. When you find something commercially made that the PC can access, you won't get anything close to that size, and definately nothing close that price.
Quite a few years ago when we were getting our weekly newspaper printed, one of the old timers told us a story on how when he was a kid, he remember how stark-white newsprint was back then compared to today.
Because I have way, way, way more than 400 CD's. I like the 30 to 1 ratio.
It looks awesome, and I've never seen such a perfect list of media types that it can access. (Although I don't see DVD-R MP3, just CD-R MP3)
Anyway, why don't they make these things that can be accessed by a computer? THAT is what I'd want.
All I'm saying is you can get a TB RAID 5 going for only $800, right now. Some of us who thought it was cool to have a 10-bay super tower case 5 years ago, are now looking at smaller sized cases (Shuttles ,etc) and thus can stick their unsightly hunk of metal in the basement as a central file server.
My name is Terry. Take it up with my parrents.
No doubt about the convenience...
But DVD-R's are not $3 each.
One of the best brands, Princo, can be had under a dollar each. Well under if you're buying that QTY.
Give me a break, your argument is worthless when the costs of very reasonable hard drives are in the range of $100 each. (200GB drives for $101 at pricewatch). To even consider RAID-5 you would have be wanting to do this with a minimum of 3 drives. Probably more. 3 drives comes to $300.
If this is getting too rich for you as your post seems to claim, you shouldn't be even talking about RAID-5. Not because of the price of the controller card, but because of the cost of the hard drives alone.
"To store my MP3's, pictures, docs, etc its not exactly cheap"
Get a fucking CD-R burner then!
Only $179 for this 8-channel SATA RAID card.
My only concern is how long it would take for it to sync back up once you replaced a bad drive. If you 8 drive at 200GB each...that's a lot of data.
I'd also like to see where you got 400GB drives for only $250. If they're even for sale yet for the common peon.
You can get 200GB drives now for $101 each. (Pricewatch) Only need to buy 6 to do RAID-5 and hit 1TB.
Yes, you can do whatever you want with other controller cards.
But I think $179 is pretty cheap for an 8-channel RAID controller.
(Supported RAID Levels RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 10, JBOD)
Literally. Was reading Tom's Hardware yesterday and their setup mentioned 13 hours.
And the non-PC side of me says, who gives a damn if they monitor a section of town I'd be too scared to walk through at night!!
That I did not know. Disappointing to know that the bulk of the power from MoveOn is simply coming from rich people. I liked the idea that a grass roots campaign (power in numbers) concept seemed to be working a little bit in politics.
I agree that simply being anti-Bush is quite childish. I like anti-Dumb better, which they clearly are not when their last newsletter was talking about handing out flyers at the "Day After Tomorrow" movie.... which they labeled as "The movie George Bush doesn't want you to see!"
Anyway, I still don't think they're fringe or kooky. I think to be an extremist, your goals and actions need to be extreme. Their actions are mobilization, and to get people to active. Mostly through emails, web site, etc. Not very extreme there. Their goals... to get Bush out of office. Again, not very extreme considering anyone who votes for Kerry could be labeled the same. (which is at least 40% right now)
Well, you know, in the bipartisan republic we're in, I think options are limited when you want to oppose the status quo. The status quo in question would be the Bush dynasty.
I don't want to get into a debate on the pros and con of George W., but I do NOT feel like he is representing my interests and goals. I feel that corporations, Dick Cheney's big oil business, and rich people are getting more favorable treatment from George W. than I am. This is just my opinion. My parents have lost their 25-year business and can't find jobs at their age. During the Clinton years, being a college student was great. Again, just my opinion.
So what are my options? Well, voting for Clark didn't help. So now I have to consider Kerry. On one hand we have Bush who I don't like. However, he has powerful friends and get his agenda done no problem. The problem is, do I like his agenda. On the other hand is Kerry. Here's a guy who is not Bush, is Democratic (whatever that means nowadays) but what is his agenda? Does he know? He votes for the Patriot Act but now apposes it. Or does he just oppose Bush.
Sorry for the rambling, but if the founders of MoveOn want Bush out of office, picking apart Bush is fine with me. I like to watch what they print, not that I agree with all of it. But hey... it's not like I'm going to get anything but propaganda from Bush, either.
I like to think of MoveOn.org like a childish version of the NPR radio station. If you haven't noticed, they're very tilted against Bush. But I wouldn't consider them fringe either.
I don't think MoveOn is extremist. Newsletters pointing out Bush's fuckups and not-really-fuckups-but-lets-propaganda-it-anyway is no worse than Bush's ads trying to make Kerry look like a military weakling. LOL. I disagree about you saying MoveOn isn't changing people's minds. I don't think that's their goal at all. Personally, I think they're just trying to motivate people into action. (Who are probably already on the anti-Bush side of the fence already) Considering we're about 40-60 kerry/Bush, I'd say it's a useful approach.
Anyway, I think MoveOn simply wants Bush out of the office. The fact they jump on anything anti-Bush is just... pushy, short-sighted, etc, that's all.
To me, kooky is committing suicide so that the spaceship will pick you up... or killing doctors because you oppose abortion... or killing blacks in the name of god. Oh, and Californians voting for Arnold, of course.
From what I can see, they seem to stand for anything anti-Bush (without question). And fringe?? They have some massive numbers on their side. They can raise 20 million in a few days notice from donations.
Sounds like a hella lot of work for the DOJ. I thought they were busy with Criminal cases of bootlegging, not to mention oh... all the other real crimes they're busy with.
Where did I say slower? I said at their own pace. And not under orders from the RIAA. I brought this question up because I don't see how the Church of Scientology could automatically get the DOJ to file suits.
Your math is flawed when you think it's better to keep a partner. When you calculated the odds of keep the 2,2,8... you added up the odds of getting three 2's, or getting 2 pair. But when you calculated the odds of keeping just the 2,2, you only calculated the odds of getting three 2's. You should have also added the odds of getting a 2nd pair.