Many programs, such as countless BitTorrent derivatives, simultaneously upload as you download. The organization in the US randomly searches for "protected" content, jots down the IP addresses, traces to ISPs and asks them to send those notices.
I got a notice from Rogers that I was uploading some copyrighted file (it was a movie or a TV show). While I was not explicitly uploading it, uTorrent was while downloading it.
I'm just wondering if this would hold up, though. I can download things in Canada, but I can't upload, so what if the program I use automatically uploads the content? I'm sure it's no excuse...
I can buy a cell phone now for $500 with Telus, but with no contracts to sign.
I can also buy the same cell phone for $200 less, provided I sign agreement for 3 years. Let's say that in 3 months something happens and I am not able to live up to the agreement - I wish to cancel. Rogers, Bell, (and probably Fido) will charge you $20 per month for each remaining month on your contract up to a maximum of $200. Essentially, if you got $200 discount on your phone, you will probably pay back those $200 when you leave.
With Telus, they will charge you $20 per month for each remaining month. Period. There is no maximum. So if you cancel your 36-month contract in month 3, you have 33 months x $20 each = $660. Now tell me this is fair. Tell me this is a good reason to believe this company provides good, valuable, services to its customers, where customers are the focus. BS.
Telus is ready to screw its customers over like I haven't seen in other mobile telcos (even Bell isn't so bad). How can you agree to a contract, decide to leave, and end up paying a penalty of double or triple of what you saved?
Compare plans between different provides, you will notice that Telus' plans are among the most expensive. They were among the first to move up the hour on which evening starts. Used to be 6pm, became 7 pm, now it's 9 pm. If you want your evenings to start earlier, sure, but pay extra for that. Other companies followed suit.
I also would not be surprised if Telus was intstrumental in moving away from per-second billing to let's-round-up to the minute billing, which definitely screws you over big time. And they did it in such a sinister way that nobody noticed.
Lastly, to end my rant, they also have questionable business practices, where eventually you will be charged for some feature that you had included for free. When you phone to inquire, they will tell you that you always paid for it and it was never for free. And unless you have invoices going back 2/3/4 months ago, good luck proving anything to them.
So much cussing. Not only did your original reply come off arrogantly, to which I replied without namecalling, your second post clearly demonstrates that the only real *jackass*, if i may borrow that term, is you.
Yes, my example was extreme, yet it reflected how closeminded your view was. You were quite incorrect in assuming what i am thinking, why i am thinking that, or what another individual who lived 2000 years ago might have been thinking. I even gave a good example explaining what I meant, when I said listen to the USSR anthem sang by their soldier choir. Execution makes a difference, whether audial or visual -> that was my inferred point.
And for reference? I majored in psychology, what about you? Did you ever go beyond taking introductory psych 101? I might have forgotten some terminology (I work in the field of computer science, as I also majored in math), but I would expect a little more logic and less opinionated bias from you, a self-proclaimed expert.
I did not intend to upset you, which I clearly have, so I apologize for that. I am done with this, don't bother replying, as I will ignore it.
I mean people are usually pretty tied to their seats when going with a Boeing.
Boeing expects Google's Testing on the Toilet(TM) to really take off. They wanted to be prepared so that when it does take off, it doesn't hit the fan.
Expect wireless portables^H^H^Hility to be installed in the enhanced version of the 787 Dreamliner.
pick up a roman coin and you will think "gee, nice old coin" and thats it. but a germanic tribesman from roman times though would pick up the same coin and fell the "heft" you are talking about, because he equates that coin with the dominant military and economic machine of his time in his mind.
For all i know, he could've spat on that coin, and wiped his ass with it. I wasn't there, neither were you, but knowing germanic character as passed on by history, i wouldn't be surprised if that's what they did.
the equating of the look and the feel of the american dollar and its "heft" is just a subconcious connection that depends upon factors going on in your emotions, not in any intrinsic value to the actual design or look or feel of the bill.
Let's have a bill with a happy face on it, cartoonish. And then let's compare it to a normal, valid bill of a country that we know nothing about. No intrinsic value to the actual design? I don't think so. You will know for sure what feels more real and has heft and what doesn't.
Design has impact.
It's funny you seem to dismiss my comment as my own view, yet in your post you provide nothing except your own views and opinions and feelings, as well as guesses what might have happened ~ 2000 years ago
so the design of the dollar itself is not what gives you the feeling you get when you see it, it is your own mind.
This definite conclusion, which proves your hypothesis, follows the experiment on the germanic tribesman? Nice.
therefore, the design of the dollar can be changed, and 20-30 years from now, assuming the usa remains a strong country, a younger canadian tha yourself would feel the same "heft" you speak of, no matter what fruity colors a new radically different dollar would sport
Now that's another hypothesis.
Chances are, there won't be a radical redesign of the US dollar. Enhancements - yes. If the US dollar changes to a happy face, and someone from Canada still views it as hefty - then I'd say you might be on to something, but I would have to question the sanity of your subject(s).
With your example of own experience with the nazi coin, are you attempting to explain people's psychology on perception of currency/bills based on your own feelings as a teenager?
in short, your canadian currency is superior to american currency.
Proper context - it is superior only in terms of usability (the blind can read braille, and the bills can be easily distinguished visually)
and that concept completely trumps your weird psychological feeling of "heft" that you speak of
Do you have a feeling that it does? Because no, it doesn't.
Our bills are different color ($5, $10, $20, $50, $100). However, they are still the same size. What's interesting is that all bills have braille, so that the blind can read them.
I always thought, what happens to braille in very used bills, say, after 10 years...
Because of colouring, though, our money looks.umm... colourful. It's OK for what it is, but it doesn't have that striking appearance of the US dollar. When you hold US bills in your hands, it looks like real, solid money, and the graphics/print on them speak of a solid state.
If you're not sure what i mean, listen to the USSR anthem sang by their soldier choir - that will send shrivels down your spine, it's definitely very powerful and makes a statement. US money do the same, IMO.
If there was HIAA, they'd slap "heat-theft" tax on every solar panel, then they would slap monthly tax on the heat that you're not buying from them, but they need to survive as a corporation for the good of other homeowners who happen to buy their heat from HIAA, blame foreign solar panel smuggling for lack of profits...
wait. Maybe this WILL happen? In the global pursuit of corporate greed, I just don't see a way that houses coudl some day be self-sustaining when it comes to heating, electricity and solar power. Somehow the corporate greed will snatch this out of the people's hands.
iTunes sales have always been doing well, never poorly. Last quarter an increase in demand in songs was met with success. As a result, the download quota has been increased from 5 to 3 ^H^H^H^H^H from 2 to 3 songs per month!
You know, many (perhaps most) conflicts in mankind's history have been religiously supported/motivated, or a good mixture of religion and politics. At the same time, narrow, intolerant views like yours (and you have to admit that yours is such a view:) ) also contritube to things like genocide. Scary? No, not really, only scary if more people like you get into position of responsibility/authority/power and act on it.
One of the fundamental problems in interpersonal relationships is assuming everyone is similar to you, thinks similarly to you, or at the very least, SHOULD think like you. That is psychology 101. Translated to a larger magnitude - now you understand why there is such a divide between the Muslim world and the West. It's only recently that I am seeing news articles on attempts to converge the two to get along, learning each other's thinking.
As much as you feel strongly against religion, and express your views, take time to think about the implications of your thinking. I dare sare you would make a great dictator!:)
Part of this problem with the number "144000" lies in the interpretation for centuries that everybody who is good will go to heaven. That doctrine has been taught by all mainstream christian religions. Obviously, what gives, since at present there are 7 billion on earth.
Through the study of the Bible (again, don't attempt to believe this if you dont' want to, but just read it for explanatory purposes) you get to realize that those 144000 are selected to form a government. Sort of like representatives are elected into the house or senate. They "reign" over the rest of the country. The bible also speaks of earth being a place most people refer to as heaven - paradise, and that one day that paradise will be restored. In that earthly paradise, there bible says will be people that "no man is able to number", meaning an unspecified, large number of people.
As far as converting to your religion... It's a very valid question to ask, but you obviously don't believe/favour or are not devoted to your faith as much as they are. So why bother converting to something that you personally are not very devoted to?
How is that? You are devoted? Well, in that case, when you come knocking on doors, then it might be a good idea to listen to you at least - maybe you do have something worthwhile to say if you took the trouble to come to my door.
You obviously had never chatted with them about 144000 that is spoken of in the book of revelation, nor about their 6 million + members. Even in your own sentence "reign" means reigning over something or someone. Think about that.
Using current generation of GAIM (Ubuntu 6.06), I like seeing my entire list of contacts, regardless if they're online or offline. What became quite annoying is how poor the differentiation is between online/offline status. All icons are green regardless, with some subtle differences.
Looking at the icons of GAIM 2.0, I see an improvement, but if the first icon (kind of grayed out) is an Offline icon, and the orange icons are Online, the differentiation is still not as great as it is with Windows Live Messenger.
In my case, I think it did set the res to monitor's native 1680x1050,and i used both VGA and DVI-D cables with no difference in image quality.
What I ended up seeing is that all text had white ghosting around it. Imagine gray background and black text, surrounded by white halo. ClearType or not, the problem was annoying, and when i learned it's ATi, it pissed me off royally.
Well, because of ATi's abhorrent drivers, I am an NVidia man... And running proper drivers under Fedora Core or Ubuntu is effortless.
I just built my own system, and got ATi Radeon card... Well, first of all, I tried downloading their updated Catalyst drivers, and it is 100 MB. WTF is that? This is not an operating system, it's a phreaking driver, for pete's sake!
Next... I noticed that text on my LG LCD monitor (20 in widescreen) was of really poor quality. I even installed ClearType from Microsoft, didn't help much. Started thinking it was my monitor, but then hooked it up to my laptop that has NVidia. Wow! WHat a difference! Even without ClearType, the text was so much better.
Ended up returning ATi card, and bought NVidia 7900. Couldn't be happier, and I am much delighted that their drivers are lighter, and their control panel is more intuitive, whereas ATi has some weird control panel user interface.
I just acquired Logitech S510 wireless desktop. It looks fantastic, the keyboard has a fantastic key feel, but the problem is that because it's wireless, it's a fraction of a second delayed compared to wired keyboard.
When playing a videogame (NFS: Underground 2 for example) there is a delay between when the key is pressed and when the game reacts.
This is still quite unacceptable, and regrettably, i will be returning my beautiful keyboard:(
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Many programs, such as countless BitTorrent derivatives, simultaneously upload as you download. The organization in the US randomly searches for "protected" content, jots down the IP addresses, traces to ISPs and asks them to send those notices.
I got a notice from Rogers that I was uploading some copyrighted file (it was a movie or a TV show). While I was not explicitly uploading it, uTorrent was while downloading it.
I'm just wondering if this would hold up, though. I can download things in Canada, but I can't upload, so what if the program I use automatically uploads the content? I'm sure it's no excuse...
Tom's Hardware started using them, I was disappointed, as the site is riddled with ads.
However, turning off JavaScript is helpful. Get Web Developer's toolbar for Firefox which allows you to turn such functions on/off on the fly.
I can buy a cell phone now for $500 with Telus, but with no contracts to sign.
I can also buy the same cell phone for $200 less, provided I sign agreement for 3 years. Let's say that in 3 months something happens and I am not able to live up to the agreement - I wish to cancel. Rogers, Bell, (and probably Fido) will charge you $20 per month for each remaining month on your contract up to a maximum of $200. Essentially, if you got $200 discount on your phone, you will probably pay back those $200 when you leave.
With Telus, they will charge you $20 per month for each remaining month. Period. There is no maximum. So if you cancel your 36-month contract in month 3, you have 33 months x $20 each = $660. Now tell me this is fair. Tell me this is a good reason to believe this company provides good, valuable, services to its customers, where customers are the focus. BS.
Telus is ready to screw its customers over like I haven't seen in other mobile telcos (even Bell isn't so bad). How can you agree to a contract, decide to leave, and end up paying a penalty of double or triple of what you saved?
Compare plans between different provides, you will notice that Telus' plans are among the most expensive. They were among the first to move up the hour on which evening starts. Used to be 6pm, became 7 pm, now it's 9 pm. If you want your evenings to start earlier, sure, but pay extra for that. Other companies followed suit.
I also would not be surprised if Telus was intstrumental in moving away from per-second billing to let's-round-up to the minute billing, which definitely screws you over big time. And they did it in such a sinister way that nobody noticed.
Lastly, to end my rant, they also have questionable business practices, where eventually you will be charged for some feature that you had included for free. When you phone to inquire, they will tell you that you always paid for it and it was never for free. And unless you have invoices going back 2/3/4 months ago, good luck proving anything to them.
So much cussing. Not only did your original reply come off arrogantly, to which I replied without namecalling, your second post clearly demonstrates that the only real *jackass*, if i may borrow that term, is you.
Yes, my example was extreme, yet it reflected how closeminded your view was. You were quite incorrect in assuming what i am thinking, why i am thinking that, or what another individual who lived 2000 years ago might have been thinking. I even gave a good example explaining what I meant, when I said listen to the USSR anthem sang by their soldier choir. Execution makes a difference, whether audial or visual -> that was my inferred point.
And for reference? I majored in psychology, what about you? Did you ever go beyond taking introductory psych 101? I might have forgotten some terminology (I work in the field of computer science, as I also majored in math), but I would expect a little more logic and less opinionated bias from you, a self-proclaimed expert.
I did not intend to upset you, which I clearly have, so I apologize for that. I am done with this, don't bother replying, as I will ignore it.
Have a nice day and a fabulous weekend.
I mean people are usually pretty tied to their seats when going with a Boeing.
Boeing expects Google's Testing on the Toilet(TM) to really take off. They wanted to be prepared so that when it does take off, it doesn't hit the fan.
Expect wireless portables^H^H^Hility to be installed in the enhanced version of the 787 Dreamliner.
pick up a roman coin and you will think "gee, nice old coin" and thats it. but a germanic tribesman from roman times though would pick up the same coin and fell the "heft" you are talking about, because he equates that coin with the dominant military and economic machine of his time in his mind.
For all i know, he could've spat on that coin, and wiped his ass with it. I wasn't there, neither were you, but knowing germanic character as passed on by history, i wouldn't be surprised if that's what they did.
the equating of the look and the feel of the american dollar and its "heft" is just a subconcious connection that depends upon factors going on in your emotions, not in any intrinsic value to the actual design or look or feel of the bill.
Let's have a bill with a happy face on it, cartoonish. And then let's compare it to a normal, valid bill of a country that we know nothing about. No intrinsic value to the actual design? I don't think so. You will know for sure what feels more real and has heft and what doesn't.
Design has impact.
It's funny you seem to dismiss my comment as my own view, yet in your post you provide nothing except your own views and opinions and feelings, as well as guesses what might have happened ~ 2000 years ago
so the design of the dollar itself is not what gives you the feeling you get when you see it, it is your own mind.
This definite conclusion, which proves your hypothesis, follows the experiment on the germanic tribesman? Nice.
therefore, the design of the dollar can be changed, and 20-30 years from now, assuming the usa remains a strong country, a younger canadian tha yourself would feel the same "heft" you speak of, no matter what fruity colors a new radically different dollar would sport
Now that's another hypothesis.
Chances are, there won't be a radical redesign of the US dollar. Enhancements - yes. If the US dollar changes to a happy face, and someone from Canada still views it as hefty - then I'd say you might be on to something, but I would have to question the sanity of your subject(s).
With your example of own experience with the nazi coin, are you attempting to explain people's psychology on perception of currency/bills based on your own feelings as a teenager?
in short, your canadian currency is superior to american currency.
Proper context - it is superior only in terms of usability (the blind can read braille, and the bills can be easily distinguished visually)
and that concept completely trumps your weird psychological feeling of "heft" that you speak of
Do you have a feeling that it does? Because no, it doesn't.
Our bills are different color ($5, $10, $20, $50, $100). However, they are still the same size. What's interesting is that all bills have braille, so that the blind can read them.
I always thought, what happens to braille in very used bills, say, after 10 years...
Because of colouring, though, our money looks.umm... colourful. It's OK for what it is, but it doesn't have that striking appearance of the US dollar. When you hold US bills in your hands, it looks like real, solid money, and the graphics/print on them speak of a solid state.
If you're not sure what i mean, listen to the USSR anthem sang by their soldier choir - that will send shrivels down your spine, it's definitely very powerful and makes a statement. US money do the same, IMO.
So how are you going to split the $6500 among the four of you on Cayman islands?
If there was HIAA, they'd slap "heat-theft" tax on every solar panel, then they would slap monthly tax on the heat that you're not buying from them, but they need to survive as a corporation for the good of other homeowners who happen to buy their heat from HIAA, blame foreign solar panel smuggling for lack of profits... wait. Maybe this WILL happen? In the global pursuit of corporate greed, I just don't see a way that houses coudl some day be self-sustaining when it comes to heating, electricity and solar power. Somehow the corporate greed will snatch this out of the people's hands.
Hybrids ;)
or, combustion engines are electronically controlled... which is true of modern engines, as they're controlled via ECM (throttle-by-wire).
So instead of 15 year old car, he could be driving their small SUV, called Honda CRV.
iTunes sales have always been doing well, never poorly. Last quarter an increase in demand in songs was met with success. As a result, the download quota has been increased from 5 to 3 ^H^H^H^H^H from 2 to 3 songs per month!
Death to Goldstein!
You know, many (perhaps most) conflicts in mankind's history have been religiously supported/motivated, or a good mixture of religion and politics. At the same time, narrow, intolerant views like yours (and you have to admit that yours is such a view :) ) also contritube to things like genocide. Scary? No, not really, only scary if more people like you get into position of responsibility/authority/power and act on it.
:)
One of the fundamental problems in interpersonal relationships is assuming everyone is similar to you, thinks similarly to you, or at the very least, SHOULD think like you. That is psychology 101. Translated to a larger magnitude - now you understand why there is such a divide between the Muslim world and the West. It's only recently that I am seeing news articles on attempts to converge the two to get along, learning each other's thinking.
As much as you feel strongly against religion, and express your views, take time to think about the implications of your thinking. I dare sare you would make a great dictator!
Part of this problem with the number "144000" lies in the interpretation for centuries that everybody who is good will go to heaven. That doctrine has been taught by all mainstream christian religions. Obviously, what gives, since at present there are 7 billion on earth.
Through the study of the Bible (again, don't attempt to believe this if you dont' want to, but just read it for explanatory purposes) you get to realize that those 144000 are selected to form a government. Sort of like representatives are elected into the house or senate. They "reign" over the rest of the country. The bible also speaks of earth being a place most people refer to as heaven - paradise, and that one day that paradise will be restored. In that earthly paradise, there bible says will be people that "no man is able to number", meaning an unspecified, large number of people.
As far as converting to your religion... It's a very valid question to ask, but you obviously don't believe/favour or are not devoted to your faith as much as they are. So why bother converting to something that you personally are not very devoted to?
How is that? You are devoted? Well, in that case, when you come knocking on doors, then it might be a good idea to listen to you at least - maybe you do have something worthwhile to say if you took the trouble to come to my door.
You obviously had never chatted with them about 144000 that is spoken of in the book of revelation, nor about their 6 million + members. Even in your own sentence "reign" means reigning over something or someone. Think about that.
Use a little flash movie that only acts as an email link. There are no Flash parsers (ah, how long i searched for tools to automate flash testing...)
That, or JavaScript.
most CS/Mathies and/or Engs wouldn't do what you did.
don't visit porn sites
You must be new here.
I'm coming back February 1st 2007!
Wait... on another thought, make it afternoon of January 30th.
Using current generation of GAIM (Ubuntu 6.06), I like seeing my entire list of contacts, regardless if they're online or offline. What became quite annoying is how poor the differentiation is between online/offline status. All icons are green regardless, with some subtle differences.
Looking at the icons of GAIM 2.0, I see an improvement, but if the first icon (kind of grayed out) is an Offline icon, and the orange icons are Online, the differentiation is still not as great as it is with Windows Live Messenger.
It is a simple concept, and very necessary IMO.
does the toilet keep logs of your activity?
Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, I'll be here all night.
In my case, I think it did set the res to monitor's native 1680x1050,and i used both VGA and DVI-D cables with no difference in image quality.
What I ended up seeing is that all text had white ghosting around it. Imagine gray background and black text, surrounded by white halo. ClearType or not, the problem was annoying, and when i learned it's ATi, it pissed me off royally.
Well, because of ATi's abhorrent drivers, I am an NVidia man... And running proper drivers under Fedora Core or Ubuntu is effortless.
I just built my own system, and got ATi Radeon card... Well, first of all, I tried downloading their updated Catalyst drivers, and it is 100 MB. WTF is that? This is not an operating system, it's a phreaking driver, for pete's sake!
Next... I noticed that text on my LG LCD monitor (20 in widescreen) was of really poor quality. I even installed ClearType from Microsoft, didn't help much. Started thinking it was my monitor, but then hooked it up to my laptop that has NVidia. Wow! WHat a difference! Even without ClearType, the text was so much better.
Ended up returning ATi card, and bought NVidia 7900. Couldn't be happier, and I am much delighted that their drivers are lighter, and their control panel is more intuitive, whereas ATi has some weird control panel user interface.
And did I mention 100 MB drivers?
spent some time searching for samples, here they are:
WMA SOUND SAMPLE
or like this REAL PLAYER SAMPLE
I just acquired Logitech S510 wireless desktop. It looks fantastic, the keyboard has a fantastic key feel, but the problem is that because it's wireless, it's a fraction of a second delayed compared to wired keyboard.
:(
When playing a videogame (NFS: Underground 2 for example) there is a delay between when the key is pressed and when the game reacts.
This is still quite unacceptable, and regrettably, i will be returning my beautiful keyboard