Actually, what I ment by them losing out, is losing out on my sale. When I do start getting spam into one of my mailboxes, I delete all marketing information, therefore anyone trying to sell me anything that I may want loses out.
You may think that, but I don't belive it's the case. You can moderate how much of your privacy is taken away. Plus, as I said, the Internet is public. You have no reasonable expectation of privacy, even though that computer of yours is tucked away in your room.
You can shut your blinds to all your windows to prevent people from seeing in, but I'd like a little sunlight to come into my room.
You, my friend, have missed my point. I do not like, nor tolerate spam, but I don't mind companies giving me information on products I may want to purchase. There's a difference in spam (blinly sending out mass e-mails) and direct marketing (targeting your advertisements to someone who would like to purchase the product). Besides, I don't see anyone using this new technology to spam people, just change the ads on the web page itself.
It will never be moderate? I get about 2-3 messages a month on my e-mail account right now from direct marketing, and none of it is anything that I concider truly spam.
Of course, this is not the end-all and be-all of marketing techniques. I also do stress the word moderate.
I really don't mind having a message or two from various e-tailors, informing me that they have something I may be interested in. I would like to have a noification, for example, of Amazon or Barnes and Noble letting me know, based on their knowledge, letting me know there is a new technology audiobook out or somthing to that effect. But when the messages start piling up, for things I'm not interested in, then they just all get deleted, and the e-tailor looses out.
Personally, if companies can direct moderate amounts of direct advertising to what I am interested in, I am ok with giving up a little bit of my privacy.
Plus, not to mention, the Internet is as public as Grand Central Station, or Central Park. People should have no reasonable expectation of privacy on the internet. If you want privacy, you should run your data through anonymity sites, or encrypt everything. Just like you would put confidential documents in a briefcase when going through a train station.
Some of the Sim games are great, but they can lead to some violent or destructive behavior. And in a Juvenile Detention type situation that can be a bad thing.
Take, for example, Sim City. Sure, these games are constructive, but they also have a destructive side. I used to work as a lab aid in my local library, and the children would take out games like the Sim series, just to be the 'benovlent god'. That type of behavior just seems unhealthy to me.
First off, the digital signal is encrypted by the cable company. One good thing about DirecTV is, no matter where the customer is, they will use the same decryption. That is not the case with digital cable, certian operators use different encrypts.
Secondly, most cable providers include anlaog channels with the digital stream. If that is the case, without the ADC you wouldn't be able to record those channels. Also, I wouldn't doubt them using little tweaks on the MPEG-2 compression that makes it incompatable with some hardware.
And let's face it, cable companies are a real PITA.
It's just as easy to resize with GPL'ed tools. I've had times where Partition Magic is not avaliable to me, and I needed to resize a partition. I loaded up a boot disk with a copy of resize2fs and away it went.
resize_reiserfs works much in the same way.
I'm honestly not sure if the metadata and journal will be fully compatable with Partition Magic. It may just lead to a corrupt partition, but hell, that's what backups are for.
How could something like this be held up as any sort of evidince. From what I interpret of what this guy is trying to do is check if that there may be data by checking with compression rates, and randomness compairsons. But what if the photograph or audio file is inherently noisy? Or what if you use a poor implimetation of the compression algorithim?
With standard encryption, if you are in court you can be ordered to decrypt it, but if there is a chance where there is nothing there, they can't force you to do anything.
Odds of this hitting any sort of planet are about a billion to one, and then odds of an alien race finding it are about a trillion to one.
Evil ailens ate my sig...
I agree with this 100%. I used to work the front lines in tech support, and let me tell you it is hell. Only occasionally do you get a "good" caller, usually it's the monotonaus drone of the same thing, call after call. Then there is the pissy asshole who calls up just shouting and screaming. On occasion from that, I have left the building very upset over some of the attacks that someone has made against me or my company over the phone.
It gets mighty cold up here in Chicago. Anything to warm the fridgid winters is gladly invited by me. *turns on his car* I mean, 0 C is frickin cold!!! *starts a wood burning fire* I say YAY to global warming! The world may just be a warmer place because of it:)
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If they are going to put an extra charge on e-commerce transactions, how do you expect them to know which stores you are just browsing and which ones they are purchasing from... Also doesn't the web browser encrypt data on both ends... What are they going to do, block everything from https://??
It just doesn't make any sense! Look at the monkey, look at the silly monkey!
I was kind of figuring and hoping that they'd be different tecnologies. I mean $7k for a display would be twice what I paied for my laptop that I have.:)
I kind of feel that this technolog could be good or bad. The bad thing that I am kind of worried about is poor color rendition and slow speeds. I do nearly everything on my laptop, from server administration to graphic design to games, and color rendition and speed are two very, very important things that I will need. The LCD that I have is sufficent, but a bit on the slow side. The good side is that they will consume less power (imagine the battery life with a Crousoe and one of these panels) and also the panel will be a little less fragle (I am so worried about the display on my laptop getting cracked).
One other thing is, what about price. True, I can get red and green LEDs for a dozen for a penny, but blue LEDs are at about a buck apiece. An LED panel with a resolution of 1024x768 will need 786,432 blue elements. That's an aweful lot for a display, if you know what I mean.
I remember a while ago, Apple had the "Why MacOS is better than Windows" It seemed to be to me the same thing as this Linux Myths page.
Finding the weaknesses, slamming, making things up and even outright slander are usually the first steps of a company getting worried about it's competition.
Mike 'Quiet You' Crawford
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The only person insane enough to *intentionally* crash a Linux kernel.
I decided to install it on my laptop, and I was shocked to find out that it requires 1.5GB!! for the install I normally do (SQL, WWW, NFS, SMB, multimedia, etc), while in version 6.2 that same install took 750MB (Still a lot, but with what I'm installing not too bad).
I built one of those in high-school out of a 386 motherboard I had leftover from an upgrade, but it fell apart too much.:) So then I upgraded to a cardboard box. Not esd safe, but when you don't have a stable income, it beats buying a new case.:)
A company can set what kind of warranty they want to put on a machine. Typically a household appliance only carries a 1 year warranty. Higher end computer equipment, like my Armada M700, carry a 3 year warranty. But to keep costs down, the low end lines, i.e. Presario, Pavillion, and Aptiva, all have one year warranties. If the PC is out of warranty, you have to pay for repair, but if it is within warranty, the OEM should and is legally bound to repair it to full operation. I should know, I work for one of the largest computer vendors in the world.
Also people should keep in mind that statistaclly speaking a computer will only have one failure within its intended life, if you get that right out of the box, you're in luck actually, statistaclly speaking.
Did you know that if downing 4 bottles of S kyrocket Flavored syrup from ThinkGeek would kill the average human? It well goes over the LD50 of caffeine.
The Tenchi Muyo series has been my absolute favorite anime/television show and to my dismay Cartoon Network **BUTCHERED** it. Cheezy painted on bathing suits, cuts of entire scenes, etc. I am just glad I can watch it on DVD:)
Well, there is one way that the OpenSource community can take over and Lead the way over the networking protocols.
Come up with our own protocol.
I have had this Idea in my head for a while, but I am only a network support tech, not a programmer, so I couldn't do it myself. I have some great ideas, but no way of implementing them.
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Actually, what I ment by them losing out, is losing out on my sale. When I do start getting spam into one of my mailboxes, I delete all marketing information, therefore anyone trying to sell me anything that I may want loses out.
You may think that, but I don't belive it's the case. You can moderate how much of your privacy is taken away. Plus, as I said, the Internet is public. You have no reasonable expectation of privacy, even though that computer of yours is tucked away in your room.
You can shut your blinds to all your windows to prevent people from seeing in, but I'd like a little sunlight to come into my room.
You, my friend, have missed my point. I do not like, nor tolerate spam, but I don't mind companies giving me information on products I may want to purchase. There's a difference in spam (blinly sending out mass e-mails) and direct marketing (targeting your advertisements to someone who would like to purchase the product). Besides, I don't see anyone using this new technology to spam people, just change the ads on the web page itself.
It will never be moderate? I get about 2-3 messages a month on my e-mail account right now from direct marketing, and none of it is anything that I concider truly spam.
Of course, this is not the end-all and be-all of marketing techniques. I also do stress the word moderate.
I really don't mind having a message or two from various e-tailors, informing me that they have something I may be interested in. I would like to have a noification, for example, of Amazon or Barnes and Noble letting me know, based on their knowledge, letting me know there is a new technology audiobook out or somthing to that effect. But when the messages start piling up, for things I'm not interested in, then they just all get deleted, and the e-tailor looses out.
Personally, if companies can direct moderate amounts of direct advertising to what I am interested in, I am ok with giving up a little bit of my privacy.
Plus, not to mention, the Internet is as public as Grand Central Station, or Central Park. People should have no reasonable expectation of privacy on the internet. If you want privacy, you should run your data through anonymity sites, or encrypt everything. Just like you would put confidential documents in a briefcase when going through a train station.
Some of the Sim games are great, but they can lead to some violent or destructive behavior. And in a Juvenile Detention type situation that can be a bad thing.
Take, for example, Sim City. Sure, these games are constructive, but they also have a destructive side. I used to work as a lab aid in my local library, and the children would take out games like the Sim series, just to be the 'benovlent god'. That type of behavior just seems unhealthy to me.
Don't forget 2 things about your digital cable.
First off, the digital signal is encrypted by the cable company. One good thing about DirecTV is, no matter where the customer is, they will use the same decryption. That is not the case with digital cable, certian operators use different encrypts.
Secondly, most cable providers include anlaog channels with the digital stream. If that is the case, without the ADC you wouldn't be able to record those channels. Also, I wouldn't doubt them using little tweaks on the MPEG-2 compression that makes it incompatable with some hardware.
And let's face it, cable companies are a real PITA.
It's just as easy to resize with GPL'ed tools. I've had times where Partition Magic is not avaliable to me, and I needed to resize a partition. I loaded up a boot disk with a copy of resize2fs and away it went.
resize_reiserfs works much in the same way.
I'm honestly not sure if the metadata and journal will be fully compatable with Partition Magic. It may just lead to a corrupt partition, but hell, that's what backups are for.
How could something like this be held up as any sort of evidince. From what I interpret of what this guy is trying to do is check if that there may be data by checking with compression rates, and randomness compairsons. But what if the photograph or audio file is inherently noisy? Or what if you use a poor implimetation of the compression algorithim?
With standard encryption, if you are in court you can be ordered to decrypt it, but if there is a chance where there is nothing there, they can't force you to do anything.
This just seems to be a waste of time to me.
Odds of this hitting any sort of planet are about a billion to one, and then odds of an alien race finding it are about a trillion to one. Evil ailens ate my sig...
Sorry for an off-topic comment.
Has anyone gotten VMWare working with XFS? I tried once and it wouldn't work.
I agree with this 100%. I used to work the front lines in tech support, and let me tell you it is hell. Only occasionally do you get a "good" caller, usually it's the monotonaus drone of the same thing, call after call. Then there is the pissy asshole who calls up just shouting and screaming. On occasion from that, I have left the building very upset over some of the attacks that someone has made against me or my company over the phone.
It gets mighty cold up here in Chicago. Anything to warm the fridgid winters is gladly invited by me. *turns on his car* I mean, 0 C is frickin cold!!! *starts a wood burning fire* I say YAY to global warming! The world may just be a warmer place because of it :)
If they are going to put an extra charge on e-commerce transactions, how do you expect them to know which stores you are just browsing and which ones they are purchasing from... Also doesn't the web browser encrypt data on both ends... What are they going to do, block everything from https://??
It just doesn't make any sense! Look at the monkey, look at the silly monkey!
Mike Crawford
I was kind of figuring and hoping that they'd be different tecnologies. I mean $7k for a display would be twice what I paied for my laptop that I have. :)
I kind of feel that this technolog could be good or bad. The bad thing that I am kind of worried about is poor color rendition and slow speeds. I do nearly everything on my laptop, from server administration to graphic design to games, and color rendition and speed are two very, very important things that I will need. The LCD that I have is sufficent, but a bit on the slow side. The good side is that they will consume less power (imagine the battery life with a Crousoe and one of these panels) and also the panel will be a little less fragle (I am so worried about the display on my laptop getting cracked).
One other thing is, what about price. True, I can get red and green LEDs for a dozen for a penny, but blue LEDs are at about a buck apiece. An LED panel with a resolution of 1024x768 will need 786,432 blue elements. That's an aweful lot for a display, if you know what I mean.
Mike 'Quiet you' Crawford
"I wish, I wish, I hadn't killed that fish!"
I remember a while ago, Apple had the "Why MacOS is better than Windows" It seemed to be to me the same thing as this Linux Myths page.
Finding the weaknesses, slamming, making things up and even outright slander are usually the first steps of a company getting worried about it's competition.
Mike 'Quiet You' Crawford
-------------------------
The only person insane enough to *intentionally* crash a Linux kernel.
I decided to install it on my laptop, and I was shocked to find out that it requires 1.5GB!! for the install I normally do (SQL, WWW, NFS, SMB, multimedia, etc), while in version 6.2 that same install took 750MB (Still a lot, but with what I'm installing not too bad).
I built one of those in high-school out of a 386 motherboard I had leftover from an upgrade, but it fell apart too much. :) So then I upgraded to a cardboard box. Not esd safe, but when you don't have a stable income, it beats buying a new case. :)
A company can set what kind of warranty they want to put on a machine. Typically a household appliance only carries a 1 year warranty. Higher end computer equipment, like my Armada M700, carry a 3 year warranty. But to keep costs down, the low end lines, i.e. Presario, Pavillion, and Aptiva, all have one year warranties. If the PC is out of warranty, you have to pay for repair, but if it is within warranty, the OEM should and is legally bound to repair it to full operation. I should know, I work for one of the largest computer vendors in the world.
Also people should keep in mind that statistaclly speaking a computer will only have one failure within its intended life, if you get that right out of the box, you're in luck actually, statistaclly speaking.
Did you know that if downing 4 bottles of S kyrocket Flavored syrup from ThinkGeek would kill the average human? It well goes over the LD50 of caffeine.
The Tenchi Muyo series has been my absolute favorite anime/television show and to my dismay Cartoon Network **BUTCHERED** it. Cheezy painted on bathing suits, cuts of entire scenes, etc. I am just glad I can watch it on DVD :)
Tenchi Muyo man! That's gotta be the best anime ever. One boy, six alien women. 'Nuff said.
Well, there is one way that the OpenSource community can take over and Lead the way over the networking protocols.
Come up with our own protocol.
I have had this Idea in my head for a while, but I am only a network support tech, not a programmer, so I couldn't do it myself. I have some great ideas, but no way of implementing them.