That would be a NIGHTMARE and shut down most large corporations until the problem could be resolved.
Large corporations use the corporate version of XP which doesn't include WPA. Microsoft realised very quickly that a company with thousands of PCs wasn't going to stand for having to activate them all individually. WPA is just for screwing home users who wouldn't be installing on more than 1 or 2 machines anyway. All the pirates sell corporate copies so once again it is a case of copy protection only hurting the people who paid for it.
I know in the UK there is an organisation called Complete Wasters who take donations of old computer kit, refurbish it then sell Internet ready PCs for between 30 and 300 pounds depending on the system, even cheaper if you don't want the screen/keyboard/speakers/OS etc.
The idea is instead of chucking away all these computers (which contain vast amounts of polluting materials) they can be used by people who wouldn't normally be able to afford a PC.
Yes it is possible that there could be kids who abuse other kids, but they are highly unlikely to be on the sex offenders list and therefore aren't going to be picked up by any cameras. If a child was a known sex offender they probably wouldn't be in a mainstream school. The cameras don't look at everyone and decide if they look pervy enough to be a sex offender, they compare faces to photos in the sex offender database.
My school used to have something like this, they called them ID badges, very high tech. All adults in the school who weren't teachers had to wear ID badges and all visitors had to sign in at reception to get one. See anyone without a badge, then you tell a teacher and they go and check them out.
I'm thinking you could buy some real fancy badges for $6000. Maybe have the receptionist snap a mugshot with a digicam and then print the ID out there and then, would stop people stealing them You could have visitor IDs with a photo and the reason the visitor was there. So if someone signed in as a IT consultant is hanging around the locker rooms you know they don't belong. (where as a plumber would.) Obviously you only issue visitor badges to people who have a reason to be in the school.
Havn't you seen 'The Awful Truth'? It doesn't have to be gun shaped to allow you to 'surrender' it could be a wallet or mobile phone especially if you are black!
In attempt to correct these innocent mistakes by US police officers The Awful Truth started a wallet exchange where black people could trade in their black gun like wallets for bright orange ones to prevent any confusion.
They also provided this helpful chart for police officers to consult when in doubt.
But New York businessman Solomon Friedman is wary of the technology's potential for misuse. Anyone with technical savvy, he said, could track radio signals from the cards. He designed a pouch a driver can store the card in, blocking the signal when not in the toll lane.
Minimum spec on a PVR is a lot more than a celeron.
PIII-600 256M - $100ish depending on where you get it.
A Celeron won't cut it but a PIII-600 will? I don't really see a PIII-600 beating a 2.4ghz Celeron. Which you could get along with 256mb of cheap DDR for about $100.
Just to clarify, 'Lifetime Subscription' means the lifetime of the product, not the lifetime of the subscriber. As soon as you upgrade to a new model you have to pay out for subscription again, bear this in mind before you pay it. Ok for normal users who will buy it and keep it until it falls apart, but not so good for the geek who has to have the latest tech.
Just to be pedantic the ATF investigate Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms, taking down cocaine kings and dealers would be the job of the DEA. (Drug Enforcement Agency). Its all in the name.
How do you reconcile that with your position that every person can make copies of any information that they possess and share those copies with other people?
That is: how come your position doesn't apply to your doctor?
The difference is medical records are private information, where as music which has been released can in no way be considered private as it is being played on the radio and sold in shops. If something is already readily available it isn't private. If I am broadcasting my medical records on the radio and selling copies then my doctor leaking the same records to the press isn't really an issue is it.
Notice I havn't mentioned copyright in this post as I am purely pointing out the flaws in your example. Another difference of course being that I don't hold copyright on my medical records. Copyright has notbing to do with privacy, one is keeping private things out of the public domain the other is in place in order to allow artists to release works into the public domain without losing the rights to that work.
Don't say you only listen to shitty songs you'd never buy, turn the radio on then.
This comment would be valid if 90% of the music on the radio wasn't equally shitty. Bad song, change the station, oh sorry they are playing exactly the same crap but in a different order. Turn on MTV instead, shock horror thats all the same too.
The flashes of dots certainly do register, they were quite noticable at a couple of points during Matrix Revolutions for instance. I wouldn't say they spoilt the film but they were certainly visible.
Of course dots for a second in a 1 and a half hour film aren't too much of an annoyance, but a blip in a 3min music track would be very annoying.
Actually there is a keygenerator which produces virgin XP keys which work fine with Windows Update everytime. There is also a method on the MS knowledge base to change your key if you installed windows using one of the very few corporate keys that they have blocked from the update system.
Of course if you drive a PoS car then the best way to deal with tailgaters is to brace yourself and then slam on the brakes. You are perfectly within your rights to brake at any time for any reason it is the responsibility of the driver behind to be at a distance where they can stop safely if you do. When the police ask what happened just say a white dog ran out in front of your car, they'll know what you mean.
Result your car PoS car has another few dents in the back bumper, and the tailgaters shiny BMW has no front lights and need thousands of pounds of work. That'll teach them to keep their distance.
Minorities" is an overbroad term used mainly in a sophistic manner to try to appear sympathetic to "everyone who might be downtrodden" when actually referring to specific groups.
And there was me thinking that 'minorities' referred to minority groups within the population, whether they be economic, ethnic or political groups.
Oh thats right, that is what it means or didn't you bother checking the definition?
MINORITY (n) : A group of people who differ racially or politically from a larger group of which it is a part.
Maybe you should be less quick to scream racist next time and check some facts. There are proven connections between higher crime rates and areas predominantly populated by minority groups. This is normally due to economic factors as well as geographical. In the United States a large percentage of members of minority ethnic groups live in inner city areas and earn very little money, which makes them far more likely to commit crimes. They don't commit crimes because they are black, latin american, vietnamese etc, they commit crimes because of their socio-economical position.
It is a fact that most innercity residents are from ethnic minorities and have a low income where as most people living in the suburbs are white and middle class. No I don't have any magical statistics to back this up with, but it can be proven by anyone who is willing to get in their car and drive through the city, then out to the suburbs. It is an obvious divide, which isn't limited to US cities. I live in Leicester in the UK, it is exactly the same here. The inner city population is almost entirely composed of ethnic minorities (and students during term-time) whereas the suburbs are predominantly white and middle class. I am sure you can figure out where most of the crime is.
This is a situation which is never going to improve if whenever anyone draws attention to it people such as yourself start screaming racist at them. It can be improved by increasing wages, providing benefits and improving inner city housing and schools.
This isn't a link between crime and ethnic groups, but between crime and low income inner city populations. It is hardly a shocking idea that someone is more likely to commit a crime if they live below the poverty line than if they are middle class with a comfortable income. But then of course as pretty much all politicians are also white, middle class suburb dwellers there isn't any real incentive to change this is there?
Thanks for saving me, I was about to buy one and was concerned about how good the sound quality would be. I'll look for another solution now.
I don't see why car stereos don't have a line in, they could hide it behind a blanking plate so it wouldn't spoil the look of the stereo. I guess people using their existing discmans and mp3 players cuts into the lucrative cd changer buisness.
I wasn't referring to the iPod itself being an innovation, but to the unique design mentality applied to it. When designing the iPod it is obvious that Apple looked at existing devices saw the flaws and designed the iPod to not only correct these flaws but also address the essential usability ideals that previous (and most subsequent) players ignored.
They avoided the normal approach of looking at an existing product, seeing how it works then making a clone. Maybe adding a feature here or there in order to differentiate it from the pack, but essentially adding features for the sake of another bullet point in the advert. Not looking to see what consumers actually want from such a device and addressing those areas.
Apple is in fact now falling into this trap, instead of relying on the iPod competing on its own merits they are adding PDA functions piecemeal with updates. Of course this isn't necessarily a bad thing as long as these add-on features continue the ethic of usability.
I think the point of not allowing posts to be edited is to stop people going back and changing their posts after someone exposes a flaw in their argument.
The kind of self censorship allowed by editing can make threads very hard to follow as the original post that has been replied to has been changed and there is no way to tell what it originally contained.
Of course this could be worked around by allowing editing of posts for a very short time after they have been posted, for instance 2-3 mins. This would allow typos and bad HTML to be corrected without destroying post continuity.
The lack of editing does teach posters to actually read through their posts before hitting submit, something few people bother to do in the age of spell checkers. I am sure this required proof reading (required if you want to be taken seriously at least) improves the quality of a lot of posts.
You could buy an iPod and Belkin's Tunecast FM transmitter which transmits from your iPod on FM so you can pick it up on your car radio, or your friends stereo without needing any cables or annoying tape adapters. Shame us UK iPod owners are out of luck, as UK radio laws prohibit transmitting FM without a license even at the minute power/range this device puts out. (Of course this doesn't stop you buying one on ebay if you are willing to disobey this overly strict law)
To be honest if you are paying 300 for a player you can afford another 20 for a firewire card. Or alternatively you could buy a USB 2.0 cable to connect the iPod dock to your PC. Yes iPods do support USB 2.0, you just have to buy an extra cable.
If you read your own quote you would notice that the parent talked about not evolution or revolution, but innovation.
The whole thing about the iPod isn't that it is a massive leap forward in technology, its that it is so perfectly refined. The design is so pure, they didn't set out to make the most money, or sell the most players, they set out to make the best player. Thats the innovation, making a product as close to perfect for the consumer, not just churning out a mass market money spinner for the company.
What you describe is already in place for alcohol and tobacco....... two other "vices" that society deems inappropriate for youth.
Am I the only one who doesn't view gaming as a vice? Playing computer games is entertainment not a 'moral weakness'.
No I don't think children should be playing 'M' rated games. That is exactly why they have M ratings in the first place so parents can see at a glance the level of content the game has and decide if it is appropriate. No parents can't monitor their kids all the time, but they can look to see what games they are playing. Assuming of course kids play these games at home and not lurking in alleyways somewhere they should be pretty easy to supervise.
I don't have kids but if I did you could be damn sure they wouldn't be playing games like GTA until I considered them mature enough to understand that the point of such games is to allow you to do things that you can't do in real life. No person of sound mind thinks it is ok to kill and steal in real life, games allow us to express our violent tendencies in a harmless way, just as sport does.
The voluntary ratings that games have at the moment do the job they are meant to, most stores refuse to sell 'M' rated games to children. I much prefer game ratings and restricted sales to children rather than the alternative which would be censoring games. In other countries such as Germany games are often heavily censored even though they are being bought by adults.
What I don't want to see is this becoming as big a farce as movie ratings. Like the 12A rating recently brought into use in the UK. Essentially a 'make more money' rating to allow parents to take young children into films which were previously considered unsuitable so the studios can make the maximum profit.
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The article mentions that she leases hosting in other countries in order to get around anti-spam laws. I presume the $1000/mo bill is for that.
Yes it would truly be a crime to kill the thriving market of music that has discontinued to be sold!
When the vortext pulverizes dead birds into a powder, it it actually ground finely enough that bacteria are destroyed?
From the article:
It then exposes the degraded material to the heat cast off by its air compressors,
I presume it is this heat that sterilises the powder opposed to the grinding effect.
That would be a NIGHTMARE and shut down most large corporations until the problem could be resolved.
Large corporations use the corporate version of XP which doesn't include WPA. Microsoft realised very quickly that a company with thousands of PCs wasn't going to stand for having to activate them all individually. WPA is just for screwing home users who wouldn't be installing on more than 1 or 2 machines anyway. All the pirates sell corporate copies so once again it is a case of copy protection only hurting the people who paid for it.
I know in the UK there is an organisation called Complete Wasters who take donations of old computer kit, refurbish it then sell Internet ready PCs for between 30 and 300 pounds depending on the system, even cheaper if you don't want the screen/keyboard/speakers/OS etc.
The idea is instead of chucking away all these computers (which contain vast amounts of polluting materials) they can be used by people who wouldn't normally be able to afford a PC.
Yes it is possible that there could be kids who abuse other kids, but they are highly unlikely to be on the sex offenders list and therefore aren't going to be picked up by any cameras. If a child was a known sex offender they probably wouldn't be in a mainstream school. The cameras don't look at everyone and decide if they look pervy enough to be a sex offender, they compare faces to photos in the sex offender database.
My school used to have something like this, they called them ID badges, very high tech. All adults in the school who weren't teachers had to wear ID badges and all visitors had to sign in at reception to get one. See anyone without a badge, then you tell a teacher and they go and check them out.
I'm thinking you could buy some real fancy badges for $6000. Maybe have the receptionist snap a mugshot with a digicam and then print the ID out there and then, would stop people stealing them You could have visitor IDs with a photo and the reason the visitor was there. So if someone signed in as a IT consultant is hanging around the locker rooms you know they don't belong. (where as a plumber would.) Obviously you only issue visitor badges to people who have a reason to be in the school.
Havn't you seen 'The Awful Truth'? It doesn't have to be gun shaped to allow you to 'surrender' it could be a wallet or mobile phone especially if you are black!
In attempt to correct these innocent mistakes by US police officers The Awful Truth started a wallet exchange where black people could trade in their black gun like wallets for bright orange ones to prevent any confusion.
They also provided this helpful chart for police officers to consult when in doubt.
Umm, how soon is now? From the article:
:)
But New York businessman Solomon Friedman is wary of the technology's potential for misuse. Anyone with technical savvy, he said, could track radio signals from the cards. He designed a pouch a driver can store the card in, blocking the signal when not in the toll lane.
RTFA
Good point I hadn't thought of that. From TiVo.com
The product lifetime subscription accompanies the product in case of ownership transfer.
Just to clarify, 'Lifetime Subscription' means the lifetime of the product, not the lifetime of the subscriber. As soon as you upgrade to a new model you have to pay out for subscription again, bear this in mind before you pay it. Ok for normal users who will buy it and keep it until it falls apart, but not so good for the geek who has to have the latest tech.
Just to be pedantic the ATF investigate Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms, taking down cocaine kings and dealers would be the job of the DEA. (Drug Enforcement Agency). Its all in the name.
The difference is medical records are private information, where as music which has been released can in no way be considered private as it is being played on the radio and sold in shops. If something is already readily available it isn't private. If I am broadcasting my medical records on the radio and selling copies then my doctor leaking the same records to the press isn't really an issue is it.
Notice I havn't mentioned copyright in this post as I am purely pointing out the flaws in your example. Another difference of course being that I don't hold copyright on my medical records. Copyright has notbing to do with privacy, one is keeping private things out of the public domain the other is in place in order to allow artists to release works into the public domain without losing the rights to that work.
The flashes of dots certainly do register, they were quite noticable at a couple of points during Matrix Revolutions for instance. I wouldn't say they spoilt the film but they were certainly visible.
Of course dots for a second in a 1 and a half hour film aren't too much of an annoyance, but a blip in a 3min music track would be very annoying.
Actually there is a keygenerator which produces virgin XP keys which work fine with Windows Update everytime. There is also a method on the MS knowledge base to change your key if you installed windows using one of the very few corporate keys that they have blocked from the update system.
Of course if you drive a PoS car then the best way to deal with tailgaters is to brace yourself and then slam on the brakes. You are perfectly within your rights to brake at any time for any reason it is the responsibility of the driver behind to be at a distance where they can stop safely if you do. When the police ask what happened just say a white dog ran out in front of your car, they'll know what you mean.
Result your car PoS car has another few dents in the back bumper, and the tailgaters shiny BMW has no front lights and need thousands of pounds of work. That'll teach them to keep their distance.
And there was me thinking that 'minorities' referred to minority groups within the population, whether they be economic, ethnic or political groups.
Oh thats right, that is what it means or didn't you bother checking the definition?
MINORITY (n) : A group of people who differ racially or politically from a larger group of which it is a part.
Maybe you should be less quick to scream racist next time and check some facts. There are proven connections between higher crime rates and areas predominantly populated by minority groups. This is normally due to economic factors as well as geographical. In the United States a large percentage of members of minority ethnic groups live in inner city areas and earn very little money, which makes them far more likely to commit crimes. They don't commit crimes because they are black, latin american, vietnamese etc, they commit crimes because of their socio-economical position.
It is a fact that most innercity residents are from ethnic minorities and have a low income where as most people living in the suburbs are white and middle class. No I don't have any magical statistics to back this up with, but it can be proven by anyone who is willing to get in their car and drive through the city, then out to the suburbs. It is an obvious divide, which isn't limited to US cities. I live in Leicester in the UK, it is exactly the same here. The inner city population is almost entirely composed of ethnic minorities (and students during term-time) whereas the suburbs are predominantly white and middle class. I am sure you can figure out where most of the crime is.
This is a situation which is never going to improve if whenever anyone draws attention to it people such as yourself start screaming racist at them. It can be improved by increasing wages, providing benefits and improving inner city housing and schools.
This isn't a link between crime and ethnic groups, but between crime and low income inner city populations. It is hardly a shocking idea that someone is more likely to commit a crime if they live below the poverty line than if they are middle class with a comfortable income. But then of course as pretty much all politicians are also white, middle class suburb dwellers there isn't any real incentive to change this is there?
Thanks for saving me, I was about to buy one and was concerned about how good the sound quality would be. I'll look for another solution now.
I don't see why car stereos don't have a line in, they could hide it behind a blanking plate so it wouldn't spoil the look of the stereo. I guess people using their existing discmans and mp3 players cuts into the lucrative cd changer buisness.
I hate to resort to definitions, but inovation can be defined as follows:
A creation (a new device or process) resulting from study and experimentation
I wasn't referring to the iPod itself being an innovation, but to the unique design mentality applied to it. When designing the iPod it is obvious that Apple looked at existing devices saw the flaws and designed the iPod to not only correct these flaws but also address the essential usability ideals that previous (and most subsequent) players ignored.
They avoided the normal approach of looking at an existing product, seeing how it works then making a clone. Maybe adding a feature here or there in order to differentiate it from the pack, but essentially adding features for the sake of another bullet point in the advert. Not looking to see what consumers actually want from such a device and addressing those areas.
Apple is in fact now falling into this trap, instead of relying on the iPod competing on its own merits they are adding PDA functions piecemeal with updates. Of course this isn't necessarily a bad thing as long as these add-on features continue the ethic of usability.
I think the point of not allowing posts to be edited is to stop people going back and changing their posts after someone exposes a flaw in their argument.
The kind of self censorship allowed by editing can make threads very hard to follow as the original post that has been replied to has been changed and there is no way to tell what it originally contained.
Of course this could be worked around by allowing editing of posts for a very short time after they have been posted, for instance 2-3 mins. This would allow typos and bad HTML to be corrected without destroying post continuity.
The lack of editing does teach posters to actually read through their posts before hitting submit, something few people bother to do in the age of spell checkers. I am sure this required proof reading (required if you want to be taken seriously at least) improves the quality of a lot of posts.
You could buy an iPod and Belkin's Tunecast FM transmitter which transmits from your iPod on FM so you can pick it up on your car radio, or your friends stereo without needing any cables or annoying tape adapters. Shame us UK iPod owners are out of luck, as UK radio laws prohibit transmitting FM without a license even at the minute power/range this device puts out. (Of course this doesn't stop you buying one on ebay if you are willing to disobey this overly strict law)
To be honest if you are paying 300 for a player you can afford another 20 for a firewire card. Or alternatively you could buy a USB 2.0 cable to connect the iPod dock to your PC. Yes iPods do support USB 2.0, you just have to buy an extra cable.
If you read your own quote you would notice that the parent talked about not evolution or revolution, but innovation.
The whole thing about the iPod isn't that it is a massive leap forward in technology, its that it is so perfectly refined. The design is so pure, they didn't set out to make the most money, or sell the most players, they set out to make the best player. Thats the innovation, making a product as close to perfect for the consumer, not just churning out a mass market money spinner for the company.
No I don't think children should be playing 'M' rated games. That is exactly why they have M ratings in the first place so parents can see at a glance the level of content the game has and decide if it is appropriate. No parents can't monitor their kids all the time, but they can look to see what games they are playing. Assuming of course kids play these games at home and not lurking in alleyways somewhere they should be pretty easy to supervise.
I don't have kids but if I did you could be damn sure they wouldn't be playing games like GTA until I considered them mature enough to understand that the point of such games is to allow you to do things that you can't do in real life. No person of sound mind thinks it is ok to kill and steal in real life, games allow us to express our violent tendencies in a harmless way, just as sport does.
The voluntary ratings that games have at the moment do the job they are meant to, most stores refuse to sell 'M' rated games to children. I much prefer game ratings and restricted sales to children rather than the alternative which would be censoring games. In other countries such as Germany games are often heavily censored even though they are being bought by adults.
What I don't want to see is this becoming as big a farce as movie ratings. Like the 12A rating recently brought into use in the UK. Essentially a 'make more money' rating to allow parents to take young children into films which were previously considered unsuitable so the studios can make the maximum profit.