So apparently the technology of the time of personal tape recorders. Not sure if this was his undergrad or law school, but I guess a lot of students rather than attending a long lecure would come in, drop off a tape recorder, press record, and then leave. Apparerently it got so bad that then one day he was late for class or something, and when he got there, the entire classroom was just a bunch of tape recorders recording, and at the front (I can only assume in protest) the prof had brought his own taped lecture and was simply playing it out of his own device!
RIAA have this science down pat. I mean they sued Limewire for 51$ Trillion dollars! (insert pinky)
All these companies come up with BS numbers to push their own agenda. Oh and you can bet every study done by the MPAA and RIAA, were all done by "independent" sources... I mean I recall a number used for piracy being used in Canadian lobby, that was so self refreential it was neigh impossible to figure out where it came from. When they finally did, it was an unsourced, no details presentation, done by RIAA themselves, pass on from them to others, to studies, etc...
Just like the Academy of Tobacco Studies, the Moderation Council, and SAFTY were all unassoicated with their terrible industry overlords...
Goes both ways also. Saw on the news the other day about a disabled man who wants to compete in the normal Olympics. Apparently the complaints haven't been about his speed, but about his aperatus. He has no legs, or well legs past his knees anyway. Uses those bouncy running things. His answer to "augmented" running not being fair, was that if it is about the aperatus, and not the man, then why is he the first to be able to do it.
The one arguement I do have, and it is a strong one, is I would never have seen a video of Michelle Jenneke warming up for hurdles... It is a spectator sport the Olympic are, and there is interest in seeing the fairer sex compete, so it exists I suppose.
People take it far too seriously anyway. As much as it is supposed to show the strengths of nations, it really is just a show of wealth really when it all comes down to it.
Having done the whole CS and math thing, I have to say that most of the math in everyday usage was pretty useless. I suppose if you got a scientific or hardcore CS job, you might use it some, but for the most part a normal IT job doesn't need it (nor does most of it lend itself to a better understanding of CS really). Binary Algebra and a few other exceptions which are more less directly associated with CS, and were taught by CS profs, not math profs really.
Courses such as calculus, and linear algebra and the like weren't all that useful after. I think one mathematics course everyone should get however is a basic understanding of statistics. Oddly enough I think that would make the world a better place (if a bit more boring perhaps).
If the windows are a lot more expensive don't expect much conversion (pardon pun).
Also the ease of use. If hooking up 4% worth of power to your home and/or the grid is expensive, also do not expect much conversion. (batteries, inverters, wiring, smart meter, etc... is it really worth doing all that for a handful of watts?)
If you want conversion, make it economical and easy.
I finally cut the cord so to speak. If they want me back they will have to start offering services I wish to pay for.
They will have to entice me back with more than overpriced a la carte. If they care to offer up a reasonable flexible choice at a reasonable price, but if they (and they likely will) fight this tooth and nail, making a token gesture, allowing consumers to purchace single channels are outrageous cost, then later cancelling the service claiming there is not demand for it because it attracted so few users...
Anyway, I will wait and see what actually happens, I wouldn't hold my breath.
Skinner: ahh, but as it turns out the lizards where a god send since they've eaten all the pigeons. Lisa: Isn't that a little short sighted, what happens when where up to our ears with lizards? Skinner: Ah, well we shall simply release wave after wave of Chinese needles snakes. Lisa: then what about the snakes? Skinner: We simply import gorillas who will eat all the snakes. Lisa: Well what happens when where up to our ears in gorilla's! Skinner: Ah that's the beauty of the thing, come winter the gorillas will freeze to death.
Same. Oddly enough I started building computers for fun about a year after I bought my Dell. Once I figured out how easy it was, and that I could research each component individually and get exactly the system I wanted to configure, it was an easy decision after that. Don't think I've bought a new one that I didn't build myself (well I bought an iPhone, but that barely counts). Particularly when you consider that most of what you are getting is 3 things when you buy from a Dell like company, 1) tech support, which I really don't need, and honestly I am likely more knowledgeable and better trained than any phone jockey, 2) Warranty which seemly most company fight tooth and nail not to honor so why bother, not to mention that usually you have to send it away anyway, and manufacturers all have warranties you can use, and some stores now have limited warranties on top of that to make it even easier, and 3) someone else puts it together physically and installs your software, which honestly is easy and fun, with perhaps the exception of the software install and the 1000 patches that need to be updated now... As for cost, I would say it is cheaper to build your own, particularly considering the components and quality you can get. Not to mention that Dell and the big box store may have volume on their side, but they also need to make a profit, and also I have found that they don't keep up with the times and fast changing (dropping) prices. A buddy sent me a computer build, and to get the video card he wanted it as Add(200$) in addition to the bargain basement card that came standard say 50$ or 250$ total. I could go to a store, and buy retail in a box, the exact same card for less than 130$.
So really there are no compelling reason to ever buy from them again.
I actually bought a Dell back in 2000. First computer I bought for myself using my own money. It was a 2700$ Dell Dimension 4200. Had a PIII 800 in it. Seems expensive now, and the video card was rubbish (TNT32), but it was rock solid.
Literately the thing is so heavy and over engineered, I would take odds of it smashing other PC's to splinters and being just fine if you used it like a physically PC smashing device. It also came with a piddly PSU (by today's standards), I think it might have been 230W, but you could plug in a fridge to that thing and it would run. Everything was quality, and it was noticeable. It still works today (though I don't use it much). I had a buddy come to me with a dead PC and wanted to recover the data on the old ATA drives, which of course I couldn't plug in my more modern system. I just levered the 4200 behemoth out from under the desk, threw on a Live CD of Ubuntu, and Boom data recovered. The only thing that was shit about it, was that it came with Windows ME, which was replaced by a cracked 2000, later cracked XP, and when I got sick of the viruses, Linux.
In addition, when I bought the thing, all the tech support (not that I really needed it) was in NA. Later I heard they moved the "consumer" tech support to India, while keeping business support in NA. It is likely all in India now I suppose. Heck even the huge CRT monitor I just dropped off last weekend to the hazardous waste depot, it still worked after a fashion, but has some lines thought the display. Anyway, they used to make solid products, but they have been in a race to the bottom (likely for lower and lower costs) with the rest of them (big box PC builders)...
About the only thing that hasn't changed is that their video card selections always suck. In my opinion the best bang for buck video card is always the mid range card, usually in the 150-200$ range. However without fail, the choices you are given by Dell every time thought out history are, low end, low end, extreme high end. So a 30$ card that is barely better than integrated graphics, an 75$ card which is better than integrated graphic, but not really suitable for gaming, or a 500-600$ bleeding edge overpriced card that is crazy. That was the one thing that always got to me about Dell.
"Some thoughts have a certain sound, that being equivalent to a form. Through sound and motion, you will be able to paralyze nerves, shatter bones, set fires, suffocate an enemy or burst his organs."
It seems logical if one word can set fires, another could put them out.
To be fair, he licks US boots, not media...
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Bye ACTA, Hello CETA
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I rather doubt Harper is a hired lapdog of big media. In fact I would assume he probably has pretty mild (as in could probably care less one way or another) opinion on the whole affair. If anything Harper is just a sellout shill for the USA (which of course is the hired lapdog of big media). So I guess by extension he is in a way. He really just wants to do whatever the US tells him to do, follow Obama (or whoever really, but particularly for Obama, trying to rub some charisma off him), or whatever the US government of the day wants. Harper is probably the biggest threat to Canadian sovereignty there has been in a very long time. About the only thing that probably keeps us independent, is that he likes to be a bit more than a governor. More access to all the fancy dinners and rubbing elbows high end muckity mucks.
The US could propose any plainly ridiculous law, and I am sure he would agree to it (likely without even reading it). Anyway I see him only as a sell out to big media by extension of the US being so bought and paid for, and he just follows their lead.
I got you beat. Years ago we used a build of Windows NT that didn't recognize USB ports. Security problem solved. (yes we had the ports, we just couldn't use them. I recall having to install a SCSI card just so I could use a scanner... good times.)
Of course criminals could just leave some 3.5 floppy's laying around in the parking lot... not quite the sexy draw I would bet...
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Yeah could be he was just telling a story from a movie, my memory sucks.
So apparently the technology of the time of personal tape recorders. Not sure if this was his undergrad or law school, but I guess a lot of students rather than attending a long lecure would come in, drop off a tape recorder, press record, and then leave. Apparerently it got so bad that then one day he was late for class or something, and when he got there, the entire classroom was just a bunch of tape recorders recording, and at the front (I can only assume in protest) the prof had brought his own taped lecture and was simply playing it out of his own device!
A sort of analog information transfer...
RIAA have this science down pat. I mean they sued Limewire for 51$ Trillion dollars! (insert pinky)
All these companies come up with BS numbers to push their own agenda. Oh and you can bet every study done by the MPAA and RIAA, were all done by "independent" sources... I mean I recall a number used for piracy being used in Canadian lobby, that was so self refreential it was neigh impossible to figure out where it came from. When they finally did, it was an unsourced, no details presentation, done by RIAA themselves, pass on from them to others, to studies, etc...
Just like the Academy of Tobacco Studies, the Moderation Council, and SAFTY were all unassoicated with their terrible industry overlords...
Simple really.
The translated text from the signal.
My answer to every question about the Olympics.
and upgraded my internet. (My old was 14MB/s w/80GB cap, new is 30MB/s w/175GB cap)
Sad thing is that my new internet costs like 70$. Would cost only 50$ if I got cable with it, which cost 35$.
So no, cable isn't even worth 15$ to me anymore.
I'd rather pay 8$ for NetFlix (and I still get a few channels anyway) and save the 7$ a month.
Goes both ways also. Saw on the news the other day about a disabled man who wants to compete in the normal Olympics. Apparently the complaints haven't been about his speed, but about his aperatus. He has no legs, or well legs past his knees anyway. Uses those bouncy running things. His answer to "augmented" running not being fair, was that if it is about the aperatus, and not the man, then why is he the first to be able to do it.
The one arguement I do have, and it is a strong one, is I would never have seen a video of Michelle Jenneke warming up for hurdles... It is a spectator sport the Olympic are, and there is interest in seeing the fairer sex compete, so it exists I suppose.
People take it far too seriously anyway. As much as it is supposed to show the strengths of nations, it really is just a show of wealth really when it all comes down to it.
khakis, shoes, polo for the geeks.
slacks and dress shirts for the supervisors
add a tie if your a manager
anything above that, you need a suit.
Having done the whole CS and math thing, I have to say that most of the math in everyday usage was pretty useless. I suppose if you got a scientific or hardcore CS job, you might use it some, but for the most part a normal IT job doesn't need it (nor does most of it lend itself to a better understanding of CS really). Binary Algebra and a few other exceptions which are more less directly associated with CS, and were taught by CS profs, not math profs really.
Courses such as calculus, and linear algebra and the like weren't all that useful after. I think one mathematics course everyone should get however is a basic understanding of statistics. Oddly enough I think that would make the world a better place (if a bit more boring perhaps).
I know Michelle Jenneke made the games vastly more interesting for me.
Really depends how much that 4% costs.
If the windows are a lot more expensive don't expect much conversion (pardon pun).
Also the ease of use. If hooking up 4% worth of power to your home and/or the grid is expensive, also do not expect much conversion. (batteries, inverters, wiring, smart meter, etc... is it really worth doing all that for a handful of watts?)
If you want conversion, make it economical and easy.
I finally cut the cord so to speak. If they want me back they will have to start offering services I wish to pay for.
They will have to entice me back with more than overpriced a la carte. If they care to offer up a reasonable flexible choice at a reasonable price, but if they (and they likely will) fight this tooth and nail, making a token gesture, allowing consumers to purchace single channels are outrageous cost, then later cancelling the service claiming there is not demand for it because it attracted so few users...
Anyway, I will wait and see what actually happens, I wouldn't hold my breath.
Does no one else see the irony of getting sued for copyright infringement of copy protection software?
a Ghost told me.
This seems like a Really Bad Idea (TM) to me.
Up there with:
Skinner: ahh, but as it turns out the lizards where a god send since they've eaten all the pigeons.
Lisa: Isn't that a little short sighted, what happens when where up to our ears with lizards?
Skinner: Ah, well we shall simply release wave after wave of Chinese needles snakes.
Lisa: then what about the snakes?
Skinner: We simply import gorillas who will eat all the snakes.
Lisa: Well what happens when where up to our ears in gorilla's!
Skinner: Ah that's the beauty of the thing, come winter the gorillas will freeze to death.
LOL.... really Ontario Region?
Its just 1,000,000 square km (400,000+ sq miles). Just a little area really....
Ontarioish. Brings new meaning to inaccurate, both in word, and in meaning.
Same. Oddly enough I started building computers for fun about a year after I bought my Dell. Once I figured out how easy it was, and that I could research each component individually and get exactly the system I wanted to configure, it was an easy decision after that. Don't think I've bought a new one that I didn't build myself (well I bought an iPhone, but that barely counts). Particularly when you consider that most of what you are getting is 3 things when you buy from a Dell like company, 1) tech support, which I really don't need, and honestly I am likely more knowledgeable and better trained than any phone jockey, 2) Warranty which seemly most company fight tooth and nail not to honor so why bother, not to mention that usually you have to send it away anyway, and manufacturers all have warranties you can use, and some stores now have limited warranties on top of that to make it even easier, and 3) someone else puts it together physically and installs your software, which honestly is easy and fun, with perhaps the exception of the software install and the 1000 patches that need to be updated now... As for cost, I would say it is cheaper to build your own, particularly considering the components and quality you can get. Not to mention that Dell and the big box store may have volume on their side, but they also need to make a profit, and also I have found that they don't keep up with the times and fast changing (dropping) prices. A buddy sent me a computer build, and to get the video card he wanted it as Add(200$) in addition to the bargain basement card that came standard say 50$ or 250$ total. I could go to a store, and buy retail in a box, the exact same card for less than 130$.
So really there are no compelling reason to ever buy from them again.
I actually bought a Dell back in 2000. First computer I bought for myself using my own money. It was a 2700$ Dell Dimension 4200. Had a PIII 800 in it. Seems expensive now, and the video card was rubbish (TNT32), but it was rock solid.
Literately the thing is so heavy and over engineered, I would take odds of it smashing other PC's to splinters and being just fine if you used it like a physically PC smashing device. It also came with a piddly PSU (by today's standards), I think it might have been 230W, but you could plug in a fridge to that thing and it would run. Everything was quality, and it was noticeable. It still works today (though I don't use it much). I had a buddy come to me with a dead PC and wanted to recover the data on the old ATA drives, which of course I couldn't plug in my more modern system. I just levered the 4200 behemoth out from under the desk, threw on a Live CD of Ubuntu, and Boom data recovered. The only thing that was shit about it, was that it came with Windows ME, which was replaced by a cracked 2000, later cracked XP, and when I got sick of the viruses, Linux.
In addition, when I bought the thing, all the tech support (not that I really needed it) was in NA. Later I heard they moved the "consumer" tech support to India, while keeping business support in NA. It is likely all in India now I suppose. Heck even the huge CRT monitor I just dropped off last weekend to the hazardous waste depot, it still worked after a fashion, but has some lines thought the display. Anyway, they used to make solid products, but they have been in a race to the bottom (likely for lower and lower costs) with the rest of them (big box PC builders)...
About the only thing that hasn't changed is that their video card selections always suck. In my opinion the best bang for buck video card is always the mid range card, usually in the 150-200$ range. However without fail, the choices you are given by Dell every time thought out history are, low end, low end, extreme high end. So a 30$ card that is barely better than integrated graphics, an 75$ card which is better than integrated graphic, but not really suitable for gaming, or a 500-600$ bleeding edge overpriced card that is crazy. That was the one thing that always got to me about Dell.
This is likely in response to Microsoft's announcement/memo to PC distributors that they are basically getting into the hardware business.
Dell: "Yeah, well we'll just use Linux then!" *pouty lip*
Everybody knows it's the Information Super Highway and that it all exists within Cyberspace!
I thought we were all in Cyberspace, and the Blogosphere...
Either way we all know its tubes all the way down anyway...
Muaaaaaaaaaaaaad'Dib!
"Some thoughts have a certain sound, that being equivalent to a form. Through sound and motion, you will be able to paralyze nerves, shatter bones, set fires, suffocate an enemy or burst his organs."
It seems logical if one word can set fires, another could put them out.
I rather doubt Harper is a hired lapdog of big media. In fact I would assume he probably has pretty mild (as in could probably care less one way or another) opinion on the whole affair. If anything Harper is just a sellout shill for the USA (which of course is the hired lapdog of big media). So I guess by extension he is in a way. He really just wants to do whatever the US tells him to do, follow Obama (or whoever really, but particularly for Obama, trying to rub some charisma off him), or whatever the US government of the day wants. Harper is probably the biggest threat to Canadian sovereignty there has been in a very long time. About the only thing that probably keeps us independent, is that he likes to be a bit more than a governor. More access to all the fancy dinners and rubbing elbows high end muckity mucks.
The US could propose any plainly ridiculous law, and I am sure he would agree to it (likely without even reading it). Anyway I see him only as a sell out to big media by extension of the US being so bought and paid for, and he just follows their lead.
I got you beat. Years ago we used a build of Windows NT that didn't recognize USB ports. Security problem solved. (yes we had the ports, we just couldn't use them. I recall having to install a SCSI card just so I could use a scanner... good times.)
Of course criminals could just leave some 3.5 floppy's laying around in the parking lot... not quite the sexy draw I would bet...