And iTunes Match? Does anyone else find it baffling how they are getting away with this? I mean, for $25 I get legal versions of every single—ahem, questionably procured, shall we say— tracks in my gigantic iTunes library? Did the record companies read the fine print on this? I mean, as a voracious music consumer, I'm NOT complaining... we've all known for a long time that things were going to have to change in regard to digital media and copyright. And say what you will about them, I could see Apple being the company to make it happen. But really... how did they get away with this?
It was almost certainly a concession to the record companies, who would have a problem with people sharing pirated music...amongst their own devices. Yeah, that actually does sound like the RIAA. There's nothing stopping you from synching it normally. It just won't sync via iCloud.
Simply being in jail for a "protest" does not make your "protest" legitimate. I could chuck molotov cocktails around and call it protesting, but it doesn't mean that what I was doing was right.
Wrong. In the case of hacking into a server, you just picked the lock and screwed around in someone's home. You'd better believe you'd get arrested for that, prank or no.
Yeah, now you really have shown yourself to be a troll (as if there was any doubt). Can't you find a more constructive use for your time? Why not jerk off more like the rest of us?
The problem is the sheer number of people going to college thinking it will benifit them without knowing what the hell they're going to do with it.
FTFY. If you go into college, make sure your degree can take you somewhere, and really work on it, odds are you'll do fine when you graduate. Too many kids go in and just slop through whatever degree looks good without considering what'll happen when they graduate.
What's wrong with that term today? It still applies. Or would you rather shorten it to "Skiddies"? It's still just a bunch of kids using prepackaged tools to get into poorly-secured servers.
Yes, a protest by unlawful access to secured resources. We call that a crime. If you enter a business and hang a big protest banner in the middle of the night, you could damned well be prosecuted for it. "Hacking" is and should be a crime because you're fucking with something that IS NOT YOURS. Is that so hard to understand? Do you just not give a shit about anyone else's property as long as the political cause is just in your eyes? Are you really that fucking detached?
It's not so much the testing as Monsanto being deliberately full of shit. "Yeah, we have these proteins, but they cook out." Except they don't because nobody is going to cook soybeans for as long and as hot as Monsanto. Maybe the soybeans won't be a problem at all for people who eat them. That's not the point. The point is that Monsanto lies out their ass about them, which draws some pretty serious concerns over what else they may have lied about.
On an unrelated note, are the fucking morons running this site EVER going to fix the fucking "Go to replies of this post and every click you make on the page keeps fucking expanding every post" bug?
And on another note, I think that if you want GM foods, go right ahead, but I also think that people should be able to pick and choose whether they have GM foods or not. Consumer choice and all that. Let the public decide. The problem is that assholes like Monsanto have tried pretty damned hard to keep that information away from consumers.
There is no problem with the IDEA of genetically modified foods, but the reality of it may not be so innocuous. For example, Japan has been pretty damned opposed to GM foods. Monsanto tried to market GM soybeans in Japan, but Japanese law made Monsanto publish far more material that was accessible to the public than most other countries. As a result, some poking found that Monsanto seriously cooked the results. They claimed a certain protein in their GM soybeans that was NOT present in regular soybeans would break down into harmless compounds when cooked. Sure...when you cooked the beans far hotter and far longer than anyone ever would. The protein itself may be harmless, but they pointed out that there was serious potential for allergic reactions to it in people who would have no problems with regular soybeans. There is a shitload of controversy over Monsanto, and it isn't just due to their filthy business practices. They push this stuff out to market before it has been tested. I think we can agree that if someone wants to make GM foods, they'd damned well better test the living piss out of it before it comes to market and be accurate and honest with the public in regard to the results of that testing.
Wish I had mod points for this. Boycotts don't work unless you give the brainless masses a very good reason to do it, and protesting factory farming aint gonna do it.
GM foods themselves may not be a bad thing, but companies like Monsanto creating them are pure fucking evil. It's not just the government failing to do their jobs, it's also the bastards creating it and making sure the potentially harmful effects get hidden under a bunch of bullshit whenever possible, among many, many other things. If GM was handled responsibly and the books not cooked then we might wind up with some better crops and better meat in the long run, but when a company like Monsanto lies about their product and fucks people over in horrid ways...well, it makes people pretty averse to GM food.
Well, follow a few simple rules in school and it won't differ that much:
1. Don't screw off. Know what you're going to do before going in and get it done.
2. Don't take private loans. Take what you can get in federal loans, grants, and fire off applications to every scholarship you can.
3. For your associates, consider a community college. It'll save you money.
4. If at all possible, go to an in-state school. It'll also save you a lot of money.
5. Don't blow money like an idiot. I've seen way too many stupid college students blowing tons of loan money on shit they absolutely do not need. Then they whine about their debts. The frugal student is become less and less common.
6. Get a part time job if at all possible. Work from home doing something. I buy up surplus computers and refurb/resell/part them out. Gets me some extra cash every month. Be resourceful.
The vast majority of those who do this will wind up with a similar experience: Debt upon graduation if you got loans, but not so much that it crushes you. Most of the people I've seen with tons of debt did not follow these rules very well.
Um...no. Bullshit on all counts. As long as my credit and income look good (which means making payments on time, which isn't a problem) then getting the above is not a problem. My degree will get me more than $30k a year starting out. I may not make insane amounts of money, but that figure is absurdly low. Nice anal figure, but you should've pulled something a little higher out of there.
CSB on your resume, but that's not what I've seen in my field at all. I've been working a number of projects to include on my resume that will, at the very least, put me a cut above the guys who just got a degree. It's a lot easier to get hired when you can show that you've gone above and beyond what was simply required for classes and show that you can implement this stuff in the real world.
THIS. The guys railing against college always cite insane amounts of debt. I don't know where the hell they dropped out, but most state schools won't leave you with anywhere near that much debt. I'll be graduating next year and figure I'll have less than $25k. Not ideal, but student loans aren't exactly back-breaking in their payment plans, at least they aren't if you avoided private loans like the goddamned plague. Payments are pretty low, interest usually isn't that bad, and they usually are willing to work with you if you fall on hard times.
Yeah, but it's just getting excessive now. When Moe pokes Curly in the eyes, it's funny. When Moe beats Curly to death with a lug wrench and then dismembers him with a chainsaw, then...well, actually, it's still funny.
Let's see here...a 1x PCIe interface that takes up a significant chunk of precious real estate in a laptop, or a single 4x PCIe port that, with port + chipset, takes up considerably less space, is less cumbersome, and is much faster to boot, which makes a major difference when hooking up, say, one of those ViDocks should they support it.
You just shot down your own goddamned point. TB would be poised to REPALCE Expresscard slots.
It'll die an obscure death, just like firewire. USB won this war a long time ago and there really is no compelling reason to go with thunderbolt over USB 3.0.
Your ignorance is showing. Firewire did not die an obscure death. It's still alive and kicking. Have you ever looked at upper-end audio hardware? Firewire audio decks abound. It found quite a market in pro A/V. Higher end video cameras still use Firewire. It didn't get a big foothold in the consumer space, but it's alive and well in other markets. No compelling reason to use TB? Once again, you show a mass amount of ignorance. It's essentially an external PCIe 4x slot. Laptops are a prime market for TB, especially slim ones with limited real estate. It's ideal for docking stations. It's also ideal for, once again, A/V pros who use laptops with home stations. You can hook up a seriously monstrous disk array to TB and have a hard time saturating it. Anything that can be put on a PCIe bus can be used with Thunderbolt. It may even have a market in external video cards for laptops. USB3 is NOT ideal for that sort of thing.
You're a liar. You CANNOT use the target mode with anything but a DisplayPort connection, period. Hooking up to an iMac via DVI/HDMI/VGA will get you nowhere. It has to be from a Displayport to a Displayport, period. With TB-equipped Macs, it has to be via another TB port.
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So sync it manually as you would before. The $25 is for the convenience of iCloud. It's not required to sync your music overall.
And iTunes Match? Does anyone else find it baffling how they are getting away with this? I mean, for $25 I get legal versions of every single—ahem, questionably procured, shall we say— tracks in my gigantic iTunes library? Did the record companies read the fine print on this? I mean, as a voracious music consumer, I'm NOT complaining... we've all known for a long time that things were going to have to change in regard to digital media and copyright. And say what you will about them, I could see Apple being the company to make it happen. But really... how did they get away with this?
It was almost certainly a concession to the record companies, who would have a problem with people sharing pirated music...amongst their own devices. Yeah, that actually does sound like the RIAA. There's nothing stopping you from synching it normally. It just won't sync via iCloud.
Fuckin' miracles.
Simply being in jail for a "protest" does not make your "protest" legitimate. I could chuck molotov cocktails around and call it protesting, but it doesn't mean that what I was doing was right.
Wrong. In the case of hacking into a server, you just picked the lock and screwed around in someone's home. You'd better believe you'd get arrested for that, prank or no.
Yeah, now you really have shown yourself to be a troll (as if there was any doubt). Can't you find a more constructive use for your time? Why not jerk off more like the rest of us?
The problem is the sheer number of people going to college thinking it will benifit them without knowing what the hell they're going to do with it.
FTFY. If you go into college, make sure your degree can take you somewhere, and really work on it, odds are you'll do fine when you graduate. Too many kids go in and just slop through whatever degree looks good without considering what'll happen when they graduate.
What's wrong with that term today? It still applies. Or would you rather shorten it to "Skiddies"? It's still just a bunch of kids using prepackaged tools to get into poorly-secured servers.
Yes, a protest by unlawful access to secured resources. We call that a crime. If you enter a business and hang a big protest banner in the middle of the night, you could damned well be prosecuted for it. "Hacking" is and should be a crime because you're fucking with something that IS NOT YOURS. Is that so hard to understand? Do you just not give a shit about anyone else's property as long as the political cause is just in your eyes? Are you really that fucking detached?
It's not so much the testing as Monsanto being deliberately full of shit. "Yeah, we have these proteins, but they cook out." Except they don't because nobody is going to cook soybeans for as long and as hot as Monsanto. Maybe the soybeans won't be a problem at all for people who eat them. That's not the point. The point is that Monsanto lies out their ass about them, which draws some pretty serious concerns over what else they may have lied about.
On an unrelated note, are the fucking morons running this site EVER going to fix the fucking "Go to replies of this post and every click you make on the page keeps fucking expanding every post" bug?
And on another note, I think that if you want GM foods, go right ahead, but I also think that people should be able to pick and choose whether they have GM foods or not. Consumer choice and all that. Let the public decide. The problem is that assholes like Monsanto have tried pretty damned hard to keep that information away from consumers.
There is no problem with the IDEA of genetically modified foods, but the reality of it may not be so innocuous. For example, Japan has been pretty damned opposed to GM foods. Monsanto tried to market GM soybeans in Japan, but Japanese law made Monsanto publish far more material that was accessible to the public than most other countries. As a result, some poking found that Monsanto seriously cooked the results. They claimed a certain protein in their GM soybeans that was NOT present in regular soybeans would break down into harmless compounds when cooked. Sure...when you cooked the beans far hotter and far longer than anyone ever would. The protein itself may be harmless, but they pointed out that there was serious potential for allergic reactions to it in people who would have no problems with regular soybeans. There is a shitload of controversy over Monsanto, and it isn't just due to their filthy business practices. They push this stuff out to market before it has been tested. I think we can agree that if someone wants to make GM foods, they'd damned well better test the living piss out of it before it comes to market and be accurate and honest with the public in regard to the results of that testing.
Wish I had mod points for this. Boycotts don't work unless you give the brainless masses a very good reason to do it, and protesting factory farming aint gonna do it.
GM foods themselves may not be a bad thing, but companies like Monsanto creating them are pure fucking evil. It's not just the government failing to do their jobs, it's also the bastards creating it and making sure the potentially harmful effects get hidden under a bunch of bullshit whenever possible, among many, many other things. If GM was handled responsibly and the books not cooked then we might wind up with some better crops and better meat in the long run, but when a company like Monsanto lies about their product and fucks people over in horrid ways...well, it makes people pretty averse to GM food.
Well, follow a few simple rules in school and it won't differ that much:
1. Don't screw off. Know what you're going to do before going in and get it done.
2. Don't take private loans. Take what you can get in federal loans, grants, and fire off applications to every scholarship you can.
3. For your associates, consider a community college. It'll save you money.
4. If at all possible, go to an in-state school. It'll also save you a lot of money.
5. Don't blow money like an idiot. I've seen way too many stupid college students blowing tons of loan money on shit they absolutely do not need. Then they whine about their debts. The frugal student is become less and less common.
6. Get a part time job if at all possible. Work from home doing something. I buy up surplus computers and refurb/resell/part them out. Gets me some extra cash every month. Be resourceful.
The vast majority of those who do this will wind up with a similar experience: Debt upon graduation if you got loans, but not so much that it crushes you. Most of the people I've seen with tons of debt did not follow these rules very well.
Um...no. Bullshit on all counts. As long as my credit and income look good (which means making payments on time, which isn't a problem) then getting the above is not a problem. My degree will get me more than $30k a year starting out. I may not make insane amounts of money, but that figure is absurdly low. Nice anal figure, but you should've pulled something a little higher out of there.
CSB on your resume, but that's not what I've seen in my field at all. I've been working a number of projects to include on my resume that will, at the very least, put me a cut above the guys who just got a degree. It's a lot easier to get hired when you can show that you've gone above and beyond what was simply required for classes and show that you can implement this stuff in the real world.
THIS. The guys railing against college always cite insane amounts of debt. I don't know where the hell they dropped out, but most state schools won't leave you with anywhere near that much debt. I'll be graduating next year and figure I'll have less than $25k. Not ideal, but student loans aren't exactly back-breaking in their payment plans, at least they aren't if you avoided private loans like the goddamned plague. Payments are pretty low, interest usually isn't that bad, and they usually are willing to work with you if you fall on hard times.
Yeah, but it's just getting excessive now. When Moe pokes Curly in the eyes, it's funny. When Moe beats Curly to death with a lug wrench and then dismembers him with a chainsaw, then...well, actually, it's still funny.
Carry on.
Let's see here...a 1x PCIe interface that takes up a significant chunk of precious real estate in a laptop, or a single 4x PCIe port that, with port + chipset, takes up considerably less space, is less cumbersome, and is much faster to boot, which makes a major difference when hooking up, say, one of those ViDocks should they support it.
You just shot down your own goddamned point. TB would be poised to REPALCE Expresscard slots.
It'll die an obscure death, just like firewire. USB won this war a long time ago and there really is no compelling reason to go with thunderbolt over USB 3.0.
Your ignorance is showing. Firewire did not die an obscure death. It's still alive and kicking. Have you ever looked at upper-end audio hardware? Firewire audio decks abound. It found quite a market in pro A/V. Higher end video cameras still use Firewire. It didn't get a big foothold in the consumer space, but it's alive and well in other markets. No compelling reason to use TB? Once again, you show a mass amount of ignorance. It's essentially an external PCIe 4x slot. Laptops are a prime market for TB, especially slim ones with limited real estate. It's ideal for docking stations. It's also ideal for, once again, A/V pros who use laptops with home stations. You can hook up a seriously monstrous disk array to TB and have a hard time saturating it. Anything that can be put on a PCIe bus can be used with Thunderbolt. It may even have a market in external video cards for laptops. USB3 is NOT ideal for that sort of thing.
Pretty soon they'll start infesting coffee and energy drink factories. Then we're really fucked.
Except that early looks were pretty positive.
Not much and not yet, but I can see it filling a niche as time goes by.
You're a liar. You CANNOT use the target mode with anything but a DisplayPort connection, period. Hooking up to an iMac via DVI/HDMI/VGA will get you nowhere. It has to be from a Displayport to a Displayport, period. With TB-equipped Macs, it has to be via another TB port.
They gave you a deal for some reason. Their boards DEFINITELY cost more than $350 via their service system.