I agree. They don't even try to compete, and I stopped trying to compare prices with Amazon years ago, because B&N was NEVER less expensive.
My company also provides a Books24x7 account now, and everyone in the company has it. So right there is a few thousand people who have no need to purchase tech books anymore.
Well, on Verizon, it's $30/month for "unlimited" data. Since the average Verizon uses 421 MB per month, I'll go with that. Your rate, multiplied for 1GB of data, works out to be $16.90 US.
So the average Verizon users pays almost twice as much as you do, for less than half as much data. I can only wonder what the hell those who only use a couple hundred MB/month (or less) are thinking.
I'm a long time Verizon Wireless customer, and only recently became interested in a smartphone, due to Android and Droid. I thought for sure there would be some kind of data plan for families, that would be reasonable. There isn't.
In order for my wife and I to both have a smartphone, and assuming we'd both be average users (and my wife would be well below average), Verizon wants me to pay $60/month for 842MB/month.
Not just no...but hell no.
I even called them, and was told (in a long winded, roundabout, very polite way) that if I wanted the phones, I had to pay the data.
Apparently, people are falling over themselves to pay this money, because the only other option they give is $9.99/month for 25MB of data, on their 2nd tier "3G Multimedia" phones.
I was having all sorts of trouble. Watching my bandwidth meters on my Smoothwall (stand alone firewall on a spare machine), it appears that the data stream on the RED side (connected to the cable modem) was being interrupted somewhere, (7Kbps to 0Kbps for 5 seconds back to 7Kbps) and of course, I blamed the ISP.
While waiting for the tech to arrive, I dug a bit deeper. SSH'ed into the firewall, and turns out the RED NIC was going bad. Collisions and errors like crazy.
Swapped out the Smoothwall with a spare Linksys and DD-WRT, and the issue is resolved, and have full 10Kbps download again.
The moral of the story...check your hardware in detail, too. Working doesn't always mean it's working correctly.
As the developer of the above software, I'd like to announce the new release, which would have analyzed the entire message, and triggered on the following:
longer wonderful studs straight plowing
As you can clearly see, the new version is much more effective at detecting the offending material.
The internet home analogy is broke. Just like darn near all analogies around here...anyway.
The internet is a public place. Every URL on the internet is a public URL. Every single one. It's the nature of the network.
It is up to the owner of the URL to ensure that, if required, those who visit it are not able to access more than the URL owner desires.
This debate is stupid.
This is true. My 2nd kid is going to be born in May, my first is 17 years old. It's not only about parental responsibility, but also about being involved.
As a long time gamer who started out with BBS door games, I'm going to play the games WITH my kids, and see firsthand how it affects them, and then adjust from there. Of course, we're not going to be playing any bloody FPS's or any MMO's for quite a while, the point is, I'm going to be involved firsthand, and see how my kid is adjusting to the games.
Of course, we're going to go to baseball games, football games, camping, hiking, fishing, hunting, throw darts, raise pets, read books (yeah, real honest to goodness made from trees into paper books), and whatever else he seems interested in.
I can't wait to be a dad to a youngster again...even if it is so long after the first. Whatever...don't care.
I've been a gamer ever since I bought my first computer, a 486. I've probably seen every single copy protection scheme ever attempted, from needing the manual, to reference a key on a particular page, to simply requiring the cd in the drive, to the rootkit.
Used to be, copy protection was just a mild irritant, you shrugged, entered the third word of the second sentence on page 6, or stuck the CD in the drive, and played the game.
Now, you make it difficult for me to purchase, install, trust, and play your software.
Meanwhile, the real pirates just keep on keepin on, it's business as usual, those who hack your protection away, bundle your game up with a rootkit and/or trojan or two, offer it for download and/or mass produce your game on cheap media for sale in Brazil and China, with what appears to be little or no effort, despite all the latest fancy "protection".
If you're still worried more about me installing my copy of the game on my desktop, and on my laptop so I can play it while I'm on the road, or how many times I buy a new computer to play your game on, than you are about the above mentioned pirates...well, I think I'll save that money I would have spent on your game, and pick up the new Serenity 2 disc set, and I despise buying 2nd copies of movies I already own.
I heard a noise, and when I went outside to look, there was a wolf tipping my garbage cans over and strewing trash everywhere! I tried to shoo it away, and it snarled at me, crouching protectively over the Ding Dong wrapper it had been licking clean. I distinctly heard the baying of Cerberus in that snarl, and the laugh of Satan himself in its growl.
My neighbors, they say they saw the whole thing, and that it was just a chihuahua. However, they weren't the ones staring into the red, fiery pits of its eyes, and facing its gaping maw lined with flesh ripping teeth!
This is a work of fiction for the purposes of amusement. Any resemblence to any person, pet, or breed of dog, is purely coincidental. All characterizations are fictional. Except for that wolf.
Same here. I'd rather pay an extra $10 for a game that will run on linux. I have no plans on buying Vista. I'll buy a console game machine before I buy into that crap.
Sounds like WWF (or WWE, or `roids and trash talk, or whatever it is called now). The whole gag about acting stupid or obscene for "entertainment" is getting old, and I just don't see the entertainment in it.
But that's not the entirety of his show. Yeah, it's a large part, and despite what anyone thinks it makes me, I get a laugh out of most of it.
His interviews are the best. Whether asking serious questions, or the not so serious questions, no matter who is being interviewed, they tend to be interesting, and honest.
Bottom line, it seems like his worst detractors don't even listen to the show. They base their opinions on what they hear, and not what they know, and if that's good enough for you, great. It's just the Howard Stern Show, afterall.
If you're put off by any amount of the "adult oriented" humor, then yes, stay away. It doesn't mean that the Howard Stern Show isn't any good, or isn't entertaining, though. I think that's the point they miss, or don't want to hear.
Yes I know I don't have to listen but I don't care to patronize a service that promotes that kind of programming. I was thrilled when he left the airwaves why would I want to chase the guy to satelite? Too many people these days are thrilled to tell you what to think.
I was with you at first, but the quoted bit above is where you lost me. You don't like him, you don't want to listen, you were glad when he left regular radio...man, that's cool.
The whole "they tell you what to think" rap...eh, not so much. I've listened to Howard for years, and point blank, it's entertainment. Nothing more, nothing less. Actually, Howard and the crew are really smart people. Sure, you tend to get a liberal slant on the occassions they delve into truly important topics, but at the same time, they tend to call things what they are.
I'm not sure you have an accurate picture of the Korean DMZ.
Your picture of the DMZ isn't bad. Your estimation of it's effectiveness is a bit off, as others have, and are sure, to point out.
After 2 tours in Korea in the late 80's and early 90's, I also add that, in the case of a North Korean invasion, the DMZ, and everything in between it and Seoul are meant to be nothing more than a speed bump, giving the rest of the ROK and American forces enough time to mount an effective defense of Seoul.
Now, with all sorts of weapons like tanks and missles and fighter planes, it's impossible for civilians to take on the government one on one.
For accuracy, let's switch the word citizen for civilian.
If these citizens constitute a non-representative group of radicals trying to take over...you're exactly right, and how it should be.
However, a majority, or near majority group, with the strength and will of it's people behind it, will consist of members of the military. A detail that seems to be often overlooked in these exchanges, is the fact that the military of the United States is composed of these very citizens, some of which would be on the side looking to take on the government. Now of course, there's no way of knowing how many members of the military will fall on either side of the issue, but it's fairly safe to assume that, if another American civil war were to happen, the sides would have varying degrees of the same access to equipment, material, and the people trained to use said equipment.
Because a lot of them are stuck in contracts that they can't get out of, and even when they can by choosing not to renew after N years, the company they were contracted to still ends up owning all the work they did during that period.
Which really blows away that whole artist/work of art theory. What artist sells their "art" so cheaply? Not just sells it, but willingly gives the product of their talents away to a corporation, to be tossed a small treat from the masters table from time to time? All these "artists" have sold their souls to the devil, and they did it with dollar signs in their eyes, and buxom young things squirming in their beds.
Copying music hurts the artist like stealing bales of cotton would have hurt the house slave, back in the plantation days.
Hang up the phone, put down the CD case, wait to eat, put away the makeup, shave at home before you leave...
...AND JUST DRIVE THE DAMN CAR!
Every day I deal with someone who can't go the speed limit, wants to go way beyond the speed limit and ride my ass (especially when it's a single lane, or traffic is heavy and I've nowhere to go at that very moment (because FSM forbid I not get out of his/her way right...NOW!), not signal when changing lanes, won't get out of the passing lane (and it is the passing lane, not the damn "fast lane"), closing gaps when they realize I need to merge, not looking before changing lanes, running stop signs, not yielding when they should, can't deal with a simple, low volume traffic circle, insists on the "floor the gas pedal-slam on the brakes" method of stop and go driving...and that's pretty much just one day.
What benefit do you gain from 3 layers of NAT and 2 proxies other than a ton of lag? A single well configured version of each should surely be sufficient.
Just taking a swag at it...
Home network
Corporate network, likely main corporate domain and/or remote access point.
Corporate subnet, likely his corporate sub-domain.
That's easily 3 NAT's and a couple proxies, only the first under his control.
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I agree. They don't even try to compete, and I stopped trying to compare prices with Amazon years ago, because B&N was NEVER less expensive.
My company also provides a Books24x7 account now, and everyone in the company has it. So right there is a few thousand people who have no need to purchase tech books anymore.
Well, on Verizon, it's $30/month for "unlimited" data. Since the average Verizon uses 421 MB per month, I'll go with that. Your rate, multiplied for 1GB of data, works out to be $16.90 US.
So the average Verizon users pays almost twice as much as you do, for less than half as much data. I can only wonder what the hell those who only use a couple hundred MB/month (or less) are thinking.
I'm a long time Verizon Wireless customer, and only recently became interested in a smartphone, due to Android and Droid. I thought for sure there would be some kind of data plan for families, that would be reasonable. There isn't.
In order for my wife and I to both have a smartphone, and assuming we'd both be average users (and my wife would be well below average), Verizon wants me to pay $60/month for 842MB/month.
Not just no...but hell no.
I even called them, and was told (in a long winded, roundabout, very polite way) that if I wanted the phones, I had to pay the data.
Apparently, people are falling over themselves to pay this money, because the only other option they give is $9.99/month for 25MB of data, on their 2nd tier "3G Multimedia" phones.
Use a USB key, copy your database to it, when needed. Portableapps.com has Keepass as a utility.
The only real hassle is the database isn't synced, have to remember to overwrite the copy.
I rarely, if ever, use a public computer, so...non-issue for me.
I know it's been said around here before, but...
Dropbox + Keepass. It's been working great for me.
Earlier this year, TW and Viacom had a falling out. The commercials blaming each other.
Recall the letter from TW, stating that, if the Viacom channels were not renewed, don't worry, you can always view them online?
TW makes sure to do what they can to make as many people as possible aware that, Hey! We can watch shows online!
That's awesome...but it's old.
Any newer articles? It's been 6 years, it would be interesting to know how it's worked out long term.
I was having all sorts of trouble. Watching my bandwidth meters on my Smoothwall (stand alone firewall on a spare machine), it appears that the data stream on the RED side (connected to the cable modem) was being interrupted somewhere, (7Kbps to 0Kbps for 5 seconds back to 7Kbps) and of course, I blamed the ISP.
While waiting for the tech to arrive, I dug a bit deeper. SSH'ed into the firewall, and turns out the RED NIC was going bad. Collisions and errors like crazy.
Swapped out the Smoothwall with a spare Linksys and DD-WRT, and the issue is resolved, and have full 10Kbps download again.
The moral of the story...check your hardware in detail, too. Working doesn't always mean it's working correctly.
Well, that's easy enough, then. If using just any old tool off the internet is acceptable, I'll just roll up my own.
You can be certain, I'd never go over the cap.
As the developer of the above software, I'd like to announce the new release, which would have analyzed the entire message, and triggered on the following:
longer wonderful studs straight plowing
As you can clearly see, the new version is much more effective at detecting the offending material.
Please upgrade today!
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</offtopic>
The internet home analogy is broke. Just like darn near all analogies around here...anyway. The internet is a public place. Every URL on the internet is a public URL. Every single one. It's the nature of the network. It is up to the owner of the URL to ensure that, if required, those who visit it are not able to access more than the URL owner desires. This debate is stupid.
This is true. My 2nd kid is going to be born in May, my first is 17 years old. It's not only about parental responsibility, but also about being involved.
As a long time gamer who started out with BBS door games, I'm going to play the games WITH my kids, and see firsthand how it affects them, and then adjust from there. Of course, we're not going to be playing any bloody FPS's or any MMO's for quite a while, the point is, I'm going to be involved firsthand, and see how my kid is adjusting to the games.
Of course, we're going to go to baseball games, football games, camping, hiking, fishing, hunting, throw darts, raise pets, read books (yeah, real honest to goodness made from trees into paper books), and whatever else he seems interested in.
I can't wait to be a dad to a youngster again...even if it is so long after the first. Whatever...don't care.
I've been a gamer ever since I bought my first computer, a 486. I've probably seen every single copy protection scheme ever attempted, from needing the manual, to reference a key on a particular page, to simply requiring the cd in the drive, to the rootkit.
Used to be, copy protection was just a mild irritant, you shrugged, entered the third word of the second sentence on page 6, or stuck the CD in the drive, and played the game.
Now, you make it difficult for me to purchase, install, trust, and play your software.
Meanwhile, the real pirates just keep on keepin on, it's business as usual, those who hack your protection away, bundle your game up with a rootkit and/or trojan or two, offer it for download and/or mass produce your game on cheap media for sale in Brazil and China, with what appears to be little or no effort, despite all the latest fancy "protection".
If you're still worried more about me installing my copy of the game on my desktop, and on my laptop so I can play it while I'm on the road, or how many times I buy a new computer to play your game on, than you are about the above mentioned pirates...well, I think I'll save that money I would have spent on your game, and pick up the new Serenity 2 disc set, and I despise buying 2nd copies of movies I already own.
I heard a noise, and when I went outside to look, there was a wolf tipping my garbage cans over and strewing trash everywhere! I tried to shoo it away, and it snarled at me, crouching protectively over the Ding Dong wrapper it had been licking clean. I distinctly heard the baying of Cerberus in that snarl, and the laugh of Satan himself in its growl.
My neighbors, they say they saw the whole thing, and that it was just a chihuahua. However, they weren't the ones staring into the red, fiery pits of its eyes, and facing its gaping maw lined with flesh ripping teeth!
If Jesus posted on Slashdot, he'd be modded down as a troll.
Same here. I'd rather pay an extra $10 for a game that will run on linux. I have no plans on buying Vista. I'll buy a console game machine before I buy into that crap.
But that's not the entirety of his show. Yeah, it's a large part, and despite what anyone thinks it makes me, I get a laugh out of most of it.
His interviews are the best. Whether asking serious questions, or the not so serious questions, no matter who is being interviewed, they tend to be interesting, and honest.
Bottom line, it seems like his worst detractors don't even listen to the show. They base their opinions on what they hear, and not what they know, and if that's good enough for you, great. It's just the Howard Stern Show, afterall.
If you're put off by any amount of the "adult oriented" humor, then yes, stay away. It doesn't mean that the Howard Stern Show isn't any good, or isn't entertaining, though. I think that's the point they miss, or don't want to hear.
I was with you at first, but the quoted bit above is where you lost me. You don't like him, you don't want to listen, you were glad when he left regular radio...man, that's cool.
The whole "they tell you what to think" rap...eh, not so much. I've listened to Howard for years, and point blank, it's entertainment. Nothing more, nothing less. Actually, Howard and the crew are really smart people. Sure, you tend to get a liberal slant on the occassions they delve into truly important topics, but at the same time, they tend to call things what they are.
Your picture of the DMZ isn't bad. Your estimation of it's effectiveness is a bit off, as others have, and are sure, to point out.
After 2 tours in Korea in the late 80's and early 90's, I also add that, in the case of a North Korean invasion, the DMZ, and everything in between it and Seoul are meant to be nothing more than a speed bump, giving the rest of the ROK and American forces enough time to mount an effective defense of Seoul.
For accuracy, let's switch the word citizen for civilian.
If these citizens constitute a non-representative group of radicals trying to take over...you're exactly right, and how it should be.
However, a majority, or near majority group, with the strength and will of it's people behind it, will consist of members of the military. A detail that seems to be often overlooked in these exchanges, is the fact that the military of the United States is composed of these very citizens, some of which would be on the side looking to take on the government. Now of course, there's no way of knowing how many members of the military will fall on either side of the issue, but it's fairly safe to assume that, if another American civil war were to happen, the sides would have varying degrees of the same access to equipment, material, and the people trained to use said equipment.
I do!
Oh, oops...
Because a lot of them are stuck in contracts that they can't get out of, and even when they can by choosing not to renew after N years, the company they were contracted to still ends up owning all the work they did during that period.
Which really blows away that whole artist/work of art theory. What artist sells their "art" so cheaply? Not just sells it, but willingly gives the product of their talents away to a corporation, to be tossed a small treat from the masters table from time to time? All these "artists" have sold their souls to the devil, and they did it with dollar signs in their eyes, and buxom young things squirming in their beds.
Copying music hurts the artist like stealing bales of cotton would have hurt the house slave, back in the plantation days.
They must be stupid or blind.
I'm just a rock and roll rebel.
A rock and roll rebel.
I'm just a rock and roll rebel.
-apologies to Ozzy
Hang up the phone, put down the CD case, wait to eat, put away the makeup, shave at home before you leave...
Every day I deal with someone who can't go the speed limit, wants to go way beyond the speed limit and ride my ass (especially when it's a single lane, or traffic is heavy and I've nowhere to go at that very moment (because FSM forbid I not get out of his/her way right...NOW!), not signal when changing lanes, won't get out of the passing lane (and it is the passing lane, not the damn "fast lane"), closing gaps when they realize I need to merge, not looking before changing lanes, running stop signs, not yielding when they should, can't deal with a simple, low volume traffic circle, insists on the "floor the gas pedal-slam on the brakes" method of stop and go driving...and that's pretty much just one day.
What benefit do you gain from 3 layers of NAT and 2 proxies other than a ton of lag? A single well configured version of each should surely be sufficient.
Just taking a swag at it...
Home network
Corporate network, likely main corporate domain and/or remote access point.
Corporate subnet, likely his corporate sub-domain.
That's easily 3 NAT's and a couple proxies, only the first under his control.
Am I close?