I kind of like Hollywood protraying ONE kid controlling all of the data flow...let them fear the gangily geek - unfortunately (not really) i am not gangily or geeky looking.
Yes apparantly each and every person on/., with the exception of 1, seems to max out their cameras megapixal usage. I still highly doubt that. I know many people who have digital cameras - and with the exception of the person who has no clue about their settings and the exception of the professional photographer - most people go for a lower setting. I can also shoot 3-4 GB a day without trying to hard - i can shoot pictures of the ground, the sky, the trees the birds.... and hey i can shoot the same picture of the ground 20 times. I usually delete the first 19 since they suck and the 20th looks good.
Romantic walk with the ball and chain - or screaming kids - or some major ars kicking with the boys n a brew....You know which one wins in my book (not that i have a wife or kids):D
When i am with my friends we do go flipping crazy on the games - especially when drunk - but self control is not the hardest....sides battary life is still a problem - except for RV sites, I have not been to any that had an electrical outlet sticking out of the tree (would be nice though)...
so 1024 MB in a gig. 40 x 1024 = 40960 MB. Assuming each picture is 2 MB in size, you plan on taking 20480 pictures? Doesn't that seem a bit high, even for a one month trip to a strange land. What do you plan on doing, taking a picture of every square inch of Kerbleckistan?
but then you gotta ask, do you really need 80 GB of pictures? In all honesty - how many people take 80 GB of pictures on a vacation?...lets talk the average user - not some/.'er who is going to give us some outrageous number that is most likely a lie anyhow to help prove a point.
Or..."I am lost in the woods, oh what do i do... ahh connect to the Internet, go to a website that offers satellite imagery - pay their fees and find my way home, or just e-mail the local park and let them know i am a technogeek who can't navigate a state park.":D
They have more to fear of me cranking up the BOSE stereo in my car then those itty bitty speakers that come installed in my XPS laptop - which I conveniently have some very nice SONY headsets. Laptops, while generating light, I highly doubt would ruin someones experience unless they were right next to it. The persons body is probably blocking it, they just might be in a tent, and the laptop screen would have to face you. People compalin to complain - I cannot see how this would infringe on someones pursuit of happiness (except for the wife who thought she got away from her husbands computer gaming addiction)
So my question: Other then the "we do not like this idea" did these morons, with too much time on their hands, give a logical reason as to WHY there shouldn't be wifi available? I mean I take my laptop with me when I go camping (unless I am doing the true camping which means I am not lugging a 12+ lb computer + accessories for 2 hours of connectivity), how does this affect the neighboring campsites?
it's assumed that at some point a linux geek will provide something in return to the community - so you will pay one way or another - even if it is something like posting in google "here is the solution to this problem."
And even your mother's love isn't free - just wait until she is 85 and you are taking care of her...now while you are doing it because you love her (hopefully) it is still a form of repayment.
This pretty much reeks of pyramid scheme. No you do not offer money - but you offer your information which in turn is sold for profit. You also have to subscribe to a pay service (which you can unsubscribe) which that company then has to pay a referral fee. So X company who wants your legitimate subscription, just paid 50 bucks to the advertising company for nothing more then your e-mail address - plus the hassle of dealing with you on the phone about cancelling your account.
In the end, however, the last people to sign up will lose.
On a side note - the people at the top of the pyramid (those who start it, and usually the first and second ranks below them) do not pay to get in. I start the pyramid, include my two best friends to be below me (free), and they include their two best friends to be below them (free), but the third rank has to pay to get in. They pay the top level guy (me). I make a profit and run. My two friend below me hopefully make a profit and run, and eventually someone gets hosed. But at least my best friends, and their best friends (which probably know me) are A-OK! This scheme does not need so many levels - you get something from the people right below you - however, they automatically get screwed cause you sold their e-mail addresses to some company and their affiliates.
Also the *quantity should be multiplied into the time and effort somewhere - even if it is machine made - there is a lot more time and effort put into making 1000 of a widget then just 1 of a widget. Its complex - but hey the above examples ar egood enough -:)
Put them over your head, so they just cover your nose. Hold your ears real tight - blow hard until it becomes huge (yes you can tell girls you need a huge condom too) and watch it pop?
Fill it with sour cream and everyone at the bar can get sprayed with your cream filled condom fun too!!!!
A stocking stuffer would have implied it was a gift - (an expensive stuffer, but hey) - this thing cost you - not money but time and information (and your friends' time and information).
I went through the process to help a friend out. Signed up and did what was needed so he got his credit. After that unsubscribe and told the companies to remove me from their lists on pain of litigation:D
I like my supermarket cards. I know their address information is wrong (like four addresses ago) - and in a way I would like to get the coupons (hey my mom gets free turkeys every year... like 3-5 of them)....I get nice discounts (on average 10%, but I have gotten as high as 45% once) with those cards. Everything has a price - if to save a buck I have to get some extra mail - well my recycling bin just gets bigger. And who knows - sometimes those spam letters are useful (if I get a credit card offer for 0% for the next two years, I look at it). I just hate the unsoliticited spam that comes in droves. One of my e-mail boxes gets a few hundred a day sometimes three to four e-mails from the same place at the same time. (On a side note I haven't sent a message from it in at least three years - I just keep it in case an old old old friend contacts me through there).
I think some of these companies are not that soulless. They are upfront with what they want. They want your personal information, they want you to subscribe to some service (which you can unsubscribe) and they want your friends to join and they subscribe (and thusly unsubscribe) also. It is straight forward, though cumbersome. So now you have to ask yourself - is a $300-$500 gadget worth the time and effort you are putting into it plus the fact that a couple of companies are going to get your data (e-mail is not a problem since you probably have a dummy e-mail account for such sites, but they are smart, they get your address and credit card).
I leave the term "soulless corporation" for those who use more underhanded tricks - like spyware firms, or a company you bought a product from and then they go and sell your data w/o your knowledge by some terrible agreement buried in a link that appears AFTER you complete the purchase which states in subparagraph 3.5.32.1.3.2 that they will only sell your data to "affiliates & subsidiaries" which means anyone they freaking want to.:)
Residual data is pretty real. My friend works for a company that used to do data recovery (they have evolved to selling wholesale lockboxes to financial industry). Everything from formatted hard drives, to hard drives that were in a fire. There are plenty of articles on the web that discuss the different methods of recovering data from a formatted disk. Google it and you should find plenty of articles:
Is that your best attempt? You have no debt in life? Wow one of those rare few people - you must be lying or under the age of 18.
I do not own you in anyway, society does.
Your ideas of actions that do not affect anyone are different from others apparantly. Society is agreeing with me
I like insulting my own intelligence, its fun - you should enjoy insulting yourself also - at the very least you might amuse yourself.
Don't hide behind the closet anymore - come on out - I know plenty of guys who would be real gentle with your ass.
Happy New Years
Reading comprehension not your strong suit, or is it just trouble remembering what you actually said?
Since "powned" is not even a word, I'll assume the first. Or did you mean pawned? I've never offered myself as collateral on a loan.
No I do not like to read. But when I quote someone, I do it correctly. I said p0wn3d which is slang for "owned" as in "You have been owned"...now I would think someone posting on/. as long as you have would realize this or were you just trying to make a point? And don't be so sure if you have never offered yourself as collateral. On loan...you have a credit card yes? These unsecured loans only have one source of collateral - you - more specific your credit history - but in our society - no credit no luck.
Oh and just because we restrict a certain action does not mean our society is not free. Unless you think a society that punishes people for comitting murder is not a free society.
So if your only point to make in your last post was a futile attempt to insult my intelligence by trying to play an ACCEPTED jargon that is utilized on this forum regularly...you failed, or more importantly I p0wn3d y0ur @$$
Does this mean AOL is trying to become something which it is not?"
....that AOL is changing part of its business model in an attempt to increase its ad-supported client base and hopefully its paying client base. There is nothing wrong with this. Why is the author trying to downplay AOL because they are evolving, or should we have AOL go out of business? Remember, they did help a great deal to get people on the net. They may not be the best service, but for the longest time they were.
Just a note - I do not subscribe to AOL, and except for a three month period (was waiting for comcast to setup highspeed in a new place that I moved) I have never subscribed to AOL...even back in the dial-up days.
That may be true in your society, but in many societies (and sub-divisions of societies) sex is a necessary "evil" to have kids. Pornography is looked down upon (in our Puritan US outlook porn is supposed to be downplayed, and sex not spoken of). Now while I do not agree with these notions (i am all about the pr0n and the s3x) I do understand that other societies have different morales and values and their beliefs are just as justifiable as mine (with rare exception) so let them choose to treat sexual content in their own way.
You are right, however, Freedom != democracy, but for the wrong reason. They are two different words. Democracy is a form of gov't - freedom is a state of being. You can have freedom, but you practice democracy. You cannot practice freedom. You either have it or you do not.
Now just because India has laws that differs from us does not make them a society that offers no freedom. That is grossly unfair. That is like saying the US is not a free society because we do not let people smoke pot. While it might seem like a stupid law to someone in Amsterdamn, here in the US, apparantly the majority think its a good law.
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I kind of like Hollywood protraying ONE kid controlling all of the data flow...let them fear the gangily geek - unfortunately (not really) i am not gangily or geeky looking.
Yes apparantly each and every person on /., with the exception of 1, seems to max out their cameras megapixal usage. I still highly doubt that. I know many people who have digital cameras - and with the exception of the person who has no clue about their settings and the exception of the professional photographer - most people go for a lower setting. I can also shoot 3-4 GB a day without trying to hard - i can shoot pictures of the ground, the sky, the trees the birds.... and hey i can shoot the same picture of the ground 20 times. I usually delete the first 19 since they suck and the 20th looks good.
Romantic walk with the ball and chain - or screaming kids - or some major ars kicking with the boys n a brew....You know which one wins in my book (not that i have a wife or kids) :D
When i am with my friends we do go flipping crazy on the games - especially when drunk - but self control is not the hardest....sides battary life is still a problem - except for RV sites, I have not been to any that had an electrical outlet sticking out of the tree (would be nice though)...
whats that supposed to do anyhow?
so 1024 MB in a gig. 40 x 1024 = 40960 MB. Assuming each picture is 2 MB in size, you plan on taking 20480 pictures? Doesn't that seem a bit high, even for a one month trip to a strange land. What do you plan on doing, taking a picture of every square inch of Kerbleckistan?
but then you gotta ask, do you really need 80 GB of pictures? In all honesty - how many people take 80 GB of pictures on a vacation?...lets talk the average user - not some /.'er who is going to give us some outrageous number that is most likely a lie anyhow to help prove a point.
Or..."I am lost in the woods, oh what do i do... ahh connect to the Internet, go to a website that offers satellite imagery - pay their fees and find my way home, or just e-mail the local park and let them know i am a technogeek who can't navigate a state park." :D
They have more to fear of me cranking up the BOSE stereo in my car then those itty bitty speakers that come installed in my XPS laptop - which I conveniently have some very nice SONY headsets. Laptops, while generating light, I highly doubt would ruin someones experience unless they were right next to it. The persons body is probably blocking it, they just might be in a tent, and the laptop screen would have to face you. People compalin to complain - I cannot see how this would infringe on someones pursuit of happiness (except for the wife who thought she got away from her husbands computer gaming addiction)
So my question: Other then the "we do not like this idea" did these morons, with too much time on their hands, give a logical reason as to WHY there shouldn't be wifi available? I mean I take my laptop with me when I go camping (unless I am doing the true camping which means I am not lugging a 12+ lb computer + accessories for 2 hours of connectivity), how does this affect the neighboring campsites?
microwave man, throw them in the microwave...it worked for that kid in "The Core"
it's assumed that at some point a linux geek will provide something in return to the community - so you will pay one way or another - even if it is something like posting in google "here is the solution to this problem."
And even your mother's love isn't free - just wait until she is 85 and you are taking care of her...now while you are doing it because you love her (hopefully) it is still a form of repayment.
This pretty much reeks of pyramid scheme. No you do not offer money - but you offer your information which in turn is sold for profit. You also have to subscribe to a pay service (which you can unsubscribe) which that company then has to pay a referral fee. So X company who wants your legitimate subscription, just paid 50 bucks to the advertising company for nothing more then your e-mail address - plus the hassle of dealing with you on the phone about cancelling your account.
In the end, however, the last people to sign up will lose.
On a side note - the people at the top of the pyramid (those who start it, and usually the first and second ranks below them) do not pay to get in. I start the pyramid, include my two best friends to be below me (free), and they include their two best friends to be below them (free), but the third rank has to pay to get in. They pay the top level guy (me). I make a profit and run. My two friend below me hopefully make a profit and run, and eventually someone gets hosed. But at least my best friends, and their best friends (which probably know me) are A-OK! This scheme does not need so many levels - you get something from the people right below you - however, they automatically get screwed cause you sold their e-mail addresses to some company and their affiliates.
I think the formula should be:
:)
Physical property *(quantity) = time*effort + material*quantity.
Also the *quantity should be multiplied into the time and effort somewhere - even if it is machine made - there is a lot more time and effort put into making 1000 of a widget then just 1 of a widget. Its complex - but hey the above examples ar egood enough -
Put them over your head, so they just cover your nose. Hold your ears real tight - blow hard until it becomes huge (yes you can tell girls you need a huge condom too) and watch it pop?
Fill it with sour cream and everyone at the bar can get sprayed with your cream filled condom fun too!!!!
A stocking stuffer would have implied it was a gift - (an expensive stuffer, but hey) - this thing cost you - not money but time and information (and your friends' time and information).
:D
I went through the process to help a friend out. Signed up and did what was needed so he got his credit. After that unsubscribe and told the companies to remove me from their lists on pain of litigation
I like my supermarket cards. I know their address information is wrong (like four addresses ago) - and in a way I would like to get the coupons (hey my mom gets free turkeys every year... like 3-5 of them)....I get nice discounts (on average 10%, but I have gotten as high as 45% once) with those cards. Everything has a price - if to save a buck I have to get some extra mail - well my recycling bin just gets bigger. And who knows - sometimes those spam letters are useful (if I get a credit card offer for 0% for the next two years, I look at it). I just hate the unsoliticited spam that comes in droves. One of my e-mail boxes gets a few hundred a day sometimes three to four e-mails from the same place at the same time. (On a side note I haven't sent a message from it in at least three years - I just keep it in case an old old old friend contacts me through there).
I think some of these companies are not that soulless. They are upfront with what they want. They want your personal information, they want you to subscribe to some service (which you can unsubscribe) and they want your friends to join and they subscribe (and thusly unsubscribe) also. It is straight forward, though cumbersome. So now you have to ask yourself - is a $300-$500 gadget worth the time and effort you are putting into it plus the fact that a couple of companies are going to get your data (e-mail is not a problem since you probably have a dummy e-mail account for such sites, but they are smart, they get your address and credit card).
:)
I leave the term "soulless corporation" for those who use more underhanded tricks - like spyware firms, or a company you bought a product from and then they go and sell your data w/o your knowledge by some terrible agreement buried in a link that appears AFTER you complete the purchase which states in subparagraph 3.5.32.1.3.2 that they will only sell your data to "affiliates & subsidiaries" which means anyone they freaking want to.
The end.
Residual data is pretty real. My friend works for a company that used to do data recovery (they have evolved to selling wholesale lockboxes to financial industry). Everything from formatted hard drives, to hard drives that were in a fire. There are plenty of articles on the web that discuss the different methods of recovering data from a formatted disk. Google it and you should find plenty of articles:
Dawn of the Undead Data
So what your saying is that my Favorites list is going to grow?
any relation to CERN??
Is that your best attempt? You have no debt in life? Wow one of those rare few people - you must be lying or under the age of 18.
I do not own you in anyway, society does.
Your ideas of actions that do not affect anyone are different from others apparantly. Society is agreeing with me
I like insulting my own intelligence, its fun - you should enjoy insulting yourself also - at the very least you might amuse yourself.
Don't hide behind the closet anymore - come on out - I know plenty of guys who would be real gentle with your ass.
Happy New Years
Reading comprehension not your strong suit, or is it just trouble remembering what you actually said? Since "powned" is not even a word, I'll assume the first. Or did you mean pawned? I've never offered myself as collateral on a loan.
/. as long as you have would realize this or were you just trying to make a point? And don't be so sure if you have never offered yourself as collateral. On loan...you have a credit card yes? These unsecured loans only have one source of collateral - you - more specific your credit history - but in our society - no credit no luck.
No I do not like to read. But when I quote someone, I do it correctly. I said p0wn3d which is slang for "owned" as in "You have been owned"...now I would think someone posting on
Oh and just because we restrict a certain action does not mean our society is not free. Unless you think a society that punishes people for comitting murder is not a free society.
So if your only point to make in your last post was a futile attempt to insult my intelligence by trying to play an ACCEPTED jargon that is utilized on this forum regularly...you failed, or more importantly I p0wn3d y0ur @$$
Does this mean AOL is trying to become something which it is not?"
....that AOL is changing part of its business model in an attempt to increase its ad-supported client base and hopefully its paying client base. There is nothing wrong with this. Why is the author trying to downplay AOL because they are evolving, or should we have AOL go out of business? Remember, they did help a great deal to get people on the net. They may not be the best service, but for the longest time they were.
Just a note - I do not subscribe to AOL, and except for a three month period (was waiting for comcast to setup highspeed in a new place that I moved) I have never subscribed to AOL...even back in the dial-up days.
What does your statement have to do with my statement?
Here is my techie answer: Y0u @r3 p0wn3d
That may be true in your society, but in many societies (and sub-divisions of societies) sex is a necessary "evil" to have kids. Pornography is looked down upon (in our Puritan US outlook porn is supposed to be downplayed, and sex not spoken of). Now while I do not agree with these notions (i am all about the pr0n and the s3x) I do understand that other societies have different morales and values and their beliefs are just as justifiable as mine (with rare exception) so let them choose to treat sexual content in their own way.
You are right, however, Freedom != democracy, but for the wrong reason. They are two different words. Democracy is a form of gov't - freedom is a state of being. You can have freedom, but you practice democracy. You cannot practice freedom. You either have it or you do not.
Now just because India has laws that differs from us does not make them a society that offers no freedom. That is grossly unfair. That is like saying the US is not a free society because we do not let people smoke pot. While it might seem like a stupid law to someone in Amsterdamn, here in the US, apparantly the majority think its a good law.