MLB is behaving like RIAA now. It seems it is very easy for content owners to "convince" someone that new technology is helping people "stealing" their contents and the new technology available is evil and must be banned. We need to call our Congressional representatives and the Senators and ask for a law to be passed that prevent ANY immerging technology should not be liable for ANY copyright infringement. They need to do more to catch people in the act to accuse somone of stealing.
We should not be liable for someone too lazy to find new ways to make their own money. Business need to learn to adapt, that includes whiny executives running out of fresh ideas decades ago.
Oh, and if you talk about those impulse buys of 50" Plasma screens, you should reconsider your buying behavior. You do not buy a 50" Plasma screen on a whim, and that means you do have the time to go to the bank to get a real loan. When I bought my 50" Plasma screen, I bought it in cash I saved in previous months. Buying a flat-screen TV on credit is a bad deal. Then TV you bought today with a loan is inferior than the one you can buy three months down the road. Factor in the interest you have to pay it became a really, really bad deal.
You don't see what's wrong because you have your head shoved too far up the MAFIAA's lie. Chill, cowboy. In theory it would be great if all music are free to distributed for "fair use", but most people reading/. knows that there are people out there who will "extend", or abuse their privliges, as far as they could by posting the file on p2p network. I'm sorry, that is the truth. And it has nothing to do with your desire of wanting to share a file to your friend. Someone has to make a buck for the system to work. Welcome to America. If you don't like it, email Chavez, he will fix it for you in Venezuela.
Also it occurs to me that people tend to be more careful of who they "lend" their music to if their names are attached to it. In that sense it doesn't seems to be a terrible idea to have YOUR name and email address embedded so you will remind your friend that song is indeed yours and he should not be passing it on to someone else without asking you first. Personally I would NEVER pass a song with my name in it to anyone I don't know very, very well. I prob should not "lend" a song (with or without the water mark)to someone that I don't know well. Chances are high that he will pass it on to another friend that he doesn't knows well. Before you know it prob. more than houndres of people has the file. That's the scenario we would like to prevent.
Microwave ovens emit on the largely unregulated 2.4GHz band, the fact that crap on that frequency could hork up the Honda car alarm is almost certainly Honda's fault, regardless of if the oven exceeds signal strength limits or not. I would agree with you, except that legally there's is this thing call FCC classification. I'm not sure what Honda's alarm system's classification is, but I'm most certain that the Microwave is a) not suppose to emmit disruptive signals and b) accpts all interfering signals, regardless if it does effect its operation. So it is indeed that the Microwave is suppose to stop working because of your Honda, not the other way around.
I know it sounds ridiculous, but that's the regulation from the FCC. Anytime technology is able to achieve that it needs to conform to the standards, even if the standard sucks.
I've never said otherwise. Freedom of speech, however, also means having the freedom to protest things you find disagreeable, not just about government, but about the way private organizations conduct themselves. There is a public interest at stake here, as pointedly noted in my original comment.
So you have a problem with my opionion of leaving them along and believe in what ever they wanted to believe instead of shoving your conviction in science down their throat? Because that's what your reply sounds like to me.
we got enough debate topic in this country already. Frankly I think both camp need to lay off their attack off each other and start learning how to "repectably disagree" the other's opionion. Let them open their Museum in their own right, and you can open your museum dedicated to scientific theories behind Darwinism and how it had positively advance science and improve our lives.
We still have not bagged all the polygamist and other more extremism and racists in this country yet. Can't we focus on them first before we can have a candid, yet gentlemen like discussion on the subject? If you truely believe in Science, then you should also believe that the truth in science will prove itself over time. Blasting different opionion will be the last thing that will persuade others to listen to you anyway. That's just human nature that even physical science cannot give you a straight mathematical formula on.
Sure creationism runs against scientific evidances we have today, but so are some of the concepts in sci-fi/fantacy fictions (e.g. time travel). After all there's something call freedom of speach in this country. They can open up whatever kinf of museum they like, so long as they are not infringing on someone else's freedom. Simply stating Darwin's theory is wrong inside the Museum simply cannot count as attacking the scientific opionion. They are just respectably presenting their different opionion, whether it seems logical, or even downright silly to you.
Here's my parents solution to kids complaining Child Abuse: Tell your kids about that option, and let them know that they WILL be taken away from their parents. Let them decide for themselves if most of the foster family will offer them the same priveledge and pampering as their own parents do (i.e. spending money and that sexy Wii they've been drooling for). At age of 8, I know very well that what dreaming someone else other than your parents will offer you a better standard of living (as a kid) is less believable than the story of Santa Clause.
I don't regret being punishedphysically without actually causing any injury, of course) when I was little. In fact, had they not done so, I may have turned out to be a brat. I don't resent their form of punishment. I'm grateful that they took all that trouble to hand out those punishment and make sure that I understand clearly why I receive them. I think I turned out all right after all.
Last I check my Gmail account still gets couple SPAMS in my Inbox on a daily/once every two days basis. I suppose it is a lot better than other, but SPAMS will still come through.
Nothing works better than having a team of experts working on filtering out the junk mails. Oh, wait, we the/.ers are the "experts". I guess we'll have to do it ourselves...
The problem in your assumptions is that you think that the entire price of a product is associated only with the tangible materials that went into it. As if there are no other people to be paid other than those who work at the manufacturing plant, and as if there's no inherent market value to the INTANGIBLE content... (i.e. lyrics, music) in a musical work, and as if there are no costs to maintaining data centers with global load balancing that can serve millions of customers worldwide without crashing to a grinding halt. The cost of manfacturing a CD is brought up due to the fact that the Labels themselves use them as the argument for the reason why an album on a CD costs more than the on on a tape. We're just turning the table on them.
Vista OEM is 50% or more expensive that XP
Vista OEM price is not that much higher than Windows XP right now (in fact they are both $149 for business version). If you know some reseller you can verify my claim on this.
When Windows XP rolled out, The OEM price for WinXP Professional is less than Windows 2000. Based on previous experience its only a matter of time before MS eventually position Vista Business version with better pricing than Windows XP to move user into the new OS. But they will need to solve the software incompatibility and driver issues first.
This is not really a joking matter. Most people in the U.S. have no idea how corrupt the U.S. government is. If you knew, you wouldn't joke.
Perhaps you should look into how corrupt governments of the rest of the world before crying. I'll bet you that U.S. government is one of the least corrupt governments you can find.
There will alsays be plenty of waste and unnecessary spending for the government. Couple with a few greedy men/women and there's the image of corruptions far bigger than what it really is.
Is why are you running windows Vista on a Toshiba machine!. Get a iBook already!
Okay jokes aside. I think the hardware and software vendors failed along side with MS big time with Vista rollout. I personally would not touch them until they can get all their issues fixed. A lot have to do with messy programming and tricks and shortcuts used when they're "just trying to get things working".
Edgeline technology is said to be so ink-efficient that if HP were to sell these printers, they would never match the money they make from consumables (cartridges etc) now."
This is pure marketing. HP will start selling the printers after their competitors found out the real effencies and match it with antoher set of technology. Nothing worth WOWing for.
Name one company Google has snuffed out of business using their current position as dominate leader in the search engine business. Name one competitor they've screwed over by pulling dirty tricks like MS has. I've seen none of this, have you?
I think you forget about the recent admission of Google that their Chinese input interface was an appeareant duplicate of another search engine AFTER IT BECAME PUBLIC NEWS. Google did not confess beforehand and offer apology. It ADMITS its wrong doing after the fact.
I'm guessing someone will mark me troll for this, but the truth is that Google is a corporation getting big in size. Big corporation will eventually turn evil, period. While CURRENT management can keep Google from the evil, greedy nature of corporation, how much longer can you keep people from unscropulous behavior when the fruit of abusive power tastes so good?
Bits by bits Google will eventually turn evil. The more business talent Google can attract the faster it will turn and worse it will be. Afterall, the market will demand them to make MORE money and keep up their stock prices. Sooner than later Google will have to face up with that reality in the stock market.
DHS for example, is heavy into Windows.
Any exceptions?
It has nothing to do with Heavy Windows usage. Plenty of Corporations uses Windows heavily for their end users and are still much more secure than the government does. It's the "company" culture and the management style that should be credited for lack of security while slow to improve its current standing. It may help also if they learn how to keep the real talent happily working for the government agencies and not pissing them off to the private sectors, where they make far more money anyway in the first place...
Unless you are actually needing to see more things at the same time, extra monitors are a waste of desk space and electricity. Get some virtual desktops set up and connect them to your function keys (or alt-function keys). If you then only open any given app on the same virtual desktop you can jump back and forth very quickly.
Thats essentially doing the same thing as alt-tab constantly between applications, and I have found that to be wasting a lot of time if you cannot reference one thing and move your eyeball straight across to another application. Sure it is workable. However when you are constantly doing referencing like 100 times in a single task, it is much more productive to have a dual monitor setup, have each application maximized, and being able to referencing across the same view.
Recently some of my tasks requires me to design, look up reference documents, while having the actual data on three different screens (sometimes the information can only obtained by remote into another computer!). You can prob argue that I should build a program to automate some of the work, but with each program in its own proprietary format, it is much simpler to just have at least two of them on two seperate screens at the same time.
create an image, load up an image, and then let the pc take over on the installation issue. The whole thing can take around 45 min.
Yes I cheated. But it can be done. Also there are options of making every changes you wanted to fixed the group policy, and then make a unattended setup ISO CD for the WinXP Installation. It can complete the entire install for you fairly quickly (on a fresh install).
Of course when I do an upgrade using imaging technique I do use the same RAID card and make sure I'm not making a huge upgrade (at least either HD size or the MB/Chipset are the same). But this saves a great deal of time and far less painful than a extreme makeover.
I think MS should make their info more available. But then again, I do want to get paid if I do something. It's hard to ask someone to fork over something without compensation.
As an Electrical Engineer I know that what deems to be unnecessary performance (think: 64k memory, 2GB address space, gigahertz processor) will ultimately welcomed. Even if we were to hit a performance bottlenect elsewhere we will fix them in timely fashion to take advantage of the new performance we have. This is almost as important and consistant as the Moore's Law.
The truth about formula is the fact that it works one way no matter what numbers (in this case, entity) are put into the variables. Yes it works good when it is SCO vs IBM. However the unintended consequence of the argument is that the same needs to apply to another lawsuit. You got to take both into consideration.
Suppose the X is the little guy(or all of us suffering from its monopoly), Y is MS.
X(little guy) sues Y(MS) for Z$ (for their misconduct and their damage to general public)
X(little guy) wins, gets Z$ (good for little guy, teach the bad guys a lesson)
Y(MS) wins(b/c their legal team is huge + they have money), gets Z$ from X(general public, government, you and me) + the greater of Attorney Fees(X, Y), in this case, theirs.
Was there some incompatibility issue with using different brand/model, such as the difference in exact size, the sector size, etc? I'm not as experience with the RAID.
A double disk failure is rare, but the longer you put off replacing a failed disk, the more likely it becomes.
I run a RAID 1 array in my house. Recently I just experienced double disk failure about a month ago. Granted both disks are only a month old and are more than likely a manufacture's issue (Watch out Seagate users!), but I guess I'm the exceptions to the rule that both disks failed within days. Fortunately no important data was lost.
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MLB is behaving like RIAA now. It seems it is very easy for content owners to "convince" someone that new technology is helping people "stealing" their contents and the new technology available is evil and must be banned. We need to call our Congressional representatives and the Senators and ask for a law to be passed that prevent ANY immerging technology should not be liable for ANY copyright infringement. They need to do more to catch people in the act to accuse somone of stealing.
We should not be liable for someone too lazy to find new ways to make their own money. Business need to learn to adapt, that includes whiny executives running out of fresh ideas decades ago.
Also it occurs to me that people tend to be more careful of who they "lend" their music to if their names are attached to it. In that sense it doesn't seems to be a terrible idea to have YOUR name and email address embedded so you will remind your friend that song is indeed yours and he should not be passing it on to someone else without asking you first. Personally I would NEVER pass a song with my name in it to anyone I don't know very, very well. I prob should not "lend" a song (with or without the water mark)to someone that I don't know well. Chances are high that he will pass it on to another friend that he doesn't knows well. Before you know it prob. more than houndres of people has the file. That's the scenario we would like to prevent.
I know it sounds ridiculous, but that's the regulation from the FCC. Anytime technology is able to achieve that it needs to conform to the standards, even if the standard sucks.
we got enough debate topic in this country already. Frankly I think both camp need to lay off their attack off each other and start learning how to "repectably disagree" the other's opionion. Let them open their Museum in their own right, and you can open your museum dedicated to scientific theories behind Darwinism and how it had positively advance science and improve our lives.
We still have not bagged all the polygamist and other more extremism and racists in this country yet. Can't we focus on them first before we can have a candid, yet gentlemen like discussion on the subject? If you truely believe in Science, then you should also believe that the truth in science will prove itself over time. Blasting different opionion will be the last thing that will persuade others to listen to you anyway. That's just human nature that even physical science cannot give you a straight mathematical formula on.
Sure creationism runs against scientific evidances we have today, but so are some of the concepts in sci-fi/fantacy fictions (e.g. time travel). After all there's something call freedom of speach in this country. They can open up whatever kinf of museum they like, so long as they are not infringing on someone else's freedom. Simply stating Darwin's theory is wrong inside the Museum simply cannot count as attacking the scientific opionion. They are just respectably presenting their different opionion, whether it seems logical, or even downright silly to you.
Here's my parents solution to kids complaining Child Abuse: Tell your kids about that option, and let them know that they WILL be taken away from their parents. Let them decide for themselves if most of the foster family will offer them the same priveledge and pampering as their own parents do (i.e. spending money and that sexy Wii they've been drooling for). At age of 8, I know very well that what dreaming someone else other than your parents will offer you a better standard of living (as a kid) is less believable than the story of Santa Clause.
I don't regret being punishedphysically without actually causing any injury, of course) when I was little. In fact, had they not done so, I may have turned out to be a brat. I don't resent their form of punishment. I'm grateful that they took all that trouble to hand out those punishment and make sure that I understand clearly why I receive them. I think I turned out all right after all.
Last I check my Gmail account still gets couple SPAMS in my Inbox on a daily/once every two days basis. I suppose it is a lot better than other, but SPAMS will still come through.
/.ers are the "experts". I guess we'll have to do it ourselves...
Nothing works better than having a team of experts working on filtering out the junk mails. Oh, wait, we the
Vista OEM price is not that much higher than Windows XP right now (in fact they are both $149 for business version). If you know some reseller you can verify my claim on this.
When Windows XP rolled out, The OEM price for WinXP Professional is less than Windows 2000. Based on previous experience its only a matter of time before MS eventually position Vista Business version with better pricing than Windows XP to move user into the new OS. But they will need to solve the software incompatibility and driver issues first.
Perhaps you should look into how corrupt governments of the rest of the world before crying. I'll bet you that U.S. government is one of the least corrupt governments you can find.
There will alsays be plenty of waste and unnecessary spending for the government. Couple with a few greedy men/women and there's the image of corruptions far bigger than what it really is.
Is why are you running windows Vista on a Toshiba machine!. Get a iBook already!
Okay jokes aside. I think the hardware and software vendors failed along side with MS big time with Vista rollout. I personally would not touch them until they can get all their issues fixed. A lot have to do with messy programming and tricks and shortcuts used when they're "just trying to get things working".
This is pure marketing. HP will start selling the printers after their competitors found out the real effencies and match it with antoher set of technology. Nothing worth WOWing for.
I think you forget about the recent admission of Google that their Chinese input interface was an appeareant duplicate of another search engine AFTER IT BECAME PUBLIC NEWS. Google did not confess beforehand and offer apology. It ADMITS its wrong doing after the fact.
I'm guessing someone will mark me troll for this, but the truth is that Google is a corporation getting big in size. Big corporation will eventually turn evil, period. While CURRENT management can keep Google from the evil, greedy nature of corporation, how much longer can you keep people from unscropulous behavior when the fruit of abusive power tastes so good?
Bits by bits Google will eventually turn evil. The more business talent Google can attract the faster it will turn and worse it will be. Afterall, the market will demand them to make MORE money and keep up their stock prices. Sooner than later Google will have to face up with that reality in the stock market.
DHS for example, is heavy into Windows.
Any exceptions?
It has nothing to do with Heavy Windows usage. Plenty of Corporations uses Windows heavily for their end users and are still much more secure than the government does. It's the "company" culture and the management style that should be credited for lack of security while slow to improve its current standing.
It may help also if they learn how to keep the real talent happily working for the government agencies and not pissing them off to the private sectors, where they make far more money anyway in the first place...
Unless you are actually needing to see more things at the same time, extra monitors are a waste of desk space and electricity. Get some virtual desktops set up and connect them to your function keys (or alt-function keys). If you then only open any given app on the same virtual desktop you can jump back and forth very quickly.
Thats essentially doing the same thing as alt-tab constantly between applications, and I have found that to be wasting a lot of time if you cannot reference one thing and move your eyeball straight across to another application. Sure it is workable. However when you are constantly doing referencing like 100 times in a single task, it is much more productive to have a dual monitor setup, have each application maximized, and being able to referencing across the same view.
Recently some of my tasks requires me to design, look up reference documents, while having the actual data on three different screens (sometimes the information can only obtained by remote into another computer!). You can prob argue that I should build a program to automate some of the work, but with each program in its own proprietary format, it is much simpler to just have at least two of them on two seperate screens at the same time.
create an image, load up an image, and then let the pc take over on the installation issue. The whole thing can take around 45 min.
Yes I cheated. But it can be done. Also there are options of making every changes you wanted to fixed the group policy, and then make a unattended setup ISO CD for the WinXP Installation. It can complete the entire install for you fairly quickly (on a fresh install).
Of course when I do an upgrade using imaging technique I do use the same RAID card and make sure I'm not making a huge upgrade (at least either HD size or the MB/Chipset are the same). But this saves a great deal of time and far less painful than a extreme makeover.
I think MS should make their info more available. But then again, I do want to get paid if I do something. It's hard to ask someone to fork over something without compensation.
As an Electrical Engineer I know that what deems to be unnecessary performance (think: 64k memory, 2GB address space, gigahertz processor) will ultimately welcomed. Even if we were to hit a performance bottlenect elsewhere we will fix them in timely fashion to take advantage of the new performance we have. This is almost as important and consistant as the Moore's Law.
The truth about formula is the fact that it works one way no matter what numbers (in this case, entity) are put into the variables. Yes it works good when it is SCO vs IBM. However the unintended consequence of the argument is that the same needs to apply to another lawsuit. You got to take both into consideration.
Taken from the HD's picture in the article:
1.8" SSD 3.3V ATA7 UDMA66
Model #: MCCOE64G8MPR-03A
Hopefully this helps.
All ports are closed when you fire up Windows Server 2k3 (with service pact) the first time also.
Suppose the X is the little guy(or all of us suffering from its monopoly), Y is MS.
X(little guy) sues Y(MS) for Z$ (for their misconduct and their damage to general public)
X(little guy) wins, gets Z$ (good for little guy, teach the bad guys a lesson)
Y(MS) wins(b/c their legal team is huge + they have money), gets Z$ from X(general public, government, you and me) + the greater of Attorney Fees(X, Y), in this case, theirs.
Please tell me who lose more in this formula?
Was there some incompatibility issue with using different brand/model, such as the difference in exact size, the sector size, etc? I'm not as experience with the RAID.
A double disk failure is rare, but the longer you put off replacing a failed disk, the more likely it becomes.
I run a RAID 1 array in my house. Recently I just experienced double disk failure about a month ago. Granted both disks are only a month old and are more than likely a manufacture's issue (Watch out Seagate users!), but I guess I'm the exceptions to the rule that both disks failed within days. Fortunately no important data was lost.