hmm.. don't need a magnifying glass to find those. Deal broken right there.
Yes, I'm a photographer. Yes, I'm an Apple fan. Yes, I was looking forward to this app. Yes, I can afford it. No, I won't be buying it until they fix certain things.
So, instead of having no action, you are still pressing the gas pedal, except that at a determined speed (set up like for CruiseControl), you feel the pedal just a little harder to press.
This, to me, defeats the entire purpose of having cruise control: making it easier on your leg and foot while travelling long distances. The whole point is to take your foot off the pedal while in cruise control.
I think you misunderstand his point:
if you use 1000 Gal of water you pay, say 5cents per gallon.
if your rich neighbour using 10,000 gal of water he pays $1 per gallon. You still pay 5 cents.
Or, make it like income tax - pro rate it (this is the way it works in Canada, anyways). For the first 5000 gal per month you pay the lowest rate, for the second 10,000 you pay the second rate, etc. After a certain amount you pay the highest (and usually prohibitive) rate.
Let *me* get this straight. They're offering content for *much less* than iTunes on a re-usable memory stick and you *still* want to download it for free? Nice.
Well, I'd say that the benefit to you is listening to the podcast. You can, of course, decide that the benefit gained isn't worth the inconvenience but that's actually besides the point.
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er.. you've got your timeline all backwards. The death of the deal with Disney happened a year or so ago...
Well.. I've already got a computer, I've already got it on and I've already got broadband. So there's no net increase for me to move to Skype.
Even if I were to factor those costs in, I would only pro-rate them based on the amount of time I'd use the phone/skype which is maybe 20 minutes a day (if that) out of a day of 5 hours of computer use at home the factor is pretty minimal. eg. say 1/15th of my time on the computer is Skyping, my broadband bill is $40 a month. So the Skype portion of that is: $2.67. My computer is paid for so there's no extra cost there. The thing will last for years more so I'm not going to factor that in. My electricity bill is something like $30/month. Assuming again, 20 minutes of VOIP usage in a 16-hour waking day that's 1/48th of my power usage (it should actually be MUCH lower.. my laptop uses MUCH less power than my lights and fridge but be that as it may) that's a whopping $0.63.
So... my extra computing cost for using VOIP: $3.30 My phone bill: $34.00 -- barebones, no call answer, no call waiting.
It gets worse when I factor in long distance... MUCH worse.
Actually I'm not worried about the FBI but rather the kind of people who put fake card reader slots in front of the slots on atm machines. And then, so they can get your PIN, put a little camera in a pamphlet box next to the machine (http://www.snopes.com/crime/warnings/atmcamera.as p).
Surely someone who can do this to an ATM can do what I suggest to an in-room hotel computer, no?
You keep saying this.. but you seem to be missing the point.
What's to stop something from copying your data off the usb drive before/during/after booting? There's no need for this 'something' to be anything that resembles a storage device that your USB OS could detect. ie. it need not be in the data path from your USB key to the computer but parallel to it (ie it's a whole other device separate from the computer) Before the main computer boots it could happily grab everything off your USB drive and then shut itself down. How could your OS detect such a device?
Add a hardware keyboard logger to this setup and bingo.. you've been had.
It's not sticky at all in this context. The original poster was getting music and not paying *anyone* for it and using the evilness of the RIAA as an excuse/justification to use/get something and not pay for it. The proper position would be to not use it at all.
I don't care if it's "theft", piracy, or fucking murder anymore.
Not one more cent is going into the pockets of the industry from me.
So then just do without.. then you'll not only be keeping your money away from those bastards (which I agree with) you'll actually be *right*. Right now you're trying to eat your cake and have it too.. they're evil and yet you're willing to use their product but you're just not paying for it? That doesn't make you noble.. it means you have no principles.. which makes you a jerk.
The post is worded poorly. I also took it to mean that the second picture (the one of tethys) was of Hyperion (ie another example of something we'd never seen before).
Seems to me that if the link text is 'like nothing else in the solar system' then the linked image would be just that... an example of something like nothing else in the solar system.
You do realize that certain things (such as nuclear reactors) have to go through a phase of being *highly* economically inefficient before becoming 'proven technologies' right? Do you think that a fully operational nuclear power generating station was built on the first try? Without government assistance?
AMD's argument wasn't that different code was generated.. but rather that two different code paths were generated (in the same binary); on highly optimized, the other less so. When, at run time, an AMD processor is detected the less optimized path is chosen.
From page 40 of AMD's complaint:
125. Intel has designed its compiler purposely to degrade performance when a program
is run on an AMD platform. To achieve this, Intel designed the compiler to compile code
along several alternate code paths. Some paths are executed when the program runs on an Intel
platform and others are executed when the program is operated on a computer with an AMD
microprocessor. (The choice of code path is determined when the program is started, using a
feature known as "CPUID" which identifies the computer's microprocessor.) By design, the
code paths were not created equally. If the program detects a "Genuine Intel" microprocessor,
it executes a fully optimized code path and operates with the maximum efficiency. However,
if the program detects an "Authentic AMD" microprocessor, it executes a different code path
that will degrade the program's performance or cause it to crash.
ie. the problem isn't manifest at compile time but rather run time. So your simple test isn't actually testing anything.
Last I checked, McVeigh blew up an *entire side* of a building. Sure you can't drive an SUV onto a subway.. but 5 or 10 people can walk on, say with big backpacks (you know.. the kind travellers carry) full of whatever floats your boat -- maybe with some nails and such thrown in for good measure.
Not much bang for the weight? Sure.. but try telling that to the 50 or so people with shrapnel embedded in their faces.
Hmm.. how abou the hypothetical sweatshop charges $48 for its goods and gives the difference to its slaves/employees?
The problem with your line of thinking is that it generally precludes a third option: treat people fairly. Don't act as if slavery/indentured servitude/whatever you want to call it is a gift to these people. Make no mistake. Someone who sets up such an operation is not thinking of the workers at all but merely the bottom line.
I'm not sure from where in my post you got the idea that I dye my hair, dress like I do or am getting a tattoo to 'be different'. Read it again.
Also, I'll be sure to tell all of the clients that I meet (on a regular basis) that they should be disapproving of my appearance (which is basically the same as my appearance every day at work) and should stop giving me work. They'll be very relieved to not be spending all of that money (a considerable amount, actually) on a degenerate like myself.
There is a problem with your line of thinking.. it's binary.. either I'm trying to fit in or I'm trying to be different. Are you certain that there isn't a third (or fourth or fifth) possibility? May I respectfully suggest that many people who practice body modification do so for very personal reasons having nothing whatsoever to do with the opinions of others? People get tattoos to commemorate events in their lives, for example. And they stay well hidden because they are such personal symbols.
I, personally, dye my hair because I like how it looks and it is a good reflection of my personality (same reason that I have, in the past, grown a beard, shaved my head and grown my hair long.. at each time the change suited my mood and personality).
The tattoo I plan to get symbolizes a time in my life and a mode of living that I would like to comemorate and remember. It will be in an open (and pretty much un-coverable) place not to show off to others or to fit in to some body modification community (whatever that may be) but rather because I figure if I'm going to the trouble of making a permanent modification to my skin in order to remember an event I bloody well better be able to see it and not hide from it. It has nothing to do with you and everything to do with me.
And do you honestly think that my company is the only one that doesn't have ridiculous, draconian hiring requirements? As for sample size.. never heard of a counter example? The parent poster (and his ilk) was dealing in absolutes.. I have a counter example.. a perfectly valid method for refuting an assertion. Idiot right back at you.
In my line of work (not just my company) dress code, hair colour, and various adornments mean pretty much nothing. The entire working world isn't corporate culture. Not everyone gives a flying fig how you dress as long as you're clean and do your work.
It seems to me if more corporations cared less about how well people dressed and more about how well they worked things would be much better 'round these parts.
Wow.. you look at the world in a pretty funny way.
The only reason to get a tattoo or a piercing is to fit in? really? Why to most people get piercings and tattoos that are hidden, then? It's not many people that are covered in intricate ink or have their whole face pierced.
As for dope fiends.. my friend you *are* living in a dream world. Most of the drug users I know (and I know quite a few) are clean cut, nice clothes wearing folks. I could count on two hands the number of people I know who are heavily inked or pierced.. none of them are any wilder than my 'normal' dressing/looking friends. On the other hand, I'd say maybe 60 percent of my friends are pierced or tattooed in some way but you'd never be able to tell by looking at them.
As for freakish uniforms.. what does it say about a person when he needs to put a noose around his neck every morning?
The question is which crowd do you want to fit in with? Do you want to fit in with the crowd that looks like it is going somewhere, or do you want to fit in with the crowd that looks like it is strung out on dope.
I prefer to *be* going somewhere. We're not in grade school.. if you've got some childish need to fit in that's your problem, not mine (with my red hair and soon to be tattoo, no extra holes, though).
Huh.. interesting. You know who would look like an idiot around here? Someone showing up for work in a suit and tie.
I rarely even wear shoes around the office... and I have my hair dyed red.
Oh...
and I own the company.
And we've got 30 employees. Sure it's not a thousand.. but if I were working in a huge corporation the dress code would be only one of many reasons why I would want to kill myself on the way to work every day.
your first link doesn't work and your second only shows sales of arms.. which certainly aren't the whole story. Also, by the figures you've presented the US sold a total of 200 million dollars in arms to Iraq.. how does this refute my statement (which for clarity I repeat here: "maybe the people of Iraq before *you guys* gave him millions in support, training and, according to some, bological weapons capabilities...")
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1) poor RAW conversion
2) poor image export
3) funky histogram
hmm.. don't need a magnifying glass to find those. Deal broken right there.
Yes, I'm a photographer. Yes, I'm an Apple fan. Yes, I was looking forward to this app. Yes, I can afford it. No, I won't be buying it until they fix certain things.
This, to me, defeats the entire purpose of having cruise control: making it easier on your leg and foot while travelling long distances. The whole point is to take your foot off the pedal while in cruise control.
I think you misunderstand his point: if you use 1000 Gal of water you pay, say 5cents per gallon. if your rich neighbour using 10,000 gal of water he pays $1 per gallon. You still pay 5 cents. Or, make it like income tax - pro rate it (this is the way it works in Canada, anyways). For the first 5000 gal per month you pay the lowest rate, for the second 10,000 you pay the second rate, etc. After a certain amount you pay the highest (and usually prohibitive) rate.
Sorry. I couldn't help myself.
Won't happen again.
Let *me* get this straight. They're offering content for *much less* than iTunes on a re-usable memory stick and you *still* want to download it for free? Nice.
Well, I'd say that the benefit to you is listening to the podcast. You can, of course, decide that the benefit gained isn't worth the inconvenience but that's actually besides the point.
er.. you've got your timeline all backwards. The death of the deal with Disney happened a year or so ago...
Well.. I've already got a computer, I've already got it on and I've already got broadband. So there's no net increase for me to move to Skype.
Even if I were to factor those costs in, I would only pro-rate them based on the amount of time I'd use the phone/skype which is maybe 20 minutes a day (if that) out of a day of 5 hours of computer use at home the factor is pretty minimal. eg. say 1/15th of my time on the computer is Skyping, my broadband bill is $40 a month. So the Skype portion of that is: $2.67. My computer is paid for so there's no extra cost there. The thing will last for years more so I'm not going to factor that in. My electricity bill is something like $30/month. Assuming again, 20 minutes of VOIP usage in a 16-hour waking day that's 1/48th of my power usage (it should actually be MUCH lower.. my laptop uses MUCH less power than my lights and fridge but be that as it may) that's a whopping $0.63.
So... my extra computing cost for using VOIP: $3.30
My phone bill: $34.00 -- barebones, no call answer, no call waiting.
It gets worse when I factor in long distance... MUCH worse.
So.. what were you asking about again?
Not to beat a dead horse.. but are these the same hotels that put credit card data on their door keys?
Actually I'm not worried about the FBI but rather the kind of people who put fake card reader slots in front of the slots on atm machines. And then, so they can get your PIN, put a little camera in a pamphlet box next to the machine (http://www.snopes.com/crime/warnings/atmcamera.as p).
Surely someone who can do this to an ATM can do what I suggest to an in-room hotel computer, no?
You keep saying this.. but you seem to be missing the point.
What's to stop something from copying your data off the usb drive before/during/after booting? There's no need for this 'something' to be anything that resembles a storage device that your USB OS could detect. ie. it need not be in the data path from your USB key to the computer but parallel to it (ie it's a whole other device separate from the computer) Before the main computer boots it could happily grab everything off your USB drive and then shut itself down. How could your OS detect such a device?
Add a hardware keyboard logger to this setup and bingo.. you've been had.
It's not sticky at all in this context. The original poster was getting music and not paying *anyone* for it and using the evilness of the RIAA as an excuse/justification to use/get something and not pay for it. The proper position would be to not use it at all.
So then just do without.. then you'll not only be keeping your money away from those bastards (which I agree with) you'll actually be *right*. Right now you're trying to eat your cake and have it too.. they're evil and yet you're willing to use their product but you're just not paying for it? That doesn't make you noble.. it means you have no principles.. which makes you a jerk.
Take care. Enjoy the music.
The post is worded poorly. I also took it to mean that the second picture (the one of tethys) was of Hyperion (ie another example of something we'd never seen before).
Seems to me that if the link text is 'like nothing else in the solar system' then the linked image would be just that... an example of something like nothing else in the solar system.
You do realize that certain things (such as nuclear reactors) have to go through a phase of being *highly* economically inefficient before becoming 'proven technologies' right? Do you think that a fully operational nuclear power generating station was built on the first try? Without government assistance?
AMD's argument wasn't that different code was generated.. but rather that two different code paths were generated (in the same binary); on highly optimized, the other less so. When, at run time, an AMD processor is detected the less optimized path is chosen.
From page 40 of AMD's complaint:
ie. the problem isn't manifest at compile time but rather run time. So your simple test isn't actually testing anything.Last I checked, McVeigh blew up an *entire side* of a building. Sure you can't drive an SUV onto a subway.. but 5 or 10 people can walk on, say with big backpacks (you know.. the kind travellers carry) full of whatever floats your boat -- maybe with some nails and such thrown in for good measure.
Not much bang for the weight? Sure.. but try telling that to the 50 or so people with shrapnel embedded in their faces.
Maybe try comparing apples to apples, hmmm?
Hmm.. how abou the hypothetical sweatshop charges $48 for its goods and gives the difference to its slaves/employees?
The problem with your line of thinking is that it generally precludes a third option: treat people fairly. Don't act as if slavery/indentured servitude/whatever you want to call it is a gift to these people. Make no mistake. Someone who sets up such an operation is not thinking of the workers at all but merely the bottom line.
You, my friend, have obviously never driven a Porsche.
I'm not sure from where in my post you got the idea that I dye my hair, dress like I do or am getting a tattoo to 'be different'. Read it again.
Also, I'll be sure to tell all of the clients that I meet (on a regular basis) that they should be disapproving of my appearance (which is basically the same as my appearance every day at work) and should stop giving me work. They'll be very relieved to not be spending all of that money (a considerable amount, actually) on a degenerate like myself.
There is a problem with your line of thinking.. it's binary.. either I'm trying to fit in or I'm trying to be different. Are you certain that there isn't a third (or fourth or fifth) possibility? May I respectfully suggest that many people who practice body modification do so for very personal reasons having nothing whatsoever to do with the opinions of others? People get tattoos to commemorate events in their lives, for example. And they stay well hidden because they are such personal symbols.
I, personally, dye my hair because I like how it looks and it is a good reflection of my personality (same reason that I have, in the past, grown a beard, shaved my head and grown my hair long.. at each time the change suited my mood and personality).
The tattoo I plan to get symbolizes a time in my life and a mode of living that I would like to comemorate and remember. It will be in an open (and pretty much un-coverable) place not to show off to others or to fit in to some body modification community (whatever that may be) but rather because I figure if I'm going to the trouble of making a permanent modification to my skin in order to remember an event I bloody well better be able to see it and not hide from it. It has nothing to do with you and everything to do with me.
I have.. and it's never been a problem.
And do you honestly think that my company is the only one that doesn't have ridiculous, draconian hiring requirements? As for sample size.. never heard of a counter example? The parent poster (and his ilk) was dealing in absolutes.. I have a counter example.. a perfectly valid method for refuting an assertion. Idiot right back at you.
In my line of work (not just my company) dress code, hair colour, and various adornments mean pretty much nothing. The entire working world isn't corporate culture. Not everyone gives a flying fig how you dress as long as you're clean and do your work.
It seems to me if more corporations cared less about how well people dressed and more about how well they worked things would be much better 'round these parts.
The only reason to get a tattoo or a piercing is to fit in? really? Why to most people get piercings and tattoos that are hidden, then? It's not many people that are covered in intricate ink or have their whole face pierced.
As for dope fiends.. my friend you *are* living in a dream world. Most of the drug users I know (and I know quite a few) are clean cut, nice clothes wearing folks. I could count on two hands the number of people I know who are heavily inked or pierced.. none of them are any wilder than my 'normal' dressing/looking friends. On the other hand, I'd say maybe 60 percent of my friends are pierced or tattooed in some way but you'd never be able to tell by looking at them.
As for freakish uniforms.. what does it say about a person when he needs to put a noose around his neck every morning?
The question is which crowd do you want to fit in with? Do you want to fit in with the crowd that looks like it is going somewhere, or do you want to fit in with the crowd that looks like it is strung out on dope.
I prefer to *be* going somewhere. We're not in grade school.. if you've got some childish need to fit in that's your problem, not mine (with my red hair and soon to be tattoo, no extra holes, though).Huh.. interesting. You know who would look like an idiot around here? Someone showing up for work in a suit and tie. I rarely even wear shoes around the office... and I have my hair dyed red. Oh... and I own the company. And we've got 30 employees. Sure it's not a thousand.. but if I were working in a huge corporation the dress code would be only one of many reasons why I would want to kill myself on the way to work every day.
your first link doesn't work and your second only shows sales of arms.. which certainly aren't the whole story. Also, by the figures you've presented the US sold a total of 200 million dollars in arms to Iraq.. how does this refute my statement (which for clarity I repeat here: "maybe the people of Iraq before *you guys* gave him millions in support, training and, according to some, bological weapons capabilities...")
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Here is some other info for you to chew on:
http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/USmadeIraq.ht
http://www.sundayherald.com/42648
http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/armIraqP2W.ht
You're kidding yourself if you think your government wasn't complicit in keeping Saddam Hussein in power during the 80s.
and of course the "him" above is Saddam Hussein