perhaps you might enlighten me how do you do a split view in the file manager in windows7?
i'll give you an example of the annoying way it seems to work. if you want to transfer certain photo's from a memory card you seem to have to open the folder with typically a 1000 images find a selection select copy switch to the destination drive paste switch back then search back to where you got to before select the next group and repeat.
with nautilus i'd press f3 have one half pane with the source and the other with the destination and work through the list copying and pasting the required photo's.
it's not a new concept dopus on the amiga and i think midnight commander in dos let you work the same way. Actually Dopus was probably better than nautilus as you could customise it to do pretty much anything easily.
Anyone use Gmail or Hotmail? How do you select 5 or so emails from different suppliers and forward them to a single email account without having to load each email in turn and selecting forward using the web interface? I don't particularly fancy downloading all my email including attachments to do this either. There are lots of emails e.g confirmation email from paypal i don't intend to read unless i have to (trouble is maybe one day I will have to).
Now I am not saying that Windows is inferior or Hotmail or Gmail just that some of the limitations really are annoying. Eg Google docs ever tried to print a spread sheet from that? only loads about a 100 rows at a time you have to scroll down through the sheet to get it to load all the rows quicker to download the sheet and open locally.
it is really annoying when a computer makes you do donkey work.
People do pretty dumb stuff too those 5 emails i wanted to forward all have attachments called availability list xx date, trouble is that is a useless name for a spreadsheet because once detached from the email you don't know which supplier it is unless you open the thing. everyone does them different and they are lists not spreadsheets not a single formula in them, but nobody is capable of creating tables....
Unity is quite possibly more annoying than windows7 simply because they got rid of menus with software grouped in categories, such as graphics for graphics related software or office for... Now unless you use a program everyday you have to play wtf was that program called to be able to launch the thing.
They all suck to some degree and it seems there is a long way to go before they fix the problems.
do you really think $25 an episode is cheap? assuming thats what it will cost you to watch this particular tv series. (with the subscription fees that have to be paid to get a chance to receive it at $100 a month).
Even then your assuming the people who downloading haven't subscribed there is almost certain to be some that have subscribed and choose to watch on a different device and or time.
your definition of moral is rather flawed because we all do immoral things most days of our lives to some degree or other. Chances are that somebody got exploited just to produce the device your reading this comment on. Do you protest every unjust thing that goes on in the world or do you sit idle and ignore well, most of them.
I don't pirate this tv show from hbo, i honestly don't believe by your definition that makes me a moral person because of all the other immoral things I do and don't do. realistically you can't seriously suggest that you are a moral person either because it's impossible to be in the moral right all the time.
As moral offences go pirating a tv show is a minor immoral act, a rather stupid one as Tv has little to no intrinsic value. Arguably paying for hbo whilst your children eat crappy food because you decided the cable bill was more important is more immoral than pirating it and ensuring your children eat regularly and healthily.
I am interested in what you have to say about foreign languages, because I think there are at least two modes.
A beginner tends to think in their native language and then dig out the equivalent words in the second language. However there does come a point where you can think in the second language at which point you are no longer translating.
It for me feels a bit like letting my English mind sit back while my Polish mind sits up front and takes care of business not a total split like a split personality but it does feel different to working with English.
I have friends who are musicians and they have stage persona's who are quite different to the offstage version. Is it true we only use 10% of our minds and if so are we employing some of the 90% ? just interested to see what a relative expert thinks:)
I do enjoy expanding my mind with different languages and perhaps even computer languages are similar to natural languages. American is largely expanded English and the thoughts are pretty much the same. Other languages think in different ways to English some concepts have no equivalent. I don't think i would drive so well while thinking in a foreign language that is more a skill i developed with English.
That can also be said of the car radio, some of the more interesting stations can be quite distracting if they are making you think, maybe that's why most are inane drivel. To be honest I believe most of us at sometime are distracted by our own thoughts at times, even if all we are thinking about is what to have to eat later when we get home.
It's even worse if your thinking about how to find a solution to a problem. If you receive a text from someone is it worse to briefly look at it or spend time wondering what it says and who it's from. Sometimes it is really difficult to find a suitable place to pull over which is the sensible thing to do.
It's getting harder to see the difference between china and the rest of the world these days. A recent documentary showed a company seeing if it could produce cushions in the UK competitively as compared to it's factory in China.
The British Machinists were faster and more productive than their chinese conterparts. Over the previous 5 years chinese wages had increased 500% to £1 an hour, yes 20pence an hour five years ago. The chinese workers worked longer hours slept in small company rooms away from their families. Their hope was their children would have better prospects in life than they did.
With the British workers sowing zips at a rate of 50 cushions an hour the British produced cushions cost an extra 8 pence to produce, the machinests were working extremely hard for a minimum wage of £6.35 an hour.
In the end it made me feel rather sad for both sets of workers both were working like slaves on these production lines, the British product commands a premium price in the American Export market which probably more than makes up for the 8 pence difference in production cost.
The real question for me was why isn't the production automated to a greater extent at least robots don't struggle to make ends meet while the executives are living it up.
I'd bet there are people on here who could automate a process like cushion making. What kind of life are we making for our fellow human beings.
At least she was stationary, at worst she would be holding up traffic for a few seconds. Seems reasonable behaviour, now driving off while still texting wouldn't be.
I don't understand why more people don't use bluetooth my phone connects to the car radio whenever the radio switches on and i am in range. I can press a button on the radio or its remote to take a call. Voice activated dialling on the phone makes dialing out easy too. There are apps for reading messages as well although dictating texts is usually shockingly bad.
Most people seem to be unaware of what their hardware is capable of. Women tend to be the worst unwilling to wear the glasses they need to focus properly also unaware you can increase font size to make it easier to read.
Funny thing a cyclist complaining when they are on
I pay 20 euro a month with loads of freebies. But you don't have that option . Your mission if you chose to accept I it is to get the best deal you can . Hopefully you have at least two carriers to choose from.
Currently most. American cell companies suck because they don't have to compete much only by going with the best deals will you gain better deals further down the line.
If you don't make them fight for your money they will milk you all they can.
There is another issue with laptops that of cooling, and sealing a laptop in a box isn't going to be great for that either. An x86 processor will tend to run warmer and use active cooling, where a tablet with an arm processor will run cooler. Opening a laptop flat also isn't possible with a lot of netbooks or laptops either.
There are some nice tablets available for upwards of 150 euro that might be suitable for skype. Not every tablet has suitable hardware, Skype isn't written for every processor, much like flash.
Since Microsoft now owns Skype there is less of an interest in cross platform compatibility. Maybe that might change with Microsoft wanting to support Windows on ARM processors. However that's a long way from support for non-microsoft platforms.
It's a shame really since Skype was good as a defacto standard for cross platform messaging. Skype for facebook is something that is becoming popular but it will not run even with wine.
Rather sadly your laptop idea wins on the software side, probably best used with a separate monitor and webcam though allowing the main unit adequate ventilation.
Rebekah Brooks is an interesting case, Only recently she was testifying to the leveson inquiry and some of what she had to say was personally damaging to the prime minister David Cameron and i'm not referring to Camerons use of lol (lots of love he thought it meant) which a lot of reporting seems to be focused on. Rather that the current government seems to have asked certain people at news international how to play the phone hacking scandal.
Although i'm struggling to find the exact quote now, there should be some recent news stories referring to it. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18043885 might be one place to start digging if you really want to know.
Is the fact she is arrested now purely a police matter or a reflection of the anger of the current British Government after some of its dirty laundry was aired in public? Even the Police seems to have had some less than honourable involvement. One things for certain she has made powerful enemies.
The biggest problem for the British people and I doubt it is limited to British politics is there is no good guys as Tony Blair was as cozy with News Internatonal as David Cameron is/was. Maybe Gordon Brown wasn't as bad as the other two after all but maybe that is only because he was beat up in the press instead of supported... The Newspapers and TV news can present stories give prominence to some and bury others. They shape public opinion and News International seems to have a solid record on only supporting winners. Do they make the winners, the cynic in me says they do.
I just can't see a way forward since the very people who have the power to remove the corruption are part of the corruption. Your vote is pretty meaningless in a first past the post system when there is no realistic alternative to vote for.
Laptop keyboards are in no way toddler proof, look away for a minute and you will find keys have been pulled off. I get a surprising number of laptops that need keys refitting. Figuring out how that mechanism goes together is beyond the ability of a lot of parents. Usually it is easiest to remove one working key carefully to examine how it fits together and then fix the missing keys.
The robbery example is quite good to look at, why do people rob stuff? Could it be because they see no other way in the situation they are in? Crime tends to increase with rising unemployment.
Decrease poverty and give people the opportunity to make a living wage and the risks associated with robbery become unacceptable. Getting caught would mean losing your job probably your home any hope of a career a family life. When you don't have these things the risks become more acceptable any fine has to be manageable for someone on a very low income because if it isn't then it becomes impossible to pay and then theft takes place to pay the fines or go to prison for not paying the fines.
Robbing people is pretty extreme, there are a whole host of lower level crimes shop lifting at walmart for example doesn't deprive an individual of anything and walmart still shows a profit so it isn't devastating to walmart of course walmart would like bigger profits and not need to spend so much on security however you might actually consider that without the theft the security guard would also be out of a job.
People get quite creative when there are no real jobs to be found there are lots of people working a few hours here and there paid in cash and undeclared, that helps meet the bills maybe buys a pair of shoes for your child so they can go to school
It certainly used to be the case in the UK that if you declared any income whilst unemployed you were allowed to keep £4 a week the rest would be taken away from any benefits you were getting. Realistically that means your working for no gain once you do more than 1 hour.
Even places where you could declare and just lose benefit for that particular day the paperwork and processing is very inefficient and you could easily be left in a situation where you have no money coming in.
People may become self-employed in fairly creative ways if you can buy or get laid on an oz of hash you can sell it as quarters eightths 16ths £5 deals what ever. It won't make you rich but it'll subsidise your costs or give you a few quid extra a week. You can download films burn them to disk and sell them at markets again making a little cash. The person that buys them is happy enough too. Lets them keep their families entertained and keep the electricity on.
People create cottage industries growing plants and then selling hanging baskets for example or maybe just planting vegetables to eat later and maybe sell or trade any spare.
I fully understand that the entertainment industry feels they are being ripped off and maybe they are to an extent but to sell to the people who are ripping them off the prices would need to tumble and of course if everyone was paying 25 cents there would be no one buying at a dollar and it would be financial suicide. Why do we have such insane lengthy copyrights these days? Again it is the entertainment industry fighting to keep their current product financially viable. The Internet has made the public domain accessible like never before and a viable alternative to current material. Such a pity I shall be dead before much of the good stuff made before I was born will reach the public domain.
It would be kind of nice and principled if more people would take an honourable stand and just say no to commercial media and software instead of ripping it off.
Broadcast TV radio has plenty of content and with a PVR you can cherry pick the good stuff, Linux is a perfectly viable alternative to Windows, why rip off Windows and its commercial software offerings?
You can also make your own entertainment and if you are willing, give it away. I write my own music and if its reasonable i'll record and upload it. Sometimes its just fun to make video's, I certainly have no problem with sharing the stuff I create. Lets face it Britains got talent was won by a dancing dog thats a pretty low standard to reach if you want to entertain people.
So if you want to reduce crime as a society invest in your people an
This paying to receive messages and calls is the problem, not your room mate.
Here we don't pay to recieve calls or texts and 3000 texts, free skype , free weekend calls and unlimited Internet access for 30 days is mine when i top up by 20 euro usually every 30 days or longer. I also get an extra 10 euro credit a month and 3000 any time minutes to my providers network I bought my phone from them but sim and contract free for 100 euro , currently the same model is 60 euro. I have no phone insurance to buy since replacing the phone is no hassle at these prices. Android 2.2 is fine for me and there is a 7.2 meg modem built in which I can tether my wifi android tablet or my laptop to.
So maybe you shouldn't be annoyed with your room mate being unwillling to pay to check if you need wash powder or not. You could just make a shopping list before you go to the shops, it is really handy and avoids the annoyance of coming home without razors and shaving with a blunt blade the next morning for example because you forgot.
You also do not help yourself by opting for a contract, because at some point you will be stuck with an oversize bill due to going over some allowance at the end of your billing period. That also happens here too, although never to a pay as you go customer. Also they also stiff you on some phone calls because they are lo-call or free-phone non geographic numbers so don't count as your paid for minutes. Extremely annoying to find your phone bill twice your contracted rate with hours of free calls unused.
If your happy to have your mobile provider rob you each month under the guise of contractual liability then fine do as you do but if enough people can change provider as they feel like then the phone company will have to start playing nicely. Number portability is a matter of law here as is unlocking handsets although they can charge an admin fee but not an unlocking fee...
I've not seen the film and neither has most of the world (20 million out of 6 billion maybe). I probably will see it within the next couple of years for free on broadcast television, I might well enjoy it too.
I will also note that although I can record anything pretty much with the gear I have I tend to find the only use I have for PVR is to pause and fast forward the majority of stuff I've recorded intending to watch later doesn't get watched I really don't have the time for it.
Going to the movies is for dates, pretty much exclusively, or as a treat for the kids, often an option for divorced fathers. That pretty much covers it. Sometimes friends will go to see a movie together but thats mainly because they don't have dates or because their significant others are not into that kind of film.
For a successful date at the movies the film has to be at a minimum good and ideally excellent you take a woman to a lousy movie and you will both come out let down and disappointed and she is not going to have enjoyed herself and that disappointment will reflect on you.
I think we are all aware that often the trailer promises more than the film delivers, really the trailer is there to tempt you to pay to see the movie and once you have bought the ticket they have your money which is all that matters to them, enjoyment of the movie is irrelevant it is ticket sales that matters. They don't care about your date not in the slightest.
So the only way you can be sure of the movie is to preview it and that is what screeners are good for to inform you if the film is going to entertain your date. There is no doubt in my mind that Piracy can both hurt and boost movie ticket sales, because it cuts through the marketing bullshit in other words bad movies will not get the sales from informed consumers and good movies will. One copy of a screener may well effect 20 or more peoples choice to see a movie and most will not even see the screener they will just take their friends word for it if it is good or bad.
The movie industry as a whole commits fraud more often than not misrepresenting the product they want to sell you and they have gotten away with this for decades. The screeners just redress the balance. Your date may well become your wife, the mother to your children or maybe ditches you for someone with better taste in movies than you have. There is a lot more invested in this movie for you than just a few bucks and you really want to get it right.
I would lend a friend a DVD or a book or a cd no problem i'd like to get it back thou:) Oh and Kids DVD's it is practically insane not to copy it and keep the original safe, it is always going to get wrecked at some point, and besides who wants their kids sitting through loads of crap being marketed to them. Your the one going to be pestered to buy that crap.
seems twitter bought the company and then shut it down. I don't really have anything to hide but so what, why shouldn't I do so anyway because I can. Actually I can't and it seems that is no accident.
Redphone it appears was effective but it seems only effective until the plug got pulled. It should be relatively simple to digitise and encrypt an audio signal and decrypt at the other side without needing a third party to enable this to work. Even Pgp should be an option but that is owned by symantic now. Its an enterprise solution now...
There should be good free alternatives but I haven't found them yet.
It's an article worth reading, as it is an excellent example of the damage that overly broad patents can cause.
The Wright brothers gained a broad patent on wing warping which was also deemed to cover ailerons an essential component for stable flight. This lead to a stalling of American plane development, the patent was ruled invalid in a number of other countries.
When America entered world war 1 they had to use French aircraft due to the poor state of airplane development in the usa due to this patent and a number of others.
Interestingly to get round this patent issue the US government formed a Patent Pool which allowed for US aircraft to be built paying a small licensing fee for each plane built under frand licensing the first time this had been used and lasted through to the Patent's expiry.
The damage that these patents caused, crippled the American Aircraft industry for years only limited by the advent of world war 1 and the patent expiry. Consider the situation if it was under todays copyright legislation. The last Wright brother died in 1918 copyright is now life of the author + 75 years which would have thus expired in 1993 and each copyright violation would have up to 750,000 dollars awarded per violation. If you applied this in general you could possibly see an alternative reality where modern day america would be living like the amish driving around in horse drawn carts.
Lets assume that the authors of the api's controlled by Oracle dropped dead today then the copyrights would expire in 2087 assuming Disney didn't get an extension. Of course if Oracle won this then it is reasonable that Oracle would also be infringing on copyrights for example in C headers and API's reducing America's non infringing Computing Industry back to the abacus.
Of course you would then have to close down almost everything except girl scout lemonade stands since it would be unlikely that any industry that uses a computer today wouldnt be infringing to some degree...
http://www.blowe.org.uk/ has probably the best information on this story as they have scanned the official leaflet for the residents explaining the decision to place a surface to air missile system on the flats. The faq is particularly informative.
Those leaflets will almost certainly be worth money as a unique limited edition souvenir from the 2012 Olympics.
It's not so easy to take someone's life with a breath mint even a minor flesh wound would be quite a feat.
On a more serious note I'd be quite concerned if someone was carrying a knife or a baseball bat around in an office or a bar too.
I've nothing against playing baseball fishing or hunting, although I would hope that hunting would be confined to area's where your not going to find other people cycling, riding, walking, or picnicking.
It's not the tool that is a problem but the person holding it that can be and the circumstances. With a gun I find it hard to see many circumstances in which carrying a gun is appropriate. Even in the ideal situation a criminal threatens you with a gun, can you really draw a gun quick enough to disarm the guy before he puts a bullet in your head?
Apparently if you have £250,000 to spare you can go to dinner with David Cameroon and enlighten him on your viewpoint on your chosen subject. Thats not bribery thats a donation to party funds that is.
Getting token jobs on boards of directors after leaving office isn't bribery either, thats just enriching a company with your years of experience on the political scene that is.
yes it isn't a duck it just walks and talks like one.
When I buy stuff at the supermarket the supermarket makes a profit and the suppliers of that product make a profit. Some suppliers will not make a profit from me since I choose to buy alternative products.
I don't see how i am the product, I am the customer for the supermarket and the supermarket is the customer for the supplier, and much like me the supermarket chooses which suppliers to buy from.
I haven't got any apple products so i am not apples customer or product I get to make choices of what products i buy and where I buy them from.
Even where Google gets the opportunity to target ads at me I still get the choice of buying from one of Googles customers or not. It is mostly not. On occasion I will buy a specific application from the android market, the ones I have bought tend to be cheap and work well and generally there has been a free version which has allowed me to evaluate the product i buy or don't buy.
I would guess that websites such as slashdot probably do more to influence me when it comes to buying things I probably will buy a raspberry pi eventually as i have a few idea's of what I will do with it however until the ordering backlog is cleared I doubt it. Slashdot is almost certainly been the influence behind the netbooks i have bought and the android devices I own (although the specific products were chosen by me.
Is it just me or is iPod becoming generic? Seems that it's becoming the walkman of mp3 players People seem to use the expression buy a cheap iPod to refer to any mp3 player... So even "iPod" buyers are not necessarily Apple customers or products.
The only way customers can become products is if they lose the ability to choose what they buy. We are still some distance from that, although it is getting closer, with each litigation battle that takes place. It doesn't matter who wins, most of the time since we all get to pay a little more when the spat gets settled. We lose all the time to be honest every time a brain dead implementation of a function takes place it seems to be because someone got a patent on the better method. What it means is that an Apple device for example is not as good as it could be and neither is its competing product.
It also tends to mean that some products will die close to conception due to existing patents and copyrights and that is what really sucks. We could have better products than are on the market today if it wasn't for the damn IP war.
The evidence that you seem to ignore that he is dangerous is the dead boy. He didn't just carry a gun he used it. Or are you claiming that is in dispute.
"The Orange County Clerk of Courts website shows a man named George Zimmerman, 28, was charged in July 2005 with resisting arrest with violence and battery on an officer. The charges appear to have been dropped." I guess that wasn't enough to refuse Zimmerman a gun permit.
Zimmerman could have held the boy at gun point, If someone was pointing a gun at you and you were unarmed, would you resist. I doubt it since you appear to be aware of the damage a bullet can do.
Zimmerman isn't convicted yet however the decision on what to charge him with has been made and presumable that decision is based on supporting Evidence not on a whim.
I started out this conversation by pointing out that it could be the case Zimmerman did want to kill someone and escape the consequences of the law. Where your claiming i am presuming guilt you are presuming innocence. neither conclusion can be reached without examination of the actual evidence.
The 3 statements you made regarding the requirements for murder1 could be met in this case however largely it is a thought crime, without a witness to the killing it is pretty much impossible to prove. Only Zimmerman could say if it was the case or not and he isn't likely to confess.
Zimmerman seems to have seen himself as some kind of vigilante maybe he thought he was Batman or just an arrogant racist with a chip on his shoulder or a wanna be cop. The incident in 2005 realistically would have closed the door to his entry into law enforcement.
Zimmerman had called Police many times before this incident to report incidents of this and that seems to me that you would have to be actively seeking criminal acts in an affluent area to be calling the police so often, How many of these calls actually led to arrests of his suspects we don't know but looking for trouble seems to have been his hobby.
I am sure we can both agree there is a case to answer, and his guilt or innocence will be determined in a court of law.
I am curious Why do you carry a gun everyday? Are you paid to do so as part of your job? what are you afraid might happen if you didn't carry a gun? Is it an unusual thing to be carrying in your area.
I do know someone who was shot during a robbery over in africa last summer. One of the local gangs thought he was rich and during the robbery he was hit with a hammer and shot. If he had a gun maybe he would have been able to defend himself or perhaps he would have been killed he was out numbered anyway. The bullet wound wasn't as bad as the state of his arm which took the damage that was intended for his head.
I accept that there are area's of the world which are so lawless that a weapon is a necessity is the usa really that bad?
An armed man goes looking for trouble in his neighbourhood streets, what was going to happen once he found it?
If he had no intent on killing someone then why carry the gun in the first place? He was armed and dangerous and looking for trouble, the facts speak for themselves he killed the boy!
Even if he had been found holding the boy at gunpoint would the Police have said good job Zimmerman thats one more scumbag off the streets or arrested Zimmerman?
When it comes to determining premeditated murder you need hard evidence to convict but as the evidence largely exists in the head of Zimmerman it is unlikely he will admit to it so murder 2 is likely to be the maximum he can reasonably be convicted of. Just because the evidence available is insufficient to gain a conviction doesn't mean the motivation and planning wasn't there.
25 to life is a pretty hefty sentence , murder 1 would only add eventual state sponsored euthanasia assuming you can get the death penalty in florida.
2) The number one problem if you want to kill someone, anyone is that you generally get arrested locked up and depending on where optionally executed. how do you avoid these consequences? How about what Zimmerman actually did? His victim was largely irrelevant as long as they matched the profile of somebody who could be "lawfully" killed. little old lady walking her dog wouldn't do obviously. provoke an assault and then
3) carry out the plan.
Yes that bit was done too, he had a window between informing the 911 dispatcher of a "situation" and the Police arriving in which to kill his victim.
so yes murder 1 , but proving murder1 is going to be difficult without witnesses. Maybe he researched the relevant case law online or something.
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perhaps you might enlighten me how do you do a split view in the file manager in windows7?
i'll give you an example of the annoying way it seems to work.
if you want to transfer certain photo's from a memory card you seem to have to open the folder with typically a 1000 images find a selection select copy switch to the destination drive paste switch back then search back to where you got to before select the next group and repeat.
with nautilus i'd press f3 have one half pane with the source and the other with the destination and work through the list copying and pasting the required photo's.
it's not a new concept dopus on the amiga and i think midnight commander in dos let you work the same way. Actually Dopus was probably better than nautilus as you could customise it to do pretty much anything easily.
Anyone use Gmail or Hotmail? How do you select 5 or so emails from different suppliers and forward them to a single email account without having to load each email in turn and selecting forward using the web interface? I don't particularly fancy downloading all my email including attachments to do this either. There are lots of emails e.g confirmation email from paypal i don't intend to read unless i have to (trouble is maybe one day I will have to).
Now I am not saying that Windows is inferior or Hotmail or Gmail just that some of the limitations really are annoying. Eg Google docs ever tried to print a spread sheet from that? only loads about a 100 rows at a time you have to scroll down through the sheet to get it to load all the rows quicker to download the sheet and open locally.
it is really annoying when a computer makes you do donkey work.
People do pretty dumb stuff too those 5 emails i wanted to forward all have attachments called availability list xx date, trouble is that is a useless name for a spreadsheet because once detached from the email you don't know which supplier it is unless you open the thing. everyone does them different and they are lists not spreadsheets not a single formula in them, but nobody is capable of creating tables....
Unity is quite possibly more annoying than windows7 simply because they got rid of menus with software grouped in categories, such as graphics for graphics related software or office for ...
Now unless you use a program everyday you have to play wtf was that program called to be able to launch the thing.
They all suck to some degree and it seems there is a long way to go before they fix the problems.
the original archos 7 running 1.6 supported mouse and keyboard tends to need a powered hub since the usb port is rather underpowered.
do you really think $25 an episode is cheap? assuming thats what it will cost you to watch this particular tv series. (with the subscription fees that have to be paid to get a chance to receive it at $100 a month).
Even then your assuming the people who downloading haven't subscribed there is almost certain to be some that have subscribed and choose to watch on a different device and or time.
your definition of moral is rather flawed because we all do immoral things most days of our lives to some degree or other. Chances are that somebody got exploited just to produce the device your reading this comment on. Do you protest every unjust thing that goes on in the world or do you sit idle and ignore well, most of them.
I don't pirate this tv show from hbo, i honestly don't believe by your definition that makes me a moral person because of all the other immoral things I do and don't do. realistically you can't seriously suggest that you are a moral person either because it's impossible to be in the moral right all the time.
As moral offences go pirating a tv show is a minor immoral act, a rather stupid one as Tv has little to no intrinsic value. Arguably paying for hbo whilst your children eat crappy food because you decided the cable bill was more important is more immoral than pirating it and ensuring your children eat regularly and healthily.
I am interested in what you have to say about foreign languages, because I think there are at least two modes.
A beginner tends to think in their native language and then dig out the equivalent words in the second language. However there does come a point where you can think in the second language at which point you are no longer translating.
It for me feels a bit like letting my English mind sit back while my Polish mind sits up front and takes care of business not a total split like a split personality but it does feel different to working with English.
I have friends who are musicians and they have stage persona's who are quite different to the offstage version. Is it true we only use 10% of our minds and if so are we employing some of the 90% ? just interested to see what a relative expert thinks :)
I do enjoy expanding my mind with different languages and perhaps even computer languages are similar to natural languages. American is largely expanded English and the thoughts are pretty much the same. Other languages think in different ways to English some concepts have no equivalent. I don't think i would drive so well while thinking in a foreign language that is more a skill i developed with English.
That can also be said of the car radio, some of the more interesting stations can be quite distracting if they are making you think, maybe that's why most are inane drivel. To be honest I believe most of us at sometime are distracted by our own thoughts at times, even if all we are thinking about is what to have to eat later when we get home.
It's even worse if your thinking about how to find a solution to a problem. If you receive a text from someone is it worse to briefly look at it or spend time wondering what it says and who it's from.
Sometimes it is really difficult to find a suitable place to pull over which is the sensible thing to do.
It's getting harder to see the difference between china and the rest of the world these days.
A recent documentary showed a company seeing if it could produce cushions in the UK competitively as compared to it's factory in China.
The British Machinists were faster and more productive than their chinese conterparts. Over the previous 5 years chinese wages had increased 500% to £1 an hour, yes 20pence an hour five years ago. The chinese workers worked longer hours slept in small company rooms away from their families. Their hope was their children would have better prospects in life than they did.
With the British workers sowing zips at a rate of 50 cushions an hour the British produced cushions cost an extra 8 pence to produce, the machinests were working extremely hard for a minimum wage of £6.35 an hour.
In the end it made me feel rather sad for both sets of workers both were working like slaves on these production lines, the British product commands a premium price in the American Export market which probably more than makes up for the 8 pence difference in production cost.
The real question for me was why isn't the production automated to a greater extent at least robots don't struggle to make ends meet while the executives are living it up.
I'd bet there are people on here who could automate a process like cushion making. What kind of life are we making for our fellow human beings.
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At least she was stationary, at worst she would be holding up traffic for a few seconds.
Seems reasonable behaviour, now driving off while still texting wouldn't be.
I don't understand why more people don't use bluetooth my phone connects to the car radio whenever the radio switches on and i am in range. I can press a button on the radio or its remote to take a call.
Voice activated dialling on the phone makes dialing out easy too. There are apps for reading messages as well although dictating texts is usually shockingly bad.
Most people seem to be unaware of what their hardware is capable of. Women tend to be the worst unwilling to wear the glasses they need to focus properly also unaware you can increase font size to make it easier to read.
Funny thing a cyclist complaining when they are on
wolfram alpha powers Bing a microsoft product and rates a windows phone as the best in the world.
who's got a horse in the race, again? Maybe the N900 is being heavily marketed but it's not the phone that springs to mind as the best smart phone?
I honestly couldn't say what is but i wouldn't have thought it would be a windows phone.
so what is ?
I pay 20 euro a month with loads of freebies. But you don't have that option .
Your mission if you chose to accept I it is to get the best deal you can . Hopefully you have at least two carriers to choose from.
Currently most. American cell companies suck because they don't have to compete much only by going with the best deals will you gain better deals further down the line.
If you don't make them fight for your money they will milk you all they can.
There is another issue with laptops that of cooling, and sealing a laptop in a box isn't going to be great for that either. An x86 processor will tend to run warmer and use active cooling, where a tablet with an arm processor will run cooler. Opening a laptop flat also isn't possible with a lot of netbooks or laptops either.
There are some nice tablets available for upwards of 150 euro that might be suitable for skype. Not every tablet has suitable hardware, Skype isn't written for every processor, much like flash.
Since Microsoft now owns Skype there is less of an interest in cross platform compatibility. Maybe that might change with Microsoft wanting to support Windows on ARM processors. However that's a long way from support for non-microsoft platforms.
It's a shame really since Skype was good as a defacto standard for cross platform messaging. Skype for facebook is something that is becoming popular but it will not run even with wine.
Rather sadly your laptop idea wins on the software side, probably best used with a separate monitor and webcam though allowing the main unit adequate ventilation.
Rebekah Brooks is an interesting case, Only recently she was testifying to the leveson inquiry and some of what she had to say was personally damaging to the prime minister David Cameron and i'm not referring to Camerons use of lol (lots of love he thought it meant) which a lot of reporting seems to be focused on. Rather that the current government seems to have asked certain people at news international how to play the phone hacking scandal.
Although i'm struggling to find the exact quote now, there should be some recent news stories referring to it. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18043885 might be one place to start digging if you really want to know.
Is the fact she is arrested now purely a police matter or a reflection of the anger of the current British Government after some of its dirty laundry was aired in public? Even the Police seems to have had some less than honourable involvement. One things for certain she has made powerful enemies.
The biggest problem for the British people and I doubt it is limited to British politics is there is no good guys as Tony Blair was as cozy with News Internatonal as David Cameron is/was. Maybe Gordon Brown wasn't as bad as the other two after all but maybe that is only because he was beat up in the press instead of supported... The Newspapers and TV news can present stories give prominence to some and bury others. They shape public opinion and News International seems to have a solid record on only supporting winners. Do they make the winners, the cynic in me says they do.
I just can't see a way forward since the very people who have the power to remove the corruption are part of the corruption. Your vote is pretty meaningless in a first past the post system when there is no realistic alternative to vote for.
Laptop keyboards are in no way toddler proof, look away for a minute and you will find keys have been pulled off. I get a surprising number of laptops that need keys refitting. Figuring out how that mechanism goes together is beyond the ability of a lot of parents. Usually it is easiest to remove one working key carefully to examine how it fits together and then fix the missing keys.
The robbery example is quite good to look at, why do people rob stuff?
Could it be because they see no other way in the situation they are in? Crime tends to increase with rising unemployment.
Decrease poverty and give people the opportunity to make a living wage and the risks associated with robbery become unacceptable. Getting caught would mean losing your job probably your home any hope of a career a family life. When you don't have these things the risks become more acceptable any fine has to be manageable for someone on a very low income because if it isn't then it becomes impossible to pay and then theft takes place to pay the fines or go to prison for not paying the fines.
Robbing people is pretty extreme, there are a whole host of lower level crimes shop lifting at walmart for example doesn't deprive an individual of anything and walmart still shows a profit so it isn't devastating to walmart of course walmart would like bigger profits and not need to spend so much on security however you might actually consider that without the theft the security guard would also be out of a job.
People get quite creative when there are no real jobs to be found there are lots of people working a few hours here and there paid in cash and undeclared, that helps meet the bills maybe buys a pair of shoes for your child so they can go to school
It certainly used to be the case in the UK that if you declared any income whilst unemployed you were allowed to keep £4 a week the rest would be taken away from any benefits you were getting. Realistically that means your working for no gain once you do more than 1 hour.
Even places where you could declare and just lose benefit for that particular day the paperwork and processing is very inefficient and you could easily be left in a situation where you have no money coming in.
People may become self-employed in fairly creative ways if you can buy or get laid on an oz of hash you can sell it as quarters eightths 16ths £5 deals what ever. It won't make you rich but it'll subsidise your costs or give you a few quid extra a week. You can download films burn them to disk and sell them at markets again making a little cash. The person that buys them is happy enough too. Lets them keep their families entertained and keep the electricity on.
People create cottage industries growing plants and then selling hanging baskets for example or maybe just planting vegetables to eat later and maybe sell or trade any spare.
I fully understand that the entertainment industry feels they are being ripped off and maybe they are to an extent but to sell to the people who are ripping them off the prices would need to tumble and of course if everyone was paying 25 cents there would be no one buying at a dollar and it would be financial suicide. Why do we have such insane lengthy copyrights these days? Again it is the entertainment industry fighting to keep their current product financially viable. The Internet has made the public domain accessible like never before and a viable alternative to current material. Such a pity I shall be dead before much of the good stuff made before I was born will reach the public domain.
It would be kind of nice and principled if more people would take an honourable stand and just say no to commercial media and software instead of ripping it off.
Broadcast TV radio has plenty of content and with a PVR you can cherry pick the good stuff, Linux is a perfectly viable alternative to Windows, why rip off Windows and its commercial software offerings?
You can also make your own entertainment and if you are willing, give it away. I write my own music and if its reasonable i'll record and upload it. Sometimes its just fun to make video's, I certainly have no problem with sharing the stuff I create. Lets face it Britains got talent was won by a dancing dog thats a pretty low standard to reach if you want to entertain people.
So if you want to reduce crime as a society invest in your people an
This paying to receive messages and calls is the problem, not your room mate.
Here we don't pay to recieve calls or texts and 3000 texts, free skype , free weekend calls and unlimited Internet access for 30 days is mine when i top up by 20 euro usually every 30 days or longer. I also get an extra 10 euro credit a month and 3000 any time minutes to my providers network I bought my phone from them but sim and contract free for 100 euro , currently the same model is 60 euro. I have no phone insurance to buy since replacing the phone is no hassle at these prices.
Android 2.2 is fine for me and there is a 7.2 meg modem built in which I can tether my wifi android tablet or my laptop to.
So maybe you shouldn't be annoyed with your room mate being unwillling to pay to check if you need wash powder or not. You could just make a shopping list before you go to the shops, it is really handy and avoids the annoyance of coming home without razors and shaving with a blunt blade the next morning for example because you forgot.
You also do not help yourself by opting for a contract, because at some point you will be stuck with an oversize bill due to going over some allowance at the end of your billing period. That also happens here too, although never to a pay as you go customer. Also they also stiff you on some phone calls because they are lo-call or free-phone non geographic numbers so don't count as your paid for minutes. Extremely annoying to find your phone bill twice your contracted rate with hours of free calls unused.
If your happy to have your mobile provider rob you each month under the guise of contractual liability then fine do as you do but if enough people can change provider as they feel like then the phone company will have to start playing nicely. Number portability is a matter of law here as is unlocking handsets although they can charge an admin fee but not an unlocking fee...
I've not seen the film and neither has most of the world (20 million out of 6 billion maybe). I probably will see it within the next couple of years for free on broadcast television, I might well enjoy it too.
I will also note that although I can record anything pretty much with the gear I have I tend to find the only use I have for PVR is to pause and fast forward the majority of stuff I've recorded intending to watch later doesn't get watched I really don't have the time for it.
Going to the movies is for dates, pretty much exclusively, or as a treat for the kids, often an option for divorced fathers. That pretty much covers it. Sometimes friends will go to see a movie together but thats mainly because they don't have dates or because their significant others are not into that kind of film.
For a successful date at the movies the film has to be at a minimum good and ideally excellent you take a woman to a lousy movie and you will both come out let down and disappointed and she is not going to have enjoyed herself and that disappointment will reflect on you.
I think we are all aware that often the trailer promises more than the film delivers, really the trailer is there to tempt you to pay to see the movie and once you have bought the ticket they have your money which is all that matters to them, enjoyment of the movie is irrelevant it is ticket sales that matters. They don't care about your date not in the slightest.
So the only way you can be sure of the movie is to preview it and that is what screeners are good for to inform you if the film is going to entertain your date. There is no doubt in my mind that Piracy can both hurt and boost movie ticket sales, because it cuts through the marketing bullshit in other words bad movies will not get the sales from informed consumers and good movies will. One copy of a screener may well effect 20 or more peoples choice to see a movie and most will not even see the screener they will just take their friends word for it if it is good or bad.
The movie industry as a whole commits fraud more often than not misrepresenting the product they want to sell you and they have gotten away with this for decades. The screeners just redress the balance. Your date may well become your wife, the mother to your children or maybe ditches you for someone with better taste in movies than you have. There is a lot more invested in this movie for you than just a few bucks and you really want to get it right.
I would lend a friend a DVD or a book or a cd no problem i'd like to get it back thou :) Oh and Kids DVD's it is practically insane not to copy it and keep the original safe, it is always going to get wrecked at some point, and besides who wants their kids sitting through loads of crap being marketed to them. Your the one going to be pestered to buy that crap.
Interesting comment, it inspired me to see what is available I found redphone for android but it doesn't exist any more.
http://socialtimes.com/twitter-buys-securityprivacy-firm-and-shuts-down-key-encrypted-voice-communication-tool-in-the-middle-east_b85598
seems twitter bought the company and then shut it down. I don't really have anything to hide but so what, why shouldn't I do so anyway because I can. Actually I can't and it seems that is no accident.
Redphone it appears was effective but it seems only effective until the plug got pulled. It should be relatively simple to digitise and encrypt an audio signal and decrypt at the other side without needing a third party to enable this to work. Even Pgp should be an option but that is owned by symantic now. Its an enterprise solution now ...
There should be good free alternatives but I haven't found them yet.
It's an article worth reading, as it is an excellent example of the damage that overly broad patents can cause.
The Wright brothers gained a broad patent on wing warping which was also deemed to cover ailerons an essential component for stable flight. This lead to a stalling of American plane development, the patent was ruled invalid in a number of other countries.
When America entered world war 1 they had to use French aircraft due to the poor state of airplane development in the usa due to this patent and a number of others.
Interestingly to get round this patent issue the US government formed a Patent Pool which allowed for US aircraft to be built paying a small licensing fee for each plane built under frand licensing the first time this had been used and lasted through to the Patent's expiry.
The damage that these patents caused, crippled the American Aircraft industry for years only limited by the advent of world war 1 and the patent expiry. Consider the situation if it was under todays copyright legislation. The last Wright brother died in 1918 copyright is now life of the author + 75 years which would have thus expired in 1993 and each copyright violation would have up to 750,000 dollars awarded per violation. If you applied this in general you could possibly see an alternative reality where modern day america would be living like the amish driving around in horse drawn carts.
Lets assume that the authors of the api's controlled by Oracle dropped dead today then the copyrights would expire in 2087 assuming Disney didn't get an extension. Of course if Oracle won this then it is reasonable that Oracle would also be infringing on copyrights for example in C headers and API's reducing America's non infringing Computing Industry back to the abacus.
Of course you would then have to close down almost everything except girl scout lemonade stands since it would be unlikely that any industry that uses a computer today wouldnt be infringing to some degree...
http://www.blowe.org.uk/ has probably the best information on this story as they have scanned the official leaflet for the residents explaining the decision to place a surface to air missile system on the flats. The faq is particularly informative.
Those leaflets will almost certainly be worth money as a unique limited edition souvenir from the 2012 Olympics.
It's not so easy to take someone's life with a breath mint even a minor flesh wound would be quite a feat.
On a more serious note I'd be quite concerned if someone was carrying a knife or a baseball bat around in an office or a bar too.
I've nothing against playing baseball fishing or hunting, although I would hope that hunting would be confined to area's where your not going to find other people cycling, riding, walking, or picnicking.
It's not the tool that is a problem but the person holding it that can be and the circumstances.
With a gun I find it hard to see many circumstances in which carrying a gun is appropriate.
Even in the ideal situation a criminal threatens you with a gun, can you really draw a gun quick enough to disarm the guy before he puts a bullet in your head?
Apparently if you have £250,000 to spare you can go to dinner with David Cameroon and enlighten him on your viewpoint on your chosen subject.
Thats not bribery thats a donation to party funds that is.
Getting token jobs on boards of directors after leaving office isn't bribery either, thats just enriching a company with your years of experience on the political scene that is.
yes it isn't a duck it just walks and talks like one.
When I buy stuff at the supermarket the supermarket makes a profit and the suppliers of that product make a profit. Some suppliers will not make a profit from me since I choose to buy alternative products.
I don't see how i am the product, I am the customer for the supermarket and the supermarket is the customer for the supplier, and much like me the supermarket chooses which suppliers to buy from.
I haven't got any apple products so i am not apples customer or product I get to make choices of what products i buy and where I buy them from.
Even where Google gets the opportunity to target ads at me I still get the choice of buying from one of Googles customers or not. It is mostly not. On occasion I will buy a specific application from the android market, the ones I have bought tend to be cheap and work well and generally there has been a free version which has allowed me to evaluate the product i buy or don't buy.
I would guess that websites such as slashdot probably do more to influence me when it comes to buying things I probably will buy a raspberry pi eventually as i have a few idea's of what I will do with it however until the ordering backlog is cleared I doubt it. Slashdot is almost certainly been the influence behind the netbooks i have bought and the android devices I own (although the specific products were chosen by me.
Is it just me or is iPod becoming generic? Seems that it's becoming the walkman of mp3 players
People seem to use the expression buy a cheap iPod to refer to any mp3 player...
So even "iPod" buyers are not necessarily Apple customers or products.
The only way customers can become products is if they lose the ability to choose what they buy.
We are still some distance from that, although it is getting closer, with each litigation battle that takes place. It doesn't matter who wins, most of the time since we all get to pay a little more when the spat gets settled. We lose all the time to be honest every time a brain dead implementation of a function takes place it seems to be because someone got a patent on the better method. What it means is that an Apple device for example is not as good as it could be and neither is its competing product.
It also tends to mean that some products will die close to conception due to existing patents and copyrights and that is what really sucks. We could have better products than are on the market today if it wasn't for the damn IP war.
The evidence that you seem to ignore that he is dangerous is the dead boy. He didn't just carry a gun he used it. Or are you claiming that is in dispute.
"The Orange County Clerk of Courts website shows a man named George Zimmerman, 28, was charged in July 2005 with resisting arrest with violence and battery on an officer. The charges appear to have been dropped." I guess that wasn't enough to refuse Zimmerman a gun permit.
Zimmerman could have held the boy at gun point, If someone was pointing a gun at you and you were unarmed, would you resist. I doubt it since you appear to be aware of the damage a bullet can do.
Zimmerman isn't convicted yet however the decision on what to charge him with has been made and presumable that decision is based on supporting Evidence not on a whim.
I started out this conversation by pointing out that it could be the case Zimmerman did want to kill someone and escape the consequences of the law. Where your claiming i am presuming guilt you are presuming innocence. neither conclusion can be reached without examination of the actual evidence.
The 3 statements you made regarding the requirements for murder1 could be met in this case however largely it is a thought crime, without a witness to the killing it is pretty much impossible to prove. Only Zimmerman could say if it was the case or not and he isn't likely to confess.
Zimmerman seems to have seen himself as some kind of vigilante maybe he thought he was Batman or just an arrogant racist with a chip on his shoulder or a wanna be cop. The incident in 2005 realistically would have closed the door to his entry into law enforcement.
Zimmerman had called Police many times before this incident to report incidents of this and that seems to me that you would have to be actively seeking criminal acts in an affluent area to be calling the police so often, How many of these calls actually led to arrests of his suspects we don't know but looking for trouble seems to have been his hobby.
I am sure we can both agree there is a case to answer, and his guilt or innocence will be determined in a court of law.
I am curious
Why do you carry a gun everyday? Are you paid to do so as part of your job? what are you afraid might happen if you didn't carry a gun? Is it an unusual thing to be carrying in your area.
I do know someone who was shot during a robbery over in africa last summer. One of the local gangs thought he was rich and during the robbery he was hit with a hammer and shot. If he had a gun maybe he would have been able to defend himself or perhaps he would have been killed he was out numbered anyway. The bullet wound wasn't as bad as the state of his arm which took the damage that was intended for his head.
I accept that there are area's of the world which are so lawless that a weapon is a necessity is the usa really that bad?
Are you on crack?
An armed man goes looking for trouble in his neighbourhood streets, what was going to happen once he found it?
If he had no intent on killing someone then why carry the gun in the first place?
He was armed and dangerous and looking for trouble, the facts speak for themselves he killed the boy!
Even if he had been found holding the boy at gunpoint would the Police have said good job Zimmerman thats one more scumbag off the streets or arrested Zimmerman?
When it comes to determining premeditated murder you need hard evidence to convict but as the evidence largely exists in the head of Zimmerman it is unlikely he will admit to it so murder 2 is likely to be the maximum he can reasonably be convicted of. Just because the evidence available is insufficient to gain a conviction doesn't mean the motivation and planning wasn't there.
25 to life is a pretty hefty sentence , murder 1 would only add eventual state sponsored euthanasia assuming you can get the death penalty in florida.
Are you 100% sure this isn't first degree murder?
1) wanted to kill someone
lets say yes to this and see where it goes
2) The number one problem if you want to kill someone, anyone is that you generally get arrested locked up and depending on where optionally executed. how do you avoid these consequences?
How about what Zimmerman actually did?
His victim was largely irrelevant as long as they matched the profile of somebody who could be "lawfully" killed. little old lady walking her dog wouldn't do obviously.
provoke an assault and then
3) carry out the plan.
Yes that bit was done too, he had a window between informing the 911 dispatcher of a "situation" and the Police arriving in which to kill his victim.
so yes murder 1 , but proving murder1 is going to be difficult without witnesses. Maybe he researched the relevant case law online or something.