I don't know why it is modded off-topic but I'm worried too and actually it is on-topic since it's the social impact on people who DO care (too much) about the crap going on in the world. Although, I've found out a rule "If you can't change it, better don't think too much about it", since, changes are albeit made more difficult by the day, since the government and the people with the "power" are protecting their position very carefully.
I seriously have sleeping problems too, I'm sortof even depressed because of all the crap that's being dictated upon our freedom. What also bothers me is that individuality is not worth anything anymore; you've got to be integrated and working with the system 'you're either in our out" or you will get abandoned/banned by the people around you... still same shitty reason..
protection and self-preversation; people want to kill to protect their property; even if that property is not in any danger. That makes me feel bad, other people who find their power and property more important than a life or the feeling of the fellow human being; your neightbour or even your enemy.
It's the same moral dilemma as when your friend jumps from a bridge and you wonder if you should jump too or not. If you care about the ones who made the music, authored it, put their time and soul in creating a song and you can give your share in the creation of that song; would you still be saying the same?
There are enough alternatives next to iTunes which have the same quality, without DRM, even on CD, available on the net as independent publishers. It also doesn't take a long time to watch on the CD/the underside of the CD if there are any copy protections or DRM features. Shop wise, skip the labels you don't trust, it's like shopping, do you buy cowboy-n-western music if you are not really into it ? No you skip that isle; do the same with your music label selections. If you really want you can de-atomize your iTunes tunes which will strip the DRM atoms and save your file in DRM-FREE.aac or.mp3 format.
As well, I got to agree, the music industry is sucking up our money and the greedy lil bastards want even more and more, because the digital age of the mp3 player is out there... A CD shouldn't cost so much.
Still, this argument of "because one is bad all are bad" or "should I also jump of the bridge" does not go up for me...
They just add a disclaimer (with a scrolling text) saying "only rotten apples where used in this production". Of'course "All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental."
Can't skin be tested for any problems? With a bloodtest we can already get a lot of information about the current condition of our body. DNA also tells a lot about our body. Skin tissue must contain such elements too, not?
Maybe this list of dissaprovals could be shortened because there are so many more factors to keep a body healthy or sick. The same for skin and organs. Not every man on Earth lives the same; thank-whatever-outthere. My foodrythm sucks, if there is any anyways, but I am as healthy as I can be; which could affect my skin too, while all tests show up ok. Someone who used (once) drugs, doesn't need to be affected either. Such question-list is putting someone on a spot as "1" or "0", either it's yes or no; isn't that a little bit too over the top; when tainted skin is actively used?
How can such tissue be "imported" into a hospital without the donor being tested? Does a fake report gets included with the skin? A fake bloodtest and/or DNA test?
If video usage causes traffic jams, they better ban them videos in the car not? Just like cellphones shouldn't create traffic jams videopods should neither...
I've got to say, the Live thing catched me and backfired to me in double. While it does send out 'surround" the signal needs to be redirected from digital-to-spdif or it won't work. The digital out supports only 2 speakers and a subwoofer ; eventually a middle speaker if you are lucky depending on the equipment you use.
I have bought myself a BlueGears HDA Digital X-Mystique 7.1, which has not only a Dolby Live surround output; supporting REAL 5.1 instead of the "thruput" Creative Labs solution; but it also costs half the price.
Therefor I think the live/audigy cards are not the real (good/best) thing(tm) for home-theater-systems; which is suggested by the site you have given.
I am very sure Vista(tm) can be run under a Virtual Machine, just like XP or 98 (which runs smoothest in Virtual PC (vmware is another example). I am also very convinced os X can be running under such Virtual Machine. Everything is possible with emulation, only, you've got to pay a small price, a price of performance...
This emulator has to translate a lot of things like memory, cpu, disks, mouse, keyboard, com ports, network card, usb devices (plug 'n pray), printer and low system (bios) calls to the underlying OS which takes a lot of CPU power and memory usage.
If this would be still running that fast on that nice mactel; I do not know...
I am very sure a virtual machine will run os X on PC and Vista on the mactel platform; only the task to run it natively without emulating too much is a pain ful cruisade (sometimes)...
Life is like a box of chocolates, You never know what you gonna get! right?
As there is a lot more to use of a human brain than currently used by the majorty; the cpu is also not used as it should be used and in most cases even overused; most stuff is programmed (very) bloated; like Windows itself, like Vista be very good in the beginning, slow (& more bloated) in the middle and bad in the end (ready to reinstall); unless you very carefully pick your applications and don't change too much than needed upgrades (like with linux: when it's running, keep it running!)
>>>... When I started programming I had to be carefully get everything on a 360k floppy, program and data files together. If I wanted a OS I'd have to swap floppies or add a B: drive. The 720k floppy's where just coming out so I was saving for a 2x size floppy drive. The next upgrade was a 20mb drive...
>>>... The PC evolution has exploded in all kinds of directions; as well upwards in technology and prices as downwards in quality and programming; just like all consumer devices these times...
>>>... I sincerely hope the same does not happen with the universal binaries and os X; I just started to work with it, after +15yrs of working with PC, grew up with OS2 v2+ and warp, DOS, GEM, cp/m, Windows v2+, Windows v3+ and trumpet netsock which was a emulator(?),... I have finally found something which is not such a burden to maintain that hard and which just works: a Powerbook 15" with os X!
>>> With Windows I learned to not to go strange with your os;
- Get rid of Internet explorer *immediately*! get Firefox or any alternative before your pc crawls... - if you got a good graphics * editor or messenger(tm) client ; stay with it and don't install 20 others to "try"; - Get a good Virusscanner, a free one like AVG or payware like F-secure Antivirus. - If you want to get a good program you got to look at the size too, a smaller footprint can mean a smaller utilisation of memory and system usage; for a virusscanner or anti spyware utility this can be very vital! - I repaired lots of them pc's's and it's all because of these virus/spyware/strange-installed things! - which comes to : be sure to know what you install, verify the source a/o file (bbs 2400 baud world was hard sometimes!) - Get rid of Outlook and Messenger, go to Trillian or alike - Do not open files
sells like pancakes .. someone declare prior art ?
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IM On Mobile Phones
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Oh, trust me, they can sell it even if it uses no bandwidth at all. We are in a time where lots of "commercial goods" are based entirely (only) on looks.
like... "If it looks good, it must be good; if the box looks good, the inside must be good"...
or... "That has not happened on cellphones until now; this must be very complicated technology to make IM work on cellphones"...
A customer not knowing anything of technology, which is the largest base of most cellphone operators; will not even know or care, but just pay for it.
Cellphone (and many other sectors) know this and will lock in to be the best in their field; which is even easier now with all those patent/dmca acts in the US and EU (partially). It would not suprise me one of the next patents will be IM over a cellular carrier network.
It's the naivity of the customers what makes a monopoly big; Think with your wallet and it will stay a lot fatter. What most people are willing to pay for their convenience; if it is a fair price? That's another question a lot more people should ask in this money-hungry^H^H^H^H^Hdriven economy.
If I'd have the time I'd make an open-source release on the spot to have prior art and lock in on opensource solutions like Jabber with gatewaying to MSN and other echel^H^H^H^H^Hmessenger networks. I don't got the experience in mobile page development although I got the Perl and Jabber experience and know it should be fairly easy to program or port an existing open-source web-messenger application to the mobile desktop... not?
Maybe we can better call this the bling-bling age? Where the shine of the coin is defining the trust;)
Maybe it's the imperfection of the devil or the imperfection of god;) Don't tell me everything is running candy-dandy uh..
although, why do you need to look closely to it?
If people see a sign in it will be related with a certain feeling (superstitious) a sign is just a sign; even if you look from closely - it represents what you like it to represent... If I don't like a certain sign because of my believe or feeling on my body, I pretty please like to keep that decision on me.
It's 8am.. I am reading slashdot.. instead of sleeping.. ugh..
Main question is.. is that license even WORTH 500$?
If anyone is selling me a nice box with nice contents and it feels it's worth 500$, I'd buy it, but I don't got that feeling I get the same value back as they are charging. Wether-the-less I did buy myself 2 XP licenses, which I have now both problems with since the "activation key" does not work unless I call to Microsoft; which I already did 4 times but their automatic activation service says it's a "unknown key".
It's like buying a cat in a bag; the outside looks nice and promising but the inside requires a lot more than handing over an amount of money to the cashier.
Is it worth the price I've paid for these 2 "licenses" to "use" this software? hell no... I guess that's the main reason for the most people to not buy and just download their software. Insane prices not matching the quality and reality.
Also, Bill Gates should know better; since he started as hobbyist not? Maybe he is afraid someone will get in his shoes?
isn't this done before ? burning the books ? bringing incomplete and very selected information to the people ? television? censoring the net, taking sites down under the dmca laws, political censoring? biased news and statistical figures?
games, should be taken with a grain of salt. It is like a movie.
I can not understand the reaction of Activision though; in games and movies there is a disclaimer "The events depicted in this movie are fictitious. Any similarity to any person living or dead is merely coincidental"...
Instead they banned; they could also push out an update which changes the Apache clan to another name? add a disclaimer, the box "contains fictious characters"?
I could not say I am boycotting Activision since I don't play their games at all; I only play 2 blizzard games and that's about it...
about disclaimers... I once saw a picture of a bible with a very nice disclaimer saying:
WARNING: This is a work of fiction. Do NOT take it literally.
CONTENT ADVISORY: Contains verses descriptive or advocating suicice, incest, bestiality, sadomasochism, sexual activity in a violent context, murder, morbid violence, use of drugs or alcohol, homosexuality, voyeurism, revenge, undermining of authority figures, lawlessness, and human right violations and atrocities.
EXPOSURE WARNING: Exposure to content for extended periods of time or during formative years in children may cause delusions, hallucinations, decreased cognitive and objective reasoning abilities, and, in extreme cases, pathological disorders, hatred, bigotry, and violence including, but not limited to fanatism, murder, and genocide.
I've got to agree fully with that; even further; I'd like to see USB over WIFI for certain devices like a camera, keyboard, printer, anything that doesn't need a lot of traffic.
Slashdot Mirror
... bury it ;)
I don't know why it is modded off-topic but I'm worried too and actually it is on-topic since it's the social impact on people who DO care (too much) about the crap going on in the world. Although, I've found out a rule "If you can't change it, better don't think too much about it", since, changes are albeit made more difficult by the day, since the government and the people with the "power" are protecting their position very carefully.
... still same shitty reason ..
I seriously have sleeping problems too, I'm sortof even depressed because of all the crap that's being dictated upon our freedom. What also bothers me is that individuality is not worth anything anymore; you've got to be integrated and working with the system 'you're either in our out" or you will get abandoned/banned by the people around you
protection and self-preversation; people want to kill to protect their property; even if that property is not in any danger. That makes me feel bad, other people who find their power and property more important than a life or the feeling of the fellow human being; your neightbour or even your enemy.
not to be nitpicking but now your password moved in cleartext into the .bash_history file ...
It's the same moral dilemma as when your friend jumps from a bridge and you wonder if you should jump too or not. If you care about the ones who made the music, authored it, put their time and soul in creating a song and you can give your share in the creation of that song; would you still be saying the same?
.aac or .mp3 format.
...
There are enough alternatives next to iTunes which have the same quality, without DRM, even on CD, available on the net as independent publishers. It also doesn't take a long time to watch on the CD/the underside of the CD if there are any copy protections or DRM features. Shop wise, skip the labels you don't trust, it's like shopping, do you buy cowboy-n-western music if you are not really into it ? No you skip that isle; do the same with your music label selections. If you really want you can de-atomize your iTunes tunes which will strip the DRM atoms and save your file in DRM-FREE
As well, I got to agree, the music industry is sucking up our money and the greedy lil bastards want even more and more, because the digital age of the mp3 player is out there... A CD shouldn't cost so much.
Still, this argument of "because one is bad all are bad" or "should I also jump of the bridge" does not go up for me
Guess I went blind for a few seconds because this post was replied to a complete other parent than this; sleep is needed...
How do you know all this information? Are you related to the Bush Administration?
Infected? Nooo, if the distribution has been altered, md5sum will give a different hash back.
NAME
md5sum - compute and check MD5 message digest
SYNOPSIS
md5sum [OPTION] [FILE]...
md5sum [OPTION] --check [FILE]
(relax, it's a joke)
They just add a disclaimer (with a scrolling text) saying "only rotten apples where used in this production".
Of'course "All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental."
Can't skin be tested for any problems? With a bloodtest we can already get a lot of information about the current condition of our body. DNA also tells a lot about our body. Skin tissue must contain such elements too, not?
Maybe this list of dissaprovals could be shortened because there are so many more factors to keep a body healthy or sick. The same for skin and organs. Not every man on Earth lives the same; thank-whatever-outthere. My foodrythm sucks, if there is any anyways, but I am as healthy as I can be; which could affect my skin too, while all tests show up ok. Someone who used (once) drugs, doesn't need to be affected either. Such question-list is putting someone on a spot as "1" or "0", either it's yes or no; isn't that a little bit too over the top; when tainted skin is actively used?
How can such tissue be "imported" into a hospital without the donor being tested? Does a fake report gets included with the skin? A fake bloodtest and/or DNA test?
If video usage causes traffic jams, they better ban them videos in the car not? Just like cellphones shouldn't create traffic jams videopods should neither...
relax, it's a joke...
I've got to say, the Live thing catched me and backfired to me in double. While it does send out 'surround" the signal needs to be redirected from digital-to-spdif or it won't work. The digital out supports only 2 speakers and a subwoofer ; eventually a middle speaker if you are lucky depending on the equipment you use.
I have bought myself a BlueGears HDA Digital X-Mystique 7.1, which has not only a Dolby Live surround output; supporting REAL 5.1 instead of the "thruput" Creative Labs solution; but it also costs half the price.
Therefor I think the live/audigy cards are not the real (good/best) thing(tm) for home-theater-systems; which is suggested by the site you have given.
... enough said with the headline ;)
I am very sure Vista(tm) can be run under a Virtual Machine, just like XP or 98 (which runs smoothest in Virtual PC (vmware is another example). I am also very convinced os X can be running under such Virtual Machine. Everything is possible with emulation, only, you've got to pay a small price, a price of performance...
... When I started programming I had to be carefully get everything on a 360k floppy, program and data files together. If I wanted a OS I'd have to swap floppies or add a B: drive. The 720k floppy's where just coming out so I was saving for a 2x size floppy drive. The next upgrade was a 20mb drive ...
... The PC evolution has exploded in all kinds of directions; as well upwards in technology and prices as downwards in quality and programming; just like all consumer devices these times...
... I sincerely hope the same does not happen with the universal binaries and os X; I just started to work with it, after +15yrs of working with PC, grew up with OS2 v2+ and warp, DOS, GEM, cp/m, Windows v2+, Windows v3+ and trumpet netsock which was a emulator(?), ... I have finally found something which is not such a burden to maintain that hard and which just works: a Powerbook 15" with os X!
...
This emulator has to translate a lot of things like memory, cpu, disks, mouse, keyboard, com ports, network card, usb devices (plug 'n pray), printer and low system (bios) calls to the underlying OS which takes a lot of CPU power and memory usage.
If this would be still running that fast on that nice mactel; I do not know...
I am very sure a virtual machine will run os X on PC and Vista on the mactel platform; only the task to run it natively without emulating too much is a pain ful cruisade (sometimes)...
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Life is like a box of chocolates, You never know what you gonna get! right?
As there is a lot more to use of a human brain than currently used by the majorty; the cpu is also not used as it should be used and in most cases even overused; most stuff is programmed (very) bloated; like Windows itself, like Vista be very good in the beginning, slow (& more bloated) in the middle and bad in the end (ready to reinstall); unless you very carefully pick your applications and don't change too much than needed upgrades (like with linux: when it's running, keep it running!)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> With Windows I learned to not to go strange with your os;
- Get rid of Internet explorer *immediately*! get Firefox or any alternative before your pc crawls
- if you got a good graphics * editor or messenger(tm) client ; stay with it and don't install 20 others to "try";
- Get a good Virusscanner, a free one like AVG or payware like F-secure Antivirus.
- If you want to get a good program you got to look at the size too, a smaller footprint can mean a smaller utilisation of memory and system usage; for a virusscanner or anti spyware utility this can be very vital!
- I repaired lots of them pc's's and it's all because of these virus/spyware/strange-installed things!
- which comes to : be sure to know what you install, verify the source a/o file (bbs 2400 baud world was hard sometimes!)
- Get rid of Outlook and Messenger, go to Trillian or alike
- Do not open files
Oh, trust me, they can sell it even if it uses no bandwidth at all.
... "If it looks good, it must be good; if the box looks good, the inside must be good"...
... "That has not happened on cellphones until now; this must be very complicated technology to make IM work on cellphones"...
;)
We are in a time where lots of "commercial goods" are based entirely (only) on looks.
like
or
A customer not knowing anything of technology, which is the largest base of most cellphone operators; will not even know or care, but just pay for it.
Cellphone (and many other sectors) know this and will lock in to be the best in their field; which is even easier now with all those patent/dmca acts in the US and EU (partially). It would not suprise me one of the next patents will be IM over a cellular carrier network.
It's the naivity of the customers what makes a monopoly big; Think with your wallet and it will stay a lot fatter. What most people are willing to pay for their convenience; if it is a fair price? That's another question a lot more people should ask in this money-hungry^H^H^H^H^Hdriven economy.
If I'd have the time I'd make an open-source release on the spot to have prior art and lock in on opensource solutions like Jabber with gatewaying to MSN and other echel^H^H^H^H^Hmessenger networks. I don't got the experience in mobile page development although I got the Perl and Jabber experience and know it should be fairly easy to program or port an existing open-source web-messenger application to the mobile desktop... not?
Maybe we can better call this the bling-bling age?
Where the shine of the coin is defining the trust
Maybe it's the imperfection of the devil or the imperfection of god ;) ..
.. I am reading slashdot .. instead of sleeping .. ugh ..
Don't tell me everything is running candy-dandy uh
although, why do you need to look closely to it?
If people see a sign in it will be related with a certain feeling (superstitious) a sign is just a sign; even if you look from closely - it represents what you like it to represent... If I don't like a certain sign because of my believe or feeling on my body, I pretty please like to keep that decision on me.
It's 8am
maybe he meant Carotene instead of Caragenics and the solution lies in Bugs Bunny and the carrot?
... chicken ? ;) :p
2. Get Babble
3. Connect to your amp & turn wide open (*)
4. Profit
(atleast the shop where you bought the amp/pair of speakers had profit)
(*) The submitter is not responsible for any happening damages when not high enough in your business hierarchy system.
I guess I was too stoned detecting if I was sting by a wasp or not; the leader of the west seems to be...
before wasp ( . )
after wasp ( o )
same detection
before wasp ( . )
after wasp ( O )
I could almost swear the (leader of the) east is ruled by wasps; isn't there a similar movie about it ?
oh my, Here come these "I bow to our (alien) wasp masters" jokes again ... ;)
and if humans think bayesian ... ;)
that's the reason why I delete more spam instead of my bayesian filter ; the implementation is flawed
Main question is .. is that license even WORTH 500$?
If anyone is selling me a nice box with nice contents and it feels it's worth 500$, I'd buy it, but I don't got that feeling I get the same value back as they are charging. Wether-the-less I did buy myself 2 XP licenses, which I have now
both problems with since the "activation key" does not work unless I call to Microsoft; which I already did 4 times but their automatic activation service says it's a "unknown key".
It's like buying a cat in a bag; the outside looks nice and promising but the inside requires a lot more than handing over an amount of money to the cashier.
Is it worth the price I've paid for these 2 "licenses" to "use" this software? hell no... I guess that's the main reason for the most people to not buy and just download their software. Insane prices not matching the quality and reality.
Also, Bill Gates should know better; since he started as hobbyist not?
Maybe he is afraid someone will get in his shoes?
bringing incomplete and very selected information to the people ? television?
censoring the net, taking sites down under the dmca laws, political censoring?
biased news and statistical figures?
games, should be taken with a grain of salt. It is like a movie.
I can not understand the reaction of Activision though; in games and movies there is a disclaimer "The events depicted in this movie are fictitious. Any similarity to any person living or dead is merely coincidental"...
Instead they banned; they could also push out an update which changes the Apache clan to another name? add a disclaimer, the box "contains fictious characters"?
I could not say I am boycotting Activision since I don't play their games at all; I only play 2 blizzard games and that's about it...
about disclaimers
I once saw a picture of a bible with a very nice disclaimer saying:
I've got to agree fully with that; even further; I'd like to see USB over WIFI for certain devices like a camera, keyboard, printer, anything that doesn't need a lot of traffic.
Anywhere the wind blows ...