Actually, if I launched my ass up the moon right now, and declared it mine, and set up a colony, how would any nation stop me? Bomb the moon? Send up a rival colony? The practicality of anybody/thing owning something that they can barely reach, let alone fight for, like the Moon, is extremely low.
What type of life? I imagine that only things that want proteins and other little critters that were used to would see sugar as edible. Lets not be too closed minded here.
: Lots of people drive without knowing the fine : details of their cars, and doing a good job of : computer security requires a knowledge of : computers at the same detailed level. What kind : of computing education would you like to : require?
Still, most people wouldn't put sugar in their gas tank and expect the car to work perfectly, or just start sticking random modifications into their car. Its becase cars cost a lot of money and people don't want to ruin it and to have a proffessional fix it, but when it comes to computers a large amount of people feel that they know what they're doing when they don't (I feel this way because I worked for a year and half at a place that had public access to computers, and I was constantly resetting network settings and fixing computers that some "bright" user fiddled with).
Apparently you never saw the "Compaq would like to preset you with a free gift" program. It would pop out the CDROM drive and say "Here is your complementary cupholder".
"Immediate execution of mail attachments" has nothing to do with Win95/98. That is purely up to the mail program. For instance, I have NSMail set to truncate any message over 12K, which nicely makes it so that I get less spam and shit like this.
But I fail to understand the problem here. If the user is a moron and wants to run unsafe programs on their computer, why not let [him/her]? I don't want some sappy dialogue box popping up every time I run a new program warning me that it may have viruses, and I definately don't want Windows to prevent me from working in the name of convienience.
Education is necessary, not the dumbing down of the OS until its just MS Bob all over again.
Umm.. I don't quite understand how that is different than what it does now... and if you meant to say "first" extension, well I still don't see how that would help. I don't quite understand how having the extension determine how to open a file be a bad thing. It still needs the proper header to run it...
It did not say what the test run was. It seemed to me like the "test run" did not show anybody what it would do, just them accessed it briefly to see if it would respond.
No, it is the number of tech jobs. Tech jobs are the current hot item to spend money on, and since most tech is supposed to be here, people come here looking for tech jobs. The valley can support enough people if tech was balanced, but the flow of money to tech jobs means that only tech career people can get houses here. The climate is the same all the way up and down the coast, but you don't see this happening along the entire coast...
I agree about the taxes. All of San Jose's money goes in to the downtown area. They buy statues, build new city halls, and build parking garages that aren't used instead of running the light rail lines out to where people live. Remember the Pavillion... the shopping center created in downtown... that nobody goes to and every shop runs out of business at. Horrid waste I say.
No. Light Rail doesnt work because it travels from one business area to another. It takes me 20 minutes to travel by car into downtown San Jose or 30 for Santa Clara, it would take double that to drive to a Light Rail station, get on the train, then after getting off walk to my job. The problem with the Light Rail is that it does not stop anywhere near my residential area, which is Los Gatos, where many of the the high priced houses are.
Umm.. the only way you'd get cost of living to drop in Silicon Valley is to make more places like Silicon Alley. The reason it is so high is because people make much money from tech jobs... if you move the tech jobs away then prices will drop.
If you live in Silicon Valley this is far from news. I am serious... I have been reading these types of complaints for the past several years. Look at the editorial section of the Mercury News for the past year and you'll find that high house prices and age discrimination have been around for some time. This also means that the problems have been around long enough for nobody to care enough to do anything about them... what I mean is that nothing has changed since people started complaining about this.
If used correctly, capital punishment would work. In the US now, though, we have a half-assed capital punishment system. Currently, criminals do not make the connection between crime and death. If we started executions for stealing, in every single case, I can garuntee that thefts will decline.
Currently, it is illegal for me to download someone else's song without paying for it, even though my only intention is to listen to it personally, not sell it to others. I do not agree that that should be illegal, since someone else is letting me download it. However, if I go and sell their works so that I can make money, I feel that that should be illegal.
No, fuckin' 28.8 modem. Unlike some people on Napster, I actually have a 28.8 modem. I used to share my songs, but that always resulted in people downloading off of me and me not getting a chance to download anything in return.
Actually I didn't intend that as justification, but I see what you mean. I openly admit that I pirate for personal gain. I do not gain anything, but then I do not spend anything which technically is personal gain.
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What the hell, you're posting shit like this in places where I won't even notice it?
Actually, if I launched my ass up the moon right now, and declared it mine, and set up a colony, how would any nation stop me? Bomb the moon? Send up a rival colony? The practicality of anybody/thing owning something that they can barely reach, let alone fight for, like the Moon, is extremely low.
What type of life? I imagine that only things that want proteins and other little critters that were used to would see sugar as edible. Lets not be too closed minded here.
I usually like Japanese animation, but Akira still sucked. I'd much prefer watching this again than Akira again.
: Lots of people drive without knowing the fine
: details of their cars, and doing a good job of
: computer security requires a knowledge of
: computers at the same detailed level. What kind
: of computing education would you like to
: require?
Still, most people wouldn't put sugar in their gas tank and expect the car to work perfectly, or just start sticking random modifications into their car. Its becase cars cost a lot of money and people don't want to ruin it and to have a proffessional fix it, but when it comes to computers a large amount of people feel that they know what they're doing when they don't (I feel this way because I worked for a year and half at a place that had public access to computers, and I was constantly resetting network settings and fixing computers that some "bright" user fiddled with).
Apparently you never saw the "Compaq would like to preset you with a free gift" program. It would pop out the CDROM drive and say "Here is your complementary cupholder".
"Immediate execution of mail attachments" has nothing to do with Win95/98. That is purely up to the mail program. For instance, I have NSMail set to truncate any message over 12K, which nicely makes it so that I get less spam and shit like this.
But I fail to understand the problem here. If the user is a moron and wants to run unsafe programs on their computer, why not let [him/her]? I don't want some sappy dialogue box popping up every time I run a new program warning me that it may have viruses, and I definately don't want Windows to prevent me from working in the name of convienience.
Education is necessary, not the dumbing down of the OS until its just MS Bob all over again.
Umm.. I don't quite understand how that is different than what it does now... and if you meant to say "first" extension, well I still don't see how that would help. I don't quite understand how having the extension determine how to open a file be a bad thing. It still needs the proper header to run it...
It did not say what the test run was. It seemed to me like the "test run" did not show anybody what it would do, just them accessed it briefly to see if it would respond.
No, it is the number of tech jobs. Tech jobs are the current hot item to spend money on, and since most tech is supposed to be here, people come here looking for tech jobs. The valley can support enough people if tech was balanced, but the flow of money to tech jobs means that only tech career people can get houses here. The climate is the same all the way up and down the coast, but you don't see this happening along the entire coast...
I agree about the taxes. All of San Jose's money goes in to the downtown area. They buy statues, build new city halls, and build parking garages that aren't used instead of running the light rail lines out to where people live. Remember the Pavillion... the shopping center created in downtown ... that nobody goes to and every shop runs out of business at. Horrid waste I say.
Thats not exactly a secret... a casual reader of the editorial section of the Mercury News could tell that it is not a secret.
There _are_ high rises, just not that many for housing. Most of the high buildings are in downtown San Jose and go to companies like Adobe.
No. Light Rail doesnt work because it travels from one business area to another. It takes me 20 minutes to travel by car into downtown San Jose or 30 for Santa Clara, it would take double that to drive to a Light Rail station, get on the train, then after getting off walk to my job. The problem with the Light Rail is that it does not stop anywhere near my residential area, which is Los Gatos, where many of the the high priced houses are.
Umm.. the only way you'd get cost of living to drop in Silicon Valley is to make more places like Silicon Alley. The reason it is so high is because people make much money from tech jobs... if you move the tech jobs away then prices will drop.
If you live in Silicon Valley this is far from news. I am serious... I have been reading these types of complaints for the past several years. Look at the editorial section of the Mercury News for the past year and you'll find that high house prices and age discrimination have been around for some time. This also means that the problems have been around long enough for nobody to care enough to do anything about them... what I mean is that nothing has changed since people started complaining about this.
Many ancient cultures saw nothing wrong with killing. We do now though, and I don't think it has anything to do with higher moral ground.
If used correctly, capital punishment would work. In the US now, though, we have a half-assed capital punishment system. Currently, criminals do not make the connection between crime and death. If we started executions for stealing, in every single case, I can garuntee that thefts will decline.
I didn't say it makes me better. I just find it convienient because I have a very slow modem.
Currently, it is illegal for me to download someone else's song without paying for it, even though my only intention is to listen to it personally, not sell it to others. I do not agree that that should be illegal, since someone else is letting me download it. However, if I go and sell their works so that I can make money, I feel that that should be illegal.
What I said and you said are neither exclusive nor contradictory.
Seagrams is far too large a corporation to do that ... easily.
No, fuckin' 28.8 modem. Unlike some people on Napster, I actually have a 28.8 modem. I used to share my songs, but that always resulted in people downloading off of me and me not getting a chance to download anything in return.
Actually I didn't intend that as justification, but I see what you mean. I openly admit that I pirate for personal gain. I do not gain anything, but then I do not spend anything which technically is personal gain.