When I lived in the Sacramento area, I found that the various dollar stores were the best place to buy USB and Firewire cables. As you can guess, they were $1.
I was thinking of getting one of those for my car. It is a '99 Suzki Swift that gets over 40mpg, so I would hate to part with it, but driving home from my client site in the middle of summer can be a killer. I figured I could throw a water bottle in the freezer when I got there, and it should last me for the drive home.
So, the you would say the one that Think Geek sells works?
You can be pretty sure that it does, since that is the point of the software. You know, to let someone else have access to your PC, and take stuff off of your computer.
Dial-Up Users "Don't Want Broadband" is like saying local phone telephone users "Don't want interstate calling capabilities". One can only assume that anyone that makes either statement, really doesn't understand what they are saying.
The problem is that broadband is like indoor toilets. I'm sure that there really were a few people that honest to goodness liked truding out into the snow to take a crap into a hole, but I would bet that there were a lot more people that just didn't want change. I have no doubt that there were people making comments about how they already have an outhouse, so they don't need a fancy smancy indoor toilet. Most of those people just didn't understand the benefit.
I suspect that the same situation applies for most of those dial-up users. The only two rational reason to not want broadband instead of dialup that they travel a lot to places that have telephones, but no other internet. That is becoming rarer and rarer.
Maybe if someone would start selling a DSL modem that would pause and play noise from a speaker for 30 seconds before allowing data through, and would choke the connection down to 56k, we could get the hold outs on to broadband. If we named the DSL modem "dial-up", no one would be the wiser.
"That I'm still using their service means that they accept the terms of my customer license agreement"
You would want to change that to:
"Continuing to provide service to my account means that you accept the terms of my customer license agreement"
Remember, it's what THEY do that signifies their acceptance. I don't see why this wouldn't be valid, as long as you are not already in a contract. Of course if you are, THEY can't change the contract either.
My guess is that any business you were dealing with would just cut you off. Of course, with AOL, that would be a good thing. In fact, that could be a very effective way to cancel if they try any shenanegans. Just notify them that by charging your account that they are agreeing to terms that would be unacceptable to them.
It's not the public stuff that worries me. If I publicly post a video, I have publicly posted a video. Sure, but what videos I watch is not public information. That is information that is between me and google. I am not posting what sites I visit, and I souldn't have to worry that there will be reprecussions because I watched Obama's political videos, or McCain's either. No, I don't think that is what this perticular case is about, but how much would it be worth to a politician to get that information? If a politician decided to play dirty, (and we know that many do) how hard would it be to use the data that Viacom just collected to determine what voting districts to "have unforseen problems" in, so as to swing votes one way or the other? Yes, that is a little tin foil hattish, but it's not like we have never seen large blocks of voter who were dead show up on voting rolls.
That is because 'average' was handled in the 3rd grade. Go head... Look at grade school text books. They explain what an 'average' is, and how to find one.
Well, now that you mention it, we might as well require auto mechanics to have PI licenses too. That and the high school kids who run weekend fund raising car washes. They'll need PI licenses...
No, it wouldn't be just as easy, or even come close to working. Shopping often involves looking at what a store has BEFORE you make a decision. Your method would require the parent to download demos of EVERY game ever produced, so that when they showed up at the store, the parent would already know what each and every game on the shelf is like. This doesn't even bring in the issue of consoles, which would require the parent to go out and rent every single game released so that they would be prepared when their kids decide on it at the store. Demos for consoles are few and far between after all.
Now, you may be suggesting that parents and kids make two trips to the store for any one game purchase. The first one is to see what the store has, and then the parent and kid drive home (to the rental store if it is a console game) and the parent sits down and tries the game that they are considering buying. After the parent has put many many hours into the game to check for inappropriate material, they can then drive back to the store with their kid to make the purchase.
Now, I'm not in favor of censorship in games any more than movies, I know that many people would be horrified at some of the material that I expose my child to, and I am under the opinion that most parents do a crappy job paying attention to what their kids are exposed to, BUT your suggestion is simply unworkable. Generally, the responsible parent, either buys the game and takes it away if they find it objectionable, they try to figure it out based on the information on the box, or a combination of the two.
That is just a dumb thing to say. If your wife says "I didn't sleep with your best friend.", it is inferred that she didn't have sex with him. If she's been screwing him for the last six months, she is still lying to you, even if she never actually fell asleep.
Obviously the point of "Minimum Bid" is to say that it is the lowest valid bid. Otherwise, it would be pointless to even have a minimum bid, as $0 would always be the minimum bid if you include invalid bids. (If your not going to count negative values.) So, if they are not trying to tell you that it is the minimum VALID bid, then they are lying about what the minimum INVALID bid is. Just because you have gotten used to being lied to regularly, and can recognize such lies, doesn't mean that it isn't a lie.
Really, it's just not cool in a shitty office environment. Unfortunately, MOST offices are now shitty office environments. The cube farm created the problem that normal human noise is now a real problem for some employees. If businesses actually supplied real live offices, the guy next to you with a clacky keyboard, playing Yanni on his cd player, or talking loudly on the phone wouldn't be a problem.
I used to have a job where I shared an office with one other guy. When he was out, I would close the door, turn off the lights except for on small reading lamp over the reference material next to me, turn on some metal, and code. (No windows, so it was dark) I had to make a little extra effort to make sure that anyone wanting to see me knew that they were not disturbing me, but that didn't take much effort. What I found was that I was far more productive, AND more accurate with my code when I could tailor my environment to suit my mood.
Note: We guaranteed the the accuracy of our software by paying the customer the difference between the amount we showed, and the actual amount. This meant that we had heavy tracking by almost every one of your customers as to the accuracy of our code. So, I could actually see that my code was more accurate.
It is lying. In when you tell someone what the "Minimum Bid" is, people understand you to mean "Minimum VALID Bid". It isn't the fact that they have a reserve that they are lying about. It is what the true minimum bid is that they are lying about. If "Minimum Bid" does not mean "Minimum Valid Bid" then it means nothing at all.
You are right. I must have gotten confused with some other auction site I was using at the time. It has been a while. I humbly withdraw the part about not knowing that the reserve wasn't met for 3 days concerning e-bay. Although having a reserve that is lying about what the true minimum valid bid is.
Reserves are just a play on words to try to trick buyers. The only difference is whether the bid is rejected before or after the auction is completed. It is dishonest, and it should be illegal. The people using reserves can tell themselves how they are not lying about what the real minimum bid is, but since there is no other reason for a reserve other than to trick people into thinking that their bid is valid, the people setting reserves are just rationalizing their immoral behaviour.
Reserves are the main reason I quit even bothering with e-bay. I got tired of bidding on something, and then 3 days later, finding out that the person selling the item had dismissed my bid before I even placed it. This prevented me from placing a bid on another auction for the same thing.
That is quite insightful. And, you are right. My ISP does allow me to not only chose my level of email filtering, but also lets me chose the level of port blocking I want. Since I run my own mail server, the spam filtering does me no good, but the port filtering is a great thing. For other customers, it is exactly the opposite.
Maybe, but the maximum punishment for copyright infringment should be smaller than the minimum punishment for murder.
For me though, the biggest problem I have with this is that I have never met a single individual over the age of about 10 that has not committed some form of "IP" crime. Hell, my kid is only 4 and has committed literally hundreds of illegal public performances of copyrighted music. Every time someone in a grocery store hears him singing a song from one of his favorite TV shows, he has technically committed a crime. Who here has never played their car stereo with the windows down while they drove down the street, or sang "Happy Birthday" at a birthday party, or at least one of the other day to day things that people do.
Hell, look at all of the "fan fiction" out on the internet. It is illegal if the "owner" of the source material didn't give express permission to use their characters. Should we be locking up little Sebastian because he handed in a school essay that involved Harry Potter?
No one wants to really have ideas owned. No one. What some people want is to be able to charge other less powerful people to think. Truly recognizing the ownership of ideas is simply unworkable. Every single person I have ever had a conversation with used ideas that were unauthorized by the person who originally introduced the ideas. That includes YOUR comments.
Of course you wouldn't have been able to contribute to society if your mother didn't get a good screwing that one night either. Your argument is absurd. By your argument, all you have to do is find one child that was born from a raping and contributed to society, and your argument becomes one that supports rape.
After all, if there were no rape, folks that're "rape babies" like little Sebastian wouldn't have a chance to contribute to society as a whole....
Heck, NOT testing for genetic diseases before implanting fetuses could very easily be called premeditated child abuse.
Compared to what? When blind fold tests are done to the people, they rarely know the difference between their favorite brand and any other cheap random brand. Often the cheap brand wins.
I'm not buying it. I have tried the double blind taste test with soda. I came out 100% on picking out Coke, Pepsi, and store brand. Most of my friends that tried the test did also. As for which they liked the most... It was split between Coke and Pepsi. Not one chose the store brand. I might believe that fountain soda could produce the results that you claim, but that is because fountain soda machines are usually horribly miscalibrated, and it is not uncommon for the soda to taste like cleaning solution because the nozzles are soaked in it and not properly washed before use, or the dishwasher is not properly rinsing all of the soap off of the glasses.
It doesn't help that they keep being told that they literally have "the most important job in world". Personally, I'll take garbage collectors, truck drivers for food and other supplies, farmers, and a whole slew of other jobs for my "most important" slot. If I had to make a list of professions that I had to protect, because one was going to magically disappear overnight, I doubt that "professional teacher" would even make the top 20. I doubt that "professional PUBLIC SCHOOL teacher" would make the top 40. No doubt it is great to live in a time and place that can afford to offer public education, but it certainly isn't as important as it is made out to be. This becomes even more the case when you get past grade school, since most adults don't retain any of their education beyond that anyway, yet function just fine in society.
This is why my kid cannot go to public school. He started reading at 2. (just before turning 3) Now, at 4 he reads as well as most of the kids from my 5th or 6th grade class, and as well as some that I went to high school with. He is well into 1st grade math, has been comfortable using his computer since he was 1, installed Linux for the first time soon after his second birthday (although that has more to do with how brain dead easy Ubuntu is to install than how smart he is), has built several simple small electronic projects with no adult intervention, etc, etc, etc...
So, as a typical dad, I believe it is safe to say that he is smart. That being said. I cannot imagine how much of a problem he would be if he were put into a public school. They would hate him, and he would hate them. I know if I went to a training course today, and the first day, the instructor said "Today we will be reviewing the letter A. We hope to cover the whole alphabet after a years worth of study." I would get up and leave. How could I expect anything less from my son? I can just imagine the calls from the police when he starts wiring things up to see how they work.
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When I lived in the Sacramento area, I found that the various dollar stores were the best place to buy USB and Firewire cables. As you can guess, they were $1.
I was thinking of getting one of those for my car. It is a '99 Suzki Swift that gets over 40mpg, so I would hate to part with it, but driving home from my client site in the middle of summer can be a killer. I figured I could throw a water bottle in the freezer when I got there, and it should last me for the drive home.
So, the you would say the one that Think Geek sells works?
It is really sad that we have come to the point that people don't consider it a scam when a product that is advertised as "Free" costs over $90.
Well then, perhaps, he should have sold his "support for the candidate of your choice" in the the upcoming election.
You can be pretty sure that it does, since that is the point of the software. You know, to let someone else have access to your PC, and take stuff off of your computer.
Dial-Up Users "Don't Want Broadband" is like saying local phone telephone users "Don't want interstate calling capabilities". One can only assume that anyone that makes either statement, really doesn't understand what they are saying.
The problem is that broadband is like indoor toilets. I'm sure that there really were a few people that honest to goodness liked truding out into the snow to take a crap into a hole, but I would bet that there were a lot more people that just didn't want change. I have no doubt that there were people making comments about how they already have an outhouse, so they don't need a fancy smancy indoor toilet. Most of those people just didn't understand the benefit.
I suspect that the same situation applies for most of those dial-up users. The only two rational reason to not want broadband instead of dialup that they travel a lot to places that have telephones, but no other internet. That is becoming rarer and rarer.
Maybe if someone would start selling a DSL modem that would pause and play noise from a speaker for 30 seconds before allowing data through, and would choke the connection down to 56k, we could get the hold outs on to broadband. If we named the DSL modem "dial-up", no one would be the wiser.
"That I'm still using their service means that they accept the terms of my customer license agreement"
You would want to change that to:
"Continuing to provide service to my account means that you accept the terms of my customer license agreement"
Remember, it's what THEY do that signifies their acceptance. I don't see why this wouldn't be valid, as long as you are not already in a contract. Of course if you are, THEY can't change the contract either.
My guess is that any business you were dealing with would just cut you off. Of course, with AOL, that would be a good thing. In fact, that could be a very effective way to cancel if they try any shenanegans. Just notify them that by charging your account that they are agreeing to terms that would be unacceptable to them.
It's not the public stuff that worries me. If I publicly post a video, I have publicly posted a video. Sure, but what videos I watch is not public information. That is information that is between me and google. I am not posting what sites I visit, and I souldn't have to worry that there will be reprecussions because I watched Obama's political videos, or McCain's either. No, I don't think that is what this perticular case is about, but how much would it be worth to a politician to get that information? If a politician decided to play dirty, (and we know that many do) how hard would it be to use the data that Viacom just collected to determine what voting districts to "have unforseen problems" in, so as to swing votes one way or the other? Yes, that is a little tin foil hattish, but it's not like we have never seen large blocks of voter who were dead show up on voting rolls.
That is because 'average' was handled in the 3rd grade. Go head... Look at grade school text books. They explain what an 'average' is, and how to find one.
Well, now that you mention it, we might as well require auto mechanics to have PI licenses too. That and the high school kids who run weekend fund raising car washes. They'll need PI licenses...
More people would use it if Netflix would start renting porn and video games.
No, it wouldn't be just as easy, or even come close to working. Shopping often involves looking at what a store has BEFORE you make a decision. Your method would require the parent to download demos of EVERY game ever produced, so that when they showed up at the store, the parent would already know what each and every game on the shelf is like. This doesn't even bring in the issue of consoles, which would require the parent to go out and rent every single game released so that they would be prepared when their kids decide on it at the store. Demos for consoles are few and far between after all.
Now, you may be suggesting that parents and kids make two trips to the store for any one game purchase. The first one is to see what the store has, and then the parent and kid drive home (to the rental store if it is a console game) and the parent sits down and tries the game that they are considering buying. After the parent has put many many hours into the game to check for inappropriate material, they can then drive back to the store with their kid to make the purchase.
Now, I'm not in favor of censorship in games any more than movies, I know that many people would be horrified at some of the material that I expose my child to, and I am under the opinion that most parents do a crappy job paying attention to what their kids are exposed to, BUT your suggestion is simply unworkable. Generally, the responsible parent, either buys the game and takes it away if they find it objectionable, they try to figure it out based on the information on the box, or a combination of the two.
That is just a dumb thing to say. If your wife says "I didn't sleep with your best friend.", it is inferred that she didn't have sex with him. If she's been screwing him for the last six months, she is still lying to you, even if she never actually fell asleep.
Obviously the point of "Minimum Bid" is to say that it is the lowest valid bid. Otherwise, it would be pointless to even have a minimum bid, as $0 would always be the minimum bid if you include invalid bids. (If your not going to count negative values.) So, if they are not trying to tell you that it is the minimum VALID bid, then they are lying about what the minimum INVALID bid is. Just because you have gotten used to being lied to regularly, and can recognize such lies, doesn't mean that it isn't a lie.
Really, it's just not cool in a shitty office environment. Unfortunately, MOST offices are now shitty office environments. The cube farm created the problem that normal human noise is now a real problem for some employees. If businesses actually supplied real live offices, the guy next to you with a clacky keyboard, playing Yanni on his cd player, or talking loudly on the phone wouldn't be a problem.
I used to have a job where I shared an office with one other guy. When he was out, I would close the door, turn off the lights except for on small reading lamp over the reference material next to me, turn on some metal, and code. (No windows, so it was dark) I had to make a little extra effort to make sure that anyone wanting to see me knew that they were not disturbing me, but that didn't take much effort. What I found was that I was far more productive, AND more accurate with my code when I could tailor my environment to suit my mood.
Note: We guaranteed the the accuracy of our software by paying the customer the difference between the amount we showed, and the actual amount. This meant that we had heavy tracking by almost every one of your customers as to the accuracy of our code. So, I could actually see that my code was more accurate.
It is lying. In when you tell someone what the "Minimum Bid" is, people understand you to mean "Minimum VALID Bid". It isn't the fact that they have a reserve that they are lying about. It is what the true minimum bid is that they are lying about. If "Minimum Bid" does not mean "Minimum Valid Bid" then it means nothing at all.
You are right. I must have gotten confused with some other auction site I was using at the time. It has been a while. I humbly withdraw the part about not knowing that the reserve wasn't met for 3 days concerning e-bay. Although having a reserve that is lying about what the true minimum valid bid is.
Reserves are just a play on words to try to trick buyers. The only difference is whether the bid is rejected before or after the auction is completed. It is dishonest, and it should be illegal. The people using reserves can tell themselves how they are not lying about what the real minimum bid is, but since there is no other reason for a reserve other than to trick people into thinking that their bid is valid, the people setting reserves are just rationalizing their immoral behaviour.
Reserves are the main reason I quit even bothering with e-bay. I got tired of bidding on something, and then 3 days later, finding out that the person selling the item had dismissed my bid before I even placed it. This prevented me from placing a bid on another auction for the same thing.
That is quite insightful. And, you are right. My ISP does allow me to not only chose my level of email filtering, but also lets me chose the level of port blocking I want. Since I run my own mail server, the spam filtering does me no good, but the port filtering is a great thing. For other customers, it is exactly the opposite.
The Ori are all dead.
Maybe, but the maximum punishment for copyright infringment should be smaller than the minimum punishment for murder.
For me though, the biggest problem I have with this is that I have never met a single individual over the age of about 10 that has not committed some form of "IP" crime. Hell, my kid is only 4 and has committed literally hundreds of illegal public performances of copyrighted music. Every time someone in a grocery store hears him singing a song from one of his favorite TV shows, he has technically committed a crime. Who here has never played their car stereo with the windows down while they drove down the street, or sang "Happy Birthday" at a birthday party, or at least one of the other day to day things that people do.
Hell, look at all of the "fan fiction" out on the internet. It is illegal if the "owner" of the source material didn't give express permission to use their characters. Should we be locking up little Sebastian because he handed in a school essay that involved Harry Potter?
No one wants to really have ideas owned. No one. What some people want is to be able to charge other less powerful people to think. Truly recognizing the ownership of ideas is simply unworkable. Every single person I have ever had a conversation with used ideas that were unauthorized by the person who originally introduced the ideas. That includes YOUR comments.
Of course you wouldn't have been able to contribute to society if your mother didn't get a good screwing that one night either. Your argument is absurd. By your argument, all you have to do is find one child that was born from a raping and contributed to society, and your argument becomes one that supports rape.
After all, if there were no rape, folks that're "rape babies" like little Sebastian wouldn't have a chance to contribute to society as a whole....
Heck, NOT testing for genetic diseases before implanting fetuses could very easily be called premeditated child abuse.
1. Coca-Cola freaking tastes really good
Compared to what? When blind fold tests are done to the people, they rarely know the difference between their favorite brand and any other cheap random brand. Often the cheap brand wins.
I'm not buying it. I have tried the double blind taste test with soda. I came out 100% on picking out Coke, Pepsi, and store brand. Most of my friends that tried the test did also. As for which they liked the most... It was split between Coke and Pepsi. Not one chose the store brand. I might believe that fountain soda could produce the results that you claim, but that is because fountain soda machines are usually horribly miscalibrated, and it is not uncommon for the soda to taste like cleaning solution because the nozzles are soaked in it and not properly washed before use, or the dishwasher is not properly rinsing all of the soap off of the glasses.
I have to agree with you.
It doesn't help that they keep being told that they literally have "the most important job in world". Personally, I'll take garbage collectors, truck drivers for food and other supplies, farmers, and a whole slew of other jobs for my "most important" slot. If I had to make a list of professions that I had to protect, because one was going to magically disappear overnight, I doubt that "professional teacher" would even make the top 20. I doubt that "professional PUBLIC SCHOOL teacher" would make the top 40. No doubt it is great to live in a time and place that can afford to offer public education, but it certainly isn't as important as it is made out to be. This becomes even more the case when you get past grade school, since most adults don't retain any of their education beyond that anyway, yet function just fine in society.
This is why my kid cannot go to public school. He started reading at 2. (just before turning 3) Now, at 4 he reads as well as most of the kids from my 5th or 6th grade class, and as well as some that I went to high school with. He is well into 1st grade math, has been comfortable using his computer since he was 1, installed Linux for the first time soon after his second birthday (although that has more to do with how brain dead easy Ubuntu is to install than how smart he is), has built several simple small electronic projects with no adult intervention, etc, etc, etc...
So, as a typical dad, I believe it is safe to say that he is smart. That being said. I cannot imagine how much of a problem he would be if he were put into a public school. They would hate him, and he would hate them. I know if I went to a training course today, and the first day, the instructor said "Today we will be reviewing the letter A. We hope to cover the whole alphabet after a years worth of study." I would get up and leave. How could I expect anything less from my son? I can just imagine the calls from the police when he starts wiring things up to see how they work.