I'm thinking about the 5 hour cross country flight, sitting next to the the ass that is either so stupid that he can't figure out that a $.50 pair of ear plugs would solve his problems, or is so self centered that he thinks everybody else should modify their behavior in public places because trying to force his desired behavior on everyone else seems like a better idea than putting in a $.50 pair of ear plugs.
I just wish that airlines would start offering free ear plugs, so we could all stop listening to the incessant whining of a bunch of intellectually challenged self centered ass holes.
Pure FUD. POTS is referring to the analog service that is provided by the incumbent phone companies. If the existing analog service disappeared tomorrow, you would just see a rise in competition from digital services. You would also see better SLAs from digital providers. The biggest problems with things like 911 on Vonage are not caused because Vonage cannot or will not provide the service. It is caused because the current POTS providers put up actual road blocks to prevent interoperability. Once set up, my ISP has had 99.9% up-time. I have lived in places in the US that had worse up-time. My cell phone has never been down when I tried to use it inside my home. The whole, "Your going to die if you don't pay the incumbent phone company." line is FUD. Pure FUD. When you stop leaving the safety of your POTS, then you can talk. I personally leave my home on occasion, and thus have no access to 911 via my POTS line.
Emulation is the only solution that will ever get us off of x86. It is likely to happen eventually. We already see a lot of code being written for Java, which really is just an emulator. We see a lot of "virtualization" going on now also. This is the first step for moving the x86 code off of real hardware. You can bet that once everyone is running primarily under "virtualization", whether the x86 is passed through to the real processor via virtualization, or gets emulated will just be a plug-in and check box away. The other factor that is a problem is that the code is not just x86. It is also Windows. Hopefully projects like ReactOS will solve that for legacy applications. I have high hopes for ReactOS, but even if it isn't 100% compatible, it could still be useful. It only needs to be compatible with the software that you are running on it.
I'm still of the opinion that MS should have written Vista with no backward compatibility. Instead, they should have ported VirtualPC to the full 64bit non-legacy Vista, and included a hard coded WindowsXP install for running old software. Given that they have the source code, they could have easily updated the XP UI to make it look like it was running natively on the new OS. Given that Vista is already a power hog, and a lot of software is already incompatible, this would have improved compatibility while at the same time simplifying and speeding up their code base.
I haven't been to a lot of European cities, but I did spend a week in London a few years ago. I would be no more inclined to raise my child there than in San Francisco. Cities are just simply not a good place to raise children. They are great for the childless 20 somethings, and the 60+ crowd. For the rest, they suck.
No, but they might sentence him to 10 years of ass raping. I might consider that torture. Actually the AIDS that he catches from the raping could certainly be considered the death penalty. I guess the question come in... Are the prisons in the UK any better?
That is a realistic solution. Multiple cars. If something could be worked out with the insurance companies, so that each car added didn't increase the cost dramatically, people might just have use appropriate cars. One of my cars is a 3/4 ton pickup. Do I want to drive it to go to the grocery store? No. That doesn't change the fact that if my wife has the Swift, I am left with a 3/4 ton pickup for the purpose of hauling a gallon of milk and a half dozen bananas. Giving up the truck is simply not feasible, as hauling a yard of gravel in the hatch back of a Suzuki Swift just doesn't work.
No, it is not to do things that you can't do inside, like swimming, playing catch, and lots of other activities. It is to do thing outside. Often in the woods. This can just as easily be watching TV as cycling. In fact, for cycling, you generally need pavement, or at least some kind of trail. Camping is very frequently about "sitting on your ass". Just doing it in the woods. If you want swim, cycle, and play catch, you might as well stay in the city. The facilities are much better for it. Of course given that you are doing city activities in the woods, and are being condescending towards other people that might be doing other city activities in the woods, you fit exactly into the group previously mentioned. You just seem to think that your shade of gray is better than other peoples shade of gray. Get yourself an animal skin loin cloth, and start walking into the woods. Then, your argument might hold water.
What I don't understand is how someone who takes an ultralight aluminum and nylon backpack, a compass, butane lighter, food from a grocery store, high tech material sleeping bag, nylon tent, and all of the other comforts of civilization that are incredibly common, can be so condescending towards people who take a tv or laptop with them. It basically boils down to 'my shade of gray is better than your shade of gray.'
When the "I camp for REAL." crowd starts wrapping an animal skin around their waist and starts walking, THEN they can be taken seriously. Until then, they are just pompous ass hypocrites that are just pretending to camp.
I haven't seen the movie, but figuring out how the whole world could become infertile at basically the same time isn't too hard to do. Just have a couple of vaccines that cause infertility, and then combine that with a dedicated humanitarian push to make sure that no one has to suffer from this debilitating disease. Now for the cure, you just have to have this imaginary vaccine fail over time if no booster is applied. If things are as bad as the commercials made it look like they were supposed to be, vaccinating for a disease that the world hasn't seen in 18 years is unlikely. You could also go with that fancy smancy new satellite radio that comes online with much higher power than what we have now, causing the infertility. Once the world gets bad enough that the satellite is allowed to stop transmitting, everybody can breed again. The possibilities for an 18 year, world wide infertility epidemic are endless.
When did Opera 3 come out. I know that Lotus Notes had it with version 4 in 1996. If I wanted to split hairs, they had it in 1993, but the pages were not served via http over TCP/IP, so I will call it 1996. Thanks for that link by the way.
Brach's sells candy as a health food because they used some Vitamin C to add tartness. I actually saw a package in the store a few months ago with big writing saying "Vitamin C!", "NO FAT!".
Well, the primary goal of a teacher SHOULD be to teach the student HOW to learn. When a teacher uses the extremely poor excuse that they don't know how to use a computer, which is a tool of their trade, they make it absolutely clear that they do not understand the primary subject they are teaching, and thus are completely unqualified for the job. How could anyone possibly think that someone who is either incapable or unwilling to learn a subject that has dominated society for the last two decades, is qualified to teach is baffling.
If the DMCA does ever get revisited, there really needs to be something in there to prevent piracy of IP. You know, when you've put your property out on the sea of the internet, and along comes some pirate like Viacom with their boat load of lawyers, who demand that your ISP surrender your property to them. Thus depriving you of the use of your property and blocking the shipping lanes between the owner of the IP and the consumer.
Basically if we are going to claim that IP is so valuable, and give someone the right to deprive you of the use of your own creations on just their say so, the person depriving you of your IP should be liable if they take something from you that does not belong to them.
And in less than 10 minutes with google, I could find that "The Battle of Dorking" (1871) by George Tomkyns Chesney is in fact a derivative work. Wikipedia has a section on it on the Invasion Literature page. So, you give one example of a derivative, that you try to pass off as being completely original, and then after explaining that Space Invaders is a derivative work, you claim that it is original. Not even taking into account your very good example of where it derived from, it is also just a simple carnival shooting gallary that has replaced the ducks with space ships. That is far from original and non-derivative. Or, are you in the camp that believes adding "on a computer" makes every day things something new, original, and innovative?
The Hobbit?!?!?! You must be kidding? Quest for a treasure story? You think that was invented in 1920? From Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hobbit
Tolkien introduced or mentioned characters and places that figured prominently in his legendarium, specifically Elrond and Gondolin, along with elements from Germanic legend. But the decision that the events of The Hobbit could belong to the same universe as The Silmarillion was made only after publication, when the publisher asked for a sequel and Tolkien began work on what would become The Lord of the Rings.
The novel draws on Tolkien's knowledge of historical languages and early European texts -- many names and words derived from Norse mythology, it makes use of Anglo-Saxon runes, and is filled with information on calendars and moon phases, detailed geographical descriptions that fit well with the accompanying maps -- attention to detail that would also be seen in Tolkien's later work.
The dude was ripping stuff off left and right. So, here we sit with still no example of a single non-derivative work.
Of course the same thing can happen with the the vaccine, since the vaccine is has not been around to see if 50 year olds that got the vaccine as children will get shingles. Remember the vaccine is a live virus, so the disease can still hide in the nerves. Problems from shingles are pretty darn rare. I have yet to meet a single person to have suffered from them. I've only met a couple of people who have gotten shingles at all. Of course the vaccine is only about 75% effective, but with a 75% effective rate, it increases the chances of getting chicken pox as an adult dramatically. This changes what used to be a major childhood inconvenience for a real adult threat to life. Combine this with the fact that it is considered a real possibility that those that get the vaccine may need a booster in the 18-25 age range. You know the most well insured and least risk adverse demographics in America.
So basically, even IF it does prevent shingles, you are still risking a major adult inconvenience for a serious risk to adult health. Even the CDC gives money as one of the two primary reasons to get the shot. The other is the risk of death. Given that the death rate due to high school football is something like 30 times that of chicken pox, the risk of death is simply FUD
Of course, I have yet to go to the doctor with flu like symptoms (which is what the parent is really talking about) where they didn't just take my temperature, weigh me, tell me it's a virus, and that I should just go home and get rest. I really doubt that the doctor weighing me did anything to prevent secondary diseases. There are a growing number of people who are beginning to distrust general practitioners. I know that of the last three times I visited a general practitioner, I was either mis-diagnosed, or lied to. And when the time came for immunizations for my son, the literature I was given on the chicken pox vaccine didn't sound right. After investigating, I found that the only reason to take the vaccine was money, yet it is universally recommended.
I'm not arguing the rest of the post. Just that waiting it out is not absolutely the worst thing you can do.
The stuff I used was 2" if I'm not mistaken. It may have been 1 1/2". Just go to a hardware store and take a look. The 'industry' term for what you want is "Smurf Tubing". It is called that because it is blue. It is a flexible tube. Once it is in, running cables is a breeze. I did a complete renovation on my home the year before last, and ran this stuff to every room, since the sheetrock was already down. I didn't pre-run any kind of data cable. It was simple to add the cables after the house was done.
Depending on your setup, you might be just running the conduit from behind the TV down to the baseboard. This would only require 3 holes. One behind the TV, which would be covered by a plate for connecting devices. One at the baseboard which would also be covered by a plate for connecting devices, and one where the fire block is in the middle of the wall where you would need to drill a hole for the tube. That is the only one that would need to be patched. Of course while you have the wall open, you should run an electric line up to have an outlet behind the TV. This will avoid having too short of a power cable to reach all the way to the outlet at the baseboard.
As long as you don't go to small on the conduit, any future cabling changes will be extremely simple. It actually annoys me that builders don't run conduit instead of cable. The cost difference would be minimal, but the convenience benefit would be massive.
If the cables are not running through a conduit inside the wall, you've missed big opportunity. Once you've decided to wall mount the TV, you have decided that you are not going to move it. Spend the little extra time/money to cut the sheetrock, put in a conduit, cover the sheetrock, texture and paint. If fewer wires make you happy, no wires will make you much happier.
That would be an argument AGAINST going HDMI. If you don't notice the improvement, but then will notice the poorer quality if you go back, you have made a bad choice with the move. That is like taking a drug that doesn't get you high, but gives you withdrawals anyway.
"and to MS's credit they had no time limits; all they cared about was getting the customer's issue fixed even if you were on one call all day."
This surprises me. I tried reporting a problem where MS Money didn't add money correctly. That's right. It failed at adding money. After spending an hour on the phone just to get through, the tech was able to easily reproduce the problem on his end. He told me he would forward this on. 2 months later, there was a message on my answering machine from another MS employee telling me that since I wasn't home, they were going to close out the ticket. I guess I just have a hard time believeing that MS places any priority on fixing customers problems.
My primary theory is that SG-1 is getting canceled because of the Christian theme. SG-1 had a few poor seasons. The new bad guys and cast changes have dramatically improved the show. Yes, you will always have people who complain when you have major changes, as they won't like the direction that was chosen, but over all, SG-1 has been much better than it has been in a long time.
The problem that causes it to get canceled? They picked the wrong religion to pick on. SG-1 has always made a mockery of religion. When it was ancient egyption religion, that was fine, but when you start making the Catholics the universes supervillian, and by relation basically all Christian sects, you better watch out.
Richard Dean Anderson actually said it was a comedy, so, I would have to say you are right. It was in one of those "making of"s. It might have been the 100th episode.
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I'm thinking about the 5 hour cross country flight, sitting next to the the ass that is either so stupid that he can't figure out that a $.50 pair of ear plugs would solve his problems, or is so self centered that he thinks everybody else should modify their behavior in public places because trying to force his desired behavior on everyone else seems like a better idea than putting in a $.50 pair of ear plugs.
I just wish that airlines would start offering free ear plugs, so we could all stop listening to the incessant whining of a bunch of intellectually challenged self centered ass holes.
Pure FUD. POTS is referring to the analog service that is provided by the incumbent phone companies. If the existing analog service disappeared tomorrow, you would just see a rise in competition from digital services. You would also see better SLAs from digital providers. The biggest problems with things like 911 on Vonage are not caused because Vonage cannot or will not provide the service. It is caused because the current POTS providers put up actual road blocks to prevent interoperability. Once set up, my ISP has had 99.9% up-time. I have lived in places in the US that had worse up-time. My cell phone has never been down when I tried to use it inside my home. The whole, "Your going to die if you don't pay the incumbent phone company." line is FUD. Pure FUD. When you stop leaving the safety of your POTS, then you can talk. I personally leave my home on occasion, and thus have no access to 911 via my POTS line.
Emulation is the only solution that will ever get us off of x86. It is likely to happen eventually. We already see a lot of code being written for Java, which really is just an emulator. We see a lot of "virtualization" going on now also. This is the first step for moving the x86 code off of real hardware. You can bet that once everyone is running primarily under "virtualization", whether the x86 is passed through to the real processor via virtualization, or gets emulated will just be a plug-in and check box away. The other factor that is a problem is that the code is not just x86. It is also Windows. Hopefully projects like ReactOS will solve that for legacy applications. I have high hopes for ReactOS, but even if it isn't 100% compatible, it could still be useful. It only needs to be compatible with the software that you are running on it.
I'm still of the opinion that MS should have written Vista with no backward compatibility. Instead, they should have ported VirtualPC to the full 64bit non-legacy Vista, and included a hard coded WindowsXP install for running old software. Given that they have the source code, they could have easily updated the XP UI to make it look like it was running natively on the new OS. Given that Vista is already a power hog, and a lot of software is already incompatible, this would have improved compatibility while at the same time simplifying and speeding up their code base.
I haven't been to a lot of European cities, but I did spend a week in London a few years ago. I would be no more inclined to raise my child there than in San Francisco. Cities are just simply not a good place to raise children. They are great for the childless 20 somethings, and the 60+ crowd. For the rest, they suck.
No, but they might sentence him to 10 years of ass raping. I might consider that torture. Actually the AIDS that he catches from the raping could certainly be considered the death penalty. I guess the question come in... Are the prisons in the UK any better?
That is a realistic solution. Multiple cars. If something could be worked out with the insurance companies, so that each car added didn't increase the cost dramatically, people might just have use appropriate cars. One of my cars is a 3/4 ton pickup. Do I want to drive it to go to the grocery store? No. That doesn't change the fact that if my wife has the Swift, I am left with a 3/4 ton pickup for the purpose of hauling a gallon of milk and a half dozen bananas. Giving up the truck is simply not feasible, as hauling a yard of gravel in the hatch back of a Suzuki Swift just doesn't work.
No, it is not to do things that you can't do inside, like swimming, playing catch, and lots of other activities. It is to do thing outside. Often in the woods. This can just as easily be watching TV as cycling. In fact, for cycling, you generally need pavement, or at least some kind of trail. Camping is very frequently about "sitting on your ass". Just doing it in the woods. If you want swim, cycle, and play catch, you might as well stay in the city. The facilities are much better for it. Of course given that you are doing city activities in the woods, and are being condescending towards other people that might be doing other city activities in the woods, you fit exactly into the group previously mentioned. You just seem to think that your shade of gray is better than other peoples shade of gray. Get yourself an animal skin loin cloth, and start walking into the woods. Then, your argument might hold water.
What I don't understand is how someone who takes an ultralight aluminum and nylon backpack, a compass, butane lighter, food from a grocery store, high tech material sleeping bag, nylon tent, and all of the other comforts of civilization that are incredibly common, can be so condescending towards people who take a tv or laptop with them. It basically boils down to 'my shade of gray is better than your shade of gray.'
When the "I camp for REAL." crowd starts wrapping an animal skin around their waist and starts walking, THEN they can be taken seriously. Until then, they are just pompous ass hypocrites that are just pretending to camp.
I haven't seen the movie, but figuring out how the whole world could become infertile at basically the same time isn't too hard to do. Just have a couple of vaccines that cause infertility, and then combine that with a dedicated humanitarian push to make sure that no one has to suffer from this debilitating disease. Now for the cure, you just have to have this imaginary vaccine fail over time if no booster is applied. If things are as bad as the commercials made it look like they were supposed to be, vaccinating for a disease that the world hasn't seen in 18 years is unlikely. You could also go with that fancy smancy new satellite radio that comes online with much higher power than what we have now, causing the infertility. Once the world gets bad enough that the satellite is allowed to stop transmitting, everybody can breed again. The possibilities for an 18 year, world wide infertility epidemic are endless.
When did Opera 3 come out. I know that Lotus Notes had it with version 4 in 1996. If I wanted to split hairs, they had it in 1993, but the pages were not served via http over TCP/IP, so I will call it 1996. Thanks for that link by the way.
This is one of my favorites:
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http://www.brachs.com/products/product.asp?base_c
Brach's sells candy as a health food because they used some Vitamin C to add tartness. I actually saw a package in the store a few months ago with big writing saying "Vitamin C!", "NO FAT!".
Well, the primary goal of a teacher SHOULD be to teach the student HOW to learn. When a teacher uses the extremely poor excuse that they don't know how to use a computer, which is a tool of their trade, they make it absolutely clear that they do not understand the primary subject they are teaching, and thus are completely unqualified for the job. How could anyone possibly think that someone who is either incapable or unwilling to learn a subject that has dominated society for the last two decades, is qualified to teach is baffling.
If the DMCA does ever get revisited, there really needs to be something in there to prevent piracy of IP. You know, when you've put your property out on the sea of the internet, and along comes some pirate like Viacom with their boat load of lawyers, who demand that your ISP surrender your property to them. Thus depriving you of the use of your property and blocking the shipping lanes between the owner of the IP and the consumer.
Basically if we are going to claim that IP is so valuable, and give someone the right to deprive you of the use of your own creations on just their say so, the person depriving you of your IP should be liable if they take something from you that does not belong to them.
The Hobbit?!?!?! You must be kidding? Quest for a treasure story? You think that was invented in 1920? From Wikipedia:
The dude was ripping stuff off left and right. So, here we sit with still no example of a single non-derivative work.
Uh, could you point me to an original work that is not derivative of someone else's work? I have yet to see one.
Of course the same thing can happen with the the vaccine, since the vaccine is has not been around to see if 50 year olds that got the vaccine as children will get shingles. Remember the vaccine is a live virus, so the disease can still hide in the nerves. Problems from shingles are pretty darn rare. I have yet to meet a single person to have suffered from them. I've only met a couple of people who have gotten shingles at all. Of course the vaccine is only about 75% effective, but with a 75% effective rate, it increases the chances of getting chicken pox as an adult dramatically. This changes what used to be a major childhood inconvenience for a real adult threat to life. Combine this with the fact that it is considered a real possibility that those that get the vaccine may need a booster in the 18-25 age range. You know the most well insured and least risk adverse demographics in America.
So basically, even IF it does prevent shingles, you are still risking a major adult inconvenience for a serious risk to adult health. Even the CDC gives money as one of the two primary reasons to get the shot. The other is the risk of death. Given that the death rate due to high school football is something like 30 times that of chicken pox, the risk of death is simply FUD
Of course, I have yet to go to the doctor with flu like symptoms (which is what the parent is really talking about) where they didn't just take my temperature, weigh me, tell me it's a virus, and that I should just go home and get rest. I really doubt that the doctor weighing me did anything to prevent secondary diseases. There are a growing number of people who are beginning to distrust general practitioners. I know that of the last three times I visited a general practitioner, I was either mis-diagnosed, or lied to. And when the time came for immunizations for my son, the literature I was given on the chicken pox vaccine didn't sound right. After investigating, I found that the only reason to take the vaccine was money, yet it is universally recommended.
I'm not arguing the rest of the post. Just that waiting it out is not absolutely the worst thing you can do.
The stuff I used was 2" if I'm not mistaken. It may have been 1 1/2". Just go to a hardware store and take a look. The 'industry' term for what you want is "Smurf Tubing". It is called that because it is blue. It is a flexible tube. Once it is in, running cables is a breeze. I did a complete renovation on my home the year before last, and ran this stuff to every room, since the sheetrock was already down. I didn't pre-run any kind of data cable. It was simple to add the cables after the house was done.
Depending on your setup, you might be just running the conduit from behind the TV down to the baseboard. This would only require 3 holes. One behind the TV, which would be covered by a plate for connecting devices. One at the baseboard which would also be covered by a plate for connecting devices, and one where the fire block is in the middle of the wall where you would need to drill a hole for the tube. That is the only one that would need to be patched. Of course while you have the wall open, you should run an electric line up to have an outlet behind the TV. This will avoid having too short of a power cable to reach all the way to the outlet at the baseboard.
As long as you don't go to small on the conduit, any future cabling changes will be extremely simple. It actually annoys me that builders don't run conduit instead of cable. The cost difference would be minimal, but the convenience benefit would be massive.
If the cables are not running through a conduit inside the wall, you've missed big opportunity. Once you've decided to wall mount the TV, you have decided that you are not going to move it. Spend the little extra time/money to cut the sheetrock, put in a conduit, cover the sheetrock, texture and paint. If fewer wires make you happy, no wires will make you much happier.
That would be an argument AGAINST going HDMI. If you don't notice the improvement, but then will notice the poorer quality if you go back, you have made a bad choice with the move. That is like taking a drug that doesn't get you high, but gives you withdrawals anyway.
"How do you value damages on something you give away for free ?"
As the MAFIAA.
"and to MS's credit they had no time limits; all they cared about was getting the customer's issue fixed even if you were on one call all day."
This surprises me. I tried reporting a problem where MS Money didn't add money correctly. That's right. It failed at adding money. After spending an hour on the phone just to get through, the tech was able to easily reproduce the problem on his end. He told me he would forward this on. 2 months later, there was a message on my answering machine from another MS employee telling me that since I wasn't home, they were going to close out the ticket. I guess I just have a hard time believeing that MS places any priority on fixing customers problems.
First, pasting a diamond on anything to raise it's value is cheating. Beyond that, you could have your very own OS written for far less than that.
My primary theory is that SG-1 is getting canceled because of the Christian theme. SG-1 had a few poor seasons. The new bad guys and cast changes have dramatically improved the show. Yes, you will always have people who complain when you have major changes, as they won't like the direction that was chosen, but over all, SG-1 has been much better than it has been in a long time.
The problem that causes it to get canceled? They picked the wrong religion to pick on. SG-1 has always made a mockery of religion. When it was ancient egyption religion, that was fine, but when you start making the Catholics the universes supervillian, and by relation basically all Christian sects, you better watch out.
Richard Dean Anderson actually said it was a comedy, so, I would have to say you are right. It was in one of those "making of"s. It might have been the 100th episode.