If three out of every 40 people who talked on cell phones were going to get in an accident, the highways would be a blood bath. A one in 14 chance of an accident? Come now. Nobody that spends a minute thinking about it is going to believe that.
Of course if they do, then they have to also look at the fact that 0. That's right 0 drunk drivers had an accident in the study. That means that the study proves drunk driving is perfectly safe right?
But in the mean time, we decide that they count as 'THEM' and everybody on earth counts as 'US'. This allows us to turn all of your military/industrial complex to the creation of space faring warships so that 'WE' can protect ourselves from the evil 'THEM'. As the tech eventually ends up trickling down to corporations, we soon become a space faring race, and our genetic code servives when the sun expands to consume the earth. Woohoo!
I'm a big boy. I don't mind paying for my mistakes. A system that records my car would keep everyone honest. As long as it is MY recording. I don't want the recording in 'my' car to belong to someone else. Let them make their own recordings. I considered setting up a DVR in my car the last time I got pulled over. The CHP instructed me to park in a spot that was not visible from the road, wrote me a ticket for doing 82mph when I was only going 65mph, and the entire time kept trying to push buttons with sarcastic remarks and accusations. I'm pretty sure that they were looking for a reason to beat a man that night. It was pretty scary.
They can not get the music a different way. Copyright is by it's very nature a legal government enforced monopoly. The only thing you can do is convince them that the music is uncool, so that they don't buy the music at all.
"2. When my computer boots I see all these grey characters, bios, IDE info, etc. etc."
Don't blame MS for this. Blame your motherboard/bios manufacturer. I have had several motherboards over the years that would show a pretty logo on the screen instead of all the startup information. I would always turn that off, since it would take just as long to boot, I might as well know what is going on. If you want an example, just boot most laptops. I know my Toshiba has to be set to show the bios info instead of the logo.
Heck, I have even had a couple of motherboards that would let me load my own image to use for the boot sequence.
We could just go back to an age old system. We just ask them a question, then throw them in the water. If they are lying, the water will reject them and they will float. If the water accepts them, and they stay down, we know they told the truth. Easy!
I have to say that if your pressed, honest to goodness purchased CDs are only lasting a couple of years, you need to look at the environment you are living in, because it must be extreamly harsh. I have only seen a couple of pressed CDs fail that have not been massively abused.
I also wouldn't count too heavily on tapes as being "proven archive media". Have you ever heard of people having to "bake the tapes"? That is because a lot of tapes that are only a couple of decades old have started to seriously degrade. Also, you can't just throw tapes into a non-climate controlled environment any more than you can a CD. About the only area that a tape has greater reliablity than a CD is when they are tossed in a pile on a desk without being put in a case. And that is only because the tapes have a built in case.
Add to that, the fact that the word "cheap" is being used in different ways here. An extreamly reliable 10k rpm drive is going to be noticably more expensive than an extreamly reliable 5400 rpm drive. When people are saying "cheap" they mean a lot less expensive, not poorly made.
I would like to know what kind of paint your using that dry's in the time it takes to load an mp3 off of a slow 5400 rpm drive.;)
[SOME] people do not think outside Slashdot has no arrogance at all. For your statement to be true, ALL people outside of Slashdot would have to understand it. More specifically ALL people that could implement this kind of system. Given that the article is about SOME people not getting it, we know that is not the case.
Which leads me to believe that you are confused about the word 'arrogant'.
That said, I think we're going to see a turn around with the generation in college right now, less divorces, less stupidity
Not gonna happen. The reason is that your lament is millennia old. Seriously. There are writings from ancient Greece and Rome that read exactly like the cranky old man of today, who decries the awful state of the youth "these days". If you want the divorce rate to go down, the number one thing you can do is to make it so that the middle class is strong and vibrant, and that people have great financial security and physical health. If you, on the other hand, make it so that both members of the married couple have to work long and hard just to scrape by, how can you possibly be surprised that the stress of daily life will have a detrimental toll on their marriage?
Uh...what part of the parent saying the youth of today is BETTER, did you not understand? You know, exactly the opposite of what you want to believe he said.
Yes, yes they will. And once this is common in convinence stores, expect them to come to ATMs. That's where it gets really dangers. The screwed up part is that it's not just dangerous for the people stupid enough to use this system. It is dangerous for everyone that lives anywhere near one of these systems.
So now you can know that the camp is taking an active role in covering up activities that parents would find objectable. This is certainly not to 'protect' the children. If anything it makes sure that any dangers continue to go on uncorrected.
That's because the sizes are not written in Italian. They are written in 'Euro Trash'. It's kind of like if a European coffee shop started calling their sizes "Pa", "Ma", and "Young'un" size. You know, like the Kettles. Oh wait, the naming doesn't make sense, so it would be more like "Ma", "Uncle Bubba", and Little "Mary-Jo-Sue" size.
Yes, but it would be easy to print along with the password, "See TOS, www.securedwebsite.com", then it is not a free AP, but one offered to "customers" for free. They would then have a strong case to have the man arrested without creating an increadibly dangerous precident.
I quit going to theaters years ago for exactly that reason. The number of movies I went to that were disrupted by cell phones were minimal, but the number of crying infants, dumb asses yelling at the screen, and laser pointers just got to be too much for an already too expensive form of entertainment. Crying about cell phones is just another example of neo-luddites trying to push their lifestyle on other people. Where is the outrage over people taking 2 year olds to movies like The Lord of the Rings? No one is supprised when the movie scares the kids, and they start crying. The ass hats that yell at the screen are certainly not going to bow to peer presure and stop disrupting the movie because someone yells at them, and the punks with the laser pointers are doing it specifically to cause a disruption.
So, the neo-luddites want the one item that can disrupt, but might actually have a useful purpose for being there to be blocked, instead of taking care of the far more disruptive, yet older technologically speaking, disruptions.
Yes, it would be simple. All they need to do is use that product they bought. You know. VirtualPC. All it would take is a WinXP and a Win95 preinstalled disk image, a VM that is premapped to the existing hard drive, and some tweaking to the interface so that users don't see a big difference between an emulated window and a native one.
Some difference would be fine because they could just call it 'compatability mode' and people would live with the slight kludgeness. They don't have to allow any new drivers in the images, as they have a fixed target. This would prevent people from moving the image to other machines.
The beauty of this is that VirtualPC is already semi crossplatform.
But most people are never affected by earthquakes. I've lived in California my whole life, and I've only been able to feel 2 or 3. The Loma Prieta obviously, and a couple of smaller ones. None of the could be classified as having 'affected' my life. All they got was a 'Hey, did you feel that?'. All the earthquake preparedness actions are really only taken in case of that once in a hundred years 'Big One'.
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I got them from the article. The numbers are also in the summery. So given the time constraint the statement has meaning.
If three out of every 40 people who talked on cell phones were going to get in an accident, the highways would be a blood bath. A one in 14 chance of an accident? Come now. Nobody that spends a minute thinking about it is going to believe that.
Of course if they do, then they have to also look at the fact that 0. That's right 0 drunk drivers had an accident in the study. That means that the study proves drunk driving is perfectly safe right?
Good thing we found out before hand that the Earth was not the only instance of intelligent life in the universe.
But in the mean time, we decide that they count as 'THEM' and everybody on earth counts as 'US'. This allows us to turn all of your military/industrial complex to the creation of space faring warships so that 'WE' can protect ourselves from the evil 'THEM'. As the tech eventually ends up trickling down to corporations, we soon become a space faring race, and our genetic code servives when the sun expands to consume the earth. Woohoo!
I'm a big boy. I don't mind paying for my mistakes. A system that records my car would keep everyone honest. As long as it is MY recording. I don't want the recording in 'my' car to belong to someone else. Let them make their own recordings. I considered setting up a DVR in my car the last time I got pulled over. The CHP instructed me to park in a spot that was not visible from the road, wrote me a ticket for doing 82mph when I was only going 65mph, and the entire time kept trying to push buttons with sarcastic remarks and accusations. I'm pretty sure that they were looking for a reason to beat a man that night. It was pretty scary.
They can not get the music a different way. Copyright is by it's very nature a legal government enforced monopoly. The only thing you can do is convince them that the music is uncool, so that they don't buy the music at all.
"2. When my computer boots I see all these grey characters, bios, IDE info, etc. etc."
Don't blame MS for this. Blame your motherboard/bios manufacturer. I have had several motherboards over the years that would show a pretty logo on the screen instead of all the startup information. I would always turn that off, since it would take just as long to boot, I might as well know what is going on. If you want an example, just boot most laptops. I know my Toshiba has to be set to show the bios info instead of the logo.
Heck, I have even had a couple of motherboards that would let me load my own image to use for the boot sequence.
We could just go back to an age old system. We just ask them a question, then throw them in the water. If they are lying, the water will reject them and they will float. If the water accepts them, and they stay down, we know they told the truth. Easy!
I have to say that if your pressed, honest to goodness purchased CDs are only lasting a couple of years, you need to look at the environment you are living in, because it must be extreamly harsh. I have only seen a couple of pressed CDs fail that have not been massively abused.
I also wouldn't count too heavily on tapes as being "proven archive media". Have you ever heard of people having to "bake the tapes"? That is because a lot of tapes that are only a couple of decades old have started to seriously degrade. Also, you can't just throw tapes into a non-climate controlled environment any more than you can a CD. About the only area that a tape has greater reliablity than a CD is when they are tossed in a pile on a desk without being put in a case. And that is only because the tapes have a built in case.
Add to that, the fact that the word "cheap" is being used in different ways here. An extreamly reliable 10k rpm drive is going to be noticably more expensive than an extreamly reliable 5400 rpm drive. When people are saying "cheap" they mean a lot less expensive, not poorly made.
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I would like to know what kind of paint your using that dry's in the time it takes to load an mp3 off of a slow 5400 rpm drive.
[SOME] people do not think outside Slashdot has no arrogance at all. For your statement to be true, ALL people outside of Slashdot would have to understand it. More specifically ALL people that could implement this kind of system. Given that the article is about SOME people not getting it, we know that is not the case.
Which leads me to believe that you are confused about the word 'arrogant'.
I don't think that word means what you think it means.
Well, it's kind of hard to fit a 5" cd in your wallet. The 50MB limit allows the distro to be burned to a credit card sized CD.
Uh...what part of the parent saying the youth of today is BETTER, did you not understand? You know, exactly the opposite of what you want to believe he said.
A) Don't count on it. B) It IS a problem with grociery stores. It will be a BIGGER problem with ATMS.
Yes, yes they will. And once this is common in convinence stores, expect them to come to ATMs. That's where it gets really dangers. The screwed up part is that it's not just dangerous for the people stupid enough to use this system. It is dangerous for everyone that lives anywhere near one of these systems.
So now you can know that the camp is taking an active role in covering up activities that parents would find objectable. This is certainly not to 'protect' the children. If anything it makes sure that any dangers continue to go on uncorrected.
I don't think that the parent was commenting on the ability of an Amiga to boot from the HD. He was just commenting on size restrictions.
That's because the sizes are not written in Italian. They are written in 'Euro Trash'. It's kind of like if a European coffee shop started calling their sizes "Pa", "Ma", and "Young'un" size. You know, like the Kettles. Oh wait, the naming doesn't make sense, so it would be more like "Ma", "Uncle Bubba", and Little "Mary-Jo-Sue" size.
Yes, but it would be easy to print along with the password, "See TOS, www.securedwebsite.com", then it is not a free AP, but one offered to "customers" for free. They would then have a strong case to have the man arrested without creating an increadibly dangerous precident.
I quit going to theaters years ago for exactly that reason. The number of movies I went to that were disrupted by cell phones were minimal, but the number of crying infants, dumb asses yelling at the screen, and laser pointers just got to be too much for an already too expensive form of entertainment. Crying about cell phones is just another example of neo-luddites trying to push their lifestyle on other people. Where is the outrage over people taking 2 year olds to movies like The Lord of the Rings? No one is supprised when the movie scares the kids, and they start crying. The ass hats that yell at the screen are certainly not going to bow to peer presure and stop disrupting the movie because someone yells at them, and the punks with the laser pointers are doing it specifically to cause a disruption.
So, the neo-luddites want the one item that can disrupt, but might actually have a useful purpose for being there to be blocked, instead of taking care of the far more disruptive, yet older technologically speaking, disruptions.
Yes, it would be simple. All they need to do is use that product they bought. You know. VirtualPC. All it would take is a WinXP and a Win95 preinstalled disk image, a VM that is premapped to the existing hard drive, and some tweaking to the interface so that users don't see a big difference between an emulated window and a native one.
Some difference would be fine because they could just call it 'compatability mode' and people would live with the slight kludgeness. They don't have to allow any new drivers in the images, as they have a fixed target. This would prevent people from moving the image to other machines.
The beauty of this is that VirtualPC is already semi crossplatform.
What in the world do you eat? Do you survive off of just a salt lick or something?
But most people are never affected by earthquakes. I've lived in California my whole life, and I've only been able to feel 2 or 3. The Loma Prieta obviously, and a couple of smaller ones. None of the could be classified as having 'affected' my life. All they got was a 'Hey, did you feel that?'. All the earthquake preparedness actions are really only taken in case of that once in a hundred years 'Big One'.
That means that if you buy every title, you are paying ~$130 per movie. Too much.