Before switching to Firefox, I would, on an irregular basis, have IE just decide to send me to their search engine instead of to the site I typed into the address bar. For a while I thought I made a typo, but eventually I started getting susicious. So, just to make sure I was not insane, I copied the address that the browser said it could not find, and pasted it back into the address bar. Tada! It would work.
This was not just on my machine, but others too. I couldn't be the only one that has had IE hijack my session, could I?
I am selling my home, so it is vacant. No one lives there. There is no fridge or freezer. The only electricity that gets used is an answering machine and wireless phone. About 1-2 weekends a month, a TV and an Xbox gets plugged in, and a few lights get used for 2 days. So, about 3 days of lights, TV and Xbox a month.
I am still topping $35 a month! When we lived here, it was always over $100 a month. I think I pissed off someone at PG&E.
And if you hate Linspire, use it to download another Linux Distro and install that. After all, coming with Linspire does mean that the hardware has linux drivers.
I don't know where you live, but here in the U.S. (specifically California)...
I'll agree with the price of gas, but clothes don't have to be outragous, and the fact that you can go buy a double cheeseburger for $1 at McDonalds, I have to really disagree on that point.
When cars were first introduced, they were way slower and far less reliable than a horse carrage. Perhaps a better rebuttle would have been, that wired networks may be a "horse carrage", but we are in the "late 1800's" of networking
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These guys are trying harder to find titles that you could expect the average joe, and they cannot find everything. They have reacently branched out to other platforms, but the Amiga list has been there for a very long time.
The moderator was right. I was off topic, but if you are spending more than 8 ours a week cleaning a smallish house, and it is not emaculate, you are doing something seriously wrong.
I understand how that can happen. When I met my wife, she would spend all day doing 3 loads of laundry. She would spend so much time organizing the laundry that she would never get it washed. Once I conviced her to just go ahead and put the clothes in the washer, a full days work turned into 15 minutes. If you miss a white sock because you didn't spend hours sorting, you can just throw it in next time.
The fact that she created work where none was necessary did not make a few loads of laundry a 'real job'. If you are spending as much time as you say, and you live as a slob, you are definitly creating work where it is not necessary.
I'm glad that we are past the 80s bit where we were constantly being bombarded with the 'Housewife is a career' garbage. No doubt that pre 1950s being a house wife was a full time job, but in this day and age with no wax floors, vacume cleaners, boxed cakes, pre-sliced bread, dish washers, washing machines, dryers, and all the other modern convinences we have, being a housewife is about an 8 hour a week job.
Even with all of these modern convienences, I still know a few 'housewifes' that as soon as dad comes home from work, they drop the kids in his lap, and take 'me time' because plunking their kids down in front of the TV is SOOOOOO much work.
I think there are plenty of non-violent protesters that would not only make these black market, but plaster the fact that they are useing it all over the car.
Those of you that are old enough, think back to the days of the 2600. Some of the best most memorable games used the paddle. To date, Kaboom! has not had a decent remake. It simply cannot be done with anything other than a paddle. As much as I love Playstation controller for a gamepad, it had definitly limited game play. That is also why FPS suck on the consoles and are good on the PC. FPS need the mouse/keyboard interface.
This needs to be balanced with the fact that many subjects simply do not need an "expert" to understand. No matter how many years you have studied the earths atmosphere, and how many degrees you have, I still don't need you to tell me what color the sky is. Things like, "Is it good for the people when the government mandates reliance on a corporation, and requires the people to purchase products from a specific corporation to take part in society?", simply do not need an "expert" to answer.
I witnessed a hit and run. It took photos. The local city council doesn't want to slow traffic through this perticular residential neighborhood, as they are using it as an unofficial alternate route for the state highway. They are doing this because the local money doesn't want a new freeway built. (the land for the freeway is already owned, and cleared. The local police tell the victims of the hit and run that they don't take reports on hit and runs, as it is a civil matter. I report this to the city mayor, and local media. The mayor tells me that she will speak to the police chief, and I will recieve a call. A few days later I get a call from the police. The police threaten me with violence if I don't drop the issue.
Now, that I've detailed what has ACTUALLY happened, lets talk about what the RFID can do to get me killed. I go to the movies, and while walking to my car, my RFID tag informs a local police officer that I am in a dark parking garage by myself. I never make it out alive, and the subsequent investigation never finds the "unknown" assailent.
We know that we already have a problem with corrupt cops. It isn't a debate about IF we have police corruption. It is a debate about how bad the corruption is. Consider the ramification of cities putting up sensors on every intersection. You know like the cameras they are putting up now. This gives a few people the ability to track you as an individual anywhere you go. You better hope that you pay your proper kickbacks to your local police.
Parents with children in the back seat ARE going to be driveing while facing the back of the car. We are humans. We have children. If they are crying, or perhaps NOT crying, we will be turning around now and again. Children in the front seat is an 'ounce of prevention beats a pound of cure' situation. IF you get in an accident it may be more dangerous to have the child in the front seat, but you are way more likely to get in the accident in the first place if they are in the back.
Besides. Putting your child in a car in the first place is by far the most dangerous part. So, if you take any trips with you child in the car, you are fooling yourself about safety when you worry about whether to put your kid in the front or back seat. And don't try the 'But I might have to take my kid to the hospital!' excuse. That is what ambulances are for, and very few car trips for children are to the hospital.
The problem is that people don't understand that the founding fathers intended individuals to have the weapons necessary to fight a full fledged war with a world power. That was the point of the 2nd amendment. Suggesting that people have the right to bear arms for the purpose of hunting, sport, or to defend your home against burglers would have made as much sense to them as making a law today that guarantees the right to drink water, breath air, and eat a hamburger.
But you know that our usage will go up. You can expect the average household to use 10x as much power by the time we cap our useage. That means that we will only have ~100,000 years. We must conserve now! Think of the children that are born 99,950 years from now! What are we going to leave to them!?!?!?
Except most people don't leave them for recycling. Heck, in my community, you would have to drive out to the middle of nowhere to hand deliver them to the toxic desposal site if you you wanted to legally dispose of them.
"Advertisers pay on a PER AD AIRED basis. If the download can be "aired" NN-many times on your personal equipment, how does the network get paid for those NN-times that you are presumed to see the ads again?"
Easy. They have their driver take them to the magazine division, and ask them how they price for ads that might be seen once, or might be seen NN-many times. While they are at it, they ask them how they deal with preventing people from editing out all the ads in the magazine.
"he didn't say "invent", which makes it a misquote."
And that is the important thing. The GP lists a dozen differnt POSSIBLE meanings for the word initiate. He then goes on to imply that Gore must have meant each and every possible meaning.
Since the corruption goes all the way to the top, the "most dedicated" don't last. That leaves only the corrupt. I sold my last house to move out of a city where the mayor had a police officer call me and threaten me.
Note to self: When a city is trying to drive residents from their homes, don't take pictures of a hit and run.
Honestly, as with all security, this needs a cost benifit analysis. I suspect that if ABC were to offer all of their shows WITH commercials in an unrestricted free fashion, the majority of people would not bother spending the time and effort to look for illegal copies of shows on p2p networks. I suspect that most people would not even bother to keep a copy of the shows if they knew that they could always go get it again directly from the source. You also would see very few people downloading and cutting commercials themselves, as that would be a bigger inconveniance than just watching the commercials.
There will always be a certain percentage of people that will download and strip commercials, but as illicit demand drops, p2p becomes less effective. This means more ads watched, and more revenue. The Media Barons have been tripping over dollars to pick up dimes for a long time now. They will never stop copyright violation, but they could probably reduce it by removing the primary motivators.
As for what is being offered ABC...we will see how it turns out, but it sounds like a good step.
1)Scope of usage: Yes, he writes letters, and prints. They may not all be actual words he is typing, as he is only now learning to spell, but yes, he does write letters. He also plays CD. Doesn't burn, but does play them. I know that I, and I suspect you do as well, regularly hear how difficult it is to do these things. Also, when you are talking about the Gnome vs. Windows difficulty, none of this applies.
2)familiarity: I would put this in the 'retarded' category. If you can't associate "Start" for applications to "Applications" to applications, you have a serious problem. Combine the fact that most adults can read, any with even a reasonable level of intellegence should be able to run circles around a two year old in figuring out how things work. Maybe you should say that if someone learns a perticular way of doing things, they often REFUSE to switch gears into a new paradigm/UI/menu structure. Which leads to...
3) inflexibility: At the point in time that you cannot pick up new information faster than a two year old, you should accept that your dumb. You may be dumb because your brain is deteriating, you may be dumb because you were never smart, or you may be dumb because you have made the consious decision to be dumb. Either way, not being able to figure out things that a two year old can figure out means your are really really dumb.
So, like I said, as much as I would love to believe that my child is super-human, I am truly doubt that that is the case, and suspect that the complaints of difficulty are caused by the very stupid, and people that WANT it to be difficult when in fact it is not difficult at all.
I don't understand when people complain about PC, and Linux in perticular as being difficult to use. Administer? maybe. Use? No.
Now, just like any parent, I would love to believe that my wife and I had so superior of genes that our offspring is simply genetically superior by a far margin than the rest of the population. We would also love to believe that our parenting skills are so much better than everyone elses that any child in our care is destined to be a genius. Unfortunatly, we also understand that that is unrealistic.
That being said... At 22 months old, I gave my son his first computer. I installed Ubuntu, and gcompris on it, and showed him the game that makes blocks disappear when he moves the mouse over them to reveal a picture of an animal. At that point, I just let him go. By his 2 year birthday (last month), he figured out how to turn the computer on, go to the 'Applications' menu, find the programs he wants to use, and navigate the programs. (Mostly gcompris).
So, while I would LOVE to believe that my offspring has both superior genes, and a superior environment to everyone else on the planet, realistically, I have to believe that anyone saying they cannot use a computer is retarded.
If you disagree, and in fact think that my 2 year old son is smarter than all these people that complain about computer difficulty, you are welcome to flame away. Maybe you will convince me of his supreame superiority. Until then, I will assume those that cannot figure out how to use Windows/Gnome/KDE are just retarded.
It seems strange, because of your limited understanding. You seem to think that the only reason for violence is anger and revenge. As a matter of fact it is best if you are not angry, and doing it for revenge means you might do it wrong. It is best to stay calm, calculating, and plan you move with a specific goal in mind. No one ever said that the bully will become peaceful, and stop being who they are. The goal is to make sure they understand the price they must pay for attacking you is way to high for the enjoyment they get.
"Gandi had something to say regarding this."
I don't believe for a second that YOU would use this tactic. If some insane/.er showed up at your house to beat you senseless every day, you would not just sit and take it. If you did not fight back yourself, you would call someone to commit your violence for you. You know, like the police. Unfortunatly, child on child non-tool violence is commonly accepted in our society. People like you enable this kind of violence.
You also seem to be completely clueless about what went down with Gandi. The English did not beat a man who refused to give up until the one day "become peaceful loving people who now understand that bullying and hurting others is wrong". The English did not beat him because it was fun. They did it for money and power. Gandi inspired hundreds of thousands of people to break the law. He inspired them to stop working, he forced the English to spend all sorts of money to hire solders to beat thousands of people. He also was able to get a lot of press from the world media to humiliate the English.
In a schoolyard bully situation, the bully spends no money. A single awkward kid is unlikely to convince thousands to join him in civil disobediance over his beatings. For the bully, the beating IS the reward, not an undesired necessity. If you think the worlds media is going to start rallying around some nerd in jr. high, you are nieve at best.
As for Romeo and Juliet, you might be right, you probably shouldn't screw your bullies sister.
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Before switching to Firefox, I would, on an irregular basis, have IE just decide to send me to their search engine instead of to the site I typed into the address bar. For a while I thought I made a typo, but eventually I started getting susicious. So, just to make sure I was not insane, I copied the address that the browser said it could not find, and pasted it back into the address bar. Tada! It would work.
This was not just on my machine, but others too. I couldn't be the only one that has had IE hijack my session, could I?
I am selling my home, so it is vacant. No one lives there. There is no fridge or freezer. The only electricity that gets used is an answering machine and wireless phone. About 1-2 weekends a month, a TV and an Xbox gets plugged in, and a few lights get used for 2 days. So, about 3 days of lights, TV and Xbox a month.
I am still topping $35 a month! When we lived here, it was always over $100 a month. I think I pissed off someone at PG&E.
And if you hate Linspire, use it to download another Linux Distro and install that. After all, coming with Linspire does mean that the hardware has linux drivers.
I don't know where you live, but here in the U.S. (specifically California)... I'll agree with the price of gas, but clothes don't have to be outragous, and the fact that you can go buy a double cheeseburger for $1 at McDonalds, I have to really disagree on that point.
When cars were first introduced, they were way slower and far less reliable than a horse carrage. Perhaps a better rebuttle would have been, that wired networks may be a "horse carrage", but we are in the "late 1800's" of networking
These guys are trying harder to find titles that you could expect the average joe, and they cannot find everything. They have reacently branched out to other platforms, but the Amiga list has been there for a very long time.
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The moderator was right. I was off topic, but if you are spending more than 8 ours a week cleaning a smallish house, and it is not emaculate, you are doing something seriously wrong.
I understand how that can happen. When I met my wife, she would spend all day doing 3 loads of laundry. She would spend so much time organizing the laundry that she would never get it washed. Once I conviced her to just go ahead and put the clothes in the washer, a full days work turned into 15 minutes. If you miss a white sock because you didn't spend hours sorting, you can just throw it in next time.
The fact that she created work where none was necessary did not make a few loads of laundry a 'real job'. If you are spending as much time as you say, and you live as a slob, you are definitly creating work where it is not necessary.
I'm glad that we are past the 80s bit where we were constantly being bombarded with the 'Housewife is a career' garbage. No doubt that pre 1950s being a house wife was a full time job, but in this day and age with no wax floors, vacume cleaners, boxed cakes, pre-sliced bread, dish washers, washing machines, dryers, and all the other modern convinences we have, being a housewife is about an 8 hour a week job.
Even with all of these modern convienences, I still know a few 'housewifes' that as soon as dad comes home from work, they drop the kids in his lap, and take 'me time' because plunking their kids down in front of the TV is SOOOOOO much work.
I think there are plenty of non-violent protesters that would not only make these black market, but plaster the fact that they are useing it all over the car.
Those of you that are old enough, think back to the days of the 2600. Some of the best most memorable games used the paddle. To date, Kaboom! has not had a decent remake. It simply cannot be done with anything other than a paddle. As much as I love Playstation controller for a gamepad, it had definitly limited game play. That is also why FPS suck on the consoles and are good on the PC. FPS need the mouse/keyboard interface.
This needs to be balanced with the fact that many subjects simply do not need an "expert" to understand. No matter how many years you have studied the earths atmosphere, and how many degrees you have, I still don't need you to tell me what color the sky is. Things like, "Is it good for the people when the government mandates reliance on a corporation, and requires the people to purchase products from a specific corporation to take part in society?", simply do not need an "expert" to answer.
I witnessed a hit and run. It took photos. The local city council doesn't want to slow traffic through this perticular residential neighborhood, as they are using it as an unofficial alternate route for the state highway. They are doing this because the local money doesn't want a new freeway built. (the land for the freeway is already owned, and cleared. The local police tell the victims of the hit and run that they don't take reports on hit and runs, as it is a civil matter. I report this to the city mayor, and local media. The mayor tells me that she will speak to the police chief, and I will recieve a call. A few days later I get a call from the police. The police threaten me with violence if I don't drop the issue.
Now, that I've detailed what has ACTUALLY happened, lets talk about what the RFID can do to get me killed. I go to the movies, and while walking to my car, my RFID tag informs a local police officer that I am in a dark parking garage by myself. I never make it out alive, and the subsequent investigation never finds the "unknown" assailent.
We know that we already have a problem with corrupt cops. It isn't a debate about IF we have police corruption. It is a debate about how bad the corruption is. Consider the ramification of cities putting up sensors on every intersection. You know like the cameras they are putting up now. This gives a few people the ability to track you as an individual anywhere you go. You better hope that you pay your proper kickbacks to your local police.
I can tell you that. They turn into hangers.
Parents with children in the back seat ARE going to be driveing while facing the back of the car. We are humans. We have children. If they are crying, or perhaps NOT crying, we will be turning around now and again. Children in the front seat is an 'ounce of prevention beats a pound of cure' situation. IF you get in an accident it may be more dangerous to have the child in the front seat, but you are way more likely to get in the accident in the first place if they are in the back.
Besides. Putting your child in a car in the first place is by far the most dangerous part. So, if you take any trips with you child in the car, you are fooling yourself about safety when you worry about whether to put your kid in the front or back seat. And don't try the 'But I might have to take my kid to the hospital!' excuse. That is what ambulances are for, and very few car trips for children are to the hospital.
The problem is that people don't understand that the founding fathers intended individuals to have the weapons necessary to fight a full fledged war with a world power. That was the point of the 2nd amendment. Suggesting that people have the right to bear arms for the purpose of hunting, sport, or to defend your home against burglers would have made as much sense to them as making a law today that guarantees the right to drink water, breath air, and eat a hamburger.
But you know that our usage will go up. You can expect the average household to use 10x as much power by the time we cap our useage. That means that we will only have ~100,000 years. We must conserve now! Think of the children that are born 99,950 years from now! What are we going to leave to them!?!?!?
Except most people don't leave them for recycling. Heck, in my community, you would have to drive out to the middle of nowhere to hand deliver them to the toxic desposal site if you you wanted to legally dispose of them.
"Advertisers pay on a PER AD AIRED basis. If the download can be "aired" NN-many times on your personal equipment, how does the network get paid for those NN-times that you are presumed to see the ads again?"
Easy. They have their driver take them to the magazine division, and ask them how they price for ads that might be seen once, or might be seen NN-many times. While they are at it, they ask them how they deal with preventing people from editing out all the ads in the magazine.
"he didn't say "invent", which makes it a misquote."
And that is the important thing. The GP lists a dozen differnt POSSIBLE meanings for the word initiate. He then goes on to imply that Gore must have meant each and every possible meaning.
Since the corruption goes all the way to the top, the "most dedicated" don't last. That leaves only the corrupt. I sold my last house to move out of a city where the mayor had a police officer call me and threaten me.
Note to self: When a city is trying to drive residents from their homes, don't take pictures of a hit and run.
Honestly, as with all security, this needs a cost benifit analysis. I suspect that if ABC were to offer all of their shows WITH commercials in an unrestricted free fashion, the majority of people would not bother spending the time and effort to look for illegal copies of shows on p2p networks. I suspect that most people would not even bother to keep a copy of the shows if they knew that they could always go get it again directly from the source. You also would see very few people downloading and cutting commercials themselves, as that would be a bigger inconveniance than just watching the commercials.
There will always be a certain percentage of people that will download and strip commercials, but as illicit demand drops, p2p becomes less effective. This means more ads watched, and more revenue. The Media Barons have been tripping over dollars to pick up dimes for a long time now. They will never stop copyright violation, but they could probably reduce it by removing the primary motivators.
As for what is being offered ABC...we will see how it turns out, but it sounds like a good step.
How about the same person that would pay for the rest of your TCP/IP traffic.
1)Scope of usage: Yes, he writes letters, and prints. They may not all be actual words he is typing, as he is only now learning to spell, but yes, he does write letters. He also plays CD. Doesn't burn, but does play them. I know that I, and I suspect you do as well, regularly hear how difficult it is to do these things. Also, when you are talking about the Gnome vs. Windows difficulty, none of this applies.
2)familiarity: I would put this in the 'retarded' category. If you can't associate "Start" for applications to "Applications" to applications, you have a serious problem. Combine the fact that most adults can read, any with even a reasonable level of intellegence should be able to run circles around a two year old in figuring out how things work. Maybe you should say that if someone learns a perticular way of doing things, they often REFUSE to switch gears into a new paradigm/UI/menu structure. Which leads to...
3) inflexibility: At the point in time that you cannot pick up new information faster than a two year old, you should accept that your dumb. You may be dumb because your brain is deteriating, you may be dumb because you were never smart, or you may be dumb because you have made the consious decision to be dumb. Either way, not being able to figure out things that a two year old can figure out means your are really really dumb.
So, like I said, as much as I would love to believe that my child is super-human, I am truly doubt that that is the case, and suspect that the complaints of difficulty are caused by the very stupid, and people that WANT it to be difficult when in fact it is not difficult at all.
I don't understand when people complain about PC, and Linux in perticular as being difficult to use. Administer? maybe. Use? No.
Now, just like any parent, I would love to believe that my wife and I had so superior of genes that our offspring is simply genetically superior by a far margin than the rest of the population. We would also love to believe that our parenting skills are so much better than everyone elses that any child in our care is destined to be a genius. Unfortunatly, we also understand that that is unrealistic.
That being said... At 22 months old, I gave my son his first computer. I installed Ubuntu, and gcompris on it, and showed him the game that makes blocks disappear when he moves the mouse over them to reveal a picture of an animal. At that point, I just let him go. By his 2 year birthday (last month), he figured out how to turn the computer on, go to the 'Applications' menu, find the programs he wants to use, and navigate the programs. (Mostly gcompris).
So, while I would LOVE to believe that my offspring has both superior genes, and a superior environment to everyone else on the planet, realistically, I have to believe that anyone saying they cannot use a computer is retarded.
If you disagree, and in fact think that my 2 year old son is smarter than all these people that complain about computer difficulty, you are welcome to flame away. Maybe you will convince me of his supreame superiority. Until then, I will assume those that cannot figure out how to use Windows/Gnome/KDE are just retarded.
It seems strange, because of your limited understanding. You seem to think that the only reason for violence is anger and revenge. As a matter of fact it is best if you are not angry, and doing it for revenge means you might do it wrong. It is best to stay calm, calculating, and plan you move with a specific goal in mind. No one ever said that the bully will become peaceful, and stop being who they are. The goal is to make sure they understand the price they must pay for attacking you is way to high for the enjoyment they get.
/.er showed up at your house to beat you senseless every day, you would not just sit and take it. If you did not fight back yourself, you would call someone to commit your violence for you. You know, like the police. Unfortunatly, child on child non-tool violence is commonly accepted in our society. People like you enable this kind of violence.
"Gandi had something to say regarding this."
I don't believe for a second that YOU would use this tactic. If some insane
You also seem to be completely clueless about what went down with Gandi. The English did not beat a man who refused to give up until the one day "become peaceful loving people who now understand that bullying and hurting others is wrong". The English did not beat him because it was fun. They did it for money and power. Gandi inspired hundreds of thousands of people to break the law. He inspired them to stop working, he forced the English to spend all sorts of money to hire solders to beat thousands of people. He also was able to get a lot of press from the world media to humiliate the English.
In a schoolyard bully situation, the bully spends no money. A single awkward kid is unlikely to convince thousands to join him in civil disobediance over his beatings. For the bully, the beating IS the reward, not an undesired necessity. If you think the worlds media is going to start rallying around some nerd in jr. high, you are nieve at best.
As for Romeo and Juliet, you might be right, you probably shouldn't screw your bullies sister.