It still won't matter. You were born, and soon you will die. Yet you are concerned with a distant mystery - not the one upon which you are standing and cannot escape.
Are you trying to be deep, "we shouldn't be looking at Schrödinger's cat until we solve the mystery of death" or just combative "don't worry about black holes, you are going to die."?
Damn I wish I had mod points. You spelled it out perfectly. People love to forget about free will and would rather blame others for their poor choices.
Well, as I understand it, within the new Medical Care Reform legislation they're trying to pass, there are provisions to let the govt. have full access to your banking accounts (without warrant, etc).
-They want to be able to charge $0.20 for each text message.
I really wish the people who complain about this would at least provide the proper perspective. The $0.20 per text cost is the cost without a plan. Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile (AT&T as well?) all offer unlimited plans nowadays. Nobody with a clue is actually paying $0.20 per SMS.
Yes, I have the unlimted iPhone plan from AT&T with unlimited text messages. I have never had to pay extra, even though my girlfriend loves texting me all the details in her day and racks up quite a total on my phone.
I think Lauder Partners and Maverick Capital are venture capital companies.
Autodesk, if it is THE Autodesk, is a big 2D and 3D design software company in the US.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autodesk
This isn't American propaganda. All this is saying is if Russia or China fires on us, we have enough nukes to fire back ensuring that both parties are wiped out. It is base purely on the nuclear arsenal and not military might per se.
So chill the fuck out.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_assured_destruction
You realize that you read this article wrong, right? This is about receiving spam not sending. I guess you were blinded by your own anti-American beliefs and couldn't grasp what was being told to you in the article.
I have a personal MacBook Pro purchased with my own funds. I hate having to carry my personal laptop and my work laptop around so I use Parallels on my Mac and I have a Windows XP image that I use for work. I keep an encrypted copy of this image on an offline storage system at home. If I go on extended vacation or there is any concern that my laptop might be more likely to be stolen, I just delete the image from my laptop and then copy it back over when I return home. Since I am using gigabit ethernet of the laptop and the storage it hardly takes more than 10-15 min to copy over. Plus the other beauty of this setup is I run the Parallels image on a separate spaces window. This gives me two distinct desktops that I can switch to instantly. I can surf personal stuff (like Slashdot) on the OS X side and keep the business stuff on the XP image.
Agreed... From what I read, he just wants the name of the Kindle users subscribing to WSJ. He is not asking for the information of ALL Kindle users. Which, if you subscribe to WSJ using the traditional method, wouldn't they have your information anyway? I don't think they want any information other than the normal subsciber data they would have otherwise.
i wonder how long until this is embedded in to firefox itself and not removable
You do understand that open source means that the source is um, open. You can remove whatever you would like. If you can't, it ceases to be open source software.
If you are really concerned, there are other OSS browsers. The other distros can only "pull the same crap" if you use their packages. Do we really need to go into the whole "Linux is just the kernel" discussion here?
This is really interesting considering how much bad press Linux gets concerning its ability to handle audio. From personal experience I haven't had any issues with it since the Audigy line was new, but there are still people who claim the Linux audio support is horrid.
Well no shit there. I think what everyone is trying to say and yet the mods choose to ignore is "yes Virginia, Mac hardware are for the most part immune from this because:
They use EFI
EFI is not supported and the Mac version runs from the HD and can easily removed
Macs are not listed as a partner on the site.
Regardless of why doesn't it still boils down to data loss? Plus the fact that he didn't lose his data, his data is still there.
If I come in your home and take something of yours after I sold it to you, did you loose it or did I steal it?
Plus, as it releases to HIS data... What if you made modifications to said object and I leave your modifications and still take the object I sold you, can I claim that you still have said object?
I think early on, eBay intended to use the Skype platform to give buyers a way to contact the seller without the seller having to expose their real contact number. It still wasn't worth $2.6 billion for this feature.
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It still won't matter. You were born, and soon you will die. Yet you are concerned with a distant mystery - not the one upon which you are standing and cannot escape.
Are you trying to be deep, "we shouldn't be looking at Schrödinger's cat until we solve the mystery of death" or just combative "don't worry about black holes, you are going to die."?
This is serious! My Saab wouldn't start and all the doors were locked at my local Ikea during this outage you insensitive clod!
Damn I wish I had mod points. You spelled it out perfectly. People love to forget about free will and would rather blame others for their poor choices.
Absolutely, if it would seem out of place without the ads (racing simulators, licensed professional sports games), make some money off of it.
...and please adjust the cost of the final product to the consumer accordingly.
Well, as I understand it, within the new Medical Care Reform legislation they're trying to pass, there are provisions to let the govt. have full access to your banking accounts (without warrant, etc).
I knew it! Glenn Beck, it is you!
-They want to be able to charge $0.20 for each text message.
I really wish the people who complain about this would at least provide the proper perspective. The $0.20 per text cost is the cost without a plan. Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile (AT&T as well?) all offer unlimited plans nowadays. Nobody with a clue is actually paying $0.20 per SMS.
Yes, I have the unlimted iPhone plan from AT&T with unlimited text messages. I have never had to pay extra, even though my girlfriend loves texting me all the details in her day and racks up quite a total on my phone.
+1 Poetic
it reduces the effects of universal entropy, obviously.
Sorry, you're looking for the thread two doors over, "Universe Has 100x More Entropy Than We Thought"
Wooooosh....
I think Lauder Partners and Maverick Capital are venture capital companies. Autodesk, if it is THE Autodesk, is a big 2D and 3D design software company in the US. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autodesk
Well looks like they are getting funding from some serious players:
http://blog.seattlepi.com/techchron/archives/180603.asp
http://blog.onlive.com/2009/09/29/onlive-closes-major-investment/
AT&T Media Holdings, Inc., Lauder Partners, Warner Bros., Autodesk and Maverick Capital.
Where I have I heard this before? Oh yeah, from a company that now makes lapboards and keyboards, Phantom is it?
This isn't American propaganda. All this is saying is if Russia or China fires on us, we have enough nukes to fire back ensuring that both parties are wiped out. It is base purely on the nuclear arsenal and not military might per se. So chill the fuck out. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_assured_destruction
You realize that you read this article wrong, right? This is about receiving spam not sending. I guess you were blinded by your own anti-American beliefs and couldn't grasp what was being told to you in the article.
This post should be rated funny, not informative. The tool, while pretty lame, never asks for SSN or banking info.
I don't think the BBC is saying that THEY are the critics in question.
I have a personal MacBook Pro purchased with my own funds. I hate having to carry my personal laptop and my work laptop around so I use Parallels on my Mac and I have a Windows XP image that I use for work. I keep an encrypted copy of this image on an offline storage system at home. If I go on extended vacation or there is any concern that my laptop might be more likely to be stolen, I just delete the image from my laptop and then copy it back over when I return home. Since I am using gigabit ethernet of the laptop and the storage it hardly takes more than 10-15 min to copy over. Plus the other beauty of this setup is I run the Parallels image on a separate spaces window. This gives me two distinct desktops that I can switch to instantly. I can surf personal stuff (like Slashdot) on the OS X side and keep the business stuff on the XP image.
If you own a Jeep Wrangler like me, not having to hide your GPS unit or worse carry the head unit with you is worth the money in my opinion.
Agreed... From what I read, he just wants the name of the Kindle users subscribing to WSJ. He is not asking for the information of ALL Kindle users. Which, if you subscribe to WSJ using the traditional method, wouldn't they have your information anyway? I don't think they want any information other than the normal subsciber data they would have otherwise.
i wonder how long until this is embedded in to firefox itself and not removable
You do understand that open source means that the source is um, open. You can remove whatever you would like. If you can't, it ceases to be open source software. If you are really concerned, there are other OSS browsers. The other distros can only "pull the same crap" if you use their packages. Do we really need to go into the whole "Linux is just the kernel" discussion here?
This is really interesting considering how much bad press Linux gets concerning its ability to handle audio. From personal experience I haven't had any issues with it since the Audigy line was new, but there are still people who claim the Linux audio support is horrid.
No, the sarcasm seems obvious.
Well no shit there. I think what everyone is trying to say and yet the mods choose to ignore is "yes Virginia, Mac hardware are for the most part immune from this because:
They use EFI
EFI is not supported and the Mac version runs from the HD and can easily removed
Macs are not listed as a partner on the site.
Regardless of why doesn't it still boils down to data loss? Plus the fact that he didn't lose his data, his data is still there.
If I come in your home and take something of yours after I sold it to you, did you loose it or did I steal it?
Plus, as it releases to HIS data... What if you made modifications to said object and I leave your modifications and still take the object I sold you, can I claim that you still have said object?
Not true. Perfect example car companies. Parent car companies sell off other acquired car companies and continue to compete against them all the time.
I think early on, eBay intended to use the Skype platform to give buyers a way to contact the seller without the seller having to expose their real contact number. It still wasn't worth $2.6 billion for this feature.