In university they have pretty big posters against wholesale copying of library books above the photocopiers, with all the usual heavy handed copyright warnings.
But that doesnt stop anyone really. Copyright laws are only really there to stop corporations from profiting off of other corporations work...
Then again, I remember in my undergrad there was a required text that was $75 for around 200 pages. This is soft back novel style, not A4 hard back colour glossy. The $12 it took to copy the lot saw frequent use of the document feeders that semester ($6 if you wanted it 2up...). And given how useful it actually ended up being, they could have given away a pdf for $5 and noone would have read it anyway...
What was my point... umm "copyright is only good when it works for me..." and yes, old copyright does struggle in this digital age.
My Grandfather likes to tell the story of me around that age while he was working in the shed using a hammer... hits his thumb and "fuck!"... *then* he notices me quietly playing in the corner... and thinks phew.. got away with that one, he didnt notice... Half an hour later my mum storms in saying "what have you be saying around my son!"... apparently i had been inside the house with my toy hammer gleefully saying "fuck" every time i hit something....
Then you *need* to have the vehicle... You however do not *need* to have that vehicle to drive to the soccer match (unless you are transporting said team)...
A fair system should allow for this... And yes, someone, most likely your government will have some control over you life, for the benefit of all, so it probably wont happen...
Sure you *can* get it unbundled, but you would loose out on the special $100 per month discount for having both services... and who wants $140 per month DSL just so it can be unbundled??
You have a very valid point, but that wasnt what i was making...
If someone rear-ends someone becasue they were going to fast (for the situation/limit whatever) then yes its their bad.
*I* am saying that if 'one' slams on one's breaks for no reason and causes an accident then it should not be the rear-ender's fault.
I specifically refer to the idiots who (eg) are driving at 75 in an 80 zone, slam on their breaks while passing a speed camera, slowing down to 50, while the following car (doing the speed limit even) then has to react to their stupidity putting all sorts of things in danger. To emergency break, possibly losing control, to swerve and hope i dont hit anything else... Yes I would have to do the same in an accident situation, but then i have a good reason to make those choices.
And on the other replies, i agree that in the places i drive, you defend the little place you do have infront of your car, lest someone halve that distance by pulling in front of you. It doesnt matter how slow you go there is still going to be a car just in front of you, so he better not drive erratically because i might hit him... not to mention you piss of the people behind you who become more likely to tail gate you because you wont move with the flow of traffic.
Whats the answer? maybe they need to give out sedatives with Fuel. Shortly the downers will cost less than the fuel too...
Has it occured to you that there may be other reasons for going slow in the left-hand lane?
some...
Like your engine isn't strong enough to handle that hill the highway is climbing? Or your car is having difficulties?
no, no... move over
Or you're trying to make that ramp Fair enough
some jackass is up my ass trying to go 90 in a 65 zone?
Yes, that is a jackass... but my point is the just-as-jackassy idiot doing 65 in a 90 zone with no reason...
I have no problem having to react (and cop the penalty) in an accident situation, but i am sure going to get very irate at 'one' if 'one' is the cause of the accident by driving erratically. Such as slamming on you breaks for a freaking speed camera when you are already driving under the speed limit. Which was my inital point
And there are always going to be accidents. Cars are huge chunks of metal that can kill. You can play numbers all you want... yes if i was going slower i may not have hit, but if it was 10m closer i would have hit it anyway, so i should have driven slower, but if it was closer... how many accidents are there a year caused by *rolling* cars? stationary cars? The only perfectly safe speed is to not have a car. The next safest thing is to drive it properly, consistantly and considerately.
And for the idiots that slam on their brakes and slow to 50km/h going past a camera in an 80 zone to be responsible for the rear ending...
and for that fact, the people who continue to drive 10-20 kms slower than the speed limit *after* a camera. If you are so concered about speeding then you have already been caught... and get out of the fast lane...
Thats why you take the inserts out of the case and put them into the wallet... some wallets are even designed for this with large facing pockets on one side for the jacket labels and a place to put the CD on the other side...
Lose the 6x6 table... and go to IKEA and get a drop leaf table. 2 people only need the table half up, and when guests come around (how often does that happen really?) you put the thing up.
For a party and some entertainment, get a large piece of MDF for/or a table tennis table and whack it on top. Paint the underside something nice it store it against a wall as some art work when not in use... unless you are a tennis nut...
Even with WYGIWYS... why should the pagination change when i change the *resolution* from 300dpi to 600dpi on the same printer? I havnent changed any of the layout, just what the resolution, yet the pages are now out by something...
That isnt just pathetic, its downright retarded...
i would actually expect them to have only about 30 different versions... Now there is no way to get a version that has both Word and Excel and Outlook, so you will have to buy 3 (at least) different versions, each at the massively discounted bundled price of $449.
You will end up with 1 copy of Word 1 copy of Excel 1 copy of Outlook and 3 each of publisher, project and photo editor... (does anyone use these?)
AFAIK most countries are part of a treaty that does allow *some* protection once (a patent, at least) it is filed in any treaty country.
*But* this is only to allow time for you to do an actual application in every country that you intend to protect this patent in... provided it is approved...
Add a microwave to that and BAM! you'd never need to get up again!
Thats what the steam from the milk frother is for... and just remember to take the grounds out of the espresso maker when you collect hot water for the ramen...
There are some, some, ISPs that do offer no excess services... iiNET give you around 2gb peak plus 2gb off peak (or more for more cash). When you hit the limit though your speeds drop from 8Mb to 56k! A couple of other providers Optus? iPrimus? drop you to 33k!!!
So basically you get a great deal provided you arnt downloading a lot of high bandwith stuff (like movies you errr purchased) and then you are basically left to just checking your email for the rest of the month...
However getting several GB of the latest ISOs requires some foresight (and with a rolling download window, not a monthly start fresh, its bloody hard)
Having the refridgerator know what is inside and how old it is (via RFID)
Having just cleaned out my fridge yesterday because it was full, but there was nothing to eat, and finding jars of stuff that had a use by of 3 years ago, i would really like this technology...
My pantry would also like this technology... something smells in there...
So would my dog, as i keep running out of dog food and having to feed him my dinner. Hang on, maybe not...
What i really dont get is that the USA has the biggest economy in the world. Even down here in Australia we have had calls by the Red Cross for assistance for New Orleans.
Well, no disrespect to those who are affected by Katrina, the US can bloody well look after itself! They are spending a Billion dollars a day in Iraq. I absolutely refuse to send 1 hundred, $10, or even 50 cents to the US for aid as they dont need it.
Now with the tsunami i had no problems sending money to countries that couldnt feed themselves before a disaster, let alone after it. But seriously, the New Orleans disaster is not a monetary one to be fixed by aid, it is clearly political and procedural. The US just has to fix it. And those people effected should be assisted by the government to get back to a 'normal' life.
However, the technical assistance, flood equipment and managment sent by a few countries is well spent, and is hard to get without some help. But i do have to wonder why a superpower that can invade other countries on the other side of the world doesnt have a ready supply of emergency equipment hanging around to use a moments notice...
What I dont get is that New Orleans knew they were in for a world of hurt. Enough people have said in the past few decades it was just a matter of time.
This City is 15ft below sea level. The walls protecting would only survive a cat3 storm (and we all know we need cat6 these days. sorry...). The only major roads in and out of the area were also below sea level and not designed to survive a disaster. The ports were also damaged. The two airfields in the area were also below sea level. This place had *NO* contingency plan for a worse case senario!!!
And this is before everyone cocked up the evacuation and recovery...
No roads, no air support, no port makes it damn hard to do anything. Sure the port was going to get damaged... Roads might also get damaged, but there is no reason to not have at least a major artery that isnt under water for a week. Same for the airport, it should have been built up or protected so it could survive in a disaster situation...
All i can say is i hope noone tries to invade the continental US... the only defence you guys would be able to muster would be nukes... on your own soil...
Well the printer prints 330 linear feet per minute (thats 1354, 2up, duplex A4 pages per minute). So it can print a tad faster than 330 pages.
The toner cartridge lasts for 100,000 feet (at 4% coverage), so you are looking at 410,000 duplex printed pages every 2 and half hours per cartridge...
Developer lasts a little longer at 1.6 million feet (40 hours) but you have to oil the fuser belt about as often also...
Keeping it fed with paper is going to be your worst problem, with only a 16" high input tray (about 3000 pages...)
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In university they have pretty big posters against wholesale copying of library books above the photocopiers, with all the usual heavy handed copyright warnings.
But that doesnt stop anyone really. Copyright laws are only really there to stop corporations from profiting off of other corporations work...
Then again, I remember in my undergrad there was a required text that was $75 for around 200 pages. This is soft back novel style, not A4 hard back colour glossy. The $12 it took to copy the lot saw frequent use of the document feeders that semester ($6 if you wanted it 2up...). And given how useful it actually ended up being, they could have given away a pdf for $5 and noone would have read it anyway...
What was my point... umm "copyright is only good when it works for me..." and yes, old copyright does struggle in this digital age.
On the 3yo walking voice recorder...
My Grandfather likes to tell the story of me around that age while he was working in the shed using a hammer... hits his thumb and "fuck!"... *then* he notices me quietly playing in the corner... and thinks phew.. got away with that one, he didnt notice... Half an hour later my mum storms in saying "what have you be saying around my son!"... apparently i had been inside the house with my toy hammer gleefully saying "fuck" every time i hit something....
Then you *need* to have the vehicle... You however do not *need* to have that vehicle to drive to the soccer match (unless you are transporting said team)...
A fair system should allow for this... And yes, someone, most likely your government will have some control over you life, for the benefit of all, so it probably wont happen...
Sure you *can* get it unbundled, but you would loose out on the special $100 per month discount for having both services... and who wants $140 per month DSL just so it can be unbundled??
You have a very valid point, but that wasnt what i was making...
If someone rear-ends someone becasue they were going to fast (for the situation/limit whatever) then yes its their bad.
*I* am saying that if 'one' slams on one's breaks for no reason and causes an accident then it should not be the rear-ender's fault.
I specifically refer to the idiots who (eg) are driving at 75 in an 80 zone, slam on their breaks while passing a speed camera, slowing down to 50, while the following car (doing the speed limit even) then has to react to their stupidity putting all sorts of things in danger. To emergency break, possibly losing control, to swerve and hope i dont hit anything else... Yes I would have to do the same in an accident situation, but then i have a good reason to make those choices.
And on the other replies, i agree that in the places i drive, you defend the little place you do have infront of your car, lest someone halve that distance by pulling in front of you. It doesnt matter how slow you go there is still going to be a car just in front of you, so he better not drive erratically because i might hit him... not to mention you piss of the people behind you who become more likely to tail gate you because you wont move with the flow of traffic.
Whats the answer? maybe they need to give out sedatives with Fuel. Shortly the downers will cost less than the fuel too...
Has it occured to you that there may be other reasons for going slow in the left-hand lane?
some...
Like your engine isn't strong enough to handle that hill the highway is climbing? Or your car is having difficulties?
no, no... move over
Or you're trying to make that ramp
Fair enough
some jackass is up my ass trying to go 90 in a 65 zone?
Yes, that is a jackass... but my point is the just-as-jackassy idiot doing 65 in a 90 zone with no reason...
I have no problem having to react (and cop the penalty) in an accident situation, but i am sure going to get very irate at 'one' if 'one' is the cause of the accident by driving erratically. Such as slamming on you breaks for a freaking speed camera when you are already driving under the speed limit. Which was my inital point
And there are always going to be accidents. Cars are huge chunks of metal that can kill. You can play numbers all you want... yes if i was going slower i may not have hit, but if it was 10m closer i would have hit it anyway, so i should have driven slower, but if it was closer... how many accidents are there a year caused by *rolling* cars? stationary cars? The only perfectly safe speed is to not have a car. The next safest thing is to drive it properly, consistantly and considerately.
here here!!
And for the idiots that slam on their brakes and slow to 50km/h going past a camera in an 80 zone to be responsible for the rear ending...
and for that fact, the people who continue to drive 10-20 kms slower than the speed limit *after* a camera. If you are so concered about speeding then you have already been caught... and get out of the fast lane...
Thats why you take the inserts out of the case and put them into the wallet... some wallets are even designed for this with large facing pockets on one side for the jacket labels and a place to put the CD on the other side...
i followed your link and find it highly ammusing that they need to state:
"This product requires assembly"
It is freaking IKEA... I even bought a flat pack easter egg once...
Lose the 6x6 table ... and go to IKEA and get a drop leaf table. 2 people only need the table half up, and when guests come around (how often does that happen really?) you put the thing up.
/or a table tennis table and whack it on top. Paint the underside something nice it store it against a wall as some art work when not in use... unless you are a tennis nut...
For a party and some entertainment, get a large piece of MDF for
and no matter how well toilet trained your dog is, he will throw up where and when he pleases...
Although, i think he might be 'getting it' that i dont get so cranky when he throws up on the tiles as opposed to the carpet...
Even with WYGIWYS... why should the pagination change when i change the *resolution* from 300dpi to 600dpi on the same printer? I havnent changed any of the layout, just what the resolution, yet the pages are now out by something...
That isnt just pathetic, its downright retarded...
i would actually expect them to have only about 30 different versions... Now there is no way to get a version that has both Word and Excel and Outlook, so you will have to buy 3 (at least) different versions, each at the massively discounted bundled price of $449.
You will end up with
1 copy of Word
1 copy of Excel
1 copy of Outlook
and 3 each of publisher, project and photo editor... (does anyone use these?)
AFAIK most countries are part of a treaty that does allow *some* protection once (a patent, at least) it is filed in any treaty country.
*But* this is only to allow time for you to do an actual application in every country that you intend to protect this patent in... provided it is approved...
So yes there is, sort of...
Add a microwave to that and BAM! you'd never need to get up again!
Thats what the steam from the milk frother is for... and just remember to take the grounds out of the espresso maker when you collect hot water for the ramen...
No caffeine in Mountain Dew in Australia either...
Boy did, did did i i i get a surprise when i drank my favourite drink in the US... More caffine than Coke!...
Broadband in Oz is a rip off.
There are some, some, ISPs that do offer no excess services... iiNET give you around 2gb peak plus 2gb off peak (or more for more cash). When you hit the limit though your speeds drop from 8Mb to 56k! A couple of other providers Optus? iPrimus? drop you to 33k!!!
So basically you get a great deal provided you arnt downloading a lot of high bandwith stuff (like movies you errr purchased) and then you are basically left to just checking your email for the rest of the month...
However getting several GB of the latest ISOs requires some foresight (and with a rolling download window, not a monthly start fresh, its bloody hard)
Having the refridgerator know what is inside and how old it is (via RFID)
Having just cleaned out my fridge yesterday because it was full, but there was nothing to eat, and finding jars of stuff that had a use by of 3 years ago, i would really like this technology...
My pantry would also like this technology... something smells in there...
So would my dog, as i keep running out of dog food and having to feed him my dinner. Hang on, maybe not...
purified water on-mass is all good, but you still need to distribute it in something....
Those water purifiers are more usefull to re-supply the infrastructure of the city, or for camps that have to service hundreds/thousands of people.
What i really dont get is that the USA has the biggest economy in the world. Even down here in Australia we have had calls by the Red Cross for assistance for New Orleans.
Well, no disrespect to those who are affected by Katrina, the US can bloody well look after itself! They are spending a Billion dollars a day in Iraq. I absolutely refuse to send 1 hundred, $10, or even 50 cents to the US for aid as they dont need it.
Now with the tsunami i had no problems sending money to countries that couldnt feed themselves before a disaster, let alone after it. But seriously, the New Orleans disaster is not a monetary one to be fixed by aid, it is clearly political and procedural. The US just has to fix it. And those people effected should be assisted by the government to get back to a 'normal' life.
However, the technical assistance, flood equipment and managment sent by a few countries is well spent, and is hard to get without some help. But i do have to wonder why a superpower that can invade other countries on the other side of the world doesnt have a ready supply of emergency equipment hanging around to use a moments notice...
The levies may not be 'the shit', but hey man look at these kick arse speakers we got you'se.
why not a titanium case with diamond powder coating?
iPod nano, in pink, doubles as an emery board...
"Fuck of moron"
Would that be the telemarketer's wife or his child?
What I dont get is that New Orleans knew they were in for a world of hurt. Enough people have said in the past few decades it was just a matter of time.
This City is 15ft below sea level. The walls protecting would only survive a cat3 storm (and we all know we need cat6 these days. sorry...). The only major roads in and out of the area were also below sea level and not designed to survive a disaster. The ports were also damaged. The two airfields in the area were also below sea level. This place had *NO* contingency plan for a worse case senario!!!
And this is before everyone cocked up the evacuation and recovery...
No roads, no air support, no port makes it damn hard to do anything. Sure the port was going to get damaged... Roads might also get damaged, but there is no reason to not have at least a major artery that isnt under water for a week. Same for the airport, it should have been built up or protected so it could survive in a disaster situation...
All i can say is i hope noone tries to invade the continental US... the only defence you guys would be able to muster would be nukes... on your own soil...
Well the printer prints 330 linear feet per minute (thats 1354, 2up, duplex A4 pages per minute). So it can print a tad faster than 330 pages.
The toner cartridge lasts for 100,000 feet (at 4% coverage), so you are looking at 410,000 duplex printed pages every 2 and half hours per cartridge...
Developer lasts a little longer at 1.6 million feet (40 hours) but you have to oil the fuser belt about as often also...
Keeping it fed with paper is going to be your worst problem, with only a 16" high input tray (about 3000 pages...)