Sure it will, as long as it comes across as if a bunch of different people are saying it. That's the basis of most propaganda, and the basis of most advertising. A majority of people believe something is true if they hear the same thing said by a number of different people, without any critical thought actually being involved in the process.
Sure it will, so long as it comes across as if a bunch of different people are saying it. That's the basis of most advertising, and the basis of most propaganda. Most people believe something is true if they hear the same thing said by a number of different people, without any critical thought actually being involved in the process.
Sorry, couldn't resist.
Other ways to convince people are to say all reputable people who know about this think it's true. It's only a few skeptics who disagree. Of course, all those skeptics have worked for large corporations who have a vested interest in concealing this truth, so it's not surprising they disagree.
"So, dumbfuck, let me brake it down for you how that hurts YOU."
this sentence passes the spell-checker just fine but there is something wrong with it... i just wish i could just put my finger on it...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077975/quotes D-Day: War's over, man. Wormer dropped the big one. Bluto: Over? Did you say "over"? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no! Otter: Germans? Boon: Forget it, he's rolling.
You know, if you suspect that the current administration murdered someone, why aren't you out finding proof like Woodward and Bernstein did, rather than linking to dodgy conspiracy sites like the Worldwide Socialist Web Site?
Seriously, either it'd true in which case Bush and Cheney should be impeached and imprisoned, or it's not true in which case people should stop talking about it.
I think this is like the concept of thesis, antithesis, synthesis.
The only exceptions I can see are where people on both sides are disingenuous, i.e. their arguments are just a way to cover doing something which is in their interests. For example, in the 1930's there were two extreme ideologies which tried to take over society, the Nazis on the 'right' and the communists on the 'left'
But the thing is, they were both completely devoid of any useful content. In fact, you could argue that they were mirror images of each other, sharing much more in common with each other than any democratic ideology in the centre. Both of them existed solely to give their founders absolute power, and move civilisation noticably closer to the dark ages in the process. They both planned to impose themselves on everyone by force too. Someone called movements like this religotic or poligious, i.e. a religion with political ambitions, namely to deify their founder. extinguish all other religions and exterminate their founder's enemies.
But I think in a well functioning democracy, these sorts of malign forces are marginalised effectively, and you can do the thesis, antithesis, synthesis technique.
Jesus, the idea of people spending thousands of dollars and using chromacity charts to get a perfect audio visual experience, so they can watch Will and Grace is actually very funny.
Actually this sort of thing puts the phrase 'slightly fuzzy' from the article in to perspective. Presumably the only people that will buy high definition stuff at the moment are at the extreme end of the benefit/cost curve, spending hundreds of dollars to get essentially undetectable increases in performance. The idea that they will settle for any degradation in signal quality seems pretty remote to be honest. Maybe that's the point though, that they need to replace every piece of electronics in their house with proper ultra expensive stuff to get the best quality, whereas without content protection, pretty much anything digital looks and sounds ok. E.g with DVD players and LCD TVs, most people buy low end Chinese imports from the sort of manufacturer that it's hard to see keeping a license to decrypt protected content.
The openness of the hardware platform is essential to a vibrant PC ecosystem. In the current world, however, the industry is also working to prevent hackers from using that openness to pirate copyrighted content. The goal is to make the Windows-based PC a safer place for premium content, so that content providers will be happy to allow Windows-based PCs to play their content.
The term "premium content" is used in this paper to refer to valuable content that needs to be protected from stealing. Each content type has its own particular policy that defines what the user can and cannot do with it. The term "high-level premium content" is used to refer to the most valuable content types, such as High Definition (HD) DVD and Blu-Ray DVD.
The content industry may introduce robustness rules and testing that would effectively lock out PCs from premium content, by not allowing PCs a license key for the encryption used by conditional-access systems or HD-DVD and Blu-Ray DVD. These protection schemes will be very strong in the future, based on Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), Rivest-Shamir-Adleman (RSA), and so on. Under these future rules, a PC would only be granted a licensed to play the content if it is at least as secure as a CE appliance.
To make the PC safer for premium content, Microsoft has been working with members of the PC industry to solve the technical issues in hardware and software. Our key partners in this work have been Intel, ATI, NVidia, S3, and Matrox.
So essentially, they need to do something about the trustability of the PC from the point of view of the content providers, otherwise they won't get the keys they need to decrypt. It's worth pointing out that with DVD, the DVD Alliance (representing the studios, RIAA etc) didn't want to allow any software players at all. Eventually they relented and allowed it, and it was the Xing software player which leaked the keys originally. So it's not too surprising that the studios want more trustability in the successor formats.
The alternative is to leave Windows the way it is, and not support HD-DVD and BlueRay. This is drastic, since third parties would not be able to write players either, if the OS and hardware are untrusted. It would be the end of the Media Centre editions of Windows for example. Strangely enough, Apple would benefit from this. Since the software and hardware in Macs are much less open, they could probably convince the Content Industry to allow software players much more easily.
Which makes Intel's courting of them seem much smarter actually - they're a way to use Intel chips essentially in closed Multimedia appliances, rather than Open Architecture PCs.
and from (page 41)
The PCIe bus may be defined in some Content Industry Agreements as a user-accessible bus. It is further defined in some Content Industry Agreements that premium audio is not allowed to pass over a user-accessible bus in unprotected form. In spite of PC industry push-back on this requirement, it is not certain which way the decision will fall. Realistically, any concession in this area would only be valid for a small number of years, so the PC industry needs to address this issue in the not-too-distant future. Microsoft plans to address this as part of the PAP project that will be a number of years after the initial release of Windows Vista.
When the PC industry does PAP, there will be a way of encrypting audio over the PCIe bus. For discrete graphics manufacturers, the easiest mechanism to use would be PVP, because their graphics chip hardware will already be able to decrypt this. The encryption would be don
- data should be stored on the server (centralised backup, provision for web mail when you need it, ability to have an administrator control it, access from multiple hosts) - server-side spam filtering which can also take easily feedback from the client on what proved to not be spam, or what was and was missed. - server-side addressbook
Outlook and Exchange server does this, probably with some third party add ons it's true.
- should deal only with plain text - non plain text should be flattened to plain text. It would be nice to automatically bounce office files with a message to tell the person to send stuff as PDF or plain text.
You could write a rule. For more flexibility, you could write a COM component that detects 'bad' emails and use that inside a server side rule, like the antivirus vendors do. However I feel once you know the POWER of the DARK SIDE, you'll be writing a very different kind of filter.
- very responsive client for reading mail - very responsive client for writing mail - effective communication between client and server that doesn't require the user to wait
The Good Gnus Bible is actually free as in speech not just beer. If you read stuff you don't like, like Jesus Stallman sparing the Proprietary Software Vendors, you just go in to the wiki and change it.
Extreme To The Max iFreedom 2.0 would be ok, at least for a couple of months. I'd take off the 2.0 then though, that shit is played out.
Actually, I wonder what would happen if Apple made a OS X LiveCD as a promo. It shouldn't be that hard to get OS X to run from a CD. They could allow some simple filesystem access, but not enought to make it a Mac competitor.
And they probably have NVidia and ATI drivers already, so it should work on most graphics cards.
You could give the CDs away widely, and see if people buy Macs when they get used to Mac OS.
Since the bacteria are passed to the next generation of insects through the eggs, the bacteria reprogram the host's reproductive system so that males either die, don't reproduce, or turn into functional females. Probably don't need to worry too much about the macho DoD playing around with that one.
Can't see the lawyers allowing it, but feminizing most of those hostile Islamic societies would be a vast improvement, both for us and for the people in them.
It knows how to regulate the human immune system for it's own purposes. It actually seems quite close to being a symbiote, since it can treat Crohn's disease. Reminds me a bit of Goa'uld in SG-1 actually.
But I guess Rabies manages to change host behaviour in a way that encourages transmission.
That's because they don't have the same support model or the same users.
If Linux goes crazy, most people end up getting support on IRC bulletin boards etc, and it's not really a problem if no one can fix it. Most of the time, it ends up in Linux Fault Threshold territory, or you fix it yourself.
But RHEL paid support for example has a seven year support lifecycle
The Red Hat Enterprise Linux product lifecycle provides seven years of support for every release. New versions are introduced on a predictable 18-month schedule. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 - released in February 2005 - is the latest release.
Which seems comparable to Microsoft.
With commercial stuff, paying customers sue you if it doesn't work, and testing/bug fixing costs serious money. So you tend to only support the most common 95% configurations.
And in this case, the anti spyware product is a freebie, so it makes sense to tie it to a paid purchase, i.e. Vista. There's no reason for them to support Win 2k, and it's been End of Lifed anyway. Good thing too I think, Win 2k takes much longer to boot that NT 4.0 or XP. All the plug and play stuff seems slower too, and yet loads of big companies are still using it.
Seriously, these people probably spent $50 on an OEM license when they bought the machines seven years ago. How long do they expect the software to be supported? Buying a supported version of Linux is probably more expensive than that. And Microsoft will continue to patch vulnerabilities for another few years, the only thing which will be harder is that companies will stop supporting it for new installs. And Microsoft freebies won't work, unless you hack the MSI file
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I dunno though, I thought liberty would only die to the sound of thunderous applause.
Sure it will, so long as it comes across as if a bunch of different people are saying it. That's the basis of most advertising, and the basis of most propaganda. Most people believe something is true if they hear the same thing said by a number of different people, without any critical thought actually being involved in the process.
Sorry, couldn't resist.
Other ways to convince people are to say all reputable people who know about this think it's true. It's only a few skeptics who disagree. Of course, all those skeptics have worked for large corporations who have a vested interest in concealing this truth, so it's not surprising they disagree.
Someone didn't get the toys he wanted I see.
If that were true, the gifts would frequently explode and kill people, but there'd be a 1-800 Santa hotline.
But I guess the book of Thomas was possibly older,
and Judas wasn't the bad guy in that version.
Screw this coding shit. I'm going to write a thriller based on the descovery of the Gospel of Judas and make millions, like that hack Dan Brown.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077975/quotes
D-Day: War's over, man. Wormer dropped the big one.
Bluto: Over? Did you say "over"? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!
Otter: Germans?
Boon: Forget it, he's rolling.
You know, if you suspect that the current administration murdered someone, why aren't you out finding proof like Woodward and Bernstein did, rather than linking to dodgy conspiracy sites like the Worldwide Socialist Web Site?
Seriously, either it'd true in which case Bush and Cheney should be impeached and imprisoned, or it's not true in which case people should stop talking about it.
The BBC describe his death very differerntly from the wsws by the way
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/1784945.stm
Simple, give me absolute power, and my army of mercenaries will kill anyone I consider to be unaccountable.
Good post!
I think this is like the concept of thesis, antithesis, synthesis.
The only exceptions I can see are where people on both sides are disingenuous, i.e. their arguments are just a way to cover doing something which is in their interests. For example, in the 1930's there were two extreme ideologies which tried to take over society, the Nazis on the 'right' and the communists on the 'left'
But the thing is, they were both completely devoid of any useful content. In fact, you could argue that they were mirror images of each other, sharing much more in common with each other than any democratic ideology in the centre. Both of them existed solely to give their founders absolute power, and move civilisation noticably closer to the dark ages in the process. They both planned to impose themselves on everyone by force too. Someone called movements like this religotic or poligious, i.e. a religion with political ambitions, namely to deify their founder. extinguish all other religions and exterminate their founder's enemies.
But I think in a well functioning democracy, these sorts of malign forces are marginalised effectively, and you can do the thesis, antithesis, synthesis technique.
The show is still shit though, isn't it?
Jesus, the idea of people spending thousands of dollars and using chromacity charts to get a perfect audio visual experience, so they can watch Will and Grace is actually very funny.
Actually this sort of thing puts the phrase 'slightly fuzzy' from the article in to perspective. Presumably the only people that will buy high definition stuff at the moment are at the extreme end of the benefit/cost curve, spending hundreds of dollars to get essentially undetectable increases in performance. The idea that they will settle for any degradation in signal quality seems pretty remote to be honest. Maybe that's the point though, that they need to replace every piece of electronics in their house with proper ultra expensive stuff to get the best quality, whereas without content protection, pretty much anything digital looks and sounds ok. E.g with DVD players and LCD TVs, most people buy low end Chinese imports from the sort of manufacturer that it's hard to see keeping a license to decrypt protected content.
A DVD doesn't go all to shit if you pack it next to a speaker.
Well what happens if I put it in the Microwave oven, on high power?
Not so tough now are you, Mr DVD.
From the intro page 5
So essentially, they need to do something about the trustability of the PC from the point of view of the content providers, otherwise they won't get the keys they need to decrypt. It's worth pointing out that with DVD, the DVD Alliance (representing the studios, RIAA etc) didn't want to allow any software players at all. Eventually they relented and allowed it, and it was the Xing software player which leaked the keys originally. So it's not too surprising that the studios want more trustability in the successor formats.
The alternative is to leave Windows the way it is, and not support HD-DVD and BlueRay. This is drastic, since third parties would not be able to write players either, if the OS and hardware are untrusted. It would be the end of the Media Centre editions of Windows for example. Strangely enough, Apple would benefit from this. Since the software and hardware in Macs are much less open, they could probably convince the Content Industry to allow software players much more easily.
Which makes Intel's courting of them seem much smarter actually - they're a way to use Intel chips essentially in closed Multimedia appliances, rather than Open Architecture PCs.
and from (page 41)
Yeah, everyone knows you should call them MicroDRMPushingKenyanStarvingBastardSSoft.
They SS should be in Gothic script too, to remind people that they are NAZIS!
Make sure you use a GPL bdf Gothic font too, because all Truetype fonts are made from the blood of Kenyan babies!
Outlook and Exchange server does this, probably with some third party add ons it's true.
You could write a rule. For more flexibility, you could write a COM component that detects 'bad' emails and use that inside a server side rule, like the antivirus vendors do. However I feel once you know the POWER of the DARK SIDE, you'll be writing a very different kind of filter.
You could try Cached Exchange mode.
Bwahahah, BTW.
Kaluza Klein ... Intermediate Vector Boson ... Brane Theory .... Reverse the polarity of the neutron flow ..... SMACK! MORON!
If he was in the desert, he'd use his powers to take the oil from unbelievers, like our good Christian president has done.
Oh, and this: Why be normal?
Two words - sex and money.
The Good Gnus Bible is actually free as in speech not just beer. If you read stuff you don't like, like Jesus Stallman sparing the Proprietary Software Vendors, you just go in to the wiki and change it.
Extreme To The Max iFreedom 2.0 would be ok, at least for a couple of months. I'd take off the 2.0 then though, that shit is played out.
Actually, I wonder what would happen if Apple made a OS X LiveCD as a promo. It shouldn't be that hard to get OS X to run from a CD. They could allow some simple filesystem access, but not enought to make it a Mac competitor.
And they probably have NVidia and ATI drivers already, so it should work on most graphics cards.
You could give the CDs away widely, and see if people buy Macs when they get used to Mac OS.
Most prostitutes have too much self respect to work as network administrators.
That's funny but the deadhookers tag isn't.
And for all the nerds out there that disagree, remember that the last laugh may be on you -
http://www.lifeisajoke.com/worknleisure9_html.htm
How would they feel about terrorists-- ?
Since the bacteria are passed to the next generation of insects through the eggs, the bacteria reprogram the host's reproductive system so that males either die, don't reproduce, or turn into functional females. Probably don't need to worry too much about the macho DoD playing around with that one.
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Oh, I dunno -
http://www.e-sheep.com/spiders/3.5/01_hospital.ht
Can't see the lawyers allowing it, but feminizing most of those hostile Islamic societies would be a vast improvement, both for us and for the people in them.
Actually, I found this parasite fasinating
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http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?n
It knows how to regulate the human immune system for it's own purposes. It actually seems quite close to being a symbiote, since it can treat Crohn's disease. Reminds me a bit of Goa'uld in SG-1 actually.
But I guess Rabies manages to change host behaviour in a way that encourages transmission.
If Linux goes crazy, most people end up getting support on IRC bulletin boards etc, and it's not really a problem if no one can fix it. Most of the time, it ends up in Linux Fault Threshold territory, or you fix it yourself.
But RHEL paid support for example has a seven year support lifecycle
http://www.redhat.com/rhel/
Which seems comparable to Microsoft.
With commercial stuff, paying customers sue you if it doesn't work, and testing/bug fixing costs serious money. So you tend to only support the most common 95% configurations.
And in this case, the anti spyware product is a freebie, so it makes sense to tie it to a paid purchase, i.e. Vista. There's no reason for them to support Win 2k, and it's been End of Lifed anyway. Good thing too I think, Win 2k takes much longer to boot that NT 4.0 or XP. All the plug and play stuff seems slower too, and yet loads of big companies are still using it.
Seriously, these people probably spent $50 on an OEM license when they bought the machines seven years ago. How long do they expect the software to be supported? Buying a supported version of Linux is probably more expensive than that. And Microsoft will continue to patch vulnerabilities for another few years, the only thing which will be harder is that companies will stop supporting it for new installs. And Microsoft freebies won't work, unless you hack the MSI file