I think I'll remember government efficiency first. I've known illegal aliens who've driven and have had jobs for years without getting caught. Not to mention drug laws that go ignored. And as a prime example, sodomy laws and laws against vibrators that are on the books yet do nothing.
And besides, it'll be Microsoft and other software/hardware companies that force the upgrade, not the government.
Its basically to close a loophole that was left open in XP and before. Do I think its a good idea? No, except for Microsoft. But at least you're allowed to virtualize certain versions of Vista as well as all the previous MS OS's.
I don't know why your comment got flamebait, some people just choose a quieter keyboard and aren't bothered by the lack of physical response to a key press. I know a lot of people, including myself that know automatically if they miss a letter or some other typo. Having said that, there are keyboards even I can't stomach, such as the rollable waterproof keyboards, and the mother of all bad ideas: LASER keyboards.
At the university I went to the student ID was the social security number, and since that is used with credit companies and businesses for tax reasons, its still a problem. Heck, even standardized tests where TAs were grading, they used SS#s. This is a step in the right direction, but its only the first one.
The point has never been to make an unbreakable DRM scheme. The point is to use in in conjunction with the DMCA to get more control. DRM and the DMCA go together like bullets and handguns. The bullets (DRM) are useless themselves, but with the handgun (DMCA) they can get you to follow any restrictions they want.
Yeah, once again the stupid people ruin it for the rest of us. (I'm looking at people who try deleting the Windows directory because they "don't use any files in that folder)
Well, since cable providers make you pay for commercials, I can see where there backwards logic comes from. I watched a Dateline episode about advertiers recently and I bet they saw this coming. You see, their research lead them to believe that as advertising becomes more present in daily life it becomes background noise an over time the advertisers must continue to annoy the customer even more to keep their attention.
I fully expect the ad oriented entertainent system to die horribly in 30 years. Either that or we all get remotes in our heads telling us what to do.
When I was in college for our final year course we spent the entire time designing and building a spherical robot. Luckily we really good computer and mechanical engineers on the team otherwise it wouldn't have even gotten to the design stage. We even got a grant and built 2 prototypes. Though they didn't work, it sure as hell impressed the professors.
"Some techies seem to waste a lot of time fretting over issues such as file formats"
That's the only thing that frustrates me about the iPod and the Zune as well. I rip to DivX because I have 3 DivX players in my house, and I don't want to re-rip or transcode to yet another format (wmv or mp4) to watch on this device.
So instead of selling my iPod for an Archos, I'm getting an MP80B.
Or he would if CDs were actually dead. DRM'd music files are the wave of the future, after all. They get all the "buying multiple copies" syndrome that they did with Vinyl/cassette/CD that they did before without actually having to produce anything physical. Did you buy music from napster/rhapsody or whatever and now want an ipod? Great! Now buy it all in FairPlay format!
It looks like the record execs finally found a way to profit on this new business opportunity that everyone was saying to evolve to. They did, but only because they found a way to squeeze us a little harder.
Yeah, there's no need for flamebating that comment. The one peeve I have with the ipod is codec support. If the ipodlinux people can get video support on the 5G iPods, I'm going to reflash the thing, as most of my files I donwload are MPEG1/2 or DivX and all the DVDs I rip are xvid files.
Then hard drive based players are not for you. I had a RIO with replaceable AA batteries and I hated it. I like all my devices to have rechargable batteries because all I have to do is plug them in at night and don't have to worry about them suddenly dying during the day. Nothing sucks more than a dead battery half way through a train ride. And really, with the battery life of hard drive based players, and the same with cell phones, I wouldn't really want to carry around AA batteries.
I'm not knocking your preference, I have a MP3 CD player too and it does everything you said, but not to fit in my pocket.
Because customers trust call center employees with all that data. Very many times I've been given credit card and other identifying information over phone and E-MAIL!
But in general I agree with you. However, when banks are outsourcing, how can you possibly avoid it?
What I'd really like to see is the other end of the equation, actual touch perception. And I don't mean if you feel the shock when hitting something with the arm, I mean feeling textures, or perhaps it'd be easier to start off with hot/cold sensors, since we know how to do that with existing equipment.
Well, I don't have sympathy for companies who oversell their lines. The real world shouldn't be like "The Producers" where they expect to not have to pay out but everyone has to pay in and those people think that its a deal. If you want to sell a service that states "1.5/3/5/6/8 mbps in the package type, you damn well better expect *everyone* to be utilizing all that bandwidth. If you can't, don't sell it. I don't see baseball parks double selling seats because statistically x% of people don't show up to the game. Its not acceptable with physical goods, it shouldn't be acceptable with services either.
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Too bad it wasn't Mexico. If I had to be lost somewhere, it'd be the land of Latinas and tequila.
I think I'll remember government efficiency first. I've known illegal aliens who've driven and have had jobs for years without getting caught. Not to mention drug laws that go ignored. And as a prime example, sodomy laws and laws against vibrators that are on the books yet do nothing.
And besides, it'll be Microsoft and other software/hardware companies that force the upgrade, not the government.
Its basically to close a loophole that was left open in XP and before. Do I think its a good idea? No, except for Microsoft. But at least you're allowed to virtualize certain versions of Vista as well as all the previous MS OS's.
I don't know why your comment got flamebait, some people just choose a quieter keyboard and aren't bothered by the lack of physical response to a key press. I know a lot of people, including myself that know automatically if they miss a letter or some other typo. Having said that, there are keyboards even I can't stomach, such as the rollable waterproof keyboards, and the mother of all bad ideas: LASER keyboards.
At the university I went to the student ID was the social security number, and since that is used with credit companies and businesses for tax reasons, its still a problem. Heck, even standardized tests where TAs were grading, they used SS#s. This is a step in the right direction, but its only the first one.
Tenure is early retirement without having to label yourself as retired.
I'm just waiting for the price to dip below $200, that's my limit on drives. And right now its 3 times that: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82 E16827106037&ATT=27-106-037&CMP=OTC-Froogle
Luckily I have 1.2TB of space already. :)
PS: That 500GB HD sale you're talking about is for SATA drives at Best Buy. You know, in case anyone's curious...
He shouldn't complain, his heating bill will go down.
The point has never been to make an unbreakable DRM scheme. The point is to use in in conjunction with the DMCA to get more control. DRM and the DMCA go together like bullets and handguns. The bullets (DRM) are useless themselves, but with the handgun (DMCA) they can get you to follow any restrictions they want.
Yeah, once again the stupid people ruin it for the rest of us. (I'm looking at people who try deleting the Windows directory because they "don't use any files in that folder)
Well, since cable providers make you pay for commercials, I can see where there backwards logic comes from. I watched a Dateline episode about advertiers recently and I bet they saw this coming. You see, their research lead them to believe that as advertising becomes more present in daily life it becomes background noise an over time the advertisers must continue to annoy the customer even more to keep their attention.
I fully expect the ad oriented entertainent system to die horribly in 30 years. Either that or we all get remotes in our heads telling us what to do.
The world shouldn't be designed for idiots, but it is. But for the love of god, don't ignore the people who can tell left from right!
Because not everyone needs to have multiple apps open at once. Its pretty simple, different people use computes for different reasons.
When I was in college for our final year course we spent the entire time designing and building a spherical robot. Luckily we really good computer and mechanical engineers on the team otherwise it wouldn't have even gotten to the design stage. We even got a grant and built 2 prototypes. Though they didn't work, it sure as hell impressed the professors.
"Some techies seem to waste a lot of time fretting over issues such as file formats"
That's the only thing that frustrates me about the iPod and the Zune as well. I rip to DivX because I have 3 DivX players in my house, and I don't want to re-rip or transcode to yet another format (wmv or mp4) to watch on this device.
So instead of selling my iPod for an Archos, I'm getting an MP80B.
Or he would if CDs were actually dead. DRM'd music files are the wave of the future, after all. They get all the "buying multiple copies" syndrome that they did with Vinyl/cassette/CD that they did before without actually having to produce anything physical. Did you buy music from napster/rhapsody or whatever and now want an ipod? Great! Now buy it all in FairPlay format!
It looks like the record execs finally found a way to profit on this new business opportunity that everyone was saying to evolve to. They did, but only because they found a way to squeeze us a little harder.
Yeah, there's no need for flamebating that comment. The one peeve I have with the ipod is codec support. If the ipodlinux people can get video support on the 5G iPods, I'm going to reflash the thing, as most of my files I donwload are MPEG1/2 or DivX and all the DVDs I rip are xvid files.
Oh well, I say.
Then hard drive based players are not for you. I had a RIO with replaceable AA batteries and I hated it. I like all my devices to have rechargable batteries because all I have to do is plug them in at night and don't have to worry about them suddenly dying during the day. Nothing sucks more than a dead battery half way through a train ride. And really, with the battery life of hard drive based players, and the same with cell phones, I wouldn't really want to carry around AA batteries.
I'm not knocking your preference, I have a MP3 CD player too and it does everything you said, but not to fit in my pocket.
I wonder if its the same for Quark stars?
Because customers trust call center employees with all that data. Very many times I've been given credit card and other identifying information over phone and E-MAIL!
But in general I agree with you. However, when banks are outsourcing, how can you possibly avoid it?
Ok Mr. Smartypants:
Jumping off tall things without any safty equipment.
A BigGulp, cyanide flavor.
Grounding high-voltage lines with your teeth.
What I'd really like to see is the other end of the equation, actual touch perception. And I don't mean if you feel the shock when hitting something with the arm, I mean feeling textures, or perhaps it'd be easier to start off with hot/cold sensors, since we know how to do that with existing equipment.
Well, I don't have sympathy for companies who oversell their lines. The real world shouldn't be like "The Producers" where they expect to not have to pay out but everyone has to pay in and those people think that its a deal. If you want to sell a service that states "1.5/3/5/6/8 mbps in the package type, you damn well better expect *everyone* to be utilizing all that bandwidth. If you can't, don't sell it. I don't see baseball parks double selling seats because statistically x% of people don't show up to the game. Its not acceptable with physical goods, it shouldn't be acceptable with services either.
They won't, but I will: http://hymn-project.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=155 3