I've got a 1GB PNY attache and the first thing I put is of course a linux distro (DSL). And some windows utilities, things that can handle ISO images, writing floppy images.
But the other half of that is personal stuff. I keep resumes of myself and some family members, my favorite wallpapers, some emulators (Nester, Dgen, KGB, Snes9x) and so on. And of course, a certain video file, with the name and extension obfuscated.
Tell your boss that you're not an abuse whore. That's a detremental working condition and you can easly report those companies for it.
Having worked in support, my boss gave me a 2 strikes policy. If they get abusive, warn them that you will have to end the call. If they do it again, *click*. I usually gave them 3 strikes, but I'm a nice guy.
"Just to play Devil's Advocate here, but why SHOULD they facilitate the use of other OS'es?"
Image.
Microsoft desperately wants Linux to go away. Granted the things Microsoft does to the MBR can interfere with BSD/x86 Solaris, or anything else on the drive, this kind of move is great against linux. The problem is it makes them look desperate. It also annoys those who work in IT departments (the group MS loves the most: corporations).
Microsoft doesn't usually have to to worry about pissing off customers. That may change.
Actually, the first thing I noticed was their mentioning in following the "spirit" of the standards and not the standards themselves.
Now since I haven't read the standards on accessability that the W3C offers, I can't be certain, but wouldn't a technical body that was created to handle standards research and try to make the best set of ideas the actual standard?
As sad as it is. Windows is still more reliable than an internet connection. I can understand this as an in-house thing for secretaries or other people who don't need anything to be fast or can't handle anything too complex. So until my network connection is up with the reliability of my land line. Local apps for me only.
Everything else is stuck at 8khz, so unless your call uses this service end-to-end, there's going to be a downconversion if you're calling someone on a land line. And you'll be stuck with 8khz if you get any calls from someone not on this service.
Still, its a good piece of news, onward and upwards.
*crosses fingers* Please nobody mention video phones. *crosses fingers*
Unfortunately, English is not the official language in the United States'. I'm surprised Congress hasn't brought up the idea of an amendment to make it official. If they're going after flags, gay marriage, and illegal immigration to hand-wave people away from the real issues, english as a national language would do a much better job in my opinion.
If this was a button he wore on his t-shirt to class I'd bet that he'd still get in trouble for it, but he'd only have to remove the button. Is it free speech? Sure, but he's a minor and this is not the government passing laws.
I still boggle at the way people's logic flies out the window like a butterfly.
Another example: Putting a sign on the street that some stranger is selling pot in the alley? Legal Linking to a site that has a copy of Back to The Future? Illegal
I tend to avoid popular pages. Instead I mostly like to fill in the non-existant entries I find. For example, Dave Koz, Soul Ballet, and April Flowers. They have little to no additional edits afterwards.
It dealt with spy satellites. The narrator mentioned that the video surveillance they showed in the program was from the 1960s and 70s and said that the actual resolution and what it could detect nowadays was classified. I'm pretty sure the 1970s shots could identify cars.
Has to make you wonder, if this is what we can buy, what can the government make today?
1. Government notices problem. 2. Media takes problem, makes it a big news story. 3. Government takes problem and introduces legislation that does more to restrict ordinary law-abiding citizens. 4. Profit (More Power)
How many years was illegal immigration going on and companies using them (persumably this DNA database will be designed to curtail that)? And when exactly did the government/news decide to make it a central issue? The governemnt must have seen what a great tool fear, distrust, and anger were to gain power for themselves.
I still have a watch that uses that. The watch refuses to die, Its been running on its origonal battery for 6 YEARS! Oh, and there's nothing quite like syncing your watch up to a PC thats synced to an atomic clock.
Anyway, back on topic. Ever since the RIAA started providing corrupt or malformed songs on P2P networks[1] it was only a matter of time before the MPAA started futzing with things too. However it is surprising that the MPAA would outdo the zealoutry of even the RIAA.
[1] I don't condemn all file sharing, only the illegal kind.
Well to be fair, some gripes with copyright are valid, namely the duration of copyright laws. If the origonal rules of copyright were in place in the US, then you would be able to freely trade or resell all the star wars movies, all the origonal Star Trek episodes, and draw Mickey mouse in any cartoon you'd like without any legal issue.
For some perspective, the movie The Da Vinci Code will enter the public domain in 2081. By then, the US will have already celebrated its tricentennial. The last Apollo moon landing will have been 99 years ago, and I will be 98 years old.
But you are increasing the amount of CO2 emissions in the atmosphere by breathing! Shame on you, I stopped breathing 3 minutes ago when I read this posssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
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I've got a 1GB PNY attache and the first thing I put is of course a linux distro (DSL). And some windows utilities, things that can handle ISO images, writing floppy images. But the other half of that is personal stuff. I keep resumes of myself and some family members, my favorite wallpapers, some emulators (Nester, Dgen, KGB, Snes9x) and so on. And of course, a certain video file, with the name and extension obfuscated.
Tell your boss that you're not an abuse whore. That's a detremental working condition and you can easly report those companies for it.
Having worked in support, my boss gave me a 2 strikes policy. If they get abusive, warn them that you will have to end the call. If they do it again, *click*. I usually gave them 3 strikes, but I'm a nice guy.
"Just to play Devil's Advocate here, but why SHOULD they facilitate the use of other OS'es?"
Image.
Microsoft desperately wants Linux to go away. Granted the things Microsoft does to the MBR can interfere with BSD/x86 Solaris, or anything else on the drive, this kind of move is great against linux. The problem is it makes them look desperate. It also annoys those who work in IT departments (the group MS loves the most: corporations).
Microsoft doesn't usually have to to worry about pissing off customers. That may change.
Actually, the first thing I noticed was their mentioning in following the "spirit" of the standards and not the standards themselves.
Now since I haven't read the standards on accessability that the W3C offers, I can't be certain, but wouldn't a technical body that was created to handle standards research and try to make the best set of ideas the actual standard?
As sad as it is. Windows is still more reliable than an internet connection. I can understand this as an in-house thing for secretaries or other people who don't need anything to be fast or can't handle anything too complex. So until my network connection is up with the reliability of my land line. Local apps for me only.
Everything else is stuck at 8khz, so unless your call uses this service end-to-end, there's going to be a downconversion if you're calling someone on a land line. And you'll be stuck with 8khz if you get any calls from someone not on this service.
Still, its a good piece of news, onward and upwards.
*crosses fingers* Please nobody mention video phones. *crosses fingers*
Too bad, its been around for a while too:
http://www.google.com/enterprise/
Unfortunately, English is not the official language in the United States'. I'm surprised Congress hasn't brought up the idea of an amendment to make it official. If they're going after flags, gay marriage, and illegal immigration to hand-wave people away from the real issues, english as a national language would do a much better job in my opinion.
If this was a button he wore on his t-shirt to class I'd bet that he'd still get in trouble for it, but he'd only have to remove the button. Is it free speech? Sure, but he's a minor and this is not the government passing laws.
I still boggle at the way people's logic flies out the window like a butterfly.
Another example:
Putting a sign on the street that some stranger is selling pot in the alley? Legal
Linking to a site that has a copy of Back to The Future? Illegal
I tend to avoid popular pages. Instead I mostly like to fill in the non-existant entries I find. For example, Dave Koz, Soul Ballet, and April Flowers. They have little to no additional edits afterwards.
"Having debates on U.S. Policy is sooo pre-2001. Try again in January 2009..."
I disagree, debate is common. Its a good handwaving, misdirecting, tactic.
Now, if you said 'logic' and 'reason' then I'd agree with you.
I seriously wish I could mod you up.
Some people jump to the right conclusion for the wrong reason.
Now that you've pointed that difference out, the question we have to ask is: how long has Apple known about these working conditions?
It dealt with spy satellites. The narrator mentioned that the video surveillance they showed in the program was from the 1960s and 70s and said that the actual resolution and what it could detect nowadays was classified. I'm pretty sure the 1970s shots could identify cars.
Has to make you wonder, if this is what we can buy, what can the government make today?
Yes! It's called a bottleneck, and most people don't pay attention to that. If your webserver is on a single T1 line, that's the limit right there.
If I trusted ISPs to be honest I'd say they should have a bandwidth test on their network.
Tell your citizens that its cheaper and they'll thank you for it. The details about where the saved monegy goes usually become obfuscated however.
Especially those of us who bought region-free DVD players from them. I mean, it circumvents the region encoding "protection," right?
1. Government notices problem.
2. Media takes problem, makes it a big news story.
3. Government takes problem and introduces legislation that does more to restrict ordinary law-abiding citizens.
4. Profit (More Power)
How many years was illegal immigration going on and companies using them (persumably this DNA database will be designed to curtail that)? And when exactly did the government/news decide to make it a central issue? The governemnt must have seen what a great tool fear, distrust, and anger were to gain power for themselves.
I still have a watch that uses that. The watch refuses to die, Its been running on its origonal battery for 6 YEARS! Oh, and there's nothing quite like syncing your watch up to a PC thats synced to an atomic clock.
Which is a good hint that good people don't.
Anyway, back on topic. Ever since the RIAA started providing corrupt or malformed songs on P2P networks[1] it was only a matter of time before the MPAA started futzing with things too. However it is surprising that the MPAA would outdo the zealoutry of even the RIAA.
[1] I don't condemn all file sharing, only the illegal kind.
"The last Apollo moon landing will have been 99 years ago."
Crap, I meant 109 years.
Well to be fair, some gripes with copyright are valid, namely the duration of copyright laws. If the origonal rules of copyright were in place in the US, then you would be able to freely trade or resell all the star wars movies, all the origonal Star Trek episodes, and draw Mickey mouse in any cartoon you'd like without any legal issue.
For some perspective, the movie The Da Vinci Code will enter the public domain in 2081. By then, the US will have already celebrated its tricentennial. The last Apollo moon landing will have been 99 years ago, and I will be 98 years old.
That, I think, is a problem.
Thank you.
It's wonderful hearing from someone without fear anymore.
Be proud.
But you are increasing the amount of CO2 emissions in the atmosphere by breathing! Shame on you, I stopped breathing 3 minutes ago when I read this posssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
Inconvenient facts are still facts. And shaping the world by removing information is the height of conceit.
A James Bond movie?
Just...strikes me as odd is all.