Sorry, forcing a download of an entire album is *not* giving you an option that "you don't have to tune into". This is not you giving the kids an album you like, this is you strapping them to a chair to listen to it à la "Clockwork Orange". If everyone got an email saying "Click for a free download of the album!" there would be no complaints. (Mockery, perhaps, but not complaints.:-) )
I don't have an iProduct that got force-downloaded. Today is my anniversary (a big number). So I don't see a first-world problem; I see a relationship problem.
It's not about the album. It's about control. It's about changing the station in the car radio when someone else is driving. It's about putting up with his sports posters and her frilly pillowcases. It's about changing the address list so it's alphabetical by first name instead of last name, and rearranging the desktop to be organized horizontally instead of vertically.
I feel your pain. But I can assure you that you can get through this.
I haven't bought music through iTunes yet, so I'm hardly an expert, but it seems to me that if I were to PURCHASE music through a DOWNLOAD service, I would want to "download new purchases". It seems, then, that this would be the normal and expected setting - unless perhaps one expects to purchase on cell data service and then download later on wifi? in which case it would seem the better solution would be an option in the service to only download big files while connected on wifi, but I know Apple doesn't seem to care about little things like how much you spend (after all, you bought an Apple product, you want coolness!)
Search and rescue. Getting video into dangerous places better than the current wheeled "robots" (really remote control). Video patrol of just about anyplace - constrained environment like a mall, open environment like hiking trails in a park.
But what you really want is a smarter dog, not a robot.
Pop-up windows are not inherently bad. Using it for a pop-up ad, though . . . I used to say (being a New Yorker) that such a person should be suspended by his ankles, one rope going to each of the twin towers. As I said, not only should justice be done, justice must be SEEN to be done. Now I suppose it would have to be some other dramatic place . . . maybe the two towers of one of the bridges?
... what do we do with the Bernie Maddoffs of the world?
This is a prime example of how our system of justice and punishment completely fails to satisfy the human need to "see justice done". We need a points system, like many states have for the drivers license, with different offenses and injuries having different point values. This way, a "non-violent" offender who has managed to damage the lives of thousands of people can be seen to be worthy of a very public execution, to demonstrate to everyone - good and bad alike - that society doesn't want this behavior, and excises it like cutting off a wart.
http://www.newyorker.com/magaz...
"Under civil forfeiture, Americans who haven’t been charged with wrongdoing can be stripped of their cash, cars, and even homes. Is that all we’re losing?"
How much of that "nearly half" without a college degree is from the era when computer science degrees didn't exist? I went to a Top 10 engineering school, and we didn't have "Computer Science" or "Computer Systems" until my junior year - the closest was either a Math or EE specialization. There were already people leaving college early directly for industry, because the market was hot in both industrial and military applications. Alternatively, how many are from military training? I have worked with two people, both at the engineering level, both alumni of Air Force technical training in computer-based systems.
I concur with the many posters pointing out that a degree isn't just about coding; I keep having to fix things by people who can code, but never learned to DESIGN.
"It sometimes happens in a people amongst which various opinions prevail that the balance of the several parties is lost, and one of them obtains an irresistible preponderance, overpowers all obstacles, harasses its opponents, and appropriates all the resources of society to its own purposes. The vanquished citizens despair of success and they conceal their dissatisfaction in silence and in general apathy. The nation seems to be governed by a single principle, and the prevailing party assumes the credit of having restored peace and unanimity to the country. But this apparent unanimity is merely a cloak to alarming dissensions and perpetual opposition." - Alexis de Tocqueville, published 1831
Maybe there are different things going on, like maybe the military bases have their own separately-powered communications that are sort of legitimate, and the interception near the casino is more on the shady side (with a supposedly good reason like "make sure nobody is using cellphones or video to cheat the casino").
I think you're overreacting to the threat from the government. I'm not worried about military surveillance around military bases, because I don't have to go driving near military bases (and besides, it's a clearly signed MILITARY BASE, of course they've got security); I'm more worried about PRIVATE surveillance from anybody who can afford one of these systems.
In addition to others' discussions of the changing nature of food, consider the changing nature of work and leisure activities. A higher percentage of people still did more physical work, simply because there was more physical work to be done. (A corollary example is people living in New York City who wind up walking a half-mile or more each way to work once you add up home-to-mass-transit, mass-transit-to-workplace, and incidental distances.) A higher percentage of leisure activities involved some sort of activity rather than sitting and watching entertainment.
The "farmhouse breakfast" that nutritionists have been decrying for years made perfect sense when farmhands were going out to do physical labor all day. If those same people are getting into air-conditioned combine harvesters with comfy seats, that same breakfast is much more food than they need, but the traditions persist.
Go read the bible which has passages advocating similar violence. You don't see the Christians following those either, at least not since the crusades.
And you never saw the Jews follow them at all, and they wrote the damn thing.
Your odds do not consider the prospects of damage. All it would take is one or two people with Ebola landing in the same city's airports to kill a lot more than 3000.
This may have been an acceptable response in the days of hand weapons or single-load firearms. It's harder with automatic fire, shoulder-fired missiles, and the ability to kill a plane at cruising altitude managed by any idiot who can push a red button. It won't work at all if Gen0 or Gen1 unleashes a plague that devastates the world before anyone has time to reflect. These are people willing to commit suicide; suppose a handful of the international ISIS crowd go down to Africa, make sure they catch Ebola by drinking some blood from someone dying of it, and spend their incubation periods traveling across Europe and the US, airport-hopping as they go?
In "West Side Story", from 1957, there is a song about why the gang members are, in fact, gang members. Among other things, "Hey, I'm depraved because of I'm deprived!" If a mugger is pointing a gun at me, I don't really care whether he has legitimate reason to be dissatisfied with his place in society, or whether he had a terrible childhood; I'm just worried about whether he'll shoot me. Similarly, while you may be totally correct about the unintended consequences of European and American interference - that by disrupting the moderates they opened the door to the radicals - it doesn't change the fact that ISIS makes medieval look good.
For me it was 45, after 9 years and a patent application. Strange how one person was laid off from each project, almost all the oldest and most experienced, except for two new kids who had just recently started and hadn't even gotten any product training yet.
Best point. Why are the phone companies accepting phones that are already linked to other service? Well, I suppose all it needs is changing a SIM in GSM phones, but CDMA phones are stable, and it would be so easy to check the IMEI being registered on a system. Especially iPhones because people tend to keep in touch with Apple.
This++. The word "legacy" in the real world suggests a valuable inheritance, something worth preserving; the difference between "old" and "antique". It may need polishing. More importantly, its value is sometimes underappreciated by the casual observer (like, you don't use a 50-year-old stamp collection for postage, or worse, recycle it as scrap paper.) Only in computing does "legacy" automatically imply "bad".
this debate is hysterically funny. "The past doesn't matter, throw it out!" is the rallying cry every few years, and people who were yelling right along become the "old guard" in faster and faster cycles. I moved from mainframes to minis, to micros, to embedded SOCs, and each time encountered a crowd whose disdain for "the old way" meant that they had to make all of the mistakes again rather than learn from other people's mistakes (which is much cheaper). At each transition, some of "the old way" was, indeed, crap; but some was the result of hard-won experience and long stabilization, and all too often I see the good tossed out with the bad. (BTW I don't use Linux at all; I use embedded RTOS.)
... people who use violence tend to have minds better able to shut off emotions and critical thought as needed, whether than need is for 10 minutes while shooting and robbing someone...
I believe you have a logical fallacy here. Maybe some people *like* to hurt others and/or enforce dominance over others, and rather than shutting off emotions and critical thought during the act are actually enjoying it. Maybe that's why they do it in the first place, even more than the monetary reward (after all, the contents of the average wallet hardly seem worth a life).
Disclosure: wife's paternal aunt and mother, and my grandfather and mother, all died of various cancers. IANA cancer expert but I've read a lot.
I have always figured that cancer isn't about "runaway growth"; it's about the failure of whatever STOPS that childhood growth and keeps adults stable. Curing the body's ability to reproduce cells would be curing the ability to heal and replace and continue living. The best I expect to see is a way to put "safety brakes" in the system so that a person can continue living longer with very-slowly-growing cancer. Eventually, anything that lives, dies; it's just about timing and quality/functionality of life while you're living.
From the ISP point of view, how much of a percentage do I get from this extortion racket, and how do I write my advertising to focus my customers' irritation on Rightscorp so they don't realize we're collaborating?
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Sorry, forcing a download of an entire album is *not* giving you an option that "you don't have to tune into". This is not you giving the kids an album you like, this is you strapping them to a chair to listen to it à la "Clockwork Orange". If everyone got an email saying "Click for a free download of the album!" there would be no complaints. (Mockery, perhaps, but not complaints. :-) )
I don't have an iProduct that got force-downloaded. Today is my anniversary (a big number). So I don't see a first-world problem; I see a relationship problem.
It's not about the album. It's about control. It's about changing the station in the car radio when someone else is driving. It's about putting up with his sports posters and her frilly pillowcases. It's about changing the address list so it's alphabetical by first name instead of last name, and rearranging the desktop to be organized horizontally instead of vertically.
I feel your pain. But I can assure you that you can get through this.
I haven't bought music through iTunes yet, so I'm hardly an expert, but it seems to me that if I were to PURCHASE music through a DOWNLOAD service, I would want to "download new purchases". It seems, then, that this would be the normal and expected setting - unless perhaps one expects to purchase on cell data service and then download later on wifi? in which case it would seem the better solution would be an option in the service to only download big files while connected on wifi, but I know Apple doesn't seem to care about little things like how much you spend (after all, you bought an Apple product, you want coolness!)
I wonder if they could DRESS UP the robot in meat? . . . . no, that's been done.
Search and rescue. Getting video into dangerous places better than the current wheeled "robots" (really remote control). Video patrol of just about anyplace - constrained environment like a mall, open environment like hiking trails in a park.
But what you really want is a smarter dog, not a robot.
Pop-up windows are not inherently bad. Using it for a pop-up ad, though . . . I used to say (being a New Yorker) that such a person should be suspended by his ankles, one rope going to each of the twin towers. As I said, not only should justice be done, justice must be SEEN to be done. Now I suppose it would have to be some other dramatic place . . . maybe the two towers of one of the bridges?
This is a prime example of how our system of justice and punishment completely fails to satisfy the human need to "see justice done". We need a points system, like many states have for the drivers license, with different offenses and injuries having different point values. This way, a "non-violent" offender who has managed to damage the lives of thousands of people can be seen to be worthy of a very public execution, to demonstrate to everyone - good and bad alike - that society doesn't want this behavior, and excises it like cutting off a wart.
Write Like the Wind (George R. R. Martin) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
http://www.newyorker.com/magaz... "Under civil forfeiture, Americans who haven’t been charged with wrongdoing can be stripped of their cash, cars, and even homes. Is that all we’re losing?"
How much of that "nearly half" without a college degree is from the era when computer science degrees didn't exist? I went to a Top 10 engineering school, and we didn't have "Computer Science" or "Computer Systems" until my junior year - the closest was either a Math or EE specialization. There were already people leaving college early directly for industry, because the market was hot in both industrial and military applications. Alternatively, how many are from military training? I have worked with two people, both at the engineering level, both alumni of Air Force technical training in computer-based systems.
I concur with the many posters pointing out that a degree isn't just about coding; I keep having to fix things by people who can code, but never learned to DESIGN.
"It sometimes happens in a people amongst which various opinions prevail that the balance of the several parties is lost, and one of them obtains an irresistible preponderance, overpowers all obstacles, harasses its opponents, and appropriates all the resources of society to its own purposes. The vanquished citizens despair of success and they conceal their dissatisfaction in silence and in general apathy. The nation seems to be governed by a single principle, and the prevailing party assumes the credit of having restored peace and unanimity to the country. But this apparent unanimity is merely a cloak to alarming dissensions and perpetual opposition." - Alexis de Tocqueville, published 1831
Maybe there are different things going on, like maybe the military bases have their own separately-powered communications that are sort of legitimate, and the interception near the casino is more on the shady side (with a supposedly good reason like "make sure nobody is using cellphones or video to cheat the casino").
I think you're overreacting to the threat from the government. I'm not worried about military surveillance around military bases, because I don't have to go driving near military bases (and besides, it's a clearly signed MILITARY BASE, of course they've got security); I'm more worried about PRIVATE surveillance from anybody who can afford one of these systems.
In addition to others' discussions of the changing nature of food, consider the changing nature of work and leisure activities. A higher percentage of people still did more physical work, simply because there was more physical work to be done. (A corollary example is people living in New York City who wind up walking a half-mile or more each way to work once you add up home-to-mass-transit, mass-transit-to-workplace, and incidental distances.) A higher percentage of leisure activities involved some sort of activity rather than sitting and watching entertainment.
The "farmhouse breakfast" that nutritionists have been decrying for years made perfect sense when farmhands were going out to do physical labor all day. If those same people are getting into air-conditioned combine harvesters with comfy seats, that same breakfast is much more food than they need, but the traditions persist.
Go read the bible which has passages advocating similar violence. You don't see the Christians following those either, at least not since the crusades.
And you never saw the Jews follow them at all, and they wrote the damn thing.
Your odds do not consider the prospects of damage. All it would take is one or two people with Ebola landing in the same city's airports to kill a lot more than 3000.
This may have been an acceptable response in the days of hand weapons or single-load firearms. It's harder with automatic fire, shoulder-fired missiles, and the ability to kill a plane at cruising altitude managed by any idiot who can push a red button. It won't work at all if Gen0 or Gen1 unleashes a plague that devastates the world before anyone has time to reflect. These are people willing to commit suicide; suppose a handful of the international ISIS crowd go down to Africa, make sure they catch Ebola by drinking some blood from someone dying of it, and spend their incubation periods traveling across Europe and the US, airport-hopping as they go?
In "West Side Story", from 1957, there is a song about why the gang members are, in fact, gang members. Among other things, "Hey, I'm depraved because of I'm deprived!" If a mugger is pointing a gun at me, I don't really care whether he has legitimate reason to be dissatisfied with his place in society, or whether he had a terrible childhood; I'm just worried about whether he'll shoot me. Similarly, while you may be totally correct about the unintended consequences of European and American interference - that by disrupting the moderates they opened the door to the radicals - it doesn't change the fact that ISIS makes medieval look good.
I thought the Egyptians already had chariots, which sort of require wheels?
For me it was 45, after 9 years and a patent application. Strange how one person was laid off from each project, almost all the oldest and most experienced, except for two new kids who had just recently started and hadn't even gotten any product training yet.
Maybe if we treated AT&T stores like pawn shops
Best point. Why are the phone companies accepting phones that are already linked to other service? Well, I suppose all it needs is changing a SIM in GSM phones, but CDMA phones are stable, and it would be so easy to check the IMEI being registered on a system. Especially iPhones because people tend to keep in touch with Apple.
This++. The word "legacy" in the real world suggests a valuable inheritance, something worth preserving; the difference between "old" and "antique". It may need polishing. More importantly, its value is sometimes underappreciated by the casual observer (like, you don't use a 50-year-old stamp collection for postage, or worse, recycle it as scrap paper.) Only in computing does "legacy" automatically imply "bad".
this debate is hysterically funny. "The past doesn't matter, throw it out!" is the rallying cry every few years, and people who were yelling right along become the "old guard" in faster and faster cycles. I moved from mainframes to minis, to micros, to embedded SOCs, and each time encountered a crowd whose disdain for "the old way" meant that they had to make all of the mistakes again rather than learn from other people's mistakes (which is much cheaper). At each transition, some of "the old way" was, indeed, crap; but some was the result of hard-won experience and long stabilization, and all too often I see the good tossed out with the bad. (BTW I don't use Linux at all; I use embedded RTOS.)
... people who use violence tend to have minds better able to shut off emotions and critical thought as needed, whether than need is for 10 minutes while shooting and robbing someone ...
I believe you have a logical fallacy here. Maybe some people *like* to hurt others and/or enforce dominance over others, and rather than shutting off emotions and critical thought during the act are actually enjoying it. Maybe that's why they do it in the first place, even more than the monetary reward (after all, the contents of the average wallet hardly seem worth a life).
Disclosure: wife's paternal aunt and mother, and my grandfather and mother, all died of various cancers. IANA cancer expert but I've read a lot.
I have always figured that cancer isn't about "runaway growth"; it's about the failure of whatever STOPS that childhood growth and keeps adults stable. Curing the body's ability to reproduce cells would be curing the ability to heal and replace and continue living. The best I expect to see is a way to put "safety brakes" in the system so that a person can continue living longer with very-slowly-growing cancer. Eventually, anything that lives, dies; it's just about timing and quality/functionality of life while you're living.
From the ISP point of view, how much of a percentage do I get from this extortion racket, and how do I write my advertising to focus my customers' irritation on Rightscorp so they don't realize we're collaborating?