I wonder how they would deal with a computer that had a TV tuner card installed? You could definitely 'watch TV' without owning a TV these days... a HTPC with a tuner card, and then just use a suitably big monitor, or a DLP projector. No TV, just a computer, but you'd have all the capabilities.
If you have a TV tuner card, that counts. If you don't have a licence then you can be prosecuted. The TV licencing folk are like pitbulls, and they have some similar rights as baliffs the way I understand it.
I hate the TV licence. When I first moved out from home, I did not own a TV but the licence people still sent me letters saying "You don't appear to have a TV licence, please get one." I phoned them and said I don't have a TV, they still sent letters. I replied to these letters, but there is no convincing them you don't own a TV. A few more letters and they were threatening to send the inspectors round. I found this link which has some various experiences of the TV Licencing strategies.
Thrips is the singular and plural - like fish (I just found this out from an article in Google Sightseeing which referenced this article) Wikipedia - thrips
Yes, it is still useful for business to utilise online advertising. Take AdWords for instance, you pay only for clicks through to your site. Users that block ads aren't likely to be the ones clicking the advertisements, and you don't pay for them. I'd say it doesn't affect business, it's probably better actually - you don't pay for visitors that aren't going to be interested.
Abandoning an online advertisement strategy because some people block them is like deciding against billboards because some people are blind.
Everyone should have a battery powered radio receiver. Hurricanes, Earthquakes, Flooding, Volcanos (like Mt. St. Helens) happen, and you need a way to receive emergency information about which way to run.
I have a wind-up radio. Which would be great if there was something so catastrophic happen that I couldn't even buy batteries; though if such a situation were to occur, I doubt there'd be many transmissions to listen to.
My work computer got infected by a trojan yesterday. I was browsing a BBS where some malicious user had posted a SWF that opened up some other page on an IP, I'm not sure but I think it could have been the most recent MS IE critical vunerability. My boss spent from 9am to 2pm trying to get rid of a trojan. The antivirus the PC already had was Symantec, which was what first alerted us to it this morning. It couldn't remove it, so we tried AVG and Pandasoft as well as House Call. Nothing would shift the damn thing, it ended up with me having to replace the PC with a spare one. He'd have loved to have cashed in on this, as we both wasted most of our workday.
For a while, I was into case modding. I had my stepfather do the metal cutting and so on, because I'm an accountant; I don't know how to cut metal and if I can get others to do a better job for me for free then cool. I had him cut stylistic holes in the side panels and I installed neons and light cables etc. That was a couple of years ago though.
Now my PC is under my IKEA desk, so nobody sees the sides. I have a missing drive bay cover so you can see the coloured fans but thats it. Stylish PCs may be a big deal to some, but I lost that interest quite quickly.
Sure, your PC looks cool, but who really cares?
It offers no benefit to me. Why would I want that installed when I have a perfectly good copy of XP Corporate Edition? I don't give a shit about the latest media player, or IE7. Sure, I take the critical updates when I'm offered them but that is all. I ran the WGA tool and of course I am not a valid user of Windows XP. Saying that though, I am a legitimate owner of an XP Home license. Which I haven't used in years, I keep the keycode safe though. I used XP Home for a while, but I found it restrictive for my needs; so I installed a bootlegged copy of the corporate edition which has always been fantastic.
If MS sold their software at a lower price they would generate more sales that would compensate for the low price.
I know so many people that say "I would buy windows, if it didn't cost hundreds!" If they sold the pro edition for a cheaper price then they would sell so many more that it would compensate for the few that did pay the higher price. I'm not in marketing, I'm in accountancy, so I know about economic curves and I think MS is just milking the corporate market for as much as they can. If they opened up their 'pro' systems for lower prices I am sure their sales would increase as well as their revenue.
MS alienate potential buyers with their WGA and high prices. Set your prices low, and sell a bundle. Look at your profits, M$, you're not "hard done by".
I ride a bike too. I enjoy my lack of dependence on motor vehicles. In fact, I lord it over my peers whenever possible. A colleague was telling me just today that she spends £52 on petrol (gas) per week. So, I worked that out as £2,496 per annum just on petrol. There's also the price of the car, maintainance, taxes, insurance and whatever else. So say she's taking a £15,000 for the job, we can say that at least £3,000 of that is lost on just getting to work!
Going on my aproximation of £3,000 a year just for having your own car to get to work, that's £62.50 a week. My bicycle cost me £280 and has cost me a further £30 in various maintainance in the past year. And so my bike cost me £25 a week, and I'm still reaping the benefits in cost and in health.
It's cool to be green. Being 'enviromentally friendly' is currently some of the best marketing you can have. Take for instance, Richard Bransons latest pledge.
I'm not opposed to this sort of corporate behaviour myself.
I live in the UK, and we use different brands of ATM machine here. I can't find any codes that will give me free money here. Drat! Possibly for the best though, as I'm a member of an accountancy association who will kick me out if I get convicted for fraud. And I'd lose my job. My job is the best source of money for doing very little, it's just time consuming.
Cable is cheap, but I don't need to buy it. I have no use for it, I have plenty of ethernet cables that are adequate for my own purposes. I told the guy I sell internets to that he's welcome to buy a wireless card that will actually give him better performance, as proven when I borrowed a wireless MIMO USB card for him to use temporarily.
Part of the problem with the cable is that it *has* to be jammed in the corner of my fire door to my rented flat (so no property modifications like drilling). Which damages it a little more everytime I close the door. That said though, it has been running for months with few problems, with the exception of the automatic router reboot every day.
I rent a housemate cable internet, which we had terrible problems with before. The problem is a bad cable causing a load of bad packets to 'clog' the router. It is the only cable long enough I have though, but the DD-WRT firmware worked a treat. It does allow some cool features, such as increasing the number of IP connections from 512 (the default) to 4,096 which is ideal for p2p. You can also boost wireless power from the 28mW default to 250mW+. Anyway, my problem with it clogging up was solved by setting up a cron job within the router so that it reboots at 5am each day. Not ideal, but the solution works until he gets off his ass and finaly buys a wireless card.
The pretty graph does show an increase in the number of vunerabilities found between July 05 to December 05, and January 06 to June 06, but could this be because the number of users has also increased in that time? More users finding and reporting the bugs, or even a greater number of developers writing the code making it less manageable and secure?
It won't last forever, but I'd love to earn that money for doing that amount of work. Even if only for a few months. As long as he pays his taxes, and he still gets paid then great for him. Save up for when the bubble bursts while you can.
Even though making games about this kind of thing may be unique, original, or heck even fun - it's plain bad taste. Making the game is glorifying the horrible real event whatever the authors or more so, the players say. There is something that seperates this from games like Resident Evil, or Grand Theft Auto. The 'real' element. Playing GTA:SA for example, it would be fine to be thinking "I'm gonna go cap some balla ass now!" because it's an ambiguous target in a ficticious enviroment.
Playing the Columbine RPG, any such sentiment would be creepy and morally wrong. "Yeah! That'll teach those innocent students!" I don't know the actual plot of the game, but I can't imagine it is as detached as playing a gangster, soldier or pilot etc. Saying that though, Postal II was quite fun. Damn, I contradicted myself after typing all that. Bah.
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As I said, they're like pitbulls.
If you have a TV tuner card, that counts. If you don't have a licence then you can be prosecuted. The TV licencing folk are like pitbulls, and they have some similar rights as baliffs the way I understand it.
I hate the TV licence. When I first moved out from home, I did not own a TV but the licence people still sent me letters saying "You don't appear to have a TV licence, please get one." I phoned them and said I don't have a TV, they still sent letters. I replied to these letters, but there is no convincing them you don't own a TV. A few more letters and they were threatening to send the inspectors round. I found this link which has some various experiences of the TV Licencing strategies.
They're called Thrips with an S
Yes, it is still useful for business to utilise online advertising. Take AdWords for instance, you pay only for clicks through to your site. Users that block ads aren't likely to be the ones clicking the advertisements, and you don't pay for them. I'd say it doesn't affect business, it's probably better actually - you don't pay for visitors that aren't going to be interested.
Abandoning an online advertisement strategy because some people block them is like deciding against billboards because some people are blind.
Everyone should have a battery powered radio receiver. Hurricanes, Earthquakes, Flooding, Volcanos (like Mt. St. Helens) happen, and you need a way to receive emergency information about which way to run.
I have a wind-up radio. Which would be great if there was something so catastrophic happen that I couldn't even buy batteries; though if such a situation were to occur, I doubt there'd be many transmissions to listen to.
My work computer got infected by a trojan yesterday. I was browsing a BBS where some malicious user had posted a SWF that opened up some other page on an IP, I'm not sure but I think it could have been the most recent MS IE critical vunerability. My boss spent from 9am to 2pm trying to get rid of a trojan. The antivirus the PC already had was Symantec, which was what first alerted us to it this morning. It couldn't remove it, so we tried AVG and Pandasoft as well as House Call. Nothing would shift the damn thing, it ended up with me having to replace the PC with a spare one. He'd have loved to have cashed in on this, as we both wasted most of our workday.
For a while, I was into case modding. I had my stepfather do the metal cutting and so on, because I'm an accountant; I don't know how to cut metal and if I can get others to do a better job for me for free then cool. I had him cut stylistic holes in the side panels and I installed neons and light cables etc. That was a couple of years ago though.
Now my PC is under my IKEA desk, so nobody sees the sides. I have a missing drive bay cover so you can see the coloured fans but thats it. Stylish PCs may be a big deal to some, but I lost that interest quite quickly.
Sure, your PC looks cool, but who really cares?
It offers no benefit to me. Why would I want that installed when I have a perfectly good copy of XP Corporate Edition? I don't give a shit about the latest media player, or IE7. Sure, I take the critical updates when I'm offered them but that is all. I ran the WGA tool and of course I am not a valid user of Windows XP. Saying that though, I am a legitimate owner of an XP Home license. Which I haven't used in years, I keep the keycode safe though. I used XP Home for a while, but I found it restrictive for my needs; so I installed a bootlegged copy of the corporate edition which has always been fantastic.
If MS sold their software at a lower price they would generate more sales that would compensate for the low price.
I know so many people that say "I would buy windows, if it didn't cost hundreds!" If they sold the pro edition for a cheaper price then they would sell so many more that it would compensate for the few that did pay the higher price. I'm not in marketing, I'm in accountancy, so I know about economic curves and I think MS is just milking the corporate market for as much as they can. If they opened up their 'pro' systems for lower prices I am sure their sales would increase as well as their revenue.
MS alienate potential buyers with their WGA and high prices. Set your prices low, and sell a bundle. Look at your profits, M$, you're not "hard done by".
I ride a bike too. I enjoy my lack of dependence on motor vehicles. In fact, I lord it over my peers whenever possible. A colleague was telling me just today that she spends £52 on petrol (gas) per week. So, I worked that out as £2,496 per annum just on petrol. There's also the price of the car, maintainance, taxes, insurance and whatever else. So say she's taking a £15,000 for the job, we can say that at least £3,000 of that is lost on just getting to work!
Going on my aproximation of £3,000 a year just for having your own car to get to work, that's £62.50 a week. My bicycle cost me £280 and has cost me a further £30 in various maintainance in the past year. And so my bike cost me £25 a week, and I'm still reaping the benefits in cost and in health.
It's cool to be green. Being 'enviromentally friendly' is currently some of the best marketing you can have. Take for instance, Richard Bransons latest pledge.
I'm not opposed to this sort of corporate behaviour myself.
I wonder if this has anything to do with the Mapping of mouse brains....
I live in the UK, and we use different brands of ATM machine here. I can't find any codes that will give me free money here. Drat! Possibly for the best though, as I'm a member of an accountancy association who will kick me out if I get convicted for fraud. And I'd lose my job. My job is the best source of money for doing very little, it's just time consuming.
Cable is cheap, but I don't need to buy it. I have no use for it, I have plenty of ethernet cables that are adequate for my own purposes. I told the guy I sell internets to that he's welcome to buy a wireless card that will actually give him better performance, as proven when I borrowed a wireless MIMO USB card for him to use temporarily.
Part of the problem with the cable is that it *has* to be jammed in the corner of my fire door to my rented flat (so no property modifications like drilling). Which damages it a little more everytime I close the door. That said though, it has been running for months with few problems, with the exception of the automatic router reboot every day.
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The Linksys WRT54G firmware is released under the GNU GPL... That's like an invitation to modify it.
I rent a housemate cable internet, which we had terrible problems with before. The problem is a bad cable causing a load of bad packets to 'clog' the router. It is the only cable long enough I have though, but the DD-WRT firmware worked a treat. It does allow some cool features, such as increasing the number of IP connections from 512 (the default) to 4,096 which is ideal for p2p. You can also boost wireless power from the 28mW default to 250mW+. Anyway, my problem with it clogging up was solved by setting up a cron job within the router so that it reboots at 5am each day. Not ideal, but the solution works until he gets off his ass and finaly buys a wireless card.
The pretty graph does show an increase in the number of vunerabilities found between July 05 to December 05, and January 06 to June 06, but could this be because the number of users has also increased in that time? More users finding and reporting the bugs, or even a greater number of developers writing the code making it less manageable and secure?
The opening sentence sounds creepy.
Parents are paying more heed to the kiddie sites because they know their children will learn, work, and live online.
It sounds like a predecessor to e-pimping your own children.
Welcome to the blogosphere without atmosphere.
It also warms soup, and is great for reheating food.
It won't last forever, but I'd love to earn that money for doing that amount of work. Even if only for a few months. As long as he pays his taxes, and he still gets paid then great for him. Save up for when the bubble bursts while you can.
Except at work, I haven't really used a landline in years. Let alone depended on it. My mobile phone works fine for when I've really needed it.
If that's meant to look like a face, it's a hella ugly one.
Even though making games about this kind of thing may be unique, original, or heck even fun - it's plain bad taste. Making the game is glorifying the horrible real event whatever the authors or more so, the players say. There is something that seperates this from games like Resident Evil, or Grand Theft Auto. The 'real' element. Playing GTA:SA for example, it would be fine to be thinking "I'm gonna go cap some balla ass now!" because it's an ambiguous target in a ficticious enviroment.
Playing the Columbine RPG, any such sentiment would be creepy and morally wrong. "Yeah! That'll teach those innocent students!" I don't know the actual plot of the game, but I can't imagine it is as detached as playing a gangster, soldier or pilot etc. Saying that though, Postal II was quite fun. Damn, I contradicted myself after typing all that. Bah.
Remember the whole bundling IE with Windows fiasco? Off the top of my head, I remember something about their media player in Europe too.
I think their strategy is "do what we want until we get told off." Even then they could just pay a hefty fine and it still wouldn't hurt them one bit.
Teehee, my post was labeled as flamebait. Isn't that what a cigarette is?