Oh my!!! That's a blast from the past! I haven't heard that term is SO long. I spent hours trying to write a voice recognizion system that would capture all your phonemes and pitch, and match it by playing the same phoneme and pitch of someone else's voice. With the commodore 64, you can understand why I didn't go very far in that effort. Good Times. Thanks for the memories of '88.
"Every single facet of every life is regulated and directed from within! Our books, our music, our work and play are all looked after by the benevolent wisdom of the RIAA/MPAA
We've taken care of everything, The words you hear, the songs you sing The pictures that give pleasure to your eyes. It's one for all and all for one, We work together, common sons Never need to wonder how or why
We are the Priests of the Temples of Syrinx, Our great computers fill the hallowed halls. We are the Priests, of the Temples of Syrinx, All the gifts of life are held within our walls
Look around at this world we've made, Equality our stock in trade Come and join the Brotherhood of Man. Oh, what a nice, contented world, Let the banners be unfurled - Hold the Red Star proudly high in hand
We are the Priests of the Temples of Syrinx, Our great computers fill the hallowed halls. We are the Priests, of the Temples of Syrinx, All the gifts of life are held within our walls
[III. Discovery]
'...Behind my beloved waterfall, in the little room that was hidden beneath the cave, I found it. I brushed away the dust of the years, and picked it up, holding it reverently in my hands. I had no idea what it might be, but it was beautiful...'
'...I learned to lay my fingers across the wires, and to turn the keys to make them sound differently. As I struck the wires with my other hand, I produced my first harmonious sounds and soon my own music! How different it could be from the music of the Temples! I can't wait to tell the priests about it!...'
What can this strange device be? When I touch it, it gives forth a sound. It's got wires that vibrate and give music. What can this thing be that I found?
See how it sings like a sad heart, And joyously screams out its pain. Sounds that build high like a mountain, Or notes that fall gently like rain
I can't wait to share this new wonder. The people will all see its light. Let them all make their own music. The Priests praise my name on this night
[IV. Presentation]
'...In the sudden silence as I finished playing, I looked up to a circle of grim, expressionless faces. Father Brown rose to his feet, and his somnolent voice echoed throughout the silent Temple Hall...'
'...Instead of the grateful joy that I expected, they were words of quiet rejection! Instead of praise, sullen dismissal. I watched in shock and horror as Father Brown ground my precious instrument to splinters beneath his feet...'
I know it's most unusual, To come before you so, But I've found an ancient miracle, I thought that you should know. Listen to my music, And hear what it can do. There's something here as strong as life, I know that it will reach you.
Yes, we know, it's nothing new. It's just a waste of time. We have no need for ancient ways, The world is doing fine. Another toy will help destroy The elder race of man. Forget about your silly whim. It doesn't fit the plan
I can't believe you're saying. These things just can't be true. Our world could use this beauty. Just think what we might do. Listen to my music, And hear what it can do. There's something here as strong as life, I know that it will reach you.
Don't annoy us further! We have our work to do. Just think about the average. What use have they for you? Another toy will help destroy, The elder race of man. Forget about your silly whim. It doesn't fit the Plan!
[V. Oracle: The Dream]
'...I guess it was a dream, but even now it all seems so vivid to me. Clearly yet I see the beckoning hand of the oracle as he stood at the summit of the staircase...'
'...I see still the incredible beauty of the sculptured cities and the pure spirit of man revealed in the lives and works of this world. I was overwhelmed by both wonder and understanding as I saw a completely different way to life, a way that had been crushed by the Federation long ago. I saw now how meaningless life had become with the loss of all these things..
Ok... it's not a word so much... but it's a daemon everyone should have and use. I can't figure out why we hapilly made the switch to xinitd, but xntpd get ignored.
I had been seriously researching moving from expensive orange county back to my roots in the cheap northwest. In my research, these numbers are outdated and wrong. It seems most of the data is from 2002. Personally, I found this calculator to be better than most: http://houseandhome.msn.com/pickaplace/compareciti es.aspx {yes, yes, msn... I know}. The have an interesting survey of the attitudes of the areas, but thats very dated (like 1995 info).
Back to the point - I traveled to the places I was considering moving to, and the numbers are wrong. The numbers are wrong in bad ways too. For example, housing prices were much higher than reported and salaries were lower. Many of the incidental things (food, power) were cheaper in cheaper areas, but that's hard to balance against less selection. For example, if I go to buy a car here, I have a hundred or so dealers to shop. More competition and greater turnover equals lower prices on many things. However, if you're moving from more affordable to less, you're in for a very big sticker shock considering how insane real estate is currently priced.
Now, to be clear, I hate California. I moved here for my wife and her family. There are two major reasons I stay here. 1) Some of my debts stay the same no matter where I live. Thus, to service such debts, it will take a much greater share of my income in an affordable area than in an expensive area. Thankfully, I'm about to pay those off, because... 2) High cost of living areas are expensive in large part due to high demand to live in those areas. As a result, better than average returns on real estate. (even without the crazy real estate bubble currently going on).
This is so FULL of geek BS an FUD. Who kept the scholarship of the greeks and romans alive during the dark ages? The Catholic church. Much of our modern discoveries have come from religous people. Despite your myopic focus on the expections, european christianity invented the ideas of "tollerance" and "diversity" and the "liberal arts".
Honestly, we aren't anti-intellectual; we just don't think it's the number one priority you think it should be. We americans value people who can get things DONE, people who can LEAD and the con people... er... UNITE people towards acomplishing goals society favors. Those are good things. The above virtues are good virtues but become evil in the current short-term culture. Thus since the 60's, we have given up the idea of being "well rounded" in order to obtain quarterly profits.
The 60's were a point where a society, that benifited from being inculcated in the christian-influnced* culture and history, derived a maximum benift from destroying that culture. That can not happen again as we no longer raise children in that same manner and in the same numbers. We surrendered our long term vision for short term gains. History isn't kind to empires that have done that.
* There has never really been a fully christian culture. As someone much brighter than I put it: "The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found difficult and left untried." - GK Chesterton
I agree with the above post, but not just because of the enron scandle. Business leaders are negligent for underfunding, underetimating and overbelieving in their technology. If.. "businesses are becoming more dependent on their computers but they continue to be a point of failure, and subsequently, frustration through lost profits. Perpetrated breakdowns are now pushing that aggravation towards an edge."
If that's true, then why not architect the technology to be prepared for failure. I've been doing that for as long as Unix dreamed of being VMS. Which if it's so expensive to do it right, why are you letting your business depend on it? This is business malpractice. Not following best practices and preparing for graceful failure opens them to liability.
My point is that gross liability and business negligence should be criminal violation of public welware and trust and open to criminal penalties.
In an interview, they will see "Music Theory" as my college major. They will then ask, "How is it that you got into computers?" I then explain how IBM during the boom specifically went after music theory majors just out of college. Why? They are a) great at symbolic languages with strict syntax and b) can easily be offered more money than they ever believed they would ever make.
As such, don't asking me about strange, disorderly rules of english phonetics and grammar. Don't ask geeks anything concerning social subtlies, such as language and money.
Ok, first is the hype of introducing a new buzz word. That's annoying and I too am sick of PR pretending to be news. But if you're complaining about this, you shouldn't be reading the technology news anyway. Most of it is rewrites of PR wire.
However, there is news here. They're announcing that there's anywhere you go wireless internet access at reasonable speeds for less than selling a lung. I've used it and it's pretty damn useful and cool. There's been and need and demand for this for a few years, and now it is finally a reality. It's not front-page, but it's news worthy.
I don't have to be a leech, war driving, looking for an open AP. In fact, I can be on the train or driving and it works great. If you're looking for cheap, duh - this isn't it. If freedom of movement is important and downtime is expensive, this is a must and it's very useable.
I'm not giving away any trade secrets here, but I did get to try this out for free and see what I thought. I was on the data side of things, so I don't have any perspectives from the cell network or sales side of the house.
The article (you did read it, didn't you?) says EVDO is on the 3G network and then cites 1xCDMA. Well, I wasn't under them impression that it was really richochet rising from the ashes. I know it is more than just bonding two cell sessions together like Cingular or like "National Access" and it's not using hot spots like T-mobile or others. I can't be sure, so I'll let others correct me.
What I can provide is real world sysadmin testing. First, non-PCs are not supported, but often they work better. A coworker got it to work under linux, but I don't know the details. They gave use the cheapest one, the aircard, and I slapped it in my powerbook, and I was on the net in less than 10 seconds - really. You wil NOT have this experience on windows. Much of the "speed" comes for all sorts of compression and caching tricks. On a PC, after three reboots, you'll be up and going. For web browsing on a PC, it's deceptively fast - Very acceptable. Slower on my mac (no client caching and compression), but faster than a modem.
However, what really counts to me is ssh anc scp sessions. The network optimization tricks do not handle encryption very well and the true speeds show themselves. It's still much better than modem or using my cell phone for emergency access. It will be laggy at times. This is where signal strength matters. In Orange county California, I every where I went had fair coverage. It was usually local objects that would be in the way of getting a good signal. For example, sitting in the cube around file cabinets or in colos surrounded by equipment would effect the signal.
If you're ever on-call, I'd say this is a must have just for the freedom of movement it gives you. Like I said, ssh and scp are laggy, but workable. X sessions and vnc aren't as snappy as you might dream about, but they are workable and better than the days on modems. A windows cohort of mine lives off this service. He gets emergency calls, and pulls out his laptop and gets to work. He hasn't had any problem in this area.
The democrats have endeared them selves to some very devicive causes. The used to be the "moral" party. That is no longer true. As an example, they should be doing more than just lip service on human rights issues, but I don't see a thing. Although I don't included this in my assesment, I see the prevelence of abortion as a human rights issue, but a pro-life democrat is an endanged species facing quick extintion.
Overall, I think we need more parties to keep the power in check effectively, and neither the democrats or the republicans reflects the view of average americans.
Pretty please!!! Ya ya - I know. Sun is being stupid about releasing the details. I just have this secret fantasy about setting up a 64 cpu OBSD system on one of the SunFire 25k's I set up. Chip support is the first step. The second step is getting one of those 25ks all to myself -- so I can setup access for the developers of course!
I feel the same way about the mp3 format. As everyone continues in their ways, they get used to google and how to use it and that if a search result is not included, they'll never miss it. Well, what about all the information that is lost on lossy fomats like jpeg, mpeg and mp3? Everyone likes the small file size and has decided that there is information that is disposable. However, there are people, such as myself, that CAN hear the difference between different media formats. Mp3 does a very good job of immitating CDs, but does not sound great. The jump from 44.1 to 48khz is magicial and beautiful. CDs sound clean and sterile. Well recorded full resolution DATs sound alive and have real depth, with out any need of 5-7.1 trickery.
So what I am saying is that just because Google is acceptable, it doesn't make it the best, even if we consider the missing information and acceptable loss. There is always a narrow (and expensive) market for those who need the best. At this time, I would be that the few information brokers still in business are that high end and they could give us a clue of all the information we are missing by our sole dependance of google for information. After all, google is an information service, not just web search. As such, I believe the objective measure isn't just web search, but the question to ask is what information is missing or insufficient?
As a Christian and a geek, my beliefs and lifestyle have been under constant attack. In all of my experience on BBSes, usenet, qlink (remember that!), email, irc, and slashdot - THIS is the first atheist post that is polite, reasonable, truthful and sensible. The VAST majority spew vitriol and miss the hypocritical irony of accusing Christians (somehow the other great world religions are ignored) of being unreasonable and "religious" whilst they speak old clichés in raised and frantic voices.
You sir I complement. I think you're wrong, but at least I can respect you. And for the Christians that are just as fanatical, let me point out - he's mostly right. It is beyond the realm of the logical. I do believe it is reasonable. Semantics aside, he reminding us of the great Flannery O'Connor quote: "It's harder to believe than not to."
Isn't that the difference betweeen "general purpose" dvd media and "authoring" media? In other words, "authoring media" had the key section blank and available, right?
This answer reminds me of a politician promising to deliver world peace without making any specific measurable promise. In other words, don't count on it any time soon. TivoToGo was promised a year ago to be release a half year ago. If I remember right, the rumor sites were saying the mac side of it was a problem not because apple wasn't cooperative, but because the OS doesn't have the DRM built in as deeply. This issue is a big problem for Tivo. Tivo has a much greater share of mac users than the general population. They're taunting 1/3 of their customer base.
I can't directly comment, but it made me recall something. At one time, the easiest way to remotely get into a rhosts network was to login to a sgi as 'lp'. There was not password for it and it had elevated privledges. And since many networks were `echo + >.rhosts`, moving about was easy.
By the way, did any one else think this same exact article could have been for the amiga instead of sgi? Except for that whole networking with people part... I DON'T want to meet any amiga fanatics. They scare me. Carnival folk of the computer world. Take a shower and get a new computer and join reality you amiga carnis!
Thanks a lot for doing this. I'm glad you did so we can all see where the scam is now. When I checked on my credit history a couple years ago, it included the fico score - no charge.
In other words, It's NOT free. It's not free in any sense of the word. If they don't include the most important information, the arbitrary number that determines if you get a loan or not, then what's the point?
And from the sounds of this, it seems as if this site does little good, except for sorce material for phishers. They need to get their act together if they really wanted this to work right. However, I doubt they want it to work and I doubt the FTC could care less.
Your IP address and email address. Those are very valuable things to have. Gmail exists to correlate your IP, email and intrests together to sell to marketdroids. Perhaps I'm just paranoid, but I do not believe that anything in business really happens for the pure motive of serving the public good. I'm suspicious because I don't see the obvious like to follow the money on this one.
From the FAQ What is a credit score? A credit score is a complex mathematical model that evaluates many types of information in a credit file. A credit score is used by a lender to help determine whether a person qualifies for a particular credit card, loan, or service. Most credit scores estimate the risk a company incurs by lending a person money or providing them with a service -- specifically, the likelihood that the person will make payments on time in the next two to three years. Generally, the higher the score, the less risk the person represents.
So, they'll send you the goods they have on you, but they won't tell you the very information that counts the most?!? Last time I got a credit report, it showed my score on it. Are they looking provide the "report" free, but make you pay for the score?
That's a good point about the credit union links, however my point is different. There should be some sort of obvious graphic or text that says, "Look folks, we're official. We're with the credit unions. We're not going to steal you're ID."
By the way, I should add that every month the consumer should be able to request a new report be sent free of charge, with out any stupid conditions. The consumer should be able to get ALL information that a company has on them (any company, not just credit agencies) at any time, online. The only provision should be to ensure strong authentication.
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Oh my!!! That's a blast from the past! I haven't heard that term is SO long. I spent hours trying to write a voice recognizion system that would capture all your phonemes and pitch, and match it by playing the same phoneme and pitch of someone else's voice. With the commodore 64, you can understand why I didn't go very far in that effort. Good Times. Thanks for the memories of '88.
"Every single facet of every life is regulated and directed from within! Our books, our music, our work and play are all looked after by
the benevolent wisdom of the RIAA/MPAA
We've taken care of everything, The words you hear, the songs you sing
The pictures that give pleasure to your eyes. It's one for all and all for one, We work together, common sons Never need to wonder how or why
We are the Priests of the Temples of Syrinx, Our great computers fill the hallowed halls. We are the Priests, of the Temples of Syrinx, All the gifts of life are held within our walls
Look around at this world we've made, Equality our stock in trade
Come and join the Brotherhood of Man. Oh, what a nice, contented world, Let the banners be unfurled - Hold the Red Star proudly high in hand
We are the Priests of the Temples of Syrinx, Our great computers fill the hallowed halls. We are the Priests, of the Temples of Syrinx, All the gifts of life are held within our walls
[III. Discovery]
'...Behind my beloved waterfall, in the little room that was hidden beneath the cave, I found it. I brushed away the dust of the years, and picked it up, holding it reverently in my hands. I had no idea what it might be, but it was beautiful...'
'...I learned to lay my fingers across the wires, and to turn the keys to make them sound differently. As I struck the wires with my other hand, I produced my first harmonious sounds and soon my own music! How different it could be from the music of the Temples! I can't wait to tell the priests about it!...'
What can this strange device be? When I touch it, it gives forth a sound. It's got wires that vibrate and give music. What can this thing be that I found?
See how it sings like a sad heart, And joyously screams out its pain. Sounds that build high like a mountain, Or notes that fall gently like rain
I can't wait to share this new wonder. The people will all see its light. Let them all make their own music. The Priests praise my name on this night
[IV. Presentation]
'...In the sudden silence as I finished playing, I looked up to a circle of grim, expressionless faces. Father Brown rose to his feet, and his somnolent voice echoed throughout the silent Temple Hall...'
'...Instead of the grateful joy that I expected, they were words of quiet rejection! Instead of praise, sullen dismissal. I watched in shock and horror as Father Brown ground my precious instrument to splinters beneath his feet...'
I know it's most unusual, To come before you so, But I've found an ancient miracle, I thought that you should know. Listen to my music, And hear what it can do. There's something here as strong as life, I know that it will reach you.
Yes, we know, it's nothing new. It's just a waste of time. We have no need for ancient ways, The world is doing fine. Another toy will help destroy The elder race of man. Forget about your silly whim. It doesn't fit the plan
I can't believe you're saying. These things just can't be true. Our world could use this beauty. Just think what we might do. Listen to my music, And hear what it can do. There's something here as strong as life, I know that it will reach you.
Don't annoy us further! We have our work to do. Just think about the average. What use have they for you? Another toy will help destroy, The elder race of man. Forget about your silly whim. It doesn't fit the Plan!
[V. Oracle: The Dream]
'...I guess it was a dream, but even now it all seems so vivid to me. Clearly yet I see the beckoning hand of the oracle as he stood at the summit of the staircase...'
'...I see still the incredible beauty of the sculptured cities and the pure spirit of man revealed in the lives and works of this world. I was overwhelmed by both wonder and understanding as I saw a completely different way to life, a way that had been crushed by the Federation long ago. I saw now how meaningless life had become with the loss of all these things..
If you were american, you'd send a bill to accounts payable for consulting hours.
Ok... it's not a word so much... but it's a daemon everyone should have and use. I can't figure out why we hapilly made the switch to xinitd, but xntpd get ignored.
Thanks goodness, no one has invented the infrared filter!
Am I wrong, or does this seem too easy to defeat?
I had been seriously researching moving from expensive orange county back to my roots in the cheap northwest. In my research, these numbers are outdated and wrong. It seems most of the data is from 2002. Personally, I found this calculator to be better than most: http://houseandhome.msn.com/pickaplace/compareciti es.aspx {yes, yes, msn... I know}. The have an interesting survey of the attitudes of the areas, but thats very dated (like 1995 info).
Back to the point - I traveled to the places I was considering moving to, and the numbers are wrong. The numbers are wrong in bad ways too. For example, housing prices were much higher than reported and salaries were lower. Many of the incidental things (food, power) were cheaper in cheaper areas, but that's hard to balance against less selection. For example, if I go to buy a car here, I have a hundred or so dealers to shop. More competition and greater turnover equals lower prices on many things. However, if you're moving from more affordable to less, you're in for a very big sticker shock considering how insane real estate is currently priced.
Now, to be clear, I hate California. I moved here for my wife and her family. There are two major reasons I stay here. 1) Some of my debts stay the same no matter where I live. Thus, to service such debts, it will take a much greater share of my income in an affordable area than in an expensive area. Thankfully, I'm about to pay those off, because... 2) High cost of living areas are expensive in large part due to high demand to live in those areas. As a result, better than average returns on real estate. (even without the crazy real estate bubble currently going on).
This is so FULL of geek BS an FUD. Who kept the scholarship of the greeks and romans alive during the dark ages? The Catholic church. Much of our modern discoveries have come from religous people. Despite your myopic focus on the expections, european christianity invented the ideas of "tollerance" and "diversity" and the "liberal arts".
Honestly, we aren't anti-intellectual; we just don't think it's the number one priority you think it should be. We americans value people who can get things DONE, people who can LEAD and the con people... er... UNITE people towards acomplishing goals society favors. Those are good things. The above virtues are good virtues but become evil in the current short-term culture. Thus since the 60's, we have given up the idea of being "well rounded" in order to obtain quarterly profits.
The 60's were a point where a society, that benifited from being inculcated in the christian-influnced* culture and history, derived a maximum benift from destroying that culture. That can not happen again as we no longer raise children in that same manner and in the same numbers. We surrendered our long term vision for short term gains. History isn't kind to empires that have done that.
* There has never really been a fully christian culture. As someone much brighter than I put it: "The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found difficult and left untried." - GK Chesterton
I agree with the above post, but not just because of the enron scandle. Business leaders are negligent for underfunding, underetimating and overbelieving in their technology. If..
"businesses are becoming more dependent on their computers but they continue to be a point of failure, and subsequently, frustration through lost profits. Perpetrated breakdowns are now pushing that aggravation towards an edge."
If that's true, then why not architect the technology to be prepared for failure. I've been doing that for as long as Unix dreamed of being VMS. Which if it's so expensive to do it right, why are you letting your business depend on it? This is business malpractice. Not following best practices and preparing for graceful failure opens them to liability.
My point is that gross liability and business negligence should be criminal violation of public welware and trust and open to criminal penalties.
In an interview, they will see "Music Theory" as my college major. They will then ask, "How is it that you got into computers?" I then explain how IBM during the boom specifically went after music theory majors just out of college. Why? They are a) great at symbolic languages with strict syntax and b) can easily be offered more money than they ever believed they would ever make.
As such, don't asking me about strange, disorderly rules of english phonetics and grammar. Don't ask geeks anything concerning social subtlies, such as language and money.
Ok, first is the hype of introducing a new buzz word. That's annoying and I too am sick of PR pretending to be news. But if you're complaining about this, you shouldn't be reading the technology news anyway. Most of it is rewrites of PR wire.
However, there is news here. They're announcing that there's anywhere you go wireless internet access at reasonable speeds for less than selling a lung. I've used it and it's pretty damn useful and cool. There's been and need and demand for this for a few years, and now it is finally a reality. It's not front-page, but it's news worthy.
I don't have to be a leech, war driving, looking for an open AP. In fact, I can be on the train or driving and it works great. If you're looking for cheap, duh - this isn't it. If freedom of movement is important and downtime is expensive, this is a must and it's very useable.
I'm not giving away any trade secrets here, but I did get to try this out for free and see what I thought. I was on the data side of things, so I don't have any perspectives from the cell network or sales side of the house.
The article (you did read it, didn't you?) says EVDO is on the 3G network and then cites 1xCDMA. Well, I wasn't under them impression that it was really richochet rising from the ashes. I know it is more than just bonding two cell sessions together like Cingular or like "National Access" and it's not using hot spots like T-mobile or others. I can't be sure, so I'll let others correct me.
What I can provide is real world sysadmin testing. First, non-PCs are not supported, but often they work better. A coworker got it to work under linux, but I don't know the details. They gave use the cheapest one, the aircard, and I slapped it in my powerbook, and I was on the net in less than 10 seconds - really. You wil NOT have this experience on windows. Much of the "speed" comes for all sorts of compression and caching tricks. On a PC, after three reboots, you'll be up and going. For web browsing on a PC, it's deceptively fast - Very acceptable. Slower on my mac (no client caching and compression), but faster than a modem.
However, what really counts to me is ssh anc scp sessions. The network optimization tricks do not handle encryption very well and the true speeds show themselves. It's still much better than modem or using my cell phone for emergency access. It will be laggy at times. This is where signal strength matters. In Orange county California, I every where I went had fair coverage. It was usually local objects that would be in the way of getting a good signal. For example, sitting in the cube around file cabinets or in colos surrounded by equipment would effect the signal.
If you're ever on-call, I'd say this is a must have just for the freedom of movement it gives you. Like I said, ssh and scp are laggy, but workable. X sessions and vnc aren't as snappy as you might dream about, but they are workable and better than the days on modems. A windows cohort of mine lives off this service. He gets emergency calls, and pulls out his laptop and gets to work. He hasn't had any problem in this area.
The democrats have endeared them selves to some very devicive causes. The used to be the "moral" party. That is no longer true. As an example, they should be doing more than just lip service on human rights issues, but I don't see a thing. Although I don't included this in my assesment, I see the prevelence of abortion as a human rights issue, but a pro-life democrat is an endanged species facing quick extintion.
Overall, I think we need more parties to keep the power in check effectively, and neither the democrats or the republicans reflects the view of average americans.
Pretty please!!! Ya ya - I know. Sun is being stupid about releasing the details. I just have this secret fantasy about setting up a 64 cpu OBSD system on one of the SunFire 25k's I set up. Chip support is the first step. The second step is getting one of those 25ks all to myself -- so I can setup access for the developers of course!
This is the best news they've had in quite a long time.
Point: I don't think there's enough room in the market for competition amongst minor players to be successful. Yet another win for overlords.
I feel the same way about the mp3 format. As everyone continues in their ways, they get used to google and how to use it and that if a search result is not included, they'll never miss it. Well, what about all the information that is lost on lossy fomats like jpeg, mpeg and mp3? Everyone likes the small file size and has decided that there is information that is disposable. However, there are people, such as myself, that CAN hear the difference between different media formats. Mp3 does a very good job of immitating CDs, but does not sound great. The jump from 44.1 to 48khz is magicial and beautiful. CDs sound clean and sterile. Well recorded full resolution DATs sound alive and have real depth, with out any need of 5-7.1 trickery.
So what I am saying is that just because Google is acceptable, it doesn't make it the best, even if we consider the missing information and acceptable loss. There is always a narrow (and expensive) market for those who need the best. At this time, I would be that the few information brokers still in business are that high end and they could give us a clue of all the information we are missing by our sole dependance of google for information. After all, google is an information service, not just web search. As such, I believe the objective measure isn't just web search, but the question to ask is what information is missing or insufficient?
As a Christian and a geek, my beliefs and lifestyle have been under constant attack. In all of my experience on BBSes, usenet, qlink (remember that!), email, irc, and slashdot - THIS is the first atheist post that is polite, reasonable, truthful and sensible. The VAST majority spew vitriol and miss the hypocritical irony of accusing Christians (somehow the other great world religions are ignored) of being unreasonable and "religious" whilst they speak old clichés in raised and frantic voices.
You sir I complement. I think you're wrong, but at least I can respect you. And for the Christians that are just as fanatical, let me point out - he's mostly right. It is beyond the realm of the logical. I do believe it is reasonable. Semantics aside, he reminding us of the great Flannery O'Connor quote: "It's harder to believe than not to."
Isn't that the difference betweeen "general purpose" dvd media and "authoring" media? In other words, "authoring media" had the key section blank and available, right?
This answer reminds me of a politician promising to deliver world peace without making any specific measurable promise. In other words, don't count on it any time soon. TivoToGo was promised a year ago to be release a half year ago. If I remember right, the rumor sites were saying the mac side of it was a problem not because apple wasn't cooperative, but because the OS doesn't have the DRM built in as deeply. This issue is a big problem for Tivo. Tivo has a much greater share of mac users than the general population. They're taunting 1/3 of their customer base.
I can't directly comment, but it made me recall something. At one time, the easiest way to remotely get into a rhosts network was to login to a sgi as 'lp'. There was not password for it and it had elevated privledges. And since many networks were `echo + > .rhosts`, moving about was easy.
By the way, did any one else think this same exact article could have been for the amiga instead of sgi? Except for that whole networking with people part... I DON'T want to meet any amiga fanatics. They scare me. Carnival folk of the computer world. Take a shower and get a new computer and join reality you amiga carnis!
Thanks a lot for doing this. I'm glad you did so we can all see where the scam is now. When I checked on my credit history a couple years ago, it included the fico score - no charge.
In other words, It's NOT free. It's not free in any sense of the word. If they don't include the most important information, the arbitrary number that determines if you get a loan or not, then what's the point?
And from the sounds of this, it seems as if this site does little good, except for sorce material for phishers. They need to get their act together if they really wanted this to work right. However, I doubt they want it to work and I doubt the FTC could care less.
Your IP address and email address. Those are very valuable things to have. Gmail exists to correlate your IP, email and intrests together to sell to marketdroids. Perhaps I'm just paranoid, but I do not believe that anything in business really happens for the pure motive of serving the public good. I'm suspicious because I don't see the obvious like to follow the money on this one.
This is interesting.
From the FAQ
What is a credit score?
A credit score is a complex mathematical model that evaluates many types of information in a credit file. A credit score is used by a lender to help determine whether a person qualifies for a particular credit card, loan, or service. Most credit scores estimate the risk a company incurs by lending a person money or providing them with a service -- specifically, the likelihood that the person will make payments on time in the next two to three years. Generally, the higher the score, the less risk the person represents.
So, they'll send you the goods they have on you, but they won't tell you the very information that counts the most?!? Last time I got a credit report, it showed my score on it. Are they looking provide the "report" free, but make you pay for the score?
That's a good point about the credit union links, however my point is different. There should be some sort of obvious graphic or text that says, "Look folks, we're official. We're with the credit unions. We're not going to steal you're ID."
By the way, I should add that every month the consumer should be able to request a new report be sent free of charge, with out any stupid conditions. The consumer should be able to get ALL information that a company has on them (any company, not just credit agencies) at any time, online. The only provision should be to ensure strong authentication.