I get your point, but there's a big difference between crowbars and dvd decrypter software. A crowbar has many perfectly innocent uses. How many innocent uses are there for decrypter software?
Yes, grocery stores do this, but they do it openly. On the price tag it will clearly state the "member" price and the "non-member" price. The problem with these internet shopping sites is that they are not telling you upfront that there are different prices for different people. That is what's wrong.
"Addiction" sounds a little strong to me. I check my email all the time -- I keep Gmail open at work all day long, with thunderbird open in the background collecting my work emails. I like being in touch. At weekends, I'll check my email a couple of times per day. Basically, if I have internet access, I check it. But am I addicted? Do I start to sweat and shake if I don't check it? No. Do I get abusive if I don't check it? No. Do I feel severe anxiety if I don't check it? No.
I'm not a psychologist, but I think professionals will tell you there's a big difference between being addicted and just liking to do something a lot!
Cue the same old tired remarks about 1984 and lack of privacy, etc, etc. Come on people, it's really not that bad! I'm sure our respective governments keep tabs on those of us they need to right now, and I'm sure they share information with each other on those people who're deemed "risky". The ID card system would make things no different, except it might make life easier for people who travel back and forth between the US and UK a lot. The bottom line is, was, and always will be, this: if you're not doing anything wrong, you don't have anything to worry about! Everyone seems to think that they're so important that their government would watch every move they make! I have news for you: you're not that important unless you're a murderer/terrorist/filesharer! (the last one is still OK if you're French, apparently...)
"We currently have the following work around for people that are hitting this issue:
1. Uninstall Netscape 8
2. START->RUN
i. Type: regedit
ii. Hit ENTER
iii. Navigate to the following:
iv. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Plugins\Extension
v. Highlight and right-click the node titled "xml" and select delete.
vi. Restart Internet Explorer
sometimes I still forget where a key is...and lose orientation, thus needing you to look down at the keyboard anyway to get it back
That's what the little raised 'bumps' on the "f" and "j" are for. I can't tell from the image if they've removed those or not on the blank keyboard. I'm guessing so...
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My wife and I bought a Logitech wireless keyboard/mouse combo a while back, but we had to return it within a couple of days. We're regular RPG players and we found the games nearly unplayable with the setup we bought. The problem was with the delay time between the movement signals being sent from the mouse and being recieved and acted upon by the computer. Our characters kept running into walls , falling off cliffs, etc! Granted, we didn't buy the most expensive set you can get but I can't imagine that there are any wireless mice that don't have a signal delay of some kind when compared to a "wired" one. We did some searching on forums online and found that many gamers have had the same problem. It seems like most of them go for top-of-the-range "wired" mice instead of wireless. So, just something to consider when you're shopping...
How do fthe Martians differ from regular Martians? Is "fthe" an acronym? Or the name of their splinter-group? (perhaps the Martian equivalent of Al-Qaeda?)
you'll need a federally approved ID card to travel on an airplane, open a bank account, collect Social Security payments, or take advantage of nearly any government service
When I came to the U.S. I had no Social Security number and no drivers licence. With the exception of airplane travel I was unable to all of those things anyway. Everywhere I went, I was asked for my SSN of drivers licence. Showing them a UK passport did nothing.
Now I have a Green Card -- it has my fingerprint on it, photo of me, and a huge magnetic strip on the back that almost certainly contains my life history/DNA, etc! So do I care about "invasion of my privacy"? Do I care about having to get another ID card to be able to function in this country? No, I'm doing it every day already!
AOL today announced thier new line of telephones to complement their VoIP service. The new phones include special buttons such as 'caps lock','LOL', and 'WTF'. The phone will be nearly impossible to disable. As an added bonus for those especially devoid of friends, if you hang on the line long enough, a random person will start offering you cheap meds and pr0n.
I think the common argument against your idea is that humans have the ability to think "outside the box". We can react to events in a near-infinite number of ways. For example, Apollo 13 would've failed miserably (assuming you can call it a "success") if it were robots on board instead of humans. AI has a long way to go before it can match our decision-making skills.
Having said all that, I tend to agree with you. Humans are a burden on these missions -- we may be flexible of mind, but we are not flexible of body, especially when considering the time-periods involved in travelling to other Solar System bodies. I think the success of the Mars rovers has proved that robots have a real future in space.
I'm sure it's nothing personal, and I'm sure you're not imagining it.
I think that the days are gone when people looked at a computer and thought "Wow! What an amazingly wonderful piece of equipment! It's so complicated -- no wonder it goes wrong so often! Good job we have that wonderful tech guy coming to fix it!".
Now, I think it's more like: "WTF?! Damn expensive piece of junk just crashed again! There goes another few hundred $$$'s calling out the tech guy!"
My point is, people understand computers more now -- a lot of the mystery is gone. So when one goes wrong it's seen as a huge irritation and an inconvenience, not to mention a costly bill.
For anyone who's at work and worried about explicit content being 'prefetched', just go to the main Google search page and save your preferences to strictly filter all explicit text and content. Problem solved.
I don't like this prefetching stuff much, and I have disabled at work as a precaution. But honestly, I think the risk of inadvertantly downloading something that will get you in trouble is really small.
Quoting from Google: "Google...[instructs]...the browser to download the top search result..." The empahsis there has to be on the word "top". Unless you are doing some really unsubtle searching at work that would cause the top result to be dubious, you're gonna be fine.
Do you mean you would like to be able to ask Google questions? Or do you mean you would like google to organise their answers the way Ask Jeeves does? If it's the former, you can do that anyway. Just enter the key words (not 'keywords') from your question into Google. All Ask Jeeves is is a search engine that allows you to enter 'How can I cure myself of VD?' and then strips out the common question words "how, "can", "I", "of", leaving a search query of 'cure myself VD'. I'm sure if you put those words into Google (minus any quote marks), the results would be similar to those of Ask Jeeves. What most people like about Jeeves, is their layout of results -- not necessarily the results themselves.
As a regular game-player, I genuinely pity you in your plight. When I install a game that has a non-immersive story, no voice-overs, cheap-ass effects and no cool lighting engine, I hit the uninstall button and add the game CD to my coaster collection!
The "Gaming Industry" -- you can't live with it, you can't live without it...
OK, I agree, but this goes back to my point that is it OK to break the law as long as you don't make too much profit or cause someone too greater losses?
It certainly shouldn't be that way because then who defines the point at which acceptable profit/losses becomes unacceptable?
That's why I think if the Supreme Court rule against P2P, they must also be ruling against VCRs, etc, which not only gos against their previous ruling but opens up a whole nasty can o' worms.
That's why I can't see P2P software "creators" losing this. We've all recorded songs off the radio and movies off the TV. The above case meant that the makers of our radio/casette players and (specifically) VCRs could not be sued for our actions. I can't see how the current case is different. Granted, the MPAA, RIA, etc, are losing more money per file shared than they were with recordings from TV/radio, but does that mean that breaking the law is OK as long as you aren't making too much profit from it? Can I go rob a bank if I promise not to steal more than $200? Unlikely.
Fact is, it's either illegal to distribute the 'tools' or it's not. If the Morpheus (e.g.) people can get sued then so should Sony/Panasonic/etc for all the movies we've recorded off the TV. Or is it that everyone is equal but some (read: P2P) are less equal than others?
If you're a grad student turning in your term paper, and you think grammar check has completely checked your paper, I have news for you -- it really hasn't,
If you're a grad student relying on Word's grammar check for your term paper, you get everything you deserve! The grammar/spell check on Word, or any other word processing tool for that matter, is there to be used as assistance but should not be used as the definitive answer for anything remotely important!
By all means use a spell checker but if you've spend days/weeks/months writing a paper, the least you can do is spend a few hours reading it for grammatical errors!
You say "inexpensive", so I take this to assume you are willing to pay a small sum? I strongly recommed PaintShop Pro v7 (anniversary edition). It does everything you say you want, and has a ton of features. I use it exclusively as it's the cheap man's alternative to Photoshop! I got my copy straight from the manufacturer on Ebay for $30. It was cheap because v8.0 is out now (v8.0 sucks, btw -- avoid it!)
(please don't mod me offtopic -- I'm only helping the dude out!)
I personally own about $500/250GBP worth of music CDs, none of which I would have bought without P2P being there. It does help the record industry make money.
It helped the record industry make money from you, and many others that do the same as you, but honest people such as yourself are in short supply. That's the problem. If everyone used P2P just to get free samples with the intention of going out and buying the full product later, the record industry would have no reason for being upset.
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I get your point, but there's a big difference between crowbars and dvd decrypter software. A crowbar has many perfectly innocent uses. How many innocent uses are there for decrypter software?
Yes, grocery stores do this, but they do it openly. On the price tag it will clearly state the "member" price and the "non-member" price. The problem with these internet shopping sites is that they are not telling you upfront that there are different prices for different people. That is what's wrong.
"Addiction" sounds a little strong to me. I check my email all the time -- I keep Gmail open at work all day long, with thunderbird open in the background collecting my work emails. I like being in touch. At weekends, I'll check my email a couple of times per day. Basically, if I have internet access, I check it. But am I addicted? Do I start to sweat and shake if I don't check it? No. Do I get abusive if I don't check it? No. Do I feel severe anxiety if I don't check it? No.
I'm not a psychologist, but I think professionals will tell you there's a big difference between being addicted and just liking to do something a lot!
Cue the same old tired remarks about 1984 and lack of privacy, etc, etc. Come on people, it's really not that bad! I'm sure our respective governments keep tabs on those of us they need to right now, and I'm sure they share information with each other on those people who're deemed "risky". The ID card system would make things no different, except it might make life easier for people who travel back and forth between the US and UK a lot. The bottom line is, was, and always will be, this: if you're not doing anything wrong, you don't have anything to worry about!
/rant
Everyone seems to think that they're so important that their government would watch every move they make! I have news for you: you're not that important unless you're a murderer/terrorist/filesharer! (the last one is still OK if you're French, apparently...)
From TF Blog:
"We currently have the following work around for people that are hitting this issue:
1. Uninstall Netscape 8
2. START->RUN
i. Type: regedit
ii. Hit ENTER
iii. Navigate to the following:
iv. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Plugins\Extension
v. Highlight and right-click the node titled "xml" and select delete.
vi. Restart Internet Explorer
{roman numerals my own}
My wife and I bought a Logitech wireless keyboard/mouse combo a while back, but we had to return it within a couple of days. We're regular RPG players and we found the games nearly unplayable with the setup we bought. The problem was with the delay time between the movement signals being sent from the mouse and being recieved and acted upon by the computer. Our characters kept running into walls , falling off cliffs, etc! Granted, we didn't buy the most expensive set you can get but I can't imagine that there are any wireless mice that don't have a signal delay of some kind when compared to a "wired" one. We did some searching on forums online and found that many gamers have had the same problem. It seems like most of them go for top-of-the-range "wired" mice instead of wireless. So, just something to consider when you're shopping...
How do fthe Martians differ from regular Martians? Is "fthe" an acronym? Or the name of their splinter-group? (perhaps the Martian equivalent of Al-Qaeda?)
When I came to the U.S. I had no Social Security number and no drivers licence. With the exception of airplane travel I was unable to all of those things anyway. Everywhere I went, I was asked for my SSN of drivers licence. Showing them a UK passport did nothing.
Now I have a Green Card -- it has my fingerprint on it, photo of me, and a huge magnetic strip on the back that almost certainly contains my life history/DNA, etc! So do I care about "invasion of my privacy"? Do I care about having to get another ID card to be able to function in this country? No, I'm doing it every day already!
AOL today announced thier new line of telephones to complement their VoIP service. The new phones include special buttons such as 'caps lock','LOL', and 'WTF'. The phone will be nearly impossible to disable. As an added bonus for those especially devoid of friends, if you hang on the line long enough, a random person will start offering you cheap meds and pr0n.
I think the common argument against your idea is that humans have the ability to think "outside the box". We can react to events in a near-infinite number of ways. For example, Apollo 13 would've failed miserably (assuming you can call it a "success") if it were robots on board instead of humans. AI has a long way to go before it can match our decision-making skills.
Having said all that, I tend to agree with you. Humans are a burden on these missions -- we may be flexible of mind, but we are not flexible of body, especially when considering the time-periods involved in travelling to other Solar System bodies. I think the success of the Mars rovers has proved that robots have a real future in space.
Nun #1: "Where's the soap?"
Nun #2: "Yes it does, doesn't it."
*running away*
That chair -- the "PairOn" -- is it for intimate co-workers, siamese twins or for people with big, fat asses?
They should ship some over to the Vatican City -- I reckon the Pope could do with a bit of brain stimulation right now...
*ducking and running*
I'm sure it's nothing personal, and I'm sure you're not imagining it.
I think that the days are gone when people looked at a computer and thought "Wow! What an amazingly wonderful piece of equipment! It's so complicated -- no wonder it goes wrong so often! Good job we have that wonderful tech guy coming to fix it!".
Now, I think it's more like: "WTF?! Damn expensive piece of junk just crashed again! There goes another few hundred $$$'s calling out the tech guy!"
My point is, people understand computers more now -- a lot of the mystery is gone. So when one goes wrong it's seen as a huge irritation and an inconvenience, not to mention a costly bill.
For anyone who's at work and worried about explicit content being 'prefetched', just go to the main Google search page and save your preferences to strictly filter all explicit text and content. Problem solved.
I don't like this prefetching stuff much, and I have disabled at work as a precaution. But honestly, I think the risk of inadvertantly downloading something that will get you in trouble is really small.
...[instructs] ...the browser to download the top search result..." The empahsis there has to be on the word "top". Unless you are doing some really unsubtle searching at work that would cause the top result to be dubious, you're gonna be fine.
Quoting from Google: "Google
Do you mean you would like to be able to ask Google questions? Or do you mean you would like google to organise their answers the way Ask Jeeves does? If it's the former, you can do that anyway. Just enter the key words (not 'keywords') from your question into Google. All Ask Jeeves is is a search engine that allows you to enter 'How can I cure myself of VD?' and then strips out the common question words "how, "can", "I", "of", leaving a search query of 'cure myself VD'. I'm sure if you put those words into Google (minus any quote marks), the results would be similar to those of Ask Jeeves.
What most people like about Jeeves, is their layout of results -- not necessarily the results themselves.
As a regular game-player, I genuinely pity you in your plight. When I install a game that has a non-immersive story, no voice-overs, cheap-ass effects and no cool lighting engine, I hit the uninstall button and add the game CD to my coaster collection!
The "Gaming Industry" -- you can't live with it, you can't live without it...
OK, I agree, but this goes back to my point that is it OK to break the law as long as you don't make too much profit or cause someone too greater losses? It certainly shouldn't be that way because then who defines the point at which acceptable profit/losses becomes unacceptable?
That's why I think if the Supreme Court rule against P2P, they must also be ruling against VCRs, etc, which not only gos against their previous ruling but opens up a whole nasty can o' worms.
That's why I can't see P2P software "creators" losing this. We've all recorded songs off the radio and movies off the TV. The above case meant that the makers of our radio/casette players and (specifically) VCRs could not be sued for our actions. I can't see how the current case is different. Granted, the MPAA, RIA, etc, are losing more money per file shared than they were with recordings from TV/radio, but does that mean that breaking the law is OK as long as you aren't making too much profit from it? Can I go rob a bank if I promise not to steal more than $200? Unlikely.
Fact is, it's either illegal to distribute the 'tools' or it's not. If the Morpheus (e.g.) people can get sued then so should Sony/Panasonic/etc for all the movies we've recorded off the TV. Or is it that everyone is equal but some (read: P2P) are less equal than others?
By all means use a spell checker but if you've spend days/weeks/months writing a paper, the least you can do is spend a few hours reading it for grammatical errors!
You say "inexpensive", so I take this to assume you are willing to pay a small sum? I strongly recommed PaintShop Pro v7 (anniversary edition). It does everything you say you want, and has a ton of features. I use it exclusively as it's the cheap man's alternative to Photoshop! I got my copy straight from the manufacturer on Ebay for $30. It was cheap because v8.0 is out now (v8.0 sucks, btw -- avoid it!) (please don't mod me offtopic -- I'm only helping the dude out!)