Reality check! Why would they take responsibility for something that they are not responsible for? To quote something I have read in a book - "to beleive that the human race has the power or even the potential to destroy the earth is absolute arogance". The sun is responsible for "global warming". Volocanoes are responsible for "global warming". If the gases that they spew are more plentiful that all that humans can put out in 100 years then they are far more responsible.
I don't hold the oil companies any more responsible for "global warming" than I am responsible for a crack baby born on a continent that I have never been on or met anyone from.
I don't understand everybody's thinking here. Don't hire a lawyer (thief) and tell them you won't settle. Tell them to take you to court and then demand proof that you stole. Then ask for continuance after continuance for discovery. Petition the court to summons records from the RIAA that shows the evidence for thier claim. There is a hole in thier evidence chain. There always is. I found this to be true in a simular situation with DirectTV that killed thier case and it only took about an hour and a half to find it.
Don't take thier crap and stand up to them firm. Even if you don't fully understand what they are doing, act like you are in control and they can't win. If you press forward this way, they can't win.
Actually, it will be going by-by. Apple is evolving into a hardware/media company and to continue with OS and support for such is contrary to the direction. Jobs has got is act together. If you don't believe this, watch in the comming months at the slowdown of software being released on the new platforms. 18-20 months, tops, and OS-X is announce EOL.
Modeleing is only valid base on valid historical data or what-if situations when there is insufficient data to make any reasonable conclusion. On this subject there is no more data avalable to make a valid conclusion that the dot at the endo of this sentence can be used to model the entire contents of the internet. Anyone who thinks that global warming is real is dillusional at best. Yes, we can improve some things in our environment and yes, we can contribute to the environmment as a whole but to alter it's natural course is something that the human race does not have the power to do. Maybe someday but, that is far in the futer if it happens at all.
Let's put a real price on this. ONE: I can borrow more money becuase I have to spend a considerably higher price on a car the burns less fuel or TWO: I can buy a resonably priced car and save money for my kids college education becuase the higher fuel cost is simply less than the cost of the more efficent car.
When you look at the big picture it is what the people do, not what they say. For the record, I don't believe in junk science any more the I trust the government to do what is best.
There is absolutly no point to this study. The sample is too small and is contrary to what God tells us. Whith the exception of one situation, we are not to test God. We will be dissapointed. The results of this test do indicate that this is true. Prayer is onle a petition to God for what you would like. In the end, what He decides is what we get. There is no exception to this. We can do no scientific study for this.
"That drew international complaints that the US exercised too much power over the internet" br>I don't see the problem here. Who has financed the internet into what it has become today. Who developed the technology and who operates the largest backbone?
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Paper is the answer. While I think that computers and technology is wonderfull, even spectacular, it is hackable. It can be modified without a trace. I don't trust it with something as important as the vote. Br>
Paper ballats can be validated by recounting and can be confirmed as not tampered with. You cannot do that with electronic voting.
You did forget your tin foil hat.
M$ has only M$ interests in mind. They will either take control, or try to anyway. They will want it only thier way and no way else. Don't you know that history repeats itself?
HDTV is over 10 years behind where the "experts" claimed it would be. It has been extremely slow to go mainstream becuase the consumer did not care about it or want it. The only reason I have one is because of the other features that the digital TV had that were handy. I don't even watch HD.
For movies, HD-DVD and BlueRay won't sell very fast becuase the studios have to still make the releases on standard DVD to make any money. The consumer won't care. Only the game machines will pick up the players and that is only for the kids and young adults that waste thier time doint that.
I really hate it when someone publishes statistics like this and treat them as if they were actually facts. I could do the same survey and have totally different results becuase I would be surveying a different balance of consumers. This survey is totally self serving and in no way representative of the real population. Then again, look at those of us who are reading it. It is probably representative of this audience.
A true survey would probably determine the age grouping of the adults and find that the high percentage was younger adults who are the gamers. Those who grew up with it. I myself spend so much time in front of computers working that the last thing I want to do in my spare time is sit in front of a 2 diminsional display playing a MMO with a hunderd other faceless geeks.
I want cheap lite notebooks that will perform reasonably with real long battery life. Does anyone know the best of these? I am looking for the new VIA processor on these becuase it is fast enough and real cheap.
My thinking exactly. Making the windows 'sexy' is a geeks thing. It won't help the public one damn bit. If anything, with WILL MAKE THINGS WORSE AND EVEN UNUSABLE. I am scarfing up all of the XP licenses I can find so that I can keep my people working for at lease 4 years after Vista is released. I want no part of it.
Vista is like Visa. In the long run you will be further in debt and miserable about it.
USB tuners suck. The quality just isn't there. The simple method (and cheaper than a mac) is to use your PC and BeyondMedia/BeyondTV. Besides that the remote is cool because it isn't locked to line-of-site like IR remotes and no DRM like MCE. It took me about 2 hours to set it up with my PVR250 tuner from scratch.
I'll gladly wait. Me and about 50 other people that I know. We won't touch the M$ toy because the games suck. They have little to nothing that is sutable for children and what they do have is violent crap.
I'm a technology snob and love the newest and greatest stuff but.... There are places where technology does not belong and the old fashioned paper trail is still the best. I do not trust any voting system that the voter does not mark the paper. Anything else can be hacked or riged too easily.
Nobody. Look how long HDTV took to adopt. The industry and FCC said that by 1996 it would be in every houshold. I don't have one and neither do my neighbors in 2006, ten years later. The public does not want what works to be forced out of their hands. Obsolecence only benifits the manufacturers, not the consumers. Go ahead and make your HD-DVD and Bull-ray but don't ram it down our throats.
In a report from Finland's radiation watchdog, a new study shows that the radiation from normal cell phone usage cures acne of all forms. The study shows that in all test subjects, acne was ruduced from 20 to 90 percent. Further, the studies show that continued cell phone use, keeps more acne from returning. This is followed up by other studies showing a reduction of acne in teenage girls in the past six years. This clearly ties cell phone use to reduction in skin disease.
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And this gets modded up becuase it is about the FAX and FCC rulings?
Reality check! Why would they take responsibility for something that they are not responsible for? To quote something I have read in a book - "to beleive that the human race has the power or even the potential to destroy the earth is absolute arogance". The sun is responsible for "global warming". Volocanoes are responsible for "global warming". If the gases that they spew are more plentiful that all that humans can put out in 100 years then they are far more responsible.
I don't hold the oil companies any more responsible for "global warming" than I am responsible for a crack baby born on a continent that I have never been on or met anyone from.
Reality check is something you desperatly need.
I don't understand everybody's thinking here. Don't hire a lawyer (thief) and tell them you won't settle. Tell them to take you to court and then demand proof that you stole. Then ask for continuance after continuance for discovery. Petition the court to summons records from the RIAA that shows the evidence for thier claim. There is a hole in thier evidence chain. There always is. I found this to be true in a simular situation with DirectTV that killed thier case and it only took about an hour and a half to find it.
Don't take thier crap and stand up to them firm. Even if you don't fully understand what they are doing, act like you are in control and they can't win. If you press forward this way, they can't win.
Actually, it will be going by-by. Apple is evolving into a hardware/media company and to continue with OS and support for such is contrary to the direction. Jobs has got is act together. If you don't believe this, watch in the comming months at the slowdown of software being released on the new platforms. 18-20 months, tops, and OS-X is announce EOL.
Modeleing is only valid base on valid historical data or what-if situations when there is insufficient data to make any reasonable conclusion. On this subject there is no more data avalable to make a valid conclusion that the dot at the endo of this sentence can be used to model the entire contents of the internet. Anyone who thinks that global warming is real is dillusional at best. Yes, we can improve some things in our environment and yes, we can contribute to the environmment as a whole but to alter it's natural course is something that the human race does not have the power to do. Maybe someday but, that is far in the futer if it happens at all.
Let's put a real price on this. ONE: I can borrow more money becuase I have to spend a considerably higher price on a car the burns less fuel or TWO: I can buy a resonably priced car and save money for my kids college education becuase the higher fuel cost is simply less than the cost of the more efficent car.
When you look at the big picture it is what the people do, not what they say. For the record, I don't believe in junk science any more the I trust the government to do what is best.
There is absolutly no point to this study. The sample is too small and is contrary to what God tells us. Whith the exception of one situation, we are not to test God. We will be dissapointed. The results of this test do indicate that this is true. Prayer is onle a petition to God for what you would like. In the end, what He decides is what we get. There is no exception to this. We can do no scientific study for this.
Nothing to see here, move along.
I can't decide which is worse; the fact that someone actually financed it or that anybody watched it.
"That drew international complaints that the US exercised too much power over the internet"
br>I don't see the problem here. Who has financed the internet into what it has become today. Who developed the technology and who operates the largest backbone?
Sirs:
Due to the complex nature of the requested data and the security requried to gaurd such data, we must clear this information throught the board of directors and shareholders of this company. Also, due to the volume of data, we will take at least three years to collect such information. Please be advised that we intend to comply with the subpeona but your data will not be available until March 6, 2010.
We will keep you informed of the progress.
Sincerly,
Corpoerate Red Tape Caused By Government Beauracracy
That is not possible if you haven't updated at all. I refuse the autoupdate and what I have won't change at all.
Paper is the answer. While I think that computers and technology is wonderfull, even spectacular, it is hackable. It can be modified without a trace. I don't trust it with something as important as the vote.
Br> Paper ballats can be validated by recounting and can be confirmed as not tampered with. You cannot do that with electronic voting.
You did forget your tin foil hat.
M$ has only M$ interests in mind. They will either take control, or try to anyway. They will want it only thier way and no way else. Don't you know that history repeats itself?
HDTV is over 10 years behind where the "experts" claimed it would be. It has been extremely slow to go mainstream becuase the consumer did not care about it or want it. The only reason I have one is because of the other features that the digital TV had that were handy. I don't even watch HD.
For movies, HD-DVD and BlueRay won't sell very fast becuase the studios have to still make the releases on standard DVD to make any money. The consumer won't care. Only the game machines will pick up the players and that is only for the kids and young adults that waste thier time doint that.
I really hate it when someone publishes statistics like this and treat them as if they were actually facts. I could do the same survey and have totally different results becuase I would be surveying a different balance of consumers. This survey is totally self serving and in no way representative of the real population. Then again, look at those of us who are reading it. It is probably representative of this audience.
A true survey would probably determine the age grouping of the adults and find that the high percentage was younger adults who are the gamers. Those who grew up with it. I myself spend so much time in front of computers working that the last thing I want to do in my spare time is sit in front of a 2 diminsional display playing a MMO with a hunderd other faceless geeks.
Over 90% of the computers out today are an appliance. Who wants a sexy appliance?
No, wait, I didn't just ask that, did I?
I want cheap lite notebooks that will perform reasonably with real long battery life. Does anyone know the best of these? I am looking for the new VIA processor on these becuase it is fast enough and real cheap.
Vista will also ship with support for holographic storage, 3D-free air holographic display drivers, and cerebral direct interface.
Vista, like Visa, will leave you further in debt and miserable about it.
My thinking exactly. Making the windows 'sexy' is a geeks thing. It won't help the public one damn bit. If anything, with WILL MAKE THINGS WORSE AND EVEN UNUSABLE. I am scarfing up all of the XP licenses I can find so that I can keep my people working for at lease 4 years after Vista is released. I want no part of it.
Vista is like Visa. In the long run you will be further in debt and miserable about it.
USB tuners suck. The quality just isn't there. The simple method (and cheaper than a mac) is to use your PC and BeyondMedia/BeyondTV. Besides that the remote is cool because it isn't locked to line-of-site like IR remotes and no DRM like MCE. It took me about 2 hours to set it up with my PVR250 tuner from scratch.
I'll gladly wait. Me and about 50 other people that I know. We won't touch the M$ toy because the games suck. They have little to nothing that is sutable for children and what they do have is violent crap.
Nothing to see here. Move along...
I'm a technology snob and love the newest and greatest stuff but....
There are places where technology does not belong and the old fashioned paper trail is still the best. I do not trust any voting system that the voter does not mark the paper. Anything else can be hacked or riged too easily.
Nobody. Look how long HDTV took to adopt. The industry and FCC said that by 1996 it would be in every houshold. I don't have one and neither do my neighbors in 2006, ten years later. The public does not want what works to be forced out of their hands. Obsolecence only benifits the manufacturers, not the consumers.
Go ahead and make your HD-DVD and Bull-ray but don't ram it down our throats.
Media Center is just software. Bad software at that. They need to compare with something real like Beyond Media/Beyond TV. Or even MythTV.
In a report from Finland's radiation watchdog, a new study shows that the radiation from normal cell phone usage cures acne of all forms. The study shows that in all test subjects, acne was ruduced from 20 to 90 percent. Further, the studies show that continued cell phone use, keeps more acne from returning. This is followed up by other studies showing a reduction of acne in teenage girls in the past six years. This clearly ties cell phone use to reduction in skin disease.