"..and that would mean a battle more reminiscent of Vietnam than Kuwait."
We got our butts kicked in Vietnam, partially because we pulled out. We also had The Soviets helping the North.
Until the U.S. came in and provided the Afghans with Stinger missles, Russia had basically won Afghanistan. The Soviets did it the way we'll do it. By sending in ground troops.
With most of the world on our side, who's going to provide the Taliban with the technology that helped defeat the U.S. and the Soviets in the past?
My Maxtor 30GB runs hot. I knew this when I bought it over a year ago. It sits all by itself in a 5-1/4 bay without anything above or below it.
Now, I've been having lockup's and reboots lately when I play Delta Force. It turns out (among other things), I only had a 200W power supply in there. With a Maxtor 30GB / 20GB, Wd 6GB, and 2 CDROM's, 200W just doesn't cut it. I installed a 2nd power supply, and everything is hunky dory.
Of the people I know who've had HD failures, it's usually people who have dinky desktop PC's, and they've stuck a new shiny 7200/10k RPM drive in the empty space over the dinky power supply. They just overheat.
I don't think the issue is 'well-known'-ness, but how long you've been using your name in the community.
Just because you don't know about my small business, doesn't mean someone can walk in, spend a few million on advertising, and claim my name is theirs.
Circular buffer? Wouldn't that mean a closed loop?
Tivo needs to patent the 'Slinky Buffer'. When you pause 'live tv' your slinky is squeezed (i.e. time is compressed), you can then move quickly through time to reach 'now', which is a completely stretched out slinky.
I don't understand the circular buffer. In any case, wouldn't the 16550 UART be prior art? Incoming data is buffered, and you don't actually see the data at the precise moment it arrives at your pc.
Here we go...
"The technology that we sell is a padlock to music. If you have a lock cutter, a bolt cutter, you can cut that padlock off."
AND
"If you give people what they want with respect to their ability to copy the music in ways that they think is reasonable, they will not ever attempt to circumvent the technology."
So i I buy my kids the new NiN CD (ok, ok, Britney Spears), Can I, or Can't I copy it? I copy CD's for my kids, and store the originals (Games too) So when they screw it up touching it with their grubby little hands, I can make another copy and have not lost anything. This wasn't a problem with Records or Cassettes..
"The Digital Millennium Copyright Act prohibits users from circumventing copy protection. It's now a crime in America to do that."
So I CANNOT do this? But I thought:
"If you give people what they want with respect to their ability to copy the music in ways that they think is reasonable, they will not ever attempt to circumvent the technology."
There never WAS any technology to circumvent in the past, but because of the fragility of CD's. It's become necessary to do what was never done in the past, therefore technology that did not exist initially will now be circumvented to continue to do things we've been allowed to do for years.
I think what I've been doing is reasonable, but you've added a padlock to prevent me from doing it. So IS this copy protection or not?
Besides, prostitutes don't have a viable income that can be garnished. When's the last time you saw a laywer tying to get a pimp to garnish his ho's wages?
Yes, MS can keep on selling the product, just like a prostitute can. However, the sale of software concerns a tangible good, whereas prostitution is a *service*.
.. would I be the servicee? or the servicer? In either case, the 'client' could come (pardon the pun) away with a tangible good.. It would just take 9 months.
I completely agree with you that it's possible for anyone to listen to your phone call, or all your phone calls.
BUT
It's still impossible to listen to them all.
Therefore, if you're not doing anything wrong, odds are slim and none that your converstation will be listened to.
Especially if you have kids, they never listen.:)
This is the entire reason why things like carnivore are put into place. It's a filter that helps sort out the 'garbage' personal calls from the dangerous ones. If you're not a danger to the owner of the recordings, it's not an issue.
President Bush, sticking to his cautious sing-song monotone, fled to various bunkers and seemed to shrink throughout the day.
You're comparing the "Leader of the Free World", whose plane BOUND for Washington was diverted to another base after Air Traffic controllers lost contact with the plane that crashed in PA (after it had done a 180), to a City Mayor? I suppose you think Schwartzkopf should have been on the front lines, or flying an F15 during Desert Storm. "No, he was cowaring in Saudi Arabia."
60% of American's favor war. 80% will go along with it. Bush has 90% approval rating, and you said he's shrinking?
Are you INSANE? Oh wait, this is a Jon Katz article. It's political observations are obviously flawed.
I think if you want to keep readers, you're going to need a new pen name, and don't pick Peter Jennings, we'll all know it's going to be the same old dribble...
I have 3 kids. All are healthy, and perfectly fine.
Unfortunately because of the pitiful accuracy of these screening tests, you would never have known that DURING my wife's first two pregnancies.
The first two were 'screened', and were supposed to be at risk for BOTH Down Syndrome and Spina Diffida (sp). A week after the 'screen', we were sent to a DNA specialist. This person did a history of my wife and I, and came to the conclusion that we probably weren't at risk. She then used a more advanced Ultrasound machine (In Technicolor!), and determined everything to be allright. (I guess 'color' is why the rates are so high.)
Why did my first two kids show up 'at risk'?
Apparently this screen is only accurate if you've determined your date of conception withing 48 hours of the ACTUAL conception. That isn't easy to do when your 19 and then 22, and having lots of sex. The second 'culprit' (bear with me,I'm trying to remember this crap), is the amount of fluid in the placenta. My kids were little when they were born, the largest was my 3rd, who topped 7 pounds, the other 2 were around 5.5. With smaller kids, you get more fluid in the placenta, duh.
More fluid than 'normal' is one of the warning signs that these screens look for. When you have smaller kids than normal, you're just going to have more fluid than normal, duh again.
I never spent a lot of time with doctors. I don't have a doctor myself, and I have RARELY been to the hospital.
My experiences with the medical profession put them on par with myself. I know a broad range of things about a computer, but unfortunately like you can in Medicine, I can't charge $200/hr to a customer who wants something done that I've never done before. It must be the 12 years of school, that doesn't teach them much more than drug interactions. Everything else is on-the-job.
We're all beta testers for the Medical Profession.
Take any information you get from them, and find out for yourself if it's REALLY true.
I wouldn't necessarily agree with that. It's more like, "It validates the desperation of various groups trying break the World away from the Microsoft monopoly."
Exactly.
Instead of modifying it to carry water, they should have designed it to drop water for 24 hours straight.
Ummm No.. There's a HUGE Difference.....
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..Between Architectual Engineers and Software Engineers.
If you build a faulty bridge, people die.
If you write bad code, the user pushes button.
It may be a bit simplistic but it puts things into perspective.
Today's Dilbert in the local paper:
"Upper Management says profits are down because of the slow economy."
"So, when profits are up, it's because of good management. But when profits are down, it's because of a slow economy?"
"These meeting would go much faster if you wouldn't put things into perspective like that."
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"..and that would mean a battle more reminiscent of Vietnam than Kuwait."
We got our butts kicked in Vietnam, partially because we pulled out. We also had The Soviets helping the North.
Until the U.S. came in and provided the Afghans with Stinger missles, Russia had basically won Afghanistan. The Soviets did it the way we'll do it. By sending in ground troops.
With most of the world on our side, who's going to provide the Taliban with the technology that helped defeat the U.S. and the Soviets in the past?
DagNabbit! Why are my pseudo-nerdy attempts at humor posts always shot down by the ultra-nerdy?
Come on now, how many people here REALLY know what MobyTurbo is, other than a silly name?
I call your "kermit +", and raise you a "gsz rz -m -r"!
While we're at it, replace that damn Xmodem transfer with Zmodem MobyTurbo(tm).
My Maxtor 30GB runs hot. I knew this when I bought it over a year ago. It sits all by itself in a 5-1/4 bay without anything above or below it.
Now, I've been having lockup's and reboots lately when I play Delta Force. It turns out (among other things), I only had a 200W power supply in there. With a Maxtor 30GB / 20GB, Wd 6GB, and 2 CDROM's, 200W just doesn't cut it. I installed a 2nd power supply, and everything is hunky dory.
Of the people I know who've had HD failures, it's usually people who have dinky desktop PC's, and they've stuck a new shiny 7200/10k RPM drive in the empty space over the dinky power supply. They just overheat.
I don't think the issue is 'well-known'-ness, but how long you've been using your name in the community.
Just because you don't know about my small business, doesn't mean someone can walk in, spend a few million on advertising, and claim my name is theirs.
You assume that a technological company is well known to people who aren't in technology?
I would assume if you watch TV you know of Yahoo Serious. If you don't know Yahoo Serious, you probably don't watch that much TV.
And if you don't watch that much TV, AND you aren't in technology, you wouldn't know either of these names.
Keep it in perspective folks.
Bah! :)
Tivo needs to patent the 'Slinky Buffer'. When you pause 'live tv' your slinky is squeezed (i.e. time is compressed), you can then move quickly through time to reach 'now', which is a completely stretched out slinky.
I don't understand the circular buffer. In any case, wouldn't the 16550 UART be prior art? Incoming data is buffered, and you don't actually see the data at the precise moment it arrives at your pc.
"The technology that we sell is a padlock to music. If you have a lock cutter, a bolt cutter, you can cut that padlock off."
AND
"If you give people what they want with respect to their ability to copy the music in ways that they think is reasonable, they will not ever attempt to circumvent the technology."
So i I buy my kids the new NiN CD (ok, ok, Britney Spears), Can I, or Can't I copy it? I copy CD's for my kids, and store the originals (Games too) So when they screw it up touching it with their grubby little hands, I can make another copy and have not lost anything. This wasn't a problem with Records or Cassettes..
"The Digital Millennium Copyright Act prohibits users from circumventing copy protection. It's now a crime in America to do that."
So I CANNOT do this? But I thought:
"If you give people what they want with respect to their ability to copy the music in ways that they think is reasonable, they will not ever attempt to circumvent the technology."
There never WAS any technology to circumvent in the past, but because of the fragility of CD's. It's become necessary to do what was never done in the past, therefore technology that did not exist initially will now be circumvented to continue to do things we've been allowed to do for years.
I think what I've been doing is reasonable, but you've added a padlock to prevent me from doing it. So IS this copy protection or not?
Besides, prostitutes don't have a viable income that can be garnished. When's the last time you saw a laywer tying to get a pimp to garnish his ho's wages?
You have a whole company starting their machines in the morning, and seeing "Compaq" or "Gateway" Really big in front of them..
Maybe that's why 17" monitors have gotten so cheap :)
"What a weekend.."
Warp 4 with Service Pack 11 is the last version of OS/2 you'll ever need.
Do NOT buy Gateways. You can't have the best customer service in the industry, if nobody calls you with complaints!
Whoever came up with that IIS bastard hack needs to be flogged, or worshiped.
I'm still not sure which..
BUT
It's still impossible to listen to them all.
Therefore, if you're not doing anything wrong, odds are slim and none that your converstation will be listened to.
Especially if you have kids, they never listen. :)
This is the entire reason why things like carnivore are put into place. It's a filter that helps sort out the 'garbage' personal calls from the dangerous ones. If you're not a danger to the owner of the recordings, it's not an issue.
President Bush, sticking to his cautious sing-song monotone, fled to various bunkers and seemed to shrink throughout the day.
You're comparing the "Leader of the Free World", whose plane BOUND for Washington was diverted to another base after Air Traffic controllers lost contact with the plane that crashed in PA (after it had done a 180), to a City Mayor? I suppose you think Schwartzkopf should have been on the front lines, or flying an F15 during Desert Storm. "No, he was cowaring in Saudi Arabia."
60% of American's favor war. 80% will go along with it. Bush has 90% approval rating, and you said he's shrinking?
Are you INSANE? Oh wait, this is a Jon Katz article. It's political observations are obviously flawed.
I think if you want to keep readers, you're going to need a new pen name, and don't pick Peter Jennings, we'll all know it's going to be the same old dribble...
I have 3 kids. All are healthy, and perfectly fine.
Unfortunately because of the pitiful accuracy of these screening tests, you would never have known that DURING my wife's first two pregnancies.
The first two were 'screened', and were supposed to be at risk for BOTH Down Syndrome and Spina Diffida (sp). A week after the 'screen', we were sent to a DNA specialist. This person did a history of my wife and I, and came to the conclusion that we probably weren't at risk. She then used a more advanced Ultrasound machine (In Technicolor!), and determined everything to be allright. (I guess 'color' is why the rates are so high.)
Why did my first two kids show up 'at risk'?
Apparently this screen is only accurate if you've determined your date of conception withing 48 hours of the ACTUAL conception. That isn't easy to do when your 19 and then 22, and having lots of sex. The second 'culprit' (bear with me,I'm trying to remember this crap), is the amount of fluid in the placenta. My kids were little when they were born, the largest was my 3rd, who topped 7 pounds, the other 2 were around 5.5. With smaller kids, you get more fluid in the placenta, duh.
More fluid than 'normal' is one of the warning signs that these screens look for. When you have smaller kids than normal, you're just going to have more fluid than normal, duh again.
I never spent a lot of time with doctors. I don't have a doctor myself, and I have RARELY been to the hospital.
My experiences with the medical profession put them on par with myself. I know a broad range of things about a computer, but unfortunately like you can in Medicine, I can't charge $200/hr to a customer who wants something done that I've never done before. It must be the 12 years of school, that doesn't teach them much more than drug interactions. Everything else is on-the-job.
We're all beta testers for the Medical Profession.
Take any information you get from them, and find out for yourself if it's REALLY true.
I don't know where you live buddy, but here in America, I'm free to NOT mow my lawn, and promptly get a ticket from the city.
Ummm...Wait a second...
Even if they are recording all calls, it would be impossible to listen to them all. Same goes for emails.
I don't have a problem with it, because unless I'm doing something wrong, finding my conversation 'real-time' would be impossible.
I have a hard time finding emails *I* sent last month..
In Wisconsin, a rep was ousted for supporting the Stadium tax.
I'd jump on a tax for the 'finger towers' any day!
I wouldn't necessarily agree with that.
It's more like, "It validates the desperation of various groups trying break the World away from the Microsoft monopoly."
Exactly.
Instead of modifying it to carry water, they should have designed it to drop water for 24 hours straight.
If you build a faulty bridge, people die.
If you write bad code, the user pushes button.
It may be a bit simplistic but it puts things into perspective.
Today's Dilbert in the local paper:
"Upper Management says profits are down because of the slow economy."
"So, when profits are up, it's because of good management. But when profits are down, it's because of a slow economy?"
"These meeting would go much faster if you wouldn't put things into perspective like that."