The evidence that the Bible gives for Jesus rising from the dead is that people saw him and conversed with him after his execution. This makes it sound like the people in the bible were hallucinating.
I think that if a work isn't available in an electronic form that is open and priced at fair market value; then it deserves no copyright protection. I only pay for media that's in an open electronic form and priced at fair market value; everything else I pirate.
The justification for hiring an older person is "experience." You might state that "candidates with 10 or more years of industry experience are preferred."
However, "experience" can be a double-edged sword. I once worked with someone who was hired to do a job that's normally best suited for someone who's in the middle of their career. The justification for hiring this person was that he had 30 years of industry experience... He was programming when I was in the womb!
When I worked with him, the quality of his work was awful. Lesson learned: Experience can be useful, but too much experience for a mid-level career job can indicate that a candidate rose to his/her "highest level of incompetence"; or couldn't figure out how to plan a proper retirement.
I hate to be the one to bring reality into this little discussion, but for HP to dump Windows and start selling Linux (or any other OS) instead is really, really stupid.
Intel sprang ahead in the x86 market by making a "stupid" decision and refusing to 2nd source* the 386 chip. It really pissed off IBM, who was the largest buyer of x86 chips at the time.
Needless to say, all of the clone makers were drooling at the opportunity to come out with a 386 before IBM.
HP deciding to drop Windows could be a tipping point. I doubt it will happen, but, as demonstrated, the entire industry dynamic changed based on a "stupid" decision.
* In the early days of the semi-conductor industry, no one would buy a large order of chips from one manufacturer unless another manufacturer could produce identical parts. AMD rose to power because Intel let them manufacture the 8088 and x286 as a 2nd source for IBM.
I learned the same thing today about the US and India.
One of my Indian co-workers explained to me today that, in one of India's states, it's considered a mortal sin to eat eggs. One of his friends was evicted from an apartment (in this particular Indian state) for boiling eggs. Another Indian co-worker told us about some temple that's loaded with rats that people worship as gods.
if the convenience factor wasn't part of the equation. At two books per month, breakeven would be in three years.
After living in an apartment for almost 3 years, I was drowning in so many books that I had to get rid of them. It broke my heart. The "breakeven" point for me is a clean bookshelf.
Ever go to Burning Man? Ever check out the San Jose Museum of Art in California? A lot of cutting-edge art requires significant technical abilities. My school, WPI, has a very strong technical art program.
Use VMware. It has a snapshot feature that takes a snapshot of a VM, and then records the changes to the VM. I use it when I test an installer; I roll back the snapshot when I'm complete. (Disclaimer: I work for VMware)
The McCain effort is poorly explained, probably not understood by the Senator, but focused on controlling medical costs by removing the incentive to over insure.
[Fingers in ears going lalalalala]
Can we please have some simple that I can understand? I don't want to have to shop for insurance; I already have enough trouble shopping for good doctors and dentists.
Console games tend to suck people in for hours at a time. My employer (VMware) has ping-pong tables, foozball, pinball, air hockey, and DDR littered throughout the campus. They're much more effective then consoles in common areas because the games tend to be short.
The problem with console games is that they tend to be designed for extended-time play. It takes me at least 10-15 minutes to get into a game of Zelda, and when I play Super Mario Galaxy, sometimes an hour will go by without me noticing it. Furthermore, once people get sucked into online games, there sometimes is no "pause" button as the other players don't care about the fact that the boss wants something finished by the end of the day.
If you really want video games, stick with something cool, like an arcade cabinet. It makes your workplace look fancy, and the games don't last forever.
The key to making DRM work is to back off the user's day-to-day playback, and focus on making it so that devices won't receive content from users that don't have permission to give it to them. That's what copyright was created for: to prevent unauthorized reproductions, not tell the user exactly how they will use the IP once they buy it.
That might be fine for confidential information, but it is totally inappropriate for information sold on an open market that must gracefully fall into the public domain. (Remember, Copyright dictates that everything eventually moves into the public domain.)
For information sold on an open market, the best "DRM" is that which is nothing more intrusive then a child lock. In such a case, files are not encrypted or obfuscated, but the operating system would maintain a bit or attribute that would function similar to the "read only" setting. A "do not copy" flag would be completely open, prevent accidental copying, and allow paying customers to turn it off when needed.
The problem with old media is that a lot of it decays. While a 30-year-old vinyl record might still play fine, a 30-year-old tape is often de-laminating and close to complete loss. Disks might suffer the same fate. I've seen plenty of CDRs flake thier data away. Instead of trying to build a PC that can read everything; consider archiving the data to hard drives which can be easily duplicated on an annual basis.
No chance of free to air satellite TV then? I've got no idea what the satellite TV is like in the US, but in the UK a good deal of satellite channels are free to air so you just need a dish and a DVB-S receiver - this works well with my MythTV system. Of course, if you want subscription channels then you're stuck having to use BSkyB's own hardware (unless you use an illegal CAM to decrypt the channels you have paid for).
In the US, it's really not possible to use a HTPC with satellite TV. As far as I know, there is no PC hardware that can handle it. Some people hack together setups that essentially plug a satellite receiver into a PC through the S-Video port; but I don't consider that a workable solution for HDTV.
Basically, the only standards are for over-the-air TV and unencrypted cable television. As Comcast is the only game in town, it equates to a monopoly. Like I said, I'm just patiently waiting for stuff to move onto the internet.
The BIGGEST problem with Obama's stated goal of income redistribution is that it creates a sense of entitlement, the poor are ENTITLED to money, just because they don't have any.
So are the rich entitled to more income just because they already have money?
When you understand economic philosophy; you realize that rich peoples' wealth is built upon the backs of the working-class. This isn't a bad thing, as long as the working class gets a fair portion on the resulting wealth. There are some glaring examples in our economy where hard-working laborers just aren't getting a fair portion of the wealth that they create.
"Undocumented workers" create lots of wealth; yet see little reward for their hard work. If we deport every illegal immigrant; we'll starve, because illegal immigrants pick our produce and run our slaughterhouses!
Furthermore, Walmart's hard-working employees can not afford to feed their families and need government assistance for health care.
The problem is that money really doesn't grow on trees. It is the result of careful planning of labor to create wealth; and there is only a finate supply of labor. If only a select few get all the wealth, then the workers' quality of life suffers. The poor aren't entitled to money; but neither are the rich!
Furthermore, I'm sick of the label "conservative". The idea that man should rule himself (not be ruled by politicians) is about as liberal as can be. I support legalization of marijuana (inside your own home) and same-sex marriages (it's your bedroom; do whatever you want). I'm as liberal as any Democrat, I just don't think having my government act like my daddy is the answer.
I'm sure you read plenty of the replies. Perhaps you might want to consider calling yourself an independant? I always vote for the best candidates and try to favor neither parties.
Personally, I think party affiliations are best left for people who are very active in politics.
And you pay for this crap service? Sounds like you need to switch to a sane service to me...
Comcast is a monopoly; it's the only cable TV provider in many areas.
I've been tempted to switch to ATT U-Verse; however, that has its own issues. It's "not cable", thus it's not regulated. The converter boxes don't have firewire, so I can't record a program onto my computer. Furthermore, as it's "not cable", I have to use their converter box instead of a TV card or TIVO.
The best approach, IMO, is to get a cable-compatible HTPC and slowly get more and more TV over the internet.
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The evidence that the Bible gives for Jesus rising from the dead is that people saw him and conversed with him after his execution. This makes it sound like the people in the bible were hallucinating.
Should Taxpayers Back Cars Only the Rich Can Afford?
Yes, once the rich start paying their fair share of taxes!
I think that if a work isn't available in an electronic form that is open and priced at fair market value; then it deserves no copyright protection. I only pay for media that's in an open electronic form and priced at fair market value; everything else I pirate.
The justification for hiring an older person is "experience." You might state that "candidates with 10 or more years of industry experience are preferred."
However, "experience" can be a double-edged sword. I once worked with someone who was hired to do a job that's normally best suited for someone who's in the middle of their career. The justification for hiring this person was that he had 30 years of industry experience... He was programming when I was in the womb!
When I worked with him, the quality of his work was awful. Lesson learned: Experience can be useful, but too much experience for a mid-level career job can indicate that a candidate rose to his/her "highest level of incompetence"; or couldn't figure out how to plan a proper retirement.
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And that's where you'll loose people.
I hate to be the one to bring reality into this little discussion, but for HP to dump Windows and start selling Linux (or any other OS) instead is really, really stupid.
Intel sprang ahead in the x86 market by making a "stupid" decision and refusing to 2nd source* the 386 chip. It really pissed off IBM, who was the largest buyer of x86 chips at the time.
Needless to say, all of the clone makers were drooling at the opportunity to come out with a 386 before IBM.
HP deciding to drop Windows could be a tipping point. I doubt it will happen, but, as demonstrated, the entire industry dynamic changed based on a "stupid" decision.
* In the early days of the semi-conductor industry, no one would buy a large order of chips from one manufacturer unless another manufacturer could produce identical parts. AMD rose to power because Intel let them manufacture the 8088 and x286 as a 2nd source for IBM.
The UK and America aren't all that different.
I learned the same thing today about the US and India.
One of my Indian co-workers explained to me today that, in one of India's states, it's considered a mortal sin to eat eggs. One of his friends was evicted from an apartment (in this particular Indian state) for boiling eggs. Another Indian co-worker told us about some temple that's loaded with rats that people worship as gods.
if the convenience factor wasn't part of the equation. At two books per month, breakeven would be in three years.
After living in an apartment for almost 3 years, I was drowning in so many books that I had to get rid of them. It broke my heart. The "breakeven" point for me is a clean bookshelf.
Ever go to Burning Man? Ever check out the San Jose Museum of Art in California? A lot of cutting-edge art requires significant technical abilities. My school, WPI, has a very strong technical art program.
Use VMware. It has a snapshot feature that takes a snapshot of a VM, and then records the changes to the VM. I use it when I test an installer; I roll back the snapshot when I'm complete. (Disclaimer: I work for VMware)
I wish my parents made me finish my joint at the dinner table!
The McCain effort is poorly explained, probably not understood by the Senator, but focused on controlling medical costs by removing the incentive to over insure.
[Fingers in ears going lalalalala]
Can we please have some simple that I can understand? I don't want to have to shop for insurance; I already have enough trouble shopping for good doctors and dentists.
Console games tend to suck people in for hours at a time. My employer (VMware) has ping-pong tables, foozball, pinball, air hockey, and DDR littered throughout the campus. They're much more effective then consoles in common areas because the games tend to be short.
The problem with console games is that they tend to be designed for extended-time play. It takes me at least 10-15 minutes to get into a game of Zelda, and when I play Super Mario Galaxy, sometimes an hour will go by without me noticing it. Furthermore, once people get sucked into online games, there sometimes is no "pause" button as the other players don't care about the fact that the boss wants something finished by the end of the day.
If you really want video games, stick with something cool, like an arcade cabinet. It makes your workplace look fancy, and the games don't last forever.
I didn't know space actually sounded like a sci-fi movie!
Project Better Place spoke a few months ago at my employer, VMware. We recently added a bunch of plugs for electric vehicles in our garage.
The key to making DRM work is to back off the user's day-to-day playback, and focus on making it so that devices won't receive content from users that don't have permission to give it to them. That's what copyright was created for: to prevent unauthorized reproductions, not tell the user exactly how they will use the IP once they buy it.
That might be fine for confidential information, but it is totally inappropriate for information sold on an open market that must gracefully fall into the public domain. (Remember, Copyright dictates that everything eventually moves into the public domain.)
For information sold on an open market, the best "DRM" is that which is nothing more intrusive then a child lock. In such a case, files are not encrypted or obfuscated, but the operating system would maintain a bit or attribute that would function similar to the "read only" setting. A "do not copy" flag would be completely open, prevent accidental copying, and allow paying customers to turn it off when needed.
The problem with old media is that a lot of it decays. While a 30-year-old vinyl record might still play fine, a 30-year-old tape is often de-laminating and close to complete loss. Disks might suffer the same fate. I've seen plenty of CDRs flake thier data away. Instead of trying to build a PC that can read everything; consider archiving the data to hard drives which can be easily duplicated on an annual basis.
I occasionally use Firewire to record from my DVR. USB can't do that.
No chance of free to air satellite TV then? I've got no idea what the satellite TV is like in the US, but in the UK a good deal of satellite channels are free to air so you just need a dish and a DVB-S receiver - this works well with my MythTV system. Of course, if you want subscription channels then you're stuck having to use BSkyB's own hardware (unless you use an illegal CAM to decrypt the channels you have paid for).
In the US, it's really not possible to use a HTPC with satellite TV. As far as I know, there is no PC hardware that can handle it. Some people hack together setups that essentially plug a satellite receiver into a PC through the S-Video port; but I don't consider that a workable solution for HDTV.
Basically, the only standards are for over-the-air TV and unencrypted cable television. As Comcast is the only game in town, it equates to a monopoly. Like I said, I'm just patiently waiting for stuff to move onto the internet.
The BIGGEST problem with Obama's stated goal of income redistribution is that it creates a sense of entitlement, the poor are ENTITLED to money, just because they don't have any.
So are the rich entitled to more income just because they already have money?
When you understand economic philosophy; you realize that rich peoples' wealth is built upon the backs of the working-class. This isn't a bad thing, as long as the working class gets a fair portion on the resulting wealth. There are some glaring examples in our economy where hard-working laborers just aren't getting a fair portion of the wealth that they create.
"Undocumented workers" create lots of wealth; yet see little reward for their hard work. If we deport every illegal immigrant; we'll starve, because illegal immigrants pick our produce and run our slaughterhouses!
Furthermore, Walmart's hard-working employees can not afford to feed their families and need government assistance for health care.
The problem is that money really doesn't grow on trees. It is the result of careful planning of labor to create wealth; and there is only a finate supply of labor. If only a select few get all the wealth, then the workers' quality of life suffers. The poor aren't entitled to money; but neither are the rich!
Ask your pointy-haird boss to back up his assertion with data from marketing research.
Furthermore, I'm sick of the label "conservative". The idea that man should rule himself (not be ruled by politicians) is about as liberal as can be. I support legalization of marijuana (inside your own home) and same-sex marriages (it's your bedroom; do whatever you want). I'm as liberal as any Democrat, I just don't think having my government act like my daddy is the answer.
I'm sure you read plenty of the replies. Perhaps you might want to consider calling yourself an independant? I always vote for the best candidates and try to favor neither parties.
Personally, I think party affiliations are best left for people who are very active in politics.
And you pay for this crap service? Sounds like you need to switch to a sane service to me...
Comcast is a monopoly; it's the only cable TV provider in many areas.
I've been tempted to switch to ATT U-Verse; however, that has its own issues. It's "not cable", thus it's not regulated. The converter boxes don't have firewire, so I can't record a program onto my computer. Furthermore, as it's "not cable", I have to use their converter box instead of a TV card or TIVO.
The best approach, IMO, is to get a cable-compatible HTPC and slowly get more and more TV over the internet.
What does it mean if they're dimly lit and well decorated with drug paraphernalia?
Democrat. I went to a drug conference last weeked; and everyone leaned democrat.
(In case you're wondering, I listened to someone discuss FDA-Approved MDMA research.)
surprised Google isn't considering moving some of its data centres to Arctic locations where you get cool temperatures year-round.
My guess is that it's probably rather expensive to run fiber and power up there.