Never thought I'd defend Comcast, but here goes....
Even if Comcast knows I'm sharing mp3s, how on earth can they know if it's illegal or not. It could just as easily be a home recording of my garage band playing an original piece of music as it could be Britney Spears. Again are they my boring vacation photos or kiddie porn. I still don't see how they can be held responsible for the content
Most difficult were engineers who learned clever tricks to conserving memory in their programming. As Moore's progressed, those skills devalued, then became worthless, and finally became negative in value. I had one engineer at late as 1987 who would spend two days effort to save three bytes of memory in his program. Engineers are trained to build on experience, and they expect their experiences to add to their value synergistically as the years pass. The idea that past experience could have negative value was a threat to their personal credos and their career strategy.
Thats not a negative, they are just in the wrong segment of the industry. Saving 3 bytes is a worthless pursuit in a windows gui, but still has value in embedded systems.
this morning during my 25 minute drive to work, one of the radio stations never had a song on. I kept switching to it because I like the style of music but never got a song. They wanted money so much that I ended up not listening to any adds for more than the 3 seconds to determine.. yup.. still no songs. If I could count on 30 seconds of ads and then another good song- I might actually stay through the ad. but once the ads start, I know it will be a few minutes so I skip on over to other radio stations.
That absolutely drives me nuts. There must be an unwritten rule that in the morning, people want to hear a room full of DJs tell dick jokes and make small talk about whatever was on TV last night. No music, or maybe 1 crappy song in between a fart soundtrack and a phone interview with a celebrity promoting there latest piece of shit TV/movie/album/book/diet/etc. Call it the Howard Stern effect if you will.
It's not just bad music, its bad recording and production. Theres an ineresting article in Rolling Stone this month about the death of HiFi. I'm not going to do it justice, so if you care, try and go read the whole article. The general claim then make is that because most people are now listening to their music in compressed formats, such as mp3, aac, and wmv, produceres are changing the sound of music, making it louder so that it sounds better on an iPod type device, to the detriment of how it sounds on full size speakers in an uncompressed format.
ebay has replacement PSP screens for around $50 shipped. If you want something smaller there are plenty of chinese video "iPods" you could strip for even less money. search for "tft"
that pretty much jives with what I just experienced from them just outside of baltimore. I just bought an older house with existing POTS service. I had FIOS at my old rental home and never had a complaint about it at all. when I moved, VZ refused to turn on the existing POTS line at my new house, because they were coming out in 3 weeks to do a FIOS install and it "would cost the company too much money to send a tech out twice". Despite being left without residential phone service for 3 weeks and complaining that I couldn't call 911 if I needed to, I was still told that "you need to look at this from the perspective of the business"
OTOH - as near as I can tell, they did not remove the existing copper. when they did it at my rental home, they did remove the copper box and wire everything into the new FIOS box. At the new place, the previous owner had hacked so many lines into the copper box that the tech just looked at it, threw up his hands in dispair, and ran it into the FIOS box.
On cars, the computers keep the engines from over reving or running on too rich a mixture, both of which can damage the hardware. If you mod the software in your engine's computers you void the warrantee.
I think thats a fair analogy, but there is one additional detail that I think is important. At least in the US, the automaker can void the warranty on the engine, or even the powertrain because you moddified the engine control software, but they can not refuse to warranty something not related to to the modification, like the trunk latch. The burden of proof is on the automaker to show that your mods caused the problem.
I will admit though, in practice it doesn't always work like that.
Went down to the local OfficeMax the other day... No SATA optical drives at all. Ditto for Staples. The industry needs a big kick in the nuts to dump old legacy shit. Seagate dumping IDE is a kick in the nuts to OfficeMax and other retailers to wake the fuck up, and start carrying modern accessories.
That makes perfect sense in my mind. most of the people who go to the big box stores to purchase a piece of PC hardware, are replacing a broken part on an older, out of warranty, machine and want/need the part right now. SATA hasn't been around long enough to have large numbers of failures on machines out of warranty. When people start demanding the stuff, OfficeMax will have it.
Or you can, with very few exceptions, finance your undergraduate education entirely on credit, even with no credit history, no income, and poor parents. When you're done you'll have $125k in debt, but you'll have the degree you sought.
Maybe, just maybe, anyone smart enough to get accepted into the nations top universities, is also smart enough to understand that even if your degree says PhD in Everything from the University of God, $125k in the hole is no way to start out life.
but maybe thats just me.....I only went to some cheap state school.
Rather than buying locked phones and whining about how difficult it is to unlock them why not just buy an unlocked phone?
or just buy the phone/sim bundle that includes the phone for free. Then just put the sim in the phone of your choice, and sell the give away phone on ebay for whatever you can get for it.
From a different perspective, sorting garbage based on predetermined criteria seems to be like something that, once you get over the initial investment in the system that does it, is probably better done by one giant machine that sorts the garbage for 100,000 people, than each of those 100,000 people having to take a few minutes a day to think about it. From a purely economic perspective, the opportunity cost of everyone's time probably justifies an automatic sorter, and when you factor in the recovered value from the recyclables [1] and the possible "dump mining" aspects that it creates later, I'd think it would be a good investment.
It's not that hard. I have 2 cans in my house, one for recyclables and another for trash. They are right next to each other in the kitchen, which is 2 steps away from the can I put compostable material into. I'm walking there to throw it away in either case, so the only additional effort it requires is a half a second of thought.
Oh wait, this is America. I guess half a second of thought is asking a bit much. Nevermind then.
I have an aircard with unlimited data. I think it's $80 a month. I'm not 100% on that because the company pays for it. It's expensive to be sure, but I don't think that is obnoxious.
the companys are completely out of hand with the minutes. My wife and I aren't big talkers, but the smallest family plan we could get was 700 mins, of which we use about 350 - 400 a month. Individual text messages are just expensive enough to justify paying for the 400/month that we never get anywhere close to.
excellent article, thanks for linking it. Seems I never have mod points when I want/need them. I started by cutting hydrogenated oils out of my diet, I'm working on high fructose corn syrup. I'm not 100% on either one, but I'm making conscious choices to cut back on both. I know this will be blasphemy on this site, but Mountain Dew contains "brominated vegetable oil". Gatorade, a "health" drink contains "glycerol ester of wood rosin". Tell me honestly, is there any way you would put that in your body if it wasn't hidden in some mile long ingredient list?
Watching my 10 year old niece grow up, I can say with some certainty, that obesity is at least in part, a learned behavior. She has been fed a steady diet of fast food and sweets, and is essentially instructed to "sit in front of the TV while Mommy does something else". Watching her morbidly obese mother sneak food and gorge herself to find solace has only reinforced negative eating habits. My wife and I took her skiing last weekend and she lied to me about her weight. 10 years old and she is ashamed of how heavy she is. She was almost in tears when my wife and I explained to her that for her own safety, she had to tell us what she weighed so her ski bindings could be set properly.
BoA has now given non-Americans the same opportunity as American citizens to bury themselves in enormous ammounts of debt. I'm supposed to be upset by this why?
I guess one possibility is to just buy and not use a ticket. southwest always has one way tickets on their website for about $50. Assuming you could make money this way by stealing CC numbers, then spending $50 and a few hours of your time to get $500 or more is a reasonable venture.
Even I bought one, but I don't give a crap about broadcast TV or cable TV or sports.
I got sick and tired of the space my TV was taking up
that may well be what finally pushes me over the edge. I have an entertainment center that is ungodly heavy, and takes up a large portion of my living room. A flat panel and an equipment rack would be sooooooo much nicer.
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Even if Comcast knows I'm sharing mp3s, how on earth can they know if it's illegal or not. It could just as easily be a home recording of my garage band playing an original piece of music as it could be Britney Spears. Again are they my boring vacation photos or kiddie porn. I still don't see how they can be held responsible for the content
Not an engineer, but a brilliant mathematician. I don't think thats too much of a stretch.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unabomber
I gotta have more cowbell
Thats not a negative, they are just in the wrong segment of the industry. Saving 3 bytes is a worthless pursuit in a windows gui, but still has value in embedded systems.
That absolutely drives me nuts. There must be an unwritten rule that in the morning, people want to hear a room full of DJs tell dick jokes and make small talk about whatever was on TV last night. No music, or maybe 1 crappy song in between a fart soundtrack and a phone interview with a celebrity promoting there latest piece of shit TV/movie/album/book/diet/etc. Call it the Howard Stern effect if you will.
It's not just bad music, its bad recording and production. Theres an ineresting article in Rolling Stone this month about the death of HiFi. I'm not going to do it justice, so if you care, try and go read the whole article. The general claim then make is that because most people are now listening to their music in compressed formats, such as mp3, aac, and wmv, produceres are changing the sound of music, making it louder so that it sounds better on an iPod type device, to the detriment of how it sounds on full size speakers in an uncompressed format.
ebay has replacement PSP screens for around $50 shipped. If you want something smaller there are plenty of chinese video "iPods" you could strip for even less money. search for "tft"
No option for RAID 1. Having dropped a laptop and crashed a HDD, I'd rather have that than RAID 0.
that pretty much jives with what I just experienced from them just outside of baltimore. I just bought an older house with existing POTS service. I had FIOS at my old rental home and never had a complaint about it at all. when I moved, VZ refused to turn on the existing POTS line at my new house, because they were coming out in 3 weeks to do a FIOS install and it "would cost the company too much money to send a tech out twice". Despite being left without residential phone service for 3 weeks and complaining that I couldn't call 911 if I needed to, I was still told that "you need to look at this from the perspective of the business" OTOH - as near as I can tell, they did not remove the existing copper. when they did it at my rental home, they did remove the copper box and wire everything into the new FIOS box. At the new place, the previous owner had hacked so many lines into the copper box that the tech just looked at it, threw up his hands in dispair, and ran it into the FIOS box.
On cars, the computers keep the engines from over reving or running on too rich a mixture, both of which can damage the hardware. If you mod the software in your engine's computers you void the warrantee.
I think thats a fair analogy, but there is one additional detail that I think is important. At least in the US, the automaker can void the warranty on the engine, or even the powertrain because you moddified the engine control software, but they can not refuse to warranty something not related to to the modification, like the trunk latch. The burden of proof is on the automaker to show that your mods caused the problem.
I will admit though, in practice it doesn't always work like that.
Good news everyone! They've started smearing Ron Paul. That means they have noticed him and believe he is now important enough to warrant attention.
That makes perfect sense in my mind. most of the people who go to the big box stores to purchase a piece of PC hardware, are replacing a broken part on an older, out of warranty, machine and want/need the part right now. SATA hasn't been around long enough to have large numbers of failures on machines out of warranty. When people start demanding the stuff, OfficeMax will have it.
An interesting article on the possible existance of roundup ready coca plants in south america. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.11/columbia. html
Maybe, just maybe, anyone smart enough to get accepted into the nations top universities, is also smart enough to understand that even if your degree says PhD in Everything from the University of God, $125k in the hole is no way to start out life.
but maybe thats just me.....I only went to some cheap state school.
Do you want to pay for the postage?
or just buy the phone/sim bundle that includes the phone for free. Then just put the sim in the phone of your choice, and sell the give away phone on ebay for whatever you can get for it.
It's not that hard. I have 2 cans in my house, one for recyclables and another for trash. They are right next to each other in the kitchen, which is 2 steps away from the can I put compostable material into. I'm walking there to throw it away in either case, so the only additional effort it requires is a half a second of thought.
Oh wait, this is America. I guess half a second of thought is asking a bit much. Nevermind then.
There are plenty of potting materials available which are thermally conductive.
That sounds nice and all, but I don't see companies lining up to pay me to surf /. all day
besides, once it's your job, it becomes work.
I have an aircard with unlimited data. I think it's $80 a month. I'm not 100% on that because the company pays for it. It's expensive to be sure, but I don't think that is obnoxious. the companys are completely out of hand with the minutes. My wife and I aren't big talkers, but the smallest family plan we could get was 700 mins, of which we use about 350 - 400 a month. Individual text messages are just expensive enough to justify paying for the 400/month that we never get anywhere close to.
excellent article, thanks for linking it. Seems I never have mod points when I want/need them. I started by cutting hydrogenated oils out of my diet, I'm working on high fructose corn syrup. I'm not 100% on either one, but I'm making conscious choices to cut back on both. I know this will be blasphemy on this site, but Mountain Dew contains "brominated vegetable oil". Gatorade, a "health" drink contains "glycerol ester of wood rosin". Tell me honestly, is there any way you would put that in your body if it wasn't hidden in some mile long ingredient list?
Watching my 10 year old niece grow up, I can say with some certainty, that obesity is at least in part, a learned behavior. She has been fed a steady diet of fast food and sweets, and is essentially instructed to "sit in front of the TV while Mommy does something else". Watching her morbidly obese mother sneak food and gorge herself to find solace has only reinforced negative eating habits. My wife and I took her skiing last weekend and she lied to me about her weight. 10 years old and she is ashamed of how heavy she is. She was almost in tears when my wife and I explained to her that for her own safety, she had to tell us what she weighed so her ski bindings could be set properly.
breaks my heart.....
BoA has now given non-Americans the same opportunity as American citizens to bury themselves in enormous ammounts of debt. I'm supposed to be upset by this why?
That takes brass balls. I mean, say it's coffee creamer, hand lotion, cup o noodles, anything. Lie.
I guess one possibility is to just buy and not use a ticket. southwest always has one way tickets on their website for about $50. Assuming you could make money this way by stealing CC numbers, then spending $50 and a few hours of your time to get $500 or more is a reasonable venture.
I got sick and tired of the space my TV was taking up
that may well be what finally pushes me over the edge. I have an entertainment center that is ungodly heavy, and takes up a large portion of my living room. A flat panel and an equipment rack would be sooooooo much nicer.