LOL, I'm retiring at the end of this month, you young guys can have my job. And no, I'm not a network admin, my comments were from a user's perspective; I mostly program (actually programmed since they moved off the mainframe and onto Access) databases.
Your concept of "pirate radio" isn't how it was. One didn't pay to hear pirate radio, they sold ads like legit radio. Back ten, radio stations didn't pay to play music, in fact some labels and DJs got in trouble because labels were bribing DJs to play their music.
It was called "pirate radio" because the stations had no broadcast licenses, and most were transmitted from boats in international ocean water.
while 'piracy' had a negative connotation it is not the same as theft and hasn't meant theft since pre radio era when nautical piracy was widespread. to some the branding of piracy makes the whole thing worth it.
Your comment would have better fit someone complaining about the word "piracy". I was responding to someone claiming that file sharing is theft.
Out of interest, what mail/calendaring client do you prefer to Outlook?
Every single one I've used. I only use an email client to send and receive mail, none of that calendar or other extra features. I'm completely put off by that damned ribbon interface.
I haven't used Lotus Notes but will agree about gmail (or any other browser based email for that matter). Judging by Lotus' other products, I'm guessing I'd hate notes, too.
I was perfectly happy with Novell's twenty year old client. I use Thunderbird at home.
They went MS-Only where I work last year, traded in the Novell networking gear. MS has some sort of nonsense called "active directory" that all the pointy haired bosses love, and iinm you almost have to be 100% MS.
But really, it doesn't make much difference to me, now that I'm retiring and no longer will have to deal with MS's crappy software. God but I hate Access and Outlook (Excel's still the best spreadsheet, but I hate all spreadsheets).
their websites actually make fairly clear what the law says can and cannot be done legally.
Link? Quote? Citation? "You wouldn't download a car" in TV antipiracy commercials pretty much puts the lie to the claim that they're OK with any downloading at all.
Then you've never been on the phone with someone when a tornado hit their neighborhood. Oh, and if you're in a thunderstorm your cell phone is safe to use, POTS can kill.
I haven't had POTS for over a decade, never once missed it.
That's what I used to think until I tried publishing my own book. The expensive part is marketing; since buying ISBNs I've been contacted by marketers wanting to market it, no way can I afford to gamble that much cash. So sales are going to continue to be tiny.
Stealing? Are you a MAFIAA shill, or just someone stupid enough to swallow their "truthy" nonsense? Let me attempt to get you to understand the difference.
Stealing: You walk into Barnes and Noble and shoplift a copy of my book. I've lost nothing, but B&N have, they're out the cost of that stolen book. If you're caught and convicted, it's a misdemeanor and a few hundred dollars fine.
Copyright infringement: You buy an ebook version of my novel, and give a copy to your friend, who may have never heard of me, like the book, and buy a different one of my books. I am out nothing; nobody is, except perhaps the "thief" who received the copy, since he may be later out the cost of my other book. If caught, you will be out thousands of dollars, no conviction necessary.
Do you call rapists "murderers?" Do you call burglars "dope dealers?"
You MAFIAA whores are using a word about a bad thing, theft, and trying to apply it to a good thing, sharing, to make the good thing look bad. Sorry, shill, to twist Shakespear's words, calling a rose "shit" doesn't make it stink. The evil-doers are liars like you who insist roses stink, not those who would do me the favor of sharing my work and helping get my name out.
If that's what Steam Music is, it's a really stupid concept. You can already play any music you want while playing a game! Hell, just start up any music player before your game, or plug your phone into a pair of speakers.
This does nothing except add bloat -- if it is, indeed, what the GP says.
I've had POTS service for going on 60 years with precisely 0 failures, ever.
When two tornadoes tore through Springfield in March 2006, my neighborhood had no power, phone service, or cable; all of the utility poles were broken. Power was out for a week, POTS for three weeks, and cable six weeks.
My cell phone worked through it all, charged in the car. So my two questions are, why do you still have a job and a landline? I turn 62 in April and am retiring this month. After more than four decades of doing what someone else wants me to do, I'm ready to do what I want to do.
People have a strange aversion to change wrt telephony.
That hasn't been my experience. When phones went from dial to touch tone, people threw old but perfectly working phones away en masse. Cell phones took off slowly because of the cost, when new they were not only bulky but incredibly expensive to use, three or four bucks per minute while landlines were unlimited usage for a very low monthly fee.
When very few people were cell-only, and everyone was used to everyone having a landline, of course people were puzzled.
Most people are already digital from end to end, since landlines are dying outside of businesses. Everyone I know with a landline is over 60, and even geezers are giving them up. When everybody has a phone in their pocket, there's no use for a landline.
Chicago's been shut down for two inches of snow when the snowfall started as rain, because NOBODY can drive on ice (and I've been driving in a northern climate since 1968).
Also, do you remember the first time you ever drove on a slick surface? Now, imagine thousands of people who have never once experienced it getting on the hIghways all at the same time! Didn't you see the videos? It was every bit as bad as it gets up here (I'm only 200 miles south of Chicago). Experienced truckers couldn't navigate it.
And they have no salt or plows or any of the other equipment we northerners have.
I wonder how YOU would react if Chicago somehow got hit by a category 2 hurricane? Chicago would be closed for a month, because we're not used to hurricanes here. They're not used to snow and ice.
Poor foolish AC doesn't understand the difference between science and engineering. Fusion reactors, methanol fuel cells, or flying cars are all engineering, not science. Constructing a monopole isn't something that is goimg to have shelves of monopoles in the stores, it confirmed an 85 year old theory.
I wonder what the poor ignorant fool is doing posting here?
The same as when the city shuts down for a hurricane, duh.
Businesses have to close, city workers will cause traffic jams on the way home
Which is exactly what happened. If schools and government were closed and businesses encouraged to stay closed and people to stay home, this mess never would have happened. Atlanta knew the snow was coming at 4:AM (the National Weather Service is pissed off about the Atlanta Mayor's lies to the public) and should have taken action instead of waiting until the snow was actually falling.
The mess in Atlanta was caused by incompetence and political cowardice.
You guys aren't getting it. Google only sold the phone division of Motorola. They keep the engineers and patents that came with the deal, and are licensing those patents to Lenovo. They only bought Motorola to have a MAD patent portfolio.
They bought a company for the part they wanted and sold the parts they didn't want.
No, they're certainly not time flies. Or maybe they are... over sixty years ago they were calling the giant mainframe computers that were less powerful than a musical Hallmark card "electronic brains." Now that they're using silicon instead of vacuum tubes, ignorant fucks who have no idea whatever how computers work (my sister, when her grandson asked how computers worked, shrugged and said "it's magic") are calling them "silicon brains".
Brains do more than compute. These are not brains.
If the lightning directly strikes your house, no surge protector will work. My neighbor's house got hit a couple of decades ago, he had to replace his TV, phone, a radio, some lamps, half his house wiring, half his outlets and switches, and all of his circuit breakers.
You're forgetting how powerful lightning is. It's going to arc straight over that surge protector without problems.
Lightning is some strong shit. If I hadn't used surge protectors, I'd have lost some electronics when my neighbor's house got hit, since I surely had a huge surge -- but most of the energy went to my neighbor's house.
Bauxite is strip-mined, though, which is pretty safe as far as the miners are concerned.
A lot of coal is strip mined, as well, and strip mining is far worse for the environment than tunnel mining even if it is a lot safer for the miners. With aluminum or any other metal, the danger is as bad or worse in the factory. I worked in a copper factory for a couple of months in the late '70s; hard, dangerous work. One guy was boiled in molten copper when I worked there.
But the deaths from coal come after it's burned; coal is one of the nastiest fuels we currently use.
In before the cyborgs? Nope, we cyborgs have been around for years, long before Google Glass. I became a cyborg in 2006, I know several other cyborgs. One guy I know is both cyborg and chimera.
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LOL, I'm retiring at the end of this month, you young guys can have my job. And no, I'm not a network admin, my comments were from a user's perspective; I mostly program (actually programmed since they moved off the mainframe and onto Access) databases.
No, no Dutch. The only human languages I can speak are English, Spanish, and a smattering of Thai. Someone translated it for me.
Your concept of "pirate radio" isn't how it was. One didn't pay to hear pirate radio, they sold ads like legit radio. Back ten, radio stations didn't pay to play music, in fact some labels and DJs got in trouble because labels were bribing DJs to play their music.
It was called "pirate radio" because the stations had no broadcast licenses, and most were transmitted from boats in international ocean water.
while 'piracy' had a negative connotation it is not the same as theft and hasn't meant theft since pre radio era when nautical piracy was widespread. to some the branding of piracy makes the whole thing worth it.
Your comment would have better fit someone complaining about the word "piracy". I was responding to someone claiming that file sharing is theft.
I agree with the rest of your comment 100%.
Out of interest, what mail/calendaring client do you prefer to Outlook?
Every single one I've used. I only use an email client to send and receive mail, none of that calendar or other extra features. I'm completely put off by that damned ribbon interface.
I haven't used Lotus Notes but will agree about gmail (or any other browser based email for that matter). Judging by Lotus' other products, I'm guessing I'd hate notes, too.
I was perfectly happy with Novell's twenty year old client. I use Thunderbird at home.
They went MS-Only where I work last year, traded in the Novell networking gear. MS has some sort of nonsense called "active directory" that all the pointy haired bosses love, and iinm you almost have to be 100% MS.
But really, it doesn't make much difference to me, now that I'm retiring and no longer will have to deal with MS's crappy software. God but I hate Access and Outlook (Excel's still the best spreadsheet, but I hate all spreadsheets).
their websites actually make fairly clear what the law says can and cannot be done legally.
Link? Quote? Citation? "You wouldn't download a car" in TV antipiracy commercials pretty much puts the lie to the claim that they're OK with any downloading at all.
And yes, I would download a car. Hell, yes!
I never had a POTS call drop out on me.
Then you've never been on the phone with someone when a tornado hit their neighborhood. Oh, and if you're in a thunderstorm your cell phone is safe to use, POTS can kill.
I haven't had POTS for over a decade, never once missed it.
That's what I used to think until I tried publishing my own book. The expensive part is marketing; since buying ISBNs I've been contacted by marketers wanting to market it, no way can I afford to gamble that much cash. So sales are going to continue to be tiny.
Stealing? Are you a MAFIAA shill, or just someone stupid enough to swallow their "truthy" nonsense? Let me attempt to get you to understand the difference.
Stealing: You walk into Barnes and Noble and shoplift a copy of my book. I've lost nothing, but B&N have, they're out the cost of that stolen book. If you're caught and convicted, it's a misdemeanor and a few hundred dollars fine.
Copyright infringement: You buy an ebook version of my novel, and give a copy to your friend, who may have never heard of me, like the book, and buy a different one of my books. I am out nothing; nobody is, except perhaps the "thief" who received the copy, since he may be later out the cost of my other book. If caught, you will be out thousands of dollars, no conviction necessary.
Do you call rapists "murderers?" Do you call burglars "dope dealers?"
You MAFIAA whores are using a word about a bad thing, theft, and trying to apply it to a good thing, sharing, to make the good thing look bad. Sorry, shill, to twist Shakespear's words, calling a rose "shit" doesn't make it stink. The evil-doers are liars like you who insist roses stink, not those who would do me the favor of sharing my work and helping get my name out.
If that's what Steam Music is, it's a really stupid concept. You can already play any music you want while playing a game! Hell, just start up any music player before your game, or plug your phone into a pair of speakers.
This does nothing except add bloat -- if it is, indeed, what the GP says.
I've had POTS service for going on 60 years with precisely 0 failures, ever.
When two tornadoes tore through Springfield in March 2006, my neighborhood had no power, phone service, or cable; all of the utility poles were broken. Power was out for a week, POTS for three weeks, and cable six weeks.
My cell phone worked through it all, charged in the car. So my two questions are, why do you still have a job and a landline? I turn 62 in April and am retiring this month. After more than four decades of doing what someone else wants me to do, I'm ready to do what I want to do.
People have a strange aversion to change wrt telephony.
That hasn't been my experience. When phones went from dial to touch tone, people threw old but perfectly working phones away en masse. Cell phones took off slowly because of the cost, when new they were not only bulky but incredibly expensive to use, three or four bucks per minute while landlines were unlimited usage for a very low monthly fee.
When very few people were cell-only, and everyone was used to everyone having a landline, of course people were puzzled.
Most people are already digital from end to end, since landlines are dying outside of businesses. Everyone I know with a landline is over 60, and even geezers are giving them up. When everybody has a phone in their pocket, there's no use for a landline.
They must be talking about minivans.
The Venusians maybe? Look what nobots did to them!
It's pretty certain his Mars trilogy is a lot more widely read, although I hadn't heard of it. Thanks for pointing me to it, I'll have to read it.
Chicago's been shut down for two inches of snow when the snowfall started as rain, because NOBODY can drive on ice (and I've been driving in a northern climate since 1968).
Also, do you remember the first time you ever drove on a slick surface? Now, imagine thousands of people who have never once experienced it getting on the hIghways all at the same time! Didn't you see the videos? It was every bit as bad as it gets up here (I'm only 200 miles south of Chicago). Experienced truckers couldn't navigate it.
And they have no salt or plows or any of the other equipment we northerners have.
I wonder how YOU would react if Chicago somehow got hit by a category 2 hurricane? Chicago would be closed for a month, because we're not used to hurricanes here. They're not used to snow and ice.
Poor foolish AC doesn't understand the difference between science and engineering. Fusion reactors, methanol fuel cells, or flying cars are all engineering, not science. Constructing a monopole isn't something that is goimg to have shelves of monopoles in the stores, it confirmed an 85 year old theory.
I wonder what the poor ignorant fool is doing posting here?
big companies waste money like its going out of style. if you or I wasted like they did, we'd be homeless.
No, rich people waste money like it's going out of style. Hell, a couple of meals at a NYC 5 star restaurant and I'd probably be in debt and homeless.
What do you do when that parent is an ER nurse?
The same as when the city shuts down for a hurricane, duh.
Businesses have to close, city workers will cause traffic jams on the way home
Which is exactly what happened. If schools and government were closed and businesses encouraged to stay closed and people to stay home, this mess never would have happened. Atlanta knew the snow was coming at 4:AM (the National Weather Service is pissed off about the Atlanta Mayor's lies to the public) and should have taken action instead of waiting until the snow was actually falling.
The mess in Atlanta was caused by incompetence and political cowardice.
You guys aren't getting it. Google only sold the phone division of Motorola. They keep the engineers and patents that came with the deal, and are licensing those patents to Lenovo. They only bought Motorola to have a MAD patent portfolio.
They bought a company for the part they wanted and sold the parts they didn't want.
No, they're certainly not time flies. Or maybe they are... over sixty years ago they were calling the giant mainframe computers that were less powerful than a musical Hallmark card "electronic brains." Now that they're using silicon instead of vacuum tubes, ignorant fucks who have no idea whatever how computers work (my sister, when her grandson asked how computers worked, shrugged and said "it's magic") are calling them "silicon brains".
Brains do more than compute. These are not brains.
If the lightning directly strikes your house, no surge protector will work. My neighbor's house got hit a couple of decades ago, he had to replace his TV, phone, a radio, some lamps, half his house wiring, half his outlets and switches, and all of his circuit breakers.
You're forgetting how powerful lightning is. It's going to arc straight over that surge protector without problems.
Lightning is some strong shit. If I hadn't used surge protectors, I'd have lost some electronics when my neighbor's house got hit, since I surely had a huge surge -- but most of the energy went to my neighbor's house.
Bauxite is strip-mined, though, which is pretty safe as far as the miners are concerned.
A lot of coal is strip mined, as well, and strip mining is far worse for the environment than tunnel mining even if it is a lot safer for the miners. With aluminum or any other metal, the danger is as bad or worse in the factory. I worked in a copper factory for a couple of months in the late '70s; hard, dangerous work. One guy was boiled in molten copper when I worked there.
But the deaths from coal come after it's burned; coal is one of the nastiest fuels we currently use.
In before the cyborgs? Nope, we cyborgs have been around for years, long before Google Glass. I became a cyborg in 2006, I know several other cyborgs. One guy I know is both cyborg and chimera.