My dad experienced something like this personally. He was a paratrooper in the Army, and on one jump his buddy's chute didn't open, and neither did the emergency chute. 2000 feet down without a parachute. My dad, severely allergic to poison ivy, landed in a patch of the stuff and went to the same hospital. His buddy without the chute landed in a muddy plowed field and was just bruised badly, and spent less time in the hospital than my dad did.
Same here. I owned exactly ONE LG product, a phone, around 2005ish. Piece of shit crashed often, the screen would display backwards or upside down, all sorts of crazy stuff like that. I sent it back under warrantee and the new one was even worse. I think they were running Windows 3.1 on it...
The problem with DRM is that it is necessarily platform specific, and it closes out my options. It won't work on your cheap little linux netbook.
Or with the old HP I rebuilt for a media server. If NetFlix worked in Linux they might get my business. Too bad for them, Family Video is only a two minute drive away, and movies are pretty cheap to buy any more.
WCVS doesn't get my ears, either. Thsy use Silverlight, too, and I don't have a radio in the house.
I had a bible-thumping girlfriend a while back that was extremely displeased every time I said "God damn it!" She'd say "don't damn god." She obviously couldn't tell the difference between a shit dog and dog shit. Just because a horse is a four legged animal doesn't make a dog into a horse.
The most serious crimes heroin addicts commit are prostitution and theft, and the theft is usually petty theft. They just want enough money for another hit; addicts don't seem to be able to plan ahead any further than the next fix.
Right now, it often requires 1GB of RAM dedicated to Firefox with Firebug running -- and that with only one page open!
Dude, you have something wrong with your computer. I watch TV on mine, in Flash, fullscreen, with three more tabs open with radio stations ready to play (also in flash) while ripping a CD and copying files from the notebook -- and it's only got 750 megs of memory.
Are you using Windows? That may be your problem right there. Kubuntu runs FireFox just fine with no problems at all. Try a different AV; McAfee and Norton are horrible hogs. Or a different OS.
The article also advocates a move to all-digital payment/transfers by pointing out both forms are only representations of value and noting it would cripple criminal operations such as drug cartels, human traffickers, and so forth
As well as bringing BIG bucks to the banks! Jesus, I imagine they're salivating over the extra fees they'd get. As it is, I have no credit nor debit cards, nor do I want any. When I'm at a bar I use quarters as counters, one per beer, which is both the bartender's tip and a way for me to keep track of how sober I am.
And if they think there will be no way around it, look at LINK cards. back when there were food stamps people would sell them at half price for drug money. Now they just trade the cards for drugs, or sell the cards.
You're never going to be able to get rid of barter. Instead of $20 for a bag of weed, you buy $20 worth of steak at the store and trade it to the dope dealer.
They shouldn't do away with cash. How about they make the goddamned ink in the US instead oif importing it?? That was where the failure was.
these are two block busters from 2010 for the price of a McDonald's meal.
The most I ever spend at McDonald's is $2.16. Burrito with biscuits and gravy, McDouble with value fry, or occasionally the Mac Wrap ($1.83).
Beverage? I'm not paying a buck fifty for a paper cup full of carbonated sugar water.
I rarely pay $20 for DVDs, either.
However, I will pay $15 at D'Arcy's for corned beef, cabbage, and potatos with a couple of pints of Giunesses. I think it's hilarious that some people eat that expensively at McDonald's, substituting Coke (two cents to for McDonals' to make) for Guiness.
As I commented in a previous story, people are bringing this on themselves, and also ruining the internet for the innocent bystanders like me.
No, if there were no piracy whatever they'd come up with some other bogus "reason." Remember Rany Valenti's "the VCR is to the movie industry what Jack the Ripper was to women." But the VCR made them tons of cash. The internet could as well, if they weren't both retarded and greedy.
there != their Too bad there is no edit button, huh....
There is. It's labeled "Preview." Imagine the fun trolls could have if you could edit a submitted comment? Change your +5 insightful comment's link from Scientific American to goatse? Make a stupid comment and change it so it looks like everyone who corrected you was a moron?
Why? It's just shorthand for "applications" and I, for one, prefer monosyllable words to multisyllable words (which I would have used just now if I could have thought of a synonym for "monosyllable").
Personally, I doubt there is any way to beat C. Otherwise, we'd have alien visitors.
I can think of a lot of reasons we haven't had visitors. It's possible (yes, unlikely but possible) that this is the only planet in the galaxy with life; that we're not the only life but the only life that's gotten intelligent; or they did visit here but became extinct about the time the dinasaurs did; or that they may have seen us and figured life was impossible here or that we aren't even alive (I wrote two short SF stories about these, We still haven't found extraforgostnic life and A strange discovery).
Then you are in the minority. I've been told by other Slashdot users that most people who aren't geeks appear to see a "computer" as something for a desk, or at least something not to be moved back and forth between the desk and the TV a couple times a day.
That is, sadly, true. My 83 year old mom just got a new TV with HDMI and I pointed out that she could plug it into the computer with HDMI. No way to convince her.
But I was talking about us nerds, not normal people.
None that can afford to spend thousands of euros to produced a high qualify studio album.
You can have a high quality album not only professionally produced, but recorded and printed as well for less than the cost of the musical instruments themselves.
You're confusing addiction with habituation. Reasonable, since they've convieniently changed the word "addiction." Addiction used to be a physical dependancy -- if you quit, you had bad physical symptoms. Caffiene withdrawal gives you headaches. Alcohol withdrawal gives you the shakes, and if you're badly addicted it can give you hallucinations and even result in death. Same with heroin, sudden withdrawal can be fatal.
Habituation is being used to doing something, generally something pleasant, that becomes a habit. If you have a glass of orange juice every morning for five years and one day you can't have it, you're going to crave that orange juice badly. That's habituation.
That's how nicotine patches work -- they let you get over the habituation before you have to start fighting the physical withdrawal. With some substances like caffiene or nicotine, the habituation can be worse than the actual addiction.
If you can't spell it you're not knowledgeable enough to comment about it. It's "copyright," the right to copy. "Copy write" would be what you're doing, cutting and pasting.
Of course you wouldn't understand that Spain's lack of music has nothing to do with copyright laws, nor does Korea's laws have anything to do with its thriving. You have hand picked two samples out of thousands to ilustrate your point, and anybody here knows that's bogus. You can't cherry pick your data points (well, not unless you're a right wing think tank or have another axe to grind).
There have been actual studies, all of which showed that music pirates spend more on music than non pirates, and that book sales spike when the book is scanned and uploaded to the internet.
The "piracy kills artists" isn't just a fallacy, it's a god damned lie, because the people who have fooled the poor low IQ folks like yourself into believing the nonsense know better.
Disagreeing with the current President is not being a racist.
That's true. However --
The current President is worse than Bush ever was.
That statement is almost too ignorant to rebut. Bush went into office with a booming economy and a balanced budget and left office after the worst economic crash since 1929. He was the only president in history to leave office with America having fewer jobs than when he entered. The US was attacked on his watch by the very man Clinton warned him about, and he ignored Clinton's advice. When he started office we were at peace, when he left office we were in TWO wars.
Bush was the worst president we've had in my 60 year lifetime, and possibly in this nation's history (although I understand Grant wasn't too good and it's possible Coolige and Hoover were worse).
I'd give Obama a C. His worst fault is he isn't FDR. But he's a better president than half I've seen.
Sorry, but I'm afraid that anyone who says "Obama was worse than Bush" is either incredibly stupid or a die-hard right winger who doesn't give a rat's ass about truth.
People who voted for him were either secretly racist or openly racist.
Son, put that crack pipe down. That's even stupider than your previous moronic statement. Aren't you the least bit embarrassed by your stupid post?
He's done nothing good for this country except divide Americans even further.
Bin Laden's dead, Quadaffi's dead, we're no longer at war in Iraq and Afghanistan is winding down, unemployment is down and more people are working. It isn't Obama that's dividing the nation, the Republicans are doing that with their utter refusal for any compromise whatsoever.
He has helped double our national debt.
How was that to be deflected when we were in two very expensive wars, taxes on those who could most afford to be taxed were slashed, and revenues were WAY down because the economy had crashed? It took Bush eight years to almost totally destroy the economy and you think he can fix it in three? That's just retarded.
Gas has doubled in the last 3 years.
Bullshit, gas wasn't $1.75 a gallon when he took office. It quadrupled under Bush from a buck to four and dropped after the crash to maybe two-fifty. And how is Obama to blame for gas prices? I suspect that the oil barons, who hate Obama with a passion, jacked up the prices to ruin the economy and make sure Obama didn't get re-elected.
Stop acting like disagreeing with our president is a sign of racism.
It's not the disagreement itself, it's the manner of disagreement. If Democrats talked of Bush like you yahoos talk about Obama you'd have called them unamerican traitors.
By the way I am a proud black American.
Sorry, I simply don't believe that at all. I believe you're a blue-eyed blonde headed boy from the deep south. After all, you lied in your comment about "doubling gas prices" and that was the worst sort of "in your face" lie, like saying the sun comes out at night and fire is cold.
Typical. You're pathetic.
Here's goes my karma for another year. Tired of moderating anyways.
Judging from your achievements page (only two +5s) I think you're lying about that as well. Go crawl back under your bridge.
Just look at the kind of things people use for passwords
Well, it depends on what the password is for. Home network? Strong enough you have to write it down because it's not memorable. To read some idiot's damned newspaper? 111111. If my password is for YOUR security, it's going to be weak as hell.
I think you misunderstood him, that was no typo. He meant that programmers back then took optimized and reliable but left-leaning code and righted it. As in "this code is too damned liberal!"
Same thing as when someone says "they should loose their money." It's no typo, they meant what they wrote. They want them to set their money free, not lose it.
It CAN cost a lot of money, but doesn't have to. Star Wrek, made by amauters on a couple thousand bucks, was head and shoulders above most of the utter crap Hollywood shovels out.
In Time sounds like it might be a good one, I'll check it out when it comes to DVD. But that's one movie out of hundreds. I haven't been to the theater since Star Trek, and that's been a couple of years. There just haven't been any movies I wanted to see that badly.
For every good high budget film you can name, someone else can name ten stinkers that cost just as much that nobody in their right mind would pay to see.
Well, I'm with them there. Stop wasting my tax money on grants to the oil companies, tax breaks for the rich only, bridges to nowhere and other useless pork, war, etc.
The government makes it fiscally irresponsible to not report your charitable donations.
Fiscally irresponsible? In what way?
Are you saying that Liberals give just as much as a percentage of income as conservatives they just are refusing to get the tax benefits?
No, that's just me. I see charitable deductions as a tax dodge, which kind of takes away the charity. As to who gives more, I don't see how that metric can possibly be measured. For instance, there's someone here in town who throws a gold coin worth thousands in a Salvation Army kettle every year. Is he a liberal or conservative? Nobody knows who he is so there's no way to tell, even though he seems to be pretty liberal with his gold coins at Christmas.
Also I have never thought of Newt as an actual conservative. He is a politician. He wants in the end the government to have the power. The difference between big government republicans and big government democrats does not concern me in the least. They are both equally bad in slightly different ways.
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My dad experienced something like this personally. He was a paratrooper in the Army, and on one jump his buddy's chute didn't open, and neither did the emergency chute. 2000 feet down without a parachute. My dad, severely allergic to poison ivy, landed in a patch of the stuff and went to the same hospital. His buddy without the chute landed in a muddy plowed field and was just bruised badly, and spent less time in the hospital than my dad did.
I'm sure even stranger things have happened.
Same here. I owned exactly ONE LG product, a phone, around 2005ish. Piece of shit crashed often, the screen would display backwards or upside down, all sorts of crazy stuff like that. I sent it back under warrantee and the new one was even worse. I think they were running Windows 3.1 on it...
The problem with DRM is that it is necessarily platform specific, and it closes out my options. It won't work on your cheap little linux netbook.
Or with the old HP I rebuilt for a media server. If NetFlix worked in Linux they might get my business. Too bad for them, Family Video is only a two minute drive away, and movies are pretty cheap to buy any more.
WCVS doesn't get my ears, either. Thsy use Silverlight, too, and I don't have a radio in the house.
I had a bible-thumping girlfriend a while back that was extremely displeased every time I said "God damn it!" She'd say "don't damn god." She obviously couldn't tell the difference between a shit dog and dog shit. Just because a horse is a four legged animal doesn't make a dog into a horse.
The most serious crimes heroin addicts commit are prostitution and theft, and the theft is usually petty theft. They just want enough money for another hit; addicts don't seem to be able to plan ahead any further than the next fix.
Murder? That's usually alcohol's fault.
Right now, it often requires 1GB of RAM dedicated to Firefox with Firebug running -- and that with only one page open!
Dude, you have something wrong with your computer. I watch TV on mine, in Flash, fullscreen, with three more tabs open with radio stations ready to play (also in flash) while ripping a CD and copying files from the notebook -- and it's only got 750 megs of memory.
Are you using Windows? That may be your problem right there. Kubuntu runs FireFox just fine with no problems at all. Try a different AV; McAfee and Norton are horrible hogs. Or a different OS.
The article also advocates a move to all-digital payment/transfers by pointing out both forms are only representations of value and noting it would cripple criminal operations such as drug cartels, human traffickers, and so forth
As well as bringing BIG bucks to the banks! Jesus, I imagine they're salivating over the extra fees they'd get. As it is, I have no credit nor debit cards, nor do I want any. When I'm at a bar I use quarters as counters, one per beer, which is both the bartender's tip and a way for me to keep track of how sober I am.
And if they think there will be no way around it, look at LINK cards. back when there were food stamps people would sell them at half price for drug money. Now they just trade the cards for drugs, or sell the cards.
You're never going to be able to get rid of barter. Instead of $20 for a bag of weed, you buy $20 worth of steak at the store and trade it to the dope dealer.
They shouldn't do away with cash. How about they make the goddamned ink in the US instead oif importing it?? That was where the failure was.
these are two block busters from 2010 for the price of a McDonald's meal.
The most I ever spend at McDonald's is $2.16. Burrito with biscuits and gravy, McDouble with value fry, or occasionally the Mac Wrap ($1.83).
Beverage? I'm not paying a buck fifty for a paper cup full of carbonated sugar water.
I rarely pay $20 for DVDs, either.
However, I will pay $15 at D'Arcy's for corned beef, cabbage, and potatos with a couple of pints of Giunesses. I think it's hilarious that some people eat that expensively at McDonald's, substituting Coke (two cents to for McDonals' to make) for Guiness.
As I commented in a previous story, people are bringing this on themselves, and also ruining the internet for the innocent bystanders like me.
No, if there were no piracy whatever they'd come up with some other bogus "reason." Remember Rany Valenti's "the VCR is to the movie industry what Jack the Ripper was to women." But the VCR made them tons of cash. The internet could as well, if they weren't both retarded and greedy.
there != their Too bad there is no edit button, huh....
There is. It's labeled "Preview." Imagine the fun trolls could have if you could edit a submitted comment? Change your +5 insightful comment's link from Scientific American to goatse? Make a stupid comment and change it so it looks like everyone who corrected you was a moron?
I think it's a good thing there's no "edit."
Since you're an EMT and should know what you're talking about, is this site bogus?
Yes, I know that and yes, it does piss me off.
You assume that everyone 1) deducts charitable donations (I don't) and 2) don't lie on their tax returns about how much they gave.
I can't stand the term apps.
Why? It's just shorthand for "applications" and I, for one, prefer monosyllable words to multisyllable words (which I would have used just now if I could have thought of a synonym for "monosyllable").
Are you as annoyed by the word "docs" as well?
Personally, I doubt there is any way to beat C. Otherwise, we'd have alien visitors.
I can think of a lot of reasons we haven't had visitors. It's possible (yes, unlikely but possible) that this is the only planet in the galaxy with life; that we're not the only life but the only life that's gotten intelligent; or they did visit here but became extinct about the time the dinasaurs did; or that they may have seen us and figured life was impossible here or that we aren't even alive (I wrote two short SF stories about these, We still haven't found extraforgostnic life and A strange discovery).
Then there's Terry Bison's They're Made Out Of Meat.
I'm sure there are a thousand other reasons I can't think of now.
Then you are in the minority. I've been told by other Slashdot users that most people who aren't geeks appear to see a "computer" as something for a desk, or at least something not to be moved back and forth between the desk and the TV a couple times a day.
That is, sadly, true. My 83 year old mom just got a new TV with HDMI and I pointed out that she could plug it into the computer with HDMI. No way to convince her.
But I was talking about us nerds, not normal people.
None that can afford to spend thousands of euros to produced a high qualify studio album.
You can have a high quality album not only professionally produced, but recorded and printed as well for less than the cost of the musical instruments themselves.
You're confusing addiction with habituation. Reasonable, since they've convieniently changed the word "addiction." Addiction used to be a physical dependancy -- if you quit, you had bad physical symptoms. Caffiene withdrawal gives you headaches. Alcohol withdrawal gives you the shakes, and if you're badly addicted it can give you hallucinations and even result in death. Same with heroin, sudden withdrawal can be fatal.
Habituation is being used to doing something, generally something pleasant, that becomes a habit. If you have a glass of orange juice every morning for five years and one day you can't have it, you're going to crave that orange juice badly. That's habituation.
That's how nicotine patches work -- they let you get over the habituation before you have to start fighting the physical withdrawal. With some substances like caffiene or nicotine, the habituation can be worse than the actual addiction.
If movies donâ(TM)t have copywrite
If you can't spell it you're not knowledgeable enough to comment about it. It's "copyright," the right to copy. "Copy write" would be what you're doing, cutting and pasting.
Of course you wouldn't understand that Spain's lack of music has nothing to do with copyright laws, nor does Korea's laws have anything to do with its thriving. You have hand picked two samples out of thousands to ilustrate your point, and anybody here knows that's bogus. You can't cherry pick your data points (well, not unless you're a right wing think tank or have another axe to grind).
There have been actual studies, all of which showed that music pirates spend more on music than non pirates, and that book sales spike when the book is scanned and uploaded to the internet.
The "piracy kills artists" isn't just a fallacy, it's a god damned lie, because the people who have fooled the poor low IQ folks like yourself into believing the nonsense know better.
after three days (because you're battery last 3x longer because you don't use video and 3G) it goes dead because there is no usb to load the battery
You're telling me someone smart enough to invent a time machine is stupid enough to leave his phone charger behind?
you're battery
Sorry, I take that "stupid enough" comment back.
Disagreeing with the current President is not being a racist.
That's true. However --
The current President is worse than Bush ever was.
That statement is almost too ignorant to rebut. Bush went into office with a booming economy and a balanced budget and left office after the worst economic crash since 1929. He was the only president in history to leave office with America having fewer jobs than when he entered. The US was attacked on his watch by the very man Clinton warned him about, and he ignored Clinton's advice. When he started office we were at peace, when he left office we were in TWO wars.
Bush was the worst president we've had in my 60 year lifetime, and possibly in this nation's history (although I understand Grant wasn't too good and it's possible Coolige and Hoover were worse).
I'd give Obama a C. His worst fault is he isn't FDR. But he's a better president than half I've seen.
Sorry, but I'm afraid that anyone who says "Obama was worse than Bush" is either incredibly stupid or a die-hard right winger who doesn't give a rat's ass about truth.
People who voted for him were either secretly racist or openly racist.
Son, put that crack pipe down. That's even stupider than your previous moronic statement. Aren't you the least bit embarrassed by your stupid post?
He's done nothing good for this country except divide Americans even further.
Bin Laden's dead, Quadaffi's dead, we're no longer at war in Iraq and Afghanistan is winding down, unemployment is down and more people are working. It isn't Obama that's dividing the nation, the Republicans are doing that with their utter refusal for any compromise whatsoever.
He has helped double our national debt.
How was that to be deflected when we were in two very expensive wars, taxes on those who could most afford to be taxed were slashed, and revenues were WAY down because the economy had crashed? It took Bush eight years to almost totally destroy the economy and you think he can fix it in three? That's just retarded.
Gas has doubled in the last 3 years.
Bullshit, gas wasn't $1.75 a gallon when he took office. It quadrupled under Bush from a buck to four and dropped after the crash to maybe two-fifty. And how is Obama to blame for gas prices? I suspect that the oil barons, who hate Obama with a passion, jacked up the prices to ruin the economy and make sure Obama didn't get re-elected.
Stop acting like disagreeing with our president is a sign of racism.
It's not the disagreement itself, it's the manner of disagreement. If Democrats talked of Bush like you yahoos talk about Obama you'd have called them unamerican traitors.
By the way I am a proud black American.
Sorry, I simply don't believe that at all. I believe you're a blue-eyed blonde headed boy from the deep south. After all, you lied in your comment about "doubling gas prices" and that was the worst sort of "in your face" lie, like saying the sun comes out at night and fire is cold.
Typical. You're pathetic.
Here's goes my karma for another year. Tired of moderating anyways.
Judging from your achievements page (only two +5s) I think you're lying about that as well. Go crawl back under your bridge.
Just look at the kind of things people use for passwords
Well, it depends on what the password is for. Home network? Strong enough you have to write it down because it's not memorable. To read some idiot's damned newspaper? 111111. If my password is for YOUR security, it's going to be weak as hell.
We import cookies from an alien star system?
Wow!
I think you misunderstood him, that was no typo. He meant that programmers back then took optimized and reliable but left-leaning code and righted it. As in "this code is too damned liberal!"
Same thing as when someone says "they should loose their money." It's no typo, they meant what they wrote. They want them to set their money free, not lose it.
making good entertainment costs a lot of money
It CAN cost a lot of money, but doesn't have to. Star Wrek, made by amauters on a couple thousand bucks, was head and shoulders above most of the utter crap Hollywood shovels out.
In Time sounds like it might be a good one, I'll check it out when it comes to DVD. But that's one movie out of hundreds. I haven't been to the theater since Star Trek, and that's been a couple of years. There just haven't been any movies I wanted to see that badly.
For every good high budget film you can name, someone else can name ten stinkers that cost just as much that nobody in their right mind would pay to see.
The tea part is not against taxes. They are against very high taxes
Taxes are lower than they've been in six decades.
Well, I'm with them there. Stop wasting my tax money on grants to the oil companies, tax breaks for the rich only, bridges to nowhere and other useless pork, war, etc.
The government makes it fiscally irresponsible to not report your charitable donations.
Fiscally irresponsible? In what way?
Are you saying that Liberals give just as much as a percentage of income as conservatives they just are refusing to get the tax benefits?
No, that's just me. I see charitable deductions as a tax dodge, which kind of takes away the charity. As to who gives more, I don't see how that metric can possibly be measured. For instance, there's someone here in town who throws a gold coin worth thousands in a Salvation Army kettle every year. Is he a liberal or conservative? Nobody knows who he is so there's no way to tell, even though he seems to be pretty liberal with his gold coins at Christmas.
Also I have never thought of Newt as an actual conservative. He is a politician. He wants in the end the government to have the power. The difference between big government republicans and big government democrats does not concern me in the least. They are both equally bad in slightly different ways.
I agree with that 100%.