...you also get a general reduction in stupid laws in the first place because they would be so busy renewing the truly important laws...
I think you're really going out on a limb by assuming this. We are talking about politicians. The truly important law is the one that gets them elected again, or gets them a month at some resort. This doesn't always coincide with the public interest.
Firstly, many dolphin species aren't even threatened, much less endangered, and so therefore don't need protection.
An argument I can agree with! Things that aren't threatened don't need protection. Like human children. They're all over the place, growing like the plague! Damn things don't need protection. Put a bullet in em'. Heck, people in general. The police? What a waste of taxpayer money. People aren't endangered, and I don't think they've ever been on any kind of internationally recognized list of endangered species. So what if somebody gets raped on their way home from work. They're not endangered. Rape the hell out of em.
Of course...I dunno...people generally like to think that we have some kind of moral values, and responsibility to other life, and the planet in general maybe...but let's not clutter up the killing with all that tree-hugging mumbo-jumbo.
Grandparent does bring up an interesting point though, that as the net continues to expand and offer users more, Joe Schmoe actually has an interest in what is going on, and what tools and methods are available, even if it's just so they can get to mySpace faster, or watch more videos of people getting hit in the groin.
I'm in Computer Science, but more than once I've been in a non-techy department, helping someone, and been asked about something I was doing or using, including FireFox.
A basic example, I was developing a website for a small project. The menu displayed on neatly on the side in IE, but when viewed in FireFox, the menu was fixed, and floated as the user scrolled down the page. Handy on long pages. One of the project members asked me why mine 'floated like that'. I just said that I used FireFox instead of IE, and asked them if they wanted me to install it for them. They said yes.
While I'm not saying that the average user has even the slightest idea what is going on in software and technology, you no longer have to be a geek to want the features and 'cool stuff' when you're online, or using your computer in general.
BTW, I know how to float in IE...I just choose not to. Maybe I've got a private anti-IE campaign going on, but that's just speculation;)
TFA doesn't give any details, but I'd be willing to bet that 'registering your real name' doesn't mean they just give you a box and you type in "Sandy O'Hoolahan". Considering China's record with internet regulation, there's probably going to be enough checks and controls so that once you register, if you blog something they don't like, they can find you.
So, I know nothing about this subject, but aren't a lot of classics out of the realm of copy protection already? I mean, I would think that Mark Twain would be free by now, but if not, certainly a lot of really old texts are, right? I recently had to buy a copy of a particular book (translated) written over a thousand years ago because I couldn't find the text available online.
So really my question is... why don't we (or I, it's possible I'm just looking in all the wrong places) see a lot of classics free online already? Certainly several publishers still print the works of Voltaire, but it can't be their property, can it?
Please enlighten me. Like I said, I don't really understand copyrights.
I wouldn't call you a liar, I certainly am not decided on the issue, but I know from personal experience that you're not wholly correct. There are families with proud military and civil service traditions, whose mothers and fathers, although I'm sure they love and care about their offspring, are proud to have them defending their various countries, and upholding their way of life.
I know that in the United States, there was a time when we held ideals that were actually worth fighting and dying for, and a lot of people were proud to be doing what they were doing. I think we've lost a lot of that now, but that doesn't make joining the army to get cuddled by your family's money an ok thing.
Just my experiences and ideas though. Call me a liar:)
If Google kept their servers in space, or on the moon, or somewhere where no country really has claim, could they just ignore any request by any government to hand over data?
I understand that with Firefox, one can take the code, look through it, and find vulnerabilities and whatnot, but with other browsers whose code is not publicly available, like IE and Opera (At least it's my understanding that their source isn't available), don't you basically have to wait around until someone discovered a quirk and spreads knowledge of it?
I'm just wondering, I have no idea how this type of thing works, and the article was sparse on details. If anyone is in the know, please share.
I'm a little confused about George's performance. I might be basing my expectations on what I have read in transcripts from the Loebner Prize site, but still, George seems to be a fairly poor conversationalist. It was interesting to see George 'smile' at one point in a conversation, however, tipping me off that the program seemed to know what it was doing:
User: Tell me anything.
George: Anything.
* George gives a huge grin *
User: Not funny. Tell me something about you.
George: I have a personality disorder.
* George is serious again *
Cute, and I don't want to downplay the value of emotion in AI, but I don't think this quite makes it to the next-gen level.
Also, George is as ugly as the day is long. That is to say, 'fairly ugly'.
anyone moving to Vista will likely have a spare PC. That's likely to free up a few healthy machines that people might redeploy
You and me, probably, but Jimmy Bo and Johnny Sue, probably not. More likely, that spare PC will be donated to a charity, set out for the trash, or moved to the garage for 3 years before it's disposed of. I think the average user who buys a new Vista PC will be satisfied with their Vista PC, and won't want to bother Linuxing-up their old one. Unfortunately:(
Just one guy's thoughts. I worked in tech retail for 4 years.
will Amazon prices for DVDs rise until it's cheaper to buy via UnBox?
I'm don't think that they could do this and remain competitive.
Personally, I usually shop at Amazon.com for their prices. If it's lower, I buy, if not, I get in my car and drive out to BestBuy, MicroCenter, or if I'm desperate, WalMart. If Amazon raises their prices, I don't buy from them. Simple as that. More likely they'll find that they have to drop prices on their UnBox downloads.
The problem with the do not call registry is that they are still allowed to call if it is a charitable or political call, I believe. At least, those are the ones I still get.
I don't mind the political ones, because they make the elections way easier. I keep a list of every politician I get a call from, and don't vote for them.
The charity ones are very annoying though. I get at least a call a week from some charity wanting to know if they can count on my donation. Donations start at just $25. Surely I can afford that. Can they put me down for a $25 donation?
I for one am in favor of the death penalty for anyone who sends me an e-card with a big-headed cat and a song composed entirely of 'meows'. I'm coming for you, Aunt Jane.
I don't think parent should be modded Troll. Parent's statement is probably quite true, and valid on many other levels as well.
This is more than just a 'love Bush' 'hate Bush' issue. I think there is a lot to be said about the current state of politics in the US, since before our current president, and in other areas and levels of government as well. Current government isn't pushing privacy as a big issue, and so corporations think that they can 'go with the flow'.
You are correct. The vast majority of printers do not include cables. I used to work retail, and when they started making printers that were USB or Parallel, rather than include both cables, they chose to include neither. Once the either-or printers started dying out in favor of USB, it was convenient and cheaper for the printer manufacturer to just never bother including the cable again.
Because of this, I think printers are the exception. Pretty underhanded, if you ask me. When I did work retail, people would come in, and if someone working in the store didn't help them in time, they would grab a printer, buy it, and walk out, then come back later, mad because there was no cable.
There are still a few printers that include the cables, I think Epson does in some models, but I'm not sure.
The PS3 comes with a cable to connect it. It is pretty much the standard connection method, despite what might be on the back of Anonymous C. McGeek's HTDV. The high-end, optional cable is the one that is not included. Note that I don't agree with this practice.
If we analogize between someone's Dell computer/serial device and an HDTV/PS3 we see that the serial device is the PS3 and the computer is the HDTV, as you managed to figure out. The serial device does come with a serial cable, but the manufacturer has the option to include, or not include, a serial-to-usb or other type of cable. In this case, with the PS3, Sony has opted not to include the cable.
I'm sorry if I offended you with my previous post, I'm not trying to justify Sony's choice.
Well, the Windows $400 price tag is reasonable when you consider the simple and friendly $400 Bittorrent Rebate for home users.
Sony and the $600 PS3, however, require a lot more red-tape, requiring me to steal a wallet and use an out-of-town WalMart for my purchase. You can bet I'm not happy about that.
From my experiences, when a company makes a product, they tend to include the cables you need to operate the device, not every imaginable connection possible. While your Dell might not come with a serial cable, it's very likely that if you go purchase a serial device, it will include a cable.
The added price of the cable is just another part of the purchase, the same way I had to spend extra on the 'hi-def' cable for my X-Box, additional memory for my N64, additional controllers for my SuperNintendo, and additional games for any system. It's nothing new. If you want to expand your experience beyond what is in the box, you're generally going to have to buy more.
The number of professors I have had where it's best to just ignore what the professor says in lecture and read the book or study on your own from various sources is amazing. I had a networking professor who would seriously tell you incorrect things during class, and then the exams would contradict what he had said (and agree with the book instead). Luckily for us, we argued him out of most of the questions where he had taught incorrectly.
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I'm concerned that you may need a new microwave.
Of course...I dunno...people generally like to think that we have some kind of moral values, and responsibility to other life, and the planet in general maybe...but let's not clutter up the killing with all that tree-hugging mumbo-jumbo.
Your comment offends my Aibo
I'm sorry, I don't think there's going to be any 'grinding' going on wherever this card game is concerned.
Well...his arrest wouldn't be completely bad. It would give me something to cover my 'Free Kevin' bumper sticker with.
Grandparent does bring up an interesting point though, that as the net continues to expand and offer users more, Joe Schmoe actually has an interest in what is going on, and what tools and methods are available, even if it's just so they can get to mySpace faster, or watch more videos of people getting hit in the groin.
;)
I'm in Computer Science, but more than once I've been in a non-techy department, helping someone, and been asked about something I was doing or using, including FireFox.
A basic example, I was developing a website for a small project. The menu displayed on neatly on the side in IE, but when viewed in FireFox, the menu was fixed, and floated as the user scrolled down the page. Handy on long pages. One of the project members asked me why mine 'floated like that'. I just said that I used FireFox instead of IE, and asked them if they wanted me to install it for them. They said yes.
While I'm not saying that the average user has even the slightest idea what is going on in software and technology, you no longer have to be a geek to want the features and 'cool stuff' when you're online, or using your computer in general.
BTW, I know how to float in IE...I just choose not to. Maybe I've got a private anti-IE campaign going on, but that's just speculation
Wrong, you are educated singularity stupid and evil, unfit for life in the Universe of Opposites. You can not debate the truth.
TFA doesn't give any details, but I'd be willing to bet that 'registering your real name' doesn't mean they just give you a box and you type in "Sandy O'Hoolahan". Considering China's record with internet regulation, there's probably going to be enough checks and controls so that once you register, if you blog something they don't like, they can find you.
So, I know nothing about this subject, but aren't a lot of classics out of the realm of copy protection already? I mean, I would think that Mark Twain would be free by now, but if not, certainly a lot of really old texts are, right? I recently had to buy a copy of a particular book (translated) written over a thousand years ago because I couldn't find the text available online.
So really my question is... why don't we (or I, it's possible I'm just looking in all the wrong places) see a lot of classics free online already? Certainly several publishers still print the works of Voltaire, but it can't be their property, can it?
Please enlighten me. Like I said, I don't really understand copyrights.
I wouldn't call you a liar, I certainly am not decided on the issue, but I know from personal experience that you're not wholly correct. There are families with proud military and civil service traditions, whose mothers and fathers, although I'm sure they love and care about their offspring, are proud to have them defending their various countries, and upholding their way of life.
:)
I know that in the United States, there was a time when we held ideals that were actually worth fighting and dying for, and a lot of people were proud to be doing what they were doing. I think we've lost a lot of that now, but that doesn't make joining the army to get cuddled by your family's money an ok thing.
Just my experiences and ideas though. Call me a liar
If Google kept their servers in space, or on the moon, or somewhere where no country really has claim, could they just ignore any request by any government to hand over data?
I understand that with Firefox, one can take the code, look through it, and find vulnerabilities and whatnot, but with other browsers whose code is not publicly available, like IE and Opera (At least it's my understanding that their source isn't available), don't you basically have to wait around until someone discovered a quirk and spreads knowledge of it?
I'm just wondering, I have no idea how this type of thing works, and the article was sparse on details. If anyone is in the know, please share.
I'm a little confused about George's performance. I might be basing my expectations on what I have read in transcripts from the Loebner Prize site, but still, George seems to be a fairly poor conversationalist. It was interesting to see George 'smile' at one point in a conversation, however, tipping me off that the program seemed to know what it was doing:
User: Tell me anything.
George: Anything.
* George gives a huge grin *
User: Not funny. Tell me something about you.
George: I have a personality disorder.
* George is serious again *
Cute, and I don't want to downplay the value of emotion in AI, but I don't think this quite makes it to the next-gen level.
Also, George is as ugly as the day is long. That is to say, 'fairly ugly'.
Can't stop the signal, bro.
Just one guy's thoughts. I worked in tech retail for 4 years.
Personally, I usually shop at Amazon.com for their prices. If it's lower, I buy, if not, I get in my car and drive out to BestBuy, MicroCenter, or if I'm desperate, WalMart. If Amazon raises their prices, I don't buy from them. Simple as that. More likely they'll find that they have to drop prices on their UnBox downloads.
The problem with the do not call registry is that they are still allowed to call if it is a charitable or political call, I believe. At least, those are the ones I still get.
I don't mind the political ones, because they make the elections way easier. I keep a list of every politician I get a call from, and don't vote for them.
The charity ones are very annoying though. I get at least a call a week from some charity wanting to know if they can count on my donation. Donations start at just $25. Surely I can afford that. Can they put me down for a $25 donation?
I for one am in favor of the death penalty for anyone who sends me an e-card with a big-headed cat and a song composed entirely of 'meows'. I'm coming for you, Aunt Jane.
I don't think parent should be modded Troll. Parent's statement is probably quite true, and valid on many other levels as well.
This is more than just a 'love Bush' 'hate Bush' issue. I think there is a lot to be said about the current state of politics in the US, since before our current president, and in other areas and levels of government as well. Current government isn't pushing privacy as a big issue, and so corporations think that they can 'go with the flow'.
Just one man's opinion.
You are correct. The vast majority of printers do not include cables. I used to work retail, and when they started making printers that were USB or Parallel, rather than include both cables, they chose to include neither. Once the either-or printers started dying out in favor of USB, it was convenient and cheaper for the printer manufacturer to just never bother including the cable again.
Because of this, I think printers are the exception. Pretty underhanded, if you ask me. When I did work retail, people would come in, and if someone working in the store didn't help them in time, they would grab a printer, buy it, and walk out, then come back later, mad because there was no cable.
There are still a few printers that include the cables, I think Epson does in some models, but I'm not sure.
The PS3 comes with a cable to connect it. It is pretty much the standard connection method, despite what might be on the back of Anonymous C. McGeek's HTDV. The high-end, optional cable is the one that is not included. Note that I don't agree with this practice.
If we analogize between someone's Dell computer/serial device and an HDTV/PS3 we see that the serial device is the PS3 and the computer is the HDTV, as you managed to figure out. The serial device does come with a serial cable, but the manufacturer has the option to include, or not include, a serial-to-usb or other type of cable. In this case, with the PS3, Sony has opted not to include the cable.
I'm sorry if I offended you with my previous post, I'm not trying to justify Sony's choice.
Well, the Windows $400 price tag is reasonable when you consider the simple and friendly $400 Bittorrent Rebate for home users.
Sony and the $600 PS3, however, require a lot more red-tape, requiring me to steal a wallet and use an out-of-town WalMart for my purchase. You can bet I'm not happy about that.
I bet it came with a power cable though.
From my experiences, when a company makes a product, they tend to include the cables you need to operate the device, not every imaginable connection possible. While your Dell might not come with a serial cable, it's very likely that if you go purchase a serial device, it will include a cable.
The added price of the cable is just another part of the purchase, the same way I had to spend extra on the 'hi-def' cable for my X-Box, additional memory for my N64, additional controllers for my SuperNintendo, and additional games for any system. It's nothing new. If you want to expand your experience beyond what is in the box, you're generally going to have to buy more.
Agreed!!!
The number of professors I have had where it's best to just ignore what the professor says in lecture and read the book or study on your own from various sources is amazing. I had a networking professor who would seriously tell you incorrect things during class, and then the exams would contradict what he had said (and agree with the book instead). Luckily for us, we argued him out of most of the questions where he had taught incorrectly.