Well, if you don't win, you don't get paid. As it should be. Most drivers, say Dale Jr, Michael Waltrip, Dale Jarett, Tony Stewart and Jeff Gordon win a few times a season and barring winning, finish in the top ten. Plus if you get high in the points race you get paid money too. So saying that they don't get paid millions is not showing much insite there.
On the other hand, most teams and drivers will bend over backwards to do things for the fans. They have appearances, they sign autograph after autograph at special sessions and right in their locker room, the garage area. This has slowed down a bit. It had gotten so bad that they had to issue Hot and Cold passes because asshole fans got in the way (last year, Tony allegedly pushed a fan out of his way on the way to his trailer. Ends up they were just trying to egg him on.). The new rule was made to protect fans from flying tools, cars, and to give the racers some time to get away. Now they can walk from their RV to their trailer without a crowd behind them when it's close to practice times and race time. Imagine if football or baseball was this way even a little. It would never happen.
Very rarely do you hear racers bad mouthing each other and 2 years ago when Dale Earnhardt Sr. Died, there was an outpouring from fans AND drivers.
NASCAR drivers are usually clean cut. OH they may toss back some clydesdales, but that's about it. You don't hear much about this driver is doign this and this driver is doing that. Noone to my knowledge has ever been caught doing drugs and you usually don't hear of them beating their wives either. They are generally alot better then the majority of the public, but human all the same.
NASCAR is more then just getting in your car and going fast. You got to MAKE SURE your car is fast. Tweak the camber hear, round of track bar there...a few tenths of a pound of air in a tire, patching your car so it's still aerodynamic. NASCAR racing can be incredibly geeky and usually is. Races like Daytona and Talledega are like chess matches instead of races. Get the help of the draft to get ya up front. Block the others to stay up front. No when to pit and when to stay out. When to two tire and when to get 4 new tires.....on and on. Crew Chiefs not only have to know alot about cars, they have to be able to interpret the driver and tell the pit crew what to do on a pitstop. They calculate fuel mileage so they know to the lap when they can stop to get tires and gas. They also do quick thinking on the spot when a driver has some damage to his car. NASCAR is one of the most complex sports of all since it's really more then just the driver and the car. Recently, they added crew names to the pit crews uniforms. Without men like Chocolate Meyers and Slugger Labbe, these guys would be driving Go Karts. NASCAR IS A COMPLEX sport as well as a honerable one. One I am proud to show my son and say go ahead and give it a try Not like other sports where you don't need people of high intelligence.
If they ever did make a true to life movie about computer programmers, it would be BORING! The Net, Wargames, The Matrix and several others put a spin on it because lets face it, staring at a computer screen for hours on end only interests people who are programmers (well, and those who are addicted to games, irc, instant messaging and the web in general.). The life of a programmer pretty much goes like this:
1. Sleep 2. Wake up 3. Coffee and Food 4. Shower (maybe) 5. Drive to work. 6. Code for 7 hours or more. 7. Some point there's a meeting. 8. Drive home. 9. Eat or go out. 10. Code or go see latest Sci Fi Flick. 11. Code some mroe 12. Sleep.
One problem. Every bus company uses a different thing. No standards exist. Currently, my local bus company allows you to view the schedules on the web, but the labels at the top are JPEGS which mean I can't parse them into a smaller table suitable for my Pocket PC. That also renders the schedules unreadable for the blind. They don't even have a alt tag or a alternate text version. PDF schedules are unsuitable because PDF on a small device sucks. I would rather just like to be able to look at the schedule on my PDA and forget the display in my kitchen.
The existing banking system will continue ad infinitium because there's too much money to be made the way things are now. Noone would ever propose something different because they can already quantify the amount of money they make now. There would be too much risk in something different.
Listen. Bush is anything but a bad president. He has done everything the country has asked for hasn't he? The country ASKED for better security. They ASKED for these things to be inacted. Bush just gave them to them. The constituency is to blame here. We are a nation of the people, by the people and for the people. If you don't like it, vote. If you don't like anyone running, you run. Simple as that.
I have yet to see anyone jailed for saying their opinion of the president. If they did, they had better bring a truck next week and take everyone from Saturday Night Live.
I said we should be suspicious of those from countries that harbor terrorists. Not jail everyone. You can be suspicious of some one and check them out with out having to jail them. The reason of justification would be just cause. I am not saying it's right to jail all Arabs! It is our responsibility to make sure everyone that is here is either a citizen, or is leagally entitiled to be here. Most of the 9/11 terrorists should not have been in this country. If someone would have taken the little extra time that they needed they would have found out they were not legal.
The assumption that because it does not say citizen in the Bill of Rights means it applies to everyone is one that would be considered wrong. The Constitution is a AMERICAN document! It governs AMERICANS! What are we going to start trying to jail someone in China because their constitutional given rights were violated (by your assumption we would because you say it pertains to everyone on the planet).
Also, you totally misinterpreted a citizen's duty. Sure we should oppose all of those things, but that's not our duty as citizens, that's an opinion that happens to be a correct one. Our duty as citizens is to get involved with the running of our country. Of the people by the people you know. For some, this is voting. Fo others, this is running for office. Like I said, if you don't like your choices, it is YOUR fault they are not different. The voter turnout here in a country that supposed to be by the people and for the people is terrible. Good example....we have a local township here in our area that has only 60 registered voters and a police department that can literally park an officer on every citizen in the townships door step. Their entire revenue stream is around 270,000 a year, 240,000 of which goes towards the police department. There was a recent vote there to dissolve the township and merge with a neighboring one. Only 20 people voted and they voted for it to stay. Meanwhile, most of the revenue comes from ticketing the unfortunate folks that have to drive through there for work that do not live there. The township only goes for 4 blocks on one of our main drags. Something is WRONG HERE! This happens in lots of places because the country doesn't care and does not vote because they don't like the choices. Well, if we keep up doing that, bend over while they insert your GPS probe in your ass! What you missed in my previous post is we (me, you and everyone else) are JUST the reasons these things get passed. We are letting them get passed because we don't have the guts enough to run for office ourselves or at minimum, just VOTING! Do you know you can go and see EVERY city council meeting? You can go and see every public college board meeting. You can even go and watch the debates in congress. There are so many self absorbed folks in this country who were never raised to expect better and to do the right things and we are suffering from it now. I personally AM voting and with a couple minor things, I think I made the right choice. If Gore had been elected, we'd not even be at the point we are now with Iraq. Gore would have said, we really don't like what you have been doing and we'd wish you'd stop Saddam and Gore would believe them when Saddam told him no we don't have these weapons.
My biggest thing for the anti war folks is the ones who say we should not attack them for two reasons....because he doesn't hav ethose weapons and BECAUSE HE MIGHT USE THEM! Excuse me? You just said he doesn't have them. How can he use what he doesn't have?? Anyway, if your really don't like it here, then be a coward and leave. If you want to be an American and what things to get better, get off your ass and do something about it and quit yer whining.
Ease of use of Cash wins out....
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Salvation Army Bucket The bum on the corner The Hot Dog Cart Birthday cards Yard Sales
There are lots of stuff we just drop cash into. Going to a card will make these transactions impossible or too expensive to make it worth your while. Personally, I would not mind having something like this except I already have it....my debit card. If I am making a transaction I don't want the bank to know where I was, I get cash at the ATM. I guess I might be a terrorist if I don't want my bank to know I shopped at Bernie's Pleasure Palace and was buying porn or a marital aide.
I think I heard ina a press conference that they can't fly more then one. You see they have to have enough computing power and recording space for all of the telemetry needed for a shuttle. Remember, Mission Control IS the Black Box. They would need a complete duplicate of everything currently in mission control. Every work station would have to exist. Also, and I think that the accident we had was real flukey.....sure there are things they can do to mitigate it happening again, but the odds of the same thing happening to two shuttles is minimal. In any case, if they had known what was wrong, there would have been a way they could have at least make the odds better if not make it possible to land. Remember Apollo 13. From what you are saying, if that happened they should have rolled over and forget about getting them back. Thank god our mission control didn't do that back then. There's always going to be risk when something did not go right. Even fixing it there's risk. If nothing is done about it, well, I don;t know what to say.
Yes this is bad. Is it law yet? NO! Will it be passed? I don't know. Knowing about it now does help. Labeling Bush as bad isn't fair. Things are different now. When things are like the are now (Orage alert and all) things should be tight. When things relax a bit, things change. My last flight I made last month they did not do any random searches at the gate. I personally am among the few that don't necessarily feel safer because of the additional security. Over all I approve of Bush's actions. BUSH'S actions, not that of our congressmen. I don't think that Ashcroft is fully to blame here either. All we can do now is our duty as citizens. Contact your congressmen. Let them know we don't like the proposed bill. Things change becuase we don't do OUR duty. We can't fully blame the president and congress because the ones who are being heard are the ones that are FOR this type of BS and they are just giving their constituents what they want. If enough people say hey this is going too far, well, then things will change. If we sit on our hands and do nothing, well, we deserve what we get. Again, I would like to see the relevant laws regarding non citzens. I believe the constituion protects CITIZENS and not those form other countries. We SHOULD be suspicious of those from suspect countries. These people do not have as many rights as we do and are treated accordingly.
Or they had known beforehand, they could have had software changes uploaded before and made them go into a more or less controlled crash that would have given them time (and a spacecraft) to evacuate from over an ocean at 40,000 feet. Either that or they need to come up with orbital evacuation ball ala the one they can use to transfer between shuttle. That ball could be covered in tile and pressurized and have a small pack to deorbit. Of course they'd need 7 of them, so that's probably not feasible.
Also, they need another mission control. If this was the case, another shuttle with a bare minimum crew (2) and seating provisions for 7 could have been sent (ie they could have had a standby shuttle on pad 39b). Then they could have one suit on board and the rest in evac balls. Then they could have depressurised the whole shuttle, open the egress door and the other shuttle could fire a line over to the crippled one with a rocket, then they could have hooked on and went over to the other shuttle. The other way is they could modify the Canada Arm with hand holds across it and put a redesigned mount in the shuttle's bay or on the egress door. The rescue shuttle could then grab on to that, and the crippled shuttle's crew could climb down the arm.
Another cheap idea is they could alter the shuttle a bit and embed a light sensor under each tile or every other tile. Then when the tile gets ripped off, it would detect light reflected from earth or the sun and send a alert that the tile was missing to the ships computer. Then they could make an assesment of the damage incurred on launch.
The human factor needs to be better planned out. They KNEW this would happen. It may not have happened this time, but it would only have been 7 other people that would have died. Right now, I think they need to beef up NASA's budget. I think that NASA should still be responsible for launching unmanned stuff, but I think the company launch the satellites should have to fully fund the launch of the rockets. If the shuttle is the only thing that can launch the payload, the whole mission should be paid by the company launching the satellite. That includes other thigs as well (two satellites in the bay, one commercial, one science). This can allow NASA to concentrate more on the shuttle then the other stuff. Of course this may be how it already is done, but it seems, to me, that the shuttle just scratches the surface of NASA's budget. NASA should spend MORE on the shuttle then anything else because besides the payloads, it carries much more precious cargo...the humans needed to launch and/or do the experiments you paid for.
I ageee with you. Tons of thumpers go through my neighborhood everyday. What's funny is when they play music that doesn't thump when you have it equalized right (for proper sound reproduction). I tell my brother that all of the time but he does not listen. What's real funny is I had a WALKMAN with a bass boost button! I don't think those cans on your ear are going to thump much!:) I don't care WHAT the "values" are on the box. How do they sound? If I can't equalize the thump out of things that should not have it, then they suck. If they vibrate the case when they are working they suck. When there's something that has bass in the music, I want to hear it not the plastic case going buzzzz or the dashboard buzzzing.
First off, when you order over a phone, 90 percent of the time there's no tax unless you live in the state. Second off, in some cases, actually, alot of cases, the item actually costs more....especially if you buy it at the one's listed. It's the bargain bob websites that have it cheaper. CF cards recently have taken a dip and if you search, you can generally find a 1 GB card available for 200. If you buy it at Compusa's site, you pay 600. There's a little difference there and that would be worth it. Lately the online stores have taken to charging the same price as they do in the brick and mortar and rape you on the shipping on top of that! (20 bucks to overnight 1 CF card??). Online stores will have to start finding different items. Items that are hard to find. One example could be Penguin Mints. I can find both pepperment and cinnamon in my local Meijer, but I can't get any of the other flavors. Also, if I buy a case on peppermints.com, I can generally reduce my per tin cost anywhere from half the cost, to a dollar off per tin (2.99 here locally). Adding shipping makes them cost the same as the store so for cinnamon and peppermint, it's not worth it. For the chocolate mint and decaffed peppermint, it would be worth it. At least they are trying to make it automatic. In Ohio, they want you to report not just your online purchases but even the ones you make out of state too (like on vacation) on your income tax form so they can tax ya. Sometimes you's pay twice! And this is also something that they claim they can punish you for, but how? How can they keep track? They can't, so almost noone but the clueless do this. Oh well, I don't buy online anyway.
Of course we can die. You mean to tell me that if you had the skills and the offer to train to go up in these and actually do it that you would not? Shame on you! Going in space is an experience any astronaut never forgets. They love it. It's what they do. If it was not for Columbus and others going off in boats to the unknown America itself would not even be here. Sure it's risky. But if we always stuck with the tried and true, would we have anything that we have today? Would we have TV? Would we have computers? Would we have electricity? If we send robots out, we deny ourselves the experience. We be sheltering shelter ourselves. I am not saying that Robotic science is not valuable. It is. But so is being there. So is being at the location and actually doing this work. Driving around in a rover. Walking on the moon. Picking up interesting looking rocks. Robots would not look at a rock and say it's pretty and pick it up and study it more. Robots could also only detect what is at the surface and what is slightly below the surface of that rock. Sensors on the robot can only detect so much. Bringing that interesting rock home lets us be able to truely spend time and analyze and study the rock and find out what a robot can't tell us. Also, exploring with robots also has the downside of only being able to explore what you can with the energy you bring or can produce on the spot. Sure an astronaut gets tired, but an astronaut can sleep and be just as good the next day. An astronaut can also push the envelope. Machines can too, but with less reliability. If a machine gets pushed too far, it just breaks. If a man gets pushed too far, he can rest. A driven human being can achieve so much more then a robot. Robots may peform better then a human sometimes, but a robot has no heart to guide him. He has no ambition and no emotion. Some say human emotion is a frailty, but I say it's a strength. In order for a machine to do something it has to be designed to do it. Machines sometimes can do more then it is designed for, but not too often. A human can do anything he puts his mind too. Is their risk? Yes. But that does not stop people from lining up to be astronauts. If my son wants to be an astronaut and can do it, he has my full support. Oh and this is not really a moral issue. It would be if we just launched people who did not want to do it. These astronauts wanted to be there. They were not forced to do it. There was no gun at their head saying you must go. They wanted to be there. They were excited about going.
Humans can do the things that robots cannot do. Humans can see the sights and be able to tell when a sight would take a good picture. Humans can make course corrections and such to avoid their craft crashing down. Humans can do science that is impossible for a robot to do. The shuttle needs to fly again and we cannot wait 2 years or more like we did when Challenger was destroyed. Remember, there are two American's and a Russian in space and a good chunk of American hardware up there. The Shuttle is needed because it's the only way the station has for maintaining a orbit. Boosts given by a docked shuttle using the OMS since the budget was cut to eliminate the module that would give the station inhabitants the ability to maintain the orbit on thier own. Single Stage to orbit and other alternatives need to be studied now. Not 10 years from now. The shuttle could make another 20 years, but in that 20 or before that 20 is up a alternative needs to be developed. Mars could be a destination for humans, but we need the station for this. Right now, I would be willing to increase my tax burden to make this possible if I had to. I would also rather there not be a stipulation that it would be used for the mars project. NASA Knows what they are doing. Safety concerns were raised recently due to the decreased budget NASA has. That tells me NASA knows that they were flying on a wing and a prayer, but could not do anything about it. Parking the shuttle in the interim for longer then about 6 months is not acceptable. Of course now it's ok, but sooner than later it will have to fly. Right now, there is no other alternative.
There is. Linux under VM on zSeris (or s/390 or whetever IBM decides to call it....). Granted most ISP's can't afford a mainframe. With a vm session, the overall security is governed by vm. If a user's image gets comprimised because of something that user did, you can figure out what happened and then take it offline. If it was some bad code, you can call up the user and tell him to fix it (maybe even how). If it was because they did not do something, which it most likely would not be, then they can restore from backups. If a user keeps having problems with people hacking his account, then the account could be revoked. The logistics are many in this type of situation, but it could be done.
Not now. The Linux kernel, while improving, does not have the enterprise features needed by those who use AIX. That said, I do believe Linux can replace the AIX kernel. If and when it does, you still have to possibly port some of those tools. For example, AIX has some great commands (not just smit) that are very nice. Ones that come to mind are lsdev, lsfs, lsvg, lspv, the odm itself(not as bad as you think), lsattr and many others. Smit is a lifesaver when you just can't remember the commands to do a certain thing. Also, AIX's ability to expand filesystems on the fly, the LVM, HACMP, SP and other things are essential for AIX shops. The pSeries machines (otherwise known as RS/6000) are IBM's best selling servers. The Regatta (p690) is doing extremely well. Almost everyone I have come across who runs AIX (except us....we're cheap, er poor bastards!) has a p690. Also the Shark (Enterprise Storage System) is tremendous. In 2 racks you get redundant storage. One rack can die and the other takes over. Each side has it's own battery backup, plus there's 348 MB of Non Volitle storage. Also you can have 22 TB of SSA in that rack! All of that works because of the fine work IBM has done on AIX. Linux can replace it, but it will be a while!:)
I personally would not be the least bit squeamish about this. First off, they make filters capable of filter guiarda(sp) and other microbes out. Even if they don't filter it out you can get rid of it by irradiating the water, or heck BOILING the water will kill most creepy crawlys. They can also filter other things that ain't so nice out of the water. If they make a filter that can filter chlorine out of the water at your house, then this filter or a similar one could work in this machine. They also recycle water on the shuttle because the weight of water costs so much for them to carry it up. They'd rather use as much weight for carrying satellites and other things that can help generate revenue then water for the astronauts.
Second, and I know some may dispute this, if we are running out of water where does it go? Water that evaporates down here usually turns up as a cloud and then rain somewhere on the planet. I know the planet isn't a closed system, but this water has to go somewhere. It doesn't just zoom off into space. I think that those who claim know have no idea what they are talking about when there's a water shortage. There's oceans full of it just wating to be desalinized. If they can find a economical process for desalinization, then most water problems could be solved.
Two things....you can get a crash bar to get out or a idiot button to get out (that's what we have). Getting in for the fire department is NOT a problem. They have these long wood things with a huge blade on it called an AXE! Unless your working in a very secure place and then you should have a generator.
OK you don't have a generator?? I mean you should have BOTH a UPS and a generator. Especially for a data center. Also, your not usually doing wiring when a power outage happens. The wiring closets would be ok. Also, these things are designed for situations such as these. They will be even more secure with the power out because alot of these default to being closed.
Mousepads. Either get someone to put some text on it, or do it yourself. You could even have some nice, non-wedding clothes pictures done up before hand and out those on them.
If all you have between your floor network racks is a cylinder lock in a hallway, then yes you should worry about this. Think about it. How easy would it be to take out network access to a whole floor or steal access from a hall wiring closet? Not every employee who has a key is honest. I have also seen some server rooms that had a lock such as this. Server rooms and now even wiring closets should have controlled card key access at a minimum. Maybe biometric access should be looked into more closely.
Actually asphalt as it's called here is getting to be way more common now and I don't believe that's the better choice either. Concrete tends to last longer and require less care over time. Concrete is also more expensive then Asphalt. An asphalt road can be done very cheaply, but unlike home owners and their asphalt driveways, the govermnet does not take the time to seal them. They usually just open them and when it gets to a certain point of disrepair (potholes every where), they will grind the top layer off and add a new layer. After so many layers, they total reconstruct it as happened the last two summers with I-70 going thru Columbus. They tookup all of the asphalt down to the dirt, regraded the roadbed and repaved with asphalt. Concrete is still commonly used as the road surface on bridges though. They also have started mixing in used car tires into the asphalt mix and I think I heard there was a study that said the new mixture even lasted longer then anything else. Things always change.
While the car they present is a typical almost ugly concept car(I kind of like it), it is a good idea. I am not a typical enviro freak. I say if you can make something that doesn't cost a whole lot more and is environmentally friendly it will sell. If it costs twice as much and you'd get half as much performance out of it, who would buy it? Research should still be done because eventually they will make a electric car that is green friendly and will perform as well as a gas car. Projects such as this car should be done so that the real R&D can be tweked and more efficient ways of building it can be figured out. 5-10 years down the road, we may have a electric car that will be just as good as a gas car. If they don't spend the money, this will never be found.
First off, they are using the PROTOCOL and not THE BAND! What I mean is theya re talking about using the 802.11 protocol for communication on the Amateur Bands. This means they will use a Ham Band like 2m, 70cm or maybe the 1.2 GHz band. They are not going to be using the SAME band as WiFi uses. So there's not going to be any problem with them doing this to WiFi. Problems that will happen are 802.11 stuff messing around with 2m voice or other modes (nothing we ain't used to already). Only few words....I doubt 11MB or 72MB even will be possible on these. The bandwidth of the RF signal has to be acceptable to make the frequency usable by multiple networks. An example would be your club wants their own 802.11 network on one freq while the other club wants a freq near you. You have to be separated a bit in order for you to not cross talk. If the bandwidth is too wide, you won't be able to maintain a separation. Also, I think most all WiFi gear uses spread spectrum(ala DSSS) and hams have been experimenting with that for a while. My question is will the hams use spread spectrum also or are they using something different?
Alot of people get all in a tizzy about mark of the beast and all of that yet ignore the literal facts. Some try to read and say things in modern times are the mark of the beast. I say that this mark wil truely be as it is said in the bible. You will have a tattoo or something that says 666. There will also be world wide trials and tribulations. What we are experiencing now, to me, is not world wide tribulation. Sure there are some pretty scary things happening with 9/11, terrorism and North Korea, but how many of us think about this everyday? I am not talking about those who walk around with blinders on and would not know Iraq from a hole in the ground, but I am talking about normal folks who do watch nightly news and read news on the internet. When things start truely gearing up for the end of times, you will be in fear to walk out your door not just where you are, but EVERYWHERE IN THE WORLD! You WILL worry about it everyday. You will have folks trying to torture you and you will have floods, hurricanes, earthquakes, fire and brimstone.....
By going on what I just said, it can be theorized that what the bible is truely talking about is the end of the sun or a massive planetary disaster. Think about it. If the sun went Nova, fire would be a big problem!:) If a asteroid(Brimstone? ) ala the movie Armageddon actually hit us you'd have EVERYTHING happen like I said in a true planetary scale. You'd have Armageddon. I think it would more likely be a asteroid and not the sun going nova. The bible says it could happen at any time and that noone except for god knows when and that is why you should always be ready. A asteroid coudl hit at anytime. Sure we have scientists that could find it, but they only know what they can find and our instruments are only so good. One could be missed (and close passes have been missed in teh recent past).
What does this have to do with RFID's? Well, my point is while RFID's are a bad thing, they probably are not the mark of the beast. First off, one person may have MANY in their posession (lesse..underwear, socks, pants, shirt, shoes, jewelry and a watch...just a few off hand ) and the bible does not say the body would be all marked up. It says they will have the mark on their forehead or their right hand. It says OR! So I can assume that would mean one mark. A driver's license would be a bit closer to the mark, but I said I believe in the literal translation, not a symbolic one.
In any case, the sky isn't falling, but yet I would fight against these as the only reason I think the stores like them is because of theft and some stores are trying to reduce their overhead to unheard of levels so they can make even more money. With things at their current levels, even with the market downturn, these stores make money (well except for Kmart). If you want your stock to go up more, then I'd say you'd have to accept this as it does add the possibility of more things being sold instead of stolen and the store you own stock in has a chance to loose less money to theft. If you are ethically opposed to this, sell your stock now.
The companies, including Universal Music, Sony Music, Warner Music, Bertelsmann's BMG Music and EMI Group, plus retailers Musicland Stores, Trans World Entertainment and Tower Records....NOT the RIAA. Although that group about covers it. Do a search before posting the story.
I REALLY hate to see everyone bashing Microsoft every time they attempt something new. Sure, it may possibly exend the so called "monopoly" but the thing is how may times have we seen something like this fail? Now Microsoft is trying their hand at it. Will it work? Somehow, I doubt it. The things I hate seeing brought out AGAIN:
1. Oh no now my will BSOD! BSOD's are actually getting to be less of a problem. This thing will probably not have a regular NT kernel, but probably something related to CE or more likely, something totally different. CE, for me has been very reliable (in the PocketPC form). I usually don't have a problem with CE in general. PocketPC problems are usually something wrong with the device or the vendor specific code. Usually with in a few months or so most of the bugs get worked out via flashes and they just work.
2. Oh no now I will have to reboot my 4 times a day! Even if you did, it would only take 2 seconds or less to do and I doubt you'd have to reset it 4 times a day!
3. Oh now I need a DRM compliant ! This is just bashing for sake of bashing. Yeah, DRM sucks, but in every implementation I have seen (WMP 9) it allows you to disable it! Also, you can always download Winamp 3 and use it.
Your bashing the product before you even truely see it because Microsoft is attached to it. This kind of thing is just Juvenile and
Oh and these things usually come from those who use a Microsoft mouse on thier Linux boxes. You got to admit that the come up with some great mice!
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Well, if you don't win, you don't get paid. As it should be. Most drivers, say Dale Jr, Michael Waltrip, Dale Jarett, Tony Stewart and Jeff Gordon win a few times a season and barring winning, finish in the top ten. Plus if you get high in the points race you get paid money too. So saying that they don't get paid millions is not showing much insite there.
On the other hand, most teams and drivers will bend over backwards to do things for the fans. They have appearances, they sign autograph after autograph at special sessions and right in their locker room, the garage area. This has slowed down a bit. It had gotten so bad that they had to issue Hot and Cold passes because asshole fans got in the way (last year, Tony allegedly pushed a fan out of his way on the way to his trailer. Ends up they were just trying to egg him on.). The new rule was made to protect fans from flying tools, cars, and to give the racers some time to get away. Now they can walk from their RV to their trailer without a crowd behind them when it's close to practice times and race time. Imagine if football or baseball was this way even a little. It would never happen.
Very rarely do you hear racers bad mouthing each other and 2 years ago when Dale Earnhardt Sr. Died, there was an outpouring from fans AND drivers.
NASCAR drivers are usually clean cut. OH they may toss back some clydesdales, but that's about it. You don't hear much about this driver is doign this and this driver is doing that. Noone to my knowledge has ever been caught doing drugs and you usually don't hear of them beating their wives either. They are generally alot better then the majority of the public, but human all the same.
NASCAR is more then just getting in your car and going fast. You got to MAKE SURE your car is fast. Tweak the camber hear, round of track bar there...a few tenths of a pound of air in a tire, patching your car so it's still aerodynamic. NASCAR racing can be incredibly geeky and usually is. Races like Daytona and Talledega are like chess matches instead of races. Get the help of the draft to get ya up front. Block the others to stay up front. No when to pit and when to stay out. When to two tire and when to get 4 new tires.....on and on. Crew Chiefs not only have to know alot about cars, they have to be able to interpret the driver and tell the pit crew what to do on a pitstop. They calculate fuel mileage so they know to the lap when they can stop to get tires and gas. They also do quick thinking on the spot when a driver has some damage to his car. NASCAR is one of the most complex sports of all since it's really more then just the driver and the car. Recently, they added crew names to the pit crews uniforms. Without men like Chocolate Meyers and Slugger Labbe, these guys would be driving Go Karts. NASCAR IS A COMPLEX sport as well as a honerable one. One I am proud to show my son and say go ahead and give it a try Not like other sports where you don't need people of high intelligence.
If they ever did make a true to life movie about computer programmers, it would be BORING! The Net, Wargames, The Matrix and several others put a spin on it because lets face it, staring at a computer screen for hours on end only interests people who are programmers (well, and those who are addicted to games, irc, instant messaging and the web in general.). The life of a programmer pretty much goes like this:
1. Sleep
2. Wake up
3. Coffee and Food
4. Shower (maybe)
5. Drive to work.
6. Code for 7 hours or more.
7. Some point there's a meeting.
8. Drive home.
9. Eat or go out.
10. Code or go see latest Sci Fi Flick.
11. Code some mroe
12. Sleep.
Pretty boring.
One problem. Every bus company uses a different thing. No standards exist. Currently, my local bus company allows you to view the schedules on the web, but the labels at the top are JPEGS which mean I can't parse them into a smaller table suitable for my Pocket PC. That also renders the schedules unreadable for the blind. They don't even have a alt tag or a alternate text version. PDF schedules are unsuitable because PDF on a small device sucks. I would rather just like to be able to look at the schedule on my PDA and forget the display in my kitchen.
The existing banking system will continue ad infinitium because there's too much money to be made the way things are now. Noone would ever propose something different because they can already quantify the amount of money they make now. There would be too much risk in something different.
Listen. Bush is anything but a bad president. He has done everything the country has asked for hasn't he? The country ASKED for better security. They ASKED for these things to be inacted. Bush just gave them to them. The constituency is to blame here. We are a nation of the people, by the people and for the people. If you don't like it, vote. If you don't like anyone running, you run. Simple as that.
I have yet to see anyone jailed for saying their opinion of the president. If they did, they had better bring a truck next week and take everyone from Saturday Night Live.
I said we should be suspicious of those from countries that harbor terrorists. Not jail everyone. You can be suspicious of some one and check them out with out having to jail them. The reason of justification would be just cause. I am not saying it's right to jail all Arabs! It is our responsibility to make sure everyone that is here is either a citizen, or is leagally entitiled to be here. Most of the 9/11 terrorists should not have been in this country. If someone would have taken the little extra time that they needed they would have found out they were not legal.
The assumption that because it does not say citizen in the Bill of Rights means it applies to everyone is one that would be considered wrong. The Constitution is a AMERICAN document! It governs AMERICANS! What are we going to start trying to jail someone in China because their constitutional given rights were violated (by your assumption we would because you say it pertains to everyone on the planet).
Also, you totally misinterpreted a citizen's duty. Sure we should oppose all of those things, but that's not our duty as citizens, that's an opinion that happens to be a correct one. Our duty as citizens is to get involved with the running of our country. Of the people by the people you know. For some, this is voting. Fo others, this is running for office. Like I said, if you don't like your choices, it is YOUR fault they are not different. The voter turnout here in a country that supposed to be by the people and for the people is terrible. Good example....we have a local township here in our area that has only 60 registered voters and a police department that can literally park an officer on every citizen in the townships door step. Their entire revenue stream is around 270,000 a year, 240,000 of which goes towards the police department. There was a recent vote there to dissolve the township and merge with a neighboring one. Only 20 people voted and they voted for it to stay. Meanwhile, most of the revenue comes from ticketing the unfortunate folks that have to drive through there for work that do not live there. The township only goes for 4 blocks on one of our main drags. Something is WRONG HERE! This happens in lots of places because the country doesn't care and does not vote because they don't like the choices. Well, if we keep up doing that, bend over while they insert your GPS probe in your ass! What you missed in my previous post is we (me, you and everyone else) are JUST the reasons these things get passed. We are letting them get passed because we don't have the guts enough to run for office ourselves or at minimum, just VOTING! Do you know you can go and see EVERY city council meeting? You can go and see every public college board meeting. You can even go and watch the debates in congress. There are so many self absorbed folks in this country who were never raised to expect better and to do the right things and we are suffering from it now. I personally AM voting and with a couple minor things, I think I made the right choice. If Gore had been elected, we'd not even be at the point we are now with Iraq. Gore would have said, we really don't like what you have been doing and we'd wish you'd stop Saddam and Gore would believe them when Saddam told him no we don't have these weapons.
My biggest thing for the anti war folks is the ones who say we should not attack them for two reasons....because he doesn't hav ethose weapons and BECAUSE HE MIGHT USE THEM! Excuse me? You just said he doesn't have them. How can he use what he doesn't have?? Anyway, if your really don't like it here, then be a coward and leave. If you want to be an American and what things to get better, get off your ass and do something about it and quit yer whining.
Examples:
Salvation Army Bucket
The bum on the corner
The Hot Dog Cart
Birthday cards
Yard Sales
There are lots of stuff we just drop cash into. Going to a card will make these transactions impossible or too expensive to make it worth your while. Personally, I would not mind having something like this except I already have it....my debit card. If I am making a transaction I don't want the bank to know where I was, I get cash at the ATM. I guess I might be a terrorist if I don't want my bank to know I shopped at Bernie's Pleasure Palace and was buying porn or a marital aide.
I think I heard ina a press conference that they can't fly more then one. You see they have to have enough computing power and recording space for all of the telemetry needed for a shuttle. Remember, Mission Control IS the Black Box. They would need a complete duplicate of everything currently in mission control. Every work station would have to exist. Also, and I think that the accident we had was real flukey.....sure there are things they can do to mitigate it happening again, but the odds of the same thing happening to two shuttles is minimal. In any case, if they had known what was wrong, there would have been a way they could have at least make the odds better if not make it possible to land. Remember Apollo 13. From what you are saying, if that happened they should have rolled over and forget about getting them back. Thank god our mission control didn't do that back then. There's always going to be risk when something did not go right. Even fixing it there's risk. If nothing is done about it, well, I don;t know what to say.
Yes this is bad. Is it law yet? NO! Will it be passed? I don't know. Knowing about it now does help. Labeling Bush as bad isn't fair. Things are different now. When things are like the are now (Orage alert and all) things should be tight. When things relax a bit, things change. My last flight I made last month they did not do any random searches at the gate. I personally am among the few that don't necessarily feel safer because of the additional security. Over all I approve of Bush's actions. BUSH'S actions, not that of our congressmen. I don't think that Ashcroft is fully to blame here either. All we can do now is our duty as citizens. Contact your congressmen. Let them know we don't like the proposed bill. Things change becuase we don't do OUR duty. We can't fully blame the president and congress because the ones who are being heard are the ones that are FOR this type of BS and they are just giving their constituents what they want. If enough people say hey this is going too far, well, then things will change. If we sit on our hands and do nothing, well, we deserve what we get. Again, I would like to see the relevant laws regarding non citzens. I believe the constituion protects CITIZENS and not those form other countries. We SHOULD be suspicious of those from suspect countries. These people do not have as many rights as we do and are treated accordingly.
Or they had known beforehand, they could have had software changes uploaded before and made them go into a more or less controlled crash that would have given them time (and a spacecraft) to evacuate from over an ocean at 40,000 feet. Either that or they need to come up with orbital evacuation ball ala the one they can use to transfer between shuttle. That ball could be covered in tile and pressurized and have a small pack to deorbit. Of course they'd need 7 of them, so that's probably not feasible.
Also, they need another mission control. If this was the case, another shuttle with a bare minimum crew (2) and seating provisions for 7 could have been sent (ie they could have had a standby shuttle on pad 39b). Then they could have one suit on board and the rest in evac balls. Then they could have depressurised the whole shuttle, open the egress door and the other shuttle could fire a line over to the crippled one with a rocket, then they could have hooked on and went over to the other shuttle. The other way is they could modify the Canada Arm with hand holds across it and put a redesigned mount in the shuttle's bay or on the egress door. The rescue shuttle could then grab on to that, and the crippled shuttle's crew could climb down the arm.
Another cheap idea is they could alter the shuttle a bit and embed a light sensor under each tile or every other tile. Then when the tile gets ripped off, it would detect light reflected from earth or the sun and send a alert that the tile was missing to the ships computer. Then they could make an assesment of the damage incurred on launch.
The human factor needs to be better planned out. They KNEW this would happen. It may not have happened this time, but it would only have been 7 other people that would have died. Right now, I think they need to beef up NASA's budget. I think that NASA should still be responsible for launching unmanned stuff, but I think the company launch the satellites should have to fully fund the launch of the rockets. If the shuttle is the only thing that can launch the payload, the whole mission should be paid by the company launching the satellite. That includes other thigs as well (two satellites in the bay, one commercial, one science). This can allow NASA to concentrate more on the shuttle then the other stuff. Of course this may be how it already is done, but it seems, to me, that the shuttle just scratches the surface of NASA's budget. NASA should spend MORE on the shuttle then anything else because besides the payloads, it carries much more precious cargo...the humans needed to launch and/or do the experiments you paid for.
I ageee with you. Tons of thumpers go through my neighborhood everyday. What's funny is when they play music that doesn't thump when you have it equalized right (for proper sound reproduction). I tell my brother that all of the time but he does not listen. What's real funny is I had a WALKMAN with a bass boost button! I don't think those cans on your ear are going to thump much! :) I don't care WHAT the "values" are on the box. How do they sound? If I can't equalize the thump out of things that should not have it, then they suck. If they vibrate the case when they are working they suck. When there's something that has bass in the music, I want to hear it not the plastic case going buzzzz or the dashboard buzzzing.
First off, when you order over a phone, 90 percent of the time there's no tax unless you live in the state. Second off, in some cases, actually, alot of cases, the item actually costs more....especially if you buy it at the one's listed. It's the bargain bob websites that have it cheaper. CF cards recently have taken a dip and if you search, you can generally find a 1 GB card available for 200. If you buy it at Compusa's site, you pay 600. There's a little difference there and that would be worth it. Lately the online stores have taken to charging the same price as they do in the brick and mortar and rape you on the shipping on top of that! (20 bucks to overnight 1 CF card??). Online stores will have to start finding different items. Items that are hard to find. One example could be Penguin Mints. I can find both pepperment and cinnamon in my local Meijer, but I can't get any of the other flavors. Also, if I buy a case on peppermints.com, I can generally reduce my per tin cost anywhere from half the cost, to a dollar off per tin (2.99 here locally). Adding shipping makes them cost the same as the store so for cinnamon and peppermint, it's not worth it. For the chocolate mint and decaffed peppermint, it would be worth it. At least they are trying to make it automatic. In Ohio, they want you to report not just your online purchases but even the ones you make out of state too (like on vacation) on your income tax form so they can tax ya. Sometimes you's pay twice! And this is also something that they claim they can punish you for, but how? How can they keep track? They can't, so almost noone but the clueless do this. Oh well, I don't buy online anyway.
Of course we can die. You mean to tell me that if you had the skills and the offer to train to go up in these and actually do it that you would not? Shame on you! Going in space is an experience any astronaut never forgets. They love it. It's what they do. If it was not for Columbus and others going off in boats to the unknown America itself would not even be here. Sure it's risky. But if we always stuck with the tried and true, would we have anything that we have today? Would we have TV? Would we have computers? Would we have electricity? If we send robots out, we deny ourselves the experience. We be sheltering shelter ourselves. I am not saying that Robotic science is not valuable. It is. But so is being there. So is being at the location and actually doing this work. Driving around in a rover. Walking on the moon. Picking up interesting looking rocks. Robots would not look at a rock and say it's pretty and pick it up and study it more. Robots could also only detect what is at the surface and what is slightly below the surface of that rock. Sensors on the robot can only detect so much. Bringing that interesting rock home lets us be able to truely spend time and analyze and study the rock and find out what a robot can't tell us. Also, exploring with robots also has the downside of only being able to explore what you can with the energy you bring or can produce on the spot. Sure an astronaut gets tired, but an astronaut can sleep and be just as good the next day. An astronaut can also push the envelope. Machines can too, but with less reliability. If a machine gets pushed too far, it just breaks. If a man gets pushed too far, he can rest. A driven human being can achieve so much more then a robot. Robots may peform better then a human sometimes, but a robot has no heart to guide him. He has no ambition and no emotion. Some say human emotion is a frailty, but I say it's a strength. In order for a machine to do something it has to be designed to do it. Machines sometimes can do more then it is designed for, but not too often. A human can do anything he puts his mind too. Is their risk? Yes. But that does not stop people from lining up to be astronauts. If my son wants to be an astronaut and can do it, he has my full support. Oh and this is not really a moral issue. It would be if we just launched people who did not want to do it. These astronauts wanted to be there. They were not forced to do it. There was no gun at their head saying you must go. They wanted to be there. They were excited about going.
Humans can do the things that robots cannot do. Humans can see the sights and be able to tell when a sight would take a good picture. Humans can make course corrections and such to avoid their craft crashing down. Humans can do science that is impossible for a robot to do. The shuttle needs to fly again and we cannot wait 2 years or more like we did when Challenger was destroyed. Remember, there are two American's and a Russian in space and a good chunk of American hardware up there. The Shuttle is needed because it's the only way the station has for maintaining a orbit. Boosts given by a docked shuttle using the OMS since the budget was cut to eliminate the module that would give the station inhabitants the ability to maintain the orbit on thier own. Single Stage to orbit and other alternatives need to be studied now. Not 10 years from now. The shuttle could make another 20 years, but in that 20 or before that 20 is up a alternative needs to be developed. Mars could be a destination for humans, but we need the station for this. Right now, I would be willing to increase my tax burden to make this possible if I had to. I would also rather there not be a stipulation that it would be used for the mars project. NASA Knows what they are doing. Safety concerns were raised recently due to the decreased budget NASA has. That tells me NASA knows that they were flying on a wing and a prayer, but could not do anything about it. Parking the shuttle in the interim for longer then about 6 months is not acceptable. Of course now it's ok, but sooner than later it will have to fly. Right now, there is no other alternative.
There is. Linux under VM on zSeris (or s/390 or whetever IBM decides to call it....). Granted most ISP's can't afford a mainframe. With a vm session, the overall security is governed by vm. If a user's image gets comprimised because of something that user did, you can figure out what happened and then take it offline. If it was some bad code, you can call up the user and tell him to fix it (maybe even how). If it was because they did not do something, which it most likely would not be, then they can restore from backups. If a user keeps having problems with people hacking his account, then the account could be revoked. The logistics are many in this type of situation, but it could be done.
Not now. The Linux kernel, while improving, does not have the enterprise features needed by those who use AIX. That said, I do believe Linux can replace the AIX kernel. If and when it does, you still have to possibly port some of those tools. For example, AIX has some great commands (not just smit) that are very nice. Ones that come to mind are lsdev, lsfs, lsvg, lspv, the odm itself(not as bad as you think), lsattr and many others. Smit is a lifesaver when you just can't remember the commands to do a certain thing. Also, AIX's ability to expand filesystems on the fly, the LVM, HACMP, SP and other things are essential for AIX shops. The pSeries machines (otherwise known as RS/6000) are IBM's best selling servers. The Regatta (p690) is doing extremely well. Almost everyone I have come across who runs AIX (except us....we're cheap, er poor bastards!) has a p690. Also the Shark (Enterprise Storage System) is tremendous. In 2 racks you get redundant storage. One rack can die and the other takes over. Each side has it's own battery backup, plus there's 348 MB of Non Volitle storage. Also you can have 22 TB of SSA in that rack! All of that works because of the fine work IBM has done on AIX. Linux can replace it, but it will be a while! :)
I personally would not be the least bit squeamish about this. First off, they make filters capable of filter guiarda(sp) and other microbes out. Even if they don't filter it out you can get rid of it by irradiating the water, or heck BOILING the water will kill most creepy crawlys. They can also filter other things that ain't so nice out of the water. If they make a filter that can filter chlorine out of the water at your house, then this filter or a similar one could work in this machine. They also recycle water on the shuttle because the weight of water costs so much for them to carry it up. They'd rather use as much weight for carrying satellites and other things that can help generate revenue then water for the astronauts.
Second, and I know some may dispute this, if we are running out of water where does it go? Water that evaporates down here usually turns up as a cloud and then rain somewhere on the planet. I know the planet isn't a closed system, but this water has to go somewhere. It doesn't just zoom off into space. I think that those who claim know have no idea what they are talking about when there's a water shortage. There's oceans full of it just wating to be desalinized. If they can find a economical process for desalinization, then most water problems could be solved.
Two things....you can get a crash bar to get out or a idiot button to get out (that's what we have). Getting in for the fire department is NOT a problem. They have these long wood things with a huge blade on it called an AXE! Unless your working in a very secure place and then you should have a generator.
OK you don't have a generator?? I mean you should have BOTH a UPS and a generator. Especially for a data center. Also, your not usually doing wiring when a power outage happens. The wiring closets would be ok. Also, these things are designed for situations such as these. They will be even more secure with the power out because alot of these default to being closed.
Mousepads. Either get someone to put some text on it, or do it yourself. You could even have some nice, non-wedding clothes pictures done up before hand and out those on them.
If all you have between your floor network racks is a cylinder lock in a hallway, then yes you should worry about this. Think about it. How easy would it be to take out network access to a whole floor or steal access from a hall wiring closet? Not every employee who has a key is honest. I have also seen some server rooms that had a lock such as this. Server rooms and now even wiring closets should have controlled card key access at a minimum. Maybe biometric access should be looked into more closely.
Actually asphalt as it's called here is getting to be way more common now and I don't believe that's the better choice either. Concrete tends to last longer and require less care over time. Concrete is also more expensive then Asphalt. An asphalt road can be done very cheaply, but unlike home owners and their asphalt driveways, the govermnet does not take the time to seal them. They usually just open them and when it gets to a certain point of disrepair (potholes every where), they will grind the top layer off and add a new layer. After so many layers, they total reconstruct it as happened the last two summers with I-70 going thru Columbus. They tookup all of the asphalt down to the dirt, regraded the roadbed and repaved with asphalt. Concrete is still commonly used as the road surface on bridges though. They also have started mixing in used car tires into the asphalt mix and I think I heard there was a study that said the new mixture even lasted longer then anything else. Things always change.
While the car they present is a typical almost ugly concept car(I kind of like it), it is a good idea. I am not a typical enviro freak. I say if you can make something that doesn't cost a whole lot more and is environmentally friendly it will sell. If it costs twice as much and you'd get half as much performance out of it, who would buy it? Research should still be done because eventually they will make a electric car that is green friendly and will perform as well as a gas car. Projects such as this car should be done so that the real R&D can be tweked and more efficient ways of building it can be figured out. 5-10 years down the road, we may have a electric car that will be just as good as a gas car. If they don't spend the money, this will never be found.
First off, they are using the PROTOCOL and not THE BAND! What I mean is theya re talking about using the 802.11 protocol for communication on the Amateur Bands. This means they will use a Ham Band like 2m, 70cm or maybe the 1.2 GHz band. They are not going to be using the SAME band as WiFi uses. So there's not going to be any problem with them doing this to WiFi. Problems that will happen are 802.11 stuff messing around with 2m voice or other modes (nothing we ain't used to already). Only few words....I doubt 11MB or 72MB even will be possible on these. The bandwidth of the RF signal has to be acceptable to make the frequency usable by multiple networks. An example would be your club wants their own 802.11 network on one freq while the other club wants a freq near you. You have to be separated a bit in order for you to not cross talk. If the bandwidth is too wide, you won't be able to maintain a separation. Also, I think most all WiFi gear uses spread spectrum(ala DSSS) and hams have been experimenting with that for a while. My question is will the hams use spread spectrum also or are they using something different?
Alot of people get all in a tizzy about mark of the beast and all of that yet ignore the literal facts. Some try to read and say things in modern times are the mark of the beast. I say that this mark wil truely be as it is said in the bible. You will have a tattoo or something that says 666. There will also be world wide trials and tribulations. What we are experiencing now, to me, is not world wide tribulation. Sure there are some pretty scary things happening with 9/11, terrorism and North Korea, but how many of us think about this everyday? I am not talking about those who walk around with blinders on and would not know Iraq from a hole in the ground, but I am talking about normal folks who do watch nightly news and read news on the internet. When things start truely gearing up for the end of times, you will be in fear to walk out your door not just where you are, but EVERYWHERE IN THE WORLD! You WILL worry about it everyday. You will have folks trying to torture you and you will have floods, hurricanes, earthquakes, fire and brimstone.....
:) If a asteroid(Brimstone? ) ala the movie Armageddon actually hit us you'd have EVERYTHING happen like I said in a true planetary scale. You'd have Armageddon. I think it would more likely be a asteroid and not the sun going nova. The bible says it could happen at any time and that noone except for god knows when and that is why you should always be ready. A asteroid coudl hit at anytime. Sure we have scientists that could find it, but they only know what they can find and our instruments are only so good. One could be missed (and close passes have been missed in teh recent past).
By going on what I just said, it can be theorized that what the bible is truely talking about is the end of the sun or a massive planetary disaster. Think about it. If the sun went Nova, fire would be a big problem!
What does this have to do with RFID's? Well, my point is while RFID's are a bad thing, they probably are not the mark of the beast. First off, one person may have MANY in their posession (lesse..underwear, socks, pants, shirt, shoes, jewelry and a watch...just a few off hand ) and the bible does not say the body would be all marked up. It says they will have the mark on their forehead or their right hand. It says OR! So I can assume that would mean one mark. A driver's license would be a bit closer to the mark, but I said I believe in the literal translation, not a symbolic one.
In any case, the sky isn't falling, but yet I would fight against these as the only reason I think the stores like them is because of theft and some stores are trying to reduce their overhead to unheard of levels so they can make even more money. With things at their current levels, even with the market downturn, these stores make money (well except for Kmart). If you want your stock to go up more, then I'd say you'd have to accept this as it does add the possibility of more things being sold instead of stolen and the store you own stock in has a chance to loose less money to theft. If you are ethically opposed to this, sell your stock now.
The companies, including Universal Music, Sony Music, Warner Music, Bertelsmann's BMG Music and EMI Group, plus retailers Musicland Stores, Trans World Entertainment and Tower Records....NOT the RIAA. Although that group about covers it. Do a search before posting the story.
I REALLY hate to see everyone bashing Microsoft every time they attempt something new. Sure, it may possibly exend the so called "monopoly" but the thing is how may times have we seen something like this fail? Now Microsoft is trying their hand at it. Will it work? Somehow, I doubt it. The things I hate seeing brought out AGAIN:
1. Oh no now my will BSOD! BSOD's are actually getting to be less of a problem. This thing will probably not have a regular NT kernel, but probably something related to CE or more likely, something totally different. CE, for me has been very reliable (in the PocketPC form). I usually don't have a problem with CE in general. PocketPC problems are usually something wrong with the device or the vendor specific code. Usually with in a few months or so most of the bugs get worked out via flashes and they just work.
2. Oh no now I will have to reboot my 4 times a day! Even if you did, it would only take 2 seconds or less to do and I doubt you'd have to reset it 4 times a day!
3. Oh now I need a DRM compliant ! This is just bashing for sake of bashing. Yeah, DRM sucks, but in every implementation I have seen (WMP 9) it allows you to disable it! Also, you can always download Winamp 3 and use it.
Your bashing the product before you even truely see it because Microsoft is attached to it. This kind of thing is just Juvenile and
Oh and these things usually come from those who use a Microsoft mouse on thier Linux boxes. You got to admit that the come up with some great mice!