Not necessarily - don't you have infinite precision in counted units? I know that cubits are technically a unit of length, but as we're making biblical references for all we know they actually cut off people's forearms and had cubits of varying lengths, but exactly ten severed body parts long.
That's still a pain in the ass if they can already do it on the drive you're running from. Surely that's much more complicated than encrypting data that's NOT loaded as part of your kernel.
I'd be much more likely to convert a non-boot drive to full encryption anyways. I find typing a password in enough of a pain so a nice, long, secure passphrase would drive me nuts on bootup. I'd much rather just store any sensitive data on a second disk - not only does that mean I'm not completely hosed if I forget the passphrase (or make a typo while pounding out a paragraph while I'm in a hurry), but I can easily physically separate the encrypted sensitive data so it never has to go offsite.
That's only the case if the software/code in question is sold by the company. Say it's used to make part of the company intranet or something - while they could be 'making' (read: saving) money by having that code in place, it's not being sold. Releasing it for anyone to use wouldn't be at all in competition with the company. I suppose it would allow some of their competitors to gain a similar advantage in regards to their own operations, but that's quite situational and isn't necessarily a bad thing.
I absolutely, positively detest all cell phone carriers. They all treat their customers awfully, overcharge, do a poor job of providing the services you're paying for, and do an abysmal job providing customer support. I've been on AT&T since a couple days after the iPhone launch, and they're no better or worse than Verizon who I used to use for my cell service. Any time I had to go into a Verizon store to get assistance, an upgrade, a new device, or really anything, it was an insane wait and I generally didn't end up with what I wanted anyways. The same was true the only time I was in an AT&T store, but at least they were rather apologetic about it. At least when I called 611 to deal with a service issue, they were rather straightforward with what was going on ("yes, service is unfortunately unavailable in that area due to xxx, we expect it to be back up at xxx, sorry about the inconvenience" - it wasn't much, but I didn't have to wait on hold for two hours).
Except that instead of pizza in all the other stores, you find ads for the store you were looking for that they paid to put there. The main difference being that with AdWords, you just pay to have the ads show up in what Google's computers think is most relevant place, whether it's a large tech website or an empty domain.
If you want to actually make a difference, start blowing shit up (as such, I can't recommend actually trying to make a difference, but there's no denying it's the best way to make changes). All of the "electable" politicians are the same, and most of the "unelectable" politicians are the ones that would best serve the general public.
If you vote for someone who has no chance of winning, you're still better off than voting for someone who you thought had a decent chance even though you didn't really agree, got the job, and then continued the destruction of your country. You can at least say, "Hey, I didn't vote for that asshole." By voting for someone based solely on their electability rather than their principles, you've just tossed aside your one legitimate bye when it comes to complaining.
I know Paul's chance of winning is next to nothing, and have known it from the beginning. I've said it many times, and am not so deluded to think that logic and sense will prevail in America. But I still gave him my vote - of the politicians running, his policies are most in line with my beliefs. If by some freak outcome of today's primaries and caucuses he gets into the lead (or at least close enough that the media have to stop ignoring him), then I can be content. In the MUCH more likely event that he continues on in general obscurity taking 10% or less of the vote, well, that was to be expected. When McCain, Romney, Clinton, or Obama takes the top job, I'll be able to apologize in behalf of America to my new neighbors in some other country. At least I tried.
'Tis better to have voted and lost than to never have voted at all, right? Change may only happen from the bottom up, but the only change that will likely get voted into office is no change at all. How valid can my complaints be if I voted for the most polished of the turds knowing that there was also a rough-cut, dirt-covered diamond in the running?
I must agree - the engineer title is so prevalent in America because it makes people feel better about their jobs, or something. Where I currently work, I was promoted from a Technical Support Engineer to a Sales Engineer - neither really qualifies as engineering in any sense of the word, though the former would be closer as I actually had to figure things out in order to accomplish something (as an SE, I just tell people how our product works - I'm really a Pre-Sales Demo Assistant). In reality, it's because it looks better on a business card. My freelance coding work would be much closer to "software engineer" than any of the engineer titles I've had so far, but even still I just refer to myself as a programmer.
True - the Wiimote only has the three accelerometers, or one that covers all three axes (I have no idea how accelerometers work). However, it also uses the IR sensor as a makeshift gyroscope in order to initially orient itself relative to the device it's controlling - and that latter part could make it a better choice than a traditional gyro which, to my understanding, is more like a super-compass and is more based on absolutes.
He just took about 20% of the Republican vote in Maine (a very close third), and took second place in NV. I don't think that qualifies as 'not affecting this race'. He outperformed Giuliani nearly everywhere before Mr. 9/11 dropped out, and nobody suggested that he wasn't affecting things.
Sure it is - just not one that uses port 80. As far as I'm concerned, "web technology" encompasses anything that works over the internet, not just stuff that goes to make websites.
I fail to see the practical value of vinyl's "bitrate" (if you will), but while not certainly infinite it's certainly above that of a CD. Provided the recording and production equipment are both reliable and up to par, anyways. Even if they had a recording with an infinite sample rate, there's still a practical limitation of how accurately and consistently you can reproduce that in grooves in plastic (as compared to grooves in a sheet of metal on plastic).
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Or the conspirators are just counting on an incredibly stupid general populace (safe bet) and an outcry of hatred by those that believe the assumed story towards those who question the truth (also a safe bet, as proven by your post and so many others).
I'm not taking or stating my views on any of the conspiracies you mention, just pointing out a flaw in the argument. Which I suppose makes me assume you're a conspirator for looking for a loophole, dunnit?
Of course, what would go into faking a moon landing or 9/11 being an inside job is just the slightest bit more complicated than some idiot in a boat turning out to be from the government instead of just being your standard idiot.
I'm sure it helps, but I'll also throw out the fact that I've run Vista in a VM on my MBP giving it 1GB of RAM (making it identical or really damn close to the HP, except with the effective loss of a processor core) and it was still considerably faster. Both use a 5400RPM drive.
Not that I'm defending MS for it, but it's easy to expect as much when a software company expands into the services market. Both Google and Yahoo have been services companies from the beginning. It's in their best interest to make them available to as many people as possible, as they're effectively treating their free services as a loss leader to bring in money from their other services (which is to say that searching is free but they profit, at no cost to you, when you click on an ad).
Microsoft, OTOH, started as a software company. Their business model, like that of any other software company, relies on getting people to use that software. Not entirely unlike the services market. What they've attempted to do is use their services as a loss leader to bring in money from their SOFTWARE arm, rather than a different section of their services. In other words, they try to get the end users who are looking for free services to buy their software, which naturally goes against the whole 'free' thing.
Where do you think the money that's paying for the fiber came from? I don't suppose it could be from the profits seen from the subsidized copper...
It may be a good service (and believe me, if it were available where I lived, I'd have it), but the money being used comes as a result of the initial copper wiring subsidy. Had they never had the copper subsidized, they could have never come up with the profits to build the fiber infrastructure.
Have you ever considered it's all the other shitware that came pre-installed on the laptop? My mother's HP laptop runs like crap, but at this point it probably has better specs than my once-top-end desktop which I built. When both running Vista, mine runs immeasurably faster.
TV, unlike the internet, is a one-way medium. My TV may be able to pick up signals from a giant transmitter thirty miles away, and that's great. How would this work for internet connections? Something tells me that putting an antenna powerful enough to reach back to that tower inside my laptop isn't going to be too friendly with my battery life, let alone my non-shielded nuts.
The common folk don't get high-power versus low-power. They don't realize that a space heater takes more power than a night-light. They certainly don't know the difference between 24ga and 12ga wire in terms of capacity (though I'd hope they're intelligent enough to realize one is thicker than the other).
Yes, it SHOULD be common sense. Unfortunately thanks to medical breakthroughs, common sense is not as common as it once was. Make everything idiotproof and they'll start building better idiots, remember?
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Not necessarily - don't you have infinite precision in counted units? I know that cubits are technically a unit of length, but as we're making biblical references for all we know they actually cut off people's forearms and had cubits of varying lengths, but exactly ten severed body parts long.
I'm pretty sure you're well past the point where memorizing 3.1415926535 is much easier.
That's still a pain in the ass if they can already do it on the drive you're running from. Surely that's much more complicated than encrypting data that's NOT loaded as part of your kernel.
I'd be much more likely to convert a non-boot drive to full encryption anyways. I find typing a password in enough of a pain so a nice, long, secure passphrase would drive me nuts on bootup. I'd much rather just store any sensitive data on a second disk - not only does that mean I'm not completely hosed if I forget the passphrase (or make a typo while pounding out a paragraph while I'm in a hurry), but I can easily physically separate the encrypted sensitive data so it never has to go offsite.
That's only the case if the software/code in question is sold by the company. Say it's used to make part of the company intranet or something - while they could be 'making' (read: saving) money by having that code in place, it's not being sold. Releasing it for anyone to use wouldn't be at all in competition with the company. I suppose it would allow some of their competitors to gain a similar advantage in regards to their own operations, but that's quite situational and isn't necessarily a bad thing.
I absolutely, positively detest all cell phone carriers. They all treat their customers awfully, overcharge, do a poor job of providing the services you're paying for, and do an abysmal job providing customer support. I've been on AT&T since a couple days after the iPhone launch, and they're no better or worse than Verizon who I used to use for my cell service. Any time I had to go into a Verizon store to get assistance, an upgrade, a new device, or really anything, it was an insane wait and I generally didn't end up with what I wanted anyways. The same was true the only time I was in an AT&T store, but at least they were rather apologetic about it. At least when I called 611 to deal with a service issue, they were rather straightforward with what was going on ("yes, service is unfortunately unavailable in that area due to xxx, we expect it to be back up at xxx, sorry about the inconvenience" - it wasn't much, but I didn't have to wait on hold for two hours).
Except that instead of pizza in all the other stores, you find ads for the store you were looking for that they paid to put there. The main difference being that with AdWords, you just pay to have the ads show up in what Google's computers think is most relevant place, whether it's a large tech website or an empty domain.
If you want to actually make a difference, start blowing shit up (as such, I can't recommend actually trying to make a difference, but there's no denying it's the best way to make changes). All of the "electable" politicians are the same, and most of the "unelectable" politicians are the ones that would best serve the general public.
If you vote for someone who has no chance of winning, you're still better off than voting for someone who you thought had a decent chance even though you didn't really agree, got the job, and then continued the destruction of your country. You can at least say, "Hey, I didn't vote for that asshole." By voting for someone based solely on their electability rather than their principles, you've just tossed aside your one legitimate bye when it comes to complaining.
I know Paul's chance of winning is next to nothing, and have known it from the beginning. I've said it many times, and am not so deluded to think that logic and sense will prevail in America. But I still gave him my vote - of the politicians running, his policies are most in line with my beliefs. If by some freak outcome of today's primaries and caucuses he gets into the lead (or at least close enough that the media have to stop ignoring him), then I can be content. In the MUCH more likely event that he continues on in general obscurity taking 10% or less of the vote, well, that was to be expected. When McCain, Romney, Clinton, or Obama takes the top job, I'll be able to apologize in behalf of America to my new neighbors in some other country. At least I tried.
'Tis better to have voted and lost than to never have voted at all, right? Change may only happen from the bottom up, but the only change that will likely get voted into office is no change at all. How valid can my complaints be if I voted for the most polished of the turds knowing that there was also a rough-cut, dirt-covered diamond in the running?
As did Romney's 21%. Your point?
I must agree - the engineer title is so prevalent in America because it makes people feel better about their jobs, or something. Where I currently work, I was promoted from a Technical Support Engineer to a Sales Engineer - neither really qualifies as engineering in any sense of the word, though the former would be closer as I actually had to figure things out in order to accomplish something (as an SE, I just tell people how our product works - I'm really a Pre-Sales Demo Assistant). In reality, it's because it looks better on a business card. My freelance coding work would be much closer to "software engineer" than any of the engineer titles I've had so far, but even still I just refer to myself as a programmer.
True - the Wiimote only has the three accelerometers, or one that covers all three axes (I have no idea how accelerometers work). However, it also uses the IR sensor as a makeshift gyroscope in order to initially orient itself relative to the device it's controlling - and that latter part could make it a better choice than a traditional gyro which, to my understanding, is more like a super-compass and is more based on absolutes.
He just took about 20% of the Republican vote in Maine (a very close third), and took second place in NV. I don't think that qualifies as 'not affecting this race'. He outperformed Giuliani nearly everywhere before Mr. 9/11 dropped out, and nobody suggested that he wasn't affecting things.
Sure it is - just not one that uses port 80. As far as I'm concerned, "web technology" encompasses anything that works over the internet, not just stuff that goes to make websites.
I fail to see the practical value of vinyl's "bitrate" (if you will), but while not certainly infinite it's certainly above that of a CD. Provided the recording and production equipment are both reliable and up to par, anyways. Even if they had a recording with an infinite sample rate, there's still a practical limitation of how accurately and consistently you can reproduce that in grooves in plastic (as compared to grooves in a sheet of metal on plastic).
Or the conspirators are just counting on an incredibly stupid general populace (safe bet) and an outcry of hatred by those that believe the assumed story towards those who question the truth (also a safe bet, as proven by your post and so many others).
I'm not taking or stating my views on any of the conspiracies you mention, just pointing out a flaw in the argument. Which I suppose makes me assume you're a conspirator for looking for a loophole, dunnit?
Of course, what would go into faking a moon landing or 9/11 being an inside job is just the slightest bit more complicated than some idiot in a boat turning out to be from the government instead of just being your standard idiot.
So the careless boater was aiding the terr'sts? Geddim!
Shouldn't the lasers fuse the broken lines back together?
Well neither of them know that, so the not colorblind one was the source of the problem :)
I'm sure it helps, but I'll also throw out the fact that I've run Vista in a VM on my MBP giving it 1GB of RAM (making it identical or really damn close to the HP, except with the effective loss of a processor core) and it was still considerably faster. Both use a 5400RPM drive.
They distribute album art in jpg, not tiff. I think there's still a loophole with FLAC!
Not that I'm defending MS for it, but it's easy to expect as much when a software company expands into the services market. Both Google and Yahoo have been services companies from the beginning. It's in their best interest to make them available to as many people as possible, as they're effectively treating their free services as a loss leader to bring in money from their other services (which is to say that searching is free but they profit, at no cost to you, when you click on an ad).
Microsoft, OTOH, started as a software company. Their business model, like that of any other software company, relies on getting people to use that software. Not entirely unlike the services market. What they've attempted to do is use their services as a loss leader to bring in money from their SOFTWARE arm, rather than a different section of their services. In other words, they try to get the end users who are looking for free services to buy their software, which naturally goes against the whole 'free' thing.
Where do you think the money that's paying for the fiber came from? I don't suppose it could be from the profits seen from the subsidized copper...
It may be a good service (and believe me, if it were available where I lived, I'd have it), but the money being used comes as a result of the initial copper wiring subsidy. Had they never had the copper subsidized, they could have never come up with the profits to build the fiber infrastructure.
Have you ever considered it's all the other shitware that came pre-installed on the laptop? My mother's HP laptop runs like crap, but at this point it probably has better specs than my once-top-end desktop which I built. When both running Vista, mine runs immeasurably faster.
TV, unlike the internet, is a one-way medium. My TV may be able to pick up signals from a giant transmitter thirty miles away, and that's great. How would this work for internet connections? Something tells me that putting an antenna powerful enough to reach back to that tower inside my laptop isn't going to be too friendly with my battery life, let alone my non-shielded nuts.
It's all over the place.
Not that I should talk, having used VNC from my phone to start a remote backup while driving (shh!). I was at a red light at the time...
The common folk don't get high-power versus low-power. They don't realize that a space heater takes more power than a night-light. They certainly don't know the difference between 24ga and 12ga wire in terms of capacity (though I'd hope they're intelligent enough to realize one is thicker than the other).
Yes, it SHOULD be common sense. Unfortunately thanks to medical breakthroughs, common sense is not as common as it once was. Make everything idiotproof and they'll start building better idiots, remember?