Jesus jumped up Christ people. Once and for all, Microsoft supports HD-DVD, they don't own it, and they didn't invent it. The standard was developed by NEC and Toshiba. Saying HD-DVD=Microsoft is just not correct. You may as well say HD-DVD= Disney, Intel, Panasonic, IBM, Warner Brothers while you are at it because they all have a stake in this format as well. The reason for Microsfot supporting HD-DVD is simple - Sony sells competing console systems that use Blue-Ray, so naturally MS is going to go with the opposing technology.
Blue-ray or HD-DVD?? I will choose whichever one I DON'T have to listen to John Madden point out the completely obvious at a kindergarten intelligence level. Besides everyone knows that ESPN football is much better - because there is no Madden to annoy you.
This could be related to the SVCHOST.EXE stuff if MS is doing it the same in Vista as they were in XP. A friend had some malware that would flood his network with so many outgoing packets that his sound would go away. I finally figured out that the same SVCHOST process that controls the networking stuff also handled the sound, and when the networking would eat up to 95% system usage, there was no more processing power left to handle the sound. Cleaned up the malware and the sound was back to normal.
Even completely unhindered shot from a shotgun pellet wouldn't even get close to traveling 1 kilometer. According to this research, a shotgun pellet only travels about 45-50 meters. Even a.22 long rifle has a maximum range of about 2000 yards.
How is measuring cable in feet any more or less "silly" than measuring in meters?? You could measure them in grognards if you wanted - as long as you know how long a grognard is it shouldn't matter one iota. Measuring cable in meters seems silly to me as I would have to divide by 3.37 to get an idea of how long it really is...
No, not criminalizing knowledge, I really don't think they could have done as much if he had simply posted his technique. I think the most trouble he is in is for writing software that specifically got around the unique serial number system, violating the copyright agreement.
Amen. I guess information really doesn't want to be free. I was always confused about how people took "net neutrality" to mean "net neutrality with absolutely no extra charges, just benefits". You get what you pay for people...
"They could expose every single piece of every person's information and it would have no penalty. None."
Unless is is protected medical information, if they release that information they are facing serious fines. See the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) for more. "Protected Health Information (PHI). PHI is any information about health status, provision of health care, or payment for health care that can be linked to an individual."
Some states, including Minnesota where I live, force institutions to contact any users that may have been affected by a security breach. Even if there aren't explicit fines of civil penalties, the bad publicity is incentive enough for most companies to make sure their security isn't lax. Even top executives are starting to understand that the actual costs of a breach are far more severe than laying out some extra money on security.
1. The total absence of any form of ethics in society, and the failure of schools to actually instill ethical values in students, opting rather to overwhelm them with sterilized information and a highly politicized but totally depraved morality.
Ethics are not absolute and vary from person to person. It is the job of the parents to teach and instill their idea of ethics into their own children. It is the responsibility of the school to educate, not to teach ethics or morality.
3. The destruction of the family cell as the fundamental unit making up the societal structure. Look at Indian culture, watch a few of those family Bollywood movies, and you'll see how valued family is to that culture. If you know any traditional Indian families, see if you can spend some time with them and you'll see how enriching family can be. Indian culture isn't the only one that values family these days, it just sticks out to me as I am of Indian descent (although I now live in the west) and whenever I go back for a visit I am blown away by how close their lives are and how much more fulfilling it is to always have people around you that you can trust and rely on implicitly.
Not sure you should speak for an entire country - I am American and the way you describe your family situation is exactly how I would describe mine.
The artists have two choices - take the crappy deal the label is offering, or do it all yourself. Not many have the capital to take the second route. It would be difficult, and possibly a breach of contract, for artists to "decry" their own labels. Most bands know that signing with a label is "shaking hands with the devil" so to speak, but as of now there are not a lot of alternatives. You can blame a number of different people for the flawed business model of the music industry, but it is not the fault of the artists.
The artists have nothing to do with setting the price of the CD, distributing them, collecting revenues, etc. These actions are all controlled by the labels. Don't disparage the people who make the music when you should be disparaging the people who sell the music. Your average artist will generally make well under $1 for every $15 CD sold. On any given label there is usually 1 money making artist for every 20 ones that don't make any money. So only the very top artists make any real money by selling CDs through their label. The real money is made by selling concert tickets and merchandise.
This would never work. It isn't illegal to receive a package in the mail. Unless the person had prior knowledge that the package did contain illegal items , there is no crime. If you are arrested for buying/selling drugs, they DO still have to prove you knew what you were doing... If it were as easy as you think to nail someone this way, everyone who has any enemies at all would be going down.
A smarter way to attempt this (but still would have very little chance of working) would be to send drugs to an address that is likely to be inspected and put your victim's name as the return address.
Sounds like a total cop-out justification for not being charming enough to get laid. Dude, wash your face more, come out of your parents basement more often, and make an effort to be a little more social to the ladies. It really isn't that hard - you have hormones and instinct working FOR you as stated in the earlier post. The desire to reproduce is one of the most common "hard wired" instincts in all animals. Humans are the only animals stupid enough to try and go against nature by promoting "abstinence". I mean after all, you don't want to slap God in the face by telling him that the urges he instilled in you are wrong, do you?
No, but I doubt he would hire you either with those math skills. The "hiring" guy has a 6 digit ID and the "hiree" has a 7 digit code. And no, that doesn't "average" out to 8 either.
Um, the government IS the citizens and vice-versa. Why do people always think that "the government" is some sort of alien life form not made up of regular citizens??
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Jesus jumped up Christ people. Once and for all, Microsoft supports HD-DVD, they don't own it, and they didn't invent it. The standard was developed by NEC and Toshiba. Saying HD-DVD=Microsoft is just not correct. You may as well say HD-DVD= Disney, Intel, Panasonic, IBM, Warner Brothers while you are at it because they all have a stake in this format as well. The reason for Microsfot supporting HD-DVD is simple - Sony sells competing console systems that use Blue-Ray, so naturally MS is going to go with the opposing technology.
Could I get that in parsecs?? I want to see if I have enough time to do the Kessel Run.
(Yes, I know parsecs technically measures distance, but take up that complaint with George Lucas, not me...)
Blue-ray or HD-DVD?? I will choose whichever one I DON'T have to listen to John Madden point out the completely obvious at a kindergarten intelligence level. Besides everyone knows that ESPN football is much better - because there is no Madden to annoy you.
This could be related to the SVCHOST.EXE stuff if MS is doing it the same in Vista as they were in XP. A friend had some malware that would flood his network with so many outgoing packets that his sound would go away. I finally figured out that the same SVCHOST process that controls the networking stuff also handled the sound, and when the networking would eat up to 95% system usage, there was no more processing power left to handle the sound. Cleaned up the malware and the sound was back to normal.
Even completely unhindered shot from a shotgun pellet wouldn't even get close to traveling 1 kilometer. According to this research, a shotgun pellet only travels about 45-50 meters. Even a .22 long rifle has a maximum range of about 2000 yards.
How is measuring cable in feet any more or less "silly" than measuring in meters?? You could measure them in grognards if you wanted - as long as you know how long a grognard is it shouldn't matter one iota. Measuring cable in meters seems silly to me as I would have to divide by 3.37 to get an idea of how long it really is...
No, not criminalizing knowledge, I really don't think they could have done as much if he had simply posted his technique. I think the most trouble he is in is for writing software that specifically got around the unique serial number system, violating the copyright agreement.
Amen. I guess information really doesn't want to be free. I was always confused about how people took "net neutrality" to mean "net neutrality with absolutely no extra charges, just benefits". You get what you pay for people...
"They could expose every single piece of every person's information and it would have no penalty. None."
Unless is is protected medical information, if they release that information they are facing serious fines. See the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) for more. "Protected Health Information (PHI). PHI is any information about health status, provision of health care, or payment for health care that can be linked to an individual."
Some states, including Minnesota where I live, force institutions to contact any users that may have been affected by a security breach. Even if there aren't explicit fines of civil penalties, the bad publicity is incentive enough for most companies to make sure their security isn't lax. Even top executives are starting to understand that the actual costs of a breach are far more severe than laying out some extra money on security.
1. The total absence of any form of ethics in society, and the failure of schools to actually instill ethical values in students, opting rather to overwhelm them with sterilized information and a highly politicized but totally depraved morality.
Ethics are not absolute and vary from person to person. It is the job of the parents to teach and instill their idea of ethics into their own children. It is the responsibility of the school to educate, not to teach ethics or morality.
3. The destruction of the family cell as the fundamental unit making up the societal structure. Look at Indian culture, watch a few of those family Bollywood movies, and you'll see how valued family is to that culture. If you know any traditional Indian families, see if you can spend some time with them and you'll see how enriching family can be. Indian culture isn't the only one that values family these days, it just sticks out to me as I am of Indian descent (although I now live in the west) and whenever I go back for a visit I am blown away by how close their lives are and how much more fulfilling it is to always have people around you that you can trust and rely on implicitly.
Not sure you should speak for an entire country - I am American and the way you describe your family situation is exactly how I would describe mine.
All that proves is you don't know a majority of the internet users. Big deal. I doubt anyone does, except maybe that "Tom" guy on Myspace.
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The artists have two choices - take the crappy deal the label is offering, or do it all yourself. Not many have the capital to take the second route. It would be difficult, and possibly a breach of contract, for artists to "decry" their own labels. Most bands know that signing with a label is "shaking hands with the devil" so to speak, but as of now there are not a lot of alternatives. You can blame a number of different people for the flawed business model of the music industry, but it is not the fault of the artists.
The artists have nothing to do with setting the price of the CD, distributing them, collecting revenues, etc. These actions are all controlled by the labels. Don't disparage the people who make the music when you should be disparaging the people who sell the music. Your average artist will generally make well under $1 for every $15 CD sold. On any given label there is usually 1 money making artist for every 20 ones that don't make any money. So only the very top artists make any real money by selling CDs through their label. The real money is made by selling concert tickets and merchandise.
Because the voting machines run Linux. Just imagine what a Beowulf cluster of these...aw forget it. I must be new here.
They are the ones already complaining about ANY lossy compression techniques.
This would never work. It isn't illegal to receive a package in the mail. Unless the person had prior knowledge that the package did contain illegal items , there is no crime. If you are arrested for buying/selling drugs, they DO still have to prove you knew what you were doing... If it were as easy as you think to nail someone this way, everyone who has any enemies at all would be going down.
A smarter way to attempt this (but still would have very little chance of working) would be to send drugs to an address that is likely to be inspected and put your victim's name as the return address.
Sounds like a total cop-out justification for not being charming enough to get laid. Dude, wash your face more, come out of your parents basement more often, and make an effort to be a little more social to the ladies. It really isn't that hard - you have hormones and instinct working FOR you as stated in the earlier post. The desire to reproduce is one of the most common "hard wired" instincts in all animals. Humans are the only animals stupid enough to try and go against nature by promoting "abstinence". I mean after all, you don't want to slap God in the face by telling him that the urges he instilled in you are wrong, do you?
No, but I doubt he would hire you either with those math skills. The "hiring" guy has a 6 digit ID and the "hiree" has a 7 digit code. And no, that doesn't "average" out to 8 either.
Reality is not an absolute by any means. Reality is only perception, and everyone's perceptions are different.
+5 Funny. Wish I had mod points, hilarious read. Your biting sarcasm is spot on.
[sarcasm]Yeah, I mean it worked for Microsoft and their leaked Volume Keys. [/sarcasm]
If even MS couldn't do it right, what makes you think the government can? And on something far more important to boot.
Um, the government IS the citizens and vice-versa. Why do people always think that "the government" is some sort of alien life form not made up of regular citizens??
Yeah, I'm sure an article about Clinton from the site rightwinglunatic.com is COMPLETELY fair and unbiased...
Next up - a flattering and complimentary article about George Bush in the Washington Post
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