What are they? Buying a $50 game that is pure escapism (great for a "mental health vacation") - some games for up to 50-60 hours of entertainment - is about as cheap as it gets. Entertaining yourself for around/under $1 per hour is pretty darn good. And if you wait and don't buy games brand new, that 50-60 hours can be had for $20-$30 often. I have also wasted plenty of time on games that were under $5 or even free.
Stop buying the cheapest CFL that are made in China. They burn out as quick/faster than incandescents. Buy a slightly higher quality bulb and you will notice a difference. I thought exactly the same way you did until I stopped buying the bargain CFLs. I found a brand a few years back (can't recall the name at work though) of a CFL bulb that was actually made in the USA. It has been going for about 4 years now. It was only about 25-30% more expensive than the other cheap bulbs.
There doesn't need to be a law - airlines are private businesses. If you don't agree to their policies, they do not have to serve you.
But there is actually a law -
"Under the law that created TSA, the Aviation and Transportation Security Act, the TSA administrator is responsible for overseeing aviation security (P.L. 107-71) and has the authority to establish security procedures at airports (49 C.F.R. Â 1540.107). Passengers that fail to comply with security procedures may be prohibited from entering the secure area of airports to catch their flight (49 C.F.R. Â 1540.105(a)(2)."
A private firm will also more than likely have actual hiring standards.
No, that means a private company will pay the least it possibly can to hire employees. I remember flying into Atlanta airport pre 9/11/TSA and my steel toed boots setting off the metal detector. I stopped as I exited, and the two security employees that were chatting away about 20 feet away looked up briefly at me, and went right back into their conversation. I walked away after setting the metal detectors off and had zero additional screening. I asked one of the other security employees what their wages were out of curiousity, and was surprised to hear it was about one dollar over minimum wage at the time. I think the TSA is currently performing ineffectual security theater, but don't make the mistake of thinking privatizing it will somehow up the hiring standards. It won't. There need to be changes made, but putting into the hands of a large number of other companies, all with different policies, may make it better or may make it worse. But if you pay your employees a shit wage, you end up with shit employees. Those security people who failed to give me a second screening were giving their $6.50 per hour worth of work I guess.
They don't mess with tourists - that is a good chunk of their income. Belize is perfectly safe if you are visiting, and don't become embroilled in local politics. I know plenty of people who have vacationed there and have said it was awesome.
Seeing as Google is the largest search engine, and theoretically has the most to lose if sites merely linking to other sites containing software violating copyright are getting shut down, it isn't too hard to guess which side of CISPA they are likely to come down on. If Google was really against CISPA, don't you think they would be shouting it from the mountaintops? They sure didn't have any problems announcing their opposition to SOPA in case you didn't notice.
I was talking about hardware, not software. Limiting yourself to one Linux console has nothing to do with what we are talking about. I am not a minimalist stating the least amount of resources should be used to get the job done. I am saying I would rather have a piece of hardware that works well and doesn't look "cool" rather than something that looks awesome but doesn't get the functionality right.
Then they just pull a Newt Gingrich. "No, I'm not a "lobbyist". I just happen to know a lot of people who are really influential that owe me favors... Now where's my "consultant" fee?"
When an iPhone user is using a Dropbox-enabled app, Apple is bringing that customer to Dropbox.
Not necessarily. If I already had Dropbox installed on my computer, and now want to extend that to my phone, Apple has not brought Dropbox any business they didn't already have. Dropbox does have clients for Windows, Mac, and Linux as well as the mobile platforms. I would guess most people using the mobile app already had Dropbox installed on another platform.
I was only doing 1 DVD and streaming and I think i was paying $10 a month. After Netflix decided to be stupid, I went to streaming only - I wasn't about to be strong armed into paying double - and now I pay $9 a month. So the net result is Netflix is getting $1 less from me now. I don't watch very much new TV - maybe 2 or 3 shows, so I find the the older tv series on netflix is great. I can watch a ton of last seasons TV shows and it doesn't bother me I don't get to see them live. I do the opposite that you do - use Netflix for old movies and TV shows, and download the new stuff that I would have been getting on DVD. I find that $8 to legally be able to watch a bunch of content is justifiable. But i also still have cable at the moment but thinking about ditching it in the near future. Sports are the only thing really holding me back from taking the plunge. Everything else is available in some form elsewhere.
If the cab driver was stopped for speeding where the laws were not clearly posted, or were deliberately confusing, yes, I would blame the cop for setting a speed trap. You know, speed traps - designed solely to bring in more income.
If I were Dropbox, I would say screw Apple - they get the 30% of the app, sure, but 30% of the extra storage users want? No way. What does that have to do with Apple? Why do they deserve that? They aren't buying anything in app, so what is the problem? Drop the app and let user dissatisfaction directed at Apple change their policy. If every app maker that had to face ridiculous draconian Apple policies would stand up to Apple, they would change their stupid policies. But as long as everybody keeps bending over and taking it, why should Apple change anything? They have a sweet deal going.
Netflix hasn't jacked up their rates. Their rate for streaming only has been the same as I have always paid. If you are talking about splitting the DVD off of streaming, well, I used to do the DVDs, but Netflix screwed up and now I am streaming only. I find I can get whatever DVD I want from other sources online. Hulu locking out people without cable is no big surprise since they are owned by NBC/Comcast. I knew that was coming someday as soon as the merger was approved - by the person who is now a lobbyist for Comcast! I would also love to cut the cable completely - unfortunately there are some sports I like to watch and good luck with any alternative to watching sports live other than going to a buddy's house/sports bar. I have tried a few supposed internet alternatives to watching live sporting events, but so far every one has fallen miserably short.
We are going to have to agree to disagree here. I would much rather have something ugly and useful than something pretty and useless. Function before form always. Putting it in a pretty package is just the icing on the cake.
There's a reason, Woz has been an engineer and not a designer at Apple.
Yeah - he actually invented things instead of putting pretty packages and a neat UI on existing things and marketing the hell out of them. He had the audacity to put function over form.
As if any government agency exists that is so efficient it could look at every citizen's web surfing history and make those assessments with any degree of accuracy. Collecting a boatload of information has become easy. Filtering that information into useful and useless is the real trick- especially with the signal-to-noise ration being much higher. The government could try to monitor every citizen, but for real surveillance they would need closer to a 1:1 ratio of monitoring agents to citizens. So basically half the population would need to work for the government doing nothing but watching the other half.
Not only his punishment, but look at how all the other file sharing sites changed their policies overnight, not under court order, but voluntarily out of terror of being the next victim. This I believe was the intended outcome, and all without even needing to go to court...
You want to get rid of the pictures before you are 18. As soon as you turn 18, you are an adult in possession of child pornography. Doesn't even matter if the subject is yourself. I know, it is silly that the law makes no exceptions for pictures of yourself, but then again a lot of laws are silly.
So if I go around my house and choose to unlock and open all my doors and windows, and then leave, I am blameless for when my house get broken in to? I hardly think so... Especially when by default all the doors/windows are locked.
So then it is the dumb users fault. How is this different from any other security situation? If you "allow all" on your firewall/ACL/TV/IPSEC/other security device you don't really want or understand security and should not be the one making security decisions.
I have built the last 4 PCs I have owned, and was not required to buy Windows at any point. Let's see you "build" an Apple from scratch. Let's also see you try to buy a Mac without OS X.
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What are they? Buying a $50 game that is pure escapism (great for a "mental health vacation") - some games for up to 50-60 hours of entertainment - is about as cheap as it gets. Entertaining yourself for around/under $1 per hour is pretty darn good. And if you wait and don't buy games brand new, that 50-60 hours can be had for $20-$30 often. I have also wasted plenty of time on games that were under $5 or even free.
Stop buying the cheapest CFL that are made in China. They burn out as quick/faster than incandescents. Buy a slightly higher quality bulb and you will notice a difference. I thought exactly the same way you did until I stopped buying the bargain CFLs. I found a brand a few years back (can't recall the name at work though) of a CFL bulb that was actually made in the USA. It has been going for about 4 years now. It was only about 25-30% more expensive than the other cheap bulbs.
That's the way it turned out, but they had no idea what I had that set the alarm off. Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
There doesn't need to be a law - airlines are private businesses. If you don't agree to their policies, they do not have to serve you.
But there is actually a law -
"Under the law that created TSA, the Aviation and Transportation Security Act, the TSA administrator is responsible for overseeing aviation security (P.L. 107-71) and has the authority to establish security procedures at airports (49 C.F.R. Â 1540.107). Passengers that fail to comply with security procedures may be prohibited from entering the secure area of airports to catch their flight (49 C.F.R. Â 1540.105(a)(2)."
A private firm will also more than likely have actual hiring standards.
No, that means a private company will pay the least it possibly can to hire employees. I remember flying into Atlanta airport pre 9/11/TSA and my steel toed boots setting off the metal detector. I stopped as I exited, and the two security employees that were chatting away about 20 feet away looked up briefly at me, and went right back into their conversation. I walked away after setting the metal detectors off and had zero additional screening. I asked one of the other security employees what their wages were out of curiousity, and was surprised to hear it was about one dollar over minimum wage at the time. I think the TSA is currently performing ineffectual security theater, but don't make the mistake of thinking privatizing it will somehow up the hiring standards. It won't. There need to be changes made, but putting into the hands of a large number of other companies, all with different policies, may make it better or may make it worse. But if you pay your employees a shit wage, you end up with shit employees. Those security people who failed to give me a second screening were giving their $6.50 per hour worth of work I guess.
They don't mess with tourists - that is a good chunk of their income. Belize is perfectly safe if you are visiting, and don't become embroilled in local politics. I know plenty of people who have vacationed there and have said it was awesome.
Seeing as Google is the largest search engine, and theoretically has the most to lose if sites merely linking to other sites containing software violating copyright are getting shut down, it isn't too hard to guess which side of CISPA they are likely to come down on. If Google was really against CISPA, don't you think they would be shouting it from the mountaintops? They sure didn't have any problems announcing their opposition to SOPA in case you didn't notice.
I was talking about hardware, not software. Limiting yourself to one Linux console has nothing to do with what we are talking about. I am not a minimalist stating the least amount of resources should be used to get the job done. I am saying I would rather have a piece of hardware that works well and doesn't look "cool" rather than something that looks awesome but doesn't get the functionality right.
Then they just pull a Newt Gingrich. "No, I'm not a "lobbyist". I just happen to know a lot of people who are really influential that owe me favors... Now where's my "consultant" fee?"
When an iPhone user is using a Dropbox-enabled app, Apple is bringing that customer to Dropbox.
Not necessarily. If I already had Dropbox installed on my computer, and now want to extend that to my phone, Apple has not brought Dropbox any business they didn't already have. Dropbox does have clients for Windows, Mac, and Linux as well as the mobile platforms. I would guess most people using the mobile app already had Dropbox installed on another platform.
I was only doing 1 DVD and streaming and I think i was paying $10 a month. After Netflix decided to be stupid, I went to streaming only - I wasn't about to be strong armed into paying double - and now I pay $9 a month. So the net result is Netflix is getting $1 less from me now. I don't watch very much new TV - maybe 2 or 3 shows, so I find the the older tv series on netflix is great. I can watch a ton of last seasons TV shows and it doesn't bother me I don't get to see them live. I do the opposite that you do - use Netflix for old movies and TV shows, and download the new stuff that I would have been getting on DVD. I find that $8 to legally be able to watch a bunch of content is justifiable. But i also still have cable at the moment but thinking about ditching it in the near future. Sports are the only thing really holding me back from taking the plunge. Everything else is available in some form elsewhere.
If the cab driver was stopped for speeding where the laws were not clearly posted, or were deliberately confusing, yes, I would blame the cop for setting a speed trap. You know, speed traps - designed solely to bring in more income.
If I were Dropbox, I would say screw Apple - they get the 30% of the app, sure, but 30% of the extra storage users want? No way. What does that have to do with Apple? Why do they deserve that? They aren't buying anything in app, so what is the problem? Drop the app and let user dissatisfaction directed at Apple change their policy. If every app maker that had to face ridiculous draconian Apple policies would stand up to Apple, they would change their stupid policies. But as long as everybody keeps bending over and taking it, why should Apple change anything? They have a sweet deal going.
Netflix hasn't jacked up their rates. Their rate for streaming only has been the same as I have always paid. If you are talking about splitting the DVD off of streaming, well, I used to do the DVDs, but Netflix screwed up and now I am streaming only. I find I can get whatever DVD I want from other sources online. Hulu locking out people without cable is no big surprise since they are owned by NBC/Comcast. I knew that was coming someday as soon as the merger was approved - by the person who is now a lobbyist for Comcast! I would also love to cut the cable completely - unfortunately there are some sports I like to watch and good luck with any alternative to watching sports live other than going to a buddy's house/sports bar. I have tried a few supposed internet alternatives to watching live sporting events, but so far every one has fallen miserably short.
We are going to have to agree to disagree here. I would much rather have something ugly and useful than something pretty and useless. Function before form always. Putting it in a pretty package is just the icing on the cake.
Yeah, George W. Bush. He thought it was working pretty well until it was pointed out to him that the Cold War was over.
There's a reason, Woz has been an engineer and not a designer at Apple.
Yeah - he actually invented things instead of putting pretty packages and a neat UI on existing things and marketing the hell out of them. He had the audacity to put function over form.
The pornography pot of gold at the end of the internet.
As if any government agency exists that is so efficient it could look at every citizen's web surfing history and make those assessments with any degree of accuracy. Collecting a boatload of information has become easy. Filtering that information into useful and useless is the real trick- especially with the signal-to-noise ration being much higher. The government could try to monitor every citizen, but for real surveillance they would need closer to a 1:1 ratio of monitoring agents to citizens. So basically half the population would need to work for the government doing nothing but watching the other half.
Not only his punishment, but look at how all the other file sharing sites changed their policies overnight, not under court order, but voluntarily out of terror of being the next victim. This I believe was the intended outcome, and all without even needing to go to court...
You want to get rid of the pictures before you are 18. As soon as you turn 18, you are an adult in possession of child pornography. Doesn't even matter if the subject is yourself. I know, it is silly that the law makes no exceptions for pictures of yourself, but then again a lot of laws are silly.
And yet another over-simplified solution to a complex problem. See you are just further proving my point!
So if I go around my house and choose to unlock and open all my doors and windows, and then leave, I am blameless for when my house get broken in to? I hardly think so... Especially when by default all the doors/windows are locked.
This would be a better world if we just came up with ridiculously over-simplified solutions for complex problems.
FTFY
So then it is the dumb users fault. How is this different from any other security situation? If you "allow all" on your firewall/ACL/TV/IPSEC/other security device you don't really want or understand security and should not be the one making security decisions.
I have built the last 4 PCs I have owned, and was not required to buy Windows at any point. Let's see you "build" an Apple from scratch. Let's also see you try to buy a Mac without OS X.