The proliferation of wireless access points open up possibilities that provide alternatives not only to cellular internet access but also to cellular voice communication. It may take 10 or 15 years (which means all you instant-gratification types are going to have to suck it up and deal) but I can see this being a viable alternative. When I'm sitting at my computer in my office, I get calls but they're always over ventrilo, skype, or gmail. If I have my laptop with me, I can video conference over gmail or skype. The point is that I don't need my land line or cell phone to do this. Once city-wide wifi initiatives (or even open APs) start taking off, I'll be able to take calls on my laptop in the park. Once wireless APs in most cities have sufficient coverage, how long do you think it's going to be until someone starts selling cell phone sized devices that do nothing but wifi communication?
The whole point is that cellular is creating opportunities for competition in urban environments and the user always benefits from competition. Imagine what would happen socially if "cellular" became equated with rural settings?
... ISPs aren't currently responsible for what travels across their network. If they adopt this technology, won't they take one step closer to being held liable for the content passing through their networks?
Your argument seems to be that you can't have your cake and eat it too. I'm sure that I could have made similar arguments when computers were first arriving on the desktop. While there are technical hurdles to overcome, this is a step forward that we shouldn't abandon because the technology isn't instantly perfect at it's time of conception.
By the way, I can come up with solutions to every one of your technical issues. They are, of course, left as an exercise to the reader.;)
One little question: when oil reserves run out and there is, literally, no more unused oil on the face of the earth, do you think that Shell, or Amoco will get out of the fuel business? God, no. They'll start competing as the leading makers of batteries, hydrogen fuel cells, solar panels, ethanol, or whatever other "alternative" fuel source we're using at the time. Likewise with electronics. Someone is providing the raw materials used in electronics. Those companies aren't just going to throw in the towel when they can't mine it from the earth any more. Oh hell no. They're going to convert all their mining operations into recycling operations. The price of electronics might increase for a while but eventually the same economy of scale will be reached and it will be back to business as usual.
You see, running out of our natural resources is the only thing that will force us, as a species, to begin recycling in earnest. I'm not saying that this is a good thing but it's certainly the proven reality of the situation.
The island of Crete covers 8,300 km^2. Alaska covers 1,500,000 km^2. Something tells me that you can't compare the two in the way that you want to.
If you want to save the world from people who just want to strip mine it and leave the environmental impact as the next generation's problem, you're going to want to use fewer words like "naive", "ignorant", "short sighted", and "offensive". By tossing around ad hominem attacks, you're not advancing your position. In fact, you're doing quite a bit of harm to it. It's hard enough to correct people without raising their hackles. To outright insult them? You're not going to win friends and influence people that way. As soon as you start tossing around personal insults, you cease to be an environmental activist and instantly become "just another angry douchebag tree hugging hippie." Is that how you want to be known? Do you want to be utterly disregarded by everyone because of your temper?
If I recall correctly, there was some threshold of system resources below which 2k ran faster and above which XP ran faster -- and that really wasn't all that long after XP's release.
Can someone verify my recollections?
With Vista, I don't think there's any threshold of system resources above which Vista will out-perform XP. Vista is big-oh of XP.
A person can quote any copyrighted material as long as that person doesn't reproduce the work or fail to attribute the quoted material to the work from which it was taken. If you couldn't quote copyrighted material, then nearly every published work, ever, would be in violation of copyright law.
This is a laughable decision for the sheer amount of penis waving involved. Certainly, a person may no longer scan in and post whole any C&D letter that person might receive. Ultimately, it does nothing to prevent that same person from accomplishing their original goal of drawing attention to a flagrantly bullying and/or unfounded C&D.
In case there's any doubt, I am deeply frustrated by this decision and find it unnecessary.
You're absolutely right. Every action has a consequence. In this case, the distribution industry may be in danger of violating laws that govern anti-competitive behavior, assuming England has protection for such things. I'm certainly no barrister so I can't say either way but it may be the case that Prince is allowed to do what he did and, by law, the distribution industry can't lift a finger against him. Prince might be on his own or he might be perfectly poised to sue the distribution industry into oblivion. I can't say. I'd be interested to find out though.
Yes, but what the RIAA wants to do is stop Prince from doing what he wishes with his business. So what you're saying is that anyone is free to do what they wish, including preventing others from doing what they wish? You realize that this is contradictory, right?
So you mean to say that it's morally reprehensible to give away that which you own? Can you comprehend how nonsensical your position is? Prince giving away his music has NOTHING to do with P2P networks. This is about one artist choosing to give away his music and that scares the music industry for some reason. If you decided to give your mother $20 for a cab ride somewhere and I threw you in prison because you didn't demand repayment or charge your mother interest, wouldn't you be pissed off? Of course you'd be pissed off -- because that $20 was your to do with as you damn well pleased. The same principle is at work here.
Here's my paraphrasing of a show I saw on PBS.
For decades, marketers have been studying cult psychology to determine what creates and sustains that frame of mind. Once they had it figured out, they started employing methods with the intention of creating a cult following for whatever product they were hired to promote. The idea was to create loyalty that transcends reason.
Now, the question we have to ask ourselves is, "is there more brand loyalty now than there was back in the 50s?" If there is more brand loyalty now, we can attribute at least a portion of the fanboyism we see on a daily basis to the success of cult psychology based marketing.
If they succeeded, color me scared.
So the police don't like being filmed? Well, it's high time to use their own logic against them.
If you're not doing anything wrong, you won't mind being recorded.
I really don't understand why it can't just kill the guy and use the death domain to raise him -- or possibly a Heal (mass) spell to get a bunch of our boys back on their feet.
True, calling the person who is most familiar with the organizational structure of their "filing system" is the optimal solution. Still, in a corporate environment, locating that information can be problematic. I guess that it all depends on how often you're sick. Maxing out your sick days each year? Maybe you should take some time, bite the bullet, and organize just a little. Never miss a day? Don't worry so much about organizing.
It's the part where you said to pray that makes me wish I could behold your desk in all it's glory.
1) No one should be surprised that people with OCD that manifests as a need to clean actually waste time by cleaning. It's the nature of the beast. Hell, it's intuitive.
2) Leaving papers scattered, albeit in some esoteric semblance of order, around one's desk does allow one to pipeline and/or cache SOME tasks. It's still no solution whatsoever for long term data access. The less organization and tidying you do, the harder it's going to be to find old data. Archiving is a situation where you can't live WITHOUT a "neat freak".
3) God forbid something happens and you can't come in to work unexpectedly. It won't matter if you're in traction or just have a cold; the time you save in NOT organizing your desk will be more than offset by the added time, headaches, and stress induced in the sorry SOB whose job it is to find some critical piece of information on the project that needs to be finished on time.
Do you not recall Ronald Reagan's supposed "Star Wars" project back in the 80's? The facilities that researched it are still in operation and still require a security clearance to get anywhere close to them.
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Arsebook is my favorite but that's already a (surprise!!) porn site. ColongPling, however, seems to be free.
The proliferation of wireless access points open up possibilities that provide alternatives not only to cellular internet access but also to cellular voice communication. It may take 10 or 15 years (which means all you instant-gratification types are going to have to suck it up and deal) but I can see this being a viable alternative. When I'm sitting at my computer in my office, I get calls but they're always over ventrilo, skype, or gmail. If I have my laptop with me, I can video conference over gmail or skype. The point is that I don't need my land line or cell phone to do this. Once city-wide wifi initiatives (or even open APs) start taking off, I'll be able to take calls on my laptop in the park. Once wireless APs in most cities have sufficient coverage, how long do you think it's going to be until someone starts selling cell phone sized devices that do nothing but wifi communication? The whole point is that cellular is creating opportunities for competition in urban environments and the user always benefits from competition. Imagine what would happen socially if "cellular" became equated with rural settings?
Why isn't standby or hibernate acceptable? Both allow a user to power up their machine in a far smaller amount of time than a cold boot.
Will it get Crysis up over 15 fps?
... ISPs aren't currently responsible for what travels across their network. If they adopt this technology, won't they take one step closer to being held liable for the content passing through their networks?
The analogy still stands despite your point. In fact, the analogy stands because of your point -- a point which, yes, we all do get.
Your argument seems to be that you can't have your cake and eat it too. I'm sure that I could have made similar arguments when computers were first arriving on the desktop. While there are technical hurdles to overcome, this is a step forward that we shouldn't abandon because the technology isn't instantly perfect at it's time of conception.
By the way, I can come up with solutions to every one of your technical issues. They are, of course, left as an exercise to the reader. ;)
One little question: when oil reserves run out and there is, literally, no more unused oil on the face of the earth, do you think that Shell, or Amoco will get out of the fuel business? God, no. They'll start competing as the leading makers of batteries, hydrogen fuel cells, solar panels, ethanol, or whatever other "alternative" fuel source we're using at the time. Likewise with electronics. Someone is providing the raw materials used in electronics. Those companies aren't just going to throw in the towel when they can't mine it from the earth any more. Oh hell no. They're going to convert all their mining operations into recycling operations. The price of electronics might increase for a while but eventually the same economy of scale will be reached and it will be back to business as usual. You see, running out of our natural resources is the only thing that will force us, as a species, to begin recycling in earnest. I'm not saying that this is a good thing but it's certainly the proven reality of the situation.
The island of Crete covers 8,300 km^2. Alaska covers 1,500,000 km^2. Something tells me that you can't compare the two in the way that you want to. If you want to save the world from people who just want to strip mine it and leave the environmental impact as the next generation's problem, you're going to want to use fewer words like "naive", "ignorant", "short sighted", and "offensive". By tossing around ad hominem attacks, you're not advancing your position. In fact, you're doing quite a bit of harm to it. It's hard enough to correct people without raising their hackles. To outright insult them? You're not going to win friends and influence people that way. As soon as you start tossing around personal insults, you cease to be an environmental activist and instantly become "just another angry douchebag tree hugging hippie." Is that how you want to be known? Do you want to be utterly disregarded by everyone because of your temper?
If I recall correctly, there was some threshold of system resources below which 2k ran faster and above which XP ran faster -- and that really wasn't all that long after XP's release. Can someone verify my recollections? With Vista, I don't think there's any threshold of system resources above which Vista will out-perform XP. Vista is big-oh of XP.
A person can quote any copyrighted material as long as that person doesn't reproduce the work or fail to attribute the quoted material to the work from which it was taken. If you couldn't quote copyrighted material, then nearly every published work, ever, would be in violation of copyright law. This is a laughable decision for the sheer amount of penis waving involved. Certainly, a person may no longer scan in and post whole any C&D letter that person might receive. Ultimately, it does nothing to prevent that same person from accomplishing their original goal of drawing attention to a flagrantly bullying and/or unfounded C&D. In case there's any doubt, I am deeply frustrated by this decision and find it unnecessary.
...why don't we set up a honey pot? I don't have the technical know-how but I'd be more than happy to help out in any way I can.
You're absolutely right. Every action has a consequence. In this case, the distribution industry may be in danger of violating laws that govern anti-competitive behavior, assuming England has protection for such things. I'm certainly no barrister so I can't say either way but it may be the case that Prince is allowed to do what he did and, by law, the distribution industry can't lift a finger against him. Prince might be on his own or he might be perfectly poised to sue the distribution industry into oblivion. I can't say. I'd be interested to find out though.
You're right. It's not the production end that's threatening him. It's the retail end that's making thinly veiled threats. Good catch.
Yes, but what the RIAA wants to do is stop Prince from doing what he wishes with his business. So what you're saying is that anyone is free to do what they wish, including preventing others from doing what they wish? You realize that this is contradictory, right?
So you mean to say that it's morally reprehensible to give away that which you own? Can you comprehend how nonsensical your position is? Prince giving away his music has NOTHING to do with P2P networks. This is about one artist choosing to give away his music and that scares the music industry for some reason. If you decided to give your mother $20 for a cab ride somewhere and I threw you in prison because you didn't demand repayment or charge your mother interest, wouldn't you be pissed off? Of course you'd be pissed off -- because that $20 was your to do with as you damn well pleased. The same principle is at work here.
Here's my paraphrasing of a show I saw on PBS. For decades, marketers have been studying cult psychology to determine what creates and sustains that frame of mind. Once they had it figured out, they started employing methods with the intention of creating a cult following for whatever product they were hired to promote. The idea was to create loyalty that transcends reason. Now, the question we have to ask ourselves is, "is there more brand loyalty now than there was back in the 50s?" If there is more brand loyalty now, we can attribute at least a portion of the fanboyism we see on a daily basis to the success of cult psychology based marketing. If they succeeded, color me scared.
So the police don't like being filmed? Well, it's high time to use their own logic against them. If you're not doing anything wrong, you won't mind being recorded.
I'm going to have to second that. C3PO really didn't do much besides shuffle around and scream like a pansy.
I really don't understand why it can't just kill the guy and use the death domain to raise him -- or possibly a Heal (mass) spell to get a bunch of our boys back on their feet.
True, calling the person who is most familiar with the organizational structure of their "filing system" is the optimal solution. Still, in a corporate environment, locating that information can be problematic. I guess that it all depends on how often you're sick. Maxing out your sick days each year? Maybe you should take some time, bite the bullet, and organize just a little. Never miss a day? Don't worry so much about organizing. It's the part where you said to pray that makes me wish I could behold your desk in all it's glory.
1) No one should be surprised that people with OCD that manifests as a need to clean actually waste time by cleaning. It's the nature of the beast. Hell, it's intuitive.
2) Leaving papers scattered, albeit in some esoteric semblance of order, around one's desk does allow one to pipeline and/or cache SOME tasks. It's still no solution whatsoever for long term data access. The less organization and tidying you do, the harder it's going to be to find old data. Archiving is a situation where you can't live WITHOUT a "neat freak".
3) God forbid something happens and you can't come in to work unexpectedly. It won't matter if you're in traction or just have a cold; the time you save in NOT organizing your desk will be more than offset by the added time, headaches, and stress induced in the sorry SOB whose job it is to find some critical piece of information on the project that needs to be finished on time.
Right...because if you aren't doing anything wrong, you have nothing to hide, right?
Do we REALLY have to cover why this line of thought is assinine YET AGAIN?
Ok, I'm cool with "She blinded me with SCIENCE!" part.
It's the "...and hit me with technology" bit that has me concerned.
Do you not recall Ronald Reagan's supposed "Star Wars" project back in the 80's? The facilities that researched it are still in operation and still require a security clearance to get anywhere close to them.
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