Because you can't get people to click on your page if you say "here's a cool phone idea". People are sheep. If you tell them that product X is better than product Y, many will take time to look at it. Then, in the end, they'll just end up buying what they're told to buy.
How much do you want to bet in those discussions of IP "rights" the idea that Microsoft believes Linux violates their patents and therefore, using Linux is evil, will come up? I've read that the patents in question stem from Xenix http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenix. TBH I haven't read extensively into their arguments to see all the facts.
Children need education on IP just like they need education about sex. I don't like the current state of affairs with the MPAA and RIAA, but that doesn't change the fact that the laws we have in place can land you in jail or cost you dearly. You can't fight the power if you don't know the rules of the game. Once you know the rules you know that's legal and what's not. At that point there is much less to fear.
Do you feel bad for the kids who "didn't know better" than to use limewire and get caught sharing music? I know kids who think that because it's there it must not be illegal. Maybe parents will teach them all they need to know(someday), but it's not happening yet. Maybe this website is what parents need to teach their kids.
I agree with you on all points except...
Being able to say, hey, I want to throw a new motherboard in that case, move it to the upstairs family room, add a video tuner, blah blah blah... you are only dreaming unless you have a licensed but unused copy of Windows hanging around.
I'm not sure where you're going with that statement. If you want to throw in a new mobo and add a tuner you can do it, you just have to phone the Microsoft authentication line. I've done it about 4 times now. The only painful part about it was getting past the obvious Indian accent that the reps had. They pretty much only ask you for the Key and how many machines it's installed on and then give you the new activation number.
Is that easier than a clean install of a media centric Linux distro? I suppose that's up to your time, budget, and setup requirements.
Jack Thompson claims that Mario Kart is to blame for those "White Haired Devils" poor driving habits, sues Nintendo. He claims the Wii is corrupting our elderly.
I personally have had XP go to 300x240 on me. What was really fun was trying to change screen resolution because the drop down box was off the screen. I eventually had to install a 3rd party program so I could get a selection from the system tray. In the end the problem turned out to be a poorly designed heatsink. Most of my problems in XP have been device manufacturer related. For example, my X-fi dropping surround by changing volume via the creative control panel. Other than the activation window spontaneously closing on me while I was in the middle of the tech support call to activate, I've had no real Windows problems to speak of.
On the other hand, my X-fi still doesn't have 32bit Linux support at all. Additionally my Ubuntu install has repeatedly changed my menu.lst to point to the wrong hard drive for boot. I don't even want to get into the headache that is Nvidia's driver for enabling dual display.
But more on topic, none of my PC is "certified for Vista" yet Vista runs quite well on it. Microsoft's upgrade tool tells me that I'd have problems running it, even though I don't. But just for the record I only ran the beta of Vista and I have felt no need to change from XP. I != fanboy
I think your problem is SoE. I've also done raids on both EQ2 and SWG (back in the day). EQ's servers handle the load better than SWG's did back then. In SWG the lag got so bad around half of the people lost connection. So, in short, your end is not the problem.
I agree that having a magnetic field around a core of metal you do have hysteresis loss. If you were to short out the coils you would have no place to induce current into and therefore would have no magnetic field for your stator to interact with. You would then produce no torque. An a motor with no torque is no motor at all.
What this man has done is to seemingly bypass Counter EMF (generator action in a motor). I really wish I could see this guys setup, their description of it all is lacking in a lot of detail.
Sure the Ocean is huge, but there's also underwater volcanoes and mountains and really, really deep places. I'm sure they picked the optimal route to get the cables to each country. The cables could have definitely taken a shorter route through Canada, Alaska, the Bering Straits, through Russia, and then branch off to everywhere else. I think the major driving factor was the cost of labor for laying all that cable if done that way and the complications involved in negotiating the passage of cables through all of the countries involved. I'm sure it was just much easier to take a ship and "throw some cable off the stern" so to speak.
I'm currently on a 17 GB/mo plan that has a 30 day rolling period. In short this means I have a total of 17gb in any 30 day period. I actually keep track of my usage. I only browse (and lightly at that). This month I did a complete re-install of Ubuntu and XP with all updates. I watche about 10 (total) youtube videos a month. I'm very careful about watching videos because they REALLY eat your bandwidth. On average I use 250mb a day. With all the updates and watching a few vids I easily get pushed up to 500mb a day. I can't play games (my latency is 2000ms). I can't use VOIP (again latency). I use a flash blocker.
It Really stinks having to watch your bandwidth. I don't have the option of buying into a higher plan, I've got the highest plan currently offered. You don't want a metered plan, trust me.
His point is that, with a small bit of research before hand, you can buy a laptop that will be fully supported in Linux.
My desktop isn't fully supported, though all I'm missing are drivers for my X-fi. So I just use onboard sound.
My ancient laptop can run up to Ubuntu 6.10, but 7.10 won't install.
You pretty much have to go into a Linux install telling yourself you're going to work through the problems that arise. If you can't commit to spending a little time in the forums to figure some things out, you're better off installing Windows.
Maybe if they purchase Yahoo they can get those BSD guys to come over and help with Windows 7. Instead of using the Windows kernel, they'll use a microBSD kernel.
I know you can't believe everything you read, but there's a ton of places that describe the cables as passing through the Suez just as ships do. I agree with you though that some cables undoubtedly must pass over land to be distributed. I'm sure if we wait long enough we'll find someone on/. that actually laid the cable. Until then, I'll just have to disagree with you.
The cable that was cut is in a common anchoring point for ships waiting to transit the Suez. The Suez canal is only large enough to allow transit in one direction, which leads to a pileup of sorts at one end to the "lake" in the center. As a point of reference here's a picture of a US carrier entering the Suez canal. https://segue.atlas.uiuc.edu/index.php?action=site&site=rrosenb2
Off into the distance you can see the anchoring area. All the cables except the one that goes around the horn of Africa go through this channel. Maybe now it doesn't look so far fetched?
And 7 is the number of undersea cables that were damaged in an earthquake near Taiwan in 2006. Sometimes things happen, especially in one of the most traversed areas in the middle east. I've been through there on a ship. There are ships anchored constantly. The anchors that we're talking about are not the tiny kind that are on your fishing boat. They're designed to rip into the sea floor. Sometimes they don't. Sometimes they just drag. I've had the pleasure of being dragged while anchored quite a long ways due to tidal currents near Anapolis MD. It's not far fetched at all. It's reality.
I tell folks that if they get a Mac they don't have to buy DVD burning software, picture management software, music tools, backup software, etc. and they say, "Wow - that's hundreds of dollars of software I don't have to buy."
I'm not sure where you're buying your PC's, but every one I've bought (off the shelf) has come with DVD burning software, picture management software, and music tools. Then there's FOSS for the rest of what you need. Then of course if you build it yourself you have a little more choice in what you get by getting bundled software with your hardware or just flat out purchasing it(you just saved a cubic-ass-ton of money building it yourself, you can afford to buy some software).
I can't speak about how stable OS X is because I don't know anyone who's using it. My last contact with a Mac was about 7 years ago (on my ex mother-in-laws Mac). The only reason she had it was because that's what she used at work. That system had its own fair share of stability problems.
I have only run the beta of Vista. When I used it I had no problems with stability or speed. If I were to build a new PC, I would have no problem putting Vista on it. It would also be dual booting into some flavor of Linux as well(so I could have my cake and eat it too).
I personally believe that all the Vista bashing (and Mac bashing) is all monkey-see-monkey-do. Right now it's {i>cool to call Vista a POS. If you don't like it, don't buy it.
Being geeks and all, I'm sure most of us have Googled our name. I just wonder how sad Jack Thompson gets when he types in his name. He's got to walk away from the computer thinking to himself "My God! Everyone thinks I'm an idiot!".
Just because people use a product doesn't mean that their product is better, or that another product is shoddy. Just look at the number of people who buy a new Kia when they clearly should have bought a used Honda. Does that make any sense? Chewbacca was a wookiee living on Endor.
Exactly! Those silver suits are in fact steam suits and are not sealed. I haven't been able to view the vid yet though, just saw a pic of them. I've worn that type of suit before though, it's not very comfortable!
I know it's much easier to bash Gates than to actually look past the corporate Microsoft and see that he is actually quite a humanitarian...
from Wikipedia
Time magazine named Gates one of the 100 people who most influenced the 20th century, as well as one of the 100 most influential people of 2004, 2005, and 2006. Time also collectively named Gates, his wife Melinda and U2's lead singer Bono as the 2005 Persons of the Year for their humanitarian efforts. In a list compiled by the magazine New Statesman in 2006, he was voted eighth in the list of "Heroes of our time".[56] Gates was listed in the Sunday Times power list in 1999, named CEO of the year by Chief Executive Officers magazine in 1994, ranked number one in the "Top 50 Cyber Elite" by Time in 1998, ranked number two in the Upside Elite 100 in 1999 and was included in The Guardian as one of the "Top 100 influential people in media" in 2001.
Bill and Melinda received the Prince of Asturias Award for International Cooperation on May 4, 2006, in recognition of their world impact through charity giving.[62] In November 2006, he and his wife were awarded the Order of the Aztec Eagle for their philanthropic work around the world in the areas of health and education, particularly in Mexico, and specifically in the program "Un país de lectores".
Fewer vulnerabilities "make it easier to manage risk," he says. "All other things being equal, fewer patches mean more time to spend on other security projects to reduce risk."
Well put! I've seen some screwy things on all three OS's and the major browsers as well. I just don't have 19 years of experience to put behind it. Your post needs some mod love.
I have wireless broadband, satellite broadband, my cell never leaves full strength(I've had both Verizon and AT&T), and I live just a few miles from the largest nuclear power plant and am within an hour drive to about 10 more coal/natural gas power plants. My town's population is 262 (two hundred and sixty two...not a typo). About 10 houses down from me FIOS is available (I hope they get down to me soon).
To get anywhere it's at least a half hour to drive, or a half hour ferry boat ride.
So in short...at least in my neck of the woods you can get all those things.
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Because you can't get people to click on your page if you say "here's a cool phone idea". People are sheep. If you tell them that product X is better than product Y, many will take time to look at it. Then, in the end, they'll just end up buying what they're told to buy.
Children need education on IP just like they need education about sex. I don't like the current state of affairs with the MPAA and RIAA, but that doesn't change the fact that the laws we have in place can land you in jail or cost you dearly. You can't fight the power if you don't know the rules of the game. Once you know the rules you know that's legal and what's not. At that point there is much less to fear.
Do you feel bad for the kids who "didn't know better" than to use limewire and get caught sharing music? I know kids who think that because it's there it must not be illegal. Maybe parents will teach them all they need to know(someday), but it's not happening yet. Maybe this website is what parents need to teach their kids.
I'm not sure where you're going with that statement. If you want to throw in a new mobo and add a tuner you can do it, you just have to phone the Microsoft authentication line. I've done it about 4 times now. The only painful part about it was getting past the obvious Indian accent that the reps had. They pretty much only ask you for the Key and how many machines it's installed on and then give you the new activation number.
Is that easier than a clean install of a media centric Linux distro? I suppose that's up to your time, budget, and setup requirements.
Jack Thompson claims that Mario Kart is to blame for those "White Haired Devils" poor driving habits, sues Nintendo. He claims the Wii is corrupting our elderly.
On the other hand, my X-fi still doesn't have 32bit Linux support at all. Additionally my Ubuntu install has repeatedly changed my menu.lst to point to the wrong hard drive for boot. I don't even want to get into the headache that is Nvidia's driver for enabling dual display.
But more on topic, none of my PC is "certified for Vista" yet Vista runs quite well on it. Microsoft's upgrade tool tells me that I'd have problems running it, even though I don't. But just for the record I only ran the beta of Vista and I have felt no need to change from XP. I != fanboy
I think your problem is SoE. I've also done raids on both EQ2 and SWG (back in the day). EQ's servers handle the load better than SWG's did back then. In SWG the lag got so bad around half of the people lost connection. So, in short, your end is not the problem.
What this man has done is to seemingly bypass Counter EMF (generator action in a motor). I really wish I could see this guys setup, their description of it all is lacking in a lot of detail.
Sure the Ocean is huge, but there's also underwater volcanoes and mountains and really, really deep places. I'm sure they picked the optimal route to get the cables to each country. The cables could have definitely taken a shorter route through Canada, Alaska, the Bering Straits, through Russia, and then branch off to everywhere else. I think the major driving factor was the cost of labor for laying all that cable if done that way and the complications involved in negotiating the passage of cables through all of the countries involved. I'm sure it was just much easier to take a ship and "throw some cable off the stern" so to speak.
It Really stinks having to watch your bandwidth. I don't have the option of buying into a higher plan, I've got the highest plan currently offered. You don't want a metered plan, trust me.
My desktop isn't fully supported, though all I'm missing are drivers for my X-fi. So I just use onboard sound.
My ancient laptop can run up to Ubuntu 6.10, but 7.10 won't install.
You pretty much have to go into a Linux install telling yourself you're going to work through the problems that arise. If you can't commit to spending a little time in the forums to figure some things out, you're better off installing Windows.
Maybe if they purchase Yahoo they can get those BSD guys to come over and help with Windows 7. Instead of using the Windows kernel, they'll use a microBSD kernel.
There's no lock in other than coding a page in Silverlight. The downside being there's no current support for Opera or Safari.
I remember reading about it somewhere else, but just to cite a source...
So fiber-optic cables that go from Europe to India take the sea route via Egypt's Suez Canal, just as ships do.from here http://www.physorg.com/news121022065.html
or here http://www.hindu.com/2008/02/02/stories/2008020260031800.htm
I know you can't believe everything you read, but there's a ton of places that describe the cables as passing through the Suez just as ships do. I agree with you though that some cables undoubtedly must pass over land to be distributed. I'm sure if we wait long enough we'll find someone on /. that actually laid the cable. Until then, I'll just have to disagree with you.
Off into the distance you can see the anchoring area. All the cables except the one that goes around the horn of Africa go through this channel. Maybe now it doesn't look so far fetched?
Once is accident.
Twice is coincidence.
Thrice is enemy action.
And 7 is the number of undersea cables that were damaged in an earthquake near Taiwan in 2006. Sometimes things happen, especially in one of the most traversed areas in the middle east. I've been through there on a ship. There are ships anchored constantly. The anchors that we're talking about are not the tiny kind that are on your fishing boat. They're designed to rip into the sea floor. Sometimes they don't. Sometimes they just drag. I've had the pleasure of being dragged while anchored quite a long ways due to tidal currents near Anapolis MD. It's not far fetched at all. It's reality.
I'm not sure where you're buying your PC's, but every one I've bought (off the shelf) has come with DVD burning software, picture management software, and music tools. Then there's FOSS for the rest of what you need. Then of course if you build it yourself you have a little more choice in what you get by getting bundled software with your hardware or just flat out purchasing it(you just saved a cubic-ass-ton of money building it yourself, you can afford to buy some software).
I can't speak about how stable OS X is because I don't know anyone who's using it. My last contact with a Mac was about 7 years ago (on my ex mother-in-laws Mac). The only reason she had it was because that's what she used at work. That system had its own fair share of stability problems.
I have only run the beta of Vista. When I used it I had no problems with stability or speed. If I were to build a new PC, I would have no problem putting Vista on it. It would also be dual booting into some flavor of Linux as well(so I could have my cake and eat it too).
I personally believe that all the Vista bashing (and Mac bashing) is all monkey-see-monkey-do. Right now it's {i>cool to call Vista a POS. If you don't like it, don't buy it.Being geeks and all, I'm sure most of us have Googled our name. I just wonder how sad Jack Thompson gets when he types in his name. He's got to walk away from the computer thinking to himself "My God! Everyone thinks I'm an idiot!".
Just because people use a product doesn't mean that their product is better, or that another product is shoddy. Just look at the number of people who buy a new Kia when they clearly should have bought a used Honda. Does that make any sense? Chewbacca was a wookiee living on Endor.
Exactly! Those silver suits are in fact steam suits and are not sealed. I haven't been able to view the vid yet though, just saw a pic of them. I've worn that type of suit before though, it's not very comfortable!
Just to add some further info on this one. The USS Seawolf(S2G) you're talking about is SSN-575 and not the USS Seawolf(S6W) in current use SSN-21.
from Wikipedia
Time magazine named Gates one of the 100 people who most influenced the 20th century, as well as one of the 100 most influential people of 2004, 2005, and 2006. Time also collectively named Gates, his wife Melinda and U2's lead singer Bono as the 2005 Persons of the Year for their humanitarian efforts. In a list compiled by the magazine New Statesman in 2006, he was voted eighth in the list of "Heroes of our time".[56] Gates was listed in the Sunday Times power list in 1999, named CEO of the year by Chief Executive Officers magazine in 1994, ranked number one in the "Top 50 Cyber Elite" by Time in 1998, ranked number two in the Upside Elite 100 in 1999 and was included in The Guardian as one of the "Top 100 influential people in media" in 2001.
Bill and Melinda received the Prince of Asturias Award for International Cooperation on May 4, 2006, in recognition of their world impact through charity giving.[62] In November 2006, he and his wife were awarded the Order of the Aztec Eagle for their philanthropic work around the world in the areas of health and education, particularly in Mexico, and specifically in the program "Un país de lectores".
http://www.gatesfoundation.org/globalhealth/otherinitiatives/emergencyrelief/announcements/announce-050318.htm
http://www.i4u.com/article6050.html
While OS/2 Warp pulled in a close second...
Like more time for companies to scan their products before shipping them out with a virus preloaded?? That'd be sweeeeeet! http://portableaudio.engadget.com/2006/10/16/mcdonalds-mp3-players-ship-with-trojan-horse/
Would you like to read the contents of (insert media player here)? Cancel or Allow?
Oh no, we suck again!
Well put! I've seen some screwy things on all three OS's and the major browsers as well. I just don't have 19 years of experience to put behind it. Your post needs some mod love.
I have wireless broadband, satellite broadband, my cell never leaves full strength(I've had both Verizon and AT&T), and I live just a few miles from the largest nuclear power plant and am within an hour drive to about 10 more coal/natural gas power plants. My town's population is 262 (two hundred and sixty two...not a typo). About 10 houses down from me FIOS is available (I hope they get down to me soon).
To get anywhere it's at least a half hour to drive, or a half hour ferry boat ride.
So in short...at least in my neck of the woods you can get all those things.