Yeah, but name one person who enjoys paying more for services than their neighbor.
Verizon will be selling personal information for *money*, and this influx of capital will mean that customers won't have to be 100% responsible for Verizon's monthly operating budget, upgrade projects, or anything else that the company spends money on.
Every successful company (and let's face it, Verizon is one of them) spends its money wisely. It's not like the money Verizon is getting for this is going to the Buy-the-CEO-a-Mercedes fund -- it will go into the budget just as all the customer payments do.
If Verizon doesn't sell your info (which most customers don't value much anyway), then either service will degrade, prices will go up, or Verizon will not be able to offer new products. You can't have your cake and eat it, too.
Amen. My work just got its ISO 9001 compliance and we're very careful with updating documents. But it's so tedious I'm hesitant to do it some times. This morning I found a document that refers to an old version of our software. I need to change "7.5" to "8.0". But here's the procedure I need to do:
1) Open up a Problem Report on the database and fill in the fields (what the problem is, severity, etc.) 2) Start a new Document Change Request in another system, referencing the Prob. Report number. 3) Reference the Prob. Report number again in the text of the Change Request. 4) Change the document - add a header which references the Document Change Request. 4) Show before and after 'screenshots' of the document. 5) Upload the Change Request and the edited document (filenames must be exact). 6) Await approval from five managers before it becomes an updated document.
In the 'high roller'/VIP rooms you still see traditional shoes more often. The bigger players like them, both because it's more traditional, and because they at least operate under the illusion they have a better chance of winning.
Now, lowly players like me still would prefer a shoe, but the casinos know that CSMs make more money - *not* by preventing card counting (which isn't happening at the low tables anyway) but by simply cutting out the time it takes the dealer to shuffle. More hands per hour = more money.
> I'm surprised they haven't equipped the tables with RFID readers and use cards with RFID in them
Yeah, they're starting to do that - well for now RFID is officially used to prevent fake chips, but I've heard they're using it to spot typical counting betting patterns (minimum bets with a few high bets per hour).
>if your Sonar is switched on, the other sub should pick that up.
Not necessarily. Some sonar is passive - my company (well, the company I work for...) designs hull and towed-array sonar which basically just listens to the noise in the water. Pinging helps find things, but the idea is if you just hang a bunch of hydrophones out your tail end, you can pick up other subs, especially as they get close.
Meh, I'd rather keep Firefox lightweight and just use keywords.
When I type "map 10 Downing St" it already goes to a google map. Same with "fromhome 10 Downing St", it will give me directions from my house.
Natural language could work, but I'd rather have other, more search-focused companies do all the natural-speech algorithms, then just use Firefox as a sort-of-API via Keywords.
While I'm sure he now regrets smoking pot (that one time...) he may just have different priorities. The man is 23 years old, has millions of dollars, and has won more Olympic golds than any other athlete has ever won in their entire lifetime. If the man wants to relax and have a joint, he will. He'll be fine with this thing just as he was with his DUI.
Sure, he just got suspended for 3 months from USA Swimming. And he obviously loves to swim and compete. But from here on out, he can continue to go out and party (he lives in a bar-packed yuppie area) or he can train and train and train and put nothing but protein bars into his body. I know what I'd do if I had millions of dollars.
I started my first search of the day by trying to remember how to override a CSS property with the span tag. I noticed all results were flagged - I was wondering when HTML became so dangerous!
Anywho, after seeing it was with all sites, checking against other computers and networks, I figured it was Google's fault. I then realized I completely depended on Google for searching. I had no idea what the kids were using these days besides Google. So I typed in "search engines" to see what popped up. Turns out people still use Yahoo and Ask.com, and MSN. But man, it felt weird searching the web without Google.
But it's not free - our taxes go to paying for that TV. Sure they're subsidized by ads, but it's a service that taxpayers do pay for.
If the gov't decided to make all interstates unusable without a device, I would be inclined the gov't should provide that device for you. Like TV, roads are paid for by both a general fund and subsidized by others (toll-payers). And neither are a 'right' but they certainly improve the quality-of-life for many.
To avoid further confusion, you should probably explain the frequency assignments. For example, I watch WBAL on DT-11. I also can watch WBAL on analog channel 11. So some people assume it's being simulcast on the same (or related) frequencies. Rather, it's just that DT-11 at this time is given the frequency range associated with analog 59 in the Baltimore market.
I understand your point, but I've had to go a week or two with limited internet at sea (I'm a Navy contractor), and can attest that without the familiar communication with your friends, your quality of life suffers a little.
Immersion is great, but even prison inmates average more than a minute a day of communication with their family.
And, to be on-topic, compose your emails on a laptop and save it to a thumb drive so you have time to compose. And use GMail, because your normal host will invariably go down.
To the OP's defense, I think it people sometimes can't tell how well-known their locale is to people outside their geographical area because they don't interact a lot with people from other areas (and when they do, the chances of their own city coming up in conversation may be low).
For example, I grew up in Annapolis, and I expect that most Americans will know this is in Maryland, but only because it is the capitol. But non-Americans? I don't think they really know much about it, but why should they? Now I live in Baltimore, and I wonder how many Americans know where to find it on a map. I mean, it was once the largest city in the country, and it's near other very prominent cities, so I think most Americans know where it is. But it's not terribly exciting currently and has no foreign policy significance, so how many Europeans know where it is? Everyone around here can point to it on map, but until you see other people talk about it, or hear references to your home area on TV shows or movies, it's hard to tell how aware others are.
Well, they do. Remember the hidden volume is an option. Some TrueCrypt volumes have hidden volumes, some don't. You can't demand the password for a volume that doesn't exist (well, you can ask for it all you want, but the judge will be made aware of the fact that it may not exist). It's like the prosecution demanding where the body is from someone who never committed murder. 5th amendment or not, they're not getting the location of a dead body.
You can only prove the existence of a hidden volume by tracking the contents of the drive over a period of time to see if the last 'half' of the volume changes its bits.
I have yet to put a classic Easter Egg into my professional programs, but I chalk that up to the fact that my software is used to test military hardware. My management is relatively cool, as are 90% of my customer base. But if a senior officer was ever at a console when an Easter Egg was activated, I would get in trouble.
So, I add Easter Eggs by adding quirky features. For example, when you need to analyze data points, you can have a script tell the software to only analyze odd or even data points. There are legitimate reasons for this, so "odd" and "even" are in there. But they can also type in "Fibonacci" or "Primes" and they get those points as well. In that manner, I have fun things in there that could be called Easter Eggs, but I can always explain them if people find out about them.
After reading your comment, I went to my antenna (UHF/VHF, basic $30 model I got a month ago at Radio Shack), and turned down the amplifier. I then lost the signal (I'm watching ATSC, HDTV broadcasts). So, no, that's not correct. The amplifier (along with a possible rectifier circuit) clearly helps and is worth the extra $10 IMHO.
No, that would only apply if the standard is the same. DVI is not just a different form factor than HDMI. HDMI can be more than 8 bits for color space, it uses a different color space (YCbCr instead of RGB for DVI) and rounding errors can occur in the processor when converting from one color space to another.
In this case, DVI is limited to 8 bits, and chances are the DSP is over 8 bits, so there will be no issue. But HDMI -> DVI does show that just because it's digital, doesn't mean there's no longer any conversion problems.
Unless the issue involves interstate disputes, providing for a national defense, or upholding constitutional rights, I'm just fine with the federal government not being involved (the above reasons were the primary reasons our federal gov't was created in the first place).
I say this because Americans don't vote for the President - we vote for electors who do. It's a minor point, but an important one. With our representative gov't, we vote for people who then represent us in the national legislature.
Americans never vote for federal legislation - but we *do* vote for state legislation (like for gay marriage, gambling, etc.) So I want the states to run it. Also, while I personally disagree with many states on this, states are also free to choose disenfranchisement rules (I consider this a constitutional right, see above). For example, convicted felons on parole cannot vote in my state, whereas they can in most others. But the fact is that citizens of my state chose that, and those that disagree are free to move and live in another state which allows parolees to vote if it's that important to them.
And yes, I know instant run-offs have their advantages, I wish we used that here too. But every system has its disadvantages and IRV is no exception.
Well I didn't forget them, that's why I wrote "major governments". Europeans also have to deal with local municipalities and neighborhood covenants like us Yanks, but the concept of, say, being tried multiple times for a capital crime (as is the case with the DC sniper) warrants an explanation to non-Americans.
I feel it's largely due to the nature that all Americans are subject to two major governments at all times - state and federal. Our system is set up so that states control voting on election day, and like most other issues (education, driving, licensing) there is little communication between the states. So if you move from one state to another, you need to tell you new state that you're there and you want to vote.
Voter registration really is more about your state knowing where you are so you can vote for the right people. Certainly, if the federal government handled it, it would be automatic, but we just don't have the federal government in charge of elections (which is fine, we are, at least in theory, more about a collection of states rather than citizens of one large federal government).
The poster above (below?) me with the law.com link is correct. And in case you think it's legalese or unenforced:
I opened a unlocked door once and entered a room I shouldn't have. I got arrested, and was never acquitted of, breaking and entering.
I was also facing felony trespass because they thought I was intending to commit a crime (I clearly wasn't). When pressed, they said the crime was trespassing. So, trespassing with intent to trespass. Thankfully, my lawyer was competent and the charge was dropped. But anywho, B&E does occur by simply pushing a door open.
I'm pretty sure my district's voting machines did this for the 2004 presidential election.
As someone who designs software for touch screen monitors, on hardware which is usable from sitting or a standing position (kind of like this software - there are disabled persons using these I'd imagine), I've seen plenty of wrong buttons hit, and I remember being impressed with this feature.
I understand your sentiment, but viruses still happen. Until three weeks ago, the last virus I got was Michelangelo some time in the 80's. But three weeks ago I tried to watch a video I'd downloaded. The video played funny on my Mac with a brand new version of VLC so I figured against my better judgment to try Windows Media Player. It said it needed a codec, I googled the codec and it seemed legit. I hit OK, and the rest is history. There were icons with actual penis drawings all over my desktop.
A full reinstall later and I now use NOD32. (it's $15, and written largely in assembly so I've noticed no hit on performance). Because it's so low-key, I'm thrilled to have it. And you know what else I noticed? I get an email past my Spam Assasin every week (something about Hallmark E-cards), and it has a virus in it. I've been getting this email once a week for about two months and although I never clicked on it, lord knows it's still possible that someone could have accidentally opened it. Now NOD32 just removes the virus for me and gives me a nice little pop-up.
Browsing safe is the first step, sure. But I got a virus installed via a flagship product from the world's largest and trusted (somehow) software developer. Bad things can happen, and as long as you don't mind the A/V software using resources, there's no reason not to have it.
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Yeah, but name one person who enjoys paying more for services than their neighbor.
Verizon will be selling personal information for *money*, and this influx of capital will mean that customers won't have to be 100% responsible for Verizon's monthly operating budget, upgrade projects, or anything else that the company spends money on.
Every successful company (and let's face it, Verizon is one of them) spends its money wisely. It's not like the money Verizon is getting for this is going to the Buy-the-CEO-a-Mercedes fund -- it will go into the budget just as all the customer payments do.
If Verizon doesn't sell your info (which most customers don't value much anyway), then either service will degrade, prices will go up, or Verizon will not be able to offer new products. You can't have your cake and eat it, too.
Amen. My work just got its ISO 9001 compliance and we're very careful with updating documents. But it's so tedious I'm hesitant to do it some times. This morning I found a document that refers to an old version of our software. I need to change "7.5" to "8.0". But here's the procedure I need to do:
1) Open up a Problem Report on the database and fill in the fields (what the problem is, severity, etc.)
2) Start a new Document Change Request in another system, referencing the Prob. Report number.
3) Reference the Prob. Report number again in the text of the Change Request.
4) Change the document - add a header which references the Document Change Request.
4) Show before and after 'screenshots' of the document.
5) Upload the Change Request and the edited document (filenames must be exact).
6) Await approval from five managers before it becomes an updated document.
In the 'high roller'/VIP rooms you still see traditional shoes more often. The bigger players like them, both because it's more traditional, and because they at least operate under the illusion they have a better chance of winning.
Now, lowly players like me still would prefer a shoe, but the casinos know that CSMs make more money - *not* by preventing card counting (which isn't happening at the low tables anyway) but by simply cutting out the time it takes the dealer to shuffle. More hands per hour = more money.
> I'm surprised they haven't equipped the tables with RFID readers and use cards with RFID in them
Yeah, they're starting to do that - well for now RFID is officially used to prevent fake chips, but I've heard they're using it to spot typical counting betting patterns (minimum bets with a few high bets per hour).
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-141181.html
>if your Sonar is switched on, the other sub should pick that up.
Not necessarily. Some sonar is passive - my company (well, the company I work for...) designs hull and towed-array sonar which basically just listens to the noise in the water. Pinging helps find things, but the idea is if you just hang a bunch of hydrophones out your tail end, you can pick up other subs, especially as they get close.
Meh, I'd rather keep Firefox lightweight and just use keywords.
When I type "map 10 Downing St" it already goes to a google map. Same with "fromhome 10 Downing St", it will give me directions from my house.
Natural language could work, but I'd rather have other, more search-focused companies do all the natural-speech algorithms, then just use Firefox as a sort-of-API via Keywords.
>I sure as hell wouldn't do anything to risk it
While I'm sure he now regrets smoking pot (that one time...) he may just have different priorities. The man is 23 years old, has millions of dollars, and has won more Olympic golds than any other athlete has ever won in their entire lifetime. If the man wants to relax and have a joint, he will. He'll be fine with this thing just as he was with his DUI.
Sure, he just got suspended for 3 months from USA Swimming. And he obviously loves to swim and compete. But from here on out, he can continue to go out and party (he lives in a bar-packed yuppie area) or he can train and train and train and put nothing but protein bars into his body. I know what I'd do if I had millions of dollars.
I started my first search of the day by trying to remember how to override a CSS property with the span tag. I noticed all results were flagged - I was wondering when HTML became so dangerous!
Anywho, after seeing it was with all sites, checking against other computers and networks, I figured it was Google's fault. I then realized I completely depended on Google for searching. I had no idea what the kids were using these days besides Google. So I typed in "search engines" to see what popped up. Turns out people still use Yahoo and Ask.com, and MSN. But man, it felt weird searching the web without Google.
But it's not free - our taxes go to paying for that TV. Sure they're subsidized by ads, but it's a service that taxpayers do pay for.
If the gov't decided to make all interstates unusable without a device, I would be inclined the gov't should provide that device for you. Like TV, roads are paid for by both a general fund and subsidized by others (toll-payers). And neither are a 'right' but they certainly improve the quality-of-life for many.
To avoid further confusion, you should probably explain the frequency assignments. For example, I watch WBAL on DT-11. I also can watch WBAL on analog channel 11. So some people assume it's being simulcast on the same (or related) frequencies. Rather, it's just that DT-11 at this time is given the frequency range associated with analog 59 in the Baltimore market.
I understand your point, but I've had to go a week or two with limited internet at sea (I'm a Navy contractor), and can attest that without the familiar communication with your friends, your quality of life suffers a little.
Immersion is great, but even prison inmates average more than a minute a day of communication with their family.
And, to be on-topic, compose your emails on a laptop and save it to a thumb drive so you have time to compose. And use GMail, because your normal host will invariably go down.
To the OP's defense, I think it people sometimes can't tell how well-known their locale is to people outside their geographical area because they don't interact a lot with people from other areas (and when they do, the chances of their own city coming up in conversation may be low).
For example, I grew up in Annapolis, and I expect that most Americans will know this is in Maryland, but only because it is the capitol. But non-Americans? I don't think they really know much about it, but why should they? Now I live in Baltimore, and I wonder how many Americans know where to find it on a map. I mean, it was once the largest city in the country, and it's near other very prominent cities, so I think most Americans know where it is. But it's not terribly exciting currently and has no foreign policy significance, so how many Europeans know where it is? Everyone around here can point to it on map, but until you see other people talk about it, or hear references to your home area on TV shows or movies, it's hard to tell how aware others are.
Well, they do. Remember the hidden volume is an option. Some TrueCrypt volumes have hidden volumes, some don't. You can't demand the password for a volume that doesn't exist (well, you can ask for it all you want, but the judge will be made aware of the fact that it may not exist). It's like the prosecution demanding where the body is from someone who never committed murder. 5th amendment or not, they're not getting the location of a dead body.
You can only prove the existence of a hidden volume by tracking the contents of the drive over a period of time to see if the last 'half' of the volume changes its bits.
I have yet to put a classic Easter Egg into my professional programs, but I chalk that up to the fact that my software is used to test military hardware. My management is relatively cool, as are 90% of my customer base. But if a senior officer was ever at a console when an Easter Egg was activated, I would get in trouble.
So, I add Easter Eggs by adding quirky features. For example, when you need to analyze data points, you can have a script tell the software to only analyze odd or even data points. There are legitimate reasons for this, so "odd" and "even" are in there. But they can also type in "Fibonacci" or "Primes" and they get those points as well. In that manner, I have fun things in there that could be called Easter Eggs, but I can always explain them if people find out about them.
After reading your comment, I went to my antenna (UHF/VHF, basic $30 model I got a month ago at Radio Shack), and turned down the amplifier. I then lost the signal (I'm watching ATSC, HDTV broadcasts). So, no, that's not correct. The amplifier (along with a possible rectifier circuit) clearly helps and is worth the extra $10 IMHO.
No, that would only apply if the standard is the same. DVI is not just a different form factor than HDMI. HDMI can be more than 8 bits for color space, it uses a different color space (YCbCr instead of RGB for DVI) and rounding errors can occur in the processor when converting from one color space to another.
In this case, DVI is limited to 8 bits, and chances are the DSP is over 8 bits, so there will be no issue. But HDMI -> DVI does show that just because it's digital, doesn't mean there's no longer any conversion problems.
Unless the issue involves interstate disputes, providing for a national defense, or upholding constitutional rights, I'm just fine with the federal government not being involved (the above reasons were the primary reasons our federal gov't was created in the first place).
I say this because Americans don't vote for the President - we vote for electors who do. It's a minor point, but an important one. With our representative gov't, we vote for people who then represent us in the national legislature.
Americans never vote for federal legislation - but we *do* vote for state legislation (like for gay marriage, gambling, etc.) So I want the states to run it. Also, while I personally disagree with many states on this, states are also free to choose disenfranchisement rules (I consider this a constitutional right, see above). For example, convicted felons on parole cannot vote in my state, whereas they can in most others. But the fact is that citizens of my state chose that, and those that disagree are free to move and live in another state which allows parolees to vote if it's that important to them.
And yes, I know instant run-offs have their advantages, I wish we used that here too. But every system has its disadvantages and IRV is no exception.
Well I didn't forget them, that's why I wrote "major governments". Europeans also have to deal with local municipalities and neighborhood covenants like us Yanks, but the concept of, say, being tried multiple times for a capital crime (as is the case with the DC sniper) warrants an explanation to non-Americans.
I feel it's largely due to the nature that all Americans are subject to two major governments at all times - state and federal. Our system is set up so that states control voting on election day, and like most other issues (education, driving, licensing) there is little communication between the states. So if you move from one state to another, you need to tell you new state that you're there and you want to vote.
Voter registration really is more about your state knowing where you are so you can vote for the right people. Certainly, if the federal government handled it, it would be automatic, but we just don't have the federal government in charge of elections (which is fine, we are, at least in theory, more about a collection of states rather than citizens of one large federal government).
The poster above (below?) me with the law.com link is correct. And in case you think it's legalese or unenforced:
I opened a unlocked door once and entered a room I shouldn't have. I got arrested, and was never acquitted of, breaking and entering.
I was also facing felony trespass because they thought I was intending to commit a crime (I clearly wasn't). When pressed, they said the crime was trespassing. So, trespassing with intent to trespass. Thankfully, my lawyer was competent and the charge was dropped. But anywho, B&E does occur by simply pushing a door open.
I'm pretty sure my district's voting machines did this for the 2004 presidential election.
As someone who designs software for touch screen monitors, on hardware which is usable from sitting or a standing position (kind of like this software - there are disabled persons using these I'd imagine), I've seen plenty of wrong buttons hit, and I remember being impressed with this feature.
I understand your sentiment, but viruses still happen. Until three weeks ago, the last virus I got was Michelangelo some time in the 80's. But three weeks ago I tried to watch a video I'd downloaded. The video played funny on my Mac with a brand new version of VLC so I figured against my better judgment to try Windows Media Player. It said it needed a codec, I googled the codec and it seemed legit. I hit OK, and the rest is history. There were icons with actual penis drawings all over my desktop.
A full reinstall later and I now use NOD32. (it's $15, and written largely in assembly so I've noticed no hit on performance). Because it's so low-key, I'm thrilled to have it. And you know what else I noticed? I get an email past my Spam Assasin every week (something about Hallmark E-cards), and it has a virus in it. I've been getting this email once a week for about two months and although I never clicked on it, lord knows it's still possible that someone could have accidentally opened it. Now NOD32 just removes the virus for me and gives me a nice little pop-up.
Browsing safe is the first step, sure. But I got a virus installed via a flagship product from the world's largest and trusted (somehow) software developer. Bad things can happen, and as long as you don't mind the A/V software using resources, there's no reason not to have it.
According to the article:
According to the government, [the border] is a 100-mile wide strip that wraps around the "external boundary" of the United States.
Don't worry - your home theater is fine - when the OP said "screen sound control on the walls" he was likely talking about passive sound absorbtion.
So in his case, the 2'x3' piece of foam he got out of the Amazon shipment for his Bose Wave music system.
My definition of a home theater - if you're system is serious enough to warrant curtains, and you have them, you're in the club.
That's exactly what the makers of the Kiwi were thinking - you get a 'Kiwi Score' to determine how eco-friendly you are:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/car/ae12/