News will now remain free. If the major providers put their shit behind pay-walls, one of two things will happen:
1) There's already a thriving eco-system of ad-financed blogs and other sites that basically do nothing but sift through, reword and extensively "quote" the stuff behind the login-prompts. These sites will just get bigger and stronger, eventually hiring more of their own staff. Since that's 90% of what traditional newspapers have been doing since the dawn of time, there is more than enough precedent for this business model.
2) If the going get's really tough, Wikinews or some other major non-profit payer will become as hugely popular as Wikipedia is now. If Britannica or Brockhaus had made all their content available for free under a reasonably license for personal use, Wikipedia would probably not be where it is now.
-) If he begins to work out, he will start to sleep way better almost immediately, very probably more than making up for the hour of sleep he might lose.
-)If he keeps at it, his resting heart-rate (along with recovery time, triglycerides, and many other things) will go down significantly, while his musculature and nervous system will get more efficient. His breathing will get deeper and more relaxed which again positively affects heart rate and the autonomous nervous system, and so on.
-) If he is like most people, exercising will additionally help him get rid of the insane cravings for unhealthy food we all sometimes experience.
This is not unthinkable, it's already fact. If you want to work in large corporations, in scientific development or on open source projects, you have to speak English in any case.
However, even if you just work on your own private projects at home: EVERYTHING these days originates in English. Keywords, documentation, online forums, code comments, function names, etc... Practically all the large conferences are held in English as well. Not using English as your development language will just make you context switch that much more often.
Quadruple-Eight-Core processors? Liquid nitrogen cooled and overclocked to 4 GHz? After the maxed-out new Mac Pro, there's almost nowhere to go with standard hardware. There is also no reason for Apple to lower prices significantly, since their unit stales are still going strong, regardless of the economy. If you were expecting anything more it's because you're clueless.
... especially in a financial downturn. I have made large ERP acquisitions in the past, and we simply struck out the clauses we didn't like before signing the contract, and generally simply didn't pay what the supplier didn't complete exactly on time plus a 5% tolerance. And that was that.
In twelve years on the internet I have had zero privacy problems, zero credit card problems, no spyware incidences and exactly 1 virus infection - which was due to some unpatched 0-day exploit in Windows NT back then. It didn't result in any data-loss though, because I back up my stuff.
If the internet really is that dangerous, I am -along with most of the people I know- a pretty freaky statistical outlier.
... are so much more efficient than simple broadcasting that any advanced civilization would use them. If they are out there, we can't detect their communications directly.
GMail with calendar integration, chat and now Google Gears is the best damn email solution I have ever used - by far. If a hard problem like email can be tackled in the browser with such success, a lot of things can.
Yes, it's fraud. Hiding the price in the general terms and conditions is NOT legally binding. Especially when the front-page lists the word "Freeware".
This is ridiculous. You cannot hide the price of a product in the AGB (German for general terms and conditions.) This is not a valid contract. She can just ignore the motherfuckers.
Regardless of that - if she's still within 14 days of the purchase she has the right to change her mind and just send them an email saying that she doesn't want the product after all. It's that simple.
128 BIT AAC encoded in iTunes. Detection rate there was about 10% in SOME of pieces music, but mostly it was a roll of dice.
At 256 kbps (tracks bought through iTunes plus vs. the CD) - forget it.
The headphones were in-ear Etymotics ER 6. Unfortunately, I can't back this up with an article published in Nature or anything:-) It was just me and a few friends who attend the local conservatory. Convinced me, though.
Try it for yourself at home with some friends, it's not that hard to set up. A laptop, good headphones and a few CDs are all you need.
I live in Austria, and I don't have to carry ID. In princible, I do not even have to own any kind of ID. In Germany, IIRC, you have to get acquire (but carry) some kind of ID when you're 16, but in may other countries not even that much is the case.
Please... We've done blind tests with orchestra and studio musicians, and the detection rate of MP3 vs. CD on $500 studio headphones was not statistically significant. Get over it already.
It's like a guy that delivers donuts to your office and simply leaves a tip jar, saying you can pay as much as you think the donuts are worth. If you take a donut, like it, plan to take one again tomorrow, and DON'T leave some money, you're a flaming asshole.
The same logic applies to looking/not looking at online advertising, especially when it's done as well as Google's text ads.
First of all: You are freeloading, which is kind of cheap. Secondly, advertising != mindless consumerism. Advertising is a (heavily biased, which can be useful) source of information that fulfills a useful function in many cases,
You know what the thing is about Google's ads? They are very, very smart - which is pretty much the only reason why they can make billions of dollars with tiny text ads. Sometimes I'm looking for something out of the ordinary that has to be bought at a store, not fashioned from the intestines of my domesticated animals. (I'm sure you hardly ever experience that predicament). Google's ads usually take me to a reputable place immediately.
Unless you absolutely always know exactly what you are looking for at any given time, you are sure to learn something by looking at their ads.
I have a paid Google Apps email account, but keep ads turned on because they often deliver interesting tidbits of information (mostly on competitors and other stuff that my work-mail is about) that I wouldn't actively have gone looking for.
And dude, sorry to break it to you, but you are a fucking consumer as well.
How about just using XCode, Textwrangler, jEdit, Eclipse or Smultron?
Or how about using ANY FUCKING UNIX/LINUX EDITOR EVER WRITTEN IN THE HISTORY OF MANKIND, either straight in an X11 window, or via the special OS X build that is available for most?
Believe me. If you make the locks too obnoxious, somebody will make you look stupid.
Unless you have a very well-versed and well-paid IT-staff, the computer-literate students in any given high school class outnumber you in available man hours by a factor of about 10.
If you mess up, they'll make sure all the turned-on clients in your school display a rotating technicolor Goatse on a set date and time (been there, done that). Treat them like the kids they are, not like mind-criminals.
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News will now remain free. If the major providers put their shit behind pay-walls, one of two things will happen:
1) There's already a thriving eco-system of ad-financed blogs and other sites that basically do nothing but sift through, reword and extensively "quote" the stuff behind the login-prompts. These sites will just get bigger and stronger, eventually hiring more of their own staff. Since that's 90% of what traditional newspapers have been doing since the dawn of time, there is more than enough precedent for this business model.
2) If the going get's really tough, Wikinews or some other major non-profit payer will become as hugely popular as Wikipedia is now. If Britannica or Brockhaus had made all their content available for free under a reasonably license for personal use, Wikipedia would probably not be where it is now.
That's bullshit. That's just not how it works.
-) If he begins to work out, he will start to sleep way better almost immediately, very probably more than making up for the hour of sleep he might lose.
-)If he keeps at it, his resting heart-rate (along with recovery time, triglycerides, and many other things) will go down significantly, while his musculature and nervous system will get more efficient. His breathing will get deeper and more relaxed which again positively affects heart rate and the autonomous nervous system, and so on.
-) If he is like most people, exercising will additionally help him get rid of the insane cravings for unhealthy food we all sometimes experience.
This is not unthinkable, it's already fact. If you want to work in large corporations, in scientific development or on open source projects, you have to speak English in any case.
However, even if you just work on your own private projects at home: EVERYTHING these days originates in English. Keywords, documentation, online forums, code comments, function names, etc... Practically all the large conferences are held in English as well. Not using English as your development language will just make you context switch that much more often.
What do you mean, turn on? I stopped turning off my home computers around the time CD-ROM drives became popular.
Quadruple-Eight-Core processors? Liquid nitrogen cooled and overclocked to 4 GHz? After the maxed-out new Mac Pro, there's almost nowhere to go with standard hardware. There is also no reason for Apple to lower prices significantly, since their unit stales are still going strong, regardless of the economy. If you were expecting anything more it's because you're clueless.
... especially in a financial downturn. I have made large ERP acquisitions in the past, and we simply struck out the clauses we didn't like before signing the contract, and generally simply didn't pay what the supplier didn't complete exactly on time plus a 5% tolerance. And that was that.
In twelve years on the internet I have had zero privacy problems, zero credit card problems, no spyware incidences and exactly 1 virus infection - which was due to some unpatched 0-day exploit in Windows NT back then. It didn't result in any data-loss though, because I back up my stuff.
If the internet really is that dangerous, I am -along with most of the people I know- a pretty freaky statistical outlier.
It would makes Iowa completely irrelevent in the national elections.
And irrelevant it should be... Seriously.
... are so much more efficient than simple broadcasting that any advanced civilization would use them. If they are out there, we can't detect their communications directly.
GMail with calendar integration, chat and now Google Gears is the best damn email solution I have ever used - by far. If a hard problem like email can be tackled in the browser with such success, a lot of things can.
Yes, it's fraud. Hiding the price in the general terms and conditions is NOT legally binding. Especially when the front-page lists the word "Freeware".
This is ridiculous. You cannot hide the price of a product in the AGB (German for general terms and conditions.) This is not a valid contract. She can just ignore the motherfuckers.
Regardless of that - if she's still within 14 days of the purchase she has the right to change her mind and just send them an email saying that she doesn't want the product after all. It's that simple.
In Europe, when a consumer buys something over the internet he has an ABSOLUTE right to change his mind about the purchase within 14 days.
That right cannot be taken away by any contractual bullshit. If she is within this period, she can just write them an email and that's it.
I have, but I didn't publish it or anything. Read this though:
http://www.geocities.com/altbinariessoundsmusicclassical/mp3test.html
128 BIT AAC encoded in iTunes. Detection rate there was about 10% in SOME of pieces music, but mostly it was a roll of dice.
At 256 kbps (tracks bought through iTunes plus vs. the CD) - forget it.
The headphones were in-ear Etymotics ER 6. Unfortunately, I can't back this up with an article published in Nature or anything :-) It was just me and a few friends who attend the local conservatory. Convinced me, though.
Try it for yourself at home with some friends, it's not that hard to set up. A laptop, good headphones and a few CDs are all you need.
I live in Austria, and I don't have to carry ID. In princible, I do not even have to own any kind of ID. In Germany, IIRC, you have to get acquire (but carry) some kind of ID when you're 16, but in may other countries not even that much is the case.
Please... We've done blind tests with orchestra and studio musicians, and the detection rate of MP3 vs. CD on $500 studio headphones was not statistically significant. Get over it already.
Look, it's simple.
It's like a guy that delivers donuts to your office and simply leaves a tip jar, saying you can pay as much as you think the donuts are worth. If you take a donut, like it, plan to take one again tomorrow, and DON'T leave some money, you're a flaming asshole.
The same logic applies to looking/not looking at online advertising, especially when it's done as well as Google's text ads.
First of all: You are freeloading, which is kind of cheap. Secondly, advertising != mindless consumerism. Advertising is a (heavily biased, which can be useful) source of information that fulfills a useful function in many cases,
You know what the thing is about Google's ads? They are very, very smart - which is pretty much the only reason why they can make billions of dollars with tiny text ads. Sometimes I'm looking for something out of the ordinary that has to be bought at a store, not fashioned from the intestines of my domesticated animals. (I'm sure you hardly ever experience that predicament). Google's ads usually take me to a reputable place immediately.
Unless you absolutely always know exactly what you are looking for at any given time, you are sure to learn something by looking at their ads.
I have a paid Google Apps email account, but keep ads turned on because they often deliver interesting tidbits of information (mostly on competitors and other stuff that my work-mail is about) that I wouldn't actively have gone looking for.
And dude, sorry to break it to you, but you are a fucking consumer as well.
I agree. Grandparent is a fucking lying asshole, no matter how you look at it.
You aren't around young people a lot, are you? You must be an "industry analyst" or something.
EOM.
I actually prefer it the way it is. Keeps the WINE developers on their toes - and that's way more important than having native WoW.
OK, so you don't want to pay for TextMate...
How about just using XCode, Textwrangler, jEdit, Eclipse or Smultron?
Or how about using ANY FUCKING UNIX/LINUX EDITOR EVER WRITTEN IN THE HISTORY OF MANKIND, either straight in an X11 window, or via the special OS X build that is available for most?
Believe me. If you make the locks too obnoxious, somebody will make you look stupid.
Unless you have a very well-versed and well-paid IT-staff, the computer-literate students in any given high school class outnumber you in available man hours by a factor of about 10.
If you mess up, they'll make sure all the turned-on clients in your school display a rotating technicolor Goatse on a set date and time (been there, done that). Treat them like the kids they are, not like mind-criminals.