Sad, not because they care not to tinker, but because they are happy to be walled in. Would you buy a television that worked only with one cable company and was incapable of picking up broadcast? Maybe you would like a Dell laptop, that worked only with Silverlight.
No Flash = No YouTube, for the sake of stability? Quicktime's plugins have crashed IE on Win 7, Vista, and XP, and FF on Suse 11.1 and 11.2 more times than I can count. The only Flash problems that I have encountered have been due to Adobe being slow to release a Linux flavored plugin.
Maybe if everyone switches to Quicktime it'll be okay, or maybe Apple just wants the iPad to stay in iTunes.
For everyone that enjoys the iPad, good, have fun with it.
I'll assume that you are not trolling, even though you compare making a choice to have unlocked hardware equivelant to promoting anachy. To respond in kind, I'll not give up freedom for an illusion of security.
Now, being able to go to YouTube or Hulu is not comparable in anyway with promoting crime, and no Flash equals no YouTube, Hulu, and a bunch of other places. "Just works" so long as you stay in Apple approved space, using Apple's stuff, no thanks. My "Just works" means that I go where I want, when I want, if I want, and how I want, not dictated to me by a vendor.
I think that you missed my contextual definition of "just works". It "Just works", so long as you don't change the hardware and don't take it anywhere, or run anything, that Apple doesn't approve.
Think of it as a car that works wonderfully, so long as you stay on approved roads, and it fails immediately once off those approved roads. The occupants' experience will be wonderful, but they will miss a large portion of the world.
Sadly, most people seem to be interested more in "just works", even when it "just works" only in the manufacture's defined path, and is not allowed to stray from that defined path.
Show which will you choose, freedom or security for your electronics?:)
Kidding aside, using personal computers (even worse phones) for banking, and over a public connection, is risky and will be risky regardless if the device used is a PC or an appliance. If you want to get to secure digital banking, we'll need locked down, dedicated devices that create a VPN to the bank, given to each customer by the bank.
The curious bit is that without his act of terroism, no one would be talking about this bit of foolish tax code.
No, it was not the correct thing to do, but it certainly got us talking. I did not even realize that this problem existed for the coding self-employed, and makes me rethink my next career.
Yes, I've seen the warnings (pop up from systray, logged in the Windows System or Application event logs), and when they are shown, it means the disk is about done, as in replace it now. Not nearly the same as seeing one HDD with double the errors of similar HDDs (hours of usage and model) by proactively polling them.
Just to put out my unscientfic, uneducated on the subject thoughts, but don't you have to survive the infection? An extreme, and possibly poor example, compare the affects of smallpox on Native Americans and Europeans after 1700 or so. The Native Americans, with no ancestral exposure to smallpox or cowpox were devastated by smallpox when exposed, while the Europeans were less affected.
So, do I want to be exposed to someone's unwashed filth, knowing that it will make be stronger, if it doesn't kill me? Do I want to transfer it to my car or my home, maybe intentionallly expose my family to it, just to make them stronger? In the comparison of the Native Americans and Europeans in the 1600 - 1900's, the less clean Europeans won, but how many lives did that genetic immunity, if there is such a thing, cost?
In the end, cleanliness is cultural, and might just be another case of "Play Now, Pay Later".
Getting back on topic, I doubt that washing whatever gets upon my hands in the restroom, or from using the keyboard of a coworker with snot dripping from his nose, impacts my favorable gut bacteria much. Alcohol consumption, and not replenishing them with cheeses or yougurts, stuff like that is what leads to their decline.
Forget about the third party. I have only time enough for a quick Google, so I apologize for the somewhat biased link, but this there are complications for cloud stuff and keeping the branches of government separate.
One of the cynics, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5BIQRYoC18&feature=related, and I thought that he had a good point about the engine not being visible after the crash. We can see the exhaust push downward, but no engine. But, in your NYT link, someone notes that the 6 cylinder in this crashed vehicle is in-line, not a V, which explains the lack of an engine being visible; it simply was missed in the offset collision. There is also a really good explanation of why this particular model and year failed so spectacularly:
Instead of a ladder-shaped frame as was common on earlier models and competitors, Chevys of that era had no frame rails on the side of the body. Instead the frame curved in along the sides of the transmission, met in the middle, then flared back out at the rear. This was done to allow the body to be mounted much lower on the frame, giving a much lower silhouette. Pictures of the frame and a better description can be seen at http://www.carcraft.com/junkyardcrawl/ccrp_0910_x_framed_chevys/index.html.
Still, I'm not sure why so many people have a problem with understanding why a car designed to protect its occupants in an offset frontal collision came out on top of one fifty years old, and not designed to the same standards.
Hehehe, I still missed it initially, as I was looking everywhere but the "Follow the polls" (my internal ad-block ignoring images, or just being lazy?). Thank you for pointing it out.
It is currently in the middle of the page for anyone curious.
Pretty good on the explanation of the "who" was polled, but not the questions.
Just a silly example: "Are you in favor of decreasing the speed limit on Main Street to 5 MPH?" vs. "Are you in favor of saving cats and squirrels on Main Street?". I know silly example, but it is non-political and illustrates the point the the wording of the question, as well as the sequence of each question, contributes to determining the results of the poll. Even just the tone of voice can push someone in a direction. Think of a good salesperson.
I've not found a link, but I do recall this some years ago when Zogby started up, and was much more accurate than the other pollsters. They explained that their success was due to how openly they asked their questions, trying to word and order them so as to not provoke or create emotions or guide someone to an answer.
So, any poll without the questions and their order is of little value to me, other than infotainment.
A couple interesting points, quoted out of their original sequence; "with today's embedded tech it's very hard for kids to learn anything by taking things apart.", "And in schools it's often all about theory and little hands on.". I would add the desire to not have any risk, as in learning chemistry entirely from a book.
So, the traces and components are way too small for manipulation by hand anymore, removing the curious from self-exploration, and schools either lack funds or desire for proper taught exploration.
We might have solutions available. This hasn't stopped people from hacking (proper usage, not the cracker type) every bit of hardware, regardless of DRM. For the self taught, maybe we need more ASM/low level type teaching. We might not be able to physically hack the chips, but we might be able to change their function, or maybe that is just a dream.
For schools, parents need to be ready to support teachers who dare to teach, like my son's general science teacher in high school, who generated interest with little Estes rockets.
If you haven't realized it already the Legal system is functioning the way it is intended.
Plato states quite clearly that there is no true justice, but the appearance of it is what matters in society. The lower classes of society must believe there is justice else the upper classes may lose their power.
I agree that the justice system is working exactly as designed, and that the appearance of it working equally for all is required for the ruling class to remain in power. Quite a few years have passed since I last read The Republic or other texts from that era. What sources led you to conclude that this were Plato's thoughts?
I admit, it has been several years since I've tried speech-to-text software. How successful have you been with it, successful enough to have recouped the time spent with the setup within 3 months?
Maybe it is just the general change, or is it a decline; where cheap and easily replaced quantity is more important than rarer quality. We don't want furniture that will last 100 years, but some particle board stuff that might last 5, something like that.
Printing, cursive handwritten text, or computer (text print or digital) are three different means of expression. Which I try to use, try due to slowly degrading skills, depends upon what type of message I am conveying.
Either very quick or very formal communications I type on a computer. Typing is faster. Digital allows the recipient to change the font, format, or whatever they want, and gets me better results than I could ever dream of with a typewriter. This is the most flexible one.
Printing, all block caps, is used for professional writing to colleagues, writing that is technical. When done in ink, there is no editing afterwards, no changing your text. There is no touch to modify attributes, like there is with digital copies, no changing of system time to hide an edit.
Cursive is the most expressive communication next to voice. With cursive, you may communicate not just the words, but also the tone of voice and depth of emotion.
The cheap ballpoint pens really are more painful to write with, especially if you do not use them regularly. Printing or cursive is definitely easier with a pencil, my only comparison as I do not have a fountain pen with a good nib.
I do find it interesting when governments want encryption, then want to deny it to their populace. Hmm, sorta like guns. You don't need encryption unless you have something to hide. You don't need guns unless you want to commit a crime.
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Sad, not because they care not to tinker, but because they are happy to be walled in. Would you buy a television that worked only with one cable company and was incapable of picking up broadcast? Maybe you would like a Dell laptop, that worked only with Silverlight.
No Flash = No YouTube, for the sake of stability? Quicktime's plugins have crashed IE on Win 7, Vista, and XP, and FF on Suse 11.1 and 11.2 more times than I can count. The only Flash problems that I have encountered have been due to Adobe being slow to release a Linux flavored plugin.
Maybe if everyone switches to Quicktime it'll be okay, or maybe Apple just wants the iPad to stay in iTunes.
For everyone that enjoys the iPad, good, have fun with it.
I'll assume that you are not trolling, even though you compare making a choice to have unlocked hardware equivelant to promoting anachy. To respond in kind, I'll not give up freedom for an illusion of security.
Now, being able to go to YouTube or Hulu is not comparable in anyway with promoting crime, and no Flash equals no YouTube, Hulu, and a bunch of other places. "Just works" so long as you stay in Apple approved space, using Apple's stuff, no thanks. My "Just works" means that I go where I want, when I want, if I want, and how I want, not dictated to me by a vendor.
I think that you missed my contextual definition of "just works". It "Just works", so long as you don't change the hardware and don't take it anywhere, or run anything, that Apple doesn't approve.
Think of it as a car that works wonderfully, so long as you stay on approved roads, and it fails immediately once off those approved roads. The occupants' experience will be wonderful, but they will miss a large portion of the world.
Sadly, most people seem to be interested more in "just works", even when it "just works" only in the manufacture's defined path, and is not allowed to stray from that defined path.
Show which will you choose, freedom or security for your electronics? :)
Kidding aside, using personal computers (even worse phones) for banking, and over a public connection, is risky and will be risky regardless if the device used is a PC or an appliance. If you want to get to secure digital banking, we'll need locked down, dedicated devices that create a VPN to the bank, given to each customer by the bank.
The curious bit is that without his act of terroism, no one would be talking about this bit of foolish tax code.
No, it was not the correct thing to do, but it certainly got us talking. I did not even realize that this problem existed for the coding self-employed, and makes me rethink my next career.
Yes, I've seen the warnings (pop up from systray, logged in the Windows System or Application event logs), and when they are shown, it means the disk is about done, as in replace it now. Not nearly the same as seeing one HDD with double the errors of similar HDDs (hours of usage and model) by proactively polling them.
Wow, +2 and Troll. I think the MODS don't get sarcasm.
Just to put out my unscientfic, uneducated on the subject thoughts, but don't you have to survive the infection? An extreme, and possibly poor example, compare the affects of smallpox on Native Americans and Europeans after 1700 or so. The Native Americans, with no ancestral exposure to smallpox or cowpox were devastated by smallpox when exposed, while the Europeans were less affected.
So, do I want to be exposed to someone's unwashed filth, knowing that it will make be stronger, if it doesn't kill me? Do I want to transfer it to my car or my home, maybe intentionallly expose my family to it, just to make them stronger? In the comparison of the Native Americans and Europeans in the 1600 - 1900's, the less clean Europeans won, but how many lives did that genetic immunity, if there is such a thing, cost?
In the end, cleanliness is cultural, and might just be another case of "Play Now, Pay Later".
Getting back on topic, I doubt that washing whatever gets upon my hands in the restroom, or from using the keyboard of a coworker with snot dripping from his nose, impacts my favorable gut bacteria much. Alcohol consumption, and not replenishing them with cheeses or yougurts, stuff like that is what leads to their decline.
1974 year, 3/4 ton load rated frame.
It is the same result on Open Suse 11.1.
mmap_min_addr on LInux Insight offers some background for us folks that are less skilled.
Forget about the third party. I have only time enough for a quick Google, so I apologize for the somewhat biased link, but this there are complications for cloud stuff and keeping the branches of government separate.
Arpaio and state Supreme Court
I think something was lost in the translation in that post, French to English.
One of the cynics, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5BIQRYoC18&feature=related, and I thought that he had a good point about the engine not being visible after the crash. We can see the exhaust push downward, but no engine. But, in your NYT link, someone notes that the 6 cylinder in this crashed vehicle is in-line, not a V, which explains the lack of an engine being visible; it simply was missed in the offset collision. There is also a really good explanation of why this particular model and year failed so spectacularly:
Instead of a ladder-shaped frame as was common on earlier models and competitors, Chevys of that era had no frame rails on the side of the body. Instead the frame curved in along the sides of the transmission, met in the middle, then flared back out at the rear. This was done to allow the body to be mounted much lower on the frame, giving a much lower silhouette. Pictures of the frame and a better description can be seen at http://www.carcraft.com/junkyardcrawl/ccrp_0910_x_framed_chevys/index.html.
This is a really telling picture of the "why" of the failure, from the comment quoted above, http://www.carcraft.com/junkyardcrawl/ccrp_0910_x_framed_chevys/photo_01.html
Still, I'm not sure why so many people have a problem with understanding why a car designed to protect its occupants in an offset frontal collision came out on top of one fifty years old, and not designed to the same standards.
Hehehe, I still missed it initially, as I was looking everywhere but the "Follow the polls" (my internal ad-block ignoring images, or just being lazy?). Thank you for pointing it out.
It is currently in the middle of the page for anyone curious.
Pretty good on the explanation of the "who" was polled, but not the questions.
Just a silly example: "Are you in favor of decreasing the speed limit on Main Street to 5 MPH?" vs. "Are you in favor of saving cats and squirrels on Main Street?". I know silly example, but it is non-political and illustrates the point the the wording of the question, as well as the sequence of each question, contributes to determining the results of the poll. Even just the tone of voice can push someone in a direction. Think of a good salesperson.
I've not found a link, but I do recall this some years ago when Zogby started up, and was much more accurate than the other pollsters. They explained that their success was due to how openly they asked their questions, trying to word and order them so as to not provoke or create emotions or guide someone to an answer.
So, any poll without the questions and their order is of little value to me, other than infotainment.
A couple interesting points, quoted out of their original sequence; "with today's embedded tech it's very hard for kids to learn anything by taking things apart.", "And in schools it's often all about theory and little hands on.". I would add the desire to not have any risk, as in learning chemistry entirely from a book.
So, the traces and components are way too small for manipulation by hand anymore, removing the curious from self-exploration, and schools either lack funds or desire for proper taught exploration.
We might have solutions available. This hasn't stopped people from hacking (proper usage, not the cracker type) every bit of hardware, regardless of DRM. For the self taught, maybe we need more ASM/low level type teaching. We might not be able to physically hack the chips, but we might be able to change their function, or maybe that is just a dream.
For schools, parents need to be ready to support teachers who dare to teach, like my son's general science teacher in high school, who generated interest with little Estes rockets.
If you haven't realized it already the Legal system is functioning the way it is intended.
Plato states quite clearly that there is no true justice, but the appearance of it is what matters in society. The lower classes of society must believe there is justice else the upper classes may lose their power.
I agree that the justice system is working exactly as designed, and that the appearance of it working equally for all is required for the ruling class to remain in power. Quite a few years have passed since I last read The Republic or other texts from that era. What sources led you to conclude that this were Plato's thoughts?
I admit, it has been several years since I've tried speech-to-text software. How successful have you been with it, successful enough to have recouped the time spent with the setup within 3 months?
Maybe it is just the general change, or is it a decline; where cheap and easily replaced quantity is more important than rarer quality. We don't want furniture that will last 100 years, but some particle board stuff that might last 5, something like that.
Printing, cursive handwritten text, or computer (text print or digital) are three different means of expression. Which I try to use, try due to slowly degrading skills, depends upon what type of message I am conveying.
Either very quick or very formal communications I type on a computer. Typing is faster. Digital allows the recipient to change the font, format, or whatever they want, and gets me better results than I could ever dream of with a typewriter. This is the most flexible one.
Printing, all block caps, is used for professional writing to colleagues, writing that is technical. When done in ink, there is no editing afterwards, no changing your text. There is no touch to modify attributes, like there is with digital copies, no changing of system time to hide an edit.
Cursive is the most expressive communication next to voice. With cursive, you may communicate not just the words, but also the tone of voice and depth of emotion.
The cheap ballpoint pens really are more painful to write with, especially if you do not use them regularly. Printing or cursive is definitely easier with a pencil, my only comparison as I do not have a fountain pen with a good nib.
I think the turn of the stocks becoming a short term gamble, not a multi-year investment started with Daytrading, maybe even here Daytraders.
Including the governing criminals.
Putin, friendly with the RBN? Nah, can't be true.
I do find it interesting when governments want encryption, then want to deny it to their populace. Hmm, sorta like guns. You don't need encryption unless you have something to hide. You don't need guns unless you want to commit a crime.