This is why Lincoln became president right? Because all of the states had a say in the presidential election?
The electoral college does not exist for this reason, but to stop corruption in one state from stealing the election as a whole. It is a firewall saying that no matter how corrupt state A becomes, they can't cast more than x% of the vote in any election. So you can manufacture 200 million voters in your state, and they can all vote for the person you want, but in the end, that does NOT mean you elected the president all by yourself, you only stole x% of the votes that elected him (or failed to elect him).
Keep in mind that mom and pop want to open up at 10am, close at 5pm, and not work weekends. When you close the door when shoppers can come, it is no small wonder you can't compete against Walmart that is open from 7am-11pm. Oh yea, and always has it in stock instead of saying (we can get that in for you in x days).
It's not all about price, but availability. Note Home Depot is doing just fine competing against the local lumber yards with crappier product (lumber) priced 1.5-2x as much, but by remaining open when the general public can actually get to the store.
"Whoever can create first a low-cost MIDI interface with a compelling game will reap in large sums of cash."
People like Guitar Hero and Rock Band because they can feel good about their performance even when they have NONE, NOT ONE IOTA, of capability.
Make an instrument they actually have to play and you immediately limit your audience to the handful of people that can actually play.
Will this controller be good for guitarists, yes! they can actually have MORE fun with the game. Will the general population, no, because the game will go from being fun, to being difficult.
We like games because they allow us to be the people we are scared to try to be. They allow us fantasy. When reality meets fantasy, it isn't a better game, its called real life and that is where the fantasy falls apart.
I thought of this idea too, determined it wouldn't be to hard to accomplish, then thought about how few guitar players that I do know could hang in there on the songs if it was any more difficult than it is today.
Why waste your time on guitar hero if you can actually play the instrument.....
I'll just look up their license # and from that get their address and phone # and then I can go see them for real.
They have a right to be anonymous to the world at large. And the government record on "losing" records isn't going to make anyone feel good about giving that kind of identifying information to a regulatory body.
How about we require a license to post on/. and you have to put your poster id at the bottom of your posts and remove the "Post Anonymously" checkbox????
it acts as a firewall keeping Iowa from contributing more than its share of votes to the national election. The electoral college allows them to contribute X # of votes, they can't mysteriously come up with several million popular votes of people who don't exist or didn't vote. Each state is constrained by the percentage of their population to the rest of the country.
Popular vote is NOT the way to go without allowing the election to be stolen by the most industrious voter manufacturing organizations. The Electoral college does provide some safety, even it if is an archaic sounding thing. How often have the electors NOT voted the way they were supposed to?
It reduces consumer choice because some entities like banks will create sites that only work on IE, forcing consumers to use IE or do without online banking. Luckily, IE security was such a botched job that a lot of that has changed now and Mozilla is as well supported as IE by most financial institutions.
This tie to IE also means that customers have to have windows since it doesn't run on Mac or Linux. So in the end, productivity is crimped because you aren't allowed to use the tools you need or want (Mac or Linux).
Sure you could always pick another bank, I know I did it with etrade and their support of IE only, but there was a time when your choices of banks was very limited because of IE.
If Apple had the same marketshare that Windows does, they would face the same restrictions. We are all better off when there is competition because everyone is trying to outdo the other and progress is rapid just to ensure survival.
Look at how much better music players are since the iPod set a standard you had to match if you were to be considered. Now we have AmazonMP3 pushing iTunes to be DRM free. Competition is good.
I'd also recommend the books by Richard Feynman, not for the mathematics in them, but for the idea you can look around in the world and find all kinds of interesting things without even trying very hard. And how life can be fun and funny while still including science.
Whole disk encryption buys you security from people who steal your computer hardware. It does NOT buy you security from malware, since the disk is encrypted transparently, any process running as the user can read and write the data. You need to look at the whole picture here. Do you need to encrypt the whole drive, or do you need to encrypt the sensitive data and modify the programs that read and write that data to use encryption. If the user is running windows, and running as an admin (as most people do), any worm or trojan could read and stream the data from this computer to a server offsite. If encryption is built into your software, then they can only get at the data via the software.
We produce encryption software that does this very thing for some banks. The data is encrypted on disk, and our software can decrypt it, but the disk is not whole disk encrypted for the reasons listed above.
Whole Disk Encryption seems like the answer to your prayers, but it can be one part security theatre if the primary threat comes from within rather the computer, rather than from the theft of that computer.
Libraries are great unless you are a child who has a parent that doesn't bother to transport you there.
Kids value what their parents value, religion, money, books, knowledge.
The current generation can actually benefit from the fact that some parents Don't care. Because when parents don't care, they let their kid do what they want. So when the kid finds something like starfall.com and is interested, the parent isn't there to stamp out their dream, and the learn to read and enjoy reading. Thus breaking the cycle that most low income people are stuck in, one of ignorance and stupid actions because of that ignorance.
It's just plain harder to do some things in OO and that makes it take more time and energy to produce the same outcome.
Fonts, font names, are screwed up beyond belief, I know, it seems trivial, but when I have to hunt for a decent font in a list that stretches for miles, something is wrong......
It is easier and quicker for me to create a music chart from transcription in Word because it is easier to work with. OO has a fair amount of functionality, but to call it on par is just fantasy.
A 20% loss in performance is NOT progress, but regression. We slam Vista because it provides very little MORE than XP did with a huge cost in speed, yet somehow when Ubuntu does the same thing we call it progress.
Progress in an OS is providing more with less, hence the Kernel changes to provide better service. Sounds like maybe they aren't working out as well as expected. Would be interesting to see if the apps that performed better like GPG had their gains in performance from changes in their code vs changes in the kernel.
Sometimes what people remember as the truth isn't what happened at all, but how they wanted it to happen, therefore they build a delusion to be more at peace with the past.
(I'm not saying this one particular guy did this, but to discount that aspect altogether is kind of ridiculous)
To opt in now to a totally broken system makes NO sense. If we are going to see a better way to get the indie music out to the rest of the world, it isn't going to come from the record labels.
I haven't seen the film, and won't bother with such crap, however, the Article does state:
This is the right result to be sure. There should never have been any doubt the filmmakers who were sued here had every right to use a short segment of a song for the purpose of criticizing it and the views it represents. But the right result came far too late.
So in this case, it wasn't background music, it was criticism of the song.
I've managed to live 40 years without ever owning a Hoover, but have owned a lot of machines that can "Hoover".
And Xerox isn't the only copier out there either.
I think he is dead on about iPod being dead, just like Cadillac has been replaced by Lexus and Mercedes because of better quality, and all of them are outsold by other brands because they provide what is needed at a price people are willing to pay.
Similarly, out of the 8 mp3 players I've had, only one was an ipod, and it was the only one I didn't pay for.
Because I think he's dead on. One thing that silverlight has going for it is that it is easier to code for because you can use the tools that any monkey can use.
Doesn't mean the code will be well structured or easy to maintain, or that it will scale, but that lots of little monkeys will do it, and with that army of monkeys, something compelling will come out and tip the scale toward silverlight. Besides, scalability in a browser probably doesn't matter at all.
I think adding yet another stupid plugin into the browser wars is a bad idea, (especially when there is no support for ALL platforms and browsers) but that doesn't mean this won't happen to us, just like IE did.
This is exactly what Lincoln fought for.
People want to remember him because he "freed" the slaves when he only did that hoping to swell the ranks of the union army.
Lincoln is the only president (so far) to use the country's military to squash some of its citizens. Something I am sure W. is envious of to this date.
You know, you may have really hit upon a solution to getting a really great education and paying teachers a reasonable amount of money.
In the elementary grades, one teacher could cover all the subjects easily. 12 kids (or less) paying 4-5K per child per year would pay this teacher well. And, the instruction could be targeted toward what the kids want to learn. So you get a group that lean toward science, and one that leans toward art, and while covering the basics, you also get more depth in certain areas. Again, parents are in control because of the funding. And as long as taxes are going to be taken out for schooling, you should get a voucher equal to what they give the local public schools to teach your child. You can spend it at any approved "teacher" that you want.
Teaching as a cottage industry sounds like a great idea.
This doesn't work so well when you get to high school, then you begin to need the specialization (especially with the smart kids) however a group of teachers might rotate their groups of 12.
You could simply write a web app for the web and by choosing carefully how you code, it would run in ANY browser. Just a few examples would be:
GMail
Yahoo Mail
Reuters News......
Coding explicitly for IE doesn't do anyone any good, just like coding explicitly for firefox doesn't help either.
The web is built on standards that when used, really do work.
Yea, if we all wrote the the standards, the browsers would begin to actually support them.
Those who can't, write
Those that can't write, work for government contractors,
And those that can't hack that, work for the government directly!
Your faulty assumption is that government workers do anything of any real value.....
What is the point of using PGP to send a package to someone that obviously is clueless about security? They just wanted it emailed, if that is the case, then why give them the data at all. How do you know that once the data is outside your network, it will be cared for? If the intended recipient is not trustworthy, you might as well post it on a publicly available URL.
We don't allow kids to drive because they aren't ready to take on the responsibility, I wouldn't give data to people that were clueless about security
They can't stream 100 movies over insufficient bandwidth from a Central office, but if they stream 1 movie to your DVR and then your DVR streams it to your neighbors DVRs the bandwidth at the CO stays lower, while delivering the 100 movies to DVRs all across town. I met a company at NAB talking about just this sort of thing. If you want to deliver real time PPV vs certain time PPV, then BitTorrent and P2P can actually help by keeping the bandwidth usage "in the neighborhood" and off the backbone. A movie streamed from my DVR to my nearby "neighbors" is an effective use of infrastructure that is already built out. All they have to do is allow upstream speeds > 128Kbps within my subnet.....
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This is why Lincoln became president right? Because all of the states had a say in the presidential election?
The electoral college does not exist for this reason, but to stop corruption in one state from stealing the election as a whole. It is a firewall saying that no matter how corrupt state A becomes, they can't cast more than x% of the vote in any election. So you can manufacture 200 million voters in your state, and they can all vote for the person you want, but in the end, that does NOT mean you elected the president all by yourself, you only stole x% of the votes that elected him (or failed to elect him).
Keep in mind that mom and pop want to open up at 10am, close at 5pm, and not work weekends. When you close the door when shoppers can come, it is no small wonder you can't compete against Walmart that is open from 7am-11pm. Oh yea, and always has it in stock instead of saying (we can get that in for you in x days).
It's not all about price, but availability. Note Home Depot is doing just fine competing against the local lumber yards with crappier product (lumber) priced 1.5-2x as much, but by remaining open when the general public can actually get to the store.
"Whoever can create first a low-cost MIDI interface with a compelling game will reap in large sums of cash."
People like Guitar Hero and Rock Band because they can feel good about their performance even when they have NONE, NOT ONE IOTA, of capability.
Make an instrument they actually have to play and you immediately limit your audience to the handful of people that can actually play.
Will this controller be good for guitarists, yes! they can actually have MORE fun with the game. Will the general population, no, because the game will go from being fun, to being difficult.
We like games because they allow us to be the people we are scared to try to be. They allow us fantasy. When reality meets fantasy, it isn't a better game, its called real life and that is where the fantasy falls apart.
I thought of this idea too, determined it wouldn't be to hard to accomplish, then thought about how few guitar players that I do know could hang in there on the songs if it was any more difficult than it is today.
Why waste your time on guitar hero if you can actually play the instrument.....
I'll just look up their license # and from that get their address and phone # and then I can go see them for real.
They have a right to be anonymous to the world at large. And the government record on "losing" records isn't going to make anyone feel good about giving that kind of identifying information to a regulatory body.
How about we require a license to post on /. and you have to put your poster id at the bottom of your posts and remove the "Post Anonymously" checkbox????
it acts as a firewall keeping Iowa from contributing more than its share of votes to the national election. The electoral college allows them to contribute X # of votes, they can't mysteriously come up with several million popular votes of people who don't exist or didn't vote. Each state is constrained by the percentage of their population to the rest of the country.
Popular vote is NOT the way to go without allowing the election to be stolen by the most industrious voter manufacturing organizations. The Electoral college does provide some safety, even it if is an archaic sounding thing. How often have the electors NOT voted the way they were supposed to?
It reduces consumer choice because some entities like banks will create sites that only work on IE, forcing consumers to use IE or do without online banking. Luckily, IE security was such a botched job that a lot of that has changed now and Mozilla is as well supported as IE by most financial institutions.
This tie to IE also means that customers have to have windows since it doesn't run on Mac or Linux. So in the end, productivity is crimped because you aren't allowed to use the tools you need or want (Mac or Linux).
Sure you could always pick another bank, I know I did it with etrade and their support of IE only, but there was a time when your choices of banks was very limited because of IE.
If Apple had the same marketshare that Windows does, they would face the same restrictions. We are all better off when there is competition because everyone is trying to outdo the other and progress is rapid just to ensure survival.
Look at how much better music players are since the iPod set a standard you had to match if you were to be considered. Now we have AmazonMP3 pushing iTunes to be DRM free. Competition is good.
I can second Zero, great book, points out how we have had gaping holes in our knowledge that eventually we had to fill in to make progress.
Less a mathematical treatise than a history book cleverly disguised as a very interesting read.
A book "In Code" by one of their peers from Ireland about something she discovered and something that almost made her famous.
http://www.amazon.com/Code-Mathematical-Journey-Sarah-Flannery/dp/0761123849/
I'd also recommend the books by Richard Feynman, not for the mathematics in them, but for the idea you can look around in the world and find all kinds of interesting things without even trying very hard. And how life can be fun and funny while still including science.
Whole disk encryption buys you security from people who steal your computer hardware. It does NOT buy you security from malware, since the disk is encrypted transparently, any process running as the user can read and write the data. You need to look at the whole picture here. Do you need to encrypt the whole drive, or do you need to encrypt the sensitive data and modify the programs that read and write that data to use encryption. If the user is running windows, and running as an admin (as most people do), any worm or trojan could read and stream the data from this computer to a server offsite. If encryption is built into your software, then they can only get at the data via the software.
We produce encryption software that does this very thing for some banks. The data is encrypted on disk, and our software can decrypt it, but the disk is not whole disk encrypted for the reasons listed above.
Whole Disk Encryption seems like the answer to your prayers, but it can be one part security theatre if the primary threat comes from within rather the computer, rather than from the theft of that computer.
Libraries are great unless you are a child who has a parent that doesn't bother to transport you there.
Kids value what their parents value, religion, money, books, knowledge.
The current generation can actually benefit from the fact that some parents Don't care. Because when parents don't care, they let their kid do what they want. So when the kid finds something like starfall.com and is interested, the parent isn't there to stamp out their dream, and the learn to read and enjoy reading. Thus breaking the cycle that most low income people are stuck in, one of ignorance and stupid actions because of that ignorance.
It's just plain harder to do some things in OO and that makes it take more time and energy to produce the same outcome.
Fonts, font names, are screwed up beyond belief, I know, it seems trivial, but when I have to hunt for a decent font in a list that stretches for miles, something is wrong......
It is easier and quicker for me to create a music chart from transcription in Word because it is easier to work with. OO has a fair amount of functionality, but to call it on par is just fantasy.
A 20% loss in performance is NOT progress, but regression. We slam Vista because it provides very little MORE than XP did with a huge cost in speed, yet somehow when Ubuntu does the same thing we call it progress.
Progress in an OS is providing more with less, hence the Kernel changes to provide better service. Sounds like maybe they aren't working out as well as expected. Would be interesting to see if the apps that performed better like GPG had their gains in performance from changes in their code vs changes in the kernel.
Sometimes what people remember as the truth isn't what happened at all, but how they wanted it to happen, therefore they build a delusion to be more at peace with the past.
(I'm not saying this one particular guy did this, but to discount that aspect altogether is kind of ridiculous)
To opt in now to a totally broken system makes NO sense. If we are going to see a better way to get the indie music out to the rest of the world, it isn't going to come from the record labels.
I think part of the problem is that this contains all the lawyer speak of the actual bills, vs the news media speak for everyone else to consume.
Looks like they need to let Google index it and link it to news articles.
I haven't seen the film, and won't bother with such crap, however, the Article does state:
This is the right result to be sure. There should never have been any doubt the filmmakers who were sued here had every right to use a short segment of a song for the purpose of criticizing it and the views it represents. But the right result came far too late.
So in this case, it wasn't background music, it was criticism of the song.
Funny that you point out Xerox and Hoover.
I've managed to live 40 years without ever owning a Hoover, but have owned a lot of machines that can "Hoover".
And Xerox isn't the only copier out there either.
I think he is dead on about iPod being dead, just like Cadillac has been replaced by Lexus and Mercedes because of better quality, and all of them are outsold by other brands because they provide what is needed at a price people are willing to pay.
Similarly, out of the 8 mp3 players I've had, only one was an ipod, and it was the only one I didn't pay for.
Because I think he's dead on. One thing that silverlight has going for it is that it is easier to code for because you can use the tools that any monkey can use. Doesn't mean the code will be well structured or easy to maintain, or that it will scale, but that lots of little monkeys will do it, and with that army of monkeys, something compelling will come out and tip the scale toward silverlight. Besides, scalability in a browser probably doesn't matter at all. I think adding yet another stupid plugin into the browser wars is a bad idea, (especially when there is no support for ALL platforms and browsers) but that doesn't mean this won't happen to us, just like IE did.
You know how many adults can't do fractions?
This is exactly what Lincoln fought for. People want to remember him because he "freed" the slaves when he only did that hoping to swell the ranks of the union army. Lincoln is the only president (so far) to use the country's military to squash some of its citizens. Something I am sure W. is envious of to this date.
You know, you may have really hit upon a solution to getting a really great education and paying teachers a reasonable amount of money. In the elementary grades, one teacher could cover all the subjects easily. 12 kids (or less) paying 4-5K per child per year would pay this teacher well. And, the instruction could be targeted toward what the kids want to learn. So you get a group that lean toward science, and one that leans toward art, and while covering the basics, you also get more depth in certain areas. Again, parents are in control because of the funding. And as long as taxes are going to be taken out for schooling, you should get a voucher equal to what they give the local public schools to teach your child. You can spend it at any approved "teacher" that you want. Teaching as a cottage industry sounds like a great idea. This doesn't work so well when you get to high school, then you begin to need the specialization (especially with the smart kids) however a group of teachers might rotate their groups of 12.
You could simply write a web app for the web and by choosing carefully how you code, it would run in ANY browser. Just a few examples would be: GMail Yahoo Mail Reuters News ......
Coding explicitly for IE doesn't do anyone any good, just like coding explicitly for firefox doesn't help either.
The web is built on standards that when used, really do work.
Yea, if we all wrote the the standards, the browsers would begin to actually support them.
Those who can't, write
Those that can't write, work for government contractors,
And those that can't hack that, work for the government directly!
Your faulty assumption is that government workers do anything of any real value.....
What is the point of using PGP to send a package to someone that obviously is clueless about security? They just wanted it emailed, if that is the case, then why give them the data at all. How do you know that once the data is outside your network, it will be cared for? If the intended recipient is not trustworthy, you might as well post it on a publicly available URL. We don't allow kids to drive because they aren't ready to take on the responsibility, I wouldn't give data to people that were clueless about security
They can't stream 100 movies over insufficient bandwidth from a Central office, but if they stream 1 movie to your DVR and then your DVR streams it to your neighbors DVRs the bandwidth at the CO stays lower, while delivering the 100 movies to DVRs all across town. I met a company at NAB talking about just this sort of thing. If you want to deliver real time PPV vs certain time PPV, then BitTorrent and P2P can actually help by keeping the bandwidth usage "in the neighborhood" and off the backbone. A movie streamed from my DVR to my nearby "neighbors" is an effective use of infrastructure that is already built out. All they have to do is allow upstream speeds > 128Kbps within my subnet.....