So why exactly don't these business edge linux into schools? Or the schools do the responsible thing and do that?
Imagine being a highschool where all your students could come out with enough linux knowledge to get a Red Hat cert if they wanted to, and the school subsidised because red hat was sponsoring or something, in exchange you work for Red Hat latter on, or they do exlusivity contracts or something. Well, even though you'll only get small groups of 5-10 people interested and actually do it, what's stopping somebody who might have a light interest from doing the program and getting a job as a redhat-certed admin? Or like an apprentice/assistant sort of position?
Talk about lucrative. I hear you guys make 100k+ easily. Imagine showing up first day of university with a corvette and money to burn. Of course when a lot of schools do it the overall wages will have to go down, or at least there will be lower pay levels (and that's not a bad thing, because you longbearded ones will be working for big tech companies you founded, and the newkids will be working the jobs at schools and stuff).
2. Economizing ports. I like a lack of ports, it always irks me when I see something as antiquated as a serial port on my notebook. Don't ask me why, but it's rather like seeing a floppy drive on a notebook.
Because, you know, nobody ever needs serial or floppies or parallel, right? Nor would we ever need PS/2. Let's just forget about the whole 1985-present day period of devices. Everybody's on USB I'm sure of it!
It irks me to see legacy ports gone. I need those, you know. Maybe you don't but I certainly do. They cost peanuts compared to other ports. And I use them for some things. Plenty of embedded devices use serial. Old printers, the inkjets without crappy "sensors", use parallel. Sometimes I use an old non-USB controller because I can't find my adapter. However, considering Apple made a fair 20 bad ports/formats they later abandonned, good for them.
Of course, it's not like Apple users keep old stuff. Oh no, everything must be new. =/
(Still, it's a non-issue when it comes to the way Apple cools its machines. Holy shit it's crazy to see the internals of an iMac. I wouldn't buy it but damn they do excellent jobs.)
I'll tell you what's unethical: It would cost me around a million dollars to fill up an iPod, if I bought all my music from the iTMS.
So, what's it going to be? A million dollars to apple, or nothing? Or just what you want?
Music is not worthless to me. But to be honest, I could just turn on the radio, and "rip" all my music from there. It won't be pretty, but then again I can streams of music channels off of QAM, so assuming it's high quality, well...
I'll buy the music that I want. But buying "music", a non-transferable digital file, is like buying bottled water. Most of the bottled water (especially brands like Neste's) are pretty much dangerous to your health. [Not to mention it would run your city not too much to get you a fresh supply of clean water, if they weren't crooks who gave away your water rights (hello dustbowl and trees dying).] Buying bottled water is a good example here, because I pay pennies for tap water, and hell there's nothing stopping me from cleaning rain water and drinking it.
So why should I pay for music? Support the bands? No thanks. These "bands" are just going to get cheques from the C-RIAA for all the blank CDs and DVDs I get, and that will kill some real bands in the process (who might not be able to import discs to try and avoid the levy).
Music is the only thing I really will not buy, because whereas year-old releases of movies drop down to 15$ or less, a music CD is still 10$-20$. Uh, yeah. Games are still high and don't seem to drop in price; but then again the used market is strong.
But then again, remember this appears as a tiny spec to the vast majority of people; it's in gvt airspace.
Then consider you're not likely going to be seeing it at night; they could always go and hide at Alert, or down south.
I mean, I don't know why you'd want one, but it looks fun and remotely useful so why not? And really in what situations are you going to be looking sideways at something in gvt airspace? In a commercial jet? I can barely see right out the window; and I'm going to look over head some thousands of feet?
Maybe it just floats around observing things. Most photography is done via planes, not satellites; I know Google does that. I doubt you'd have bombs, that would ruin the point of it.
When I was a kid and we used to make annual or even bi-annual trips down to see my grandmother and my uncles, my dad would tell me all sorts of stories about when he was younger, things like Soviet weapons tests over the Mediterranean, projects in the US & Canada (and things like the flower planting projects along Texas highways), along with other more random things...
My dad's not the kind of person to think UFO = aliens, but UFO = americans thinking outside the box. For all I know he's worked on some of these projects... Well, one of the things he told me about, was what he thought the USAF was up to... And this is some interesting stuff. So he's talking to me about airspaces, and how 50,000+ (or was it 500k?) is gvt-only, and past that is space... Well, he started talking about how you could judge a plane's direction (headed for Cuba, LA, England, or just to Chicago) based on its size in the sky (guessing at how high up it was based on things like airspaces)...
And he mentions to me this: that the US army likely has giant planes, floating around, with big plasma (or LCD or w/e) screens attached at the bottom, used to reflect what's above down below. So for non-government onlookers, nothing is there. But, go up into gvt-airspace, or out in to space, and tada! Giant airship! Able to stay in the sky fairly long; maybe not nuclear-powered, but maybe refueled from other planes, or simply refueled remotely and "carried up"...
Just was curious to see what people thought of it. Maybe this is why only the Russians seem to do commercial space travel and often it's a warned-far-in-advance sort of thing, with you up in space for only a couple of days? (I think. maybe longer to wait for another shuttle?)
Oh, I don't know. Somebody here is claiming Prentice only pulled it so late because he knew an election would be coming soon, maybe not so soon but in May. Seeing this die on the floor might not break government; I really don't think there will be any serious consequences.
And if he's doing this for the cash, well, out with him. But I'm pretty sure he's only doing this from coporate american pressure.
I think he was talking of support, though. And there is only support for one; windows (moonlight developpement is slow, and I don't know if there's a MS version for Macs...).
The conservative/progressive/westernextremist/etc party was the same thing broken up and reformed over the last few hundred years. I don't think it's unfair to say the party Mulroney and Clark had was the same Harper leads today.
whereas Conservative kind-of translates into "old-school values"
Not today's conservatives; today's conservatives are a sad shadow of what they should be, and that is fiscally conservative. Instead it really is Bush politics, and "I'll-do-like-I-want-so-back-off" way of thinking. If they were real conservatives, they would have won a majority. But they're not, sadly. I don't know what sort of kool-aid they're drinking in Calgary and Ottawa, but this is not even funny.
But of course, like you said, even the conservatives are pretty tame. Only one scandal and three outrages a month!
No, but it's (arguably) illegal for Hyundai to take Toyota engines and put them in its cars.
It's also not anti-trust if they're not crushing the enemies. You're free to make an all-in-one with a Mac-like OS; you just can't rebrand Apple products and sell them as your own.
You know, thinking back, I don't think I can remember colours in my dreams; I can fill in the blanks because of familiar situations... but maybe we do that all the time? Like we actively re-write our dreams to make them more familiar?...
Mm, and I thought I was alone too. I sometimes get those dreams.
But more often than that, even, I get dreams that... seem to take over reality. So realistic that they sometimes take precedence over history. I don't remember what I did last week at lunchtime. Did I drive an ATV past a canteen? Proposed to a lover? Did I talk to that person or not?
It's very interesting when you get dreams like that, especially when they're quite persistant.
And then you're trapped, and the passengers WILL start throwing punches. That's another post-911 lesson: I don't think anybody will let you ever hijack a plane, even if it's just going to land safely later.
Considering FireWire is 400mbps-800mbps, does not use CPU time like USB, does not share its bw with all the ports, and does not take a hit in performance except if the device is slow, it's a sound format.
The fact that it's capable of being faster than "typical" ethernet (last I checked gigabit is still pricey) makes it an attractive proposition for say a mythTV set up, wired over firewire. Or you know, set top boxes, becoming more and more popular, who's realistic option for outputing and controlling would be firewire.
A) Everything can, will, and should end up being "cracked" one day or another. Go on, find me games that I can't find online. I'll give you that some platforms are harder than other (SMAC for Linux I think there's only a series of RARs on Rapidshare for it), but there's only so few platforms.
b) No, not really. I will only share the high quality stuff that I find among the crap that I get from strangers.
To be honest, if you release a good game, and it's locked down, I'm downloading it. You want to know why? You never gave me a chance to play it. You know, I bought SMAC; and when I found out it didn't have any DRM at all (you could copy+paste the game directory!) I bought two other copies and gave them to friends. On the other hand, when I found out Spore had such insane DRM, I encouraged my friends who wanted to try it out to download it.
Maybe I'll send Will Wright a cake as a thank you.
Only Grise Fiord gets anyway near, and that has a dark story to it. Not only that but I think it's 3+ hours away from Pond Inlet, itself 6 hours from Iqaluit, itself 6 hours away from Ottawa. By plane. Yeah.
There's Alert, but I really doubt those GI Joes are out huntin' for caribou nose and polar bears.
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Quebec-Windsor has a giant highway system that doesn't seem too troubled. Same for the trans-canadian highway.
Does this have to be underground?
However, there is one thing that saves it:
The technology is there. The only issue is powering it.
I mean, sure, why the hell would you want it? But then again it could just be for epeen.
That's fine. I can live without Brotney Spars. Not like she and the rest of hollywood deserve millions of dollars a year. All for her voice?
I'll just keep buying my Sezen Aksu CDs and other more obscure turk pop.
So why exactly don't these business edge linux into schools? Or the schools do the responsible thing and do that?
Imagine being a highschool where all your students could come out with enough linux knowledge to get a Red Hat cert if they wanted to, and the school subsidised because red hat was sponsoring or something, in exchange you work for Red Hat latter on, or they do exlusivity contracts or something. Well, even though you'll only get small groups of 5-10 people interested and actually do it, what's stopping somebody who might have a light interest from doing the program and getting a job as a redhat-certed admin? Or like an apprentice/assistant sort of position?
Talk about lucrative. I hear you guys make 100k+ easily. Imagine showing up first day of university with a corvette and money to burn. Of course when a lot of schools do it the overall wages will have to go down, or at least there will be lower pay levels (and that's not a bad thing, because you longbearded ones will be working for big tech companies you founded, and the newkids will be working the jobs at schools and stuff).
2. Economizing ports. I like a lack of ports, it always irks me when I see something as antiquated as a serial port on my notebook. Don't ask me why, but it's rather like seeing a floppy drive on a notebook.
Because, you know, nobody ever needs serial or floppies or parallel, right? Nor would we ever need PS/2. Let's just forget about the whole 1985-present day period of devices. Everybody's on USB I'm sure of it!
It irks me to see legacy ports gone. I need those, you know. Maybe you don't but I certainly do. They cost peanuts compared to other ports. And I use them for some things. Plenty of embedded devices use serial. Old printers, the inkjets without crappy "sensors", use parallel. Sometimes I use an old non-USB controller because I can't find my adapter. However, considering Apple made a fair 20 bad ports/formats they later abandonned, good for them.
Of course, it's not like Apple users keep old stuff. Oh no, everything must be new. =/
(Still, it's a non-issue when it comes to the way Apple cools its machines. Holy shit it's crazy to see the internals of an iMac. I wouldn't buy it but damn they do excellent jobs.)
Nothing is naturally usable past the nipple.
I'll tell you what's unethical: It would cost me around a million dollars to fill up an iPod, if I bought all my music from the iTMS.
So, what's it going to be? A million dollars to apple, or nothing? Or just what you want?
Music is not worthless to me. But to be honest, I could just turn on the radio, and "rip" all my music from there. It won't be pretty, but then again I can streams of music channels off of QAM, so assuming it's high quality, well...
I'll buy the music that I want. But buying "music", a non-transferable digital file, is like buying bottled water. Most of the bottled water (especially brands like Neste's) are pretty much dangerous to your health. [Not to mention it would run your city not too much to get you a fresh supply of clean water, if they weren't crooks who gave away your water rights (hello dustbowl and trees dying).] Buying bottled water is a good example here, because I pay pennies for tap water, and hell there's nothing stopping me from cleaning rain water and drinking it.
So why should I pay for music? Support the bands? No thanks. These "bands" are just going to get cheques from the C-RIAA for all the blank CDs and DVDs I get, and that will kill some real bands in the process (who might not be able to import discs to try and avoid the levy).
Music is the only thing I really will not buy, because whereas year-old releases of movies drop down to 15$ or less, a music CD is still 10$-20$. Uh, yeah. Games are still high and don't seem to drop in price; but then again the used market is strong.
Maybe for fun?
But then again, remember this appears as a tiny spec to the vast majority of people; it's in gvt airspace.
Then consider you're not likely going to be seeing it at night; they could always go and hide at Alert, or down south.
I mean, I don't know why you'd want one, but it looks fun and remotely useful so why not? And really in what situations are you going to be looking sideways at something in gvt airspace? In a commercial jet? I can barely see right out the window; and I'm going to look over head some thousands of feet?
Maybe it just floats around observing things. Most photography is done via planes, not satellites; I know Google does that. I doubt you'd have bombs, that would ruin the point of it.
(Of whatever origin they may be)...
When I was a kid and we used to make annual or even bi-annual trips down to see my grandmother and my uncles, my dad would tell me all sorts of stories about when he was younger, things like Soviet weapons tests over the Mediterranean, projects in the US & Canada (and things like the flower planting projects along Texas highways), along with other more random things...
My dad's not the kind of person to think UFO = aliens, but UFO = americans thinking outside the box. For all I know he's worked on some of these projects... Well, one of the things he told me about, was what he thought the USAF was up to... And this is some interesting stuff. So he's talking to me about airspaces, and how 50,000+ (or was it 500k?) is gvt-only, and past that is space... Well, he started talking about how you could judge a plane's direction (headed for Cuba, LA, England, or just to Chicago) based on its size in the sky (guessing at how high up it was based on things like airspaces)...
And he mentions to me this: that the US army likely has giant planes, floating around, with big plasma (or LCD or w/e) screens attached at the bottom, used to reflect what's above down below. So for non-government onlookers, nothing is there. But, go up into gvt-airspace, or out in to space, and tada! Giant airship! Able to stay in the sky fairly long; maybe not nuclear-powered, but maybe refueled from other planes, or simply refueled remotely and "carried up"...
Just was curious to see what people thought of it. Maybe this is why only the Russians seem to do commercial space travel and often it's a warned-far-in-advance sort of thing, with you up in space for only a couple of days? (I think. maybe longer to wait for another shuttle?)
Oh, I don't know. Somebody here is claiming Prentice only pulled it so late because he knew an election would be coming soon, maybe not so soon but in May. Seeing this die on the floor might not break government; I really don't think there will be any serious consequences.
And if he's doing this for the cash, well, out with him. But I'm pretty sure he's only doing this from coporate american pressure.
I think he was talking of support, though. And there is only support for one; windows (moonlight developpement is slow, and I don't know if there's a MS version for Macs...).
The conservative/progressive/westernextremist/etc party was the same thing broken up and reformed over the last few hundred years. I don't think it's unfair to say the party Mulroney and Clark had was the same Harper leads today.
whereas Conservative kind-of translates into "old-school values"
Not today's conservatives; today's conservatives are a sad shadow of what they should be, and that is fiscally conservative. Instead it really is Bush politics, and "I'll-do-like-I-want-so-back-off" way of thinking. If they were real conservatives, they would have won a majority. But they're not, sadly. I don't know what sort of kool-aid they're drinking in Calgary and Ottawa, but this is not even funny.
But of course, like you said, even the conservatives are pretty tame. Only one scandal and three outrages a month!
Considering the CRIAA has said this is overkill, Prentice and Harper need to be shot already for being effectively US anal probes.
When has the conservative party ever listened to Canadians?
1800s?
No, but it's (arguably) illegal for Hyundai to take Toyota engines and put them in its cars.
It's also not anti-trust if they're not crushing the enemies. You're free to make an all-in-one with a Mac-like OS; you just can't rebrand Apple products and sell them as your own.
A liveCD-like platform that checks for EFI maybe? Or something else "unique" to Apple hardware?
Why are you paying for a NES emulator?
You know, thinking back, I don't think I can remember colours in my dreams; I can fill in the blanks because of familiar situations... but maybe we do that all the time? Like we actively re-write our dreams to make them more familiar?...
Mm, and I thought I was alone too. I sometimes get those dreams.
But more often than that, even, I get dreams that... seem to take over reality. So realistic that they sometimes take precedence over history. I don't remember what I did last week at lunchtime. Did I drive an ATV past a canteen? Proposed to a lover? Did I talk to that person or not?
It's very interesting when you get dreams like that, especially when they're quite persistant.
And then you're trapped, and the passengers WILL start throwing punches. That's another post-911 lesson: I don't think anybody will let you ever hijack a plane, even if it's just going to land safely later.
Considering FireWire is 400mbps-800mbps, does not use CPU time like USB, does not share its bw with all the ports, and does not take a hit in performance except if the device is slow, it's a sound format.
The fact that it's capable of being faster than "typical" ethernet (last I checked gigabit is still pricey) makes it an attractive proposition for say a mythTV set up, wired over firewire. Or you know, set top boxes, becoming more and more popular, who's realistic option for outputing and controlling would be firewire.
A) Everything can, will, and should end up being "cracked" one day or another. Go on, find me games that I can't find online. I'll give you that some platforms are harder than other (SMAC for Linux I think there's only a series of RARs on Rapidshare for it), but there's only so few platforms.
b) No, not really. I will only share the high quality stuff that I find among the crap that I get from strangers.
To be honest, if you release a good game, and it's locked down, I'm downloading it. You want to know why? You never gave me a chance to play it. You know, I bought SMAC; and when I found out it didn't have any DRM at all (you could copy+paste the game directory!) I bought two other copies and gave them to friends. On the other hand, when I found out Spore had such insane DRM, I encouraged my friends who wanted to try it out to download it.
Maybe I'll send Will Wright a cake as a thank you.
Except polar bears don't go that far north.
Neither do people.
Only Grise Fiord gets anyway near, and that has a dark story to it. Not only that but I think it's 3+ hours away from Pond Inlet, itself 6 hours from Iqaluit, itself 6 hours away from Ottawa. By plane. Yeah.
There's Alert, but I really doubt those GI Joes are out huntin' for caribou nose and polar bears.
Back to school is bigger than Christmas from what I hear, at least for OEMs.
How many times have you woken up to a computer on christmas morning? What about your non-computerloving friends?
But then again, this means they cleared out most of the old stuff during the high sales, and now it's only the new ones.