You could make a little mini CD rack (an SD rack) for your mobile phone tags (^_^) and one with a little magnifying glass for reading the title & artist off the spine of the microSD cards.
Indeed. Quite a topical point, as this is the first time in a long time that the music industry has even suggested that they are interested in meeting their obligations to publish in a format that can enter the public domain at the end of it's period of protection under copyright law.
They've muddied the waters to such a degree that I'd really like to see someone put the case that Copy Protection == No Copyright Protection.
More importantly, I've been trying to decide which window manager to put on my eee-pc 901 (when it finally gets to Australia) I'd narrowed it down to 2 candidates for testing. I know which one I'm going to look at first! Take a look at Matchbox's 'desktop', then look at a default EEE-PC's. Have you seen a non-technical person interact with a default eee-pc install for the first time? (^-^) Their eyes are full of curiosity, instead of fear.
... a new genre in the PC market, and Microsoft is so far from having an appropriate response that...
I think the point to note here is "sudo commands I type in"
As long as you are comfortable with the consequences of typing things you don't understand into a root prompt & hitting enter, I say go for it. Sounds like a great spectator sport. It is quite different though. Are there 'sudo' commands popping up in your browser asking if you want to install programs/plug-ins?
You are administering your computer with sudo. The other case is about 'user' interaction.
The Myth of the 'noble savage' as you put it, lies in who the savages were. The people walking into villages & murdering anyone who complained when they enslaved everyone else......they weren't savages. Apparently to be a savage, you have to be the one getting savaged.
It's probably worth noting that a couple of centuries before that, North Africa did a roaring trade in white slaves from the UK. Apparently at one point the going rate in Morocco for a white boy from England was less than a goat. Given how savage those noble English savages must have been after a couple of weeks on a Viking longship, that's probably to be expected though.
If it costs less & is manufactured locally, then (unless it's receiving massive government subsidy) it almost certainly uses less power to produce (ie: has a lower embodied energy) than conventional solar cells made from high grade silicon.
Whether it stacks up for a particular use, as you say, requires some harder figures than "cheaper & bigger". It also doesn't mention efficiency.
Now all your e-mails are on your computer. Unfortunately they are 'backed up' in a proprietary format supported by only one company, but that's OK because 'they are not (*cough*)' Oh!
Why not use a standard, well understood format with multiple implementations? mbox, maildir, etc?
I have been using Linux since ~97-98. I now use a built from source distribution (Gentoo) because I know I will never be prevented from doing something I want to do by choices my distribution has made for me.
With that said, Ubuntu is outstanding. It is far more convenient and easy to setup than Gentoo, but is still very close in terms of it's flexibility. I regularly check out new versions of Ubuntu to see what they are up to & am almost always impressed by the leaps & bounds they've made since I last looked them up. They seem to have moved on from the preachy, patronising and counter-productive attitude that has been a boat anchor for debain for as long as I can remember. Many of the basic functionality issues that caused me to move away from binary distributions (crippling packages with a global distribution because of twisted & crippled IP laws in one country that I couldn't care less about) are resolved or readily worked around by Ubuntu. I always recommend it to people who ask: 'what is linux?'
That's your country. Your country didn't invent IP. Sorry to be the one to tell you. IP law was invented to bring 'trade secrets' into the public domain. Bringing knowledge into the public domain stimulates innovation.
We now give copyright protection to people who distribute works in 'trade secret' proprietary formats designed to prevent the work from ever meeting their obligations as a publisher under copyright law. I blame a group of American & Japanese companies for that tragic state of affairs. The more they abuse their customers rights and ignore their own obligations, the more they preach about how nasty their customers shouldn't have rights because they are probably all criminals. All the while it becomes more convenient to not be one of their customers.
Even if you buy their work legitimately, you need to break the law in the USA in order to exercise your rights AS A COUNTRY AND A PEOPLE under copyright law. Whether you're breaking your laws (DMCA) now, or in 20 years or 30 or 40 or 50 is irrelevant. To my mind it's just messed up. Clearly one of your top IP lawyers tends to agree.
I care because the USA's perversion of copyright & patent laws affects me in my country. Most notably the USA's tragically disfunctional patent system affects what can be written in works of art that are my software. That pisses me off royally on a regular basis.
connecting a windows box to the Internet & then trusting it to determine your country's government is just stupid.
Whether the application code is excellent or not is largely irrelevant if the platform is crap code. That is the point you seem to be missing.
A thin layer of gold paint on a turd looks fine until someone pokes it with a stick. Then it stinks. People are starting to poke sticks at Deibold. Deibold are starting to stink. Which bit is rubbish is really a question of blame, but building a voting machine infrastructure that requires anti-virus software is pretty messed up. That anti-virus software compromising it's primary function is laughable, if you're not from the USA. Elections being run using systems where the anti-virus software is known to compromise the system's core function of vote counting......what words can describe how wrong that is?
If the internet is so f--- up that plugging a new computer onto it brings it under immediate attack, then, well, the good guys have -lost-. It's really time to start unplugging bad guys from the internet period, applying stricter filtering at the ISP level, and more rigidly filtering countries who don't police their networks. Five minutes to be attacked? The internet is LOST.
!SIGH! The machines running the attacks are unpatched Windows XP boxes that have already been infected
This is happening because Microsoft shipped a version of Windows with services (designed with little or no consideration of security) turned on by default, but without providing any form of firewall.
!YES! This was a long time ago, but the effects are stil being felt. This is not your ISP's fault. It IS your beloved Microsoft's fault.
How would you feel if your ISP kicked you off the internet because you are using a badly made operating system? That's what the end result of your proposal would be. Unpatched Windows XP users would get kicked off the internet. That would probably solve the problem, and I can definitely see an argument for it, but I don't think that was what you really meant, was it?
I take your point. Microsoft definitely stitched up the sales & distribution side better than the Apple Mac OS they tried to clone, just as Apple definitely stitched up the sales & distribution side better than the Xerox Star OS & office suite that they tried to clone.
The difference is that Microsoft wasn't selling hardware. They were selling a cheap & dirty operating system when better options were already available. (-: I for one blame IBM:-)
Why, if it weren't for Teh Eevil Corporations, we'd be comfortably back to better times. You know, when the guy with the big mustache and the mule-pulled wagon delivered a block to your icebox. You seem to be a little confused.
Evil monopolies stifle competition & innovation. That's what people are complaining about.
Corporations in a commodity market must innovate & compete or die.
Evil monopolies lead to the guy with the big mustache and the mule-pulled wagon with a shiny stainless signage plate on the side of it and free leaflets for all on the wonders of the mule-pulled wagon. Microsoft Windows XP. Although the signage is looking a little tarnished now. They must have used low grade stainless.
The water obviously isn't providing the energy input. It's acting like a less environmentally catastrophic battery.
I'll assume that the car uses solar power (more likely mains power in Tokyo) to split water into hydrogen & oxygen. The car stores pure hydrogen & oxygen to burn together when needed. There is nothing new about the concept. The problems are pretty significant though.
Obviously you need to store a substantial amount of hydrogen & oxygen together in a little high velocity box that you intend to move randomly through populated areas......there are other problems, but that's usually about where everyone's interest trails off. This really leaves one question. Have they developed a way to store large amounts of pressurised hydrogen next to highly pressurised oxygen in a small lightweight container?
If they have then there are other benefits to the concept. If you can provide the oxygen needed for the combustion, then you don't need to draw in oxygen from the atmosphere, so all those nasty nitrous oxides (smog) that conventional combustion engines produce are removed from the equation. The output of the combustion is energy & water. Obviously you need to feed the energy back in again to get the hydrogen to go again......unless they have some kind of miracle catalyst... (^_^)...maybe it powers your A/C too!
I'd wait for an answer from the tech team, cause their marketing people are clearly full of it.
Actually if you trialed the script with the french system, I could see some of those sites justifiably making the cut. The scope of their definition of wrong extends beyond kiddie porn. It also covers hate mongering.
Slashdot Mirror
tee hee...
You could make a little mini CD rack (an SD rack) for your mobile phone tags (^_^)
and one with a little magnifying glass for reading the title & artist off the spine of the microSD cards.
Indeed. Quite a topical point, as this is the first time in a long time that the music industry has even suggested that they are interested in meeting their obligations to publish in a format that can enter the public domain at the end of it's period of protection under copyright law.
They've muddied the waters to such a degree that I'd really like to see someone put the case that Copy Protection == No Copyright Protection.
More importantly, I've been trying to decide which window manager to put on my eee-pc 901 (when it finally gets to Australia) I'd narrowed it down to 2 candidates for testing. I know which one I'm going to look at first! Take a look at Matchbox's 'desktop', then look at a default EEE-PC's. Have you seen a non-technical person interact with a default eee-pc install for the first time? (^-^) Their eyes are full of curiosity, instead of fear.
... a new genre in the PC market, and Microsoft is so far from having an appropriate response that...
my heart fills with joy.
I think the point to note here is "sudo commands I type in"
As long as you are comfortable with the consequences of typing things you don't understand into a root prompt & hitting enter, I say go for it. Sounds like a great spectator sport. It is quite different though. Are there 'sudo' commands popping up in your browser asking if you want to install programs/plug-ins?
You are administering your computer with sudo. The other case is about 'user' interaction.
I believe moderatorrater is refering to this security: http://www.neowin.net/news/main/08/08/08/vista39s-security-rendered-completely-useless-by-new-exploit
I think it's a joke. I like the bit about sudo.
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Sounds like the kind of pseduo-management speak that drives me nuts. I hope the execution is better than the idea sounds.
I don't.
I hope they wallow in delusional apathy for another 7 years & end up sitting out the 64bit era.
I hope they get filed under "boat anchor" as a footnote to the history of computing.
The Myth of the 'noble savage' as you put it, lies in who the savages were. The people walking into villages & murdering anyone who complained when they enslaved everyone else... ...they weren't savages. Apparently to be a savage, you have to be the one getting savaged.
It's probably worth noting that a couple of centuries before that, North Africa did a roaring trade in white slaves from the UK. Apparently at one point the going rate in Morocco for a white boy from England was less than a goat. Given how savage those noble English savages must have been after a couple of weeks on a Viking longship, that's probably to be expected though.
Until you use kerberos from a Windows box. Then your password takes a seat on the next busload of outgoing spam.
Indeed the old green question re: solar.
If it costs less & is manufactured locally, then (unless it's receiving massive government subsidy) it almost certainly uses less power to produce (ie: has a lower embodied energy) than conventional solar cells made from high grade silicon.
Whether it stacks up for a particular use, as you say, requires some harder figures than "cheaper & bigger". It also doesn't mention efficiency.
save off your email to a .PST file
Now all your e-mails are on your computer. Unfortunately they are 'backed up' in a proprietary format supported by only one company, but that's OK because 'they are not (*cough*)' Oh!
Why not use a standard, well understood format with multiple implementations? mbox, maildir, etc?
that's why God made routers.
it's also why god made snort.
I have been using Linux since ~97-98. I now use a built from source distribution (Gentoo) because I know I will never be prevented from doing something I want to do by choices my distribution has made for me.
With that said, Ubuntu is outstanding. It is far more convenient and easy to setup than Gentoo, but is still very close in terms of it's flexibility. I regularly check out new versions of Ubuntu to see what they are up to & am almost always impressed by the leaps & bounds they've made since I last looked them up. They seem to have moved on from the preachy, patronising and counter-productive attitude that has been a boat anchor for debain for as long as I can remember. Many of the basic functionality issues that caused me to move away from binary distributions (crippling packages with a global distribution because of twisted & crippled IP laws in one country that I couldn't care less about) are resolved or readily worked around by Ubuntu. I always recommend it to people who ask: 'what is linux?'
That's your country. Your country didn't invent IP. Sorry to be the one to tell you. IP law was invented to bring 'trade secrets' into the public domain. Bringing knowledge into the public domain stimulates innovation.
We now give copyright protection to people who distribute works in 'trade secret' proprietary formats designed to prevent the work from ever meeting their obligations as a publisher under copyright law. I blame a group of American & Japanese companies for that tragic state of affairs. The more they abuse their customers rights and ignore their own obligations, the more they preach about how nasty their customers shouldn't have rights because they are probably all criminals. All the while it becomes more convenient to not be one of their customers.
Even if you buy their work legitimately, you need to break the law in the USA in order to exercise your rights AS A COUNTRY AND A PEOPLE under copyright law. Whether you're breaking your laws (DMCA) now, or in 20 years or 30 or 40 or 50 is irrelevant. To my mind it's just messed up. Clearly one of your top IP lawyers tends to agree.
I care because the USA's perversion of copyright & patent laws affects me in my country. Most notably the USA's tragically disfunctional patent system affects what can be written in works of art that are my software. That pisses me off royally on a regular basis.
connecting a windows box to the Internet & then trusting it to determine your country's government is just stupid.
Whether the application code is excellent or not is largely irrelevant if the platform is crap code. That is the point you seem to be missing.
A thin layer of gold paint on a turd looks fine until someone pokes it with a stick. Then it stinks. People are starting to poke sticks at Deibold. Deibold are starting to stink. Which bit is rubbish is really a question of blame, but building a voting machine infrastructure that requires anti-virus software is pretty messed up. That anti-virus software compromising it's primary function is laughable, if you're not from the USA. Elections being run using systems where the anti-virus software is known to compromise the system's core function of vote counting... ...what words can describe how wrong that is?
If the internet is so f--- up that plugging a new computer onto it brings it under immediate attack, then, well, the good guys have -lost-. It's really time to start unplugging bad guys from the internet period, applying stricter filtering at the ISP level, and more rigidly filtering countries who don't police their networks. Five minutes to be attacked? The internet is LOST.
!SIGH! The machines running the attacks are unpatched Windows XP boxes that have already been infected
This is happening because Microsoft shipped a version of Windows with services (designed with little or no consideration of security) turned on by default, but without providing any form of firewall.
!YES! This was a long time ago, but the effects are stil being felt. This is not your ISP's fault. It IS your beloved Microsoft's fault.
How would you feel if your ISP kicked you off the internet because you are using a badly made operating system? That's what the end result of your proposal would be. Unpatched Windows XP users would get kicked off the internet. That would probably solve the problem, and I can definitely see an argument for it, but I don't think that was what you really meant, was it?
Now it turns out that Windows is very fast.
Kinda like a high priced callgirl...and just as expensive to purchase.
But you only get to use windows for a couple of hours before you get a virus ... oh, wait ...
So wouldn't that make Windows more like a high priced 'crack ho'?
I take your point. Microsoft definitely stitched up the sales & distribution side better than the Apple Mac OS they tried to clone, just as Apple definitely stitched up the sales & distribution side better than the Xerox Star OS & office suite that they tried to clone.
The difference is that Microsoft wasn't selling hardware. They were selling a cheap & dirty operating system when better options were already available. (-: I for one blame IBM :-)
Evil monopolies lead to the guy with the big mustache and the mule-pulled wagon with a shiny stainless signage plate on the side of it and free leaflets for all on the wonders of the mule-pulled wagon. Microsoft Windows XP. Although the signage is looking a little tarnished now. They must have used low grade stainless.
The water obviously isn't providing the energy input. It's acting like a less environmentally catastrophic battery.
...there are other problems, but that's usually about where everyone's interest trails off. This really leaves one question. Have they developed a way to store large amounts of pressurised hydrogen next to highly pressurised oxygen in a small lightweight container?
...unless they have some kind of miracle catalyst... (^_^) ...maybe it powers your A/C too!
I'll assume that the car uses solar power (more likely mains power in Tokyo) to split water into hydrogen & oxygen. The car stores pure hydrogen & oxygen to burn together when needed. There is nothing new about the concept. The problems are pretty significant though.
Obviously you need to store a substantial amount of hydrogen & oxygen together in a little high velocity box that you intend to move randomly through populated areas...
If they have then there are other benefits to the concept. If you can provide the oxygen needed for the combustion, then you don't need to draw in oxygen from the atmosphere, so all those nasty nitrous oxides (smog) that conventional combustion engines produce are removed from the equation. The output of the combustion is energy & water. Obviously you need to feed the energy back in again to get the hydrogen to go again...
I'd wait for an answer from the tech team, cause their marketing people are clearly full of it.
Actually if you trialed the script with the french system, I could see some of those sites justifiably making the cut.
The scope of their definition of wrong extends beyond kiddie porn. It also covers hate mongering.
Linux is a competitive commodity market.
If you're looking for artificial monopolies & secret police goons, go look in Redmond
...because rotors sound like rotors & fish sound like fish.
You don't really think these are for tracking whales do you?
You could do away with the fins then!
As with all things Quantum, its a model of what could be known.
My Mum has already achieved what you're after
Mom "but it didn't have a virus before you looked at it!"
I "did it take 30 mins to boot?"
Mom "yes, but it didn't have any virus"
another Mac invented it... ...then why did they come second?
having something before Microsoft windows doesn't mean they invented it.