Same goes for tablets: the reason that we don't have dozens of $100 or $200 options is that even people who "just want to browse the web" suddenly decided that includes fullscreen video with high frame rates. Take that away, and all sorts of hardware options become viable.
Steve Jobs was right to insist on it for the iPad - as soon as the hardware was there, out she comes. But I still kind of hate him for it, because it's created an expectation of high end GPU ability on every bleeding device out there.
The standard will cover that range. It doesn't mean the power adapter has to. I could be pretty happy with small / medium / large being the only three choices in the world.
I recently tried to replace a lost power brick for the popular EEE 10 inch netbook while on the road. $70. It can't get much worse than that.
Why do you think that supporting stockholders isn't also supporting terrorists? I mean, why not pay em $200,000 for them to take down a rival? It's a free market, man.
Look, none of the WYSIWYG HTML editors work well. They fought a three way battle against hand coding and content managers, and it's now down to just the two. Because they work better. It's a feature.
It's a beautiful piece of kit. If this were a Deviant Art sculpture project, I'd be in. The fact that these jokers think it'll actually FLY makes it better.
Looking forward to more tests. I also think this thing will kill a lot of pilots. But whatever.
True, although in our case, my wife referred to our daughter affectionately as Blasty well into the pregnancy.
She also sang Frank Sinatra ("I get a kick out of you") to the fetus every day for 7 months or so, so she could compare the response post-partum to a control (Dean Martin). Results were inconclusive. We're considering another trial.
In the United States, non-profit is merely a tax category available to organizations that fulfill a publicly useful mission, and accept some severe ownership restrictions (they are, by definition, owned by the public) as specified by the IRS. Some are good, some are bad. However, it's naive to pretend that there are no categorical differences between a publicly traded institution and a public interest one. For starters, the attitude towards quarterly returns and short term vs long term interests.
I'm on the email list for this project. Your goal: "provide intelligent analysis of the news (not discussion forums)" is a pretty good summary of the entire point of this operation.
I personally don't see how that conflicts with any news revenue model. At the end of the day, providing value (of some kind) to readers (tastes vary) is still pretty essential to all of them.
This. Also that "full ID" system should have an actual human editor -- yes, it's that elitist -- choosing the three best comments to appear right up at the TOP of the story. The race to the top, literally and figuratively, will incentivize people to try to win the hearts of the editors. The quality of the comments, much like the quality of the news, will depend on their editorial choices.
And next to it, a crowd powered mod system. And next to that, the slush pile, with a nominate button to alert the editors to high quality stuff. Will the editors get spammed? Yup. Will the readers? Nope.
In many parts of the world, basic civil freedoms are not possible without anonymous communications. Given events in North Africa, surveillance combined with brutal repression (see Bahrain, Syria, Yemen, Ivory Coast) is now an expected outcome of trying to organize political discourse in many places.
Buy a Linux-based router that can run open-source firmware such as DD-WRT. See the DD-WRT site for a list of available devices.
Replace the junk firmware the comes with the router, which is primarily used to segment identical hardware into low-end and high-end product categories. You now have a much better device at no extra cost.
With DD-WRT the router can be configured to run two wifi networks. They can be configured separately and throttled for bandwidth if you prefer.
One LAN is open to the world. One LAN is closed. Done!
Also, if you take a look at the module itself you'll see that by default it will not crash IE6. That's simply an option that can be enabled if you're feeling particularly malicious.
You'll see if you look at this smallpox-infected blanket, that it is not flung into that village by default. It's merely an option for which I bear no moral responsibility at all.
> A perfectly sane feature has now been curtailed effectively by public outcry against perceived violation of privacy.
Not local. The file was copied to any machine that syncs the device. In the case of corporate iPhones and iPads, it means your off-duty location track is sitting on a company owned system. On a corporate phone, it's not clear who owns that database, but in reality it's catch-me-if-you-can. Yes, I'd say that I "perceive" that to be a privacy violation.
Also, what the FUD? No features have been removed. You're free to ignore this stuff, but if you're going to comment on it at least recognize when "public outcry" made a bad situation a little better.
"Knowing" your roommate is gay is one thing. Having electronic evidence that helps you "prove" it is another. The story linked is alarmist, but at smaller scale this isn't that uncommon for gays -- I've had a friend get hired, show up for work and be told "you aren't a team player" after a less than a week. Maybe he's not a team player. But maybe being queer at a Southern firm had something to do with it. He was probably outed by information leaking from electronic services (Facebook, etc). This is one more vector for this.
Privacy rights aren't needed for everyone. They're needed by those on the margins of social approval, with little power of their own. I don't think that makes them less important.
For a lot of people who travel extensively (consultants), a workplace-assigned computer is their only laptop when on the road. This leads to lots of work-home blurring.
I will concede the debate that permanently logged location information is required to run the features consumers want. I think it's false, and I think it's about iAds, but I'll concede it.
However, the lack of encryption or even simple hashing on this database is inexcusable. Unencrypted copies stored on every computer an iOS device syncs to! Inexcusable, irresponsible, sloppy software. A product which flings around my private data that way is a broken product, regardless of which features it offers. This is a stalkers dream. This will appear in every divorce court (That database is jointly owned property!). This will be used to bully and out gay college roommates (Physical access to your desktop? Yup). This will be used to keep tabs on employees work habits (Have iTunes on a work computer? Burned).
Apple made terrible software, and they are now informing us that they will continue to do so.
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Thus, we locate the last person on Earth who has not heard of GroupOn.
Rejoice, friend, because you are lucky soul.
This.
Same goes for tablets: the reason that we don't have dozens of $100 or $200 options is that even people who "just want to browse the web" suddenly decided that includes fullscreen video with high frame rates. Take that away, and all sorts of hardware options become viable.
Steve Jobs was right to insist on it for the iPad - as soon as the hardware was there, out she comes. But I still kind of hate him for it, because it's created an expectation of high end GPU ability on every bleeding device out there.
The standard will cover that range. It doesn't mean the power adapter has to. I could be pretty happy with small / medium / large being the only three choices in the world.
I recently tried to replace a lost power brick for the popular EEE 10 inch netbook while on the road. $70. It can't get much worse than that.
Good machine translation is five years away, and has been for the last 40 years.
Why do you think that supporting stockholders isn't also supporting terrorists? I mean, why not pay em $200,000 for them to take down a rival? It's a free market, man.
Uh, there's been a team of hackers doing that for some time. You may have heard about them.
Also, it takes a special person to make Wikileaks look like the adults in the room. Thanks for that.
In what way is Drupal corporate? Seriously, explain it to me. Because it seems pretty FLOSS and community supported to me.
Look, none of the WYSIWYG HTML editors work well. They fought a three way battle against hand coding and content managers, and it's now down to just the two. Because they work better. It's a feature.
Remind me why I have to download a PDF file to read text on the Internet? HTML's been working since, oh, a while now. Pretty standard stuff.
It's a beautiful piece of kit. If this were a Deviant Art sculpture project, I'd be in. The fact that these jokers think it'll actually FLY makes it better.
Looking forward to more tests. I also think this thing will kill a lot of pilots. But whatever.
> Violating the terms of service and thus the contract between you and the company for the service instead of living up to your word and having honor.
Contracts must be entered willingly, and unless you actually read the TOS of every website you open, I call bullshit on you, good sir.
True, although in our case, my wife referred to our daughter affectionately as Blasty well into the pregnancy.
She also sang Frank Sinatra ("I get a kick out of you") to the fetus every day for 7 months or so, so she could compare the response post-partum to a control (Dean Martin). Results were inconclusive. We're considering another trial.
In the United States, non-profit is merely a tax category available to organizations that fulfill a publicly useful mission, and accept some severe ownership restrictions (they are, by definition, owned by the public) as specified by the IRS. Some are good, some are bad. However, it's naive to pretend that there are no categorical differences between a publicly traded institution and a public interest one. For starters, the attitude towards quarterly returns and short term vs long term interests.
I'm on the email list for this project. Your goal: "provide intelligent analysis of the news (not discussion forums)" is a pretty good summary of the entire point of this operation.
I personally don't see how that conflicts with any news revenue model. At the end of the day, providing value (of some kind) to readers (tastes vary) is still pretty essential to all of them.
This. Also that "full ID" system should have an actual human editor -- yes, it's that elitist -- choosing the three best comments to appear right up at the TOP of the story. The race to the top, literally and figuratively, will incentivize people to try to win the hearts of the editors. The quality of the comments, much like the quality of the news, will depend on their editorial choices.
And next to it, a crowd powered mod system. And next to that, the slush pile, with a nominate button to alert the editors to high quality stuff. Will the editors get spammed? Yup. Will the readers? Nope.
> Is this just a matter of principle, or do you actually have something to hide?
Yeah, this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Chinese_protests
In many parts of the world, basic civil freedoms are not possible without anonymous communications. Given events in North Africa, surveillance combined with brutal repression (see Bahrain, Syria, Yemen, Ivory Coast) is now an expected outcome of trying to organize political discourse in many places.
Reading this makes me more likely to use their service. Well played. Seriously.
Buy a Linux-based router that can run open-source firmware such as DD-WRT. See the DD-WRT site for a list of available devices.
Replace the junk firmware the comes with the router, which is primarily used to segment identical hardware into low-end and high-end product categories. You now have a much better device at no extra cost.
With DD-WRT the router can be configured to run two wifi networks. They can be configured separately and throttled for bandwidth if you prefer.
One LAN is open to the world. One LAN is closed. Done!
http://www.dd-wrt.com/site/index
You do understand that IP peering is based on nearly the same things you're saying won't work. The Internet: it'll never fly!
Also, if you take a look at the module itself you'll see that by default it will not crash IE6. That's simply an option that can be enabled if you're feeling particularly malicious.
You'll see if you look at this smallpox-infected blanket, that it is not flung into that village by default. It's merely an option for which I bear no moral responsibility at all.
> A perfectly sane feature has now been curtailed effectively by public outcry against perceived violation of privacy.
Not local. The file was copied to any machine that syncs the device. In the case of corporate iPhones and iPads, it means your off-duty location track is sitting on a company owned system. On a corporate phone, it's not clear who owns that database, but in reality it's catch-me-if-you-can. Yes, I'd say that I "perceive" that to be a privacy violation.
Also, what the FUD? No features have been removed. You're free to ignore this stuff, but if you're going to comment on it at least recognize when "public outcry" made a bad situation a little better.
These examples are all referencing real problems:
Here's your gay-roommate citation
"Knowing" your roommate is gay is one thing. Having electronic evidence that helps you "prove" it is another. The story linked is alarmist, but at smaller scale this isn't that uncommon for gays -- I've had a friend get hired, show up for work and be told "you aren't a team player" after a less than a week. Maybe he's not a team player. But maybe being queer at a Southern firm had something to do with it. He was probably outed by information leaking from electronic services (Facebook, etc). This is one more vector for this.
Privacy rights aren't needed for everyone. They're needed by those on the margins of social approval, with little power of their own. I don't think that makes them less important.
For a lot of people who travel extensively (consultants), a workplace-assigned computer is their only laptop when on the road. This leads to lots of work-home blurring.
I will concede the debate that permanently logged location information is required to run the features consumers want. I think it's false, and I think it's about iAds, but I'll concede it.
However, the lack of encryption or even simple hashing on this database is inexcusable. Unencrypted copies stored on every computer an iOS device syncs to! Inexcusable, irresponsible, sloppy software. A product which flings around my private data that way is a broken product, regardless of which features it offers. This is a stalkers dream. This will appear in every divorce court (That database is jointly owned property!). This will be used to bully and out gay college roommates (Physical access to your desktop? Yup). This will be used to keep tabs on employees work habits (Have iTunes on a work computer? Burned).
Apple made terrible software, and they are now informing us that they will continue to do so.