Brian Carnell is an idiot that should be forced to use Compuserve in perpetuity.
There were a number of pieces of the puzzle that came together in the 90s to help create the commercialized Internet we are familiar with today. Trying to claim that any of that would have come along sooner with a bigger dose of Ayn Rand is just moronic.
Some of us were on the net in the 80s. It's understandable why it didn't take off then. PC tech and bandwidth just wasn't there yet.
30 years is an eternity in computing tech. Even 10 years is a long time.
So? You're still not using Ethernet to connect to the Internet. You are likely using some form of serial modem to connect to the Internet and only using Ethernet for your LAN.
The ironic part about your rant is that "your faction" was originally created in part to allow for broader government investment and involvement in creating infastructure that business could then later exploit.
Specifically went out of my way to side load the Amazon Store on my Android phone so I could buy a certain ad-ware-free version of a particular game. The Android market only had the free version and I found the ads quite annoying.
This article is nonsense. My extended family is working class and none of them could ever afford air conditioning. They are what you might call the "working poor". Never mind "the poor".
That link sounds like the clueless ramblings of a modern day Marie Antoinette.
If the poor are "fed" or "sheltered" there is a good chance that this is only the case because of public assistance.
> People making this broad complaint are wanting one size fits all, and that just doesn't happen.
Sure it does. The counter-examples here are legion starting with the Galaxy Tab. Your "we must cripple it to make it useful" argument simply doesn't hold water here.
It's amazing how many people are pushing the "no one will ever need more than 640K" mentality here.
We're talking about a trivial change, transparent to those that are not interested but very useful to those that might care.
> Honestly, who keeps their entire music collection locally?
Perhaps someone who got used to the idea with the Apple products being sold in 2002.
Wireless networks are slow, unreliable, and insecure. They can also flake out entirely. If you wander off the beaten path, then you're just out of luck.
It's 2012. Why not have it local? Storage is small and cheap.
Local storage doesn't suffer from wandering into the local canyon.
> i have a 16GB iphone with 4GB free space most time. some of us are not digital hoarders
That's just so funny because the iPod 2 had 20G of storage. That's a decent enough amount of storage for a respectable music collection.
It's funny because now the cult likes to shout down more "modern" devices with less storage than a 10 year old Apple product.
You will heckle the idea of having 10 movies on your phone and then turn around and elevate the idea of doing the same thing but depending on the network to do it.
The Cloud is over-hyped nonsense that's not nearly reliable enough or ubiquitous enough at this time to make up for lack of local storage. You might not use squat. That's not the same thing as using the Cloud instead.
A memory slot can be safely ignored by the more pedestrian user while still allowing a power user to load up on storage.
They simply can't do this. This is the one area of intellectual property where they simply cannot mind their own business. This is mentioned in the letter and is done so in a very civil matter.
They can't just "ignore this and hope it will go away".
Quite. They call it "water" but what it really is is a chemical cocktail. It's an aqueous solution of some really nasty shit. Because there's also some water in there, they call it water. That's the first obvious nonsense that's going to get people suspicious.
Now contemplate that being injected into the Earth at high pressure.
Not likely to end well. Might be safe under certain conditions. Those conditions will likely not be tolerated by corporations. This is why oil platforms end up exploding. The Ayn Rand cult will push for every corner being cut until you are left with a circle.
Plus, it's hard to take these companies seriously when we're still recovering from their last disaster. Do they think everyone to has collective amnesia.
> "wealth inequality" > > So nobody should ever have more money than anyone else?
Not so much that it causes the French Revolution. Some things are a bad idea just as a matter of public policy. The idea that there should not be too much imbalance of wealth is an idea that the likes of Jefferson would have very much agreed with.
It's not that he was some sort of anarchist or communist. He just acknowledged what that kind of imbalance tends to lead to.
I could definitely see why Apple would shoudl that down. They are a big fat Microsoft-wannabe. When the Justice Departments of the nations of the world finally wake up to what's going on, they don't want to be forced to FRAND license all of their vendor-lock inducing technologies.
Nevermind making a connector that looks like an Apple dock connector, Samsung should be able to replicate it completely so that you don't have n+1 stupid proprietary standards. A big part of industrialization was moving away from such bespoke items.
Patents aren't supposed to be a virtual land grab. They're supposed to be a means for companies to disclose useful trade secrets.
All human progress is based on "embrace and exploit". This includes just the fact that you even exist as well as your cushy lifestyle. It also includes this forum.
All of that is dependent on centuries of what modern corporate shills would call "theft".
At this rate, DTV may hit my personal "cut the cord" threshold. There's only so far these companies can go during a down economy. Beyond cheap bastards like me, Big Content and cable operators have to consider that people simply might not have the money to waste anymore.
Based on my own experiences and recording history, Viacom is just so full of themselves. These past few days have given me a nice look at how Viacom fits into my entire my entire DTV subscription. Nothing that was blacked out by this shenanigan was any great loss.
I could completely block Viacom channels permanently and barely notice it.
So when the inevitable price increase comes, I will know who to thank and be certain that no Viacom channels are worth keeping a cable subscription over.
Does it matter? A free market can accommodate his bias, your bias, and my bias and we can all be happy. Technology doesn't have to be some fascist nightmare.
No. Shooting into the ceiling might not have been a bad idea. There is such a thing as suppressing fire you know. You don't try to hit the target so much as you try to force him to hide. A few rounds embedded in the ceiling might have startled the gunman or scared him off.
Your kind of defeatist attitude is why we all have targets painted on our backs. We're conditioned to give up when things get a little difficult.
No. That's not a case of untrained used of lethal force.
That's a case of untrained law enforcement in general. It was a case of unchecked vigilantism. They guy even went so far as to disobey the instructions of an official dispatcher.
So it goes even further than inept vigilantism and is a case of blatant insubordination and lack of discipline.
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Brian Carnell is an idiot that should be forced to use Compuserve in perpetuity.
There were a number of pieces of the puzzle that came together in the 90s to help create the commercialized Internet we are familiar with today. Trying to claim that any of that would have come along sooner with a bigger dose of Ayn Rand is just moronic.
Some of us were on the net in the 80s. It's understandable why it didn't take off then. PC tech and bandwidth just wasn't there yet.
30 years is an eternity in computing tech. Even 10 years is a long time.
It does when the idiot talking head is referring to Ethernet in it's original form as "invented" by Xerox.
So? You're still not using Ethernet to connect to the Internet. You are likely using some form of serial modem to connect to the Internet and only using Ethernet for your LAN.
LAN != Internet.
The ironic part about your rant is that "your faction" was originally created in part to allow for broader government investment and involvement in creating infastructure that business could then later exploit.
Specifically went out of my way to side load the Amazon Store on my Android phone so I could buy a certain ad-ware-free version of a particular game. The Android market only had the free version and I found the ads quite annoying.
Of course everyone's heard about this game.
Never heard of the one with the whiney developer.
Not all "repercussions" are the fault of the person who seeks to be careful and not expose himself.
This article is nonsense. My extended family is working class and none of them could ever afford air conditioning. They are what you might call the "working poor". Never mind "the poor".
That link sounds like the clueless ramblings of a modern day Marie Antoinette.
If the poor are "fed" or "sheltered" there is a good chance that this is only the case because of public assistance.
> People making this broad complaint are wanting one size fits all, and that just doesn't happen.
Sure it does. The counter-examples here are legion starting with the Galaxy Tab. Your "we must cripple it to make it useful" argument simply doesn't hold water here.
It's amazing how many people are pushing the "no one will ever need more than 640K" mentality here.
We're talking about a trivial change, transparent to those that are not interested but very useful to those that might care.
> Honestly, who keeps their entire music collection locally?
Perhaps someone who got used to the idea with the Apple products being sold in 2002.
Wireless networks are slow, unreliable, and insecure. They can also flake out entirely. If you wander off the beaten path, then you're just out of luck.
It's 2012. Why not have it local? Storage is small and cheap.
Local storage doesn't suffer from wandering into the local canyon.
> i have a 16GB iphone with 4GB free space most time. some of us are not digital hoarders
That's just so funny because the iPod 2 had 20G of storage. That's a decent enough amount of storage for a respectable music collection.
It's funny because now the cult likes to shout down more "modern" devices with less storage than a 10 year old Apple product.
You will heckle the idea of having 10 movies on your phone and then turn around and elevate the idea of doing the same thing but depending on the network to do it.
The Cloud is over-hyped nonsense that's not nearly reliable enough or ubiquitous enough at this time to make up for lack of local storage. You might not use squat. That's not the same thing as using the Cloud instead.
A memory slot can be safely ignored by the more pedestrian user while still allowing a power user to load up on storage.
It's not just the Kindle Fire. There are other sub-$300 7" Android tablets. You simply didn't need to wait for Google to provide this sort of thing.
They simply can't do this. This is the one area of intellectual property where they simply cannot mind their own business. This is mentioned in the letter and is done so in a very civil matter.
They can't just "ignore this and hope it will go away".
Quite. They call it "water" but what it really is is a chemical cocktail. It's an aqueous solution of some really nasty shit. Because there's also some water in there, they call it water. That's the first obvious nonsense that's going to get people suspicious.
Now contemplate that being injected into the Earth at high pressure.
Not likely to end well. Might be safe under certain conditions. Those conditions will likely not be tolerated by corporations. This is why oil platforms end up exploding. The Ayn Rand cult will push for every corner being cut until you are left with a circle.
Plus, it's hard to take these companies seriously when we're still recovering from their last disaster. Do they think everyone to has collective amnesia.
> "wealth inequality"
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> So nobody should ever have more money than anyone else?
Not so much that it causes the French Revolution. Some things are a bad idea just as a matter of public policy. The idea that there should not be too much imbalance of wealth is an idea that the likes of Jefferson would have very much agreed with.
It's not that he was some sort of anarchist or communist. He just acknowledged what that kind of imbalance tends to lead to.
I could definitely see why Apple would shoudl that down. They are a big fat Microsoft-wannabe. When the Justice Departments of the nations of the world finally wake up to what's going on, they don't want to be forced to FRAND license all of their vendor-lock inducing technologies.
Nevermind making a connector that looks like an Apple dock connector, Samsung should be able to replicate it completely so that you don't have n+1 stupid proprietary standards. A big part of industrialization was moving away from such bespoke items.
It's one of their "design patents".
That's kind of why there is a patent system.
Patents aren't supposed to be a virtual land grab. They're supposed to be a means for companies to disclose useful trade secrets.
All human progress is based on "embrace and exploit". This includes just the fact that you even exist as well as your cushy lifestyle. It also includes this forum.
All of that is dependent on centuries of what modern corporate shills would call "theft".
At this rate, DTV may hit my personal "cut the cord" threshold.
There's only so far these companies can go during a down economy. Beyond cheap bastards like me, Big Content and cable operators have to consider that people simply might not have the money to waste anymore.
Viacom may a the straw that breaks some backs.
It's really easy to avoid that "problem" by simply not having junk food around to begin with.
Based on my own experiences and recording history, Viacom is just so full of themselves. These past few days have given me a nice look at how Viacom fits into my entire my entire DTV subscription. Nothing that was blacked out by this shenanigan was any great loss.
I could completely block Viacom channels permanently and barely notice it.
So when the inevitable price increase comes, I will know who to thank and be certain that no Viacom channels are worth keeping a cable subscription over.
Does it matter? A free market can accommodate his bias, your bias, and my bias and we can all be happy. Technology doesn't have to be some fascist nightmare.
He had a gas mask. He could have just as easily made homemade nerve gas and skipped the firearms entirely.
No. Shooting into the ceiling might not have been a bad idea. There is such a thing as suppressing fire you know. You don't try to hit the target so much as you try to force him to hide. A few rounds embedded in the ceiling might have startled the gunman or scared him off.
Your kind of defeatist attitude is why we all have targets painted on our backs. We're conditioned to give up when things get a little difficult.
It's a hard problem. Let's cower.
No. That's not a case of untrained used of lethal force.
That's a case of untrained law enforcement in general. It was a case of unchecked vigilantism. They guy even went so far as to disobey the instructions of an official dispatcher.
So it goes even further than inept vigilantism and is a case of blatant insubordination and lack of discipline.
Cop wannabe gone bad and ignoring orders.