We also have a legal right to regulate how they do business - here in America. As far as I'm concerned, this sort of thing should be dealt with by passing laws prohibiting companies operating in this country from doing this sort of thing.
I would even go so far as to say that if they want to operate like this in China, they should be prohibited from doing business in America. THAT would make an impact.
I think it could easily be argued that any screen used by this system is in fact a navigation system component, as this system directly aids navigation of the vehicle. That's a loophole you can drive a truck through.:)
Ka band radar does seem to be in the millimeter wave range, but checking the FCC allocation for the 33.4 - 36 GHz band that Ka uses, it isn't the primary licensed service on those frequencies, and therefore appears to be a part 15 use, meaning that while it isn't legal to intentionally jam it, an unintentional interference with it would be legal as long as it doesn't interfere with the primary use of the frequencies (radiolocation and space research).
I can't find anything in my state's code about cruise control, nor in my city. While I didn't do an exhaustive search of other locations, I suspect that most of the country doesn't have anything.
You might as well have taken it seriously if somebody posted this one again:
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Mac fanatics? I have recently upgraded from a Mac 8600/300 w/64 Megs of RAM to a new G5 dual 2GHz with AGP 8X and PCI-X to help me at my freelance gig where I needed to copy a 17 Meg file from my home network to a desktop folder. On the G5 it took about 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Mac, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, my iPod will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even Safari is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Macs, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Mac that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the Macs' faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 8MB of ram running MS Windows for Workgroups 3.11 is faster than this G5 dual 2GHz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Macintosh is a superior machine.
Mac addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Mac over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
The answer to that would seem to be no, as the dmca only applies to copyrighted material. If the copyright is expired/voided, it would not apply.
This might prove an interesting way to legally crack drm as well...
1. copyright something, and apply drm.
2. renounce your copyright - transfer the material to the public domain.
3. don't remove the drm.
The drm may now be legally cracked, as there is no copyright on the protected material. The crack could legally be distributed as a way to access that public domain material.
What I think you meant to say is that specific legislation enabling the use of this technology has only been passed in the UK and Japan.
In the US, anything not specifically illegal is by default legal. The constitution is written that way.
Now, I'm not familiar with the traffic laws in all 50 states, but I'm reasonably certain that most of them have never bothered to write a law prohibiting the use of a technology that didn't exist until now.
What we really need is a port of Wine to Mac OS X86 -- a wrapper around the Windows DLLs and system calls, but that doesn't do any microcode conversion. That way you wouldn't need Windows.
I'm sorry, I'm just not interested in ANY medium until the DRM is cracked, and if it's really as strong as they say it is in those, I'm never going to be interested.
Wow. I don't own any furniture that's newer than 10 years old, most of it is 50 years or older.
I've got the bed my grandmother was born in, and I'm told it was old then (no, I don't have the mattress). I've got my father's cabinet stereo from the '50s, the speakers work well as my center channel. I've got a corner cabinet my grandfather built. I've got a few older pieces that I've bought. And it all fits in perfectly in my 1920 Victorian-style house.
If a piece of furniture isn't going to last a hundred years, I'm not interested. And if it's already lasted that long, there's a much better chance I'll like it.
That being said, the '50s Steelcase desks are classics. I wouldn't hesitate to put one in my computer room if I needed another desk, but I think I'd keep it the classic gray.
My property tax didn't go up much this year, but it's higher than I'd like. Sales tax is 9.25% in Knoxville, too.
I didn't know there were emissions checks in Hamilton county, we don't have them in Knox.
But the income tax wouldn't be to add to those taxes, it would be to replace them. Think about a sales tax of 4%, with no tax on food. And the income tax could be set up on a sliding scale, so that people making less than say $20k/year pay no income tax, and a sliding percentage that varies from 1% at $20k/year to 50% at $10m/year.
It's more fair (the wealthy, who get the most benefit from the government, pay the most tax) and it will reduce taxes for most Tennesseans.
And you're already filling out federal tax forms every year, it could easily be a one-page form that just requires the transfer of a few figures from the federal return.
Oh, and you get to deduct it from your federal taxes.
Sundquist wasn't voted out, he had reached the two-term limit, and couldn't run again.
TennCare has been cut to the bone. It was a great concept - provide health care for everyone in Tennessee who couln't afford it otherwise - and it requires money to do that. These days, people are dying because their TennCare has been stopped, and the fallback resources are inadequate.
I support an income tax here - ideally a heavily progressive one that will not hurt the poor, and will only slightly affect the middle-income Tennessee residents.
I support cutting the TDOT budget. We spend insane amounts of money on road construction projects that are not needed and not wanted. Knoxville does not need I-475. Knoxville does not need the South Knoxville bypass. The only necessary project here is the I-40@Broadway expansion - and that should have been done 20 years ago, or I-40 through town should have been routed to I-640, and the through town link should have been cut to allow the historic downtown neighborhoods to rebuild.
I also support spending as much on TennCare as it takes to cover everyone who can't afford traditional health insurance.
Well, I've installed a few electric tankless heaters - one was rated at 14kw, one was rated at 18kw. Both used 240 volts.
And I'm not doing it again. I was not happy with the output (I refuse to take a low-flow shower, I've drilled out more than one showerhead to fix the low flow problem) and they just don't last as long as tank type water heaters.
I've not tried gas tankless, right now I've got a 40 gallon gas tank heater - and I like it. When I have to replace it, I'm going to replace it with another gas tank heater.
Now, if you're in the desert southwest, tankless works well. I've got a friend in Scottsdale who is happy with his.
For years now, I've recommended that one drive manufacturer be avoided at all costs - Western Digital.
The longest life I've ever gotten out of one of their drives was about a year, and I've had several die within a month of installation. I don't think I've had one last less than 48 hours, so if you only need 2 days of data storage, they might be ok.
Now, because of this, I haven't touched one of their drives (other than to recover data, and then throw it in the nearest trash can) in several years. Have they gotten better?
Or is this another one of their "increased performance" stunts that reduces reliability again?
The "iMac G4 (USB 2.0)" was released in September of 2003.
The iBook G4 was released in October of 2003.
So, the statement "Also, most Macs since 1999 have shipped with USB, and I'm fairly certain that the two-year-old Macs have USB 2.0" is almost correct.
I just tested this theory, it doesn't seem to work. The "AirPort Copy" doesn't get an IP address assigned while you're connected to another access point.
Not the server - background email checking continues when you close the mail client window on a Mac.
It's a very good idea - an open window has nothing to do with a program actually being running. It takes a bit of getting used to if you're coming from Windoze, but imagine that the close button is just sending the app to the systray - which is not an unheard of Windoze behavior.
With most apps, if you want them to quit, you have to explicitly tell them to quit. The strange behavior is the few that do quit, including a few where Apple needs to read their own guidelines.
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Yes. He was kidding.
:)
You just missed the implied tag.
Not even remotely.
Do we have principles, or don't we?
If we do, then we shouldn't do business with countries that don't. It's that simple.
It's not theirs any more, and probably never was. It's a generic symbol, property of the people of the world, to do with as they please.
Why shouldn't we care?
We also have a legal right to regulate how they do business - here in America. As far as I'm concerned, this sort of thing should be dealt with by passing laws prohibiting companies operating in this country from doing this sort of thing.
I would even go so far as to say that if they want to operate like this in China, they should be prohibited from doing business in America. THAT would make an impact.
Actually, the word unreasonable was meant to apply to the standard required to obtain a warrant.
The theory in the constution was that NO search would be carried out by the federal government without a warrant.
This has, of course, been thouroughly perverted today.
I think it could easily be argued that any screen used by this system is in fact a navigation system component, as this system directly aids navigation of the vehicle. That's a loophole you can drive a truck through. :)
Ka band radar does seem to be in the millimeter wave range, but checking the FCC allocation for the 33.4 - 36 GHz band that Ka uses, it isn't the primary licensed service on those frequencies, and therefore appears to be a part 15 use, meaning that while it isn't legal to intentionally jam it, an unintentional interference with it would be legal as long as it doesn't interfere with the primary use of the frequencies (radiolocation and space research).
I can't find anything in my state's code about cruise control, nor in my city. While I didn't do an exhaustive search of other locations, I suspect that most of the country doesn't have anything.
You got trolled.
You might as well have taken it seriously if somebody posted this one again:
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Mac fanatics? I have recently upgraded from a Mac 8600/300 w/64 Megs of RAM to a new G5 dual 2GHz with AGP 8X and PCI-X to help me at my freelance gig where I needed to copy a 17 Meg file from my home network to a desktop folder. On the G5 it took about 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Mac, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, my iPod will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even Safari is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Macs, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Mac that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the Macs' faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 8MB of ram running MS Windows for Workgroups 3.11 is faster than this G5 dual 2GHz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Macintosh is a superior machine.
Mac addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Mac over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
The answer to that would seem to be no, as the dmca only applies to copyrighted material. If the copyright is expired/voided, it would not apply.
This might prove an interesting way to legally crack drm as well...
1. copyright something, and apply drm.
2. renounce your copyright - transfer the material to the public domain.
3. don't remove the drm.
The drm may now be legally cracked, as there is no copyright on the protected material. The crack could legally be distributed as a way to access that public domain material.
What I think you meant to say is that specific legislation enabling the use of this technology has only been passed in the UK and Japan.
In the US, anything not specifically illegal is by default legal. The constitution is written that way.
Now, I'm not familiar with the traffic laws in all 50 states, but I'm reasonably certain that most of them have never bothered to write a law prohibiting the use of a technology that didn't exist until now.
It used to be free, I know several people who dumped it when they started charging.
$100 is a rediculous price for what it gives you. $10/year would be more appropriate, if they're going to charge at all.
What we really need is a port of Wine to Mac OS X86 -- a wrapper around the Windows DLLs and system calls, but that doesn't do any microcode conversion. That way you wouldn't need Windows.
It's already being worked on. See the Darwine Project.
DVD - Alive and well.
Blu-Ray and HD-DVD - Dead on arrival.
I'm sorry, I'm just not interested in ANY medium until the DRM is cracked, and if it's really as strong as they say it is in those, I'm never going to be interested.
Wow. I don't own any furniture that's newer than 10 years old, most of it is 50 years or older.
I've got the bed my grandmother was born in, and I'm told it was old then (no, I don't have the mattress). I've got my father's cabinet stereo from the '50s, the speakers work well as my center channel. I've got a corner cabinet my grandfather built. I've got a few older pieces that I've bought. And it all fits in perfectly in my 1920 Victorian-style house.
If a piece of furniture isn't going to last a hundred years, I'm not interested. And if it's already lasted that long, there's a much better chance I'll like it.
That being said, the '50s Steelcase desks are classics. I wouldn't hesitate to put one in my computer room if I needed another desk, but I think I'd keep it the classic gray.
Well, those didn't run the monitor off the CPU supply, but Apple's ADC connector did.
Most of the available monitors were LCDs, but there was a 17" CRT ADC monitor for a while.
My property tax didn't go up much this year, but it's higher than I'd like. Sales tax is 9.25% in Knoxville, too.
I didn't know there were emissions checks in Hamilton county, we don't have them in Knox.
But the income tax wouldn't be to add to those taxes, it would be to replace them. Think about a sales tax of 4%, with no tax on food. And the income tax could be set up on a sliding scale, so that people making less than say $20k/year pay no income tax, and a sliding percentage that varies from 1% at $20k/year to 50% at $10m/year.
It's more fair (the wealthy, who get the most benefit from the government, pay the most tax) and it will reduce taxes for most Tennesseans.
And you're already filling out federal tax forms every year, it could easily be a one-page form that just requires the transfer of a few figures from the federal return.
Oh, and you get to deduct it from your federal taxes.
Sundquist wasn't voted out, he had reached the two-term limit, and couldn't run again.
TennCare has been cut to the bone. It was a great concept - provide health care for everyone in Tennessee who couln't afford it otherwise - and it requires money to do that. These days, people are dying because their TennCare has been stopped, and the fallback resources are inadequate.
I support an income tax here - ideally a heavily progressive one that will not hurt the poor, and will only slightly affect the middle-income Tennessee residents.
I support cutting the TDOT budget. We spend insane amounts of money on road construction projects that are not needed and not wanted. Knoxville does not need I-475. Knoxville does not need the South Knoxville bypass. The only necessary project here is the I-40@Broadway expansion - and that should have been done 20 years ago, or I-40 through town should have been routed to I-640, and the through town link should have been cut to allow the historic downtown neighborhoods to rebuild.
I also support spending as much on TennCare as it takes to cover everyone who can't afford traditional health insurance.
I generally accelerate, as it's more comfy to go over one quickly.
And no, I don't have problems with my shocks, they're still good at 250k miles.
Well, I've installed a few electric tankless heaters - one was rated at 14kw, one was rated at 18kw. Both used 240 volts.
And I'm not doing it again. I was not happy with the output (I refuse to take a low-flow shower, I've drilled out more than one showerhead to fix the low flow problem) and they just don't last as long as tank type water heaters.
I've not tried gas tankless, right now I've got a 40 gallon gas tank heater - and I like it. When I have to replace it, I'm going to replace it with another gas tank heater.
Now, if you're in the desert southwest, tankless works well. I've got a friend in Scottsdale who is happy with his.
For years now, I've recommended that one drive manufacturer be avoided at all costs - Western Digital.
The longest life I've ever gotten out of one of their drives was about a year, and I've had several die within a month of installation. I don't think I've had one last less than 48 hours, so if you only need 2 days of data storage, they might be ok.
Now, because of this, I haven't touched one of their drives (other than to recover data, and then throw it in the nearest trash can) in several years. Have they gotten better?
Or is this another one of their "increased performance" stunts that reduces reliability again?
Well, ok. But keep in mind, I didn't say they were good pictures, just that I wouldn't have gotten any otherwise.
http://homepage.mac.com/jlcooper/PhotoAlbum1.html
Well, I was never one of the people who really wanted a camera in my phone. I did want bluetooth, so I could use it as a modem with my iBook.
So, I got a motorola v551 - which happened to have a camera. I didn't object to a camera enough to bother finding a phone without one.
And then, I was at my girlfriend's business one night - and an eagle decided to eat a pigeon in the doorway.
Without a camera phone, I'd have missed getting pictures of that. So, I guess I'm glad my phone had one.
The cost of the roads is built into the price of fuel, though.
iMac G4s shipped 2 years ago had USB 2.0.
The "iMac G4 (USB 2.0)" was released in September of 2003.
The iBook G4 was released in October of 2003.
So, the statement "Also, most Macs since 1999 have shipped with USB, and I'm fairly certain that the two-year-old Macs have USB 2.0" is almost correct.
The eMac didn't get USB 2.0 until April 2004.
I just tested this theory, it doesn't seem to work. The "AirPort Copy" doesn't get an IP address assigned while you're connected to another access point.
Not the server - background email checking continues when you close the mail client window on a Mac.
It's a very good idea - an open window has nothing to do with a program actually being running. It takes a bit of getting used to if you're coming from Windoze, but imagine that the close button is just sending the app to the systray - which is not an unheard of Windoze behavior.
With most apps, if you want them to quit, you have to explicitly tell them to quit. The strange behavior is the few that do quit, including a few where Apple needs to read their own guidelines.