No this is not flamebait. There are very few devices that actually use firewire, due to the massive success of USB. Macs can also be hooked to eachother (as can PCs and Linux boxes) via crossover ethernet, so the loss of firewire should really only translate, except in rare circumstances that ought to belong to the MNP market anyway, into lower production costs (lower sale cost would be nice, too, but lets not get too hopeful)
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Yeah well, the Commodore Amiga with its "true" pre-emptive multitasking was better than either Macintosh or IBM cooperative multitasking of the mid-90s, but it died too (not enough users). So I cried a little, and then I moved on. Likewise I would love to get my hands on a brand-new Super VHS or Digital VHS VCR, which can produce recordings that appear identical to a "live" DTV signal, but that too has been discontinued (as of 2007).
FireWire is on its way out due to USB's huge dominance... if it's not discontinued now, it will be eventually. It will join the ranks of all the other discontinued proprietary formats like Amiga, VHS, Betamax, DivX, HD DVD, and so on.
We'll see if you still believe that after the layoffs start happening.
Oh wait, they already ARE happening. As the central market goes, so too goes people's economic fortunes (whether or not they have a job). To say the central market's performance does not trickle-down to the general market is as silly as saying California doesn't have earthquakes.
I'm sorry but this speech has has been classed as "terroristic speech" and may not be accessed.
(Courtesy of the Australian Authority - Your government working for YOUR protection.)
Dang.
Well I guess Frederick Douglas was nobody important anyway. And who's this Martin Luther King I hear people speak of? "Bill of Rights" - what's that? I don't think I'm allowed to read that from a *.au domain. (shrug). Pass the bread, I hear there are some circuses on the tv.
Even if that were true, I still wouldn't buy it. In order to redistribute wealth, you must first steal it from people's labor (their paychecks). Theft of labor is just another form of slavery. More-friendly than having chains on your ankles, but still theft of labor.
Current rate of theft of labor (~40%) means that from January to the end of May, you are working, not for yourself, but for the government. Everything you sweat to earn during those months goes to "Master" Uncle Sam.
Yes but when the war was over, the unemployment rate returned to where it was before. So the Depression never actually ended - it snapped right back after 1945, same place it was in 1941.
FireWire is on its way out due to USB's huge dominance... if it's not discontinued now, it will be eventually. It will join the ranks of all the other discontinued proprietary formats like Atari, Commodore, Amiga, VHS, Betamax, DivX, HD DVD, and so on.
Yeah well, the Commodore Amiga was better than either Macintosh or IBM PCs of the mid-90s, but it died too (not enough users). So I cried a little, and then I moved on. Likewise I would love to get my hands on a brand-new Super VHS or Digital VHS VCR, which can produce recordings that appear identical to a "live" DTV signal, but that too has been discontinued (as of 2007).
FireWire is on its way out due to USB's huge dominance... if it's not discontinued now, it will be eventually. It will join the ranks of all the other discontinued proprietary formats like Amiga, VHS, Betamax, DivX, HD DVD, and so on.
>>>WWII caused domestic socialistic policies that got us out of the Depression...
But the Depression's endpoint, where the DOW surpassed its 1929 pre-crash level, did not happen until circa 1960. So to claim the Depression ended somewhere between 1942 and 45 is false. WW2 did NOT end the depression.
There's no contradiction if you recognize the true relationship between the People and their government.
The government is the People's *slave*. The government was created by the People, and the People have every right to demand complete openness from it. If the slave does not comply with its Master's wishes, then the master aka the People have the right to abolish the slave (dissolve the government) and create a brand-new government that is more transparent.
The People being the Master, have the right to privacy.
The Government being the slave, has no rights, and must be obedient to the People.
The essence of that idea is in the opening lines of the U.S. Declaration of Independence: "Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, -- That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."
>>>Besides that, if you keep splitting people in many cars, you get a worst traffic.
Traffic jams have never killed anybody. Pollution has (made it difficult to breathe & increased lung cancer deaths). The first priority should be to reduce the pollution as much as possible by encouraging people to buy 100, 200, or 300 mile per gallon cars. Reduce the smog.
I have a 70mpg two-seat car, because 99.9% of the time I travel alone (to work or to the foodmart). On those rare 0.1% times I need to carry three or more people to the same destination, then we take two cars. It's no big deal, and the net reduction in *overall* pollution is FAR MORE than if I drove a 20mpg SUV every day.
I refuse to drive a Ford Living Room SUV, when I'm only carrying myself. It's stupid.
When World War II ended, the economic recession known as the Depression came back in full force. WW2 didn't solve the problem; it merely created a huge debt and massive inflation, which required years for the U.S. government to finally restore the paper dollar to match the gold dollar.
The Depression started in 1929, and did not truly end until the mid-1950s when the DOW index finally matched 1920s levels.
The grandparent post was correct. The wife can go shopping for groceries, while the husband stays home and babysits.
Or they could take two separate 300mpg cars. There's no rule which says you "have" to take the whole family shopping, or they all have to ride in the same car. Stop clinging to superstitious, old-fashioned ideas. Think outside the box.
>>>in the US anyways, there won't be over the air TV anymore in a little bit here.
To quote Bugs Bunny: "What a maroon." Of course there's going to be over-the-air television!!! Why do you think the U.S. Congress is giving away *billions* in free converter box coupons ($40 each). Please don't post false information.
>>>it seats two and is hardly something that seats a whole family.
He never said it would. Re-read what he *actually* wrote: "For those wanting four wheels..." There's not one thing there that says anything about the VW 1L car holding an entire family. Is english not your first language? That might explain why you didn't understand what you read.
>>>It'll be there in 2010 in limited numbers...Read: "expensive"
The Volkswagen Lupo 3L (80mpg) car was also limited in number, but was still available for ~$20,000 Euro. Same applied to the limited-edition Honda Insight which cost just US$20,000. You shouldn't assume "limited numbers" means "expensive".
>>>Also note that a 3L/100km car [wikipedia.org] was in production for years but was scrapped because of low sales:-/
Boy you're a negative guy. The Lupo 3L was not scrapped; it was replaced with the Fox model! Duh. Same with the Honda Insight which is being replaced with an Insight II. Stop being such a downer.
With gasoline prices at $4.00 U.S. and $8.00 E.U., there's a market for cars that save on fueling costs.
It's filtering (blocking access at the destination).
I have no objections to the latter, but STRONG objections to the former. I don't mind if you don't want to hear my ideas, but I do mind if you gag my mouth.
No because involuntary sex is wrong (it's rape), but I don't have any objections to Nudist sites which feature family photos. God created the human body; there's no reason to censor his artistry.
It should all be allowed, except for the shouting (U.S. Constitution says *peaceably* assemble) or the revealing of a person's private data (essentially theft of property).
We allow the Ku Klux Klan to print and demonstrate with signs the most racist garbage you can imagine, precisely because you CAN stuff earplugs into your ears and choose not to listen. People should not be censored simply because their ideas are unpopular or disgusting. Change the channel or walk away if you don't like that person's viewpoints.
During the Great Depression lots of people had great products (cars, houses, radios), but since one-quarter of people were jobless, almost nobody was buying these products.
About the only 1930s industry that profited was the movie industry, mainly because people wanted to escape reality, even if only for three hours.
How about the former DejaNews now renamed GoogleGroups? It allows posting to the Usenet without charge, and I'm not aware of any other service that allows free (key word) Usenet browsing/posting.
I spend a lot of time replaying old console RPGs from the Nintendo and Playstation era.
I wish they had additional levels like "Easy" where are the monsters points are cut in half, for when I feel like a quick walkthrough of the game, or "Hard" where the points are doubled for additional challenge. Squaresoft provided Easy and Hard levels for Final Fantasy 6, which was a good idea, but sadly never caught on.
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No this is not flamebait. There are very few devices that actually use firewire, due to the massive success of USB. Macs can also be hooked to eachother (as can PCs and Linux boxes) via crossover ethernet, so the loss of firewire should really only translate, except in rare circumstances that ought to belong to the MNP market anyway, into lower production costs (lower sale cost would be nice, too, but lets not get too hopeful)
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Yeah well, the Commodore Amiga with its "true" pre-emptive multitasking was better than either Macintosh or IBM cooperative multitasking of the mid-90s, but it died too (not enough users). So I cried a little, and then I moved on. Likewise I would love to get my hands on a brand-new Super VHS or Digital VHS VCR, which can produce recordings that appear identical to a "live" DTV signal, but that too has been discontinued (as of 2007).
FireWire is on its way out due to USB's huge dominance... if it's not discontinued now, it will be eventually. It will join the ranks of all the other discontinued proprietary formats like Amiga, VHS, Betamax, DivX, HD DVD, and so on.
We'll see if you still believe that after the layoffs start happening.
Oh wait, they already ARE happening. As the central market goes, so too goes people's economic fortunes (whether or not they have a job). To say the central market's performance does not trickle-down to the general market is as silly as saying California doesn't have earthquakes.
Child porn doesn't harm anybody if the images are simulated. (i.e. Computer-generated imagery.)
Yes it's sick & disgusting, but I can not lay my hand on any document that grants me a "right to not be offended". No such right exists.
I'm sorry but this speech has has been classed as "terroristic speech" and may not be accessed.
(Courtesy of the Australian Authority - Your government working for YOUR protection.)
Dang.
Well I guess Frederick Douglas was nobody important anyway. And who's this Martin Luther King I hear people speak of? "Bill of Rights" - what's that? I don't think I'm allowed to read that from a *.au domain. (shrug). Pass the bread, I hear there are some circuses on the tv.
Even if that were true, I still wouldn't buy it. In order to redistribute wealth, you must first steal it from people's labor (their paychecks). Theft of labor is just another form of slavery. More-friendly than having chains on your ankles, but still theft of labor.
Current rate of theft of labor (~40%) means that from January to the end of May, you are working, not for yourself, but for the government. Everything you sweat to earn during those months goes to "Master" Uncle Sam.
>>>that the unemployment rate all but evaporated
Yes but when the war was over, the unemployment rate returned to where it was before. So the Depression never actually ended - it snapped right back after 1945, same place it was in 1941.
Is there are no jobs, the government will have no income to collect, so it too will collapse.
Let's face it:
FireWire is on its way out due to USB's huge dominance... if it's not discontinued now, it will be eventually. It will join the ranks of all the other discontinued proprietary formats like Atari, Commodore, Amiga, VHS, Betamax, DivX, HD DVD, and so on.
Yeah well, the Commodore Amiga was better than either Macintosh or IBM PCs of the mid-90s, but it died too (not enough users). So I cried a little, and then I moved on. Likewise I would love to get my hands on a brand-new Super VHS or Digital VHS VCR, which can produce recordings that appear identical to a "live" DTV signal, but that too has been discontinued (as of 2007).
FireWire is on its way out due to USB's huge dominance... if it's not discontinued now, it will be eventually. It will join the ranks of all the other discontinued proprietary formats like Amiga, VHS, Betamax, DivX, HD DVD, and so on.
>>>WWII caused domestic socialistic policies that got us out of the Depression...
But the Depression's endpoint, where the DOW surpassed its 1929 pre-crash level, did not happen until circa 1960. So to claim the Depression ended somewhere between 1942 and 45 is false. WW2 did NOT end the depression.
There's no contradiction if you recognize the true relationship between the People and their government.
The government is the People's *slave*. The government was created by the People, and the People have every right to demand complete openness from it. If the slave does not comply with its Master's wishes, then the master aka the People have the right to abolish the slave (dissolve the government) and create a brand-new government that is more transparent.
The People being the Master, have the right to privacy.
The Government being the slave, has no rights, and must be obedient to the People.
The essence of that idea is in the opening lines of the U.S. Declaration of Independence: "Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, -- That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."
>>>Besides that, if you keep splitting people in many cars, you get a worst traffic.
Traffic jams have never killed anybody. Pollution has (made it difficult to breathe & increased lung cancer deaths). The first priority should be to reduce the pollution as much as possible by encouraging people to buy 100, 200, or 300 mile per gallon cars. Reduce the smog.
I have a 70mpg two-seat car, because 99.9% of the time I travel alone (to work or to the foodmart). On those rare 0.1% times I need to carry three or more people to the same destination, then we take two cars. It's no big deal, and the net reduction in *overall* pollution is FAR MORE than if I drove a 20mpg SUV every day.
I refuse to drive a Ford Living Room SUV, when I'm only carrying myself. It's stupid.
Precisely.
When World War II ended, the economic recession known as the Depression came back in full force. WW2 didn't solve the problem; it merely created a huge debt and massive inflation, which required years for the U.S. government to finally restore the paper dollar to match the gold dollar.
The Depression started in 1929, and did not truly end until the mid-1950s when the DOW index finally matched 1920s levels.
Where's the moderator option for "racist"?
I think Chinese women are some of the most beautiful human beings on the planet.
The grandparent post was correct. The wife can go shopping for groceries, while the husband stays home and babysits.
Or they could take two separate 300mpg cars. There's no rule which says you "have" to take the whole family shopping, or they all have to ride in the same car. Stop clinging to superstitious, old-fashioned ideas. Think outside the box.
>>>in the US anyways, there won't be over the air TV anymore in a little bit here.
To quote Bugs Bunny: "What a maroon." Of course there's going to be over-the-air television!!! Why do you think the U.S. Congress is giving away *billions* in free converter box coupons ($40 each). Please don't post false information.
>>>it seats two and is hardly something that seats a whole family.
He never said it would. Re-read what he *actually* wrote: "For those wanting four wheels..." There's not one thing there that says anything about the VW 1L car holding an entire family. Is english not your first language? That might explain why you didn't understand what you read.
>>>It'll be there in 2010 in limited numbers...Read: "expensive"
The Volkswagen Lupo 3L (80mpg) car was also limited in number, but was still available for ~$20,000 Euro. Same applied to the limited-edition Honda Insight which cost just US$20,000. You shouldn't assume "limited numbers" means "expensive".
>>>Also note that a 3L/100km car [wikipedia.org] was in production for years but was scrapped because of low sales :-/
Boy you're a negative guy. The Lupo 3L was not scrapped; it was replaced with the Fox model! Duh. Same with the Honda Insight which is being replaced with an Insight II. Stop being such a downer.
With gasoline prices at $4.00 U.S. and $8.00 E.U., there's a market for cars that save on fueling costs.
That's not censorship (blocking the source).
It's filtering (blocking access at the destination).
I have no objections to the latter, but STRONG objections to the former. I don't mind if you don't want to hear my ideas, but I do mind if you gag my mouth.
>>>So you're ok with child porn then ?
No because involuntary sex is wrong (it's rape), but I don't have any objections to Nudist sites which feature family photos. God created the human body; there's no reason to censor his artistry.
It should all be allowed, except for the shouting (U.S. Constitution says *peaceably* assemble) or the revealing of a person's private data (essentially theft of property).
We allow the Ku Klux Klan to print and demonstrate with signs the most racist garbage you can imagine, precisely because you CAN stuff earplugs into your ears and choose not to listen. People should not be censored simply because their ideas are unpopular or disgusting. Change the channel or walk away if you don't like that person's viewpoints.
During the Great Depression lots of people had great products (cars, houses, radios), but since one-quarter of people were jobless, almost nobody was buying these products.
About the only 1930s industry that profited was the movie industry, mainly because people wanted to escape reality, even if only for three hours.
Dang.
How about the former DejaNews now renamed GoogleGroups? It allows posting to the Usenet without charge, and I'm not aware of any other service that allows free (key word) Usenet browsing/posting.
I spend a lot of time replaying old console RPGs from the Nintendo and Playstation era.
I wish they had additional levels like "Easy" where are the monsters points are cut in half, for when I feel like a quick walkthrough of the game, or "Hard" where the points are doubled for additional challenge. Squaresoft provided Easy and Hard levels for Final Fantasy 6, which was a good idea, but sadly never caught on.
>>>Tell your legislator
Actually don't write just yours. Write ALL of them. With actual letters if you can afford the postage.