Virtually everyone could have one. So if each person managed their own would it really be that bad? How hard would it be to write some software that would connect to your specific repeater to test that its working? If you can run this off a solar panel at this point then its not using very much juice. Its cheaper to spend $35 one time and take some ownership in this new interweb thingy then pay $40 a month for high speed access that is throttled to death by our communications overlords.
Its purely a psychological illusion. Its psychologically easier to go to your clock, change it one hour in either direction and adjust one night's sleep to it than it is to have the whole country change is scheduling habits. The fact that M$ has to release a patch for umpteen different pieces of software is a sign of their lack of forethought and design. There should be one place in the OS that keeps time. Everything should reference that. If they did it this way then Windows Update could update the system time (or you could go to the clock in the tray and do it yourself) and *TA DA* all the programs are good to go.
Unless YouTube has some secret plans, they are a long way from having dvd quality on their site. Besides quality, they aren't even within a light year of allowing you to upload a large enough file. I guess dvd quality of full movies they will always care about. But as far as these shows and news casts and other stuff, you will probably see a shift away from their anal retentive ways. I sure hope they realize how much free advertising they are getting by people posting those snippets. If they lose their shortsightedness on the issue as it seems they are, there will be a lot less worry about copyright stuff when it comes to snippets of video.
By the time they get to DVD quality on YouTube Blue-Ray will have so much market saturation that the lawyers won't care if its DVD quality, just like the RIAA doesn't care if you make a mixed tape.
"Now they have to rely on refined data from a government-developed system to produce any results at all. This is a pattern I've seen in 26 years of working for the government: we hire an outside vendor who comes in and has to rely on our knowledge to make anything work."
Why not open it up a bit and let some competition in to create a better system. Just because their proprietary stuff didn't work "perfectly" the first time around (because all solutions do of course, especially when the government is doing it) doesn't mean they should scrap the whole thing. If the governments sensors are so great then why not just have the government expand on what they have and leave the private sector out of it? Because this existing sensor technology probably isn't so great to begin with.
And the notion that the government has to always save their arses....duh. Who would save the government's arses if a private sector company hired the government to fix their piddly works? That company, of course, because they are the ones that know how their system works. So how can the government complain about having to aid Boeing on the project when the government is the one with the knowledge of the current system? It would be like M$oft hiring a bunch of Linux developers to work on their OS and then complaining when these Linux guys get into the code and start asking questions like..."Why the hell would you do it this way?"
Freedoms are to only go so far as to not infringe on the rights, liberties, and freedoms of others. And this is where your little conspiracy theory falls short. The notion of the sticks and stones argument is all full of holes. I guess the court should rule out Dateline NBC's captured conversations with sex predators as permissible evidence in court? I mean, they didn't actually have sex with a minor... and just ask most of them, they just wanted to make sure the poor kid was ok being left home alone...
Its not because politicians don't want you to know some big secret, its people demanding protection...they don't feel safe online, so they'll figure out a way to feel that way, and if it means certain restrictions, then that is the choice of a FREE SOCIETY.
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Virtually everyone could have one. So if each person managed their own would it really be that bad? How hard would it be to write some software that would connect to your specific repeater to test that its working? If you can run this off a solar panel at this point then its not using very much juice. Its cheaper to spend $35 one time and take some ownership in this new interweb thingy then pay $40 a month for high speed access that is throttled to death by our communications overlords.
Its purely a psychological illusion. Its psychologically easier to go to your clock, change it one hour in either direction and adjust one night's sleep to it than it is to have the whole country change is scheduling habits. The fact that M$ has to release a patch for umpteen different pieces of software is a sign of their lack of forethought and design. There should be one place in the OS that keeps time. Everything should reference that. If they did it this way then Windows Update could update the system time (or you could go to the clock in the tray and do it yourself) and *TA DA* all the programs are good to go.
Y2K? Why not 2K?
Unless YouTube has some secret plans, they are a long way from having dvd quality on their site. Besides quality, they aren't even within a light year of allowing you to upload a large enough file. I guess dvd quality of full movies they will always care about. But as far as these shows and news casts and other stuff, you will probably see a shift away from their anal retentive ways. I sure hope they realize how much free advertising they are getting by people posting those snippets. If they lose their shortsightedness on the issue as it seems they are, there will be a lot less worry about copyright stuff when it comes to snippets of video.
By the time they get to DVD quality on YouTube Blue-Ray will have so much market saturation that the lawyers won't care if its DVD quality, just like the RIAA doesn't care if you make a mixed tape.
"Now they have to rely on refined data from a government-developed system to produce any results at all. This is a pattern I've seen in 26 years of working for the government: we hire an outside vendor who comes in and has to rely on our knowledge to make anything work."
Why not open it up a bit and let some competition in to create a better system. Just because their proprietary stuff didn't work "perfectly" the first time around (because all solutions do of course, especially when the government is doing it) doesn't mean they should scrap the whole thing. If the governments sensors are so great then why not just have the government expand on what they have and leave the private sector out of it? Because this existing sensor technology probably isn't so great to begin with.
And the notion that the government has to always save their arses....duh. Who would save the government's arses if a private sector company hired the government to fix their piddly works? That company, of course, because they are the ones that know how their system works. So how can the government complain about having to aid Boeing on the project when the government is the one with the knowledge of the current system? It would be like M$oft hiring a bunch of Linux developers to work on their OS and then complaining when these Linux guys get into the code and start asking questions like..."Why the hell would you do it this way?"
Freedoms are to only go so far as to not infringe on the rights, liberties, and freedoms of others. And this is where your little conspiracy theory falls short. The notion of the sticks and stones argument is all full of holes. I guess the court should rule out Dateline NBC's captured conversations with sex predators as permissible evidence in court? I mean, they didn't actually have sex with a minor... and just ask most of them, they just wanted to make sure the poor kid was ok being left home alone...
Its not because politicians don't want you to know some big secret, its people demanding protection...they don't feel safe online, so they'll figure out a way to feel that way, and if it means certain restrictions, then that is the choice of a FREE SOCIETY.
Ummm.... like reservations?