So in other words, we have no rights. Rights are absolutes, if they can be defined or narrowed down to nothingness (like the Supreme Court has enjoyed doing) they cease to become rights and merely exist as privileges to be taken away at will.
Really, what enumerated rights do we in the US have left? I guess we have the third amendment still?
Of course immersion is going to be more effective because it makes it actually -necessary- and useful to learn a foreign language. There's a big difference between sitting at a computer with Rosetta Stone and learning Spanish and being dropped in Argentina and have to figure it out. There's no real motivation in learning Spanish on the computer, after all, it doesn't determine whether you eat at night, it doesn't determine whether you can interact with people or anything more than a small intrinsic reward of knowing another language.
There's a reason why people who live in areas where multiple languages are spoken are generally fluent in more than one language, but in areas where everyone pretty much speaks a single language (such as the US and Canada) you see a much lower percentage of people who are fluent in multiple languages, it simply isn't needed.
This absurdity that the government "owns" "historical" (and they often use a very broad definition of "historical") found on your property has done much more harm than good, especially in Europe.
What this is saying to those who might find historical artifacts is to either ignore them or avoid recording them. This is counter-productive to the preservation of history. Instead, what needs to happen is we need to let the market help history. For example, a dug arrowhead is unlikely to fetch much money at market, but a dug arrowhead with a story behind it will often fetch much more, thus giving an incentive to have finds "checked out" because that means extra $$$ for you when you sell it.
Of course it also has a more outrageous claim, the claim to own things on your own property. Whatever is buried on your land, be it an Anglo-Saxon hoard, oil, or whatever is yours to do with as you wish so long as you own the land.
The thing about the Linux thing is that it really only affected nerds, those who used their PS3 for gaming (which is what the majority of people bought a gaming system for) were mostly unaffected, and while undoubtedly there was some outrage at releasing an update simply to remove a feature, it didn't really affect people.
The Xbox One changes games, which affects everyone. Every cartridge and disk based console without exception has allowed you to trade in and borrow games. The only restriction has been that you can't duplicate the games themselves, from the Atari 2600 to the NES to the PlayStation, this has been the only restriction.
There is a reason why people are console gamers and not PC gamers.
Throwing money after a console doesn't mean it will be successful.
Nintendo certainly spent money on marketing for the Virtual Boy, and Sega had a big push for the Saturn and the Dreamcast, two consoles that failed to really catch on. Same with the Jaguar (although Atari certainly wasn't in the same shape that Nintendo and Sega were). Same with the 3DO.
Undoubtedly the Xbox one won't be a complete failure the way some consoles were (N-Gage, CDi, etc.) but I highly doubt that it will be the smash success the 360 is.
Because it leads to the ability to spread propaganda or misinformation (especially if someone hacks it!) to everyone with a smartphone and since it's "official" people will be less apt to question it.
I fail to see how this will be useful in a (real) emergency. After all, how long did it take for 9/11 to be known among the masses? This was in 2001, long before smartphones became the norm and long before wi-fi was everywhere.
I've got no problem with weather or AMBER alerts since you can disable them, in fact weather alerts might actually be useful during tornado season. But just let us disable everything if we don't want it. The entire "presidential alert" just seems like something you'd see in 1984 to spread propaganda.
Here's the thing: reckless driving is reckless driving. It doesn't matter if they were stone-cold sober, texting, drunk, high, etc. If someone drives reckless, THAT is the problem not whatever else they were doing.
The problem is, as with most anti-theft technology like this, it won't hurt the thieves as much as it will screw-over buyers of used hardware.
This will not cut down on theft as much as it will simply cripple the trust of the secondary market. After all, you can still steal an iPhone, stick it on Craigslist for cash, sell it to some poor sucker and get leave before he charges up the phone and figures out it was stolen and won't work.
Only 4 GB of RAM for the Air? Even your bottom-barrel throwaway laptop from Walmart tends to have at least 4 GB of RAM, let alone a laptop you're going to be paying $1K for.
Ad networks will always be a potential vector of infection and since many, if not most, apps on Google Play (and iOS) that are free will have ads from a major ad network, it means that any application can potentially give you malware with no fault of the application developers themselves.
Yeah, it really seems like when it comes to India, their engineers are fine with low-level stuff but when it comes to doing something beyond what they learned in school, they've got no clue. They also don't seem to understand how it all "fits together" and how to actually innovate and make usable features for normal users.
Indians are fine for grunt work, and there are some truly bright engineers there, but too many companies see that they can get 5 engineers for the price of one and think they'll get 5x the productivity... instead they find out they get 1/2 the productivity.
Exactly. We've hit a bizarre point in the history of the US where the law no longer constrains what the government can and can't do. It used to be that if the government wanted to expand its powers it would try to pass a law, today they don't even care about that formality.
A democracy and a free society are incompatible because a democracy is simply the tyranny of a majority and leads to the exact same abuses as with a dictatorship or an oligarchy.
I expect that we'll see a trend of more and more services being hosted in freer jurisdictions than the US, especially for those who are privacy conscience.
Because it is more than just phone calls now, its e-mails, Facebook, and all sorts of web traffic. Very little of my communication is done by cell phone voice, other than at work and the occasional call to a tech-challenged friend most of my communication is through e-mails, skype, IM, and various sites. There's a huge difference between simply logging phone numbers and intercepting communications online.
Now, I can understand why some people would vote for him the first time, after all, his rhetoric wasn't bad! Ending the wars and closing Guantanamo Bay were good ideas, however, it should be clear by the end of his first term that he was nothing more than Bush part II.
Where is the outrage over this? It's amazing, Clinton gets a blow job from an intern and he gets impeached by the House! But yet this happens and... nothing. Oh, sure, the media is -talking- about it, people are -talking- about it, but where are the protests? Where is the action? Revolutions have been fought over less than this!
This sounds like too large of an "insurance" to be useful. Most people don't have the bandwidth or the space to hold 1.7 TB of encrypted info. Smaller files might make sense but not huge ones like this.
Is the manager's name Jen? Does she say that Googling Google can break the Internet? Does she think that the Internet is housed in a little black box with a red LED on the top?
If assuming the repair shop invest in the 3D printer, wouldn't be the price determined by "what the customers in the serviced area are willing to pay" rather than the actual cost of materials/labor?
Not really. If we assume a competitive marketplace, we can assume that not every repair shop will charge the same price. If two shops have the same quality, or at least the same perceived quality, the cheaper shop will get more business, even though they might get less income per repair, they are likely to be more profitable due to the larger volume of customers they can serve.
The lower prices get, the less willing customers are to pay higher prices and over time the pricing will be more determined by the actual cost of materials/labor.
For example, materials/labor have decreased dramatically when it comes to computers. Back in 1995 I would be very willing to pay $800+ for a machine with 16 MB of RAM, a 1.5 GB HDD, and a CD ROM drive. On the other hand, I doubt I'd be a buyer for a computer with those specs for $20 today, the decreased prices of today's superior machines have changed my expectations and what I'm willing to pay. It will be the same way with 3D printing, while today I might be willing to pay $100 for a factory-made part and would pay $75 for that same part if it was 3-D printed (since its a dramatic cost reduction and assuming the same quality) but another shop might be willing to sell that for $70, because of that, I'm less willing to pay the $75 at the other shop, meaning that shop needs to reduce its price to gain my business and so on.
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So in other words, we have no rights. Rights are absolutes, if they can be defined or narrowed down to nothingness (like the Supreme Court has enjoyed doing) they cease to become rights and merely exist as privileges to be taken away at will.
Really, what enumerated rights do we in the US have left? I guess we have the third amendment still?
Of course immersion is going to be more effective because it makes it actually -necessary- and useful to learn a foreign language. There's a big difference between sitting at a computer with Rosetta Stone and learning Spanish and being dropped in Argentina and have to figure it out. There's no real motivation in learning Spanish on the computer, after all, it doesn't determine whether you eat at night, it doesn't determine whether you can interact with people or anything more than a small intrinsic reward of knowing another language.
There's a reason why people who live in areas where multiple languages are spoken are generally fluent in more than one language, but in areas where everyone pretty much speaks a single language (such as the US and Canada) you see a much lower percentage of people who are fluent in multiple languages, it simply isn't needed.
This absurdity that the government "owns" "historical" (and they often use a very broad definition of "historical") found on your property has done much more harm than good, especially in Europe.
What this is saying to those who might find historical artifacts is to either ignore them or avoid recording them. This is counter-productive to the preservation of history. Instead, what needs to happen is we need to let the market help history. For example, a dug arrowhead is unlikely to fetch much money at market, but a dug arrowhead with a story behind it will often fetch much more, thus giving an incentive to have finds "checked out" because that means extra $$$ for you when you sell it.
Of course it also has a more outrageous claim, the claim to own things on your own property. Whatever is buried on your land, be it an Anglo-Saxon hoard, oil, or whatever is yours to do with as you wish so long as you own the land.
The thing about the Linux thing is that it really only affected nerds, those who used their PS3 for gaming (which is what the majority of people bought a gaming system for) were mostly unaffected, and while undoubtedly there was some outrage at releasing an update simply to remove a feature, it didn't really affect people.
The Xbox One changes games, which affects everyone. Every cartridge and disk based console without exception has allowed you to trade in and borrow games. The only restriction has been that you can't duplicate the games themselves, from the Atari 2600 to the NES to the PlayStation, this has been the only restriction.
There is a reason why people are console gamers and not PC gamers.
Throwing money after a console doesn't mean it will be successful.
Nintendo certainly spent money on marketing for the Virtual Boy, and Sega had a big push for the Saturn and the Dreamcast, two consoles that failed to really catch on. Same with the Jaguar (although Atari certainly wasn't in the same shape that Nintendo and Sega were). Same with the 3DO.
Undoubtedly the Xbox one won't be a complete failure the way some consoles were (N-Gage, CDi, etc.) but I highly doubt that it will be the smash success the 360 is.
Because it leads to the ability to spread propaganda or misinformation (especially if someone hacks it!) to everyone with a smartphone and since it's "official" people will be less apt to question it.
Sure, the Montana zombie attack was pretty funny http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7pNAhENBV4
But when the AP (just one of many sources for news on Twitter) had their Twitter hacked to say that there was an attack on the White House, the stock market plunged: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2313652/AP-Twitter-hackers-break-news-White-House-explosions-injured-Obama.html
Now imagine if something like that AP tweet was sent to every smartphone in America. It wouldn't be pretty.
I fail to see how this will be useful in a (real) emergency. After all, how long did it take for 9/11 to be known among the masses? This was in 2001, long before smartphones became the norm and long before wi-fi was everywhere.
I've got no problem with weather or AMBER alerts since you can disable them, in fact weather alerts might actually be useful during tornado season. But just let us disable everything if we don't want it. The entire "presidential alert" just seems like something you'd see in 1984 to spread propaganda.
Here's the thing: reckless driving is reckless driving. It doesn't matter if they were stone-cold sober, texting, drunk, high, etc. If someone drives reckless, THAT is the problem not whatever else they were doing.
The problem is, as with most anti-theft technology like this, it won't hurt the thieves as much as it will screw-over buyers of used hardware.
This will not cut down on theft as much as it will simply cripple the trust of the secondary market. After all, you can still steal an iPhone, stick it on Craigslist for cash, sell it to some poor sucker and get leave before he charges up the phone and figures out it was stolen and won't work.
Well, looks like its time to move.
Only 4 GB of RAM for the Air? Even your bottom-barrel throwaway laptop from Walmart tends to have at least 4 GB of RAM, let alone a laptop you're going to be paying $1K for.
Most Mac users I know dual boot Windows and OS-X.
Ad networks will always be a potential vector of infection and since many, if not most, apps on Google Play (and iOS) that are free will have ads from a major ad network, it means that any application can potentially give you malware with no fault of the application developers themselves.
Or number 5: reduce the government to a level where it doesn't matter who is in power (or eliminate it entirely).
The only just government is one that someone voluntarily agrees to (and no, accident of birth does not count).
I'd suggest you read No Treason by Lysander Spooner, particularly Number VI, No Treason: The Constitution of no Authority.
Yeah, it really seems like when it comes to India, their engineers are fine with low-level stuff but when it comes to doing something beyond what they learned in school, they've got no clue. They also don't seem to understand how it all "fits together" and how to actually innovate and make usable features for normal users.
Indians are fine for grunt work, and there are some truly bright engineers there, but too many companies see that they can get 5 engineers for the price of one and think they'll get 5x the productivity... instead they find out they get 1/2 the productivity.
Exactly. We've hit a bizarre point in the history of the US where the law no longer constrains what the government can and can't do. It used to be that if the government wanted to expand its powers it would try to pass a law, today they don't even care about that formality.
HP needs to release it under an open source license since they're discontinuing it.
Is it just me or has it become tradition for HP to kill things lately? It really makes me wonder what they plan on actually selling...
A democracy and a free society are incompatible because a democracy is simply the tyranny of a majority and leads to the exact same abuses as with a dictatorship or an oligarchy.
I expect that we'll see a trend of more and more services being hosted in freer jurisdictions than the US, especially for those who are privacy conscience.
Because it is more than just phone calls now, its e-mails, Facebook, and all sorts of web traffic. Very little of my communication is done by cell phone voice, other than at work and the occasional call to a tech-challenged friend most of my communication is through e-mails, skype, IM, and various sites. There's a huge difference between simply logging phone numbers and intercepting communications online.
I voted for Obama twice.
Well, I found your problem.
Now, I can understand why some people would vote for him the first time, after all, his rhetoric wasn't bad! Ending the wars and closing Guantanamo Bay were good ideas, however, it should be clear by the end of his first term that he was nothing more than Bush part II.
Where is the outrage over this? It's amazing, Clinton gets a blow job from an intern and he gets impeached by the House! But yet this happens and... nothing. Oh, sure, the media is -talking- about it, people are -talking- about it, but where are the protests? Where is the action? Revolutions have been fought over less than this!
This sounds like too large of an "insurance" to be useful. Most people don't have the bandwidth or the space to hold 1.7 TB of encrypted info. Smaller files might make sense but not huge ones like this.
Is the manager's name Jen? Does she say that Googling Google can break the Internet? Does she think that the Internet is housed in a little black box with a red LED on the top?
If assuming the repair shop invest in the 3D printer, wouldn't be the price determined by "what the customers in the serviced area are willing to pay" rather than the actual cost of materials/labor?
Not really. If we assume a competitive marketplace, we can assume that not every repair shop will charge the same price. If two shops have the same quality, or at least the same perceived quality, the cheaper shop will get more business, even though they might get less income per repair, they are likely to be more profitable due to the larger volume of customers they can serve.
The lower prices get, the less willing customers are to pay higher prices and over time the pricing will be more determined by the actual cost of materials/labor.
For example, materials/labor have decreased dramatically when it comes to computers. Back in 1995 I would be very willing to pay $800+ for a machine with 16 MB of RAM, a 1.5 GB HDD, and a CD ROM drive. On the other hand, I doubt I'd be a buyer for a computer with those specs for $20 today, the decreased prices of today's superior machines have changed my expectations and what I'm willing to pay. It will be the same way with 3D printing, while today I might be willing to pay $100 for a factory-made part and would pay $75 for that same part if it was 3-D printed (since its a dramatic cost reduction and assuming the same quality) but another shop might be willing to sell that for $70, because of that, I'm less willing to pay the $75 at the other shop, meaning that shop needs to reduce its price to gain my business and so on.