You must live in a very wealth community then, here in the rust belt midwest MANY cars on the road are old enough to not have ABS. And no I can't afford to upgrade nor do I want to, my 1990 Toyota Corolla drives just fine, doesn't burn oil, and is well maintained and get 30 mpg in the city. And unlike many fools I allow a safe traveling distance between cars and drive right around the speed limit and not like a maniac so I'll pass on a hard to maintain low mpg new or newish car. Good luck substituting relying on fallible technology for actually paying attention.
Yeah go ahead and sideswipe the other car which may kill a whole family, because afterall we are Americans, and incredibly selfish and don't give a rats ass about anyone other than ourselves. And then we are mystified when the rest of the world hates us for being self centered arrogant jerks callous jerks with no ethics.
OS X + XP under parallels at 70+% native speed on a cheap used intel Mac FTW!
I thought I'd be putting Linux as a secondary disk image for parallels and then scratched my head and wondered if it would bring me ANY new apps and concluded it wouldn't. While I support GNU, Stalman, etc, there are limits of how much effort I am willing to go through for idealism when it brings no new functionality and I can run all my open source software on OS X or Xp.
For a server OTH Linux all the way baby!
Still I am glad RMS is out there fighting DRm and proprietary software and if things get too restrictive I am truly glad Linux on the desktop is there as an alternative. But for NOW it doesn't seem too necessary other than as a purely ideological choice, shrug.
I edited video on a G3 900 ibook. Is it better on core2duo Macbook, or my G5 tower, yes. But editing non HD video is possible on what today is considered low spec hardware. The cool thing about that to me is I can buy very nice hardware used now that suits all my needs as a power user graphic designer, web developer, so no complaints.
I don't need a netbook, BTW if I really need portable web surfing and to dash off an e-mail my itouch will do the trick, OTH if I need more power then it's the Macbook. To me the netbook is a solution in search of a problem and more of a fashion accessory than a true elegant solution to a real problem.
"...replacing the values of the Enlightenment with Socialism and Planning."
Hyperbole straw man much? How about replacing our inefficient and inequitable society with a mix of small local initiatives like small organic farms supported by CSAs, co-ops, and farmers, and more local sustainable power generation like windmills and solar with SOME public large infrastructure like more trains and more subsidized broadband that seems to be working so well in Europe and Japan. The small local farms seems MORE in line with "enlightenment" thinkers like Jefferson whose vision of America was agrarian, decentralized, and New England town meeting based. Meanwhile your pure Freidmanite capitalism has collapsed from an orgy of ISVs, and "naked short selling." Time to go back to the drawing board to create a more just sustainable efficient society that provides information services and a good education for all it's members.
My itouch is jailbroken and at 1.1.4 and will stay that way so I can access a terminal and run the software *I* want on it, if Apple doesn't like that they can bite me.
While you are technically right the implications of your position are perhaps more troubling than you realize. What Apple is doing is taking a Universal Turing Machine:
Disclaimer I am NOT a GNU zealot, I do have an itouch, OTH it's the last Apple product I'm getting if they go this route which is WORSE than Microsoft. Dual booting XP and Ubuntu and configuring a Linux phone/mp3 player isn't THAT hard that I am willing to just sacrifice a computers basic nature as a Universal Turing Machine or my basic freedom to tinker just to have a shiny Apple gadget.
The last great truly innovative and OPEN product Apple made was the 12 inch G4 Powerbook IMO. Yes I have an ipod touch and a G5 tower but I won't be getting any more Apple products if they become an entirely closed mainly consumer electronics focused company.
Dual booting XP and Ubuntu isn't THAT bad that I'm not wiling to put up with more of this crap on a computer which is supposed to be a UNIVERSAL Turing machine. It's getting worse than Microsoft who I left to get a Mac in the first place.
I don't have blueray and am in no rush to get it. This is strange because in the 90s I was always feeling constrained by tech and waiting for the next new thing to come out. Now even my slowest computer will edit videos, and has plenty of storage space for all my music photos, web sites I have developed, etc. Maybe I am just old but I think for 90% of people Moores law has outpaced their actual needs in video and computer equipment. From what I can see only cell phones are growing in real practical useable capability.
Typed from a G4 867 mhz Powerbook that is frankly fine when backed up by a G5 tower and cheap off Craig's list Core2Duo big desktop replacement type notebook. If consumers really reflected on what they needed v.s. what's being provided I think the tech industry would be in real trouble. And I am saying as the sort of early adopter who tried Google's Chrome web browser.
The point is I doubt I'll have blu ray even 5 years from now and it's replacement I'll want less and I hardly consider myself either deprived or a luddite.
Does anyone knol if this will work with Mac mail.app and thunderbird? I really like having an e-mail client so I can easily mail web page links to people.
That one is REALLY crap watch "she" never blinks and the eyes are totally lifeless and don't move or refract light in any realistic way at all. That one isn't even too uncanny yet, it's just bad like something rendered on an Amiga in the early 90s.
Ladies and gents I do believe we've been spammed by a so, so animation company.
Yeah except I don't remember all the driver problems with XP for example, nor it being basically non functional on XP labled hardware like Vista "basic" can be with low end systems. Then there is the DRM...
In short I think vista is more like ME which I did suffer though on one notebook than XP which is crappy but functional esp with Firefox as a browser.
Interesting point I'm pretty geeky I have core2duo notebook dual booting Hardy Heron and XP, a Powerbook and a dual G5 tower and probably spend 6 hours a day at least on a computer yet in all that time I've spent MAYBE 5 minutes in Vista including consulting work. Nor do I have any desire to try Vista I think the fact that power uses tend to reject spells trouble for M$ in the long run.
I don't know why you got moded "flamebait" your point about externalities being offloaded onto the public is 100% right. The U.S. model equals privatize profits, socialite costs, which is it's own unacknowledged form of socialism that benefits a very few corporate owners and large stock holders. The true health and environmental cost of gasoline is FAR more than 4/gallon, a cost being paid neither by oil producers, nor the direct cosumer at the pump, but rather society through higher health insurance rates, etc.
What's the alternative? You know we can't keep up an economy with an exponential doubling period of 30 years, right? And it's doubtful private corporations worried about quarterly bottom lines and competitors in their own industry are going to make more than baby steps.
Like it or not "elitists" in countries like China and Germany are getting it right with heavy investment in high speed rail and wind power. They will be laughing at us hard core when we are using our useless SUVs to store potatoes in next to third worldesque poverty shacks because we were too short sighted to plan for the future.
If people are too dazzled by shiny car ads to change their behavior then yes they will have to be led, hopefully in a Green decentralized way, but if not, not, our survival is too important to be led off a cliff like Lemmings by the Rush Limbaugh oxycontin/consumerist junkies of the world.
Yes speech laws ought not to be content based. Once there is a basis for unmasking "trolls" valuable anonymous political speech becomes more endangered too. After all if a couple of law students can become motivated to do this, think how much motivated and how many more resources a government that felt threatened would have to unmask someone. And how much easier it would be for them with the precedence of unmasking "trolls."
Really this is all basic civics. Do they even teach civics classes anymore because I find increasingly widespread ignorance of what our Constitution really means.
Threatening to do something and actually doing it are two VERY different things. How far we have fallen from the heady days of protecting say James Joyce;s semi pornographic ramblings in Ulysses. Someones career ought not ever be ruined by words that harm no one IMO. Sticks and stones can hurt my bones, but words will never hurt me.
Interestingly enough although I generally skew hard left at least on economic and environmental issues my strong line against hate speech apparently puts me in the right wing camp on this one. Well, whatever I am more concerned with with ethics than labels. Answer hate speech with more speech IMO.
Tell that to the founding fathers who wrote the Federalist, and anti Federalist papers in a 100% anonymous fashion.
"The tradition of anonymous speech is older than the United States. Founders Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay wrote the Federalist Papers under the pseudonym "Publius," and "the Federal Farmer" spoke up in rebuttal. The US Supreme Court has repeatedly recognized rights to speak anonymously derived from the First Amendment.
The right to anonymous speech is also protected well beyond the printed page. Thus, in 2002, the Supreme Court struck down a law requiring proselytizers to register their true names with the Mayor's office before going door-to-door.
These long-standing rights to anonymity and the protections it affords are critically important for the Internet. As the Supreme Court has recognized, the Internet offers a new and powerful democratic forum in which anyone can become a "pamphleteer" or "a town crier with a voice that resonates farther than it could from any soapbox."
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You must live in a very wealth community then, here in the rust belt midwest MANY cars on the road are old enough to not have ABS. And no I can't afford to upgrade nor do I want to, my 1990 Toyota Corolla drives just fine, doesn't burn oil, and is well maintained and get 30 mpg in the city. And unlike many fools I allow a safe traveling distance between cars and drive right around the speed limit and not like a maniac so I'll pass on a hard to maintain low mpg new or newish car. Good luck substituting relying on fallible technology for actually paying attention.
Yeah go ahead and sideswipe the other car which may kill a whole family, because afterall we are Americans, and incredibly selfish and don't give a rats ass about anyone other than ourselves. And then we are mystified when the rest of the world hates us for being self centered arrogant jerks callous jerks with no ethics.
OS X + XP under parallels at 70+% native speed on a cheap used intel Mac FTW!
I thought I'd be putting Linux as a secondary disk image for parallels and then scratched my head and wondered if it would bring me ANY new apps and concluded it wouldn't. While I support GNU, Stalman, etc, there are limits of how much effort I am willing to go through for idealism when it brings no new functionality and I can run all my open source software on OS X or Xp.
For a server OTH Linux all the way baby!
Still I am glad RMS is out there fighting DRm and proprietary software and if things get too restrictive I am truly glad Linux on the desktop is there as an alternative. But for NOW it doesn't seem too necessary other than as a purely ideological choice, shrug.
I edited video on a G3 900 ibook. Is it better on core2duo Macbook, or my G5 tower, yes. But editing non HD video is possible on what today is considered low spec hardware. The cool thing about that to me is I can buy very nice hardware used now that suits all my needs as a power user graphic designer, web developer, so no complaints.
I don't need a netbook, BTW if I really need portable web surfing and to dash off an e-mail my itouch will do the trick, OTH if I need more power then it's the Macbook. To me the netbook is a solution in search of a problem and more of a fashion accessory than a true elegant solution to a real problem.
Whops that should have been "farmers markets" and not just farmers. I wish slashdot had an edit function, isn't it time in 2008?
jmorris
"...replacing the values of the Enlightenment with Socialism and Planning."
Hyperbole straw man much? How about replacing our inefficient and inequitable society with a mix of small local initiatives like small organic farms supported by CSAs, co-ops, and farmers, and more local sustainable power generation like windmills and solar with SOME public large infrastructure like more trains and more subsidized broadband that seems to be working so well in Europe and Japan. The small local farms seems MORE in line with "enlightenment" thinkers like Jefferson whose vision of America was agrarian, decentralized, and New England town meeting based. Meanwhile your pure Freidmanite capitalism has collapsed from an orgy of ISVs, and "naked short selling." Time to go back to the drawing board to create a more just sustainable efficient society that provides information services and a good education for all it's members.
Enough (neo)conservative centralist globalist crony capitalist epic fail already!
My itouch is jailbroken and at 1.1.4 and will stay that way so I can access a terminal and run the software *I* want on it, if Apple doesn't like that they can bite me.
While you are technically right the implications of your position are perhaps more troubling than you realize. What Apple is doing is taking a Universal Turing Machine:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Turing_machine
And turning it into a closed, limited, system. If this catches on it could spread to laptops and desktops perhaps leading to this grim scenario:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
Disclaimer I am NOT a GNU zealot, I do have an itouch, OTH it's the last Apple product I'm getting if they go this route which is WORSE than Microsoft. Dual booting XP and Ubuntu and configuring a Linux phone/mp3 player isn't THAT hard that I am willing to just sacrifice a computers basic nature as a Universal Turing Machine or my basic freedom to tinker just to have a shiny Apple gadget.
The last great truly innovative and OPEN product Apple made was the 12 inch G4 Powerbook IMO. Yes I have an ipod touch and a G5 tower but I won't be getting any more Apple products if they become an entirely closed mainly consumer electronics focused company.
Dual booting XP and Ubuntu isn't THAT bad that I'm not wiling to put up with more of this crap on a computer which is supposed to be a UNIVERSAL Turing machine. It's getting worse than Microsoft who I left to get a Mac in the first place.
I don't have blueray and am in no rush to get it. This is strange because in the 90s I was always feeling constrained by tech and waiting for the next new thing to come out. Now even my slowest computer will edit videos, and has plenty of storage space for all my music photos, web sites I have developed, etc. Maybe I am just old but I think for 90% of people Moores law has outpaced their actual needs in video and computer equipment. From what I can see only cell phones are growing in real practical useable capability.
Typed from a G4 867 mhz Powerbook that is frankly fine when backed up by a G5 tower and cheap off Craig's list Core2Duo big desktop replacement type notebook. If consumers really reflected on what they needed v.s. what's being provided I think the tech industry would be in real trouble. And I am saying as the sort of early adopter who tried Google's Chrome web browser.
The point is I doubt I'll have blu ray even 5 years from now and it's replacement I'll want less and I hardly consider myself either deprived or a luddite.
Am I the only one here who feels that way?
That's sad then her hands have really stiff and jerky motions IMO.
Does anyone knol if this will work with Mac mail.app and thunderbird? I really like having an e-mail client so I can easily mail web page links to people.
That one is REALLY crap watch "she" never blinks and the eyes are totally lifeless and don't move or refract light in any realistic way at all. That one isn't even too uncanny yet, it's just bad like something rendered on an Amiga in the early 90s.
Ladies and gents I do believe we've been spammed by a so, so animation company.
Actually it was the hands for me, watch again the hands are totally stiff and weird looking, not even close.
Yeah except I don't remember all the driver problems with XP for example, nor it being basically non functional on XP labled hardware like Vista "basic" can be with low end systems. Then there is the DRM...
In short I think vista is more like ME which I did suffer though on one notebook than XP which is crappy but functional esp with Firefox as a browser.
Interesting point I'm pretty geeky I have core2duo notebook dual booting Hardy Heron and XP, a Powerbook and a dual G5 tower and probably spend 6 hours a day at least on a computer yet in all that time I've spent MAYBE 5 minutes in Vista including consulting work. Nor do I have any desire to try Vista I think the fact that power uses tend to reject spells trouble for M$ in the long run.
If the Nazis had, had color television and Gobbel's version of Fox news, we'd probably all be giving the Hitler salute, those of us alive that is. :(
An old joke used to be, "just because you are paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you," now it doesn't seem so funny. :(
I see your Godwin's and raise you an ad hominem attack upon my person. The ball is in your court sir...
I don't know why you got moded "flamebait" your point about externalities being offloaded onto the public is 100% right. The U.S. model equals privatize profits, socialite costs, which is it's own unacknowledged form of socialism that benefits a very few corporate owners and large stock holders.
The true health and environmental cost of gasoline is FAR more than 4/gallon, a cost being paid neither by oil producers, nor the direct cosumer at the pump, but rather society through higher health insurance rates, etc.
What's the alternative? You know we can't keep up an economy with an exponential doubling period of 30 years, right? And it's doubtful private corporations worried about quarterly bottom lines and competitors in their own industry are going to make more than baby steps.
Like it or not "elitists" in countries like China and Germany are getting it right with heavy investment in high speed rail and wind power. They will be laughing at us hard core when we are using our useless SUVs to store potatoes in next to third worldesque poverty shacks because we were too short sighted to plan for the future.
If people are too dazzled by shiny car ads to change their behavior then yes they will have to be led, hopefully in a Green decentralized way, but if not, not, our survival is too important to be led off a cliff like Lemmings by the Rush Limbaugh oxycontin/consumerist junkies of the world.
First they came for the trolls and I was not a troll so I said nothing...
Yes speech laws ought not to be content based. Once there is a basis for unmasking "trolls" valuable anonymous political speech becomes more endangered too. After all if a couple of law students can become motivated to do this, think how much motivated and how many more resources a government that felt threatened would have to unmask someone. And how much easier it would be for them with the precedence of unmasking "trolls."
Really this is all basic civics. Do they even teach civics classes anymore because I find increasingly widespread ignorance of what our Constitution really means.
Threatening to do something and actually doing it are two VERY different things. How far we have fallen from the heady days of protecting say James Joyce;s semi pornographic ramblings in Ulysses. Someones career ought not ever be ruined by words that harm no one IMO. Sticks and stones can hurt my bones, but words will never hurt me.
Interestingly enough although I generally skew hard left at least on economic and environmental issues my strong line against hate speech apparently puts me in the right wing camp on this one. Well, whatever I am more concerned with with ethics than labels. Answer hate speech with more speech IMO.
Tell that to the founding fathers who wrote the Federalist, and anti Federalist papers in a 100% anonymous fashion.
"The tradition of anonymous speech is older than the United States. Founders Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay wrote the Federalist Papers under the pseudonym "Publius," and "the Federal Farmer" spoke up in rebuttal. The US Supreme Court has repeatedly recognized rights to speak anonymously derived from the First Amendment.
The right to anonymous speech is also protected well beyond the printed page. Thus, in 2002, the Supreme Court struck down a law requiring proselytizers to register their true names with the Mayor's office before going door-to-door.
These long-standing rights to anonymity and the protections it affords are critically important for the Internet. As the Supreme Court has recognized, the Internet offers a new and powerful democratic forum in which anyone can become a "pamphleteer" or "a town crier with a voice that resonates farther than it could from any soapbox."
http://www.eff.org/issues/anonymity
See also:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1568/is_n11_v26/ai_16763603