Why is that some people seem to think that it's their god-given right to flaunt the speed limits if they personally think it's appropriate?
Because speed limits are often set artificially low as a revenue generation device.
Remember when congress got rid of the 55 mph speed limit? All of a sudden, states all over the country raised their speed limits. Montana even eliminated speed limits on some highways. Are we to assume that this one budget decision made all of these roads safer to drive at higher speeds?
When I used to drive back and forth between "home" and college, there was a section of highway that was straight, flat and level for about 5 miles. When no cars were around, it was perfectly safe for me to drive at 85 or 90 mph. It was patrolled by state police and state police only used radar at that time, so I would turn on my detector, pump up the tunes and cruise.
Rubbish. Government Secrecy is the most unsafe form of governance of all...
Secrets are necessary. No goverment will ever be perfect, but for the good imperfect ones to survive they must keep secrets.
I'm sure that most of us agree that the Axis vs Allies fight was a case of good versus evil. The secrets that the allies kept helped to win the day.
Its a fallacy that your country is safe because of its secrets.
Our greatest dangers come from secrets that were not properly kept.
The fact is, cold and hard, your governments secrets are a liability to its populace...
My parents and grandparents lived long enough for me to be born because of the secrets my government kept. Neither German nor Japanese are the national languages of my country because of those secrets.
Which is, we are not in danger from enemies who are light years away. And there's very little we could do in defence, even if we were. A pointless exercise, in my opinion.
I'm guessing that you don't understand the point of research that is done for the sake of research.
It's not about finding enemies, it's not about finding someone to go to an intergalactic barbecue with, it's about finding someone else in all of the vastness of space. Just to see if we're alone.
"In reassortment, two separate viral strains, sometimes from different host species, infect the same cell and swap whole segments of one or two genes. This is how the 1957 and 1968 strains may have originated. The 1957 strain, which killed 70,000 in the United States, carries three gene segments from ducks and five from humans. The later version, which took a U.S. toll of 34,000, mixes two duck segments with six human ones."
Human and Duck DNA in one strain of the Flu virus doesn't sound very efficient to me.
I don't know what, aside from a few very old printers and modems, you'd really miss as far as ADB serial goes, but there were converters for most of these if you really wanted.
The big problem was the Sagem Planet ISDN Geoport Adapter or SPIGA for short. I had just paid $250 for mine and then it was unusable for the new Macs. As I remember it, an actual geoport serial port was necessary for the SPIGA so no USB adapter would have been good enough.
Apple decided for me that serial was dead and none of the peripherals that I had was worth anything anymore.
If Apple was going to force me to purchase new peripherals to replace all of the (perfectly functional)ones I had, I saw no reason to reward them for it.
Now I'm using all kinds of USB peripherals with my x86 boxes. Thanks Apple!
Ah, so there would have been one more company building "macintoshes". That would have totally changed the landscape of computing as we know it.
Wow, that reality distortion field really has affected you.
One company would have been the start. There would have been others. Apple would be better off today.
Apple would not have been able to produce their product had they been beholden to a legacy userbase or a manufacturing parter (which would take away all their profits, just like happened in the Mid-90's with the cloning fiasco).
Apple (especially when it's under the leadership of Jobs) doesn't care about a legacy userbase. Remember the "Apple ][ Forever" slogan?
Upon Jobs's return, Apple suddenly stopped caring about its partnerships with UMAX, Power Computing, APS, Daystar & Radius. Back in the 1980s they would have been just as free to fuck over any partner as they were in the 1990s.
OK, you read the article. You did NOT understand it.
I read it, and I understood it, but I DISAGREE with it.
4 years ago, I was the second most prolific Mac repairman in the Pittsburgh area. I still have all of the stuff that I got from Apple. I have my certificates for progressing through their "Learn & Earn" program. I still have my "Apple Specialist" lapel pin. As I type this, I'm completing the install of Mandrake 9.1 on a Mac that I custom built myself from two dead iMacs.
As much as I may have once loved Apple. They blew their chance. Refusing to license when it would have benefitted the platform was one of their great mistakes(IMHO, the greatest).
Are there any other misconception that I may disabuse you of?
Porn is still copyrighted, and unless you get redistribution rights, it's illegal to send to someone else.
A LOT of porn is amateur porn that people want distributed for free. Some commercial porn is also intended to be freely distributed because it will increase the traffic to their site.
I loved 8.1, I have two Apple Machines; A 6400 and my FrankenMac, I have Mandrake running on the 6400 (Dual booting with 8.1) and I soon will be installing the same setup on the FrankenMac.
My Distributed net keyrate is going to take a HUGE jump.
Except Apple did license the Mac OS to companies. And they nearly went bankrupt because of it. UMAX, Motorola, PowerComputing, Radius. They all had licenses. Apple's share just decreased even more rapidly.
Don't forget Daystar. The first (and to my knowledge only) company to make a 4-Way SMP Mac OS machine.
Problem is that Apple didn't start licensing the machines until after they had lost the battle for supremecy. Had Apple licensed 10 years earlier they may have had better results. By the mid-1990s people had chosen their sides. The availability of clones meant that people who were unwilling to pay top dollar for Apple branded upgrades had the choice of buying a clone instead of going over to a Win-PC. They didn't bring many new users over from the windows world because it was too late.
I originally chose the Mac over PC. It was 1990 and I was looking to get a new computer. I went to a computer store and looked at what they had on the shelf. The Mac Plus was used, but it was still a current machine. It was still being manufactured by Apple and it was so much slicker than the DOS machines that were on display.
I was primarily a Mac user until 1996. I wanted to get into PC Gaming. I built a Pentium 100 PC. Over the years that followed I spend money upgrading both platforms. My PC was for gaming and my Mac was for everything else. Over time I just became less and less interested in the Mac platform. When Apple eliminated onboard SCSI, Serial and ADB they made ALL of my peripherals obsolete. So not only would I have had to buy a new mac, I would have had to buy all new peripherals. That was the final straw.
Two years ago I bought two dead iMacs and pieced them together into a FrankenMac. I have all of the guts (sans monitor) running inside of a briefcase.
It runs great and is going to fulfill its intended role perfectly. But, I have no intent to ever go back to Mac as my primary platform. In my mind, the extra cost and diminished software choices don't make it worth the extra polish that Apple puts into its machines.
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Why is that some people seem to think that it's their god-given right to flaunt the speed limits if they personally think it's appropriate?
Because speed limits are often set artificially low as a revenue generation device.
Remember when congress got rid of the 55 mph speed limit? All of a sudden, states all over the country raised their speed limits. Montana even eliminated speed limits on some highways. Are we to assume that this one budget decision made all of these roads safer to drive at higher speeds?
When I used to drive back and forth between "home" and college, there was a section of highway that was straight, flat and level for about 5 miles. When no cars were around, it was perfectly safe for me to drive at 85 or 90 mph. It was patrolled by state police and state police only used radar at that time, so I would turn on my detector, pump up the tunes and cruise.
LK
The board I bought was a generic with an Intel Triton VX chipset. Very much like this one. USB headers included.
LK
Every PC Motherboard I've bought over the past 8 years has come with Serial Ports, Paralellel port, and USB.
LK
Rubbish. Government Secrecy is the most unsafe form of governance of all...
...
Secrets are necessary. No goverment will ever be perfect, but for the good imperfect ones to survive they must keep secrets.
I'm sure that most of us agree that the Axis vs Allies fight was a case of good versus evil. The secrets that the allies kept helped to win the day.
Its a fallacy that your country is safe because of its secrets.
Our greatest dangers come from secrets that were not properly kept.
The fact is, cold and hard, your governments secrets are a liability to its populace
My parents and grandparents lived long enough for me to be born because of the secrets my government kept. Neither German nor Japanese are the national languages of my country because of those secrets.
LK
I guess this is for the Ricer on a budget, can't afford a laptop? Get a GBA!
LK
It's not very efficient, it's very effective.
LK
Which is, we are not in danger from enemies who are light years away. And there's very little we could do in defence, even if we were. A pointless exercise, in my opinion.
I'm guessing that you don't understand the point of research that is done for the sake of research.
It's not about finding enemies, it's not about finding someone to go to an intergalactic barbecue with, it's about finding someone else in all of the vastness of space. Just to see if we're alone.
LK
Why the American people have put up with Area 51 for so long without any sort of culpability being required of their government, I do not know.
Simple, regardless of whatever else has gone on there; they have developed some really cool technology that has kept our country safe and free.
The U2, SR-71, F-117A and B2 were all flown at Area 51 during tests. Who knows what other cool shit is out there. Guess we'll find out in 40 years.
LK
viruses and non-eukaryotes have to be too efficient with their DNA. Anything not needed will get discarded
I disagree.
To quote the above linked source
"In reassortment, two separate viral strains, sometimes from different host species, infect the same cell and swap whole segments of one or two genes. This is how the 1957 and 1968 strains may have originated. The 1957 strain, which killed 70,000 in the United States, carries three gene segments from ducks and five from humans. The later version, which took a U.S. toll of 34,000, mixes two duck segments with six human ones."
Human and Duck DNA in one strain of the Flu virus doesn't sound very efficient to me.
LK
Why retract? Just release. It's not like it's going to be used again.
Why not? Return trip? On to next destination?
LK
I don't know what, aside from a few very old printers and modems, you'd really miss as far as ADB serial goes, but there were converters for most of these if you really wanted.
The big problem was the Sagem Planet ISDN Geoport Adapter or SPIGA for short. I had just paid $250 for mine and then it was unusable for the new Macs. As I remember it, an actual geoport serial port was necessary for the SPIGA so no USB adapter would have been good enough.
Apple decided for me that serial was dead and none of the peripherals that I had was worth anything anymore.
LK
If you were a Mac repair guy, why couldn't you install that doohickey that put ADB and serial on your G3 machine? What's the big freakin' deal there?
Because I shouldn't have had to.
LK
If Apple was going to force me to purchase new peripherals to replace all of the (perfectly functional)ones I had, I saw no reason to reward them for it.
Now I'm using all kinds of USB peripherals with my x86 boxes. Thanks Apple!
LK
Ah, so there would have been one more company building "macintoshes". That would have totally changed the landscape of computing as we know it.
Wow, that reality distortion field really has affected you.
One company would have been the start. There would have been others. Apple would be better off today.
Apple would not have been able to produce their product had they been beholden to a legacy userbase or a manufacturing parter (which would take away all their profits, just like happened in the Mid-90's with the cloning fiasco).
Apple (especially when it's under the leadership of Jobs) doesn't care about a legacy userbase. Remember the "Apple ][ Forever" slogan?
Upon Jobs's return, Apple suddenly stopped caring about its partnerships with UMAX, Power Computing, APS, Daystar & Radius. Back in the 1980s they would have been just as free to fuck over any partner as they were in the 1990s.
OK, you read the article. You did NOT understand it.
I read it, and I understood it, but I DISAGREE with it.
4 years ago, I was the second most prolific Mac repairman in the Pittsburgh area. I still have all of the stuff that I got from Apple. I have my certificates for progressing through their "Learn & Earn" program. I still have my "Apple Specialist" lapel pin. As I type this, I'm completing the install of Mandrake 9.1 on a Mac that I custom built myself from two dead iMacs.
As much as I may have once loved Apple. They blew their chance. Refusing to license when it would have benefitted the platform was one of their great mistakes(IMHO, the greatest).
Are there any other misconception that I may disabuse you of?
LK
Porn is still copyrighted, and unless you get redistribution rights, it's illegal to send to someone else.
A LOT of porn is amateur porn that people want distributed for free. Some commercial porn is also intended to be freely distributed because it will increase the traffic to their site.
LK
How are we supposed to use this with one hand?
LK
Licensed it to whom?
The people who wanted to license it.
If no one wanted to license it, then why did Apple try so hard to stop people from cloning their machines?
You didn't read the article, did you?
Yes, I did.
You didn't read the higher posts in this thread, did you?
LK
I loved 8.1, I have two Apple Machines; A 6400 and my FrankenMac, I have Mandrake running on the 6400 (Dual booting with 8.1) and I soon will be installing the same setup on the FrankenMac.
My Distributed net keyrate is going to take a HUGE jump.
LK
Except Apple did license the Mac OS to companies. And they nearly went bankrupt because of it. UMAX, Motorola, PowerComputing, Radius. They all had licenses. Apple's share just decreased even more rapidly.
Don't forget Daystar. The first (and to my knowledge only) company to make a 4-Way SMP Mac OS machine.
Problem is that Apple didn't start licensing the machines until after they had lost the battle for supremecy. Had Apple licensed 10 years earlier they may have had better results. By the mid-1990s people had chosen their sides. The availability of clones meant that people who were unwilling to pay top dollar for Apple branded upgrades had the choice of buying a clone instead of going over to a Win-PC. They didn't bring many new users over from the windows world because it was too late.
LK
I originally chose the Mac over PC. It was 1990 and I was looking to get a new computer. I went to a computer store and looked at what they had on the shelf. The Mac Plus was used, but it was still a current machine. It was still being manufactured by Apple and it was so much slicker than the DOS machines that were on display.
I was primarily a Mac user until 1996. I wanted to get into PC Gaming. I built a Pentium 100 PC. Over the years that followed I spend money upgrading both platforms. My PC was for gaming and my Mac was for everything else. Over time I just became less and less interested in the Mac platform. When Apple eliminated onboard SCSI, Serial and ADB they made ALL of my peripherals obsolete. So not only would I have had to buy a new mac, I would have had to buy all new peripherals. That was the final straw.
Two years ago I bought two dead iMacs and pieced them together into a FrankenMac. I have all of the guts (sans monitor) running inside of a briefcase.
It runs great and is going to fulfill its intended role perfectly. But, I have no intent to ever go back to Mac as my primary platform. In my mind, the extra cost and diminished software choices don't make it worth the extra polish that Apple puts into its machines.
LK
IANAL, but it's my understanding that for a non-compete agreement to be valid it has to be reasonable and specific.
I have been asked to sign one once. Fortunately for me, cursively writing "Won't Agree" looks an awful lot like my signature.
LK
Can I really trust an outfit that thinks that a side-scrolling website design is a Good Thing?
No.
LK
Yes, there are some legit uses for P2P networks, but let's just admit that 99% of the useage of P2P networks is Porn, MP3's and Warez.
So you're saying that 33 1/3% of the 99% of the useage is legitimate.
Unless you're in Utah, there's nothing wrong with pr0n.
LK
Why would I want to download SP2 for Mac or Linux?
Maybe you're an IT Professional whose primary machine is a Mac or Linux box.
Seriously man; stupid question.
LK
Perhaps this should have been titled "XP SP2 Shows Legitimate use for P2P."
LK