The real anti-virus software is common sense, but there don't seem to be many available copies out there.:-/
Well of course there aren't many copies available. There's no market demand. (Nor would any corporation with any sense of self-preservation sell it. Though that doesn't rule out the folks from Digital Convergence...)
Your current employer was exploiting you by paying you 1/2 of what you are worth.
Oops. If his new salary is what he's worth, and it took a 50% increase to get there, then they were previously paying him 2/3 of what he's worth.
(If this looks confusing, use a hypothetical example. Original pay = $30,000; raise = 50% of $30,000 = $15,000; final pay = $45,000. $30,000 is 2/3 of $45,000.)
This is science, not a sandbox brawl. You don't get to pick and choose who you cite based on who you don't like.
[cough] Well, um, actually... that sometimes happens. That's rarely the only consideration, true, but personal loyalties and hostilities and such do actually play a role in real-world science.
Q. While talking on my Treo communicator, can I view my calendar or input data to other applications?
A. Yes, you have complete access to all of your other applications (except those which use the serial library during a call, such as another wireless application). Therefore, you can view your calendar, enter an appointment, write a note, create a to do item, or enter contact information in your address book-all while talking on the phone. Of course, this feature is most useful when using the included headset or in speakerphone mode. To return to the Phone application, simply press the Phone button on your Treo communicator-and you'll be back in the Phone application.
What?! Investigate first, then comment? What're you, some kind of nut? This is Slashdot, dammit! Everyone here is an expert on everything; any effort to find out more information would be a waste of time better spent posting comments to show everybody else how smart we are.
Seriously, I suspect hydrinos may be a dead end, too. But at least I'm smart enough to know that I'm not qualified to dismiss it out-of-hand.
And on the flipside, we should trust in the sincerity of the anti-free-market bureaucrats and the big government monopolies, like the postal service???
Is that the flipside or a flipside? I'm not convinced that there's only two choices.
(Actually, I'm less and less convinced that it makes any sense to talk about big corporations and big government as if they were opposites, at least in the current US system. That's the way it's usually presented to us, but they seem more like two outgrowths of the same cancer to me.)
The FCC needs to pull its head out of its ass. It's blipping into an entirely new intestinal reality
I'm sure the FCC -- especially Powell, et al -- know exactly what they're doing. That's the problem. The "free market" babble is a smokescreen.
Whenever corporations (and/or the lackeys they manage to get into government) talk about "free market", keep a tight hold on your wallet and watch carefully for the slight-of-hand. A truly free market would be the last thing they'd want.
But then there's audience too to calculate in too. I dare say that if Microsoft were to behave nicely and come out with a superier product that was priced fairly, some one here would find something to bitch about.
Well, I'd be pretty pissed that someone transported me to an alternate universe without giving me any warning.
It's actually the process of change that people want, and not the end result. (which is good, as it means we have things like, you know, Progress).
I'm not so sure that's good. People seem to (mostly) take it as a given that change = progress and progress is good, and they mostly don't think enough about the directions "progress" takes us.
Trees are renewable, but it takes a *long* time to renew the amount of tree that goes in to a reasonably successful book printing run...;)
[nod] Yup. Unfortunately, a good possible alternative -- hemp -- makes the people who benefit from the War on Some Drugs freak out. And given that some of them have used the WoSD to get and/or stay in power...
If you carefully consider my point, you will see that it actually fits best with libertarian free market philosophy. The market is the best system, but our current market is imperfect because it cannot account for externalities.
It fits with the philosophy, yes, but implementing it in reality would be pretty tricky. How do we prevent market players from "externalizing costs" whenever possible, given that it's to their benefit to do so? It's done right now (when it's done at all) by badly-designed and poorly-implemented government regulations, but it seems like anything other than that would be subverted even faster than Whitman subverted the EPA.
You have a new business model that would equal their current revenue streams?
Not having an alternate suggestion doesn't mean that one has to pretend that the current model isn't seriously flawed. Just because I don't know how to build a warp drive doesn't mean that it's not worth pointing out that somebody's scheme to do it by strapping JATOs to an old 57 Chevy probably won't do the trick.
Coming up with a workable business model is their business -- or should be, if they want to continue making money. The universe doesn't owe them any revenue stream, equal to their current one or not.
And these companies are not making the art. They're just delivering it.
I don't think the idea is that people would opt-in to receive email from anyone. I think the idea is to allow email from a specific business -- if any -- that one wants email from.
Europe and the US need to stop ganging up on legitimate businesses.
Yeah, that'd be nice. Not sure how it's relevant to the topic, though, as unsolicited email is an illegitimate business practice. As evidenced by the bastards who do it.
...and don't want to rehash the whole 'Jurassic Park' cliche'. I have to believe that a species is extinct for a reason. Yes, maybe it's because Man destroyed their habitat or hunted them to extinction, but the fact remains, they're extinct, they could not adapt for survival. Surely there's a reason for that?
Not necessarily, no. Sometimes there's not a reason for it. Evolution is a messy process, not some all-knowing entity that always picks correctly which species "should" live and which "should" die.
We're already a major influence within the process because of our clumsiness. With some careful forethought -- for a change -- maybe we can be a positive influence. Bringing a specific specie back isn't necessarily a good idea, but it would definitely be a good thing to develop the option.
Months ago Palm released the Palm Desktop for OS X. This is totally uncompatible with Handsping Visors (and Treo's apparently).
Dunno about Treos, but Palm Desktop for OS X works just fine with my Visor Deluxe. (Note that according to Handspring, they don't officially recommend using the Palm Desktop for OS X, and they're working on their own version. See here.
A laptop is "mobile" like a mobile home is "mobile". Unless I can carry it in a pocket and easily use it while holding it, it's not "mobile", it's dead weight. If I wouldn't carry it everywhere, why should I bother carrying it anywhere?
Perhaps if we suggest that Osama Bin Laden was on the moon then the press would be interested. Or perhaps that there are Taliban there.
No, no, no. That would make the US administration interested. The press would be interested if the Archbishop of Tranquility Base were accused of child molesting, or if some celebrity got arrested there DLMWI (Driving the Lunar Module While Impaired), or if Elvis was spotted at the Harriman Center Piggly-Wiggly.
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Well of course there aren't many copies available. There's no market demand. (Nor would any corporation with any sense of self-preservation sell it. Though that doesn't rule out the folks from Digital Convergence ...)
Oops. If his new salary is what he's worth, and it took a 50% increase to get there, then they were previously paying him 2/3 of what he's worth.
(If this looks confusing, use a hypothetical example. Original pay = $30,000; raise = 50% of $30,000 = $15,000; final pay = $45,000. $30,000 is 2/3 of $45,000.)
[grin] I hope you're not an accountant.
[cough] Well, um, actually ... that sometimes happens. That's rarely the only consideration, true, but personal loyalties and hostilities and such do actually play a role in real-world science.
At least some authors/publishers are not that dumb.
Is this from personal experience? Because according to Handspring's Treo FAQ:
Q. While talking on my Treo communicator, can I view my calendar or input data to other applications?
A. Yes, you have complete access to all of your other applications (except those which use the serial library during a call, such as another wireless application). Therefore, you can view your calendar, enter an appointment, write a note, create a to do item, or enter contact information in your address book-all while talking on the phone. Of course, this feature is most useful when using the included headset or in speakerphone mode. To return to the Phone application, simply press the Phone button on your Treo communicator-and you'll be back in the Phone application.
Seriously, I suspect hydrinos may be a dead end, too. But at least I'm smart enough to know that I'm not qualified to dismiss it out-of-hand.
Is that the flipside or a flipside? I'm not convinced that there's only two choices.
(Actually, I'm less and less convinced that it makes any sense to talk about big corporations and big government as if they were opposites, at least in the current US system. That's the way it's usually presented to us, but they seem more like two outgrowths of the same cancer to me.)
I'm sure the FCC -- especially Powell, et al -- know exactly what they're doing. That's the problem. The "free market" babble is a smokescreen.
Whenever corporations (and/or the lackeys they manage to get into government) talk about "free market", keep a tight hold on your wallet and watch carefully for the slight-of-hand. A truly free market would be the last thing they'd want.
Who controls access to the airwaves in the US? The FCC. And who controls the FCC ...?
Well, I'd be pretty pissed that someone transported me to an alternate universe without giving me any warning.
I'm not so sure that's good. People seem to (mostly) take it as a given that change = progress and progress is good, and they mostly don't think enough about the directions "progress" takes us.
Seems pretty fast, though I haven't run tests. Love the tabs, especially the ability to have multiple windows and/or multiple tabs.
[nod] Yup. Unfortunately, a good possible alternative -- hemp -- makes the people who benefit from the War on Some Drugs freak out. And given that some of them have used the WoSD to get and/or stay in power ...
If you carefully consider my point, you will see that it actually fits best with libertarian free market philosophy. The market is the best system, but our current market is imperfect because it cannot account for externalities.
It fits with the philosophy, yes, but implementing it in reality would be pretty tricky. How do we prevent market players from "externalizing costs" whenever possible, given that it's to their benefit to do so? It's done right now (when it's done at all) by badly-designed and poorly-implemented government regulations, but it seems like anything other than that would be subverted even faster than Whitman subverted the EPA.
Not having an alternate suggestion doesn't mean that one has to pretend that the current model isn't seriously flawed. Just because I don't know how to build a warp drive doesn't mean that it's not worth pointing out that somebody's scheme to do it by strapping JATOs to an old 57 Chevy probably won't do the trick.
Coming up with a workable business model is their business -- or should be, if they want to continue making money. The universe doesn't owe them any revenue stream, equal to their current one or not.
And these companies are not making the art. They're just delivering it.
The difference is that they're actually preparing to phase out their use of it, rather than preparing to fight over what's left.
I don't think the idea is that people would opt-in to receive email from anyone. I think the idea is to allow email from a specific business -- if any -- that one wants email from.
Yeah, that'd be nice. Not sure how it's relevant to the topic, though, as unsolicited email is an illegitimate business practice. As evidenced by the bastards who do it.
(Um. Might be awkward, though, if she's a friend's daughter.)
Sure, but ...
our actions are the result of the evolution, our actions towards the evolution are caused by the evolution.
Grossly oversimplifies things, and ...
Thus, our actions towards the evolution are either bad or good.
Doesn't make any sense. Maybe you meant "neither bad nor good"? (That wouldn't make sense either, really.)
Not necessarily, no. Sometimes there's not a reason for it. Evolution is a messy process, not some all-knowing entity that always picks correctly which species "should" live and which "should" die.
We're already a major influence within the process because of our clumsiness. With some careful forethought -- for a change -- maybe we can be a positive influence. Bringing a specific specie back isn't necessarily a good idea, but it would definitely be a good thing to develop the option.
Dunno about Treos, but Palm Desktop for OS X works just fine with my Visor Deluxe. (Note that according to Handspring, they don't officially recommend using the Palm Desktop for OS X, and they're working on their own version. See here.
See here
A laptop is "mobile" like a mobile home is "mobile". Unless I can carry it in a pocket and easily use it while holding it, it's not "mobile", it's dead weight. If I wouldn't carry it everywhere, why should I bother carrying it anywhere?
No, no, no. That would make the US administration interested. The press would be interested if the Archbishop of Tranquility Base were accused of child molesting, or if some celebrity got arrested there DLMWI (Driving the Lunar Module While Impaired), or if Elvis was spotted at the Harriman Center Piggly-Wiggly.