I don't see any big companies moving to this until SP1. It seems doesn't matter how stable it seems. Even my personal use has shown the Bluetooth to be flakey (bluetooth mice and bluetooth headsets...bad news for VOIP folks).
XP is not unstable. In fact it's very stable, which is why they are throwing stats like the 60% out there...it's just not a 'must have' 'right now' situation.
Even a car acts as a Faraday cage in part (for instance when struck by lightning, car passengers are unaffected).
From Wikipedia:
"However, radio and cellular phone signals can still reach inside the vehicle since their wavelengths are significantly smaller than the windows and other openings in the vehicle's conductive frame, though internal signal strength may be diminished."
I gather from this that unless the truck is completely shielded (no gaps, wood body pieces, no moon roof openings, etc), there is chance that GPS could lock, although I tend to doubt it given the low signal strength. In any case, for the purposes of the article, it would function just fine with WiFi data as it's typically accurate to a couple of blocks.
Agreed. No company in their right mind would deploy a new product like this until SP1 came out anyway. I'm guessing small business might, and those who can quickly revert to old images if needed are likely candidates. The rest will hold out to see how it goes for the braver batch.
How are they criminalizing opinions? They don't read minds. They judge actions. If you aren't inciting people to violence then they could care less what you think. If you don't break the law, you can hate all you want.
Consider this. Drug abuse is often done in pubic in schools, and clubs. Arguably where people learn to do that behavior due to peer pressure or curiosity.
The only problem there is that racism is a learned response. If you prevent public displays of it, the distribution of hate speech, and the dissemination of such practices, you prevent societies' young from learning and eventually deifying that type of behavior. Hate crimes do not police people's thoughts. They help to prevent such people from spreading that hate, or inflicting it on others due to stiffer penalties. As a result, people are less likely to commit such a crime. Even with hate crimes bills, you can go your entire life despising a race or a sexual orientation and never have an issue with a hate crimes law. They affect only those that break the law in such a specific way that it is classified as a hate crime, meaning that the offender specifically went out of their way to commit a crime against a specific race, nationality, sexual orientation, gender, etc. They are not automatically classified as hate crimes. They must determine that the offender purposely chose to commit a hate crime due to bias. They send a strong message to the public in general as to what is socially acceptable.
Simply allowing this type of behavior in the open air obviously does not work. Our nation went for hundreds of years on that premise. If our nations young do not see this as acceptable and they are not inundated with it their entire lives, then it's possible they can break the cycle passed down from their parents.
A "Nip it in the bud" method if you will.
Every criminal act is given a severity and a punishment. These hate crime laws simply expand on that punishment for a very specific subset of criminals. I'm of two minds about the punishment though. If someone burns down a house and kills the person living there, should he/she get the same punishment as someone who actively seeks out the home of a black man and burns his house down simply because the man was black? The second seems more malicious to me, but the end result is the same.
One minor note in addition to the above. It could be said that these 'free' solutions followed on the heels of the pay solutions. The pay solutions paved the way and inspired people to create these free solutions. I don't know how often it has happened the other way around in recent times, but I would guess those situations would be more the exception than the rule.
Sure we have Linux, and Ogg, but their adoption is miniscule compared to the 'pay' versions. There is no money to be made from them. There are no App stores pushing their products for pay. These pay for play formats have whole infrastructures and industry's built around them alone. There is monetary incentive to contribute to their success.
How many music players support Ogg? There are some that support Ogg. You can find the 'list' if you look for it, although it's kind of scary read about discontinued products, e-bay purchases from Argentina, random iPod clones from Japan with 'undocumented' support, etc. Very word of mouth. You can bet that all of those support MP3 or MP4 however. Now how many music players support MP3? Pretty much every one on the market. Unfortunately, products like Linux and Ogg are all niche and will probably remain so simply because there isn't any money to be made from them and no incentive to push them other than to appeal to the/. crowd as an afterthought.
So which applies here. Is the MP3 format a patentable process, or a copyright-able process? I agree that patents are out of control in many cases, but if there is no monetary incentive for companies to produce things like the MP3 compression algorithm then we lose a lot of nifty new ideas. If patents don't apply to one, then what about a copyright for the process itself?
I know this hasn't been working for.99 and.99a. I really miss Lanczos for upscaling to my HDTV from my HTPC. Especially for those really small sub-dvd resolutions. I think I saw that there was some sort of build issue and they disabled it.
I'm thinking this is all coming down to speed. With the prevelance of Flash, a smattering of Java, and the sheer volume of crap on most sites these days, the speed increases in Firefox, Chrome, and Safari are actually noticable on a real world basis to the average Joe/Jane.
On top of that, the plugins on Firefox are like crack. Nuff said there.
Even Safari has AdBlock now which was a show stopper for me. I've used it for my primary over the last month and I can't complain other than the refresh button location sucks.
Given the information regarding his statistics (TFA aside), I have to wonder if the results are skewed as a result of intelligence level. Perhaps math and language skills are simply a trait he happened to notice while both are contributing factors to an individuals intelligence and logical thinking skills.
I would be very curious to see how tested IQ levels affected the answers given as well and if it is comparable. It might indicate that logical thinking plays a key role in how people perceive infractions of the law.
Unless you hadn't noticed, this IS a discussion thread in a forum. I happen to have today off. I'm not 'screaming', 'raging', or anything of the sort. You responded to a post and I'm responding to you. Your stating that I'm somehow emotional about this. I'm responding to that accusation.
And this is what's wrong with the twitter crowd. You assume you can determine someone's mood just from a few lines of text. You have imaginary relationships with people which mean pretty much nothing. I would imagine most followers who aren't already friends or family will probably never meet you and they will know nothing about you other than what you tell them in a few lines of text.
It's all just a sort of make believe friendship. I have quite a few social networking accounts outside of twitter. People who 'add' me as a friend mean pretty much nothing and they are taken at face value. I will probably never meet those people, and other than the occasional e-mail, they rate right up there with 'acquaintance'. They are unimportant in my life. If I happen to actually meet some acquaintance in real life, then they have the possibility of becoming an actual friend. My real friends however, are important, they matter, and I actually socialize with them in the real world on a regular basis. I learn things about them just by hanging around with them, and that's the way a friendship should work.
Do you really need to tell 20 people that traffic sucks? I can't think of a single person that woudl find that relevant unless an accident happened right outside of the work parking lot. How many drive the exact same way home as you? In addition, if I'm that interested in traffic, I just look at the GPS.
As to your travel plans, if they were good friends, they would either know you were going out of town, or if they were coming in to town they would actually pick up the phone and call you. I can't think of a single time when a friend was visiting and I didn't know weeks in advance due to a phone call. What kind of friend would just drop a tweet to you while in town on the off chance you might see it? They would pick up the phone and call.
At least someone said it to the masses. The 'A-List' twits are Narcissistic to the core. I'll admit that in some very specific circumstances, it could be a useful tool, but only in the fact that it mimics a crippled IM client. I'm talking about live blogging/chat sessions about breaking news and such. In all other cases, it's pretty much a total waste of time and energy not to put too fine a point on it. These folks are either desperate for recognition of any sort, or they simply live such boring lives that they need to gain followers to validate their mundane existence.
What shocked me is that some of my friends actually wanted me to join twitter. Yeah, I'm a techie geek with the best of them, but I really see no need to known that someone's toilet paper is too abrasive, or that the traffic driving home sucks. Are people's lives really so empty that they need to feel 'followed' for validation?
I get no spam in my gmail account. When I log into hotmail, it's all spam. Viagra, Porn, you name it. I don't think they even use a spam filter. If they do, they should look at another product.
Yes but they are still prohibitively expensive for most typical end users. I'm actually a little surprised that they remain so expensive given that they've been around a few years and that the capacity on them is gaining so quickly. Considering how cheap storage is these days I have to wonder if it's a technical reason that they remain so expensive, or if they simply haven't hit that sweet spot of (Cost x MB).
In any case, they need to hurry the hell up. Papa needs a new pair of dimms...
Not sure if this is your issue, but I had the same problem and I live in the Dallas / Fort Worth area. They tend to have excellent coverage. The problem was with my sim card. The contacts erode or become corroded or the card itself becomes warped. Replacing it resolved my drop calls issue. The AT&T folks may squawk but you can usually get a replacement for free if you suspect it's faulty.
Exactly. Isn't this just like a wolf warning that the chicken coop should have a free and open society with no fences?
The simple fact is that many free solutions offer equivalent protection (sans bells and whistles) without all the extra costs and subscription feeds for DAT's and such. This is one area where Mac and Linux should be proud. They typically remove the need for any of these with properly engineered products that resolve root cause rather than the after affects.
I have to agree. This has blown this issue out of the 'techie' blogs and sites, and into the mainstream. I actually had non-technical folk ask me if I'd heard about it. This has far more visibility than I think the RIAA wanted. They may claim to be all about 'educating the public', but we know that's not the case: http://www.groundreport.com/Media_and_Tech/Judge-Orders-RIAA-Hearing-to-be-Televised-RIAA-Fil
Any sensible person has to look at this and think WTF? I still have to wonder how they could have ever come out of this with such a large judgement for 24 songs unless the defense was being purposely stupid not to put too fine a point on it. It just boggles the mind that a judgement this large could come down with any sort of reasonable argument from the defense.
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I don't see any big companies moving to this until SP1. It seems doesn't matter how stable it seems. Even my personal use has shown the Bluetooth to be flakey (bluetooth mice and bluetooth headsets...bad news for VOIP folks).
XP is not unstable. In fact it's very stable, which is why they are throwing stats like the 60% out there...it's just not a 'must have' 'right now' situation.
"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." Ben Franklin
Even a car acts as a Faraday cage in part (for instance when struck by lightning, car passengers are unaffected).
From Wikipedia:
"However, radio and cellular phone signals can still reach inside the vehicle since their wavelengths are significantly smaller than the windows and other openings in the vehicle's conductive frame, though internal signal strength may be diminished."
I gather from this that unless the truck is completely shielded (no gaps, wood body pieces, no moon roof openings, etc), there is chance that GPS could lock, although I tend to doubt it given the low signal strength. In any case, for the purposes of the article, it would function just fine with WiFi data as it's typically accurate to a couple of blocks.
Actually, depending on the backup battery, it can be attached directly to the interface on the phone, just like a charger.
Agreed. No company in their right mind would deploy a new product like this until SP1 came out anyway. I'm guessing small business might, and those who can quickly revert to old images if needed are likely candidates. The rest will hold out to see how it goes for the braver batch.
How are they criminalizing opinions? They don't read minds. They judge actions. If you aren't inciting people to violence then they could care less what you think. If you don't break the law, you can hate all you want.
Consider this. Drug abuse is often done in pubic in schools, and clubs. Arguably where people learn to do that behavior due to peer pressure or curiosity.
The only problem there is that racism is a learned response. If you prevent public displays of it, the distribution of hate speech, and the dissemination of such practices, you prevent societies' young from learning and eventually deifying that type of behavior. Hate crimes do not police people's thoughts. They help to prevent such people from spreading that hate, or inflicting it on others due to stiffer penalties. As a result, people are less likely to commit such a crime. Even with hate crimes bills, you can go your entire life despising a race or a sexual orientation and never have an issue with a hate crimes law. They affect only those that break the law in such a specific way that it is classified as a hate crime, meaning that the offender specifically went out of their way to commit a crime against a specific race, nationality, sexual orientation, gender, etc. They are not automatically classified as hate crimes. They must determine that the offender purposely chose to commit a hate crime due to bias. They send a strong message to the public in general as to what is socially acceptable.
Simply allowing this type of behavior in the open air obviously does not work. Our nation went for hundreds of years on that premise. If our nations young do not see this as acceptable and they are not inundated with it their entire lives, then it's possible they can break the cycle passed down from their parents.
A "Nip it in the bud" method if you will.
Every criminal act is given a severity and a punishment. These hate crime laws simply expand on that punishment for a very specific subset of criminals. I'm of two minds about the punishment though. If someone burns down a house and kills the person living there, should he/she get the same punishment as someone who actively seeks out the home of a black man and burns his house down simply because the man was black? The second seems more malicious to me, but the end result is the same.
One minor note in addition to the above. It could be said that these 'free' solutions followed on the heels of the pay solutions. The pay solutions paved the way and inspired people to create these free solutions. I don't know how often it has happened the other way around in recent times, but I would guess those situations would be more the exception than the rule.
Money makes the world go 'round.
/. crowd as an afterthought.
Sure we have Linux, and Ogg, but their adoption is miniscule compared to the 'pay' versions. There is no money to be made from them. There are no App stores pushing their products for pay. These pay for play formats have whole infrastructures and industry's built around them alone. There is monetary incentive to contribute to their success.
How many music players support Ogg? There are some that support Ogg. You can find the 'list' if you look for it, although it's kind of scary read about discontinued products, e-bay purchases from Argentina, random iPod clones from Japan with 'undocumented' support, etc. Very word of mouth. You can bet that all of those support MP3 or MP4 however. Now how many music players support MP3? Pretty much every one on the market. Unfortunately, products like Linux and Ogg are all niche and will probably remain so simply because there isn't any money to be made from them and no incentive to push them other than to appeal to the
So which applies here. Is the MP3 format a patentable process, or a copyright-able process? I agree that patents are out of control in many cases, but if there is no monetary incentive for companies to produce things like the MP3 compression algorithm then we lose a lot of nifty new ideas. If patents don't apply to one, then what about a copyright for the process itself?
You may be joking, but I could foresee a fabric that could blend in seamlessly with it's surroundings. Sort of like a chameleon affect.
I know this hasn't been working for .99 and .99a. I really miss Lanczos for upscaling to my HDTV from my HTPC. Especially for those really small sub-dvd resolutions. I think I saw that there was some sort of build issue and they disabled it.
I don't see anything to indicate it's been fixed.
Does anyone know?
I'm thinking this is all coming down to speed. With the prevelance of Flash, a smattering of Java, and the sheer volume of crap on most sites these days, the speed increases in Firefox, Chrome, and Safari are actually noticable on a real world basis to the average Joe/Jane.
On top of that, the plugins on Firefox are like crack. Nuff said there.
Even Safari has AdBlock now which was a show stopper for me. I've used it for my primary over the last month and I can't complain other than the refresh button location sucks.
Given the information regarding his statistics (TFA aside), I have to wonder if the results are skewed as a result of intelligence level. Perhaps math and language skills are simply a trait he happened to notice while both are contributing factors to an individuals intelligence and logical thinking skills.
I would be very curious to see how tested IQ levels affected the answers given as well and if it is comparable. It might indicate that logical thinking plays a key role in how people perceive infractions of the law.
Unless you hadn't noticed, this IS a discussion thread in a forum. I happen to have today off. I'm not 'screaming', 'raging', or anything of the sort. You responded to a post and I'm responding to you. Your stating that I'm somehow emotional about this. I'm responding to that accusation.
And this is what's wrong with the twitter crowd. You assume you can determine someone's mood just from a few lines of text. You have imaginary relationships with people which mean pretty much nothing. I would imagine most followers who aren't already friends or family will probably never meet you and they will know nothing about you other than what you tell them in a few lines of text.
It's all just a sort of make believe friendship. I have quite a few social networking accounts outside of twitter. People who 'add' me as a friend mean pretty much nothing and they are taken at face value. I will probably never meet those people, and other than the occasional e-mail, they rate right up there with 'acquaintance'. They are unimportant in my life. If I happen to actually meet some acquaintance in real life, then they have the possibility of becoming an actual friend. My real friends however, are important, they matter, and I actually socialize with them in the real world on a regular basis. I learn things about them just by hanging around with them, and that's the way a friendship should work.
I never said I was angry. I do think it's a waste of time and resources.
Do you really need to tell 20 people that traffic sucks? I can't think of a single person that woudl find that relevant unless an accident happened right outside of the work parking lot. How many drive the exact same way home as you? In addition, if I'm that interested in traffic, I just look at the GPS.
As to your travel plans, if they were good friends, they would either know you were going out of town, or if they were coming in to town they would actually pick up the phone and call you. I can't think of a single time when a friend was visiting and I didn't know weeks in advance due to a phone call. What kind of friend would just drop a tweet to you while in town on the off chance you might see it? They would pick up the phone and call.
At least someone said it to the masses. The 'A-List' twits are Narcissistic to the core. I'll admit that in some very specific circumstances, it could be a useful tool, but only in the fact that it mimics a crippled IM client. I'm talking about live blogging/chat sessions about breaking news and such. In all other cases, it's pretty much a total waste of time and energy not to put too fine a point on it. These folks are either desperate for recognition of any sort, or they simply live such boring lives that they need to gain followers to validate their mundane existence.
What shocked me is that some of my friends actually wanted me to join twitter. Yeah, I'm a techie geek with the best of them, but I really see no need to known that someone's toilet paper is too abrasive, or that the traffic driving home sucks. Are people's lives really so empty that they need to feel 'followed' for validation?
I get no spam in my gmail account. When I log into hotmail, it's all spam. Viagra, Porn, you name it. I don't think they even use a spam filter. If they do, they should look at another product.
Yes but they are still prohibitively expensive for most typical end users. I'm actually a little surprised that they remain so expensive given that they've been around a few years and that the capacity on them is gaining so quickly. Considering how cheap storage is these days I have to wonder if it's a technical reason that they remain so expensive, or if they simply haven't hit that sweet spot of (Cost x MB).
In any case, they need to hurry the hell up. Papa needs a new pair of dimms...
Not sure if this is your issue, but I had the same problem and I live in the Dallas / Fort Worth area. They tend to have excellent coverage. The problem was with my sim card. The contacts erode or become corroded or the card itself becomes warped. Replacing it resolved my drop calls issue. The AT&T folks may squawk but you can usually get a replacement for free if you suspect it's faulty.
Exactly. Isn't this just like a wolf warning that the chicken coop should have a free and open society with no fences?
The simple fact is that many free solutions offer equivalent protection (sans bells and whistles) without all the extra costs and subscription feeds for DAT's and such. This is one area where Mac and Linux should be proud. They typically remove the need for any of these with properly engineered products that resolve root cause rather than the after affects.
I have to agree. This has blown this issue out of the 'techie' blogs and sites, and into the mainstream. I actually had non-technical folk ask me if I'd heard about it. This has far more visibility than I think the RIAA wanted. They may claim to be all about 'educating the public', but we know that's not the case: http://www.groundreport.com/Media_and_Tech/Judge-Orders-RIAA-Hearing-to-be-Televised-RIAA-Fil
Any sensible person has to look at this and think WTF? I still have to wonder how they could have ever come out of this with such a large judgement for 24 songs unless the defense was being purposely stupid not to put too fine a point on it. It just boggles the mind that a judgement this large could come down with any sort of reasonable argument from the defense.