Actually, "Internet Explorer" is just about the perfect name. FOSS developers fail so miserably at naming, and should take a lesson from this.
If I was a clueless user and wanted to browse the INTERNET, what would I first think to use? "Mozilla," "Firefox," "Opera," or something else that has "Internet" right in the name?
"Photoshop" versus "GIMP" is just one more example. "Winamp" isn't perfect, but pretty good, compared with "XMMS" or "Audacious", and "iTunes" and "Windows Media Center" both hit it out of the park.
Forget the clueless users, even, and look at how you find software... How many times have you discovered that there was some application for task-X that you didn't know about, despite it being in the yum/dpkg list of your system?
When looking for an IRC client, I'm hardly going to expect "BitchX" is what I want. When looking for a new file manager, "Nautilus", "Konq" and "Dolphin" doesn't mean a damn thing to me... etc.
Sure, you could go for multi-million dollar ad campaigns to get your product's name out there (Firefox), or you could just damn-well name it properly in the first place, so someone looking for it, will find it...
Transport of guns across state lines hamper efforts.
That's the talking-point advocates use to defend their failures. But it really doesn't explain why crime rates show a relative increase, and these facts don't stop them from advocating those stronger restrictions, that don't work and keep killing people. It's insanity. They refuse to live in the real world.
Most if not all illegal guns in Canada, guns in the hands of criminals, come from America.
I'm sure plenty of Canadians buy guns from the US, and never use them to commit crimes, too.
The only good thing about cities is public transportation
Except for all those many cities where the public transportation is awful and useless
Transportation cost is huge, 2nd to housing cost,
A vastly, ridiculously distant second... Or more likely, third behind health insurance for most people. Commuting 100+ miles to/from work, I ballparked my fuel bill as under $250/month. Liability insurance is cheap, as is the price of a decent used car, and parts/maintenance on older vehicles, too.
Thank goodness you Americans can carry guns so you're safer. We can't carry guns up here and, hey that's funny, I can walk almost anywhere here any time.
Actually, the areas with the most relaxed gun laws in the US, *are* the safest. And those areas where they put the most restrictions on guns, have the highest crime rates. It has been a pretty undeniable trend wherever it can be observed. And when the courts force certain cities or states to relax their gun restrictions, crime falls, dramatically.
Also, countries with higher gun ownership rates than the US, have lower crime than many nations where guns are completely banned. In the UK, you're more likely to be stabbed than shot, but that doesn't make it a nice safe place.
Problem with "walkability" wasn't the distances from groceries/restaurants/etc, it was temperature during the summer months. Walking four blocks with groceries at 85+F (30C) would not be fun after a few weeks....
Body temperature is 99F degrees, so 85 is nice and cool... You don't even need to sweat.
Humans were designed for desert life, so it's something you can easily get used-to in short order, if you are willing to dress properly, aren't obese and don't have other medical conditions. Taking some cold water along with you should become second nature, but even that's not really necessary for a mere 4 blocks at 85 degrees.
Look-up "Badwater Ultramarathon" or "Persistence hunting" some time to see what the human body is capable of, and how we compare to other animals.
Cities Suck.. you take your life in your hands for what? a Museum you will never visit?.. Close Proximity to clubs with glory holes? come on man.. serious?
IMHO, cities suck because of traffic sucking hours of your life, pollution, limited recreation opportunities, and prices an order of magnitude higher than less desirable cities nearby which require sacrificing decades of your life under florescent lights, to pay for... Never mind the noise, the cramped conditions, and the stress as a result of all of the above.
Fear of crime is pretty low on my list. You're plenty likely to have your house/car broken into in a rural area, too. There's less crime in absolute terms, due to fewer people, but per-capita, it's often as bad or worse than stereotypically crime-ridden cities.
i mean sure maybe you don't want to live in a one redlight town where you have to drive 30 miles to get to the walmart which is the only store around
With online stores, you don't need to be close to most shopping. A decent grocery store is still a requirement, but a long drive to it once every few weeks isn't a problem. And a home center sure helps, as the cost of shipping appliances and 10ft 2x4s can multiply the price. But even with furniture, ordering online can work better than local stores, even in the city. The same goes for entertainment, like Netflix.
But one thing you might not think of, is that a decent number of remote areas don't even have mailboxes, but instead require driving to a central post office to check your box. That puts a big hurdle in Netflix's DVDs-by-mail or getting Amazon deliveries.
Do you really think you can live there when you are past 60?.. not in any rustbelt city.. heck not in LA not in any city.. you will be easy pray..
Criminals aren't vampires. Get a LoJack on your car, and carry credit cards with basically no cash.
Scammers can target old people anywhere they might be, via phone and postal mail, so the city is no worse-off there.
and how are you going to let your kids play outside? please..
Umm... supervised? In a park? Don't act like rural areas don't have child abductions, because they sure do.
And? I'd bet that solar panels work just fine for you.
Most of the southern hemisphere gets pretty good solar insolation, with only very few extreme exceptions, like Cape Horn and Antarctica. This is unlike the north, where large swaths of heavily populated land-area are sun-poor, like the top-half of North America, and nearly all of Europe.
I'm "sorry" about EVERYTHING I've ever watched by Ken Burns.
Paced slow as hell, with fleetingly little information that you could assimilate in a fraction the time, with a heavy focus on personal letters and vignettes, to the exclusion of all else.
Since they ARE upgrading their network to fiber, that's now evil. I'm confused.
Verizon is evil for lobbying to make their FIOS service excluded from the regulations that covered their POTS lines. Trying desperately to force people onto the unregulated FIOS is just the cherry on-top.
While I'll be the first to complain that FIOS has a hidden 15W+ tax (could be more than $20/year), which Verizon could easily have solved, the Ars Technica rant seems to be almost entirely about their 8 hour backup being insufficient and nobody having a clue how to deal with it.
Verizon's FIOS ONTs operate on 12V batteries for backup, and even HAVE A JACK ON THE SIDE LABELED FOR 12V AUX POWER.
A $25 (5W) solar panel, a diode, some wire and a few brain cells are the ONLY thing you need to give your FIOS service unlimited runtime during a power outage. Yes, it'll keep working just fine during your 14 day power failure. And these monocrystaline panels will be good for 30 years.
With less time and effort than these people put into their vitriolic rants to Ars, they could have what they claim they desperately want, but can't get at any price.
And in a pinch, 8xD batteries, connected together with aluminum foil and tape, will keep it going for a few days after the backup battery dies.
The claims about Verizon letting lines fail, to push customers to FIOS seems to be rumors spread by a few unhappy customers (I had my phone line go down for a few days, too, long before FIOS existed!) and perhaps some sub-contracted installers who don't actually have any way to know jack about Verizon's plans and policies.
The pushy and misleading telemarketers working for Verizon certainly deserve a major slap from the FCC or FTC, but the Ars story barely talks about that.
It's telling when the most worthwhile educational show the last years came out on Fox.
No. PBS is still huffing along, churning out Nova, Frontline, Nature, American Experience, Wild!, Secrets of the Dead, History Detectives, Charlie Rose, This Old House, and more, like they have for decades.
Verizon LTE is absolutely not dual-stack. You get no IPv4 address. Yes, LTE is capable of IPv4, but wireless carriers know they need more address space for the proliferation of devices, instead of their sad NAT, and I expect the others are not stupid, and are doing the same.
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Anybody talking about the future, and not being rash and irresponsible, makes extensive use of words like "could" and "may".
More:
http://www.technologyreview.co...
http://www.technologyreview.co...
http://www.nrel.gov/analysis/r...
http://www.elp.com/articles/20...
http://www.renewableenergyworl...
http://phys.org/news/2011-01-p...
http://theenergycollective.com...
That's only true if you concede that being able to trademark a unique name is valuable. I do not. A name should be descriptive, not obscure.
While you can make different "Office" products, you can't sell it as "Microsoft Office" or use their familiar logos, so they're well protected.
http://www.theecoreport.com/gr...
Actually, "Internet Explorer" is just about the perfect name. FOSS developers fail so miserably at naming, and should take a lesson from this.
If I was a clueless user and wanted to browse the INTERNET, what would I first think to use? "Mozilla," "Firefox," "Opera," or something else that has "Internet" right in the name?
"Photoshop" versus "GIMP" is just one more example. "Winamp" isn't perfect, but pretty good, compared with "XMMS" or "Audacious", and "iTunes" and "Windows Media Center" both hit it out of the park.
Forget the clueless users, even, and look at how you find software... How many times have you discovered that there was some application for task-X that you didn't know about, despite it being in the yum/dpkg list of your system?
When looking for an IRC client, I'm hardly going to expect "BitchX" is what I want. When looking for a new file manager, "Nautilus", "Konq" and "Dolphin" doesn't mean a damn thing to me... etc.
Sure, you could go for multi-million dollar ad campaigns to get your product's name out there (Firefox), or you could just damn-well name it properly in the first place, so someone looking for it, will find it...
Actually, that happens all the time:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22d...
Getting a brick through your window is more likely to harm you than the extremely rare stray bullet.
I do, actually. Only a couple miles inland.
Try losing 100 lbs first...
Anyone and everyone that has walked in much hotter temperatures, surely would.
Nobody would call 70F degrees nice and warm, either, if they've never experienced colder.
What happened here? Did you read every other line of my comment? How about this part:
"even that's not really necessary for a mere 4 blocks at 85 degrees."
So if I'd said "Go to Antarctica if you want to see what real hot weather is" you'd be agreeing with me and not making straw-men?
Got a source? I can cite plenty to show the opposite:
http://pjmedia.com/blog/states...
http://www.jstor.org/stable/10...
International:
http://www.law.harvard.edu/stu...
That's the talking-point advocates use to defend their failures. But it really doesn't explain why crime rates show a relative increase, and these facts don't stop them from advocating those stronger restrictions, that don't work and keep killing people. It's insanity. They refuse to live in the real world.
I'm sure plenty of Canadians buy guns from the US, and never use them to commit crimes, too.
I'm betting criminals in Canada buy US-made cars pretty often, too.
I'm well aware of the humidity in Atlanta. That's why I mentioned sweat. 85F is still moderate.
Except for all those many cities where the public transportation is awful and useless
A vastly, ridiculously distant second... Or more likely, third behind health insurance for most people. Commuting 100+ miles to/from work, I ballparked my fuel bill as under $250/month. Liability insurance is cheap, as is the price of a decent used car, and parts/maintenance on older vehicles, too.
Actually, the areas with the most relaxed gun laws in the US, *are* the safest. And those areas where they put the most restrictions on guns, have the highest crime rates. It has been a pretty undeniable trend wherever it can be observed. And when the courts force certain cities or states to relax their gun restrictions, crime falls, dramatically.
Also, countries with higher gun ownership rates than the US, have lower crime than many nations where guns are completely banned. In the UK, you're more likely to be stabbed than shot, but that doesn't make it a nice safe place.
Body temperature is 99F degrees, so 85 is nice and cool... You don't even need to sweat.
Humans were designed for desert life, so it's something you can easily get used-to in short order, if you are willing to dress properly, aren't obese and don't have other medical conditions. Taking some cold water along with you should become second nature, but even that's not really necessary for a mere 4 blocks at 85 degrees.
Look-up "Badwater Ultramarathon" or "Persistence hunting" some time to see what the human body is capable of, and how we compare to other animals.
That was an impressive rant...
IMHO, cities suck because of traffic sucking hours of your life, pollution, limited recreation opportunities, and prices an order of magnitude higher than less desirable cities nearby which require sacrificing decades of your life under florescent lights, to pay for... Never mind the noise, the cramped conditions, and the stress as a result of all of the above.
Fear of crime is pretty low on my list. You're plenty likely to have your house/car broken into in a rural area, too. There's less crime in absolute terms, due to fewer people, but per-capita, it's often as bad or worse than stereotypically crime-ridden cities.
With online stores, you don't need to be close to most shopping. A decent grocery store is still a requirement, but a long drive to it once every few weeks isn't a problem. And a home center sure helps, as the cost of shipping appliances and 10ft 2x4s can multiply the price. But even with furniture, ordering online can work better than local stores, even in the city. The same goes for entertainment, like Netflix.
But one thing you might not think of, is that a decent number of remote areas don't even have mailboxes, but instead require driving to a central post office to check your box. That puts a big hurdle in Netflix's DVDs-by-mail or getting Amazon deliveries.
Criminals aren't vampires. Get a LoJack on your car, and carry credit cards with basically no cash.
Scammers can target old people anywhere they might be, via phone and postal mail, so the city is no worse-off there.
Umm... supervised? In a park? Don't act like rural areas don't have child abductions, because they sure do.
Also, for an extra $75, you should be getting at least a 50W panel:
http://www.amazon.com/ALEKO-50...
Or maybe even 75W:
http://www.amazon.com/ALEKO-75...
And? I'd bet that solar panels work just fine for you.
Most of the southern hemisphere gets pretty good solar insolation, with only very few extreme exceptions, like Cape Horn and Antarctica. This is unlike the north, where large swaths of heavily populated land-area are sun-poor, like the top-half of North America, and nearly all of Europe.
That's nonsense. I've got a 1.5W panel quite effectively maintaining and even slowly charging a disused car's battery.
I suppose in the depths of winter, far north, that might have some truth.
I'm "sorry" about EVERYTHING I've ever watched by Ken Burns.
Paced slow as hell, with fleetingly little information that you could assimilate in a fraction the time, with a heavy focus on personal letters and vignettes, to the exclusion of all else.
Verizon is evil for lobbying to make their FIOS service excluded from the regulations that covered their POTS lines. Trying desperately to force people onto the unregulated FIOS is just the cherry on-top.
Slashcode decided the first non-ascii character must be where the hyperlink should end. Bah!
http://www.amazon.com/Instapar...
While I'll be the first to complain that FIOS has a hidden 15W+ tax (could be more than $20/year), which Verizon could easily have solved, the Ars Technica rant seems to be almost entirely about their 8 hour backup being insufficient and nobody having a clue how to deal with it.
Verizon's FIOS ONTs operate on 12V batteries for backup, and even HAVE A JACK ON THE SIDE LABELED FOR 12V AUX POWER.
A $25 (5W) solar panel, a diode, some wire and a few brain cells are the ONLY thing you need to give your FIOS service unlimited runtime during a power outage. Yes, it'll keep working just fine during your 14 day power failure. And these monocrystaline panels will be good for 30 years.
http://www.amazon.com/Instapar...®-Black-High-Efficiency-Mono-Crystalline-Solar/dp/B004FWXWGS/
With less time and effort than these people put into their vitriolic rants to Ars, they could have what they claim they desperately want, but can't get at any price.
And in a pinch, 8xD batteries, connected together with aluminum foil and tape, will keep it going for a few days after the backup battery dies.
The claims about Verizon letting lines fail, to push customers to FIOS seems to be rumors spread by a few unhappy customers (I had my phone line go down for a few days, too, long before FIOS existed!) and perhaps some sub-contracted installers who don't actually have any way to know jack about Verizon's plans and policies.
The pushy and misleading telemarketers working for Verizon certainly deserve a major slap from the FCC or FTC, but the Ars story barely talks about that.
No. PBS is still huffing along, churning out Nova, Frontline, Nature, American Experience, Wild!, Secrets of the Dead, History Detectives, Charlie Rose, This Old House, and more, like they have for decades.
Verizon LTE is absolutely not dual-stack. You get no IPv4 address. Yes, LTE is capable of IPv4, but wireless carriers know they need more address space for the proliferation of devices, instead of their sad NAT, and I expect the others are not stupid, and are doing the same.
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