I would venture a guess as to the lack of an off switch.
It may have to do with the battery, for something like this how often do you think you would have people leave it for a prolonged period of time fully charged. This can damage some cheaper batteries over time and decrease their usefulness, maybe apple decided that to avoid that, or avoid having to build a better quality battery into their ipod. They could instead not have the option to turn the ipod right off, and that way the battery was always fully discharged within 2 weeks. This also has the added benifit of instant on and the ability to remember its state.
But I think they opted for the firmware to entirely manage the battery life in such a way as to increase its long term lifespan.
Pretty much every store you buy software does not allow the return of open software. Why, because of copying, once you open the software what is to stop you from making a perfect copy and returning it? Or even worse alot of stuff you could just install and return it... sure you may need the disk again.. but then you can just go and buy the lastest copy and return that.
Look you just go the lastest title, down the corner, with no need for highspeed, or file sharing software. And you did it in under an hour How long does it take download a xp before you burn it, at least 5 + hours with usual network congestions, then you gotta figure out the hack, or it might not be the right files...why not go down to the store, you got a good copy, guarentteed the latest, with it's own key so you can get all the service packs.
That's why, i would love to see them have to include the eula... i bet they would get a lot shorter, if they suddenly had to look at box real estate... Alot of what you find in those eula's are because there is really no detriment to the company, a customer doesn't look at a 6 page agreement on a screen and say.... wooo what am i agreeing to... If you bought and electric shaver and pulled out a 6 back booklet of legal warning you would think twice about keeping it.
When a company is presented with limited space, with x square inch costing y units of cash you'll get a lot of companies saying... Hey do we REALLY need to have this... or would we just like to say this.
Then of course they could just add something on the back of the box saying... by opening this box you agree to the agreement found on our website www.... and again customer would never notice.
I would really like to see the agreements included in writing... so people actually see... in real world terms how much fine print there actually is.
I maybe way off on this, but i'm up here in the great white north and i was kinda shocked that Canadians have more guns per capita. Even growing up on a farm i'm comfortable around rifles, and have used them all my life. However once having moved to the city, in the redneck capital of canada, i suddenly realized, i've never seen a really handgun in my life. And it got me thinking, i can see alot of people up here having guns, but i would be really shocked if those people took their guns out of their house on any sort of regular basis. And I think thats where americans get those skyrocketing number of gun deaths, what percentage of americans who are gun owner, take their gun outside of their home. Say caring a gun in the glove box of their car?
It may not be the number of guns per capita, but rather the percentage of the day that gun is close at hand.
Rogers is a cable company it probably has way more to do with the number of subscribers in your area. Considering the fact that shaw in calgary has the same problem i can download at 15 kb/s at one buddies house drive 14 blocks south and surf at 300 kb/s at anothers. The major probelm is that one buddy lives close the the U of C.
TELUS also has bandwidth caps on their DSL offering, but they never enforce them, they have them so they have a recourse for customers that are abusing the service by hosting content or running kazza 24/7.
To be fair companies have to do these kinds of things, your average use does not sit and download streaming video 24 hours a day, or stream music all the time. It's the people hosting ftp sites, and running kazza that are the problems, since they're computers are sapping networks resources at all times even when they aren't personally using them.
Some people have just fallen into this habit, much like how we leave our televisions on all day, so at any moment we can walk by and catch a snipet of our show. But with the internet that always on approach, always running in the background has a signifigant and direct drain on the experience for others.
Thats probably the biggest over simpliction i've ever heard of.
A couple things would happen
1. Microsoft would release an upgrade to all current version of ie to cripple these technologies. Most clients would refuse to upgrade because the case would be plastered over the news.
2. Microsft Internet Explorer would slowly loose footing because of the crippling ruling microsoft is unable to release any relevant new updates to internet explorer, slowly mozilla and opera start offer support for new technologies that ie can't offer because they've had to revert their browser. So slowly clients start switching back to Netscape for its ability to offer interaction.
3. Most corporations would switch to mozilla or opera immediatly, cause they would have the foresight to see the implications on their business for furture tools and technologies. This would introduce many people to the software they previously knew nothing about.
the more i think about it the more i wonder why companies not create gadgets and devices with the my best friend mentality. Anything i buy should in the end be ultimatly loyal to me, like my dog. DVD players should let me play whatever content i want, because i want it to do that, toll trackers should not report to information transponders if i dont' want it to.
These are all devices that we have boughten to make our life easier, just as when people began to use animals to make their life easier. However the differnce is companies and government are going to all length to restrict these devices uses, and expand their information reporting. I like the way pioneer approachs products. When they started selling a cd copier and got guff from the music industery, they simply stated that they made what consumers wanted, and the device can be used for whatever purpose the consumer decides.
The problem seems to be we are already on a slippery slope, and most likely too far gone, a slope that started back when car manufactures we told to install governace devices for speeding. When a society begins to transfer the moral conscience of the time into its technology that moral conscience is much harder to root out in the future, because it hardcoded and unbendable. And humans by nature adapt to these rules. Government and socieaty as a whole has to rediscover its own indiviual conscience, or else more and more we will place taht job in the hands of our technology. And as individuals we will become a society we're individuals don't adhere to their own moral code but rather one that is dictated by strict rules created by a then gone past generations.
Its called Microsoft Frontpage 2000 a couple years ago. When they changed their EUA to say something like 'we own the copyright on all material created with this program'
But very unimportant when writing an article on how to build a quiet system. If he spent half as much time recommending brand names, and more time givening idea's like.
1. Take a ball of yarn, cut the peices the height of your case, string hundreds of them on the interior of the case. The Yarn will then dampen noise from the fans.
I went to find me some insight to quiteing my computer, and instead it was cleverly written AD.
I highly suggest the use of Crucial PC2100 for there price and quality.
Why do you need to recommend the type of ram I use? It had not insightful ideas on how to quite my system. But was more interested in recommending products to me, and companies i should buy from. If the guy mentions pricewatch one more time... grr.
The article went as far as to recommend the type of case i should use and how much i can get it for, but didn't bother to recommend a specific type of water cooling, or where i could learn more about water cooling.
Like I said it seem very much geared towards selling the products mentioned, rather then teaching anything about quiteing my pc.
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Well you have a furnace don't you. I have a fairly spacieous and well sealed furnace room. In your instance take advantage of that.
Go to Home Depot get a register T and insert it into the cold air intake coming into the room. Add a booster fan ( be sure that is sucking air down and not blowing it up, its a cool idea to suck all that warm air out... its also a cool idea to keep that furnace with enough oxygen so it doesnt' go and kill you with carbon monoxide.)I left the remainder of the intake pipe going back down to the furnace so I was simply tapping into the air supply and not diverting the entire flow.
Next create a simple register system that blows down on the back of the systems, get some straight register pieces and some elbows, its just like connecting straws together. The furnace should easiely handle the excess heat ever time it kicks in. You can also throw in a standard thermostat in and set the furnace fan to summer mode, so it will kick in whenever the temp goes above a certian tempature.
Now you could also go a step further and encase the systems into a sealed box ( essentially we thought about getting some plywood and making like a small sealed shed in my furnace room, and then forcing the air out with a second fan that would runn the air directly to the air intake of the furnace.) The only warning is don't try and force the exhausted air out through the chimmney for the furnace... why you ask.. because you don't wanna mess it up and again...and say, flood your house with deadly generally unnoticable furnace exhaust.
and then attatching a standard register booster fan to my incoming air chimmey ( which anyone with a furnace will have its required by law, although i don't know if modifying it is legal..:] ). An
The userfriendly side of computers has not gotten out of hand, its the consumers understanding of user friendly. Most people view UF as meaning everything works exactly the way you think it should, b/c your the user and the computer should be friendly to the way you work.
If someone come to a block or can't automaticly figure out something they assume that its a problem with the software, its not intutive enough, and they call tech support, it isnt' automaticly assumed that it's their knowledge or expertise that is lacking. Or that they should have to put forth any effort.
I talk to people all the time who can't for the life of them bother to go the help page to print off the email setup instructions, even though they have had to call tech support 5 times to setup their hosting package email accounts on different computers. Why because at that exact moment its more convient for them to waste our time and expertise on trival none issues. Thus making us feel bitter and unfullfilled in our job.
To make things worst more call seem to come from supposed computer consultants that have been hired by companies to setup connection. These people are really just your UF user with a devry course under his belt, so he thinks he knows how things should work, but there is no experience so he doesn't actually have any really idea on how to approach problems. Unlike average consumers they dont' listen, they continually jump ahead beyond where they need to be, and talk down to you because they figure since they've taken a course they have that right.
I can't find the site again but i know there is a canadian site dedicated to this and has information on when different countries switched to daylight savings time. Its a dedication to the canadian who invented daylight savings time.
I heard once that under canadian law napster is considered legal. The thing is that our copyright law aready specifys that a person can copy and distribute any copyrighted material that they have paid for as long as its for personal use and as long as they aren't making money, the scale doesn't manager.
It was created back when people were moving from tapes to cds. And allows people to copy their cds to tape for use in the car and walkmens, when it was unrealistic to expect people to purchase expense discmen.
People have slowly jumped on the web, now it is time for you appliances to.
At this time the only people who are going to jump on the net are going to get their kitchen online are going to be those who are a little more techincally savvy then your average consumer. Hell you average consumer is having enough trouble trying to figure out why his isp is giving him a 650 no dial tone error.
The argument that most consumers are still using dial up isn't really valid. The ones that are going to buy products like this are computers junkies. These people are going to have dsl or cable. They are going to have firwall to protect their information. Because right now only these linux admins and netscape activist has the know how and money to buy and use these devices.
They should come with an ethernet because it is going to be a little while before john doe jumps on the band wagon of internet appliances. And by then dsl will be the standard, and something else will be on the horizon.
Not to mention the fact that if these device had ether you could setup a network and dial out from your computer anyway to get you tvio on the inernet. Exchange info with your devices. Watch dvd movies from other monitors around the house, allow you toaster to schedule with your alarm clock... things like that.
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*checks watch... flips through calender, checks cnn.com* Nope still not there yet.
Umm like all those billions that america was supposed to give to help rebuild afganistan, that money was supposed to be there how many years ago now?
I would venture a guess as to the lack of an off switch.
It may have to do with the battery, for something like this how often do you think you would have people leave it for a prolonged period of time fully charged. This can damage some cheaper batteries over time and decrease their usefulness, maybe apple decided that to avoid that, or avoid having to build a better quality battery into their ipod. They could instead not have the option to turn the ipod right off, and that way the battery was always fully discharged within 2 weeks. This also has the added benifit of instant on and the ability to remember its state.
But I think they opted for the firmware to entirely manage the battery life in such a way as to increase its long term lifespan.
Pretty much every store you buy software does not allow the return of open software. Why, because of copying, once you open the software what is to stop you from making a perfect copy and returning it? Or even worse alot of stuff you could just install and return it... sure you may need the disk again.. but then you can just go and buy the lastest copy and return that.
Look you just go the lastest title, down the corner, with no need for highspeed, or file sharing software. And you did it in under an hour How long does it take download a xp before you burn it, at least 5 + hours with usual network congestions, then you gotta figure out the hack, or it might not be the right files...why not go down to the store, you got a good copy, guarentteed the latest, with it's own key so you can get all the service packs.
That's why, i would love to see them have to include the eula... i bet they would get a lot shorter, if they suddenly had to look at box real estate... Alot of what you find in those eula's are because there is really no detriment to the company, a customer doesn't look at a 6 page agreement on a screen and say.... wooo what am i agreeing to... If you bought and electric shaver and pulled out a 6 back booklet of legal warning you would think twice about keeping it.
When a company is presented with limited space, with x square inch costing y units of cash you'll get a lot of companies saying... Hey do we REALLY need to have this... or would we just like to say this.
Then of course they could just add something on the back of the box saying... by opening this box you agree to the agreement found on our website www.... and again customer would never notice.
I would really like to see the agreements included in writing... so people actually see... in real world terms how much fine print there actually is.
I maybe way off on this, but i'm up here in the great white north and i was kinda shocked that Canadians have more guns per capita. Even growing up on a farm i'm comfortable around rifles, and have used them all my life. However once having moved to the city, in the redneck capital of canada, i suddenly realized, i've never seen a really handgun in my life. And it got me thinking, i can see alot of people up here having guns, but i would be really shocked if those people took their guns out of their house on any sort of regular basis. And I think thats where americans get those skyrocketing number of gun deaths, what percentage of americans who are gun owner, take their gun outside of their home. Say caring a gun in the glove box of their car?
It may not be the number of guns per capita, but rather the percentage of the day that gun is close at hand.
Rogers is a cable company it probably has way more to do with the number of subscribers in your area. Considering the fact that shaw in calgary has the same problem i can download at 15 kb/s at one buddies house drive 14 blocks south and surf at 300 kb/s at anothers. The major probelm is that one buddy lives close the the U of C.
TELUS also has bandwidth caps on their DSL offering, but they never enforce them, they have them so they have a recourse for customers that are abusing the service by hosting content or running kazza 24/7.
To be fair companies have to do these kinds of things, your average use does not sit and download streaming video 24 hours a day, or stream music all the time. It's the people hosting ftp sites, and running kazza that are the problems, since they're computers are sapping networks resources at all times even when they aren't personally using them.
Some people have just fallen into this habit, much like how we leave our televisions on all day, so at any moment we can walk by and catch a snipet of our show. But with the internet that always on approach, always running in the background has a signifigant and direct drain on the experience for others.
Thats probably the biggest over simpliction i've ever heard of.
A couple things would happen
1. Microsoft would release an upgrade to all current version of ie to cripple these technologies. Most clients would refuse to upgrade because the case would be plastered over the news.
2. Microsft Internet Explorer would slowly loose footing because of the crippling ruling microsoft is unable to release any relevant new updates to internet explorer, slowly mozilla and opera start offer support for new technologies that ie can't offer because they've had to revert their browser. So slowly clients start switching back to Netscape for its ability to offer interaction.
3. Most corporations would switch to mozilla or opera immediatly, cause they would have the foresight to see the implications on their business for furture tools and technologies. This would introduce many people to the software they previously knew nothing about.
These are all devices that we have boughten to make our life easier, just as when people began to use animals to make their life easier. However the differnce is companies and government are going to all length to restrict these devices uses, and expand their information reporting. I like the way pioneer approachs products. When they started selling a cd copier and got guff from the music industery, they simply stated that they made what consumers wanted, and the device can be used for whatever purpose the consumer decides.
The problem seems to be we are already on a slippery slope, and most likely too far gone, a slope that started back when car manufactures we told to install governace devices for speeding. When a society begins to transfer the moral conscience of the time into its technology that moral conscience is much harder to root out in the future, because it hardcoded and unbendable. And humans by nature adapt to these rules. Government and socieaty as a whole has to rediscover its own indiviual conscience, or else more and more we will place taht job in the hands of our technology. And as individuals we will become a society we're individuals don't adhere to their own moral code but rather one that is dictated by strict rules created by a then gone past generations.
Its called Microsoft Frontpage 2000 a couple years ago. When they changed their EUA to say something like 'we own the copyright on all material created with this program'
But very unimportant when writing an article on how to build a quiet system. If he spent half as much time recommending brand names, and more time givening idea's like.
1. Take a ball of yarn, cut the peices the height of your case, string hundreds of them on the interior of the case. The Yarn will then dampen noise from the fans.
I went to find me some insight to quiteing my computer, and instead it was cleverly written AD.
I highly suggest the use of Crucial PC2100 for there price and quality.
Why do you need to recommend the type of ram I use? It had not insightful ideas on how to quite my system. But was more interested in recommending products to me, and companies i should buy from. If the guy mentions pricewatch one more time... grr.
The article went as far as to recommend the type of case i should use and how much i can get it for, but didn't bother to recommend a specific type of water cooling, or where i could learn more about water cooling.
Like I said it seem very much geared towards selling the products mentioned, rather then teaching anything about quiteing my pc.
Well you have a furnace don't you. I have a fairly spacieous and well sealed furnace room. In your instance take advantage of that.
:] ). An
Go to Home Depot get a register T and insert it into the cold air intake coming into the room. Add a booster fan ( be sure that is sucking air down and not blowing it up, its a cool idea to suck all that warm air out... its also a cool idea to keep that furnace with enough oxygen so it doesnt' go and kill you with carbon monoxide.)I left the remainder of the intake pipe going back down to the furnace so I was simply tapping into the air supply and not diverting the entire flow.
Next create a simple register system that blows down on the back of the systems, get some straight register pieces and some elbows, its just like connecting straws together. The furnace should easiely handle the excess heat ever time it kicks in. You can also throw in a standard thermostat in and set the furnace fan to summer mode, so it will kick in whenever the temp goes above a certian tempature.
Now you could also go a step further and encase the systems into a sealed box ( essentially we thought about getting some plywood and making like a small sealed shed in my furnace room, and then forcing the air out with a second fan that would runn the air directly to the air intake of the furnace.) The only warning is don't try and force the exhausted air out through the chimmney for the furnace... why you ask.. because you don't wanna mess it up and again...and say, flood your house with deadly generally unnoticable furnace exhaust.
and then attatching a standard register booster fan to my incoming air chimmey ( which anyone with a furnace will have its required by law, although i don't know if modifying it is legal..
The userfriendly side of computers has not gotten out of hand, its the consumers understanding of user friendly. Most people view UF as meaning everything works exactly the way you think it should, b/c your the user and the computer should be friendly to the way you work. If someone come to a block or can't automaticly figure out something they assume that its a problem with the software, its not intutive enough, and they call tech support, it isnt' automaticly assumed that it's their knowledge or expertise that is lacking. Or that they should have to put forth any effort. I talk to people all the time who can't for the life of them bother to go the help page to print off the email setup instructions, even though they have had to call tech support 5 times to setup their hosting package email accounts on different computers. Why because at that exact moment its more convient for them to waste our time and expertise on trival none issues. Thus making us feel bitter and unfullfilled in our job. To make things worst more call seem to come from supposed computer consultants that have been hired by companies to setup connection. These people are really just your UF user with a devry course under his belt, so he thinks he knows how things should work, but there is no experience so he doesn't actually have any really idea on how to approach problems. Unlike average consumers they dont' listen, they continually jump ahead beyond where they need to be, and talk down to you because they figure since they've taken a course they have that right.
I can't find the site again but i know there is a canadian site dedicated to this and has information on when different countries switched to daylight savings time. Its a dedication to the canadian who invented daylight savings time.
I heard once that under canadian law napster is considered legal. The thing is that our copyright law aready specifys that a person can copy and distribute any copyrighted material that they have paid for as long as its for personal use and as long as they aren't making money, the scale doesn't manager. It was created back when people were moving from tapes to cds. And allows people to copy their cds to tape for use in the car and walkmens, when it was unrealistic to expect people to purchase expense discmen.
People have slowly jumped on the web, now it is time for you appliances to. At this time the only people who are going to jump on the net are going to get their kitchen online are going to be those who are a little more techincally savvy then your average consumer. Hell you average consumer is having enough trouble trying to figure out why his isp is giving him a 650 no dial tone error. The argument that most consumers are still using dial up isn't really valid. The ones that are going to buy products like this are computers junkies. These people are going to have dsl or cable. They are going to have firwall to protect their information. Because right now only these linux admins and netscape activist has the know how and money to buy and use these devices. They should come with an ethernet because it is going to be a little while before john doe jumps on the band wagon of internet appliances. And by then dsl will be the standard, and something else will be on the horizon. Not to mention the fact that if these device had ether you could setup a network and dial out from your computer anyway to get you tvio on the inernet. Exchange info with your devices. Watch dvd movies from other monitors around the house, allow you toaster to schedule with your alarm clock ... things like that.