A lot of you have very good arguments for this. I encourage you to take the same few seconds it takes you to post here, and send an email to the FCC Chairman himself. Please be understandable and civil. It helps their cause when they hear a lot of support.
I've had numerous problems with my PowerBook and 2 of my friends had problems requiring them to take their Powerbook to the Apple store. Those same 2 friends had their iPods die on them. It's not them or me, I think it is more a trend of Apple to push the scale from robust heavy duty ugly hardware, toward pretty, fragile hardware.
Within a week of buying my AlBook, the corner was dented by a cab driver who dropped my bag 3 feet to the street. That also pushed metal in the hinge which made the luscious (but thin) screen not want to stay shut, even though the elegant (but non-fault-tolerant) magentic hook tried its best to hold onto the screen.
Because all the parts, motherboard, everything is housed in that aluminum core, it cannot be repaired, only replaced.
Don't get me wrong, the AlBook is GORGEOUS as is all Apple hardware, but to me, a portable needs to be RESILIENT. These computers are taken everywhere, put on countertops, are spilled on, and fall off chairs.
For that reason, a MacBook is my next purchase. I'd much rather have a plastic case that's strong than a peautiful metal one that's fragile.
I think Scoot McCloud talks a lot about realism vs. more abstract images and posits that we tend to identify more with sparser representations. When we see a photograph of someone, we think of them as someone else. When we see a line drawing of them, we can *become* them or they can *become* us.
I think we should stop thinking that more abstract representations are for kids, but rather realize the advantages of both and make our choice for one over the other part of our technique as creators.
The data manager implements optimized database services based on the Berkeley DB database package, customized for multi-user support. It maintains a meta-database describing the status and history of versioned files in the depot and transactions against the depot. The librarian is a highly efficient file archiver that stores repository files on disk local to the server. It writes text file versions in an RCS-compatible, reverse-delta format; binary file versions are stored in a standard compressed format.
Go buy your X Box. It's from the company who makes an OS and "strongly encourages" me to run:
Microsoft Internet Explorer
Microsoft Word
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft PowerPoint
Microsoft Encarta
Microsoft Outlook
Microsoft MSN Messenger
Microsoft Media Player
Microsoft MSN Explorer
Microsoft Money
Microsoft Exchange
Microsoft Hotmail
That's true, but in my book it is possible to be unfaithful to someone without having sex with someone else. Being unfaithful has nothing to do with sex. It has everything to do with the other partner feeling betrayed. If what you do feels like a betrayal to your partner, pay attention to their feelings. Talk about it.
I know! Especially since no one else but Microsoft makes Java! (heavy sarcasm)
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I've never had much respect for David K. Every and this article doesn't make me inclined to change my mind.
The article completely skips over embedded systems. Are those not Operating Systems because they don't have a Window Manager? Perhaps, not even a GUI? That's ridiculous.
An Operating System is the software that manages the resources of the underlying hardware and nothing more.
Everything else is a service written atop the OS.
The MacOS Keychain is not part of the operating system, a web browser is not part of the operating system. They *are* a standard bundled service provided by the vendor.
Just because something is bundled does not mean it is part of the OS.
It does seem like a conflict, doesn't it? The same people who rave about individual rights and the evils of government are the ones toiling in a collective to create software for the greater good (without monetary gain).
This is exactly the kind of technology-inside-the-box thinking that Borsook describes.The problem is that the "common good" really doesn't care about whether software is free. The common good really doesn't care about computers at all. Most of the world doesn't really care about computers.We can live without software. We cannot live without food and shelter.
My own taste is for laws that punish but do not prevent. Thus I support the right to keep and bear arms, drug legalisation and oppose speed limits, but support the death penalty and a tough-on-crime attitude. I believe that this outlook is quintessentially libertarian because anyone is allowed to do whatever he wishes until he causes harm, in which instance he is nailed to the wall.
The problem I have with this is that we certainly need times where prevention is needed, not just retribution
Suppose someone is driving 120 mph and they lose control of their car. They hit an oncoming car and kill the entire family of 5 in the car. There is no punishment that can "undo" that crime. There can only be prevention. So, there needs to be a balance between free liberty (no speed limits) and prevention-based limits.
There is a common unpleasant experience that can be brought about by looking at a stereoscopic image because of the difference between where the two eyes converge and what a single focuses on.
For example, in real life, when we focus on an object, our eyes do two things:
they converge on the object so that it is in the center of the view of the eye and
Each eye focuses the image so that the object is clearly in focus.
In real life, for each distance something can be away from our eyes, there are a convergence/focus pair. When something is 5 feet from us, our brain knows how much to converge and how much to focus.
When you put on stereo glasses all of a sudden that all changes. You are converging on something 5 feet from you because in the stereo field the offset of the two images is suggesting 5 feet, but your eyes are focusing on a screen that is 1 foot away from you. All those focus/convergence pairs the brain is used to can no longer be used.
Now, the brain has to move the convergence of the eyes while keeping the focus of the eyes static and it is not used to that.
This is a common reason for uncomfortable feelings when viewing stereo images. For people who have done it a lot, their brain is used to it. Yours can get used to it to if you look enough.
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A lot of you have very good arguments for this. I encourage you to take the same few seconds it takes you to post here, and send an email to the FCC Chairman himself. Please be understandable and civil. It helps their cause when they hear a lot of support.
http://www.fcc.gov/commissioners/genachowski/mail.html
I've had numerous problems with my PowerBook and 2 of my friends had problems requiring them to take their Powerbook to the Apple store. Those same 2 friends had their iPods die on them. It's not them or me, I think it is more a trend of Apple to push the scale from robust heavy duty ugly hardware, toward pretty, fragile hardware.
Within a week of buying my AlBook, the corner was dented by a cab driver who dropped my bag 3 feet to the street. That also pushed metal in the hinge which made the luscious (but thin) screen not want to stay shut, even though the elegant (but non-fault-tolerant) magentic hook tried its best to hold onto the screen.
Because all the parts, motherboard, everything is housed in that aluminum core, it cannot be repaired, only replaced.
Don't get me wrong, the AlBook is GORGEOUS as is all Apple hardware, but to me, a portable needs to be RESILIENT. These computers are taken everywhere, put on countertops, are spilled on, and fall off chairs.
For that reason, a MacBook is my next purchase. I'd much rather have a plastic case that's strong than a peautiful metal one that's fragile.
first?
I think Scoot McCloud talks a lot about realism vs. more abstract images and posits that we tend to identify more with sparser representations. When we see a photograph of someone, we think of them as someone else. When we see a line drawing of them, we can *become* them or they can *become* us.
I think we should stop thinking that more abstract representations are for kids, but rather realize the advantages of both and make our choice for one over the other part of our technique as creators.
The data manager implements optimized database services based on the Berkeley DB database package, customized for multi-user support. It maintains a meta-database describing the status and history of versioned files in the depot and transactions against the depot. The librarian is a highly efficient file archiver that stores repository files on disk local to the server. It writes text file versions in an RCS-compatible, reverse-delta format; binary file versions are stored in a standard compressed format.
Go buy your X Box. It's from the company who makes an OS and "strongly encourages" me to run:
Microsoft Internet Explorer
Microsoft Word
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft PowerPoint
Microsoft Encarta
Microsoft Outlook
Microsoft MSN Messenger
Microsoft Media Player
Microsoft MSN Explorer
Microsoft Money
Microsoft Exchange
Microsoft Hotmail
Catch my drift?
That's true, but in my book it is possible to be unfaithful to someone without having sex with someone else. Being unfaithful has nothing to do with sex. It has everything to do with the other partner feeling betrayed. If what you do feels like a betrayal to your partner, pay attention to their feelings. Talk about it.
I know! Especially since no one else but Microsoft makes Java! (heavy sarcasm)
I've never had much respect for David K. Every and this article doesn't make me inclined to change my mind.
The article completely skips over embedded systems. Are those not Operating Systems because they don't have a Window Manager? Perhaps, not even a GUI? That's ridiculous.
An Operating System is the software that manages the resources of the underlying hardware and nothing more.
Everything else is a service written atop the OS.
The MacOS Keychain is not part of the operating system, a web browser is not part of the operating system. They *are* a standard bundled service provided by the vendor.
Just because something is bundled does not mean it is part of the OS.
_ michael
The problem I have with this is that we certainly need times where prevention is needed, not just retribution
Suppose someone is driving 120 mph and they lose control of their car. They hit an oncoming car and kill the entire family of 5 in the car. There is no punishment that can "undo" that crime. There can only be prevention. So, there needs to be a balance between free liberty (no speed limits) and prevention-based limits.
There is a common unpleasant experience that can be brought about by looking at a stereoscopic image because of the difference between where the two eyes converge and what a single focuses on.
For example, in real life, when we focus on an object, our eyes do two things:
- they converge on the object so that it is in the center of the view of the eye and
- Each eye focuses the image so that the object is clearly in focus.
In real life, for each distance something can be away from our eyes, there are a convergence/focus pair. When something is 5 feet from us, our brain knows how much to converge and how much to focus.When you put on stereo glasses all of a sudden that all changes. You are converging on something 5 feet from you because in the stereo field the offset of the two images is suggesting 5 feet, but your eyes are focusing on a screen that is 1 foot away from you. All those focus/convergence pairs the brain is used to can no longer be used.
Now, the brain has to move the convergence of the eyes while keeping the focus of the eyes static and it is not used to that.
This is a common reason for uncomfortable feelings when viewing stereo images. For people who have done it a lot, their brain is used to it. Yours can get used to it to if you look enough.