. ..the occasion where this prize is connected to the personal computer, on that personal computer "the Chinese memo pad stands up", "message of virus inspection was made", and so on you question and 7 cases have received wooden pail communication in as of 12 days.
Assembly of Japanese-English translation require great peace of mind.
Show me the law that gives prior restraint complaints standing. A judge is supposed to dismiss cases that don't have any. He has a reponsibility to take such cases with no more seriousness than that.
I can't believe all the fatasses that didn't get Comatosis' joke.
I have a hard time resisting a straight line. I took the rather obvious setup and went right for the sucker punch. If we had a "-1 Obvious Cheap Shot" rating I'd expect to be in mod hell right about now.
I'm fairly sure fireworks people need some sort of licence too, should we get out the protest signs?
Sucks that I can't get more than two ounces of rocket fuel. Tell ya what, I'll just put 120 pounds of gasoline in the thing. That shit's easy enough to get and store.
Of course that way it's more likely to blow up than go up. . .
If batteries could be designed at the atomic and molecular level, I imagine you could greatly improve their life.
They already are; as are fuel cells. The final frontier is making them at the molecular level to power molecular sized machines, so I wouldn't go expecting better battery life from your Nano until it really is.
And I wanna see how Apple handles the interface to that.
Adults realize that all they need is something small and simple that plays music without any fuss.
In that case its the Maxfield or the Creative Muvo; however no vendor tie in (that includes the battery issue, estore and vendor software) is a big deal; and for most older folks so is the FM radio. For many so is voice recording. For me you can include vorbis support, because I'm an older Open Source geek.
I'm simply not going to touch an iPod with a ten foot USB cable, but put a triple AAA and FM in the Maxfield and I'm there. It's something small, simple and will play music without any fuss and I'd expect to keep it in service for 10 to 20 years.
i.e., a fairly new book (about half of my thousands of books and magazines are between 50 and 100 years old, a few rather older); whereas the standard eternity for computerized gear is three years.
I probably couldn't say the same thing about a fifty year old computer text file, as it would pre-date ASCII
Of course ASCII is moving in on 39 years old and is fairly stable. With a bit of work it's even human translatable, even from certain kinds of computer storage media.
Of course, digitised books have advantages too, such as not taking up space, and being easily searchable. ..
And being considerably easier to move. Trust me on this one. Did I mention that I have thousands of books and magazines? I also have thousands of ebooks/documents. They slip into my pocket.
The problem with any ipod killer is that the ipod has set the bar. When people think about what they want/need they think about what they know they like, which for most people is the ipod.
Some of us aren't most people. For us the iPod has not only not set the bar, it hasn't even approached it yet. Some of the other manufacturers have started to figure out that most people these days are grownups and are adding features that take the digital music player out of the kid's toy catagory.
I've yet to buy my first such device, not because I'm an "Old Person in Korea," but because no one has reached the bar yet, but this latest crop of iPod alternatives is getting close. Damned close.
But that's completely understandable. Tatras are fascinating because they are designed completely different than all other cars
Not everyone's chassis geek. I don't understand it, since it's my true love, but most people don't even care about them.
Hm... Wasn't there a movie where the streamlined Tatra 603 featured as a futuristic vehicle?
A T77. It was called "The Tunnel" in Britain, where it was made in 1935, and "The Transatlantic Tunnel" in America. See also Harry Harrison's story "A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah!," one of my all time favorite stories, but not yet a movie.
The 1.5 engine of the more recent Ladas (Samara et.al.) was actually designed by Porsche, Weissach, Germany.
To give LADA their due, Porsche only did work on shaping the combustion chamber. The rest of the engine was desigend in house.
For bias puposes I'll point out that my favorite production engine of all time is the FIAT 124 (A cyclinder head from one of these has been a display trinket in my home for about 15 years; and if you take the cam boxes off the studs make it a decent kitchen towel holder) and the FIAT 805 is probably my favorite racing car of all time.
I also have a certain fondness for Tatras, a rather serious affectation for an American, so I'm not inherently biased against eastern European cars. Wouldn't mind owing a 60s or prewar Skoda either, just for shits and giggles.
Because you, as the owner of a "cast off" car can already sell it to the established recycling industry.
Even individual parts are recycled. Have you ever bought a car part and gotten a discount for trading in a "core"? Well, the core becomes a rebuilt part or recycled steel.
Dealing with old cars is an established and highly functional business. Requiring the manufacturers to take back the cars would actually hurt a lot of people financially and reduce the efficacy with which we deal with them.
Appliances are a bit more of a problem, but there are people at the local level who manage to do a fair job of dealing with them.
Recycling electronics is specialized, doesn't return much in the way of reusables and is thus done at a loss.
Libya, Uganda, Mississippi; it doesnt matter which underpriviledged culture.
Give some trinket to a kid who needs food and if there's a rich guy around who wants the trinket, the rich guy is going to get it; at considerably less than market value.
The essential problem with this project is that it is not a technological one. Once these things hit the streets, well, they're on the streets and subject to the laws of the street.
Do the OLPC people have any idea what the laws of the street in Uganda or Mississippi are? The evidence is only anecdotal and suggestive, but it suggests that they do not.
None of which has any bearing on whether or not she actually libeled the plaintiff, the only issue to which I responded in my original post.
But if those damned poor people weren't guilty they wouldn't be poor, now would they? There's actually a slang legal term for people in her position. That term is "judgement proof."
If they don't have the means to respond, they don't have the means to pay either.
Plaintif claims a "moral" victory, but there has been no finding that she was libeled. She has only been found to have more available resources to spread around her home court against a visiting team; who doesn't have money to put gas in the bus. A default "moral" victory.
And for puroposes of bias I will point out that I am inclined to favor the work done by the plainiff. Anyone who reads my posts on some sort of regular basis will know that children's rights are one of my "issues" and I am not keen on the current in loco parentis powers of the state.
Anyone who takes a stand for the rights of children in their own right is going to draw some pretty heavy fire; as I have in this very forum.
I am socially unacceptable to many people because of my views. I can live with that. If, however, I choose to view your responses to me as libelous and sued you here in the NY court system that would make me an asshole, something I try, admitedly not always successfually, to avoid.
If you chose not to abandon your life in Florida to spend weeks, perhaps years, of crippling legal expenses here in NY, that is what I would expect, and claiming a "moral" victory against you would just make me a fucking asshole.
With ever increasing network capacity data storage on the PC will become redundant.
There is value in data redundency, which is why neither the PC nor the data center will become obsolete; although each may (God willin' and the crick don't rise none) change form.
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. . .the occasion where this prize is connected to the personal computer, on that personal computer "the Chinese memo pad stands up", "message of virus inspection was made", and so on you question and 7 cases have received wooden pail communication in as of 12 days.
Assembly of Japanese-English translation require great peace of mind.
KFG
A judge is supposed to take EVERYBODY seriously.
Under law.
Show me the law that gives prior restraint complaints standing. A judge is supposed to dismiss cases that don't have any. He has a reponsibility to take such cases with no more seriousness than that.
KFG
I can't believe all the fatasses that didn't get Comatosis' joke.
I have a hard time resisting a straight line. I took the rather obvious setup and went right for the sucker punch. If we had a "-1 Obvious Cheap Shot" rating I'd expect to be in mod hell right about now.
KFG
I'm fairly sure fireworks people need some sort of licence too, should we get out the protest signs?
Sucks that I can't get more than two ounces of rocket fuel. Tell ya what, I'll just put 120 pounds of gasoline in the thing. That shit's easy enough to get and store.
Of course that way it's more likely to blow up than go up. . .
If batteries could be designed at the atomic and molecular level, I imagine you could greatly improve their life.
They already are; as are fuel cells. The final frontier is making them at the molecular level to power molecular sized machines, so I wouldn't go expecting better battery life from your Nano until it really is.
And I wanna see how Apple handles the interface to that.
KFG
I want to force a neutron into hydrogen and get deuterium without all that concentrating.
I don't care how hard you have to concentrate, if you can do that under controled conditions there's a million bucks in it for you.
KFG
Yes I have a weight problem but I don't blame it on IQ, I blame it on american diet and adverting on TV and in magazines.
Which you aren't smart enough to ignore.
KFG
Adults realize that all they need is something small and simple that plays music without any fuss.
In that case its the Maxfield or the Creative Muvo; however no vendor tie in (that includes the battery issue, estore and vendor software) is a big deal; and for most older folks so is the FM radio. For many so is voice recording. For me you can include vorbis support, because I'm an older Open Source geek.
I'm simply not going to touch an iPod with a ten foot USB cable, but put a triple AAA and FM in the Maxfield and I'm there. It's something small, simple and will play music without any fuss and I'd expect to keep it in service for 10 to 20 years.
KFG
Which prompts the next question: Where's my e-paper PDA?!
How are they going to tie you in to a propriatary estore with one of those?
KFG
I have a fifty odd year old book. . .
.
i.e., a fairly new book (about half of my thousands of books and magazines are between 50 and 100 years old, a few rather older); whereas the standard eternity for computerized gear is three years.
I probably couldn't say the same thing about a fifty year old computer text file, as it would pre-date ASCII
Of course ASCII is moving in on 39 years old and is fairly stable. With a bit of work it's even human translatable, even from certain kinds of computer storage media.
Of course, digitised books have advantages too, such as not taking up space, and being easily searchable. .
And being considerably easier to move. Trust me on this one. Did I mention that I have thousands of books and magazines? I also have thousands of ebooks/documents. They slip into my pocket.
KFG
KFG
pulp books do not need electricity. . .
Why yes, I do live in a basement, you insensitive clod.
KFG
The problem with any ipod killer is that the ipod has set the bar. When people think about what they want/need they think about what they know they like, which for most people is the ipod.
Some of us aren't most people. For us the iPod has not only not set the bar, it hasn't even approached it yet. Some of the other manufacturers have started to figure out that most people these days are grownups and are adding features that take the digital music player out of the kid's toy catagory.
I've yet to buy my first such device, not because I'm an "Old Person in Korea," but because no one has reached the bar yet, but this latest crop of iPod alternatives is getting close. Damned close.
KFG
But that's completely understandable. Tatras are fascinating because they are designed completely different than all other cars
Not everyone's chassis geek. I don't understand it, since it's my true love, but most people don't even care about them.
Hm... Wasn't there a movie where the streamlined Tatra 603 featured as a futuristic vehicle?
A T77. It was called "The Tunnel" in Britain, where it was made in 1935, and "The Transatlantic Tunnel" in America. See also Harry Harrison's story "A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah!," one of my all time favorite stories, but not yet a movie.
KFG
I think that there should be room in slashdot for people who like and use technology without going under the hood too deeply
Slashdot Lite; Now with Turbo XL5000 technology and bluing for extra whiteness - Your problems that that we don't give a fuck about.
KFG
The 1.5 engine of the more recent Ladas (Samara et.al.) was actually designed by Porsche, Weissach, Germany.
To give LADA their due, Porsche only did work on shaping the combustion chamber. The rest of the engine was desigend in house.
For bias puposes I'll point out that my favorite production engine of all time is the FIAT 124 (A cyclinder head from one of these has been a display trinket in my home for about 15 years; and if you take the cam boxes off the studs make it a decent kitchen towel holder) and the FIAT 805 is probably my favorite racing car of all time.
I also have a certain fondness for Tatras, a rather serious affectation for an American, so I'm not inherently biased against eastern European cars. Wouldn't mind owing a 60s or prewar Skoda either, just for shits and giggles.
KFG
Because you, as the owner of a "cast off" car can already sell it to the established recycling industry.
Even individual parts are recycled. Have you ever bought a car part and gotten a discount for trading in a "core"? Well, the core becomes a rebuilt part or recycled steel.
Dealing with old cars is an established and highly functional business. Requiring the manufacturers to take back the cars would actually hurt a lot of people financially and reduce the efficacy with which we deal with them.
Appliances are a bit more of a problem, but there are people at the local level who manage to do a fair job of dealing with them.
Recycling electronics is specialized, doesn't return much in the way of reusables and is thus done at a loss.
KFG
Libya, Uganda, Mississippi; it doesnt matter which underpriviledged culture.
Give some trinket to a kid who needs food and if there's a rich guy around who wants the trinket, the rich guy is going to get it; at considerably less than market value.
The essential problem with this project is that it is not a technological one. Once these things hit the streets, well, they're on the streets and subject to the laws of the street.
Do the OLPC people have any idea what the laws of the street in Uganda or Mississippi are? The evidence is only anecdotal and suggestive, but it suggests that they do not.
KFG
It's kind of like watching the Soviets try to compete with the rest of the world with their Lada cars.
.go wrong. . .
Obsolescent FIATS built under license by disenfranchised, endentured labor. What could possibly go wrong. . . go wrong. .
KFG
. . .the OLPC people have already said they WILL NOT SELL THEM TO YOU, regardless of how many people sign up for this petition.
Just find a Libyan kid and offer him twenty five bucks and a Coke.
KFG
It will keep ordinary users from copying. That is its purpose.
What, they want to drive ordinary users to torrents?
KFG
Next step: The MPAA will insist an agent to be present in your home every time you want to watch a (legally purchased) movie!
And while you're watching your James Bond movie bear in mind what the "00" signifies. Look at the agents badge number very carefully.
KFG
None of which has any bearing on whether or not she actually libeled the plaintiff, the only issue to which I responded in my original post.
But if those damned poor people weren't guilty they wouldn't be poor, now would they? There's actually a slang legal term for people in her position. That term is "judgement proof."
If they don't have the means to respond, they don't have the means to pay either.
Plaintif claims a "moral" victory, but there has been no finding that she was libeled. She has only been found to have more available resources to spread around her home court against a visiting team; who doesn't have money to put gas in the bus. A default "moral" victory.
And for puroposes of bias I will point out that I am inclined to favor the work done by the plainiff. Anyone who reads my posts on some sort of regular basis will know that children's rights are one of my "issues" and I am not keen on the current in loco parentis powers of the state.
Anyone who takes a stand for the rights of children in their own right is going to draw some pretty heavy fire; as I have in this very forum.
I am socially unacceptable to many people because of my views. I can live with that. If, however, I choose to view your responses to me as libelous and sued you here in the NY court system that would make me an asshole, something I try, admitedly not always successfually, to avoid.
If you chose not to abandon your life in Florida to spend weeks, perhaps years, of crippling legal expenses here in NY, that is what I would expect, and claiming a "moral" victory against you would just make me a fucking asshole.
KFG
It isn't a question of how fast the carrier travels, but how fast the data travels.
KFG
They're cutting corners then. Their advocating that the integrity of signal be put at risk to increase speeds.
Since they do the same thing with the integrity of the data being transmitted it hardly seems an important point.
KFG
With ever increasing network capacity data storage on the PC will become redundant.
There is value in data redundency, which is why neither the PC nor the data center will become obsolete; although each may (God willin' and the crick don't rise none) change form.
KFG