BUT...in the end, our technology will defeat them...
Much like the creators of "unbreakable" DRM, you assume that there is an end. I applaud your work, but don't assume what you produce won't be broken by someone before it's even in production.
I-90 might be moderately congested, but taking 405 from anywhere north of I-90 will more than eat up any time savings. 405 through Bellevue is a mess these days.
You bolded the wrong part, when you should be bolding "...to come up with a new 520 plan". That's right, there's already a plan that was agreed upon. Then a new crop of politicians get in there and want to make a name for themselves. So instead of building what has already taken ten years or more upon which to build consensus, let's start all over. How about "no", and build the damned thing already before an earthquake or storm sends the current bridge to the bottom of Lake Washington (at which point we're really screwed).
If I'm not riding the bus from Redmond to Seattle every day, I'm riding my bicycle, and I probably drive to work less than a half dozen times a year. I don't care if there are more car lanes or not (though I do look forward to a bike lane). I do care that the area politicians quit screwing around and start building a bridge that's long overdue. *That* is what Microsoft seems to be supporting, and what they don't support is "let's sit around and talk about it for a few more years".
Quote the story's bias all you want, it doesn't make it true. Transit options have nothing to do with it.
Not true because you say so? Even a typically-Republican-voting conservative such as myself has seen and experienced enough of how well the current system works to be persuaded that maybe the "socialists" have a point.
As one example, I've looked at starting a software company, maybe hire a few folks. I've done it before fifteen years ago, I kind of know what I"m doing, and I've got the money to bootstrap a new company. Well, maybe; providing insurance is one of the things (maybe *the* thing) holding me back. Costs having gone insane since the last time I did this. Take that, free-market capitalists, the thing holding back a new business is the allegedly unbroken system. Even just opening a one-man shop gives me pause with the current state of private insurance.
What really annoys me here in Redmond, WA are the Microsofties (of which I used to be one; co-pay? What co-pay?) telling me how nothing needs to be fixed. Look, if you work for MSFT or any other large company offering good benefits, feel free to expand your thinking to include those that don't work where you do. Or STFU, which ever works best for you.
Sums it up nicely for me. For a variety of reasons (primarily pricing for HD content), we got rid of the DirecTV satellite. For now it's just a Mac Mini, and whatever comes OTA, through Hulu, or Netflix. We still have more than we can watch. Sure, OTA is the only HD source (well, we still have our Xbox HD-DVD drive and a collection of movies), but that's fine.
Getting to the point, we don't have BR either, and part of that is because I consider it to be a consumer-unfriendly format. Just like we decided we don't *need* to spend the money on satellite, we don't *need* to put up with the hassle of DRM. I'm techy enough to get around it, but I'll go find other things to do instead.
So feel free, entertainment industry, to make consuming your product a pain in the ass. While you're doing that, I'll be finding other more convenient, and frankly more productive, places to spend my money like reading a book, coding up my next great idea, or (gasp) spending time outside.
They lowered the carry-on size to something that lasts me three to five days if I pack dress clothes suitable for an interview, a week anywhere else. I think you need to recalibrate your idea of "tiny".
this is the side effect of being CO2 obessed. you can't turn off the energy tap, so you have to source it some other way then fossil fuels.
Turning corn into ethanol doesn't solve the fossil fuel dependency problem because corn is fertilized with (wait for it...) fossil fuels.
Now if non-food crops are grown on areas that aren't useful for growing food crops, all without using petroleum-based fertilizers, it might make some sense.
Depends on how one defines "suspicious". I'm well past the age of suspicion defined by Adams. I'm just as much of a gadget/technology nerd as I ever was (probably more so, now that I have more money for gadgets). What I'm suspicious of are any claims of revolutionizing the world. Because of my advanced age, I frequently ask (to use one common Slashdot whipping boy) "how is this different from the CueCat:?", or three-tier, or punch cards, or whatever else has been done in a similar vein. It's going to "change the way I..."? Umm, yeah, sure. I guess skepticism is a more accurate word.
But suspicious as in "my set-top box has a camera so Comcast can spy on me"? I don't believe age is the issue for anyone born in the last fifty years (i. e., grew up with relatively fast-moving technology). There are paranoid nut jobs of varying ages.
It's not semantics, but you caught yourself so I won't belabor the point. Good iPhone apps save their state when the get the "you're getting shut down" message. That means not all iPhone apps do that. So your proposed scenarios should work, but aren't guaranteed. But I'm willing to bet the same devs who can't be bothered to save state won't be bothered to make sure they're not pegging the CPU while running in the background. (As a side note, I'm with you on background music; it's the one scenario in which I'm not satisfied with mere task switching.)
What you're asking for in the way of choice is what others know as "having to fiddle with it". Do I allow background processing or not? What are the implications? Why is my battery life non-existent? Apple decided you don't get to make/aren't burdened with such choices. It works for me, works for others, may not work for you.
If you want choice, you have choice. That choice is to not use an iPhone OS device and use one of the many others that use an OS supports background processing.
What you're asking for is more like task switching than multitasking. None of the things you mention need to stay actively running in the background, consuming CPU cycles.
I'm a loss to think of a single person I know who has tried Clearwire and stuck with it. Horrible latency and uptime, with bandwidth that often didn't beat DSL at all, and the half dozen or so folks I know that tried it went back to whatever provider they hated so much before.
I want Clearwire to succeed as an alternative to the half-assed providers offered in Puget Sound (Verizon FioS excepted, but I'm sure they'll find a way to piss me off, too), but Clearwire's customers haven't exactly been offering ringing endorsements.
Are you Microsofties really so stupid and ignorant
They're not so stupid as to install random utilities on build machines just because they don't like typing "dir/s/b". "Ignorant" is thinking you just walk into an existing build environment of that size, start downloading crap off the Internet, and everyone will be fine with having to support your pet utilities.
Hrmph. I used to use this when it was the PayPal Plug-In, which they cancelled: https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=xpt/cps/general/NewPayPalPlugin-outside. I'm less inclined to give them another go-around. With the plug-in, I was surprised by the complete lack of consumer unfriendliness. I'm not so confident their new version won't have a "screw you" clause in it somewhere. It is PayPal, after all.
If only they grabbed your junk and your ass. I've been patted on multiple occasions, and you'd think my junk had leprosy. I've wondered if that is why the undie bomber went for that setup, knowing that even in the event of a pat down the male security personnel would be afraid of turning gay if they got near his junk.
A hackintosh doesn't exactly reduce support issues when the user downloads the next update from Apple. I got so tired for reloading kexts (and, whoopsie, looks like I forgot one; start Googling), I gave up and just bought a Mac.
No, WA doesn't have an income tax. They do, however, have a pretty hefty sales tax. Not far from the MSFT main campus is a strip of road that has a Jaguar/Land Rover dealer (I think they have Lambos, too), Rolls/Bentley dealer, BMW, and Aston Martin dealers, along with a used car showroom that carries new Lotus cars and used cars most of us will never afford. All of them are within a few blocks of each other. All of them pass on to the state of WA a nice chunk of change with each car purchased, and I doubt any would be there (except for maybe BMW and Jag/LR) were MSFT not down the road.
The point is, the state government is getting their money one way or the other, and WA has chosen the sales tax route. In addition to the sales tax, WA gets to collect corporate tax from the car dealers and big-screen TV dealers. WA was also wise enough to encourage MSFT to stay far enough from sales-tax-free Portland so as to not make it worth the drive.
In the state of Washington, it's $500 in damages that you do get to keep. You have to file in small claims court, but it would seem that at least some don't even bother to show up. GameStop paid for most of my new MacBook, thanks to repeated automated calling.
That's precisely the thinking I went through when deciding what machine to get to do Mac/iPhone dev work. I had already hacked the OS onto two machines, an MSI Wind and a DIY from Newegg parts. Both were not without their hassles, but they work. Knowing what I know about getting Mac OS onto non-Apple hardware, Psystar would have to sell a pretty darned cheap machine before I'd bother. So I didn't bother. I eventually got a Macbook Pro this weekend.
Which leads to my theory on why we don't hear anything about Apple bothering the hackintosh folks. In my case, I wrote software for their operating systems. I also paid for the two copies of their OS. In the end, Apple sold me a top-level machine. Seems like Apple came out okay. Had I not had the hackintosh option available("hack Mac OS onto the $400 MSI I already own? Let's give it a whirl..."), it all would have been a non-starter.
I wonder if that's not just a nice excuse to not strike out on your own and keep working for The Man(tm). If your business is so small that your car and house are on the line, I doubt the big, mean megacorps even know you exist, let alone think you're worth the bother.
I formed a software company about a month ago. US$200 LLC filing with the state of WA keeps the car and house relatively safe. Crank out quality software that people want to use, profit! Or not; regardless, my own incompetence is likely a much bigger enemy than anything else.
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It's three links deep and an Excel spreadsheet, so one can be excused for not RTFA: Hot MIllions (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063094/).
BUT...in the end, our technology will defeat them...
Much like the creators of "unbreakable" DRM, you assume that there is an end. I applaud your work, but don't assume what you produce won't be broken by someone before it's even in production.
I-90 might be moderately congested, but taking 405 from anywhere north of I-90 will more than eat up any time savings. 405 through Bellevue is a mess these days.
As a heavy transit user, I like McGinn's plan, too. I also like a bridge that's likely to get built before I retire. I'll take the latter, thanks.
You bolded the wrong part, when you should be bolding "...to come up with a new 520 plan". That's right, there's already a plan that was agreed upon. Then a new crop of politicians get in there and want to make a name for themselves. So instead of building what has already taken ten years or more upon which to build consensus, let's start all over. How about "no", and build the damned thing already before an earthquake or storm sends the current bridge to the bottom of Lake Washington (at which point we're really screwed).
If I'm not riding the bus from Redmond to Seattle every day, I'm riding my bicycle, and I probably drive to work less than a half dozen times a year. I don't care if there are more car lanes or not (though I do look forward to a bike lane). I do care that the area politicians quit screwing around and start building a bridge that's long overdue. *That* is what Microsoft seems to be supporting, and what they don't support is "let's sit around and talk about it for a few more years".
Quote the story's bias all you want, it doesn't make it true. Transit options have nothing to do with it.
Not true because you say so? Even a typically-Republican-voting conservative such as myself has seen and experienced enough of how well the current system works to be persuaded that maybe the "socialists" have a point.
As one example, I've looked at starting a software company, maybe hire a few folks. I've done it before fifteen years ago, I kind of know what I"m doing, and I've got the money to bootstrap a new company. Well, maybe; providing insurance is one of the things (maybe *the* thing) holding me back. Costs having gone insane since the last time I did this. Take that, free-market capitalists, the thing holding back a new business is the allegedly unbroken system. Even just opening a one-man shop gives me pause with the current state of private insurance.
What really annoys me here in Redmond, WA are the Microsofties (of which I used to be one; co-pay? What co-pay?) telling me how nothing needs to be fixed. Look, if you work for MSFT or any other large company offering good benefits, feel free to expand your thinking to include those that don't work where you do. Or STFU, which ever works best for you.
Sums it up nicely for me. For a variety of reasons (primarily pricing for HD content), we got rid of the DirecTV satellite. For now it's just a Mac Mini, and whatever comes OTA, through Hulu, or Netflix. We still have more than we can watch. Sure, OTA is the only HD source (well, we still have our Xbox HD-DVD drive and a collection of movies), but that's fine.
Getting to the point, we don't have BR either, and part of that is because I consider it to be a consumer-unfriendly format. Just like we decided we don't *need* to spend the money on satellite, we don't *need* to put up with the hassle of DRM. I'm techy enough to get around it, but I'll go find other things to do instead.
So feel free, entertainment industry, to make consuming your product a pain in the ass. While you're doing that, I'll be finding other more convenient, and frankly more productive, places to spend my money like reading a book, coding up my next great idea, or (gasp) spending time outside.
They lowered the carry-on size to something that lasts me three to five days if I pack dress clothes suitable for an interview, a week anywhere else. I think you need to recalibrate your idea of "tiny".
this is the side effect of being CO2 obessed. you can't turn off the energy tap, so you have to source it some other way then fossil fuels.
Turning corn into ethanol doesn't solve the fossil fuel dependency problem because corn is fertilized with (wait for it...) fossil fuels.
Now if non-food crops are grown on areas that aren't useful for growing food crops, all without using petroleum-based fertilizers, it might make some sense.
Depends on how one defines "suspicious". I'm well past the age of suspicion defined by Adams. I'm just as much of a gadget/technology nerd as I ever was (probably more so, now that I have more money for gadgets). What I'm suspicious of are any claims of revolutionizing the world. Because of my advanced age, I frequently ask (to use one common Slashdot whipping boy) "how is this different from the CueCat:?", or three-tier, or punch cards, or whatever else has been done in a similar vein. It's going to "change the way I..."? Umm, yeah, sure. I guess skepticism is a more accurate word.
But suspicious as in "my set-top box has a camera so Comcast can spy on me"? I don't believe age is the issue for anyone born in the last fifty years (i. e., grew up with relatively fast-moving technology). There are paranoid nut jobs of varying ages.
What you're asking for in the way of choice is what others know as "having to fiddle with it". Do I allow background processing or not? What are the implications? Why is my battery life non-existent? Apple decided you don't get to make/aren't burdened with such choices. It works for me, works for others, may not work for you.
If you want choice, you have choice. That choice is to not use an iPhone OS device and use one of the many others that use an OS supports background processing.
What you're asking for is more like task switching than multitasking. None of the things you mention need to stay actively running in the background, consuming CPU cycles.
I'm a loss to think of a single person I know who has tried Clearwire and stuck with it. Horrible latency and uptime, with bandwidth that often didn't beat DSL at all, and the half dozen or so folks I know that tried it went back to whatever provider they hated so much before.
I want Clearwire to succeed as an alternative to the half-assed providers offered in Puget Sound (Verizon FioS excepted, but I'm sure they'll find a way to piss me off, too), but Clearwire's customers haven't exactly been offering ringing endorsements.
Are you Microsofties really so stupid and ignorant
They're not so stupid as to install random utilities on build machines just because they don't like typing "dir /s /b". "Ignorant" is thinking you just walk into an existing build environment of that size, start downloading crap off the Internet, and everyone will be fine with having to support your pet utilities.
Hrmph. I used to use this when it was the PayPal Plug-In, which they cancelled: https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=xpt/cps/general/NewPayPalPlugin-outside. I'm less inclined to give them another go-around. With the plug-in, I was surprised by the complete lack of consumer unfriendliness. I'm not so confident their new version won't have a "screw you" clause in it somewhere. It is PayPal, after all.
If only they grabbed your junk and your ass. I've been patted on multiple occasions, and you'd think my junk had leprosy. I've wondered if that is why the undie bomber went for that setup, knowing that even in the event of a pat down the male security personnel would be afraid of turning gay if they got near his junk.
I think I've learned more from Sams books by fixing the numerous bugs in the sample code than reading the text.
A hackintosh doesn't exactly reduce support issues when the user downloads the next update from Apple. I got so tired for reloading kexts (and, whoopsie, looks like I forgot one; start Googling), I gave up and just bought a Mac.
No, WA doesn't have an income tax. They do, however, have a pretty hefty sales tax. Not far from the MSFT main campus is a strip of road that has a Jaguar/Land Rover dealer (I think they have Lambos, too), Rolls/Bentley dealer, BMW, and Aston Martin dealers, along with a used car showroom that carries new Lotus cars and used cars most of us will never afford. All of them are within a few blocks of each other. All of them pass on to the state of WA a nice chunk of change with each car purchased, and I doubt any would be there (except for maybe BMW and Jag/LR) were MSFT not down the road.
The point is, the state government is getting their money one way or the other, and WA has chosen the sales tax route. In addition to the sales tax, WA gets to collect corporate tax from the car dealers and big-screen TV dealers. WA was also wise enough to encourage MSFT to stay far enough from sales-tax-free Portland so as to not make it worth the drive.
In the state of Washington, it's $500 in damages that you do get to keep. You have to file in small claims court, but it would seem that at least some don't even bother to show up. GameStop paid for most of my new MacBook, thanks to repeated automated calling.
That's precisely the thinking I went through when deciding what machine to get to do Mac/iPhone dev work. I had already hacked the OS onto two machines, an MSI Wind and a DIY from Newegg parts. Both were not without their hassles, but they work. Knowing what I know about getting Mac OS onto non-Apple hardware, Psystar would have to sell a pretty darned cheap machine before I'd bother. So I didn't bother. I eventually got a Macbook Pro this weekend. Which leads to my theory on why we don't hear anything about Apple bothering the hackintosh folks. In my case, I wrote software for their operating systems. I also paid for the two copies of their OS. In the end, Apple sold me a top-level machine. Seems like Apple came out okay. Had I not had the hackintosh option available("hack Mac OS onto the $400 MSI I already own? Let's give it a whirl..."), it all would have been a non-starter.
I wonder if that's not just a nice excuse to not strike out on your own and keep working for The Man(tm). If your business is so small that your car and house are on the line, I doubt the big, mean megacorps even know you exist, let alone think you're worth the bother. I formed a software company about a month ago. US$200 LLC filing with the state of WA keeps the car and house relatively safe. Crank out quality software that people want to use, profit! Or not; regardless, my own incompetence is likely a much bigger enemy than anything else.