HD radio requires a fraction of the power of analog.
I'm going to have to ask you where you got your information on this. As of right now there's, what, 2 HD radio handhelds? Maybe the power-efficient chipsets will follow, but you're competing against what's basically a band-pass filter and an amplifier. I don't see how you can win, let alone achieve "a fraction of the power".
You think your insurance company likes paying out more? There's already incentives for cheaper care, it's called making money. I apologize and can't help that your insurance company doesn't respond so well to this profit motive in your particular case, but the suggestion that the federal government would be motivated to spend less is... naive.
All the court should care about is whether this venture is legal or not.
Well, I agree with the spirit. The settlement should be judged on its own merits and not what it does or doesn't do for MS. But that judgement has nothing to do with whether it's "legal". It's legal if the judge approves it; there's guidelines but no strict rules here.
The question the judge needs to ask is if the settlement is in the interest of the class, especially those who aren't directly represented by the prosecution. The summary is very on-point as to why it may not be, though again it's a subjective question that will be up to the judge to decide.
I remember when LiveJournal was "the thing to do". After that it was MySpace. Then it was FaceBook. Somewhere after or between that it was video blogs on YouTube.
And I STILL use Livejournal. And I use Twitter. But I don't use Myspace or Facebook. Go figure.
How trendy a particular service is doesn't matter to me, within reason (I'm not eager to talk to an empty room). I care about whether a service supports usage patterns that I would actually use. And what I would actually use is a service that helps me disseminate my thoughts and gather those that others put out there. "Walls", garish backgrounds, and mp3s autostarting on page-load are not helpful to that end.
You can't recognize Linux's culture in one breath and ignore Microsoft's in the other. They're not believers in the Unix Way (tm), they like graphical modules controlled by language bindings (COM), a registry and application-specific storage accessed by language bindings, and above that the whole.NET infrastructure. The idea of small programs that communicate via serialized streams, of human-editable text configs, etc, is entirely antithetical to the MS Way.
I'm not saying they can't retain their distinctiveness in a port to Unix, much in the way OSX did, nor am I even saying that it would be a stupid idea. But it would hardly be Unix as you and I recognize it, with that culture you mention behind it.
9)Make the lander's tanks bigger and send it to Mars
I like your post, but I just noticed this and wanted to nitpick. Mars has an atmosphere, so the lander technology will have to be totally different, with some sort of heat-shield like the shuttle or the Apollo re-entry capsules. Good news is you can use airbraking for a lot of delta-v on descent instead of fuel... but all that energy from friction has to go somewhere.
I still can't believe Rockstar had a mandatory recall...
And if it were on a Kindle, it would've been deleted! I'm sure that functionality will be built into our next generation of consoles, "I'm sorry, you can't play that game because it's been recalled. Please see your retailer for a refund."
The hypervisor gave homebrew developers a way to make apps without enabling warez. But now the homebrew community and the warez community are brought back together by the need to find a hack to access the console resources. And once one finds a way in, the other gets it for free, no stopping them.
Linux support seemed like an intelligent way to take a stab at piracy on the cheap, while paying lip-service to Open Source, etc, and getting a tiny amount of street-cred for it. It may be that's not worth the cost to them anymore... we'll see if that turns out to be a mistake or not.
Creative Commons Zero I believe is an attempt to address this issue, reserving as few rights as legally possible to yourself. For code I just use BSD, though, since it's been around forever and is well understood.
If you have to pay a collector (I owed for a legitimate claim one time when there was a billing mistake), I recommend a one-time use credit card number. It can't be double billed if you set a limit at the correct amount. Believe me, you don't want to try to collect from a collector who owes you money because they screwed up. You can be successful, but you won't enjoy it.
Don't even pay the collection agency if you can avoid it, they get a piece of the profit. See if you can pay the original creditor first. I had a tussle with Sprint that sent me to a collection agency (long story), and after paying Sprint directly I called them and was told my account was paid. Haven't heard from them since.
A lot of people aren't understanding this bit. You have to opt out of class action lawsuits. It may not seem fair, but it's a compromise. Class-actions are one of the more pro-little-guy elements of civil law we have in the US, giving lawyers huge heaping incentives to punish abusive large entities that we wouldn't be able to attack on our own.
Here's the relevant section from the wikipedia article:
Due process requires in most cases that notice describing the class action be sent, published, or broadcast to class members. As part of this notice procedure, there may have to be several notices, first a notice giving class members the opportunity to opt out of the class, i.e. if individuals wish to proceed with their own litigation they are entitled to do so, only to the extent that they give timely notice to the class counsel or the court that they are opting out. Second, if there is a settlement proposal, the court will usually direct the class counsel to send a settlement notice to all the members of the certified class, informing them of the details of the proposed settlement.
PDFs are bad at reflowable text. Yeah you could strip out the raw text or take a stab at translating the formatting, but you get shitty results. You need to start with a semantic format, not a presentation format.
The initial setup asks you how want to use your location information, and the "Location Services" app lets you change this at any time. I'm looking at the options under that app now, all of which can be switched off:
Auto Locate: Your location will be automatically provided to applications that request it.
Use GPS: Improves accuracy but can impact battery life
Geotag Photos: Stores the GPS coordinates of your location when you use the camera
Background Data Collection: Allows Google to automatically collect anonymouse location data to improve the quality of location services.
Can't it be both? Smarter with the external compute-wear, but dependent on it when taken away. Charles Stross explores this a bit with the protagonist from the first few chapters of Accelerando.
There is no real competition when it comes lower cost plans. And finally, my opinion for the most expensive, the lack of open systems.
That's not really true, there's companies like Cricket (and T-Mobile to a small extent, which is itself a branch of Deutsche Telecom), plus all the pre-paids. I think the situation is more that Americans are used to spending such a large fraction of their money on Cell plans, that they like all the bells and whistles. I.e. it's seen as a luxury service in the US.
As for open systems, there's 3G. T-Mobile will give you and a bare simcard if you ask for it, and you can take the AT+T simcard from your free feature-less phone into the unlocked phone you bought off Amazon.
I really don't think the cellular market is that anti-competitive right now. It's just different from much of the rest of the world.
In the GP's defense, what he actually said was "as a consumer", which could be read as meaning "when a person engages in the role of being a consumer", which is not necessarily to the exclusion of all the other things a person is.
ALSA apps (Wine included) work fine on my laptop if there's no Pulse app using the audio device. This may be a situation where the configuration matters (Alsa can be configured to feed into Pulse, which has only really worked for half my apps, so I don't do that anymore)
I'll second the mention of Debian. They have one of the highest number of packages available, you can choose a release to stay stable, or hop on the cutting edge. It's my next stop after when I need a new install (currently using Gentoo, but while I'm in awe of its customizability, I'm tired of spending that much time maintaining a machine).
And what's with the Pulse hate? It solves a lot of app-fighting-for-audio-control issues. Ubuntu's completely broken installation of it has turned a lot of people off to it wrongly, methinks.
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Is that you, Buffy?
My family has a couple kids in private schools. You're going to tax me even though I'm not using your public system?
Seems so.
HD radio requires a fraction of the power of analog.
I'm going to have to ask you where you got your information on this. As of right now there's, what, 2 HD radio handhelds? Maybe the power-efficient chipsets will follow, but you're competing against what's basically a band-pass filter and an amplifier. I don't see how you can win, let alone achieve "a fraction of the power".
You think your insurance company likes paying out more? There's already incentives for cheaper care, it's called making money. I apologize and can't help that your insurance company doesn't respond so well to this profit motive in your particular case, but the suggestion that the federal government would be motivated to spend less is... naive.
All the court should care about is whether this venture is legal or not.
Well, I agree with the spirit. The settlement should be judged on its own merits and not what it does or doesn't do for MS. But that judgement has nothing to do with whether it's "legal". It's legal if the judge approves it; there's guidelines but no strict rules here.
The question the judge needs to ask is if the settlement is in the interest of the class, especially those who aren't directly represented by the prosecution. The summary is very on-point as to why it may not be, though again it's a subjective question that will be up to the judge to decide.
I remember when LiveJournal was "the thing to do". After that it was MySpace. Then it was FaceBook. Somewhere after or between that it was video blogs on YouTube.
And I STILL use Livejournal. And I use Twitter. But I don't use Myspace or Facebook. Go figure.
How trendy a particular service is doesn't matter to me, within reason (I'm not eager to talk to an empty room). I care about whether a service supports usage patterns that I would actually use. And what I would actually use is a service that helps me disseminate my thoughts and gather those that others put out there. "Walls", garish backgrounds, and mp3s autostarting on page-load are not helpful to that end.
You can't recognize Linux's culture in one breath and ignore Microsoft's in the other. They're not believers in the Unix Way (tm), they like graphical modules controlled by language bindings (COM), a registry and application-specific storage accessed by language bindings, and above that the whole .NET infrastructure. The idea of small programs that communicate via serialized streams, of human-editable text configs, etc, is entirely antithetical to the MS Way.
I'm not saying they can't retain their distinctiveness in a port to Unix, much in the way OSX did, nor am I even saying that it would be a stupid idea. But it would hardly be Unix as you and I recognize it, with that culture you mention behind it.
9)Make the lander's tanks bigger and send it to Mars
I like your post, but I just noticed this and wanted to nitpick. Mars has an atmosphere, so the lander technology will have to be totally different, with some sort of heat-shield like the shuttle or the Apollo re-entry capsules. Good news is you can use airbraking for a lot of delta-v on descent instead of fuel... but all that energy from friction has to go somewhere.
"Warning: You are using Adobe Flash, are you sure this such as good idea? How about some nice Dynamic SVG?"
That'd be great! Do you have any? This, ummm, isn't my website, you know. =P
I still can't believe Rockstar had a mandatory recall...
And if it were on a Kindle, it would've been deleted! I'm sure that functionality will be built into our next generation of consoles, "I'm sorry, you can't play that game because it's been recalled. Please see your retailer for a refund."
The hypervisor gave homebrew developers a way to make apps without enabling warez. But now the homebrew community and the warez community are brought back together by the need to find a hack to access the console resources. And once one finds a way in, the other gets it for free, no stopping them.
Linux support seemed like an intelligent way to take a stab at piracy on the cheap, while paying lip-service to Open Source, etc, and getting a tiny amount of street-cred for it. It may be that's not worth the cost to them anymore... we'll see if that turns out to be a mistake or not.
Damn, I was hoping I could call it "trey-doh", and get a patent for a device that presses it into lines of different shapes.
Creative Commons Zero I believe is an attempt to address this issue, reserving as few rights as legally possible to yourself. For code I just use BSD, though, since it's been around forever and is well understood.
If you have to pay a collector (I owed for a legitimate claim one time when there was a billing mistake), I recommend a one-time use credit card number. It can't be double billed if you set a limit at the correct amount. Believe me, you don't want to try to collect from a collector who owes you money because they screwed up. You can be successful, but you won't enjoy it.
Don't even pay the collection agency if you can avoid it, they get a piece of the profit. See if you can pay the original creditor first. I had a tussle with Sprint that sent me to a collection agency (long story), and after paying Sprint directly I called them and was told my account was paid. Haven't heard from them since.
A lot of people aren't understanding this bit. You have to opt out of class action lawsuits. It may not seem fair, but it's a compromise. Class-actions are one of the more pro-little-guy elements of civil law we have in the US, giving lawyers huge heaping incentives to punish abusive large entities that we wouldn't be able to attack on our own.
Here's the relevant section from the wikipedia article:
Due process requires in most cases that notice describing the class action be sent, published, or broadcast to class members. As part of this notice procedure, there may have to be several notices, first a notice giving class members the opportunity to opt out of the class, i.e. if individuals wish to proceed with their own litigation they are entitled to do so, only to the extent that they give timely notice to the class counsel or the court that they are opting out. Second, if there is a settlement proposal, the court will usually direct the class counsel to send a settlement notice to all the members of the certified class, informing them of the details of the proposed settlement.
PDFs are bad at reflowable text. Yeah you could strip out the raw text or take a stab at translating the formatting, but you get shitty results. You need to start with a semantic format, not a presentation format.
Just publish in EPUB.
Can't it be both? Smarter with the external compute-wear, but dependent on it when taken away. Charles Stross explores this a bit with the protagonist from the first few chapters of Accelerando.
There is no real competition when it comes lower cost plans. And finally, my opinion for the most expensive, the lack of open systems.
That's not really true, there's companies like Cricket (and T-Mobile to a small extent, which is itself a branch of Deutsche Telecom), plus all the pre-paids. I think the situation is more that Americans are used to spending such a large fraction of their money on Cell plans, that they like all the bells and whistles. I.e. it's seen as a luxury service in the US.
As for open systems, there's 3G. T-Mobile will give you and a bare simcard if you ask for it, and you can take the AT+T simcard from your free feature-less phone into the unlocked phone you bought off Amazon.
I really don't think the cellular market is that anti-competitive right now. It's just different from much of the rest of the world.
In the GP's defense, what he actually said was "as a consumer", which could be read as meaning "when a person engages in the role of being a consumer", which is not necessarily to the exclusion of all the other things a person is.
ALSA apps (Wine included) work fine on my laptop if there's no Pulse app using the audio device. This may be a situation where the configuration matters (Alsa can be configured to feed into Pulse, which has only really worked for half my apps, so I don't do that anymore)
I'll second the mention of Debian. They have one of the highest number of packages available, you can choose a release to stay stable, or hop on the cutting edge. It's my next stop after when I need a new install (currently using Gentoo, but while I'm in awe of its customizability, I'm tired of spending that much time maintaining a machine).
And what's with the Pulse hate? It solves a lot of app-fighting-for-audio-control issues. Ubuntu's completely broken installation of it has turned a lot of people off to it wrongly, methinks.
WHOOOOOSH!
The Pre uses the Konami Code to put you in a "Developer Mode", complete with root access to the phone.
Are you sure? Maybe it was a secret Starbucks!