Oh 1999, how I miss you. Back then I was working at the local CompUSA and had a lady come in looking for security software:
her: "I have a hacker in my computer"
me: "Oh, you mean a virus?"
her: "No, it's my neighbor. He's gotten in there and I need a program to get him out"
me: (head explode)
I do wish I had recorded the entire conversation, but I couldn't convince her that if the her modem wasn't connected to the internet, nobody could do anything with her computer from the outside. She'd gone as far as turning off and unplugging the computer. He was coming through the power lines, through the TV, he was already *in there* hacking away even with the power turned off... I eventually gave up and sent her off with some firewall software. These are the kinds of people we need to get some rational thought into, Gods help us.
Fair enough, but those are still "could haves" in need of further investigation and discussion.
I personally am strongly opposed to government bail out of private businesses whose bad practices put them at risk. I'm stronger-ly opposed to one line sound bytes aimed at getting people angry over bad assumptions and mis-information.
A mile or so from my house is a local food co-op stocked by nearby farms who grow from their own organic seed stocks. There are literally dozens of handfuls of items you can purchase there which makes for excellent eating overall. I don't go there often because I don't freak out about my fruits and veggies, but they always have a good supply of good stuff.
and all the food i make at home has nothing from monsanto in it. no HFCS either
This is not difficult to do at all, really. It's just a matter of going to the right store and paying a little more out of pocket, possibly along with growing your own garden. There *are* food stores outside of the Wal Mart Supercenter y'know...
I think if you checked your numbers, you'll find far more big companies have failed than been bailed out by the government. That, and as much as I disagree with the government involving itself in business finances, you'll also find that most of that "free government money" was in the form of loans that have largely been repaid.
Eh, very important distinction: The use of each device they are combining is perfectly legal. Using an antenna to capture over the air TV is legal. Using a DVR to time-shift that broadcast is legal. Using a Slingbox to place-shift that broadcast is also legal. So, a single device or service combining these is perfectly sensible. In your analogy (and kudos for the car analogy!), that key "stolen car" step breaks it.
According to other posts here (lord knows I didn't RTFA), he was using the phone in his hand - hence the ruling which references the "hands-free" language in the law. So yeah, non issue. Next topic please?
The problem these days is some people hop in their car without a clue about where they're going
This, this, this, and this! If you know where you're going, you will be far more attentive and active about looking for street signs and determining what traffic is doing so you know when you need to be in whichever lane. Turn by turn GPS makes driving a passive experience. You're no longer in command of your car - you're simply operating it in the way the GPS tells you to.
Hang on - are you arguing that using a dash mount is a bad idea simply because it doesn't entirely solve the problem of distracted driving? Enforcement isn't a big issue, depending on the wording of the law it's easy enough for the LEO to see if you're handling the device or not.
If these were worthy investments, the people would have made them on their own, less the overhead and waste inherent with government playing middle-man.
I generally consider myself a libertarian (though I spose I must not be a *true* libertarian). I read and enjoyed Atlas Shrugged, but I can't grasp how isolated from society somebody needs to be to take a line like that as gospel, or the follow-on argument that *anything* done by the government is theft from its people. If you're taking about consumer products like cars, sure why not, but there many great projects that have been undertaken that are simply too big for a private entity to build. Not only that, but I wouldn't *want* a sole private entity to be that large and powerful.
Have you been conned by the government taking your money to build out highways and infrastructure to facilitate trade? What about police forces, would you prefer to hire your own bodyguards for whenever you go out on the street? Perhaps we'd be better with several privately funded and instituted justice systems and codes of law? Can you understand where the US would be right now if we didn't decide to pool our resources and invest in these things? The simple fact is that some tasks are better suited to being public. People form governments for a reason.
No, it's using taxpayers to pay the interest on money borrowed from China in order to make a very big press-friendly affair of showing how he's all about imaginary green wonder cars made by wonder kids from California, imported from Sweden - the land run with a government after which his core constituency would love to model at least California, and ideally the entire US.
My puny brain lost track of this sentence somewhere around China. Also, I'm tired of *all* politicians speaking from kindergarten classes or large factory floors. Why can't he just hop in a race car or fly around in an attack helicopter like Putin does?
Not to mention that in most big cities there doesn't need to be an accident for traffic to come to a screeching halt - it does that on it's own in the mornings and evenings. How would an hour or two delay for that yearly train mishap be in any way worse than spending two or three hours in your car for your daily commute?
they're a 19th century solution to urban density and suburbia.
It's not that they are an old idea, subways and metropolitan rail system still work great for 21st century urban areas. I live in a somewhat smaller city, so only rarely use subways, but I've never had any issues when I do. Where subways work, the population density is high enough that there's always a stop within a short walk of where I've wanted to be. I find when I'm in cities that I'll group the places I need to go: start at A, ride to B, walk to C and D, ride back to B, ride back home. They work fantastically well for a dense city center where you're always within a few blocks of a station, and most places you need to get to are small and not too spread out. Trying to cover suburbia is where this system breaks down. You now need a hub and spoke architecture with greater distances between hubs and potentially big detours to get to someplace geographically quite close. It also doesn't help that suburbanites have become so horridly opposed to walking that they'll spend twenty minutes trying to find a parking spot forty feet closer to their destination.
Our problem is that we always look for the silver bullet to solve all of our problems, whether it's energy, transportation, computing devices, or anything really. Suburban sprawl has more or less necessitated the automobile since the same subway station distribution would now only serve a handful of people. We always get so caught up in having one solution to every problem that we try to lug our cars into the city centers to take up space eight hours of the day, or insist we need a light rail line for those two dozen people out in the hills to use to ride to town.
You're always going to have cars - the goal of the inner city planner should be to make it convenient enough that people chose not to drive in town. There are places where transit is so easy I never would think to bring a car.
I don't have my Ouya yet, do you??? It's all a scam!! No, I didn't back it... what's your point?
In all seriousness, I wonder if their games library will be available for generic Android devices. When it comes down to it, the games library will make or break this thing. I don't play enough to justify buying one, but I'm definitely rooting for them from the sidelines.
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Dude, iPads are known to cause ice storms.
sheesh, some people don't know nothin'.
It is shitty, and I never was a very good salesman.
Glad I'm out of that business as well.
Oh 1999, how I miss you. Back then I was working at the local CompUSA and had a lady come in looking for security software:
her: "I have a hacker in my computer"
me: "Oh, you mean a virus?"
her: "No, it's my neighbor. He's gotten in there and I need a program to get him out"
me: (head explode)
I do wish I had recorded the entire conversation, but I couldn't convince her that if the her modem wasn't connected to the internet, nobody could do anything with her computer from the outside. She'd gone as far as turning off and unplugging the computer. He was coming through the power lines, through the TV, he was already *in there* hacking away even with the power turned off... I eventually gave up and sent her off with some firewall software. These are the kinds of people we need to get some rational thought into, Gods help us.
Fair enough, but those are still "could haves" in need of further investigation and discussion.
I personally am strongly opposed to government bail out of private businesses whose bad practices put them at risk. I'm stronger-ly opposed to one line sound bytes aimed at getting people angry over bad assumptions and mis-information.
Right, those are all wastes. But *my* company does great things!!
The hypocrisy would be funny if it weren't so damaging.
Perfect - she's already done that! What's the next step for her now?
He's like Jean Claude Van Damme with a shittier name.
While we're making up random stuff, you owe me a cookie for writing about EULAs in breach of my asserted writes over that business area.
...Or you could just stick with writing dystopian fiction.
Find me a case where one of these copyright demand letters was sent to binding arbitration. Go ahead, I'll wait.
While everything you say is spot on, just to be a pedantic ass I'm going to point out that I bought a Foxconn branded mainboard for my computer.
A mile or so from my house is a local food co-op stocked by nearby farms who grow from their own organic seed stocks. There are literally dozens of handfuls of items you can purchase there which makes for excellent eating overall. I don't go there often because I don't freak out about my fruits and veggies, but they always have a good supply of good stuff.
and all the food i make at home has nothing from monsanto in it. no HFCS either
This is not difficult to do at all, really. It's just a matter of going to the right store and paying a little more out of pocket, possibly along with growing your own garden. There *are* food stores outside of the Wal Mart Supercenter y'know...
I think if you checked your numbers, you'll find far more big companies have failed than been bailed out by the government. That, and as much as I disagree with the government involving itself in business finances, you'll also find that most of that "free government money" was in the form of loans that have largely been repaid.
Eh, very important distinction: The use of each device they are combining is perfectly legal. Using an antenna to capture over the air TV is legal. Using a DVR to time-shift that broadcast is legal. Using a Slingbox to place-shift that broadcast is also legal. So, a single device or service combining these is perfectly sensible. In your analogy (and kudos for the car analogy!), that key "stolen car" step breaks it.
According to other posts here (lord knows I didn't RTFA), he was using the phone in his hand - hence the ruling which references the "hands-free" language in the law. So yeah, non issue. Next topic please?
The problem these days is some people hop in their car without a clue about where they're going
This, this, this, and this! If you know where you're going, you will be far more attentive and active about looking for street signs and determining what traffic is doing so you know when you need to be in whichever lane. Turn by turn GPS makes driving a passive experience. You're no longer in command of your car - you're simply operating it in the way the GPS tells you to.
Hang on - are you arguing that using a dash mount is a bad idea simply because it doesn't entirely solve the problem of distracted driving? Enforcement isn't a big issue, depending on the wording of the law it's easy enough for the LEO to see if you're handling the device or not.
...because I don't use GPS navigation and would rather not pay for it?
I suspect more crashes are caused by bored drivers who are not paying attention to what they are doing.
Save a life. Drive a Miata.
If these were worthy investments, the people would have made them on their own, less the overhead and waste inherent with government playing middle-man.
I generally consider myself a libertarian (though I spose I must not be a *true* libertarian). I read and enjoyed Atlas Shrugged, but I can't grasp how isolated from society somebody needs to be to take a line like that as gospel, or the follow-on argument that *anything* done by the government is theft from its people. If you're taking about consumer products like cars, sure why not, but there many great projects that have been undertaken that are simply too big for a private entity to build. Not only that, but I wouldn't *want* a sole private entity to be that large and powerful.
Have you been conned by the government taking your money to build out highways and infrastructure to facilitate trade? What about police forces, would you prefer to hire your own bodyguards for whenever you go out on the street? Perhaps we'd be better with several privately funded and instituted justice systems and codes of law? Can you understand where the US would be right now if we didn't decide to pool our resources and invest in these things? The simple fact is that some tasks are better suited to being public. People form governments for a reason.
I've seen Snatch and don't see how it applies to railroads, highways, or land grant institutions...
No, it's using taxpayers to pay the interest on money borrowed from China in order to make a very big press-friendly affair of showing how he's all about imaginary green wonder cars made by wonder kids from California, imported from Sweden - the land run with a government after which his core constituency would love to model at least California, and ideally the entire US.
My puny brain lost track of this sentence somewhere around China. Also, I'm tired of *all* politicians speaking from kindergarten classes or large factory floors. Why can't he just hop in a race car or fly around in an attack helicopter like Putin does?
Not to mention that in most big cities there doesn't need to be an accident for traffic to come to a screeching halt - it does that on it's own in the mornings and evenings. How would an hour or two delay for that yearly train mishap be in any way worse than spending two or three hours in your car for your daily commute?
they're a 19th century solution to urban density and suburbia.
It's not that they are an old idea, subways and metropolitan rail system still work great for 21st century urban areas. I live in a somewhat smaller city, so only rarely use subways, but I've never had any issues when I do. Where subways work, the population density is high enough that there's always a stop within a short walk of where I've wanted to be. I find when I'm in cities that I'll group the places I need to go: start at A, ride to B, walk to C and D, ride back to B, ride back home. They work fantastically well for a dense city center where you're always within a few blocks of a station, and most places you need to get to are small and not too spread out. Trying to cover suburbia is where this system breaks down. You now need a hub and spoke architecture with greater distances between hubs and potentially big detours to get to someplace geographically quite close. It also doesn't help that suburbanites have become so horridly opposed to walking that they'll spend twenty minutes trying to find a parking spot forty feet closer to their destination.
Our problem is that we always look for the silver bullet to solve all of our problems, whether it's energy, transportation, computing devices, or anything really. Suburban sprawl has more or less necessitated the automobile since the same subway station distribution would now only serve a handful of people. We always get so caught up in having one solution to every problem that we try to lug our cars into the city centers to take up space eight hours of the day, or insist we need a light rail line for those two dozen people out in the hills to use to ride to town.
You're always going to have cars - the goal of the inner city planner should be to make it convenient enough that people chose not to drive in town. There are places where transit is so easy I never would think to bring a car.
Models are fun, but their not science until they make surprising, falsifiable predictions
Be fair - most science is entirely unsurprising.
I don't have my Ouya yet, do you??? It's all a scam!! No, I didn't back it... what's your point?
In all seriousness, I wonder if their games library will be available for generic Android devices. When it comes down to it, the games library will make or break this thing. I don't play enough to justify buying one, but I'm definitely rooting for them from the sidelines.