What part of AIR TRAVEL IS EXTREMELY PAINFUL FOR BABIES do you not understand? You're calling me an intolerant self-centered brat because I don't want you to put your child in extreme pain for your own personal convenience? A BABY IS PHYSICALLY INCAPABLE OF PROPERLY EQUALIZING PRESSURE IN THEIR INNER EAR BY THEMSELVES - They're too small for their eustachian tubes to open far enough to pass air quickly enough. The experience can be traumatizing. There is even potential for permanent ear damage. Parents can sometimes induce equalization by causing baby to suckle or chew during the climb and descent, but they usually aren't told how or when to do this. It may not work depending on the physiology of your baby. Once you are halfway to cruise altitude is too late to learn that baby has ear problems. Don't gamble with your child's hearing just to save time. It's a few days or hours for you if you win, but it's a lifetime with bad or no hearing for THEM if you lose.
There is such a thing as a SHIP that crosses the oceans periodically carrying passengers. (No, not cruise ships. Passenger ships. Google is your friend.) It's not cheap and it's not fast, but it doesn't put your baby in immense pain. Which is worth more to you?
If you can't afford passage by ship and don't want your child to suffer, you have to wait. Sorry, sometimes life doesn't work in your favor. Raising children is hard. You can't always take the easy way out. (Don't let this discourage you. Stick it out and raise the kid right. Be persistent and firm. Don't believe that "it takes a village" garbage - Take initiative and be independent. Anyone can raise your kids badly, but only you can raise them right. They'll thank you when they're old enough to understand.)
Babies cry on airplanes because their ears are not able to adjust to the change in cabin pressure. The cabin pressure altitude can be as high as 8500 feet on a normal flight. The engine noise doesn't help either. The kid is scared and in pretty severe pain throughout the trip. But hey, you don't have to worry about it, go ahead and put your personal convenience above your kid's well-being. You're only the parent, you don't have to be inconvenienced because you have a kid - That's the rest of the world's problem.
It takes a village to ignore a screaming baby on an airplane!
The pressurization system does not work that way. It has to be continually fed ram air from outside the aircraft and/or high-pressure bleed air from the engines to make up for the air that leaks out of the aircraft. If the airlines tried to simply "recycle the cabin air" the air would leak out of the airplane and the cabin would become unbreathable in a matter of minutes. See Payne Stewart and Helios 522 for examples of how quickly the cabin can lose pressure when not maintained.
Yes. The language will say that any encrypted connection will be throttled or terminated "to protect the integrity of the internet at large" or some other wording. If you want to use your broadband speed, you will have to do so using approved clear-text protocols connecting to approved hosts.
After all, if you don't have anything to hide, you shouldn't be hiding anything, right?
Easy - If your connection has a high ratio of uploads compared to other users on the network (or meets some other arbitrary criteria), your connection class is set to "suspect" and any traffic not identifiable by the filtering system is blocked or throttled.
We're canceling the Shuttle, and later when Ares/Orion turns into a huge disaster with budget overruns and shortfalls, Congress will be justified (in the public's eyes) when they cancel it as well and shut down the entire manned spaceflight program.
And if you think they're going to make private spaceflight easy to make up for this, you're deluded.
We're in the process of shutting down our airline industry with ridiculous security policies that do nothing for security and everything for driving people away from air travel. Private aviation is being similarly crippled with new taxes designed primarily to ensure that only the very wealthy can afford to fly. There is no reason to have NASA when we can outsource our space flight needs to overseas vendors and get paid kickbacks to our secret overseas bank accounts.
A population that stays in the same place all the time is much easier to control. Transportation is under attack.
Not to mention the proceeds in precedent when they eventually use this data to launch RIAA-style lawsuits against anyone who's watched anything they don't like...
You don't understand the shoot-to-defend mentality. It's not about the stolen something. If someone breaks into my house after my computer, they aren't just stealing a nameless piece of equipment - They're stealing the many months of work I had to do to save up enough money to buy it. Unlike some of you out there who have parents that pay for whatever you may want, I have to work for what I want. If my computer gets stolen I will have to work for many months to get enough money to replace it. Nobody is going to replace it for me. I'm not shooting to defend some nameless plastic box. I'm shooting to defend my right to enjoy the results of my work.
In any event, I should have the right to be at least as well-armed as the average criminal. If the average criminal here has a gun, I should have the right to a gun as well. (Currently the average criminal here does not have a gun, so I do not. However, crime has been increasing lately, so I may have to reconsider this.)
When Apple sells you upgrade hardware, they guarantee the upgrade hardware you bought works with the hardware you have. This guarantee places them at legal liability; You can sue them if it ends up being broken and they refuse to fix it. If you go buy RAM from the big-box store they do not guarantee it will work in your computer. Apple does. You are paying for their legal liability if the memory ends up being out-of-spec or something.
You could say the same thing about IBM selling parts for zSeries machines, or Sun and Sun parts. This is not uncommon in the workstation and higher markets. It is uncommon for PCs, and since the average slashbot has never seen anything other than PCs, they don't understand it.
Besides that, if the price is too high, don't buy it. There is no grounds on which to demonize Apple for charging what the market will bear. Apple (or Dell, or anyone else) is under no obligation to provide you a computer at whatever price you believe to be reasonable. You are not entitled to a Macintosh. (Insert California government joke here.) They charge what they want, and you pay them if you are willing. If you don't want to pay Apple's premium, don't pay it. If there are not enough buyers willing to pay the prices Apple sets, they will eventually be forced to lower their prices or go out of business. This is like me demanding IBM sell me a 2066 for $1500 because "disks are disks and it's just a big PC anyway, and I could build one off Newegg for $700"
I can think of lots of ways to re-educate someone who thinks spamming is a good idea: Beating him with a crowbar, pulling his fingernails out with pliers, stick hot pokers under his toes, stuff his ass with broken glass and seal him up with glue, keel-hauling (Works with a truck on the highway if you're landlocked), there's plenty of options. Pity most of them aren't legal.
I say Nextel out of force of habit, because that's the name still printed on the phone. As soon as you get out of town it loses signal, but my iPhone carries on. Lesser educated people think it has something to do with the iPhone being more expensive, but the i836 has an external antenna - It's the network.
About your battery problem: Instead of carrying a bunch of batteries around, is it an option for you to carry a DC inverter instead? If "on the road" for you means in a car, it may work better for you. In my case when I'm out and about I'm rarely far from my truck or an outlet. For those times when I am farther away I can plug the inverter into the emergency-jump-start kit I carry in the truck. I've only ever had to do that once, and it was because a tornado knocked out our power at a bad time (not that there's ever a good time for that...)
I'll upgrade as soon as I can jailbreak it. I live in a rural area. The only cell providers here are AT&T (who hasn't tried to screw me yet), Verizon (who already tried screwing me over twice and I don't wish to give them a third chance), NEXTEL (who has the worst cell service I have ever experienced) and a couple of also-rans with generally crappy service. I got the phone so I could hack on it. I like the idea of having a unix-based computer in my pocket. The fact that it's got a phone and an ipod so I don't have to carry those as well is just icing on the cake. I don't care about unlocking as long as I can have a shell on my phone. My biggest wish for the 3G phone is more space on the OS partition so I can install more stuff to flesh out the environment a bit.
Apollo Project, Total Cost (1962-1973, 2007 USD): $114,758,279,830.00 Total NASA Budget (1962-1973, 2007 USD): $233,725,177,610.00 City of Tokyo, Japan Gross Domestic Product 2006: $1,191,000,000,000.00 City of Chicago, Illinois Gross Domestic Product 2006: $460,000,000,000.00 Taiwan's Gross Domestic Product 2006: $346,400,000,000.00 Estimated Cost of Space Shuttle Program at Retirement: $174,000,000,000.00 State of Iowa's Gross Domestic Product 2006: $106,346,000,000.00 Microsoft Corporation Earnings for 2006: $44,282,000,000.00 ExxonMobil Earnings for 2006: $39,500,000,000.00 National City Bank's earnings for 2006: $12,952,000,000.00 IBM's Earnings for 2006: $3,500,000,000.00 New York Yankees baseball team, value in 2006: $1,026,000,000.00 Oprah's 2006 Earnings: $260,000,000.00 Boeing 747 Model 400: $230,000,000.00
The obvious next step is to realize the people generating this sort of vile garbage are not actually criminals, but merely mentally ill. Make them a safe place to stay and put them on some drugs to straighten them out, and they can be returned to productive society. Lots of people could me severely mentally ill without even knowing it, we might have to widen the criteria a bit...
The book claims TOPS-20 was a commercial variant of the ITS? That's like claiming that Windows 2000 is a commercial variant of Linux. They're entirely different OSes from entirely different people with entirely different goals and motivations. Also, the ITS wasn't replaced with TOPS-20, they existed at the same time on different machines. MIT-OZ and the ITSes were in use concurrently. In fact, it may have been the other way around - I seem to remember the KS10 that became the new AI was born as a TOPS-20 and repurposed for ITS, but I may be misremembering. I'd have to go dig through my archives to see and I'm at work.
As far as the laser being the first closed-source software in the Lab, that's likely bullshit as well. The lab didn't get firmware for most parts of the KLs, they had to argue with DEC Legal to get it and I don't think they got everything. (Firmware meaning code on the peripheral ROMs, not the processor microcode. They had bought microcode kits with the machines, because they had special ITS microcode.) I want to say they didn't get firmware for most of the display terminals too, but I can't remember specific examples.
The taxes are built into the fuel costs (That's the base 400% increase) and in the form of fees for air traffic control services. If you want to talk to a controller, you pay. Want a weather briefing? You pay. Want traffic advisories? You pay. Just like the Europeans. (Ever seen a private airplane in England or Germany? No? There's a reason for that.) The airports will die out as their customers die out.
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What part of AIR TRAVEL IS EXTREMELY PAINFUL FOR BABIES do you not understand? You're calling me an intolerant self-centered brat because I don't want you to put your child in extreme pain for your own personal convenience? A BABY IS PHYSICALLY INCAPABLE OF PROPERLY EQUALIZING PRESSURE IN THEIR INNER EAR BY THEMSELVES - They're too small for their eustachian tubes to open far enough to pass air quickly enough. The experience can be traumatizing. There is even potential for permanent ear damage. Parents can sometimes induce equalization by causing baby to suckle or chew during the climb and descent, but they usually aren't told how or when to do this. It may not work depending on the physiology of your baby. Once you are halfway to cruise altitude is too late to learn that baby has ear problems. Don't gamble with your child's hearing just to save time. It's a few days or hours for you if you win, but it's a lifetime with bad or no hearing for THEM if you lose.
There is such a thing as a SHIP that crosses the oceans periodically carrying passengers. (No, not cruise ships. Passenger ships. Google is your friend.) It's not cheap and it's not fast, but it doesn't put your baby in immense pain. Which is worth more to you?
If you can't afford passage by ship and don't want your child to suffer, you have to wait. Sorry, sometimes life doesn't work in your favor. Raising children is hard. You can't always take the easy way out. (Don't let this discourage you. Stick it out and raise the kid right. Be persistent and firm. Don't believe that "it takes a village" garbage - Take initiative and be independent. Anyone can raise your kids badly, but only you can raise them right. They'll thank you when they're old enough to understand.)
Babies cry on airplanes because their ears are not able to adjust to the change in cabin pressure. The cabin pressure altitude can be as high as 8500 feet on a normal flight. The engine noise doesn't help either. The kid is scared and in pretty severe pain throughout the trip. But hey, you don't have to worry about it, go ahead and put your personal convenience above your kid's well-being. You're only the parent, you don't have to be inconvenienced because you have a kid - That's the rest of the world's problem.
It takes a village to ignore a screaming baby on an airplane!
This is an urban legend.
The pressurization system does not work that way. It has to be continually fed ram air from outside the aircraft and/or high-pressure bleed air from the engines to make up for the air that leaks out of the aircraft. If the airlines tried to simply "recycle the cabin air" the air would leak out of the airplane and the cabin would become unbreathable in a matter of minutes. See Payne Stewart and Helios 522 for examples of how quickly the cabin can lose pressure when not maintained.
Yes. The language will say that any encrypted connection will be throttled or terminated "to protect the integrity of the internet at large" or some other wording. If you want to use your broadband speed, you will have to do so using approved clear-text protocols connecting to approved hosts.
After all, if you don't have anything to hide, you shouldn't be hiding anything, right?
Easy - If your connection has a high ratio of uploads compared to other users on the network (or meets some other arbitrary criteria), your connection class is set to "suspect" and any traffic not identifiable by the filtering system is blocked or throttled.
That's exactly what's supposed to happen.
We're canceling the Shuttle, and later when Ares/Orion turns into a huge disaster with budget overruns and shortfalls, Congress will be justified (in the public's eyes) when they cancel it as well and shut down the entire manned spaceflight program.
And if you think they're going to make private spaceflight easy to make up for this, you're deluded.
We're in the process of shutting down our airline industry with ridiculous security policies that do nothing for security and everything for driving people away from air travel. Private aviation is being similarly crippled with new taxes designed primarily to ensure that only the very wealthy can afford to fly. There is no reason to have NASA when we can outsource our space flight needs to overseas vendors and get paid kickbacks to our secret overseas bank accounts.
A population that stays in the same place all the time is much easier to control. Transportation is under attack.
Not to mention the proceeds in precedent when they eventually use this data to launch RIAA-style lawsuits against anyone who's watched anything they don't like...
You don't understand the shoot-to-defend mentality. It's not about the stolen something. If someone breaks into my house after my computer, they aren't just stealing a nameless piece of equipment - They're stealing the many months of work I had to do to save up enough money to buy it. Unlike some of you out there who have parents that pay for whatever you may want, I have to work for what I want. If my computer gets stolen I will have to work for many months to get enough money to replace it. Nobody is going to replace it for me. I'm not shooting to defend some nameless plastic box. I'm shooting to defend my right to enjoy the results of my work.
In any event, I should have the right to be at least as well-armed as the average criminal. If the average criminal here has a gun, I should have the right to a gun as well. (Currently the average criminal here does not have a gun, so I do not. However, crime has been increasing lately, so I may have to reconsider this.)
Cisco will be next on the bandwagon. They've been trying to stop second-hand sales of their equipment for years.
When Apple sells you upgrade hardware, they guarantee the upgrade hardware you bought works with the hardware you have. This guarantee places them at legal liability; You can sue them if it ends up being broken and they refuse to fix it. If you go buy RAM from the big-box store they do not guarantee it will work in your computer. Apple does. You are paying for their legal liability if the memory ends up being out-of-spec or something.
You could say the same thing about IBM selling parts for zSeries machines, or Sun and Sun parts. This is not uncommon in the workstation and higher markets. It is uncommon for PCs, and since the average slashbot has never seen anything other than PCs, they don't understand it.
Besides that, if the price is too high, don't buy it. There is no grounds on which to demonize Apple for charging what the market will bear. Apple (or Dell, or anyone else) is under no obligation to provide you a computer at whatever price you believe to be reasonable. You are not entitled to a Macintosh. (Insert California government joke here.) They charge what they want, and you pay them if you are willing. If you don't want to pay Apple's premium, don't pay it. If there are not enough buyers willing to pay the prices Apple sets, they will eventually be forced to lower their prices or go out of business. This is like me demanding IBM sell me a 2066 for $1500 because "disks are disks and it's just a big PC anyway, and I could build one off Newegg for $700"
"Good Guys", noun: The group of people who believe the same things I believe.
I can think of lots of ways to re-educate someone who thinks spamming is a good idea: Beating him with a crowbar, pulling his fingernails out with pliers, stick hot pokers under his toes, stuff his ass with broken glass and seal him up with glue, keel-hauling (Works with a truck on the highway if you're landlocked), there's plenty of options. Pity most of them aren't legal.
I think you mean DEC WARS.
Spells like my boss too.
Find an old machine that has blinkenlights.
Sounds like my boss.
I say Nextel out of force of habit, because that's the name still printed on the phone. As soon as you get out of town it loses signal, but my iPhone carries on. Lesser educated people think it has something to do with the iPhone being more expensive, but the i836 has an external antenna - It's the network.
About your battery problem: Instead of carrying a bunch of batteries around, is it an option for you to carry a DC inverter instead? If "on the road" for you means in a car, it may work better for you. In my case when I'm out and about I'm rarely far from my truck or an outlet. For those times when I am farther away I can plug the inverter into the emergency-jump-start kit I carry in the truck. I've only ever had to do that once, and it was because a tornado knocked out our power at a bad time (not that there's ever a good time for that...)
I'll upgrade as soon as I can jailbreak it. I live in a rural area. The only cell providers here are AT&T (who hasn't tried to screw me yet), Verizon (who already tried screwing me over twice and I don't wish to give them a third chance), NEXTEL (who has the worst cell service I have ever experienced) and a couple of also-rans with generally crappy service. I got the phone so I could hack on it. I like the idea of having a unix-based computer in my pocket. The fact that it's got a phone and an ipod so I don't have to carry those as well is just icing on the cake. I don't care about unlocking as long as I can have a shell on my phone. My biggest wish for the 3G phone is more space on the OS partition so I can install more stuff to flesh out the environment a bit.
Apollo Project, Total Cost (1962-1973, 2007 USD): $114,758,279,830.00
Total NASA Budget (1962-1973, 2007 USD): $233,725,177,610.00
City of Tokyo, Japan Gross Domestic Product 2006: $1,191,000,000,000.00
City of Chicago, Illinois Gross Domestic Product 2006: $460,000,000,000.00
Taiwan's Gross Domestic Product 2006: $346,400,000,000.00
Estimated Cost of Space Shuttle Program at Retirement: $174,000,000,000.00
State of Iowa's Gross Domestic Product 2006: $106,346,000,000.00
Microsoft Corporation Earnings for 2006: $44,282,000,000.00
ExxonMobil Earnings for 2006: $39,500,000,000.00
National City Bank's earnings for 2006: $12,952,000,000.00
IBM's Earnings for 2006: $3,500,000,000.00
New York Yankees baseball team, value in 2006: $1,026,000,000.00
Oprah's 2006 Earnings: $260,000,000.00
Boeing 747 Model 400: $230,000,000.00
Just some numbers I tabbed up awhile back...
One word: X11
Leopard's X11 was not even functional when it was released, and Apple is only now making it usable. It still doesn't work with Spaces or Expose.
The obvious next step is to realize the people generating this sort of vile garbage are not actually criminals, but merely mentally ill. Make them a safe place to stay and put them on some drugs to straighten them out, and they can be returned to productive society. Lots of people could me severely mentally ill without even knowing it, we might have to widen the criteria a bit...
Don't worry, the new FAA user fees are going to put those sort of companies firmly out of business and force their customers back to the airlines.
The more things change, the more they stay the same...
The book claims TOPS-20 was a commercial variant of the ITS? That's like claiming that Windows 2000 is a commercial variant of Linux. They're entirely different OSes from entirely different people with entirely different goals and motivations. Also, the ITS wasn't replaced with TOPS-20, they existed at the same time on different machines. MIT-OZ and the ITSes were in use concurrently. In fact, it may have been the other way around - I seem to remember the KS10 that became the new AI was born as a TOPS-20 and repurposed for ITS, but I may be misremembering. I'd have to go dig through my archives to see and I'm at work.
As far as the laser being the first closed-source software in the Lab, that's likely bullshit as well. The lab didn't get firmware for most parts of the KLs, they had to argue with DEC Legal to get it and I don't think they got everything. (Firmware meaning code on the peripheral ROMs, not the processor microcode. They had bought microcode kits with the machines, because they had special ITS microcode.) I want to say they didn't get firmware for most of the display terminals too, but I can't remember specific examples.
The taxes are built into the fuel costs (That's the base 400% increase) and in the form of fees for air traffic control services. If you want to talk to a controller, you pay. Want a weather briefing? You pay. Want traffic advisories? You pay. Just like the Europeans. (Ever seen a private airplane in England or Germany? No? There's a reason for that.) The airports will die out as their customers die out.