Allow me to present Michigan SB-0416, the latest attempt by the American government
The Michigan state government is not the same as "the American government" which would be the label for the Federal government. This is a good example of something that individual states *do* have the ability to regulate even if a lot of us think it's silly. All the people in Michigan who don't like it should direct complaints to their state legislator and not blame a vague "American government". All people who *don't* live in Michigan should direct comments to their respective state legislators insisting that our state should not enact similar.
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If true that means they knew about the problem and tried to cover it up
From the first intro to business class as an undergrad to MBA classes, students are reminded constantly of the Ford Pinto fiasco and how to save a few bucks on a rupture proof gas tank bladder the company was sued for many times over what it would have cost to fix the things. This is a question of a $500 vs $50 part in a plane that costs a couple hundred million. I would be quite amazed that any company in the modern litigious world would forge a signature to get a part as critical to safety as this one passed when knowing that the part was sketchy. If an A380 ever crashes due to this problem after this guy was so harshly treated for suggesting there might be a problem then not only will the company involved be sued into oblivion but also the entire management team for all of their family's personal assets for the next millenia.
Repeat after me: Correlation does not imply causation
You say that as though events that are correlated are never one caused by the other. By fighting small crimes in NYC during the 90's, the crime rate at *all* levels went down. It is perfectly reasonable to suggest that planting the seed of thought that it's OK to steal music online leads to justifying (and then doing) other forms of theft and criminal activity.
I needed to charge a video camera battery at a logging protest
I'm sure the tress you were protecting were grateful for the sacrifice of the trees and other natural resources used to produce the video camera, battery, and their respective manuals.
even some of the more minor systems implemented in C++ are far more complex than anything that was written in pure assembly
The point is that people who back when wrote only in assembly understood there were registers in the CPU and how they interacted with the rest of the system. A modern graduate who knows how to program in C++ or Java may have taken an intro course that mentioned registers but has long since forgotten even taking the class. The original article isn't about complexity at any particular level. It's about understanding the underlying computer hardware.
If I *own* something, then I can do whatever I want with it
I bet you own a pre-recorded VHS tape or DVD but if you sell copies of it on eBay then the copyright people will object. You also might own a meat cleaver but if you hack up the neighbors then the cops will come looking.
Never make absolutist statements. They always fall apart under some circumstances or another.
lives so deep that it can't survive without really high pressure
Without lungs to collapse is the pressure really an issue? I thought the only thing from a fish's point of view (besides the light level) that changes with pressure was the viscosity.
The battery isn't inside the thing; it's the back of it. Look at the closeup pics of the side angle view on the OQO site. See the line up and down along the back? That's the seam for the battery module.
during McCarthy era, the government felt that certain people posed a credible threat to the political system and acted upon it
No, Joe McCarthy was not just concerned about people against the political system. His concern was that government employees, mainly in the State Department and the FBI, were paid agents of the Soviet Union activly spying and working against the USA's interests. Turns out he was right according to the Verona files.
This is COMPLETELY different from China's censorship of news and imprisonment of its own citizens who dare to complain. The communist party is not really worried about foriegn spies. They're worried about the revolution to overthrow their currupt selves.
I'm sure most people in China value socioeconomic freedom over political freedom
Yeah, it's socioeconomic freedom for the party bosses. There's no such thing as "socioeconomic freedom" when private contracts are enforceable only by whichever party can out bribe / bully the police and judiciary.
You're kidding, right? Which part of Kal-el's parents sending him to Earth on a spaceship and growing up to fight Lex Luthor's legions of James Bond-esque gadgets isn't Sci-fi? And Batman's gadgets versus the Joker's gadgets? The only one I'd argue is Wonder Woman unless you want to count the CIA's talking supercomputer made from Christmas lights as Sci-fi.
Hawkins quickly nixed the idea, reasoning that curves never saved space
If the thing was circular then it would have the *most* interior space per unit of side material. But a round PDA would be kinda funky to hold and operate...
you don't have a system admin or professional technician
This, and the article says it's being sold direct to students. I went back to school for another degree last year and the specs for the required notebook said Windows XP Pro or 2000 ONLY. The networking people won't let you connect to the school LAN with anything else. I suspect other schools have similar policies. Linux preinstalled systems should be the high end models for hard core technical users, not the nearly bare bones Celeron student models, IMNSHO.
Perhaps I'm just not thinking this through enough, but it seems to me that this seems a lot like price-gouging
You aren't thinking and you're too lazy to check into the facts. Rather than shoot your mouth off about price gouging you can read Intel's (a publicly traded company) financial statements online and find out exactly how much they spend on R&D.
On a related note, I recall a banner headline back in a 1989 Computer Shopper stating that 486 CPUs had fallen below $1,000 each when bought in OEM lots of 1,000 units. The article went on to reveal that Intel's budget for developing the 486 had set them back a cool $1B. So when modern chips debut in sub $1,000 prices, be happy. And realise that serious money goes into their development.
I disagree. I think Linear A is a better choice. Since it's never been translated then a grammar checker can simply be a random number generator that announces the offending text is incorrect, say, 10% of the time.
Hah! Thanks for the laugh! Just in case anyone who doesn't know better thinks you're serious: What are called 1 and 0 for simplicity are really "high" and "low" where both are a range of accepted values. Writing a low over where a high used to be results in a slightly higher low than a low that was never high or even one that was high after three low writes.
I worked as the technology re-use manager at a nonprofit organization whose mission was to get donated goodies, including computers (my responsibility), to small local charitable organizations. Our warehouse had pallet upon pallet of donated computers whose hard drives were removed as part of corporate donors' policies regarding data safety. Did we get those computers to community centers, adult education programs, inner city kids, etc? Heck no, we had to send them to the metal recycler for 2 cents per pound. Sure, per-storage unit hard drives are cheap but to get enough for a couple of hundred computers is a major expense. And yes, we applied to Maxtor, Seagate, IBM, HP and a couple of others to try to get them to donate hard drives but no dice.
The late-middle aged lady who wants to type and print the church newsletter has ABSOLUTELY no use for a computer without a hard drive and even less of an idea how to install one even if she did have budget to get one. Get a commercially available eraser program; there are plenty of titles and methods. Said church lady has NO IDEA how to extract prior data from a drive that was just plain formatted and a fresh Windows installation put on.
Reporters who have never touched a rifle report on the military, reporters who grew up in the city report on farming, reporters who never broke a sweat at heavy labor report on construction projects...
Actually, this is a lot like public primary education where teachers without specialties in any field teach specific specialty classes.
pretend to know what they're doing so that they don't get taken advantage of. Come to think of it, this also happens at places like Best Buy when it comes to computers.
Funny, I always get the impression the BB sales staff is pretending they know what they are doing so that I won't take advantage of them.
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my parents didn't let the government raise me
Thanks to 40 years of relentless Liberal social policy have absolved parents of responsbility so there needs to be laws like this now.
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Allow me to present Michigan SB-0416, the latest attempt by the American government
The Michigan state government is not the same as "the American government" which would be the label for the Federal government. This is a good example of something that individual states *do* have the ability to regulate even if a lot of us think it's silly. All the people in Michigan who don't like it should direct complaints to their state legislator and not blame a vague "American government". All people who *don't* live in Michigan should direct comments to their respective state legislators insisting that our state should not enact similar.
If true that means they knew about the problem and tried to cover it up
From the first intro to business class as an undergrad to MBA classes, students are reminded constantly of the Ford Pinto fiasco and how to save a few bucks on a rupture proof gas tank bladder the company was sued for many times over what it would have cost to fix the things. This is a question of a $500 vs $50 part in a plane that costs a couple hundred million. I would be quite amazed that any company in the modern litigious world would forge a signature to get a part as critical to safety as this one passed when knowing that the part was sketchy. If an A380 ever crashes due to this problem after this guy was so harshly treated for suggesting there might be a problem then not only will the company involved be sued into oblivion but also the entire management team for all of their family's personal assets for the next millenia.
Repeat after me: Correlation does not imply causation
You say that as though events that are correlated are never one caused by the other. By fighting small crimes in NYC during the 90's, the crime rate at *all* levels went down. It is perfectly reasonable to suggest that planting the seed of thought that it's OK to steal music online leads to justifying (and then doing) other forms of theft and criminal activity.
I needed to charge a video camera battery at a logging protest
I'm sure the tress you were protecting were grateful for the sacrifice of the trees and other natural resources used to produce the video camera, battery, and their respective manuals.
even some of the more minor systems implemented in C++ are far more complex than anything that was written in pure assembly
The point is that people who back when wrote only in assembly understood there were registers in the CPU and how they interacted with the rest of the system. A modern graduate who knows how to program in C++ or Java may have taken an intro course that mentioned registers but has long since forgotten even taking the class. The original article isn't about complexity at any particular level. It's about understanding the underlying computer hardware.
Only in a world where two people can have identical IQs, not in the real world where everyone is different
What the heck??? IQ is measured on an integer scale! Think about what you've written!
If I *own* something, then I can do whatever I want with it
I bet you own a pre-recorded VHS tape or DVD but if you sell copies of it on eBay then the copyright people will object. You also might own a meat cleaver but if you hack up the neighbors then the cops will come looking.
Never make absolutist statements. They always fall apart under some circumstances or another.
Hah hah!
lives so deep that it can't survive without really high pressure
Without lungs to collapse is the pressure really an issue? I thought the only thing from a fish's point of view (besides the light level) that changes with pressure was the viscosity.
doesn't leave a whole lot of room for batteries
The battery isn't inside the thing; it's the back of it. Look at the closeup pics of the side angle view on the OQO site. See the line up and down along the back? That's the seam for the battery module.
Not a full keyboard?? Are we looking at the same picture, here?
Apparently not since the OQO website spec sheet specifically states:
Thumb keyboard with mouse buttons and TrackStik
So yes, one needs at least one of those roll up keyboards to do any serious amount of typing.
during McCarthy era, the government felt that certain people posed a credible threat to the political system and acted upon it
No, Joe McCarthy was not just concerned about people against the political system. His concern was that government employees, mainly in the State Department and the FBI, were paid agents of the Soviet Union activly spying and working against the USA's interests. Turns out he was right according to the Verona files.
This is COMPLETELY different from China's censorship of news and imprisonment of its own citizens who dare to complain. The communist party is not really worried about foriegn spies. They're worried about the revolution to overthrow their currupt selves.
I'm sure most people in China value socioeconomic freedom over political freedom
Yeah, it's socioeconomic freedom for the party bosses. There's no such thing as "socioeconomic freedom" when private contracts are enforceable only by whichever party can out bribe / bully the police and judiciary.
So running parallel to the line of engagement will put the thing into reset mode?
since when are super hero's considered 'sci fi'?
You're kidding, right? Which part of Kal-el's parents sending him to Earth on a spaceship and growing up to fight Lex Luthor's legions of James Bond-esque gadgets isn't Sci-fi? And Batman's gadgets versus the Joker's gadgets? The only one I'd argue is Wonder Woman unless you want to count the CIA's talking supercomputer made from Christmas lights as Sci-fi.
Unless they're available for anyone to buy, I wouldn't call the Nano-itx an actually shipping product
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Here's at least one: http://www.mp3car.com/store/product_info.php?prod
Just google for "Epia N"
Have you seen one of these on the market? Since not, then obviously, everyone who tries to make them gets disappeared by "them"!
It's all going to try and assassinate inventors of fuel-efficient vehicles
Those who modded this "funny" need to look at what happens to everyone who tries to get a motionless electric generator to market.
Hawkins quickly nixed the idea, reasoning that curves never saved space
If the thing was circular then it would have the *most* interior space per unit of side material. But a round PDA would be kinda funky to hold and operate...
you don't have a system admin or professional technician
This, and the article says it's being sold direct to students. I went back to school for another degree last year and the specs for the required notebook said Windows XP Pro or 2000 ONLY. The networking people won't let you connect to the school LAN with anything else. I suspect other schools have similar policies. Linux preinstalled systems should be the high end models for hard core technical users, not the nearly bare bones Celeron student models, IMNSHO.
Perhaps I'm just not thinking this through enough, but it seems to me that this seems a lot like price-gouging
You aren't thinking and you're too lazy to check into the facts. Rather than shoot your mouth off about price gouging you can read Intel's (a publicly traded company) financial statements online and find out exactly how much they spend on R&D.
On a related note, I recall a banner headline back in a 1989 Computer Shopper stating that 486 CPUs had fallen below $1,000 each when bought in OEM lots of 1,000 units. The article went on to reveal that Intel's budget for developing the 486 had set them back a cool $1B. So when modern chips debut in sub $1,000 prices, be happy. And realise that serious money goes into their development.
I disagree. I think Linear A is a better choice. Since it's never been translated then a grammar checker can simply be a random number generator that announces the offending text is incorrect, say, 10% of the time.
Hah! Thanks for the laugh! Just in case anyone who doesn't know better thinks you're serious: What are called 1 and 0 for simplicity are really "high" and "low" where both are a range of accepted values. Writing a low over where a high used to be results in a slightly higher low than a low that was never high or even one that was high after three low writes.
or just destroy the item in question
Nooo!!!
I worked as the technology re-use manager at a nonprofit organization whose mission was to get donated goodies, including computers (my responsibility), to small local charitable organizations. Our warehouse had pallet upon pallet of donated computers whose hard drives were removed as part of corporate donors' policies regarding data safety. Did we get those computers to community centers, adult education programs, inner city kids, etc? Heck no, we had to send them to the metal recycler for 2 cents per pound. Sure, per-storage unit hard drives are cheap but to get enough for a couple of hundred computers is a major expense. And yes, we applied to Maxtor, Seagate, IBM, HP and a couple of others to try to get them to donate hard drives but no dice.
The late-middle aged lady who wants to type and print the church newsletter has ABSOLUTELY no use for a computer without a hard drive and even less of an idea how to install one even if she did have budget to get one. Get a commercially available eraser program; there are plenty of titles and methods. Said church lady has NO IDEA how to extract prior data from a drive that was just plain formatted and a fresh Windows installation put on.
Reporters who have never touched a rifle report on the military, reporters who grew up in the city report on farming, reporters who never broke a sweat at heavy labor report on construction projects...
Actually, this is a lot like public primary education where teachers without specialties in any field teach specific specialty classes.
pretend to know what they're doing so that they don't get taken advantage of. Come to think of it, this also happens at places like Best Buy when it comes to computers.
Funny, I always get the impression the BB sales staff is pretending they know what they are doing so that I won't take advantage of them.