To be fair, Jobs has been about total vertical control of the iPad, iPhone, and iPod. Via iTunes.
Mac OS X has so far not been hurt by Jobs, as far as I can tell. Apple still seems to sell a general purpose computer, easy for anyone to develop for.
Even if (when?) Apple brings an app store to OS X, I bet they won't make that the ONLY way to publish. It will just exists alongside the current Mac software ecosystem. How can they lock down a platform that is already open, a platform with scripting languages and even compilers already built in to it? Even Steve wouldn't try that.
I think.
If I am wrong, I will be standing next to everyone else with the pitchforks and rocket launchers. Maybe a trebuchet loaded with the rotting heads of Apple executives, too.
Until that time, I don't care what Apple does with the rest of their iStuff.
The War on Drugs has worked out remarkably well so far, I think we can all agree. I am sure that aggressive steps to locate and prosecute copyright infringement will have the same amount of success and public support.
Or, not.
Put together enough "War On X" programs and eventually, it's just "War on You."
Sometimes, it's fun to allow one category of proper nouns into the game... car companies or something like that. But allowing all proper nouns as a new default setting?
If we insist on keeping a legal system that is so easy to abuse, then we should provide legal defense for the accused just as we do in criminal trials.
I shudder at the idea of a reform that starts paying for more lawyers, with taxpayer funds, but it may be the lesser evil. A baseless civil case can wreck your life. Why should you not be entitled to a defense?
I'd rather see the system reformed so that abuses are less possible, but that seems like an impossible dream.
If the agency wanted to take equivalent pictures, I am sure someone there could figure out how to do it with less than millions of dollars and a rocket.
The new slightly smaller Sony reader is only $200. While that isn't so cheap that forgetting it on the bus would be painless, it's not ridiculously expensive either.
I had a similar problem a long time ago. One of the 3 partners running the joint was always poking around with file sharing, slowing the single expensive desktop publishing workstation down to a crawl. The perpetrator was the company's Fragile Genius and the other partners told us tough, there was no way they would ask him to modify his behavior.
Eventually, the Fragile Genius began locking himself in his office. There was one window that looked out into a common area, and he spray-painted it black. We believe it was about at this time he started smoking crack in his office.
He also had a kitten, which he rescued from the streets and then began to poison by feeding it nothing but raw hot dogs.
You think it's hard to stop the owner's son from doing anything wrong? Be glad it isn't the owner himself.
But honestly it was not the crack smoking that got the other partners to straighten this guy out. It was his cat peeing on their chairs.
Therefore, my advice is to give the boss's son a kitten and a pack of hot dogs, and maybe some black spray paint. If you know a crack dealer, an introduction may be fruitful.
We'd need a lot of nitrogen too, or some other inert gas. A pure oxygen atmosphere, presumably even at low pressure, is unhealthy and dangerous in the long run. It's hard on the body, and there's the fire hazard. So if we make oxygen from water on the moon, what will we dilute it with?
I might use Buzz, Facebook, etc. if it was easier to deal with unwanted contacts. No, Weird Guy From Work, I do not want to friend you... and rather than have that conversation over and over, I just don't use those services.
But if I could add just REAL friends, and be 100% invisible to everyone else... that would be great. If I have not explicitly invited you into my inner circle, you shouldn't even see that I am a user of the site, if I don't want you to.
Sweet digs... and frequent Santorini's gyros for lunch, you lucky bastid!
(I've been wanting to get a job at billg's new "think tank" business that is supposed to be there. Post a reply if you happen to see him parking someday, so I can go put a resume on his windshield.)
I'm glad you didn't get modded down, it's worth discussing.
My experience is a little different. I used to know many Taiwanese and on the few occasions when this sort of thing came up, I got the impression that they had some real investment in the USA.
I knew a Taiwanese shop keeper that was open 365 days a year. He once told me, "On American holidays, I am Chinese. On Chinese holidays, I am American." He seemed to genuinely love his new country and took citizenship seriously.
It just depends on the specific people and how the culture of the area shaped up, I guess.
I think that some categories of tritium-powered light sources may not be legal to manufacture in the US, though they seem to be legal to import, sell, and own. Why can I buy a tritium gunsight or exit sign, but those keychains and similar products are so rare?
If items like the keychains are not legal then the ban isn't enforced. DX ships them here, where they have stopped shipping lasers > 5mW to the US. United Nuclear sells them, as posted, and I've never heard of a private sale shipment getting confiscated by US Customs in the forums where people talk about this stuff.
(Anyone who wants some of these things, check candlepower forums. A couple of guys there do direct sales and it costs a lot less than what United Nuclear charges.)
I guess you must live in the US, where cars are mostly very technologically backward compared to Europe...
There was Top Gear where Clarkson reviewed a Ford pickup, and he said it felt like the frame was "welded together from old shovels."
(There were also a lot of jokes about how Americans were likely to be attacked by bears whenever venturing outdoors. I LOLd.)
I really don't understand the American car market. OK, we like our big SUVs here, and as soon as gas prices drop a dime/gallon sales of huge cars pick right up again. But surely there are enough people who would want zippy yet fuel efficient cars that it would be worth an auto maker's effort to sell some here?
Surely, by now the diesel stigma has died off enough for more diesel options to be provided to us? Are young car buyers still afraid of the 1970s diesel image, which they weren't even alive to observe?
Are the auto makers simply lumbering forward on inertia... or are there actual fiscal or regulatory reasons for not giving us the tasty options we see overseas?
The reason for this is that here in the US, bikes are somewhat a style thing. If you are doing road, you have to have the $7000 carbon fiber frame...
Wow, it sounds like you know a lot of jerks.
I work in a high-tech office and several people commute on bikes. From what I have seen of the hardware it's about 2 beaters to one fancy model, and the fancy ones ain't carbon fiber fancy at that.
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To be fair, Jobs has been about total vertical control of the iPad, iPhone, and iPod. Via iTunes.
Mac OS X has so far not been hurt by Jobs, as far as I can tell. Apple still seems to sell a general purpose computer, easy for anyone to develop for.
Even if (when?) Apple brings an app store to OS X, I bet they won't make that the ONLY way to publish. It will just exists alongside the current Mac software ecosystem. How can they lock down a platform that is already open, a platform with scripting languages and even compilers already built in to it? Even Steve wouldn't try that.
I think.
If I am wrong, I will be standing next to everyone else with the pitchforks and rocket launchers. Maybe a trebuchet loaded with the rotting heads of Apple executives, too.
Until that time, I don't care what Apple does with the rest of their iStuff.
The War on Drugs has worked out remarkably well so far, I think we can all agree. I am sure that aggressive steps to locate and prosecute copyright infringement will have the same amount of success and public support.
Or, not.
Put together enough "War On X" programs and eventually, it's just "War on You."
Sometimes, it's fun to allow one category of proper nouns into the game... car companies or something like that. But allowing all proper nouns as a new default setting?
The horror... the horror!
Straight to jail!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_iygNwIr-k
If we insist on keeping a legal system that is so easy to abuse, then we should provide legal defense for the accused just as we do in criminal trials.
I shudder at the idea of a reform that starts paying for more lawyers, with taxpayer funds, but it may be the lesser evil. A baseless civil case can wreck your life. Why should you not be entitled to a defense?
I'd rather see the system reformed so that abuses are less possible, but that seems like an impossible dream.
Who was it? Someone from the cafeteria? It seems like NASA engineers should not be surprised by the idea of using balloons to loft instruments.
http://astrophysics.gsfc.nasa.gov/balloon/
If the agency wanted to take equivalent pictures, I am sure someone there could figure out how to do it with less than millions of dollars and a rocket.
The new slightly smaller Sony reader is only $200. While that isn't so cheap that forgetting it on the bus would be painless, it's not ridiculously expensive either.
IMHO, YMMV.
I have to go to scrum in a few minutes and your post made my day.
You are technically correct--which is the best kind of correct.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_iygNwIr-k
Game designers? We have a special jail for game designers.
I had a similar problem a long time ago. One of the 3 partners running the joint was always poking around with file sharing, slowing the single expensive desktop publishing workstation down to a crawl. The perpetrator was the company's Fragile Genius and the other partners told us tough, there was no way they would ask him to modify his behavior.
Eventually, the Fragile Genius began locking himself in his office. There was one window that looked out into a common area, and he spray-painted it black. We believe it was about at this time he started smoking crack in his office.
He also had a kitten, which he rescued from the streets and then began to poison by feeding it nothing but raw hot dogs.
You think it's hard to stop the owner's son from doing anything wrong? Be glad it isn't the owner himself.
But honestly it was not the crack smoking that got the other partners to straighten this guy out. It was his cat peeing on their chairs.
Therefore, my advice is to give the boss's son a kitten and a pack of hot dogs, and maybe some black spray paint. If you know a crack dealer, an introduction may be fruitful.
We'd need a lot of nitrogen too, or some other inert gas. A pure oxygen atmosphere, presumably even at low pressure, is unhealthy and dangerous in the long run. It's hard on the body, and there's the fire hazard. So if we make oxygen from water on the moon, what will we dilute it with?
I just make phone calls, because phone calls are cheap, and data plans and SMS cost more than they are worth to me.
Within my peer group, which includes other technology workers, this point of view is not the most common but it's not heretical either.
I might use Buzz, Facebook, etc. if it was easier to deal with unwanted contacts. No, Weird Guy From Work, I do not want to friend you... and rather than have that conversation over and over, I just don't use those services.
But if I could add just REAL friends, and be 100% invisible to everyone else... that would be great. If I have not explicitly invited you into my inner circle, you shouldn't even see that I am a user of the site, if I don't want you to.
Phobos flyby blog:
http://webservices.esa.int/blog/blog/7
Better than the linked article.
Sweet digs... and frequent Santorini's gyros for lunch, you lucky bastid!
(I've been wanting to get a job at billg's new "think tank" business that is supposed to be there. Post a reply if you happen to see him parking someday, so I can go put a resume on his windshield.)
Kirkland, represent!
I'm glad you didn't get modded down, it's worth discussing.
My experience is a little different. I used to know many Taiwanese and on the few occasions when this sort of thing came up, I got the impression that they had some real investment in the USA.
I knew a Taiwanese shop keeper that was open 365 days a year. He once told me, "On American holidays, I am Chinese. On Chinese holidays, I am American." He seemed to genuinely love his new country and took citizenship seriously.
It just depends on the specific people and how the culture of the area shaped up, I guess.
I think that some categories of tritium-powered light sources may not be legal to manufacture in the US, though they seem to be legal to import, sell, and own. Why can I buy a tritium gunsight or exit sign, but those keychains and similar products are so rare?
If items like the keychains are not legal then the ban isn't enforced. DX ships them here, where they have stopped shipping lasers > 5mW to the US. United Nuclear sells them, as posted, and I've never heard of a private sale shipment getting confiscated by US Customs in the forums where people talk about this stuff.
(Anyone who wants some of these things, check candlepower forums. A couple of guys there do direct sales and it costs a lot less than what United Nuclear charges.)
I guess you must live in the US, where cars are mostly very technologically backward compared to Europe...
There was Top Gear where Clarkson reviewed a Ford pickup, and he said it felt like the frame was "welded together from old shovels."
(There were also a lot of jokes about how Americans were likely to be attacked by bears whenever venturing outdoors. I LOLd.)
I really don't understand the American car market. OK, we like our big SUVs here, and as soon as gas prices drop a dime/gallon sales of huge cars pick right up again. But surely there are enough people who would want zippy yet fuel efficient cars that it would be worth an auto maker's effort to sell some here?
Surely, by now the diesel stigma has died off enough for more diesel options to be provided to us? Are young car buyers still afraid of the 1970s diesel image, which they weren't even alive to observe?
Are the auto makers simply lumbering forward on inertia... or are there actual fiscal or regulatory reasons for not giving us the tasty options we see overseas?
Like, autism is caused by controlled demolition?
The reason for this is that here in the US, bikes are somewhat a style thing. If you are doing road, you have to have the $7000 carbon fiber frame...
Wow, it sounds like you know a lot of jerks.
I work in a high-tech office and several people commute on bikes. From what I have seen of the hardware it's about 2 beaters to one fancy model, and the fancy ones ain't carbon fiber fancy at that.
You can bypass that test if you demonstrate a tolerance for Vegemite.
Ceiling Cat is watching your empire crumble?
I would never want the police to be encumbered with this.
However, I would like it if the police's lethal and less-lethal weapons had little cameras on them...