Right you are, but being able to kinetically charge my phone by bouncing it would also be cool. Excuse me while I head out to patent the "Happy Fun Ball" phone. It would require a Lithium battery of course.
WARNING: Do Not TAUNT The "Happy Fun Ball" Phone. If your "Happy Fun Ball" Phone begins to glow or grows warm, set it down immediately and move to a safe area.
Good point on driving, but I was thinking more about when the car is parked or broken down, when the battery may not be available to charge. I have one car that will charge while the key is out of the ignition, and one that will not, only while driving.
I really want a device that drops the functions that aren't directly tied to remote communication, and adds features that make remote communication easier.
OUT- Video Camera Ringtone Symphonies
IN- Detailed Call History w/ Search (ex: show me the number from the phone call I got on a thursday night last month after 11pm, not sure which week)
Intuitive Dial (ex: I call my wife from work, and I call my office from home, when I open the phone it should be ready to guess which call I want to make based upon the time and location)
Security- My phone is probably the ONLY place I want a biometric security device like a fingerprint scanner, and I want to be able to call the cell company and have them tell me the approximate place I left my phone (ie Corner of 9th and Main)
Energy- I know it's not going to recharge the thing instantly, but why not toss a small solar cell on the back and let me dribble charge my phone by setting it on the dashboard?
Perhaps you've got some talent that is vaguely interesting to me...
I don't owe you anything, but I choose to SUPPORT your expression by listening/reading/watching and sharing the news with others...
At some point in the process you are just pleased as hell that anybody cares at all...
Soon your art is broadcast over airwaves onto my property, into my car, on commercials between my kids cartoons, on my elevator and your excerpts are slipped into the pages between jumk mail that's dropped in my mailbox uninvited. You sell your services to advertisers/promoters who are trying to take my money. Your clothes line is produced by third world sweatshops and sells for 3X more than the generic brand. You are trying to sell me a perfume with your name on it (and some pimple cream too) and you have a commercial on the air urging me to imbibe addictive substances so I can get a "free" mp3. You sell pictures of your frigging baby to the news media.
Do I protect your financial interests when my friend asks to copy a song? Probably not...
Wait, you're not THAT artist? You're struggling, selling CDs at your show and living at home waiting for your big break? Ah, then, nevermind, because nobody is copying your damn CD!
ART is not some magic invisible soul cream. If you are selling your art, then you are selling your thoughts. Good luck to you on that, but don't cry about how people are stealing your thoughts. That's just crazy talk. Unless someone steals the plastic you bought and put your thoughts on, then they didn't steal anything from you. A law may say that its theft to listen/read/watch your creativity uninvited, but laws also once valued some people at a fraction of the value of others. Laws are just constructs of the general consensus, and that consensus is changing.
Perhaps you haven't considered that any military that wished to use the software could simply add a "signing statement" onto the license before use. I do that all the time now. Before I click OK, I fire off my exceptions to the license in an email to their tech support or webmaster email address (whichever I find first) with the provisions that I don't recognize as being valid and won't enforce. That, or I cross my fingers and hold my breath, so clicking ok doesn't count. Please, you all should really keep up to date with the latest in Constitutional advances!
Oh, but we are indeed talking about bullshit here. The law is bullshit. Enforcement of a bullshit law is bullshit. Indeed, enforcement of a non-bullshit law can also be bullshit, as can non-enforcement of a bullshit law. Just remember that there is not an inverse relationship between the validity of a law and its bullshit state. It is difficult to define bullshit, but easy to detect! This was indeed bullshit. Luckily, our justice system has many opportunities for bullshit detection, and in this case the DA served that function.
I believe the technical term would be "bullshit" charges, as in "Cops bring up bullshit charges and laws fairly often." I don't think any other word comes close to expressing the concept nearly as well.
And what makes you think those two actions are mutually exclusive?
I think RIAA/MPAA (Can we just call it RIMPAA for short?) and Walmart are plenty ambidextrous enough to fight over who gets our money and still continue to collect our money...
A company is worthles without it's employees. Select good people, pay them well and treat them fairly. Next question... How do you remove paranoid executives from positions of power and stop them from inflating operating costs through needless and morale busting authoritarian technology.
I have just one question, were these "children" in possession of a Herring? Ah yes, just as I thought. Indeed, plainly this caper was part of that infamous criminal cohort the Knights who 'til recently said "Ni", now commonly referred to as the Knights who say "Ekky-ekky-ekky-ekky-z'Bang, zoom-Boing, z'nourrrwringmm".
Bit pricey, but it might make an interesting excape device. My first thought was blasting off the roof of a burning skyrise (better than base jumping at least), but then a cooler picture coalesced of the the most interesting 5 minute end to a police pursuit ever.
"Well, Dan, apparently he had a jetpack in the back of the truck and NOW HE'S CHASING THE CHANNEL 9 NEWSCOPTER..."
I think they should have paid off the cereal people and called it the Mici (pronounced Mikey), as in Let's Buy a Mici, it plays anything! Just a thought, or some fraction thereof.
Fixing the computers of friends and family, I've had occassion to call in to Microsoft on licensing issues quite a few times. They've always been tremendously helpful, non-judgemental and ready to listen. It's not a perfect system, but it's fairly well designed to handle false-positives and take care of mistakes fairly. It does put them at a competitive disadvantage in that I'd rather buy a product that didn't have activation and authentication, but that's their call to make. I have a problem with our government subsidizing enforcement, but what a private company does with it's own product is fair game, as long as they let me know about it before I buy it.
There are elections coming up in a few months. Personally, wiretapping isn't my biggest concern, but if it was, then I'd be asking my congressman where he stands and voting against him if I didn't like the answer. I don't even research the challenger anymore. It's straight up or down on the incumbent. Either he's doing his job representing me, or he isn't. My biggest issue is pledging to spend at least as much money on improving life as we do on fighting Wars. If you want to spend $300 billion on Iraq, then fine, show me you're increasing spending $300 billion to combat AIDS, promote sustainable development or improve worldwide literacy.
I enjoy online poker myself, and thankfully I can stop myself from chasing my losses. Obviously, our government has no objection to people shedding their money futiley. There's always the stock market, casinos, racetracks or political contributions to fritter your money on. They (and I) do have an objection to funding the healthcare, retirement and burial benefits of the folks who can't resist clicking away every dime. As long as our society maintains the expectation that we will not abandon these weakest links (and their families), then we are going to have to make some trade-offs. It's not about the logic. It's about the results. I say we compromise and allow the IRS to operate online casinos. That's going to be a very regressive tax, but at least we'd get something positive in return for our losses, and the tax deadline would be a hell of a holiday.
The value of passion is in starting new companies and turning around troubled companies. That's why Jobs was a success building Apple, a failure when it was on top, and a success again upon his return in the darkest days of the company. That is also why I fully expect he will shoot himself, Apple and Disney in the foot eventually with some disastrous and passionate endeavor.
In prominent successful and stable firms, like GE, there are many valid arguments for AVOIDING the most passionate people.
Passion also has a dark side. Enron was a very successful company before their passion took them into industries they didn't understand and policies that defrauded their shareholders. I have no doubt Ken Lay et al were passionate about their work. That passion didn't only inspire their efforts though, it also tempted their greed and inflated their pride to dangerous levels as well.
If the success of a business is dependent upon the passion of the individual employees there is also a very real possibility that the loss of those employees, which should be planned for, will seriously harm the business. That makes for exciting financial news, but lousy investments.
How could you write that article without addressing the games issue? The lack of games is still the number one barrier to MACS taking more of the home pc market. I keep 2 machines at home. A mac for visitors, web browsing, video editing and some educational software and a PC to run the latest games. I'd ditch the PC in a second if I could. I'll probably keep my PC laptop, though.
Just this ashtray. And this paddle game, the ashtray and the paddle game and that's all I need. And this remote control. The ashtray, the paddle game, and the remote control, and that's all I need. And these matches. The ashtray, and these matches, and the remote control and the paddle ball. And this lamp. The ashtray, this paddle game and the remote control and the lamp and that's all I need.
You see centralization as the outcome of depletion of oil reservers? I'd say just the opposite is more likely. I moved from California to my 20 acres in Texas, and I'm on my way to becoming virtually self-sufficient. A windmill and an ethanol plant away from it, actually. The lack of gasoline wouldn't pull me back to the cities. Not saying I would enjoy having to grow cotton for clothes and slaughtering my own steaks, but it would be possible and would sure beat waiting for the city to allocate my ration of food and water. Any idea how much resources it takes to build, maintain and supply a high-rise? I don't have specifics, but my truthy estimate is that it's tons more than a telecommuting de-centralized infrastructure with local food production and locally generated renewable energy. Obviously, everyone can't afford to buy 20 acres, a tractor, a windmill and a still, but enough people can swing it to keep the heartland vibrant and survive a gas crunch.
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Getting IIS to START running on Linux would be nothing compared to being able to STOP it from running in Windows!
Right you are, but being able to kinetically charge my phone by bouncing it would also be cool. Excuse me while I head out to patent the "Happy Fun Ball" phone. It would require a Lithium battery of course.
WARNING: Do Not TAUNT The "Happy Fun Ball" Phone. If your "Happy Fun Ball" Phone begins to glow or grows warm, set it down immediately and move to a safe area.
Good point on driving, but I was thinking more about when the car is parked or broken down, when the battery may not be available to charge. I have one car that will charge while the key is out of the ignition, and one that will not, only while driving.
I really want a device that drops the functions that aren't directly tied to remote communication, and adds features that make remote communication easier.
OUT-
Video
Camera
Ringtone Symphonies
IN-
Detailed Call History w/ Search
(ex: show me the number from the phone call I got on a thursday night last month after 11pm, not sure which week)
Intuitive Dial
(ex: I call my wife from work, and I call my office from home, when I open the phone it should be ready to guess which call I want to make based upon the time and location)
Security-
My phone is probably the ONLY place I want a biometric security device like a fingerprint scanner, and I want to be able to call the cell company and have them tell me the approximate place I left my phone (ie Corner of 9th and Main)
Energy-
I know it's not going to recharge the thing instantly, but why not toss a small solar cell on the back and let me dribble charge my phone by setting it on the dashboard?
Planette it is!
Free Energy from warm beer. Brilliant!
http://www.guinness.com/us_en/ads/
Let me stake out a consumer viewpoint...
Perhaps you've got some talent that is vaguely interesting to me...
I don't owe you anything, but I choose to SUPPORT your expression by listening/reading/watching and sharing the news with others...
At some point in the process you are just pleased as hell that anybody cares at all...
Soon your art is broadcast over airwaves onto my property, into my car, on commercials between my kids cartoons, on my elevator and your excerpts are slipped into the pages between jumk mail that's dropped in my mailbox uninvited. You sell your services to advertisers/promoters who are trying to take my money. Your clothes line is produced by third world sweatshops and sells for 3X more than the generic brand. You are trying to sell me a perfume with your name on it (and some pimple cream too) and you have a commercial on the air urging me to imbibe addictive substances so I can get a "free" mp3. You sell pictures of your frigging baby to the news media.
Do I protect your financial interests when my friend asks to copy a song? Probably not...
Wait, you're not THAT artist? You're struggling, selling CDs at your show and living at home waiting for your big break? Ah, then, nevermind, because nobody is copying your damn CD!
ART is not some magic invisible soul cream. If you are selling your art, then you are selling your thoughts. Good luck to you on that, but don't cry about how people are stealing your thoughts. That's just crazy talk. Unless someone steals the plastic you bought and put your thoughts on, then they didn't steal anything from you. A law may say that its theft to listen/read/watch your creativity uninvited, but laws also once valued some people at a fraction of the value of others. Laws are just constructs of the general consensus, and that consensus is changing.
Perhaps you haven't considered that any military that wished to use the software could simply add a "signing statement" onto the license before use. I do that all the time now. Before I click OK, I fire off my exceptions to the license in an email to their tech support or webmaster email address (whichever I find first) with the provisions that I don't recognize as being valid and won't enforce. That, or I cross my fingers and hold my breath, so clicking ok doesn't count. Please, you all should really keep up to date with the latest in Constitutional advances!
Oh, but we are indeed talking about bullshit here. The law is bullshit. Enforcement of a bullshit law is bullshit. Indeed, enforcement of a non-bullshit law can also be bullshit, as can non-enforcement of a bullshit law. Just remember that there is not an inverse relationship between the validity of a law and its bullshit state. It is difficult to define bullshit, but easy to detect! This was indeed bullshit. Luckily, our justice system has many opportunities for bullshit detection, and in this case the DA served that function.
I believe the technical term would be "bullshit" charges, as in "Cops bring up bullshit charges and laws fairly often." I don't think any other word comes close to expressing the concept nearly as well.
And what makes you think those two actions are mutually exclusive?
I think RIAA/MPAA (Can we just call it RIMPAA for short?) and Walmart are plenty ambidextrous enough to fight over who gets our money and still continue to collect our money...
A company is worthles without it's employees. Select good people, pay them well and treat them fairly. Next question... How do you remove paranoid executives from positions of power and stop them from inflating operating costs through needless and morale busting authoritarian technology.
A shrubbery, you say?
I have just one question, were these "children" in possession of a Herring? Ah yes, just as I thought. Indeed, plainly this caper was part of that infamous criminal cohort the Knights who 'til recently said "Ni", now commonly referred to as the Knights who say "Ekky-ekky-ekky-ekky-z'Bang, zoom-Boing, z'nourrrwringmm".
http://lorien.sdsu.edu/~carroll/shrub.html
Bit pricey, but it might make an interesting excape device. My first thought was blasting off the roof of a burning skyrise (better than base jumping at least), but then a cooler picture coalesced of the the most interesting 5 minute end to a police pursuit ever.
"Well, Dan, apparently he had a jetpack in the back of the truck and NOW HE'S CHASING THE CHANNEL 9 NEWSCOPTER..."
Designed to keep out the riff-raff who haven't already been distracted. Move along, these aren't the votes you're looking for...
In Space, no one can see your midriff baring padded leather bustier armor.
I think they should have paid off the cereal people and called it the Mici (pronounced Mikey), as in Let's Buy a Mici, it plays anything! Just a thought, or some fraction thereof.
Fixing the computers of friends and family, I've had occassion to call in to Microsoft on licensing issues quite a few times. They've always been tremendously helpful, non-judgemental and ready to listen. It's not a perfect system, but it's fairly well designed to handle false-positives and take care of mistakes fairly. It does put them at a competitive disadvantage in that I'd rather buy a product that didn't have activation and authentication, but that's their call to make. I have a problem with our government subsidizing enforcement, but what a private company does with it's own product is fair game, as long as they let me know about it before I buy it.
There are elections coming up in a few months. Personally, wiretapping isn't my biggest concern, but if it was, then I'd be asking my congressman where he stands and voting against him if I didn't like the answer. I don't even research the challenger anymore. It's straight up or down on the incumbent. Either he's doing his job representing me, or he isn't. My biggest issue is pledging to spend at least as much money on improving life as we do on fighting Wars. If you want to spend $300 billion on Iraq, then fine, show me you're increasing spending $300 billion to combat AIDS, promote sustainable development or improve worldwide literacy.
I enjoy online poker myself, and thankfully I can stop myself from chasing my losses. Obviously, our government has no objection to people shedding their money futiley. There's always the stock market, casinos, racetracks or political contributions to fritter your money on. They (and I) do have an objection to funding the healthcare, retirement and burial benefits of the folks who can't resist clicking away every dime. As long as our society maintains the expectation that we will not abandon these weakest links (and their families), then we are going to have to make some trade-offs. It's not about the logic. It's about the results. I say we compromise and allow the IRS to operate online casinos. That's going to be a very regressive tax, but at least we'd get something positive in return for our losses, and the tax deadline would be a hell of a holiday.
When was the last time Lysol made it into the server room? No, the real question is how this baby handles Mt. Dew spills...
The value of passion is in starting new companies and turning around troubled companies. That's why Jobs was a success building Apple, a failure when it was on top, and a success again upon his return in the darkest days of the company. That is also why I fully expect he will shoot himself, Apple and Disney in the foot eventually with some disastrous and passionate endeavor.
In prominent successful and stable firms, like GE, there are many valid arguments for AVOIDING the most passionate people.
Passion also has a dark side. Enron was a very successful company before their passion took them into industries they didn't understand and policies that defrauded their shareholders. I have no doubt Ken Lay et al were passionate about their work. That passion didn't only inspire their efforts though, it also tempted their greed and inflated their pride to dangerous levels as well.
If the success of a business is dependent upon the passion of the individual employees there is also a very real possibility that the loss of those employees, which should be planned for, will seriously harm the business. That makes for exciting financial news, but lousy investments.
How could you write that article without addressing the games issue? The lack of games is still the number one barrier to MACS taking more of the home pc market. I keep 2 machines at home. A mac for visitors, web browsing, video editing and some educational software and a PC to run the latest games. I'd ditch the PC in a second if I could. I'll probably keep my PC laptop, though.
Just this ashtray. And this paddle game, the ashtray and the paddle game and that's all I need. And this remote control. The ashtray, the paddle game, and the remote control, and that's all I need. And these matches. The ashtray, and these matches, and the remote control and the paddle ball. And this lamp. The ashtray, this paddle game and the remote control and the lamp and that's all I need.
You see centralization as the outcome of depletion of oil reservers? I'd say just the opposite is more likely. I moved from California to my 20 acres in Texas, and I'm on my way to becoming virtually self-sufficient. A windmill and an ethanol plant away from it, actually. The lack of gasoline wouldn't pull me back to the cities. Not saying I would enjoy having to grow cotton for clothes and slaughtering my own steaks, but it would be possible and would sure beat waiting for the city to allocate my ration of food and water. Any idea how much resources it takes to build, maintain and supply a high-rise? I don't have specifics, but my truthy estimate is that it's tons more than a telecommuting de-centralized infrastructure with local food production and locally generated renewable energy. Obviously, everyone can't afford to buy 20 acres, a tractor, a windmill and a still, but enough people can swing it to keep the heartland vibrant and survive a gas crunch.