Aside from the mouse, and icons, Apple really got very little from Xerox. The Xerox UI didn't have user positioned or sized windows. It didn't have the concepts of double clicking, or dragging. It didn't have the contextual menu bar that Apple added to the top of the screen, and instead relied on static buttons on the keyboard for pre-defined options. It used different desktop metaphors....
Xerox planted the seeds for the Desktop idea, but Apple and to an extent Microsoft, really fleshed out the idea and made it practical.
The reality is that oil and fuel would have gone up some time. Of course we can debate till the cows come home on when that would have been, but that would have come. And you would have said the same thing regarding the price of oil.
The point went so far over your head you didn't even hear it going by.
"Some time". Wouldn't it be nice if that time was when we were prepared for it. And don't try that bullshit of "we'll only get prepared for it when the cost goes up too high". It's bullshit because the same people who are happy as pigs in shit that we're running out of oil now are the same people that stop us from embracing the only currently viable options.
They're rather have a couple winters of fixed income elderly families freezing to death to force us to live how they think we should live than let us actually solve the problems.
If the Republicans cut off debate on the Democrats and went home for vacation, I can guarantee you that this story would have been about the Republicans censoring the Democrats.
Democrats are not by any means immune from incompetence or malfeasance. But theirs is usually sustainable. An inefficient government that is better than either no government or a perfectly efficient government abusing us. Republicans are the ones that misgovern as a rule, not the exception.
Pull the wool back....
They're both *exactly* as bad. Sustainable? You mean like farm subsidies and social security? At least most of the stuff the Republicans have done is un-doable. (The crap our current so-called Republican president has pushed through excepted)
The fact that the bill exists is evidence enough that they were wrong about the purchase of the last round of electronic voting machines. The exemption from replacement for those machines is corrupt. Not because it was added in due to campaign contributions; after all, those companies would probably love to sell the government brand new machines all over again. It's corrupt because it is a blatant act to avoid responsibility for their past (expensive) mistake.
Of course, the article says the problem exists even if you don't have the encryption enabled.... However it looks like what happens in that case is the same as what's always happened when a windows update contains a MBR change: It overwrites your third party bootloader. (Or in this latest case, forces you to do it yourself manually).
I'm failing to see why this is a big deal. Software is in place to check for a piece of third party code intercepting your encryption key... It successfully detects GRUB as such software, and stops. So what?
I hate to break it to you, but it's the other way around. The warez kiddies are making it easy for the homebrew hackers.
I did a lot of hacking on the N64 back before I was old enough to be tried as an adult. I know a lot of what I did was used for homebrew, but the reason I wrote it was 'cause I couldn't afford the games, and I wanted to download them instead. Most of the people doing the heavy work to get around the N64 security back then were the pirates, and the homebrew coders came along for the ride.
As an aside, I was once presented with a sheet of paper during a job interview that was a printout of some of the code I wrote for N64 hacking, and was asked "what does that do". Surprisingly, they still offered me the job...
"Is this truly a case of fighting piracy, or is it also an attempt to stop homebrew from stealing the market?"
It's obviously the former. Nintendo doesn't care about your use of this device. You paid for your games. They're trying to stop the people who *don't* pay for their games. People like you are a small enough portion of the market that they really don't care if you can't media-shift anymore.
I use things like this for the same reason (I don't have one yet for my DS, but I had a GBA equivalent, and I use virtual CD drives on my PC for games there). When you're reading about these things online, it is clear that the majority of the people are using these devices and software for piracy, even if there are the people who are using them for convenience out ther.
I'm not defending his positions. I'm picking on the original poster, and the hundreds of other people like him that jump on the guy for using the wrong term, instead of presenting an argument of substance.
I think he did understand what he was talking about in context. The context is that he was told that corporate users weren't paying to use the network, and net-neutrality meant they never would have to pay. Nobody bothered to explain to him that corporate users *do* pay to connect to the internet just like all the rest of us. He seems to have a rudimentary grasp of how the technology works sufficiently to make that simple type of policy decision. He's mostly lacking in understanding of how the business of the internet works.
Lobbiests have this much influence over our senators, but we'll focus on the fact that he called internet connections "tubes" instead of a "pipe". What does that solve?
Which is why Macs have such insane resale values compared to machines from other manufacturers, right?
I think that out of the past 100 Apple notebooks you've seen, there's been a wide variety of models from the last 7 years or so, and you just couldn't tell the difference because they haven't changed the external design in a significant way for that long.
Yeah! He's a Senator, not grandpa! Best to make fun of him for using the wrong words, and not talking like the cool kids... Wouldn't want to complicate the argument by taking him to task about facts or positions.... He said tubes!!!!eleven!!
I have no particular fondness for Sen. Stevens, but I hope everybody who made fun of him for calling the internet a series of tubes finds themselves in the same position when they're older.
The guy hears the younger folks calling it a "pipe", he's got industry insiders telling him confusing, and misleading things about how the system works, and he screws up the analogy when he's talking about it later on. Big deal. Some day when you're not so young, you're going to screw up the jargon when you're talking about something new too.
In the meantime, go ahead. Make fun of the old guy who wanted to guarantee individual net access just because he didn't know enough of the lingo to properly get his point across. (Yes, I realize that he came to the wrong conclusion policy wise to accomplish what he was saying he wanted to accomplish)
I know I'm going to come off as a Mac fanboy, but can you say anything nice about Apple without that accusation... Oh well... I've made peace with it.
What you're saying sounds exactly like what people said when the sub $500 PC market was coming into existence, and right before Apple released the first Mac Mini.
I don't expect that Apple will release something that resembles the current crop of mini-notebooks, but I wouldn't be surprised if they came out with something in the $400-500 price range that was meant to compete and one-up these low-end, low-cost laptops.
Oh, and one more thing.... Asus is *not* small. They sell as many branded laptops as Apple, and that's not counting the big name laptops that are made by Asus and re-branded.
In 1998, the machine I ran was 133Mhz (and probably did less per cycle than this thing), and had a roomy 32MB of memory. It was able to play video downloaded off the internet (though it did need a 2D video accelerator for the purpose), surf the web (no flash), play 3D first-person shooter video games, compile the linux kernel in under an hour, run Applix to edit Word documents...
The hardware drivers didn't run in the service console. They ran under the compatibility layer the VMware kernel used to be compatible with linux drivers.
In my experience, though, it was hit or miss whether any particular linux driver would work.
I'm 100% certain the logic went something like this:
We can buy or license theirs and get some of the money, or we can shut them down and make our own and get all of the money.
It didn't even occur to them for a second that people wouldn't play theirs 'cause it was crappier. I'm sure they think theirs is the "original and best".
It did not contain asbestos. However unless it is impossible to remove all the asbestos without demolition, it is almost never cheaper to rebuild than to do an asbestos abatement. Why? Because you have to remove the asbestos before you tear the building down anyway.
Asbestos can be more of a PR problem, though, because you then have to convince all those parents that the building is really safe after the cleanup.
Anyway.... I wasn't kidding about the federal grant and the "if we don't do it now.." comment. That is *exactly* the rationale that was used at the town meeting.
I think you need to re-read my post. I specifically wanted *less* government.
When a parent sends their child for public education, they are accepting (and rightfully so) that the supposedly well trained professionals in the local school know how to educate their children better than they do. The fact of the matter is that most parents are *not* trained educators, and every one of our public school teachers *is*. The problem we have in this country is that when people say "who are you to tell a parent..." nobody stands up. Most parents *aren't* expert educators, and *don't* know what's best for their kids when it comes to education. Hell, a lot of parents aren't even very good parents even though they think they are. (Actually, some of the best parents I know don't think they're that great of parents, and most of the people I know who think they're fantastic parents are terrible, raising future juvenile delinquents.)
Bureaucrats are already deciding how to educate our children. All I said was that we shouldn't pay for that bureaucracy more times than we have to, and that we should insulate the system from activist nut-job parents.
My town just replaced three 1960s/1970s school buildings with brand new ones.
What's wrong with a 50 year old building? Put some new windows in it, maybe add some insulation and new HVAC... I'm not saying not to improve the facility. Do you know how ridiculously easy it is to add modern data and electrics to a building with block walls and drop ceilings?
I live in a small town with at least as many cows as people, and we've spent $11 million on new school buildings we didn't need over the last 10 years. Why? Because there was federal grant money available, and if we "didn't act now, we'd lose it". So I know there are tons of other towns in the same situation.
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Aside from the mouse, and icons, Apple really got very little from Xerox. The Xerox UI didn't have user positioned or sized windows. It didn't have the concepts of double clicking, or dragging. It didn't have the contextual menu bar that Apple added to the top of the screen, and instead relied on static buttons on the keyboard for pre-defined options. It used different desktop metaphors....
Xerox planted the seeds for the Desktop idea, but Apple and to an extent Microsoft, really fleshed out the idea and made it practical.
The reality is that oil and fuel would have gone up some time. Of course we can debate till the cows come home on when that would have been, but that would have come. And you would have said the same thing regarding the price of oil.
The point went so far over your head you didn't even hear it going by.
"Some time". Wouldn't it be nice if that time was when we were prepared for it. And don't try that bullshit of "we'll only get prepared for it when the cost goes up too high". It's bullshit because the same people who are happy as pigs in shit that we're running out of oil now are the same people that stop us from embracing the only currently viable options.
They're rather have a couple winters of fixed income elderly families freezing to death to force us to live how they think we should live than let us actually solve the problems.
If the Republicans cut off debate on the Democrats and went home for vacation, I can guarantee you that this story would have been about the Republicans censoring the Democrats.
Democrats are not by any means immune from incompetence or malfeasance. But theirs is usually sustainable. An inefficient government that is better than either no government or a perfectly efficient government abusing us. Republicans are the ones that misgovern as a rule, not the exception.
Pull the wool back....
They're both *exactly* as bad. Sustainable? You mean like farm subsidies and social security? At least most of the stuff the Republicans have done is un-doable. (The crap our current so-called Republican president has pushed through excepted)
The fact that the bill exists is evidence enough that they were wrong about the purchase of the last round of electronic voting machines. The exemption from replacement for those machines is corrupt. Not because it was added in due to campaign contributions; after all, those companies would probably love to sell the government brand new machines all over again. It's corrupt because it is a blatant act to avoid responsibility for their past (expensive) mistake.
Of course, the article says the problem exists even if you don't have the encryption enabled.... However it looks like what happens in that case is the same as what's always happened when a windows update contains a MBR change: It overwrites your third party bootloader. (Or in this latest case, forces you to do it yourself manually).
I'm failing to see why this is a big deal. Software is in place to check for a piece of third party code intercepting your encryption key... It successfully detects GRUB as such software, and stops. So what?
What happens on systems without a TPM?
You'll need it to render the silverlight apps.
Proof of the parent's point.
You can still buy Loom, BTW.
I hate to break it to you, but it's the other way around. The warez kiddies are making it easy for the homebrew hackers.
I did a lot of hacking on the N64 back before I was old enough to be tried as an adult. I know a lot of what I did was used for homebrew, but the reason I wrote it was 'cause I couldn't afford the games, and I wanted to download them instead. Most of the people doing the heavy work to get around the N64 security back then were the pirates, and the homebrew coders came along for the ride.
As an aside, I was once presented with a sheet of paper during a job interview that was a printout of some of the code I wrote for N64 hacking, and was asked "what does that do". Surprisingly, they still offered me the job...
The question, though, was:
It's obviously the former. Nintendo doesn't care about your use of this device. You paid for your games. They're trying to stop the people who *don't* pay for their games. People like you are a small enough portion of the market that they really don't care if you can't media-shift anymore.
I use things like this for the same reason (I don't have one yet for my DS, but I had a GBA equivalent, and I use virtual CD drives on my PC for games there). When you're reading about these things online, it is clear that the majority of the people are using these devices and software for piracy, even if there are the people who are using them for convenience out ther.
One more for the pile of people that missed the point.
If you have a problem with his actions, talk about his actions. Don't make fun of him for talking funny.
Believe me. You'll have better success persuading people to your position if your position is actually stated in the criticism.
I'm not defending his positions. I'm picking on the original poster, and the hundreds of other people like him that jump on the guy for using the wrong term, instead of presenting an argument of substance.
I think he did understand what he was talking about in context. The context is that he was told that corporate users weren't paying to use the network, and net-neutrality meant they never would have to pay. Nobody bothered to explain to him that corporate users *do* pay to connect to the internet just like all the rest of us. He seems to have a rudimentary grasp of how the technology works sufficiently to make that simple type of policy decision. He's mostly lacking in understanding of how the business of the internet works.
Lobbiests have this much influence over our senators, but we'll focus on the fact that he called internet connections "tubes" instead of a "pipe". What does that solve?
Which is why Macs have such insane resale values compared to machines from other manufacturers, right?
I think that out of the past 100 Apple notebooks you've seen, there's been a wide variety of models from the last 7 years or so, and you just couldn't tell the difference because they haven't changed the external design in a significant way for that long.
Yeah! He's a Senator, not grandpa! Best to make fun of him for using the wrong words, and not talking like the cool kids... Wouldn't want to complicate the argument by taking him to task about facts or positions.... He said tubes!!!!eleven!!
Get the point yet?
I have no particular fondness for Sen. Stevens, but I hope everybody who made fun of him for calling the internet a series of tubes finds themselves in the same position when they're older.
The guy hears the younger folks calling it a "pipe", he's got industry insiders telling him confusing, and misleading things about how the system works, and he screws up the analogy when he's talking about it later on. Big deal. Some day when you're not so young, you're going to screw up the jargon when you're talking about something new too.
In the meantime, go ahead. Make fun of the old guy who wanted to guarantee individual net access just because he didn't know enough of the lingo to properly get his point across. (Yes, I realize that he came to the wrong conclusion policy wise to accomplish what he was saying he wanted to accomplish)
I know I'm going to come off as a Mac fanboy, but can you say anything nice about Apple without that accusation... Oh well... I've made peace with it.
What you're saying sounds exactly like what people said when the sub $500 PC market was coming into existence, and right before Apple released the first Mac Mini.
I don't expect that Apple will release something that resembles the current crop of mini-notebooks, but I wouldn't be surprised if they came out with something in the $400-500 price range that was meant to compete and one-up these low-end, low-cost laptops.
Oh, and one more thing.... Asus is *not* small. They sell as many branded laptops as Apple, and that's not counting the big name laptops that are made by Asus and re-branded.
In 1998, the machine I ran was 133Mhz (and probably did less per cycle than this thing), and had a roomy 32MB of memory. It was able to play video downloaded off the internet (though it did need a 2D video accelerator for the purpose), surf the web (no flash), play 3D first-person shooter video games, compile the linux kernel in under an hour, run Applix to edit Word documents...
Oh how far we have progressed in 10 years.
The hardware drivers didn't run in the service console. They ran under the compatibility layer the VMware kernel used to be compatible with linux drivers.
In my experience, though, it was hit or miss whether any particular linux driver would work.
Something like boingboing using "underwear-perverts" instead of "super-hero" when Marvel told them they had to stop 'cause super-hero was a trademark?
It wasn't spite.
I'm 100% certain the logic went something like this:
We can buy or license theirs and get some of the money, or we can shut them down and make our own and get all of the money.
It didn't even occur to them for a second that people wouldn't play theirs 'cause it was crappier. I'm sure they think theirs is the "original and best".
Dude. BadAnalogyGuy. He's a troll. And he got you.
It did not contain asbestos. However unless it is impossible to remove all the asbestos without demolition, it is almost never cheaper to rebuild than to do an asbestos abatement. Why? Because you have to remove the asbestos before you tear the building down anyway.
Asbestos can be more of a PR problem, though, because you then have to convince all those parents that the building is really safe after the cleanup.
Anyway.... I wasn't kidding about the federal grant and the "if we don't do it now.." comment. That is *exactly* the rationale that was used at the town meeting.
I think you need to re-read my post. I specifically wanted *less* government.
When a parent sends their child for public education, they are accepting (and rightfully so) that the supposedly well trained professionals in the local school know how to educate their children better than they do. The fact of the matter is that most parents are *not* trained educators, and every one of our public school teachers *is*. The problem we have in this country is that when people say "who are you to tell a parent..." nobody stands up. Most parents *aren't* expert educators, and *don't* know what's best for their kids when it comes to education. Hell, a lot of parents aren't even very good parents even though they think they are. (Actually, some of the best parents I know don't think they're that great of parents, and most of the people I know who think they're fantastic parents are terrible, raising future juvenile delinquents.)
Bureaucrats are already deciding how to educate our children. All I said was that we shouldn't pay for that bureaucracy more times than we have to, and that we should insulate the system from activist nut-job parents.
My town just replaced three 1960s/1970s school buildings with brand new ones.
What's wrong with a 50 year old building? Put some new windows in it, maybe add some insulation and new HVAC... I'm not saying not to improve the facility. Do you know how ridiculously easy it is to add modern data and electrics to a building with block walls and drop ceilings?
I live in a small town with at least as many cows as people, and we've spent $11 million on new school buildings we didn't need over the last 10 years. Why? Because there was federal grant money available, and if we "didn't act now, we'd lose it". So I know there are tons of other towns in the same situation.