Then the terrorists have won. This is exactly what they've set out to achieve.
No they didn't. The terrorists could care less whether the United States had a pat down policy on airplanes or not. You are not the center of the world. What they set out to achieve was:
a) An end of US support for the House of Saud b) An end to US sanction against Iraq c) An end for US support for Israel
Whatever happened to, "Give me Liberty or Give me Death?"
He got liberty. The TSA isn't being imposed by a king. It came into existence after popular demand for increased security. The agency was voted into existence by an elected congress and the detailed rules created by an elected executive. There have been multiple hearings with public comment on procedures. The elected congress has considered the proper balance and weighed in in favor of the enhanced security. The population has consistently favored the TSA when polled.
What you are talking about is anarchy not democracy. And that was not what Ben Franklin was pushing for.
So you're saying you'd rather have everyone who wants to get on a plane have their privacy violated because you're afraid of the minuscule chance that a terrorist might attack?
I happen, unlike the original poster to disagree with the TSA. That being said I wouldn't say minuscule chance. We've had a few dozen terrorists incidents in the United States since 9/11. Hijacking of US planes has been a favorite target of terrorists for decades. We have an active well funded group which has repeatedly attempted to organize airplane attacks. There have multiple airline attacks globally since 9/11. And if you include Americans abroad we've been subject to several thousand attacks in the last dozen years.
And enhanced security throughout Europe that came as a result of 9/11, Madrid... has resulted in many terrorists being stopped there and a clear large statistical drop off in acts of terrorism.
I do not think it is reasonable to minimize the issue here as if the original poster were worried about being attacked by elves flying dragons.
The people did get together and organized themselves. The responded to 9/11 with a longterm deep boycott of the airlines until security improved and constant demands for more security. I think they were wrong. But don't kid yourself about which side had democratic support.
In terms of now there are regular hearings on this and the security side wins the debate whenever you poll.
The enhanced security procedures at airports were enacted because of a strong demand from the populace. And continue to be broadly popular. There have been multiple hearings at both the administrative and congressional levels, as well as oversight hearing by the TSA with adjustments made using those proper process. I never liked the enhanced security procedure but the one undermining democracy here is Andrea Abbott not the TSA.
1) She didn't quibble. She argued loudly and refused a body scan for herself and her daughter. The alternative to a body scan is a electrical scan and patdown 2) She didn't comply with the patdown. At which point she should have left the line. 3) She continued to argue and obstruct the flow for 30 minutes. Yeah in the US not doing what a cop tell you to, and yelling at them while they are performing some duty whether it be redirecting traffic or clearing a street or searching people for weapons gets you arrested. 4) She then went to trial and a jury of her peers found her guilty. You have a right to free speech, you do not have the right to impede law enforcement.
There are substantial objections to the higher level of security that we as a country decided on after 9/11 including by sitting congressmen and senators. There is no reason to bypass the normal political process in the case of this law. What she did was not peaceful protesting of the policy it was arguing the policy shouldn't apply to her.
I see what you are saying in terms of OpenGL primitives. Good point. So I'll retract a bit and grant if you are using OpenGL having the application buffer and the graphics buffer being distinct is not a huge problem.
OK so let's assume I have all drawing going via OpenGL and use X11. How does this architecture for something like a scaled down graphic in an application? Say for example I'm using OO Write with embedded video running at 1/2 size. I can render the video and Write via OpenGL. How does the scaling work effectively under this setup?
The other problem is overlapping windows and the OpenGL pageflip. The pageflip command if being executed by the X11 Client per your version will always be application / windows specific (unless it is running full screen and I'm not sure an X11 can even know if it is running full screen or not). How is that handled?
I actually had the same thought that the pleasure vehicles of the 1890s were cars while it was post WWI that trucking replaced horses. But if you just assume Job's version of history the analogy works.
I don't agree with your iOS comment. I have a iPad 3, iPhone and the 15" rMBP. They all do what they do quite well.
Well first off Android is Linux so you can get build right on the kernel that came with your phone. If you need open source drivers, it is like most things with Linux. Linux takes about 2-3 years to have good support for hardware. So run Linux on 2009 phones and you get those features otherwise you wait.
For iPhone though that's less of an issue. They port very quickly in so far as Linux display system and iOS hardware can be made to work well together.
XCode is designed for objective-c semi professional development. Obviously XCode assumes you can just ask whoever does have admin access to install it for you. There are dozens of other systems like LiveCode designed for iOS development on OSX.
But on iOS itself there are plenty of development environments which are just fun. Javascript comes out of the box. There is gambit scheme. There are quick environments like codea (http://twolivesleft.com/Codea/).
Those aren't changes to the UI those are underneath the hood changes. In which case I'd say the huge advantage is the support for parallel applications with much better handling of passing between synchronous and asynchronous libraries..COM is hugely improved in windows 8.
They tried this when XP came out. You paid 3% of the cost of all your Microsoft software (servers, OSes, office...) per month and got all you could eat. You could add or subtract at will.... Business wanted to go for the buy upfront cheap and face a future day of reckoning.
If I have to do that why not try a completely different OS all together?
You should. You should consider Gnome, KDE, OSX and Metro and decide which one best fits your needs. Most likely though you'll find that Windows compatibility is important and Metro is a damn good UI for the right hardware.
The power user/business desktop just isn't cool enough for Steve Ballmer, Steven Sinofsky, and the other myopic decision-makers at MS these days.
85-90% of all computers sold over $1000 are OSX machines. They lost the power user market.
As far as enterprise desktop. They are mainly focused on consumer for the first time in 15 years. Microsoft doesn't think they are uncool but they remember quite well how they beat IBM, DEC and Unisys by migrating from small business desktop to enterprise desktop and they intend to prevent Google from using their very strategy against them.
As an aside ubiquitous computing was an idea that came from the Office team and was first pitched to enterprise.
I agree. Balmer has been pretty clear they expect an outcry, they are ready for an outcry and they want to move the Windows eco system much faster. They don't see themselves as having a choice to let stagnation rein.
But are they integrated? If someone buys an iOS device, can they set their cloud provider to Dropbox instead of iCloud and have it work? Last I checked iCloud was integrated into the APIs and if you don't have iCloud, none of it works.
Dropbox is nowhere near as sophisticated as iCloud. iCloud like DropBox offer Documents as just an OS level blobs sync. But iCloud has 2 syncs that Dropbox doesn't support:
a) universal associative database and b) Core Data (SQL-Lite databases with hierarchies of objects) i.e. transactional data within individual documents. So you can reconcile merges intelligently.
From what I understand services like Good for Enterprise are using the iCloud SDK to allow for private versions of iCloud and Apple is medium supportive.
Welfare of existing users is the reason for Windows8. Balmer is unhappy with the stagnation of the Microsoft / Windows eco system. They think stagnation is bad and it is time to move back to a more dynamic world.
Read the terms of service. Your breaks are your responsibility not theirs. They'll support you but like most software they aren't assuring any particular 3rd party functionality.
European import restrictions? Who knows, for the purpose of argument lets assume I replied Louis XIV who supported Colbert's theory of how to organize an economy. Since then.... widespread popular consensus they are a good idea.
I thought it was settled out of court, with Hotz agreeing to shift his hacking work away from Sony products. Was there in fact a judgment in favor of Hotz?
Yes but like most legal cases not an entirely satisfactory one. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston ruled that the Sony terms of service requiring cases to be settled in California did not apply when Sony was the plaintiff and thus the case needed to move to a New Jersey Federal Court.
In spirit she argued that activities on the internet don't happen anywhere, but people exist in definite places. So Holz posting to twitter is an action took place in New Jersey not in California. The big issue of course was that if internet actions never happen then it is hard to prove things like distribution or tortious interference. It was early in the case but Holz was winning.
You are right about the drop in knowledge. People born in the mid 1965-1985 are know much more about computers than people on either side of that group, even controlled for age. Shockingly, computer literacy is dropping.
As an aside I'm sure you heard about Steve Job's Trucks vs Cars analogy for OSX from iOS... i.e. in the beginning all cars were trucks...
As far as content, like porn. I think that horse is out of the barn. Porn availability is now completely normalized.
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Yes it is a crime to interfere with an investigation by police. It is a crime to interfere with the flow of traffic.
Then the terrorists have won. This is exactly what they've set out to achieve.
No they didn't. The terrorists could care less whether the United States had a pat down policy on airplanes or not. You are not the center of the world. What they set out to achieve was:
a) An end of US support for the House of Saud
b) An end to US sanction against Iraq
c) An end for US support for Israel
with (a) beng the most important.
Whatever happened to, "Give me Liberty or Give me Death?"
He got liberty. The TSA isn't being imposed by a king. It came into existence after popular demand for increased security. The agency was voted into existence by an elected congress and the detailed rules created by an elected executive. There have been multiple hearings with public comment on procedures. The elected congress has considered the proper balance and weighed in in favor of the enhanced security. The population has consistently favored the TSA when polled.
What you are talking about is anarchy not democracy. And that was not what Ben Franklin was pushing for.
So you're saying you'd rather have everyone who wants to get on a plane have their privacy violated because you're afraid of the minuscule chance that a terrorist might attack?
I happen, unlike the original poster to disagree with the TSA. That being said I wouldn't say minuscule chance. We've had a few dozen terrorists incidents in the United States since 9/11. Hijacking of US planes has been a favorite target of terrorists for decades. We have an active well funded group which has repeatedly attempted to organize airplane attacks. There have multiple airline attacks globally since 9/11. And if you include Americans abroad we've been subject to several thousand attacks in the last dozen years.
And enhanced security throughout Europe that came as a result of 9/11, Madrid... has resulted in many terrorists being stopped there and a clear large statistical drop off in acts of terrorism.
I do not think it is reasonable to minimize the issue here as if the original poster were worried about being attacked by elves flying dragons.
The people did get together and organized themselves. The responded to 9/11 with a longterm deep boycott of the airlines until security improved and constant demands for more security. I think they were wrong. But don't kid yourself about which side had democratic support.
In terms of now there are regular hearings on this and the security side wins the debate whenever you poll.
The enhanced security procedures at airports were enacted because of a strong demand from the populace. And continue to be broadly popular. There have been multiple hearings at both the administrative and congressional levels, as well as oversight hearing by the TSA with adjustments made using those proper process. I never liked the enhanced security procedure but the one undermining democracy here is Andrea Abbott not the TSA.
1) She didn't quibble. She argued loudly and refused a body scan for herself and her daughter. The alternative to a body scan is a electrical scan and patdown
2) She didn't comply with the patdown. At which point she should have left the line.
3) She continued to argue and obstruct the flow for 30 minutes. Yeah in the US not doing what a cop tell you to, and yelling at them while they are performing some duty whether it be redirecting traffic or clearing a street or searching people for weapons gets you arrested.
4) She then went to trial and a jury of her peers found her guilty. You have a right to free speech, you do not have the right to impede law enforcement.
There are substantial objections to the higher level of security that we as a country decided on after 9/11 including by sitting congressmen and senators. There is no reason to bypass the normal political process in the case of this law. What she did was not peaceful protesting of the policy it was arguing the policy shouldn't apply to her.
I see what you are saying in terms of OpenGL primitives. Good point. So I'll retract a bit and grant if you are using OpenGL having the application buffer and the graphics buffer being distinct is not a huge problem.
OK so let's assume I have all drawing going via OpenGL and use X11. How does this architecture for something like a scaled down graphic in an application? Say for example I'm using OO Write with embedded video running at 1/2 size. I can render the video and Write via OpenGL. How does the scaling work effectively under this setup?
The other problem is overlapping windows and the OpenGL pageflip. The pageflip command if being executed by the X11 Client per your version will always be application / windows specific (unless it is running full screen and I'm not sure an X11 can even know if it is running full screen or not). How is that handled?
I actually had the same thought that the pleasure vehicles of the 1890s were cars while it was post WWI that trucking replaced horses. But if you just assume Job's version of history the analogy works.
I don't agree with your iOS comment. I have a iPad 3, iPhone and the 15" rMBP. They all do what they do quite well.
No. The idea is to have the same interface on all sizes. To make phone / tablet / desktop scale.
Well first off Android is Linux so you can get build right on the kernel that came with your phone. If you need open source drivers, it is like most things with Linux. Linux takes about 2-3 years to have good support for hardware. So run Linux on 2009 phones and you get those features otherwise you wait.
For iPhone though that's less of an issue. They port very quickly in so far as Linux display system and iOS hardware can be made to work well together.
XCode is designed for objective-c semi professional development. Obviously XCode assumes you can just ask whoever does have admin access to install it for you. There are dozens of other systems like LiveCode designed for iOS development on OSX.
But on iOS itself there are plenty of development environments which are just fun. Javascript comes out of the box. There is gambit scheme. There are quick environments like codea (http://twolivesleft.com/Codea/).
Those aren't changes to the UI those are underneath the hood changes. In which case I'd say the huge advantage is the support for parallel applications with much better handling of passing between synchronous and asynchronous libraries. .COM is hugely improved in windows 8.
They tried this when XP came out. You paid 3% of the cost of all your Microsoft software (servers, OSes, office...) per month and got all you could eat. You could add or subtract at will.... Business wanted to go for the buy upfront cheap and face a future day of reckoning.
If I have to do that why not try a completely different OS all together?
You should. You should consider Gnome, KDE, OSX and Metro and decide which one best fits your needs. Most likely though you'll find that Windows compatibility is important and Metro is a damn good UI for the right hardware.
85-90% of all computers sold over $1000 are OSX machines. They lost the power user market.
As far as enterprise desktop. They are mainly focused on consumer for the first time in 15 years. Microsoft doesn't think they are uncool but they remember quite well how they beat IBM, DEC and Unisys by migrating from small business desktop to enterprise desktop and they intend to prevent Google from using their very strategy against them.
As an aside ubiquitous computing was an idea that came from the Office team and was first pitched to enterprise.
You flash the corporate image. You don't update individual machines.
I agree. Balmer has been pretty clear they expect an outcry, they are ready for an outcry and they want to move the Windows eco system much faster. They don't see themselves as having a choice to let stagnation rein.
You are freaked at the difficulty of moving from WinXP to Win7. What would be the difficulty of moving off Windows all together?
They aren't going to prematurely kill of Win 7. They have already announced the dates:
January 12, 2015 -- end of standard support
January 14, 2020 -- end of extended support.
Missed this one last time.
But are they integrated? If someone buys an iOS device, can they set their cloud provider to Dropbox instead of iCloud and have it work? Last I checked iCloud was integrated into the APIs and if you don't have iCloud, none of it works.
Dropbox is nowhere near as sophisticated as iCloud. iCloud like DropBox offer Documents as just an OS level blobs sync.
But iCloud has 2 syncs that Dropbox doesn't support:
a) universal associative database and
b) Core Data (SQL-Lite databases with hierarchies of objects) i.e. transactional data within individual documents. So you can reconcile merges intelligently.
From what I understand services like Good for Enterprise are using the iCloud SDK to allow for private versions of iCloud and Apple is medium supportive.
Welfare of existing users is the reason for Windows8. Balmer is unhappy with the stagnation of the Microsoft / Windows eco system. They think stagnation is bad and it is time to move back to a more dynamic world.
Read the terms of service. Your breaks are your responsibility not theirs. They'll support you but like most software they aren't assuring any particular 3rd party functionality.
Like the Dijkstra quote!
Yes. Though have you seen the "media" attribute to HTML's a. That seems to finally be bringing most of Gopher's linking to HTML after only 20 years.
Who lobbied for these restrictions,
European import restrictions? Who knows, for the purpose of argument lets assume I replied Louis XIV who supported Colbert's theory of how to organize an economy. Since then.... widespread popular consensus they are a good idea.
I thought it was settled out of court, with Hotz agreeing to shift his hacking work away from Sony products. Was there in fact a judgment in favor of Hotz?
Yes but like most legal cases not an entirely satisfactory one. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston ruled that the Sony terms of service requiring cases to be settled in California did not apply when Sony was the plaintiff and thus the case needed to move to a New Jersey Federal Court.
In spirit she argued that activities on the internet don't happen anywhere, but people exist in definite places. So Holz posting to twitter is an action took place in New Jersey not in California. The big issue of course was that if internet actions never happen then it is hard to prove things like distribution or tortious interference. It was early in the case but Holz was winning.
You are right about the drop in knowledge. People born in the mid 1965-1985 are know much more about computers than people on either side of that group, even controlled for age. Shockingly, computer literacy is dropping.
As an aside I'm sure you heard about Steve Job's Trucks vs Cars analogy for OSX from iOS... i.e. in the beginning all cars were trucks...
As far as content, like porn. I think that horse is out of the barn. Porn availability is now completely normalized.