I think there is bit more going on here. Any school that is not a comprehensive is free to choose the students they wish to educate. However, even publicly funded school, like charters, can do things like limit enrollment and use coersive methods to rid themselves of students that are more expensive to education. These tend to be the less well behaved more creative students. There is just no profit in keeping these students around. The bottom line here is that the tax payer will appear to be saving money, as charter schools are educating for less and total funding a public schools will be lower due lower enrollment, but kids at the comprehensive public school will not be getting the education they otherwise would due to reduced funds. So, in the same way an HMO funnels money from patient care to corporate, charters and the like funnel money from students to corporate. It is all in the arbitrage.
The nice thing about the Bill Gates money is that it was, at least in theory, directed towards special children that require more resources if they are going to be their personal best. What I think few outside of education realize is quite how expensive and difficult these kids are to educate. Suppose you wanted a high school kid to design circuits. The licensing for Multisim alone can double a classroom budget. The money for consumables are never ending. Then there is convincing the parents that lower grades are not a problem because the kids are actually learning, and convincing the kids that working while their peers party all day is a necessary sacrifice.
In reality most schools will do a good job education the middle 60%. That is just a matter of funding and finding the appropriate teachers for a school. Everyone wants these kids, especially if they are well behaved.The bottom 20% have much research done, and require a higher level of funding and trained teacher. The top 20%, is often underserved there is not enough funding, and many comprehensive schools have no programs for them at all. This is where the reform needs to be made, and where many reforms fail.
Possible more correctly, the Apps one needs and the services on needs. On decision on using a phone is the services one uses. Apple, MS, or Google will tend to lead to a certain OS. WIth WebOS, it is not tied to a service so perhaps this is an advantage.
This fight is between people who think that knowledge primarily comes from what is already known, often called common sense, or from new knowledge developed from careful observation of the world or study of historical documents.
In Texas, as in much of the world, many people want to think the former is The Way. It leads to simpler conclusions, does not require one to constantly educate oneself, and in general does not cause disruption of the business cycle. This world view is very seductive and is appealing to even people outside the wacko religious fringe. For instance skeptics, who often claim to be science based, falls under it spell. For instance Mythbusters, if they cannot create a successful experiment, say they have busted a myth instead of saying they simply saying they cannot confirm the myth. The distinction is important. In one they are saying the knowledge exists and they have it so they can say the experiment cannot be done. In the other they are saying using the current state of knowledge the experiment can't be done. Even arguing that our technology is better than previous technology is no defense to those skeptics that would assume total knowledge.
The later though is science. It does not lead to simple facts or immutable conclusions. It is a process in which we understand creation by knowing that if a creator existing, such a entity is greater than us and therefore our understanding at any particular point is fallible, mutable, and limited in scope. We therefore continue to study the creation in hopes of refining the understand. Some interpret this as worship. It is not starting with a conclusion, it is not an attempt to prove someone else wrong, it is not an attempt to undermine faith. It is a process. Many cannot tolerate the process so hide behind common sense.
You know, I have all the google services. You know how much I use them? Except for Docs and search, almost never. Registering for a service does not mean using it.
In addition to this users versus people who actually use the service, there is an issue of how many protocols end users will tolerate. Twitter has at least a 100 million users following at least on account. If I am a bussines I might register with google in case it takes off, but would continue with Twitter because that is where my customers are. Facebook probably has the same number of really active users, but in that case the 500 million number is reasonable to quote because that is the number of people who can acess facebook content.
This is not like the growth of android because buying an Android phone does not mean that you can't communicate with Apple or MS users. Sure a MS phone can consolidate all the incompatible services, and there are apps that consolidate on other phones, but users are not flocking to MS phones, and Twitter and Facebook are pushing proprietary apps to stop the consolidation.
In the end Google+ is just another attempt by Google to create a monopoly on the web browser by provided all the services a user will need in one place. This is not a bad thing, but I do not believe in consolidation for the sake of consolidation. It is better to encourage the best products.
I am not sure where the network resources comes in? Does corporate run off a dial up connection? In my case I have a slow ATT dsl connection and total upgrade took one hour.
as far as upgrades, do the same thing we do for pcs. For instance, I have 15 identical macs and 25 identical PC. Upgrade one of each, setup as like, create an image and propagate. MS Windows is superior in some ways in that it can remotely load change profiles each time the machine is booted, but that is not important to everyone. For my personal cluster of macs, I like OS X Lion because there are virtually no licensing issues.
America runs on CYA. If a drug company puts out a vaccine that kills children, as long as they have followed the proper protocol they will not be liable for the murder of the children. As long as a financial company follows the rules, they can pillage and drive families out of their homes. Note that banks are not in trouble for encouraging consumers to accept loans that would most likely result in the consumer losing their homes and the banks reaping a huge profit while the families live on the street, but for not filing the paperwork with proper documentations.
Proper protocols are hugely important for efficiently running an organization. As long as the stakeholders that are primarily motivated by short term profits are minimally involved the protocols are often good. For instance, we have meat packing standards that are good, but they are controlled by the meat packers and have a lot of bulk intended to create barriers to entry to the market, and while they do protect consumers, the rules do not always encourage rouge firms to leave the market.
So as this uses OSS software, and likely was developed by internal researchers, there is no reason to believe that it is not a reasonable secure and robust system. It likely uses the security protocols developed by world renowned researches and vetting by the same, rather than the snake oil used by the average corporation in which various people received kickbacks for the purchase. As the source code is viewable by everyone, there is no gotchas as might happen if some programmer at MS were paid millions of dollars by Canada to put in backdoor.
Pretty much all good games are tech demos. Games are the one way that developers can push machines to the extremes because games do not have run perfectly. If a game flakes out it is not nearly as bad as a business application flaking out.
That said then, the games have to be something consumers will pay for. I don't think the games have to be violent. Prince of persia, pong, donkey kong, were not particularly violent, yet they were successful. What we are seeing is the rise of very realistic games, and those will take two forms, either sex or killing. Because sex is frowned upon, the killing games are winning out. It is ok to dismember and disembowel a girl, but not make love to her. In any case, it is fantasy and only time will tell what effect it has. What is for sure is creativity always challenges the world view of the uncreative.
I ask why do we need to jail break an android phone? Wan't the point of Android that it was supposed to the alternative to the evil Apple phone that trapped people in a walled garden. Doesn't it seem that android is the worst of both world. No benefit of the security of the walled garden, but no benifit of automatic upgrades and protection from the telcos.
I wonder how many of these violations have to do with kids complaining about doing work with no pay. When I was in school I worked in a lab and gained valuable skills like working with people from various backgrounds, writing assembly language programs to interface devices, playing with equipment that is available no where else but in a research lab, learning to disassemble and fix such equipment, learning to build novel equipment, learning to solve problems on the fly. Writing reports for NASA.
You know what? Unlike the NCAA slaves, um, student athletes, I got paid a fair wage. There was never any question that I was there for the experience, that was priceless, but we are in America and in America people are generally paid for their work. And scholarships are not grants. Scholarships pay for education, not being an entertainer. I understand that we have to have rules to that the schools with the most money do not get the best players by giving them the best hookers and drugs. I understand that a free market pay structure would create animosity amongst the player who are too young to understand that even if you do the same work, you are not necessarily worth the same pay. But would mandating that each student who is part of the team for an official NCAA game shall receive, say, $20, really kill them? It is becoming clear that being an NCAA player is the antithesis to being a college student.
What is sad is that for most sports, only 3% of high school players will go to an NCAA school, and of those, only 1% will go to any pro venue. So in from high school, all these kids are told they are working for opportunity, but all they are working for is to have their lives controlled by the lords of the manor who get all the money. I suppose some people like that. And 99.7% of peasants are left with nothing.
So the amazement here is that MS can submit deltas, in much the same way that monkey can take a picture. Last time I checked MS was a software development firm, and did work with linux. It makes sense that they would in fact try to modify the kernel to meet their needs, which may be different than others. In any case they seem to contribute a factor of 3 less than other major players.
In the drug hysteria that hit the conservative and thoroughly corrupt administrations of Nixon(war on drugs 1971) and Reagan(1986 act to put minorities in jail for minor offenses and help cause the deficit to ballon) created a climate in which accused, not convicted, person would lose right to property and defense. Like the war on terror, an series of events were overblown to remove individual liberty.
The expansion of the states rights to take from citizens without due process really escalated when Nixon caved into the hysterical parents who decided not to raise their own children and Reagan realized he had a cool way to transferring tax money to his buddies. The idea that one could take property that was not evidence was novel at the time, but now accepted.
How does this relate? An office can search your car with no more probable cause than you are speeding. Now, in fact, the SCOTUS says that if you do not have access to the car a warrant must be gotten, but really why should a warrent every be provided because someone is speeding? It is the drug hysteria. Just like the terrorism hysteria.
Even with this the phone is never going to be a private apparatus. Police can search notebooks. The phone is often just an interface and the data sits on facebook which will roll over to the mildest pressure, or text which can be tapped. It astounds me that people are still being caught by their lovers because they are texting their other lovers. Do people check into foursquare at establishments they plan to rob? Do they text how they are going out a date with someone they plan to attack? Some of this is corrupt government, but some of it is simply incompetence. A certain amount of criminal activity I can tolerate, but incompentant criminals I never can. It is like bringing drugs to school or leaving notes about your plan to blow up a building in your house. Some people just want to get caught.
This is the way I think of it. At $10 a month for streaming and around 8-12 DVDs a month, there is a huge barrier to a competitor entering the market. Redbox is not competitive, HULU plus is not competitive. At $8 for DVD and $8 for streaming, HULU, Amazon, and even future businesses are competitive. Paying $15 for season on iTunes even makes more sense if one is going to have to pay to stream it anyway.
I don't know if it is the same thing. Years ago I had to decide whether to spec a vertical application with a unix server of local window machines. The cost for the real Unix licensees, and machines to run them were too expensive. Home built Intel machine with MS software was cheaper, so we simple had a peer to peer, with one heft peer running the software. Years later when I was working on another project the world was different. MS was the dominant provider, There was no way run MS Windows on a truly cheap machine, and MS had not put in all the cool remote administrative stuff. In that case the contractors, trying to maximize the cost of MS products, did give us a hybrid solution. It was one of those things that did not make sense, and would never pay for itself, but that was the culture of overspending on IT.
Later MS would not push thin client as it could sell other tools that made administration very easy. Of course now *nix has taken over servers, so we do have thin client in terms of the web, where much processing goes on in other machines. The problem we still have is MS and other proprietary licenses that eat up a huge part of any budget and invite the BSA to take over your firm, not to mention hard to manage machines.
For companies with hundreds of worker drones, this chromebook will eventually solve many problems. Truly disposable machines. No way to frak local configuration and lose a work day because there is no local config. Yes your servers have to be good, but firms sells servcie with 5 nines uptime.How much time is wasted trying to keep MS software up and running on a thousand distributed machines, to keep employees from installing crap promising to show prom that really is intended to destroy entire networks. 25 years ago many firms abandoned unix and high level functionality because the MS crap was good enough. I don't think chrome is good enough to do anything I personally do, but I can't imagine a profitable bussiness ignoring it.
The question is what is the purpose of the TSA. Is it to increase security, or provide jobs in a way that covers conservatives asses from the voters. It is like the wats in Iraq. Clearly not critical for the security of the country, but it allowed the expansion of the military budget in a time of increasing deficit, which allowed the exact kind of stimulus the economy needed in terms of government spending to keep the economy going. The drawback is using the military and agencies like the TSA creates a situation where the money is no longer stimulus, but a long term part of the economy.
ID checks, fondling, etc provides little added security and any honest person knows this. Observation by trained professionals and random checks keeps us safe. These are the type of things that protects us against real threats, and not just movie plot threats. The problem is that though they are less expensive, they employ fewer people, and would tend to not funnel tax payer money to expensive insider government contractors, like halliburton.
This has been a back and forth. Traditional vendors are fighting Apple to keep the Mobile phone companies in control, and Apple is fight the traditional vendors to wrest control from the phone companies. It was not that long ago that we did not have the ability to make ringtones for free, or browse the web without exorbitant charges, or for that matter have a phone that we could update on our own without mobile phone limited our choices. Yes, Apple does limit choice, but because of Apple Google gave us android that often has fewer limits. Except when the mobile phone company limits choices. Phone companies limiting our choices is what will happen if Android and MS Windows Mobile becomes the standard.
Really this has always happened in the male dominated world of technology and math and the like. It is a reflection of the fantasy world of boys and young men that has not yet been tempered with a healthy sex life and fueled by a need to be seen as socially equal to the other men a group, a need that often trumps the wishes of romantic partners. Most men will understand that such language is inappropriate in mixed setting, and not use such language, but some men will have such a need to convince other men of their sexual prowess that they will continue to use such language even to the detriment of the overall community.
It used to be this was much bigger of an issue. Look up mnemonics for resistor color codes for examples. These names are mild in comparison. Boys must understand that a woman who is working on code is not going to look kindly when she is treated primarily as an object to be used to satisfy the boys need for sexual gratification.
Here is what I find interesting. Somehow the cons are very adamant about the right of the people to own guns, but not so adamant about the duty of the US to pay debt, even if the language is very similiar.
2nd Amendment right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
14th Amendment The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned
This is the like the cons saying funding to planned parenthood is bad, because funding that are used to help women remain healthy might free up funds that might be used to save her life when she is pregnant, yet they do not admit that using taxpayer money to fund churches is unconstitutional because it frees up money that the churches then use to corrupt the political process.
In any case, honoring the 14th amendment, like honoring the 2nd amendment, is no real problem for legitimate government. The congress still has to approve the money. If they do not approve the money it cannot be spent. And it is not a problem for cons, because any conservative president still has to sign the budget. And arguing over the debt ceiling is not going to reduce debt. Only cutting the budget can do that.
And conservative values are not going to reduce the debt. During the Regan/Bush years debt as a percentage of GDP rose from a little over 30% to 60%. They, like Bush II, raised the debt ceiling and continued to divert tax payer funds to their tax buddies while blaming welfare queens and immigrants for the problems. In fact the idea of debt limit was enforced by a liberal democratic governement attempting to keep the debt low, which had fallen to a postwar high of almost 100% to a stable low or 30-40% by the time LBJ left. Of course by 1981 Reagan, like W, killed the quest for fiscal responsibility, and the debt ceiling became an annoyance usually voted up with not real discussion.
I think one issue is that the business people have no long term connection to the firm they hired to run. MBAs are often hired guns, there to generate profit for a few years, get compensated, and then they are off. In the best case scenario, they will be there for twenty years, which means all they have to do is push problems back, not solve them. This is what happened to the car industry. The focus, as the incentive generally create in a firm, is this quarters profit and executive pay. This means that worker pay was deferred through outrageous retirement packages. Such things were reasonable because the management that created the problem would be gone by the time the problem was realized. And future management never blames past management becuase they makes them all look incompetatnt. Better to blame the workers that have no real control over anything.
The other is changing market conditions. In the case of ATT, consumers simply rebeled against the price they had to pay for what became a commodity. It is hard to explain to a young person how much the rate for phone service has fallen. Using a cell phone I can call from anywhere in the continental US to anywhere in the continental US basically for what my parents paid for local calls, inflation adjusted. With Skype out of country calls fell from maybe fifty cents a minute or so to a less than a dime a minute(the countries I call are not on the unlimited plan). ATT revenues has been more than decimated by market forces.
One thing that did happen in the 70s and 80s, particularly 80s, was the concept that profit was a right and that firms when they employed a certain number of people needed to ongoing bussiness, even if the management was incompentant. This, in effect, removed the incentive for compentant MBAs. As long as a manager has a piece of paper, the firm had done due diligence, and the financial sector, backed by tax payer money, would insure that funding for the incompetent and inefficient firms would be ongoing. The primary negative consequences was that compentent and creative individuals found it harder to get funding, and employess.
And note that two stories down it is reported that SAP is once again over budget and over schedule on a major implementation. So I suppose that now everyone will stop using SAP as it unreliable.
I think what we have seen as research accumulates is that any small inorganic or mineral particle, when allowed to enter the lungs, will cause damage to lungs which increases over time. This damage may be as simple as scar tissue, in the case of silicosis, or more complex. As others have suggested, the link to cancer is weak, but in the context of scaring of lung tissue may be of the least concern. The predominant research is that exposure has to be routine and long term. If someone is going to make a career of cutting fiberglass, then major precautions are indicated. For occasional short term exposure, the research is far less clear and the level of abatement seems to depend on the concerns of the individual. I can tell you that when grinding quartz water is always flowing to remove the particulates, along with masks and well ventilated areas. The cautious person might do the same with fiberglass.
On a personal note, when I was younger I cut many things without proper protection. I cut insulation for large speakers(4'X4'X5') wearing nothing but shorts and t-shirt. The main issue was some skin irritation. I cut strontium and other metals with a wet diamond saw, but no mask. Lung and stomach irration for days. I recall washing down parts with acetone with no ventilation or proper gloves. Who knows what that did. Even though we did things like that, and it appears to be safe, does not mean it is safe. Hell, I remember hearing that planes used to be washed down with trichloroethylene and there was no abatement, some went into the groundwater. Safety should always be a consideration.
I see it this way. If a person owns or partially owns or has legal rights on the vehicle, they have the right to use the car. This would typically include such rights to install tires, radio, etc. The location does not matter. Now such things would normally be discussed.
The problem, in my mind, would arise when a PI, though authorized to make alterations to the car, does so on private property not owned by the suspicious spouse. For instance, a spouse might go to see their extramarital lover on park in said lovers driveway. The jilted spouse probably does not have right to that driveway, and therefore the PI would be trespassing. However if the spouse conducting the affair parks down the block in a public space, then there is no issue.
Apple users are both. PC users are niether. *nix users can be either. Due to the inferiority complex, PC users tends to build exclusivity to compensate.
Just to include some facts. This only includes upgrades, and the upgrade costs is $29. This includes as many computers as you have under your iTunes account. The cost for such a multi-computer upgrade was $200 two versions ago and $100 in the current version. So yes, there is a reason to not include physical media. They are trying to sell at as low a price as possible.
In terms of the USB drive, if one wanted to make a USB bootable copy of the new OS, a 2 GB USB drive costs $5. I suspect that Apple will be provided the OS on USB drives for new computers, as they do now for the Macbook Air. Currently I have no need for any physical media at all. Boot partitions can be easily created on a hard disk so that I have immediate access to the current and previous versions of Mac OS. Software like Aperture can be copy from the DVD to a dmg file on the hard drive and accessed that way. Makes restoring much easier than having to shuffle DVDs. I miss DVDs in the same way I miss 8" floppy disks or tape. There is some nostalgia, but the sheer inefficiency of them makes we wonder why people care.
I hope that more computer as shipped with no moving parts. I like the fact that I have no mechanical HDD or DVD. I know some people are into Blu Ray, and they want such a drive, but I don't want to spend money on a legacy storage device when I could be spending money on speed. I look forward to the day when even the cooling is solid state.
This reminds me of when everyone was bitching about Apple moving to LCD monitors.
The green eye of jealousy is rearing it's ugly head. I wonder how many people who feel this way are the ones who always complain about things, but never ever do anything.
The shuttle launch is something that is likely never going to happen again, and those who have not had the opportunity should be jealous. I have seen it from four miles out. It is a vision to behold. I have also been working in mission control during a two flights and been in the integration areas at KSC. I know how lucky I am, and am always saddened by those who choose jealousy over action. To many people think they have seen or done something because they have been to Disneyland, or a major concert, or maybe a major sporting event. But the something like the Shuttle matters beyond the technology of a entertainment event or who wins or loses an event. The shuttle represents our human capability to coordinate thousands of people and mechanical parts into a functioning whole that breaks us from the limits of the earth.
So rather than being jealous, go out and do something useful. Quite wasting your time trying to be the Big Man on slashdot, compensating for the lack of Real Innovation. Do Something.
When I think analog watches, this is what I think of. A mechanical movement, a dial, and a mineral crystal, preferably sapphire. If a watch uses a quartz movement, I hardly think it is worth using a dial. This a bad kludge between the time when quartz movements became popular, due to their cheap movement, and the time when LCD became equally cheap.
Of course an Omega is $2K, which means, I suppose, that most will buy a quartz movement thinking they have an actual analog watch. At one point when I was thinking of buying a mechanical watch as a fashion accesory, I was looking at some russian model. I like automatic, but don't really wear a watch enough to make it work.
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The nice thing about the Bill Gates money is that it was, at least in theory, directed towards special children that require more resources if they are going to be their personal best. What I think few outside of education realize is quite how expensive and difficult these kids are to educate. Suppose you wanted a high school kid to design circuits. The licensing for Multisim alone can double a classroom budget. The money for consumables are never ending. Then there is convincing the parents that lower grades are not a problem because the kids are actually learning, and convincing the kids that working while their peers party all day is a necessary sacrifice.
In reality most schools will do a good job education the middle 60%. That is just a matter of funding and finding the appropriate teachers for a school. Everyone wants these kids, especially if they are well behaved.The bottom 20% have much research done, and require a higher level of funding and trained teacher. The top 20%, is often underserved there is not enough funding, and many comprehensive schools have no programs for them at all. This is where the reform needs to be made, and where many reforms fail.
Possible more correctly, the Apps one needs and the services on needs. On decision on using a phone is the services one uses. Apple, MS, or Google will tend to lead to a certain OS. WIth WebOS, it is not tied to a service so perhaps this is an advantage.
In Texas, as in much of the world, many people want to think the former is The Way. It leads to simpler conclusions, does not require one to constantly educate oneself, and in general does not cause disruption of the business cycle. This world view is very seductive and is appealing to even people outside the wacko religious fringe. For instance skeptics, who often claim to be science based, falls under it spell. For instance Mythbusters, if they cannot create a successful experiment, say they have busted a myth instead of saying they simply saying they cannot confirm the myth. The distinction is important. In one they are saying the knowledge exists and they have it so they can say the experiment cannot be done. In the other they are saying using the current state of knowledge the experiment can't be done. Even arguing that our technology is better than previous technology is no defense to those skeptics that would assume total knowledge.
The later though is science. It does not lead to simple facts or immutable conclusions. It is a process in which we understand creation by knowing that if a creator existing, such a entity is greater than us and therefore our understanding at any particular point is fallible, mutable, and limited in scope. We therefore continue to study the creation in hopes of refining the understand. Some interpret this as worship. It is not starting with a conclusion, it is not an attempt to prove someone else wrong, it is not an attempt to undermine faith. It is a process. Many cannot tolerate the process so hide behind common sense.
In addition to this users versus people who actually use the service, there is an issue of how many protocols end users will tolerate. Twitter has at least a 100 million users following at least on account. If I am a bussines I might register with google in case it takes off, but would continue with Twitter because that is where my customers are. Facebook probably has the same number of really active users, but in that case the 500 million number is reasonable to quote because that is the number of people who can acess facebook content.
This is not like the growth of android because buying an Android phone does not mean that you can't communicate with Apple or MS users. Sure a MS phone can consolidate all the incompatible services, and there are apps that consolidate on other phones, but users are not flocking to MS phones, and Twitter and Facebook are pushing proprietary apps to stop the consolidation.
In the end Google+ is just another attempt by Google to create a monopoly on the web browser by provided all the services a user will need in one place. This is not a bad thing, but I do not believe in consolidation for the sake of consolidation. It is better to encourage the best products.
as far as upgrades, do the same thing we do for pcs. For instance, I have 15 identical macs and 25 identical PC. Upgrade one of each, setup as like, create an image and propagate. MS Windows is superior in some ways in that it can remotely load change profiles each time the machine is booted, but that is not important to everyone. For my personal cluster of macs, I like OS X Lion because there are virtually no licensing issues.
Proper protocols are hugely important for efficiently running an organization. As long as the stakeholders that are primarily motivated by short term profits are minimally involved the protocols are often good. For instance, we have meat packing standards that are good, but they are controlled by the meat packers and have a lot of bulk intended to create barriers to entry to the market, and while they do protect consumers, the rules do not always encourage rouge firms to leave the market.
So as this uses OSS software, and likely was developed by internal researchers, there is no reason to believe that it is not a reasonable secure and robust system. It likely uses the security protocols developed by world renowned researches and vetting by the same, rather than the snake oil used by the average corporation in which various people received kickbacks for the purchase. As the source code is viewable by everyone, there is no gotchas as might happen if some programmer at MS were paid millions of dollars by Canada to put in backdoor.
That said then, the games have to be something consumers will pay for. I don't think the games have to be violent. Prince of persia, pong, donkey kong, were not particularly violent, yet they were successful. What we are seeing is the rise of very realistic games, and those will take two forms, either sex or killing. Because sex is frowned upon, the killing games are winning out. It is ok to dismember and disembowel a girl, but not make love to her. In any case, it is fantasy and only time will tell what effect it has. What is for sure is creativity always challenges the world view of the uncreative.
I ask why do we need to jail break an android phone? Wan't the point of Android that it was supposed to the alternative to the evil Apple phone that trapped people in a walled garden. Doesn't it seem that android is the worst of both world. No benefit of the security of the walled garden, but no benifit of automatic upgrades and protection from the telcos.
What is sad is that for most sports, only 3% of high school players will go to an NCAA school, and of those, only 1% will go to any pro venue. So in from high school, all these kids are told they are working for opportunity, but all they are working for is to have their lives controlled by the lords of the manor who get all the money. I suppose some people like that. And 99.7% of peasants are left with nothing.
So the amazement here is that MS can submit deltas, in much the same way that monkey can take a picture. Last time I checked MS was a software development firm, and did work with linux. It makes sense that they would in fact try to modify the kernel to meet their needs, which may be different than others. In any case they seem to contribute a factor of 3 less than other major players.
The expansion of the states rights to take from citizens without due process really escalated when Nixon caved into the hysterical parents who decided not to raise their own children and Reagan realized he had a cool way to transferring tax money to his buddies. The idea that one could take property that was not evidence was novel at the time, but now accepted.
How does this relate? An office can search your car with no more probable cause than you are speeding. Now, in fact, the SCOTUS says that if you do not have access to the car a warrant must be gotten, but really why should a warrent every be provided because someone is speeding? It is the drug hysteria. Just like the terrorism hysteria.
Even with this the phone is never going to be a private apparatus. Police can search notebooks. The phone is often just an interface and the data sits on facebook which will roll over to the mildest pressure, or text which can be tapped. It astounds me that people are still being caught by their lovers because they are texting their other lovers. Do people check into foursquare at establishments they plan to rob? Do they text how they are going out a date with someone they plan to attack? Some of this is corrupt government, but some of it is simply incompetence. A certain amount of criminal activity I can tolerate, but incompentant criminals I never can. It is like bringing drugs to school or leaving notes about your plan to blow up a building in your house. Some people just want to get caught.
This is the way I think of it. At $10 a month for streaming and around 8-12 DVDs a month, there is a huge barrier to a competitor entering the market. Redbox is not competitive, HULU plus is not competitive. At $8 for DVD and $8 for streaming, HULU, Amazon, and even future businesses are competitive. Paying $15 for season on iTunes even makes more sense if one is going to have to pay to stream it anyway.
Later MS would not push thin client as it could sell other tools that made administration very easy. Of course now *nix has taken over servers, so we do have thin client in terms of the web, where much processing goes on in other machines. The problem we still have is MS and other proprietary licenses that eat up a huge part of any budget and invite the BSA to take over your firm, not to mention hard to manage machines.
For companies with hundreds of worker drones, this chromebook will eventually solve many problems. Truly disposable machines. No way to frak local configuration and lose a work day because there is no local config. Yes your servers have to be good, but firms sells servcie with 5 nines uptime.How much time is wasted trying to keep MS software up and running on a thousand distributed machines, to keep employees from installing crap promising to show prom that really is intended to destroy entire networks. 25 years ago many firms abandoned unix and high level functionality because the MS crap was good enough. I don't think chrome is good enough to do anything I personally do, but I can't imagine a profitable bussiness ignoring it.
ID checks, fondling, etc provides little added security and any honest person knows this. Observation by trained professionals and random checks keeps us safe. These are the type of things that protects us against real threats, and not just movie plot threats. The problem is that though they are less expensive, they employ fewer people, and would tend to not funnel tax payer money to expensive insider government contractors, like halliburton.
This has been a back and forth. Traditional vendors are fighting Apple to keep the Mobile phone companies in control, and Apple is fight the traditional vendors to wrest control from the phone companies. It was not that long ago that we did not have the ability to make ringtones for free, or browse the web without exorbitant charges, or for that matter have a phone that we could update on our own without mobile phone limited our choices. Yes, Apple does limit choice, but because of Apple Google gave us android that often has fewer limits. Except when the mobile phone company limits choices. Phone companies limiting our choices is what will happen if Android and MS Windows Mobile becomes the standard.
It used to be this was much bigger of an issue. Look up mnemonics for resistor color codes for examples. These names are mild in comparison. Boys must understand that a woman who is working on code is not going to look kindly when she is treated primarily as an object to be used to satisfy the boys need for sexual gratification.
2nd Amendment
right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
14th Amendment
The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned
This is the like the cons saying funding to planned parenthood is bad, because funding that are used to help women remain healthy might free up funds that might be used to save her life when she is pregnant, yet they do not admit that using taxpayer money to fund churches is unconstitutional because it frees up money that the churches then use to corrupt the political process.
In any case, honoring the 14th amendment, like honoring the 2nd amendment, is no real problem for legitimate government. The congress still has to approve the money. If they do not approve the money it cannot be spent. And it is not a problem for cons, because any conservative president still has to sign the budget. And arguing over the debt ceiling is not going to reduce debt. Only cutting the budget can do that.
And conservative values are not going to reduce the debt. During the Regan/Bush years debt as a percentage of GDP rose from a little over 30% to 60%. They, like Bush II, raised the debt ceiling and continued to divert tax payer funds to their tax buddies while blaming welfare queens and immigrants for the problems. In fact the idea of debt limit was enforced by a liberal democratic governement attempting to keep the debt low, which had fallen to a postwar high of almost 100% to a stable low or 30-40% by the time LBJ left. Of course by 1981 Reagan, like W, killed the quest for fiscal responsibility, and the debt ceiling became an annoyance usually voted up with not real discussion.
The other is changing market conditions. In the case of ATT, consumers simply rebeled against the price they had to pay for what became a commodity. It is hard to explain to a young person how much the rate for phone service has fallen. Using a cell phone I can call from anywhere in the continental US to anywhere in the continental US basically for what my parents paid for local calls, inflation adjusted. With Skype out of country calls fell from maybe fifty cents a minute or so to a less than a dime a minute(the countries I call are not on the unlimited plan). ATT revenues has been more than decimated by market forces.
One thing that did happen in the 70s and 80s, particularly 80s, was the concept that profit was a right and that firms when they employed a certain number of people needed to ongoing bussiness, even if the management was incompentant. This, in effect, removed the incentive for compentant MBAs. As long as a manager has a piece of paper, the firm had done due diligence, and the financial sector, backed by tax payer money, would insure that funding for the incompetent and inefficient firms would be ongoing. The primary negative consequences was that compentent and creative individuals found it harder to get funding, and employess.
And note that two stories down it is reported that SAP is once again over budget and over schedule on a major implementation. So I suppose that now everyone will stop using SAP as it unreliable.
On a personal note, when I was younger I cut many things without proper protection. I cut insulation for large speakers(4'X4'X5') wearing nothing but shorts and t-shirt. The main issue was some skin irritation. I cut strontium and other metals with a wet diamond saw, but no mask. Lung and stomach irration for days. I recall washing down parts with acetone with no ventilation or proper gloves. Who knows what that did. Even though we did things like that, and it appears to be safe, does not mean it is safe. Hell, I remember hearing that planes used to be washed down with trichloroethylene and there was no abatement, some went into the groundwater. Safety should always be a consideration.
The problem, in my mind, would arise when a PI, though authorized to make alterations to the car, does so on private property not owned by the suspicious spouse. For instance, a spouse might go to see their extramarital lover on park in said lovers driveway. The jilted spouse probably does not have right to that driveway, and therefore the PI would be trespassing. However if the spouse conducting the affair parks down the block in a public space, then there is no issue.
Apple users are both. PC users are niether. *nix users can be either. Due to the inferiority complex, PC users tends to build exclusivity to compensate.
In terms of the USB drive, if one wanted to make a USB bootable copy of the new OS, a 2 GB USB drive costs $5. I suspect that Apple will be provided the OS on USB drives for new computers, as they do now for the Macbook Air. Currently I have no need for any physical media at all. Boot partitions can be easily created on a hard disk so that I have immediate access to the current and previous versions of Mac OS. Software like Aperture can be copy from the DVD to a dmg file on the hard drive and accessed that way. Makes restoring much easier than having to shuffle DVDs. I miss DVDs in the same way I miss 8" floppy disks or tape. There is some nostalgia, but the sheer inefficiency of them makes we wonder why people care.
I hope that more computer as shipped with no moving parts. I like the fact that I have no mechanical HDD or DVD. I know some people are into Blu Ray, and they want such a drive, but I don't want to spend money on a legacy storage device when I could be spending money on speed. I look forward to the day when even the cooling is solid state.
This reminds me of when everyone was bitching about Apple moving to LCD monitors.
The shuttle launch is something that is likely never going to happen again, and those who have not had the opportunity should be jealous. I have seen it from four miles out. It is a vision to behold. I have also been working in mission control during a two flights and been in the integration areas at KSC. I know how lucky I am, and am always saddened by those who choose jealousy over action. To many people think they have seen or done something because they have been to Disneyland, or a major concert, or maybe a major sporting event. But the something like the Shuttle matters beyond the technology of a entertainment event or who wins or loses an event. The shuttle represents our human capability to coordinate thousands of people and mechanical parts into a functioning whole that breaks us from the limits of the earth.
So rather than being jealous, go out and do something useful. Quite wasting your time trying to be the Big Man on slashdot, compensating for the lack of Real Innovation. Do Something.
Of course an Omega is $2K, which means, I suppose, that most will buy a quartz movement thinking they have an actual analog watch. At one point when I was thinking of buying a mechanical watch as a fashion accesory, I was looking at some russian model. I like automatic, but don't really wear a watch enough to make it work.