That and the weird Calvinist (the preacher, not the kid) mindset that is deeply embedded in this country's psych will keep the Boogy man alive for many a generation.
Can you elaborate? Calvinist influence on drug policy?
Remember, if we just increase the enforcement budget a little more and give up just a couple more of our basic rights, next time, we'll get them all for sure.
I'm curious which basic rights are threatened by the war on drugs? Don't get me wrong--I'm not trying to take a side here, I just don't see what rights of mine are foregone. Now, the war on terror, on the other hand...
We're seeing this with point and shoot cameras now. As recently as 2-3 years ago models that ran on AA batteries existed and some of them had decent battery life (a couple of hundred shots with flash). Now every new camera model is tied to a different proprietary lithium battery.
Yes, but the batteries are smaller, denser, and last longer. What is the problem, exactly?
I think Mozilla is very happy with the stats, because the real news is that the IE usage went down to almost ~50%, and we have today a diversity of browser (engines).
Despite what you might think, I'm pretty sure Mozilla is interested in more than just sticking it to MS.
Even worse for many companies like Apple you have to actually sell the stock to realize any benefits from it, because Apple doesn't pay dividends. So unless you have a lot of money, you can only be a temporary owner and hope that you can stay an owner until other people want to be an owner more than you do.
Blame the stockholders, not the company. Why should Apple pay dividends if not paying dividends has worked so well for them?
That was the point I was trying to make. Even the government-owned passenger train service runs on privately owned infrastructure (and pays for it). I'm not saying this arrangement can apply to all infrastructure, but it's worth noting.
These days, it's basically a bare-minimum subsidy for the trucking industry, which has caused our national railway infrastructure to decay in ways that are completely unreasonable and results in far more smog output than there otherwise would be from cross-country freight.
It's worth pointing out that, although you were trying to show how public infrastructure has crumbled, freight trains are run by private companies that largely own the track they use. In fact, Amtrak runs on privately owned tracks, for the most part: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amtrak (third paragraph).
The editorializing in the summary, however, is so heavy-handed as to be absurd.
...citing 'security concerns' as a weak excuse, while most likely taking a shot at Amazon. One more example of DRM being about protecting business models, not content.
Climate science is considerably more complex than rocket engines, ballistics, and even the fluid dynamics of re-entry. So I guess you are correct, it's not rocket science.
So what you're saying is there's a good chance nobody has it right yet?
For someone like the OP who is planning on doing embedded computing (by necessity, more "low-level" than just using the device as an STB), having a processor datashete is an absolute and complete necessity
Since the BCM2835's datasheet is not available (in typical Broadcom style) - why even bother wasting board space on a GPIO/SPI/I2C header that no one who purchases the Pi is going to be able to be able to use?
Well, damn. I guess the school children for whom the device is intended will have to make due without the datasheet. Won't somebody please think of the children!?!
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That and the weird Calvinist (the preacher, not the kid) mindset that is deeply embedded in this country's psych will keep the Boogy man alive for many a generation.
Can you elaborate? Calvinist influence on drug policy?
Remember, if we just increase the enforcement budget a little more and give up just a couple more of our basic rights, next time, we'll get them all for sure.
I'm curious which basic rights are threatened by the war on drugs? Don't get me wrong--I'm not trying to take a side here, I just don't see what rights of mine are foregone. Now, the war on terror, on the other hand...
But right now I'm claiming that it glided into the sandy wasteland after it had a failure and they found it.
For a recon platform, that's a pretty crappy fail safe mode.
Already exists from Logitech, though it uses Logitech's standard RF receiver, and is not BT. http://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Wireless-Solar-Keyboard-K750/dp/B004MF11MU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1323304614&sr=8-1
We're seeing this with point and shoot cameras now. As recently as 2-3 years ago models that ran on AA batteries existed and some of them had decent battery life (a couple of hundred shots with flash). Now every new camera model is tied to a different proprietary lithium battery.
Yes, but the batteries are smaller, denser, and last longer. What is the problem, exactly?
Yes, pulling up stuff from the 19th century is extremely relevant to this conversation about an unmanned aerial drone.
I think Mozilla is very happy with the stats, because the real news is that the IE usage went down to almost ~50%, and we have today a diversity of browser (engines).
Despite what you might think, I'm pretty sure Mozilla is interested in more than just sticking it to MS.
Even worse for many companies like Apple you have to actually sell the stock to realize any benefits from it, because Apple doesn't pay dividends. So unless you have a lot of money, you can only be a temporary owner and hope that you can stay an owner until other people want to be an owner more than you do.
Blame the stockholders, not the company. Why should Apple pay dividends if not paying dividends has worked so well for them?
I didn't see much of my dad as a teeneger when he was tramping around the country building towers and stringing cable.
I didn't see much of my dad when he was a teenager, either.
The US has *much* better beer than Germany (or anywhere in the world for that matter, with the possible exception of Belgium).
Long live the microbrewery.
DRM isn't the issue. Its Vendor Lock-in. You can have the former without the latter. The author is using Vendor Lock-in to trash DRM.
Except, getting rid of DRM also gets rid of the Lock-in. So why not kill two birds with one stone?
I have the same problem with buying music. Most of the time the album on iTunes costs more than buying the actual CD in the store.
Try Amazon. Regardless of how they are handling ebooks, their MP3 store is pretty cheap and useful. They run sales all the time, too.
That was the point I was trying to make. Even the government-owned passenger train service runs on privately owned infrastructure (and pays for it). I'm not saying this arrangement can apply to all infrastructure, but it's worth noting.
These days, it's basically a bare-minimum subsidy for the trucking industry, which has caused our national railway infrastructure to decay in ways that are completely unreasonable and results in far more smog output than there otherwise would be from cross-country freight.
It's worth pointing out that, although you were trying to show how public infrastructure has crumbled, freight trains are run by private companies that largely own the track they use. In fact, Amtrak runs on privately owned tracks, for the most part: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amtrak (third paragraph).
...citing 'security concerns' as a weak excuse, while most likely taking a shot at Amazon. One more example of DRM being about protecting business models, not content.
Hanlon's razor strikes again.
(Cheat sheet: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.)
Probably not, but caving in shouldn't be the answer.
In the days where there are lawsuit trolls roaming the earth trying to turn any mishap into $$$, I can't really blame them.
Of course, take it out on the kids instead of the lawyers or politicians that allow the lawyers to conduct business as they do.
...They do what they have to do inside their country
That's right, let China do whatever it wants to its own 1.3 billion citizens, just don't let them take down my torrent site.
I really don't get it. Where were you getting these non-beige computers in the 80s and 90s?
Climate science is considerably more complex than rocket engines, ballistics, and even the fluid dynamics of re-entry. So I guess you are correct, it's not rocket science.
So what you're saying is there's a good chance nobody has it right yet?
The main reason being that people in general are stupid.
So why should I listen to anything you have to say?
For someone like the OP who is planning on doing embedded computing (by necessity, more "low-level" than just using the device as an STB), having a processor datashete is an absolute and complete necessity
Since the BCM2835's datasheet is not available (in typical Broadcom style) - why even bother wasting board space on a GPIO/SPI/I2C header that no one who purchases the Pi is going to be able to be able to use?
Well, damn. I guess the school children for whom the device is intended will have to make due without the datasheet. Won't somebody please think of the children!?!
Unfortunately given the Daily Mail's record even on just this very story, you can't assume that what you read there is in any way accurate.
That may be true, but the whole culture/meme of You lose all credibility(TM) is banal.
You lose all credibility the instant you link to the Daily Mail.
Or, you could actually listen to what people have to say instead of dismissing them for your own arbitrary reasons.