I firmly believe that, in theory, communism is the most effecient form of government, for stability, achieving goals, and overall costs of time and distribution. Unfortunately, when implemented in the real world, factors like the immense greed of an individual will make the system die (take a couple of labs in digital logic design, and you'll understand well).
The problem I see, though, is that democracy appears to fail in extremely large installations too. Well, the representative democracy we see in the US. Perhaps we should explore the possibility of a large implementation of true democracy (eg polling the entire population on issues instead of allowing elected [and likely paid-off and corrupt] representatives to decide for us). Have we had the technology to do this before the past few years? Hell, do we have the technology now, can we keep a system like that secure enough?
I'm tired, I'm sure that's obvious in this post. Time for bed.
Reading your post, something came to mind. Please keep in mind that it's late and I'm tired.
I have to agree that banner ads are the commercials of the internet (while I would include legit, closed loop advertisement emails or newsletters).
Spam (UCE), is more analagous to driving down the street with a 6 meter amplifier broadcasting your commercial on a popular channel, overpowering the legit station on that channnel. Or perhaps renting lots of tapes at Blockbuster/Hollywood/local video rental store and taping your commercial over parts of the movie.
Nope, I'm running WinCE on it. But I did notice that when I got it back, some times it will run slower, especially noticable when opening larger apps, and some times when pulling down the main menu.
The most reliable place I've found is Dreampages Computer. Of course they're running short too, but I've found them to be the most reliable, and you have direct dialogue with the owner, so you can easily tell when it's shipping (he's quite honest about how things work there). I do admit, though, that the global lack of supply is killing an otherwise kickass PDA.
Yes, they're still having supply issues. I'm working on getting a screen fault replaced (their service is impressive - it might help that I'm ten miles from the service center, but they're sending someone over to give me a new one in person, to make sure there aren't any problems with the replacement).
Now I hear they're coming out with a model with 48 MB RAM (plus 16 MB ROM) available, but not out until March. I suppose you can expect that one to be in even shorter supply. But I'm looking forward to seeing one.
And as for the other replier that is whining about how bad compaq support and products are, I don't think it's at all true. Yes, mine did ship with that screen fault, but it wasn't apparent at first, and you see the type of service I'm getting to have the issue resolved. I'm nothing less than happy with my unit.
HugeDisk apparently takes sole credit for this issue. I doubt only they could do it, seeing as how much more popular sites (like Everything2) use the same words. But they do take the credit in their story (use cached version in case of slashdot effect)
Bah, sorry to reply to my own post, but I just found an excellent in-depth explanation of the button issue with the iPaq. It's all at Jimmy Software. Of course nothing about a fix, yet.
I believe the most serious issue here is the iPaq's inability to detect more than one hardware button press at a time. Personally, I like being able to fire AND move at the same time. Of course you could use on-screen widgets, but that would get kinda akward, at least for me.
Apparently, this issue has been kind of buried, I didn't hear anything about it until after I bought my iPaq and started looking for accessories. The site linked is already being hit hard (late on a Sunday night, at least in Texas, USA, and we're already taking down servers - ph33r the p0w3r of/.).
Ah, just very slow to load. There's no detail on the page about the hardware issue.
More on the hardware issue - as far as I know, it's a hardware problem, and nobody knows when (if) it will get fixed. Compaq is running around like mad trying to meet manufacturing requirements, so don't expect too much soon there.
Correct. As I understand, Spanish is the most popular of all first and second languages, per capita.
It's followed, not very closely at all, by English, then I think it's one of the asian languages. I read this a few years ago, so it may not be completely accurate, but there was such a disparity between spanish and english that I can't imagine is meeting that fast.
I would have to say that Compaq is a control freak. They don't provide drivers for their hardware, they require you use the recovery CD and put an image of their version of windows with all the third-party add-ons that weigh it down. Disgusting.
Wouldn't that cause problems with light entering from different angles? If for a piece of glass, light takes 20 years to filter through at a zero degree angle of incidence, what about a 45 degree angle? Since it has to pass through about 1.4 times the amount of material as the zero degree angle, would that mean it takes 28 years to bump through?
Of course, that might cause a cool quantum fishbowl effect . . . think of the sci fi applications.:)
Same here. My reason, though, is that the email admin has a bug up his ass, and regularly scans the email for anything he can show to his boss, however out of context, to make my branch look bad. Thus, I stay away from email (and to be a total dick, I use a personal dialup from my desk for net access).
As I understand, USPS Employees are to discard prepaid return mail forms they believe to be bricks. I'm not sure exactly if they do, or where to find more info, but I've heard that they actually do toss them.
File system went corrupt? They said in the letter that they noticed that his preference were already set to "no." They could actually read his profile, they just chose to consider a response that they didn't like as an "error."
I was one of the techie geeks in the MIEC computer lab and library from about september '97 to april '98, but we wound up supporting most of the systems on the second floor, Debakey wing. David Walker was our department head.
I have a Comapq iPaq that works great with either wired or wireless NICs (PC Card type II). I'm going to be using it with the Ricochet PC Card as soon as they hit the market.
Quite. I used to admin at Baylor College of Medicine, and one of they med students got one, and was all the rage. There was talk of making all sorts of things there, but I had left to have more time for my own school before anything got implemented.
I think what he meant is that if something went wrong with the Lunar Orbiter or something, and there was no way for them to return, despite engineers staying up for days straight trying to dream up ways to make it work. There was no way to mount a second trip to rescue the first one.
The point in my argument here was that choosing to subscribe to such a filtering service helps prevent you from inadvertently supporting these services, when you don't want to donate either your bandwidth or clicks to them. I rather think that's on topic.
Consider that people are often not as skilled at operating online as they are in real life (look at a few emails from your AOL pals to see what I mean - I doubt they speak as poorly as they type). A lot of people might click on a link that said "million dollar contest" when it really went to goatse.cx, simply because they don't understand that how link looks in line is not where it goes to (just happened in a comment I meta-modded, actually, and I didn't notice the actual link). Suppose they don't want to see goo gobbling girlies, and haven't yet learned enough to prevent malicious site operators from shoving such images at them? Since when is hacking NOT about asking for help?
Any way, parents force their will on children because the kids don't know how to work life very well, and it helps keep them from making mistakes, or seeing things they don't want to see (or the parents don't want to be seen). The premise is that someone with more experience will help someone with less, until they learn to do it for themselves. Sure, if the church were forcing their ISP on people, I'd consider crying foul, but it's a choice made by an adult (assuming you have to be an adult to enter into contract there, etc).
If an adult chooses not to view what they consider unsavory, why hold their personal choice against them? It doesn't affect your rights.
Except that I don't trust ANYTHING from China, especially executables they put on a read-only medium and try to run as soon as it gets in my system . ..
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The problem I see, though, is that democracy appears to fail in extremely large installations too. Well, the representative democracy we see in the US. Perhaps we should explore the possibility of a large implementation of true democracy (eg polling the entire population on issues instead of allowing elected [and likely paid-off and corrupt] representatives to decide for us). Have we had the technology to do this before the past few years? Hell, do we have the technology now, can we keep a system like that secure enough?
I'm tired, I'm sure that's obvious in this post. Time for bed.
I have to agree that banner ads are the commercials of the internet (while I would include legit, closed loop advertisement emails or newsletters).
Spam (UCE), is more analagous to driving down the street with a 6 meter amplifier broadcasting your commercial on a popular channel, overpowering the legit station on that channnel. Or perhaps renting lots of tapes at Blockbuster/Hollywood/local video rental store and taping your commercial over parts of the movie.
Nope, I'm running WinCE on it. But I did notice that when I got it back, some times it will run slower, especially noticable when opening larger apps, and some times when pulling down the main menu.
The most reliable place I've found is Dreampages Computer. Of course they're running short too, but I've found them to be the most reliable, and you have direct dialogue with the owner, so you can easily tell when it's shipping (he's quite honest about how things work there). I do admit, though, that the global lack of supply is killing an otherwise kickass PDA.
Now I hear they're coming out with a model with 48 MB RAM (plus 16 MB ROM) available, but not out until March. I suppose you can expect that one to be in even shorter supply. But I'm looking forward to seeing one.
And as for the other replier that is whining about how bad compaq support and products are, I don't think it's at all true. Yes, mine did ship with that screen fault, but it wasn't apparent at first, and you see the type of service I'm getting to have the issue resolved. I'm nothing less than happy with my unit.
HugeDisk apparently takes sole credit for this issue. I doubt only they could do it, seeing as how much more popular sites (like Everything2) use the same words. But they do take the credit in their story (use cached version in case of slashdot effect)
Bah, sorry to reply to my own post, but I just found an excellent in-depth explanation of the button issue with the iPaq. It's all at Jimmy Software. Of course nothing about a fix, yet.
Apparently, this issue has been kind of buried, I didn't hear anything about it until after I bought my iPaq and started looking for accessories. The site linked is already being hit hard (late on a Sunday night, at least in Texas, USA, and we're already taking down servers - ph33r the p0w3r of /.).
Ah, just very slow to load. There's no detail on the page about the hardware issue.
More on the hardware issue - as far as I know, it's a hardware problem, and nobody knows when (if) it will get fixed. Compaq is running around like mad trying to meet manufacturing requirements, so don't expect too much soon there.
It's followed, not very closely at all, by English, then I think it's one of the asian languages. I read this a few years ago, so it may not be completely accurate, but there was such a disparity between spanish and english that I can't imagine is meeting that fast.
Of course, that might cause a cool quantum fishbowl effect . . . think of the sci fi applications. :)
I have a Comapq iPaq that works great with either wired or wireless NICs (PC Card type II). I'm going to be using it with the Ricochet PC Card as soon as they hit the market.
Quite. I used to admin at Baylor College of Medicine, and one of they med students got one, and was all the rage. There was talk of making all sorts of things there, but I had left to have more time for my own school before anything got implemented.
Any way, parents force their will on children because the kids don't know how to work life very well, and it helps keep them from making mistakes, or seeing things they don't want to see (or the parents don't want to be seen). The premise is that someone with more experience will help someone with less, until they learn to do it for themselves. Sure, if the church were forcing their ISP on people, I'd consider crying foul, but it's a choice made by an adult (assuming you have to be an adult to enter into contract there, etc).
If an adult chooses not to view what they consider unsavory, why hold their personal choice against them? It doesn't affect your rights.
By what provisions?