AKA lubuntu. The most lightweight version of Ubuntu, and it still looks like a standard menu-based OS (start menu, tabs, etc). Plus I needed something small for my Pentium 3/256 megabyte laptop.
If Steve Jobs defined the Apple philosophy, how come he got fired in the mid-80s? It appears his philosophy was NOT the dominant one of the Apple II era (else he would have kept his job), and instead was someone else's philosophy. Perhaps Woz and repairability vs. Jobs "junk it when it dies" paradigm.
>>>My girlfriend wanted it to 'just work'. No customizing, nothing..... My aunt, a doctor, loves her iPhone. She hasn't done anything but the most basic customization to it. SHE DOESN'T CARE. If it breaks, she buys a new one or pays to fix the old one. >>>
In other words Apple's non-customizable/non-repairable designs appeal to the Lowest Common Denominator consumer (your girlfriend and aunt). Buy it; use it; dispose it. By the way I share the same philosophy of not customizing/rooting my phone or computer, because frankly I have better things to do with my time.
I use the default settings which make it easy to switch from one PC to another (everything is in the same place on the desktop), and if my PC or phone broke-down I would take a cursury look to find the problem, but most of the time it's less time consuming to just buy a new one. About 5 hours overtime pay versus 1-2 days trying to repair it.
The Fed devalued the dollar by 97% since its creation (about 4% per year; basically a tax on your savings by the bankers). It will be even easier once there's no paper and just bits floating back-and-forth between credit cards. We need to get back to sound money that "connects" to something of constant value, like gold or land. Something that can not be destroyed through the Fed's rampant printing.
Only 14 megahertz? The Commodore 64 can run at 20 megahertz using the same processor (65816) and has some awesome games running at the speed. It seems to me that an Apple IIgs should be able to accomplish similar speeds?
Too bad Commodore and Atari went belly-up, otherwise we'd have some alternative choices to Apple's closed-off designs.
I don't care about repairability, but this part concerns me. Doesn't this violate EU law? "The adhesive on the front is extremely difficult to remove without damaging the glass, making end-of-life recycling very difficult." I thought the EU required everything to be recyclable, or maybe that's just major appliances like cars and clothes washers.
Many of the people who committed suicides were working on Apple assembly lines. They are supposed to get breaks every 2 hours, and a workweek no longer than 60 hours.
But the managers have the power to deny those breaks plus require overtime, and despite Apple's best efforts the rules continue to be broken (and exhausted, sick people jump off roofs to escape).
There's more to the article than just "load balancing". QUOTE: "An obvious example is the flash crashes that now plague many financial markets in which prices plummet dramatically for no apparent reason. Understanding how and why this happens is the focus of much research. Given that cloud is clearly becoming a network of networks that is rapidly growing in complexity, it's not hard to imagine that the computing equivalent of flash crashes are not just likely but inevitable."
Flash crash - When the stocks, as measured by the DOW Index, suddenly drop several hundred points due to computerized trading. It's still unclear this happens.
Glenn Beck isn't even on your TV anymore..... he's off on his own channel (website). If you don't like the guy just don't go there.
And I'd like to see the ability to "meltdown" MicrosoftNBC, CNN, and Fox News from my cable lineup, so I don't have to keep paying for them (about 40 cents per channel). Come on FCC or State legislators. When are you going to make ala carte (choose your channels) a reality? You did it for Satelite Radio and should do it for Cable TV too. IMHO.
A coworker discovered when he upgraded from Kindle 1 to Kindle 2, many of the items he had purchased were no longer in the cloud (as amazon had promised). Most of what he lost was periodicals like magazines, but also some books. He was not a happy camper and asked for a refund for those books he could no longer acces, but Amazon simply told him they are not responsible.
That was back in 2009 if I recall correctly so maybe some of the bugs have been worked-out, but I stored it in memory as a reason why I won't trust the cloud to store any books I might purchase (or anything else). I try to back up these things to USB drive and googlemail storage.
Not me. I'm most productive immediately after I wake-up until I eat lunch. It makes no difference how I'm dressed. (Though I do need breakfast.)
I'm not sure why working from home is such a "big deal". Our farming ancestors (or tailers, bakers, storeowners, etc) did it for 5000+ years. It's normal.
I don't know why family would have any more "hurt feelings" then when I said I'm doing homework..... and then they'd leave me alone.
When I worked at home, I used to turn-on the TV (usually RT News), which is pretty much the same thing I do now in the office (except over the net). I've never understood people that demand silence; my brain wanders if it lacks audio stimulation.
>>> Only an impartial outsider or the legitimate principals (i.e. the People)
I would say the principals are the State Legislatures, same as over in the European Union. The States created the central contract known as the constitution (or Lisbon treaty) and more-importantly have the power & resources to nullify unconstitutional acts by the congress (whereas the people do not).
Ads on television waste anywhere from 1/3rd to one-half the power used while watching TV.;-) Back in the 1960/70s when ads were only 9 minutes per hour, TV ads only wasted 15% power.
It talks over 3G and retrieves ads for display on the Homepage and screen saver. I never thought about how much battery power that would drain. (Of course it lasts over month so not really an issue I guess?)
Thanks. It is not flamebait to state outloud what the Courts will likely decide (that customers like me have multiple choices == not a trust). Of course they could make the argument it's a cartel, as they did with the CD cartel (colluding to fix prices high). But that's a different issue.
Yeah the Cellular internet caps are ridiculous. I can't believe I actually get more data/month through my dialup line (~12 gigabytes) than through most cellphone providers (3 GB).
Ideally you would want a cell company that lets you use continue using the service, even after it has been slowed down to 128k.
First Amendment does not alter the copyright clause in any singnificant way. See Eldred v. Ashcroft (SCOTUS case)
Holding 20-year retroactive extension of existing copyright terms did not violate the Copyright Clause or the First Amendment of the United States Constitution.
"On January 15, 2003, the Court held the CTEA constitutional by a 7-2 decision. The majority opinion, written by Justice Ginsburg, relied heavily on the Copyright Acts of 1790, 1831, 1909, and 1976 as precedent for retroactive extensions. One of the arguments supporting the act was the life expectancy has significantly increased among the human population since the 18th century, and therefore copyright law needed extending as well.
"However, the major argument for the act that carried over into the case was that the Constitution specified that Congress only needed to set time limits for copyright, the length of which was left to their discretion. Thus, as long as the limit is not "forever," any limit set by Congress can be deemed constitutional." - wikipedia.
If Verizon gives me a hard time and slows-down by torrenting of movies/tv shows, I can switch to Comcast. Or Sprint. Or ATT. Or VirginMobile. Or Cingular. Or Dish. It would cost me additional money ($50 instead of $15) but still the choice exists so it's not a monopoly.
Good point. The first drones my company worked on were just model airplanes bought out of a catalog, and then modified for extended range and self-piloting. They cost $300 plus modification costs, so Piratebay might be using a drone of similar low-cost specification.
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AKA lubuntu. The most lightweight version of Ubuntu, and it still looks like a standard menu-based OS (start menu, tabs, etc). Plus I needed something small for my Pentium 3/256 megabyte laptop.
0.3% odds of downloading one of these apps. I am not worried. Especially since I rarely download apps (I prefer mpg, mp3, and txt files via torrent).
If Steve Jobs defined the Apple philosophy, how come he got fired in the mid-80s? It appears his philosophy was NOT the dominant one of the Apple II era (else he would have kept his job), and instead was someone else's philosophy. Perhaps Woz and repairability vs. Jobs "junk it when it dies" paradigm.
>>>My girlfriend wanted it to 'just work'. No customizing, nothing..... My aunt, a doctor, loves her iPhone. She hasn't done anything but the most basic customization to it. SHE DOESN'T CARE. If it breaks, she buys a new one or pays to fix the old one.
>>>
In other words Apple's non-customizable/non-repairable designs appeal to the Lowest Common Denominator consumer (your girlfriend and aunt). Buy it; use it; dispose it. By the way I share the same philosophy of not customizing/rooting my phone or computer, because frankly I have better things to do with my time.
I use the default settings which make it easy to switch from one PC to another (everything is in the same place on the desktop), and if my PC or phone broke-down I would take a cursury look to find the problem, but most of the time it's less time consuming to just buy a new one. About 5 hours overtime pay versus 1-2 days trying to repair it.
IMHO.
And not real money.
The Fed devalued the dollar by 97% since its creation (about 4% per year; basically a tax on your savings by the bankers). It will be even easier once there's no paper and just bits floating back-and-forth between credit cards. We need to get back to sound money that "connects" to something of constant value, like gold or land. Something that can not be destroyed through the Fed's rampant printing.
Only 14 megahertz? The Commodore 64 can run at 20 megahertz using the same processor (65816) and has some awesome games running at the speed. It seems to me that an Apple IIgs should be able to accomplish similar speeds?
Too bad Commodore and Atari went belly-up, otherwise we'd have some alternative choices to Apple's closed-off designs.
I don't care about repairability, but this part concerns me. Doesn't this violate EU law? "The adhesive on the front is extremely difficult to remove without damaging the glass, making end-of-life recycling very difficult." I thought the EU required everything to be recyclable, or maybe that's just major appliances like cars and clothes washers.
Many of the people who committed suicides were working on Apple assembly lines. They are supposed to get breaks every 2 hours, and a workweek no longer than 60 hours.
But the managers have the power to deny those breaks plus require overtime, and despite Apple's best efforts the rules continue to be broken (and exhausted, sick people jump off roofs to escape).
There's more to the article than just "load balancing". QUOTE: "An obvious example is the flash crashes that now plague many financial markets in which prices plummet dramatically for no apparent reason. Understanding how and why this happens is the focus of much research. Given that cloud is clearly becoming a network of networks that is rapidly growing in complexity, it's not hard to imagine that the computing equivalent of flash crashes are not just likely but inevitable."
Flash crash - When the stocks, as measured by the DOW Index, suddenly drop several hundred points due to computerized trading. It's still unclear this happens.
Glenn Beck isn't even on your TV anymore..... he's off on his own channel (website). If you don't like the guy just don't go there.
And I'd like to see the ability to "meltdown" MicrosoftNBC, CNN, and Fox News from my cable lineup, so I don't have to keep paying for them (about 40 cents per channel). Come on FCC or State legislators. When are you going to make ala carte (choose your channels) a reality? You did it for Satelite Radio and should do it for Cable TV too. IMHO.
A coworker discovered when he upgraded from Kindle 1 to Kindle 2, many of the items he had purchased were no longer in the cloud (as amazon had promised). Most of what he lost was periodicals like magazines, but also some books. He was not a happy camper and asked for a refund for those books he could no longer acces, but Amazon simply told him they are not responsible.
That was back in 2009 if I recall correctly so maybe some of the bugs have been worked-out, but I stored it in memory as a reason why I won't trust the cloud to store any books I might purchase (or anything else). I try to back up these things to USB drive and googlemail storage.
Not me. I'm most productive immediately after I wake-up until I eat lunch. It makes no difference how I'm dressed. (Though I do need breakfast.)
I'm not sure why working from home is such a "big deal". Our farming ancestors (or tailers, bakers, storeowners, etc) did it for 5000+ years. It's normal.
I don't know why family would have any more "hurt feelings" then when I said I'm doing homework..... and then they'd leave me alone.
When I worked at home, I used to turn-on the TV (usually RT News), which is pretty much the same thing I do now in the office (except over the net). I've never understood people that demand silence; my brain wanders if it lacks audio stimulation.
???
"You can purchase Microsoft Manual of Style from amazon.com."
CTRL+AmigaLeft+AmigaRight is more superior.
(Unless you get a Guru Meditation error.)
>>> Only an impartial outsider or the legitimate principals (i.e. the People)
I would say the principals are the State Legislatures, same as over in the European Union. The States created the central contract known as the constitution (or Lisbon treaty) and more-importantly have the power & resources to nullify unconstitutional acts by the congress (whereas the people do not).
In other news:
Ads on television waste anywhere from 1/3rd to one-half the power used while watching TV. ;-) Back in the 1960/70s when ads were only 9 minutes per hour, TV ads only wasted 15% power.
It talks over 3G and retrieves ads for display on the Homepage and screen saver. I never thought about how much battery power that would drain. (Of course it lasts over month so not really an issue I guess?)
(Score:0, Flamebait)
Thanks. It is not flamebait to state outloud what the Courts will likely decide (that customers like me have multiple choices == not a trust). Of course they could make the argument it's a cartel, as they did with the CD cartel (colluding to fix prices high). But that's a different issue.
Good plan.
Or just wait until the movies come to free TV on Saturday and Sunday afternoons. I've seen many new movies there, rather than through the net or DVD.
Yeah the Cellular internet caps are ridiculous. I can't believe I actually get more data/month through my dialup line (~12 gigabytes) than through most cellphone providers (3 GB).
Ideally you would want a cell company that lets you use continue using the service, even after it has been slowed down to 128k.
First Amendment does not alter the copyright clause in any singnificant way. See Eldred v. Ashcroft (SCOTUS case)
Holding
20-year retroactive extension of existing copyright terms did not violate the Copyright Clause or the First Amendment of the United States Constitution.
"On January 15, 2003, the Court held the CTEA constitutional by a 7-2 decision. The majority opinion, written by Justice Ginsburg, relied heavily on the Copyright Acts of 1790, 1831, 1909, and 1976 as precedent for retroactive extensions. One of the arguments supporting the act was the life expectancy has significantly increased among the human population since the 18th century, and therefore copyright law needed extending as well.
"However, the major argument for the act that carried over into the case was that the Constitution specified that Congress only needed to set time limits for copyright, the length of which was left to their discretion. Thus, as long as the limit is not "forever," any limit set by Congress can be deemed constitutional." - wikipedia.
Only 2 broadband providers? Which ones? I imagine Cable and Dish are two of those. You can't get wireless through one of the cellphone companies?
If Verizon gives me a hard time and slows-down by torrenting of movies/tv shows, I can switch to Comcast. Or Sprint. Or ATT. Or VirginMobile. Or Cingular. Or Dish. It would cost me additional money ($50 instead of $15) but still the choice exists so it's not a monopoly.
Good point. The first drones my company worked on were just model airplanes bought out of a catalog, and then modified for extended range and self-piloting. They cost $300 plus modification costs, so Piratebay might be using a drone of similar low-cost specification.