>>>>>if iOS ran flash then applications could have been used on it that were not vetted by Apple. >> >>You say that as if that's a bad thing. Maybe it is for third parties, but from Apple's point of view and from the point of view of their users, prohibiting third parties from controlling the development...
When did people stop believing in freedom? I should be able to run any program on my computer or my handset (which is just a small 4" computer) that I desire. If I want to run a program, for example a game, that is flash-based then I should be able to. It's MY computer and I will do whatever the hell I want with it. You people who enjoy bowing down and saying, "No I don't want freedom to run any program. You know better than me. Praise daddy warbucks" make no sense to me? It's as if you ENJOY being children. (Grow up.)
>>>There are many people who would like to use the web who have slow or unreliable internet connections
Good point. I don't use a text-only browser, but when I'm on dialup I load Opera and turn everything off. No images, no flash. It loads very speedily. (Flash is the main culprit for why dialup is almost unusable. What a bandwidth hog.)
Comparing Japan trains to the U.S. doesn't really work. They are are much, much denser country. Hell they have inferior DSL for their internet, because they are so dense! (And yet still the 3rd fastest average speed in the world.) Just as DSL is not a viable option for far-flung, mostly-empty U.S. neither are trains. What works in Japan doesn't work here.
The only place dense enough is in the giant city known as the Northeast I-95 corridor (from Washington to Boston). That's about it.
Well I suspect if we both left home at the same time, me by car and you by train, we'd arrive at L.A. about the same time. As for "reading" I listen to audiobooks while driving, so I don't consider it wasted time. There are tons of them: Escapepod, Dunesteef, Lightspeed, Clarkesworld, etc. (And I'm getting paid for it.)
>>>I'll get home from work and flip through the few hundred channels
Nothing's stopping you from continuing this service. Just as nothing's stopping you from paying $30/month to Sirius XM for their hundreds of channels. A la carte is merely an additional option for people, like me, who want to save some cash.
>>>what if TCM went away
Not really a concern. TCM is one of the most popular channels. And no channels disappeared off Sirius XM after they introduced the $8 ala carte option, so I think you're worrying about nothing.
Yeah, yeah the usual crap. You libs still haven't come-up with a better way to see if the Teachers are actually teaching the kids, or if they are (like one of my former teachers) screwing around in class teaching karate lessons. We didn't learn crap in that class, and that would have been clear if we'd been forced to take a test, thus revealing the teacher should be fired.
I think we should continue the testing until someone comes-up with a better measurement and THEN dump the testing. To dump the tests and replace it with ______ is illogical.
Yes but I call it "word of mouth sharing with colleagues". Ya know, in case someone is interested. (I thought about getting an iPhone but decided to just use my kindle for mobile internet, since the monthly charge is free.)
You make it sound like Sweden is some kind of bassbackwards country. But they (and most of the EU) probably look at us and laugh just as loudly: "Rape charges because a 19 year old had sex with a 17 year old? Child pornography arrests because a 15 year old girl photographed herself nude with her phone??? Those Americans are such puritans afraid of their own bodies."
Personally I think this is nuts. If I were accused of this crime, I would just fly over to Sweden and go to trial. Mainly because there's no way for them to prove their case, which means I would be found "not guilty" and free to resume my travels around the world w/ a cleared name.
To keep fighting like this is just nuts & makes Julian look guilty. But if you crack-open some conspiracy theory about U.S. police wandering around Sweden looking for this man, my response will be "Alex Jones: Is that you? Take some prozac."
I'll apologize after scientists explain the previous global warming events of 10,000 BC, 3000 BC, and 300-1300 A.D.
What good are models to predict the future, if they can't even predict the past? In fact they recently discovered their models were flat wrong about the shrinking Antarctic ice shelf: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/25/antarctic_ice_not_melting/ Damn these inconvenient truths. Yeah, yeah I know. Ignore these facts; cognitive dissonance; block them from your mind. LOL;-)
He will continue to defend his business model even as it is dying (oil supplies dwindling). In the year 2100 this guy's descendant will probably still be saying there's plenty of oil even when it's as rare & costly as silver.
My problem is not liberal ideals (which are mostly good). It's the fact they don't live up to them. They claim "We are a pro-choice party," and then turn around and take away freedom of choice by banning sodas (New York), movie theater popcorn (effective 2013), and catastrophic insurance plans (under obamacare).
Hmmm. Or they say, "We oppose the killing of our fellow human beings in foreign wars," and then turn round and start new wars in Yemen, Libya, Syria. (I'm confused.)
And of course Obamacare shows that the Democrats are just puppets of the insurance corporations: "We need 50 million new customers." "No problem; we'll just mandate that everyone MUST buy your product." - Pelosi, Reid, Obama, etc. "Exxxxxcellent." - corporate CEOs after they gain 50 million new customers.
I was being sarcastic. Or ironic. One of those. Everyone knows kids don't get failed anymore because we've adopted the Liberal method of not hurting anyone's feelings..... and thus the kids move grade-to-grade-to-grade having learn nothing. --- The libs also oppose testing kids to see if the teachers did their jobs (nearly-all the kids pass) or if the teacher sucks (kids fail).
Good question. "In Judeo/Christian tradition, the term Ivory Tower is a symbol for noble purity. It originates with the Song of Solomon (7,4) ("Your neck is like an ivory tower")....... From the 19th century it has been used to designate a world or atmosphere where intellectuals engage in pursuits that are disconnected from the practical concerns of everyday life. As such, it usually carries pejorative connotations of a wilful disconnect from the everyday world; esoteric, over-specialized, or even useless research" - wikipedia
Best thing that would improve TV would be a la carte. I would be willing to pay a base fee of $10 for local channels plus 1-2 dollars extra for Syfy, TCM, and..... well that's about it. BUT this would require action by the FCC to force NBC, ABC/Disney, and others to "unbundle" their channels rather than sell them as 6-7 channel groups. They won't do it voluntarily.
Sirius XM radio does a la carte (pay 8 dollars to choose any of 40 channels). No reason digital cable can't do it too.
I get over 40 channels through my antenna (since the digital switchover divided stations into subchannels) and mostly watch them. Most of my favorite shows are reruns since older shows, like older movies, seem to be better than what we have now:
- Network: House, Fringe, Supernatural, Vampire Diaries (sometimes), movies (on weekends) - Retrochannel: Twilight Zone, Hitchcock Presents, Dragnet, Car54, Three's Company, Star Trek TNG, Davinci's Inquest, etc - RT News - PBSworld - Moviechannel: Mostly black-and-white classics - qubo (for the kids) - Hulu: Mostly syfy channel shows, plus anything else that catches my eye (like Masters of Horror and SF). - uTorrent: When my local website offers holiday weekend freeleech, I download any movie with greater than 7 stars on imdb.com. Right now I have about 200 GB/250 movies that I haven't even watched.
I would apply the same process to this Train trip as I do to Airplane travel. How much time does it ACTUALLY cost, once you include (1) driving to the port/station (2) waiting upto 1 hour for your ride to arrive (3) the actual trip (4) waiting for your luggage at the conveyor belt (5) finding and paying-for a rental car on the opposite end (6) driving to your hotel.
Two years ago I did a lot of travel between Oklahoma City and Minneapolis, and I discovered that my coworkers who flew took almost as long as I did in my car. (10 versus 11 hours). I suspect this high-speed rail would have a similar result.
So I continued driving. And pocketed the ~$1000 I was paid for mileage. Basic Rule of Thumb: I will drive to my destination unless the trip is longer than one day.
They don't need a bill. The TSA has already been patting-down and inspecting luggage at train stations. Also bus depots. And at the post office, unemployment center, mall, and during the recent Chicago summit (including yanking people out of cars so they could prform illegal warrantless searches). The SS seems to have time-traveled from the 1940s to the present day America.
This is why I dropped dental insurance and just pay cash. My dentist even gives me a 10% for cash (or credit card) since she doesn't have to waste time on Medicare or insurance paperwork.
I can't watch youtube at work. Is there a text version of this?
I like the old "plugin" model of web browsers. If you want to see a JPEG, install JPEGview. If you want to hear an MP3 or AIFF, install a player. Over time though I guess all these plugins have been buried inside the browser code. Now the browser is expected to do it all automatically in one large massive program that eats a gigabyte of RAM.
>>>You do realize that Romney drafted a very similar plan?
Yeah he's a dick. At least his plan only affects his state, not me. (And if I lived there I'd pack up and leave.) Did you know his plan outlaws the catastrophic insurance I currently have? Ballshit. Why should I have to spend $500/month for "pay everything" insurance when I can spend just $110/month for emergency insurance that I don't use unless I get a major illness, like cancer. I should have the option to take the cheaper plan.
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>>>>>if iOS ran flash then applications could have been used on it that were not vetted by Apple.
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>>You say that as if that's a bad thing. Maybe it is for third parties, but from Apple's point of view and from the point of view of their users, prohibiting third parties from controlling the development...
When did people stop believing in freedom? I should be able to run any program on my computer or my handset (which is just a small 4" computer) that I desire. If I want to run a program, for example a game, that is flash-based then I should be able to. It's MY computer and I will do whatever the hell I want with it. You people who enjoy bowing down and saying, "No I don't want freedom to run any program. You know better than me. Praise daddy warbucks" make no sense to me? It's as if you ENJOY being children. (Grow up.)
>>>There are many people who would like to use the web who have slow or unreliable internet connections
Good point. I don't use a text-only browser, but when I'm on dialup I load Opera and turn everything off. No images, no flash. It loads very speedily. (Flash is the main culprit for why dialup is almost unusable. What a bandwidth hog.)
Comparing Japan trains to the U.S. doesn't really work. They are are much, much denser country. Hell they have inferior DSL for their internet, because they are so dense! (And yet still the 3rd fastest average speed in the world.) Just as DSL is not a viable option for far-flung, mostly-empty U.S. neither are trains. What works in Japan doesn't work here.
The only place dense enough is in the giant city known as the Northeast I-95 corridor (from Washington to Boston). That's about it.
Well I suspect if we both left home at the same time, me by car and you by train, we'd arrive at L.A. about the same time. As for "reading" I listen to audiobooks while driving, so I don't consider it wasted time. There are tons of them: Escapepod, Dunesteef, Lightspeed, Clarkesworld, etc. (And I'm getting paid for it.)
>>>I'll get home from work and flip through the few hundred channels
Nothing's stopping you from continuing this service. Just as nothing's stopping you from paying $30/month to Sirius XM for their hundreds of channels. A la carte is merely an additional option for people, like me, who want to save some cash.
>>>what if TCM went away
Not really a concern. TCM is one of the most popular channels. And no channels disappeared off Sirius XM after they introduced the $8 ala carte option, so I think you're worrying about nothing.
Yeah, yeah the usual crap. You libs still haven't come-up with a better way to see if the Teachers are actually teaching the kids, or if they are (like one of my former teachers) screwing around in class teaching karate lessons. We didn't learn crap in that class, and that would have been clear if we'd been forced to take a test, thus revealing the teacher should be fired.
I think we should continue the testing until someone comes-up with a better measurement and THEN dump the testing. To dump the tests and replace it with ______ is illogical.
Yes but I call it "word of mouth sharing with colleagues". Ya know, in case someone is interested. (I thought about getting an iPhone but decided to just use my kindle for mobile internet, since the monthly charge is free.)
You make it sound like Sweden is some kind of bassbackwards country. But they (and most of the EU) probably look at us and laugh just as loudly: "Rape charges because a 19 year old had sex with a 17 year old? Child pornography arrests because a 15 year old girl photographed herself nude with her phone??? Those Americans are such puritans afraid of their own bodies."
Personally I think this is nuts. If I were accused of this crime, I would just fly over to Sweden and go to trial. Mainly because there's no way for them to prove their case, which means I would be found "not guilty" and free to resume my travels around the world w/ a cleared name.
To keep fighting like this is just nuts & makes Julian look guilty. But if you crack-open some conspiracy theory about U.S. police wandering around Sweden looking for this man, my response will be "Alex Jones: Is that you? Take some prozac."
I'll apologize after scientists explain the previous global warming events of 10,000 BC, 3000 BC, and 300-1300 A.D.
What good are models to predict the future, if they can't even predict the past? In fact they recently discovered their models were flat wrong about the shrinking Antarctic ice shelf: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/25/antarctic_ice_not_melting/ Damn these inconvenient truths. Yeah, yeah I know. Ignore these facts; cognitive dissonance; block them from your mind. LOL ;-)
He will continue to defend his business model even as it is dying (oil supplies dwindling). In the year 2100 this guy's descendant will probably still be saying there's plenty of oil even when it's as rare & costly as silver.
My problem is not liberal ideals (which are mostly good). It's the fact they don't live up to them. They claim "We are a pro-choice party," and then turn around and take away freedom of choice by banning sodas (New York), movie theater popcorn (effective 2013), and catastrophic insurance plans (under obamacare).
Hmmm. Or they say, "We oppose the killing of our fellow human beings in foreign wars," and then turn round and start new wars in Yemen, Libya, Syria. (I'm confused.)
And of course Obamacare shows that the Democrats are just puppets of the insurance corporations:
"We need 50 million new customers."
"No problem; we'll just mandate that everyone MUST buy your product." - Pelosi, Reid, Obama, etc.
"Exxxxxcellent." - corporate CEOs after they gain 50 million new customers.
I was being sarcastic. Or ironic. One of those. Everyone knows kids don't get failed anymore because we've adopted the Liberal method of not hurting anyone's feelings..... and thus the kids move grade-to-grade-to-grade having learn nothing. --- The libs also oppose testing kids to see if the teachers did their jobs (nearly-all the kids pass) or if the teacher sucks (kids fail).
Good question. ....... From the 19th century it has been used to designate a world or atmosphere where intellectuals engage in pursuits that are disconnected from the practical concerns of everyday life. As such, it usually carries pejorative connotations of a wilful disconnect from the everyday world; esoteric, over-specialized, or even useless research" - wikipedia
"In Judeo/Christian tradition, the term Ivory Tower is a symbol for noble purity. It originates with the Song of Solomon (7,4) ("Your neck is like an ivory tower")
The DNC educational platform is teaching that 2+2==3 is "not wrong" and the kid should be given praise because he tried hard. B for effort.
Both these parties suck hard.
Best thing that would improve TV would be a la carte. I would be willing to pay a base fee of $10 for local channels plus 1-2 dollars extra for Syfy, TCM, and..... well that's about it. BUT this would require action by the FCC to force NBC, ABC/Disney, and others to "unbundle" their channels rather than sell them as 6-7 channel groups. They won't do it voluntarily.
Sirius XM radio does a la carte (pay 8 dollars to choose any of 40 channels). No reason digital cable can't do it too.
No.
This sounds as dumb as Hulu's interactive ads... which I ignore. I have no interest in interacting with some ad disguised as a really lame game.
I get over 40 channels through my antenna (since the digital switchover divided stations into subchannels) and mostly watch them. Most of my favorite shows are reruns since older shows, like older movies, seem to be better than what we have now:
- Network: House, Fringe, Supernatural, Vampire Diaries (sometimes), movies (on weekends)
- Retrochannel: Twilight Zone, Hitchcock Presents, Dragnet, Car54, Three's Company, Star Trek TNG, Davinci's Inquest, etc
- RT News
- PBSworld
- Moviechannel: Mostly black-and-white classics
- qubo (for the kids)
- Hulu: Mostly syfy channel shows, plus anything else that catches my eye (like Masters of Horror and SF).
- uTorrent: When my local website offers holiday weekend freeleech, I download any movie with greater than 7 stars on imdb.com. Right now I have about 200 GB/250 movies that I haven't even watched.
I would apply the same process to this Train trip as I do to Airplane travel. How much time does it ACTUALLY cost, once you include (1) driving to the port/station (2) waiting upto 1 hour for your ride to arrive (3) the actual trip (4) waiting for your luggage at the conveyor belt (5) finding and paying-for a rental car on the opposite end (6) driving to your hotel.
Two years ago I did a lot of travel between Oklahoma City and Minneapolis, and I discovered that my coworkers who flew took almost as long as I did in my car. (10 versus 11 hours). I suspect this high-speed rail would have a similar result.
So I continued driving. And pocketed the ~$1000 I was paid for mileage. Basic Rule of Thumb: I will drive to my destination unless the trip is longer than one day.
They don't need a bill. The TSA has already been patting-down and inspecting luggage at train stations. Also bus depots. And at the post office, unemployment center, mall, and during the recent Chicago summit (including yanking people out of cars so they could prform illegal warrantless searches). The SS seems to have time-traveled from the 1940s to the present day America.
Why on earth does a PC need a "SecureBoot" anyway? It should be able to run anything you desire.
This is why I dropped dental insurance and just pay cash. My dentist even gives me a 10% for cash (or credit card) since she doesn't have to waste time on Medicare or insurance paperwork.
I can't watch youtube at work. Is there a text version of this?
I like the old "plugin" model of web browsers. If you want to see a JPEG, install JPEGview. If you want to hear an MP3 or AIFF, install a player. Over time though I guess all these plugins have been buried inside the browser code. Now the browser is expected to do it all automatically in one large massive program that eats a gigabyte of RAM.
>>>You do realize that Romney drafted a very similar plan?
Yeah he's a dick. At least his plan only affects his state, not me. (And if I lived there I'd pack up and leave.) Did you know his plan outlaws the catastrophic insurance I currently have? Ballshit. Why should I have to spend $500/month for "pay everything" insurance when I can spend just $110/month for emergency insurance that I don't use unless I get a major illness, like cancer. I should have the option to take the cheaper plan.
Divk.
Cocksucker.
Corporate puppet (like Obama)