But making a new bureacracy? Trying to find ways of setting a bar for competance over very, very broad fields of study? Systems are already in place to weed out the incompetant.
Heck, you could use the easiest a fee for entry into your political party. What's the fee going to be? $100 a week, a month, a year, or a decade? I'd describe myself as more likely to spend $100 a decade rather than $100 a year (though I could tech. afford it. I'd rather spend that money on actual computer stuff rather than "politics.") But that's basically how we define competence. It's not what you know or who you know; it's how much you make and can afford to spend bending the right others to your will.;)
Why is it 'appalling' and 'unacceptable'? You do not own Facebook, and when you created an account, you pretty much waived your rights. If I recall correctly, Facebook is still a privately-owned company. They can block whatever they want, whenever they want, for as long as they want.
Since when have companies suddenly gained the right to censor everyone's speech on their property just because they are company? If I go to Disney world, can I not mention any other cartoon themed parks like six flags while there or if I do will I be silenced by the Disney World Censorship squad?
Sure, companies might like their employees not to mention their competitors, but the only ones that they can reasonably demand that behavior of are paid actors in their ad slots. We kinda think that it's o.k. with cussing and what not. That's one thing with a very short list that generally should be avoided in most business communications be it verbal or written in any form. Talking about for or against other companies though shouldn't just be restricted, automatically while you are at work.
The general rule of thumb is just don't say that you work at the company, and the company will deny that you exist. If you start shouting that you work there and bad mouth the company, then come on expect some administrative action against you.
Can a computer REALLY be called "on the internet" if it can't look at youtube videos? No offense, but please go die.
My eight year old wants a laptop. I've seriously thought about getting something like this for her. Now she mainly place flash web games or watches you tube. So I'm not interested in a cheap laptop that doesn't do those two things.
So although you may be feeling "old" that youtube is the internet, todays generation demands things like facebook/myspace/youtube to be the internet. It's like saying is internet really the internet without slashdot? I mean if you can't do what you want or have previously been able to do, why would you be interested in that platform again?
You mean that I'd finally be able to afford a house there?
Well, no, but after 20 years you could retire and build a McMansion in Arkansas. I know a group of families that the grandparents have their family estate and all the young teens go off to their union jobs for their 20 years or so and come back and either build or buy from a family member their mini mansion. O.k. during that 20 years they may live like a monk, but they sure do retire early in style and with the cash/pension to afford lots of toys.
Is there no choice in the USofA to join a union or do I understand this wrongly?
Blame it on the US version of the Unions and "mob like democrats" of that era. It's many times an all or nothing thing. The unions use mob like tactics against non-union employees to try to make sure everyone in their field is in their union even if it would make more sense not to be. It sounds like what you were describing were unions as political parties, which sound like decent idea. I wouldn't mind joining an IT "union" political party rather than being a republican or democrat.
I work at a police department and all the police folks have 3 different unions that they can join if they want. It's really up to them and their unions are far more of a political parties than traditional US unions. Police just aren't allowed to strike. All they are really allowed to do is lobby for the individual police person's interest.
To contrast though we have walmart.
The best example of running a business without a union is walmart. Walmart shows that it is much better for the business to be dynamic without union employees and their hassles than hiring a single union employee. If unionized stores could compete, than you'd have all them with lower prices than walmart, which none of them have.
Bend the laws to make it unprofitable to offshore. Spread beyond IT, many of us EE/CS/ME types feel the same pain you do. I'd pay dues for an organization that had real power in Washington for issues I care about.
It's all about control. We don't want to have a union and standards that everyone has to met in order to be unionized, yet we want to have those high paying jobs be mandated to be in the US and not else where in the world where its much cheaper to employee a person doing the same thing. We really do need some sort of global IT union. We don't want any mandatory union or union standards, we'd like to pay a small fee and have our jobs magically safe guarded from those evil low wage/low benefit foreigners.
I did. I thought hmm, I'd want all the data loaded from a CF card that would be set to wipe if either an incorrect or emergency password were entered. Heck, you could even have a secure CF card that was guaranteed to wipe once its emergency code was sent. Basically, you've got to reformat and copy from another card if you want to reuse it. Or if you really want to go scifi you could have the card and phone turn to dust once the emergency code is entered.
Heck, 8 GB flash cards should be more than enough to store all your average top secret spreadsheet/db files from whomever, unless you've got A/V that you need to protect. Then you've got to wait until 1 TB cards come out.
Data has a speed of 60 Teraflops and 100 petabytes of storage.
Data is just pure bloat then... there have been many other fictional AIs that fit in mere K. There are times when I think that we could have a 100 yottaflop, 100 googolflop, or 100 googolplexflop computer and still not have developed AI.
I don't think the Chinese are worse than most people in the world. I just think they have a scary form of government that is becoming more and more influential and not really getting more humane or free as their economy matures. It's dangerous for the world to learn that you can make piles of money without freedom.
I find this very funny like it was a surprise that we've known that dictators can make massive piles of cash for their family. Oh I guess you mean that business has found that it's very profitable to run in near dictator level government as long as the government and people are neutral towards you. I'm not really that surprised. The US and EU have poor history vision and some how think that all of history was just like their current government and the rich/merchant classes didn't get that way from exploiting everyone else. Rolls eyes.
Transmeta has tried, Godson has already tried, and both have yet to make a dent. It's just another knockoff that will not take off. Like a lot of things from China, reliability will be suspect, not to mention any willful patent infringement.
Unlike either of those two, they don't have the backing of a government will over a billion people in it. If they only make a CPU that's an ARM clone to run their cell phones and something that is slightly more robust than a Barbie PC, then I'd call it success if they manage to rollout a few hundred million of them to the chinese public.
Intel will lose if they can't make hyper super cheap computers for China. I don't know if the chinese can do that, but they've got more incentive to do it than intel does. Intel can just play in their current market while these unknown cheap chinese folks come out of now where and it 10, 20, 30 years have e $1-5 chip that is just as fast as Intel's latest.
While anglophones are quick to suggest "Just Learn American!", that probably isn't going to work out so smoothly. If the western computer and telecommunications industry expects China to fit into the english/ASCII/QWERTY mould, they are probably going to be disappointed. The reality is that sooner or later, western tech is going to have to fit into the China mould. Otherwise, the Chinese will fill that mold themselves.
The sad part is that it would most likely be easier for the Chinese to adopt English rather than try to make their character set computer friendly. O.k. They could just come up with their own character set that includes every single one of those thousands of chinese symbols. They'd have two choices from there though. Design a new chinese keyboard (very possible) or try to adapt an querty keyboard to access those thousands of characters... I shudder to think it, but they'd have to force chinese to fit into the querty character set just for entry... Damn difficult/annoying task that. I'd hope with 1 billion people thinking about it that they could design an input device that lets them use their native language rather than adopt english.
You mean that a *clean* install of Firefox 3 is slower than a *clean* install of Firefox 2? I call you are lying. Granted if you have 50 extensions running in Firefox 3 and some about:config tweaks that do more harm than good, Firefox 2 might be faster.
Well, the only thing that I have in FF3 that its importing is bookmarks. I don't have any about:config tweaks. I had PDF Download and weather extensions loaded. I uninstalled the weather one. If FF3 can't handle a single damn extension, then I get upset. I generally only ever load up to 5 if ever. Now you clam that I'm lying. No, I'm not FF3 just runs slower. XP Pro service pack 2 with 1 GB of ram, and then 2 XP Home machines with 512 MB of Ram with FF3 the only damn app running. Hey, I generally like FireFox, but I don't really see that this version was all that. I've looked up and reading around and can't find anything except positive feedback on FF3... I call lying there. When I experience poor performance on an average setup and every "review" just claims that the app is ten times better than the previous version, I start to think that the writers just love saying the new is better than the old and discount the source for anything important in the future.
OK. We can compare it to FF3 beta, then. That was fast as hell.
When are they going to release that? The FF3 that I got is painfully slower than FF2 for me on three completely different machines. I've yet to notice anything that would make a user want FF3 over FF2.
As for smiling Bob, if you notice the commercials they never once state "this will make your dick bigger". Its assumed by innuendo. They claim "male enhancement" which can mean just about anything. Maybe you will lose weight, or maybe you will have more energy...but there are millions of ways you can interpret those commercials which was what really bothered me about the commercials in the first place. However, the innuendo was so strong that you had to think they were claiming their product increases dick size.
I must be clueless. I saw the commercial and was like WTF are they trying to sell! I couldn't figure it out at all and didn't think that the answer would please me if I googled it so I left it alone. Now, I find the answer on slashdot. Oh fun.
Here is a question do those feet scrapper things actually work or are they scams? I'm just highly curious on that one. That's got to be the grossest commercial that I've ever seen, and I hoped that product was really worked. There are days that I think all TV commercials need to be FDA approved.
If I got scammed on something, I'd be livid, and I'd have the time, money, and skills to try to get the cops involved.
If I got scammed, I'd be mad at myself. That said, I'd still go to the cops.
When I finally start up selling snake oil or religion for profit ala Ron Hubbard, I'm going to have to use exercise as a condition for rewards to the after life or for what ever the snake oil is to activate. If you haven't been properly exercising daily for the past month, my snake oil won't work on you. If you haven't committed the past decade to exercising properly, you ain't getting in that afterlife.
So far, I'm not getting into that afterlife either.;) I think that I'd be fairly safe from the cops and medical community. What are they going to say that exercise is bad for you if it is for religious reasons or with a placebo?
Many people see tax evasion as a victimless crime, or are happy to do it because they don't like the government. Others, who may realize it's wrong, justify it by telling themselves that "everyone else is doing it".
Now if you were talking about crimes which we all can agree are immoral - murder, rape, Microsoft, etc - then you'd have a point. But when it comes to tax evasion, EVERYONE has their price.
Sort of makes having use fees for most government services make sense. If you want fire service or police service, then you've got to pay 'em up front before they'll come to your aid. Cause they know your credit sucks so its not worth it to provide you with any services. That kinda sucks doesn't it? Well, that's the best solution to stop most folks from "cheating" on taxes to evade government services that they don't want. The hard part will be with things like roads that will mean all the sudden most public roads become toll roads since they couldn't be sure to collect gas taxes from you or the gas stations.
Government won't be open source until we invent free labor and not just forcing people into the labor that they don't want to do, but some one thinks is needed.
I always make a point of paying in cash at local family-owned businesses whenever I can. Times are tough for those folks, and I can assure you that they appreciate a cash transaction.
I always pay with checks or debit cards and tip in cash. I never really thought about it, but that does force them to submit proper tax records to the city. They shouldn't get out of paying taxes just because they are "small businesses." Small business owners like that should go to jail.
I think Americans in general are too impatient. The longer you wait, the more appreciated the payoff. If you are so hungry that you can't wait 50 minutes for a pizza, you're either way too busy, or need to just eat a little more often...
No not really. I got to McDonald's for lunch because I can pick it up in less than 5 minutes from ordering it there. It takes about 15-20 minutes to drive anywhere in my town. There should be no reason to speed to make a delivery under 30 minutes here.
When I go to McDonald's for lunch, I can usually get there, get the food, and get back under 10 minutes. So don't tell me I'm impatient. If it takes a lazy driver 50 minutes to deliver, I could bake a damn pizza our selves in less time, or even worse go to walmart buy a stack of pizzas, come home and bake them in less time. Heck even if we went out to Pizza we'd expect them to be able to cook it and put it infront of us reasonably fast. Under 20-30 minutes generally for any food place. Heck, the most I've ever had to wait for food was an hour when a place was packed.
That's so damn low. Why can't they think about it sort like milk? We've got whole milk, 2%, 1%, and skim milk. Obviously there is a market for no, 1%, 2%, and 100% testing.
Used to be, there were four things we did better than anyone else: music movies microcode high-speed pizza delivery
You're really trying to cross things off that list as fast as you can, aren't you?
High-speed pizza delivery we had somewhere in the 80s-90s, but we lost in before 2000 in my area. Unless you consider high-speed delivery to be 45-50 minutes. It's a shame when we grew up with under 30 minutes or free.
Now movies and music you could have crossed most of them off in the 80s. Remember the whole British invasion.;) Heck, how many movies/TV series are made in the US now a days? They are made in NZ or Canada.
Mirocode isn't a field that I'm familiar with. Maybe you could tell me if we do that better than the folks from Tiawan, Japan, China, India, or EU?
I think this should be highly illegal. What about the whole secure in your person, papers, and property bit? This is like copying all your papers and transactions for the past few months so that they can just look at them when ever! If the law enforcement needs this, it needs to be required by law that they need a warrant signed by a judge to use!
On corporate phones/PDAs, it's completely impractical to say that you aren't going to have a data/charging port. You've pretty much have to have one. Now, initially, I could see the default to be to work with any device. If you or your IT department wants the device secured, then they'd have to read the manual and set it up, any computer that you hooked the phone up to could work, but you'd need at a min a username/password before you are given access to the device. (There is a part of me that would like little finger print readers/retina scans in the phone and you'd have to have the person their to unlock the phone before it could be used with other devices. Let's remember if they've got you and your device physically, there really isn't much you can do to defend yourself at that point.
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I think that they'd have been better to have named it something nicer like SpySpace.
Of course, it could have been worse and been something like asspace.
But making a new bureacracy? Trying to find ways of setting a bar for competance over very, very broad fields of study? Systems are already in place to weed out the incompetant.
Heck, you could use the easiest a fee for entry into your political party. What's the fee going to be? $100 a week, a month, a year, or a decade? I'd describe myself as more likely to spend $100 a decade rather than $100 a year (though I could tech. afford it. I'd rather spend that money on actual computer stuff rather than "politics.") But that's basically how we define competence. It's not what you know or who you know; it's how much you make and can afford to spend bending the right others to your will. ;)
Why is it 'appalling' and 'unacceptable'? You do not own Facebook, and when you created an account, you pretty much waived your rights. If I recall correctly, Facebook is still a privately-owned company. They can block whatever they want, whenever they want, for as long as they want.
Since when have companies suddenly gained the right to censor everyone's speech on their property just because they are company? If I go to Disney world, can I not mention any other cartoon themed parks like six flags while there or if I do will I be silenced by the Disney World Censorship squad?
Sure, companies might like their employees not to mention their competitors, but the only ones that they can reasonably demand that behavior of are paid actors in their ad slots. We kinda think that it's o.k. with cussing and what not. That's one thing with a very short list that generally should be avoided in most business communications be it verbal or written in any form. Talking about for or against other companies though shouldn't just be restricted, automatically while you are at work.
The general rule of thumb is just don't say that you work at the company, and the company will deny that you exist. If you start shouting that you work there and bad mouth the company, then come on expect some administrative action against you.
4. Nerdy chicks dig Priuses.
This is all slashdot really needs to know.
I want looks, style, performance...and if they throw in the mileage, I'm interested.
You mean why can't we have hybrids that look like this http://www.fordvehicles.com/cars/mustang/ ?
Can a computer REALLY be called "on the internet" if it can't look at youtube videos?
No offense, but please go die.
My eight year old wants a laptop. I've seriously thought about getting something like this for her. Now she mainly place flash web games or watches you tube. So I'm not interested in a cheap laptop that doesn't do those two things.
So although you may be feeling "old" that youtube is the internet, todays generation demands things like facebook/myspace/youtube to be the internet. It's like saying is internet really the internet without slashdot? I mean if you can't do what you want or have previously been able to do, why would you be interested in that platform again?
You mean that I'd finally be able to afford a house there?
Well, no, but after 20 years you could retire and build a McMansion in Arkansas. I know a group of families that the grandparents have their family estate and all the young teens go off to their union jobs for their 20 years or so and come back and either build or buy from a family member their mini mansion. O.k. during that 20 years they may live like a monk, but they sure do retire early in style and with the cash/pension to afford lots of toys.
Is there no choice in the USofA to join a union or do I understand this wrongly?
Blame it on the US version of the Unions and "mob like democrats" of that era. It's many times an all or nothing thing. The unions use mob like tactics against non-union employees to try to make sure everyone in their field is in their union even if it would make more sense not to be. It sounds like what you were describing were unions as political parties, which sound like decent idea. I wouldn't mind joining an IT "union" political party rather than being a republican or democrat.
I work at a police department and all the police folks have 3 different unions that they can join if they want. It's really up to them and their unions are far more of a political parties than traditional US unions. Police just aren't allowed to strike. All they are really allowed to do is lobby for the individual police person's interest.
To contrast though we have walmart.
The best example of running a business without a union is walmart. Walmart shows that it is much better for the business to be dynamic without union employees and their hassles than hiring a single union employee. If unionized stores could compete, than you'd have all them with lower prices than walmart, which none of them have.
Bend the laws to make it unprofitable to offshore. Spread beyond IT, many of us EE/CS/ME types feel the same pain you do. I'd pay dues for an organization that had real power in Washington for issues I care about.
It's all about control. We don't want to have a union and standards that everyone has to met in order to be unionized, yet we want to have those high paying jobs be mandated to be in the US and not else where in the world where its much cheaper to employee a person doing the same thing. We really do need some sort of global IT union. We don't want any mandatory union or union standards, we'd like to pay a small fee and have our jobs magically safe guarded from those evil low wage/low benefit foreigners.
Talk about wanting your cake and eating it too.
...who took one look at this and thought "good."
I did. I thought hmm, I'd want all the data loaded from a CF card that would be set to wipe if either an incorrect or emergency password were entered. Heck, you could even have a secure CF card that was guaranteed to wipe once its emergency code was sent. Basically, you've got to reformat and copy from another card if you want to reuse it. Or if you really want to go scifi you could have the card and phone turn to dust once the emergency code is entered.
Heck, 8 GB flash cards should be more than enough to store all your average top secret spreadsheet/db files from whomever, unless you've got A/V that you need to protect. Then you've got to wait until 1 TB cards come out.
Data has a speed of 60 Teraflops and 100 petabytes of storage.
Data is just pure bloat then... there have been many other fictional AIs that fit in mere K. There are times when I think that we could have a 100 yottaflop, 100 googolflop, or 100 googolplexflop computer and still not have developed AI.
I don't think the Chinese are worse than most people in the world. I just think they have a scary form of government that is becoming more and more influential and not really getting more humane or free as their economy matures. It's dangerous for the world to learn that you can make piles of money without freedom.
I find this very funny like it was a surprise that we've known that dictators can make massive piles of cash for their family. Oh I guess you mean that business has found that it's very profitable to run in near dictator level government as long as the government and people are neutral towards you. I'm not really that surprised. The US and EU have poor history vision and some how think that all of history was just like their current government and the rich/merchant classes didn't get that way from exploiting everyone else. Rolls eyes.
Transmeta has tried, Godson has already tried, and both have yet to make a dent. It's just another knockoff that will not take off.
Like a lot of things from China, reliability will be suspect, not to mention any willful patent infringement.
Unlike either of those two, they don't have the backing of a government will over a billion people in it. If they only make a CPU that's an ARM clone to run their cell phones and something that is slightly more robust than a Barbie PC, then I'd call it success if they manage to rollout a few hundred million of them to the chinese public.
Intel will lose if they can't make hyper super cheap computers for China. I don't know if the chinese can do that, but they've got more incentive to do it than intel does. Intel can just play in their current market while these unknown cheap chinese folks come out of now where and it 10, 20, 30 years have e $1-5 chip that is just as fast as Intel's latest.
While anglophones are quick to suggest "Just Learn American!", that probably isn't going to work out so smoothly. If the western computer and telecommunications industry expects China to fit into the english/ASCII/QWERTY mould, they are probably going to be disappointed. The reality is that sooner or later, western tech is going to have to fit into the China mould. Otherwise, the Chinese will fill that mold themselves.
The sad part is that it would most likely be easier for the Chinese to adopt English rather than try to make their character set computer friendly. O.k. They could just come up with their own character set that includes every single one of those thousands of chinese symbols. They'd have two choices from there though. Design a new chinese keyboard (very possible) or try to adapt an querty keyboard to access those thousands of characters... I shudder to think it, but they'd have to force chinese to fit into the querty character set just for entry... Damn difficult/annoying task that. I'd hope with 1 billion people thinking about it that they could design an input device that lets them use their native language rather than adopt english.
You mean that a *clean* install of Firefox 3 is slower than a *clean* install of Firefox 2? I call you are lying. Granted if you have 50 extensions running in Firefox 3 and some about:config tweaks that do more harm than good, Firefox 2 might be faster.
Well, the only thing that I have in FF3 that its importing is bookmarks. I don't have any about:config tweaks. I had PDF Download and weather extensions loaded. I uninstalled the weather one. If FF3 can't handle a single damn extension, then I get upset. I generally only ever load up to 5 if ever. Now you clam that I'm lying. No, I'm not FF3 just runs slower. XP Pro service pack 2 with 1 GB of ram, and then 2 XP Home machines with 512 MB of Ram with FF3 the only damn app running. Hey, I generally like FireFox, but I don't really see that this version was all that. I've looked up and reading around and can't find anything except positive feedback on FF3... I call lying there. When I experience poor performance on an average setup and every "review" just claims that the app is ten times better than the previous version, I start to think that the writers just love saying the new is better than the old and discount the source for anything important in the future.
I think that the current poll is "Which Fanboys Make You Cringe the Most?"
As a firefox user, I've gotta admit FF fanboys make me cringe the most.
OK. We can compare it to FF3 beta, then. That was fast as hell.
When are they going to release that? The FF3 that I got is painfully slower than FF2 for me on three completely different machines. I've yet to notice anything that would make a user want FF3 over FF2.
As for smiling Bob, if you notice the commercials they never once state "this will make your dick bigger". Its assumed by innuendo. They claim "male enhancement" which can mean just about anything. Maybe you will lose weight, or maybe you will have more energy...but there are millions of ways you can interpret those commercials which was what really bothered me about the commercials in the first place. However, the innuendo was so strong that you had to think they were claiming their product increases dick size.
I must be clueless. I saw the commercial and was like WTF are they trying to sell! I couldn't figure it out at all and didn't think that the answer would please me if I googled it so I left it alone. Now, I find the answer on slashdot. Oh fun.
Here is a question do those feet scrapper things actually work or are they scams? I'm just highly curious on that one. That's got to be the grossest commercial that I've ever seen, and I hoped that product was really worked. There are days that I think all TV commercials need to be FDA approved.
If I got scammed on something, I'd be livid, and I'd have the time, money, and skills to try to get the cops involved.
If I got scammed, I'd be mad at myself.
That said, I'd still go to the cops.
When I finally start up selling snake oil or religion for profit ala Ron Hubbard, I'm going to have to use exercise as a condition for rewards to the after life or for what ever the snake oil is to activate. If you haven't been properly exercising daily for the past month, my snake oil won't work on you. If you haven't committed the past decade to exercising properly, you ain't getting in that afterlife.
So far, I'm not getting into that afterlife either. ;) I think that I'd be fairly safe from the cops and medical community. What are they going to say that exercise is bad for you if it is for religious reasons or with a placebo?
Many people see tax evasion as a victimless crime, or are happy to do it because they don't like the government. Others, who may realize it's wrong, justify it by telling themselves that "everyone else is doing it".
Now if you were talking about crimes which we all can agree are immoral - murder, rape, Microsoft, etc - then you'd have a point. But when it comes to tax evasion, EVERYONE has their price.
Sort of makes having use fees for most government services make sense. If you want fire service or police service, then you've got to pay 'em up front before they'll come to your aid. Cause they know your credit sucks so its not worth it to provide you with any services. That kinda sucks doesn't it? Well, that's the best solution to stop most folks from "cheating" on taxes to evade government services that they don't want. The hard part will be with things like roads that will mean all the sudden most public roads become toll roads since they couldn't be sure to collect gas taxes from you or the gas stations.
Government won't be open source until we invent free labor and not just forcing people into the labor that they don't want to do, but some one thinks is needed.
I always make a point of paying in cash at local family-owned businesses whenever I can. Times are tough for those folks, and I can assure you that they appreciate a cash transaction.
I always pay with checks or debit cards and tip in cash. I never really thought about it, but that does force them to submit proper tax records to the city. They shouldn't get out of paying taxes just because they are "small businesses." Small business owners like that should go to jail.
I think Americans in general are too impatient. The longer you wait, the more appreciated the payoff. If you are so hungry that you can't wait 50 minutes for a pizza, you're either way too busy, or need to just eat a little more often...
No not really. I got to McDonald's for lunch because I can pick it up in less than 5 minutes from ordering it there. It takes about 15-20 minutes to drive anywhere in my town. There should be no reason to speed to make a delivery under 30 minutes here.
When I go to McDonald's for lunch, I can usually get there, get the food, and get back under 10 minutes. So don't tell me I'm impatient. If it takes a lazy driver 50 minutes to deliver, I could bake a damn pizza our selves in less time, or even worse go to walmart buy a stack of pizzas, come home and bake them in less time. Heck even if we went out to Pizza we'd expect them to be able to cook it and put it infront of us reasonably fast. Under 20-30 minutes generally for any food place. Heck, the most I've ever had to wait for food was an hour when a place was packed.
That's so damn low. Why can't they think about it sort like milk? We've got whole milk, 2%, 1%, and skim milk. Obviously there is a market for no, 1%, 2%, and 100% testing.
Used to be, there were four things we did better than anyone else:
music
movies
microcode
high-speed pizza delivery
You're really trying to cross things off that list as fast as you can, aren't you?
High-speed pizza delivery we had somewhere in the 80s-90s, but we lost in before 2000 in my area. Unless you consider high-speed delivery to be 45-50 minutes. It's a shame when we grew up with under 30 minutes or free.
Now movies and music you could have crossed most of them off in the 80s. Remember the whole British invasion. ;) Heck, how many movies/TV series are made in the US now a days? They are made in NZ or Canada.
Mirocode isn't a field that I'm familiar with. Maybe you could tell me if we do that better than the folks from Tiawan, Japan, China, India, or EU?
I think this should be highly illegal. What about the whole secure in your person, papers, and property bit? This is like copying all your papers and transactions for the past few months so that they can just look at them when ever! If the law enforcement needs this, it needs to be required by law that they need a warrant signed by a judge to use!
On corporate phones/PDAs, it's completely impractical to say that you aren't going to have a data/charging port. You've pretty much have to have one. Now, initially, I could see the default to be to work with any device. If you or your IT department wants the device secured, then they'd have to read the manual and set it up, any computer that you hooked the phone up to could work, but you'd need at a min a username/password before you are given access to the device. (There is a part of me that would like little finger print readers/retina scans in the phone and you'd have to have the person their to unlock the phone before it could be used with other devices. Let's remember if they've got you and your device physically, there really isn't much you can do to defend yourself at that point.