This is an issue of what can be installed on federal computers? I believe there should be a list of what is allowed and everything else is disallowed. And NO ONE has admin access to their computer.
Come on people - federal security! Why the hell are they running MS OSes anyway?
I have a Dell Zino attached to my television. It's an AMD / ATI system with 3GB of memory. I have zero problems with it, though it did cost a fair amount, and it's a small form factor. Normally I would be interested in something with a slot loading drive but my dogs are often in the same room and their regular filth would be bad news for a slot loading optical drive. I like the tray even though I rarely use it.
It also has lots of USB (front and back) HDMI, eSATA, card reader on the front... fairly nice little box.
My friends use their XBox 360s and PS3s for watching DIVX files and a little bit of web surfing but I haven't gotten on the latest console train yet (no games I'm interested in).
The image I see for me using this would just be a shotgun blast of words spewing onto the screen without any particular form or direction. It takes so much control for me to just type a sentence without other thoughts crossing into the stream of words. Without the physical filter of selectively typing words it would become incoherent babble almost instantaneously.
I usually suspect the users of 'careless web activity' when I delouse a PC, but now I'm going to have to give some the benefit of the doubt."
I too have found myself in this situation and it is really difficult for me to not immediately jump to conclusions. To this day the only malware detected on my computers were put there by software I should have known better than to install. When I stopped installing that software I stopped having problems. But I know a lot of people who get viruses regularly and never use any warez and claim to be very careful about what they open from emails and where they browse on the web and which browsers they use.
One of my early jobs was at a local newspaper. I sliced my hands open pulling a workstation out from under a desk and didn't realize it for several minutes, all the time wondering why the computer was covered in some red liquid.
My experience is that it's really not that much cheaper. But rather it serves a different purpose. It is more for groups to play games and for casual gaming. The PS3 and XBox 360 tend to have games more designed for 'extreme gaming', online play, and long term commitment. Many of my friends who own a Wii say they only play it when friends are over and even at that haven't touched it in months. My friends who have a PS3 or XBox 360 play it at least every weekend, and often use it as a media player during the week.
The console is a tad cheaper and the games are a tad cheaper, but the peripherals, which make a Wii what it is, are expensive and plentiful. In order to play those group games successfully you need four controllers and likely four 'nun-chucks' which is $60 x four players. The PS3 controllers are $55 and the XBox 360 controllers are $35. Then there are balance boards and light sabers and gun attachments and who knows what else to go along with the Wii in order to play all the various motion games they have, most of which you will again want / need to have four of to get the 'full experience'. And now there's some "motion plus" thing to make the controllers more sensitive? Not interested, sorry.
I would expect a meteor impact to look more like this http://goo.gl/1gcU but maybe just because it's the only one I've seen in person. According to Google Earth the whole area is pretty flat with exception of the circle of depressed area where there is now a river.
Maybe it's some kind of ancient moat around a giant collapsed culture. The Chinese built a wall - what's to say an ancient culture didn't do the opposite and dig a trench.
Of course the censorship is a terrible thing. That's pretty much a given. But at least the government is sticking to their rules for all parties rather than bending them or making deals for 'influential' organizations.
It is far more likely that Apple knew they wouldn't win a lawsuit and hoped to scare a victory out of them instead. No one likes to be sued. It's bad for your reputation.
Hard drives are by far the best route. The only thing I might change would be to use a pre-packaged external disk array system. Depending on what you get out of your compression, a two or four drive external system with 1TB drives would suffice. You can get them in USB, Firewire, esata, and SCSI. A nice USB2 (or upcoming USB3) system would seem to make lots of sense and be acceptable by future systems. They tend to be fairly compact and have decent read / write speeds.
My main caveot with these things is that just because it's external does not mean it's particularly portable. The larger capacity devices use "desktop" hard drives which are more susceptible to movement than the smaller drives used in laptops. Give it time to power down before moving and move it as little as possible. I've seen too many of these things die because the user would move it while it was on or use it as a transport device. That is NOT what they are for.
The historic photos is actually one of the neat aspects that each of the groups providing this technology have pointed out. I believe it was first a college team demonstrating it a few years ago, but Microsoft also commented on being able to "walk through time" with this technology.
As for the cardboard cutouts - that sounds awesome. It would require image formats that allow high color and transparency and that either someone cut the images or that someone write really good auto cropping software (:
As reader donberryman points out, you can even put Android onto some Windows Mobile phones, now.
How is hacking Android onto hardware it wasn't designed for any different from hacking OS X onto hardware Apple doesn't support? I don't think you can count "misuse" as a fault of Google.
The rest of it, yes I can agree. There needs to be more specific handling of hardware and software requirements. But to be fair, RIM has a twisted inconsistency of which of their own devices can run which versions of the Blackberry software and what all of their capabilities are. Even Apple's line of iDevices and Macintosh computers have had issues over the years of which devices could do what.
These laws, rules, and regulations are in place because they're governing a population, not individuals. When dealing with populations you have to work by statistics. Statistics show that people in certain age groups have attained certain capacities to function in our society. They are given rights and freedoms to meet the stereotypical capacities of people of that particular age, with rules and punishments for individuals who break the rules for persons of their age.
Why did we choose this age? Historically this is the age when persons seemed to achieve the ability comprehend their society, culture, and rules well enough to function as a member of the group. Why did a different culture choose a different age? Same reason. Why did one culture change to match another? Because of the same reason they were aware of the other culture - we are now becoming a single world culture. With communication happening instantly around the world (and into space!) and transportation to anywhere in the world taking less than a day the world is shrinking. Common rules between governing bodies have been developing, likely, for centuries.
But I feel I haven't directly answered your question.
What is the source of society's attitudes toward the free-speech rights of 17-year-olds?
Because we think that generally speaking people who have not reached the age of 18 are a bunch of emotionally charged twits who are more likely to spew angst filled hate than provide anything constructive. They're scientifically proven to be less in control of their own actions and easily swayed by their peers and civilization. Puberty is still wreaking havoc on their psychology and the people defining the rules are aware of the unstable nature of this group because they experienced it first hand.
As far as I know, the only people who need your SSN is the government. If anyone else asks for it the answer is "No.". Now there are some companies who need it in order to process through to a government agency, like medical business needing to redeem government funding to cover your medical costs. But that's for the government. Anyone that isn't getting money for you from the government does not need your SSN.
Literally NO ONE that I know uses Internet Explorer. If it's a computer that I set up for someone else I install Firefox AND Chrome and explain to them the values of IE, FF, and Ch, and months later I'm still seeing them using Firefox.
Ok I take that back. Some of my coworkers (and myself I suppose) use IE for some Cisco and HP devices that have clunky web interfaces. But those browsing sessions don't get registered on these kinds of reports and certainly don't add up to 40%.
I'd like to see a list of what sites are being browsed with what browsers. I bet that would be a very telling set of statistics as well.
I hadn't heard anything about them in perhaps a decade. I can't believe they're still around! Didn't they used to have a desktop line too? Or am I thinking of someone else altogether?
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I've just been printing my own EnergyStar stickers. Why waste time with bogus product tests?
This is an issue of what can be installed on federal computers? I believe there should be a list of what is allowed and everything else is disallowed. And NO ONE has admin access to their computer.
Come on people - federal security! Why the hell are they running MS OSes anyway?
"What's the Best Way To Get Web Content To My TV?"
You have not answered the question.
I have a Dell Zino attached to my television. It's an AMD / ATI system with 3GB of memory. I have zero problems with it, though it did cost a fair amount, and it's a small form factor. Normally I would be interested in something with a slot loading drive but my dogs are often in the same room and their regular filth would be bad news for a slot loading optical drive. I like the tray even though I rarely use it.
It also has lots of USB (front and back) HDMI, eSATA, card reader on the front ... fairly nice little box.
My friends use their XBox 360s and PS3s for watching DIVX files and a little bit of web surfing but I haven't gotten on the latest console train yet (no games I'm interested in).
The image I see for me using this would just be a shotgun blast of words spewing onto the screen without any particular form or direction. It takes so much control for me to just type a sentence without other thoughts crossing into the stream of words. Without the physical filter of selectively typing words it would become incoherent babble almost instantaneously.
Damn that was a workout.
I usually suspect the users of 'careless web activity' when I delouse a PC, but now I'm going to have to give some the benefit of the doubt."
I too have found myself in this situation and it is really difficult for me to not immediately jump to conclusions. To this day the only malware detected on my computers were put there by software I should have known better than to install. When I stopped installing that software I stopped having problems. But I know a lot of people who get viruses regularly and never use any warez and claim to be very careful about what they open from emails and where they browse on the web and which browsers they use.
One of my early jobs was at a local newspaper. I sliced my hands open pulling a workstation out from under a desk and didn't realize it for several minutes, all the time wondering why the computer was covered in some red liquid.
My experience is that it's really not that much cheaper. But rather it serves a different purpose. It is more for groups to play games and for casual gaming. The PS3 and XBox 360 tend to have games more designed for 'extreme gaming', online play, and long term commitment. Many of my friends who own a Wii say they only play it when friends are over and even at that haven't touched it in months. My friends who have a PS3 or XBox 360 play it at least every weekend, and often use it as a media player during the week.
The console is a tad cheaper and the games are a tad cheaper, but the peripherals, which make a Wii what it is, are expensive and plentiful. In order to play those group games successfully you need four controllers and likely four 'nun-chucks' which is $60 x four players. The PS3 controllers are $55 and the XBox 360 controllers are $35. Then there are balance boards and light sabers and gun attachments and who knows what else to go along with the Wii in order to play all the various motion games they have, most of which you will again want / need to have four of to get the 'full experience'. And now there's some "motion plus" thing to make the controllers more sensitive? Not interested, sorry.
I would expect a meteor impact to look more like this http://goo.gl/1gcU but maybe just because it's the only one I've seen in person. According to Google Earth the whole area is pretty flat with exception of the circle of depressed area where there is now a river.
Maybe it's some kind of ancient moat around a giant collapsed culture. The Chinese built a wall - what's to say an ancient culture didn't do the opposite and dig a trench.
Of course the censorship is a terrible thing. That's pretty much a given. But at least the government is sticking to their rules for all parties rather than bending them or making deals for 'influential' organizations.
It is far more likely that Apple knew they wouldn't win a lawsuit and hoped to scare a victory out of them instead. No one likes to be sued. It's bad for your reputation.
Hard drives are by far the best route. The only thing I might change would be to use a pre-packaged external disk array system. Depending on what you get out of your compression, a two or four drive external system with 1TB drives would suffice. You can get them in USB, Firewire, esata, and SCSI. A nice USB2 (or upcoming USB3) system would seem to make lots of sense and be acceptable by future systems. They tend to be fairly compact and have decent read / write speeds.
My main caveot with these things is that just because it's external does not mean it's particularly portable. The larger capacity devices use "desktop" hard drives which are more susceptible to movement than the smaller drives used in laptops. Give it time to power down before moving and move it as little as possible. I've seen too many of these things die because the user would move it while it was on or use it as a transport device. That is NOT what they are for.
On AT&T? Not interested.
On someone else's network? Yeah, maybe. How about an Android app?
The historic photos is actually one of the neat aspects that each of the groups providing this technology have pointed out. I believe it was first a college team demonstrating it a few years ago, but Microsoft also commented on being able to "walk through time" with this technology.
As for the cardboard cutouts - that sounds awesome. It would require image formats that allow high color and transparency and that either someone cut the images or that someone write really good auto cropping software (:
I noticed this last week sometime. My first thought when I see this technology is always "damn that's a lot of maths".
As reader donberryman points out, you can even put Android onto some Windows Mobile phones, now.
How is hacking Android onto hardware it wasn't designed for any different from hacking OS X onto hardware Apple doesn't support? I don't think you can count "misuse" as a fault of Google.
The rest of it, yes I can agree. There needs to be more specific handling of hardware and software requirements. But to be fair, RIM has a twisted inconsistency of which of their own devices can run which versions of the Blackberry software and what all of their capabilities are. Even Apple's line of iDevices and Macintosh computers have had issues over the years of which devices could do what.
These laws, rules, and regulations are in place because they're governing a population, not individuals. When dealing with populations you have to work by statistics. Statistics show that people in certain age groups have attained certain capacities to function in our society. They are given rights and freedoms to meet the stereotypical capacities of people of that particular age, with rules and punishments for individuals who break the rules for persons of their age.
Why did we choose this age? Historically this is the age when persons seemed to achieve the ability comprehend their society, culture, and rules well enough to function as a member of the group. Why did a different culture choose a different age? Same reason. Why did one culture change to match another? Because of the same reason they were aware of the other culture - we are now becoming a single world culture. With communication happening instantly around the world (and into space!) and transportation to anywhere in the world taking less than a day the world is shrinking. Common rules between governing bodies have been developing, likely, for centuries.
But I feel I haven't directly answered your question.
What is the source of society's attitudes toward the free-speech rights of 17-year-olds?
Because we think that generally speaking people who have not reached the age of 18 are a bunch of emotionally charged twits who are more likely to spew angst filled hate than provide anything constructive. They're scientifically proven to be less in control of their own actions and easily swayed by their peers and civilization. Puberty is still wreaking havoc on their psychology and the people defining the rules are aware of the unstable nature of this group because they experienced it first hand.
This guy did it a while back with considerably less hardware, though it takes his rig a bit more time to get the puzzle done ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htnL1KTpaY8
I agree, and it's already being done in other more mathematically complex games like Supreme Commander.
Though I do prefer hexes to squares.
As far as I know, the only people who need your SSN is the government. If anyone else asks for it the answer is "No.". Now there are some companies who need it in order to process through to a government agency, like medical business needing to redeem government funding to cover your medical costs. But that's for the government. Anyone that isn't getting money for you from the government does not need your SSN.
Cancel your cable. War won.
Not only that, but you don't have to watch their shitty ads anymore! Winning wars you didn't know you were fighting!
Yay!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kw6uZNz3i1g
Microsoft Licensing, MOTHER FUCKER, do you speak it?
I'm building a coffee table in my garage. NASA probably wouldn't pass my engineering for space use :(
Literally NO ONE that I know uses Internet Explorer. If it's a computer that I set up for someone else I install Firefox AND Chrome and explain to them the values of IE, FF, and Ch, and months later I'm still seeing them using Firefox.
Ok I take that back. Some of my coworkers (and myself I suppose) use IE for some Cisco and HP devices that have clunky web interfaces. But those browsing sessions don't get registered on these kinds of reports and certainly don't add up to 40%.
I'd like to see a list of what sites are being browsed with what browsers. I bet that would be a very telling set of statistics as well.
I hadn't heard anything about them in perhaps a decade. I can't believe they're still around! Didn't they used to have a desktop line too? Or am I thinking of someone else altogether?