What they should do is open the API used for many of hte.mac features, so I can use the webdrive and isync stuff with my own servers, rather than using up apple's bandwidth.
In reality, long term studies show that everyone basically needs 8 hours of sleep per night. If you don't get it, you build up a sleep debt.. which you always repay in time. The doctors studying this were surprised at exactly how accurate this sleep debt was, even in extreme cases.
You mean, people are sharing information.. DIRECTLY, rather than through some services that filters it for them to tell them what they are allowed to share?
You use a credit card to fund your paypal account. As long as this was not fraudulent, the credit card company is under no obligation to cancel anything.
You then use your paypal account to pay for something, and that turns out to be fraudulent. In this case, why should the credit card company be responsible? They acted in good faith.
In this parent post, however, paypal told the guy he was covered, when in fact he was not. This is fraudulent behavior on their part.. that's why he should cancel the original transaction with his card company.. because paypal acted fraudulently.
I agree, ebay should do what is reasonable to help out, but, isn't one of the basic concepts behind it that the actual transaction is NOT ebay's responsbility? It's up to you to make sure you are not paying someone for junk; there are escrow services, etc. You know who the seller is, if they defraud you, you take them to court.
They can be better; however, we all share the roads, so we set some common rules to live by. How much faster do you get where you are going if you speed like a maniac?
Also, yes, perhaps you do have better reaction times. What about the reaction times of people driving other vehicles who are not expecting you to come whipping around the corner at double the speed limit, or the kid crossing the road who knows he has a few seconds once he sees a car come around the corner to get out of the way.
I also notice you say intoxicated.. are we talking about alcohol here, or something else?
So short of having speed limtis and rules about unsafe practices, what do you suggest be done?
The problem is the telcos want to be able to NOT offer pure transit to other ISPs.. they want to be the ones controlling the network at the IP level, and enforcing their own regulations. This would effectively put them in control of the internet.
Both your points about metric make sense, and basically boil down to familiarity. I have no idea how much 1/4 of a quart is, or 1/4 of a mile. Although it appears that imperial measurements break down into simple fractions easier... this only seems convenient to you because you have them memorized. I assure you that 2.4mm or 4.0 mm are more intuitively obvious as to which one is bigger than 1/4 vs 7/32nds or whatever.
Canada was in the same boat, and we had no problem switching to metric. It's not nearly as hard as people seem to think. We put up conversion charts in grocery stores, and so on. People still posted prices in both systems. After a decade or so, imperial is all but dead in Canada... nobody was horribly put out because of the change.
Sure they can. Can they learn to drive faster than the speed limit, safely? Sure they can. Can they learn to drive safely while intoxicated? Sure they can. (think, drive slower, etc)
Does that mean we should encourage these things? Of course not.
The fact is, most people think they are better than average drivers. Given that you are piloting a few thousand pounds of steel and gasoline around, your focus should primarily be on doing that safely, not on doing your makeup/talking on the phone/rolling that joint/whatever.
They are not forced into anything whatseover, ever.
When you download my code, licended under, say, GPLv2, and it says this.. it means that you may distribute deriviations of my code under the GPLv2 if you wish, or a later version, if you wish. How you want to apply this is up to you; I force you to do nothing. If you wish to include the same clause, allowing future versions to be used, that was completely your choice.
Nobody is forced into anything at all.. the rightsholders deliberately gave you the right to pick a later version of the GPL becaues they trust the FSF.
Private addresses + NAT is not a security measure, although it looks like one. The same issues can be addressed without the need for NAT and private addressing.
The main reason private addressing is used is because getting public address space is a hassle... whether people realize it or not. Just imagine.. if you could just have a million public IP addresses that worked, why wouldn't you use them?
What about a fancy AJAX framework that generates a sizeable amount of javascript as part of the application... in this case, simply running the software requires distribution of parts of it.
Netcat is a swiss army knife, sure, however, 99% of troubleshooting done with telnet is to make a connection to some port to issue some raw commands,,or see if something is at least listening. In this respect, netcat is no better.
Also, netcat is not installed by default on many systems, while telnet is pretty much universal.
Err, circumventing copy protection mechanisms on your own gear is legal, I believe. It's distributing methods or devices for circumventing this protection that is illegal.
Right then, well, "System Restore" is a feature of Windows XP that snapshots the status of a whole bucketload of system settings, DLLS, etc... each time you update software, and at other times determined by the system, these snapshots are taken. You can go into system restore and revert to your system status from yesterday, last week, or just before oyu installed something, and it generally works very well (meaning quickly, reliably, and doesn't erase your data.) It doens't make a mess, either.
It was a very surprisingly well done feature, I can't actually believe it came from MS
Your operatioin must be small, becuase in any significant number of workstaitons, things DO fail, regularly. Hardware fails, that's a fact of life, and if yours hasn't yet, that's good luck for you.
When you have 500 or 1000 or more machines to look after, you don't want to be fiddling with old machines.. you want to pick up the phone, call dell, and have the replace the part with another new part immediately, and keep on trucking. Tracking individual repairs on a variety of hardware is a royal pain in the ass, and not worth the headache.
The point is that a law requiring the systems to meet a certain level of wiretap-ability is absurd.
SHould a court be able to order the intercept of communications? Yes.
Should they be able to pre-emptively require anyone offering communication services has the ability to rapidly let law enforcement execute such an order? no.
A lot of people say this.. they can't switch jobs because of their medical plan. That's just messed up.
I'll only point out that this seems quite lopsided, and that this does not occur much in countries where there is socialized medicine and decent healthcare is a right, not a privilege.
Let's quit calling it "Control of the Internet". NOBODY controls the internet. Those organizations that seemingly are in a postion of authority, such as ICANN, ONLY have such authority because the individual networks on the internet choose to acknowledge them. I'm not even talking about countries here.
We are talking about DNS, something that can and will be routed around should it stop doing it's job to the satisfaction of all.
Yes, and do you believe in an absolute free market? Because I don't think one exists, anywhere.
Prices of basic necessities are often controlled, even all over the US.
Whe it comes to medical care, the problem is, people are willing to pay just about anyhting to live. Should the fact that Roche controls the cure for your disease mean that you have to go bankrupt to get the cure? Even if Roche's cost on what it will take to cure you, including a proportionate portion of R&D + marketing, for about $20?
Also, patents create a virtual monopoly for the patent holder, so any discussion of "free market" is out the window. IN a free market, other poeple could purchase the forumula, or independently discover it, and manufacture it at whatever cost they liked.
Agreed. The sub-standard display has been the only thing keeping me from buying a powerbook.. though the fact that (if I read this right) optical audio out and dual-link DVI/128mb video are now standard on the 15" are also a bonus.
now as soon as they are in stock here, i'll walk out the door with one. Thanks Apple.
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What they should do is open the API used for many of hte .mac features, so I can use the webdrive and isync stuff with my own servers, rather than using up apple's bandwidth.
Some poeple claim to get by on five hours a day.
In reality, long term studies show that everyone basically needs 8 hours of sleep per night. If you don't get it, you build up a sleep debt.. which you always repay in time. The doctors studying this were surprised at exactly how accurate this sleep debt was, even in extreme cases.
Not disagreeing, but can you provide a counterexample?
What technolgies would you choose to run an organisation of, say, 2000 workstations spread over 5 offices on 3 continents?
You mean, people are sharing information.. DIRECTLY, rather than through some services that filters it for them to tell them what they are allowed to share?
What's the world coming to?
I believe this depends on what exactly happened.
You use a credit card to fund your paypal account. As long as this was not fraudulent, the credit card company is under no obligation to cancel anything.
You then use your paypal account to pay for something, and that turns out to be fraudulent.
In this case, why should the credit card company be responsible? They acted in good faith.
In this parent post, however, paypal told the guy he was covered, when in fact he was not. This is fraudulent behavior on their part.. that's why he should cancel the original transaction with his card company.. because paypal acted fraudulently.
I agree, ebay should do what is reasonable to help out, but, isn't one of the basic concepts behind it that the actual transaction is NOT ebay's responsbility? It's up to you to make sure you are not paying someone for junk; there are escrow services, etc. You know who the seller is, if they defraud you, you take them to court.
They can be better; however, we all share the roads, so we set some common rules to live by. How much faster do you get where you are going if you speed like a maniac?
Also, yes, perhaps you do have better reaction times. What about the reaction times of people driving other vehicles who are not expecting you to come whipping around the corner at double the speed limit, or the kid crossing the road who knows he has a few seconds once he sees a car come around the corner to get out of the way.
I also notice you say intoxicated.. are we talking about alcohol here, or something else?
So short of having speed limtis and rules about unsafe practices, what do you suggest be done?
The problem is the telcos want to be able to NOT offer pure transit to other ISPs.. they want to be the ones controlling the network at the IP level, and enforcing their own regulations. This would effectively put them in control of the internet.
Both your points about metric make sense, and basically boil down to familiarity. I have no idea how much 1/4 of a quart is, or 1/4 of a mile. Although it appears that imperial measurements break down into simple fractions easier... this only seems convenient to you because you have them memorized.
I assure you that 2.4mm or 4.0 mm are more intuitively obvious as to which one is bigger than 1/4 vs 7/32nds or whatever.
Canada was in the same boat, and we had no problem switching to metric. It's not nearly as hard as people seem to think. We put up conversion charts in grocery stores, and so on. People still posted prices in both systems. After a decade or so, imperial is all but dead in Canada... nobody was horribly put out because of the change.
Sure they can.
Can they learn to drive faster than the speed limit, safely? Sure they can.
Can they learn to drive safely while intoxicated? Sure they can. (think, drive slower, etc)
Does that mean we should encourage these things? Of course not.
The fact is, most people think they are better than average drivers. Given that you are piloting a few thousand pounds of steel and gasoline around, your focus should primarily be on doing that safely, not on doing your makeup/talking on the phone/rolling that joint/whatever.
They are not forced into anything whatseover, ever.
When you download my code, licended under, say, GPLv2, and it says this.. it means that you may distribute deriviations of my code under the GPLv2 if you wish, or a later version, if you wish. How you want to apply this is up to you; I force you to do nothing.
If you wish to include the same clause, allowing future versions to be used, that was completely your choice.
Nobody is forced into anything at all.. the rightsholders deliberately gave you the right to pick a later version of the GPL becaues they trust the FSF.
Simple, right?
Private addresses + NAT is not a security measure, although it looks like one.
The same issues can be addressed without the need for NAT and private addressing.
The main reason private addressing is used is because getting public address space is a hassle... whether people realize it or not.
Just imagine.. if you could just have a million public IP addresses that worked, why wouldn't you use them?
This is true, absolutely.
But with the web, things can get tricky.
What about a fancy AJAX framework that generates a sizeable amount of javascript as part of the application... in this case, simply running the software requires distribution of parts of it.
How is it surprising?
,or see if something is at least listening. In this respect, netcat is no better.
Netcat is a swiss army knife, sure, however, 99% of troubleshooting done with telnet is to make a connection to some port to issue some raw commands,
Also, netcat is not installed by default on many systems, while telnet is pretty much universal.
Err, circumventing copy protection mechanisms on your own gear is legal, I believe.
It's distributing methods or devices for circumventing this protection that is illegal.
Right then, well, "System Restore" is a feature of Windows XP that snapshots the status of a whole bucketload of system settings, DLLS, etc... each time you update software, and at other times determined by the system, these snapshots are taken. You can go into system restore and revert to your system status from yesterday, last week, or just before oyu installed something, and it generally works very well (meaning quickly, reliably, and doesn't erase your data.) It doens't make a mess, either.
It was a very surprisingly well done feature, I can't actually believe it came from MS
System Restore in XP typically takes less than 5 minutes, and extremely rarely causes any data loss.
You have used system restore, right?
Your operatioin must be small, becuase in any significant number of workstaitons, things DO fail, regularly. Hardware fails, that's a fact of life, and if yours hasn't yet, that's good luck for you.
When you have 500 or 1000 or more machines to look after, you don't want to be fiddling with old machines.. you want to pick up the phone, call dell, and have the replace the part with another new part immediately, and keep on trucking. Tracking individual repairs on a variety of hardware is a royal pain in the ass, and not worth the headache.
Because that will just open up the door for someone else to import windows to S.Korea and support it instead.
It's a free market, microsoft's permission isn't required.
Rumor has it that the team that did Office for OS X actually caused a bit of a stir because it was better than Office for Windows.
The point is that a law requiring the systems to meet a certain level of wiretap-ability is absurd.
SHould a court be able to order the intercept of communications? Yes.
Should they be able to pre-emptively require anyone offering communication services has the ability to rapidly let law enforcement execute such an order? no.
A lot of people say this.. they can't switch jobs because of their medical plan. That's just messed up.
I'll only point out that this seems quite lopsided, and that this does not occur much in countries where there is socialized medicine and decent healthcare is a right, not a privilege.
Let's quit calling it "Control of the Internet". NOBODY controls the internet. Those organizations that seemingly are in a postion of authority, such as ICANN, ONLY have such authority because the individual networks on the internet choose to acknowledge them. I'm not even talking about countries here.
We are talking about DNS, something that can and will be routed around should it stop doing it's job to the satisfaction of all.
Yes, and do you believe in an absolute free market? Because I don't think one exists, anywhere.
Prices of basic necessities are often controlled, even all over the US.
Whe it comes to medical care, the problem is, people are willing to pay just about anyhting to live. Should the fact that Roche controls the cure for your disease mean that you have to go bankrupt to get the cure? Even if Roche's cost on what it will take to cure you, including a proportionate portion of R&D + marketing, for about $20?
Also, patents create a virtual monopoly for the patent holder, so any discussion of "free market" is out the window. IN a free market, other poeple could purchase the forumula, or independently discover it, and manufacture it at whatever cost they liked.
Agreed. The sub-standard display has been the only thing keeping me from buying a powerbook.. though the fact that (if I read this right) optical audio out and dual-link DVI /128mb video are now standard on the 15" are also a bonus.
now as soon as they are in stock here, i'll walk out the door with one.
Thanks Apple.