I don't think it's about speed. There is a durability issue, the hard drive is the weakest link on an HDD-based portable media player. As it is, there is no 16GB PMP that I've heard about.
Another thing is that you don't really want to do business when you have eight or more people within an earshot that might be willing to sell any information they hear or post it on the Internet.
Reception is very weak at best in mid-flight anyway. The only decent way to prevent people from using the phone on ascent or descent is to take them away, or better, turn the passenger cabin into a faraday cage.
I think it was Jet Blue that had the situation where passengers could see the news about their flight through satellite TV, something about damaged landing gear. I don't remember anything about a crew or passenger mutiny in the news reports.
OK, I really didn't know that. Maybe that really does make sense with respect to the program formerly known as gaim. For several reasons, I'm not fond of IM and I don't even have a current IM name with any IM service, unless you count the Yahoo or Gmail IM services, but I've never used their IM services.
Actually, it's a good name for AOL's IM program. Because whenever I tried to use it, I get the feeling that the computer would waddle over and take a dump on my shoes.
I wonder if maybe the throttling could be progressive. As in, if the encrypted traffic is a few tens of kbps, then let it go, but if the subscriber is just trying to pull down megabits that is encrypted, then scale back that traffic.
Educational media doesn't have to be expensive. I came from a school where some teachers made their own educational media on school time. Once it's recorded, it can be used several times before needing to be updated.
You bought a used and very old extendable/programmable computer for $80, but you expect that a brand-new extendable/programmable product be cheaper than the used product that you bought? In what bizzaro world would that be realistic?
I am interested in this. It might not be a great primary computer, but for a low-power electronics project where a "real" computer would be too large or power consuming, then this would be an ideal candidate. AppleTV is more compact than most miniITX, and is cheaper than miniITX hardware too.
Unfortunately, one big problem is that I can't legally sell a product based on installing the real Mac OS X on this, so it would have to rely on non-Apple software upgrades to the machine.
I thought it was the FSB that was underclocked to 350MHz. I've seen reports that Speedstep reduces the clock to 600MHZ when it's downclocked, meaning that 1GHz is probably the clock that it's really running.
I think that's the case in any industry, regardless of whether illegal anti-competitive activity takes place. Let's say I make a new style of light bulb that has a small but growing market share, such that GE notices that it's a lucrative market. I might not be making a big profit on it, but because GE has a more well-known name and possible economies of scales that I can't manage just because I'm small, those two factors mean that they can undercut me and put me out of the market unless I can add some other value that GE can't. It's a fact of life. It can also mean that they can help grow the market for everyone because more people know about that type of product.
Teacher wages aren't that big of a problem here. Michigan has been in the top ten of states ranked based on wages for a long time, and almost the top based on benefits. I know several teachers in my private life too, and they aren't hurting by any stretch of the imagination. The biggest complaint is really bone-headed educational policies and bone-headed administration.
Is it you who decides what types of sources are and are not worth protecting? For example, I really don't like the shenanigans thatt the current White House is doing, but even with the first example, I don't think that a member of the press should be compelled into revealing the source of their information.
I suspect that the Japanese wouldn't have much gun crime even if they were allowed to have them. I'll have to research it, but I wonder if the gun policy goes back to why non-samurai weren't allowed to have swords. IIRC, it was a way for the governments of that era to prevent government overthrow. I'm pretty sure overthrow attempts in Japan aren't really even a marginal threat anymore.
I agree that subscription is a good idea, but what evidence is there to show that it is popular? Anecdotes are interesting, but that really doesn't give me the big picture.
Let's go through the numbers. For $15/mo, you can buy about 1 CD a month, and that's it. In 20 years, that collection would end up being 240 CDs by the end, but you started out with nothing. With a subscription service, continual access to hundreds of thousands of albums from the beginning, and have legitimate access to every album released the same month, without any risk. With the subscription service, there is little to no incremental cost to downloading another CD.
Leeches? It's not nearly that simple unless somehow internet service is free too. Somebody needs to buy the internet service, the customer is already paying someone for that service and the use of that infrastructure. Also, the service provider doesn't need to be telco, it could be cable or FTTH/FIOS or whatever that's called.
As it is, analog phone lines represents a dying business model when Internet replaces that service.
So no, I don't think your approach is sensible from an objective viewpoint.
Thank you. I agree that it's the USPTO that's screwed up, not the idea of patents. Maybe the details need tweaking, for example, twenty years in Internet years is effectively "forever", and that's clearly too long for computer and network technology.
Designing and developing the first one of something new is hard. It may take a dozen tries, a hundred or a thousand. Copying that once it's been done is easy, even if it's been obfuscated. It probably never costs the non-innovator a percent of that original development cost to copy an innovation, because that non-innovator just copy what works without having to go though the same work finding what doesn't work. The six months lead time that the innovator has is likely not enough to recoup that development cost.
I do agree that there is a definite desirability to have a single large display, but those two UXGA screens probably only cost $400 each now, $800 total vs. buying a 30" plus a dual link DVI card (which can be hard to find, it's dual link in a single shell, not two DVI ports as I've seen some people assume) is going to cost $1500 to $2000+ to implement. Right now, I'm using a 17" along side a 21", both CRTs.
In windows, two displays also allows you to use the "full screen" on two different apps, it's a simple, on a 30" display, it would be a largely worthless button and offers less control.
The thing that I don't like is that they've been bending over backwards to give everything that copyright owners have asked for. The Zune was a stab in the back of all their PlaysForSure partners, they assumed they could get it right themselves and make their own walled garden.
As much as I didn't like how Apple did things, they did it a lot better and with very few restrictions in comparison. I really don't believe Steve Job's stated reasoning for not wanting to licence "FairPlay" either, people have managed to decrypt Apple's stuff despite not being a multi-party encryption scheme.
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I don't think it's about speed. There is a durability issue, the hard drive is the weakest link on an HDD-based portable media player. As it is, there is no 16GB PMP that I've heard about.
Maybe it's not an arm.
If they are doing their job, the antennas should be optimized for the horizontal, meaning that the signal from above is going to be very weak.
Another thing is that you don't really want to do business when you have eight or more people within an earshot that might be willing to sell any information they hear or post it on the Internet.
Reception is very weak at best in mid-flight anyway. The only decent way to prevent people from using the phone on ascent or descent is to take them away, or better, turn the passenger cabin into a faraday cage.
I think it was Jet Blue that had the situation where passengers could see the news about their flight through satellite TV, something about damaged landing gear. I don't remember anything about a crew or passenger mutiny in the news reports.
OK, I really didn't know that. Maybe that really does make sense with respect to the program formerly known as gaim. For several reasons, I'm not fond of IM and I don't even have a current IM name with any IM service, unless you count the Yahoo or Gmail IM services, but I've never used their IM services.
Make an innocent-sounding name that condenses down to MILF. It's easy to just change it to keep most of the original phrase.
Maybe someone can make a mail program name which makes MILF as an acronym.
Actually, it's a good name for AOL's IM program. Because whenever I tried to use it, I get the feeling that the computer would waddle over and take a dump on my shoes.
I wonder if maybe the throttling could be progressive. As in, if the encrypted traffic is a few tens of kbps, then let it go, but if the subscriber is just trying to pull down megabits that is encrypted, then scale back that traffic.
Educational media doesn't have to be expensive. I came from a school where some teachers made their own educational media on school time. Once it's recorded, it can be used several times before needing to be updated.
You bought a used and very old extendable/programmable computer for $80, but you expect that a brand-new extendable/programmable product be cheaper than the used product that you bought? In what bizzaro world would that be realistic?
I am interested in this. It might not be a great primary computer, but for a low-power electronics project where a "real" computer would be too large or power consuming, then this would be an ideal candidate. AppleTV is more compact than most miniITX, and is cheaper than miniITX hardware too.
Unfortunately, one big problem is that I can't legally sell a product based on installing the real Mac OS X on this, so it would have to rely on non-Apple software upgrades to the machine.
I thought it was the FSB that was underclocked to 350MHz. I've seen reports that Speedstep reduces the clock to 600MHZ when it's downclocked, meaning that 1GHz is probably the clock that it's really running.
I think that's the case in any industry, regardless of whether illegal anti-competitive activity takes place. Let's say I make a new style of light bulb that has a small but growing market share, such that GE notices that it's a lucrative market. I might not be making a big profit on it, but because GE has a more well-known name and possible economies of scales that I can't manage just because I'm small, those two factors mean that they can undercut me and put me out of the market unless I can add some other value that GE can't. It's a fact of life. It can also mean that they can help grow the market for everyone because more people know about that type of product.
Teacher wages aren't that big of a problem here. Michigan has been in the top ten of states ranked based on wages for a long time, and almost the top based on benefits. I know several teachers in my private life too, and they aren't hurting by any stretch of the imagination. The biggest complaint is really bone-headed educational policies and bone-headed administration.
If these journalists really beleive in what they are doing, why not spend time in jail in the rare case where protecting a source is important?
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What makes you think that these journalists don't exist? I have not heard of this person outside of Slashdot and I do read the newspapers.
Here's are couple such people that you are asking about:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/arti
http://www.americanpressinstitute.org/pages/resou
Is it you who decides what types of sources are and are not worth protecting? For example, I really don't like the shenanigans thatt the current White House is doing, but even with the first example, I don't think that a member of the press should be compelled into revealing the source of their information.
I suspect that the Japanese wouldn't have much gun crime even if they were allowed to have them. I'll have to research it, but I wonder if the gun policy goes back to why non-samurai weren't allowed to have swords. IIRC, it was a way for the governments of that era to prevent government overthrow. I'm pretty sure overthrow attempts in Japan aren't really even a marginal threat anymore.
I agree that subscription is a good idea, but what evidence is there to show that it is popular? Anecdotes are interesting, but that really doesn't give me the big picture.
Let's go through the numbers. For $15/mo, you can buy about 1 CD a month, and that's it. In 20 years, that collection would end up being 240 CDs by the end, but you started out with nothing. With a subscription service, continual access to hundreds of thousands of albums from the beginning, and have legitimate access to every album released the same month, without any risk. With the subscription service, there is little to no incremental cost to downloading another CD.
Leeches? It's not nearly that simple unless somehow internet service is free too. Somebody needs to buy the internet service, the customer is already paying someone for that service and the use of that infrastructure. Also, the service provider doesn't need to be telco, it could be cable or FTTH/FIOS or whatever that's called.
As it is, analog phone lines represents a dying business model when Internet replaces that service.
So no, I don't think your approach is sensible from an objective viewpoint.
Thank you. I agree that it's the USPTO that's screwed up, not the idea of patents. Maybe the details need tweaking, for example, twenty years in Internet years is effectively "forever", and that's clearly too long for computer and network technology.
Designing and developing the first one of something new is hard. It may take a dozen tries, a hundred or a thousand. Copying that once it's been done is easy, even if it's been obfuscated. It probably never costs the non-innovator a percent of that original development cost to copy an innovation, because that non-innovator just copy what works without having to go though the same work finding what doesn't work. The six months lead time that the innovator has is likely not enough to recoup that development cost.
I think the problem is that the upstart candidate ruffled a few feathers by doing something that the others didn't think about doing.
I do agree that there is a definite desirability to have a single large display, but those two UXGA screens probably only cost $400 each now, $800 total vs. buying a 30" plus a dual link DVI card (which can be hard to find, it's dual link in a single shell, not two DVI ports as I've seen some people assume) is going to cost $1500 to $2000+ to implement. Right now, I'm using a 17" along side a 21", both CRTs.
In windows, two displays also allows you to use the "full screen" on two different apps, it's a simple, on a 30" display, it would be a largely worthless button and offers less control.
The thing that I don't like is that they've been bending over backwards to give everything that copyright owners have asked for. The Zune was a stab in the back of all their PlaysForSure partners, they assumed they could get it right themselves and make their own walled garden.
As much as I didn't like how Apple did things, they did it a lot better and with very few restrictions in comparison. I really don't believe Steve Job's stated reasoning for not wanting to licence "FairPlay" either, people have managed to decrypt Apple's stuff despite not being a multi-party encryption scheme.