Secondly it had storage space, lots and lots and lots of storage space.
I have it on very good authority that the iPod had less space than a Nomad.
To be fair, "less space than a Nomad" doesn't preclude use of "lots and lots and lots" wrt an ipod. One is relative to one other device, the other is just vague.
And I think we can agree that the Nomad wasn't, on the whole, quite as appealing as the first gen ipod.
The only reason this policy is getting attention is that nobody important (read: major corporations) stands to lose much by changing the policy.
You mean if a lot of people unlock their phones and move to another carrier, their current providers won't lose much?
Their position is that your phone should remain locked (and you remain subject to DMCA reprisal) at the carriers discretion, until your contract has expired and you've fullfilled any and all "service agreement[s] and other obligations".
Many of them will do that by request after your contract is up anyway. As far as they're concerned you've paid off the subsidy and generated the profit you were expected to.
It's the one link we would've expected to be in the summary, but isn't there. It doesn't make sense to bitch at someone for, you know, actually providing it.
How better to protect the fundamental overreach of the DMCA(ie. just by combining virtually anything copyrighted with even a totally crap DRM system, anybody can code rules into their product, with those rules being given force of federal law, or at least serving as a presumptively very strong basis for lawsuits) than by having a tame process for throwing the opposition a bone on a few relatively minor; but culturally, educationally, or otherwise symbolically significant issues?
If you're really going to be paranoid, why not just assume that they want to prevent you from removing the trackify software from your phone so you don't have the man up your ass every time your phone sends a packet?
I'm not usually the hyper-paranoid type, but from a political perspective, I think he's right on this. The best way to protect something ugly like the DMCA is to knock the sharpest edges off it.
Meanwhile, and either way, the DMCA is preserved with relatively minor caveats.
The Obama Administration would support a range of approaches to addressing this issue, including narrow legislative fixes in the telecommunications space that make it clear: neither criminal law nor technological locks should prevent consumers from switching carriers when they are no longer bound by a service agreement or other obligation.
Not exactly a condemnation of aggregious overreach with the DMCA. It's a soft response that anyone can safely cheer for.
This looks entirely possible. The paragraph in question (I had to hunt for this supposed email, links were both down) appears to have been more of an aside, where the bulk of the message was, "normally I oppose transportation taxes, but people in cars are paying for car lanes on roads with the gas taxes they pay, but people on bikes aren't paying for their bike lanes on those same roads."
Whether or not the email actually exists, if it was written by this person, if that paragraph is actually a meaningful part of the debate they're having, etc. seems a little sketchy.
Except here, where everyone saw an "R" in the summary and abandoned all usual skepticism. Just sayin', folks.
Cisco claims they were instructed to provide a quote for routing devices with features like, "redundant power supplies", and just provided a list of the devices that qualified. The state denies these requirments.
Put simply, they put together a sheet with 1,164 of the same exact device. One for every location, and wrote off the gross oversizing to future-proofing. That meant a big municipal facility would get one of these $20k machines, which was probably unnecessary, but the one room shack they call a "library" in rural virginia also got one... in case they ever did a high speed haul out there .
It's absoutely nuts. And the worst part is that someone signed off on this, even after Cisco had the balls to propose it.
Yeah it was probably a global political conspiracy funded by big oil. Not some dumbass from the NYT that wanted a sensational story instead of another, "yeah it works as advertised."
It comes and goes. Lately I've seen a lot more of it. Modding hardware, improving it, fixing things, build your own, etc. The hobby electronics/diy/maker thing is popular right now. As far as trends go, I'd say it's a pretty good one, and I hope it sticks around.
Some of these make sense. If you're downloading a torrent the bar tells you percentage of bytes received from total, so it never regresses. What changes is the "estimated time remaining". And that's fine... conditions change (peer count, transfer speeds, etc).
The file copy ones used to drive me nuts. If I'm moving files from one source to one destination, you'd think the transfer speeds would be pretty consistent and the time estimates pretty accurate. I can't pretend to know why they used to be so bad, but they do seem better now.
That's fraudulent and potentially lawsuit worthy. Ain't gunna happen over a regular package.
Maybe a bigger problem is shockwatch patches can cost $3 each. It makes sense for expensive packages,but not your $10 amazon.com order with free shipping.
Though to be fair, now figure out what a bluetooth dongle is going to cost.
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You're right, that's a much better example.
I have to imagine there'd be some valuable information to be had in such an attempt though. You've got to get people to mars and back, after all.
I imagine it'd be like an Apollo 10 mission, a kind of dress rehersal for a future landing.
Secondly it had storage space, lots and lots and lots of storage space.
I have it on very good authority that the iPod had less space than a Nomad.
To be fair, "less space than a Nomad" doesn't preclude use of "lots and lots and lots" wrt an ipod. One is relative to one other device, the other is just vague.
And I think we can agree that the Nomad wasn't, on the whole, quite as appealing as the first gen ipod.
Yeah, I'm guessing this release is roughly a month early.
The only reason this policy is getting attention is that nobody important (read: major corporations) stands to lose much by changing the policy.
You mean if a lot of people unlock their phones and move to another carrier, their current providers won't lose much?
Their position is that your phone should remain locked (and you remain subject to DMCA reprisal) at the carriers discretion, until your contract has expired and you've fullfilled any and all "service agreement[s] and other obligations".
Many of them will do that by request after your contract is up anyway. As far as they're concerned you've paid off the subsidy and generated the profit you were expected to.
This was the easy response.
It's the one link we would've expected to be in the summary, but isn't there. It doesn't make sense to bitch at someone for, you know, actually providing it.
How better to protect the fundamental overreach of the DMCA(ie. just by combining virtually anything copyrighted with even a totally crap DRM system, anybody can code rules into their product, with those rules being given force of federal law, or at least serving as a presumptively very strong basis for lawsuits) than by having a tame process for throwing the opposition a bone on a few relatively minor; but culturally, educationally, or otherwise symbolically significant issues?
If you're really going to be paranoid, why not just assume that they want to prevent you from removing the trackify software from your phone so you don't have the man up your ass every time your phone sends a packet?
I'm not usually the hyper-paranoid type, but from a political perspective, I think he's right on this. The best way to protect something ugly like the DMCA is to knock the sharpest edges off it.
Meanwhile, and either way, the DMCA is preserved with relatively minor caveats.
Exactly. Case in point:
The Obama Administration would support a range of approaches to addressing this issue, including narrow legislative fixes in the telecommunications space that make it clear: neither criminal law nor technological locks should prevent consumers from switching carriers when they are no longer bound by a service agreement or other obligation.
Not exactly a condemnation of aggregious overreach with the DMCA. It's a soft response that anyone can safely cheer for.
This looks entirely possible. The paragraph in question (I had to hunt for this supposed email, links were both down) appears to have been more of an aside, where the bulk of the message was, "normally I oppose transportation taxes, but people in cars are paying for car lanes on roads with the gas taxes they pay, but people on bikes aren't paying for their bike lanes on those same roads."
Whether or not the email actually exists, if it was written by this person, if that paragraph is actually a meaningful part of the debate they're having, etc. seems a little sketchy.
Except here, where everyone saw an "R" in the summary and abandoned all usual skepticism. Just sayin', folks.
Cisco claims they were instructed to provide a quote for routing devices with features like, "redundant power supplies", and just provided a list of the devices that qualified. The state denies these requirments.
Put simply, they put together a sheet with 1,164 of the same exact device. One for every location, and wrote off the gross oversizing to future-proofing. That meant a big municipal facility would get one of these $20k machines, which was probably unnecessary, but the one room shack they call a "library" in rural virginia also got one... in case they ever did a high speed haul out there .
It's absoutely nuts. And the worst part is that someone signed off on this, even after Cisco had the balls to propose it.
I'm ok with that idea. The flip side is you can't do much about it when someone posts something like this (assuming it's all true).
Snow Crash, right? Good thing he got it before the movie. :)
Uh, guys... we can probably stop trying to troubleshoot with all the obvious stuff like turning the car off, shifting to neutral, parking brake, etc.
From the article:
A Renault technician had been on the phone with police throughout the chase trying to help but couldn't come up with a solution.
TFA states that ever since the Top Gear thing, they've put data loggers in all the cars they send to the media
Production vehicies will probably have similar data loggers, but with less data captured
Yep, you got it. From Elon Musk (on Twitter):
"Tesla data logging is only turned on with explicit written permission from customers, but after Top Gear BS, we always keep it on for media."
Yeah it was probably a global political conspiracy funded by big oil. Not some dumbass from the NYT that wanted a sensational story instead of another, "yeah it works as advertised."
It comes and goes. Lately I've seen a lot more of it. Modding hardware, improving it, fixing things, build your own, etc. The hobby electronics/diy/maker thing is popular right now. As far as trends go, I'd say it's a pretty good one, and I hope it sticks around.
Is their engineered seed so much better that it's worth the 300% price hikes?
The best part was the tag, "nodice". I got a laugh out of that... can we make it a recurring thing if we keep getting these?
Right now there's a slashdot editor yelling across the office, "See? I tried to tell you this was a bad idea."
NOW we're talking. Do those exist?
It reminds me of this guys project...
http://www.tricorderproject.org/tricorder-mark2.html
I assumed that's part of what the $99 is for.
That's not done by cutting corners: the editorial process is thorough, and they use rigorous peer-review.
Some of these make sense. If you're downloading a torrent the bar tells you percentage of bytes received from total, so it never regresses. What changes is the "estimated time remaining". And that's fine... conditions change (peer count, transfer speeds, etc).
The file copy ones used to drive me nuts. If I'm moving files from one source to one destination, you'd think the transfer speeds would be pretty consistent and the time estimates pretty accurate. I can't pretend to know why they used to be so bad, but they do seem better now.
It's here so people can troll. I'm sure anything that mentions religion gets a billion views and comments.
But it is kinda interesting, I guess. The article says it hasn't happened since 1415.
And their IE commercials. Which I have to admit, are clever. I hope the ad firm that did them made good money off em.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD9FAOPBiDk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkM6RJf15cg
Still won't touch IE, but I laugh at the commercials.
That's fraudulent and potentially lawsuit worthy. Ain't gunna happen over a regular package.
Maybe a bigger problem is shockwatch patches can cost $3 each. It makes sense for expensive packages,but not your $10 amazon.com order with free shipping.
Though to be fair, now figure out what a bluetooth dongle is going to cost.