And yet, despite it's supposed "being down" it's still the primary corporate desktop system after a decade of absolutely horrible management. That's the kind of market you really want to be in on. MSFT has no presence in the emerging personal device market, which may very well take over computers in the home arena.
As for iPads in the corporate environment - it's not MSFT that should be scared, but Franklin Covey's print calendar business. Tablets are not creation devices, they're consumption and personal organization. The iPad, as it is currently positioned, will never leap into creation in any meaningful way. It would take either a major philosophical change in how iOS works, or a port of OSX to it. An ultrabook convertible, however, might replace a desktop just as laptops have replaced desktops. So you're looking at the Air market for Apple which is quickly being crowded by the new ultrabooks - may of which offer better integration into corporate networks and buying models (i.e. HP, Dell, Lenovo contracts).
Things could shift, but for Apple - which was riding high on innovative devices - seems to be flagging here. Unfortunately, their best bet at a break-out product may be even harder to pull off than their iTunes licensing (which was pretty tough, and impressive) - a la carte cable programming across the board directly with providers via iTunes and an AppleTV brand. My second-best option - inclusion as an option in automobile/OEM head units, with a 50-60M/yr unit market and a nice, juicy $1000 retail pricepoint for low power hardware.
Oh, you're crazy was wrapped in creamy sanity for just a few lines:
"Crime requires criminal intent"
No, it doesn't. Crime merely requires that you violate the law, even if you didn't know the law existed. But, hey, thanks for playing.
A law is enforceable and viable from the moment it is ratified and signed. A law may be rescinded if it is found to violate the constitution, even to reverse application of the law back to the date of signature, but until that happens it is the law.
As for BHO, it's not his call as to whether it's constitutional or not, nor is it yours. He may form a learned opinion concerning it, and you can spew filth from your ass. Neither has any standing anywhere in the US, and both may ultimately be wrong. But there are only 9 people who decide whether the constitution has actually been violated, and their redress is to reverse the law in question.
As much as Jobs was an utter asshole, he was an asshole with a vision and a mission. He had very specific ideas about technology and they were mostly aligned with non-technologically oriented people (aka: most humans). Apple has banked its success on non-technical people - if you are the computer equivalent of not being able to find your ass with both hands, Apple is for you. It's why Apple was king of graphics - those people aren't IT geeks. Apple locked everything down so it looked like paper and pencil, or dodge masks, or picas or points. Jobs understood that the feel, look, and minimal learning curve of a device was THE most critical factor to selling them. He hated buttons because they complicate the interface.
Apple has not only lost it's way, it has done so as their primary markets that made them the juggernaut they are are saturating (tablets and phones). They hold such a dominant position that it can only really erode in a normal marketplace. MS has the advantage of decades of software development by third parties protecting it's operating system. Apple has the disadvantange that everyone *expects* to trade in their device every 2 years, and the software investment users have is minimal thanks to the lowest-price-wins marketplace they've created (and profited off handsomely, I might add).
Apple IS at a crossroads. They really need to find another Jobs or they will, though it seems amazing, probably fritter away their $100B warchest on redesigning icons. They're going to need another "holy shit that's awesome" moment here soon, imho.
...but there's probably already a thread at http://www.rocketryforum.com/ about it. Hell, they've discussed the methods and legality of using phones as tracking devices to death; might as well make them accelerometers as well. Of course, that'll mean somebody will have to figure out how to make the phone fire a pyro at apogee for the recovery chute.
Thing is, if it's in the ground and stable (i.e. the groundwater isn't contaminated), it probably contains little or no soluble oxides. Note that there are places where the groundwater is tainted by dangerous chemicals which are native. Groundwater isn't some magical source that only gets screwed up by human intervention. It's usually clean thanks to millions of years of water passage which actually does carry away all the soluble compounds, leaving only insoluble ones - hence why it's often considered clean, and is usually free of significant contamination.
In the case of spent ammunition, the lead becomes part of the shallow watershed effluent path. Any soluble lead compounds actually do enter the water stream, as opposed to lead which has been buried for millions of years and is bypassed or has been stripped already.
Yes, but even in the very best/most efficient case, it will take more than $5 of machine time to create. It's the same argument with guns - anyone can make one with a basic set of shop machines. The key (if you'll excuse the pun) to 3D printers is that it's a trivial process which can be accomplished for very low cost. The barriers to entry are significantly reduced, and will only get lower as the cost of printers comes down.
Somebody needs to remind MS that they are not Apple, and can't get away with charging full price for the entire lifecycle of the item. Unlike Apple, which has no direct competition in the OSX/iOS hardware market, the surface is actively competing with other tablet/convertible units out there, and now that Haswell is on the street all the Ivy Bridge units are being discounted to get them out of the way. MS is trailing on this one.
Good fucking lord - they didn't break the law, they made a law that (may be) in violation of the constitution. For a group of fukcing nerds who scream and yell about the misuse of theft vs infringement when it comes to copyright and patent law, you're quite the knuckehead when it comes to the feds knowing you surf porn all the time.
If we criminally prosecuted every congressman and senator who had a law striken or modified as unconstitutional by the court there would be none left. Perhaps yu would recommend jail time for anyone who voted for a state amendment which turns out to violate the US constitution?
Now THAT's unreasonable searches - and it's not just metadata, it's going through your shit for no reason whatsoever.
Fix that actual, physical problem and then we can talk about whether someone marking the weight and destination of your baggage (meta-data) is a big deal.
I use a dawn simulator for a morning "alarm" instead of a regular alarm clock. It doesn't keep me from staying up late, but it does make keeping an good morning rhythm easy in the winter when the sun comes up much later.
Black and white or variation of 1/60 in luminosity? Could you actually USE that additional data, or would it really just be used for better anti-aliasing?
Question is - can you tell the difference between 720 and 1080 at 10" on your 5" phone if they're not side by side? Sometimes higher pixel density is just wasted.
Your phone puts 1000 pixels into a 2.3" space. To actually fill that with information (say, a spreadsheet, or a CAD document) would be impossible to read. I know because my old 15", 1920x1200 laptop was brutal to read at 25" doing CAD work -and that's 1/3 the resolution. Minimally compressed video on my iPhone at 1/2 the max resolution is almost undetectable unless it's side by side or special program material which takes advantage of the resolution. Maps look better at the higher res, but I can't really imagine actually being able to *read* more information with higher density - and I have 20/10 corrected vision.
I'm considering a 4k monitor for work, but I won't go smaller than 30-40" or it will be wasted pixels. Sitting at my desk, I can barely distinguish pixels on my 30" 2560x1600 monitor if I look for them - and that's just 100ppi. I can't see them in a photograph where the adjacent pixels are close in color.
I've got bad news - a lot of them (the "terrorists") really are that dumb. And it doesn't need to be actual terrorists, whatever that means today, but simply copycat nutjobs. We don't have a lot of exactly repeated attacks in the US because every time somebody does something we go apeshit overboard. Hell, I'm half convinced that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was the ultimate troll - using an underwear bomb for the sole purpose of seeing if we would make everyone take off their underwear before boarding a plane (USA - Commando in the skies!!).
If you want to see the same thing happen again and again, just go to the middle east. Every few days is another event, usually with a similar MO.
The feds look for this stuff because (1) it's low hanging fruit and (2) low hanging fruit really does exist in the criminal world.
I would still be very interested to find out the means and methods for identifying this couple for review, though. That's a bit beyond normal, imho, and I'm a pretty patient fellow.
You are correct, however these laws have not been found unconstitutional. You may, if you wish, view it as being a Schrödinger's Cat law - neither constitutional or unconstitutional until such time as the Supreme Court rules. However, enforcement will carry on as if it is constitutional until such time as it is found otherwise.
By your logic, every law is unconstitutional until affirmed to be constitutional. Except that's not the way our government works -it's an opt-out system, not an opt-in one. It's worth noting that the representatives who actually get the classified briefings are not running to cancel these programs, and - unlike corporate regulations - there's no money changing hands between the NSA brass and congress. That doesn't absolve the NSA, of course, but it's not quite a damning.
I have no love for the NSAs methods, but having grown up within a half-hour drive of Ft. Meade, it was no secret what the NSA did. I figured it was actually probably a lot worse given the size of the data center they were building in Utah (and, who knows - it might be). They've been doing this for decades, it's just more efficient with digital records.
I'm sorry, which programs were illegal and which laws were broken? I'm sure you missed the news that these laws were written and passed by the House and Senate, funded by same, and just recently re-affirmed in the House.
See, that's the thing about "laws" - they're written by the legislature and confirmed by the executive branch. Unless and until the judicial branch finds them to be technically inadequate or violating the constitution, they ARE the law. It's how a representative democracy works. Or would you rather have a dictatorship, a monarchy? Perhaps you hold up Russia as a shining light of transparency, liberty, and justice?
The jobs described sound like most entry-level labor-class jobs - whether it's a framer, and landscaper, a farm worker, feed store employee, or any other manual job which requires very little training. Those never were middle class jobs, and neither is a warehouse job.
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Nice climate, white sandy beaches, government not worried about telling the US where they can put their IP laws.
Oh, come on. We were all thinking it.
Sounds like free lunch on you're twin's dime.
And yet, despite it's supposed "being down" it's still the primary corporate desktop system after a decade of absolutely horrible management. That's the kind of market you really want to be in on. MSFT has no presence in the emerging personal device market, which may very well take over computers in the home arena.
As for iPads in the corporate environment - it's not MSFT that should be scared, but Franklin Covey's print calendar business. Tablets are not creation devices, they're consumption and personal organization. The iPad, as it is currently positioned, will never leap into creation in any meaningful way. It would take either a major philosophical change in how iOS works, or a port of OSX to it. An ultrabook convertible, however, might replace a desktop just as laptops have replaced desktops. So you're looking at the Air market for Apple which is quickly being crowded by the new ultrabooks - may of which offer better integration into corporate networks and buying models (i.e. HP, Dell, Lenovo contracts).
Things could shift, but for Apple - which was riding high on innovative devices - seems to be flagging here. Unfortunately, their best bet at a break-out product may be even harder to pull off than their iTunes licensing (which was pretty tough, and impressive) - a la carte cable programming across the board directly with providers via iTunes and an AppleTV brand. My second-best option - inclusion as an option in automobile/OEM head units, with a 50-60M/yr unit market and a nice, juicy $1000 retail pricepoint for low power hardware.
Apparently, there are lots of people who don't really know how these alerts work on their phones.
Oh, you're crazy was wrapped in creamy sanity for just a few lines:
"Crime requires criminal intent"
No, it doesn't. Crime merely requires that you violate the law, even if you didn't know the law existed. But, hey, thanks for playing.
A law is enforceable and viable from the moment it is ratified and signed. A law may be rescinded if it is found to violate the constitution, even to reverse application of the law back to the date of signature, but until that happens it is the law.
As for BHO, it's not his call as to whether it's constitutional or not, nor is it yours. He may form a learned opinion concerning it, and you can spew filth from your ass. Neither has any standing anywhere in the US, and both may ultimately be wrong. But there are only 9 people who decide whether the constitution has actually been violated, and their redress is to reverse the law in question.
As much as Jobs was an utter asshole, he was an asshole with a vision and a mission. He had very specific ideas about technology and they were mostly aligned with non-technologically oriented people (aka: most humans). Apple has banked its success on non-technical people - if you are the computer equivalent of not being able to find your ass with both hands, Apple is for you. It's why Apple was king of graphics - those people aren't IT geeks. Apple locked everything down so it looked like paper and pencil, or dodge masks, or picas or points. Jobs understood that the feel, look, and minimal learning curve of a device was THE most critical factor to selling them. He hated buttons because they complicate the interface.
Apple has not only lost it's way, it has done so as their primary markets that made them the juggernaut they are are saturating (tablets and phones). They hold such a dominant position that it can only really erode in a normal marketplace. MS has the advantage of decades of software development by third parties protecting it's operating system. Apple has the disadvantange that everyone *expects* to trade in their device every 2 years, and the software investment users have is minimal thanks to the lowest-price-wins marketplace they've created (and profited off handsomely, I might add).
Apple IS at a crossroads. They really need to find another Jobs or they will, though it seems amazing, probably fritter away their $100B warchest on redesigning icons. They're going to need another "holy shit that's awesome" moment here soon, imho.
...but there's probably already a thread at http://www.rocketryforum.com/ about it. Hell, they've discussed the methods and legality of using phones as tracking devices to death; might as well make them accelerometers as well. Of course, that'll mean somebody will have to figure out how to make the phone fire a pyro at apogee for the recovery chute.
Except that the NRA isn't defending the lead wheel weights, and they're already outlawed in CA.
Thing is, if it's in the ground and stable (i.e. the groundwater isn't contaminated), it probably contains little or no soluble oxides. Note that there are places where the groundwater is tainted by dangerous chemicals which are native. Groundwater isn't some magical source that only gets screwed up by human intervention. It's usually clean thanks to millions of years of water passage which actually does carry away all the soluble compounds, leaving only insoluble ones - hence why it's often considered clean, and is usually free of significant contamination.
In the case of spent ammunition, the lead becomes part of the shallow watershed effluent path. Any soluble lead compounds actually do enter the water stream, as opposed to lead which has been buried for millions of years and is bypassed or has been stripped already.
You do realize that leaded solder is getting harder to come by, and is entirely gone from use in plumbing, right?
Yes, but even in the very best/most efficient case, it will take more than $5 of machine time to create. It's the same argument with guns - anyone can make one with a basic set of shop machines. The key (if you'll excuse the pun) to 3D printers is that it's a trivial process which can be accomplished for very low cost. The barriers to entry are significantly reduced, and will only get lower as the cost of printers comes down.
Told him he should have rubbed one out beforehand.
Somebody needs to remind MS that they are not Apple, and can't get away with charging full price for the entire lifecycle of the item. Unlike Apple, which has no direct competition in the OSX/iOS hardware market, the surface is actively competing with other tablet/convertible units out there, and now that Haswell is on the street all the Ivy Bridge units are being discounted to get them out of the way. MS is trailing on this one.
Good fucking lord - they didn't break the law, they made a law that (may be) in violation of the constitution. For a group of fukcing nerds who scream and yell about the misuse of theft vs infringement when it comes to copyright and patent law, you're quite the knuckehead when it comes to the feds knowing you surf porn all the time.
If we criminally prosecuted every congressman and senator who had a law striken or modified as unconstitutional by the court there would be none left. Perhaps yu would recommend jail time for anyone who voted for a state amendment which turns out to violate the US constitution?
Now THAT's unreasonable searches - and it's not just metadata, it's going through your shit for no reason whatsoever.
Fix that actual, physical problem and then we can talk about whether someone marking the weight and destination of your baggage (meta-data) is a big deal.
I use a dawn simulator for a morning "alarm" instead of a regular alarm clock. It doesn't keep me from staying up late, but it does make keeping an good morning rhythm easy in the winter when the sun comes up much later.
Black and white or variation of 1/60 in luminosity? Could you actually USE that additional data, or would it really just be used for better anti-aliasing?
Question is - can you tell the difference between 720 and 1080 at 10" on your 5" phone if they're not side by side? Sometimes higher pixel density is just wasted.
Your phone puts 1000 pixels into a 2.3" space. To actually fill that with information (say, a spreadsheet, or a CAD document) would be impossible to read. I know because my old 15", 1920x1200 laptop was brutal to read at 25" doing CAD work -and that's 1/3 the resolution. Minimally compressed video on my iPhone at 1/2 the max resolution is almost undetectable unless it's side by side or special program material which takes advantage of the resolution. Maps look better at the higher res, but I can't really imagine actually being able to *read* more information with higher density - and I have 20/10 corrected vision.
I'm considering a 4k monitor for work, but I won't go smaller than 30-40" or it will be wasted pixels. Sitting at my desk, I can barely distinguish pixels on my 30" 2560x1600 monitor if I look for them - and that's just 100ppi. I can't see them in a photograph where the adjacent pixels are close in color.
Please let Timmy be on staff at the time, Please let Timmy be on staff at the time, Please let Timmy...
I've got bad news - a lot of them (the "terrorists") really are that dumb. And it doesn't need to be actual terrorists, whatever that means today, but simply copycat nutjobs. We don't have a lot of exactly repeated attacks in the US because every time somebody does something we go apeshit overboard. Hell, I'm half convinced that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was the ultimate troll - using an underwear bomb for the sole purpose of seeing if we would make everyone take off their underwear before boarding a plane (USA - Commando in the skies!!).
If you want to see the same thing happen again and again, just go to the middle east. Every few days is another event, usually with a similar MO.
The feds look for this stuff because (1) it's low hanging fruit and (2) low hanging fruit really does exist in the criminal world.
I would still be very interested to find out the means and methods for identifying this couple for review, though. That's a bit beyond normal, imho, and I'm a pretty patient fellow.
You are correct, however these laws have not been found unconstitutional. You may, if you wish, view it as being a Schrödinger's Cat law - neither constitutional or unconstitutional until such time as the Supreme Court rules. However, enforcement will carry on as if it is constitutional until such time as it is found otherwise.
By your logic, every law is unconstitutional until affirmed to be constitutional. Except that's not the way our government works -it's an opt-out system, not an opt-in one. It's worth noting that the representatives who actually get the classified briefings are not running to cancel these programs, and - unlike corporate regulations - there's no money changing hands between the NSA brass and congress. That doesn't absolve the NSA, of course, but it's not quite a damning.
I have no love for the NSAs methods, but having grown up within a half-hour drive of Ft. Meade, it was no secret what the NSA did. I figured it was actually probably a lot worse given the size of the data center they were building in Utah (and, who knows - it might be). They've been doing this for decades, it's just more efficient with digital records.
I'm sorry, which programs were illegal and which laws were broken? I'm sure you missed the news that these laws were written and passed by the House and Senate, funded by same, and just recently re-affirmed in the House.
See, that's the thing about "laws" - they're written by the legislature and confirmed by the executive branch. Unless and until the judicial branch finds them to be technically inadequate or violating the constitution, they ARE the law. It's how a representative democracy works. Or would you rather have a dictatorship, a monarchy? Perhaps you hold up Russia as a shining light of transparency, liberty, and justice?
Remember when the early XBOX sales looks so bad they thought it might drag Microsoft under?
The jobs described sound like most entry-level labor-class jobs - whether it's a framer, and landscaper, a farm worker, feed store employee, or any other manual job which requires very little training. Those never were middle class jobs, and neither is a warehouse job.