I agree with you. With kids age 8 and 9, you are right on. All those people calling you oppressive (etc) must not live on the same planet the rest of us live in.
When my kids reach teenage years, maybe then - and only maybe - a little bit at time, as they prove themselves able to handle them, will they get additional "freedoms".
Kids need supervision, and certainly protection. The kind of supervision/protection has evolved with time and technology, but this is nothing new. It'd been like that for thousands of years. People can call it oppressive, but the world has changed quite a bit even from when I was a kid (I am sure this probably varies quite a bit based on where you live though).
IMHO, performance is not the critical factor regarding SSD. Power usage, and mostly no-moving-part (quiet and rugged) is why you want SSD in your laptop.
But on the performance front, they compared with 7200RPM hard drives, last time I checked (admittedly a while ago) most laptop are outfitted with 5400RPM drives.
I know you're trying to show some big ironic thing here, but I don't see these two things particularly contradictory. We all have a right of privacy from government/employer/school intervention. But a minor child has no legal right of privacy from his parent. A parent is responsible for a child, the government is not responsible for anyone. A parent may give some level of privacy/"space" to the child as the child grows older if the parent feels the child can handle it responsibly. But it's more of a trust thing, and certainly not a "right".
As far as I can tell, your cost analysis is flawed. You said "you and your wife" - so you will need two cards, two subscriptions. This will cost you more than $10 over the DSL connection which is shared by BOTH of you. This will cost you double (plus an extra $20).
I have no gripes with the type of photography you describe (your day job). And I like your policies on your side job.
I have a real problem with people taking pics of my kids - the whole 10 minute worth of work that it is - put a notice in the back of the print to claim copyright on my kid's picture (they most certainly do NOT tell you that upfront, nor have I ever seen a written notice anywhere to this effect), and then charge me $18 per sheet if I want more copies. It's just plain wrong. Personally, I go, let the employee take the pics, buy 3 sheets (different poses) pay my $50 which I think is plenty for the service they provide, then do as I please. Even then, I does piss me off I don't get the negatives/files of those pictures.
I do concede however that it is my fault for falling in the trap, and not seeking an independent photographer like yourself. I guess I am lazy. I am sure that's what the mall people count on.
Slightly off topic - Tell me you're not a school photographer that sues when someone scans their pictures of their kid? I appreciate photographers as true artists that they are, but NOT the school picture (or even mall picture) people that just rip off parents for these quickie, assembly line, snapshots.
No you don't need to see a doctor. I would be willing to bet that you read it the way it was intended to be read. Nobody says "piece of work" without meaning "piece of s**t".
The key concern isn't really the machine would be hacked on election day (not that that would necessarily be impossible to do). I has more to do it hacked before hand (i.e. is it program is ignore or change votes for a certain candidate, etc) or frankly, is there a software bug that causes votes to be lost or misrecorded - and if it was, how would you know without any paper trail?
I don't think that the "paper trail" folks ignore it at all. At any given polling station there are (always?) various observers from all interested parties to watch the poll workers.
I know the merits of my 3 cases. I was screwed by the merchant in all 3 cases, and I was expected to be made whole by the credit card. But I wasn't 33% of the time.
And I am a great customer too - I charge every single of my day to day transactions - small or big - because I have a reward card. Of course, I've never paid them a cent of interest (I always pay in full) but they still make plenty of money on merchant fees.
Visa Inc. is one company. Chase, Citibank, Bank of America (etc) are different companies. You get your visa card from Chase, not from Visa Inc directly.
American Express however issues most American Express cards. Just recently did other financial institution start issuing Amex cards (I just got a solicitation from B of A recently)
My experience with this process with the credit card companies is that it's far from an automatic "consumer wins" by a long stretch.
I've done this 3 times (visa and/or mc - no amex). One time I won by default (the vendor never replied apparently), the second time I lost (vendor disagreed) but I got my money back anyway as a courtesy from the credit card company (it was a small transaction, less than $50 I think), and the third time I lost and did not get my money back (vendor disagreed, case closed). Each time I had to document my claim to the best of ability, it took months to come to a conclusion. From what I can tell the vendor has the upper hand in those investigations, NOT the consumer.
The credit card companies say that claim resolution is handled by Visa and/or Mastercard so they don't control the outcome (but they are profusely sorry) so threatening to cancel your account has no effect either.
Bottom line, it's not a very good situation to be in.
Yes, I generally agree that he should put his family first and I do admire him to letting this go in spite of being thousands of dollars in the hole. The only regret is that the day he was at Circuit City he put his principles over his family that day. Instead of showing his receipt and giving the gift to his sister on her birthday, she got to witness the whole incident crying, then his family got to spend the rest of the day getting him out of jail (and I understand that he was right as far as the law is concerned).
Classic case of "pick your battles". I think that's the lesson he's learned in the end.
By the way, I know the guy - he teaches java classes at companies. I've taken a couple of his classes where i work. He's the smartest, nicest and funniest guy in the world (very good teacher too).
I think the lesson is: don't stand up for your rights unless you have a lot of time and money on your hands. Sure, the charges were dropped. But he's $7500 poorer for it and nothing he can do about it (he had to agree not to sue). I figured the prosecutor was satisfied with that punishment.
At this point, with players still costing several hundreds of dollars, it IS still a big gamble (for most people). They're not exactly like regular DVD players which can as little as $20...
Good to know. I am with T-Mobile as well. I do plan to ask before going to Europe (end of the year or so) because the roaming charges are outrageous. Much cheaper to rent a SIM from the airport...
That's not true for this GSM phone, or any other GSM phone sold in the US. Unlike in Europe, where such practice is illegal, the US cell phone carrier lock their phones to their SIMS. You can't used a AT&T GSM phone on the T-Mobile network, or vice versa UNLESS you manage to convince the provider to unlock your phone (or in the alternative, find a way to unlock it, usually for a fee, from the internet). The justification for this practice is that phones are heavily subsidized by the carrier in the US (you pay a small fraction of the actual cost of the phone). The justification for the iPhone (for which you pay FULL price) is that Apple is too greedy?
The other thing the SIM thing is good for in the US is to switch phone within the same company. i.e. my wife and I are both with T-Mobile, and we decide to switch phone (and keep our respective numbers).
Not in the context of this discussion. The discussion is about the need of this new "universal" binary format. Having a proper installer that compiles to the current platform makes "universal" binaries unnecessary. That's really the only point this discussion was trying to make.
Also, this solution doesn't deal with dependencies. But neither really does any other stand alone installer (wether it's source or binaries). Everything's got dependencies (even applications distributed on MS-Windows platform). The only way around that is that not depend on oddball things (stick to standard libs, in as much as there is such a thing) or distribute them with your code (or have your installer download it for the user like I've seen MS programs do, etc).
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Sure, just as soon as the federal government issues everyone an ID card (like most countries in the world) so we can use that number instead.
The "social security number" became the magic number by accident (due to lack of alternative) not by choice.
The bottom line is that financial transactions need ID and ways to do credit checks.
It is. In fact, Google owns Doubleclick, which I am sure is no coincidence.
http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/pressrel/20080311_doubleclick.html
I agree with you. With kids age 8 and 9, you are right on. All those people calling you oppressive (etc) must not live on the same planet the rest of us live in.
When my kids reach teenage years, maybe then - and only maybe - a little bit at time, as they prove themselves able to handle them, will they get additional "freedoms".
Kids need supervision, and certainly protection. The kind of supervision/protection has evolved with time and technology, but this is nothing new. It'd been like that for thousands of years. People can call it oppressive, but the world has changed quite a bit even from when I was a kid (I am sure this probably varies quite a bit based on where you live though).
Sadly, it is a business model of the lawyers that are advising the RIAA, MPAA, etc.
And since this is a 4200RPM drive, it seems it's impossible to get a good picture of all the metrics side by side.
Another concern, which I forgot from my original post is heat. And I am sure heat is key concern with a laptop like the Mac Air
IMHO, performance is not the critical factor regarding SSD. Power usage, and mostly no-moving-part (quiet and rugged) is why you want SSD in your laptop.
But on the performance front, they compared with 7200RPM hard drives, last time I checked (admittedly a while ago) most laptop are outfitted with 5400RPM drives.
And I thought the lesson was "don't kill people"... Silly me...
I know you're trying to show some big ironic thing here, but I don't see these two things particularly contradictory. We all have a right of privacy from government/employer/school intervention. But a minor child has no legal right of privacy from his parent. A parent is responsible for a child, the government is not responsible for anyone. A parent may give some level of privacy/"space" to the child as the child grows older if the parent feels the child can handle it responsibly. But it's more of a trust thing, and certainly not a "right".
As far as I can tell, your cost analysis is flawed. You said "you and your wife" - so you will need two cards, two subscriptions. This will cost you more than $10 over the DSL connection which is shared by BOTH of you. This will cost you double (plus an extra $20).
I have no gripes with the type of photography you describe (your day job). And I like your policies on your side job.
I have a real problem with people taking pics of my kids - the whole 10 minute worth of work that it is - put a notice in the back of the print to claim copyright on my kid's picture (they most certainly do NOT tell you that upfront, nor have I ever seen a written notice anywhere to this effect), and then charge me $18 per sheet if I want more copies. It's just plain wrong. Personally, I go, let the employee take the pics, buy 3 sheets (different poses) pay my $50 which I think is plenty for the service they provide, then do as I please. Even then, I does piss me off I don't get the negatives/files of those pictures.
I do concede however that it is my fault for falling in the trap, and not seeking an independent photographer like yourself. I guess I am lazy. I am sure that's what the mall people count on.
Slightly off topic - Tell me you're not a school photographer that sues when someone scans their pictures of their kid? I appreciate photographers as true artists that they are, but NOT the school picture (or even mall picture) people that just rip off parents for these quickie, assembly line, snapshots.
No you don't need to see a doctor. I would be willing to bet that you read it the way it was intended to be read. Nobody says "piece of work" without meaning "piece of s**t".
The key concern isn't really the machine would be hacked on election day (not that that would necessarily be impossible to do). I has more to do it hacked before hand (i.e. is it program is ignore or change votes for a certain candidate, etc) or frankly, is there a software bug that causes votes to be lost or misrecorded - and if it was, how would you know without any paper trail?
I don't think that the "paper trail" folks ignore it at all. At any given polling station there are (always?) various observers from all interested parties to watch the poll workers.
I know the merits of my 3 cases. I was screwed by the merchant in all 3 cases, and I was expected to be made whole by the credit card. But I wasn't 33% of the time.
And I am a great customer too - I charge every single of my day to day transactions - small or big - because I have a reward card. Of course, I've never paid them a cent of interest (I always pay in full) but they still make plenty of money on merchant fees.
Visa Inc. is one company.
Chase, Citibank, Bank of America (etc) are different companies.
You get your visa card from Chase, not from Visa Inc directly.
American Express however issues most American Express cards. Just recently did other financial institution start issuing Amex cards (I just got a solicitation from B of A recently)
My experience with this process with the credit card companies is that it's far from an automatic "consumer wins" by a long stretch.
I've done this 3 times (visa and/or mc - no amex). One time I won by default (the vendor never replied apparently), the second time I lost (vendor disagreed) but I got my money back anyway as a courtesy from the credit card company (it was a small transaction, less than $50 I think), and the third time I lost and did not get my money back (vendor disagreed, case closed). Each time I had to document my claim to the best of ability, it took months to come to a conclusion. From what I can tell the vendor has the upper hand in those investigations, NOT the consumer.
The credit card companies say that claim resolution is handled by Visa and/or Mastercard so they don't control the outcome (but they are profusely sorry) so threatening to cancel your account has no effect either.
Bottom line, it's not a very good situation to be in.
Yes, I generally agree that he should put his family first and I do admire him to letting this go in spite of being thousands of dollars in the hole. The only regret is that the day he was at Circuit City he put his principles over his family that day. Instead of showing his receipt and giving the gift to his sister on her birthday, she got to witness the whole incident crying, then his family got to spend the rest of the day getting him out of jail (and I understand that he was right as far as the law is concerned).
Classic case of "pick your battles". I think that's the lesson he's learned in the end.
By the way, I know the guy - he teaches java classes at companies. I've taken a couple of his classes where i work. He's the smartest, nicest and funniest guy in the world (very good teacher too).
I think the lesson is: don't stand up for your rights unless you have a lot of time and money on your hands. Sure, the charges were dropped. But he's $7500 poorer for it and nothing he can do about it (he had to agree not to sue). I figured the prosecutor was satisfied with that punishment.
At this point, with players still costing several hundreds of dollars, it IS still a big gamble (for most people). They're not exactly like regular DVD players which can as little as $20...
Good to know. I am with T-Mobile as well. I do plan to ask before going to Europe (end of the year or so) because the roaming charges are outrageous. Much cheaper to rent a SIM from the airport...
That's not true for this GSM phone, or any other GSM phone sold in the US. Unlike in Europe, where such practice is illegal, the US cell phone carrier lock their phones to their SIMS. You can't used a AT&T GSM phone on the T-Mobile network, or vice versa UNLESS you manage to convince the provider to unlock your phone (or in the alternative, find a way to unlock it, usually for a fee, from the internet). The justification for this practice is that phones are heavily subsidized by the carrier in the US (you pay a small fraction of the actual cost of the phone). The justification for the iPhone (for which you pay FULL price) is that Apple is too greedy?
The other thing the SIM thing is good for in the US is to switch phone within the same company. i.e. my wife and I are both with T-Mobile, and we decide to switch phone (and keep our respective numbers).
Right, but that's a number of years away (MS actually has pretty decent End-of-Life policies, in my opinion). What the incentive to change NOW?
No, pay-per-view shows up on your next bill. They don't charge before the show start and they don't ask for a credit card.
Not in the context of this discussion. The discussion is about the need of this new "universal" binary format. Having a proper installer that compiles to the current platform makes "universal" binaries unnecessary. That's really the only point this discussion was trying to make.
Also, this solution doesn't deal with dependencies. But neither really does any other stand alone installer (wether it's source or binaries). Everything's got dependencies (even applications distributed on MS-Windows platform). The only way around that is that not depend on oddball things (stick to standard libs, in as much as there is such a thing) or distribute them with your code (or have your installer download it for the user like I've seen MS programs do, etc).