Have you ever noticed that you are not allowed to record the proceedings in most (all?) courtrooms? I've always wondered why that is. One theory is that someone makes money selling the transcripts, and wants to have a monopoly. Another is that someone wants to make sure that only their edited version of events is on permanent record.
Neither seems to be a valid reason to me. Does anyone know the real reason?
Those people don't become pilots. One of the requirements is that the pilot be able to distinguish red signal lights from green. Control towers have "light guns", basically a lot like theater spotlights, that they can use to signal pilots that have lost their radio, etc. There's a set of codes pilots have to memorize. This will just be one more. (It may be that red-red-green already is a standard code, it's been too long for me to remember. I haven't flown in years.)
The $120 is the free market price necessary to convince a competent author, and competent publisher, to produce a quality book.
But it's not really a free market. If students are told, "Go get a Calculus 101 textbook", and can read reviews and pick the one they like best, that would be closer to a free market. But prefessors make the choice for the students, in all the classes I ever took.
It's hard (perhaps impossible?) to have a free market when the person who makes the choice of product is not the person who uses the product and pays the bill. The places in our society where this situation holds tend to be the ones that people find unsatisfactory.
I think Apache Maven (http://maven.apache.org/) does many of those things. It seems to be focused on Java projects, but it might work with other languages also.
I haven't used it, although I plan to look at it a bit someday.
Please, give us back the old site! It's true that the new one is pretty, but it's so hard to read! Small fonts, low contrast between background and foreground, non-fluid layout. I don't know how easy it is to navigate, because I can't read the links.
Why is it that so many people work so hard to make things worse? The default colors, fonts, etc. give a pretty usable page. If you're going to change them, at least make them better!
Here's an idea -- they should have launched a big mass of bulk, generic supplies: liquid oxygen, water, giant erector set beams, solar electric panels, etc. Something cheap enough that if it's lost or never used nobody minds, but someday could come in handy when building something in orbit.
Having physical access to the machine isn't always enough. Sure, given enough time, you could access anything on it. But you might not get that much time.
Also, doing something like stealing the hard drive, or changing the local admin password, doesn't give the attacker access to the file servers, etc that the workstation is connected to. Only being able to log in to the network can do that.
Of course, I'm sure the manufacturers of DVRs will answer back
I wouldn't say "Of course". In fact, TiVo has been noticably hesitant to respond to this and other customer requests, apparently to avoid annoying the networks (more).
And I do see their point. In an arms race between TiVo and the networks, the networks will probably win. They all have far more money, and can afford to buy more lawyers, legislators, and FCC Commissioners. The HDTV broadcast flag is probably just the beginning.
To me, it seems that the best strategy for TiVo is to grow slowly, until enough people have it and can't imagine living without it that they would be a politically meaningful force if the networks started flexing their muscle. Maybe TiVo execs agree. But things like the proposed "show ads while the user fast-forwards" are going to slow down the TiVo growth curve. Sure they placate the advertisers, but it's the networks that are TiVos nemesis.
I'm pretty sure you mean Interstate 64, just west of Charlottesville, VA, as you cross Afton Mountain. I don't know if the accidents got worse after the lights were installed, but even with them, there have been some big, chain-reaction accidents.
I may be wrong about this, but the way I remember it is that in order to get the "Windows NT" logo on the box, applications had to work on all four architectures. I know I purchased at least one app that had more than one architecture on the CDROM.
I was a big fan of Alpha's, and I was hoping it would win the race. Oh, well.
(Note that WinNT PPC was probably designed for a platform much more like IBM workstations than Macintosh systems. BIOS, etc can make a HUGE difference.)
Well, also because they're misleading. They can sell Ajax Brand Cheeze and Froot Snak Mix, hoping you'll think it has cheese and fruit in it. But if you notice that it doesn't, they can say, "We never said it did -- that's just the name."
You're right, it's not that bad. Although I wish the bill said that the government MAY withhold the requested data, instead of MUST. I think there will sometimes be things that they would be OK with releasing, but this law will now allow them to.
This proposal says that if the govt buy some pics from someone like http://spaceimaging.com/, they CANNOT release it in response to an FOIA request.
It does NOT say that CNN, NBC, Washington Post, or Joe Blow can't buy the data from the same place the govt got it. I seriously doubt that the news organizations rely on FOIA to get their satellite photos -- they can't wait that long. They buy from the source.
The only time journalists really need FOIA is to write a story about what the govt is up to: is the govt abusing its power, or wasting money, etc.
How often do they get 220+kph winds in Antarctica?
According to http://www.antarcticconnection.com/, part of Antarctica experience winds of up to 200 mph. That's probably a rare occurance, but I gather that it can be a very windy place.
The original poster KNOWS that none of the database products do what he wants. That's his problem. He wants a database program that uses SQL, AND can handle truly huge pieces of data. Sure, the DB might store these objects as external files, but the DB should do that for him. If the DB can replicate, then replicate these objects. When doing a backup, back them up. Roll back a transaction, clean them up.
Sure, Oracle, Sybase, DB2, and other common products aren't going to do these things. It probably requires a vastly different technique for storing the rows, that would suck for the current common uses.
But I think someone should do this. If it existed, maybe lots of applications would find that it's a better way than the home-grown ways they use now.
Maybe it could be done as a custom data type in Postgres, or a new table type in MySQL. There are other open-source database projects that have all the SQL-handling parts of the project done, and maybe one of them could have a new table engine grafted on.
In a previous job, I would have been thinking about storing DNA sequences in such a product, but I don't do that any more. But lots of people do.
This doesn't sound like a practical system to me. It would mean that I could sign up with Amazon, buy something, provide my credit card info, etc. on my home computer, but if I tried to use my office computer (or even a different browser on the home PC), Amazon wouldn't have the info any more. If I gave it to them again, it would set the cookie on the office machine, but then I go back home, and now the cookie info is not valid any more.
It's been a while since I bought from Amazon, but I don't think it works that way.
It's like the customer rented a few cars from Avis for a few months. Now, he's decided to rent his cars from Hartz, but he demanded that he be able to use the license numbers from the Avis cars on his Hertz cars, because he liked the numbers. The judge said that sounded OK to him, without asking the DMV what it thought about the matter, even though the DMV is the owner of the license numbers.
Do you think that's simple enough for a judge to understand? Or does it need to use Sesame Street characters somehow?
Those are maximum power numbers. E450s can run on 120V, and all the ones I've seen did so. One of my customers ran one off a 700VA cheap UPS. It wasn't fully-loaded, by any means, but it did have 4 processors, 2GB RAM, and 4 disks. My calculations based on the manual were that it needed about 580W. That's a big inverter, but not outrageous.
Perhaps you could explain how one of the Beltway snipers (Mohammed) could be charged with two counts of murder, (and convicted of both), for killing one person. And both of these were under state law -- there's no federal vs. state issue as there was with Rodney King's attackers. None of the news organizations that reported this seemed to even think it was odd.
Yeah, it's definitely competition for TiVo, but my vote still goes to TiVo. We've had TiVo for three years, the Comcast box for 3 months. The TiVo is MUCH more user-friendly.
The Comcast box has these advantages: Cheaper (for us, 9.99/month, including hardware rental); can record two channels at once; can record digital channels straight to the hard disk; longer live-TV buffer (1 hour, I think).
TiVo's advantages: much nicer user interface; responds to button presses much faster; better user interface; better remote control design; continues to record live TV in buffer even while watching a prerecorded show; and did I mention, MUCH BETTER USER INTERFACE.
And TiVo is open with it's customers, Comcast (and Scientific Atlanta, who makes the box) is just the opposite. For instance, only customers can view their user forums -- if you are a potential customer, stay out. I guess they are afraid you won't buy if you know the facts....
But my point is that the people doing crime are the criminals. Not the guys who manufacture tools.
I agree with you completely. The problem is that the law enforcement agencies, politicians, and courts believe that it's a perfectly valid strategy to attack the people who make the tools instead of (or in addition to) the people who use them to break the law. It's often a result of laziness or greed, but it is happening with increasing frequency these days, and I don't see anyone in a position to fix it trying to do so.
The DMCA is just one case. Suits against firearms manufacturers, alcohol manufacturers, aircraft manufacturers and many others are another example. More and more laws are being passed to remove the need to prove that a bad act happened by making acts that often preceed that bad act illegal in their own right.
The latest example that comes to mind is this. The Virginia legislature is about to consider a bill that would make it illegal to have an open container of alcohol in the car while driving. It's already illegal to drive drunk. It's not illegal to be a passenger while drunk. So why can't the passengers drink while a sober guy drives without drinking? Because then the police/prosecutors would have to prove that the driver was drunk to convict him, and that's too much work. It's much easier for them to just prove that he could have had a drink whenever he wanted, so he must have done so.
So I can see why Adobe might want to protect themselves by adding this feature. I don't like it, but I understand their reasons. To prevent it in the future, we should fight the root causes, not the end effects.
I wish the Virginia Credit Union was like that. They held a big deposit of mine a couple of weeks ago, without prior notice. The letter I got said that it was because I had too many bounced checks. The only reason I had ANY bounced checks was because of previous deposits being held without warning.
Mostly, I like banking there. But their inability to explain in advance when deposits will be held makes me consider alternatives.
I hear you, bro' -- been there, done that. But here in Virginia, they changed the law a few years ago (mid 1990's I think). It was "move to the right", now it's "move to the right or left, whichever will cause the most grief for the emergency vehicle". I guess this was at the request of the auto body repair lobby.
Other lamebrain policies (not laws, just local policies): since ambulances like to travel in the left lane, force them to use the far right toll booth on the highways. Oh, boy, 5 lane changes each time. And can other drivers see your turn signals between all the strobes? Apparently not. Also, make all fire and rescue vehicles stop at red lights before going through, even if all other traffic is stopped. Sounds good, but when some guy sees you stop like that, he thinks it means you are letting him go first, so he does. After all, he's got the green light, the ambulance stopped, why not?
Around here, the favorite dingus trick is to stop too far into the intersection, so that they are past the sensors. Usually, this means they are past the big white "stop" line. I enjoy thinking of the "instant karma effect": by being so impatient that they go an extra 20 feet before stopping, they delay themselves until someone else comes up behind them to trigger the light. I often stop way back, so that I don't trigger it, just to add to their suffering.
Unless I'm impatient, then I'll trigger the sensor and get on with things....
They needed to replace the dead guy's name with the new candidate, not just remove him from the ballot.
Yes, that was the reason. "They" was the political party Wellstone was in. (I don't remember which it was.)
Which is a total crock. There's no reason a party should consider it manditory that they have a candidate on the ballot, and get special consideration if something happens to their choice. Individuals run for office; if one of them dies before the election, or goes to jail, or something else befalls him, people should choose from the remaining candidates. The idea that people are voting for "A Democrat", and if the one on the ballot can't serve for some reason, the Democratic party can pick another person to take his place, is completely wrong.
Naturally, the politicians who decide these things disagree.
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Have you ever noticed that you are not allowed to record the proceedings in most (all?) courtrooms? I've always wondered why that is. One theory is that someone makes money selling the transcripts, and wants to have a monopoly. Another is that someone wants to make sure that only their edited version of events is on permanent record.
Neither seems to be a valid reason to me. Does anyone know the real reason?
Those people don't become pilots. One of the requirements is that the pilot be able to distinguish red signal lights from green. Control towers have "light guns", basically a lot like theater spotlights, that they can use to signal pilots that have lost their radio, etc. There's a set of codes pilots have to memorize. This will just be one more. (It may be that red-red-green already is a standard code, it's been too long for me to remember. I haven't flown in years.)
But it's not really a free market. If students are told, "Go get a Calculus 101 textbook", and can read reviews and pick the one they like best, that would be closer to a free market. But prefessors make the choice for the students, in all the classes I ever took.
It's hard (perhaps impossible?) to have a free market when the person who makes the choice of product is not the person who uses the product and pays the bill. The places in our society where this situation holds tend to be the ones that people find unsatisfactory.
I think Apache Maven (http://maven.apache.org/) does many of those things. It seems to be focused on Java projects, but it might work with other languages also.
I haven't used it, although I plan to look at it a bit someday.
Why is it that so many people work so hard to make things worse? The default colors, fonts, etc. give a pretty usable page. If you're going to change them, at least make them better!
Here's an idea -- they should have launched a big mass of bulk, generic supplies: liquid oxygen, water, giant erector set beams, solar electric panels, etc. Something cheap enough that if it's lost or never used nobody minds, but someday could come in handy when building something in orbit.
Having physical access to the machine isn't always enough. Sure, given enough time, you could access anything on it. But you might not get that much time.
Also, doing something like stealing the hard drive, or changing the local admin password, doesn't give the attacker access to the file servers, etc that the workstation is connected to. Only being able to log in to the network can do that.
I wouldn't say "Of course". In fact, TiVo has been noticably hesitant to respond to this and other customer requests, apparently to avoid annoying the networks (more).
And I do see their point. In an arms race between TiVo and the networks, the networks will probably win. They all have far more money, and can afford to buy more lawyers, legislators, and FCC Commissioners. The HDTV broadcast flag is probably just the beginning.
To me, it seems that the best strategy for TiVo is to grow slowly, until enough people have it and can't imagine living without it that they would be a politically meaningful force if the networks started flexing their muscle. Maybe TiVo execs agree. But things like the proposed "show ads while the user fast-forwards" are going to slow down the TiVo growth curve. Sure they placate the advertisers, but it's the networks that are TiVos nemesis.
I'm pretty sure you mean Interstate 64, just west of Charlottesville, VA, as you cross Afton Mountain. I don't know if the accidents got worse after the lights were installed, but even with them, there have been some big, chain-reaction accidents.
I may be wrong about this, but the way I remember it is that in order to get the "Windows NT" logo on the box, applications had to work on all four architectures. I know I purchased at least one app that had more than one architecture on the CDROM.
I was a big fan of Alpha's, and I was hoping it would win the race. Oh, well.
(Note that WinNT PPC was probably designed for a platform much more like IBM workstations than Macintosh systems. BIOS, etc can make a HUGE difference.)
Here's my idea. It's simple, and won't solve the problem, but it would help.
No candidate can accept a contribution from someone who is not eligible to vote for that candidate.
This knocks out all corporate donations, and prevents a rich guy in NY donating lots of money to a candidate in TX, for example.
I don't have a solution for PACs, 527s, etc.
Well, also because they're misleading. They can sell Ajax Brand Cheeze and Froot Snak Mix, hoping you'll think it has cheese and fruit in it. But if you notice that it doesn't, they can say, "We never said it did -- that's just the name."
You're right, it's not that bad. Although I wish the bill said that the government MAY withhold the requested data, instead of MUST. I think there will sometimes be things that they would be OK with releasing, but this law will now allow them to.
This proposal says that if the govt buy some pics from someone like http://spaceimaging.com/, they CANNOT release it in response to an FOIA request.
It does NOT say that CNN, NBC, Washington Post, or Joe Blow can't buy the data from the same place the govt got it. I seriously doubt that the news organizations rely on FOIA to get their satellite photos -- they can't wait that long. They buy from the source.
The only time journalists really need FOIA is to write a story about what the govt is up to: is the govt abusing its power, or wasting money, etc.
According to http://www.antarcticconnection.com/, part of Antarctica experience winds of up to 200 mph. That's probably a rare occurance, but I gather that it can be a very windy place.
I don't think he's trolling at all.
The original poster KNOWS that none of the database products do what he wants. That's his problem. He wants a database program that uses SQL, AND can handle truly huge pieces of data. Sure, the DB might store these objects as external files, but the DB should do that for him. If the DB can replicate, then replicate these objects. When doing a backup, back them up. Roll back a transaction, clean them up.
Sure, Oracle, Sybase, DB2, and other common products aren't going to do these things. It probably requires a vastly different technique for storing the rows, that would suck for the current common uses.
But I think someone should do this. If it existed, maybe lots of applications would find that it's a better way than the home-grown ways they use now.
Maybe it could be done as a custom data type in Postgres, or a new table type in MySQL. There are other open-source database projects that have all the SQL-handling parts of the project done, and maybe one of them could have a new table engine grafted on.
In a previous job, I would have been thinking about storing DNA sequences in such a product, but I don't do that any more. But lots of people do.
This doesn't sound like a practical system to me. It would mean that I could sign up with Amazon, buy something, provide my credit card info, etc. on my home computer, but if I tried to use my office computer (or even a different browser on the home PC), Amazon wouldn't have the info any more. If I gave it to them again, it would set the cookie on the office machine, but then I go back home, and now the cookie info is not valid any more.
It's been a while since I bought from Amazon, but I don't think it works that way.
Here's the analogy that I came up with.
It's like the customer rented a few cars from Avis for a few months. Now, he's decided to rent his cars from Hartz, but he demanded that he be able to use the license numbers from the Avis cars on his Hertz cars, because he liked the numbers. The judge said that sounded OK to him, without asking the DMV what it thought about the matter, even though the DMV is the owner of the license numbers.
Do you think that's simple enough for a judge to understand? Or does it need to use Sesame Street characters somehow?
Those are maximum power numbers. E450s can run on 120V, and all the ones I've seen did so. One of my customers ran one off a 700VA cheap UPS. It wasn't fully-loaded, by any means, but it did have 4 processors, 2GB RAM, and 4 disks. My calculations based on the manual were that it needed about 580W. That's a big inverter, but not outrageous.
Perhaps you could explain how one of the Beltway snipers (Mohammed) could be charged with two counts of murder, (and convicted of both), for killing one person. And both of these were under state law -- there's no federal vs. state issue as there was with Rodney King's attackers. None of the news organizations that reported this seemed to even think it was odd.
Yeah, it's definitely competition for TiVo, but my vote still goes to TiVo. We've had TiVo for three years, the Comcast box for 3 months. The TiVo is MUCH more user-friendly.
The Comcast box has these advantages: Cheaper (for us, 9.99/month, including hardware rental); can record two channels at once; can record digital channels straight to the hard disk; longer live-TV buffer (1 hour, I think).
TiVo's advantages: much nicer user interface; responds to button presses much faster; better user interface; better remote control design;
continues to record live TV in buffer even while watching a prerecorded show; and did I mention, MUCH BETTER USER INTERFACE.
And TiVo is open with it's customers, Comcast (and Scientific Atlanta, who makes the box) is just the opposite. For instance, only customers can view their user forums -- if you are a potential customer, stay out. I guess they are afraid you won't buy if you know the facts....
In short, TiVo Rules!
I agree with you completely. The problem is that the law enforcement agencies, politicians, and courts believe that it's a perfectly valid strategy to attack the people who make the tools instead of (or in addition to) the people who use them to break the law. It's often a result of laziness or greed, but it is happening with increasing frequency these days, and I don't see anyone in a position to fix it trying to do so.
The DMCA is just one case. Suits against firearms manufacturers, alcohol manufacturers, aircraft manufacturers and many others are another example. More and more laws are being passed to remove the need to prove that a bad act happened by making acts that often preceed that bad act illegal in their own right.
The latest example that comes to mind is this. The Virginia legislature is about to consider a bill that would make it illegal to have an open container of alcohol in the car while driving. It's already illegal to drive drunk. It's not illegal to be a passenger while drunk. So why can't the passengers drink while a sober guy drives without drinking? Because then the police/prosecutors would have to prove that the driver was drunk to convict him, and that's too much work. It's much easier for them to just prove that he could have had a drink whenever he wanted, so he must have done so.
So I can see why Adobe might want to protect themselves by adding this feature. I don't like it, but I understand their reasons. To prevent it in the future, we should fight the root causes, not the end effects.
I wish the Virginia Credit Union was like that. They held a big deposit of mine a couple of weeks ago, without prior notice. The letter I got said that it was because I had too many bounced checks. The only reason I had ANY bounced checks was because of previous deposits being held without warning.
Mostly, I like banking there. But their inability to explain in advance when deposits will be held makes me consider alternatives.
What's your credit union?
now it's "move to the right or left, whichever will cause the most grief for the emergency vehicle". I guess this was at the request of the auto body repair lobby.
Other lamebrain policies (not laws, just local policies): since ambulances like to travel in the left lane, force them to use the far right toll booth on the highways. Oh, boy, 5 lane changes each time. And can other drivers see your turn signals between all the strobes? Apparently not.
Also, make all fire and rescue vehicles stop at red lights before going through, even if all other traffic is stopped. Sounds good, but when some guy sees you stop like that, he thinks it means you are letting him go first, so he does. After all, he's got the green light, the ambulance stopped, why not?
Unless I'm impatient, then I'll trigger the sensor and get on with things....
Yes, that was the reason. "They" was the political party Wellstone was in. (I don't remember which it was.)
Which is a total crock. There's no reason a party should consider it manditory that they have a candidate on the ballot, and get special consideration if something happens to their choice.
Individuals run for office; if one of them dies before the election, or goes to jail, or something else befalls him, people should choose from the remaining candidates. The idea that people are voting for "A Democrat", and if the one on the ballot can't serve for some reason, the Democratic party can pick another person to take his place, is completely wrong.
Naturally, the politicians who decide these things disagree.