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Or they will be healthier, get less sick, and be able to take advantage of the situation that arises as the pandemic subsides, becoming ever richer. Tough to say, really.
You have to turn it on in the account preferences, but Gmail will do full https (I think it sets a cookie for login, so yeah, attention is needed if that cookie isn't set yet).
Anyway, what you are talking about is quite a problem, but I don't think it can be solved by throwing technology at it. Something like Open-ID (backed with a physical token device) is a big improvement over the email story, but it is "hard", and it still doesn't take the user out of the loop.
Microsoft is the beneficiary of enormous network effects. To the extent that they can charge $200 for software and have people more interested in buying it than they are in using software that costs $0.
This is one of the reasons that open standards are so nice, they let the user keep the $200 (unless they are interested in other compelling features of the software).
I would argue that the TTS feature in the Kindle2 is more akin to a lamp than it is to Amazon generating an audiobook. It lets the reader use the text in a wider variety of circumstances.
If special books with glow in the dark text were sold, would people be arguing that readers should not be able to use a lamp to read the normal version at night?
He is arguing it in the other direction; if 1 hour costs you hundreds of dollars, the Google SLA isn't sufficient (and thus Google's downtime isn't something to be complaining about).
I suppose if clicking on one or the other didn't "just work" it would be quite the misfeature, but if clicking one or the other does work, it isn't going to confuse anybody so much that they can't use the internet.
Of course, you can still be a steward of the earth for the same reasons that you don't eat shit for breakfast (stupid things like self interest, joy, aesthetics, etc.).
What bothers me about the way you frame it is the day you decide that you no longer have the obligation (I don't insist on needing an exterior motivator, so I don't need to feel obligated...).
It probably wouldn't be better for (the best?) artists, but it seems like a culture where lots of artists did lots of live shows and encouraged recording of those shows would result in the availability of plenty of good sets on a given p2p network.
That leaves finding a way to make the live shows viable, but I don't think that is particularly difficult from an economic perspective, there just tends to be a focus on music that has been polished and filtered by some grand arbiter, because those arbiters can entice artists with big numbers (which probably discourages sharing as advertising).
The costs of recording and distributing the shows are there, but they are small enough that self interest would cover them a lot of the time.
It seems there is some other issue. Running pagedefrag, it shows a single registry hive that is fragmented (into 2 pieces). My add/remove box is pretty slow.
So the fragmentation may exacerbate it, but it isn't the core problem.
Do you eat fish? Each one of the guys who goes out into the ocean on a little boat puts a price on his life each time he does it. People who purchase cars that are not 100% safe put a price on their own lives. Society puts a price on lives when they don't fund police more. And on and on. Only when we are inescapably confronted with it do we speak against it.
The cost needs to come down quite a bit (to take the world). The Kindle looks like it is doing well enough that Amazon can justify the online side of it, but the market will be quite a bit bigger for a device that costs $200, more so at $100. Below that, and people will buy them on a whim. Hopefully it is achievable (the decrease in cost/square inch for lcds suggests that it will happen).
There are mp4 files available for many of the videos on youtube, which the iphone requests based on the video id. Youtube will send the mp4 to any client that can figure out the url.
There isn't really any need to bring the astronaut back. People don't like to think and talk that way, but I'll bet you a nickle that there wouldn't simply be someone willing to go, there would be a long line of people competing to go.
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Or they will be healthier, get less sick, and be able to take advantage of the situation that arises as the pandemic subsides, becoming ever richer. Tough to say, really.
You have to turn it on in the account preferences, but Gmail will do full https (I think it sets a cookie for login, so yeah, attention is needed if that cookie isn't set yet).
Anyway, what you are talking about is quite a problem, but I don't think it can be solved by throwing technology at it. Something like Open-ID (backed with a physical token device) is a big improvement over the email story, but it is "hard", and it still doesn't take the user out of the loop.
Microsoft is the beneficiary of enormous network effects. To the extent that they can charge $200 for software and have people more interested in buying it than they are in using software that costs $0.
This is one of the reasons that open standards are so nice, they let the user keep the $200 (unless they are interested in other compelling features of the software).
I would argue that the TTS feature in the Kindle2 is more akin to a lamp than it is to Amazon generating an audiobook. It lets the reader use the text in a wider variety of circumstances.
If special books with glow in the dark text were sold, would people be arguing that readers should not be able to use a lamp to read the normal version at night?
Don't be a dildo. The article linked in the summary points to an article on Ars that points to this page:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/968272.mspx
The link in the comment you replied to points an infoworld article that points to this page:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/968272.mspx
The articles are about the same issue.
He is arguing it in the other direction; if 1 hour costs you hundreds of dollars, the Google SLA isn't sufficient (and thus Google's downtime isn't something to be complaining about).
No service I have used charges for system messages. Are you certain AT&T does, or are you bellyaching?
This confusion could last for MINUTES!!!
MINUTES!!!
I suppose if clicking on one or the other didn't "just work" it would be quite the misfeature, but if clicking one or the other does work, it isn't going to confuse anybody so much that they can't use the internet.
Have you finished building my all-titanium car yet?
Your comment is nicely self referential.
By the logic of forever, it should never have been possible for the job to move in the first place. Or exist.
Now, where did I leave that buggy whip.
You don't have any obligation.
Of course, you can still be a steward of the earth for the same reasons that you don't eat shit for breakfast (stupid things like self interest, joy, aesthetics, etc.).
What bothers me about the way you frame it is the day you decide that you no longer have the obligation (I don't insist on needing an exterior motivator, so I don't need to feel obligated...).
Consumer Reports is indeed a great deal better than monkeys throwing feces, or a cursory examination through blurry glass.
It probably wouldn't be better for (the best?) artists, but it seems like a culture where lots of artists did lots of live shows and encouraged recording of those shows would result in the availability of plenty of good sets on a given p2p network.
That leaves finding a way to make the live shows viable, but I don't think that is particularly difficult from an economic perspective, there just tends to be a focus on music that has been polished and filtered by some grand arbiter, because those arbiters can entice artists with big numbers (which probably discourages sharing as advertising).
The costs of recording and distributing the shows are there, but they are small enough that self interest would cover them a lot of the time.
It seems there is some other issue. Running pagedefrag, it shows a single registry hive that is fragmented (into 2 pieces). My add/remove box is pretty slow.
So the fragmentation may exacerbate it, but it isn't the core problem.
End users can demand and use a https only browser (it could also include domain whitelisting.).
I suppose that isn't a trade off that people will want to make, but it isn't that hard to categorically prevent the attack.
This laptop has a Vista capable sticker. I didn't know that before I bought it.
Do you eat fish? Each one of the guys who goes out into the ocean on a little boat puts a price on his life each time he does it. People who purchase cars that are not 100% safe put a price on their own lives. Society puts a price on lives when they don't fund police more. And on and on. Only when we are inescapably confronted with it do we speak against it.
Counting their failure, they are still, by many measures, the most successful software company on the planet.
For instance, more desktop users have complained about how bad Vista is than have used Linux.
Because it makes you squeamish? Or do you have some other reason?
A mission to mars will cost billions of dollars. A human life is worth far less than that.
The cost needs to come down quite a bit (to take the world). The Kindle looks like it is doing well enough that Amazon can justify the online side of it, but the market will be quite a bit bigger for a device that costs $200, more so at $100. Below that, and people will buy them on a whim. Hopefully it is achievable (the decrease in cost/square inch for lcds suggests that it will happen).
There are mp4 files available for many of the videos on youtube, which the iphone requests based on the video id. Youtube will send the mp4 to any client that can figure out the url.
There isn't really any need to bring the astronaut back. People don't like to think and talk that way, but I'll bet you a nickle that there wouldn't simply be someone willing to go, there would be a long line of people competing to go.
The really scary sharks can fly just fine.
People paying $500 for "just a phone" aren't very good at shopping.