It'd be nice if it worked, but since it's codified, you can find the loopholes. Social marginalization isn't clearly demarcated. So, people have to be much more cautious and thoughtful. "Regulation" takes any consideration beyond the explicit rules out of the picture.
To clarify, you're arguing in favor of security through obscurity? You really think corporations will be more careful of being shunned by consumers than fined or penalized by governments? I would have to argue that no amount of public shame will cause WalMart to pay livable wages to its staff, or correct its discrimination practices. That sort of change takes regulations (laws) and enforcement (lawsuits, both civil and criminal).
The BP fiasco was enabled through a regulatory system that is certainly broken, but the system was gutted by the last several regimes to control the US (last several iterations of the same regime? Your call). Likewise, the rolling blackouts in California several years ago, the recent collapse of the stock market, etc. were all a direct or indirect result of regulations being relaxed to "foster growth" or other nonsense. While regulations certainly hamper growth, they also hamper collapse. The point of regulation is to reduce volatility, so that we can avoid the economic whiplash that breaks the necks and backs of the citizenry.
As it turns out, the replacement reaction between the Al3+ ions and the Na2+ ions is very exothermic, which causes the expansion of the water in the bottle, popping it.
I think "watching a different channel" is more analogous to downloading different apps in the app store; a closer match might be using an unsupported tuner.
Adobe publishes the specification for Flash, but the license stipulates that you may only use it to create authoring tools, and that Adobe remains the sole source of Flash playback software. Some may argue that this merely covers them against a Microsoft Embrace->Extend situation, but I'm pretty sure anyone who has tried to use Flash on x86 linux will remember how poor a job Adobe does in making the player. Adobe could barely make a version of Flash to run well on a 1.8 GHz Pentium 4 with 512 MB of RAM; you really think they can make it run on a cell phone?
So, how often do your disks fail? What do you do with the disk when you get the replacement; pay for a new one and shred the old one or return it to Dell or HP or whomever holds your support contract? If my data's encrypted on disk, I can gladly take that disk out, pop in the new disk, and ship it back to the vendor while my RAID set rebuilds.
It's not even worth the contract for new customers. T-Mobile offers "Even More" plans, which subsidize the phone price, and "Even More Plus" plans, which do not (these are only available to those who are not on a phone contract). Based on my conversations with T-Mobile customer service this morning, you could:
Pay $179 for the Nexus One phone, and be required to purchase the "Even More" plan with Unlimited Web, texting, and 500 Minutes of calling per month for $79.99 for a contract term of 24 months. Total cost: $179 + (24 months * $79.99) = $2,098.76.
Pay $529 for the Nexus One phone. Sign up for a T-Mobile "Even More Plus" plan with Unlimited Web and text, and 500 Minutes of calling per month, for $59.99/mo. Total Cost: $529 + (24 months * $59.99) = $1,968.76.
Essentially, you end up paying $659 for the phone over two years, rather than $529 up front. Or, you could look at it as financing the phone, with an interest rate of around 12% for two years. Maybe that's better than carrying it on a high-interest credit card, but it's still an abusive rate on top of the early termination fee they charge you if you want to leave.
Good marks for attempting to draw valid historical parallels. Please follow up by: a) calling Jerry Seinfeld and everyone else who has used "-nazi" in a humorously derogatory context (i.e., the famed "Soup Nazi") and explain how they're being insensitive. b) suggest an alternate term so that we can continue to differentiate "feminists" from the anti-male crusaders labeled "feminazis."
The Nazis did horrible things, hoping to capitalize on fear. Rather than fear them, we laugh at them.
Feminism, in its ideal form, is not (perhaps) anti-male. Islam, in its ideal form does not (perhaps, and all theological arguments aside) promote violence against anyone and everyone who is not Islamic. And yet the people we hear about, the people on the news, the people that accost you in the street with their signs and pamphlets and slogans purporting to represent those groups, are.
Feminism is sexism. It probably wasn't, in the 1960's. Maybe it wasn't in the 1980's. As best I can tell, though, it is now. In my experience, there are a lot of women who think that women deserve equality, not necessarily superiority. Those who have told me that they consider themselves feminists, have qualified it with "in the classic" or "original sense."
Because its the only way to break the DRM Apple is using.
Except this does not circumvent the FairPlay DRM on older iTMS music purchases. An "Apple" Pre will still be unable to play encumbered.m4p files. However, a Palm Pre (should, at any rate) have no trouble playing a standard.m4a file, and making the vendor ID say "Apple" enables no special functionality. Thus, no compatibility is gained. All that changes is that Palm fails at selling a device that needs no supporting software beyond its own OS, which appears to have been their goal with the Pre.
Where I work as a desktop support technician, we've found the most effective upgrade path to be:
- Clone System disk to external disk and verify clone.
- Erase original System disk and perform a clean install (in our case, this is done via a disk image with several other applications, but the principle is the same).
- Use Apple's Migration Assistant to pull user data and applications back from the external disk.
- Typically follow up with a "Repair Permissions" and possibly a scan with something like Disk Warrior.
With this method, if everything is hosed, you can easily clone your system back from the external disk. Also, you have a clean system install, with less chance of legacy configuration and extension files causing problems with newer versions of OS features.
Yeah, this list comes out every year (lately, anyway), and there are always those of us who are exceptions. My mother sent me "the list" my first year of college, and I rebutted every single one of the points on it, as things I'd remembered, with details. As a fun game, though, bring up some of these things with your fellow students, this year, and see what kind of reactions they have. (Note that this can vary widely from school to school.)
Employees do not pay unemployment taxes. Employers do. The rate is based on overall payroll, and the number of employees that have been laid off within a particular time frame.
I've seen a couple models (I think one was a Pontiac, but I could be wrong) which projected the speedometer on the windshield. It was just a bright digital readout recessed into the dashboard, and you could see the reflection. This was a fairly small display, and only on the very lowest part of the windshield, but it did work.
I think the biggest hurdle to overcome with projecting HUD info in cars is adjusting for driver height and position; once you get much more complicated than a simple speedometer/odometer readout, you have to take into account those adjustments, and compensate for them. Different drivers of the same vehicle will have completely different perspectives (someone who's 188 cm tall, vs. someone who's 162 cm sharing a vehicle). Even by myself, on long rides I adjust my posture to avoid fatigue, and I move around within the cabin to try to see around SUVs and trucks at traffic lights. Any kind of overlay display would have to adjust for that, and the more complex the display, the harder it would be.
With most Dell notebooks, it's part of the bios, and there's a screen to activate it. It saves a lot of time when you have to use on 200 corporate laptops. It also saves compatibility headaches, since CompuTrace works with the vendors (initial versions had to be verified for work with specific bios versions on specific vendors and models, and you'd install it and it'd flash itself into the bios).
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It'd be nice if it worked, but since it's codified, you can find the loopholes. Social marginalization isn't clearly demarcated. So, people have to be much more cautious and thoughtful. "Regulation" takes any consideration beyond the explicit rules out of the picture.
To clarify, you're arguing in favor of security through obscurity? You really think corporations will be more careful of being shunned by consumers than fined or penalized by governments? I would have to argue that no amount of public shame will cause WalMart to pay livable wages to its staff, or correct its discrimination practices. That sort of change takes regulations (laws) and enforcement (lawsuits, both civil and criminal).
The BP fiasco was enabled through a regulatory system that is certainly broken, but the system was gutted by the last several regimes to control the US (last several iterations of the same regime? Your call). Likewise, the rolling blackouts in California several years ago, the recent collapse of the stock market, etc. were all a direct or indirect result of regulations being relaxed to "foster growth" or other nonsense. While regulations certainly hamper growth, they also hamper collapse. The point of regulation is to reduce volatility, so that we can avoid the economic whiplash that breaks the necks and backs of the citizenry.
No, I passed, but that was a long time ago, and I was thinking of a different ion as a wrote this. Thank you for pointing out my mistake.
Ah. Different reaction, then. I guess kids blow up their soda bottles differently in different places. Thanks for the tip!
As it turns out, the replacement reaction between the Al3+ ions and the Na2+ ions is very exothermic, which causes the expansion of the water in the bottle, popping it.
Ah, AP Chemistry...
I think "watching a different channel" is more analogous to downloading different apps in the app store; a closer match might be using an unsupported tuner.
Adobe publishes the specification for Flash, but the license stipulates that you may only use it to create authoring tools, and that Adobe remains the sole source of Flash playback software. Some may argue that this merely covers them against a Microsoft Embrace->Extend situation, but I'm pretty sure anyone who has tried to use Flash on x86 linux will remember how poor a job Adobe does in making the player. Adobe could barely make a version of Flash to run well on a 1.8 GHz Pentium 4 with 512 MB of RAM; you really think they can make it run on a cell phone?
So, how often do your disks fail? What do you do with the disk when you get the replacement; pay for a new one and shred the old one or return it to Dell or HP or whomever holds your support contract? If my data's encrypted on disk, I can gladly take that disk out, pop in the new disk, and ship it back to the vendor while my RAID set rebuilds.
Shortly followed by people wondering if they can get a jailbreak after using industrial tree shredders inappropriately...
Do industrial tree shredders come with warnings saying not to put small children or pets in them?
It's not even worth the contract for new customers. T-Mobile offers "Even More" plans, which subsidize the phone price, and "Even More Plus" plans, which do not (these are only available to those who are not on a phone contract). Based on my conversations with T-Mobile customer service this morning, you could:
Pay $179 for the Nexus One phone, and be required to purchase the "Even More" plan with Unlimited Web, texting, and 500 Minutes of calling per month for $79.99 for a contract term of 24 months. Total cost: $179 + (24 months * $79.99) = $2,098.76.
Pay $529 for the Nexus One phone. Sign up for a T-Mobile "Even More Plus" plan with Unlimited Web and text, and 500 Minutes of calling per month, for $59.99/mo. Total Cost: $529 + (24 months * $59.99) = $1,968.76.
Essentially, you end up paying $659 for the phone over two years, rather than $529 up front. Or, you could look at it as financing the phone, with an interest rate of around 12% for two years. Maybe that's better than carrying it on a high-interest credit card, but it's still an abusive rate on top of the early termination fee they charge you if you want to leave.
Good marks for attempting to draw valid historical parallels. Please follow up by:
a) calling Jerry Seinfeld and everyone else who has used "-nazi" in a humorously derogatory context (i.e., the famed "Soup Nazi") and explain how they're being insensitive.
b) suggest an alternate term so that we can continue to differentiate "feminists" from the anti-male crusaders labeled "feminazis."
The Nazis did horrible things, hoping to capitalize on fear. Rather than fear them, we laugh at them.
Feminism, in its ideal form, is not (perhaps) anti-male. Islam, in its ideal form does not (perhaps, and all theological arguments aside) promote violence against anyone and everyone who is not Islamic. And yet the people we hear about, the people on the news, the people that accost you in the street with their signs and pamphlets and slogans purporting to represent those groups, are.
Feminism is sexism. It probably wasn't, in the 1960's. Maybe it wasn't in the 1980's. As best I can tell, though, it is now. In my experience, there are a lot of women who think that women deserve equality, not necessarily superiority. Those who have told me that they consider themselves feminists, have qualified it with "in the classic" or "original sense."
You're somewhat confused, here, though. For Stallman, Step 3 isn't Profit.
Stallman on software:
Step 1: Release software as open source, make it free for people to use
Step 2:
Step 3: Freedom!
Took me probably fifteen minutes to walk around the whole thing. Infinite, my foot!
Because its the only way to break the DRM Apple is using.
Except this does not circumvent the FairPlay DRM on older iTMS music purchases. An "Apple" Pre will still be unable to play encumbered .m4p files. However, a Palm Pre (should, at any rate) have no trouble playing a standard .m4a file, and making the vendor ID say "Apple" enables no special functionality. Thus, no compatibility is gained. All that changes is that Palm fails at selling a device that needs no supporting software beyond its own OS, which appears to have been their goal with the Pre.
2^12
it doen't take an MIT degree to figure this out.
Ah, and there you've found it. The question is, is it possibly to earn an MIT degree by figuring this out?
Where I work as a desktop support technician, we've found the most effective upgrade path to be:
- Clone System disk to external disk and verify clone.
- Erase original System disk and perform a clean install (in our case, this is done via a disk image with several other applications, but the principle is the same).
- Use Apple's Migration Assistant to pull user data and applications back from the external disk.
- Typically follow up with a "Repair Permissions" and possibly a scan with something like Disk Warrior.
With this method, if everything is hosed, you can easily clone your system back from the external disk. Also, you have a clean system install, with less chance of legacy configuration and extension files causing problems with newer versions of OS features.
Yeah, this list comes out every year (lately, anyway), and there are always those of us who are exceptions. My mother sent me "the list" my first year of college, and I rebutted every single one of the points on it, as things I'd remembered, with details. As a fun game, though, bring up some of these things with your fellow students, this year, and see what kind of reactions they have. (Note that this can vary widely from school to school.)
Employees do not pay unemployment taxes. Employers do. The rate is based on overall payroll, and the number of employees that have been laid off within a particular time frame.
I've seen a couple models (I think one was a Pontiac, but I could be wrong) which projected the speedometer on the windshield. It was just a bright digital readout recessed into the dashboard, and you could see the reflection. This was a fairly small display, and only on the very lowest part of the windshield, but it did work.
I think the biggest hurdle to overcome with projecting HUD info in cars is adjusting for driver height and position; once you get much more complicated than a simple speedometer/odometer readout, you have to take into account those adjustments, and compensate for them. Different drivers of the same vehicle will have completely different perspectives (someone who's 188 cm tall, vs. someone who's 162 cm sharing a vehicle). Even by myself, on long rides I adjust my posture to avoid fatigue, and I move around within the cabin to try to see around SUVs and trucks at traffic lights. Any kind of overlay display would have to adjust for that, and the more complex the display, the harder it would be.
No, that would only be apropos for Ray Bradbury's works. See comment by earlier poster:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1321681&cid=28898983
a book popular among to blogofied masses.
So, I'm curious. Which other masses do you suspect own or use an Amazon Kindle?
With most Dell notebooks, it's part of the bios, and there's a screen to activate it. It saves a lot of time when you have to use on 200 corporate laptops. It also saves compatibility headaches, since CompuTrace works with the vendors (initial versions had to be verified for work with specific bios versions on specific vendors and models, and you'd install it and it'd flash itself into the bios).
Indeed. Text link, for those who can't watch youtube where they are:
http://snltranscripts.jt.org/75/75acarlin2.phtml
Here's as hint: if it's frozen, it's probably not whiskey.