About the same as the iPhone, honestly. It runs $850 unlocked retail, though, but it's arguably more functional for that price than any locked proprietary phone could be.
While overwhelmingly positive, this ruling still has to actually be complied with.
Let's say, for the sake of argument, the Administration refuses to comply. Who goes to jail, and who takes them? Is it the President? The heads of the various organizations that didn't comply? Nobody, since the Judicial branch can't really enforce anything without the cooperation of agencies under other branches of government?
I'd like to know, even if it's an unrealistic situation that they'd flat out ignore that sort of an order.
I'd argue that it is equal to or better than the iPhone...it's like the 8525 on steroids (AT&T is rumored to be getting it as the 8925 this year.)
Quad-band GSM/GPRS, also includes UMTS and HSDPA versus EDGE Only for the iPhone, means you'll be able to access the Internet and pretty quickly as well. Windows Mobile 6 Professional versus Proprietary for the iPhone, means you'll have no trouble finding a ton of third-party applications that'll run out of the box. Transflash slot versus Internal Hard Drive...the iPhone might win this one, the largest Transflash card I've found anywhere is 2GB and that was very expensive. But you can carry multiple ones around with you without much of a problem. 3MP Camera with Autofocus, an actual camera with optics. + a front VGA camera for video calls. and finally, built-in GPS + Google Maps for WM6 to allow you to do the iPhone "local businesses" thing.
Only difference is this one has a flip-out keyboard...it's about as powerful as a 2002-era consumer PC, and those are functional for almost everything.
Sex is for reproduction, and we have evolved beyond that.
Modern medical knowledge and a bit of imaginative technology has resulted in the fact that sex and reproduction are only connected if you allow them to be. Various methods of birth control which can be used by both genders ensure that - barring a statistical anomaly - you'll never result in a scare/accident. You're free to have pretty much all the sex for all the other rewards that sex provides, beyond just passing on genetic material.
This doesn't mean promiscuity, necessarily (this entire postulate was put forth by my girlfriend, and I thoroughly agree with it, and she's never been one who leaned towards promiscuity) but it does mean that one shouldn't hold sex up on such a pedestal.
To be fair, Ubuntu is the first Linux distribution I've ever used that was able to both automatically find drivers for my wired Ethernet adapter and my Audigy sound card, and play music and use the Internet, without lots of fuss.
I used to be a technology professional but got out of the field (now I'll be going for a Ph.D. in a social science) and my knowledge has since dwindled.
I don't want to derail this into a "Let's Troubleshoot" discussion (although if you're willing to help...my e-mail is there and I'd love you forever)
1) I reboot after changing what driver I'm using for my cards. They're both ATI cards (X800 PCIe and a like 9250 PCI)....I have 2 of them driving 3 monitors. I've been switching between fglrx (sp) and ati for the driver. I guess I could just restart the X server, but, eh. My way is rebooting.
2) I keep changing it because I have yet to get it right such that multiple monitors has ever worked. And I keep changing it wrong, so I have to sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg because X won't start when I reboot due to configuration being wrong.
3) I'm running the latest stable Ubuntu from their web site, 7.04 for i386
I haven't wiped the partition yet, but man is it frustrating.
This post, and another one that talked about downloading "linux distributions" (quotes included) onto their phones are the reasons ISPs are doing packet shaping on torrent connections....with the majority of torrent traffic being used for illegal purposes, its no wonder.
Since Japanese phones are so much better...what are some online stores I can go to purchase phones that aren't normally available here in the US?
It'd be a simple matter of putting my Cingular SIM card into a new, high-tech phone and copying the configuration information -- if I could find where to buy some from.
Internet-facing applications written in an ASP.net language are called as.dlls on occasion.
POSTing to http://sqm.microsoft.com/sqm/windows/sqmserver.dll means it's sending some data to a web application on that port, and it's getting a 403 back. Pretend that it's called sqmserver.php or sqmserver.cgi if that'd help clarify it a bit.
I've been hearing these accusations since 2004. It's not a new conflict. I was under the impression they were attempting to settle everything without resorting to a lawsuit, but it appears that isn't the case.
They didn't wait years to sue, they knew about the problem almost from day 1 and definitely spoke up about it. Whether the theft actually happened, or they just imagined it did, is another matter altogether.
The law provides some degree of transactional immunity to people who discover child pornography and then report it to the proper authorities immediately.
Many state universities will exempt you from paying out of state tuition if there doesn't exist a degree from a state university in your home state. Georgia Tech did this with nuclear engineering, for instance.
It's common in real life, obviously, but in the world he is voicing a complaint about, it's some proportion of novel and non-obvious. Copyright infringement happens when you create a derivative work from an original as well, importing many characteristics of the original. Also, since technically the sex animation is a computer program of some sort, and computer programs are covered by copyright law, it's pretty easy to make the claim that someone who stole and slightly-modified a product to resell is violating his copyright.
Let's instead liken this to fan fiction vs. commercial fiction. The original producer of the SL sex device wrote a series of novels, developed characters, etc. in a coherent world and sells them. Someone else comes along and without permission, begins to write other novels using the same characters, world and stories and sell them in competition with the original author. That is, clearly, not permissible.
BP isn't an "oil company", they're an energy company. As such, they'll capitalize on any technology or opportunity which allows for them to make more money off the sale of energy.
In this case, it's because solar cells are slightly less inefficient than they were before and people like the idea so they're buying.
As long as BP is making something that stores, produces or releases energy and someone is buying it, they'll be happy.
Most energy companies whose primary business lies in fossil fuels are neither dumb nor malicious and thusly they'll all seamlessly transition over to whatever the next energy store is, hell they'll speed the transition. Oil is going away either for political reasons or simply because it won't be there anymore, and people still need energy...
If you've got a million dollar house on a 40 year mortgage, you have a fixed payment schedule that will get the house paid for in a designated amount of time. You can either make the payments, or lose your investment.
The difference, as I understand it, is that the debts incurred by the laborers are structured so that "work until it's paid for" is the only option (as opposed to foreclosure/repossession/etc.) and the wage being paid is such that they'll likely not be able to pay it off in their lifetimes.
Such practices were common in America after the Civil War, and were outlawed later for being inhumane.
It's not that they can't form a legislative solution, it's that the legislative solution would virtually entirely eliminate the service that was trying to be preserved in the first place. If dentistry were socialized, it would be regulated such that procedures cost £X (and thusly, dentist's incomes are a multiple of X) and must be available meeting certain criteria. Dentists who aren't willing to practice at the £X level would leave the practice of dentistry entirely and pick up something else. Possibly even something lower paying and less stressful.
If the government is in a crisis about cheap dental care disappearing because dentists are going private, at least dental care isn't disappearing entirely, which is what would happen in the situation where they weren't permitted to do so. It's a very nice Catch-22: dentistry is getting too expensive for common people, but if they regulate dentistry to be more affordable to everyone, there will be no dentistry for anyone.
Sure, there'd be some who would stay on full-time or at reduced hours at least, because they felt it was the "right thing to do" but you're still stuck with waiting lists, and generally the same nightmarish problems that one can describe in any socialized medical situation.
First, I'd like to start off by saying that I'm not intending anything following to be an attack or flame or anything of that nature. I count myself extremely lucky to have the health coverage I have (government agency health insurance tends to be pretty decent) and wouldn't ever presume to say that your feelings on the matter aren't justified -- they are.
That said, clearly, you are getting a significant use out of the healthcare system. That's unfortunate, as I hope your children's conditions have been addressed, but it does illustrate the "preventive" aspect of insurance.
You paid $26,000+ for healthcare. Assuming you instead elected not to carry health insurance, how much would the same procedures and prescriptions have cost if you were paying cash, not as a part of a group plan? I'm willing to wager it's a great deal more. As I sit here, a prescription pill bottle in front of me telling me that I paid only 19% of the cash price for that amount of medication ($10 from $51.99) That's just one example. I won't speculate as to the expenses you would have incurred, although likely those numbers are on the informational invoices you'll receive from your healthcare provider.
Socialized medicine is, in the end, the ultimate pre-paid insurance plan. Rather than, say, bringing home $52,000 and sending $26,000 away for health -- you'd be taking home $26-30,000 and sending $0 away for health. It seems like less since it's not coming out of your paycheck in a way you can notice, but it's still coming out. In years that illness or injury don't befall anyone on your health plan, you won't be able to pay less: on a population scale, people are pretty much maxing out healthcare every day and your tax dollars will need to pay for it.
Capitalist healthcare sure has its drawbacks, even moreso if you're on an HMO, but socialized medicine really isn't a viable solution for Americans. Our prevailing culture, long historical tradition, varied demographics and so on all contribute to the fact that mandating medicine be available for everyone is an unworkable solution.
(I am strongly in favor of healthcare reform -- but not in the direction that medicine will be socialized further.)
From that clip, it sounds to me like Jobs et al. have designed a device which will jump onto people's unsecured WiFi networks without permission and start using them as if the phone had actually been given permission to be there, all seamlessly.
Federal law stipulates that your landlord doesn't have the slightest choice as to whether you can put up a satellite dish if there exists a location where you can place it that doesn't involve bolting it down to his property. It's called the OTARD rules, and while IANAL, I've successfully challenged a large holding company and their attorneys ended up siding with me against the management based on my interpretation of the law to allow me to erect a satellite dish on my patio.
If the landlord tries anything, you're entitled to either petition the FCC directly, or sue in your District court for an injunction, during the process he is prohibited from taking enforcement action against you either.
If you'd like more information, feel free to e-mail me at jkoebel#gmail.communism and we'll talk.
No computer user should be required to be responsible for the maintenance and security of their own system if they don't want to be responsible for it. Computers are tools, designed to allow humans to complete tasks they would not otherwise be able to complete in a timely fashion or at all.
This doesn't mean that nobody should be responsible for those aspects, however. This is the job of professionals. I'd advocate switching to a "sanitized network" model where, in order to obtain an external IP address from your provider, you would need to be running something to the effect of Clean Access Agent that talked to whatever core routers they had set up. Build a version for Linux, OSX, etc.
Forcing more responsibility onto people who aren't apt to handle it is not the solution to the problem. The solution is to leverage the development of technology in this regard to let a handful of people maintain the security of everyone on their network, even at a distance.
Not to nit-pick, but if something ejecting matter shoots it at us from 1 million light years away at just under the speed of light, wouldn't it take slightly more than 1 million years to arrive?
Since most (all?) plants lack anything resembling a nervous system, and it's widely recognized that higher-order memory and cognitive functions can only occur in the presence of an organized nervous system, it stands to reason that plants aren't capable of memory and cognition.
This isn't to say that plants can't "remember" things, for instance, plant immune response to pathogens, injury, etc. They can habituate to hormones, chemicals, and so forth. It simply means that the "memory" and "learning" being done is low-order physiological homeostasis maintenance and not an insightful act. Intracellular messaging systems account for a lot of "emergent" behavior from these organisms, but it's a far jump from that up to something that can actively plan its actions before it does them.
Slashdot Mirror
About the same as the iPhone, honestly. It runs $850 unlocked retail, though, but it's arguably more functional for that price than any locked proprietary phone could be.
While overwhelmingly positive, this ruling still has to actually be complied with.
Let's say, for the sake of argument, the Administration refuses to comply. Who goes to jail, and who takes them? Is it the President? The heads of the various organizations that didn't comply? Nobody, since the Judicial branch can't really enforce anything without the cooperation of agencies under other branches of government?
I'd like to know, even if it's an unrealistic situation that they'd flat out ignore that sort of an order.
HTC P4550 Kaiser
I'd argue that it is equal to or better than the iPhone...it's like the 8525 on steroids (AT&T is rumored to be getting it as the 8925 this year.)
Quad-band GSM/GPRS, also includes UMTS and HSDPA versus EDGE Only for the iPhone, means you'll be able to access the Internet and pretty quickly as well.
Windows Mobile 6 Professional versus Proprietary for the iPhone, means you'll have no trouble finding a ton of third-party applications that'll run out of the box.
Transflash slot versus Internal Hard Drive...the iPhone might win this one, the largest Transflash card I've found anywhere is 2GB and that was very expensive. But you can carry multiple ones around with you without much of a problem.
3MP Camera with Autofocus, an actual camera with optics.
+ a front VGA camera for video calls.
and finally, built-in GPS + Google Maps for WM6 to allow you to do the iPhone "local businesses" thing.
Only difference is this one has a flip-out keyboard...it's about as powerful as a 2002-era consumer PC, and those are functional for almost everything.
Sex is for reproduction, and we have evolved beyond that.
Modern medical knowledge and a bit of imaginative technology has resulted in the fact that sex and reproduction are only connected if you allow them to be. Various methods of birth control which can be used by both genders ensure that - barring a statistical anomaly - you'll never result in a scare/accident. You're free to have pretty much all the sex for all the other rewards that sex provides, beyond just passing on genetic material.
This doesn't mean promiscuity, necessarily (this entire postulate was put forth by my girlfriend, and I thoroughly agree with it, and she's never been one who leaned towards promiscuity) but it does mean that one shouldn't hold sex up on such a pedestal.
To be fair, Ubuntu is the first Linux distribution I've ever used that was able to both automatically find drivers for my wired Ethernet adapter and my Audigy sound card, and play music and use the Internet, without lots of fuss.
I used to be a technology professional but got out of the field (now I'll be going for a Ph.D. in a social science) and my knowledge has since dwindled.
I don't want to derail this into a "Let's Troubleshoot" discussion (although if you're willing to help...my e-mail is there and I'd love you forever)
1) I reboot after changing what driver I'm using for my cards. They're both ATI cards (X800 PCIe and a like 9250 PCI)....I have 2 of them driving 3 monitors. I've been switching between fglrx (sp) and ati for the driver. I guess I could just restart the X server, but, eh. My way is rebooting.
2) I keep changing it because I have yet to get it right such that multiple monitors has ever worked. And I keep changing it wrong, so I have to sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg because X won't start when I reboot due to configuration being wrong.
3) I'm running the latest stable Ubuntu from their web site, 7.04 for i386
I haven't wiped the partition yet, but man is it frustrating.
If Dell produced a Linux Ubuntu PC configured to run with multiple monitors from the get-go, I'd buy it just to save myself the trouble.
I'm so fed up of messing up xorg.conf and having to reconfigure it every time I reboot just to get video...
This post, and another one that talked about downloading "linux distributions" (quotes included) onto their phones are the reasons ISPs are doing packet shaping on torrent connections....with the majority of torrent traffic being used for illegal purposes, its no wonder.
Since Japanese phones are so much better...what are some online stores I can go to purchase phones that aren't normally available here in the US?
It'd be a simple matter of putting my Cingular SIM card into a new, high-tech phone and copying the configuration information -- if I could find where to buy some from.
A detailed analysis of the flaw in the random number generator, along with source code example, can be found here: http://xkcd.com/221/
Internet-facing applications written in an ASP.net language are called as .dlls on occasion.
l means it's sending some data to a web application on that port, and it's getting a 403 back. Pretend that it's called sqmserver.php or sqmserver.cgi if that'd help clarify it a bit.
POSTing to http://sqm.microsoft.com/sqm/windows/sqmserver.dl
I've been hearing these accusations since 2004. It's not a new conflict. I was under the impression they were attempting to settle everything without resorting to a lawsuit, but it appears that isn't the case.
They didn't wait years to sue, they knew about the problem almost from day 1 and definitely spoke up about it. Whether the theft actually happened, or they just imagined it did, is another matter altogether.
The law provides some degree of transactional immunity to people who discover child pornography and then report it to the proper authorities immediately.
Many state universities will exempt you from paying out of state tuition if there doesn't exist a degree from a state university in your home state. Georgia Tech did this with nuclear engineering, for instance.
It's common in real life, obviously, but in the world he is voicing a complaint about, it's some proportion of novel and non-obvious. Copyright infringement happens when you create a derivative work from an original as well, importing many characteristics of the original. Also, since technically the sex animation is a computer program of some sort, and computer programs are covered by copyright law, it's pretty easy to make the claim that someone who stole and slightly-modified a product to resell is violating his copyright.
Let's instead liken this to fan fiction vs. commercial fiction. The original producer of the SL sex device wrote a series of novels, developed characters, etc. in a coherent world and sells them. Someone else comes along and without permission, begins to write other novels using the same characters, world and stories and sell them in competition with the original author. That is, clearly, not permissible.
BP isn't an "oil company", they're an energy company. As such, they'll capitalize on any technology or opportunity which allows for them to make more money off the sale of energy.
In this case, it's because solar cells are slightly less inefficient than they were before and people like the idea so they're buying.
As long as BP is making something that stores, produces or releases energy and someone is buying it, they'll be happy.
Most energy companies whose primary business lies in fossil fuels are neither dumb nor malicious and thusly they'll all seamlessly transition over to whatever the next energy store is, hell they'll speed the transition. Oil is going away either for political reasons or simply because it won't be there anymore, and people still need energy...
If you've got a million dollar house on a 40 year mortgage, you have a fixed payment schedule that will get the house paid for in a designated amount of time. You can either make the payments, or lose your investment.
The difference, as I understand it, is that the debts incurred by the laborers are structured so that "work until it's paid for" is the only option (as opposed to foreclosure/repossession/etc.) and the wage being paid is such that they'll likely not be able to pay it off in their lifetimes.
Such practices were common in America after the Civil War, and were outlawed later for being inhumane.
It's not that they can't form a legislative solution, it's that the legislative solution would virtually entirely eliminate the service that was trying to be preserved in the first place. If dentistry were socialized, it would be regulated such that procedures cost £X (and thusly, dentist's incomes are a multiple of X) and must be available meeting certain criteria. Dentists who aren't willing to practice at the £X level would leave the practice of dentistry entirely and pick up something else. Possibly even something lower paying and less stressful.
If the government is in a crisis about cheap dental care disappearing because dentists are going private, at least dental care isn't disappearing entirely, which is what would happen in the situation where they weren't permitted to do so. It's a very nice Catch-22: dentistry is getting too expensive for common people, but if they regulate dentistry to be more affordable to everyone, there will be no dentistry for anyone.
Sure, there'd be some who would stay on full-time or at reduced hours at least, because they felt it was the "right thing to do" but you're still stuck with waiting lists, and generally the same nightmarish problems that one can describe in any socialized medical situation.
First, I'd like to start off by saying that I'm not intending anything following to be an attack or flame or anything of that nature. I count myself extremely lucky to have the health coverage I have (government agency health insurance tends to be pretty decent) and wouldn't ever presume to say that your feelings on the matter aren't justified -- they are.
That said, clearly, you are getting a significant use out of the healthcare system. That's unfortunate, as I hope your children's conditions have been addressed, but it does illustrate the "preventive" aspect of insurance.
You paid $26,000+ for healthcare. Assuming you instead elected not to carry health insurance, how much would the same procedures and prescriptions have cost if you were paying cash, not as a part of a group plan? I'm willing to wager it's a great deal more. As I sit here, a prescription pill bottle in front of me telling me that I paid only 19% of the cash price for that amount of medication ($10 from $51.99) That's just one example. I won't speculate as to the expenses you would have incurred, although likely those numbers are on the informational invoices you'll receive from your healthcare provider.
Socialized medicine is, in the end, the ultimate pre-paid insurance plan. Rather than, say, bringing home $52,000 and sending $26,000 away for health -- you'd be taking home $26-30,000 and sending $0 away for health. It seems like less since it's not coming out of your paycheck in a way you can notice, but it's still coming out. In years that illness or injury don't befall anyone on your health plan, you won't be able to pay less: on a population scale, people are pretty much maxing out healthcare every day and your tax dollars will need to pay for it.
Capitalist healthcare sure has its drawbacks, even moreso if you're on an HMO, but socialized medicine really isn't a viable solution for Americans. Our prevailing culture, long historical tradition, varied demographics and so on all contribute to the fact that mandating medicine be available for everyone is an unworkable solution.
(I am strongly in favor of healthcare reform -- but not in the direction that medicine will be socialized further.)
From that clip, it sounds to me like Jobs et al. have designed a device which will jump onto people's unsecured WiFi networks without permission and start using them as if the phone had actually been given permission to be there, all seamlessly.
Very nice.
Federal law stipulates that your landlord doesn't have the slightest choice as to whether you can put up a satellite dish if there exists a location where you can place it that doesn't involve bolting it down to his property. It's called the OTARD rules, and while IANAL, I've successfully challenged a large holding company and their attorneys ended up siding with me against the management based on my interpretation of the law to allow me to erect a satellite dish on my patio.
If the landlord tries anything, you're entitled to either petition the FCC directly, or sue in your District court for an injunction, during the process he is prohibited from taking enforcement action against you either.
If you'd like more information, feel free to e-mail me at jkoebel#gmail.communism and we'll talk.
No computer user should be required to be responsible for the maintenance and security of their own system if they don't want to be responsible for it. Computers are tools, designed to allow humans to complete tasks they would not otherwise be able to complete in a timely fashion or at all.
This doesn't mean that nobody should be responsible for those aspects, however. This is the job of professionals. I'd advocate switching to a "sanitized network" model where, in order to obtain an external IP address from your provider, you would need to be running something to the effect of Clean Access Agent that talked to whatever core routers they had set up. Build a version for Linux, OSX, etc.
Forcing more responsibility onto people who aren't apt to handle it is not the solution to the problem. The solution is to leverage the development of technology in this regard to let a handful of people maintain the security of everyone on their network, even at a distance.
Gotcha. Thanks for clarifying. (Physics was never my thing)
Not to nit-pick, but if something ejecting matter shoots it at us from 1 million light years away at just under the speed of light, wouldn't it take slightly more than 1 million years to arrive?
Since most (all?) plants lack anything resembling a nervous system, and it's widely recognized that higher-order memory and cognitive functions can only occur in the presence of an organized nervous system, it stands to reason that plants aren't capable of memory and cognition.
This isn't to say that plants can't "remember" things, for instance, plant immune response to pathogens, injury, etc. They can habituate to hormones, chemicals, and so forth. It simply means that the "memory" and "learning" being done is low-order physiological homeostasis maintenance and not an insightful act. Intracellular messaging systems account for a lot of "emergent" behavior from these organisms, but it's a far jump from that up to something that can actively plan its actions before it does them.