Recording technology and radio obliterated small-scale performances and local music.
You don't get out much, do you?
Where I live there is live music available somewhere in the town every single day of the week. In fact, I went to a music festival Sunday that was going on all weekend long. I believe it was called Rocktoberfest and had 98 local bands?
What you're seeing is natural competition for people's time that every source of entertainment from naval gazing to youtube, to video games, to movie theaters. It's not that recording technology and radio obliterated small scale stuff. It's that there's so much else to do.
How about, instead, we inject some personal responsibility into the mix? If you work on a computer with sensitive information on it, you're responsible for any and all software you install on it.
It's amazing how much personal responsibility can make up for "gaps" in "policy".
More accurately, if Verizon is any judge, it will be used to block access to, or remove features that would otherwise allow users access to cheaper markets. Much like Verizon's disabling of bluetooth OBEX profiles to prevent you from sending your own ringtones to your phone, and instead pushing toward they're exorbitantly overpriced ones, where 30 seconds or less of "music" costs as much as an entire album by the same artist at a used CD store.
It wasn't a deterrent. It was placative. It was designed so that even if the US hit first and wiped out everybody, it would automatically hit back. Did you not even RTFS(ummary)?
Can't you reject such a jury on the grounds that they're not a jury of your peers?
It does say that the jury will be "a jury of your peers" and not that it will be a jury of "12 random people from the court district", right?
So I think it would be perfectly legitimate to dismiss a bunch of unemployed people from the mall as not beeing peers of a defendant in a million dollar business dispute.
So it's basically like printer ink cartridges that the printer will refuse to use if it doesn't recognize that they're GenuineHPInk(TM).
I didn't like those, and I don't like this.
And this makes me love my VW even more:
On the Audi/VW side, there is an awesome program called VAG-COM which allows you to view all sorts of parameters, adjust values, read diagnostic codes, etc...almost EVERYTHING that can possibly be accessed or tweaked. Alarm motion sensor too sensitive? Tweak it. Want to be able to roll up your windows from the keyfob? Done. Want to enable one-touch-up on a window? Done. Want to install euro-code taillights with yellow turn signals? Done. Want to let your fog lights stay on with your highbeams, or run with the headlights off? Done and done. Costs a few hundred dollars, and that includes the adapter. You can buy the factory repair manual, and once you have, it's yours, and you can diagnose and repair many things yourself, replace components, etc.
Say what you will about broad stereotypes, but German engineering is truly superb. I swear they paid more attention to the cigarette lighter outlet covers (they're hinged and spring-closing) than most American manufacturers put into the whole freaking car. And to read about this VAG-COM goodness? Makes me want to go buy this widget and tinker with my car.
I don't know about you guys, but once I read this:
The article notes that the congressman's major corporate donors would likely benefit with contracts if such a program were begun.
I really didn't need to read any further.
I could just have easily rewritten the summary to say, "Another company sponsoring a bill through one of its purchased representatives that would net it a bunch of money."
Not nearly so interesting when interpreted that way.
Now maybe you can understand why most of us don't want the Federal government to have anything to do with health care: they'll just make it worse.
1. You don't speak for the majority, unless you're omniscient and I don't know it. 2. You certainly don't speak for me, as I consider it a total failure for healthcare reform and a total victory for the insurance companies if the reform bill lacks a public or single payer option. 3. I've personally spoken with citizens of other countries. Denmark has a single payer system, and the person I spoke with had nothing bad to say about it. In fact, the more we spoke the more interested I became in learning Danish and moving. The Canadian fellow pays a total of 92 USD a month for coverage that makes our government employee benefits package look like a complete joke. And their income tax bracketing system is simpler and results in less paid in taxes than hours. 4. I heard on NPR just this afternoon that most doctors would prefer a public payer option and 10% of which would even prefer a single payer option. And I think they would know better than I, or even you.
So perhaps the US government would royally screw it up, but if the Canadian or Danish examples are any measure, it's a lot better than letting private companies run the show when there is money to be made.
Your opinion of what is relevant in the market is proportional to how much of that market you comprise.
The fact of the matter is, these apps and a convenient source for them are very much in demand. I highly recommend you at least borrow someone's iPod Touch of iPhone, check out the app store (right from the device!) and see if there isn't something there you would like to have.
My 3GS is not only my phone, my ebook reader, my mp3 player, my backup navigation device, my portable dictionary, my (surprisingly good) camera, my portable gaming device, compass, and, and even a crude level, in fact it's the first device I've owned that's fast enough and user friendly enough that I'd call it a general purpose portable computer. I held out on getting an iPhone until the 3GS and it was worth the wait.
How does the casual user differentiate between a notice informing them their computer is infected and one of millions of websites doing the same for malicious reasons?
I took it in high school as an elective because I thought it would be pretty useful. Sometimes even kids guess correctly.
I didn't own a typewriter or word processor, let alone a computer at the time. And I can actually remember laying in bed on some nights before sleep practicing what I'd learned that day on my blankets because I didn't have a keyboard.
One of my most beneficial classes to date - and I'm now a software engineer.
I type 95% as instructed, but as my pinkies are significantly shorter than my other fingers (something the police officer fingerprinting me for my Secret clearance even remarked on once) I don't use them for anything above the QWERTY row. That, and the emphasis was almost entirely on letters, and not a lot of time was spent on typing numbers correctly.
I'm honestly curious. How did you take the class and not learn anything? I learned how to type there.
There will always be hackers cracking this stuff so we can enjoy the content however we please. And there will always be copyright infringers willing to share more user friendly copies.
Sooner or later they'll realize that forcing a more unpleasant experience on their legal users is not a good business model. Probably about the same time they go out of business completely.
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You don't get out much, do you?
Where I live there is live music available somewhere in the town every single day of the week. In fact, I went to a music festival Sunday that was going on all weekend long. I believe it was called Rocktoberfest and had 98 local bands?
What you're seeing is natural competition for people's time that every source of entertainment from naval gazing to youtube, to video games, to movie theaters. It's not that recording technology and radio obliterated small scale stuff. It's that there's so much else to do.
Sadly, this works, more often than it doesn't.
Ever heard of HeadOn? Yeah...
Why sugar coat it like that?
They're paying for it. And they know it.
How about, instead, we inject some personal responsibility into the mix? If you work on a computer with sensitive information on it, you're responsible for any and all software you install on it.
It's amazing how much personal responsibility can make up for "gaps" in "policy".
Right, and the PATRIOT act will only be used to protect us from terr'ists (sorry, pdf).
More accurately, if Verizon is any judge, it will be used to block access to, or remove features that would otherwise allow users access to cheaper markets. Much like Verizon's disabling of bluetooth OBEX profiles to prevent you from sending your own ringtones to your phone, and instead pushing toward they're exorbitantly overpriced ones, where 30 seconds or less of "music" costs as much as an entire album by the same artist at a used CD store.
More boundless than the universe, according to Einstein.
What, did you shower with your eyes closed?
How do you not realize that you can see the road from the shower if people can see in the shower from the road?
Correction, they're only responsible for their financial financial successes.
But....the hair..
They don't call it a "70's bush" for no reason.
It wasn't a deterrent. It was placative. It was designed so that even if the US hit first and wiped out everybody, it would automatically hit back. Did you not even RTFS(ummary)?
Only a salesman would think answering questions honestly is a bad thing.
"If you're in marketing, kill yourself."
-- Bill Hicks
Can't you reject such a jury on the grounds that they're not a jury of your peers?
It does say that the jury will be "a jury of your peers" and not that it will be a jury of "12 random people from the court district", right?
So I think it would be perfectly legitimate to dismiss a bunch of unemployed people from the mall as not beeing peers of a defendant in a million dollar business dispute.
I have to say, reCAPTCHA is one of the most elegant solutions I've ever seen to a problem.
It's not even killing two birds with one stone, it's killing two birds with one of the birds.
Obviously.
Just look at US banking CEOs, insurance carrier CEOs etc.
They're just doing what their employers want them to, jeez.
Bet you'd have rockin' shoulders though, from holding your arms up all day.
So it's basically like printer ink cartridges that the printer will refuse to use if it doesn't recognize that they're GenuineHPInk(TM).
I didn't like those, and I don't like this.
And this makes me love my VW even more:
Say what you will about broad stereotypes, but German engineering is truly superb. I swear they paid more attention to the cigarette lighter outlet covers (they're hinged and spring-closing) than most American manufacturers put into the whole freaking car. And to read about this VAG-COM goodness? Makes me want to go buy this widget and tinker with my car.
I don't know about you guys, but once I read this:
I really didn't need to read any further.
I could just have easily rewritten the summary to say, "Another company sponsoring a bill through one of its purchased representatives that would net it a bunch of money."
Not nearly so interesting when interpreted that way.
1. You don't speak for the majority, unless you're omniscient and I don't know it.
2. You certainly don't speak for me, as I consider it a total failure for healthcare reform and a total victory for the insurance companies if the reform bill lacks a public or single payer option.
3. I've personally spoken with citizens of other countries. Denmark has a single payer system, and the person I spoke with had nothing bad to say about it. In fact, the more we spoke the more interested I became in learning Danish and moving. The Canadian fellow pays a total of 92 USD a month for coverage that makes our government employee benefits package look like a complete joke. And their income tax bracketing system is simpler and results in less paid in taxes than hours.
4. I heard on NPR just this afternoon that most doctors would prefer a public payer option and 10% of which would even prefer a single payer option. And I think they would know better than I, or even you.
So perhaps the US government would royally screw it up, but if the Canadian or Danish examples are any measure, it's a lot better than letting private companies run the show when there is money to be made.
Your opinion of what is relevant in the market is proportional to how much of that market you comprise.
The fact of the matter is, these apps and a convenient source for them are very much in demand. I highly recommend you at least borrow someone's iPod Touch of iPhone, check out the app store (right from the device!) and see if there isn't something there you would like to have.
My 3GS is not only my phone, my ebook reader, my mp3 player, my backup navigation device, my portable dictionary, my (surprisingly good) camera, my portable gaming device, compass, and, and even a crude level, in fact it's the first device I've owned that's fast enough and user friendly enough that I'd call it a general purpose portable computer. I held out on getting an iPhone until the 3GS and it was worth the wait.
I'll get off your lawn now.
How does the casual user differentiate between a notice informing them their computer is infected and one of millions of websites doing the same for malicious reasons?
Paper letters?
I took it in high school as an elective because I thought it would be pretty useful. Sometimes even kids guess correctly.
I didn't own a typewriter or word processor, let alone a computer at the time. And I can actually remember laying in bed on some nights before sleep practicing what I'd learned that day on my blankets because I didn't have a keyboard.
One of my most beneficial classes to date - and I'm now a software engineer.
I type 95% as instructed, but as my pinkies are significantly shorter than my other fingers (something the police officer fingerprinting me for my Secret clearance even remarked on once) I don't use them for anything above the QWERTY row. That, and the emphasis was almost entirely on letters, and not a lot of time was spent on typing numbers correctly.
I'm honestly curious. How did you take the class and not learn anything? I learned how to type there.
You have a strange definition of practical if it includes a 2000km maglev track that's 80km in the air.
Cloud computing is really just a business/billing model.
It's a large set of cheap redundant storage with a layer of virtualization between you and the hardware with a way to allocate VMs/storage etc.
To people outside, leasing space, that's how it appears.
To the guys inside it's a whole bunch of machines running some special software with an API that is tied to accounts-receivable.
Using isn't magical and won't magically make your stuff run better, though there are advantages (and disadvantages).
I wouldn't worry about it too much.
There will always be hackers cracking this stuff so we can enjoy the content however we please. And there will always be copyright infringers willing to share more user friendly copies.
Sooner or later they'll realize that forcing a more unpleasant experience on their legal users is not a good business model. Probably about the same time they go out of business completely.