And how does the librarian prevent you from lying about your age?
1) In most libraries I've been in,there's pretty much a clear line of sight, so it's not much of an issue.
2) The librarian may not care. As I understand it, anyone can request the filters be turned off, there's no age restriction. The filters are turned on to protect inadvertant access.
The average consumer isn't going to see a difference between a 32-bit CPU and a 64-bit CPU
Two words: video editing
While this is perhaps not yet something the average user does, it is becoming increasingly "mainstream" and the extra addressing capability and throughput will be very welcome.
the whole idea of making the filters switchable seems unlikely to be implemented
It seems like this is a place where technology can support the librarians very simply. You have a "request filter off" button/applet that opens a chat window to the librarian's terminal. They ask you a question about your age, and they remotely disable the filters, the filters then are automatically re-eanbled after X minutes of inactivity.
I'm not saying it's the best decision, but it certainly can ease the lives of the librarians and still allow compliance.
You can contact the Senator here, though it might be useful to restrict comments to civil discourse about things like due process and vigilante-ism rather than just name-calling and ranting.
Yup. In the beginning was copy-protected floppy disks. Apparently the Music Industry wasn't paying attention.
The most annoying thing is whoever said "those who don't remember history are doomed to repeat it" didn't warn the rest of us who do remember that we'd be forced to watch the repeats over and over a la Bill Murray in Groundhog Day.
The only useful function the record companies still serve is promotion.
Yes, and if you follow that logic further, they are doomed. The barrier to entry to being an author is very low. Technology is doing the same thing for the music industry. When music required fancy studios and megabucks of investment in equipment, it stayed in control of the studios. Now digital technology can greatly reduce the investment required to record and the Internet has broken the distribution hammerlock that the record companies held. Musical performance used to be very common, everyone in the 19th century could play or sing or had a relative who could. Perhaps the pendulum will swing that way again.
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Lady Saltoun of Abernethy....Clueless humor, I suppose, but humor.
You're off by an order of magnitude. More like 2.5% and they were non-voting shares besides. Not only that, but when MS bought that stock, they also shorted Apple by the same amount to "cover" themselves, according to Wired magazine, so they didn't even make any money when Apple's stock rose along with the rest of the tech sector.
Not me. I've been waiting for them ever since Pizza and GJ. The nice thing about the Java version (beyond getting rid of casts, etc.) is that unlike C++, use of generics doesn't bloat your code. The you can have hundreds of ArrayList variants, and they all make use of the one ArrayList class that exists today.
No bytecode changes are required. There have been "test" implementations out since Java 1.2. You can get the current 1.3 release at http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/earlyAcc es s/adding_generics/
There are additional issues, it's not cut and dried. It is the responsibility of the seller to inform the buyer of potential harm. Unless MS specifically notified all owners that a particular problem existed and that the fix needed to be applied to solve the problem, they could still be liable.
A seller of a chattel manufactured by a third person who knows or has reason to know that the chattel is, or is likely to be, dangerous when used by a person to whom it is delivered or for whose use it is supplied, or to others whom the seller should expect to share in or be endangered by its use, is subject to liability for bodily harm caused thereby to them if he fails to exercise reasonable care to inform them of the danger or otherwise to protect them against it.
Courts have consistently applied these principles in holding that a seller or other non-manufacturing supplier of a dangerous or defective product liable in negligence if the seller knew or had reason to know of the danger of the product.
So if everyone knows Pinto's explode then Ford is freed from liability? Wrong.
"Signing" the EULA signs your rights away? Wrong again. Courts can invalidate contracts where one party to the contract has essentially no bargaining power.
So you'd also like to hear "Your Pinto exploded? To bad, you shouldn't have gotten rear-ended."
No automobile company would get away with selling products as defective as most commercial software. Why should the software industry be immune from product liability?
That sucking sound you hear is the Seattle Times reporter trying to get closer to the money. That's why you get the back-handed slap at Apple, Apple...is credited with numerous innovations to the ire of Gates... Hmmm, what's he mad about, the fact that Apple get's credit or the fact that Apple actually innovates?
That contact info thing in the so-called Microsoft productivity application has been a standard part of HP's telephone support package for some time. You can buy fingerprint readers now, off the shelf, without having to wait for Microsoft to "invent" it.
The line that really made me laugh, though was Microsoft has to show the leadership; who else is going to? A perfect illustration of the sheep-like group-think in big corporations. You can't actually do anything innovative on your own, you have to wait until it's approved by the local monopoly so that it's a "safe" path to follow.
OK, recording studios are very expensive. However, film studios are even more expensive and the costs of making a movie exceed the costs of making a record by an order of magnitue. But you can get some DVDs at prices lower than that of a music CD.
While I think you have an overly romantic view of some of these people, that's not the point, and, you appear not to have read the book. World view isn't an issue.
Take a civilization like the Maya, clearly not opposed to bloodshed or conquering their neighbors. Why didn't they colonzie Europe rather than the other way 'round. That is what Jared looks at in G,G,& S.
What makes FM recording interesting on an iPod-like device, it's that it's a computer, not a dumb box. So I should be able to set a timer to record a particular program a la Tivo.
With enough CPU power, I should be able to record that program even if I'm listening to something else.
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...if you didn't see it on the Apple Quicktime trailerssite. They're often the first place the trailer shows up.
And how does the librarian prevent you from lying about your age?
1) In most libraries I've been in,there's pretty much a clear line of sight, so it's not much of an issue.
2) The librarian may not care. As I understand it, anyone can request the filters be turned off, there's no age restriction. The filters are turned on to protect inadvertant access.
The average consumer isn't going to see a difference between a 32-bit CPU and a 64-bit CPU
Two words: video editing
While this is perhaps not yet something the average user does, it is becoming increasingly "mainstream" and the extra addressing capability and throughput will be very welcome.
the whole idea of making the filters switchable seems unlikely to be implemented
It seems like this is a place where technology can support the librarians very simply. You have a "request filter off" button/applet that opens a chat window to the librarian's terminal. They ask you a question about your age, and they remotely disable the filters, the filters then are automatically re-eanbled after X minutes of inactivity.
I'm not saying it's the best decision, but it certainly can ease the lives of the librarians and still allow compliance.
The results are a new milestone in the search for the Quark-Gluon Plasma, a new state of nuclear matter.
...it's a 13.7 billion year old state of matter.
You can contact the Senator here, though it might be useful to restrict comments to civil discourse about things like due process and vigilante-ism rather than just name-calling and ranting.
They keep on trying
Yup. In the beginning was copy-protected floppy disks. Apparently the Music Industry wasn't paying attention.
The most annoying thing is whoever said "those who don't remember history are doomed to repeat it" didn't warn the rest of us who do remember that we'd be forced to watch the repeats over and over a la Bill Murray in Groundhog Day.
...people holding up their cell phones at rock concerts?
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Shades of Doug Engelbart's original design of a combination of mouse and "chording" keyboard.
...is from USA today. Bottom line, Neuros doesn't match up to the iPod, at least not yet.
I wonder, is US Goverment the only one in the world keeping such stupid laws or other countries have same or similar stupidy in place?
It's not just us (US), it's endemic to all bureacracies. It's quite possibly caused by the toxic side effects of Administratium.
The only useful function the record companies still serve is promotion.
Yes, and if you follow that logic further, they are doomed. The barrier to entry to being an author is very low. Technology is doing the same thing for the music industry. When music required fancy studios and megabucks of investment in equipment, it stayed in control of the studios. Now digital technology can greatly reduce the investment required to record and the Internet has broken the distribution hammerlock that the record companies held. Musical performance used to be very common, everyone in the 19th century could play or sing or had a relative who could. Perhaps the pendulum will swing that way again.
Lady Saltoun of Abernethy....Clueless humor, I suppose, but humor.
But she has enormous...tracts of land.
You're off by an order of magnitude. More like 2.5% and they were non-voting shares besides. Not only that, but when MS bought that stock, they also shorted Apple by the same amount to "cover" themselves, according to Wired magazine, so they didn't even make any money when Apple's stock rose along with the rest of the tech sector.
Not me. I've been waiting for them ever since Pizza and GJ. The nice thing about the Java version (beyond getting rid of casts, etc.) is that unlike C++, use of generics doesn't bloat your code. The you can have hundreds of ArrayList variants, and they all make use of the one ArrayList class that exists today.
No bytecode changes are required. There have been "test" implementations out since Java 1.2. You can get the current 1.3 release atc es s/adding_generics/
http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/earlyAc
When a software program physically kills someone....I'll change my mind
Well, it first happened in 1986.
There are additional issues, it's not cut and dried. It is the responsibility of the seller to inform the buyer of potential harm. Unless MS specifically notified all owners that a particular problem existed and that the fix needed to be applied to solve the problem, they could still be liable.
A seller of a chattel manufactured by a third person who knows or has reason to know that the chattel is, or is likely to be, dangerous when used by a person to whom it is delivered or for whose use it is supplied, or to others whom the seller should expect to share in or be endangered by its use, is subject to liability for bodily harm caused thereby to them if he fails to exercise reasonable care to inform them of the danger or otherwise to protect them against it.
Courts have consistently applied these principles in holding that a seller or other non-manufacturing supplier of a dangerous or defective product liable in negligence if the seller knew or had reason to know of the danger of the product.
So if everyone knows Pinto's explode then Ford is freed from liability? Wrong.
"Signing" the EULA signs your rights away? Wrong again. Courts can invalidate contracts where one party to the contract has essentially no bargaining power.
So you'd also like to hear "Your Pinto exploded? To bad, you shouldn't have gotten rear-ended."
No automobile company would get away with selling products as defective as most commercial software. Why should the software industry be immune from product liability?
That sucking sound you hear is the Seattle Times reporter trying to get closer to the money. That's why you get the back-handed slap at Apple, Apple...is credited with numerous innovations to the ire of Gates... Hmmm, what's he mad about, the fact that Apple get's credit or the fact that Apple actually innovates?
That contact info thing in the so-called Microsoft productivity application has been a standard part of HP's telephone support package for some time. You can buy fingerprint readers now, off the shelf, without having to wait for Microsoft to "invent" it.
The line that really made me laugh, though was Microsoft has to show the leadership; who else is going to? A perfect illustration of the sheep-like group-think in big corporations. You can't actually do anything innovative on your own, you have to wait until it's approved by the local monopoly so that it's a "safe" path to follow.
OK, recording studios are very expensive. However, film studios are even more expensive and the costs of making a movie exceed the costs of making a record by an order of magnitue. But you can get some DVDs at prices lower than that of a music CD.
While I think you have an overly romantic view of some of these people, that's not the point, and, you appear not to have read the book. World view isn't an issue.
Take a civilization like the Maya, clearly not opposed to bloodshed or conquering their neighbors. Why didn't they colonzie Europe rather than the other way 'round. That is what Jared looks at in G,G,& S.
What makes FM recording interesting on an iPod-like device, it's that it's a computer, not a dumb box. So I should be able to set a timer to record a particular program a la Tivo.
With enough CPU power, I should be able to record that program even if I'm listening to something else.
It's a start. Too bad it's 3x as big, 2x as heavy, and has a slow USB connection rather than Firewire.
:-)
Yes. I do want it all.