~ 500 billion dollars to DOD and Homeland security The next biggest expenditure is Social Security, which _we already paid for out of our own pocket_
Note the deficit spending at the bottom of each year through 2011.
That is only with government spending. Societal spending is also driven by ideology. Young people believe that they need hip clothes, cell-phones, pop music, and iPods, so they figure out some way to acquire the goods and services that they need. Older Younger people (~25-35) believe that they need a nice new car and a nice large house, so they work hard to acquire those things. Etc, etc, This is nothing new.
There are examples of other people that don't share these ideologies both here in the US and in other places, and they spend their time and/or money doing other things.
I think "apt-cache search mailman" would do the trick too. In fact, your command didn't return anything on my Debian system.
Its always worked for me. Did you quote the * wildcard?
me@example:~$ dpkg -l '*' | grep mailman pn mailman (no description available) me@example:~$ sudo apt-get install mailman Password: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed:
apache2-common apache2-mpm-perchild apache2-utils libapr0 libpcre3 openssl
postfix pwgen ssl-cert Suggested packages:
apache2-doc lynx www-browser spamassassin python2.3-korean-codecs
python2.2-korean-codecs python-japanese-codecs listadmin ca-certificates
postfix-mysql postfix-pgsql postfix-ldap postfix-pcre Recommended packages:
resolvconf The following NEW packages will be installed:
apache2-common apache2-mpm-perchild apache2-utils libapr0 libpcre3 mailman
openssl postfix pwgen ssl-cert 0 upgraded, 10 newly installed, 0 to remove and 7 not upgraded. Need to get 8737kB/9814kB of archives. After unpacking 41.5MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
2) blindly do apt-get install mailman and see what happens
3) search for mailman on the Debian website http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages If you put mailman in the searchbox it tells you where you can download it for 11 different computer architectures.
4) search for mailman on the web using google. The first link is http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/index.html where you can download the source and look at the above average documentation on the site.
Maybe I'm a Linux snob because I can install software on a Linux machine and know how to type keywords into google. But I believe that with 5 easy and well known methods of installing a very common and popular application should be enough for any competent computer user can handle. I believe that it is people like you that give Linux a bad name. Kinda like this bozo:
One day later I bet there is a plugging to MythTV that perfectly edits your recordings to be commercial free.
I would think it would be better if MythTV never recorded the commercials to begin with. Saves disk space by about 25+% for more commercial free content.
Has no one else realized that if they embed flags in the broadcast that indicate when a commercial starts and stops that those same flags can be used to AUTOMATICALLY SKIP those same commercials? This will be a major boon to home built DVR systems.
Very true. I welcome such technology, because I'm already a criminal, and I know technology.
If you're trying to be snarky, you've merely shown you don't understand the meaning of "security through obscurity" in this context. The key doesn't count, by definition.
I was half being funny, half saying that my private key is secure because its obscure. If I gave you my key and passphrase protecting it, you have free access to all the goodies I do.
I know what security from obscurity is. Honestly, I believe in it. A wise landscaper once told me, "The less people can see, the less likely they are to steal it".
Honestly, if OS X or Linux had the marketshare of say, MS Windows, I would guess we would have almost the headaches that they do. Because I'm in the < 10% or so range of systems out there, honestly, I'm more secure because I'm more obscure. X86 attachments, even if I or someone else on an OS X or Linux or whatever that is not on an x86 architecture won't do anything.
Security is a game, like cat and mouse. Nothing is secure. Think your lock on your house can keep me out? Think your alarm on your house can't have the phone and power cord cut? Think I can't sweet talk someone in HR for their username/password and get your SSN? The greater the illusion of the necessity of security, the greater the illusion of better security measures. Its kinda like "Well, security must be important to us because we pay XXX dollars for it". I've worked at places that because they are top 10 research facilities in the world, they think security is a big deal. When Bush was behind in the polls, and he used to jack up the security color from pink to purple, we would have to have our cars searched on entry, blah blah. I always thought. You know, if I were a terrorist and I've been planning for months or years this nasty attack on this national lab, hmm, maybe I should wait until next week or month until they just let me drive in like last week. Nah, I'll risk it and just go on in.
I'm mindful about security, but other than that I think its a joke. I use "weak" passwords, I don't change them on the hour, I use public key authentication, I don't run remote services when not necessary. I layer my good stuff behind stuff that can be blown away at any time and replaced. Basic stuff. Oh, and I don't run Windows. Anyone who cares about security and runs Windows is just someone that enjoys job security through patches, virus updates, and reboots. I work for a living, and simply don't play those games.
Like a... Home theatre in a box? Already been done I'm afraid. Brilliant idea IMO, although I'm a bit pissed my home theatre kit doesn't have optical inputs. Can't get the full 5.1 effect from satellite without them.
And if it even did have digital (optical or otherwise) inputs, it wouldn't get 5.1 and other audio formats right all the time either.
No, what it sounds like, your "home theater in a box" is a box.
Westinghouse makes a very nice 42" LCD with 1080p resolution. (on both DVI and HDMI connectors) http://www.westinghousedigital.com/c-7-1080p-monit ors.aspx Maybe the HP is the only 65" monitor with 1080p?
In my opinion, based on owning one, I think this is the best:
56" to 70" 1080p, excellent color and contrast, no burnin (from what I hear). I don't know of any video technology that comes close to JVC's implementation of LCoS.
Linux crowd just sits on the sideline doing nothing
Ever heard of a "tainted" kernel? Ever hear of www.open-hardware.org (not to be confused with www.openhardware.org BLING!) Ever hear of http://sourceforge.net/projects/openhardware/?
Granted, the progress is slow. Many of these projects have been around for quite sometime, with little industry attention.
Personally, I believe that not allowing binary or closed drivers would be progress.
The argument isn't quite right. Graphics chips are amongst the more complicated chips to design (at least for the gaming market), someone couldn't just look at your driver code and necessarily know how to design a new chip. Similarly you can bet enough engineers float away from nVidia & ATI (to each other and elsewhere) that their secrets are pretty well known.
I'm not a gamer, and don't follow the video card industry that closely, I'm basing my closed source knowledge of drivers from what I've heard. Maybe, I'm just missing the point a little.
So, what are the video card's products? Are they the hardware cards or the drivers? They are keeping something secret for a reason, but I don't know what or why. I never knew that the GPU technology was shared between vendors. I'm still unclear if this is the case.
All I know is that high performance HW and software is nice. Having the software not make the hardware do what its capable of doing or having the software closed source and having Linux/X unhappy doesn't seem too good either.
Yeah, its like the "digital" boom in the 80s. Marketing started selling digital analog speakers, and then changed it to "digital ready".
I like HD content. I've got a really nice fully upscaled 1920x1080p setup, and let me tell you, DVDs just don't cut it anymore. I watched some horrible movie the other day on my set, and I asked my friend how old the movie was, I was guessing 10+ years. It was only a couple of years ago, 2002 to be exact.
HD/HDTV is an absolute mess. HDMI, DVI, component, DRM, DD, stereo, stereo hacked to be Dolby Surround, 2.0, 2.1, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, DD, DTS, analog, digital, upscaling, upsampling. I know all this stuff, and its still difficult to convince a surround processor to do the right thing. Its next to impossible to get anamorphic, 4:3, letterbox, and whatnot correct. I have a $1,200 surround processor, a $2k 7 channel amp, a $2k upscaler, and in my opinion the negotiation between the analog and digital formats and getting them right is trial and error at best. At the UI level, its alpha or beta quality for the user. Honestly, if I weren't a geek and knew and cared about this stuff, I would be very disappointed dropping 1/3 of what I have invested in my equipment as far as an end user experience.
If I knew someone that had X million of VC money, I would start my own electronics company that integrated this crap and made it work right so that the average joe can just buy it and enjoy the content.
To me stretching a 4:3 640x480 interlaced picture to a 1920x1080 resolution with crappy interpolation and making the faces and bodies almost 2x their width is almost a crime. But for years, people though that is what HD is all about. If I were to show them real HD content, they might cry.
I would think that both NVidia and ATI are smart enough to know that releasing their product's source code cost would cost them about $0.
So, the cost of going out of business is $0?
Basically, there are 2 graphics card companies. ATI and NVidia. By open sourcing their drivers, they _may_ give away trade secrets to the other manufacture(s), and so they make knockoff cards.
However, regarding Linux, I believe that Linux should not tolerate closed source binary drivers. It does us no good to update a kernel, and then have X break or the kernel panic. Fortunately at this time, I don't need good X support because I run headless (more or less) servers, and an $8 graphics card is fine by me.
The compensation for R&D is the catch here. I'm not a patent fan, but maybe this is a legitimate use for one. Patent the GPU NOT the software, and recoup your R&D costs. I believe that is what patents are designed for, but they seem to be a business model for businesses that cannot produce products.
Parked domains exist and aren't going away any time soon, so we might as well make the best of it.
To me, "Host not found" is good enough.
How many people when accidentally making a typo on a domainname and 50 porn sites pop up all over the place or you come to one of these helpful metalink sites, do you just stop what you're doing, drop your pants, and proceed?
Domain parking is about as respectable as phishing or spam.
Of course it works. I'm a Sun diehard and I've been using the Global Desktop since version 1.0. It was a bit rough then because I was, downloading files to run on my computer, and that was new, but they made 2.0 better. 2.0 added completed downloads of files. Then 3.0, and now 4.2, I'm ecstatic.
No, wait. I was using NFS, scp, and http downloads. Not Sun's Global Desktop.
What their incredible solutions is: redundant server setup with a separate distributor server that "tells" the client software which of the servers is least loaded, and buffering of video
But load balancing and buffering is new, right?
I mean, look for yourself and go and download one of their excellent products, and just pay for it already:
And droughts. And more powerful storms. And the melting of the glaciers on Greenland and Antarctica, and the resulting 10' rise in oceans heights. And the disruption of the jet stream to northern Europe. And the ensuing famines. And the flooding of coastal areas.
Face it. Most people in the US are bored. They on average spend 4 hours a day in front of the tv, 8 hours working, 8 hours sleeping, and 4 hours unexplained.
From what I hear, New Orleans is a blessing since the hurricane. Crime is almost non-existant, and people are focused on rebuilding the city, working, and being nice to each other.
Maybe a shifting environment and real estate changes will be good for us.
One plus of ABS is that, in the hands of an unskilled driver, it allows significant evasion capability that a standard car might/would not allow because side-loading combined with heavy braking would exceed the tire's roadholding. As such it becomes a significant safety aid for the vast majority of drivers.
I get modded down all the time when I say that during cornering, centrifugal force increases as friction between the tires and roads increases. As a simple though experiment, think of trying to flip an SUV on dry pavement vs a sheet of ice.
ABS reduces minor rear end collisions and other collisions where braking distance in a straight line are possible.
ABS increases the likelihood of being dead. With airbags and seatbelts, most anyone will live in a straight line collision between 50 and 75 mph into a stationary object. YMMV with build quality of a car. Any car with ABS while cornering, especially poorly designed cars for highway traffic with high centers of gravity (eg, SUVs), is more likely to flip and kill the drivers and passengers involved.
Airbags and seatbelts do nothing to prevent someone from hitting the most vulnerable part of their body, aka head, against hard stuff, aka steel and concrete. ABS increases the likelihood of such an injury.
New physics and math will counter my claims based on basic Newtonian physics.
Let's look at the statistics. In 2004, a total of 42,636 people died, and 2.8 million were injured on U.S. highways. In other words, more U.S. citizens were killed and maimed on U.S. roads every three weeks than have been killed and maimed in the Iraq war after more than three years. Yet society shrugs its shoulders at this level of highway carnage.
Again, software is a product, a service is a service.
My electricity is a service. OS X is a product.
For OS X to work properly, I need electricity. I find it affordable, reliable, and simple to use the electrical service provider in my area. Sure, I could use wind, my cats, or a gas generator, but the electric company does pretty good for me today. If I no longer want the service, they will gladly turn it off at any given time.
OS X is mine. I don't care what the EULA says, or what Apple says. Until they remove it from the CD I have next to me and take away my computer, I own it, and will use it as I like..Mac is a service. http://www.apple.com/dotmac/ It does not come with OS X, if I don't want it anymore, poof, its gone.
hotmail is a service. If MS wants to charge $500/mo for it, I don't think people would use it anymore. But its entirely within MS's rights to charge or discontinue the "free" service at any time.
What happens to the service and software as a service if the company goes out of business, raises the prices beyond value, or stops offering said service?
If I have an app that works with MSDOS 2.3, I'm free to install and use MSDOS 2.3 with no service or any kind of support available or necessary.
If MSDOS 2.3 were a service, and my software was incompatible with any other OS version, what would I do?
And yet it happens all the time in the open source world . ..
True. I thought that when I wrote it, and expected a comment like this.
I find that mailinglists and wiki's and 3rd party "support" much superior to paid for support. Call Apple, "Why is my brand new PowerBook kernel panicking when I change network locations?" Apple guy: "We have no knowledge of such an issue." Minutes later or osxforums or some other 3rd party site, the headline was "Bug and workaround in OS X version x.y regarding kernel panics when changing locations".
Looked at the article, and it said it was a bug in the Wifi driver even if you were not using the wifi driver. I was using wired ethernet.
The workaround was to leave the ethernet cable unplugged, change locations, and then plug network cable in. It was updated within a week or so from Apple.
Needless to say, I did not renew or extend my AppleCare beyond the 1 year that came with the product.
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An evil company plays zero-sum games (loss for you = gain for us) with its own customers.
So, by that definition, the movie biz, the recoding biz, Sony, and SCO are all evil companies/industries.
Correct?
Spending doesn't boost an economy. Useful production does.
1 000/www.gpoaccess.gov/usbudget/fy07/pdf/budget/tab les.pdf
I disagree. I believe ideology drives economy. Currently, the American ideology is that we need to be world police. Don't believe me? Look at the budget: http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/06feb2006
~ 500 billion dollars to DOD and Homeland security The next biggest expenditure is Social Security, which _we already paid for out of our own pocket_
Note the deficit spending at the bottom of each year through 2011.
That is only with government spending. Societal spending is also driven by ideology. Young people believe that they need hip clothes, cell-phones, pop music, and iPods, so they figure out some way to acquire the goods and services that they need. Older Younger people (~25-35) believe that they need a nice new car and a nice large house, so they work hard to acquire those things. Etc, etc, This is nothing new.
There are examples of other people that don't share these ideologies both here in the US and in other places, and they spend their time and/or money doing other things.
I think "apt-cache search mailman" would do the trick too. In fact, your command didn't return anything on my Debian system.
Its always worked for me. Did you quote the * wildcard?
me@example:~$ dpkg -l '*' | grep mailman
pn mailman (no description available)
me@example:~$ sudo apt-get install mailman
Password:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
apache2-common apache2-mpm-perchild apache2-utils libapr0 libpcre3 openssl
postfix pwgen ssl-cert
Suggested packages:
apache2-doc lynx www-browser spamassassin python2.3-korean-codecs
python2.2-korean-codecs python-japanese-codecs listadmin ca-certificates
postfix-mysql postfix-pgsql postfix-ldap postfix-pcre
Recommended packages:
resolvconf
The following NEW packages will be installed:
apache2-common apache2-mpm-perchild apache2-utils libapr0 libpcre3 mailman
openssl postfix pwgen ssl-cert
0 upgraded, 10 newly installed, 0 to remove and 7 not upgraded.
Need to get 8737kB/9814kB of archives.
After unpacking 41.5MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
How difficult is it to do any of the following?
o ryid=127
1) dpkg -l "*" | grep -i mailman
2) blindly do apt-get install mailman and see what happens
3) search for mailman on the Debian website http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages If you put mailman in the searchbox it tells you where you can download it for 11 different computer architectures.
4) search for mailman on the web using google. The first link is http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/index.html where you can download the source and look at the above average documentation on the site.
5) be a power user, and do a google search for debian mailman and the first link is http://packages.debian.org/stable/mail/mailman
Maybe I'm a Linux snob because I can install software on a Linux machine and know how to type keywords into google. But I believe that with 5 easy and well known methods of installing a very common and popular application should be enough for any competent computer user can handle. I believe that it is people like you that give Linux a bad name. Kinda like this bozo:
http://www.centos.org/modules/news/article.php?st
One day later I bet there is a plugging to MythTV that perfectly edits your recordings to be commercial free.
I would think it would be better if MythTV never recorded the commercials to begin with. Saves disk space by about 25+% for more commercial free content.
I can't wait until this is implemented.
Has no one else realized that if they embed flags in the broadcast that indicate when a commercial starts and stops that those same flags can be used to AUTOMATICALLY SKIP those same commercials? This will be a major boon to home built DVR systems.
Very true. I welcome such technology, because I'm already a criminal, and I know technology.
If you're trying to be snarky, you've merely shown you don't understand the meaning of "security through obscurity" in this context. The key doesn't count, by definition.
I was half being funny, half saying that my private key is secure because its obscure. If I gave you my key and passphrase protecting it, you have free access to all the goodies I do.
I know what security from obscurity is. Honestly, I believe in it. A wise landscaper once told me, "The less people can see, the less likely they are to steal it".
Honestly, if OS X or Linux had the marketshare of say, MS Windows, I would guess we would have almost the headaches that they do. Because I'm in the < 10% or so range of systems out there, honestly, I'm more secure because I'm more obscure. X86 attachments, even if I or someone else on an OS X or Linux or whatever that is not on an x86 architecture won't do anything.
Security is a game, like cat and mouse. Nothing is secure. Think your lock on your house can keep me out? Think your alarm on your house can't have the phone and power cord cut? Think I can't sweet talk someone in HR for their username/password and get your SSN? The greater the illusion of the necessity of security, the greater the illusion of better security measures. Its kinda like "Well, security must be important to us because we pay XXX dollars for it". I've worked at places that because they are top 10 research facilities in the world, they think security is a big deal. When Bush was behind in the polls, and he used to jack up the security color from pink to purple, we would have to have our cars searched on entry, blah blah. I always thought. You know, if I were a terrorist and I've been planning for months or years this nasty attack on this national lab, hmm, maybe I should wait until next week or month until they just let me drive in like last week. Nah, I'll risk it and just go on in.
I'm mindful about security, but other than that I think its a joke. I use "weak" passwords, I don't change them on the hour, I use public key authentication, I don't run remote services when not necessary. I layer my good stuff behind stuff that can be blown away at any time and replaced. Basic stuff. Oh, and I don't run Windows. Anyone who cares about security and runs Windows is just someone that enjoys job security through patches, virus updates, and reboots. I work for a living, and simply don't play those games.
So there you have it, security through obscurity does not work.
So, my private key is not good anymore?
This was a cipher called Solitaire, which was created by Bruce Schneier. It has been horribly broken.
What they need to do is fire up a dubbie and get one of these.
Like a... Home theatre in a box? Already been done I'm afraid. Brilliant idea IMO, although I'm a bit pissed my home theatre kit doesn't have optical inputs. Can't get the full 5.1 effect from satellite without them.
And if it even did have digital (optical or otherwise) inputs, it wouldn't get 5.1 and other audio formats right all the time either.
No, what it sounds like, your "home theater in a box" is a box.
Westinghouse makes a very nice 42" LCD with 1080p resolution. (on both DVI and HDMI connectors) http://www.westinghousedigital.com/c-7-1080p-monit ors.aspx Maybe the HP is the only 65" monitor with 1080p?
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In my opinion, based on owning one, I think this is the best:
http://www.jvc.com/product.jsp?productId=PRD42085
56" to 70" 1080p, excellent color and contrast, no burnin (from what I hear). I don't know of any video technology that comes close to JVC's implementation of LCoS.
Linux crowd just sits on the sideline doing nothing
Ever heard of a "tainted" kernel? Ever hear of www.open-hardware.org (not to be confused with www.openhardware.org BLING!) Ever hear of http://sourceforge.net/projects/openhardware/?
Granted, the progress is slow. Many of these projects have been around for quite sometime, with little industry attention.
Personally, I believe that not allowing binary or closed drivers would be progress.
The argument isn't quite right. Graphics chips are amongst the more complicated chips to design (at least for the gaming market), someone couldn't just look at your driver code and necessarily know how to design a new chip. Similarly you can bet enough engineers float away from nVidia & ATI (to each other and elsewhere) that their secrets are pretty well known.
I'm not a gamer, and don't follow the video card industry that closely, I'm basing my closed source knowledge of drivers from what I've heard. Maybe, I'm just missing the point a little.
So, what are the video card's products? Are they the hardware cards or the drivers? They are keeping something secret for a reason, but I don't know what or why. I never knew that the GPU technology was shared between vendors. I'm still unclear if this is the case.
All I know is that high performance HW and software is nice. Having the software not make the hardware do what its capable of doing or having the software closed source and having Linux/X unhappy doesn't seem too good either.
So, what's the big secret?
Yeah, its like the "digital" boom in the 80s. Marketing started selling digital analog speakers, and then changed it to "digital ready".
I like HD content. I've got a really nice fully upscaled 1920x1080p setup, and let me tell you, DVDs just don't cut it anymore. I watched some horrible movie the other day on my set, and I asked my friend how old the movie was, I was guessing 10+ years. It was only a couple of years ago, 2002 to be exact.
HD/HDTV is an absolute mess. HDMI, DVI, component, DRM, DD, stereo, stereo hacked to be Dolby Surround, 2.0, 2.1, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, DD, DTS, analog, digital, upscaling, upsampling. I know all this stuff, and its still difficult to convince a surround processor to do the right thing. Its next to impossible to get anamorphic, 4:3, letterbox, and whatnot correct. I have a $1,200 surround processor, a $2k 7 channel amp, a $2k upscaler, and in my opinion the negotiation between the analog and digital formats and getting them right is trial and error at best. At the UI level, its alpha or beta quality for the user. Honestly, if I weren't a geek and knew and cared about this stuff, I would be very disappointed dropping 1/3 of what I have invested in my equipment as far as an end user experience.
If I knew someone that had X million of VC money, I would start my own electronics company that integrated this crap and made it work right so that the average joe can just buy it and enjoy the content.
To me stretching a 4:3 640x480 interlaced picture to a 1920x1080 resolution with crappy interpolation and making the faces and bodies almost 2x their width is almost a crime. But for years, people though that is what HD is all about. If I were to show them real HD content, they might cry.
I would think that both NVidia and ATI are smart enough to know that releasing their product's source code cost would cost them about $0.
So, the cost of going out of business is $0?
Basically, there are 2 graphics card companies. ATI and NVidia. By open sourcing their drivers, they _may_ give away trade secrets to the other manufacture(s), and so they make knockoff cards.
However, regarding Linux, I believe that Linux should not tolerate closed source binary drivers. It does us no good to update a kernel, and then have X break or the kernel panic. Fortunately at this time, I don't need good X support because I run headless (more or less) servers, and an $8 graphics card is fine by me.
The compensation for R&D is the catch here. I'm not a patent fan, but maybe this is a legitimate use for one. Patent the GPU NOT the software, and recoup your R&D costs. I believe that is what patents are designed for, but they seem to be a business model for businesses that cannot produce products.
Parked domains exist and aren't going away any time soon, so we might as well make the best of it.
To me, "Host not found" is good enough.
How many people when accidentally making a typo on a domainname and 50 porn sites pop up all over the place or you come to one of these helpful metalink sites, do you just stop what you're doing, drop your pants, and proceed?
Domain parking is about as respectable as phishing or spam.
I wonder if it works.
Of course it works. I'm a Sun diehard and I've been using the Global Desktop since version 1.0. It was a bit rough then because I was, downloading files to run on my computer, and that was new, but they made 2.0 better. 2.0 added completed downloads of files. Then 3.0, and now 4.2, I'm ecstatic.
No, wait. I was using NFS, scp, and http downloads. Not Sun's Global Desktop.
Now, I'm confused. What does this give me?
What their incredible solutions is: redundant server setup with a separate distributor server that "tells" the client software which of the servers is least loaded, and buffering of video
But load balancing and buffering is new, right?
I mean, look for yourself and go and download one of their excellent products, and just pay for it already:
http://burst.com/new/promo/main.htm
Or for that matter, the SCO lawsuit... the stock skyrocketed after they sued IBM... how'd that work out?
Just ask the litigious bastards themselves.
And droughts. And more powerful storms. And the melting of the glaciers on Greenland and Antarctica, and the resulting 10' rise in oceans heights. And the disruption of the jet stream to northern Europe. And the ensuing famines. And the flooding of coastal areas.
Face it. Most people in the US are bored. They on average spend 4 hours a day in front of the tv, 8 hours working, 8 hours sleeping, and 4 hours unexplained.
From what I hear, New Orleans is a blessing since the hurricane. Crime is almost non-existant, and people are focused on rebuilding the city, working, and being nice to each other.
Maybe a shifting environment and real estate changes will be good for us.
One plus of ABS is that, in the hands of an unskilled driver, it allows significant evasion capability that a standard car might/would not allow because side-loading combined with heavy braking would exceed the tire's roadholding. As such it becomes a significant safety aid for the vast majority of drivers.
I get modded down all the time when I say that during cornering, centrifugal force increases as friction between the tires and roads increases. As a simple though experiment, think of trying to flip an SUV on dry pavement vs a sheet of ice.
ABS reduces minor rear end collisions and other collisions where braking distance in a straight line are possible.
ABS increases the likelihood of being dead. With airbags and seatbelts, most anyone will live in a straight line collision between 50 and 75 mph into a stationary object. YMMV with build quality of a car. Any car with ABS while cornering, especially poorly designed cars for highway traffic with high centers of gravity (eg, SUVs), is more likely to flip and kill the drivers and passengers involved.
Airbags and seatbelts do nothing to prevent someone from hitting the most vulnerable part of their body, aka head, against hard stuff, aka steel and concrete. ABS increases the likelihood of such an injury.
New physics and math will counter my claims based on basic Newtonian physics.
Let's look at the statistics. In 2004, a total of 42,636 people died, and 2.8 million were injured on U.S. highways. In other words, more U.S. citizens were killed and maimed on U.S. roads every three weeks than have been killed and maimed in the Iraq war after more than three years. Yet society shrugs its shoulders at this level of highway carnage.
Its difficult to get the numbers, but here are some from here: http://www.lightrailnow.org/facts/fa_00015.htm
Motor Vehicles 0.93
Rail Rapid Transit 0.55
Commuter Rail 0.05
Bus 0.10
Light Rail 0.00
I see algorithmic driving taking place about as soon as mass transit takes off.
Then again, I have never been able to explain irrational behavior.
Again, software is a product, a service is a service.
My electricity is a service. OS X is a product.
For OS X to work properly, I need electricity. I find it affordable, reliable, and simple to use the electrical service provider in my area. Sure, I could use wind, my cats, or a gas generator, but the electric company does pretty good for me today. If I no longer want the service, they will gladly turn it off at any given time.
OS X is mine. I don't care what the EULA says, or what Apple says. Until they remove it from the CD I have next to me and take away my computer, I own it, and will use it as I like.
hotmail is a service. If MS wants to charge $500/mo for it, I don't think people would use it anymore. But its entirely within MS's rights to charge or discontinue the "free" service at any time.
Eudora is a product. I can use it until I die.
What happens to the service and software as a service if the company goes out of business, raises the prices beyond value, or stops offering said service?
If I have an app that works with MSDOS 2.3, I'm free to install and use MSDOS 2.3 with no service or any kind of support available or necessary.
If MSDOS 2.3 were a service, and my software was incompatible with any other OS version, what would I do?
And yet it happens all the time in the open source world . . .
True. I thought that when I wrote it, and expected a comment like this.
I find that mailinglists and wiki's and 3rd party "support" much superior to paid for support. Call Apple, "Why is my brand new PowerBook kernel panicking when I change network locations?" Apple guy: "We have no knowledge of such an issue." Minutes later or osxforums or some other 3rd party site, the headline was "Bug and workaround in OS X version x.y regarding kernel panics when changing locations".
Looked at the article, and it said it was a bug in the Wifi driver even if you were not using the wifi driver. I was using wired ethernet.
The workaround was to leave the ethernet cable unplugged, change locations, and then plug network cable in. It was updated within a week or so from Apple.
Needless to say, I did not renew or extend my AppleCare beyond the 1 year that came with the product.