Unfortunately even that isn't true -- almost every device is going to have drivers for the particular version of Windows that was available when the device was new. It's possible there might be support for newer versions of Windows, or that the old ones will continue to work, but unless the device is still on the market it's unlikely the vendor will provide any continuing support.
That's quite possibly what they've done -- you're confusing the marketing-controlled website with their internal development processes. Open-source projects post giant lists of milestones going years into the future because they're marketing to other developers (if they're thinking about marketing at all) -- but Apple follows a more traditional marketing plan and rarely publishes even vague feature lists before a product is launched, and certainly not more than one revision out. So while they may have removed ZFS from all future versions of the product I wouldn't take the removal from the website as direct evidence of that.
Not to defend NCLB, but was there some previous policy that did not hold back the smartest students? I seem to recall that being the status quo long before NCLB.
If they just told us what they saw and not what they think it might be they'd simply be talking telescopes, not scientists. It's also disingenuous to suggest that they aren't publishing the original observations for third-party analysis -- they just aren't publishing those observations in the press release.
Primaries are something that *the established parties* do to pick their candidates internally, using their own rules, and only allowing selection from declared members of the party (or possibly some subset thereof). The fact that you think that primaries are run by the state or subject to the same laws as real elections is all the more evidence that the parties are far too entrenched to allow fair elections.
So what you're suggest essentially equates to "residential users can load web and email in a rate-limited fashion, so only users with 'commercial' accounts can really use the Internet".
Couldn't P2P users couldn't simply buy the "commercial" plan you suggest that does not have these restrictions? And what's to stop P2P users from wrapping their connection requests in HTTP so it looks like web traffic -- then you couldn't simply dismiss high web usages as "doesn't look like P2P" as you do above.
Also, if these restrictions were universally apply it would be fairly easy to setup a registry to make sure that P2P clients cooperatively used the allowed number of links -- with a little coordination and at least say, 100 users on a given torrent, bittorrent could be almost as fast (if somewhat less efficient an fault tolerant) as with unrestricted links, because the 2 connections allowed to each users would run at relatively high speeds.
If you want to use kerberos you'll need to avoid Active Directory -- it does not play well with others. AD is a decent directory server, but the "kerberos" implementation muxes authorization and authentication and will not work with external kerberos servers at all.
On the other hand, AD does play very well with Windows desktops -- it is the only way to use certain administrative functions in Windows -- and is perfectly suitable for password-based authentication against the directory sever from any platform. So if you don't need kerberos AD is probably fine, though I'm not sure it's any better than RHDS or eDirectory or the like if all you're doing is centralized, password-based authentication.
Is there some way to use Visual Studio without already being subject MS's heavy hand? I own a Windows Mobile device that I'd love to develop for, but as far as I can tell it requires both a Windows OS and MS dev tools, which makes development an expensive and inconvenient proposition.
I'm not sure that example proves your point -- I'm pretty sure carnivores *are* more likely to be cannibalistic than herbivores, unless you know of plants that consume other plants without an intermediary decomposition phase.
I can certainly understand that you want an expandable machine, and want to run OS X, and want it to be under $1500 -- those are pretty reasonable desires from a power-user computer owner. But I'm not sure you outrage is justified as an investor -- Apple seems to be doing pretty well selling non-expandable machines in the mid-range, and they have been for years. If Apple was primarily in the market for budget-oriented power-users it would be silly to not offer a cheaper tower, but they're not, and it's probably not a great business strategy for them to try; there's a very real chance it would hurt their sales and confuse their marketing in the other, well-established, successful market segments where the currently operate.
You don't need Internet access to share -- you just need both devices to support the same connection type. It would be much easier to create a ubiquitous service locator protocol and standards for moving common file types between devices than to get ubiquitous Internet access.
In fact, we already have all those parts in Bluetooth (as part of the standard), or in Ethernet/WiFi (via ZeroConf and HTTP/FTP/SMB). Heck, many modern printers include all those functions for the very same purpose -- easy resource sharing. It's just that no one has spent much time making it happen for cameras. I'm guessing that's do at least in part to the wide availability and use of cellphone-based cameras at the lowed, which already include a transfer mechanism, and the vastly lower interest in instant-sharing capabilities on high-end gear.
I agree the sticker bit is gimmicky, but the 600-series Polaroid images are only 3x3 -- reducing that to 2x3 is probably not going to ruin anyone's day.
For dice rolls I don't know that it's terribly important for the data to be random. People *think* it needs to be random, and it makes them feel better about losing money, but so long as the values are not predictable by the players and have an even distribution among possible values -- both of which are easy to do with any of several decent PRNG algorithms -- there's probably no practical benefit to increased randomness, no matter how people feel about it.
What do you suggest instead of plastics? Metals -- most are much more reactive than the plastic you hope to replace. Glass would work for some things, depending on their shape and size, but is not terribly viable for large packages.
I'm honestly interested -- Is there some other economically feasible alternative? If not, is the health risk posed by BPA and the like larger than the health risk of not packaging our food at all?
What do you do with programs that want to write to/tmp or/var/tmp on your POSIX system? Do you insist that they write inside your home folder? What about daemons that don't have a home folder?
I think Safari should clean up this data when asked to do so, but I don't understand why temp data needs to be inside my home folder, which is potentially remote and almost certainly more expensive than local tmp storage, rather than in whatever temp location(s) are designated by the OS and its administrator.
/var/folders is equivalent to/tmp, at least on OS X. I agree that Safari should clean up this location when you ask it to clear the caches, but let's not pretend that it's some exotic hack that Safari does to circumvent system security either -- it's just another temp folder.
Compare the ration of the cost of a replacement commercial aircraft of to the cost of a new paint job to similar operations on a passenger automobile. Compare the lead time in procuring a replacement commercial aircraft with the same process for a passenger automobile. Compare the availability of used commercial aircraft of with that of used passenger vehicles. Compare the bureaucracy involved in the purchase of a commercial aircraft with that related to the purchase of a passenger automobile.
There's more to keep planes in service for decades than "consumer culture". I'm not saying it isn't a contributing factor in consumer purchases, but it's absurd to suggest it's the primary cause.
The bottom of the market has dropped a lot in most manufactured goods. Furniture, for example, is constructed from much cheaper materials and designed to shipped in flat boxes with little protection, which almost certainly makes the joints less stable given the assembly capabilities in the typical modern home vs. in a factory from 1950.
And while you could certainly argue that such a drop in the low-end of the market is bad for quality overall -- and I'd generally agree -- you also have to keep in mind that it doesn't strongly limit the high-end of the market. As such, the new low-end must be "good enough" for most people, so that they see it as economically efficient in spite of the reduced quality, because otherwise they would spend more to get the still-available better-quality goods. The lower prices also increases the availability of the item, and could increase its overall utility (for example, if you can afford a computer desk or a computer, the desk isn't worth much, but if you can afford them both it could be quite useful).
Of course, for the 98% of the world that doesn't need a desk to support hundreds of pounds such a desk is not a testament to longevity but rather a paragon of waste -- it uses much more steal than is necessary to complete its task. It's therefore also much more expensive than it needs to be, making it economically in efficient and possibly making desks available to fewer people. Not to mention the extra energy required to lug it around, more complicated disposal, etc.
The answer to building quality products is more complicated than "use bigger/thicker parts", at least if you have any criteria other than longevity in your analysis.
So they just let it sit around on the ground for 15 years? The Zvezda module didn't launch until 2000. I could buy "designed in the '80s", but "constructed in the '80s" somewhat incromulent.
Is there some reason you can't punish a personal following the unlawful will of their employer, or is this just any excuse to mis-understand the meaning of "legal person"?
First, the drugs in question are already in use, and this device doesn't do much to change that.
Second, malignant hyperthermia is not immediately life threatening -- in general there would be plenty of time to call the paramedics and get the appropriate treatment at a hospital.
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Unfortunately even that isn't true -- almost every device is going to have drivers for the particular version of Windows that was available when the device was new. It's possible there might be support for newer versions of Windows, or that the old ones will continue to work, but unless the device is still on the market it's unlikely the vendor will provide any continuing support.
That's quite possibly what they've done -- you're confusing the marketing-controlled website with their internal development processes. Open-source projects post giant lists of milestones going years into the future because they're marketing to other developers (if they're thinking about marketing at all) -- but Apple follows a more traditional marketing plan and rarely publishes even vague feature lists before a product is launched, and certainly not more than one revision out. So while they may have removed ZFS from all future versions of the product I wouldn't take the removal from the website as direct evidence of that.
Not to defend NCLB, but was there some previous policy that did not hold back the smartest students? I seem to recall that being the status quo long before NCLB.
If they just told us what they saw and not what they think it might be they'd simply be talking telescopes, not scientists. It's also disingenuous to suggest that they aren't publishing the original observations for third-party analysis -- they just aren't publishing those observations in the press release.
Primaries are something that *the established parties* do to pick their candidates internally, using their own rules, and only allowing selection from declared members of the party (or possibly some subset thereof). The fact that you think that primaries are run by the state or subject to the same laws as real elections is all the more evidence that the parties are far too entrenched to allow fair elections.
So what you're suggest essentially equates to "residential users can load web and email in a rate-limited fashion, so only users with 'commercial' accounts can really use the Internet".
Couldn't P2P users couldn't simply buy the "commercial" plan you suggest that does not have these restrictions? And what's to stop P2P users from wrapping their connection requests in HTTP so it looks like web traffic -- then you couldn't simply dismiss high web usages as "doesn't look like P2P" as you do above.
Also, if these restrictions were universally apply it would be fairly easy to setup a registry to make sure that P2P clients cooperatively used the allowed number of links -- with a little coordination and at least say, 100 users on a given torrent, bittorrent could be almost as fast (if somewhat less efficient an fault tolerant) as with unrestricted links, because the 2 connections allowed to each users would run at relatively high speeds.
If you want to use kerberos you'll need to avoid Active Directory -- it does not play well with others. AD is a decent directory server, but the "kerberos" implementation muxes authorization and authentication and will not work with external kerberos servers at all.
On the other hand, AD does play very well with Windows desktops -- it is the only way to use certain administrative functions in Windows -- and is perfectly suitable for password-based authentication against the directory sever from any platform. So if you don't need kerberos AD is probably fine, though I'm not sure it's any better than RHDS or eDirectory or the like if all you're doing is centralized, password-based authentication.
Is there some way to use Visual Studio without already being subject MS's heavy hand? I own a Windows Mobile device that I'd love to develop for, but as far as I can tell it requires both a Windows OS and MS dev tools, which makes development an expensive and inconvenient proposition.
I'm not sure that example proves your point -- I'm pretty sure carnivores *are* more likely to be cannibalistic than herbivores, unless you know of plants that consume other plants without an intermediary decomposition phase.
I can certainly understand that you want an expandable machine, and want to run OS X, and want it to be under $1500 -- those are pretty reasonable desires from a power-user computer owner. But I'm not sure you outrage is justified as an investor -- Apple seems to be doing pretty well selling non-expandable machines in the mid-range, and they have been for years. If Apple was primarily in the market for budget-oriented power-users it would be silly to not offer a cheaper tower, but they're not, and it's probably not a great business strategy for them to try; there's a very real chance it would hurt their sales and confuse their marketing in the other, well-established, successful market segments where the currently operate.
You don't need Internet access to share -- you just need both devices to support the same connection type. It would be much easier to create a ubiquitous service locator protocol and standards for moving common file types between devices than to get ubiquitous Internet access.
In fact, we already have all those parts in Bluetooth (as part of the standard), or in Ethernet/WiFi (via ZeroConf and HTTP/FTP/SMB). Heck, many modern printers include all those functions for the very same purpose -- easy resource sharing. It's just that no one has spent much time making it happen for cameras. I'm guessing that's do at least in part to the wide availability and use of cellphone-based cameras at the lowed, which already include a transfer mechanism, and the vastly lower interest in instant-sharing capabilities on high-end gear.
I agree the sticker bit is gimmicky, but the 600-series Polaroid images are only 3x3 -- reducing that to 2x3 is probably not going to ruin anyone's day.
And because people believe that dice have magical powers.
If I were this guy I'd fire up my local hardware RNG, then post some blurry pictures of a dice-rolling machine.
For dice rolls I don't know that it's terribly important for the data to be random. People *think* it needs to be random, and it makes them feel better about losing money, but so long as the values are not predictable by the players and have an even distribution among possible values -- both of which are easy to do with any of several decent PRNG algorithms -- there's probably no practical benefit to increased randomness, no matter how people feel about it.
He also said the numbers from random.org were no random enough, and they claim to be providing truly random numbers as well.
What do you suggest instead of plastics? Metals -- most are much more reactive than the plastic you hope to replace. Glass would work for some things, depending on their shape and size, but is not terribly viable for large packages.
I'm honestly interested -- Is there some other economically feasible alternative? If not, is the health risk posed by BPA and the like larger than the health risk of not packaging our food at all?
What do you do with programs that want to write to /tmp or /var/tmp on your POSIX system? Do you insist that they write inside your home folder? What about daemons that don't have a home folder?
I think Safari should clean up this data when asked to do so, but I don't understand why temp data needs to be inside my home folder, which is potentially remote and almost certainly more expensive than local tmp storage, rather than in whatever temp location(s) are designated by the OS and its administrator.
/var/folders is equivalent to /tmp, at least on OS X. I agree that Safari should clean up this location when you ask it to clear the caches, but let's not pretend that it's some exotic hack that Safari does to circumvent system security either -- it's just another temp folder.
Compare the ration of the cost of a replacement commercial aircraft of to the cost of a new paint job to similar operations on a passenger automobile. Compare the lead time in procuring a replacement commercial aircraft with the same process for a passenger automobile. Compare the availability of used commercial aircraft of with that of used passenger vehicles. Compare the bureaucracy involved in the purchase of a commercial aircraft with that related to the purchase of a passenger automobile.
There's more to keep planes in service for decades than "consumer culture". I'm not saying it isn't a contributing factor in consumer purchases, but it's absurd to suggest it's the primary cause.
The bottom of the market has dropped a lot in most manufactured goods. Furniture, for example, is constructed from much cheaper materials and designed to shipped in flat boxes with little protection, which almost certainly makes the joints less stable given the assembly capabilities in the typical modern home vs. in a factory from 1950.
And while you could certainly argue that such a drop in the low-end of the market is bad for quality overall -- and I'd generally agree -- you also have to keep in mind that it doesn't strongly limit the high-end of the market. As such, the new low-end must be "good enough" for most people, so that they see it as economically efficient in spite of the reduced quality, because otherwise they would spend more to get the still-available better-quality goods. The lower prices also increases the availability of the item, and could increase its overall utility (for example, if you can afford a computer desk or a computer, the desk isn't worth much, but if you can afford them both it could be quite useful).
Of course, for the 98% of the world that doesn't need a desk to support hundreds of pounds such a desk is not a testament to longevity but rather a paragon of waste -- it uses much more steal than is necessary to complete its task. It's therefore also much more expensive than it needs to be, making it economically in efficient and possibly making desks available to fewer people. Not to mention the extra energy required to lug it around, more complicated disposal, etc.
The answer to building quality products is more complicated than "use bigger/thicker parts", at least if you have any criteria other than longevity in your analysis.
So they just let it sit around on the ground for 15 years? The Zvezda module didn't launch until 2000. I could buy "designed in the '80s", but "constructed in the '80s" somewhat incromulent.
Is there some reason you can't punish a personal following the unlawful will of their employer, or is this just any excuse to mis-understand the meaning of "legal person"?
First, the drugs in question are already in use, and this device doesn't do much to change that.
Second, malignant hyperthermia is not immediately life threatening -- in general there would be plenty of time to call the paramedics and get the appropriate treatment at a hospital.