People don't respect old mechanical controls, but they have one enviable attribute in that wear can be detected and measured before a failure occurs. All it requires is that someone pays attention. My JD-2 is wide open and I can inspect anything with nothing more than a hand mirror taped to a stick. Electric controls might be lighter than the 1"x.065 4130 tube running the length of the plane, but I'd never be able to feel the play increasing in a joystick.
Try to get most people to buy store brand over-the-counter drugs. They will argue that the name brand must have ingredients that make them work better, because they're more expensive. That's a quote from one standardized and commercialized idiot, BTW.
In order to transmit this signal without disturbing the 'quality' of the latest Hollywood dreck, the signal will have to be in a band that is not detectable by humans. That is, you will not be able to hear or see the signal.
But the hardware will have to detect the signal (else it's useless), so the signal will have to have a very clear and standardized format. It will also have to be very stable to avoid confusing the detecting equipment. That is, the signal will have to be easy to pick out.
A true pirate will simply set up his own injection equipment to throw some random noise in the mix, or some filtering equipment to pull the signal out altogether. With an analogue signal it'll be a trivial task that any ham operator could do in his sleep with less that $100 worth of equipment.
Damn. Why doesn't Conyers get a technical advisor. And he doesn't need one familiar with the laws of the United States. He needs one that knows something about the laws of phyics?
A spring that drives a shifter. Looks like this *--* A heavy truck would push the gears into a different ratio. A lighter vehicle wouldn't have enough weight to do that.
I'd like to see something like this on sever downhill grades. Would provide some relief to brakes and transmissions as well as producing usuable power.
Except that the absurdity has already been breached!!
A wanker wanted to play in the golf majors, but claimed he was disabled and couldn't walk the course. Wanted the rules changed to suit him. Took it to federal court.
How does it raise such a question? This is about the desires of the few vs the ability of a company to get money for satisfying the desires of the many. It's a video game. Not water, food, shelter or companionship. It's...a...game.
But if you have even a little objectivity you can't say the stuff they're putting here is not interesting...
I can say that with complete objectivity.
Once bitten, twice shy. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Don't buy a pig in a poke.
Damn, how many times do you have to be suckered before you learn. The video driver will remain in userland right up to the point where a Microsoft VP think he can gain a business advantage by doing something else. Besides, all you're getting is the marketing angle, as it's not a shipping product yet, and the marketing angle is "We're going to adopt a standard practice."
What's even better is that we convince them that we're not hoaxed by their hoax, and that we're actually enthralled by the show. But instead we're watching Gilligan's Island reruns. But maybe they know we're not watching. But, unbeknownst to them, we have been taking small quantities of reality TV for years, and so have become immune to the effects of lame melodrama, and can watch the show while appearing to not watch the show.
The only way hardware will prevent a rootkit is if they get smart and have the OS installed to a flash RAM that has the write function protected by a physical key. The OS would only be able to boot off the flash RAM. The OS could only be updated by the person holding the key. System libraries could be replaced AFTER the system was up, but with a know secure version sitting in secured memory, it would be easy to watch over them.
People want consistency, but OS developers need the freedom to try different things.
Unfortunately, I see this as the job of distributions. Pull all of the appropriate OS applications together and make sure they work consistently. For the most part, distributors think there job is to pile everything on a CD.
The situation is getting better though, as the community evolves.
What all these countries are getting at is that they don't want Microsoft to be the gatekeeper of all things digital, but trying to work through the courts is a fumbling and uncoordinated process.
I think the legislatures should all use their power of imminent domain and declare all the file formats as public. There could be all sorts of creative legal theories to support this such as implied contract. (You said I could use your software to create MY documents, yet you maintain that you get to retain the keys...)
You might agree to allow a company to have certain information in exchange for a discount, but you should be able to deny them any further access to that information if you decide for any reason that you no longer want to do business with them.
Hmm...would the company be allowed to tell everyone that you gave them personal information to get a discount, and then renegged after recieving said discount?
Would you be allowed to keep information on a company? That is their personal information isn't it? If you can tell everyone that you bought a copy of XXXXX at YYYYY and that it is a piece of crap, why isn't it fair for said company to tell everyone that you were a good/bad customer?
And what is the point of watching the wasps with a web cam? What is wrong with a clear tube? Sheesh! Talk about technology for technology's sake.
The biggest problem I see is the specificity of the smells. How many sorts of explosives can you train the wasp for in the few short days you have to work with them? Though, I do see how an industry could form around building and supplying arrays 'of wasp detectors' that you would have people walk through.
And what's the deal with the overly sensitive "released to live out their natural lives"? Do they do the same for laboratory fruit flies?
Philanthropy is always appreciated by the not so well off.
Preacher sees a man and woman on the corner wearing tattered cloths in a cold drizzling rain.
"Is there anything I could do to help?", he asks. "We're just down on our luck", they reply.
The preacher asks them to get in his car, and after taking them to a Motel-8 and paying for a room, he goes to the drive-through across the street to buy them some food. Returning with the food, he heard them complaining about the lack of cable as he approached.
Undaunted, he was met with grimaces when the man tasted the soda. "Is this diet!?"
"I'm not going to eat that! It's got mayonnaise on it." was the woman's thank you.
The 'not well off' are usually not well off, because they don't know what the hell well off is.
You're showing your youth child. Notice how you always hear the oldies playing Celine? Notice how high pitched her voice is? You think we listen to that $hite all the time? Clueless whippersnapper! We only turn it on when YOU come around. We can't even hear it! We're just using it to drive you away. Once we're sure you're gone, it's back to PeeDiddy and 50cents.
One more thing, and it's a rather important point supporting your original thesis.
After only about 10 minutes, I found myself getting VERY bored with the sound. It was like the exact same song was dragging on indefinitely. I think their algorithm might need a little work, as it might be a little over optimized.
My suggestion at this point would be to do away with artificial genres and create relationships between media based purely on a database of what people like and don't like. (Last.FM does this now.) Then I would like to see the media player throw in a randomly chosen selection once in a while, just to test its own theory, so to speak. However, for that to work, the selection would have to be truly random; no fair throwing in something that you are marketing heavily (I'm talking to you, [RI|MP]AA...) just to get people to hear it.
I tried the site for 10 minutes or so. I like older country music, so I started a station with 'Merle Haggard'. It's played about 5 songs so far. All male country singers, and all rather recent vintage. Since they seem to be a front end for iTunes, I suspect that it is doing exactly what you describing as 'no fair'. They're letting you hear songs you like, from what they have for sale.
Shame. I was hoping to hear something new from amoung those artist that I DON'T hear on the radio every morning.
You know how the people who make airplanes avoid this type of situation? They double-check. They triple-check. They fire people who can't do a good job and hire ones who can.
As one who is currently building and airplane, I'd like to say that this is only Step 1.
Step 2. You devise back-up systems, or design the system so that a failure is contained and won't matter. The electric trim system is backed up by a manual trim system. If the alternator fails, you have enough battery to run at least 3hours (time required to exhaust all your fuel).
Step 3. You build crittical systems so that they CAN'T break, regardless of what you must give up. My main wing spar is designed to withstand full elevon deflection at maximum maneuvering speed with a 50% reserved. I could land with another airplane on my turtleback, and my landing gear would survive.
Step 4. You train the pilot not to do stupid things. Full elevon deflection at maximum dive speed is placed in the "Stupid Pilot Tricks" category for a reason. You don't do aerobatics in a Utility category plane for a reason. You don't use Microsoft products for a reason.
Software shipped with gaping security holes shouldn't be the norm any more than airplanes with cracked spars coming off the assembly line. But they do ship with issues. The FAA has a whole beaucracy set up to correct any problems found. Lycoming just lost a lawsuit caused by a change in the metal uses to make crankshafts for their engines (went to a softer metal to make machining them easier). The cranks were weak and broke on running engines. Caused a lot of heartache for small carriers that had their livelihood grounded for months on end. But this isn't considered the norm.
Cities are generally more interesting places to live,
Only if you consider being packed in like ants with lots of other people to be interesting. I find the vast majority of people to be vain, selfish, and incessantly boring. I'd much rather have just one interesting friend that dozens of acquaintances. I find that rural people tend to value relationships much more, because they have fewer of them; whereas, I find cities tend to force people into relational apathy.
Slashdot Mirror
Detectability.
People don't respect old mechanical controls, but they have one enviable attribute in that wear can be detected and measured before a failure occurs. All it requires is that someone pays attention. My JD-2 is wide open and I can inspect anything with nothing more than a hand mirror taped to a stick. Electric controls might be lighter than the 1"x.065 4130 tube running the length of the plane, but I'd never be able to feel the play increasing in a joystick.
90% of everything sucks.
(No, you didn't hear it here first.)
Try to get most people to buy store brand over-the-counter drugs. They will argue that the name brand must have ingredients that make them work better, because they're more expensive. That's a quote from one standardized and commercialized idiot, BTW.
So the number of job openings will increase somewhere on the order of 40%. And 1.4 x 0 is?
After reading all these comments, I would like to ask everyone on both sides of the debate to ask themselves one question:
"How would the presentation of Linux be any different if Richard Stallman had the creativity to choose B instead of G?"
It's even worse than you say.
In order to transmit this signal without disturbing the 'quality' of the latest Hollywood dreck, the signal will have to be in a band that is not detectable by humans. That is, you will not be able to hear or see the signal.
But the hardware will have to detect the signal (else it's useless), so the signal will have to have a very clear and standardized format. It will also have to be very stable to avoid confusing the detecting equipment. That is, the signal will have to be easy to pick out.
A true pirate will simply set up his own injection equipment to throw some random noise in the mix, or some filtering equipment to pull the signal out altogether. With an analogue signal it'll be a trivial task that any ham operator could do in his sleep with less that $100 worth of equipment.
Damn. Why doesn't Conyers get a technical advisor. And he doesn't need one familiar with the laws of the United States. He needs one that knows something about the laws of phyics?
A spring that drives a shifter. Looks like this *--* A heavy truck would push the gears into a different ratio. A lighter vehicle wouldn't have enough weight to do that.
I'd like to see something like this on sever downhill grades. Would provide some relief to brakes and transmissions as well as producing usuable power.
Except that the absurdity has already been breached!!
A wanker wanted to play in the golf majors, but claimed he was disabled and couldn't walk the course. Wanted the rules changed to suit him. Took it to federal court.
Your ball.
How does it raise such a question? This is about the desires of the few vs the ability of a company to get money for satisfying the desires of the many. It's a video game. Not water, food, shelter or companionship. It's...a...game.
But if you have even a little objectivity you can't say the stuff they're putting here is not interesting...
I can say that with complete objectivity.
Once bitten, twice shy.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
Don't buy a pig in a poke.
Damn, how many times do you have to be suckered before you learn. The video driver will remain in userland right up to the point where a Microsoft VP think he can gain a business advantage by doing something else. Besides, all you're getting is the marketing angle, as it's not a shipping product yet, and the marketing angle is "We're going to adopt a standard practice."
How much more uninteresting can you get?
What's even better is that we convince them that we're not hoaxed by their hoax, and that we're actually enthralled by the show. But instead we're watching Gilligan's Island reruns. But maybe they know we're not watching. But, unbeknownst to them, we have been taking small quantities of reality TV for years, and so have become immune to the effects of lame melodrama, and can watch the show while appearing to not watch the show.
The only way hardware will prevent a rootkit is if they get smart and have the OS installed to a flash RAM that has the write function protected by a physical key. The OS would only be able to boot off the flash RAM. The OS could only be updated by the person holding the key. System libraries could be replaced AFTER the system was up, but with a know secure version sitting in secured memory, it would be easy to watch over them.
Give 3 weeks notice next time?
People want consistency, but OS developers need the freedom to try different things.
Unfortunately, I see this as the job of distributions. Pull all of the appropriate OS applications together and make sure they work consistently. For the most part, distributors think there job is to pile everything on a CD.
The situation is getting better though, as the community evolves.
What if it is your goal to lock sucker^H^H^H^H^H^H'consumers' into a website?
What if you have dynamic data that you don't want bookmarked or indexed?
What if you're underwear are REALLY dirty?
Sometimes, AJAX is indispensible.
What all these countries are getting at is that they don't want Microsoft to be the gatekeeper of all things digital, but trying to work through the courts is a fumbling and uncoordinated process.
I think the legislatures should all use their power of imminent domain and declare all the file formats as public. There could be all sorts of creative legal theories to support this such as implied contract. (You said I could use your software to create MY documents, yet you maintain that you get to retain the keys...)
You might agree to allow a company to have certain information in exchange for a discount, but you should be able to deny them any further access to that information if you decide for any reason that you no longer want to do business with them.
Hmm...would the company be allowed to tell everyone that you gave them personal information to get a discount, and then renegged after recieving said discount?
Would you be allowed to keep information on a company? That is their personal information isn't it? If you can tell everyone that you bought a copy of XXXXX at YYYYY and that it is a piece of crap, why isn't it fair for said company to tell everyone that you were a good/bad customer?
And what is the point of watching the wasps with a web cam? What is wrong with a clear tube? Sheesh! Talk about technology for technology's sake.
The biggest problem I see is the specificity of the smells. How many sorts of explosives can you train the wasp for in the few short days you have to work with them? Though, I do see how an industry could form around building and supplying arrays 'of wasp detectors' that you would have people walk through.
And what's the deal with the overly sensitive "released to live out their natural lives"? Do they do the same for laboratory fruit flies?
Philanthropy is always appreciated by the not so well off.
Preacher sees a man and woman on the corner wearing tattered cloths in a cold drizzling rain.
"Is there anything I could do to help?", he asks.
"We're just down on our luck", they reply.
The preacher asks them to get in his car, and after taking them to a Motel-8 and paying for a room, he goes to the drive-through across the street to buy them some food. Returning with the food, he heard them complaining about the lack of cable as he approached.
Undaunted, he was met with grimaces when the man tasted the soda. "Is this diet!?"
"I'm not going to eat that! It's got mayonnaise on it." was the woman's thank you.
The 'not well off' are usually not well off, because they don't know what the hell well off is.
I make my own money.
I don't think it very smart to be admitting to such illegal activities in a public forum.
You're showing your youth child. Notice how you always hear the oldies playing Celine? Notice how high pitched her voice is? You think we listen to that $hite all the time? Clueless whippersnapper! We only turn it on when YOU come around. We can't even hear it! We're just using it to drive you away. Once we're sure you're gone, it's back to PeeDiddy and 50cents.
What is it with these guys that no matter what happens, they simply cannot tell anything straight?
So we are subjected to this grim charade, which might just be enough to put Massachusetts and others back in their box and prevent a domino effect.
You probably noticed, but in case you didn't...you answered your own question 8*)
One more thing, and it's a rather important point supporting your original thesis.
After only about 10 minutes, I found myself getting VERY bored with the sound. It was like the exact same song was dragging on indefinitely. I think their algorithm might need a little work, as it might be a little over optimized.
My suggestion at this point would be to do away with artificial genres and create relationships between media based purely on a database of what people like and don't like. (Last.FM does this now.) Then I would like to see the media player throw in a randomly chosen selection once in a while, just to test its own theory, so to speak. However, for that to work, the selection would have to be truly random; no fair throwing in something that you are marketing heavily (I'm talking to you, [RI|MP]AA...) just to get people to hear it.
I tried the site for 10 minutes or so. I like older country music, so I started a station with 'Merle Haggard'. It's played about 5 songs so far. All male country singers, and all rather recent vintage. Since they seem to be a front end for iTunes, I suspect that it is doing exactly what you describing as 'no fair'. They're letting you hear songs you like, from what they have for sale.
Shame. I was hoping to hear something new from amoung those artist that I DON'T hear on the radio every morning.
You know how the people who make airplanes avoid this type of situation? They double-check. They triple-check. They fire people who can't do a good job and hire ones who can.
As one who is currently building and airplane, I'd like to say that this is only Step 1.
Step 2. You devise back-up systems, or design the system so that a failure is contained and won't matter. The electric trim system is backed up by a manual trim system. If the alternator fails, you have enough battery to run at least 3hours (time required to exhaust all your fuel).
Step 3. You build crittical systems so that they CAN'T break, regardless of what you must give up. My main wing spar is designed to withstand full elevon deflection at maximum maneuvering speed with a 50% reserved. I could land with another airplane on my turtleback, and my landing gear would survive.
Step 4. You train the pilot not to do stupid things. Full elevon deflection at maximum dive speed is placed in the "Stupid Pilot Tricks" category for a reason. You don't do aerobatics in a Utility category plane for a reason. You don't use Microsoft products for a reason.
Software shipped with gaping security holes shouldn't be the norm any more than airplanes with cracked spars coming off the assembly line. But they do ship with issues. The FAA has a whole beaucracy set up to correct any problems found. Lycoming just lost a lawsuit caused by a change in the metal uses to make crankshafts for their engines (went to a softer metal to make machining them easier). The cranks were weak and broke on running engines. Caused a lot of heartache for small carriers that had their livelihood grounded for months on end. But this isn't considered the norm.
Cities are generally more interesting places to live,
Only if you consider being packed in like ants with lots of other people to be interesting. I find the vast majority of people to be vain, selfish, and incessantly boring. I'd much rather have just one interesting friend that dozens of acquaintances. I find that rural people tend to value relationships much more, because they have fewer of them; whereas, I find cities tend to force people into relational apathy.