This won't be a problem on Macs or Linux. Move to a better OS and you won't be restricted. Macs have always been the superior platform for multimedia including music production and playback. This just widens the gap.
In fact I recall I think it was 20/20 or 60 minutes which had an article where researchers were being paid high salaries to test the flow of ketchup
(catsup/ketsup) and if it was thick enough for the American market.
What is it with luddites on Slashdot? NIST is a vitally important hi-tech facility that does far more than simply measure the viscosity of ketchup. I live 5 minutes away from it and have been there many times and I never knew this. Taking one *minor* area of research and blanketly saying they aren't necesary is a disservice to NIST and the country (USA). BTW the reason I *don't* work there now is because I can make more money in the private sector. My dad worked at NIST (not on this alleged ketchup project) and I have surpassed his salary.
Surely someone can regulate what constitutes a neccessity, but why not branch some of these things to academia, where things are always revolutionary
changing constantly to keep up to date, as opposed to following standards set eons ago.
You don't understand what they mean by standards. They can very accurately measure flow rates (like at your gas pump), weights (for commerce), lengths (for better manufacturing), etc. They aren't about establishing standards (though they do sometimes) so much as QA of current standards like the meter, the US pound, etc.
Government can cut budgets by passing some of these tasks to
colleges, then pay the universities to keep track of this at the fraction of a cost, keep students excited about helping government, and saving us all some
money.
Um how? You mean by giving them more money? The government already gives state Universities money. What proof do you have that a bunch of students often more concerned about getting drunk can do what phDs at NIST do better and for less money? They serve different purposes and handle things that University research can't do.
NIST is one of the reasons that America is at the leading edge of technology. NIST and research labs like it employ *many* phDs from all over the world. Believe me, there are far more intelligent people at NIST than any of the Fortune 500 companies I've worked for. If we cut funding to NIST then many people will not have a reason to get a phD because there will be no jobs for them (outside of Universities). Guess what? Many smart people will leave the country and go to other places with hi-tech research and we will become an insigificant country.
Here is a *small* list of the many important things that NIST does:
Further, there is a line between "unborn child" and "living, breathing person," despite what you seem to think. Is an egg a living, breathing person when it
has just been penetrated by a sperm, and merely a single cell? What about when it's 16 cells? Or 128? That CANNOT be called a "living, breathing person"
by any stretch of the imagination.
As someone who recently spent many days in a hospital, I have a few suggestions. My biggest problem, by far, was boredom. If I had full internet access, I could have been at least using my mind while I was laying on my back wasting time. Really it was a major problem for me. The damn TV was driving me crazy. And you have to understand, there is nothing else to do. I was in too bad a shape to even walk around.
Now some pundits might suggest that I read books, but you have to understand when I was taken to the hospital, I did not expect it. I was rushed pretty much immediately and had no time to prepare. I don't read books very often these days anyway and a little stop off at the bookstore was totally out of the question.
The other problem was getting the nurse's attention. They had this big red emergency panic button and that's it. I had no way to prioritize my request for a nurse. Having the ability to chat to someone would have been great. That person could then prioritize the help requests in a rational manner rather than first come first serve. I mean sometimes I simply wanted a glass of water and didn't want to wait a few hours for the nurse to come by randomly. But my only choice was to push the panic button. Sometimes it took 15 minutes for someone to show up - I'm glad it wasn't a real emergency then!
Finally I had many, many questions about my condition. The rare times my doctor did show up, I had few, if any, questions because of the pain killing drugs reducing my alertness. Being able to email my doctor, and my surgeon, with questions as I thought of them would have been great.
If you already own the music.. why don't you just play it from the CD? Do you really need an mp3 version so you don't have to walk your fat ass over to your shelf of CDs?
You are making the assumption that the original is a CD. Many of us dinosaurs have hundreds of vinyl LPs. Those are a pain to mp3. Not to mention tapes.
Obviously poor nutrition will make one more sickly, but that has nothing to do with lowering your calories. I can personally attest that eating less and being healthy can easily be attained. I have not been sick in about 10 years since I started eating a healthy vegetarian diet. Before that it was an annual flu, colds, etc.
Sure if you take the standard unhealthy American diet and simply eat less of the same thing, you might be unhealthy due to lack of some nutrients. You need to change your diet to get the benefit of eating less.
This means the overall chance that someone will be hit by an iridium satallite, using the figure of 70 satallites in orbit found on the linked page, (they've ALL gotta come down sooner or later, even assuming no replacements) is 1 in 143. I DON'T like those odds. ...
That's criminally irresponsible.
Let's keep things in perspective.
This is a classic knee-jerk response to a statistic. Need I remind you that automobiles - which are legal in the USA - kill about 41,000 people per year due to accidents? You are concerned about a remote chance of some*one* getting killed by technology when it happens everyday already.
You had *one* friend who was in bed for 2 months because she broke a bone and you blame it on being Vegan! That's nonsense. Did you ever stop to think that *she* had an unhealthy diet. Being Vegan does not mean being healthy. However a healthy Vegan diet is by far the most healthy diet one can have. Do a little research and it is apparent. The science shows it although most people refuse to listen because they don't want to change their omniverous lifestyle. Also insurance companies don't want you to know because you will not be seeing the doctor as often or buying drugs to cure the symptoms of problems. Believe what you want, I have many, many vegan friends who are all extremely healthy. I know people who have been that way all their life and they are doing great.
For your one example I can name 100 examples pointing to the opposite (yes I know of some unhealthy ones too). Plus do some research and you will see that to be true too. Here's a starting link: PCRM. This is an organization of real medical doctors who promote the Vegan diet as being healthy.
If you consume large amounts of calcium from vegetable sources, all you will get from that are gallstones.
Huh? None of my Vegan friends or I have this problem. Calcium from vegetable sources absorbs into the human body better than from animal sources. High protein diets, typical of meat centered diets, causes appreciable calcium loss leading to the high rate of osteoperosis seen in most 1st world countries.
The only problem Vegan people like us have is we can't take any sick days from work because we almost never get sick.
but our bodies aren't optimized for a vegetarian diet
Well speak for yourself, mine is. So is everyone else I know. Are you a dog perhaps?
If you are serious about not consuming *anything* at all that has deleterious side effects, you should learn to live without oxygen.
No one (else) said Vegan means nothing unhealthy. And your comment about oxygen does not make any sense.
Frankly I could care less if you want to eat like an omnivore, it's your health. But when you say that being Vegan is unhealthy, that's ridiculous and I will call you on that. I'm living proof of being Vegan and healthy.
Actually, I really don't get it.. Is Virginia one of the states also sueing Microsoft for Anti-Trust violations? If so, it just gets better and better.
No they aren't. Virginia is willing to kiss any large company's a**. They completely support corporate welfare by giving the largest companies huge tax breaks to move there. It really puts the small ones at a disadvantage. The state motto should be "Virginia - where the rich get richer and the poor can pay all the taxes"
I've spent a lot of time in Michigan, where they saw a marked decrease in fatal auto accidents after uping their speed limit to 70 & 75 on freeways.
While this may be true. It is far more likely the result of cars being much safer today than they used to be. ABS, air bags, stronger and lighter materials, etc. are becoming the norm on consumer grade cars. Anyway the reality is that speed difference is the main killer. If everyone is going 75 in a 75 MPH zone, that is better than some going 55 and others going 75 in a 55 MPH zone.
Just hoping to help to clarify-- please don't hurt me for dissenting.
Hey, don't feel bad about injecting facts into a debate.;^)
Don't we in the U.S.A. have a right to not be monitored (searched/seized) by our government?
What you are referring to is concerning the government coming into your home (i.e. land you own). Driving a car is a very public affair, you are driving on government roads after all. If you wanted to be private, you should not be in public.
Is it right that the government have the power to remotely control us?
This is not about controlling people. It is about limiting people. Control is telling someone what to do, while limiting someone is telling them what they can't do. Our entire legal system is based on limiting people - you can't murder, you can't steal, etc. Our society requires laws to function.
Anyway, the speed limit laws already exist. This is merely a proposal on enforcing the law. Complain to the government if you want the law changed. It seems safer to limit a car's speed than it is to have policemen risk their lives chasing some crazy speeder that refuses to stop.
Really, forget about guns, nuclear terrorists, earthquakes, etc. My biggest fear every day is dying on the road in a car accident (statistically it's my greatest chance of dying). Speed limiters are a long time coming.
Why do people feel the need to go 100+ MPH? If you like driving fast, then go to a race track or ride a bike as fast as you can. I use my car mainly to drive to work every day. It's silly putting everyone's life at risk on the roads because someone feels the need to "rebel" against the goverment by driving dangerously faster than everyone else. Driving is a privilege, not a right.
>-- > People often forget that the only way >(technically) to legally buy a copy of the MacOS >is to have a Mac to run it on > --
> Are you sure about this? I have seen >boxed versions of the MacOS (8.5 comes to mind) >at computer stores (Microcenter locally). >I'm unsure if you have to > provide proof of ownership to buy it >tho.
Um, you don't provide proof. Whether it is "legal" or not, anyone could buy it.
I've been reading the replies to this article and I have to say I am simply *astounded* by the ignorance towards the Mac and MacOS that I have read.
I logged onto the Army site and it came up really fast. It was not Slashdotted as many other sites get after being listed on Slashdot. One ignorant reader even jumped to blame the MacOS because he was not able to get onto the site. I've got news for that person, there are many reasons *you* can't reach site, the most likely is that the problem is the connection between your client machine and the server. Also, does that same reader blame Linux when Slashdot had all the frequent downtime not too long ago?
Another reader mentioned that the server probably cost "1000s" of times what their (certainly hypothetical) presumably Linux server would cost. When is the last time he/she shopped for a Mac? I've got news for you, Macs use all the same compenents as PCs these days and cost about the same for a *comparable quality* PC. Apple simply chooses higher quality parts than the crappy machines one can buy at CompUSA and, worse, Circuit City. Oh let me guess, that person is going to "put together" their own hand built machine. Good for you, I just wouldn't want to be the poor sap who has to maintain your little computer project when it has a hardware problem. I mean who would I call for customer support? You? Give me a break. You just want an excuse to bill your client.
Then there's the *cost* of maintanence. The Mac server will be configure and forget. Configuration will take about 15 minutes. Let's use a 14 year boy who can do it at minumum wage, that's about $1 for his time. Now a Linux server is going to take, what, all day, to configure with security. At $100+/hr that's about $800 setup fee. Oh and what happens when your Linux server gets cracked because you didn't hire the supreme Linux security gurus (for much more $/hr) - or the latest security flaw of the month in Unix is discovered? That costs money to fix too.
And then there's the people who think the Mac needs to be re-booted once a week. That was about 5 years ago with MacOS 7.6. Today's Macs with MacOS 8.6 will probably need to be re-booted only when replacing the hard drive or an extended power failure. No, the memory is not protected, but at least the web page is from crackers.
It's not like the Mac does not have protected memory. Apple makes a server OS called MacOS X Server and it does. But it also has the underlying security issues because it is based on Unix. The (wise) managers don't want to have to deal with crackers - Get it?
To all you Linux bigots, I hope you don't break your arms patting yourselves on the back for putting down the Mac server. The Army's Mac is running great and makes a great web server. To Roblimo I have to say that the only thing that is funny is the attitude that Linux is superior to all OSes for everything. Some of us just want the job done and don't need to show our "superior" computer skills because we understand a CLI and our manager does not. Enjoy yourselves in your hacking, I've got work to do!
>One time I went to Radio Shack and the salesguy said: Can I have your name and address? > > I said, "No, you can't".
You were lucky. They also ask for my phone number!! I use your response or make up invalid info depending on how I feel. If the person is really stupid i make stuff up so they don't waste time wondering how to proceed with the transaction.
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This won't be a problem on Macs or Linux. Move to a better OS and you won't be restricted. Macs have always been the superior platform for multimedia including music production and playback. This just widens the gap.
In fact I recall I think it was 20/20 or 60 minutes which had an article where researchers were being paid high salaries to test the flow of ketchup (catsup/ketsup) and if it was thick enough for the American market.
What is it with luddites on Slashdot? NIST is a vitally important hi-tech facility that does far more than simply measure the viscosity of ketchup. I live 5 minutes away from it and have been there many times and I never knew this. Taking one *minor* area of research and blanketly saying they aren't necesary is a disservice to NIST and the country (USA). BTW the reason I *don't* work there now is because I can make more money in the private sector. My dad worked at NIST (not on this alleged ketchup project) and I have surpassed his salary.
Surely someone can regulate what constitutes a neccessity, but why not branch some of these things to academia, where things are always revolutionary changing constantly to keep up to date, as opposed to following standards set eons ago.
You don't understand what they mean by standards. They can very accurately measure flow rates (like at your gas pump), weights (for commerce), lengths (for better manufacturing), etc. They aren't about establishing standards (though they do sometimes) so much as QA of current standards like the meter, the US pound, etc.
Government can cut budgets by passing some of these tasks to colleges, then pay the universities to keep track of this at the fraction of a cost, keep students excited about helping government, and saving us all some money.
Um how? You mean by giving them more money? The government already gives state Universities money. What proof do you have that a bunch of students often more concerned about getting drunk can do what phDs at NIST do better and for less money? They serve different purposes and handle things that University research can't do.
NIST is one of the reasons that America is at the leading edge of technology. NIST and research labs like it employ *many* phDs from all over the world. Believe me, there are far more intelligent people at NIST than any of the Fortune 500 companies I've worked for. If we cut funding to NIST then many people will not have a reason to get a phD because there will be no jobs for them (outside of Universities). Guess what? Many smart people will leave the country and go to other places with hi-tech research and we will become an insigificant country.
Here is a *small* list of the many important things that NIST does:
- Better fire detectors
- Bomb sniffing
- Nanotechnology
- 1997 Nobel prize winner in physics for using lasers to cool atoms. This was a Slashdot topic BTW
- Advanced Robotics
- Advanced Manufacturing - This is really cool stuff.
- Semiconductor Fab - i.e. making faster computer chips
- ...
Just because you don't know or understand what they do doesn't mean it isn't important.Further, there is a line between "unborn child" and "living, breathing person," despite what you seem to think. Is an egg a living, breathing person when it has just been penetrated by a sperm, and merely a single cell? What about when it's 16 cells? Or 128? That CANNOT be called a "living, breathing person" by any stretch of the imagination.
"Every sperm is sacred!"
This is hardly new news. The company is DataPlay. There was an article in Slashdot about them and their technology a few weeks back.
As someone who recently spent many days in a hospital, I have a few suggestions. My biggest problem, by far, was boredom. If I had full internet access, I could have been at least using my mind while I was laying on my back wasting time. Really it was a major problem for me. The damn TV was driving me crazy. And you have to understand, there is nothing else to do. I was in too bad a shape to even walk around.
Now some pundits might suggest that I read books, but you have to understand when I was taken to the hospital, I did not expect it. I was rushed pretty much immediately and had no time to prepare. I don't read books very often these days anyway and a little stop off at the bookstore was totally out of the question.
The other problem was getting the nurse's attention. They had this big red emergency panic button and that's it. I had no way to prioritize my request for a nurse. Having the ability to chat to someone would have been great. That person could then prioritize the help requests in a rational manner rather than first come first serve. I mean sometimes I simply wanted a glass of water and didn't want to wait a few hours for the nurse to come by randomly. But my only choice was to push the panic button. Sometimes it took 15 minutes for someone to show up - I'm glad it wasn't a real emergency then!
Finally I had many, many questions about my condition. The rare times my doctor did show up, I had few, if any, questions because of the pain killing drugs reducing my alertness. Being able to email my doctor, and my surgeon, with questions as I thought of them would have been great.
I have a friend who worked for TeraStor, sadly, they went out of business last year.
If you already own the music.. why don't you just play it from the CD? Do you really need an mp3 version so you don't have to walk your fat ass over to your shelf of CDs?
You are making the assumption that the original is a CD. Many of us dinosaurs have hundreds of vinyl LPs. Those are a pain to mp3. Not to mention tapes.
Obviously poor nutrition will make one more sickly, but that has nothing to do with lowering your calories. I can personally attest that eating less and being healthy can easily be attained. I have not been sick in about 10 years since I started eating a healthy vegetarian diet. Before that it was an annual flu, colds, etc.
Sure if you take the standard unhealthy American diet and simply eat less of the same thing, you might be unhealthy due to lack of some nutrients. You need to change your diet to get the benefit of eating less.
This means the overall chance that someone will be hit by an iridium satallite, using the figure of 70 satallites in orbit found on the linked page, (they've ALL gotta come down sooner or later, even assuming no replacements) is 1 in 143. I DON'T like those odds.
That's criminally irresponsible.
Let's keep things in perspective.
This is a classic knee-jerk response to a statistic. Need I remind you that automobiles - which are legal in the USA - kill about 41,000 people per year due to accidents? You are concerned about a remote chance of some*one* getting killed by technology when it happens everyday already.
You had *one* friend who was in bed for 2 months because she broke a bone and you blame it on being Vegan! That's nonsense. Did you ever stop to think that *she* had an unhealthy diet. Being Vegan does not mean being healthy. However a healthy Vegan diet is by far the most healthy diet one can have. Do a little research and it is apparent. The science shows it although most people refuse to listen because they don't want to change their omniverous lifestyle. Also insurance companies don't want you to know because you will not be seeing the doctor as often or buying drugs to cure the symptoms of problems. Believe what you want, I have many, many vegan friends who are all extremely healthy. I know people who have been that way all their life and they are doing great.
For your one example I can name 100 examples pointing to the opposite (yes I know of some unhealthy ones too). Plus do some research and you will see that to be true too. Here's a starting link: PCRM. This is an organization of real medical doctors who promote the Vegan diet as being healthy.
If you consume large amounts of calcium from vegetable sources, all you will get from that are gallstones.
Huh? None of my Vegan friends or I have this problem. Calcium from vegetable sources absorbs into the human body better than from animal sources. High protein diets, typical of meat centered diets, causes appreciable calcium loss leading to the high rate of osteoperosis seen in most 1st world countries.
The only problem Vegan people like us have is we can't take any sick days from work because we almost never get sick.
but our bodies aren't optimized for a vegetarian diet
Well speak for yourself, mine is. So is everyone else I know. Are you a dog perhaps?
If you are serious about not consuming *anything* at all that has deleterious side effects, you should learn to live without oxygen.
No one (else) said Vegan means nothing unhealthy. And your comment about oxygen does not make any sense.
Frankly I could care less if you want to eat like an omnivore, it's your health. But when you say that being Vegan is unhealthy, that's ridiculous and I will call you on that. I'm living proof of being Vegan and healthy.
No they aren't. Virginia is willing to kiss any large company's a**. They completely support corporate welfare by giving the largest companies huge tax breaks to move there. It really puts the small ones at a disadvantage. The state motto should be "Virginia - where the rich get richer and the poor can pay all the taxes"
I work but do not live in VA.
I've spent a lot of time in Michigan, where they saw a marked decrease in fatal auto accidents after uping their speed limit to 70 & 75 on freeways.
While this may be true. It is far more likely the result of cars being much safer today than they used to be. ABS, air bags, stronger and lighter materials, etc. are becoming the norm on consumer grade cars. Anyway the reality is that speed difference is the main killer. If everyone is going 75 in a 75 MPH zone, that is better than some going 55 and others going 75 in a 55 MPH zone.
Just hoping to help to clarify-- please don't hurt me for dissenting.
Hey, don't feel bad about injecting facts into a debate. ;^)
Don't we in the U.S.A. have a right to not be monitored (searched/seized) by our government?
What you are referring to is concerning the government coming into your home (i.e. land you own). Driving a car is a very public affair, you are driving on government roads after all. If you wanted to be private, you should not be in public.
Is it right that the government have the power to remotely control us?
This is not about controlling people. It is about limiting people. Control is telling someone what to do, while limiting someone is telling them what they can't do. Our entire legal system is based on limiting people - you can't murder, you can't steal, etc. Our society requires laws to function.
Anyway, the speed limit laws already exist. This is merely a proposal on enforcing the law. Complain to the government if you want the law changed. It seems safer to limit a car's speed than it is to have policemen risk their lives chasing some crazy speeder that refuses to stop.
Really, forget about guns, nuclear terrorists, earthquakes, etc. My biggest fear every day is dying on the road in a car accident (statistically it's my greatest chance of dying). Speed limiters are a long time coming.
Why do people feel the need to go 100+ MPH? If you like driving fast, then go to a race track or ride a bike as fast as you can. I use my car mainly to drive to work every day. It's silly putting everyone's life at risk on the roads because someone feels the need to "rebel" against the goverment by driving dangerously faster than everyone else. Driving is a privilege, not a right.
Guns requiring implants is such a great idea.
>If I'm getting an electronic implant, I better have full control over whether or not it goes in, when it comes out, and what goes in it.
Well if I'm getting bullet implants, I better have full control over whether or not it goes in, when it comes out, and what goes in it.
If you don't want an implant, don't get a gun.
>--
> People often forget that the only way >(technically) to legally buy a copy of the MacOS >is to have a Mac to run it on
> --
> Are you sure about this? I have seen >boxed versions of the MacOS (8.5 comes to mind) >at computer stores (Microcenter locally).
>I'm unsure if you have to
> provide proof of ownership to buy it >tho.
Um, you don't provide proof. Whether it is "legal" or not, anyone could buy it.
I've been reading the replies to this article and I have to say I am simply *astounded* by the ignorance towards the Mac and MacOS that I have read.
I logged onto the Army site and it came up really fast. It was not Slashdotted as many other sites get after being listed on Slashdot. One ignorant reader even jumped to blame the MacOS because he was not able to get onto the site. I've got news for that person, there are many reasons *you* can't reach site, the most likely is that the problem is the connection between your client machine and the server. Also, does that same reader blame Linux when Slashdot had all the frequent downtime not too long ago?
Another reader mentioned that the server probably cost "1000s" of times what their (certainly hypothetical) presumably Linux server would cost. When is the last time he/she shopped for a Mac? I've got news for you, Macs use all the same compenents as PCs these days and cost about the same for a *comparable quality* PC. Apple simply chooses higher quality parts than the crappy machines one can buy at CompUSA and, worse, Circuit City. Oh let me guess, that person is going to "put together" their own hand built machine. Good for you, I just wouldn't want to be the poor sap who has to maintain your little computer project when it has a hardware problem. I mean who would I call for customer support? You? Give me a break. You just want an excuse to bill your client.
Then there's the *cost* of maintanence. The Mac server will be configure and forget. Configuration will take about 15 minutes. Let's use a 14 year boy who can do it at minumum wage, that's about $1 for his time. Now a Linux server is going to take, what, all day, to configure with security. At $100+/hr that's about $800 setup fee. Oh and what happens when your Linux server gets cracked because you didn't hire the supreme Linux security gurus (for much more $/hr) - or the latest security flaw of the month in Unix is discovered? That costs money to fix too.
And then there's the people who think the Mac needs to be re-booted once a week. That was about 5 years ago with MacOS 7.6. Today's Macs with MacOS 8.6 will probably need to be re-booted only when replacing the hard drive or an extended power failure. No, the memory is not protected, but at least the web page is from crackers.
It's not like the Mac does not have protected memory. Apple makes a server OS called MacOS X Server and it does. But it also has the underlying security issues because it is based on Unix. The (wise) managers don't want to have to deal with crackers - Get it?
To all you Linux bigots, I hope you don't break your arms patting yourselves on the back for putting down the Mac server. The Army's Mac is running great and makes a great web server. To Roblimo I have to say that the only thing that is funny is the attitude that Linux is superior to all OSes for everything. Some of us just want the job done and don't need to show our "superior" computer skills because we understand a CLI and our manager does not. Enjoy yourselves in your hacking, I've got work to do!
>One time I went to Radio Shack and the salesguy said: Can I have your name and address?
>
> I said, "No, you can't".
You were lucky. They also ask for my phone number!! I use your response or make up invalid info depending on how I feel. If the person is really stupid i make stuff up so they don't waste time wondering how to proceed with the transaction.