iBooks can be shared among mobile devices registered to the same iTunes - it is trivial, you use the books tab on the device's config screen in iTunes.
More, you can share them among more than one person - iTunes can be registered to more than one account, and will load DRMed files registered to every account the iTunes instance is registered to, and if you copy the files from one iTunes storage to another, the 2nd iTunes will try to decrypt the files to any accounts it is registered to. My girlfriend and I do this all the time.
Trying to outbreed the lunatics will never work - very few women not raised in ignorance by a misogynistic culture would consent to having a dozen or so chidren. Again, data show that women who are well educated have much fewer children.
I do not think that beliefs are carried genetically, though there is good evidence that the human susceptibility to religiosity and magical thinking *is*. Mind you, I also believe that human genetics are going to get crazy different within a generation or two - we will have control over our genes.
But I do think that epistemological closure will be as much as issue, with initial beliefs seeded via family clustering (which can play a similar role, but is not nearly as deterministic). One hope is to try to find a way through entertainment, I think, to subvert people into learning some level of skeptical thought. Culture can work to counteract indoctrination.
This is only one example. It is long term crap like insisting upon "abstinence only" sex education, when it is plainly obvious from all data that it causes significant numbers of unwanted pregnancies, that convinces me that we are on a long generational slide.
Trying to outbreed the lunatics will never work - very few women not raised in ignorance by a misogynistic culture would consent to having a dozen or so chidren. Again, data show that women who are well educated have much fewer children.
Happily, I am not so stupid as to think that beliefs are carried genetically, though there is good evidence that the human susceptibility to religiosity and magical thinking *is*. I don't know about the arrogance that causes one to think that your magical sky buddy is the One Truth and that all the *other* magic sky buddies are merely delusions passed on by heathens' tradition.
Thanks - it takes a ton of work, and good will and constant good faith on all sides, but it has been well worth it. There in a ton of introspection one must do, and a ton of communication skills that one must build, IMO, but that same work would be worthwhile for the monogamous, too.
For moving... I think that the US will be okay for a few decades, and I am very happy in Austin.
It will not happen overnight (hell, I have been watching it for 30+ years), but economic prosperity was the US' to lose, and the Religious Right is destroying it, bit by bit.
Once upon a time, I thought that open communication would help empiricism win out over magical thought, but after watching a couple of decades of religious right mumbo jumbo flowing out over the Internet, unperterbed by anything resembling empirical scepticism, I think nothing will penetrate their confirmation bias.
By pandering to our population's basest fears, they are systematically destroying the ability of one generation to teach the next how to think critically, and disrupting our ability to maintain science and math competence. We're toast, and it is time to acknowledge that, as the primitives dance around celebrating the 100th birthday of their harbinger, Ronald Reagan.
Actually, it does. The relativistic interval is 0 along the light cone from the event, which is how relativity defines simultaneity in a given interial frame.
How many times have you had to migrate your iTunes library to a new machine and then get it all working with your iPhone without losing any apps or media?
4 or 5 times.
WTF? This is trivial. Copy your iTunes directory over, authorize the new iTunes, deauthorize the old one. Maybe that is too complicated for some. Copy the right part of your ~/Library if you want your older backups.
Yeah. This is why the guy in question is the CEO of Netgear, a company that does nothing new and only commoditizes crappy versions of existing products.
I just can't get past how tremendously short-sighted it is to buy an eBook at current rates.
I have (and often reread - Larry Niven and RAH titles most recently) hundreds of books that I bought more than 30 years ago, dozens bought by my parents 50 years ago, and a few that my grandparents passed down from before that - does anybody think that Amazon DRM will still be maintained in even 20 years? How's that Plays-For-Sure working for you?
So I would probably buy eBooks for "rental" type fees, but no more than that - because with the DRM-encumbered titles, you really are just renting them, you just don't know how long for.
(And stripping the DRM doesn't count, since nobody around here does anything that's illegal!)
I have to think that our ability to engineer unmanned system has to grow by many orders of magnitude more than our propulsions technology has to, for us to really think about this kind of project.
Read a great quote a while back. "There are two kinds of Libertarians: those who don't know Heinlein was writing fiction, and those who don't know Ayn Rand was writing fiction."
Oh, if you are talking about the "groups" that you "join," no, that is not it.
I am talking about "lists" of "friends.". You can name them and use them as part of permissions to posted items, and AFAIK, there is no way for another user to know what lists of mine that they are on.
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Um, bullshit.
iBooks can be shared among mobile devices registered to the same iTunes - it is trivial, you use the books tab on the device's config screen in iTunes.
More, you can share them among more than one person - iTunes can be registered to more than one account, and will load DRMed files registered to every account the iTunes instance is registered to, and if you copy the files from one iTunes storage to another, the 2nd iTunes will try to decrypt the files to any accounts it is registered to. My girlfriend and I do this all the time.
As mentioned elsewhere...
Trying to outbreed the lunatics will never work - very few women not raised in ignorance by a misogynistic culture would consent to having a dozen or so chidren. Again, data show that women who are well educated have much fewer children.
I do not think that beliefs are carried genetically, though there is good evidence that the human susceptibility to religiosity and magical thinking *is*. Mind you, I also believe that human genetics are going to get crazy different within a generation or two - we will have control over our genes.
But I do think that epistemological closure will be as much as issue, with initial beliefs seeded via family clustering (which can play a similar role, but is not nearly as deterministic). One hope is to try to find a way through entertainment, I think, to subvert people into learning some level of skeptical thought. Culture can work to counteract indoctrination.
This is only one example. It is long term crap like insisting upon "abstinence only" sex education, when it is plainly obvious from all data that it causes significant numbers of unwanted pregnancies, that convinces me that we are on a long generational slide.
Trying to outbreed the lunatics will never work - very few women not raised in ignorance by a misogynistic culture would consent to having a dozen or so chidren. Again, data show that women who are well educated have much fewer children.
Happily, I am not so stupid as to think that beliefs are carried genetically, though there is good evidence that the human susceptibility to religiosity and magical thinking *is*. I don't know about the arrogance that causes one to think that your magical sky buddy is the One Truth and that all the *other* magic sky buddies are merely delusions passed on by heathens' tradition.
Thanks - it takes a ton of work, and good will and constant good faith on all sides, but it has been well worth it. There in a ton of introspection one must do, and a ton of communication skills that one must build, IMO, but that same work would be worthwhile for the monogamous, too.
For moving... I think that the US will be okay for a few decades, and I am very happy in Austin.
Just the two, coming up on 3 years with both.
It will not happen overnight (hell, I have been watching it for 30+ years), but economic prosperity was the US' to lose, and the Religious Right is destroying it, bit by bit.
Once upon a time, I thought that open communication would help empiricism win out over magical thought, but after watching a couple of decades of religious right mumbo jumbo flowing out over the Internet, unperterbed by anything resembling empirical scepticism, I think nothing will penetrate their confirmation bias.
By pandering to our population's basest fears, they are systematically destroying the ability of one generation to teach the next how to think critically, and disrupting our ability to maintain science and math competence. We're toast, and it is time to acknowledge that, as the primitives dance around celebrating the 100th birthday of their harbinger, Ronald Reagan.
I am so glad my SOs do not want children.
Actually, it does. The relativistic interval is 0 along the light cone from the event, which is how relativity defines simultaneity in a given interial frame.
Microsoft is shocked and indignant. How dare anybody suggest they might use any sort of underhanded tactics to compete with a rival?
How many times have you had to migrate your iTunes library to a new machine and then get it all working with your iPhone without losing any apps or media?
4 or 5 times.
WTF? This is trivial. Copy your iTunes directory over, authorize the new iTunes, deauthorize the old one. Maybe that is too complicated for some. Copy the right part of your ~/Library if you want your older backups.
Why is this complicated?
I know what it means in the medical sense, but still - directly manipulating my brain is not what I would term "non-invasive..."
It really doesn't. EULAs take place in the context of a legal system - google "contract unconscionable."
Yeah. This is why the guy in question is the CEO of Netgear, a company that does nothing new and only commoditizes crappy versions of existing products.
I just can't get past how tremendously short-sighted it is to buy an eBook at current rates.
I have (and often reread - Larry Niven and RAH titles most recently) hundreds of books that I bought more than 30 years ago, dozens bought by my parents 50 years ago, and a few that my grandparents passed down from before that - does anybody think that Amazon DRM will still be maintained in even 20 years? How's that Plays-For-Sure working for you?
So I would probably buy eBooks for "rental" type fees, but no more than that - because with the DRM-encumbered titles, you really are just renting them, you just don't know how long for.
(And stripping the DRM doesn't count, since nobody around here does anything that's illegal!)
"No, BUD Light!"
I have to say, it's depressing that at this point we can't even get a solar sail to come out of a can in orbit reliably.
I have to think that our ability to engineer unmanned system has to grow by many orders of magnitude more than our propulsions technology has to, for us to really think about this kind of project.
Read a great quote a while back. "There are two kinds of Libertarians: those who don't know Heinlein was writing fiction, and those who don't know Ayn Rand was writing fiction."
I am just waiting for ISPs to want their cut, too, and require that all on-line purchases be made in ISPbux.
Then people will have to use ISPbux to buy FB Credits, and use FB Credits to buy ZyngaSheckles.
Then Microsoft will get in on the act... And they already have their own currency.
Don't let reality stand in the way of your snark, but a major portion of Steve Jobs' reward is later granted by the board as stock options.
Options awarded in this way are a very different topic than hiding income as Sub S profit.
Publishing this article this way is as stupid as publishing Paris Hilton whining about network protocols would be.
I won't be a grammar Nazi until they give me a Luftwaffe.
"In the most eagerly awaited game since Daikatana..."
No problem, glad to help!
Oh, if you are talking about the "groups" that you "join," no, that is not it.
I am talking about "lists" of "friends.". You can name them and use them as part of permissions to posted items, and AFAIK, there is no way for another user to know what lists of mine that they are on.
Are you sure about that? I haven't seen an interface for that, I have been using it for a year or two.
Um, this might be a "whoosh," but you can already do #2. And set default permissions for all your postings.
My biggest gripe is that you can't alter the permissions of an item after you post it.