Yeah - if they did anything that really bothered me. I'm not really a hard core privacy person. And by that I mean I don't do a lot to keep my life private personally. Right now, my on-line life is not something I'm worried about. It is easy for me to exclude stuff that I don't want showing up there. But tracking where I go physically would make it a lot easier for the dissemination of stuff I don't want 'out there'. Google doesn't do anything right now that threatens that barrier - to my knowledge.
The difference is between information being given as opposed to collected. Imagine meeting someone at a party and telling them where you live, your interests and other stuff like that. That would be pretty normal. On the other hand, if someone I had never met, walked up to me at a party and started telling me all kinds of things they knew because they had been following me for a few weeks - it would freak me out.
As the post mentioned, my blog has a lot of info. on our recent trip. I thought a lot about putting that up. But the need to connect with a rather large (for me) group of people as opposed to worrying about robbery (I don't own much - no one would be home - so I figured it was worth it) was my choice to consider - as opposed to having someone else do it for me.
There are things that I want and need people to know. My lifestyle, that I have chosen, necessitates that to some degree. As long as I have a decent degree of control in that regard I'm cool with it. I think about it a lot and try to make the best choices that I can.
I don't want complete anonymity. I don't mind targeted advertising (I've found some neat things that way). But I'm not going to pay for a service that tracks this information constantly, and gives it to the highest bidder. Maybe I'm not consistent, but that's my opinion as of right now.
I'm guessing that you might get a slight advantage not having to wait for the bios to reach a point where it has usb functioning - and possibly the ability to read the chip faster off the board than over usb. Just wags on my part. I personally don't get the big deal over doing it this way as compared to the way a hypervisor loads now to run on bare metal. It might take a touch longer to boot - but so what? I'm not bouncing my servers that often anyway. And on the desktop? That's where I really struggle to see the need.
i've got to think that this will create a market for phones that wont allow this kind of thing to happen. i'd go without a cell phone before i'd let myself be tracked like that everywhere i go.
I think it has been pretty well documented in the blogging community that many of the images that the main stream media picks up and propogates are heavily altered, faked, or come from completely different events than what they claim to depict. This is not just with al-quaeda, but governments and any group that has an agenda and is media savvy - foreign or domestic.
I prefer the feel of sliding around over the pad as opposed to the texture of the desk top. There is also a seem that it bridges for me (my cube is all modular pieces). And last but not least my mouse pad has a cool picture of Tux on it.
Yes - it is admittedly a small thing. And I would assume that if you are used to a trackball, using a mouse on occasion is easier than the other way around - but I just thought it was funny that I had originally considered it in that light, and that I wasn't alone.
Tempest was the vector graphics game with the spinner and Reactor had a trackball. Tracking those down I found this list of trackball games at wikipedia.
I remember a bowling one that had a bowling ball sized trackball. Missile command had a pretty big one too. Centipede's was pretty small. I don't remember any other trackball stand-ups than those. There were a couple games with controls you spun, like Tron and an Atari one - I don't remember the name - where you shot stuff coming up at you. Oh - there was one where you were keeping a reactor from melting down or something - that might have had a trackball too.
I can't move my arm around without moving my mouse off its pad and my had off the little gel pad it rests on. The motion benefits are a side effect of those two limitations.
Sure - maybe you can move it one pixel - but how much time and effort does it take to do so? It's not just a question of what the device is capable of, but how easy control is for the user. Some devices have a lot less leeway in that department - and are not as precise. Not from the computer's point of view but from the user's point of view.
A quick Amazon search shows quite a few models (15 or so at a quick glance), including what I am guessing is your Kensington. So I don't think they are too terribly difficult to find.
I have a few coworkers who use them - maybe 3 people out of around 80. Which isn't too bad I don't think. I know that for myself, I've just never used a trackball much outside of missile command. (And on a visit to a radar installation on a mountain once as a kid) That was a nice big trackball, but not real practical for using at a desk. Man, it would make my work day a lot more fun though -- this may be my next construction project. I can just start spinning it like crazy when I get frustrated, and the sound is sure to be pleasant to those in cubes around me. Making sure their day isn't too boring and quiet is a big part of what gets me through my day. I assume I'll need to track down some kind of used parts place to get one that size. They were 4.5 inches - and I don't think there is anything on the consumer pointer market now that is that size.
it sounds like part of it was that he likes gnome better than kde for his own use. i wonder if he knows he can run either on whatever distro he would like. -- i know there was more to it than that, but i thought that was an interesting facet of the description.
I don't see how. They didn't actually create life from scratch - they took a step towards it. They took one form of already living thing and moved it to something else - by design, using their brains. I'm not advocating intelligent design here- or trying to start an argument about it - just pointing out that this development doesn't seem to really 'put a big hole' in that idea.
I've never lived anywhere in the US that didn't heavily regulate utilities. And those prices are set - nobody is coming along and reselling power for less than those generating it. If this is happening somewhere that is affected by this ruling I'd be very interested in reading about it.
Just because it will become possible for some manufacturers to demand a set retail in some instances does not mean that they all will in all instances. I'm no economist - I'm very open to reading more about this and maybe I'll change my mind, but at first blush it doesn't seem like it will all be gloom and doom. There would be a lot of cost in setting up and enforcing these kind of agreements. Retailers would have to agree with them. Can you imagine a salesman going to Walmart corporate and saying "Hey - you are going to sell our product at the price we dictate." They'd be laughed right out of the place and Walmart would sell their competitors product without the stipulation.
Grocery operates on incredibly thin margins and is very competitive - I can't see how this is going to change that. So I'm still stuck wondering what basic human needs are suddenly going to sky rocket out of control now that the corporations are unleashed and we have no choice but to buy what they sell, and buy it at the price they dictate.
If customers don't want X - why would you buy X and try to sell it? Why do you think that because this will need to be judged on a case by case basis that immediately all products will move to these types of arrangements? It doesn't make a lot of sense. Do you really think that manufacturers have been selling to stuff at Walmart for lower prices purely because of this law? Walmart dictates prices to them.
two things come immediately to my mind. the first is that bit there about "prices customers have no choice but to pay" I guess that is true if somebody is selling air or something - and there are no others selling it, but otherwise, that language is completely over blown. customers can choose not to buy it and then either it will go away or the price will come down.
second - this ruling seems to allow for more judgment - so that if there is no reason to view that there have been anticompetitive practices, then there is no reason not to let it slide. I think that is good. There should be leeway for reason. Look at what a mess has come from mandatory sentencing. People should be able to look at a situation and let what happens fit a reasonable view of the circumstances - not some inflexible letter of the law approach.
and i still hope to some day be a rock-star/astronaut that saves the universe and bags a hot babe in the process. as a middle aged father of 3 it seems a little less likely that it will work out -- but i still hope.
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Yeah - if they did anything that really bothered me. I'm not really a hard core privacy person. And by that I mean I don't do a lot to keep my life private personally. Right now, my on-line life is not something I'm worried about. It is easy for me to exclude stuff that I don't want showing up there. But tracking where I go physically would make it a lot easier for the dissemination of stuff I don't want 'out there'. Google doesn't do anything right now that threatens that barrier - to my knowledge.
The difference is between information being given as opposed to collected. Imagine meeting someone at a party and telling them where you live, your interests and other stuff like that. That would be pretty normal. On the other hand, if someone I had never met, walked up to me at a party and started telling me all kinds of things they knew because they had been following me for a few weeks - it would freak me out.
As the post mentioned, my blog has a lot of info. on our recent trip. I thought a lot about putting that up. But the need to connect with a rather large (for me) group of people as opposed to worrying about robbery (I don't own much - no one would be home - so I figured it was worth it) was my choice to consider - as opposed to having someone else do it for me.
There are things that I want and need people to know. My lifestyle, that I have chosen, necessitates that to some degree. As long as I have a decent degree of control in that regard I'm cool with it. I think about it a lot and try to make the best choices that I can.
I don't want complete anonymity. I don't mind targeted advertising (I've found some neat things that way). But I'm not going to pay for a service that tracks this information constantly, and gives it to the highest bidder. Maybe I'm not consistent, but that's my opinion as of right now.
I'm guessing that you might get a slight advantage not having to wait for the bios to reach a point where it has usb functioning - and possibly the ability to read the chip faster off the board than over usb. Just wags on my part. I personally don't get the big deal over doing it this way as compared to the way a hypervisor loads now to run on bare metal. It might take a touch longer to boot - but so what? I'm not bouncing my servers that often anyway. And on the desktop? That's where I really struggle to see the need.
i've got to think that this will create a market for phones that wont allow this kind of thing to happen. i'd go without a cell phone before i'd let myself be tracked like that everywhere i go.
Right - so it seems to me that this kind of thing could be challenged and defeated as it is discriminatory with no definitive tie to health.
bmi is jacked for many women - and the creator of the scale was pretty up front on that from what i've read.
It made it - but your comments go with it - so....
they don't care how they get it.
I think it has been pretty well documented in the blogging community that many of the images that the main stream media picks up and propogates are heavily altered, faked, or come from completely different events than what they claim to depict. This is not just with al-quaeda, but governments and any group that has an agenda and is media savvy - foreign or domestic.
I prefer the feel of sliding around over the pad as opposed to the texture of the desk top. There is also a seem that it bridges for me (my cube is all modular pieces). And last but not least my mouse pad has a cool picture of Tux on it.
Yes - it is admittedly a small thing. And I would assume that if you are used to a trackball, using a mouse on occasion is easier than the other way around - but I just thought it was funny that I had originally considered it in that light, and that I wasn't alone.
Tempest was the vector graphics game with the spinner and Reactor had a trackball. Tracking those down I found this list of trackball games at wikipedia.
I remember a bowling one that had a bowling ball sized trackball. Missile command had a pretty big one too. Centipede's was pretty small. I don't remember any other trackball stand-ups than those. There were a couple games with controls you spun, like Tron and an Atari one - I don't remember the name - where you shot stuff coming up at you. Oh - there was one where you were keeping a reactor from melting down or something - that might have had a trackball too.
That's funny - but one nice thing about being used to using a mouse is that, like vi, it will almost always be available.
I can't move my arm around without moving my mouse off its pad and my had off the little gel pad it rests on. The motion benefits are a side effect of those two limitations.
Sure - maybe you can move it one pixel - but how much time and effort does it take to do so? It's not just a question of what the device is capable of, but how easy control is for the user. Some devices have a lot less leeway in that department - and are not as precise. Not from the computer's point of view but from the user's point of view.
A quick Amazon search shows quite a few models (15 or so at a quick glance), including what I am guessing is your Kensington. So I don't think they are too terribly difficult to find.
I have a few coworkers who use them - maybe 3 people out of around 80. Which isn't too bad I don't think. I know that for myself, I've just never used a trackball much outside of missile command. (And on a visit to a radar installation on a mountain once as a kid) That was a nice big trackball, but not real practical for using at a desk. Man, it would make my work day a lot more fun though -- this may be my next construction project. I can just start spinning it like crazy when I get frustrated, and the sound is sure to be pleasant to those in cubes around me. Making sure their day isn't too boring and quiet is a big part of what gets me through my day. I assume I'll need to track down some kind of used parts place to get one that size. They were 4.5 inches - and I don't think there is anything on the consumer pointer market now that is that size.
it sounds like part of it was that he likes gnome better than kde for his own use. i wonder if he knows he can run either on whatever distro he would like. -- i know there was more to it than that, but i thought that was an interesting facet of the description.
I don't see how. They didn't actually create life from scratch - they took a step towards it. They took one form of already living thing and moved it to something else - by design, using their brains. I'm not advocating intelligent design here- or trying to start an argument about it - just pointing out that this development doesn't seem to really 'put a big hole' in that idea.
As far as I can tell - sunbird only works with gcalendar and this new extension when you are online. which makes me ask, what is the point?
I've never lived anywhere in the US that didn't heavily regulate utilities. And those prices are set - nobody is coming along and reselling power for less than those generating it. If this is happening somewhere that is affected by this ruling I'd be very interested in reading about it.
Just because it will become possible for some manufacturers to demand a set retail in some instances does not mean that they all will in all instances. I'm no economist - I'm very open to reading more about this and maybe I'll change my mind, but at first blush it doesn't seem like it will all be gloom and doom. There would be a lot of cost in setting up and enforcing these kind of agreements. Retailers would have to agree with them. Can you imagine a salesman going to Walmart corporate and saying "Hey - you are going to sell our product at the price we dictate." They'd be laughed right out of the place and Walmart would sell their competitors product without the stipulation.
Grocery operates on incredibly thin margins and is very competitive - I can't see how this is going to change that. So I'm still stuck wondering what basic human needs are suddenly going to sky rocket out of control now that the corporations are unleashed and we have no choice but to buy what they sell, and buy it at the price they dictate.
If customers don't want X - why would you buy X and try to sell it? Why do you think that because this will need to be judged on a case by case basis that immediately all products will move to these types of arrangements? It doesn't make a lot of sense. Do you really think that manufacturers have been selling to stuff at Walmart for lower prices purely because of this law? Walmart dictates prices to them.
two things come immediately to my mind. the first is that bit there about "prices customers have no choice but to pay" I guess that is true if somebody is selling air or something - and there are no others selling it, but otherwise, that language is completely over blown. customers can choose not to buy it and then either it will go away or the price will come down.
second - this ruling seems to allow for more judgment - so that if there is no reason to view that there have been anticompetitive practices, then there is no reason not to let it slide. I think that is good. There should be leeway for reason. Look at what a mess has come from mandatory sentencing. People should be able to look at a situation and let what happens fit a reasonable view of the circumstances - not some inflexible letter of the law approach.
and i still hope to some day be a rock-star/astronaut that saves the universe and bags a hot babe in the process. as a middle aged father of 3 it seems a little less likely that it will work out -- but i still hope.