Indeed. At what I call the "rich people's grocery" (carpeted aisles, wine shop, cooking school, etc -- they used to have a video for sale) that we go to every other week, you don't take carts out of the store: it's either carry out or drive up. So that's a pretty smart card. It would know when I have 2-3 bags and a bicycle helmet I want paper because it fits well in the carriers and when I'm stocking up I want plastic for the durability of waddling out with all of it in one trip (as opposed to starting up the car and waiting in line for drive-up).
Exactly. Confiscating laptops just syncs the Customs policy with what they are already doing with electronic traffic. Perfectly logical, citizen.
Laptops are property? So what? Plenty of precedent for holding evidence, and for holding it forever, since the dark ages of the Steve Jackson Games raid. Actually, it seems like you can trace a lot of this legal lawlessness back to the War on Drugs.
Me, I can't afford to personally give the government laptops. Should be great for eee sales. And Ferriss (4 Hour Work Week) is probably right that it's easier to travel without a laptop. Maybe an encrypted flash drive with a linux boot would be a good compromise.
Compatibility gets confused with copying. And when you know nothing about the history of computing, well, "UNIX? That's like DOS, right?" Because the GUIs can be made similar to Windows, because menus like OpenOffice are made similar to Office for ease of transition, because compatible file formats are often read and written, people who know nothing about the underlying structure of computers or the history of innovations can logically, if incorrectly, conclude from their experience with Windows from the earlier '90s that linux _must_ be a copy of Windows in the '00s.
I did a brief stint in retail in my 20's at a new regional mall's opening so everybody was "green". Couple suits walked into the Sears and said "Give us your till. This is a surprise audit." And the kid did.
Librarians may be smarter but I wouldn't bet it won't happen.
A group of designers review three or four programs every quarter. They submit their results to the developers. The program with a weighed average of worst usability and most developer attitude makes the quarterly wall of shame. What's an appropriate phrase for the acronym "Meddlers"?
I guess I'm a "child" of the 50s, and, yes, I can vaguely remember that sputnik was a real concern because there was failure after failure on the American side. If everything government does these days is evil by definition (and often practice) so we can't continue space exploration collectively, then private enterprise hopefully has a few people with a vague sense of history who will remind them that there are going to be some really deep-pocket expenses up front on space exploitation.
I think some of us are a little short on trust this week. Remember, the EPA didn't write a report detailing the dire consequences of global warming, the one and only anthrax bomber committed suicide so the case is closed, and a Brig. General connected with the "sloppy" nuke transfer from Minot to the Middle East staging area also committed suicide, "presumably" with a handgun. (They aren't sure?)
That was this week in America. Next week? Stay tuned.
We're all busy, right? The _only_ thing that has _EVER_ worked for me is something that is _meaningfully_ integrated into my daily life.
I suspect all the advice about doing an hour of home exercise bike/night, going to the gym, setting up a weight room, blah-de-blah will squirt through many minds faster than crap through a goose but a whole lot cleaner leaving hardly a trace. So I'm heavily biased toward the advice to walk, run, bike to work, to the mall, for groceries and such. Put _purpose_ into the motion.
I started out walking to work instead of busing. Sort of like, "Hey, the bus isn't here yet. I bet I could walk a block toward work. Nope, still not visible down the street. I could probably walk another block or two." Then it was more like deciding if I left 5 minutes earlier, I could usually make it to the transfer without the first bus at all. Then it was looking around from there and seeing that I could take a pedestrian shortcut (a little funky including a block of railroad tracks) and walk myself to work about 5 minutes later than the wide loop the bus would wind to get me there. So, why did I need the bus at all? Adding an _extra_ 20 minutes/day to something I had to do _anyway_ got me four miles of walking 5 days/week. I think you have to agree that 20 miles of walking/week for 100 extra minutes/week is quite a return on time investment. The walking became jogging and the jogging became running. Eventually, I could actually _almost_, but almost never actually, beat the bus I would have taken home anyway. Rather hard-core fit at that point but it was a bit magical -- the time difference of adding exercise to my life literally shrunk to negligible.
Now not so young. Biking. Must have been some intelligent design somewhere. The uncool collapsible wire carriers I put on the Trek each hold a paper grocery bag perfectly. Those, and a backpack for another bag or two worth make for a decent payload. Fortunate to live near access to an extensive network of bike highways -- if they are paved, striped, and have road signs and rest stops are they really "paths"? It's cool to discover stuff like, "Gee, I didn't know those strip malls have paved back bike entrances and racks off their own road."
"It should be trivial to set up a 60 mile WiFi link for pennies compared to satellite internet."
Dunno. Our St. Louis Park, MN neighborhood wifi project is dead in the water. Couple quadrants of the suburb still have nifty-looking solar-powered repeaters every other block. The one test quadrant never got adequate through-put.
You gotta love the humor of conservative lobbyists. "Opportunity" to "act" to reduce the "affordability" of your "college" tuition by hiring a guy to play whack-a-mole with your P2P ports "and" write reports about it? I guess they figure people who work in the college sector already get paid too much to do too little.
I'd hardly say it's newbie friendly to use the default _Windows_ boot loader to dual boot linux. Just explaining what's going on in grabbing the linux boot sector to a file, copying it to the Windows boot partition and modifying the Windows boot loader to add an entry to point to that file will turn off a bunch of people.
I suspect a lot of people will go ugly and just do the BIOS switch. Or maybe virtualization.
My grandfather bounced off a car and kept driving when he was 91. At his license revocation hearing, he was frankly honest in sharing his feelings with the judge and earned a weekend in the county jail. Sort of embarrassing since his nephew was the recently retired chief of police.
There was a comparative study of grade schoolers in Kyoto, Taipai, and St. Paul, I believe in the early '80s, that documented how kids enter school about equal and the U.S. progressively falls behind grade by grade. Oddly, one of the striking differences between the U.S. and the other two was the significant inability to know where a kid was at a given moment in the U.S. Presumably because Asia was still using a rigid model of kids in rows of desks and the U.S. was teaching "teamwork" and/or screwing around.
Orwell would have the power of government stop at the citizen's body. Let's limit industry to the same standard.
So the question is, what has been the standard at Apple? If any employees have been subjected to a, e.g., a drug test, as a condition of employment, then Jobs has established an environment in which he in turn has no expectation of privacy. If Apple has respected the body of the employee, then Jobs has rights within his own structure.
Speaking into the air was the good, old days, isn't it? Wasn't the point of the FISA bill to indemnify the phone companies for past, present and future uses of the permanent listening posts they have built into their facilities in order to better protect our glorious fatherland?
With Skype, I always figured when it was Estonian, who knew? When it was Ebay, we knew.
When I wrote Saint Wellstone (D) that I thought it was outrageous that the DMCA made me a felon for playing a DVD on a linux machine, he strongly defended the vote and wrote that he'd do it again. Any media bill is going to get wide bipartisan support. Presumably, Democrats feel good about Hollywood money because at least it isn't money from a cluster bomb factory or Exxon/Mobil.
And, really, besides raw materials exports like a third world country, what are the U.S. technical exports in the 21st century besides entertainment?
Among our broadcast local new shows, it looks like ABC sends out the analog camera feed, CBS is prettier but 4:3. Only NBC is 16:9 and what people really look for in HD. Public TV's subchannels are a range unto themselves. So, yeah. Hell of a difference. Not to mention the remote cams, commercials, weather cams, archival footage, etc.
Instead of writing letters, our state fair is coming up. As the announcers are waiting to sign autographs for the kids, I'm going to make a point of passing by and saying, "When will your station follow NBC's lead in HD?"
Guess it depends on where Ubuntu will be in September. I'm on an 8.04 64-bit boot today. If I can fix the Samba and ipp funkiness, I _might_ consider switching from my Lenny boot for the 64-bit coolness.
Pretty much half of one, half of another from what I see. Not using FF3 on Debian because they didn't have the DOM-inspector package last time I looked and Ubuntu does. Debian pushed Drupal5.8 last week, Ubuntu pushed a 5.7 security update this week. So if you use both packages, which distro is ahead?
The one thing for sure is that Heron is pretty and I have never gotten compiz to work properly in Lenny (maybe because nvidia-glx is only in unstable?).
On a 64-bit Hardy boot at the moment that I installed at release. In love with the idea of 64-bit, like three years of support, but besides that, shininess does rank high in why I might switch from several years of Debian testing 32-bit boot even though the parent has its own good qualities.
Could it be crowd safety? Could it be soldier safety? Me, I'm thinking money. You?
Considering the French just had an embarrassing moment where a soldier used live ammo in a demonstration, I don't think you need to be the Great Karnack of some defense think tank to guess how this will work out.
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Indeed. At what I call the "rich people's grocery" (carpeted aisles, wine shop, cooking school, etc -- they used to have a video for sale) that we go to every other week, you don't take carts out of the store: it's either carry out or drive up. So that's a pretty smart card. It would know when I have 2-3 bags and a bicycle helmet I want paper because it fits well in the carriers and when I'm stocking up I want plastic for the durability of waddling out with all of it in one trip (as opposed to starting up the car and waiting in line for drive-up).
Exactly. Confiscating laptops just syncs the Customs policy with what they are already doing with electronic traffic. Perfectly logical, citizen.
Laptops are property? So what? Plenty of precedent for holding evidence, and for holding it forever, since the dark ages of the Steve Jackson Games raid. Actually, it seems like you can trace a lot of this legal lawlessness back to the War on Drugs.
Me, I can't afford to personally give the government laptops. Should be great for eee sales. And Ferriss (4 Hour Work Week) is probably right that it's easier to travel without a laptop. Maybe an encrypted flash drive with a linux boot would be a good compromise.
Compatibility gets confused with copying. And when you know nothing about the history of computing, well, "UNIX? That's like DOS, right?" Because the GUIs can be made similar to Windows, because menus like OpenOffice are made similar to Office for ease of transition, because compatible file formats are often read and written, people who know nothing about the underlying structure of computers or the history of innovations can logically, if incorrectly, conclude from their experience with Windows from the earlier '90s that linux _must_ be a copy of Windows in the '00s.
Right, AC. And "asking" for your wallet wouldn't equal robbery.
I did a brief stint in retail in my 20's at a new regional mall's opening so everybody was "green". Couple suits walked into the Sears and said "Give us your till. This is a surprise audit." And the kid did.
Librarians may be smarter but I wouldn't bet it won't happen.
A group of designers review three or four programs every quarter. They submit their results to the developers. The program with a weighed average of worst usability and most developer attitude makes the quarterly wall of shame. What's an appropriate phrase for the acronym "Meddlers"?
Maybe he could muster an army of lawyers to make Verizon kiss his ass if he so desired?
I grew up not that far from Buttzville. Yeah, they gave up on replacing the signs too.
I guess I'm a "child" of the 50s, and, yes, I can vaguely remember that sputnik was a real concern because there was failure after failure on the American side. If everything government does these days is evil by definition (and often practice) so we can't continue space exploration collectively, then private enterprise hopefully has a few people with a vague sense of history who will remind them that there are going to be some really deep-pocket expenses up front on space exploitation.
It'd be a HUGE insult to him (and, yes, perhaps to funding) if he found out because his Chief of Staff watched the news that night.
Like Bush is going to be the first person in the White House they tell the news to anyway. Who's going to draw up the comic book for him?
I think some of us are a little short on trust this week. Remember, the EPA didn't write a report detailing the dire consequences of global warming, the one and only anthrax bomber committed suicide so the case is closed, and a Brig. General connected with the "sloppy" nuke transfer from Minot to the Middle East staging area also committed suicide, "presumably" with a handgun. (They aren't sure?)
That was this week in America. Next week? Stay tuned.
We're all busy, right? The _only_ thing that has _EVER_ worked for me is something that is _meaningfully_ integrated into my daily life.
I suspect all the advice about doing an hour of home exercise bike/night, going to the gym, setting up a weight room, blah-de-blah will squirt through many minds faster than crap through a goose but a whole lot cleaner leaving hardly a trace. So I'm heavily biased toward the advice to walk, run, bike to work, to the mall, for groceries and such. Put _purpose_ into the motion.
I started out walking to work instead of busing. Sort of like, "Hey, the bus isn't here yet. I bet I could walk a block toward work. Nope, still not visible down the street. I could probably walk another block or two." Then it was more like deciding if I left 5 minutes earlier, I could usually make it to the transfer without the first bus at all. Then it was looking around from there and seeing that I could take a pedestrian shortcut (a little funky including a block of railroad tracks) and walk myself to work about 5 minutes later than the wide loop the bus would wind to get me there. So, why did I need the bus at all? Adding an _extra_ 20 minutes/day to something I had to do _anyway_ got me four miles of walking 5 days/week. I think you have to agree that 20 miles of walking/week for 100 extra minutes/week is quite a return on time investment. The walking became jogging and the jogging became running. Eventually, I could actually _almost_, but almost never actually, beat the bus I would have taken home anyway. Rather hard-core fit at that point but it was a bit magical -- the time difference of adding exercise to my life literally shrunk to negligible.
Now not so young. Biking. Must have been some intelligent design somewhere. The uncool collapsible wire carriers I put on the Trek each hold a paper grocery bag perfectly. Those, and a backpack for another bag or two worth make for a decent payload. Fortunate to live near access to an extensive network of bike highways -- if they are paved, striped, and have road signs and rest stops are they really "paths"? It's cool to discover stuff like, "Gee, I didn't know those strip malls have paved back bike entrances and racks off their own road."
"It should be trivial to set up a 60 mile WiFi link for pennies compared to satellite internet."
Dunno. Our St. Louis Park, MN neighborhood wifi project is dead in the water. Couple quadrants of the suburb still have nifty-looking solar-powered repeaters every other block. The one test quadrant never got adequate through-put.
"College Opportunity and Affordability Act"
You gotta love the humor of conservative lobbyists. "Opportunity" to "act" to reduce the "affordability" of your "college" tuition by hiring a guy to play whack-a-mole with your P2P ports "and" write reports about it? I guess they figure people who work in the college sector already get paid too much to do too little.
I'd hardly say it's newbie friendly to use the default _Windows_ boot loader to dual boot linux. Just explaining what's going on in grabbing the linux boot sector to a file, copying it to the Windows boot partition and modifying the Windows boot loader to add an entry to point to that file will turn off a bunch of people.
I suspect a lot of people will go ugly and just do the BIOS switch. Or maybe virtualization.
Or we'd have every internet capable American on the Do-Not-Fly list.
My grandfather bounced off a car and kept driving when he was 91. At his license revocation hearing, he was frankly honest in sharing his feelings with the judge and earned a weekend in the county jail. Sort of embarrassing since his nephew was the recently retired chief of police.
Don't knock "knowing where the kids are,"
There was a comparative study of grade schoolers in Kyoto, Taipai, and St. Paul, I believe in the early '80s, that documented how kids enter school about equal and the U.S. progressively falls behind grade by grade. Oddly, one of the striking differences between the U.S. and the other two was the significant inability to know where a kid was at a given moment in the U.S. Presumably because Asia was still using a rigid model of kids in rows of desks and the U.S. was teaching "teamwork" and/or screwing around.
Orwell would have the power of government stop at the citizen's body. Let's limit industry to the same standard.
So the question is, what has been the standard at Apple? If any employees have been subjected to a, e.g., a drug test, as a condition of employment, then Jobs has established an environment in which he in turn has no expectation of privacy. If Apple has respected the body of the employee, then Jobs has rights within his own structure.
Speaking into the air was the good, old days, isn't it? Wasn't the point of the FISA bill to indemnify the phone companies for past, present and future uses of the permanent listening posts they have built into their facilities in order to better protect our glorious fatherland?
With Skype, I always figured when it was Estonian, who knew? When it was Ebay, we knew.
Sounds like a winner.
When I wrote Saint Wellstone (D) that I thought it was outrageous that the DMCA made me a felon for playing a DVD on a linux machine, he strongly defended the vote and wrote that he'd do it again. Any media bill is going to get wide bipartisan support. Presumably, Democrats feel good about Hollywood money because at least it isn't money from a cluster bomb factory or Exxon/Mobil.
And, really, besides raw materials exports like a third world country, what are the U.S. technical exports in the 21st century besides entertainment?
Hopefully, up.
Among our broadcast local new shows, it looks like ABC sends out the analog camera feed, CBS is prettier but 4:3. Only NBC is 16:9 and what people really look for in HD. Public TV's subchannels are a range unto themselves. So, yeah. Hell of a difference. Not to mention the remote cams, commercials, weather cams, archival footage, etc.
Instead of writing letters, our state fair is coming up. As the announcers are waiting to sign autographs for the kids, I'm going to make a point of passing by and saying, "When will your station follow NBC's lead in HD?"
Guess it depends on where Ubuntu will be in September. I'm on an 8.04 64-bit boot today. If I can fix the Samba and ipp funkiness, I _might_ consider switching from my Lenny boot for the 64-bit coolness.
Pretty much half of one, half of another from what I see. Not using FF3 on Debian because they didn't have the DOM-inspector package last time I looked and Ubuntu does. Debian pushed Drupal5.8 last week, Ubuntu pushed a 5.7 security update this week. So if you use both packages, which distro is ahead?
The one thing for sure is that Heron is pretty and I have never gotten compiz to work properly in Lenny (maybe because nvidia-glx is only in unstable?).
On a 64-bit Hardy boot at the moment that I installed at release. In love with the idea of 64-bit, like three years of support, but besides that, shininess does rank high in why I might switch from several years of Debian testing 32-bit boot even though the parent has its own good qualities.
Could it be crowd safety? Could it be soldier safety? Me, I'm thinking money. You?
Considering the French just had an embarrassing moment where a soldier used live ammo in a demonstration, I don't think you need to be the Great Karnack of some defense think tank to guess how this will work out.