One of the big reasons the shuttle was built the way it was was due to the military funding and the fact that the military demanded the ability to be able to return payloads to earth.
Windows will NEVER be secure. To be secure (or secure enough to avoid viruses etc) would mean sacrificing other things that are more important to Microsoft's customer base including ease-of-use and backwards compatibility.
Maybe this time the Canadians will elect politicians who are going to do whats best for Canada and not whats good for the United States or whats good for large US companies.
I see many references around to a "proton gun" (i.e. a gun that shoots protons) as a weapon in the Ghostbusters universe and in the game so calling it an FPS is accurate:)
Sometimes the delays for games making it to Australia can be a lot longer than 3 days.
Like the recent Ghostbusters FPS. Atari (the publisher of the game after Activision sold the publishing deal to them) pulled some crap and did a deal with Sony where the game was exclusive to the PlayStation console in Australia for a couple of months.
Many fans of this game were pissed off at this (myself included). Once it became known that the US 360 version didnt have region locks and would run on EU/AU 360s, a lot of them just said "Screw you Sony/Atari" and imported the game from the states. I suspect a lot of PC players just pirated it.
All that the limited-time exclusivity did was to result in a lot of lost sales from people who would have quite happily bought the game if they didnt have to wait so long for it.
What surprises me is that Apple hasn't modified iOS 4.x so that it will refuse to run unless its running alongside the correct baseband, thus preventing the "upgrade but dont upgrade the baseband" trick.
I think the difference here is that this is a private company/individual providing service, not a local government.
So unlike the other cited cases where governments and local authorities want to build out networks, the telcos cant make claims like "taxpayers money shouldn't be used to build broadband"
These days, car stereos are not car stereos, they are stereos + MP3 players + iPod docks + navigation systems + bluetooth car kits + emergency help systems and more.
And a lot of this stuff needs to talk to the cars sensors and systems (e.g. these systems may require knowing how fast the car is going or the like)
I would also love Wikipedia at the top of the list. Sometimes I search for something, get some useless results and then specifically add "Wikipedia" to my search results.
GPL violations are why I didnt buy Android and why I bought a Nokia N900 instead. HTC routinely violates the GPL by not releasing kernel source for their new phones until months after the hardware is released (and until big community pressure). If it was once or twice, I could understand. But the fact that it happens again and again shows that HTC has contempt for the GPL and doesn't care.
Motorola is just as bad as HTC (I owned a Motorola pre-android linux phone and their compliance on those was no better)
I went with the Nokia N900 since Nokia is in 100% compliance with the GPL and not only that, the N900 has NO software locks preventing you from installing new software, alternative OSs etc.
The difference here is that unlike the PC industry where there were no forces trying to keep the software stack closed or control what you ran, in the mobile space we have cell carriers (especially in the US) who want to control what mobile device users do with their device in the same way Ma Bell controlled what the devices that connected to the phone network were able to do in the past.
I suspect that for ANY field being used to grow corn ethanol ANYWHERE in the US, you could find something else to grow on that same field that produces better biofuel outcomes.
Go ask anyone who bought a laptop where the CPU supports Intel VT but the laptop vendor has completly disabled and locked out the support in the BIOS, preventing you from using it.
The problem is is that the alternative browsers like Firefox, Chrome, Opera and Safari is that none of those browsers contain the kind of admin features you get with IE.
What IT guys (not necessarily the actual guys down in the trenches doing the work but the PHBs in their cushy office making the decisions) would want: 1.The ability to push a browser installer (both the initial install and any upgrade installs) to the client and have them run automatically without the need to manually upgrade any clients. You cant get proper MSIs from any of the alternative browser vendors, only from 3rd parties.
2.The ability to ensure the browser wont update (either automatically or initiated by users selecting "update") and can only be updated when IT pushes patches.
3.The ability to ensure only plugins and addons pushed by IT can be installed, upgraded, managed and uninstalled.
and 4.The ability to manage (via group policy or something similar) the features of the browser so the IT people can set settings like proxy servers and can disable features and the end-user cant mess with the settings and changes the admin guys have set.
I moved into a rented apartment a few years ago and when I moved in bought a box of 6 or so Phillips CFLs and havent had to replace one yet. More than paid for by the power savings vs the incandescent.
I have a CFL and an incandescent on one switch in the bathroom/toilet (mostly because the one bulb is stuck in the socket and I cant be stuffed replacing it) and when I flick the switch I cant tell the difference in startup times or brightness levels.
Every time I search for the part number of an electronic part hoping to find a datasheet or any other info on it, all I ever seem to get is sites with massive lists of part numbers claiming they can sell me one of these parts or a dodgy site claiming to have a datasheet but instead having nothing but junk.
1.Piracy (more and more geeks tend to download shows rather than pay extra for channels like SyFy) 2.DVRs. (even when geeks DO have SyFy and other such channels, they rarely watch content live, they just set the DVR to record it and watch it later when they can fast forward most of the ads) and 3.Advertising. (the demographic that likes shows like Stargate and Star Trek and Farscape tends not to be the demographic that those companies with TV advertising dollars wants to advertise to)
My personal blacklist: Sony Microsoft (with the sole exception of their mice as I have yet to find a mouse that's better. Although if the rumors are true and MS have stopped making nice and started re-branding Logitech mice instead, I will boycott the MS mouse and buy the Logitech instead) Vodafone Telstra Optus Activision Blizzard Greater Union/Event cinemas All of Rupert Murdoch's news outlets including Fox News and The Australian newspaper. Atari/Infogrames Adobe Games Workshop Apple McDonalds IGA Supermarkets The Catholic Church The Church of Scientology Foxtel the Commonwealth Bank the ANZ bank the National Australia Bank the Westpac Bank Lexmark HP Compaq
Killing NASA will have essentially ZERO impact on the spiraling US national debt.
Unless the government is prepared to do what no politician is willing to do and to cut from the huge amount spent on the massive military and security machine maintained by the US, the US will never be able to get out of the sinkhole they are in.
He got the bit about the normal people being ruled over by a ruling class using brainwashing and tricks to stay in power (with a huge amount of mid-level smarter people working for the ruling class to help keep them in power), what he got wrong is that it isn't the socialists who are the ruling class, its the capitalists.
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One of the big reasons the shuttle was built the way it was was due to the military funding and the fact that the military demanded the ability to be able to return payloads to earth.
Windows will NEVER be secure.
To be secure (or secure enough to avoid viruses etc) would mean sacrificing other things that are more important to Microsoft's customer base including ease-of-use and backwards compatibility.
Maybe this time the Canadians will elect politicians who are going to do whats best for Canada and not whats good for the United States or whats good for large US companies.
I see many references around to a "proton gun" (i.e. a gun that shoots protons) as a weapon in the Ghostbusters universe and in the game so calling it an FPS is accurate :)
Sometimes the delays for games making it to Australia can be a lot longer than 3 days.
Like the recent Ghostbusters FPS. Atari (the publisher of the game after Activision sold the publishing deal to them) pulled some crap and did a deal with Sony where the game was exclusive to the PlayStation console in Australia for a couple of months.
Many fans of this game were pissed off at this (myself included). Once it became known that the US 360 version didnt have region locks and would run on EU/AU 360s, a lot of them just said "Screw you Sony/Atari" and imported the game from the states. I suspect a lot of PC players just pirated it.
All that the limited-time exclusivity did was to result in a lot of lost sales from people who would have quite happily bought the game if they didnt have to wait so long for it.
What surprises me is that Apple hasn't modified iOS 4.x so that it will refuse to run unless its running alongside the correct baseband, thus preventing the "upgrade but dont upgrade the baseband" trick.
I think the difference here is that this is a private company/individual providing service, not a local government.
So unlike the other cited cases where governments and local authorities want to build out networks, the telcos cant make claims like "taxpayers money shouldn't be used to build broadband"
Sony owns far too much content (through Sony Pictures, Columbia Tristar, MGM etc) for HD-DVD to have won.
These days, car stereos are not car stereos, they are stereos + MP3 players + iPod docks + navigation systems + bluetooth car kits + emergency help systems and more.
And a lot of this stuff needs to talk to the cars sensors and systems (e.g. these systems may require knowing how fast the car is going or the like)
I would also love Wikipedia at the top of the list.
Sometimes I search for something, get some useless results and then specifically add "Wikipedia" to my search results.
GPL violations are why I didnt buy Android and why I bought a Nokia N900 instead.
HTC routinely violates the GPL by not releasing kernel source for their new phones until months after the hardware is released (and until big community pressure). If it was once or twice, I could understand. But the fact that it happens again and again shows that HTC has contempt for the GPL and doesn't care.
Motorola is just as bad as HTC (I owned a Motorola pre-android linux phone and their compliance on those was no better)
I went with the Nokia N900 since Nokia is in 100% compliance with the GPL and not only that, the N900 has NO software locks preventing you from installing new software, alternative OSs etc.
The difference here is that unlike the PC industry where there were no forces trying to keep the software stack closed or control what you ran, in the mobile space we have cell carriers (especially in the US) who want to control what mobile device users do with their device in the same way Ma Bell controlled what the devices that connected to the phone network were able to do in the past.
What about products that begin with an A (e.g. Airport)?
I suspect that for ANY field being used to grow corn ethanol ANYWHERE in the US, you could find something else to grow on that same field that produces better biofuel outcomes.
Go ask anyone who bought a laptop where the CPU supports Intel VT but the laptop vendor has completly disabled and locked out the support in the BIOS, preventing you from using it.
The problem is is that the alternative browsers like Firefox, Chrome, Opera and Safari is that none of those browsers contain the kind of admin features you get with IE.
What IT guys (not necessarily the actual guys down in the trenches doing the work but the PHBs in their cushy office making the decisions) would want:
1.The ability to push a browser installer (both the initial install and any upgrade installs) to the client and have them run automatically without the need to manually upgrade any clients. You cant get proper MSIs from any of the alternative browser vendors, only from 3rd parties.
2.The ability to ensure the browser wont update
(either automatically or initiated by users selecting "update") and can only be updated when IT pushes patches.
3.The ability to ensure only plugins and addons pushed by IT can be installed, upgraded, managed and uninstalled.
and 4.The ability to manage (via group policy or something similar) the features of the browser so the IT people can set settings like proxy servers and can disable features and the end-user cant mess with the settings and changes the admin guys have set.
That will never happen as long as the president of Wal-Mart has more REAL power than the president in Washington.
The difference is that ActiveX is allowed to do anything it likes, Google Native Client is sandboxed and limited.
I moved into a rented apartment a few years ago and when I moved in bought a box of 6 or so Phillips CFLs and havent had to replace one yet.
More than paid for by the power savings vs the incandescent.
I have a CFL and an incandescent on one switch in the bathroom/toilet (mostly because the one bulb is stuck in the socket and I cant be stuffed replacing it) and when I flick the switch I cant tell the difference in startup times or brightness levels.
Every time I search for the part number of an electronic part hoping to find a datasheet or any other info on it, all I ever seem to get is sites with massive lists of part numbers claiming they can sell me one of these parts or a dodgy site claiming to have a datasheet but instead having nothing but junk.
1.Piracy (more and more geeks tend to download shows rather than pay extra for channels like SyFy)
2.DVRs. (even when geeks DO have SyFy and other such channels, they rarely watch content live, they just set the DVR to record it and watch it later when they can fast forward most of the ads)
and 3.Advertising. (the demographic that likes shows like Stargate and Star Trek and Farscape tends not to be the demographic that those companies with TV advertising dollars wants to advertise to)
My personal blacklist:
Sony
Microsoft (with the sole exception of their mice as I have yet to find a mouse that's better. Although if the rumors are true and MS have stopped making nice and started re-branding Logitech mice instead, I will boycott the MS mouse and buy the Logitech instead)
Vodafone
Telstra
Optus
Activision Blizzard
Greater Union/Event cinemas
All of Rupert Murdoch's news outlets including Fox News and The Australian newspaper.
Atari/Infogrames
Adobe
Games Workshop
Apple
McDonalds
IGA Supermarkets
The Catholic Church
The Church of Scientology
Foxtel
the Commonwealth Bank
the ANZ bank
the National Australia Bank
the Westpac Bank
Lexmark
HP
Compaq
Killing NASA will have essentially ZERO impact on the spiraling US national debt.
Unless the government is prepared to do what no politician is willing to do and to cut from the huge amount spent on the massive military and security machine maintained by the US, the US will never be able to get out of the sinkhole they are in.
Bank issues you with a little calculator like device containing a keypad and an internal secret number known to the bank.
When you make a transfer, you key the account number and the amount into the calculator and it prints a code that you key into the bank form.
If the code doesn't match what the bank calculated based on the submitted account number and amount, the transaction is rejected.
He got the bit about the normal people being ruled over by a ruling class using brainwashing and tricks to stay in power (with a huge amount of mid-level smarter people working for the ruling class to help keep them in power), what he got wrong is that it isn't the socialists who are the ruling class, its the capitalists.