Now do that for the thousands of legacy systems out there, including stuff like routers, fileservers, fancy coffee makers, everything. Of course you need to create some sort of backwards compatability with DNS, and provide some incentive for people to actually switch. Note: Vague feelings about control issues is not a valid incentive for most people, at least not until there is blatent abuse.
Also, when you do that, remember to clear any legal (patent) hurdles early, or your rollout could be stopped dead by one jerk with a submarine patent and an eyefull of dollar signs. Just because you invented it and it's not in the patent database doesn't mean you're safe. Also, expect some friction from congress, ICANN, and whoever else has a vested interest in the old DNS system.
I'm surprised they dropped the charges. In Virginia if that happens (because you didn't fill out some form nobody knows about and isn't mentioned anywhere on their website because the system isn't tied with the normal change of address stuff), they fine the crap out of you and tell you how lucky you are they aren't throwing you in jail.
The article talks about people cranking their earbuds up to 115dB. Obviously if you listen to music that doesn't suck so bad that you have to distort it to pieces to stand listening to it, you won't have this problem. It's basically another sensationalist article about how listening to music turned up too loud will make you go deaf.
The problem with those numbers is that while for the most part the US acts as a single entity politically, in the EU there is a tremendous amount of infighting that undermines their aggregate power.
Ironically, CF tends to be used in the upper and lower ends of the spectrum. The cheapest cameras are often still CF based because they're old technology and a few years ago _everybody_ used CF. These days the middle of the road cameras are getting smaller and smaller, so they tend to go with media with a smaller footprint (CF or xD). Upper end cameras still use CF because there is high end CF (like in this article) that outperforms most other media and comes in higher capacities than SD or xD media.
You know, the audiences around here are really jaded and it's hard to even get them to laugh out loud at comedies, much less cry or anything. That scene is perhaps the only once in recent memory where the entire theatre gasped at once.
That said, while his death was more shocking, Book's death was more tragic to me. I was still very interested in the character of the Shepard (much more than the flyboy loverboy) and killing him off left so many questions unanswered.
The ID being shoved down Science teacher's throats is dogma. In a philsophy class you could easily avoid this because you aren't teaching ID itself, but rather debating the overall nature of ID.
You will note, however, that neither Einstein nor those mathematicians try to use god to explain their theories. Einstein was merely expressing his theory that the universe is NOT randomly chaotic and is in fact predictable once you have enough information. Mathematicians are always looking for that beautiful equastion that sometimes falls out of some horrible mess and simplifies a problem greatly.
Non-computability is never the foundation of any science. ID's fundimental flaw is that it is a formalized argument from ignorance, which is a logical fallacy. Besides, the whole point of science is to explain the nature of the universe, not presuppose some answer and stop looking.
Obviously ID and Creationism have plenty of mathematical funimentals to lean on... Saying that biologists have a lack of rigor is something you're going to have to back up with mountains of evidence. It's tantamount to calling them all cheats and liars. Also, saying that life is too cool for evolution made me do a double take. That's some A Class stuff there.
"Theories should be questioned" is a foundation of science. I doubt you're going to find much objection to it. People only have problems when you try to lump ID into the "theory" category when it is obviously not a theory (ID fails in pretty much every way as a theory).
If you don't believe me about the foundation of science bit, just search for "peer reviewed" and "reproducable results".
It DOES affect you when you're teamed up with a lab partner in College (as if these kids will ever make it to college if this is what their School board is doing) and you end up failing the class because of it. It's also a loss for the country as a whole when these people leave the community and spread their misinformation to other communities.
I don't know, I think "Intelligence" without any sort of physical manipulation abilities would have a tough time constructing anything.
one thing I've always been curious about. If life is too irreversably complex to have happened by chance, then whoever build life must also be irreversably complex. Who designed the Intelligent Designer? Who designed that guy? Ad infinitum.
It does no good to fill kids heads with theories that don't make any sense and are of no use in the real world.
If Evolution isn't science (a body of observations backed up by theories that have not been disproven), then nothing is a science. While I'm sure plenty of the ID folks would be happy if science was dropped entirely from schools (it keeps contradicting them, they hate that!), that is plainly not in the best interests of society as a whole.
ID isn't a theory though, it's dogma. We don't teach dogma in science class for the simple reason that it is not science. It's like complaining that students aren't getting equal time for Aztek cooking in their Asian studies class.
I don't know. I rather like my 7100t. Perhaps it is because I'm comparing it to the crap cellphones everyone else has, but it seems pretty nice to me.
A few points:
1. No connector conspiracy. Uses bog standard USB to charge and the headphone jack is the most generic one available.
2. Integrated browser seems to work reasonably well, although it's kinda slow
3. The address book could use some UI tweaks, but it's loads better than most address books on phones that I've seen.
4. The text input works reasonably well. Occasionally it gets tripped up on a word (and I usually know what words it's going to have trouble with, so this isn't as bad as it could be), but it is a bit awkward to go back and edit stuff. Still, it's the fastest text input I've seen this side of the full size Blackberries. Blows regular cell phone (multi-tap) text input out of the water.
5. No MP3 support, no camera. The lack of a camera is a big plus for me, I work in places where you can bring a cell phone in, but not a camera. The lack of MP3 support isn't an issue for me either because I own an iPod.
6. The phone is largely unrestricted as to what you can load onto it. There's no rediculous charge to load ringtones or backgrounds. You can either load these from your computer or just over the network (any picture you load in the browser can be set as your background).
7. You can use the phone as a modem--although not over the Bluetooth.:(, it is a bit clunky with the USB cable attached.
8. Battery life is pretty reasonable. I've had it for 7 months now and the battery still lasts for 4-5 days without being turned off. Playing games on the phone drains the battery faster (can only play for 5-8 hours or so before the battery is dead). I've never killed the battery with talking, but I'm not a big talker.
9. The screen is gorgous. Among the best screens available in cell phones. It's a great when paired with the web browser, but it's also good for reading emails if you set the font size small and have good eyes.
10. The included belt clip is a bit disappointing. The cell phone will fall out if you move too vigoriously, and sometimes it falls out when I'm sitting in low riding cars. It will also scratch the screen if you're working in an environment where there is sand or other abrasives in the air.
Overall I'm very happy with the phone. It seems to hit the sweet spot between performance and functionality IMHO and the integrated email works like a charm. I'm going to be sad if RIM is forced to close down due to some stupid submarine patent.
Where do you live? Here in the Metro DC area there are thousands of hybrids driving around. Granted, there is an advantage for driving in HOV lanes, but beyond that many people just like the idea of saving the environment without having to change their lifestyle (and getting a status symbol to boot!).
In fact if you want to buy a hybrid you have to order it and wait for months for it to actually ship.
The point is that Imperial measurements are based on numbers with lots of divisors. The idea being that if you only have a tool marked with increments of your number, you don't want to have to try to figure out halves and thirds of some measurement. Frankly, people spend a lot more time (in general) cutting things into half, thirds, and quarters. Even the strange number for converting feet into a mile (5280) is divisible by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 11, 12, 15, 20, and so forth.
Also, I'd like to see your ruler that has 1/3 measurements marked on it. I know they must exist, but I've never seen them.
Of couse Imperial has it's own set of problems too. It's hard to convert units for one (5280 is much harder to multiply by then 1000) and it's not as easy to remember the numbers, but in practice workers don't run into these problems nearly as often as they're asked to cut something into thirds. Scientists have to do this a lot, and it's no surprise most of them have gone metric as a result.
Cripes guys, I must not be reading his statement the same way you are. To me, Linus said "Eh, I don't much like Gnome, they oversimplified it, when people ask I tell them I prefer KDE now", to everyone else it's some sort of prophetic revelation from God or something.
Another thing to consider is that it's a 20% failure rate on their first generation fab producing their first run discs. Lots of other technologies started out worse and I can guarentee that they'll improve that number over time. I think the point is that 80% is good enough to start scaling up the plant and mass produce the discs.
Did the C&D come with one of those bullshit "you are not allowed to discose the contents of this C&D" clauses that lawyers like to stick on stuff they know won't hold up to public scrutiny?
I now realize one basic truth of the World Wide Web, if you create something useful and popular, eventually someone is going to sue you for it. No matter what you do, the fact that you've found something useful is going to be threatening to someone and they're going to sue you (usually for millions of dollars) for it.
Every new web business should be prepared for a lawsuit at some point, no matter what they do. How many retarded suits have people brought against Google now? Even Slashdot gets lawsuit threats every now and then. Another thing you have to do is get a good idea of your rights and make sure you call people's bluff when they send harassment lawsuits at you (happens ALL of the time on the web).
I think it's cute how you seem to think the labels won't promise lower prices even though they have no itention of ever lowering prices. Remember when CDs came out? "Sure they're expensive now, but that's because we have a technology development bill to work off, once we pay off the R&D the costs will come down and be cheaper than tapes." Yeah, that happened.
You know, I'd be more inclined to side with the companies if there were real companies actually deploying city wide Wi-Fi anywhere. Sure there's always someone willing to install hotspots in the airport and in coffee shops, but then there's the other 95% of the city that they never bother with. Cities are doing this because nobody else shows any interest at all until they're suing the city for interfering with the plans they didn't have.
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Now do that for the thousands of legacy systems out there, including stuff like routers, fileservers, fancy coffee makers, everything. Of course you need to create some sort of backwards compatability with DNS, and provide some incentive for people to actually switch. Note: Vague feelings about control issues is not a valid incentive for most people, at least not until there is blatent abuse.
Also, when you do that, remember to clear any legal (patent) hurdles early, or your rollout could be stopped dead by one jerk with a submarine patent and an eyefull of dollar signs. Just because you invented it and it's not in the patent database doesn't mean you're safe. Also, expect some friction from congress, ICANN, and whoever else has a vested interest in the old DNS system.
I'm surprised they dropped the charges. In Virginia if that happens (because you didn't fill out some form nobody knows about and isn't mentioned anywhere on their website because the system isn't tied with the normal change of address stuff), they fine the crap out of you and tell you how lucky you are they aren't throwing you in jail.
The article talks about people cranking their earbuds up to 115dB. Obviously if you listen to music that doesn't suck so bad that you have to distort it to pieces to stand listening to it, you won't have this problem. It's basically another sensationalist article about how listening to music turned up too loud will make you go deaf.
The problem with those numbers is that while for the most part the US acts as a single entity politically, in the EU there is a tremendous amount of infighting that undermines their aggregate power.
Ironically, CF tends to be used in the upper and lower ends of the spectrum. The cheapest cameras are often still CF based because they're old technology and a few years ago _everybody_ used CF. These days the middle of the road cameras are getting smaller and smaller, so they tend to go with media with a smaller footprint (CF or xD). Upper end cameras still use CF because there is high end CF (like in this article) that outperforms most other media and comes in higher capacities than SD or xD media.
You know, the audiences around here are really jaded and it's hard to even get them to laugh out loud at comedies, much less cry or anything. That scene is perhaps the only once in recent memory where the entire theatre gasped at once.
That said, while his death was more shocking, Book's death was more tragic to me. I was still very interested in the character of the Shepard (much more than the flyboy loverboy) and killing him off left so many questions unanswered.
"How many atmospheres of pressure can the ship handle"
"Well, it's a spaceship, so between 0 and 1"
Classic.
The ID being shoved down Science teacher's throats is dogma. In a philsophy class you could easily avoid this because you aren't teaching ID itself, but rather debating the overall nature of ID.
You will note, however, that neither Einstein nor those mathematicians try to use god to explain their theories. Einstein was merely expressing his theory that the universe is NOT randomly chaotic and is in fact predictable once you have enough information. Mathematicians are always looking for that beautiful equastion that sometimes falls out of some horrible mess and simplifies a problem greatly.
Non-computability is never the foundation of any science. ID's fundimental flaw is that it is a formalized argument from ignorance, which is a logical fallacy. Besides, the whole point of science is to explain the nature of the universe, not presuppose some answer and stop looking.
Obviously ID and Creationism have plenty of mathematical funimentals to lean on... Saying that biologists have a lack of rigor is something you're going to have to back up with mountains of evidence. It's tantamount to calling them all cheats and liars. Also, saying that life is too cool for evolution made me do a double take. That's some A Class stuff there.
"Theories should be questioned" is a foundation of science. I doubt you're going to find much objection to it. People only have problems when you try to lump ID into the "theory" category when it is obviously not a theory (ID fails in pretty much every way as a theory).
If you don't believe me about the foundation of science bit, just search for "peer reviewed" and "reproducable results".
It DOES affect you when you're teamed up with a lab partner in College (as if these kids will ever make it to college if this is what their School board is doing) and you end up failing the class because of it. It's also a loss for the country as a whole when these people leave the community and spread their misinformation to other communities.
I don't know, I think "Intelligence" without any sort of physical manipulation abilities would have a tough time constructing anything.
one thing I've always been curious about. If life is too irreversably complex to have happened by chance, then whoever build life must also be irreversably complex. Who designed the Intelligent Designer? Who designed that guy? Ad infinitum.
It does no good to fill kids heads with theories that don't make any sense and are of no use in the real world.
If Evolution isn't science (a body of observations backed up by theories that have not been disproven), then nothing is a science. While I'm sure plenty of the ID folks would be happy if science was dropped entirely from schools (it keeps contradicting them, they hate that!), that is plainly not in the best interests of society as a whole.
ID isn't a theory though, it's dogma. We don't teach dogma in science class for the simple reason that it is not science. It's like complaining that students aren't getting equal time for Aztek cooking in their Asian studies class.
Yeah, Google is just trying to be sued apparently.
Aren't these the guys who went after Microsoft for including email in PocketPC?
I don't know. I rather like my 7100t. Perhaps it is because I'm comparing it to the crap cellphones everyone else has, but it seems pretty nice to me.
:(, it is a bit clunky with the USB cable attached.
A few points:
1. No connector conspiracy. Uses bog standard USB to charge and the headphone jack is the most generic one available.
2. Integrated browser seems to work reasonably well, although it's kinda slow
3. The address book could use some UI tweaks, but it's loads better than most address books on phones that I've seen.
4. The text input works reasonably well. Occasionally it gets tripped up on a word (and I usually know what words it's going to have trouble with, so this isn't as bad as it could be), but it is a bit awkward to go back and edit stuff. Still, it's the fastest text input I've seen this side of the full size Blackberries. Blows regular cell phone (multi-tap) text input out of the water.
5. No MP3 support, no camera. The lack of a camera is a big plus for me, I work in places where you can bring a cell phone in, but not a camera. The lack of MP3 support isn't an issue for me either because I own an iPod.
6. The phone is largely unrestricted as to what you can load onto it. There's no rediculous charge to load ringtones or backgrounds. You can either load these from your computer or just over the network (any picture you load in the browser can be set as your background).
7. You can use the phone as a modem--although not over the Bluetooth.
8. Battery life is pretty reasonable. I've had it for 7 months now and the battery still lasts for 4-5 days without being turned off. Playing games on the phone drains the battery faster (can only play for 5-8 hours or so before the battery is dead). I've never killed the battery with talking, but I'm not a big talker.
9. The screen is gorgous. Among the best screens available in cell phones. It's a great when paired with the web browser, but it's also good for reading emails if you set the font size small and have good eyes.
10. The included belt clip is a bit disappointing. The cell phone will fall out if you move too vigoriously, and sometimes it falls out when I'm sitting in low riding cars. It will also scratch the screen if you're working in an environment where there is sand or other abrasives in the air.
Overall I'm very happy with the phone. It seems to hit the sweet spot between performance and functionality IMHO and the integrated email works like a charm. I'm going to be sad if RIM is forced to close down due to some stupid submarine patent.
Where do you live? Here in the Metro DC area there are thousands of hybrids driving around. Granted, there is an advantage for driving in HOV lanes, but beyond that many people just like the idea of saving the environment without having to change their lifestyle (and getting a status symbol to boot!).
In fact if you want to buy a hybrid you have to order it and wait for months for it to actually ship.
The point is that Imperial measurements are based on numbers with lots of divisors. The idea being that if you only have a tool marked with increments of your number, you don't want to have to try to figure out halves and thirds of some measurement. Frankly, people spend a lot more time (in general) cutting things into half, thirds, and quarters. Even the strange number for converting feet into a mile (5280) is divisible by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 11, 12, 15, 20, and so forth.
Also, I'd like to see your ruler that has 1/3 measurements marked on it. I know they must exist, but I've never seen them.
Of couse Imperial has it's own set of problems too. It's hard to convert units for one (5280 is much harder to multiply by then 1000) and it's not as easy to remember the numbers, but in practice workers don't run into these problems nearly as often as they're asked to cut something into thirds. Scientists have to do this a lot, and it's no surprise most of them have gone metric as a result.
Cripes guys, I must not be reading his statement the same way you are. To me, Linus said "Eh, I don't much like Gnome, they oversimplified it, when people ask I tell them I prefer KDE now", to everyone else it's some sort of prophetic revelation from God or something.
Another thing to consider is that it's a 20% failure rate on their first generation fab producing their first run discs. Lots of other technologies started out worse and I can guarentee that they'll improve that number over time. I think the point is that 80% is good enough to start scaling up the plant and mass produce the discs.
Did the C&D come with one of those bullshit "you are not allowed to discose the contents of this C&D" clauses that lawyers like to stick on stuff they know won't hold up to public scrutiny?
I now realize one basic truth of the World Wide Web, if you create something useful and popular, eventually someone is going to sue you for it. No matter what you do, the fact that you've found something useful is going to be threatening to someone and they're going to sue you (usually for millions of dollars) for it.
Every new web business should be prepared for a lawsuit at some point, no matter what they do. How many retarded suits have people brought against Google now? Even Slashdot gets lawsuit threats every now and then. Another thing you have to do is get a good idea of your rights and make sure you call people's bluff when they send harassment lawsuits at you (happens ALL of the time on the web).
I think it's cute how you seem to think the labels won't promise lower prices even though they have no itention of ever lowering prices. Remember when CDs came out? "Sure they're expensive now, but that's because we have a technology development bill to work off, once we pay off the R&D the costs will come down and be cheaper than tapes." Yeah, that happened.
You know, I'd be more inclined to side with the companies if there were real companies actually deploying city wide Wi-Fi anywhere. Sure there's always someone willing to install hotspots in the airport and in coffee shops, but then there's the other 95% of the city that they never bother with. Cities are doing this because nobody else shows any interest at all until they're suing the city for interfering with the plans they didn't have.