when I store my credit card information on my home computer
Why would you even do this? Information I don't want others to get at, I keep in my head. It being on your computer is merely slightly more secure than it being on a server somewhere on the internet.
We all take risks of less than 100% secure. When you use your credit card, how confident are you that they don't keep and store said credit card in their 'cloud'?
As far as using the browser as an actual browser. I think its rather cumbersome. But using a true HTML render engine to render HTML made specifically for the e-book format I think is a great idea. Right now we have to deal with html to epub converters (the few there are) and they are all rudimentary.
The 3G in both the Kindle and the Nook (id have to double check though to be sure) I believe use the spring network, so the coverage is good. But I actually agree that 3G is truly not necessary for most people.
The Fisher Bullet Space Pen is what I use. I had the same pen with its original ink cartridge in my pocket for 10+ years. I've only just now had to buy a new cartridge.
One small wrinkle. Most everything most everything google puts out ends up being free (and yes I consider text ads 100x more free than that bullshit we call tv ads).
So Google ends up saying "fuck it, this idea is awesome, lets _give_ it away!"
MS can't even compare to google at this point.
The market does always correct itself, even if it is in 25-50-100 year cycles. The problem is that these corrections are extremely volatile, causing mass job losses, hunger, homelessness, death, etc. Thats why we need a balanced approach to economics. So we can allow for as much freedom as possible to innovate, build a business, or whatever, all the while mitigating monopolies, too large to fail, and market volatility when shit goes wrong.
Personally, even if things are too large to fail, they should fail anyway. Let it completely fail, if said business is important to government (such as banks, but not trade managing companies) then government should create a brand new replacement (nothing at all comes from the previous business except non-management personnel). When the volatility passes, said business slowing fades out, maybe even getting bought by companies that survived the bad weather.
As far as I know the 65nm 360s still suffer from RROD and it is not apparent when you buy a 360 that you are in fact getting the 65nm one vs the old one. The conference call the MS game division had today I think said they were still loosing money on hardware. So on one hand I understand why taking even more of a loss to drop the price and develop a new less broken _smaller_ console is perhaps not fiscally responsible, it still is a barrier now for those of us who want reliable cheep hardware.
Also, MS may have refreshed the hardware, and I know they have refreshed the inards, the basic design has not been refreshed enough. And it is not apparent to the general consumer, which is why when you do something to fix long standing issues in your hardware you tell the bloody world at the top of your lungs about it.
That console is also small and cheep. XBOX 360 and PS3 are neither of those. Not to mention the 360's high risk of the RROD.
I've already made my decision not to buy the 360 until it gets a hardware refresh. I have to imagine I am not alone. The PS3 is going to pass the 360 unless MS does something about it.
a populace decided to vote to ban all religious minorities
Protests. Outrage. Then war.
But if the people passed it, it should be done. Doubt it would be though.
oe how about a populace that votes a very popular ruler in as dictator for life
If the people passed it, it should be done.
both are extremely bad, and both could happen from pure democracy
no, democracy, like capitalism, must be tweaked to fit into the real world
a republic, for example, has checks and balances so that the a popular leader cnanot become a dictator or fundamental rights are not restricted, due to popular fickle whims
Just because a democracy has checks and balances and rules by which laws can be passed, such as a Bill of Rights or needing a super majority for amendments doesn't mean its not a pure democracy.
I think it is telling however that this completes a cycle where water and carbon dioxide turn into oxygen and methane which when theres fire turn back into carbon dioxide and water.
How much more of the spectrum are they going to give away to proprietary companies? The least they could do is _sell_ it. Sick and tired of government mismanaging the spectrum.
Qwerty allowed typists to type faster on a typewriter where commonly used letters being spaced together jamming the typewriter would slow them down. Now that we don't have such a mechanical barrier qwerty is ill suited for speed. Though it seems dvorak is not so much better.
By definition a PDA is ambiguous. Its a Personal Digital Assistant. Which could mean alot of things but generally mean Calendar/Schedule, Notes, Email, and Contact Addresses/Phone Numbers. These three features should be the main focus of a PDA but for some reason are still not being done well. PDAs are also getting bogged down on extra fluff when their main functions aren't perfect. A phone wouldn't be worth it if its main function of being a phone were crap, despite all its cool extra features.
I only block popups. I hate when a site uses my browser when I haven't given permission, I give permission on a site by site basis. I don't block web adds because I just ignore them, the same with tv ads. I don't necessarily care if they have ads.
Information doesn't _want_ to be free. It can't want. Many people, on the other hand, want information to be free. Whether that is free as in beer or free as in whatever the heck else type of free information can be is part of the debate.
I for one do think some information should be private, like say what I'm thinking, and what I do inside my home, but also think that if one has nothing to hide then they shouldn't be so afraid of video cameras on every corner of the commercial district.
Part of hoopla of the debate is about feeling. It is a little unsettling to some that companies try to compile every little thing you do so they might send you (e)mail or commercials or whatever that you might not be able to resist. But what really unsettles people is the possibility that what you buy at the bookstore 10 years ago might be used against you by some government gone wrong.
Yeah I monitor my cookies and deny/approve them as I surf, but not necessarily cause I care that they will know how many times I've been to their site or want to keep surfing records about me. I do it because I don't really need 200,000 cookies cluttering my computer and I do like to know who's setting cookies.
Which is my last point, the only thing I really care about privacy is I want to know when my privacy is being invaded.
I think the trademark of the "MacTel" name is just to cover their ass.
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Just so long as the 'average' and 'not to bright' student is not unnecessarily stunted. You ready me right, while 'bright' students should have great classes catered to their advanced abilities other students shouldn't have crapy education. Unfairly pushing all the non-advanced students into classes with no expectation is worse than unfairly lowering the bar to the least common denominator.
While I agree that an initial installation of windows XP or 2003 server connected to an unprotected network needs to be done offline until being patched. I disagree that the system must be permanently 'locked down so far it's hard to work'. A properly managed system, with a firewall and anti-virus/malware programs, can be realistically protected from Cost Damaging virus' and attacks.
Perhaps it costs less to start and lock down a system in a per admin/hour dollar amount. But having worked in a university environment which generally gets hit hardest when a new virus strikes there is a difference between a badly run windows server/network and a good one.
I agree with Tayler that part of the cost of working with Linux on a commercial level has at least something to do with the number of available windows admins as apposed to Linux admins.
If by majority you mean 51% of the _voters_ then sure. Id rather equate it to the majority of americans want more Bush. Theres very little in that statistic that really sais they are 'tired' of left wing liberals. I could flip it around and say that 49% of americans are tired of the cheap-labor conservatives.
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when I store my credit card information on my home computer
Why would you even do this? Information I don't want others to get at, I keep in my head. It being on your computer is merely slightly more secure than it being on a server somewhere on the internet. We all take risks of less than 100% secure. When you use your credit card, how confident are you that they don't keep and store said credit card in their 'cloud'?
As far as using the browser as an actual browser. I think its rather cumbersome. But using a true HTML render engine to render HTML made specifically for the e-book format I think is a great idea. Right now we have to deal with html to epub converters (the few there are) and they are all rudimentary. The 3G in both the Kindle and the Nook (id have to double check though to be sure) I believe use the spring network, so the coverage is good. But I actually agree that 3G is truly not necessary for most people.
The Fisher Bullet Space Pen is what I use. I had the same pen with its original ink cartridge in my pocket for 10+ years. I've only just now had to buy a new cartridge.
One small wrinkle. Most everything most everything google puts out ends up being free (and yes I consider text ads 100x more free than that bullshit we call tv ads). So Google ends up saying "fuck it, this idea is awesome, lets _give_ it away!" MS can't even compare to google at this point.
The market does always correct itself, even if it is in 25-50-100 year cycles. The problem is that these corrections are extremely volatile, causing mass job losses, hunger, homelessness, death, etc. Thats why we need a balanced approach to economics. So we can allow for as much freedom as possible to innovate, build a business, or whatever, all the while mitigating monopolies, too large to fail, and market volatility when shit goes wrong.
Personally, even if things are too large to fail, they should fail anyway. Let it completely fail, if said business is important to government (such as banks, but not trade managing companies) then government should create a brand new replacement (nothing at all comes from the previous business except non-management personnel). When the volatility passes, said business slowing fades out, maybe even getting bought by companies that survived the bad weather.
I for one welcome our new paralysis curing recluse spider overlords.
As far as I know the 65nm 360s still suffer from RROD and it is not apparent when you buy a 360 that you are in fact getting the 65nm one vs the old one. The conference call the MS game division had today I think said they were still loosing money on hardware. So on one hand I understand why taking even more of a loss to drop the price and develop a new less broken _smaller_ console is perhaps not fiscally responsible, it still is a barrier now for those of us who want reliable cheep hardware.
Also, MS may have refreshed the hardware, and I know they have refreshed the inards, the basic design has not been refreshed enough. And it is not apparent to the general consumer, which is why when you do something to fix long standing issues in your hardware you tell the bloody world at the top of your lungs about it.
That console is also small and cheep. XBOX 360 and PS3 are neither of those. Not to mention the 360's high risk of the RROD. I've already made my decision not to buy the 360 until it gets a hardware refresh. I have to imagine I am not alone. The PS3 is going to pass the 360 unless MS does something about it.
a populace decided to vote to ban all religious minorities Protests. Outrage. Then war. But if the people passed it, it should be done. Doubt it would be though. oe how about a populace that votes a very popular ruler in as dictator for life If the people passed it, it should be done. both are extremely bad, and both could happen from pure democracy no, democracy, like capitalism, must be tweaked to fit into the real world a republic, for example, has checks and balances so that the a popular leader cnanot become a dictator or fundamental rights are not restricted, due to popular fickle whims Just because a democracy has checks and balances and rules by which laws can be passed, such as a Bill of Rights or needing a super majority for amendments doesn't mean its not a pure democracy.
You could essentially block all mail unless its verified (payed for) or the sender is in your contact list.
I think it is telling however that this completes a cycle where water and carbon dioxide turn into oxygen and methane which when theres fire turn back into carbon dioxide and water.
How much more of the spectrum are they going to give away to proprietary companies? The least they could do is _sell_ it. Sick and tired of government mismanaging the spectrum.
Qwerty allowed typists to type faster on a typewriter where commonly used letters being spaced together jamming the typewriter would slow them down. Now that we don't have such a mechanical barrier qwerty is ill suited for speed. Though it seems dvorak is not so much better.
By definition a PDA is ambiguous. Its a Personal Digital Assistant. Which could mean alot of things but generally mean Calendar/Schedule, Notes, Email, and Contact Addresses/Phone Numbers. These three features should be the main focus of a PDA but for some reason are still not being done well. PDAs are also getting bogged down on extra fluff when their main functions aren't perfect. A phone wouldn't be worth it if its main function of being a phone were crap, despite all its cool extra features.
I only block popups. I hate when a site uses my browser when I haven't given permission, I give permission on a site by site basis. I don't block web adds because I just ignore them, the same with tv ads. I don't necessarily care if they have ads.
Information doesn't _want_ to be free. It can't want. Many people, on the other hand, want information to be free. Whether that is free as in beer or free as in whatever the heck else type of free information can be is part of the debate.
I for one do think some information should be private, like say what I'm thinking, and what I do inside my home, but also think that if one has nothing to hide then they shouldn't be so afraid of video cameras on every corner of the commercial district.
Part of hoopla of the debate is about feeling. It is a little unsettling to some that companies try to compile every little thing you do so they might send you (e)mail or commercials or whatever that you might not be able to resist. But what really unsettles people is the possibility that what you buy at the bookstore 10 years ago might be used against you by some government gone wrong.
Yeah I monitor my cookies and deny/approve them as I surf, but not necessarily cause I care that they will know how many times I've been to their site or want to keep surfing records about me. I do it because I don't really need 200,000 cookies cluttering my computer and I do like to know who's setting cookies.
Which is my last point, the only thing I really care about privacy is I want to know when my privacy is being invaded.
I think the trademark of the "MacTel" name is just to cover their ass.
Just so long as the 'average' and 'not to bright' student is not unnecessarily stunted. You ready me right, while 'bright' students should have great classes catered to their advanced abilities other students shouldn't have crapy education. Unfairly pushing all the non-advanced students into classes with no expectation is worse than unfairly lowering the bar to the least common denominator.
While I agree that an initial installation of windows XP or 2003 server connected to an unprotected network needs to be done offline until being patched. I disagree that the system must be permanently 'locked down so far it's hard to work'. A properly managed system, with a firewall and anti-virus/malware programs, can be realistically protected from Cost Damaging virus' and attacks.
Perhaps it costs less to start and lock down a system in a per admin/hour dollar amount. But having worked in a university environment which generally gets hit hardest when a new virus strikes there is a difference between a badly run windows server/network and a good one.
I agree with Tayler that part of the cost of working with Linux on a commercial level has at least something to do with the number of available windows admins as apposed to Linux admins.
If by majority you mean 51% of the _voters_ then sure. Id rather equate it to the majority of americans want more Bush. Theres very little in that statistic that really sais they are 'tired' of left wing liberals. I could flip it around and say that 49% of americans are tired of the cheap-labor conservatives.