I recently heard a senior manager say "my email is more important than my phone". So I ask: what makes voice data so high and mighty that it needs such a high level of reliability? Don't get me wrong: the phone is important, and we want it to keep working. But wouldn't it be better to redirect the funds that make the phone system stable towards makeing a general-purpose data line (aka, "The Internet") stable?
Licensed spectrum is a bad idea - it stiffels innovation. Read The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World by Lawrence Lessig (amazon) if you want to understand why.
Because the laws and such were originally defined with the understanding that there would be a monopoly on telephone services (or at least the line into your house).
That is no longer the case. Especially with the internet, as you can get a connection by cable, dsl, satelite, wi-fi, fm, etc... It's a free market. Regulation (at least in this sense) is no longer necessary.
And becides does it make sense to charge a company in NJ for this? All they have are customers in other states. They don't own any property or goods outside of their centraly located servers... which don't reside in your state.
I think the real issue is this: Technology makes processes efficient. Efficient processes require fewer people. Fewer people in processes means fewer people without jobs. Lack of a job causes a lot of problems.
But, in the end, don't we want a world where everything that *needs* to be done, get's done by a few people, and the rest of us can relax?
But how do we compensate people so that they can afford their lives if only 1% have jobs?
What teacher would allow this as a part of his/her curriculum? Good grief. Here you go kids--create, have fun, but just so you know, it's the money that makes it worthwhile, not the satisfaction and joy that comes with the act of creation and knowing a job well done. What a crappy lesson to be giving our kids. That's as bad as suing 12 year olds, actually worse, because their propaganda is teaching children corrupt and false moral truths. As a parent I'd be pissed as hell to find out the schools were allowing my children to be taught these things. How about teaching them the importance of obeying the law because it IS the law, and if the law is wrong, it can be changed, but that the law is important and the law should be followed?
Malicious code and DOS attacks aside: The internet is free, let's keep it that way. If you put in a law that says so and so can't use the internet for such and such a reason, what's to stop it from going overboard? I know it sucks to be you, but no one ever said you wouldn't get 40k *legitimate* email's over a weekend. That is simply the price of doing business online.
I'm happy to be no longer employed by a company that is india-sourcing, but to be honest, I can see the point. Sure, you can argue that for now it isn't as good, and the India programmers suck, and that the water-cooler conversations really help business, but these are all hurdles that will be over come with time. Maybe not this year, but perhaps next. You gotta remember that here in the USA (or for that matter Europe) we are insanely rich compared to the rest of the world. This great "World Economy" will eventually ballance everything out and, yes, it's true, *YOU* will be poorer. Get used to it.
Now I'm not saying I like this any, but that's just the way it is. We've made our world one where where the "bottom line" is cash - not people. It is quite inevitable that you (and your wonderfull talents) will be sold as cheap as possible. And yes, you *are* competing against the poor $20/hour high-end experts in other contries.
So I want to send a letter to a representative, a laywer, a judge, or *someone*. Where can we make are voice heard about this injustice?
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Seems like Apple Computers knowingly breached a contract. Blatently. Seems like poor managerial decision making.
Are you kidding? What do you want apple to do? Not have a computer with a speaker in it? And where do you think computers are going? Everyone's gettingintothis whole Digital Hub thing. And you want to ban Apple from it just because they happen to share the same name as the beatles who refuse to make their music available online?
I don't have an ipod, but I do have 26 GB collection of music ( 5% illegal ). If I were to purchase a pod, I'd think pretty hard about getting "only" 30GB. Gotta have room to grow and all.
It is a nice idea, but we should really not allow it. I see the benefits and all, but look at it this way: What's stopping RoadRunner from classifying all other TV/Broadcast/Cable web sites that are not affiliated with Warner Bros as a virus, and therefore block those web sites as well? Filtering of content should *NEVER* happen at the network level. No matter how convienent or tempting it may seem.
If a hippo was able to parallel park a car, that would be news. That would be stuff that matters. But if the hippo did it every week, is it still news? Does it still matter?
I think this is a bit of a misconception. A cell phone is just as much of a pain as a pager to carry with you, and in the end a pager is far less functional.
What you have to ask, is: Am *I* paying for cellphone service for myself, or for others to contact me?
As far as I am concerned, my cellphone is decidely for me. I reject at least 50% of all of my incoming calls. Why? Because people can leave a message, and because *I* will decide when I talk to people, not the other way around.
And as long as geeks happly play with their little Bayesian filters, they stop seeing spam and so stop complaining to the providers that are letting spam get through. They stop doing other things that might make spammer's life difficult.
Actually, I get filtering AND I still complain. I use SpamCop. I do of course despise getting spam, but I quite enjoy reporting 100% of my spam to their sysadmins at a click of the button. It is easy to report, and I am quite glad to be doing my part.
I've tried to use these FM transmitters before, and I find them completly worthless. Sure you can find an empty radio station and broadcast your pirate music there, but if you're traveling around, I find that I need to find a new "blank" station every 1/2 hour or so.
Pick the strongest radio station in your city. If the transmitter can't overpower that station while you're driving around, then I don't see the point. Especially if you drive long distances, and the radio stations keep changing.
My letter, though not entirely eloquent may be a building block for the next guy:
Dear -
I recently noticed that RIAA has been suing fans that have downloaded some of your music. I am wondering why you have chosen to support RIAA by allowing them to sue your fans in this fashion. Wouldn't it be better to focus on finding a legitimate way to get music electronically, such as Apple's iTunes Music Store? I think you would find that the illegal music file trading would stop just as fast as it started if people were given a fair and legitimate way to get music electronically.
Every time I purchase a new album, I immediately encode it to mp3. I do this, not for illegal reasons, but because I want to listen to your music at home, at work, and on the bus. mp3's are much easier to carry around than CD's. I honestly can't tell you the last time I listened to any of my music straight from the original CD it came on. It has been at least a year in any case. I listen to my music exclusively from MP3's.
As a fan, I would appreciate any efforts you could make to move the industry forward instead of supporting RIAA who seems to be bent on preventing the future from happening.
I disagree. I have had my legitimate email blocked by such systems because I use a localhost mail server. Personally, it seems to me that the whole concept of a "sendmail" server is silly. Why use a middle-man server, when direct would work just fine?
But in anycase, the reason I use a localhost mail server is because I move my laptop between home and work, and neiter network has a secured sendmail server that I can use from both locations. Without a local server, I would need to reconfigure my mail every time I moved to a different network.
Incidently, for those of you that use the wireless coffee shops, how do you send your email? Do you go with webmail only? Do you reconfigure your mail application?
Yes, but if "cheaper goods" means that there will be fewer citizens with jobs, or jobs that pay less, with the CEO's making more and more, I'd vote for the "expensive goods" everytime.
In the end, all of these savings that come from a 5k india java programmer instead of a 60k usa java programmer may in a little way go to the consumer, but in a large way, will go to the CEO.
step 1) plug in camera step 2) click "import" step 3) select photo(s) to send step 4) click "email photos" step 5) select the size of the photos you would like them changed to (small, medium, large, full resolution) step 6) type the rest of your email, and click send.
I got it on a weekend vacation a couple weeks ago, and have to say that it was one of the more entertaining books I've read from orielly. It covers a lot of different topics, and while some of the "hacks are pointless or stupid (how to remove the brushed metal look from your apps comes to mind), many are very helpful. Being a newbie Linux/RedHat user, and a long time Mac user, more often than not, what I am looking for is simple instructions telling me how to set up XYZ for my specific platform. Sure Postgres or MySql or sendmail documentation will walk you through the basics of installing, but Mac OS X Hacks walks you through the steps that are relevant to you.
Overall: It is a great book to use as a springboard for getting into more complex features and capabilites of OS X.
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With the delay in longhorn, why can't microsoft just wait to announce features till they are actually close? Say 3 months ahead of the release?
I'm so sick of hearing about new MS features for this or that only to find that they won't be available till 2006.
I recently heard a senior manager say "my email is more important than my phone". So I ask: what makes voice data so high and mighty that it needs such a high level of reliability? Don't get me wrong: the phone is important, and we want it to keep working. But wouldn't it be better to redirect the funds that make the phone system stable towards makeing a general-purpose data line (aka, "The Internet") stable?
Licensed spectrum is a bad idea - it stiffels innovation. Read The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World by Lawrence Lessig (amazon) if you want to understand why.
But for now, software is flaky and, undesireable though it may be, users need to plan appropriately.
You need only look as far as Mac OS X to see that this is not the case.
Because the laws and such were originally defined with the understanding that there would be a monopoly on telephone services (or at least the line into your house).
That is no longer the case. Especially with the internet, as you can get a connection by cable, dsl, satelite, wi-fi, fm, etc... It's a free market. Regulation (at least in this sense) is no longer necessary.
And becides does it make sense to charge a company in NJ for this? All they have are customers in other states. They don't own any property or goods outside of their centraly located servers... which don't reside in your state.
I think the real issue is this: Technology makes processes efficient. Efficient processes require fewer people. Fewer people in processes means fewer people without jobs. Lack of a job causes a lot of problems.
But, in the end, don't we want a world where everything that *needs* to be done, get's done by a few people, and the rest of us can relax?
But how do we compensate people so that they can afford their lives if only 1% have jobs?
What teacher would allow this as a part of his/her curriculum? Good grief. Here you go kids--create, have fun, but just so you know, it's the money that makes it worthwhile, not the satisfaction and joy that comes with the act of creation and knowing a job well done. What a crappy lesson to be giving our kids. That's as bad as suing 12 year olds, actually worse, because their propaganda is teaching children corrupt and false moral truths. As a parent I'd be pissed as hell to find out the schools were allowing my children to be taught these things. How about teaching them the importance of obeying the law because it IS the law, and if the law is wrong, it can be changed, but that the law is important and the law should be followed?
You mean Java is gas-guzzeling, oversized, hard-to-park, and basically pointless for 90% of the suburbanites that own them?
Malicious code and DOS attacks aside: The internet is free, let's keep it that way. If you put in a law that says so and so can't use the internet for such and such a reason, what's to stop it from going overboard? I know it sucks to be you, but no one ever said you wouldn't get 40k *legitimate* email's over a weekend. That is simply the price of doing business online.
I'm happy to be no longer employed by a company that is india-sourcing, but to be honest, I can see the point. Sure, you can argue that for now it isn't as good, and the India programmers suck, and that the water-cooler conversations really help business, but these are all hurdles that will be over come with time. Maybe not this year, but perhaps next. You gotta remember that here in the USA (or for that matter Europe) we are insanely rich compared to the rest of the world. This great "World Economy" will eventually ballance everything out and, yes, it's true, *YOU* will be poorer. Get used to it.
Now I'm not saying I like this any, but that's just the way it is. We've made our world one where where the "bottom line" is cash - not people. It is quite inevitable that you (and your wonderfull talents) will be sold as cheap as possible. And yes, you *are* competing against the poor $20/hour high-end experts in other contries.
So I want to send a letter to a representative, a laywer, a judge, or *someone*. Where can we make are voice heard about this injustice?
Are you kidding? What do you want apple to do? Not have a computer with a speaker in it? And where do you think computers are going? Everyone's getting into this whole Digital Hub thing. And you want to ban Apple from it just because they happen to share the same name as the beatles who refuse to make their music available online?
I don't have an ipod, but I do have 26 GB collection of music ( 5% illegal ). If I were to purchase a pod, I'd think pretty hard about getting "only" 30GB. Gotta have room to grow and all.
For those that want to read about the issue deeply, I highly recommend Lawrence Lessig's book: The Future of Ideas: The fate of the commons in a connected world.
If a hippo was able to parallel park a car, that would be news. That would be stuff that matters. But if the hippo did it every week, is it still news? Does it still matter?
I think this is a bit of a misconception. A cell phone is just as much of a pain as a pager to carry with you, and in the end a pager is far less functional.
What you have to ask, is: Am *I* paying for cellphone service for myself, or for others to contact me?
As far as I am concerned, my cellphone is decidely for me. I reject at least 50% of all of my incoming calls. Why? Because people can leave a message, and because *I* will decide when I talk to people, not the other way around.
And here's the proof... http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?host=webvisio n.med.utah.edu
Actually, I get filtering AND I still complain. I use SpamCop. I do of course despise getting spam, but I quite enjoy reporting 100% of my spam to their sysadmins at a click of the button. It is easy to report, and I am quite glad to be doing my part.
I've tried to use these FM transmitters before, and I find them completly worthless. Sure you can find an empty radio station and broadcast your pirate music there, but if you're traveling around, I find that I need to find a new "blank" station every 1/2 hour or so.
Pick the strongest radio station in your city. If the transmitter can't overpower that station while you're driving around, then I don't see the point. Especially if you drive long distances, and the radio stations keep changing.
My letter, though not entirely eloquent may be a building block for the next guy:
Dear -
I recently noticed that RIAA has been suing fans that have downloaded some of your music. I am wondering why you have chosen to support RIAA by allowing them to sue your fans in this fashion. Wouldn't it be better to focus on finding a legitimate way to get music electronically, such as Apple's iTunes Music Store? I think you would find that the illegal music file trading would stop just as fast as it started if people were given a fair and legitimate way to get music electronically.
Every time I purchase a new album, I immediately encode it to mp3. I do this, not for illegal reasons, but because I want to listen to your music at home, at work, and on the bus. mp3's are much easier to carry around than CD's. I honestly can't tell you the last time I listened to any of my music straight from the original CD it came on. It has been at least a year in any case. I listen to my music exclusively from MP3's.
As a fan, I would appreciate any efforts you could make to move the industry forward instead of supporting RIAA who seems to be bent on preventing the future from happening.
Thank you for your time,
I disagree. I have had my legitimate email blocked by such systems because I use a localhost mail server. Personally, it seems to me that the whole concept of a "sendmail" server is silly. Why use a middle-man server, when direct would work just fine?
But in anycase, the reason I use a localhost mail server is because I move my laptop between home and work, and neiter network has a secured sendmail server that I can use from both locations. Without a local server, I would need to reconfigure my mail every time I moved to a different network.
Incidently, for those of you that use the wireless coffee shops, how do you send your email? Do you go with webmail only? Do you reconfigure your mail application?
Yes, but if "cheaper goods" means that there will be fewer citizens with jobs, or jobs that pay less, with the CEO's making more and more, I'd vote for the "expensive goods" everytime.
In the end, all of these savings that come from a 5k india java programmer instead of a 60k usa java programmer may in a little way go to the consumer, but in a large way, will go to the CEO.
That is not right.
Good for IBM? Hmm. Maybe it's good for the upper management and the share holders, but what about the workers that actually *make* the company?
I do not think that the "bottom line" should be $$. The bottom line should be the people in the company.
... or, you can give her a mac.
step 1) plug in camera
step 2) click "import"
step 3) select photo(s) to send
step 4) click "email photos"
step 5) select the size of the photos you would like them changed to (small, medium, large, full resolution)
step 6) type the rest of your email, and click send.
http://www.apple.com/iphoto/
I got it on a weekend vacation a couple weeks ago, and have to say that it was one of the more entertaining books I've read from orielly. It covers a lot of different topics, and while some of the "hacks are pointless or stupid (how to remove the brushed metal look from your apps comes to mind), many are very helpful. Being a newbie Linux/RedHat user, and a long time Mac user, more often than not, what I am looking for is simple instructions telling me how to set up XYZ for my specific platform. Sure Postgres or MySql or sendmail documentation will walk you through the basics of installing, but Mac OS X Hacks walks you through the steps that are relevant to you.
Overall: It is a great book to use as a springboard for getting into more complex features and capabilites of OS X.
IE 6.0 final was released in October of 2001. 5.0 final was released in March of 1999. At this rate, 7.0 won't be released till 2004 sometime.