Apple really needs to open up its phones like it did from the beginning with iPad. Currently, I think the US is one of the few countries they are unwilling to sell it unlocked for whatever reason.
I know several international (small) business travelers that would love to have an iPhone the past years, but as long as they aren't allowed to swap sims (for a local sim once they get into that country, much cheaper than ATT ass-raping intl rates), it's a no go. And they aren't about to carry two phones and maintain info on both of them, plus paying montly rates.
You know the main difference between Freedom of Speech and Totalitarian Censorship? If you put up blog post saying "I hate Obama, I wish he was dead!", you get nothing in the US. If you put up a blog post saying "I'm fed up with communism, let's move to something else! Oh yeah, and the Politburo should just up and die!", men in a black Volga will visit you sooner than you can say "Who's that knocking on the door so late at night?".
If you said that about Obama, you might get a visit from the Secret Service.
Anyway, what you mention is tangential freedoms. Many powerful men long ago got over their personal egos and what any nobody says about them since it all gets drowned out in the noise. Try making real change instead of just bitching, and you may see how far your freedom stretches.
Fuck, in one township around here, I can't even let my grass grow more than a few inches without getting threatening letters about $600 a day fines. And yeah, if you have $$$ you can fight it. So that's pretty much what freedom is predicated on here, having $$$.
If there was a right to give up freedom, shouldn't you be advocating for voluntary slavery?
The problem with allowing people give up some of their rights is that it not only effects them, but it will be passed down to their kids. In this case, a legacy of proprietary e-book libraries may have a very real effect.
Once, government was once seen as a protector of freedoms of the general public, and not just the bailer-out of large, well-connected banks and car companies/union. I would like to see a return of that role.
What can an spiritual naturalist say to someone when confronted with that?
You're making the mistake that specific words actually matter. Consolation is consolation.
And empty phrases are just that. Don't put to much stock into packaged "wisdom". If my loved one died, people yapping pointless shit to me would have little value. I know from my childhood. It's more them trying to make themselves feel better in an awkward situation than it is actually about consoling somebody.
I don't know what we have... and until we have something, religion wins.
Maybe things we are personally interested in are memorable. But that changes from person to person. If I have a certain hobby like cartoon like Futurama, I'll like pics/posters from characters from there more than a cartoon I don't watch, like family guy. I'm more probable to look at pics of my family than somebody else's family (although both probably bore me.)
I have had more landscape backgrounds on my computer than of animals (and never people.)
I think any algorithm is flawed, as this changes from person to person. It be like having one music station on the assumption everyone likes the same things. Of course, in music, the trends are towards individualization (lastfm, pandora, slacker, etc) rather than generic top 10 lists.
And while the last top 10 photos on reddit may amuse me for a minute, I simply don't remember them 10 minutes later. Maybe it's just all media overload.
Considering the number of e.coli breaks lately (and the one going on in Germany right now), I would want any water I'll potentially handle go through some natural processes first and not just technology that can break down and not be maintained well.
I remember that when fluorine treatment plants breakdown and add too much fluorine to the drinking water, and how that causes problems. And that's just adding one chemical to good water, not taking out a bunch of crap from bad water to make it good.
(And yes, my current place has it's own well, many yards of dirt filter anything I may drink.)
I was burned once. Paid good money 2 or so years back for 2 fairly pricey SSDs. A couple months down the line, halfway full, they started stuttering like failing harddrives or harddrives waking up. It was painful. There were few reviews online at the time of purchase, but when the problems cropped up, I found out that the controllers in them were considered complete crap and that OCZ wouldn't do anything about screwed customers other than replace failing ones with the same exact model even though they had a new one in the works.
Since then, I've stuck with intel and haven't regretted it. While I realize OCZ probably have their stuff together now, I don't look favorably upon companies that are willing to ship obvious crap. (And they must have realized the problem early in testing already.)
But yes, I do love SSDs. Still use HDD for long-term, rarely accessed storage, but for working on? No comparison.
There's no reason that a system like this should have any connection to the Internet, any external access at all (except maybe read access for monitoring at home by the chief engineers or something)
A webcam of the gauges, of sorts, at most. No direct outside connection at all.
Why would anyone ever dream of developing a console that is weaker than a mobile phone? It has a better power source, better cooling possibilities, fewer space constraints, and fewer wireless communication requirements.
Look into the future. No, not the next generation of consoles, but I imagine 10-15 years from now.
Did I think my desktop would be replaced by a notebook even though they had been around by a decade or so back then? Hell, no. Just not powerful enough. Nowhere close. The small business I help a friend administer used to have 7 desktops and 2 notebooks for 7 employees (notebooks were travel computers but not for "real work"). Now it's around 20 notebooks and 1 desktop for around 20 people. Desktop acts only as a server.
It's not just the power or portability. I recently set up a salvaged desktop at home and at the end, I though, "what a goddamned cable hog". Wires to the monitors, to the speakers, to the internet, electrical from the body, from the monitors, etc - all adds up. It made the place look like a terrible mess. While I prefer workin on a desktop's keyboard and monitor size, there is little else that appeals to me.
In a dozen years, I imagine, about 3 console generations, there will be some type of Game Boy Super Advance 3x or whatever it's called, and not only will it act as your phone/portable game system/controller, but it will hook up to your TV wirelessly (perhaps with help from a transmitter stick that goes into the HDMI/newest_standard) and be your actual game system as well.
It won't be the most powerful, but for many, it will be good enough.
Libraries should start up a bitcoin like system of digital files, whereby the can still loan the file and it would be out of their possession. Then legally, they can argue they are not breaking copyright, because they are not copying files but transferring them, just like a physical book/movie/what_have_you.
Ideally, US law should get into consumer rights now, and any commercially copyrighted content from movies to books to music dealt with in this fashion so that digital consumers can donate their used books/movies/music to libraries (digital as they may be) and that a secondhand market may exist.
Yeah, but some students work better that way. If you get down to it, a teacher lecturing isn't much different than a textbook either, except shlee can take questions. And taking questions isn't that great unless you're wondering about the answer too, otherwise it's just breaking your train of thought.
So, I'd rather have a video that's professionally made (not by professional, but just anticipating what students will ask) and being able to rewind it instead of sitting in a lecturing frantically taking notes getting a ton down because the professor hinted that any bit of trivia is up for exam.
Now, I can understand Khan Academy is a one way exchange, and teachers can offer a two way exchange (conversation) but in my educational experience that's so rare inside the 5-12th grade classroom and then in the first several undergraduate years (outside class may be different) that people may as well be harping about unicorns.
I have found that both Americans and Israelis have displayed the most spectacular levels of ignorance about the world outside of their own country. More so than other travelers and people I've met in my life. That's not to say all Americans and Israelis are stupid, far from it. It's just that the ratio of numbnuts to decent conversationalists is significantly higher.
I'd blame the evening news more than anything. Human interest stories like firemen getting a cat out of the tree appear often, and we're talking major cities, not just rural news stations. Then comes sports and weather. "International news" is mostly just washington politics really. Little to no economics past the ever popular gas poutrages.
But then, as a European, you live within 1-day driving distance of a lot more countries and knowing what your nationals neighbors are up to and feeling may be more important. As an American, I don't even know the name of Canada's Prime Minister or Mexico's President.... sadly.
This was always the paradox of ebooks. By every measure, ebooks should have the first thing that easily came to the computer. Files sizes were small and text was one of the first things reasonably conquered by computers. In the early days, sound cards were necessary to play music, video files were just goddamned intensive.... and yet as a medium, books came last after everything else.
Now, we're stuck with Amazon/Apple being the central distributors, they're start going to decide more and more on content for whatever reason. At least music players, you can load it up as an mp3 file and there are several music stores online to choose from. Even Apple managed to talk RIAA out of DRM. But publishers are going to be signing their own death warrant, building up their masters for the immediate (and false) security of DRM.
I love things in a digital format. But I really, really hate how the distribution model is playing out. This is the eBay model. One central place, it's convenient in some ways, but you play by their rules or you don't play at all, and if they decide to fuck you, they really fuck you.
We need to get away from the eBay model from these greedy ass companies, or it's going to be a damned bleak and bland future. We need to move over to the google shopping model, decentralized and seperate stores/vendor offering their wares connected by an neutraol aggregator (which lets people review service) and a whitelist for the cautious type.
I'm getting really sick of the direction these gadgets are heading.
I heard that Disney or parent company is invested in pornography. You give the parent company a different name who sells this stuff, and most people won't be any the wiser.
Don't worry, they'll go after HDDs/SSDs and Internet connections themselves next. This is how it works, the more successful they are in asking for money, the more lawyers/lobbyists they'll be able to afford, and the more things they'll have their hand out for.
The only correct response is not to get defensive, but go on the offensive and get the initial tax (CDs/DVDs) repealed.
Don't play into their game and go on the defense. Go on the offense. Just tell them to fuck off and push to repeal the tax on CDs/DVDs. Or they'll be pushing for HDDs/SSDs next.
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Apple really needs to open up its phones like it did from the beginning with iPad. Currently, I think the US is one of the few countries they are unwilling to sell it unlocked for whatever reason.
I know several international (small) business travelers that would love to have an iPhone the past years, but as long as they aren't allowed to swap sims (for a local sim once they get into that country, much cheaper than ATT ass-raping intl rates), it's a no go. And they aren't about to carry two phones and maintain info on both of them, plus paying montly rates.
If you said that about Obama, you might get a visit from the Secret Service.
Anyway, what you mention is tangential freedoms. Many powerful men long ago got over their personal egos and what any nobody says about them since it all gets drowned out in the noise. Try making real change instead of just bitching, and you may see how far your freedom stretches.
Fuck, in one township around here, I can't even let my grass grow more than a few inches without getting threatening letters about $600 a day fines. And yeah, if you have $$$ you can fight it. So that's pretty much what freedom is predicated on here, having $$$.
Oh, and just read about swat teams. If you don't think the Stasi exist in America, read about this:
http://newsone.com/nation/casey-gane-mccalla/arizona-swat-team-kills-marine-in-botched-raid/
Well, that covers boys, but what about girls?
when working models are no longer required. This and patent trolls.
I would say around Teddy Roosevelt was the closest, with his trust busting and what not.
What are you referencing in the 1870s? I'm rather curious as I'm no US History expert.
If there was a right to give up freedom, shouldn't you be advocating for voluntary slavery?
The problem with allowing people give up some of their rights is that it not only effects them, but it will be passed down to their kids. In this case, a legacy of proprietary e-book libraries may have a very real effect.
Once, government was once seen as a protector of freedoms of the general public, and not just the bailer-out of large, well-connected banks and car companies/union. I would like to see a return of that role.
You're making the mistake that specific words actually matter. Consolation is consolation.
And empty phrases are just that. Don't put to much stock into packaged "wisdom". If my loved one died, people yapping pointless shit to me would have little value. I know from my childhood. It's more them trying to make themselves feel better in an awkward situation than it is actually about consoling somebody.
What a load.
Since when is 30km = 48 miles?
30km = ~18.6 miles
Maybe things we are personally interested in are memorable. But that changes from person to person. If I have a certain hobby like cartoon like Futurama, I'll like pics/posters from characters from there more than a cartoon I don't watch, like family guy. I'm more probable to look at pics of my family than somebody else's family (although both probably bore me.)
I have had more landscape backgrounds on my computer than of animals (and never people.)
I think any algorithm is flawed, as this changes from person to person. It be like having one music station on the assumption everyone likes the same things. Of course, in music, the trends are towards individualization (lastfm, pandora, slacker, etc) rather than generic top 10 lists.
And while the last top 10 photos on reddit may amuse me for a minute, I simply don't remember them 10 minutes later. Maybe it's just all media overload.
Considering the number of e.coli breaks lately (and the one going on in Germany right now), I would want any water I'll potentially handle go through some natural processes first and not just technology that can break down and not be maintained well.
I remember that when fluorine treatment plants breakdown and add too much fluorine to the drinking water, and how that causes problems. And that's just adding one chemical to good water, not taking out a bunch of crap from bad water to make it good.
(And yes, my current place has it's own well, many yards of dirt filter anything I may drink.)
I was burned once. Paid good money 2 or so years back for 2 fairly pricey SSDs. A couple months down the line, halfway full, they started stuttering like failing harddrives or harddrives waking up. It was painful. There were few reviews online at the time of purchase, but when the problems cropped up, I found out that the controllers in them were considered complete crap and that OCZ wouldn't do anything about screwed customers other than replace failing ones with the same exact model even though they had a new one in the works.
Since then, I've stuck with intel and haven't regretted it. While I realize OCZ probably have their stuff together now, I don't look favorably upon companies that are willing to ship obvious crap. (And they must have realized the problem early in testing already.)
But yes, I do love SSDs. Still use HDD for long-term, rarely accessed storage, but for working on? No comparison.
A webcam of the gauges, of sorts, at most. No direct outside connection at all.
Look into the future. No, not the next generation of consoles, but I imagine 10-15 years from now.
Did I think my desktop would be replaced by a notebook even though they had been around by a decade or so back then? Hell, no. Just not powerful enough. Nowhere close. The small business I help a friend administer used to have 7 desktops and 2 notebooks for 7 employees (notebooks were travel computers but not for "real work"). Now it's around 20 notebooks and 1 desktop for around 20 people. Desktop acts only as a server.
It's not just the power or portability. I recently set up a salvaged desktop at home and at the end, I though, "what a goddamned cable hog". Wires to the monitors, to the speakers, to the internet, electrical from the body, from the monitors, etc - all adds up. It made the place look like a terrible mess. While I prefer workin on a desktop's keyboard and monitor size, there is little else that appeals to me.
In a dozen years, I imagine, about 3 console generations, there will be some type of Game Boy Super Advance 3x or whatever it's called, and not only will it act as your phone/portable game system/controller, but it will hook up to your TV wirelessly (perhaps with help from a transmitter stick that goes into the HDMI/newest_standard) and be your actual game system as well.
It won't be the most powerful, but for many, it will be good enough.
Libraries should start up a bitcoin like system of digital files, whereby the can still loan the file and it would be out of their possession. Then legally, they can argue they are not breaking copyright, because they are not copying files but transferring them, just like a physical book/movie/what_have_you.
Ideally, US law should get into consumer rights now, and any commercially copyrighted content from movies to books to music dealt with in this fashion so that digital consumers can donate their used books/movies/music to libraries (digital as they may be) and that a secondhand market may exist.
I wish the files were transferable, in the fashion of bitcoins. Then a used market can still legitimately exist outside the publisher's control.
as seen on Futurama....
I wonder if they'll sport the "As Seen On TV" on them?
I credit the people who actually work on this, not just the guy who dreams some similiar concept up. Genius - 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration.
Hell, as futurists go, Lucas isn't even in the top 100.
Yeah, but some students work better that way. If you get down to it, a teacher lecturing isn't much different than a textbook either, except shlee can take questions. And taking questions isn't that great unless you're wondering about the answer too, otherwise it's just breaking your train of thought.
So, I'd rather have a video that's professionally made (not by professional, but just anticipating what students will ask) and being able to rewind it instead of sitting in a lecturing frantically taking notes getting a ton down because the professor hinted that any bit of trivia is up for exam.
Now, I can understand Khan Academy is a one way exchange, and teachers can offer a two way exchange (conversation) but in my educational experience that's so rare inside the 5-12th grade classroom and then in the first several undergraduate years (outside class may be different) that people may as well be harping about unicorns.
I'd blame the evening news more than anything. Human interest stories like firemen getting a cat out of the tree appear often, and we're talking major cities, not just rural news stations. Then comes sports and weather. "International news" is mostly just washington politics really. Little to no economics past the ever popular gas poutrages.
But then, as a European, you live within 1-day driving distance of a lot more countries and knowing what your nationals neighbors are up to and feeling may be more important. As an American, I don't even know the name of Canada's Prime Minister or Mexico's President.... sadly.
This was always the paradox of ebooks. By every measure, ebooks should have the first thing that easily came to the computer. Files sizes were small and text was one of the first things reasonably conquered by computers. In the early days, sound cards were necessary to play music, video files were just goddamned intensive.... and yet as a medium, books came last after everything else.
Now, we're stuck with Amazon/Apple being the central distributors, they're start going to decide more and more on content for whatever reason. At least music players, you can load it up as an mp3 file and there are several music stores online to choose from. Even Apple managed to talk RIAA out of DRM. But publishers are going to be signing their own death warrant, building up their masters for the immediate (and false) security of DRM.
I love things in a digital format. But I really, really hate how the distribution model is playing out. This is the eBay model. One central place, it's convenient in some ways, but you play by their rules or you don't play at all, and if they decide to fuck you, they really fuck you.
We need to get away from the eBay model from these greedy ass companies, or it's going to be a damned bleak and bland future. We need to move over to the google shopping model, decentralized and seperate stores/vendor offering their wares connected by an neutraol aggregator (which lets people review service) and a whitelist for the cautious type.
I'm getting really sick of the direction these gadgets are heading.
I heard that Disney or parent company is invested in pornography. You give the parent company a different name who sells this stuff, and most people won't be any the wiser.
Don't worry, they'll go after HDDs/SSDs and Internet connections themselves next. This is how it works, the more successful they are in asking for money, the more lawyers/lobbyists they'll be able to afford, and the more things they'll have their hand out for.
The only correct response is not to get defensive, but go on the offensive and get the initial tax (CDs/DVDs) repealed.
Don't play into their game and go on the defense. Go on the offense. Just tell them to fuck off and push to repeal the tax on CDs/DVDs. Or they'll be pushing for HDDs/SSDs next.
Yes, the internet failed to solve all the problems of the world, therefore it's worthless.
-ingen means "descendents of" specifically.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_placename_etymology