Use it or lose it. Just like most people after studying a language in high school can barely remember to say hello in it years later. Good thing is they can relearn it faster than first time around.
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I suggest Schaum's Outlines myself. Cheap, comprehensive, mostly well-written.
Even though many bitch about Apple here or on Digg, it's just ultimately a gadget company with some distribution for content.
Google is the one that has a real chance into a evil skynet. Consider that they're expanding constantly. Soon, they'll power GPSes people use, and with the work from 1-800-Goog, google translate, google voice, they'll take on Dragon Naturally Speaking in the voice recognition game... and that is just one avenue of their expanding reach. They also want to provide high speed internet, etcetera in their trial programs. Consider how gmail and all their other services, what it will look like in 10 years if they succeed in all these endeavors being your provider to internet, search, email, phone, etcetera - a digital hub for everything. Perhaps even the OS.
Wonderful and scary stuff at the same time if they ever decide to stop being not evil (or something simpler like the original founders dying and greedy, short-sighted shareholders taking over). Perhaps someone would like to see if the GNU project wants to start some competition in these areas -- but that would require ungodly amount of resources.
So... the argument against an IP framework is that those dern ferners might benefit from it too when they're the ones doing the innovative work? That soudns a bit nationalistic to say the least...
My argument is, with China graduating 1,000,000+ engineers every year, it will be hard to compete in our own existing framework of vague and broad patents because they can certainly write as many or more as we do. Since they also have the manufacturing base, to get anything made, we'll have to fight in their courts if it ever comes to that.
The competition is welcome, expanding a crappy framework the world over is not. It's bad enough as it is now.
That doesn't say who owns the patents, but this shows how stupid America pushing IP is... it's just going to bite us back bigtime when India/China compete on the high end.
I don't like his show Sci Fi Science, it has some cool concepts and stuff, but the way he presents what he builds at the end is complete self-aggrandizement.
I was going to suggest wrapping the body (sans monitor) of the Notebook in Saran wrap but so that you can still fold it up and get to the ports/power_button. The keyboard seems to be the biggest weakness. Don't use it. Instead, get one of those cheap, flexible ones such as this and plug it into the USB:
"Would you like ultra-wide spectrum super-HD eyes with 60x optical zoom, Internet-connected HUD and complimentary laser cannons, just like everyone else has?"
It ends when I say "No, thanks".
I could get LASIK now, but for various nonfinancial reasons I opt not too, I fail to see the significant difference with your example.
This is perhaps where something like an iPad could help go towards paperless... but like in Avatar, where they uplink to the bodies for the first time, the scientist slides what he is interested in off his main computer onto a slate, there needs to be tech that facilitates the exchange of "papers" the same way between devices. Without thinking about it, mucking with file formats or email adresses.
The GPL and variations operates on the power of copyright as well.
You can read the entire book at the link though.
It's an interesting perspective, although I suspect the best approach is something moderate, but far away from the legislation that corporations bribed Congress into the last 100 years.
Or the users need to cease using common knowledge as the answers to these not-so-security questions.
Well, when the system forces it upon you, you sometimes have no choice.
To me, it's the equivalent of needing 2 passwords instead of one, and I never fill out my security questions with anything but random data. It's truly a PoS security wise. I even hate it more when you can't type up your own question.
I wonder if facebook has "Your highschool?" or something equally stupid as a security question, when you're there to catch up with old friends in the first place.
The 1790 includes a question on slaves and then questions on sex and race. Jefferson explicitly asked what race the free members of the household were. And we do, functionally, not have a whole lot of new questions. The new ones fall into two categories: 1) checking to make sure you gave the right number of people and 2) providing information the Census Bureau can use to contact you if they discover irregularities in your census form. Not that there's any reason we shouldn't have more questions, if we have a perfectly good use for them.
Now, the Indian and Slavery are ugly blotches in this nation's history, so why make the 1790 census the golden standard? I can point to John Adam's Alien & Sedition Acts as evidence that the founders blatantly violated the Constitution.
I don't know why everyone wants to paint them as perfect in this regard.
the section of the constitution pertaining to the census specifically allows for other information as pointed out by a poster above who quoted the section that was conveniently left out by the Wyatt
A census is a counting, found in any dictionary.
If they could ask you any question, they could demand answers to self-incriminating questions. But the 4th and 5th amendment prevents that.
Also, the quoted sections only talks about the government's responsibilities, the Constitution as a whole, generally doesn't place demands on the American people, like answering questions. It's a document that directs and also binds the government, not others.
Except that the constitution has this clause that you seem to miss that says they conduct the census "in such Manner as they shall by Law direct."
You seem to have missed the fourth and fifth amendments.
They can't demand an answer to every question other than related to the headcount. Otherwise they could ask you all time of self-incriminating questions.
I no longer expect any privacy from my government. I want it, and I think it's fucked up that I don't have it...but I no longer expect it.
What the hell has happend to us as a country? Has it always been this fucked and we just have the means to know about it now? Or were things truly better back int he day?
I think most people stopped caring. Sometimes, when I go shopping, the clerks ask me for some info not related to the purchase.
Clerk: "What is your telephone number?"
Me: "No."
Clerk: "Uh, wait... what?"
Like it's the first time they heard that answer. Then they try to figure how to proceed without it. Either that or I leave my would-be purchase and go to a different store. But the response must mean that people love telemarketing calls and give out the number everytime.
The Constitution doesn't work that way. It doesn't prohibit them asking for more information
They can ask, you don't have to answer - by the 4th and 5th amendments. The only authority is for an enumeration. Look it up, you will find it means counting.
other clauses imply that so long as it isn't prohibited expressly or implicitly then there is no problem as long as it serves a legitimate government purpose.
I believe you don't know how to read the Constitution. 10th amendment and article 1 section 8. It's a limited government with enumerated powers. If it were unlimited, god help us all.
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Try to get outside apps running on a kindle.
Apt-tax. Tax transactions, not income.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_payment_transaction_tax
Use it or lose it. Just like most people after studying a language in high school can barely remember to say hello in it years later. Good thing is they can relearn it faster than first time around.
I suggest Schaum's Outlines myself. Cheap, comprehensive, mostly well-written.
Call the waaaaaaaaaaaambulance!
Because you can hardly find a PC in stores anymore...
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I put on my robe and wizard hat.
Even though many bitch about Apple here or on Digg, it's just ultimately a gadget company with some distribution for content.
Google is the one that has a real chance into a evil skynet. Consider that they're expanding constantly. Soon, they'll power GPSes people use, and with the work from 1-800-Goog, google translate, google voice, they'll take on Dragon Naturally Speaking in the voice recognition game... and that is just one avenue of their expanding reach. They also want to provide high speed internet, etcetera in their trial programs. Consider how gmail and all their other services, what it will look like in 10 years if they succeed in all these endeavors being your provider to internet, search, email, phone, etcetera - a digital hub for everything. Perhaps even the OS.
Wonderful and scary stuff at the same time if they ever decide to stop being not evil (or something simpler like the original founders dying and greedy, short-sighted shareholders taking over). Perhaps someone would like to see if the GNU project wants to start some competition in these areas -- but that would require ungodly amount of resources.
epic film, you've seen them all.
Same emotional highs and lows, same treatment of relationships, same everything.
You'd think a creative person would want to move on and do something different.
My argument is, with China graduating 1,000,000+ engineers every year, it will be hard to compete in our own existing framework of vague and broad patents because they can certainly write as many or more as we do. Since they also have the manufacturing base, to get anything made, we'll have to fight in their courts if it ever comes to that.
The competition is welcome, expanding a crappy framework the world over is not. It's bad enough as it is now.
Apple bought fingerworks in 2005. They have their implementation of multitouch.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FingerWorks
That doesn't say who owns the patents, but this shows how stupid America pushing IP is... it's just going to bite us back bigtime when India/China compete on the high end.
I don't like his show Sci Fi Science, it has some cool concepts and stuff, but the way he presents what he builds at the end is complete self-aggrandizement.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc
I don't know why I like this video as much as I do...
I was going to suggest wrapping the body (sans monitor) of the Notebook in Saran wrap but so that you can still fold it up and get to the ports/power_button. The keyboard seems to be the biggest weakness. Don't use it. Instead, get one of those cheap, flexible ones such as this and plug it into the USB:
http://www.amazon.com/Adesso-Flexible-Compact-Keyboard-AKB-220/dp/B000XYL55M
The OLPC XO-1 also has such a keyboard integrated, IIRC.
It ends when I say "No, thanks".
I could get LASIK now, but for various nonfinancial reasons I opt not too, I fail to see the significant difference with your example.
This is perhaps where something like an iPad could help go towards paperless... but like in Avatar, where they uplink to the bodies for the first time, the scientist slides what he is interested in off his main computer onto a slate, there needs to be tech that facilitates the exchange of "papers" the same way between devices. Without thinking about it, mucking with file formats or email adresses.
The GPL and variations operates on the power of copyright as well.
You can read the entire book at the link though.
It's an interesting perspective, although I suspect the best approach is something moderate, but far away from the legislation that corporations bribed Congress into the last 100 years.
http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/general/intellectual/againstfinal.htm
And, and a tip of my hat to Microsoft "innovation".
In context of Article 1, Section 2, Clause 3, the census is only to count free people (perhaps citizens) to allot representatives.
Wake me up when representatives are allotted by race or sex.
Well, when the system forces it upon you, you sometimes have no choice.
To me, it's the equivalent of needing 2 passwords instead of one, and I never fill out my security questions with anything but random data. It's truly a PoS security wise. I even hate it more when you can't type up your own question.
I wonder if facebook has "Your highschool?" or something equally stupid as a security question, when you're there to catch up with old friends in the first place.
And why ASSert that?
Again, I don't see a race question, on my sources, such as this:
http://www.censusfinder.com/1790-census.htm
Other than the indian question.
Now, the Indian and Slavery are ugly blotches in this nation's history, so why make the 1790 census the golden standard? I can point to John Adam's Alien & Sedition Acts as evidence that the founders blatantly violated the Constitution.
I don't know why everyone wants to paint them as perfect in this regard.
A census is a counting, found in any dictionary.
If they could ask you any question, they could demand answers to self-incriminating questions. But the 4th and 5th amendment prevents that.
Also, the quoted sections only talks about the government's responsibilities, the Constitution as a whole, generally doesn't place demands on the American people, like answering questions. It's a document that directs and also binds the government, not others.
You seem to have missed the fourth and fifth amendments.
They can't demand an answer to every question other than related to the headcount. Otherwise they could ask you all time of self-incriminating questions.
They asked for number of slaves in that census only because slaves were counted as 3/5 population for representative reasons.
Fortunately, since we no long have the institution of slavery, there should be less questions on it now than back then.
I think most people stopped caring. Sometimes, when I go shopping, the clerks ask me for some info not related to the purchase.
Clerk: "What is your telephone number?"
Me: "No."
Clerk: "Uh, wait... what?"
Like it's the first time they heard that answer. Then they try to figure how to proceed without it. Either that or I leave my would-be purchase and go to a different store. But the response must mean that people love telemarketing calls and give out the number everytime.
They can ask, you don't have to answer - by the 4th and 5th amendments. The only authority is for an enumeration. Look it up, you will find it means counting.
I believe you don't know how to read the Constitution. 10th amendment and article 1 section 8. It's a limited government with enumerated powers. If it were unlimited, god help us all.