scrambling to justify the purchase of a iPad Mini to compliment their Macbooks, iPods, iPads and "iPad nanos" (iPhones).
#1 - Look less idiotic when using tablet to take photos at a sports event. #2 - Less arm fatigue while trying to force friends to view your favorite examples of the latest Internet meme. #3 - profit???
Well done. I would also like to add that this quote:
every single person will find themselves in need of an advocate to protect and ensure his or her legal rights
is frightening and wrong in its own right. He is so invested in the system that he takes this as a normal part of life. It should NOT be so common that someone finds their legal rights under attack. That happens because there are too many lawyers walking around looking for income. He probably thinks that $500 an hour is a fair price for such representation.
I really, really liked your buzzword-in-the-making: "socialized justice"
It seems to be the nature of things that prices go up and rarely come down. Interesting for manufacturers, in that they were all forced to raise prices at the same time. Now you have a situation where they can all keep prices high as long as none of the big players steps out. Almost like a natural price fixing scheme.
On the SSD front, the technology has finally matured so that reliability is good enough and cost is low enough for the mainstream. I think it is important for anyone in the market to make sure that they purchase the latest generation of drives. Speed doesn't matter that much (the rest of your computer is probably couldn't utilize it) but the newer firmwares are much less likely to corrupt your data. The parts are also more fault tolerant.
Really, the biggest issue is probably the difficulty of moving existing OS installs to a new drive. Too bad, because a completely solid state PC is so nice to use.
Anyone considering this should carefully read the NTP pool's page on the matter. In addition to having a static IP, you need to have fairly good availability over a long period of time, and more importantly you need to be able to handle a lot of traffic. Even though the traffic is fairly low most of the time, you could experience spikes that would be difficult to handle for small businesses or amateurs. Also, anyone with metered bandwidth on their server/colo would almost certainly be unable to handle the cost.
The NTP pool is something that you have to consider carefully. You can't help out for 18 months and then decide to quit. You can expect to receive traffic for up to YEARS after you leave the pool.
Amazing that they built and shipped this thing before realizing that the coating on their drill/pulverizer would chip off. You can't use metal utensils on Teflon cookware, but we should go ahead and put it on a Mars-bound drill bit meant for rocks. Riiiiiight.
Just reread that post. I don't mean to say that climate scientists are bad science. I just mean that the particle physicists were left alone to do their work, and the result was ultimately positive.
If they were climate scientists then they would have been publicly ridiculed, had their funding called into question, had their email subpoenaed, been threatened over the internet and finally ended up as merely a footnote in "the debate". Instead, they are particle physicists, so good science was accomplished.
I've never understood this. What kind of sucker thinks that he will ever be able to take up arms against the government of the United States? The US has, by far, the most powerful military in the world. Explain to me how you are going to fight a M1 tank or an F35 jet with your Desert Eagle.
Lets say that a group of 10,000 armed citizens decides to take over the government. That is an extremely generous number. I would say that even local and state police could put down that kind of rebellion. And if it ever got out of hand, then a single bomb from above could easily take the fight out of the mob.
I like the concept of taking direction directly from the will of your constituents, but how do you plan on handling...politics? More specifically, when the party needs votes and deals have been made, how will you stand up to the leadership and refuse to take part? Will that not render you an outsider and remove valuable (perhaps necessary) political clout? It seems like the Washington political machine is incompatible with direct democracy.
nope. Users of the software have to agree to the EULA to use the software. The sticker gives no way for the driver who reads it to refuse the deal (opt out).
However 200 people in small claims court won't deter any large company from misbehaving. Now a multi-state class action suit would not benefit the class, but it would sure as heck help keep Microsoft in line.
Copyright is good if it means I get source code or something else I want for free.
Copyright is bad if it means I can't get music that I want for free but instead have to pay for it.
The simple-minded "Average Joe" speaks up. *sigh*
Slashdotters have a problem with the ENFORCEMENT of copyright by Big Content; We don't have a problem with copyright in general. They use the legal system as a weapon against the citizens it is supposed to protect. They routinely assert rights over their content that they don't have (or are covered by fair use), and they make broad, unsubstantiated claims that are designed to cloud the judgement of the public and foolish lawmakers. One of those claims is usually that anyone who is against their systematic deconstruction of individual rights and liberties is pro-piracy. You seem to have bought that one hook-line-and-sinker.
Started out strong. I like the reference to oil. That could have been modded up funny, until that bullcrap about keeping the dot formatting. Are you really afraid of colons instead of dots? Or is it the hexidecimal numbers that frighten you? IPv6 solves more issues than just IP address exhaustion... autoconfiguration, routing, etc. It's going to happen and you'll have to crack a book. Deal with it.
Different problem. The medical devices were all set inconsistently. The Android "problem" you describe may slowly diverge away from iPhones, but at least they are consistent.
That's what the proverb in the post implies: consistency is what matters.
PS: since when do cell phones take the time from GPS instead of the cell network? I'm pretty sure my phone synchronizes to Verizon's towers. I usually keep GPS disabled.
+1 for the shower. I've had many problem breakthroughs in the shower. It's a good reason to refrain from washing your *ahem* bits and pieces any more than is necessary during shower time.
It's too important to mingle with G+, but that doesn't mean it is life or death for me. I have other, more serious email systems that I use for other purposes.
The thing is this: My mail is private. It is also very easy to not run afoul of their policies for email. G+ is public. If I want to "disappear", suddenly it will take private stuff with it. Also the policies of G+ seem much more likely to bite me, and take everything down with it.
In my case, I didn't join Google+ because it was linked to my GMail account along with the rest of my Google profile. The Real Name issue led to people being booted from G+, with the side effect of losing the rest of their Google profile. I can't afford to lose my Google Mail over some silly issue with G+. My mail is too important.
This is kickstarter. It is meant for projects, not patents. If they were planning patenting something, they shouldn't have been pumping the details into website that is essentially public. Also, lets face it. If the innovations were so good, they could get funding through traditional channels. (saving up, selling car, mortgaging home, begging friends and family, venture capital firms, private venture capital investments. In that order.)
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Which is why SIM cards are usually removable.
scrambling to justify the purchase of a iPad Mini to compliment their Macbooks, iPods, iPads and "iPad nanos" (iPhones).
#1 - Look less idiotic when using tablet to take photos at a sports event.
#2 - Less arm fatigue while trying to force friends to view your favorite examples of the latest Internet meme.
#3 - profit???
Well done. I would also like to add that this quote:
every single person will find themselves in need of an advocate to protect and ensure his or her legal rights
is frightening and wrong in its own right. He is so invested in the system that he takes this as a normal part of life. It should NOT be so common that someone finds their legal rights under attack. That happens because there are too many lawyers walking around looking for income. He probably thinks that $500 an hour is a fair price for such representation.
I really, really liked your buzzword-in-the-making: "socialized justice"
It also increases the burden on Surface itself. If other OEMs follow suit, MS could find itself as the only vendor selling ARM-based W8 tablets.
You say that like it's a bad thing for Microsoft. That's exactly what they want... to be like Apple!
It seems to be the nature of things that prices go up and rarely come down. Interesting for manufacturers, in that they were all forced to raise prices at the same time. Now you have a situation where they can all keep prices high as long as none of the big players steps out. Almost like a natural price fixing scheme.
On the SSD front, the technology has finally matured so that reliability is good enough and cost is low enough for the mainstream. I think it is important for anyone in the market to make sure that they purchase the latest generation of drives. Speed doesn't matter that much (the rest of your computer is probably couldn't utilize it) but the newer firmwares are much less likely to corrupt your data. The parts are also more fault tolerant.
Really, the biggest issue is probably the difficulty of moving existing OS installs to a new drive. Too bad, because a completely solid state PC is so nice to use.
Anyone considering this should carefully read the NTP pool's page on the matter. In addition to having a static IP, you need to have fairly good availability over a long period of time, and more importantly you need to be able to handle a lot of traffic. Even though the traffic is fairly low most of the time, you could experience spikes that would be difficult to handle for small businesses or amateurs. Also, anyone with metered bandwidth on their server/colo would almost certainly be unable to handle the cost.
The NTP pool is something that you have to consider carefully. You can't help out for 18 months and then decide to quit. You can expect to receive traffic for up to YEARS after you leave the pool.
-d
Amazing that they built and shipped this thing before realizing that the coating on their drill/pulverizer would chip off. You can't use metal utensils on Teflon cookware, but we should go ahead and put it on a Mars-bound drill bit meant for rocks. Riiiiiight.
Just reread that post. I don't mean to say that climate scientists are bad science. I just mean that the particle physicists were left alone to do their work, and the result was ultimately positive.
If they were climate scientists then they would have been publicly ridiculed, had their funding called into question, had their email subpoenaed, been threatened over the internet and finally ended up as merely a footnote in "the debate". Instead, they are particle physicists, so good science was accomplished.
I've never understood this. What kind of sucker thinks that he will ever be able to take up arms against the government of the United States? The US has, by far, the most powerful military in the world. Explain to me how you are going to fight a M1 tank or an F35 jet with your Desert Eagle.
Lets say that a group of 10,000 armed citizens decides to take over the government. That is an extremely generous number. I would say that even local and state police could put down that kind of rebellion. And if it ever got out of hand, then a single bomb from above could easily take the fight out of the mob.
Such an amazing set of tools such as diff and grep would probably amaze them.
It wouldn't be a meeting without projector trouble.
The Bill of Rights.
I like the concept of taking direction directly from the will of your constituents, but how do you plan on handling...politics? More specifically, when the party needs votes and deals have been made, how will you stand up to the leadership and refuse to take part? Will that not render you an outsider and remove valuable (perhaps necessary) political clout? It seems like the Washington political machine is incompatible with direct democracy.
nope. Users of the software have to agree to the EULA to use the software. The sticker gives no way for the driver who reads it to refuse the deal (opt out).
However 200 people in small claims court won't deter any large company from misbehaving. Now a multi-state class action suit would not benefit the class, but it would sure as heck help keep Microsoft in line.
I get it.
Copyright is good if it means I get source code or something else I want for free.
Copyright is bad if it means I can't get music that I want for free but instead have to pay for it.
The simple-minded "Average Joe" speaks up. *sigh*
Slashdotters have a problem with the ENFORCEMENT of copyright by Big Content; We don't have a problem with copyright in general. They use the legal system as a weapon against the citizens it is supposed to protect. They routinely assert rights over their content that they don't have (or are covered by fair use), and they make broad, unsubstantiated claims that are designed to cloud the judgement of the public and foolish lawmakers. One of those claims is usually that anyone who is against their systematic deconstruction of individual rights and liberties is pro-piracy. You seem to have bought that one hook-line-and-sinker.
-d
Started out strong. I like the reference to oil. That could have been modded up funny, until that bullcrap about keeping the dot formatting. Are you really afraid of colons instead of dots? Or is it the hexidecimal numbers that frighten you? IPv6 solves more issues than just IP address exhaustion... autoconfiguration, routing, etc. It's going to happen and you'll have to crack a book. Deal with it.
Spoken like a man who earned a C in freshman year intro to programming, but for some reason didn't switch to a humanities major.
Different problem. The medical devices were all set inconsistently. The Android "problem" you describe may slowly diverge away from iPhones, but at least they are consistent.
That's what the proverb in the post implies: consistency is what matters.
PS: since when do cell phones take the time from GPS instead of the cell network? I'm pretty sure my phone synchronizes to Verizon's towers. I usually keep GPS disabled.
+1 for the shower. I've had many problem breakthroughs in the shower. It's a good reason to refrain from washing your *ahem* bits and pieces any more than is necessary during shower time.
It's too important to mingle with G+, but that doesn't mean it is life or death for me. I have other, more serious email systems that I use for other purposes.
The thing is this: My mail is private. It is also very easy to not run afoul of their policies for email. G+ is public. If I want to "disappear", suddenly it will take private stuff with it. Also the policies of G+ seem much more likely to bite me, and take everything down with it.
Exactly. In my case it is GMail. I can't afford to lose my email address and all my mail and contacts. Therefore, G+ is off-limits to me.
In my case, I didn't join Google+ because it was linked to my GMail account along with the rest of my Google profile. The Real Name issue led to people being booted from G+, with the side effect of losing the rest of their Google profile. I can't afford to lose my Google Mail over some silly issue with G+. My mail is too important.
This is kickstarter. It is meant for projects, not patents. If they were planning patenting something, they shouldn't have been pumping the details into website that is essentially public. Also, lets face it. If the innovations were so good, they could get funding through traditional channels. (saving up, selling car, mortgaging home, begging friends and family, venture capital firms, private venture capital investments. In that order.)
-d