I was complaining about the Zune, not the Ipod (if I had the money, I'd buy an Ipod). The Zune is crippled to make sure it can not be used as an external hard drive (unlike the Creative or the Ipod).
You don't even need to own a domain. http://spamgourmet.com does a variation on your idea for free (plus, if you don't want the domain name spamgourmet.com, they always have other less obvious domain names you can chose from). They've been around and working for a number of years now. And they're open source, so if you wanted to do something even more elaborate with your domain, you could just use their code.
Plus, there is another free service that does a similar thing (although I can't remember its name). And of course, there are a couple of commercial outfits that provide variations on the same theme.
One can only hope that the Pakistanis were diligent enough to clone the same PALs system into the Reagan-fostered nuke technology they sold to Iran. It would be really scary if Iran didn't have access, didn't install, and didn't master the same level of advanced bicycle locking technology the United States seems to enjoy.
In most parts of the world, internet access is still "metered" - so an assumption it isn't is not reasonable for most.
Agreed, but since the article was talking private wireless networks, and since most the rest of the world does not run most of the private wireless networks, I think it was pretty safe assumption to assume that most of those private wireless networks that are out there -- are not connected to the internet the usual "reasonable" way.
Just as some are glad that AMD is around to keep Intel's prices down, I'm glad that Microsoft is around to keep iPods affordable.
Microsoft? Creative is the only reasonable alternative to iPods for the price-conscious consumer. Every mp3 player I own is a Creative. Creative lets me do what I want, how I want it (there is no need to install Creative's DRM software), the player is not crippled in any way (unlike the Zune), and it usually costs a fraction of the cost of comparable Ipods (with may be 90% of the functionality/coolness/usability factor of the Ipod).
Medical schools set admissions caps, and refuse qualified candidates who would otherwise have become doctors.
Medical schools should be allowed to set those caps, after all they're the best qualified to know how many medical students they can take on.
However in the United States, it's the American Medical Association which sets up those caps for schools through their accreditation process. This is one of the biggest problems in the US that very few people know about. The United States is supposed to be one of the freer capitalist systems in the world, and yet we're one of the very few countries in the World that have completely handed control that part of our system to to what amounts to be little more than a special interest group designed to serve its own interest.
If you doubt the latter, walk around your neighbourhood and find out how many people will let you piggyback off their electricity, gas, water or telephone connections. I'd be willing to bet that number is pretty close to zero. For real laughs, tell them you're already doing it and see how they react.
The problem with electricity, gas, water, or the telephone is that they're metered. But if you're talking about something that's un-metered, like my front garden which has an open configuration. I have people eating their lunches in my front garden rather frequently. In one unusual case, I even had a woman sun-bathing there. I don't mind it really, as long as they clean up after themselves.
Technically, those people are trespassing, and in one case I did yell at two guys for trespassing, but for those two, they were trying to look through my windows and I had a feeling they were trying to get into my house -- which was not cool. So in a way, I'm glad that I have a trespassing law I can use to protect my property if needed, but in most cases -- I don't really care -- and if I did care I would put up signs or some kind of fencing in the front part of my property.
The advantage Apple has with the *insert Apple product here* is that they control the entire platform. They've got custom built hardware running a custom operating system with their custom software. It is all built from the ground up to work as an integrated *insert Apple product here* , and thus it works pretty damn well. It also does a lot to mitigate some of the major form factor issues that make most *insert anyone elses competition here* a pain to use. But mostly it's good because it's all meant to work together.
I've tried filling in the gaps *as indicated*, but I'm having trouble understanding the full quote. Can anyone explain?
The advantage Apple has with the Newton is that they control the entire platform. They've got custom built hardware running a custom operating system with their custom software. It is all built from the ground up to work as an integrated PDA , and thus it works pretty damn well. It also does a lot to mitigate some of the major form factor issues that make most of Palm's and Microsoft's PDA OS software a pain to use. But mostly it's good because it's all meant to work together.
3) The economic benefit of producing too many well-educated people is clear: we wind up with a lot of workers in the market who are burdened with bankruptcy-surviving student debts, thus making them desperate enough to work low-paying jobs for which they are very overqualified, much to the delight of their employers.
You're changing the subject. We were talking about people "well-educated" in Sciences and Math, not liberal arts. The people with Sciences and Math degrees usually have no problem paying back their loans. And in Graduate school, the students in Sciences or Math get far more outright grants than loans, thus giving them a much larger head start in paying back whatever they owe.
In any case if you ask me, this article is bunk. We need more people educated in Science, not less. Until the overwhelming majority of our populace has been well trained in Sciences and Math, most of our politicians, judges, media journalists, and activists will use pseudo-science and fear-mongering to make most of their decisions.
What, you were transporting critical medical records via Torrent? and someone died?
If an hospital wants mission-critical business-grade broadband, then I doubt it would get a consumer broadband subscription to Comcast. In any case we don't need to make examples up, Comcast disrupts Lotus Notes traffic, encrypted VPNs, and Skype phone calls. So if you're an employee whose workplace heavily depends on those technologies, you should probably switch out of Comcast and get DSL if you want to be able to work from home.
They all operate off of non-standard databases and their developers are worth a shit. This is big PR bullshit. They are no way ready to start doing this. It might as well be flying cars.
When I was in France a couple of years ago, I was given a CD with the x-rays of my teeth and my mom was given a CD with the data of her CT-scan. When we came back to the US, we gave those CDs to our dentist and doctor respectively, and they had no trouble taking a look at them.
I don't see what the big deal is. Just let the patients have access to their own medical records. They can give me hard copies, or soft copies, I don't care. Those records in my possession will be valuable in themselves. The integration and centralization can always come later, as that will probably require more time and more work.
You're forgetting that most smash 'n grab thieves *are* complete dimwits. They're going to take the box to the pawn shop for cash for their next hit of a controlled substance.
Agreed, but don't discount the pawn shop owners, or whomever buys the laptops from those pawn shops. You'd be surprised at how organized small crooks can become. Take for instance the Nigerian scammers, apparently there is an informal market of Nigerian scammers selling and trading leads with each other. So it doesn't matter if a scammer lives in Africa, he can try to scam you, and if you take the bait, he can resell your information to someone who specializes in the banking transaction part of the scam, and then that scammer can take it a step further and resell your information to another scammer who lives in the US and who has access to limousine he can show up in. And so on, and so on.
Another better example might be copper. These days, we have lots of thiefs destroying and stealing copper plumbing and devices with copper in them so that they can resell those parts for pennies on the dollar to the copper industry (it's a real waste). Now, those thiefs may be dimwits and meth-addicts, but apparently they don't need to know how to melt copper or to know how to recycle copper to make money on it, they just need to resell the used copper to the right person, who will then in turn sell it to the right person, and so on and so on. So coming back to our original discussion regarding laptops, whoever belongs at the top of such a food chain, it will be his job to maximize the dollar amount on each laptop stolen, and one can't automatically assume such a person is not going to have the knowledge necessary or the incentive to harvest your information on your hard drive so he can resell it somewhere on the open market.
Here is a source. It should be noted that US News uses student satisfaction and graduation rates as its criteria, and both UC Berkeley and MIT are well known for not being easy schools to attend, and I remember UC Berkeley having the lowest rate of student satisfaction in many national surveys, so if you're trying to assess a school to send your kids to, you should use the US News report -- but if you're trying to determine which are the best technical schools in the United States in terms of name-recognition and reputation -- then you should probably take a look at the report I just linked to.
For the record, I did go to Berkeley myself, and it's not an experience I would wish on my kids. I'd want for my kids an easier, smaller, less competitive, and more supportive environment than what I've received at Cal.
Check out the web sites at MIT and UC-Berkeley, which are the #1 private institution and the #1 public institution, respectively, in the USA. There is a good chance that they offer on-line videos of the lectures.
I went to UC Berkeley, and while I agree that he could probably find any video he wants for any math classes he likes over there, I'd suggest he takes a look at the math courses from The Teaching Company (or from Thinkwell). The Teaching Company uses some of the same Professors you would find at UC Berkeley or MIT, it's just that they film their classes in a studio environment -- not in a live day-to-day classroom setting. That makes a big difference I'm afraid. The sound quality, the lighting conditions, the camera angles, those are done in a much better way when they're done by The Teaching Company.
Of course, the TTC courses are not free (as opposed UC Berkeley's), but if you'd like to try a few out and sample the difference between those two types -- I'd suggest you take a look at what's available on p2p -- there is actually quite a bit of good stuff on p2p.
While it sounds like the company overall sucked at the way it was handling these, in this particular instance, that kind of behavior COULD lead to a sexual harassment suit. All it takes is for one person to express that they feel this is unprofessional (which it is) and then management would HAVE to do something else to stop this behavior from happening else said employee could sue the company for a hostile work place and would most certainly win in court because management did nothing to prevent the inappropriate behavior from taking place.
The sexual harassment laws need to be rewritten. Banning the use of technologies because they could potentially be used for sexual harassment is a bad idea. Instead, those types of programs should display and record the full names/login ids/computer ids of employees when they've published or sent something. Having one's full name appear on every document written (or drawn) will curb some of the most asinine behavior (although, it obviously wouldn't curb all of it).
And for the abuse it doesn't curb, sexual harassment laws should make it clear that any attempt at restricting the flow of digital information should be viewed as a kind of passive aggressive cover-up -- not as a genuine willingness to deal with the underlying problem. And to those companies that are genuinely willing to work on those problems, our laws should give them more leeway in the form of limited immunity or limited liability should something come up.
Seriously. Sure, these people may have been doing it during work, but a ban on what's probably one of the world's most popular encyclopedias because people are contributing to a compendium of knowledge (leaving their biases aside)? Isn't that a little ridiculous and over the board?
Yes, a little bit. They could have just blocked wikipedia's url arguments for editing and discussing pages.
The lesson is clear, here are the actual steps to follow
1. Take a really cool project
2. Make wild claims about it (i.e. $100 laptop for kids, disposable cardboard cell phones, flying cars)
3. ??????
4. Profit !
It's because it's true. Nazi-Germany, Russia and China have done a lot of science without any real democracy.
You're ignoring one thing. Nazi-Germany, Russia, and China had their own tyranny homegrown. In the case of Iran or Afghanistan for instance, their tyrants were chosen by foreigners. That's a big difference in my opinion.
For instance, even after the Shah of Iran was overthrown, the levels of prosperity and academic freedom that Iran had enjoyed before the Shah was installed never went back to normal. Everybody just became paranoid. And that's why to this day, we have a bunch of stupid paranoid extremists still running the show in Iran.
Imagine a future version of the same field, but with "MacOS XVIII", "Plan 10" "FreeBeOS", "ReactOS Hurd", "AmigaOS Phoenix", etc, etc in the list. Real choice, in other words.
Yeah, Apple would be pissed.
Apple doesn't want to support its OS on hardware it doesn't control/doesn't make money from.
And we should let them drink too, right? That should be up to the parents, according to you, or you're a hypocrite.
Yes, cultivating that habit at an early age sounds like a good idea. Numerous studies have shown the positive effects of drinking moderate amounts of wine (the keyword here is "moderate"). And by making the kids drink at an early age, like the other poster said, you would probably avoid the binge drinking phase that most American kids seem to go through (although I do not know if studies exist on that).
In France, my mom was actually served wine in her school days by school officials. Granted, the amount of red wine wasn't much, and whatever amount there was -- it had been diluted in water, and this was done a long time ago (after the war), and I have no idea if this is still customary now.
...or you're a hypocrite.
Absolute rules are unnecessary, the average human being is full of contradictions. Name-calling is not the most effective tool either, it's just as possible to flesh out contradictions without it.
My roommate is like that, he never created an accout on any SN site. He gets really pissed because he never gets invited to parties anymore as all the invites are distributed on MySpace (within our circle of friends).
I wonder how he feels about evites (or similar sites)? Is evite a social networking site? Would he refuse to respond to evites on the same grounds?
Let me guess, your roommate is a party-goer (when he happens to be invited) -- and not a party organizer.
My roommate is like that, he never created an accout on any SN site. He gets really pissed because he never gets invited to parties anymore as all the invites are distributed on MySpace (within our circle of friends).
Damn that's pretty cold man. He's within your circle of friends. He's your *room-mate*. May be, you should just look away from your myspace page long enough to turn your head, initiate eye contact, and tell him about the parties he's been invited to.
And please Guys, Before sending a DMCA take down notice, make a phone call to the guy in question and ask for what you want from him, or try to remove the content yourself from the wiki (with a short explanation identifying yourself of course). Usually, site owners are willing to honor their users requests -- even if it means losing a ton of good content -- I know, I've seen this done on a number of sites.
Using the hammer of the legal system before exhausting your other more friendly options is the wrong thing to do. It's reactionary and immature. And it could potentially make you look bad when the judge asks you if you've tried any of the other more friendly options first.
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I was complaining about the Zune, not the Ipod (if I had the money, I'd buy an Ipod). The Zune is crippled to make sure it can not be used as an external hard drive (unlike the Creative or the Ipod).
You don't even need to own a domain. http://spamgourmet.com does a variation on your idea for free (plus, if you don't want the domain name spamgourmet.com, they always have other less obvious domain names you can chose from). They've been around and working for a number of years now. And they're open source, so if you wanted to do something even more elaborate with your domain, you could just use their code.
Plus, there is another free service that does a similar thing (although I can't remember its name). And of course, there are a couple of commercial outfits that provide variations on the same theme.
One can only hope that the Pakistanis were diligent enough to clone the same PALs system into the Reagan-fostered nuke technology they sold to Iran. It would be really scary if Iran didn't have access, didn't install, and didn't master the same level of advanced bicycle locking technology the United States seems to enjoy.
The goal of our government is to effect change in a society through fear...
However in the United States, it's the American Medical Association which sets up those caps for schools through their accreditation process. This is one of the biggest problems in the US that very few people know about. The United States is supposed to be one of the freer capitalist systems in the world, and yet we're one of the very few countries in the World that have completely handed control that part of our system to to what amounts to be little more than a special interest group designed to serve its own interest.
Technically, those people are trespassing, and in one case I did yell at two guys for trespassing, but for those two, they were trying to look through my windows and I had a feeling they were trying to get into my house -- which was not cool. So in a way, I'm glad that I have a trespassing law I can use to protect my property if needed, but in most cases -- I don't really care -- and if I did care I would put up signs or some kind of fencing in the front part of my property.
The advantage Apple has with the Newton is that they control the entire platform. They've got custom built hardware running a custom operating system with their custom software. It is all built from the ground up to work as an integrated PDA , and thus it works pretty damn well. It also does a lot to mitigate some of the major form factor issues that make most of Palm's and Microsoft's PDA OS software a pain to use. But mostly it's good because it's all meant to work together.
In any case if you ask me, this article is bunk. We need more people educated in Science, not less. Until the overwhelming majority of our populace has been well trained in Sciences and Math, most of our politicians, judges, media journalists, and activists will use pseudo-science and fear-mongering to make most of their decisions.
I don't see what the big deal is. Just let the patients have access to their own medical records. They can give me hard copies, or soft copies, I don't care. Those records in my possession will be valuable in themselves. The integration and centralization can always come later, as that will probably require more time and more work.
Another better example might be copper. These days, we have lots of thiefs destroying and stealing copper plumbing and devices with copper in them so that they can resell those parts for pennies on the dollar to the copper industry (it's a real waste). Now, those thiefs may be dimwits and meth-addicts, but apparently they don't need to know how to melt copper or to know how to recycle copper to make money on it, they just need to resell the used copper to the right person, who will then in turn sell it to the right person, and so on and so on. So coming back to our original discussion regarding laptops, whoever belongs at the top of such a food chain, it will be his job to maximize the dollar amount on each laptop stolen, and one can't automatically assume such a person is not going to have the knowledge necessary or the incentive to harvest your information on your hard drive so he can resell it somewhere on the open market.
Here is a source. It should be noted that US News uses student satisfaction and graduation rates as its criteria, and both UC Berkeley and MIT are well known for not being easy schools to attend, and I remember UC Berkeley having the lowest rate of student satisfaction in many national surveys, so if you're trying to assess a school to send your kids to, you should use the US News report -- but if you're trying to determine which are the best technical schools in the United States in terms of name-recognition and reputation -- then you should probably take a look at the report I just linked to.
For the record, I did go to Berkeley myself, and it's not an experience I would wish on my kids. I'd want for my kids an easier, smaller, less competitive, and more supportive environment than what I've received at Cal.
The sexual harassment laws need to be rewritten. Banning the use of technologies because they could potentially be used for sexual harassment is a bad idea. Instead, those types of programs should display and record the full names/login ids/computer ids of employees when they've published or sent something. Having one's full name appear on every document written (or drawn) will curb some of the most asinine behavior (although, it obviously wouldn't curb all of it).
And for the abuse it doesn't curb, sexual harassment laws should make it clear that any attempt at restricting the flow of digital information should be viewed as a kind of passive aggressive cover-up -- not as a genuine willingness to deal with the underlying problem. And to those companies that are genuinely willing to work on those problems, our laws should give them more leeway in the form of limited immunity or limited liability should something come up.
The lesson is clear, here are the actual steps to follow
1. Take a really cool project
2. Make wild claims about it (i.e. $100 laptop for kids, disposable cardboard cell phones, flying cars)
3. ??????
4. Profit !
For instance, even after the Shah of Iran was overthrown, the levels of prosperity and academic freedom that Iran had enjoyed before the Shah was installed never went back to normal. Everybody just became paranoid. And that's why to this day, we have a bunch of stupid paranoid extremists still running the show in Iran.
Apple doesn't want to support its OS on hardware it doesn't control/doesn't make money from.
Put his/her computer in the living room/kitchen. Or buy him one of those crippled computers for kids. If there is a will, there is a way.
And please Guys,
Before sending a DMCA take down notice, make a phone call to the guy in question and ask for what you want from him, or try to remove the content yourself from the wiki (with a short explanation identifying yourself of course). Usually, site owners are willing to honor their users requests -- even if it means losing a ton of good content -- I know, I've seen this done on a number of sites.
Using the hammer of the legal system before exhausting your other more friendly options is the wrong thing to do. It's reactionary and immature. And it could potentially make you look bad when the judge asks you if you've tried any of the other more friendly options first.