I've heard this in terms of stuff that lives on shelves and desks. It's just the first time I've heard someone try to apply the trope to mobile stuff, where lighter is generally acknowledged as preferable.
I think the average gadget user isn't completely clear on what they want, to be honest. Sure, they want as much in one package as possible, but that's only really viable once the technology is a commodity. Otherwise, every embedded tech either makes your device expensive, unstable, or incompatible. Also, if the technology is fast-moving, it makes you obsolete more quickly since any one embedded tech can obsolete the whole device.
The problem with putting 3G in the device is that it'll tie you to the network, because we haven't genericized cellular access in the US. Once it does become a generic commodity, I agree, it should just be part of the convergence. You can see that path with peripherals all through personal computer history--once there's no real variation in the market or technology, they move into the main box instead of being separate.
Heh. Of course it has, re: N800. After all, I just bought mine for $400 five months ago, which was surely the trigger for the price drop. At the time, the N770 was going for around $250, hence my comment.
ssh displays fine on it at a reasonable font size. As far as the keyboard, various bluetooth keyboard solutions work well with it. I have a Stowaway for mine.
Of course, the N800 + the Stowaway is $500, which isn't a particularly good deal in the face of this coming out. I assume the N800 will drop to the $250ish that the N770 did, though.
It has Bluetooth. I have an N800 and a 3G phone, and have 3G connectivity no problem.
Think of it as a divergence device. The Nxx0 series represents a real and workable attempt to decouple the modem from the computer, and have separate componentry living in a Bluetooth cloud. Personally, I like the idea of having a very small phone and a very capable portable rather than a larger, less capable computerized phone.
Unless it's radically changed from the N800, it has slots for 2 more SD cards. 256MB is pretty much the minimum to run the system, but you'll slap a 1GB+ card in it as soon as you buy it, and configure the onboard to be swap instead.
I don't see it taking over the mainstream market, but I have an N800 and it's a surprisingly capable device. For me, having a portable Rhapsody client that works over wifi and bluetooth was nearly worth the price tag on its own--it's like having an iPod with a few million tracks preloaded on it.
Beyond that, though, there's a healthy open source community and a steady stream of apps. While the overlal interface is indisputably worse than the iPhone's (what isn't?), the form factor is much better for web browsing and other high-resolution widescreen activities. Mine is largely a portable O'Reilly Safari reader at work.
The market for this is the bleeding edge techies that will appreciate the flexibility of a Debian-based system with aptget as the installer. It's not your mom, so yeah, it won't be successful in that sense. As a flagship device for Nokia, though, it's pretty kick-ass.
"The N810 is slightly smaller than its predecessor, the N800, and slightly heavier, leading users to 'perceive more value' in the device, predicts Olavi Toivainen, Nokia's director of product management."
-That's- what's wrong with tech today. Our irresponsible focus on miniaturization has removed all the -value-.
It's decided by a very small number of the community. The fact that the rest have reasons not to help (whether it be apathy or a time/resource conflict) doesn't negate the impact upon them.
Microsoft represents a small number of the community as well. The analogy is pretty sound. I don't think the point to be taken is that GNU is evil, though. It's that extension is how software evolution works, and a significant number of people will migrate to the most refined and feature-rich solution, sometimes causing the previous generation of product to die.
The problem with Microsoft isn't really the embrace/extend part. It's the extinguish part. While bash pretty much replaces sh, you can pretty much count on bash to always be around until something replaces it. The FSF isn't going to just kill it one day so it can cannibalize the market.
The government has already determined what they want, and the laws have already been written. The interpretation against new developments, as well as the enforcement, is being achieved through the lawsuits. This is how the law--and in particular ADA-style stuff--generally works. They don't send out the ADA police to monitor the situation, the process counts on people to sue when they feel their rights have been infringed upon.
The thing about standards is that you're truly expert when you know how to break them usefully. We tell everyone not to do those things so that people who would horribly misuse them reflexively stay away. Generally, the point where they won't horribly misuse such features is right around the point where they start to realize there are legitimate uses for them.
There's no excuse for crappy comments, though. Takes the same amount of time to write a good one as a bad one.
Company of Heroes doesn't require one, and is A-list. Neither does Galactic Civilizations 2. Any Steam game is playable on any number of computers; Steam just won't let you log in from more than one simultaneously.
For something that's essentially a casual game, requiring the CD is asinine.
I have all of the major consoles, and of them, the Wii is the least-played, and the Xbox 360 is the most-played, with the PS3 in the middle. The PS3 only has a handful of good on-disc games, but as the other guy who replied mentioned, the downloadables save the system. Many of the downloadable games are very high quality.
Interesting. Pretty sure in California, this would be illegal. Accrued vacation is considered part of your compensation, hence the strict rules about vacation payout on the last day. My understanding is that even the usual process of capping vacation time at N*yearly accrual is dodgy; essentially, it's a pay cut, and should trigger an unemployment insurance event for decrease of pay.
I've noticed that companies here have quit saying you "lose" vacation time and instead that you "no longer accrue," and I assume that's why. If they gave it to you to lose, it's not theirs to take.
It was remade as Space Horse. Even has online multi. It was originally going to only support local multiplayer, a la the original, but enough people begged for online that they threw it in. Ironically, pretty much nobody bought it, since it had fairly weak graphics/sound and some fundamental interface issues.
For this type of thing, I'd probably at least look at using a software-configurable processor like Stretch's lineup. It's much, much easier to reconfigure than an FPGA (and obviously, a custom fab) would be. Once everything was locked in and if speed proved to be an issue, then I'd start moving to firm/hardware.
An exemption was inserted in the last few years that covers "computer systems analysts, computer programmers, software engineers, and other similarly skilled workers in the computer field who meet certain tests regarding their job duties and who are paid at least $455 per week on a salary basis or paid on an hourly basis, at a rate not less than $27.63 an hour."
I don't think it's just for the government to get away without penalty, of course. I'd like to see Bush and the rest of the command chain impeached or brought up on charges, though I'm cynical enough to believe that won't happen.
That doesn't release the citizens and corporations who aided in the crime from responsibility. The flip side of a democracy is that it's the responsibility of the people to keep government in check. Sometimes that means saying no to the bad authority figure who is attempting to use their position to violate US law. That seems to be a forgotten concept nowadays, which is pretty damned scary in my opinion.
As for your specific argument, if you were talking about an unconstitutional law being passed, and people following it, of course I wouldn't suggest that they should be penalized. But that's not what happened. These companies blindly followed portions of the executive branch acting outside the law. That means they willingly broke the law as well, and I think it's a little specious to say they did it at gunpoint, figuratively or otherwise. There's no evidence to justify that assumption. Until there is, -the people- should hold them responsible for their purely voluntary actions, against -the people-.
But that's not what the GPP said. They posited that the companies complied because they'd have lost government contracts had they not. I suspect that's much closer to the truth.
Everyone else is already calling BS, and I agree. The companies colluded voluntarily, whether it was to preserve contracts or not; greed's not a reason to break the law.
I'll also point out that the only way you'll ever be able to ensure that the government won't be able to do this again, at least so easily, is to crucify the companies who helped them do it and didn't call foul loudly and publicly. Set that sort of precedent, and they won't have willing accomplices again. Moreover, it'll be for -business- reasons, the only universal ones in a capitalist society.
Now, that's just ridiculous. They legally can't do anything with you until you've been pronounced dead. They don't freeze you while you're still alive, and none of the cryo places will touch assisted suicide, so even the Catholics are safe.
As far as the 40% goes, they imply it prevents crystalization entirely, which I am inferring to mean that we're not talking about 40% of the mass being watery and 60% being something else, but rather that you end up with a solution of 40% water and 60% of a cryoprotectant. 40% water/60% propylene glycol has wildly different freezing and crystalization properties than 100% water so the concept is entirely plausible. Using their own cryoprotectant (not antifreeze:), Twenty-First Century Medicine has already vitrified a rabbit kidney then thawed and reinstalled it successfully, so the tech is promising.
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I've heard this in terms of stuff that lives on shelves and desks. It's just the first time I've heard someone try to apply the trope to mobile stuff, where lighter is generally acknowledged as preferable.
I think the average gadget user isn't completely clear on what they want, to be honest. Sure, they want as much in one package as possible, but that's only really viable once the technology is a commodity. Otherwise, every embedded tech either makes your device expensive, unstable, or incompatible. Also, if the technology is fast-moving, it makes you obsolete more quickly since any one embedded tech can obsolete the whole device.
The problem with putting 3G in the device is that it'll tie you to the network, because we haven't genericized cellular access in the US. Once it does become a generic commodity, I agree, it should just be part of the convergence. You can see that path with peripherals all through personal computer history--once there's no real variation in the market or technology, they move into the main box instead of being separate.
Heh. Of course it has, re: N800. After all, I just bought mine for $400 five months ago, which was surely the trigger for the price drop. At the time, the N770 was going for around $250, hence my comment.
ssh displays fine on it at a reasonable font size. As far as the keyboard, various bluetooth keyboard solutions work well with it. I have a Stowaway for mine.
Of course, the N800 + the Stowaway is $500, which isn't a particularly good deal in the face of this coming out. I assume the N800 will drop to the $250ish that the N770 did, though.
It has Bluetooth. I have an N800 and a 3G phone, and have 3G connectivity no problem.
Think of it as a divergence device. The Nxx0 series represents a real and workable attempt to decouple the modem from the computer, and have separate componentry living in a Bluetooth cloud. Personally, I like the idea of having a very small phone and a very capable portable rather than a larger, less capable computerized phone.
Unless it's radically changed from the N800, it has slots for 2 more SD cards. 256MB is pretty much the minimum to run the system, but you'll slap a 1GB+ card in it as soon as you buy it, and configure the onboard to be swap instead.
I don't see it taking over the mainstream market, but I have an N800 and it's a surprisingly capable device. For me, having a portable Rhapsody client that works over wifi and bluetooth was nearly worth the price tag on its own--it's like having an iPod with a few million tracks preloaded on it.
Beyond that, though, there's a healthy open source community and a steady stream of apps. While the overlal interface is indisputably worse than the iPhone's (what isn't?), the form factor is much better for web browsing and other high-resolution widescreen activities. Mine is largely a portable O'Reilly Safari reader at work.
The market for this is the bleeding edge techies that will appreciate the flexibility of a Debian-based system with aptget as the installer. It's not your mom, so yeah, it won't be successful in that sense. As a flagship device for Nokia, though, it's pretty kick-ass.
"The N810 is slightly smaller than its predecessor, the N800, and slightly heavier, leading users to 'perceive more value' in the device, predicts Olavi Toivainen, Nokia's director of product management."
-That's- what's wrong with tech today. Our irresponsible focus on miniaturization has removed all the -value-.
It's decided by a very small number of the community. The fact that the rest have reasons not to help (whether it be apathy or a time/resource conflict) doesn't negate the impact upon them.
Microsoft represents a small number of the community as well. The analogy is pretty sound. I don't think the point to be taken is that GNU is evil, though. It's that extension is how software evolution works, and a significant number of people will migrate to the most refined and feature-rich solution, sometimes causing the previous generation of product to die.
The problem with Microsoft isn't really the embrace/extend part. It's the extinguish part. While bash pretty much replaces sh, you can pretty much count on bash to always be around until something replaces it. The FSF isn't going to just kill it one day so it can cannibalize the market.
Fun. I'm guessing having a firewire port installed means you're screwed, since firewire shows up as "network" to Windows.
The government has already determined what they want, and the laws have already been written. The interpretation against new developments, as well as the enforcement, is being achieved through the lawsuits. This is how the law--and in particular ADA-style stuff--generally works. They don't send out the ADA police to monitor the situation, the process counts on people to sue when they feel their rights have been infringed upon.
The thing about standards is that you're truly expert when you know how to break them usefully. We tell everyone not to do those things so that people who would horribly misuse them reflexively stay away. Generally, the point where they won't horribly misuse such features is right around the point where they start to realize there are legitimate uses for them.
There's no excuse for crappy comments, though. Takes the same amount of time to write a good one as a bad one.
Company of Heroes doesn't require one, and is A-list. Neither does Galactic Civilizations 2. Any Steam game is playable on any number of computers; Steam just won't let you log in from more than one simultaneously.
For something that's essentially a casual game, requiring the CD is asinine.
I have all of the major consoles, and of them, the Wii is the least-played, and the Xbox 360 is the most-played, with the PS3 in the middle. The PS3 only has a handful of good on-disc games, but as the other guy who replied mentioned, the downloadables save the system. Many of the downloadable games are very high quality.
Interesting. Pretty sure in California, this would be illegal. Accrued vacation is considered part of your compensation, hence the strict rules about vacation payout on the last day. My understanding is that even the usual process of capping vacation time at N*yearly accrual is dodgy; essentially, it's a pay cut, and should trigger an unemployment insurance event for decrease of pay.
I've noticed that companies here have quit saying you "lose" vacation time and instead that you "no longer accrue," and I assume that's why. If they gave it to you to lose, it's not theirs to take.
All that said, they didn't can his ass why?
It was remade as Space Horse. Even has online multi. It was originally going to only support local multiplayer, a la the original, but enough people begged for online that they threw it in. Ironically, pretty much nobody bought it, since it had fairly weak graphics/sound and some fundamental interface issues.
http://www.shrapnelgames.com/gilligames/Space_HoRSE/1.htm
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/spacehorse/review.html
Hell, I'd just settle for it being debugged. :)
For this type of thing, I'd probably at least look at using a software-configurable processor like Stretch's lineup. It's much, much easier to reconfigure than an FPGA (and obviously, a custom fab) would be. Once everything was locked in and if speed proved to be an issue, then I'd start moving to firm/hardware.
You're incorrect.
An exemption was inserted in the last few years that covers "computer systems analysts, computer programmers, software engineers, and other similarly skilled workers in the computer field who meet certain tests regarding their job duties and who are paid at least $455 per week on a salary basis or paid on an hourly basis, at a rate not less than $27.63 an hour."
http://www.dol.gov/esa/regs/compliance/whd/fairpay/fs17e_computer.htm
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I don't think it's just for the government to get away without penalty, of course. I'd like to see Bush and the rest of the command chain impeached or brought up on charges, though I'm cynical enough to believe that won't happen.
That doesn't release the citizens and corporations who aided in the crime from responsibility. The flip side of a democracy is that it's the responsibility of the people to keep government in check. Sometimes that means saying no to the bad authority figure who is attempting to use their position to violate US law. That seems to be a forgotten concept nowadays, which is pretty damned scary in my opinion.
As for your specific argument, if you were talking about an unconstitutional law being passed, and people following it, of course I wouldn't suggest that they should be penalized. But that's not what happened. These companies blindly followed portions of the executive branch acting outside the law. That means they willingly broke the law as well, and I think it's a little specious to say they did it at gunpoint, figuratively or otherwise. There's no evidence to justify that assumption. Until there is, -the people- should hold them responsible for their purely voluntary actions, against -the people-.
But that's not what the GPP said. They posited that the companies complied because they'd have lost government contracts had they not. I suspect that's much closer to the truth.
Everyone else is already calling BS, and I agree. The companies colluded voluntarily, whether it was to preserve contracts or not; greed's not a reason to break the law.
I'll also point out that the only way you'll ever be able to ensure that the government won't be able to do this again, at least so easily, is to crucify the companies who helped them do it and didn't call foul loudly and publicly. Set that sort of precedent, and they won't have willing accomplices again. Moreover, it'll be for -business- reasons, the only universal ones in a capitalist society.
Even if it is a bald-faced parody, sounds like a certain crazy lawyer needs to read up on Hustler Magazine v. Falwell.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hustler_Magazine_v._Falwell
Now, that's just ridiculous. They legally can't do anything with you until you've been pronounced dead. They don't freeze you while you're still alive, and none of the cryo places will touch assisted suicide, so even the Catholics are safe.
:), Twenty-First Century Medicine has already vitrified a rabbit kidney then thawed and reinstalled it successfully, so the tech is promising.
As far as the 40% goes, they imply it prevents crystalization entirely, which I am inferring to mean that we're not talking about 40% of the mass being watery and 60% being something else, but rather that you end up with a solution of 40% water and 60% of a cryoprotectant. 40% water/60% propylene glycol has wildly different freezing and crystalization properties than 100% water so the concept is entirely plausible. Using their own cryoprotectant (not antifreeze
http://www.21cm.com/index.stm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitrification