First manufacturing was destroyed, and the economy is still barely adjusting.
Now retail is being threatened.
Whats left for 300 million people to do?
Interesting times indeed.
Freakish cult is spot on.
I attended a seminar on managing and deploying Ipads. Some fanboy a couple of rows in front of me had on his macbook (of course) a picture of Steve Jobs as his desktop background. I shit you not.
Freakin' weird...
We should go a step further and add a audio based narrative. Then we dont even have to read.
Then for fun throw in some video in which people act out the scenes of the book. Then we dont even have to use our imagination to recreate any imagery.
Then some day we can add things like special effects to jazz it all up.
I always thought amber alerts on TV were strange...i mean unless said child walked up to my front door what good would it do while I'm sitting in my lazy boy.
Sorta the same with this except for the mobile phone version, but like others have said you can already get SMS alerts.
I'm on U-Verse, and have been very pleased with it. U-Verse is also VDSL, and while it's no gigabit connection it works very well. Somewhat ironically (well, irritatingly) there's an AT&T VRAD right across the street from my house, not fifty feet away. But I'm not connected to it: I'm running from a box down on the main drag, maybe a mile away. I'm currently on the 12 mbit/sec plan (saved a few bucks) but I get about 15 which is fine for me, and when I first got it I was rated at 18 mbit/sec, and was getting a solid 22. Not bad for phone wiring. Plus which AT&T gives me a 2 mbit/sec backchannel, which I find very useful (compared to the 30 or 40 kbit/sec up I got from Comcast, when I was on their 20 mbit/sec plan!) And it's consistent, usable bandwidth in both directions.
If I want to filter I can choose to on my own (work on my own car), and if I can't or don't want to I can pay the ISP extra cash and have them do it (hire a mechanic). If I "stumble" across kiddie porn that is my fault and I will pay the repercussions.
Better yet, this is like driving on the freeway, there is a known speed limit and people are free to choose to obey or break the law. Law abiding citizens will choose to obey the limit. Speeders take the chance of getting caught. Now the ISPs (by direction of quasi govt agency) are putting governors on our vehicles.
This seems to be where our society is headed...we are no longer allowing ourselves the freedom to obey or break the laws we have set for ourselves. Free will be damned.
They tend to get away with it because rightly are wrongly the schools invoke the Safe Schools Act when suppressing speech/activities outside the physical school environment.
The Safe Schools Act is to school age children what the Patriot Act is to the common citizenry.
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While there will be those of us that know otherwise the masses will eat it up and not think one iota about the consequences.
+10^10^100
First manufacturing was destroyed, and the economy is still barely adjusting. Now retail is being threatened. Whats left for 300 million people to do? Interesting times indeed.
"Arrogant and offensive" You mean the standard apple response of: "secure personal electronic commerce? Why would anyone want to do that?"
Unleash the "normal people won't care" crowd in 5...4...3...
Next we'll find out its not a good idea to have a POTS connection to the US War Operations Plan Response system
Freakish cult is spot on. I attended a seminar on managing and deploying Ipads. Some fanboy a couple of rows in front of me had on his macbook (of course) a picture of Steve Jobs as his desktop background. I shit you not. Freakin' weird...
We should go a step further and add a audio based narrative. Then we dont even have to read. Then for fun throw in some video in which people act out the scenes of the book. Then we dont even have to use our imagination to recreate any imagery. Then some day we can add things like special effects to jazz it all up.
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I always thought amber alerts on TV were strange...i mean unless said child walked up to my front door what good would it do while I'm sitting in my lazy boy. Sorta the same with this except for the mobile phone version, but like others have said you can already get SMS alerts.
Stuart Smalley is that you?
I don't care what alarm you use...just get your ass to work.
Small nit..it's the House and Senate - both together make up "Congress".
What's a backchannel?
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What? No matrix gruel?
To make it even worse...in this case it's the same imaginary friend.
"Any suggestions would be appreciated."
Here's a suggestion do whatever you want in your country but keep you and your idea the fuck away from the USA.
Wolverines!!!
I just want ISP's to pass packets, that is all.
If I want to filter I can choose to on my own (work on my own car), and if I can't or don't want to I can pay the ISP extra cash and have them do it (hire a mechanic). If I "stumble" across kiddie porn that is my fault and I will pay the repercussions.
Better yet, this is like driving on the freeway, there is a known speed limit and people are free to choose to obey or break the law. Law abiding citizens will choose to obey the limit. Speeders take the chance of getting caught. Now the ISPs (by direction of quasi govt agency) are putting governors on our vehicles.
This seems to be where our society is headed...we are no longer allowing ourselves the freedom to obey or break the laws we have set for ourselves. Free will be damned.
Actually I think that was the premise of the BBC Walking with Dinasours series. Instead of insects I think it was CO build up.
The show Numb3rs season finale was based on this.
They tend to get away with it because rightly are wrongly the schools invoke the Safe Schools Act when suppressing speech/activities outside the physical school environment.
The Safe Schools Act is to school age children what the Patriot Act is to the common citizenry.
Some thing like this http://www.aminocom.com/products/ipstb/aminet120.h tml plus streaming with http://www.videolan.org/ might be what your looking for...
I remember seeing a surge protected power strip labeled as "Windows 95 compatible!" in a Best Buy once.
Absolutely amazing.