Windows has let the proliferation of OEM drivers grow as a way to keep market share. I mean we had PCL, PS, and PDF printing almost a decade ago. But printers get dumber and dumber. I work with AS400 and the system outputs stock PCL... yet no printer under $500 talks that any more. Now that folks have iPads more powerful than their computer 5 years ago they think they should print... Without wires, or drivers. Imagine printing the same spool file to DIFFERENT printers!!! Woah!
I'd like to see some normal laser printers get AirPrint support.. Color printers are expensive to run.
The problem with "ethics" is that most ethics classes are about PERSONAL moral choices... when you start tying your ethical base to just the letter of the law then it's really not "ethics" it's just another form of mindless religion. That's why we can't legalize things because a vast majority of people in the armed forces, legal profession, and police equate "right equals legal" plus what the Bible says. Once you've rationalized away the basic christian rules like the ten commandments, "let your yes be yes, and your no be no", and "do unto others"... the rest is just the rules to the game... Basically we have a society of sociopath RPG-style Munchkins running things.
iPads are $800 now, not including whatever else was in the bag too (even though "grand" may be $2000, taking 3 things worth $300-$800 each becomes "grand" even though it's not over the Dollar limit) . Depending on jurisdiction that's grand theft quite easily. I'm sure there's other modifiers for being in a security location and FAA property as well. Much like getting in an honest ARGUMENT with a stewardess is a Federal crime for what would be barely disturbing the peace in an average bar.
Unfortunately, there's a saying "in for a penny, in for a pound" in that if your name comes up on even one of the attacks, the FBI is tagging you for ALL of them, and all the damage other crackers did with the information all your friends released.
When you are on the hook for 50K+ instances of felony stealing $100-$500 you trigger special provisions for mass-crime and for repeat offenders so the 5-10 charges they make stick get 2x-3x multipliers plus mandatory minimum sentences, plus the tags for multiple offenses, repeat offenses which gets to multiple 20-30 year MINIMUM terms served CONSECUTIVELY. They fucked with bankers... they're in DEEP shit.
Good luck kiddies, the FBI may move slow, but they've got a decade to catch you for this 2 months of fame... and no doubt they WILL be spending at least 5 years hunting them down long after the thrill is gone.
That sums up the entire problem with our current state of "capitalism". it's much more profitable to "win" by causing others to fail than "succeeding".
exactly, lawyers aren't really trained to "explain the meaning to me". they're trained to find the holes in whatever's in front of them. Prosecutors and Defense lawyers aren't trained to find the "truth" like on TV, they're trained to ARGUE the words in a bunch of books. Same with Business lawyers.. essentially to make the paper "mean whatever you want". not what it actually says.
Personally, I think we're on the downward side of piracy anyway. Of course the President would be on-board with this because the frivolous complaints against 10k people at a time are a misuse of the courts and a waste of time.
I think piracy is on the way out anyway. Things like iTunes, Netflix,& Hulu make it really easy to get almost anything legally. I don't think regular folk will like getting the first warning letter one bit... Having a warning system in place will get people warned their actions have consequences sooner... Just knowing somebody takes notice is enough to get many people to stop. I think most people have "grown up" and are sick of all the spyware, viruses, and hacks from torrent sites anyway.
TracPhone seems to be good. The condition of minutes not expiring is unreasonable.. Any way you look at it you are tying up one of their allocated phone numbers, so use the product or get off their lawn. In the case of tracphone (and others) they have a "one year" card that holds your minutes for a long time... My teen has one and uses it just as you say... Seems to work for him.
I don't think we need THAT much tech in grandmas house... Simply because it wouldn't work. On the other hand, something like an iPhone has more than enough capability to monitor health and emergency status with built in sensors and a few attachments. I liked the idea of using a Wii in that manner too.
My grandmother lived to 90's. The BIG factor was being in her home and access to prompt help. "minor" injuries are what "kill" most old people. A broken bone or untreated sore turns into multiple surgeries and "being in a hospital" is what gets them in a slow death spiral. Throw in monitoring meds and chronic conditions like pacemakers or diabeties and you could cut 50% of care costs. Ultimately, being SOCIAL is what keeps most old people going. Having someplace to GO every few days, people to see keeps them getting up and taking care of themselves.
Smart money would be on bluetooth connected devices... Monitors, O2 tanks, testing meters... And tie those to something cheap like a Wii or iPhone(ish) devices. Brand small things to work together and you have a winner. Heck, iPhones have 2-way video features now... Now grandma can SHOW where she's fallen and can't get up. It would be trivial to build an "old people friendly" device with some goofy robot OS but all the same hardware.
They also don't have that pesky "free market" for consumer goods. It's easy to live when most of the people don't really have much to spend money on other than food because the government forbids "luxury excess" to be widely sold. There were articles not too long ago about Asian countries worrying about population weight.. Because it was inefficient for shopkeepers to stock extra sizes of pants... Think about the level of state control of the population considering things like that takes?
It was less about cost of wages and more about investments... Multinationals want to parlay their Western profits into East Asia... the fact that the get to stick it to the "lazy union workers" is secondary to the wall street guys.
They have spent 30 years siphoning off the profits from "unions" to brand new shiny factories filled with college grads.. While demanding western workers work at 30year old factories with little capital improvements in the last 20 years... And take a pay cut too. I constantly hear from co-workers from India, China, Brazil how great the company is in their country... Some of the things they brag about were TAKEN AWAY 20 years ago, or even things American companies would NEVER do for "factory workers".
Of course the average life expectancy in these countries is just about 65, they are floating about 5-10% on retirement... Not like the western countries where there are more people on social security than in K-12 school now. In the 1980's and 90's the US let companies "eat their seeds" no amount of "paying cash" will compensate for the compound interest lost, with fewer employees to pay in due to outsourcing, the weight is crushing. Living in the Midwest this is exactly what the "business government" is trying to do... Many states have budget problems but those don't really effect education and such because those used to be separate "hats". These are the same "successful" businessmen that outsourced for 20+ years now trying to raid the "mattrress money" and blame it on the employees. I think the current leaders in Govt think RoboCop was a manual not a satire of bad capitalism.
That's the point of an IDE... to edit hundreds of pages at once, in a consistent manner. (although if you have hundreds of pages you should use a CMS... Back to text editing)
Ultimately though, if your tool doesn't play nice with the lowly Notepad, then you're at the mercy of being tied to shifting winds of business.
If you are doing this professionally, spring for Dreamweaver which fits the bill of being long term, and generating output readable via notepad if you need to work with hand-coders.
Generally, if you've been designing "web pages" this long and don't want to edit by hand, you really should consider learning that skill, or be tied to what tools let you do.
Awww. Now Microsoft knows how the other 5% of PC owners felt the last 20 years. I mean try to get Mac software, and is behind the door matked beware of the Leopard...
On the otherhand it was a long time before ATT stores kept more than one iPhone out... But that was because they couldn't beat customers away from them with a stick an ATT got slightly less profit than the other phones.
That's life in retail kids.. Somebody doesn't think retail design is FAIR do they?
This case was about the best case for software patents... Don't fool yourself, Microsoft KNEW UP FRONT what this product was, that it was patented, and actively hijacked their customers while being a "partner" with them. This was a "slam dunk" patent case which is why the court took it.
Just like when Lessing was trying to overturn retroactive copyright, the court put the rules squarely on CONGRESS to fix... They seem to be truly living up conservative and refuse to legislate from the bench.
This is GOOD because a powerful company finally got shut out by the current law, enforced "equally" for once.
All the big companies negotiate their own deals out of court with big checks so the bad laws are on the books for the rest of us like a hammer. This case the plaintiff wanted Microsoft shut out.. They didn't wantba deal.
Of course we won't get a BETTER law out of this, they'll just put some mandatory RAND terms.. For "$1 million" which wipes most upstarts like iOS devs (this weeks other case) from the board but makes it "fair" for everybody else. Most Americans are employed at ( or own) small businesses which are under 50 employees... Even $1 million is devastating to a business that size, but pocket change to IBM, Apple, Microsoft, Oracle, ect.
This is the fundamental problem of worshiping capitalism. It is like comparing "one man. One vote" to each dollar... But making every decision by essentially simple majority "mob" rule. You're not truly "equal" in our society unless you have $10 million or so of liquid property stuffed in a "mattress" on 640+ acres otherwise you still are beholden to Banks, insurance, farmers, government, etc for all the important things. Like making sure your pension, retirement is actually AT the bank when you retire, or that you won't be bankrupted by expensive medical care (Most truly serious stuff Starts at $100k now) or that a simple lawsuit wont bankrupt you. That's why so Many actors, rockstars, and athletes are poor five years after quitting.. That $100k FDIC should really be $1m to account for inflation in the last 30 years. Little people are really, really screwed.
you don't remember very well.. those keyboards were $50 - $100 when they were NEW in the 1990's included with every computer. That would be $200-$300 now.
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Windows has let the proliferation of OEM drivers grow as a way to keep market share. I mean we had PCL, PS, and PDF printing almost a decade ago. But printers get dumber and dumber. I work with AS400 and the system outputs stock PCL... yet no printer under $500 talks that any more. Now that folks have iPads more powerful than their computer 5 years ago they think they should print... Without wires, or drivers. Imagine printing the same spool file to DIFFERENT printers!!! Woah!
I'd like to see some normal laser printers get AirPrint support.. Color printers are expensive to run.
pie= mmmm
The problem with "ethics" is that most ethics classes are about PERSONAL moral choices... when you start tying your ethical base to just the letter of the law then it's really not "ethics" it's just another form of mindless religion. That's why we can't legalize things because a vast majority of people in the armed forces, legal profession, and police equate "right equals legal" plus what the Bible says. Once you've rationalized away the basic christian rules like the ten commandments, "let your yes be yes, and your no be no", and "do unto others"... the rest is just the rules to the game... Basically we have a society of sociopath RPG-style Munchkins running things.
iPads are $800 now, not including whatever else was in the bag too (even though "grand" may be $2000, taking 3 things worth $300-$800 each becomes "grand" even though it's not over the Dollar limit) . Depending on jurisdiction that's grand theft quite easily. I'm sure there's other modifiers for being in a security location and FAA property as well. Much like getting in an honest ARGUMENT with a stewardess is a Federal crime for what would be barely disturbing the peace in an average bar.
Unfortunately, there's a saying "in for a penny, in for a pound" in that if your name comes up on even one of the attacks, the FBI is tagging you for ALL of them, and all the damage other crackers did with the information all your friends released.
When you are on the hook for 50K+ instances of felony stealing $100-$500 you trigger special provisions for mass-crime and for repeat offenders so the 5-10 charges they make stick get 2x-3x multipliers plus mandatory minimum sentences, plus the tags for multiple offenses, repeat offenses which gets to multiple 20-30 year MINIMUM terms served CONSECUTIVELY. They fucked with bankers... they're in DEEP shit.
Good luck kiddies, the FBI may move slow, but they've got a decade to catch you for this 2 months of fame... and no doubt they WILL be spending at least 5 years hunting them down long after the thrill is gone.
That sums up the entire problem with our current state of "capitalism". it's much more profitable to "win" by causing others to fail than "succeeding".
exactly, lawyers aren't really trained to "explain the meaning to me". they're trained to find the holes in whatever's in front of them. Prosecutors and Defense lawyers aren't trained to find the "truth" like on TV, they're trained to ARGUE the words in a bunch of books. Same with Business lawyers.. essentially to make the paper "mean whatever you want". not what it actually says.
Personally, I think we're on the downward side of piracy anyway. Of course the President would be on-board with this because the frivolous complaints against 10k people at a time are a misuse of the courts and a waste of time.
I think piracy is on the way out anyway. Things like iTunes, Netflix,& Hulu make it really easy to get almost anything legally. I don't think regular folk will like getting the first warning letter one bit... Having a warning system in place will get people warned their actions have consequences sooner... Just knowing somebody takes notice is enough to get many people to stop. I think most people have "grown up" and are sick of all the spyware, viruses, and hacks from torrent sites anyway.
The retail "mis-scan" rules require 5x repayment up to $5 per incident. That alone would wipe these guys out in a hurry.
It's amazing how most of the basic consumer retail rules evaporated when things became electronic...
TracPhone seems to be good.
The condition of minutes not expiring is unreasonable.. Any way you look at it you are tying up one of their allocated phone numbers, so use the product or get off their lawn. In the case of tracphone (and others) they have a "one year" card that holds your minutes for a long time... My teen has one and uses it just as you say... Seems to work for him.
I don't think we need THAT much tech in grandmas house... Simply because it wouldn't work. On the other hand, something like an iPhone has more than enough capability to monitor health and emergency status with built in sensors and a few attachments. I liked the idea of using a Wii in that manner too.
My grandmother lived to 90's. The BIG factor was being in her home and access to prompt help. "minor" injuries are what "kill" most old people. A broken bone or untreated sore turns into multiple surgeries and "being in a hospital" is what gets them in a slow death spiral. Throw in monitoring meds and chronic conditions like pacemakers or diabeties and you could cut 50% of care costs. Ultimately, being SOCIAL is what keeps most old people going. Having someplace to GO every few days, people to see keeps them getting up and taking care of themselves.
Smart money would be on bluetooth connected devices ... Monitors, O2 tanks, testing meters... And tie those to something cheap like a Wii or iPhone(ish) devices. Brand small things to work together and you have a winner. Heck, iPhones have 2-way video features now... Now grandma can SHOW where she's fallen and can't get up. It would be trivial to build an "old people friendly" device with some goofy robot OS but all the same hardware.
I thought we just tipped the guy that brings the cart around?
"bring out yer dead!"
They also don't have that pesky "free market" for consumer goods. It's easy to live when most of the people don't really have much to spend money on other than food because the government forbids "luxury excess" to be widely sold. There were articles not too long ago about Asian countries worrying about population weight.. Because it was inefficient for shopkeepers to stock extra sizes of pants... Think about the level of state control of the population considering things like that takes?
It was less about cost of wages and more about investments... Multinationals want to parlay their Western profits into East Asia... the fact that the get to stick it to the "lazy union workers" is secondary to the wall street guys.
They have spent 30 years siphoning off the profits from "unions" to brand new shiny factories filled with college grads.. While demanding western workers work at 30year old factories with little capital improvements in the last 20 years... And take a pay cut too. I constantly hear from co-workers from India, China, Brazil how great the company is in their country... Some of the things they brag about were TAKEN AWAY 20 years ago, or even things American companies would NEVER do for "factory workers".
Of course the average life expectancy in these countries is just about 65, they are floating about 5-10% on retirement... Not like the western countries where there are more people on social security than in K-12 school now. In the 1980's and 90's the US let companies "eat their seeds" no amount of "paying cash" will compensate for the compound interest lost, with fewer employees to pay in due to outsourcing, the weight is crushing.
Living in the Midwest this is exactly what the "business government" is trying to do... Many states have budget problems but those don't really effect education and such because those used to be separate "hats". These are the same "successful" businessmen that outsourced for 20+ years now trying to raid the "mattrress money" and blame it on the employees. I think the current leaders in Govt think RoboCop was a manual not a satire of bad capitalism.
But BUSINESS MANAGERS don't know all that... They just pay a low monthly fee!
The foo is who we pity. Cause he got no Fu.
That's the point of an IDE... to edit hundreds of pages at once, in a consistent manner. (although if you have hundreds of pages you should use a CMS ... Back to text editing)
Textmate is what you're looking for as the "bar" for Mac text editors.
Ultimately though, if your tool doesn't play nice with the lowly Notepad, then you're at the mercy of being tied to shifting winds of business.
If you are doing this professionally, spring for Dreamweaver which fits the bill of being long term, and generating output readable via notepad if you need to work with hand-coders.
Generally, if you've been designing "web pages" this long and don't want to edit by hand, you really should consider learning that skill, or be tied to what tools let you do.
Awww.
Now Microsoft knows how the other 5% of PC owners felt the last 20 years. I mean try to get Mac software, and is behind the door matked beware of the Leopard...
On the otherhand it was a long time before ATT stores kept more than one iPhone out... But that was because they couldn't beat customers away from them with a stick an ATT got slightly less profit than the other phones.
That's life in retail kids.. Somebody doesn't think retail design is FAIR do they?
This case was about the best case for software patents... Don't fool yourself, Microsoft KNEW UP FRONT what this product was, that it was patented, and actively hijacked their customers while being a "partner" with them. This was a "slam dunk" patent case which is why the court took it.
Just like when Lessing was trying to overturn retroactive copyright, the court put the rules squarely on CONGRESS to fix... They seem to be truly living up conservative and refuse to legislate from the bench.
This is GOOD because a powerful company finally got shut out by the current law, enforced "equally" for once.
All the big companies negotiate their own deals out of court with big checks so the bad laws are on the books for the rest of us like a hammer. This case the plaintiff wanted Microsoft shut out.. They didn't wantba deal.
Of course we won't get a BETTER law out of this, they'll just put some mandatory RAND terms.. For "$1 million" which wipes most upstarts like iOS devs (this weeks other case) from the board but makes it "fair" for everybody else. Most Americans are employed at ( or own) small businesses which are under 50 employees... Even $1 million is devastating to a business that size, but pocket change to IBM, Apple, Microsoft, Oracle, ect.
This is the fundamental problem of worshiping capitalism. It is like comparing "one man. One vote" to each dollar... But making every decision by essentially simple majority "mob" rule. You're not truly "equal" in our society unless you have $10 million or so of liquid property stuffed in a "mattress" on 640+ acres otherwise you still are beholden to Banks, insurance, farmers, government, etc for all the important things. Like making sure your pension, retirement is actually AT the bank when you retire, or that you won't be bankrupted by expensive medical care (Most truly serious stuff Starts at $100k now) or that a simple lawsuit wont bankrupt you. That's why so Many actors, rockstars, and athletes are poor five years after quitting.. That $100k FDIC should really be $1m to account for inflation in the last 30 years. Little people are really, really screwed.
you don't remember very well.. those keyboards were $50 - $100 when they were NEW in the 1990's included with every computer. That would be $200-$300 now.
FYI, on Mac Ctl-arrow is the command to change Spaces.