...and I'm not buying a portable computer that only works when it can talk to Google's servers (though I'll happily beta test one!). Preventing apps from mucking around with system files is a no-brainer, but that doesn't mean they have to live in the cloud. For corn's sake, they make portable apps for Windows that work fine without touching the OS.
"What if Assange started to leak credit card numbers and bank account numbers?"
Nice straw man. What if Jay Leno started eating babies? Would you still watch his show? You can't judge people on what they might do, we'd all be in jail. You judge their behavior. And so far Assange hasn't gone after individuals' financial info, he's revealed embarrassing truths about huge organizations.
"...and all bills before Congress should be made publicly available before they are voted on - not hidden the way Romney/Obamacare was."
Seriously? I recall some Republican on Jon Stewarts show dropping a huge pile of paper on Stewarts desk and saying "I have the bill right here", and that was months before it was passed. And how did Palin know about the Death Panels if she never saw the bill?
Please, the "Obamacare was passed in secret" meme has to die, it's beyond stupid.
"She really only appeals to people who are just as backwards, authoritarian and unintelligent as she is."
God I wish that were true. My step daughter just got in an argument with her airline-pilot father about how unqualified Palin is. His position is that the "liberal media" just does it's best to make her look stupid. As if she needs help.
He's not an idiot, there's just something about conservatives that makes them ignore reality when it doesn't line up with what they want to believe.
..so we need people like Assange, flawed though he may be, to expose what's really going on
"It would be trivial for Assange to filter information and only display leaks that would damage the country of his choice."
Guess what? It's trivial for The New York Times to do that too.
I wasn't a user, but I used to do support for the annual users' conference they put on in Santa Monica. They were a fun company to work with, good people, I was sorry to see Windows steal their thunder.
..even though he fought against health care and, coincidentally, counts health insurance companies among his biggest campaign contributors. Feeling a little better about it now.
The universe does not need humanity. I'm all for protecting life here on earth, but I can't see the point of expending the resources to colonize another planet solely to ensure the survival of the species.
..have apparently forgotten that he APPROVED more off shore exploration right before the blowout. I'm not sure what happened with this particular report, but the notion that this administration is pushing a green agenda is hilarious.
"As much as I loathed Microsoft, they always competed on pure technical innovation, not on lawyers."
Oh come now, pure technical innovation? Let's not forget FUD and leveraging dominance in one market to squeeze out competitors in another...remember Netscape? That said, Apple is hardly lily-white in its business practices.
Well, how about this one: "Normally you will only see a handful of software engineers who are building an operating system. People think that it must be hundreds and hundreds working on an operating system. It really isn’t. It’s really just a small team of people." May be true at Apple. MS, on the other hand, has dozens, perhaps hundreds of teams and committees working on Windows. Of course, he does say you only need a few people to build a great product, so perhaps Windows isn't the best choice for proving him wrong.
Actually, that bit really pissed me off. I hate having a hundred macs to deploy, which means about 10,000 individual, hermetically sealed manuals, discs, and cords to liberate. Apple packaging is beyond insane, and it looks like we have the Japanese to blame. Domo arigato!!!
As far as the car analogy, Japanese cars didn't sell because they were packaged better, but because they were engineered and built better. Hardly the same thing. But what's a computer story without a car analogy?
Great idea in theory, but:
Dragon isn't exactly cheap
Cheap/free alternatives suck
Dragon itself isn't that great
To make Dragon effective, you need to train it to your voice. Good luck getting your professor to spend an hour training your ipad. Although it would probably be possible for him to do it once and then share the resultant file with other users. If Dragon ran on the iPad, which I doubt.
Not to mention the fact that a lot of the software universities need is prohibited from being used in a thin client/terminal server environment by the companies who publish it. It's as if most Windows software vendors are still living in the 90s. They're paranoid about protecting their revenue stream, and they see cloud computing as a threat. Think music industry and Napster and you'll get the picture.
Name any other contract that one party can't even look at before money changes hands. Obligatory Car Analogy: You hop into your new SUX-2000, turn the key, and are notified that before the engine will start you have to agree to to have your car serviced exclusively by SUX dealerships. And they never mentioned this during the purchase process. How could that possibly be legally binding?
Most water systems are run by municipalities. Try not paying your water bill and see how long your "free" water service lasts. Not all city services are paid for by taxes, but that meme always gets trotted out in any discussion about municipal anything.
The police, or anyone else, have every right to follow my movements as I travel through public property. But no one has a right to install a device on my vehicle without my consent, whether it's parked on my driveway or on a city street. If this stands, what's to keep police from installing bugs in my house to monitor my conversations? We're starting down a very slippery slope, the SCOTUS needs to put the kibosh on this crap ASAP. Thanks again, War On Drugs!!!
I don't get why text to speech is so bad. Has anyone made a reader that, rather than trying to pronounce text, just uses a database of prerecorded words? A single-word wav file takes about 7k. There are roughly 200,000 words in the English language. That works out to 1.4 gigs. Doesn't seem like it would be that hard, although you'd probably have to pay Sean Connery a lot to pronounce the whole dictionary. So hire a few Connery imitators, who can't do a passable Connery?
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...and I'm not buying a portable computer that only works when it can talk to Google's servers (though I'll happily beta test one!). Preventing apps from mucking around with system files is a no-brainer, but that doesn't mean they have to live in the cloud. For corn's sake, they make portable apps for Windows that work fine without touching the OS.
He got through med school but wasn't smart enough to get disqualified by one of the attorneys? Wouldn't want that guy operating on me!
"What if Assange started to leak credit card numbers and bank account numbers?"
Nice straw man. What if Jay Leno started eating babies? Would you still watch his show? You can't judge people on what they might do, we'd all be in jail. You judge their behavior. And so far Assange hasn't gone after individuals' financial info, he's revealed embarrassing truths about huge organizations.
"...and all bills before Congress should be made publicly available before they are voted on - not hidden the way Romney/Obamacare was."
Seriously? I recall some Republican on Jon Stewarts show dropping a huge pile of paper on Stewarts desk and saying "I have the bill right here", and that was months before it was passed. And how did Palin know about the Death Panels if she never saw the bill?
Please, the "Obamacare was passed in secret" meme has to die, it's beyond stupid.
"She really only appeals to people who are just as backwards, authoritarian and unintelligent as she is."
God I wish that were true. My step daughter just got in an argument with her airline-pilot father about how unqualified Palin is. His position is that the "liberal media" just does it's best to make her look stupid. As if she needs help.
He's not an idiot, there's just something about conservatives that makes them ignore reality when it doesn't line up with what they want to believe.
..so we need people like Assange, flawed though he may be, to expose what's really going on
"It would be trivial for Assange to filter information and only display leaks that would damage the country of his choice."
Guess what? It's trivial for The New York Times to do that too.
I wasn't a user, but I used to do support for the annual users' conference they put on in Santa Monica. They were a fun company to work with, good people, I was sorry to see Windows steal their thunder.
..even though he fought against health care and, coincidentally, counts health insurance companies among his biggest campaign contributors. Feeling a little better about it now.
If that's true it's game over. No H20 without H, and no life as we know it without abundant H20. Wish I had mod points.
The universe does not need humanity. I'm all for protecting life here on earth, but I can't see the point of expending the resources to colonize another planet solely to ensure the survival of the species.
..have apparently forgotten that he APPROVED more off shore exploration right before the blowout. I'm not sure what happened with this particular report, but the notion that this administration is pushing a green agenda is hilarious.
"As much as I loathed Microsoft, they always competed on pure technical innovation, not on lawyers."
Oh come now, pure technical innovation? Let's not forget FUD and leveraging dominance in one market to squeeze out competitors in another...remember Netscape? That said, Apple is hardly lily-white in its business practices.
Well, how about this one: "Normally you will only see a handful of software engineers who are building an operating system. People think that it must be hundreds and hundreds working on an operating system. It really isn’t. It’s really just a small team of people." May be true at Apple. MS, on the other hand, has dozens, perhaps hundreds of teams and committees working on Windows. Of course, he does say you only need a few people to build a great product, so perhaps Windows isn't the best choice for proving him wrong.
Actually, that bit really pissed me off. I hate having a hundred macs to deploy, which means about 10,000 individual, hermetically sealed manuals, discs, and cords to liberate. Apple packaging is beyond insane, and it looks like we have the Japanese to blame. Domo arigato!!!
As far as the car analogy, Japanese cars didn't sell because they were packaged better, but because they were engineered and built better. Hardly the same thing. But what's a computer story without a car analogy?
Great idea in theory, but:
Dragon isn't exactly cheap
Cheap/free alternatives suck
Dragon itself isn't that great
To make Dragon effective, you need to train it to your voice. Good luck getting your professor to spend an hour training your ipad. Although it would probably be possible for him to do it once and then share the resultant file with other users. If Dragon ran on the iPad, which I doubt.
Not to mention the fact that a lot of the software universities need is prohibited from being used in a thin client/terminal server environment by the companies who publish it. It's as if most Windows software vendors are still living in the 90s. They're paranoid about protecting their revenue stream, and they see cloud computing as a threat. Think music industry and Napster and you'll get the picture.
Yeah, makes no sense. At first I assumed the poster made a mistake, but I'm wondering if he thinks that sentence actually means something.
Name any other contract that one party can't even look at before money changes hands. Obligatory Car Analogy: You hop into your new SUX-2000, turn the key, and are notified that before the engine will start you have to agree to to have your car serviced exclusively by SUX dealerships. And they never mentioned this during the purchase process. How could that possibly be legally binding?
Most water systems are run by municipalities. Try not paying your water bill and see how long your "free" water service lasts. Not all city services are paid for by taxes, but that meme always gets trotted out in any discussion about municipal anything.
I guess as a public employee, I don't have to pay taxes. I'll take my refund in twenties and hundreds, please.
The police, or anyone else, have every right to follow my movements as I travel through public property. But no one has a right to install a device on my vehicle without my consent, whether it's parked on my driveway or on a city street. If this stands, what's to keep police from installing bugs in my house to monitor my conversations? We're starting down a very slippery slope, the SCOTUS needs to put the kibosh on this crap ASAP. Thanks again, War On Drugs!!!
"meh."
...and nobody puts Aliens in a corner!
I had that on the 5200. Loved it. Yes, the graphics were crap, but it really didn't matter.
I don't get why text to speech is so bad. Has anyone made a reader that, rather than trying to pronounce text, just uses a database of prerecorded words? A single-word wav file takes about 7k. There are roughly 200,000 words in the English language. That works out to 1.4 gigs. Doesn't seem like it would be that hard, although you'd probably have to pay Sean Connery a lot to pronounce the whole dictionary. So hire a few Connery imitators, who can't do a passable Connery?