What about the HP 5455? It has both wifi and bluetooth. I can't find anything in it that says that it can't run both, so perhaps they were able to overcome whatever issues there are/were?
I'm in a great class called Constitutional Development, and I'm just going to insert some notes on the issue:
Noting that the Equal Protection clause guarantees individuals that their ballots cannot be devalued by "later arbitrary and disparate treatment," the per curiam opinion held 7-2 that the Florida Supreme Court's scheme for recounting ballots was unconstitutional.
The precedent of Baker v. Carr allowed the Supreme Court to frame this case as a LEGAL question (rather than a political question) because they were able to argue that citizens of Florida were having their INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS violated and therefore, the Court argued that this made this case a LEGAL question.
Even if the recount was fair in theory, it was unfair in practice. The record suggested that different standards were applied from ballot to ballot, precinct to precinct, and county to county.
Because of those and other procedural difficulties, the court held that no constitutional recount could be fashioned in the time remaining (which was short because the Florida legislature wanted to take advantage of the "safe harbor" provided by 3 USC Section 5).
The per curiam opinion limited its holding to this present case only.
It was how they were to be recounted that was being questioned by the Supreme Court. So do a little homework first, and I'll finish studying for my test...
Oh, I think you've hit a great point. Smaller artists are in general much more supportive of P2P sharing of their music. I would think this is because they are closer to the ideal -- they are playing music because they enjoy it and wish to say something.
Now, obviously the reality of paying bills hits these artists, but I must say, of the last 10 CDs I have most recently bought, 8 of them were of bands who do not have a record label. The other two are drum and bass compilations. Simply because I can become more personal with those artists, I want to support them. This personal touch, married with the artists' desire for sharing, are a major part of bypassing the record companies.
For what is the purpose of record labels but to spread their music? As technology starts to be more available at home, it becomes easier to do more of the mastering and producing on a home PC. This "home brew" type of recording also helps to identify the group with the "masses". P2P sharing is more than efficient, in fact, it seems that we would have more concern with P2P networks becoming more and more like the record labels.
Actually, I've found what this article said to be true. Most people I talk to don't feel it's illegal. Their reason why? "It's free." People who do not understand what is required to write programs cannot comprehend that a program should cost money. These same people would never steal a cd from a store, yet they don't understand that the music they download is the same.
I would recommend the RIAA to work hard at making music, not the physical cd, but the actual song, what is being purchased. Once people realize that the song is what they own then they will respect it even when they see it is for "free".
The other problem is that there is no crackdown on downloaders. If you started arresting people, it would actually sink in to 90% of the users that they are breaking the law. If you could walk in to a store, grab that cool shirt you've been wanting, and walked out without being stopped, you'd probably get into the habit of it. But not only because of our conscience, the detectors at the door and the security cameras help deter us from stealing.
Obviously there would still be people d/ling mp3s, but it would be much less than the 20 million or so that do it now.
Mind you, I don't necessarily agree with the law, but I'm explaining that people don't realize they're breaking the law, why they do, and how they could be stopped.
I bet you said the same thing about e-mail. You must realize the difference between chasing fads and quickly adopting standards. I have set up Instant Messaging for a non-profit organization that does a lot of linguistic work, and I have been told that it has increased their productivity simply by letting them communicate easier and faster to colleagues. They are able to communicate with colleagues across the globe, asking quick questions that are vital to a project, and instead of waiting for an email reply (which may be at least a few hours) they get an instantaneous response.
Another technology that you probably fear is P2P sharing. This is another useful tool that I believe will start to make an impact on the business world. Locutus is what I have set up for them, and they are able to share documents/media that have had to have been requested while still making sure priveleges and security are a priority.
Perhaps you didn't like the computer -- imagine the gaming that would go on...
I don't agree with your statement: Learning a third or fourth language is MUCH easier
My first langauge is spanish, then english, then tagalog, and now I'm learning Japanese. Japanese is the first language that I'm learning in the classroom and it's amazing how much harder it is to learn this way. I'm used to just being thrown into the culture and "sink or swim" were the only options. Now, I can decide to not do my Japanese hw and it doesn't hurt me in any way.
So what's my point? That the style of learning is more important than the depth or number of languages learned.
I think the same could be said for programming languages, unless you have a reason to start learning them, you will not be a truly effective learner.
I noticed they had a blurb from Chris Jones the VP of Windows.
"Bill, I think, (has) touched on it eloquently and well, which is the responsibility we have to be excellent in our products, to be excellent with our customers, to be a leader in how we think about these hard problems like security, like privacy, like reliability or like delivering innovation into the industry and being a responsible partner."
I thought it was very interesting to see his views are more responsible and agreeable than what we have given M$ credit for. Perhaps he is a new breed of Microsoft employees who see the faults of other M$ products and is trying to break that mold.
All the qualities of NASCAR that you mentioned, importance of crews, technical detail, gas/air consumption, etc. are even more important in Formula One. If you want to look simply at the cars, F1 has allowed greater flexibility to the design and power of the car, allowing the drivers to have different advantages.
The BMW engine is much better in the straightaway, however the McLaren is better at the corners, and Ferrari are the best at tight spaces. It really makes it multi-dimensional compared to the Ford, Chevy, and Dodge cars that are the only allowed types on the field. NASCAR emphasises the driver, while F1 (any formula racing for that matter) focuses on the car. The nerd will go for F1 any day, while the Sociologist will watch NASCAR.
I think the most interesting thing noted in the firstmonday article was the reason for NASCAR's growth:
Baseball - a slow, serene game played with a wooden bat, a cloth ball, and cowhide mitts on a broad, grassy field - surged in popularity just when the industrial revolution was taking hold, leaving masses of urban workers and shopkeepers yearning for the pastoral peace and quiet of the fabled agricultural age. They could relive this for a day by attending a baseball game. By extension, no wonder stock-car racing - a fast, furious sport contended on a paved roadway with snarling, smelly machines operated by hand - is surging in popularity at the very time the computerized information revolution is transforming our society from top to bottom. Stock-car racing expresses the industrial age more than does any big sport in America.
I think this is interesting, because perhaps these are reasons why people are having a hard time adjusting to the "new" era.
What the hell is the i705 doing on that list?
I treat it much lower than the Palm Vx which is the epitome of a sexy PDA. The i705 is perhaps the worst PDA ever put out by Palm in that it does nothing except extend the life of Palm.net or whatever they called it. Even the Palm VIIx was more groundbreaking than the i705.
I do have to say that after moving from Palm to Pocket PC, the thing I miss the most is a decent battery life. My Toshiba e740 gets about 3 hours, while my Vx got about 2 weeks.
This is a great idea except one flaw. Now Lindows, which isn't even a competitive OS maker, is now trying to fight the likes of Dell, Sony, Toshiba, IBM, and the rest. Good luck is what I have to say. It actually looks like a decent laptop for college students (read: cheap, and no MS tax) and I know the first thing I'd do is try and put a real linux distro. However, it has a compact flash, does linux know how to handle that?
I go to school at Baylor, and they have a similar thing here. You have to take a one-hour credit class and you can then use the material in the music building. I dabble in electronica, and I've been able to mix some of my friends (who are amazing sopranos and altos) in to give trip-hop an almost aureal sound.
It's a lot of fun and I encourage others on campuses to make friends with music majors, they're the nerds of music.
I'll tell you why Linux on Xbox would be cool. It's all about the multimedia.
The Xbox sits in your living room, imagine being able to put mp3s, divx, and play dvd, and on top of that, being able to stream stuff from other pc's on your network. That's about all you could do, since the hardware is all proprietary. But I think that's enough.
On top of this, if MS does sign this, then you won't have to mod your xbox just to run media files. Once you've modded your box it gets to the point where you decide to just get pirated stuff since it's already modded.
By keeping it unmodded, you'd be able to still run games and get on xbox live. it seems to me that people would be more likely to buy non-pirated games if linux didn't require getting a mod. This should still allow people to buy legal games -- the main argument for why MS won't allow such signatures.
I think one of the things I noticed most in the article by Graham was that kids don't realise that the world they're in doesn't matter. When I was in middle school, there was a programmer at my church who was willing to take a few hours a couple of days out of his busy week and sit down and teach me programming basics. It was working with him, and seeing people respecting him that helped me look past the ridicule I recieved at school and instead focused on the sheer joy I recieved from programming.
It seems to me that what we really need is some sort of nerd mentoring. I'm in college right now, and it'd be ideal for me to go out and find a middle school kid who fits the nerd profile and help them learn to program. That self-confidence that is born from knowing you have valuable life skills is something that any preteen could use.
I have a Sony U3 that I just got in Japan, and I tried to install Red Hat on it. Ha. Red Hat had no idea what was going on, it couldn't find a sound card, anything to use the extra buttons, jog dials etc. and the resolution was terrible. Needless to say, I put my M$ back on, cried, and then slipped it into my shirt pocket.
Actually, I was thinking that there are private companies that would be excited about such a concept. We're talking a monopoly on affordable space travel, and on top of that, think of the possibilities of mining etc. It would seem that space travel would actually be quite affordable once you got past our atmosphere, since I think the current shuttle uses over half of it's fuel just on getting out of the atmosphere.
Your definition of mobile is very different than mine I suppose. I don't want a computer much thicker than an inch. I (like yourself) don't care for onboard CD/DVD or floppy, I just want batteries and small. I have a Sony PCG-U3 that I picked up in Japan, but here is the Dynamism page on it. It's a 933, 512 mb of ram, the ATI Mobility-M, etc. and is smaller than many paperback books. I get 12 hours battery life, and I have nothing to complain about. Except perhaps the price...
I think this issue, and many others, all come down to one simple question, "Are some people's rights more valuable than others?" I don't think the constitution supports that. Simply because kids could access a computer, why should it be censored when there are users who's rights will then be violated if they use it?
Although you are right that we did not have a president come into power because of a court decision, it is clear that Supreme Court did rule out Gore's chances. Now, what they finally came up with was legal and everything, but, even some of the justices on the Supreme Court felt that there were ways around having to meet the deadline.
In fact, many believe that the Supreme Court should never have heard the case. One word: Justiciability. This means that there are reasons why the Supreme Court should not hear some cases. One of those reasons is if the question is a Political Question. In a question form, is there a political way to resolve the issue? I think in this case we can definitely say "yes". However, Bush was able to spin the case so that the individual rights of the Florida voters were being attacked (in that their votes were not being counted equally with others) and so the Supreme Court was able to listen to the case.
Second, the Supreme Court decided that there wasn't enough time to set up a counting system, but as some on the bench noted, it would have been very possible to simply extend the deadline, thus ensuring that every voter got equal votes. As such, many voters were not even counted and regardless of your political agenda, that is not a good thing at any time. So I think the courts did play a role in at least ruling out the chance for Gore to win, and even though I voted for Bush, I would have been happy to have seen the hanging chad fiasco continue in the name of complete and proper voting.
Have any of you tried Deep Freeze?
We run at my university and it works under the same premise of Clean Slate; however, I've found it to be faster to boot up. Also, I have yet to hear of some way around it -- it really does an amazing job.
I mean, we cut back a ton of spending for some of the most dangerous quests known to man, and then we're shocked when their systems are failing on a thirty-year-old shuttle.
What I would like to see is a new branch of the military take over the space program. Call it Space Force if you want to be cheesy, but at any rate, whenever the military gets involved in programs they get an incredible amount of financing. And for those of you who are concerned that if it becomes military we'll never see it again, think DARPA Net. The military is a great way to get things started, and then let blatant commercialism take a choke hold...
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What about the HP 5455? It has both wifi and bluetooth. I can't find anything in it that says that it can't run both, so perhaps they were able to overcome whatever issues there are/were?
Noting that the Equal Protection clause guarantees individuals that their ballots cannot be devalued by "later arbitrary and disparate treatment," the per curiam opinion held 7-2 that the Florida Supreme Court's scheme for recounting ballots was unconstitutional.
The precedent of Baker v. Carr allowed the Supreme Court to frame this case as a LEGAL question (rather than a political question) because they were able to argue that citizens of Florida were having their INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS violated and therefore, the Court argued that this made this case a LEGAL question.
Even if the recount was fair in theory, it was unfair in practice. The record suggested that different standards were applied from ballot to ballot, precinct to precinct, and county to county.
Because of those and other procedural difficulties, the court held that no constitutional recount could be fashioned in the time remaining (which was short because the Florida legislature wanted to take advantage of the "safe harbor" provided by 3 USC Section 5).
The per curiam opinion limited its holding to this present case only.
It was how they were to be recounted that was being questioned by the Supreme Court. So do a little homework first, and I'll finish studying for my test...
What's even better is when you do go to the HP Linux link they give you, it talks about how they chose Red Hat -- nothing about Debian :)
Now, obviously the reality of paying bills hits these artists, but I must say, of the last 10 CDs I have most recently bought, 8 of them were of bands who do not have a record label. The other two are drum and bass compilations. Simply because I can become more personal with those artists, I want to support them. This personal touch, married with the artists' desire for sharing, are a major part of bypassing the record companies.
For what is the purpose of record labels but to spread their music? As technology starts to be more available at home, it becomes easier to do more of the mastering and producing on a home PC. This "home brew" type of recording also helps to identify the group with the "masses". P2P sharing is more than efficient, in fact, it seems that we would have more concern with P2P networks becoming more and more like the record labels.
I would recommend the RIAA to work hard at making music, not the physical cd, but the actual song, what is being purchased. Once people realize that the song is what they own then they will respect it even when they see it is for "free".
The other problem is that there is no crackdown on downloaders. If you started arresting people, it would actually sink in to 90% of the users that they are breaking the law. If you could walk in to a store, grab that cool shirt you've been wanting, and walked out without being stopped, you'd probably get into the habit of it. But not only because of our conscience, the detectors at the door and the security cameras help deter us from stealing.
Obviously there would still be people d/ling mp3s, but it would be much less than the 20 million or so that do it now.
Mind you, I don't necessarily agree with the law, but I'm explaining that people don't realize they're breaking the law, why they do, and how they could be stopped.
Thank you.
Another technology that you probably fear is P2P sharing. This is another useful tool that I believe will start to make an impact on the business world. Locutus is what I have set up for them, and they are able to share documents/media that have had to have been requested while still making sure priveleges and security are a priority.
Perhaps you didn't like the computer -- imagine the gaming that would go on...
My first langauge is spanish, then english, then tagalog, and now I'm learning Japanese. Japanese is the first language that I'm learning in the classroom and it's amazing how much harder it is to learn this way. I'm used to just being thrown into the culture and "sink or swim" were the only options. Now, I can decide to not do my Japanese hw and it doesn't hurt me in any way.
So what's my point? That the style of learning is more important than the depth or number of languages learned. I think the same could be said for programming languages, unless you have a reason to start learning them, you will not be a truly effective learner.
"Bill, I think, (has) touched on it eloquently and well, which is the responsibility we have to be excellent in our products, to be excellent with our customers, to be a leader in how we think about these hard problems like security, like privacy, like reliability or like delivering innovation into the industry and being a responsible partner."
I thought it was very interesting to see his views are more responsible and agreeable than what we have given M$ credit for. Perhaps he is a new breed of Microsoft employees who see the faults of other M$ products and is trying to break that mold.
The BMW engine is much better in the straightaway, however the McLaren is better at the corners, and Ferrari are the best at tight spaces. It really makes it multi-dimensional compared to the Ford, Chevy, and Dodge cars that are the only allowed types on the field. NASCAR emphasises the driver, while F1 (any formula racing for that matter) focuses on the car. The nerd will go for F1 any day, while the Sociologist will watch NASCAR.
Baseball - a slow, serene game played with a wooden bat, a cloth ball, and cowhide mitts on a broad, grassy field - surged in popularity just when the industrial revolution was taking hold, leaving masses of urban workers and shopkeepers yearning for the pastoral peace and quiet of the fabled agricultural age. They could relive this for a day by attending a baseball game. By extension, no wonder stock-car racing - a fast, furious sport contended on a paved roadway with snarling, smelly machines operated by hand - is surging in popularity at the very time the computerized information revolution is transforming our society from top to bottom. Stock-car racing expresses the industrial age more than does any big sport in America.
I think this is interesting, because perhaps these are reasons why people are having a hard time adjusting to the "new" era.
I treat it much lower than the Palm Vx which is the epitome of a sexy PDA. The i705 is perhaps the worst PDA ever put out by Palm in that it does nothing except extend the life of Palm.net or whatever they called it. Even the Palm VIIx was more groundbreaking than the i705.
I do have to say that after moving from Palm to Pocket PC, the thing I miss the most is a decent battery life. My Toshiba e740 gets about 3 hours, while my Vx got about 2 weeks.
This is a great idea except one flaw. Now Lindows, which isn't even a competitive OS maker, is now trying to fight the likes of Dell, Sony, Toshiba, IBM, and the rest. Good luck is what I have to say. It actually looks like a decent laptop for college students (read: cheap, and no MS tax) and I know the first thing I'd do is try and put a real linux distro. However, it has a compact flash, does linux know how to handle that?
It's a lot of fun and I encourage others on campuses to make friends with music majors, they're the nerds of music.
The Xbox sits in your living room, imagine being able to put mp3s, divx, and play dvd, and on top of that, being able to stream stuff from other pc's on your network. That's about all you could do, since the hardware is all proprietary. But I think that's enough.
On top of this, if MS does sign this, then you won't have to mod your xbox just to run media files. Once you've modded your box it gets to the point where you decide to just get pirated stuff since it's already modded.
By keeping it unmodded, you'd be able to still run games and get on xbox live. it seems to me that people would be more likely to buy non-pirated games if linux didn't require getting a mod. This should still allow people to buy legal games -- the main argument for why MS won't allow such signatures.
yes...one of the few things that made me think twice about leaving LA to go to school in texas...
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It seems to me that what we really need is some sort of nerd mentoring. I'm in college right now, and it'd be ideal for me to go out and find a middle school kid who fits the nerd profile and help them learn to program. That self-confidence that is born from knowing you have valuable life skills is something that any preteen could use.
Actually, this is a great idea. If they got a heads-up, even more kudos.
I have a Sony U3 that I just got in Japan, and I tried to install Red Hat on it. Ha. Red Hat had no idea what was going on, it couldn't find a sound card, anything to use the extra buttons, jog dials etc. and the resolution was terrible. Needless to say, I put my M$ back on, cried, and then slipped it into my shirt pocket.
Actually, I was thinking that there are private companies that would be excited about such a concept. We're talking a monopoly on affordable space travel, and on top of that, think of the possibilities of mining etc. It would seem that space travel would actually be quite affordable once you got past our atmosphere, since I think the current shuttle uses over half of it's fuel just on getting out of the atmosphere.
Your definition of mobile is very different than mine I suppose. I don't want a computer much thicker than an inch. I (like yourself) don't care for onboard CD/DVD or floppy, I just want batteries and small. I have a Sony PCG-U3 that I picked up in Japan, but here is the Dynamism page on it. It's a 933, 512 mb of ram, the ATI Mobility-M, etc. and is smaller than many paperback books. I get 12 hours battery life, and I have nothing to complain about. Except perhaps the price...
I think this issue, and many others, all come down to one simple question, " Are some people's rights more valuable than others? " I don't think the constitution supports that. Simply because kids could access a computer, why should it be censored when there are users who's rights will then be violated if they use it?
Although you are right that we did not have a president come into power because of a court decision, it is clear that Supreme Court did rule out Gore's chances. Now, what they finally came up with was legal and everything, but, even some of the justices on the Supreme Court felt that there were ways around having to meet the deadline.
In fact, many believe that the Supreme Court should never have heard the case. One word: Justiciability. This means that there are reasons why the Supreme Court should not hear some cases. One of those reasons is if the question is a Political Question. In a question form, is there a political way to resolve the issue? I think in this case we can definitely say "yes". However, Bush was able to spin the case so that the individual rights of the Florida voters were being attacked (in that their votes were not being counted equally with others) and so the Supreme Court was able to listen to the case.
Second, the Supreme Court decided that there wasn't enough time to set up a counting system, but as some on the bench noted, it would have been very possible to simply extend the deadline, thus ensuring that every voter got equal votes. As such, many voters were not even counted and regardless of your political agenda, that is not a good thing at any time. So I think the courts did play a role in at least ruling out the chance for Gore to win, and even though I voted for Bush, I would have been happy to have seen the hanging chad fiasco continue in the name of complete and proper voting.
Have any of you tried Deep Freeze? We run at my university and it works under the same premise of Clean Slate; however, I've found it to be faster to boot up. Also, I have yet to hear of some way around it -- it really does an amazing job.
Haven't yall?
I mean, we cut back a ton of spending for some of the most dangerous quests known to man, and then we're shocked when their systems are failing on a thirty-year-old shuttle.
What I would like to see is a new branch of the military take over the space program. Call it Space Force if you want to be cheesy, but at any rate, whenever the military gets involved in programs they get an incredible amount of financing. And for those of you who are concerned that if it becomes military we'll never see it again, think DARPA Net. The military is a great way to get things started, and then let blatant commercialism take a choke hold...