For this Linux/Firefox user, YouTube is the only video site that consistently "just works." I can't even really read cnn.com anymore, half their stories are in video, and mplayer-plugin is only occasionally able to play them.
So what will they use when the power goes out? Card catalogs.
No they won't. I worked at a public library and one the tasks I was assigned was to throw away the card catalog. It had grown out of date to the point of being worthles, as nobody had been wasting the effort necessary to type up new cards for it in years. And this was 15 years ago.
Dewey Decimal is already irrelevant. Nobody has bothered imposing a taxonomy on Web content (except Yahoo which started out that way and gave up a few years later). The Web will not soon displace books entirely, but it shows the future of searching books - full text search, reputation and authority rankings, and so on.
Actually some very important things are reachable via the internet. Like millions of people's bank accounts, for instance. Heck, it's not the Internet, but highly classified satellites download data all the time through the open air. Relying on encryption is unavoidable.
Regardless, it's good to know the history. That way when your President says, "I need unchecked authority and anybody with nothing to hide has nothing to fear," you will know how to answer.
Only people against the president have been claiming this is wantum spying on regular people.
Without oversight, who knows? The CIA's record is far from spotless. Look at the current case against AT&T. What legitimate reason is there for refusing even to notify the FISA court *afterwards*, as required by law?
Nothing could happen in Iraq or Afghanistan to end the war on terror. Those are just two little corners of the world. We are not going to eliminate the risk of another attack against the US, ever. Total security is a myth. We don't need Presidents for the next 20 years claiming arbitrary authority based on some vague resolution passed in the panic right after 911, when it seemed possible that a larger enemy capable of waging a sustained campaign against us might exist.
Why would it probably be ruled in the President's favor? If there are no checks on the President, and he can break the law willfully and nobody can enforce it on him, then he is a king. I don't want that and I don't think the Constitution is written that way either.
if someone really wanted to read the contents, to do so would be relatively easy.
What does that have to do with anything? If I wanted to walk up from behind and hit somebody over the head with a brick there's nothing to stop me, so why should it be illegal?
there is going to be a min of 2 year contract to get it (from a store manager)
Sounds like a catch-22: how can there be a wave of people to buy the iPhone when it's only available to those willing to enter long contracts and thus inelligible to buy until their current contractual servitude expires?
Secondly, at $600 this phone is clearly not subsidized, so what's the excuse for the lengthy contract?
I just searched this page (already 100s of comments) for "marijuana," and surprisingly got no hits. If you want to know who's pioneering indoor farming, it's them.
Goldman Sachs is big capital. Big (capital [B]) Capital. They have people in house to analyze everything, and they are doing very well (Very Well) in the market right now.
Doing well? Goldman Sachs employees just took a pay cut of 9.5% over the last 6 months. Average pay is down to $392,617. It's great to do follow you dreams, but I also have to put food on the table, you know?
My home-made PVR used a yahoo screen scraper for a few years without problems, but then they started changing their site more often. It does get annoying to have your application randomly breaking and having to go and figure out what it is yet again.
Several economists and social scientists have done studies of the wealthy and found that great majority of them have elevated themselves from a lower wealth-class through smart money management.
I'd be interested if you could find a cite, because I don't believe that. I think the #1 way of getting rich is by marriage and #2 by inheritance, since for each wealthy entreprenuer there is usually a wife (and often, ex-wives) and often children. Of the 10 richest Americans, 4 are Wal-Mart heirs.
Internet access may become as important as roads, but that can't happen until it is universally available. Look at it this way, do you think electricity is important to some undiscovered tribe in a jungle? Of course not; they have nothing to plug into it. Infrastructure takes on new economic value when you can rely on most everybody having it.
Not unless they start building roads across the Pacific. The largest problem is international connections
Are you sure? There isn't much to get in the way out there, and one fiber bundle carries a ridiculous amount of traffic. I would have guessed the last mile problem is harder.
It's my very humble and limited understanding that the big reason we don't see electric cars is the battery technology.
The Prius is a very commercially successful car which stores energy in a battery. In fact some people have modified theirs to run on the battery without ever starting the motor.
the 100k price tag is a bit of a roadblock that developers are trying to overcome.
No they aren't. If price were really a priority, they wouldn't base it on a Lotus, it wouldn't go 0-60 in 4 seconds, and it wouldn't have 250 mile range. You could make a perfectly fine commuter car with much lesser specs.
For the few who also need extra ground clearance, having the motors in the wheels could potentially give us a low-slung car with great clearance, since there are no axles.
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For this Linux/Firefox user, YouTube is the only video site that consistently "just works." I can't even really read cnn.com anymore, half their stories are in video, and mplayer-plugin is only occasionally able to play them.
Dewey Decimal is already irrelevant. Nobody has bothered imposing a taxonomy on Web content (except Yahoo which started out that way and gave up a few years later). The Web will not soon displace books entirely, but it shows the future of searching books - full text search, reputation and authority rankings, and so on.
Actually some very important things are reachable via the internet. Like millions of people's bank accounts, for instance. Heck, it's not the Internet, but highly classified satellites download data all the time through the open air. Relying on encryption is unavoidable.
Nothing could happen in Iraq or Afghanistan to end the war on terror. Those are just two little corners of the world. We are not going to eliminate the risk of another attack against the US, ever. Total security is a myth. We don't need Presidents for the next 20 years claiming arbitrary authority based on some vague resolution passed in the panic right after 911, when it seemed possible that a larger enemy capable of waging a sustained campaign against us might exist.
My questions are: 1) what can't he do, are there any limits? and 2) under what conceivable circumstances would this "war" ever end?
Why would it probably be ruled in the President's favor? If there are no checks on the President, and he can break the law willfully and nobody can enforce it on him, then he is a king. I don't want that and I don't think the Constitution is written that way either.
Aren't there longer-range technologies that could allow them to install fewer than 900 access points? That sounds like a lot of work.
Secondly, at $600 this phone is clearly not subsidized, so what's the excuse for the lengthy contract?
Where does TitanTV get their listings? Mayabe TitanTV was one of Zap2it's biggest "abusers" and is panicking now? (Hope I'm wrong).
My home-made PVR used a yahoo screen scraper for a few years without problems, but then they started changing their site more often. It does get annoying to have your application randomly breaking and having to go and figure out what it is yet again.
Sounds a lot like X - i.e. designed completely around network transparency, which, as it turns out, isn't all that important after all.
Internet access may become as important as roads, but that can't happen until it is universally available. Look at it this way, do you think electricity is important to some undiscovered tribe in a jungle? Of course not; they have nothing to plug into it. Infrastructure takes on new economic value when you can rely on most everybody having it.
For the few who also need extra ground clearance, having the motors in the wheels could potentially give us a low-slung car with great clearance, since there are no axles.