Guess what? Your garbage man can take exactly the same attitude. You're not really as powerful or indispensable as you probably think.
You obviously didn't get the Fight Club reference.. the original quote is:
"look...the people you are looking for are the people you depend on.we cook your meals , we haul your trash,we connect your calls, we drive your ambulances,we guard you while you sleep"
The point being, that the people in the trenches do have power, collectively, not because they have authority but because they do the work.
Personally I don't think that gives license to sabotage things though.
Hitachi just came out with a 7200 RPM 100 GB drive.
Ahhh, the mythical Momentus 7200.1, 7200rpm 100 Gig laptop drive. Are you saying they're actually shipping? They announced that sucker almost a year ago. The sad thing is, 100 GB was a lot more impressive last year. Laptop hard drives are really lagging!
Allowing the client to specify formatting and layout was an OK-sounding idea that didn't pan out. Information producers want to control the presentation. In practice, it's not just the formatting that should vary from a full-sized monitor to a 150x150 PDA screen (or a pager), but the content itself.
What is fact is that before the DOJ case the DOJ said that no competition could develop due to MS's lock on the market. The fact is that today, consumers pay less for browsers, have more choices, and the entire slate of products is substantially better.
The fact is, we cannot say how much consumers are paying for browsers, because the cost is rolled into Windows. Users who have switched to Firefox are not paying for Firefox, but they are in fact involuntarily funding its competition, Internet Explorer! This is not how markets ought to work.
Perhaps IE's assured status in the market explains why it has not progressed notably in the past few years.
Again, the point is not whether it can be broken by people who are willing to look into it and carry it out. Why? Because people who want to can already download it via p2p anyways. Look at the music industry, which is finally being dragged kicking and screaming into distributing music online. All their concerns about distributing files that could be cracked have been irrelevant the whole time, since anybody could go to Wal-Mart and buy a completely unprotected CD, and make unlimited copies if that's what they wanted to do.
Since the GPL doesnt allow for distribution of code under any other license, then its not compatable with any other license.
What do you mean by that? See Trolltech for examples of software offered under both the GPL and a commercial license, your choice. It makes perfect sense - you can take and not give back if you want, but then you have to pay up.
And guess what? Our laws are fair, to both the rich and the poor. There are very few double-standards.
Haven't you noticed that
"captains of industry" who cook the books to reap millions in income and expense accounts are seldom punished, while stealing a loaf of bread can land you in jail?
Haven't you noticed that slapping somebody will get you prosecuted, while starting a war on false pretenses and killing tens of thousands of people gets you re-elected?
Haven't you noticed that international corporations have no patriotism, but expect us to send our poor to fight and die protecting their resources and markets?
Haven't you noticed that rich industries write their own laws and buy Congressmen to rubber-stamp them?
Haven't you noticed how Microsoft openly flaunts the law by outspending and outwaiting the government prosecution until political conditions are more favorable? How they build a vast empire on the ideas of others and then pretend that re-using ideas is stealing?
You can always google for ads, but they never give you the whole story. Much more valuable would be to hear from a slashdotter who has used such a service, and knows how well it works, what the gotchas are, and what it actually ends up costing.
What would be even better is someone in a similar position who found some solution that's better than a satellite pager, which never occurred to the O.P. Web searches just don't work when you don't understand your problem well enough to reduce it to a few keywords.
The 'net is a great source of information, but I have learned over time I can often get richer, more personalized information by talking to co-workers and friends, especially if it's a topic of general interest. For a specialist topic like this one, a personal exchange with an expert on usenet or slashdot can be very valuable.
Web ads, IMHO, are at the bottom of the heap as information sources (along with TV and radio ads).
No. Antitrust law is supposed to preserve the possibility of competing businesses, which FireFox is not. If you have to literally give away the product for free to "compete," something is wrong.
If IE were unbundled and it had to stand on its own, Netscape would still be in business, and Opera would have much more of a chance.
Microsoft has effectively cut off the air supply of the competition, which is illegal. Think what a dump the Internet would be by now if business and individuals hadn't donated a top-quality browser. That shouldn't be necessary.
Now "only" 9 out of every 10 systems uses IE. Hopefully FireFox will continue to grow and IE will continue to shrink..
I think we can get most of the benefits if IE usage goes down to 85% or so, and stays there. It isn't that most people use IE that troubles me, it's the exclusion of other browsers. A sizeable minority is enough to prevent that.
If not, a laptop seems a poor use, but a tiny one might be great for cellphones.
Of course we all know this will not really be used by the public in our lifetimes. Even radioactive glowing watch hands, which make a lot of sense, are not made any more.
Unfortunately the video doesn't say much, does it? Except they do claim 1 TFlops(!!) Who knows what that means, though; it might include GPU, i.e. not general purpose.
I was disappointed that it was all tech talk and no cool game previews at all.
I just tried it... 9KB/s for the direct download (a 1 hour download). Over bittorrent, it ran steadily up to 470KB/s and the whole file was down in two minutes!
Now, as far as his bets on the future of the iPod, like just about everything else Apple has created and Microsoft has copied, the iPod is not stagnant. It's development is ongoing and dynamic, so Microsoft is going to have not not only copy, but out innovate a moving target.
So far, the iPod has hardly changed from its inception. The interesting question, then, what should they change? Where should Apple go with the iPod?
Unlike lighters and pens, music devices and cellphones share most of their components - processor, battery, screen, memory, IO ports, and some buttons for input. In fact cell phones and portable music players are extremely close in purpose - to play sound into your ears.
That doesn't mean Apple will be out of the business, they'll probably swing a deal with Nokia or something.
Most single people are used to picking up the slack of parents in the office, anyway.
Perhaps people with families do skip more work, but it's not as if it doesn't harm their careers. Anybody with priorities higher than work is going to miss more work, and be somewhat stifled in their career. If you wanted, you could put something above your work, too.
In any case, if there's an inequity you should blame your boss, not your co-workers.
"In fact, if Bill [Gates] had finished college and gone to work for another company as we're suggesting, he might well have gone to work for Apple. And while that would probably have been better for all of us, it wouldn't have been better for him."
for the vast majority of people, there really is such a thing as "secure enough". Not that the current state of the art is anywhere close to that, but that it's not some platonic ideal, it's in fact quite reachable now.
Interesting. Maybe I'll have to read the book, because I don't see how individuals can effectively combat identity theft.
Sure you can buy and use a shredder and avoid bad websites, but at some point you're going to want to buy a house or car, or get a job. And when that happens, somebody will want personally identifying information, and it will be socked away in one of the "big databases in the sky," such as ChoicePoint. After that, anybody with the slightest excuse can buy the information legally.
Well, what does the patent cover? I read the article, it has no info. The promised "Photos" are just line drawings that could just as easily be any tablet already on the market.
The EXACT SAME PHYSICS still applies to the situation. It takes more energy to accelerate quicker than it does to accelerate slower. Nothing is going to change that fact.
Nothing you said justifies the assertion that accelerating slowly takes less energy to get up to the same speed, say 60mph. Either way you have the same inertia energy once you get to 60.
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Personally I don't think that gives license to sabotage things though.
Anybody know were to buy a Hitachi 7K100 drive? I can't find them.
Cool, I'm buying one. Screw Seagate and their fake product announcements.
Allowing the client to specify formatting and layout was an OK-sounding idea that didn't pan out. Information producers want to control the presentation. In practice, it's not just the formatting that should vary from a full-sized monitor to a 150x150 PDA screen (or a pager), but the content itself.
Perhaps IE's assured status in the market explains why it has not progressed notably in the past few years.
Again, the point is not whether it can be broken by people who are willing to look into it and carry it out. Why? Because people who want to can already download it via p2p anyways. Look at the music industry, which is finally being dragged kicking and screaming into distributing music online. All their concerns about distributing files that could be cracked have been irrelevant the whole time, since anybody could go to Wal-Mart and buy a completely unprotected CD, and make unlimited copies if that's what they wanted to do.
Haven't you noticed that slapping somebody will get you prosecuted, while starting a war on false pretenses and killing tens of thousands of people gets you re-elected?
Haven't you noticed that international corporations have no patriotism, but expect us to send our poor to fight and die protecting their resources and markets?
Haven't you noticed that rich industries write their own laws and buy Congressmen to rubber-stamp them?
Haven't you noticed how Microsoft openly flaunts the law by outspending and outwaiting the government prosecution until political conditions are more favorable? How they build a vast empire on the ideas of others and then pretend that re-using ideas is stealing?
What would be even better is someone in a similar position who found some solution that's better than a satellite pager, which never occurred to the O.P. Web searches just don't work when you don't understand your problem well enough to reduce it to a few keywords.
The 'net is a great source of information, but I have learned over time I can often get richer, more personalized information by talking to co-workers and friends, especially if it's a topic of general interest. For a specialist topic like this one, a personal exchange with an expert on usenet or slashdot can be very valuable.
Web ads, IMHO, are at the bottom of the heap as information sources (along with TV and radio ads).
If IE were unbundled and it had to stand on its own, Netscape would still be in business, and Opera would have much more of a chance.
Microsoft has effectively cut off the air supply of the competition, which is illegal. Think what a dump the Internet would be by now if business and individuals hadn't donated a top-quality browser. That shouldn't be necessary.
By "projects," do you mean professional? The only high quality capture I've seen for linux is this, which is a little over $3K I think.
If not, a laptop seems a poor use, but a tiny one might be great for cellphones.
Of course we all know this will not really be used by the public in our lifetimes. Even radioactive glowing watch hands, which make a lot of sense, are not made any more.
I might be tempted to buy one for $500 if Linux PPC is made to work. The hardware sounds awesome, except only 512MB RAM.
I was disappointed that it was all tech talk and no cool game previews at all.
I just tried it... 9KB/s for the direct download (a 1 hour download). Over bittorrent, it ran steadily up to 470KB/s and the whole file was down in two minutes!
That doesn't mean Apple will be out of the business, they'll probably swing a deal with Nokia or something.
In any case, if there's an inequity you should blame your boss, not your co-workers.
"In fact, if Bill [Gates] had finished college and gone to work for another company as we're suggesting, he might well have gone to work for Apple. And while that would probably have been better for all of us, it wouldn't have been better for him."
Sure you can buy and use a shredder and avoid bad websites, but at some point you're going to want to buy a house or car, or get a job. And when that happens, somebody will want personally identifying information, and it will be socked away in one of the "big databases in the sky," such as ChoicePoint. After that, anybody with the slightest excuse can buy the information legally.
Well, what does the patent cover? I read the article, it has no info. The promised "Photos" are just line drawings that could just as easily be any tablet already on the market.