What other technologies are appropriate for a soldier quickly getting from point A to point B in the middle of a battle, especially in urban/mountain setting?
That's funny. People have fallen two miles out of an airplane into a rainforest and walked to safety. Google Juliane Köpcke sometime. Bottom line, freefall survival is largely up to luck and doesn't indicate a great aircraft design. Terminal velocity is similar to a head on highway collision and favorable winds/landing spot/surface angle can make it survivable. It certainly helped that the girl in question was wearing a seatbelt (and fell together with the seat) and the pilot in question flew gliders for a hobby.
A camera not cobbled together from cannibalized parts would likely manage to save the image in less than 23 seconds, or transmit it over wire/radio to a remote printer. It wouldn't have been a pocket gadget for a mainstream tourist in 1975, but think of NASA/spies/hazardous environments and similar applications where you can not conveniently reload film and money is not an object. Or even mega rich. They can always somehow justify possessing a unique gadget no matter how useless it is.
Try marketing a device that supposedly gives you access to "all the web" and then running into pages that render desktop-size bitmap graphics, hardcode assumption of a single touch mouse as an input device and use your CPU/battery to play back video frame by frame. Worse, 99% of it are interactive ads that is not something user is interested in especially on a 3 inch screen. I would also leave it out. As it is on OSX desktop it's the main cause of Safari crashes and 100% CPU usage.
Why should anyone with an alternative continue communicating with friends using a medium that doesn't let you either find or define your friends? There have been repeated calls to globally adopt standards for e-mail security, authentication and discouraging mass mailings through micropayments. Yet anyone who knows how to type "MAIL FROM" can still claim to be Bank of America - yes even with GMail. I am afraid it's we older people who turned young people off e-mail and open standards with it.
Just because young people don't want to know how transmission works? The purpose of Internet has always been communication among people, just like the purpose of cars has always been transportation. Weather you also like to rev up your engine is entirely up to you. But if you knew what expense, effort and delay was involved in your doctor communicating with 30 colleges in different countries in pre-net days, you would care that it's here.
There is a need for more than one application market, book market, movie market... Who cares if a $1.99 cell phone game or a $4.95 e-book are DRMed? If you expect any of these to be a masterpiece to share with your grandchildren, you value them way more than their author apparently does. Conversely, a durable hardcover book or an application that handles your important data and guarantees it to be available decades later is worth a lot more. It may make some time, but consumer application developers will start to wonder how to provide value that sells for more than two bucks per copy.
On identifying the 10% which will be needed ahead of time? I think the focus should be the opposite - to preserve MORE data and index it better. It's not hard to imagine that an addition 10% could have been used if made available at the point of need in a relevant format, effectively doubling productivity. How many employees in a company with 10K+ developers are still coding hashtables. Sure there are variations in languages and needs, but some HAS already written JUST what you need and if you had access to company owned code with the same ease as browsing GPL code on Google you would benefit.
Your health problems and their likely connection to your unhealthy lifestyle are already painfully obvious to anyone who spends enough time with you for their opinion to matter. Why be so paranoid about disclosure? I am much more concerned about someone stealing my financial data or my employer taking undue interest in my facebook postings.
Like in the case of the other by-the-hour service, you don't pay people to be friends with you, you pay them to go away. Real friendships are a lot of work that not everyone is willing to invest in every instance. Imagine that you have a family and a busy job, but you are away on a business function for two weeks. Wouldn't you want someone to show you around town without having to talk about work or promising to call later? I know most slashdot readers are not in this position, but wouldn't you want to earn enough pocket money to buy a new laptop while spending time with successful professionals that you seek to emulate?
... that government shouldn't have emergency powers over Internet, or power grid or industries or transportation? If so, I think we need a new government, not a total repudiation of the concept of a government. Yes, enforcement should be practical, keep up to date with technology, not go overboard and be safeguarded against broad witch hunts for real or imaginary non-emergency wrong doing. But if we are under a massive cyberattack by a foreign government or terrorist organization, we do want the government to be able to shut down all channels for malicious traffic to affect critical utility/information/medical/commercial infrastructure - or try to as much as technologically possible to implement without serious hardship to legitimate users.
RAM, Disk drives, CD-ROMs or modems are all designed to allow significant possibility of errors and employ redundancy to minimize impact on the end user. Why would anyone think CPUs would be exempt from similar design needs? Most demanding calculations take much less time to verify than to perform. If you can factor large numbers or compress files twice faster but with 5% error rate, wouldn't you spring up for an error-free coprocessor or slower error-correcting verification code as a trade off? No software will need to be rewritten except the error-correcting compiler, but specialized languages may be available to those who want to take advantage of raw unreliable mode for video encoding or such.
Now that powerful CPUs are cheap, why won't anyone want to own multiple devices with different capabilities and for which one assumes different degree of control and responsibility? Is great to have a hacker box where I can run any app, replace kernel or customize CPU microcode. But when I go to my banks website, I want to be very sure that the device, the web browser or the site haven't been customized in any way. Arguing that either choice is unimportant, or that there is no place for a lock down platform where $1 apps are abundant because developers are assured that every user WILL pay the $1 is stupid. We do need to work on mobile and slim-form factor versions of the hacker box.
And Apple is ripping benefits for first capitalizing on that. Non-technical users want a well built appliance with a single point of support that runs a few dozen applications. This may not be the product that big corporation want, as central administration and customization is limited. This is not what geeks want, as much of both hardware and software is locked up and proprietary. But for many users its worth sacrificing one kind of freedom (ability to run pr0n games or web servers on their phone) for another (having a phone that doesn't rack up the bill by running malware on background or needs a system administrator). Each group of users deserve a solution that caters to their needs. Apple's smart move was to target the largest one. Microsoft's problem is that they haven't wholeheartedly committed to anyone.
Since Iran's government sees hacking US websites as a legitimate activity, I take it that they don't mind either NSA folks or grassroot democracy enthusiasts hacking details of Iranian presidential security or nuclear reactor controls.
Could you imagine another outbreak of polio, or mumps, or any other disease that has virtually been stamped out (at least in countries that do immunizations) by immunizing?
Maybe not, but I can imagine a chickenpox outbreak. If government must use force in the name of public health, limit that to cases which are truly dire.
What about the rights of the other hundreds or thousands of children at the school - the ones that have parents that understand the dangers of not immunizing, and who do adhere to the rules?
Umm.. they will be immunized and will therefore not be part of the epidemic?
It could also be the opposite - aftermarket warranties are bought by people who can not easily afford a replacement and thus tend to be more careful with all of their expensive stuff, since they don't constantly think which of it is or is not still covered.
Formal weddings are overrated and I personally know more than one couple who broke up because they couldn't withstand the strain of planning. Mostly the groom is starting to feel that the wedding - and hence the marriage - is all about his girlfriends fantasies and family circle rather than about him. We tied the not on a beach in Hawaii with 2 days of planning done in between hikes and Luaus. But anything that is classy, fun or funny would work just as well. I don't see why not Apple store, especially if that's where they met. It makes a good backdrop for photos.
It makes perfect sense for employers to provide health insurance because this creates a group of people with varying health. If left up to individuals, only sick people are likely to buy insurance. But it wouldn't make sense for a company to selectively hire only sick people. We still need to fill a gap for people who have been unemployed for long time or are running a true one-person shop. But employer-provided insurance should be covering 90% of working age adults. I don't know how McCain was planning to fix the problem for the other 10% who don't have income to buy coverage, tax deduction or not.
1. You earn $100K/year 2. Your are NOT self employed 3. Your employer does not provide health insurance 4. Your personally bought policy is cheaper than $600/month
Wouldn't you be more confident to quit a corp and start a business if you, your family and your employees would still get their hospital bills payed even when you are short on cash? Even if you are asked to pay more taxes when and if you become a huge success? Where will you cough up $2K/months/employee from unless you are as rich as McCain with his 7 houses? Somehow I don't think you will be getting much help from Republicans.
There can well be something else that causes symptoms of area residents which is not related to microwave radiation. This may or may not be related to iBurst. For example, construction of the tower could have used toxic materials responsible for rashes, headaches and so on. The fact that symptoms appeared at the same time as the tower still bears investigation, but the world is full of coincidences.
If I have to complete with $5K/year Indian programmers, I have a right to lower my living costs by outsourcing my yard maintenance to an $3/hour undocumented mexican gardener. Or by outsourcing my software purchases to $0/hour piratebay. I know there are good arguments about both of these pursuits, but then there are similar ones about skirting US labor laws by outsourcing. What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
It's a very wacky idea to spend 45 minutes reading each slashdot article. Or to randomly highlight the text without doing anything with it. On the other hand, if you post it in a blog, it's THEIR text, so an attribution by default seems warranted.
Please explain what value Wired gets from my time and attention unless I click on ads, subscribe to printed magazine and so on? If I post a portion of their article on a blog without attribution, they are deprived of this possibility for a portion of readers of their work. This may or may not be illegal or enforceable, but it seems enabling the behavior by default is not that draconian.
tracked data can be used to cause harm in a very real way.
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What other technologies are appropriate for a soldier quickly getting from point A to point B in the middle of a battle, especially in urban/mountain setting?
That's funny. People have fallen two miles out of an airplane into a rainforest and walked to safety. Google Juliane Köpcke sometime. Bottom line, freefall survival is largely up to luck and doesn't indicate a great aircraft design. Terminal velocity is similar to a head on highway collision and favorable winds/landing spot/surface angle can make it survivable. It certainly helped that the girl in question was wearing a seatbelt (and fell together with the seat) and the pilot in question flew gliders for a hobby.
A camera not cobbled together from cannibalized parts would likely manage to save the image in less than 23 seconds, or transmit it over wire/radio to a remote printer. It wouldn't have been a pocket gadget for a mainstream tourist in 1975, but think of NASA/spies/hazardous environments and similar applications where you can not conveniently reload film and money is not an object. Or even mega rich. They can always somehow justify possessing a unique gadget no matter how useless it is.
Try marketing a device that supposedly gives you access to "all the web" and then running into pages that render desktop-size bitmap graphics, hardcode assumption of a single touch mouse as an input device and use your CPU/battery to play back video frame by frame. Worse, 99% of it are interactive ads that is not something user is interested in especially on a 3 inch screen. I would also leave it out. As it is on OSX desktop it's the main cause of Safari crashes and 100% CPU usage.
Why should anyone with an alternative continue communicating with friends using a medium that doesn't let you either find or define your friends? There have been repeated calls to globally adopt standards for e-mail security, authentication and discouraging mass mailings through micropayments. Yet anyone who knows how to type "MAIL FROM" can still claim to be Bank of America - yes even with GMail. I am afraid it's we older people who turned young people off e-mail and open standards with it.
Just because young people don't want to know how transmission works? The purpose of Internet has always been communication among people, just like the purpose of cars has always been transportation. Weather you also like to rev up your engine is entirely up to you. But if you knew what expense, effort and delay was involved in your doctor communicating with 30 colleges in different countries in pre-net days, you would care that it's here.
There is a need for more than one application market, book market, movie market... Who cares if a $1.99 cell phone game or a $4.95 e-book are DRMed? If you expect any of these to be a masterpiece to share with your grandchildren, you value them way more than their author apparently does. Conversely, a durable hardcover book or an application that handles your important data and guarantees it to be available decades later is worth a lot more. It may make some time, but consumer application developers will start to wonder how to provide value that sells for more than two bucks per copy.
On identifying the 10% which will be needed ahead of time? I think the focus should be the opposite - to preserve MORE data and index it better. It's not hard to imagine that an addition 10% could have been used if made available at the point of need in a relevant format, effectively doubling productivity. How many employees in a company with 10K+ developers are still coding hashtables. Sure there are variations in languages and needs, but some HAS already written JUST what you need and if you had access to company owned code with the same ease as browsing GPL code on Google you would benefit.
Your health problems and their likely connection to your unhealthy lifestyle are already painfully obvious to anyone who spends enough time with you for their opinion to matter. Why be so paranoid about disclosure? I am much more concerned about someone stealing my financial data or my employer taking undue interest in my facebook postings.
Like in the case of the other by-the-hour service, you don't pay people to be friends with you, you pay them to go away. Real friendships are a lot of work that not everyone is willing to invest in every instance. Imagine that you have a family and a busy job, but you are away on a business function for two weeks. Wouldn't you want someone to show you around town without having to talk about work or promising to call later? I know most slashdot readers are not in this position, but wouldn't you want to earn enough pocket money to buy a new laptop while spending time with successful professionals that you seek to emulate?
... that government shouldn't have emergency powers over Internet, or power grid or industries or transportation? If so, I think we need a new government, not a total repudiation of the concept of a government. Yes, enforcement should be practical, keep up to date with technology, not go overboard and be safeguarded against broad witch hunts for real or imaginary non-emergency wrong doing. But if we are under a massive cyberattack by a foreign government or terrorist organization, we do want the government to be able to shut down all channels for malicious traffic to affect critical utility/information/medical/commercial infrastructure - or try to as much as technologically possible to implement without serious hardship to legitimate users.
RAM, Disk drives, CD-ROMs or modems are all designed to allow significant possibility of errors and employ redundancy to minimize impact on the end user. Why would anyone think CPUs would be exempt from similar design needs? Most demanding calculations take much less time to verify than to perform. If you can factor large numbers or compress files twice faster but with 5% error rate, wouldn't you spring up for an error-free coprocessor or slower error-correcting verification code as a trade off? No software will need to be rewritten except the error-correcting compiler, but specialized languages may be available to those who want to take advantage of raw unreliable mode for video encoding or such.
Now that powerful CPUs are cheap, why won't anyone want to own multiple devices with different capabilities and for which one assumes different degree of control and responsibility? Is great to have a hacker box where I can run any app, replace kernel or customize CPU microcode. But when I go to my banks website, I want to be very sure that the device, the web browser or the site haven't been customized in any way. Arguing that either choice is unimportant, or that there is no place for a lock down platform where $1 apps are abundant because developers are assured that every user WILL pay the $1 is stupid. We do need to work on mobile and slim-form factor versions of the hacker box.
And Apple is ripping benefits for first capitalizing on that. Non-technical users want a well built appliance with a single point of support that runs a few dozen applications. This may not be the product that big corporation want, as central administration and customization is limited. This is not what geeks want, as much of both hardware and software is locked up and proprietary. But for many users its worth sacrificing one kind of freedom (ability to run pr0n games or web servers on their phone) for another (having a phone that doesn't rack up the bill by running malware on background or needs a system administrator). Each group of users deserve a solution that caters to their needs. Apple's smart move was to target the largest one. Microsoft's problem is that they haven't wholeheartedly committed to anyone.
Since Iran's government sees hacking US websites as a legitimate activity, I take it that they don't mind either NSA folks or grassroot democracy enthusiasts hacking details of Iranian presidential security or nuclear reactor controls.
Could you imagine another outbreak of polio, or mumps, or any other disease that has virtually been stamped out (at least in countries that do immunizations) by immunizing?
Maybe not, but I can imagine a chickenpox outbreak. If government must use force in the name of public health, limit that to cases which are truly dire.
What about the rights of the other hundreds or thousands of children at the school - the ones that have parents that understand the dangers of not immunizing, and who do adhere to the rules?
Umm.. they will be immunized and will therefore not be part of the epidemic?
It could also be the opposite - aftermarket warranties are bought by people who can not easily afford a replacement and thus tend to be more careful with all of their expensive stuff, since they don't constantly think which of it is or is not still covered.
Formal weddings are overrated and I personally know more than one couple who broke up because they couldn't withstand the strain of planning. Mostly the groom is starting to feel that the wedding - and hence the marriage - is all about his girlfriends fantasies and family circle rather than about him. We tied the not on a beach in Hawaii with 2 days of planning done in between hikes and Luaus. But anything that is classy, fun or funny would work just as well. I don't see why not Apple store, especially if that's where they met. It makes a good backdrop for photos.
It makes perfect sense for employers to provide health insurance because this creates a group of people with varying health. If left up to individuals, only sick people are likely to buy insurance. But it wouldn't make sense for a company to selectively hire only sick people. We still need to fill a gap for people who have been unemployed for long time or are running a true one-person shop. But employer-provided insurance should be covering 90% of working age adults. I don't know how McCain was planning to fix the problem for the other 10% who don't have income to buy coverage, tax deduction or not.
So are you saying that:
1. You earn $100K/year
2. Your are NOT self employed
3. Your employer does not provide health insurance
4. Your personally bought policy is cheaper than $600/month
Doesn't sound like a big concern for most people.
Wouldn't you be more confident to quit a corp and start a business if you, your family and your employees would still get their hospital bills payed even when you are short on cash? Even if you are asked to pay more taxes when and if you become a huge success? Where will you cough up $2K/months/employee from unless you are as rich as McCain with his 7 houses? Somehow I don't think you will be getting much help from Republicans.
There can well be something else that causes symptoms of area residents which is not related to microwave radiation. This may or may not be related to iBurst. For example, construction of the tower could have used toxic materials responsible for rashes, headaches and so on. The fact that symptoms appeared at the same time as the tower still bears investigation, but the world is full of coincidences.
If I have to complete with $5K/year Indian programmers, I have a right to lower my living costs by outsourcing my yard maintenance to an $3/hour undocumented mexican gardener. Or by outsourcing my software purchases to $0/hour piratebay. I know there are good arguments about both of these pursuits, but then there are similar ones about skirting US labor laws by outsourcing. What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
It's a very wacky idea to spend 45 minutes reading each slashdot article. Or to randomly highlight the text without doing anything with it. On the other hand, if you post it in a blog, it's THEIR text, so an attribution by default seems warranted.
Please explain what value Wired gets from my time and attention unless I click on ads, subscribe to printed magazine and so on? If I post a portion of their article on a blog without attribution, they are deprived of this possibility for a portion of readers of their work. This may or may not be illegal or enforceable, but it seems enabling the behavior by default is not that draconian.
tracked data can be used to cause harm in a very real way.
How?