I think you have a good point. The Federal government should leave the states to do more. The situation in California is particularly dire. We have fairly progressive government but the budget is seriously constrained. The Federal government takes much more in taxes from California than it returns (to the tune of about 30 billion dollars a year). If California could keep this money, we would have a state budget surplus and could fully fund education, roads, health care, etc.
It really would be good for California to form it's own country. We would be much better off socially, financially, etc. California's economy as a nation would be about 9th in the world.
Sounds like you've had a string of bad luck... or you enjoy
My experience has been the opposite. When I was born we had tube TVs which broke down regularly when tubes burned out. The picture tubes CRT got dimmer over time and also burned spots on the screen if you weren't careful. Since moving to solid state, I've never had a TV (even CRT tube TVs) die on me. I had two TVs (solid state + CRT) from 1982 that were still working fine until I gave them away last year. The LCD screens that I've had (on laptops, TVs, desktop monitors) are all working just fine. I've never had one fail in any way. They are all bright and clear as when new.
How can "simply downloading the software" earn a conviction? This software (LOIC) seems to have been developed for legitimate uses for testing networks.
I have an immediate need for two small plastic parts for my car front bumper which spray water on the headlights. They have broken off over the years due to encounters with snowbanks, etc. Dealer wants $110 EACH for them but they look like they cost about $1 to make.
I'd love to make my own.
The bit you quoted at the start of your post describes how to it can be done right so that you are not dependent on a single machine or storage unit. If you have set it up so that a single machine can kill 10 servers or a disk failure can kill 100 servers then you are not doing it right. If you don't understand how to do this, you should get some training.
Get over it. It's a multi-cultural, multi-language world and not everyone is a white male American native speaker. The grammar is not perfect but I can understand it perfectly. (BTW, you do sound like a chauvinist.)
Tubes have been used for delivery of stuff since early in the 19th century.
Wikipedia has a good article:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumatic_tube
Historical use
* 1853: linking the London Stock Exchange to the city's main telegraph station (a distance of 220 yards)
* 1865: in Berlin (until 1976), the Rohrpost, a system 400 kilometers in total length at its peak in 1940
* 1866: in Paris (until 1984, 467 kilometers in total length from 1934)
* 1875: in Vienna (until 1956)
* 1887: in Prague (until 2002 due to flooding), the Prague pneumatic post[6]
* 1897: in New York City (until 1953)
* other cities: Munich, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Hamburg, Rome, Naples, Milan, Marseilles, Melbourne, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, St. Louis[citation needed]
Google usually competes by trying to have better quality applications... starting with their search engine and extending to mail, maps, documents, etc. A competitor could try to replace all of these with better alternatives and it would be a good thing for competition and choice if they could do it but I don't think that Google is worried about this happening in the near future. They seem to keep producing compelling free applications that people adopt voluntarily on the open Internet, not because they are locked into some proprietary platform. If Microsoft can produce a better suite of apps and compete on the open Internet then we all benefit. However, Bing is not an auspicious start and the rest of their apps are far behind Google's offerings.
By your calculations, it would cost $1.50 for six hours to charge the car completely... so why do you demand $20.00 and get out the shotgun? You seem to have done the math but were too eager to skip to the shotgun. I never said people would be pulling into your garage and plugging in without permission... My point is that electricity is everywhere (even in your garage) so infrastructure is not a problem.
I wasn't thinking of just plugging in without asking or paying. I was addressing the issue of electrical charging infrastructure by stating that it is literally everywhere... and it is. (BTW, the cost of using a standard outlet for charging is less than 50 cents per hour even assuming very expensive electricity so this is not going to break anyone's bank.)
As far as revenue to maintain roads... this would be a good time to increase the tax on fossil fuel (carbon tax) to make people pay the true cost of oil and gas. This would at the same time raise more money to keep the roads in shape.
OpenOffice.org only uses Java for the database and some of the accessibility technology and wizards. You can run the rest of it just fine without Java. This shouldn't be a deal-breaker. They have been moving away from it for some time and I suspect that the LibreOffice people will make an extra effort to remove all reliance on Java.
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Java_and_OpenOffice.org
I've often wondered why people keep saying there is no infrastructure to support electric vehicle charging when every electric vehicle can be plugged into a standard electric outlet and just about every part of the US is wired to the electric grid. The number of these charging stations for electric cars is several orders of magnitude greater than the number of gasoline stations. (I know that you can charge faster if you have a special charging station but that doesn't really matter since most cars spend most of their time sitting in the garage or driveway where they can be easily plugged into a standard outlet.)
I have had various parts of computers die (hard disks, power supplies, etc.) but these were easily replaced and I didn't consider the computer broken beyond repair. I've never had a motherboard or GPU blow up on me. I did have a bad fan on a CPU once created a bad smell and flakiness but it was under warranty and they sent me a new motherboard... didn't junk the computer.
To continue with your car analogy (have to have a car analogy), I have never junked a car just because a piece of it was broken. I just replaced the starter motor, alternator, power steering pump, etc. and kept it running.
PCs don't break. I have never retired a PC because it broke down. I have piles of old PCs that work just fine. (And yes some of them are 20 years old.)
This was a project by Michael Arrington of TechCrunch to create $200 tablet like the iPad that was started in 2008 (long before even rumors of an Apple tablet) that generated a lot of hype, a few prototypes and eventually (after a pubic brawl) some actual shipping products (which apparently weren't very good).
After this, the story gets murky. According to Arrington, his "partners" (Rathakrishnan - Fusion Garage) changed their mind and decided that they wanted to cut him out of the project. Who knows what really happened.
A Linux monopoly would be fundamentally different than a proprietary software (OSX or Windows) monopoly. A monopoly is only bad when it leads to lock-in and abuse of customers by companies charging a monopoly profit. This happened with Windows where Microsoft was convicted of abuse of their monopoly (not for having a monopoly).
However, it would be hard to implement customer lock-in with Linux since the software is all open source and the file formats for data are all open source. Any attempt to lock-in customers would be futile since they can just take their data and their software and go to another vendor.
I'm on ATT DSL and I was really excited when they installed a DSLAM right across the street from me. However, the best speed I can get is about 1 mbit down and half that up... pathetic.
Actually, Nevada is one of the few places (?only place) where there is an option to vote for "None of the above".
If you are going to have a default, it should be this option. (But probably better to not have a default and setting the default for any one candidate is definitely wrong.)
You seem to be getting your undies all knotted up about semantics (or you . By definition, installing a new ROM image is hacking your phone. To hack your phone you need to get root. This typically involves typing a few lines at the command or installing a program that executes these instructions. The specific instructions vary by the phone model and can be found using the Google. For instance, on the Nexus One: (In the Android SDK) Type 'fastboot oem unlock' to unlock the bootloader (there is also a little program that does this with one click). The procedure is different for different phones. Some phones are really locked down and it's difficult to do; on others it's easy. If you want to hack your phone with a new version of the OS, buy one that's easy to hack. Don't buy a cheap carrier locked-up phone because it may be difficult to get root on it.
If you're looking for the "official manufacturer instructions to get root" then... The manufacturer of the OS is Google which provides the Android SDK and the source code for the Android OS which lets you do this stuff and documents how to do it. Some phone manufacturers obfuscate this information or make it hard to get root. Don't buy their phones. Use the Google to find out which phones are easy to hack. Have fun, Relax.
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Isn't the right to secede the ultimate state right?
It really would be good for California to form it's own country. We would be much better off socially, financially, etc. California's economy as a nation would be about 9th in the world.
My experience has been the opposite. When I was born we had tube TVs which broke down regularly when tubes burned out. The picture tubes CRT got dimmer over time and also burned spots on the screen if you weren't careful. Since moving to solid state, I've never had a TV (even CRT tube TVs) die on me. I had two TVs (solid state + CRT) from 1982 that were still working fine until I gave them away last year. The LCD screens that I've had (on laptops, TVs, desktop monitors) are all working just fine. I've never had one fail in any way. They are all bright and clear as when new.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/loic/
I have an immediate need for two small plastic parts for my car front bumper which spray water on the headlights. They have broken off over the years due to encounters with snowbanks, etc. Dealer wants $110 EACH for them but they look like they cost about $1 to make. I'd love to make my own.
The bit you quoted at the start of your post describes how to it can be done right so that you are not dependent on a single machine or storage unit. If you have set it up so that a single machine can kill 10 servers or a disk failure can kill 100 servers then you are not doing it right. If you don't understand how to do this, you should get some training.
Get over it. It's a multi-cultural, multi-language world and not everyone is a white male American native speaker. The grammar is not perfect but I can understand it perfectly. (BTW, you do sound like a chauvinist.)
Wikipedia has a good article:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumatic_tube
Historical use
* 1853: linking the London Stock Exchange to the city's main telegraph station (a distance of 220 yards)
* 1865: in Berlin (until 1976), the Rohrpost, a system 400 kilometers in total length at its peak in 1940
* 1866: in Paris (until 1984, 467 kilometers in total length from 1934)
* 1875: in Vienna (until 1956)
* 1887: in Prague (until 2002 due to flooding), the Prague pneumatic post[6]
* 1897: in New York City (until 1953)
* other cities: Munich, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Hamburg, Rome, Naples, Milan, Marseilles, Melbourne, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, St. Louis[citation needed]
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6AT40520101130
http://www.botjunkie.com/2010/10/12/googles-autonomous-car-takes-to-the-streets/
Google usually competes by trying to have better quality applications... starting with their search engine and extending to mail, maps, documents, etc. A competitor could try to replace all of these with better alternatives and it would be a good thing for competition and choice if they could do it but I don't think that Google is worried about this happening in the near future. They seem to keep producing compelling free applications that people adopt voluntarily on the open Internet, not because they are locked into some proprietary platform. If Microsoft can produce a better suite of apps and compete on the open Internet then we all benefit. However, Bing is not an auspicious start and the rest of their apps are far behind Google's offerings.
I already have MP3s of most of the Beatles. Am I supposed to get excited about this?
Accountants are good at this. When I had a (small, privately owned) company, my accountant used to ask me "What number do you want it to be?"
By your calculations, it would cost $1.50 for six hours to charge the car completely... so why do you demand $20.00 and get out the shotgun? You seem to have done the math but were too eager to skip to the shotgun. I never said people would be pulling into your garage and plugging in without permission... My point is that electricity is everywhere (even in your garage) so infrastructure is not a problem.
As far as revenue to maintain roads... this would be a good time to increase the tax on fossil fuel (carbon tax) to make people pay the true cost of oil and gas. This would at the same time raise more money to keep the roads in shape.
OpenOffice.org only uses Java for the database and some of the accessibility technology and wizards. You can run the rest of it just fine without Java. This shouldn't be a deal-breaker. They have been moving away from it for some time and I suspect that the LibreOffice people will make an extra effort to remove all reliance on Java. http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Java_and_OpenOffice.org
I've often wondered why people keep saying there is no infrastructure to support electric vehicle charging when every electric vehicle can be plugged into a standard electric outlet and just about every part of the US is wired to the electric grid. The number of these charging stations for electric cars is several orders of magnitude greater than the number of gasoline stations. (I know that you can charge faster if you have a special charging station but that doesn't really matter since most cars spend most of their time sitting in the garage or driveway where they can be easily plugged into a standard outlet.)
To continue with your car analogy (have to have a car analogy), I have never junked a car just because a piece of it was broken. I just replaced the starter motor, alternator, power steering pump, etc. and kept it running.
PCs don't break. I have never retired a PC because it broke down. I have piles of old PCs that work just fine. (And yes some of them are 20 years old.)
Original announcement of the project:
http://techcrunch.com/2008/07/21/we-want-a-dead-simple-web-tablet-help-us-build-it/
Prototype A:
http://techcrunch.com/2008/08/30/update-on-the-techcrunch-tablet-prototype-a/
Prototype B:
http://techcrunch.com/2009/01/19/techcrunch-tablet-update-prototype-b/
After this, the story gets murky. According to Arrington, his "partners" (Rathakrishnan - Fusion Garage) changed their mind and decided that they wanted to cut him out of the project. Who knows what really happened.
Some commentary here: http://gawker.com/5415320/the-sad-premature-death-of-the-techcrunch-tablet
and here
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/TechCrunch-CrunchPad-Dead-Chandra-Rathakrishnan,9174.html
However, it would be hard to implement customer lock-in with Linux since the software is all open source and the file formats for data are all open source. Any attempt to lock-in customers would be futile since they can just take their data and their software and go to another vendor.
I'm on ATT DSL and I was really excited when they installed a DSLAM right across the street from me. However, the best speed I can get is about 1 mbit down and half that up... pathetic.
Think potato blight (and famine) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)
If you are going to have a default, it should be this option. (But probably better to not have a default and setting the default for any one candidate is definitely wrong.)
If you're looking for the "official manufacturer instructions to get root" then... The manufacturer of the OS is Google which provides the Android SDK and the source code for the Android OS which lets you do this stuff and documents how to do it. Some phone manufacturers obfuscate this information or make it hard to get root. Don't buy their phones. Use the Google to find out which phones are easy to hack. Have fun, Relax.