Fixed that for ya. 1. There is nothing sexy about a crippled CPU with no connectivity.
2. People can't handle choices. If you give them a device with only a few buttons, then it's like a microwave and they're happy.
These are - by definition - mobile devices.
When you are on the road with your kids, what you want is a reliable cell phone, a GPS that delivers clear and accurate directions. The pocketable still or video camera, Perhaps a book to read, some music, movies or games to help pass the time.
You are looking for an escape from the keyboard and cubicle.
It would have been so much easier for Edison if he could patent the idea 'glass bulb that produces light when electricity flows through it', instead of actually showing that he could do it.
The patent office hasn't required a physical model - a "working model" - since 1880. The sole remaining exception is the perpetual motion machine.
for decades, bartenders have been taking a patron's credit card and setting it aside. This allows the patron to simply "run a tab" and order a beer with just one click of the finger
The "one click shopper" isn't running up a tab.
He has submitted an order which may be billed and shipped within minutes.
The bartender has his single keg of beer to mind and perhaps a dozen customers at the bar.
Amazon, twenty warehouses in ten states. 27 million cataloged items in books alone. Quarterly sales around $5 billion dollars.
You should, absolutely. Just as if you were overhearing a walkie talkie. If you don't want it heard by the public, don't broadcast it. If you need to broadcast it, encrypt it.
John Smith sees only his wireless home network - not a broadcast.
His first attempt at networking --- anything.
Is it really so surprising that he doesn't tamper with the factory defaults?
But who should be accepting responsibility for these defaults if not the geeks who programmed them?
if you played a video tape of 15-20 cars driving at various known speeds through a specific location and had the cop estimate the speeds it would be impossible for him to be correct enough of the time to not call his estimating ability into doubt.
The sort of courtroom stunt is for Perry Mason - who doesn't have to worry that a witness will depart from the script.
That he will - quite successfully - spot the cars doing sixty in a 45 mile zone.
I just finished recording a pilot for a radio series using Audacity. I know what the license contains, and thus won't be blindsided by some obscure clause in a non-opensource license.
Have I missed something?
Won't the broadcaster - your client or customer - be making most of the big decisions here? Audio formats and media acceptable for submission? Audio formats and media acceptable for broadcast?
If I were a kid at that school, I'd start signing out a lot of books under a teacher's fingerprint. I'm sure a lot of them have seen the mythbusters episode where they do that sort of thing. It's not difficult.
That depends on the sophistication of the scanner - and the security camera that may be mounted as a backup when your thefts are discovered - and "theft" is the right word here.
Why the heck does a six year old need a library card or a PIN in the first place?
Public libraries form co-ops for inter-library loans, purchases, and cataloging. One card for instant access to 25 regional libraries, community centers, and online services.
My father was the last in our family to graduate from a Red Brick high school. 25 students in his senior class. K-12 in a single building.
In the fifties, districts consolidated to build one of the first suburban campus schools.
In 2010, 2500 students. 200 teachers. Five schools. Two stadiums. Four baseball diamonds. Many other shared facilities on a 600 acre rural campus.
the point is that refusal to testify can't be used against you because they have no proof you did anything wrong.
The police can have tons of proof that you did something wrong.
The privilege still stands.
But you need to remember this one important qualification: "invoking the privilege can't be used against you - "by the state - in a court of law."
It doesn't mean you have become any less "a person of interest" or a suspect in the crime. It doesn't mean that others outside the courtroom won't draw their own conclusions.
You can't be compelled to testify against yourself. But there are times and places where you can be forced to invoke the privilege explicitly - and publicly.
The geek tends to forget that "jury nullification" cuts both ways:
I always refuse to talk to police, and take the fifth unless there's an extremely good reason.
Think about how that statement parses to a juror whose lifetime encounters with the police and the courts could be numbered on the fingers of one hand.
Some of those reasons were valid; most of them were just good, old-fashioned vested-interest conservatism in the face of change.
Something like 9 of 10 XO laptops are to be found in Columbia, Uraquay, and Peru.
Three common denominators: Western Hemisphere. Spanish speaking. Latin American culture. That can't be coincidence.
These countries are, of course, far from being the poorest of the poor:
My contacts in Rwanda say that MINEDUC has released the purchase order and 20% advance payment to get the XO shipments going. What I still wonder about is the rest of the financials for this project. An order of 100,000 XO laptops means a minimum cost of $20,000,000, or 18% of Rwanda's $109 million education budget for 2008. If, as OLPC News calculates, the 5 year Total Cost of Ownership for an XO laptop is $1000, then the total cost for Rwanda will be $100 million, or 25% of the total educational budget over the next 5 years. Not a small sum for a country that relies on international aid for 70% of the government's budget.120,000 XO Laptops Headed to OLPC Rwanda [May 2009]
But I think it remains fair to ask what anchorage OLPC had in non-western cultures.
XP and Windows can suggest more of a focus on marketable skills.
On the transition to academic or vocational paths beyond the elementary grades.
Pass the word that for every user that is turned over to the industry mob, a price will be exacted: an office will be firebombed, an employee will be stabbed to death in a dark alley, an exec's family member will be kidnapped, tortured to death and the body never found. Have the message sent out that the streets are not safe anymore for these people. Yes, I know, you people in the UK have no firearms anymore but it only takes an IKEA steak knife to end someone's life and they would be begging for a bullet before the day's done.
JockToll is fighting for his right to save the $1 rental fee at the Red Box.
The old guy who services the Red Box is trying to pay the rent, keep food on the table. Who do you think has less to lose, who do you think is going to be the first to reach for the IKEA?
"Some men just want to watch the world burn." It worries me when a geek talks like The Joker and gets a mod up to +5.
If you don't want me to decrypt your satellite feeds to get free TV then stop broadcasting it into my receiver on my property.
This argument becomes tiresome.
It was settled - legally - in the earliest days of radio, on the perfectly intelligible grounds that leeches undermined the funding of subscription services which might not otherwise be viable.
You were never entitled to freely tap into the water, power, sewer, and phone lines which might cross your property.
The carrier wave of the satellite broadcast falls on your property as freely as a sunbeam, a snowflake or a hailstone.
But to extract the content - capture and decrypt the signal - you have to mount a dish.
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Fixed that for ya.
1. There is nothing sexy about a crippled CPU with no connectivity.
2. People can't handle choices. If you give them a device with only a few buttons, then it's like a microwave and they're happy.
These are - by definition - mobile devices.
When you are on the road with your kids, what you want is a reliable cell phone, a GPS that delivers clear and accurate directions. The pocketable still or video camera, Perhaps a book to read, some music, movies or games to help pass the time.
You are looking for an escape from the keyboard and cubicle.
So that someone somewhere (probably higher up) can work from home.
It might also be a question of distance and scale - transmission lines that run hundreds of miles cross-country.
Yeah, imagine wanting to verify the owner before handing it over.
Under California law, you mustgive the phone to the bartender for safekeeping. Return it to its owner - or surrender it to the police.
Under California laww, you are legally a caretaker of the phone - you hold it in trust for its owner.
You cannot disassemble the prototype on your workbench.
You cannot call in a professional photographer for a commercial photo session.
Demanding money or services from the owner for its return is extortion, plain and simple.
The patent office hasn't required a physical model - a "working model" - since 1880. The sole remaining exception is the perpetual motion machine.
for decades, bartenders have been taking a patron's credit card and setting it aside. This allows the patron to simply "run a tab" and order a beer with just one click of the finger
The "one click shopper" isn't running up a tab.
He has submitted an order which may be billed and shipped within minutes.
The bartender has his single keg of beer to mind and perhaps a dozen customers at the bar.
Amazon, twenty warehouses in ten states. 27 million cataloged items in books alone. Quarterly sales around $5 billion dollars.
Try keeping track of all that in your head.
You should, absolutely. Just as if you were overhearing a walkie talkie. If you don't want it heard by the public, don't broadcast it. If you need to broadcast it, encrypt it.
John Smith sees only his wireless home network - not a broadcast.
His first attempt at networking --- anything.
Is it really so surprising that he doesn't tamper with the factory defaults?
But who should be accepting responsibility for these defaults if not the geeks who programmed them?
if you played a video tape of 15-20 cars driving at various known speeds through a specific location and had the cop estimate the speeds it would be impossible for him to be correct enough of the time to not call his estimating ability into doubt.
The sort of courtroom stunt is for Perry Mason - who doesn't have to worry that a witness will depart from the script.
That he will - quite successfully - spot the cars doing sixty in a 45 mile zone.
The first automobile speeding ticket was issued in Ohio in 1904.
A trial does not become "unfair' simply because you end up on the losing side. Because the judge and jury believed the officer and not you.
The "fair trial" only means that you were able to present your evidence and arguments to the judge and jury. To cross-examine witnesses.
To contest the admisablility of evidence or the weight it should be given.
I just finished recording a pilot for a radio series using Audacity. I know what the license contains, and thus won't be blindsided by some obscure clause in a non-opensource license.
Have I missed something?
Won't the broadcaster - your client or customer - be making most of the big decisions here? Audio formats and media acceptable for submission? Audio formats and media acceptable for broadcast?
While they are at it, why not ban cloaking devices and disruptors.
How long can you guarantee Sci-Fi tech will remain Sci-Fi?
Stealth technologies? Energy weapons?
They exist today.
Between you, me (Flashblock myself), and 2 million iPad owners, "its 'write once, play everywhere' functionality" seems to have lost its luster...
2 million iPad owners = 0.08% of all users accessing the web. Operating System Market Share
Win 7 13%. Vista 15%. Windows, All Versions, 91%.
1 Moodstream
2 monoface
3 WATERLIFE
4 Mark Ecko
5 HBO
6 Get the Glass
7 http://www.agencynet.com/
8 2Advanced Studios
9 SectionSeven
10 Dave Werner
Source: Top 10 Best Flash Websites of 2010
If I were a kid at that school, I'd start signing out a lot of books under a teacher's fingerprint. I'm sure a lot of them have seen the mythbusters episode where they do that sort of thing. It's not difficult.
That depends on the sophistication of the scanner - and the security camera that may be mounted as a backup when your thefts are discovered - and "theft" is the right word here.
Why the heck does a six year old need a library card or a PIN in the first place?
Public libraries form co-ops for inter-library loans, purchases, and cataloging. One card for instant access to 25 regional libraries, community centers, and online services.
My father was the last in our family to graduate from a Red Brick high school. 25 students in his senior class. K-12 in a single building.
In the fifties, districts consolidated to build one of the first suburban campus schools.
In 2010, 2500 students. 200 teachers. Five schools. Two stadiums. Four baseball diamonds. Many other shared facilities on a 600 acre rural campus.
Your kid really does need an ID card.
Why are we suddenly expecting 6 year olds to go to the library without any supervision?
Because it's an in-school library?
Because it's the children's section of a public library or community day care center?
By the time this comes out, with how things are going Flash may be just a distant memory.
Apple has sold two million iPads.
That translates to 0.03% of web users. 0.12% in the states. Headlines
Windows has a global share of 91%. Win 7, 12% and closing in fast on 20%. Operating System Market Share [May 31]
Flash is more than video.
The Flash 10.1 RC for Windows supports hardware acceleration.
The installed base for Flash on Windows is as close to 100% as makes no difference.
Pretty sure if this thing will run Windows, it is not going to be an ARM chip.
It runs on a Consumer Ultra-Low Voltage CULV Intel Core 2 Duo processor.
The OS is Windows 7 Compact Embedded. [May 29]
the point is that refusal to testify can't be used against you because they have no proof you did anything wrong.
The police can have tons of proof that you did something wrong.
The privilege still stands.
But you need to remember this one important qualification: "invoking the privilege can't be used against you - "by the state - in a court of law."
It doesn't mean you have become any less "a person of interest" or a suspect in the crime. It doesn't mean that others outside the courtroom won't draw their own conclusions.
You can't be compelled to testify against yourself. But there are times and places where you can be forced to invoke the privilege explicitly - and publicly.
The geek tends to forget that "jury nullification" cuts both ways:
I always refuse to talk to police, and take the fifth unless there's an extremely good reason.
Think about how that statement parses to a juror whose lifetime encounters with the police and the courts could be numbered on the fingers of one hand.
Some of those reasons were valid; most of them were just good, old-fashioned vested-interest conservatism in the face of change.
Something like 9 of 10 XO laptops are to be found in Columbia, Uraquay, and Peru.
Three common denominators: Western Hemisphere. Spanish speaking. Latin American culture. That can't be coincidence.
These countries are, of course, far from being the poorest of the poor:
My contacts in Rwanda say that MINEDUC has released the purchase order and 20% advance payment to get the XO shipments going.
What I still wonder about is the rest of the financials for this project. An order of 100,000 XO laptops means a minimum cost of $20,000,000, or 18% of Rwanda's $109 million education budget for 2008.
If, as OLPC News calculates, the 5 year Total Cost of Ownership for an XO laptop is $1000, then the total cost for Rwanda will be $100 million, or 25% of the total educational budget over the next 5 years. Not a small sum for a country that relies on international aid for 70% of the government's budget. 120,000 XO Laptops Headed to OLPC Rwanda [May 2009]
But I think it remains fair to ask what anchorage OLPC had in non-western cultures.
XP and Windows can suggest more of a focus on marketable skills.
On the transition to academic or vocational paths beyond the elementary grades.
Pass the word that for every user that is turned over to the industry mob, a price will be exacted: an office will be firebombed, an employee will be stabbed to death in a dark alley, an exec's family member will be kidnapped, tortured to death and the body never found. Have the message sent out that the streets are not safe anymore for these people. Yes, I know, you people in the UK have no firearms anymore but it only takes an IKEA steak knife to end someone's life and they would be begging for a bullet before the day's done.
JockToll is fighting for his right to save the $1 rental fee at the Red Box.
The old guy who services the Red Box is trying to pay the rent, keep food on the table. Who do you think has less to lose, who do you think is going to be the first to reach for the IKEA?
"Some men just want to watch the world burn." It worries me when a geek talks like The Joker and gets a mod up to +5.
Im just curious on how it is illegal to download content that is copyrighted.
It becomes illegal when you haven't acquired your copy through a legitimate distributor.
When you download the movie that sells for $29.95 on DVD and Blu-Ray. That is a $1 Red Box rental. Admission price at the Drive-In, $8.
The price tag is there for everyone to see.
You are in possession of a pre-release screener of Avatar. You are not on the studio's distribution list. You cannot produce a signed NDA.
We all know there are a shitload of distros that are based on Ubuntu, yes? Now are all those distros covered by the H.264 deal, or are they screwed?
The deal is for Canonical's OEM partners.
The good folks competing for retail shelf space against OSX and Windows - and, as the MicroCenter example suggests, not doing at all well.
If you don't want me to decrypt your satellite feeds to get free TV then stop broadcasting it into my receiver on my property.
This argument becomes tiresome.
It was settled - legally - in the earliest days of radio, on the perfectly intelligible grounds that leeches undermined the funding of subscription services which might not otherwise be viable.
You were never entitled to freely tap into the water, power, sewer, and phone lines which might cross your property.
The carrier wave of the satellite broadcast falls on your property as freely as a sunbeam, a snowflake or a hailstone.
But to extract the content - capture and decrypt the signal - you have to mount a dish.
Install - and modify - a receiver.
To any other eyes than your own, it's a tap.
Stories like this make me increasingly wish the FCC would, indeed, move broadband providers back under common carrier rules.
They never were under common carrier rules.