It just means that you have to inform the user that you are doing that, which you should be doing anyway, using a standard icon or text for "collects performance statistics" as defined by this law.
So you wouldn't mind if I went to your house, picked your lock, walked around inside for a while, took nothing, and left a note on the counter telling you to go buy better locks?
The real reason that the autostart worm technique didn't do any damage on the Mac was that no Mac user in his right mind had autostart enabled (it might even default to off on a clean install, I forget). Mac installers never made use of that feature, unlike on Windows, so there's no reason to have it on.
Or, once you remove your head from RMS's ass, it could be things like trade secrets, techniques which they put a lot of money into developing and don't want to give away for free, the desire to make a living by selling the results of their work, and other relatively benign reasons.
Mics have improved, people are just stupid. They're also trying to make sure they can be heard over the music or soundtrack that everyone else is trying to listen to.
They're not going to make you wear them, unless they're worried your tinfoil hat is cutting off circulation to your brain. This is intended as a replacement for large stationary medical equipment, especially in places where space is extremely tight (space station) or it's not feasible to tie the subject down for a few hours. However, I could easily see it entering the civilian medical market as a monitoring device for the elderly or anyone else unable to properly examine themselves or request assistance if needed.
Actually, Microsoft had a strong case in this instance. Lindows was very open about the fact that they chose that name specifically because it was so close to Microsoft's trademark, and planned to use that similarity to influence customers.
What is the disadvantage of instant gratification in this instance, if all the security and trust issues can be worked out? Why should we have to wait a few days to find out who the leader of this country is? Why should we not be able to vote by touching the display if it can be done reliably and securely? I agree that security is more important than expedience, but if we can have the first we may as well go for the second.
Columbus knew less about the New World than we do about Mars and the Moon. Hell, he didn't even think it was *there*, and if anyone had challenged him he wouldn't have been able to rule out the possibility that it was filled with cannibal giants or fire-breathing dragons or anything. He was lucky it turned out so hospitable, just look at what happened to the pilgrims a few decades later. Unlike him, we have been studying our destination for decades and we'd be going there with specific plans and equipment and ready for as many potential situations as we can.
Air conditioning could easily be classified as a virtual necessity in the tropical or desert regions of the world, and heating is a necessity in the north, unless you're seriously suggesting something along the lines of the sarcastic response to the grandparent. Fridges are a necessity for all meat, most drink, and many types of food in general. Elevators are a virtual necessity for a) moving furniture and appliances and b) any building over about 5 stories.
9/11 had a significant degree of human malice and effort specifically to cause it involved; this is merely a case of mechanical failure due to poor design and well-understood (at first by a vocal minority, and now by many more in hindsight) regulatory and operational problems.
It's not just luxuries. You'd have to give up air conditioning/electric heating, refrigerators, electric stoves, microwave ovens, washing machines/dryers, elevators, telephones with more than the most basic features (anything more and it couldn't run off the current the phone company puts on the line). Your car would probably keep working, but I wouldn't want to buy gas without the electric pumps at the service station.
How big are these batteries compared to standard laptop cells? Would it be possible to expand in the other direction, by keeping the charge time around today's levels but greatly increasing the discharge time? I wouldn't mind charging my laptop for the usual 3 or 4 hours if I can use it for a day or more without having to plug in again.
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If you want to transfer files to your computer, doesn't that mean the computer is right there anyway? Why don't you mount the iPod in your favorite file manager and use that with a real mouse, keyboard, and large monitor?
Blame Shawn Fanning, not Steve Jobs or any slashbots. He took the genie out of the bottle (ok, further out of the bottle), took it mainstream, and got the Internet addicted to free music. That's why everything is changing.
Well, it got from the Chunnel to the field where those pictures were taken. I imagine it would be similar to the procedure used for moving a nuclear reactor:
Here's the plan. A 133-foot-long tractor-trailer with 192 tires and 16 axles (this from the Orange County Register) will take about five days to crawl about 17 miles on Old Highway 101 and Interstate 5, under the guard of Marines and, at one point, state park rangers.
It will inch along about eight miles of beach over interlocking mats that will be continuously moved from the back to the front, so the 192 tires don't sink in the sand.
To take the analogy further, the library would not be permitted to actually place books *in* the copier. Likewise, you are not allowed to xerox an entire book on a library machine. Perhaps this means it's legal to download 10 seconds of a song from P2P?
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It just means that you have to inform the user that you are doing that, which you should be doing anyway, using a standard icon or text for "collects performance statistics" as defined by this law.
Not new at all- the major avenues in Manhattan use this system.
So you wouldn't mind if I went to your house, picked your lock, walked around inside for a while, took nothing, and left a note on the counter telling you to go buy better locks?
The real reason that the autostart worm technique didn't do any damage on the Mac was that no Mac user in his right mind had autostart enabled (it might even default to off on a clean install, I forget). Mac installers never made use of that feature, unlike on Windows, so there's no reason to have it on.
Or, once you remove your head from RMS's ass, it could be things like trade secrets, techniques which they put a lot of money into developing and don't want to give away for free, the desire to make a living by selling the results of their work, and other relatively benign reasons.
Mics have improved, people are just stupid. They're also trying to make sure they can be heard over the music or soundtrack that everyone else is trying to listen to.
They're not going to make you wear them, unless they're worried your tinfoil hat is cutting off circulation to your brain. This is intended as a replacement for large stationary medical equipment, especially in places where space is extremely tight (space station) or it's not feasible to tie the subject down for a few hours. However, I could easily see it entering the civilian medical market as a monitoring device for the elderly or anyone else unable to properly examine themselves or request assistance if needed.
Actually, Microsoft had a strong case in this instance. Lindows was very open about the fact that they chose that name specifically because it was so close to Microsoft's trademark, and planned to use that similarity to influence customers.
What is the disadvantage of instant gratification in this instance, if all the security and trust issues can be worked out? Why should we have to wait a few days to find out who the leader of this country is? Why should we not be able to vote by touching the display if it can be done reliably and securely? I agree that security is more important than expedience, but if we can have the first we may as well go for the second.
Columbus knew less about the New World than we do about Mars and the Moon. Hell, he didn't even think it was *there*, and if anyone had challenged him he wouldn't have been able to rule out the possibility that it was filled with cannibal giants or fire-breathing dragons or anything. He was lucky it turned out so hospitable, just look at what happened to the pilgrims a few decades later. Unlike him, we have been studying our destination for decades and we'd be going there with specific plans and equipment and ready for as many potential situations as we can.
Air conditioning could easily be classified as a virtual necessity in the tropical or desert regions of the world, and heating is a necessity in the north, unless you're seriously suggesting something along the lines of the sarcastic response to the grandparent. Fridges are a necessity for all meat, most drink, and many types of food in general. Elevators are a virtual necessity for a) moving furniture and appliances and b) any building over about 5 stories.
9/11 had a significant degree of human malice and effort specifically to cause it involved; this is merely a case of mechanical failure due to poor design and well-understood (at first by a vocal minority, and now by many more in hindsight) regulatory and operational problems.
It's not just luxuries. You'd have to give up air conditioning/electric heating, refrigerators, electric stoves, microwave ovens, washing machines/dryers, elevators, telephones with more than the most basic features (anything more and it couldn't run off the current the phone company puts on the line). Your car would probably keep working, but I wouldn't want to buy gas without the electric pumps at the service station.
The ringworld has a compensating system that's explain in Ringworld Engineers.
Screw that, I'm waiting for Flying Ringworm vs Flying Earthsea.
How big are these batteries compared to standard laptop cells? Would it be possible to expand in the other direction, by keeping the charge time around today's levels but greatly increasing the discharge time? I wouldn't mind charging my laptop for the usual 3 or 4 hours if I can use it for a day or more without having to plug in again.
If you want to transfer files to your computer, doesn't that mean the computer is right there anyway? Why don't you mount the iPod in your favorite file manager and use that with a real mouse, keyboard, and large monitor?
That's IP over Firewire, not Ethernet over Firewire
Blame Shawn Fanning, not Steve Jobs or any slashbots. He took the genie out of the bottle (ok, further out of the bottle), took it mainstream, and got the Internet addicted to free music. That's why everything is changing.
Is that a tunnel boring machine in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
And another one will reply "But we can learn so much from it!"
I think the article's definition is correct. It's the natural successor to pixel, which means "picture element".
To take the analogy further, the library would not be permitted to actually place books *in* the copier. Likewise, you are not allowed to xerox an entire book on a library machine. Perhaps this means it's legal to download 10 seconds of a song from P2P?