What's the app and why does it insist on IE6? Can it be tested on one IE8 virtual machine? If the app vendor was still around they most likely would love to sell an upgrade...
Yep, and it's almost wrong to be asking Microsoft to patch something as old as IE6 or XP at this point. Maybe OS licenses should say "You may use this program for 5 years." instead of perpetually because you're a danger to other people's systems when you don't update to modern software.
I'm uploading the IE6 No More code to my website now. There's a point where users of outdated software need to be told there's four major cost-free options, including a much updated version of IE if they want to stick with IE. I'm almost thinking we should move from a warning to a service-denying error if this goes much further.
And people are telling me elsewhere that tort reform and health care are not the same thing. I disagree with that. If hospitals were allowed to post a sign saying "We'll do our best to help you, but if we fail or make it worse we're not responsible." then health care would cost a whole lot less.
He compiled the code that Google only officially releases as source code to the public at this time, and this his third release, after fixing several problems he discovered. He's one of the few people working on this OS that Google doesn't employ.
"Accelerometer" is a big word that means "a scale". See, pounds are not units of mass, they're units of force. Go to the top of a mountain and bring a scale. Everything will "weigh" less because you're further from the center of the earth's mass. You'll have less effect of gravity up there than you do at a lower altitude. There is no "standard" unit of mass... when they were defining "12 inches" to mean "1 foot" they didn't know there was a difference in weights of things of the same mass.
The threat of competition is enough to keep a natural monopoly competitive. If said company becomes too abusive, new businesses will be profitable regardless of entry barriers.
Citation needed that a natural monopoly that isn't abusive exists.
See, the 8x price difference on aspirin is okay because giving the an aspirin tablet to the wrong person usually doesn't mean much. Not much liability = not much risk = cheaper insurance.
Meanwhile, the balance board is an electronic device which because it isn't certified could cause all sorts of problems that have been outlined elsewhere in this thread, possibly leading to injury or death. All Nintendo's willing to do is give them another Wii Fit... so a Wii Fit: Hospital Edition would need much much more insurance, and since it's so cheap to begin with that's where your 180x insurance multiple.
Even if you drive a cheap car that you could afford to replace... you still carry insurance based on the risk that you might hit an expensive car, or two, or even worse, a house. That's almost limitless.
If somebody detects that a Wii Fit is 10% wrong... the liability is limited to the cost of a replacement unit. If it's used at a hospital, the liability can go through the roof.
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No functions, but they use value-returning-subroutine syrup in its place.
Not quite sure this deserves the attention that a Slashdot story gets it. This isn't a milestone release by Google, but by a kid who downloaded the open code then did a little tinkering to get it working on his stuff, then his friend's stuff. Cool, yes.. but this OS is still a newborn.
I get my stock quotes from Yahoo! Yeah, 30 minutes or so delayed... So is everything on CNBC. It's okay with me... I place most of my trades when the market is closed.
The Bloomberg Machine is aimed at professionals who want market-moving data and news delivered as quickly as possible. There's some premium value in having that info 30 minutes ahead of the general public. Yahoo! has a pay-for-faster-quotes service, and there are a few vendors like ThinkOrSwim who bundle a data service with their trading service.
With the Boston Globe offering an "Online Edition"... people in even more rural locations that doesn't have a printing operation willing to take satellite content can have access to the same columns you do, only faster. After years of not being able to get the USA Today delivered by anybody other than my postal carrier (who BTW, will do anything to get you to drop an out-of-town newspaper subscription!) I'm a proud subscriber to the "e-Edition" version. My e-mail account still calls it spam... but it at least gets to me!
The New York Times can make an effective paywall because they hold the rights to columnists that share opinions that are nationally relevant. Local NY city news is covered by other papers, so they need exclusive content like the book reviews and bestseller lists.
WSJ has business opinions. Nobody's going to pay for press releases restated, or the S&P 500 values... but reviews and opinions are still worth something.
Can your local paper do that when your local TV station has a newsroom covering the same topics and also posting to the web for free? Nope. I don't really care what's going on in local high school sports, and that's about that's exclusive to my local paper.
That's a theory that's debated in college, and I take the opposite side. Proof that somebody was hurt shouldn't be needed to prove monopoly abuse. What about the company that was never founded because somebody told the would-be founder that it wasn't worth doing? If nobody's willing to extend you credit because the monopoly exists, then that's a barrier to entry.
When the Wii Fit first came out... there were several modes of operation that the experts thought should be in the software. Nintendo's first response was to say such people were welcome to develop their own games, then when realizing they were so simple to program the $20 new disk called "Wii Fit Plus" (which now replaces the original disk in the new package for new users) was Nintendo's make good.
Medical malpractice lawsuits are tort cases... and we know how much testing is only done because of fear of the lawsuits. Limit the liability, and there would be much less wasted medicine being practiced.
Yep. The word "medical" means lots of requirements for the device on it's way to being used... Nintendo gets around those by saying they're not selling a medical device.
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What's the app and why does it insist on IE6? Can it be tested on one IE8 virtual machine? If the app vendor was still around they most likely would love to sell an upgrade...
Yep, and it's almost wrong to be asking Microsoft to patch something as old as IE6 or XP at this point. Maybe OS licenses should say "You may use this program for 5 years." instead of perpetually because you're a danger to other people's systems when you don't update to modern software.
Yep... Microsoft will never shut down or not censor bing.cn... er, wait a second!
I'm uploading the IE6 No More code to my website now. There's a point where users of outdated software need to be told there's four major cost-free options, including a much updated version of IE if they want to stick with IE. I'm almost thinking we should move from a warning to a service-denying error if this goes much further.
Price has a lower bound related to cost. If cost > price... nobody's going to make the widget.
And people are telling me elsewhere that tort reform and health care are not the same thing. I disagree with that. If hospitals were allowed to post a sign saying "We'll do our best to help you, but if we fail or make it worse we're not responsible." then health care would cost a whole lot less.
Yeah... but this kid downloaded something from Google, not creating his own OS from zero.
He compiled the code that Google only officially releases as source code to the public at this time, and this his third release, after fixing several problems he discovered. He's one of the few people working on this OS that Google doesn't employ.
"Accelerometer" is a big word that means "a scale". See, pounds are not units of mass, they're units of force. Go to the top of a mountain and bring a scale. Everything will "weigh" less because you're further from the center of the earth's mass. You'll have less effect of gravity up there than you do at a lower altitude. There is no "standard" unit of mass... when they were defining "12 inches" to mean "1 foot" they didn't know there was a difference in weights of things of the same mass.
The threat of competition is enough to keep a natural monopoly competitive. If said company becomes too abusive, new businesses will be profitable regardless of entry barriers.
Citation needed that a natural monopoly that isn't abusive exists.
See, the 8x price difference on aspirin is okay because giving the an aspirin tablet to the wrong person usually doesn't mean much. Not much liability = not much risk = cheaper insurance.
Meanwhile, the balance board is an electronic device which because it isn't certified could cause all sorts of problems that have been outlined elsewhere in this thread, possibly leading to injury or death. All Nintendo's willing to do is give them another Wii Fit... so a Wii Fit: Hospital Edition would need much much more insurance, and since it's so cheap to begin with that's where your 180x insurance multiple.
Even if you drive a cheap car that you could afford to replace... you still carry insurance based on the risk that you might hit an expensive car, or two, or even worse, a house. That's almost limitless.
If somebody detects that a Wii Fit is 10% wrong... the liability is limited to the cost of a replacement unit. If it's used at a hospital, the liability can go through the roof.
No functions, but they use value-returning-subroutine syrup in its place.
Not quite sure this deserves the attention that a Slashdot story gets it. This isn't a milestone release by Google, but by a kid who downloaded the open code then did a little tinkering to get it working on his stuff, then his friend's stuff. Cool, yes.. but this OS is still a newborn.
NYT turned Mitnick into a celebrity situation by overcovering the story. There's other hackers who did similar things but never wound up in NYT.
I get my stock quotes from Yahoo! Yeah, 30 minutes or so delayed... So is everything on CNBC. It's okay with me... I place most of my trades when the market is closed.
The Bloomberg Machine is aimed at professionals who want market-moving data and news delivered as quickly as possible. There's some premium value in having that info 30 minutes ahead of the general public. Yahoo! has a pay-for-faster-quotes service, and there are a few vendors like ThinkOrSwim who bundle a data service with their trading service.
The Daily Show used to use the slogan "Where more Americans get their news than probably should." but dropped it after 9/11.
With the Boston Globe offering an "Online Edition"... people in even more rural locations that doesn't have a printing operation willing to take satellite content can have access to the same columns you do, only faster. After years of not being able to get the USA Today delivered by anybody other than my postal carrier (who BTW, will do anything to get you to drop an out-of-town newspaper subscription!) I'm a proud subscriber to the "e-Edition" version. My e-mail account still calls it spam... but it at least gets to me!
The New York Times can make an effective paywall because they hold the rights to columnists that share opinions that are nationally relevant. Local NY city news is covered by other papers, so they need exclusive content like the book reviews and bestseller lists.
WSJ has business opinions. Nobody's going to pay for press releases restated, or the S&P 500 values... but reviews and opinions are still worth something.
Can your local paper do that when your local TV station has a newsroom covering the same topics and also posting to the web for free? Nope. I don't really care what's going on in local high school sports, and that's about that's exclusive to my local paper.
It's an infrequent event, but the result if it happens can be a wrongful death... and nobody wants that to happen.
That's a theory that's debated in college, and I take the opposite side. Proof that somebody was hurt shouldn't be needed to prove monopoly abuse. What about the company that was never founded because somebody told the would-be founder that it wasn't worth doing? If nobody's willing to extend you credit because the monopoly exists, then that's a barrier to entry.
When the Wii Fit first came out... there were several modes of operation that the experts thought should be in the software. Nintendo's first response was to say such people were welcome to develop their own games, then when realizing they were so simple to program the $20 new disk called "Wii Fit Plus" (which now replaces the original disk in the new package for new users) was Nintendo's make good.
Yep... but what PHP programmer will actually take the job when legal tells them of the risk if their program has a simple bug?
Medical malpractice lawsuits are tort cases... and we know how much testing is only done because of fear of the lawsuits. Limit the liability, and there would be much less wasted medicine being practiced.
Yep. The word "medical" means lots of requirements for the device on it's way to being used... Nintendo gets around those by saying they're not selling a medical device.