It seems that they're just adding functionality similar to a WiFi keychain. Once you've found a wireless network, you can set up your laptop to connect.
I've actually needed service like this, as I've gone to several small businesses where the person I spoke to had no idea whether or not the shop was WiFi capable. It would have saved me at least ten minutes in each occasion if I could turn on an iPod or one of these keychains to see if service was available, and possibly find a strong reception point.
Absolutely agree with your first point; this was my objection as well. As to your second point, there are many established businesses that use this model; just look at Netflix. If you accept that you are simply renting the songs, much like you would rent a movie, all that remains to be agreed on is how much you'd be willing to pay for that.
If you aren't willing to pay ANYTHING for that, then you should have the option not to do so. Which brings us back to point one, whether this was compulsory. If I was forced by my university to pay this fee, and I bought all my music at CDBaby, I'd be seriously pissed.
If this site(bottom of page - rockets & missles) is accurate, three quarters of makeup of traditional rockets is propellant. With that removed, it would seem a lot more space is available for the stars/effects portion of the charge. It seems this could pave the way for much more sophisticated effects being created, if this type of firework is predominant in professional displays...
The thing is, he admits as such. When he went on the Daily Show during this last week, Jon Stewart asked him in not so many words if he puts a spin on the material, and his response was to the effect of "yes, I use the facts to bolster an argument that is my opinion. The facts in the movie are facts, but I present them in a way to make my point and to entertain audiences". While I agree with some of your points about his methods (especially the Charlton Heston interview), at least he's up front about the fact that he's doing it.
For main memory or video memory, yeah, not so much at first glimpse. The "nonvolatile" portion is where it gets sexy. The primary reason static RAM isn't widely implemented for ALL memory right now is simply cost. Dynamic RAM's volatile nature forces the CPU or a memory controller to take time to read and write the contents of each portion of memory repeatedly thousands of time per second, else the contents of the memory are lost. Not having to do that would be a huge work saver for future hardware, allowing it to focus on any problems at hand. Very cool stuff.
Full body of the bill in question (H.R. 2929), researched here:
HR 2929 IH
108th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 2929
To protect users of the Internet from unknowing transmission of their personally identifiable information through spyware programs, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES July 25, 2003
Mrs. BONO (for herself and Mr. TOWNS) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce
A BILL To protect users of the Internet from unknowing transmission of their personally identifiable information through spyware programs, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the `Safeguard Against Privacy Invasions Act'.
SEC. 2. FTC AUTHORITY TO REGULATE TRANSMISSION OF SPYWARE PROGRAMS.
(a) PROHIBITION OF TRANSMISSION WITHOUT CONSENT- The Federal Trade Commission shall, by regulation, prohibit the transmission of a spyware program to a covered computer by means of the Internet, unless the user of the covered computer expressly consents to such transmission in response to a clear and conspicuous request for such consent or through an affirmative request for such transmission.
(b) TRANSMISSION PURSUANT TO LICENSE AGREEMENTS- The Federal Trade Commission shall, by regulation, establish requirements for the transmission of a spyware program to a covered computer, by means of the Internet, in any case in which the transmission of the spyware program, or any information, program, or communication together or in connection with which the spyware program is transmitted, requires any affirmative action on the part of the user of the covered computer to agree to a license, contract, or other agreement which is made available on the World Wide Web, as follows:
(1) LOCATION OF LICENSE AGREEMENT- The terms of such license, contract, or agreement shall be set forth on a World Wide Web page and the mechanism by which the user of the covered computer agrees to such license, contract, or agreement shall be included on the same page.
(2) NOTICE- The terms of the license, contract, or other agreement shall--
(A) include provisions, that are clearly stated and prominently displayed, which specify that agreement to such license, contract, or other agreement constitutes consent to transmission of the spyware for purposes of subsection (a); and
(B) clearly explain the purpose of including the spyware.
(3) IDENTIFICATION- The name of the person or entity transmitting the spyware, a valid physical street address of such person or entity, and a functioning return electronic mail address for such person or entity shall be included on the World Wide Web page referred to in paragraph (1).
(c) NOTICE OF COLLECTION OF PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION- The Federal Trade Commission shall, by regulation, prohibit the use of any spyware program that is transmitted to a covered computer by means of the Internet for collecting any personally identifiable information from the covered computer, unless notice that the program will be used for such collection is provided--
(1) in any license, contract, or other agreement covering the spyware program or the information, program, or communication together with which, or in connection with which, the spyware program is transmitted; and
(2) in another prominent location, as the Commission shall provide.
I'll have to agree with you on that. I had been using the existing mozilla calendar, and when I just installed the moz 1.7 upgrade, the installer completely removed the calendaring app from my system, including all dates and entries I had put in. The warning that I got was about removal of third party software, which apparently is a category the calendar belongs to. Lost a lot of important information.
IANAL, but I did a search and found another use of the Wenzel defense, where the state failed to prove careless driving beyond a reasonable doubt. Here's the link.
Below is the relevant excerpt from the article:
In finding defendant guilty of careless driving, the Law Division judge stated:
The defendant quite clearly operated his vehicle carelessly, failed to exercise appropriate caution in the prevailing circumstances, and endangered both the persons in the other vehicle.
These conclusory remarks, however, were insufficient to establish a careless driving violation.
It appears that both the Municipal Court judge and the Law Division judge applied a res ipsa loquitur analysis in finding defendant guilty of careless driving. The doctrine of res ipsa loquitur, however, has no application in the determination of careless driving due to the quasi-criminal nature of the proceeding in which the State has the burden of proving beyond a reasonable doubt all elements of the offense. See State v. Wenzel, 113 N.J. Super., 215, 216-18 (App. Div. 1971)(the mere fact of an "otherwise unexplained jackknifing" where a tractor-trailer entering a construction area had jackknifed on the wet roadway, crossed into the opposite lane and broadsided another truck fatally injuring the truck's driver, did not establish that the defendant had been driving carelessly.)
The careless driving statute provides:
[a] person who drives a vehicle on a highway carelessly, or without due caution and circumspection, in a manner so as to endanger, or be likely to endanger, a person or property, shall be guilty of careless driving.
[N.J.S.A. 39:4-97.]
Here, other than the accident itself, the State only presented defendant's statement that his vehicle began to slide on the wet highway and continued to do so when he tapped his brakes. Moreover, his apology was not an admission to driving carelessly, but merely a statement that his car had slid on the wet pavement. The State presented no evidence indicating that defendant had been speeding, driving too fast for the wet road conditions, distracted or otherwise driving without due caution and circumspection. Consequently, there was insufficient evidence to support defendant's conviction for careless driving, and we reverse that conviction.
We affirm the driving under the influence conviction and sentence under N.J.S.A. 39:4-50(a) and vacate the stay. We reverse the careless driving conviction under N.J.S.A. 39:4-97 and remand to the Law Division to amend the judgment.
This should do wonders for solar flight, like the ESA's solar plane, and the research into cheaper-than-satellite technologies for signal rebroadcasting, like here.
Jithead: An international transportation term used to describe people who order goods on a "just in time" basis and then freak out when told that they didn't order early enough. "That jithead should have placed his order a month ago."
That's not always a contraindication. Remember Frank Polifka's chicken pulverizing tornado machine? He only had a high school diploma and a certificate from diesel engine school.
This website states that helix player is developed "sponsored by or in association with Real", so it seems like Real is at the very least passively supporting a linux distro. The review also states that while "the standalone Helix Player started on my system and played all of the RealMedia files I could throw at it", it still has some issues with integration with Firefox.
What do you want this computer to do:
( ) Play Music
Wouldn't that require.....bundling a media player?
Seriously, I am not a microsoft apologist, but would someone explain to me how this is fundamentally different from what Microsoft was trying to do? I'm not trying to troll here; this is an honest question.
So it's apparent that the content is filtered fairly heavily. While this is a no go for most people, this seems like it might not be a bad default search page for younger (pre and grade school) crowds, and perhaps libraries. A search like "Kinetics" turns up identical results in both, while the results of "porn" are markedly different. It seems that most of the content could be reasonably rated "R" at worst. Of course, this opinion is only from a cursory usage.
Something similar here in the states is an Anaerobic Digester. This is what I first thought of when I saw this article, although I believe the technologies employed are different.
I am in the Air Force Reserves, and I have to say that our IT choices are abominable, Outlook in particular. The client we have to use to access our Outlook accounts remotely is just about worthless. It only runs in Explorer, doesn't refresh properly, has a limited set of functions, and some of those just flat out don't work.
While I'm ranting, the Active Directory rollout the morning of our reserve weekend (IT: umm, well, we know all the computers wil be on...)was just special. Shut down our network for most of the day. Tell me again how this makes my work easier?
Seeing the military tell Microsoft no has been the brightest moment of my day.
I have two close friends who were done wrong by AT&T. One of them was outside the coverage area, and got socked with a 1400 dollar phone bill. That can happen, but she was sent to collections while she was paying it off (i.e. AT&T wireless had accepted a check from her the month prior.)
The other one did not realize that Hawaii was not covered under the long distance plan. Similarly high bill. Paid 900 of it up front, and waited for the next month to pay the rest. Disconnected her.
I'm currently with AT&T, and in Seattle. VERY spotty coverage where I live. Am planning to switch as soon as I can.
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It seems that they're just adding functionality similar to a WiFi keychain. Once you've found a wireless network, you can set up your laptop to connect.
I've actually needed service like this, as I've gone to several small businesses where the person I spoke to had no idea whether or not the shop was WiFi capable. It would have saved me at least ten minutes in each occasion if I could turn on an iPod or one of these keychains to see if service was available, and possibly find a strong reception point.
Absolutely agree with your first point; this was my objection as well. As to your second point, there are many established businesses that use this model; just look at Netflix. If you accept that you are simply renting the songs, much like you would rent a movie, all that remains to be agreed on is how much you'd be willing to pay for that.
If you aren't willing to pay ANYTHING for that, then you should have the option not to do so. Which brings us back to point one, whether this was compulsory. If I was forced by my university to pay this fee, and I bought all my music at CDBaby, I'd be seriously pissed.
If this site(bottom of page - rockets & missles) is accurate, three quarters of makeup of traditional rockets is propellant. With that removed, it would seem a lot more space is available for the stars/effects portion of the charge. It seems this could pave the way for much more sophisticated effects being created, if this type of firework is predominant in professional displays...
The thing is, he admits as such. When he went on the Daily Show during this last week, Jon Stewart asked him in not so many words if he puts a spin on the material, and his response was to the effect of "yes, I use the facts to bolster an argument that is my opinion. The facts in the movie are facts, but I present them in a way to make my point and to entertain audiences". While I agree with some of your points about his methods (especially the Charlton Heston interview), at least he's up front about the fact that he's doing it.
For main memory or video memory, yeah, not so much at first glimpse. The "nonvolatile" portion is where it gets sexy. The primary reason static RAM isn't widely implemented for ALL memory right now is simply cost. Dynamic RAM's volatile nature forces the CPU or a memory controller to take time to read and write the contents of each portion of memory repeatedly thousands of time per second, else the contents of the memory are lost. Not having to do that would be a huge work saver for future hardware, allowing it to focus on any problems at hand. Very cool stuff.
Full body of the bill in question (H.R. 2929), researched here:
HR 2929 IH
108th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 2929 To protect users of the Internet from unknowing transmission of their personally identifiable information through spyware programs, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
July 25, 2003
Mrs. BONO (for herself and Mr. TOWNS) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce
A BILL
To protect users of the Internet from unknowing transmission of their personally identifiable information through spyware programs, and for other purposes.
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
SEC. 2. FTC AUTHORITY TO REGULATE TRANSMISSION OF SPYWARE PROGRAMS.
SEC. 3. ENFORCEMENT.
I'll have to agree with you on that. I had been using the existing mozilla calendar, and when I just installed the moz 1.7 upgrade, the installer completely removed the calendaring app from my system, including all dates and entries I had put in. The warning that I got was about removal of third party software, which apparently is a category the calendar belongs to. Lost a lot of important information.
The meat is in the PDF. Here's a freecached link hosted on my old school account.
Below is the relevant excerpt from the article:
In finding defendant guilty of careless driving, the Law Division judge stated: The defendant quite clearly operated his vehicle carelessly, failed to exercise appropriate caution in the prevailing circumstances, and endangered both the persons in the other vehicle. These conclusory remarks, however, were insufficient to establish a careless driving violation. It appears that both the Municipal Court judge and the Law Division judge applied a res ipsa loquitur analysis in finding defendant guilty of careless driving. The doctrine of res ipsa loquitur, however, has no application in the determination of careless driving due to the quasi-criminal nature of the proceeding in which the State has the burden of proving beyond a reasonable doubt all elements of the offense. See State v. Wenzel, 113 N.J. Super., 215, 216-18 (App. Div. 1971)(the mere fact of an "otherwise unexplained jackknifing" where a tractor-trailer entering a construction area had jackknifed on the wet roadway, crossed into the opposite lane and broadsided another truck fatally injuring the truck's driver, did not establish that the defendant had been driving carelessly.) The careless driving statute provides: [a] person who drives a vehicle on a highway carelessly, or without due caution and circumspection, in a manner so as to endanger, or be likely to endanger, a person or property, shall be guilty of careless driving.
[N.J.S.A. 39:4-97.]
Here, other than the accident itself, the State only presented defendant's statement that his vehicle began to slide on the wet highway and continued to do so when he tapped his brakes. Moreover, his apology was not an admission to driving carelessly, but merely a statement that his car had slid on the wet pavement. The State presented no evidence indicating that defendant had been speeding, driving too fast for the wet road conditions, distracted or otherwise driving without due caution and circumspection. Consequently, there was insufficient evidence to support defendant's conviction for careless driving, and we reverse that conviction. We affirm the driving under the influence conviction and sentence under N.J.S.A. 39:4-50(a) and vacate the stay. We reverse the careless driving conviction under N.J.S.A. 39:4-97 and remand to the Law Division to amend the judgment.
This should do wonders for solar flight, like the ESA's solar plane, and the research into cheaper-than-satellite technologies for signal rebroadcasting, like here.
Jithead: An international transportation term used to describe people who order goods on a "just in time" basis and then freak out when told that they didn't order early enough.
link"That jithead should have placed his order a month ago."
Aren't magnets used to produce enriched uranium? What more proof do we need?
:)
That's not always a contraindication. Remember Frank Polifka's chicken pulverizing tornado machine? He only had a high school diploma and a certificate from diesel engine school.
This website states that helix player is developed "sponsored by or in association with Real", so it seems like Real is at the very least passively supporting a linux distro. The review also states that while "the standalone Helix Player started on my system and played all of the RealMedia files I could throw at it", it still has some issues with integration with Firefox.
Wouldn't that require.....bundling a media player?
Seriously, I am not a microsoft apologist, but would someone explain to me how this is fundamentally different from what Microsoft was trying to do? I'm not trying to troll here; this is an honest question.
So it's apparent that the content is filtered fairly heavily. While this is a no go for most people, this seems like it might not be a bad default search page for younger (pre and grade school) crowds, and perhaps libraries. A search like "Kinetics" turns up identical results in both, while the results of "porn" are markedly different. It seems that most of the content could be reasonably rated "R" at worst. Of course, this opinion is only from a cursory usage.
covering this very topic at http://www.seattlesinner.com/
E ink involves tiny spheres with magnetically charged particles inside that are either black or white. See here.
IANAR, but it's important to have the facts straight. The parent poster is correct. Discredit where discredit is due.
I can't imagine the results of this would change anytime soon.
That may have been true once, but it is not true anymore. Here also: Japan's military dilemma.
Something similar here in the states is an Anaerobic Digester. This is what I first thought of when I saw this article, although I believe the technologies employed are different.
I am in the Air Force Reserves, and I have to say that our IT choices are abominable, Outlook in particular. The client we have to use to access our Outlook accounts remotely is just about worthless. It only runs in Explorer, doesn't refresh properly, has a limited set of functions, and some of those just flat out don't work.
While I'm ranting, the Active Directory rollout the morning of our reserve weekend (IT: umm, well, we know all the computers wil be on...)was just special. Shut down our network for most of the day. Tell me again how this makes my work easier?
Seeing the military tell Microsoft no has been the brightest moment of my day.I have two close friends who were done wrong by AT&T. One of them was outside the coverage area, and got socked with a 1400 dollar phone bill. That can happen, but she was sent to collections while she was paying it off (i.e. AT&T wireless had accepted a check from her the month prior.) The other one did not realize that Hawaii was not covered under the long distance plan. Similarly high bill. Paid 900 of it up front, and waited for the next month to pay the rest. Disconnected her.
I'm currently with AT&T, and in Seattle. VERY spotty coverage where I live. Am planning to switch as soon as I can.