It should not be hard for the cell phone companies to come up with a method similar to the nutrition info you find on all food products. It's broken down in easy to understand terms. We all know junk-food is junk-food, but like anything else, there is a gradient which represents the degree of "bad". You can comparison shop and find out which can of tomato soup is going to be better for your health. Seems to me we should be able to compare products in the same way.
Sounds to me like the phone companies aren't really worried about consumers being misled, they are more worried about loosing their marketing edge due to bling or popularity factors. If you knew a Palm Pre emitted half the radiation of an iPhone (for instance) which would you buy? Which would you buy for your kid? Which one for your pregnant wife?
Sounds like a great idea to me, and I hope the law gets extended to the federal level across all electronic gizmos.
this is only a temporary problem. I'm sure apple will address the problem as soon as it's engineers have troubleshot the problem thouroghly. For myself in particular, I have not seen this issue and I'm laeft handed. In fact I'm composing this email on my iphone4 at the mom... +++ No Carrier
if there were 1,324,655,000 cars in china and by law your car needed to get 140mpg, and only.31349% of all the cars actually got 140mpg, then:
- 4,152,660 cars are drivable in china (echo '1324655000*0.0031349'|bc) - 962,434 in USA - 400,339 in Japan - 444,999 in Russia (where cars actually drive *you*)
To collect that revenue, some states require you to report sales tax due on out-of-state purchases when you file your income tax every year. Most people try to play ignorant when it's pointed out to them however.
you know, bees, birds, ladybugs and other beneficial creatures. And how about soil biology? without healthy dirt, you end up dumping more chemicals on your food to get in to grow (nitrogen, etc). I'm not a PETA nut, hell I love bacon, but just wondering. If people run from that thing, everything in the orchard may too.
having a government run operation where I can safely store my name, address, soc. # and ip address sounds awesome. It will bring states an easier way to collect sales tax for my online purchases too which will save me some time filing out my taxes every year. Since it's run by the us gov, I'm sure they'll have a reputable source overseeing the security of the system also. You know, like Diebold or maybe Blackwater.
Information disseminates from the west to east (eg: New York -> Jerusalem). It's counter to the rotation of the earth which slows it waaaayyy down. If you had a class like geophysics in your school, you'd already know this. sheesh.
Connecting to someone's computer with the intent to cause damage could still get you in legal trouble; the law doesn't care who the victim is. What's more, the cracker you are trying to crack may just have a whole botnet to turn on your IP space, so you may want to think about that before unleashing your m4d l33t sk11z on their intertubes.
I find it hard to believe that millions of people having one or more computers capable of downloading movies, ISO images, Youtube, music streaming, gaming and emailing 50MB attachments in their homes can pay a flat rate for internet access with unlimited bandwith but the same people trying to view some pics or webpages on their mobile phones are causing "explosions in data traffic". Smells to me like someone is fishing for something to pin cost increases on. Frickin crooks.
TFA is wrong. Flight of the geek is more like it
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Flight of the Desktops
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· Score: 2, Informative
What makes the Desktop model work is:
- ordering the parts
- interchangeability of the parts
- price of parts
- choice of parts
- longevity of parts
- upgrades are easier
- a learning tool
- pride
- fun
It used to be that when you bought a "boxy machine that sat on or under your desk" you (and usually a friend that knew way more than you) would sit down for months figuring out what parts you were going to put in. When the parts finally came, it was like a second christmas. You (and usually a friend that knew way more than you) would sit down and put all the bits into the proper places and pray you would got only one beep when it would post. Then you would set about installing all the software from floppies most of which was pulled off a BBS somewhere. When it came time to upgrade, your friend or someone your friend knew, would know someone that was in the market for a new computer or an upgrade. A deal was made, you'd get some cash or do a swap, and the whole process would start over again (Incidentally, most people that made it to this point eventually started learning something about software programming).
The *whole* process of researching/learning/building/selling a desktop is where the legacy of the Desktop comes from. You can't do all these things with a proprietary piece of locked up iCrap that needs center-pin metric torx bits to open and violates some warranty for even thinking about it. The parts in portables have very little interchangeability. Geeks love investigating where the magic smoke comes from, but portables just aren't that accessible. The knowledge factor has devolved as well; used to be everyone knew what kind of cpu, ram and video card was in their "boxy machine that sat on or under your desk", but these days the only knowledge anyone really cares to retain is what colors are available.
The Geek is what has taken flight, not the Desktop.
The documentation kinda sucks, but all the source code is there for free. As the proprietary markets have strangled anything useful anymore, it's one of the few places you be able to find anything relevant or current.
I don't see the point in dictating one closed platform over the other. Apple's inroads to innovation are just as absurd as Microsoft's. The issue I see is that there's an ignorant person in power making decisions that affect a lot of people. Not just on an educational level, but on a monetary one as well. Sound familiar? No wonder people are pissed.
FTFA: "Subsequently, when the remainder of the frame is written to disk, its body is not recorded"
So, basically, google drove around in the street-mobile and saved mac, ip, and ssid info - big deal. Let's waste US legal system time on something more pressing.
you don't need tape if you can mirror your san to a few different remote colos. Yeah it's expensive, but it proves the point. Tape give you redundancy + offsite storage + acceptable reliability + decent price point. You can't get those four things with anything else these days.
It's a lot easier to be an armchair general from the comfort of your home or work desk. It's quite another to be prone with your face ground into the dirt and bullets wizzing over your head. Mistakes happen and people die and the means is not always just or well thought out. I really think it's telling of U.S. society in that we are so eager to condemn based on evidence taken out of context. I think if there's any judging to do, it should be done by war vets, or their peers. People who have been through the experience of legalized murder; people who have been in conflict and forced to kill on command rather than value or principle.
Not the popular opinion, but think about it. M$ started out the same way. - Get people hooked on the new-exciting-and-different (windows 3.1) - you were a Luddite if you weren't adopting it - People that new almost *nothing* about computers could "use" a computer
After the customer base was established, Microsoft Works came in and locked everyone into a proprietary format (they didn't know better). This was followed by Excel, Word and Access, and then Exchange.
Apple is taking the same road and once again people who don't know they don't know, don't know.
the us gov. Was broken before the internet. The internet just enabled everyone to know how fricking hopeless it actually is. In all actuality, I don't think there is a country in the present with anything more than a corrupt, dysfunctional government. Think about it. It's pretty dismal all over. The world needs more functional psychopaths running it.
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It should not be hard for the cell phone companies to come up with a method similar to the nutrition info you find on all food products. It's broken down in easy to understand terms. We all know junk-food is junk-food, but like anything else, there is a gradient which represents the degree of "bad". You can comparison shop and find out which can of tomato soup is going to be better for your health. Seems to me we should be able to compare products in the same way.
Sounds to me like the phone companies aren't really worried about consumers being misled, they are more worried about loosing their marketing edge due to bling or popularity factors. If you knew a Palm Pre emitted half the radiation of an iPhone (for instance) which would you buy? Which would you buy for your kid? Which one for your pregnant wife?
Sounds like a great idea to me, and I hope the law gets extended to the federal level across all electronic gizmos.
this is only a temporary problem. I'm sure apple will address the problem as soon as it's engineers have troubleshot the problem thouroghly. For myself in particular, I have not seen this issue and I'm laeft handed. In fact I'm composing this email on my iphone4 at the mom... +++ No Carrier
so to use the car analogy...
if there were 1,324,655,000 cars in china and by law your car needed to get 140mpg, and only .31349% of all the cars actually got 140mpg, then:
- 4,152,660 cars are drivable in china (echo '1324655000*0.0031349'|bc)
- 962,434 in USA
- 400,339 in Japan
- 444,999 in Russia (where cars actually drive *you*)
The disclosures aren't in a pretty clicky-clicky-box but the kernel devs *do* strive to maintain formats which cater to the major users:
for shell ninjas:
wget www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.33 -O - | less
for geezers/people with lawns:
telnet ftp.kernel.org 21
for the lamer++:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.33
They are also into putting family farms out of business[0] and monopolizing future food stocks[1]. Overly fussy? screw you monsanto. frickin crooks.
[0] - http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/26/eveningnews/main4048288.shtml
[1] - http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7529
every USB stick (make that all removable media) should be like these:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820709004
This means the first virus to infect a GPU is not that far away.
To collect that revenue, some states require you to report sales tax due on out-of-state purchases when you file your income tax every year. Most people try to play ignorant when it's pointed out to them however.
It's a lot cheaper to invent a 'bug' that issue a recall.
that would be a cool gkrellm plugin
icanhazinternets? - tattoo of confused cat with 2400 baud modem
icanhazhelpdesk? - tattoo of cat wearing geeksquad tshirt
icanhaznorton? - tatto of cat, laying dead, next to chihuahuha wearing Storm worm tshirt.
These are all awesome tattoos. We think you should get all of them.. ah, and let us know when you post the pics!
you know, bees, birds, ladybugs and other beneficial creatures. And how about soil biology? without healthy dirt, you end up dumping more chemicals on your food to get in to grow (nitrogen, etc). I'm not a PETA nut, hell I love bacon, but just wondering. If people run from that thing, everything in the orchard may too.
having a government run operation where I can safely store my name, address, soc. # and ip address sounds awesome. It will bring states an easier way to collect sales tax for my online purchases too which will save me some time filing out my taxes every year. Since it's run by the us gov, I'm sure they'll have a reputable source overseeing the security of the system also. You know, like Diebold or maybe Blackwater.
Information disseminates from the west to east (eg: New York -> Jerusalem). It's counter to the rotation of the earth which slows it waaaayyy down. If you had a class like geophysics in your school, you'd already know this. sheesh.
Connecting to someone's computer with the intent to cause damage could still get you in legal trouble; the law doesn't care who the victim is. What's more, the cracker you are trying to crack may just have a whole botnet to turn on your IP space, so you may want to think about that before unleashing your m4d l33t sk11z on their intertubes.
I find it hard to believe that millions of people having one or more computers capable of downloading movies, ISO images, Youtube, music streaming, gaming and emailing 50MB attachments in their homes can pay a flat rate for internet access with unlimited bandwith but the same people trying to view some pics or webpages on their mobile phones are causing "explosions in data traffic". Smells to me like someone is fishing for something to pin cost increases on. Frickin crooks.
What makes the Desktop model work is:
- ordering the parts
- interchangeability of the parts
- price of parts
- choice of parts
- longevity of parts
- upgrades are easier
- a learning tool
- pride
- fun
It used to be that when you bought a "boxy machine that sat on or under your desk" you (and usually a friend that knew way more than you) would sit down for months figuring out what parts you were going to put in. When the parts finally came, it was like a second christmas. You (and usually a friend that knew way more than you) would sit down and put all the bits into the proper places and pray you would got only one beep when it would post. Then you would set about installing all the software from floppies most of which was pulled off a BBS somewhere. When it came time to upgrade, your friend or someone your friend knew, would know someone that was in the market for a new computer or an upgrade. A deal was made, you'd get some cash or do a swap, and the whole process would start over again (Incidentally, most people that made it to this point eventually started learning something about software programming).
The *whole* process of researching/learning/building/selling a desktop is where the legacy of the Desktop comes from. You can't do all these things with a proprietary piece of locked up iCrap that needs center-pin metric torx bits to open and violates some warranty for even thinking about it. The parts in portables have very little interchangeability. Geeks love investigating where the magic smoke comes from, but portables just aren't that accessible. The knowledge factor has devolved as well; used to be everyone knew what kind of cpu, ram and video card was in their "boxy machine that sat on or under your desk", but these days the only knowledge anyone really cares to retain is what colors are available.
The Geek is what has taken flight, not the Desktop.
The documentation kinda sucks, but all the source code is there for free. As the proprietary markets have strangled anything useful anymore, it's one of the few places you be able to find anything relevant or current.
I don't see the point in dictating one closed platform over the other. Apple's inroads to innovation are just as absurd as Microsoft's. The issue I see is that there's an ignorant person in power making decisions that affect a lot of people. Not just on an educational level, but on a monetary one as well. Sound familiar? No wonder people are pissed.
FTFA: "Subsequently, when the remainder of the frame is written to disk, its body is not recorded"
So, basically, google drove around in the street-mobile and saved mac, ip, and ssid info - big deal. Let's waste US legal system time on something more pressing.
you don't need tape if you can mirror your san to a few different remote colos. Yeah it's expensive, but it proves the point. Tape give you redundancy + offsite storage + acceptable reliability + decent price point. You can't get those four things with anything else these days.
It's a lot easier to be an armchair general from the comfort of your home or work desk. It's quite another to be prone with your face ground into the dirt and bullets wizzing over your head. Mistakes happen and people die and the means is not always just or well thought out. I really think it's telling of U.S. society in that we are so eager to condemn based on evidence taken out of context. I think if there's any judging to do, it should be done by war vets, or their peers. People who have been through the experience of legalized murder; people who have been in conflict and forced to kill on command rather than value or principle.
Not the popular opinion, but think about it. M$ started out the same way.
- Get people hooked on the new-exciting-and-different (windows 3.1)
- you were a Luddite if you weren't adopting it
- People that new almost *nothing* about computers could "use" a computer
After the customer base was established, Microsoft Works came in and locked everyone into a proprietary format (they didn't know better). This was followed by Excel, Word and Access, and then Exchange.
Apple is taking the same road and once again people who don't know they don't know, don't know.
the us gov. Was broken before the internet. The internet just enabled everyone to know how fricking hopeless it actually is. In all actuality, I don't think there is a country in the present with anything more than a corrupt, dysfunctional government. Think about it. It's pretty dismal all over. The world needs more functional psychopaths running it.