I'm guessing you are young. Your logic is interesting, do you really think the rest of the world fears the US because a couple of you over there incorrectly paint the entire country as a single entity unique in the belief that the infantile rubbish you are parroting off is absolute truth. Fortunately the rest of the world is touch smarter and a little more rational than that.
Do some basic economics, you'll find that the US is propped up on the backs of a good many nations. It would only take one or two of the bigger ones to start grumbling and your house of cards could very easily come tumbling down. Remove China from the big picture and what do you have? Slash oil production and where are you? Perhaps a lot of jobs would return to the US, but your economy will have the backside ripped out of it as a result - that fine military of which you speak will not have such a rosy outlook.
Understand the bigger picture, it has nothing to do with military power.
What can congress do to stop some random guy or girl in a white lab coat with clipboard in hand from knocking over a jug of radioactive sludge? Seems to me like it was a screw up in procedure on several levels, these can be fixed.
What you are doing is whining about some political agenda that has no relevance to the article, write a letter if you feel so strongly.
There is obviously much compelling evidence that indicates the age of the universe, but with a good deal of that, the words 'if we are correct in our assumptions' can be found fairly regularly. (A good thing in my opinion) What if we are (widely) wrong about the currently accepted values? Not trolling, genuinely curious - most of the alternate theories are up their with the conspiracy crackpots, surely there must be some rational ~scientific~ argument from the other side of the fence?
Where does relativity fit in to the equation, expansion, dark matter, 600 million years is a spec of time, what's the margin of error? And why?
An optimizer would work only in so far as it could tell you which businesses have already been hit, not the reverse for assignment purposes. I would assume there are still some things left on earth that google don't know about yet, in particular the commercial nature or otherwise of every unknown building on the planet:-)
I did top the oil up every very infrequently (mobil 1 synthetic), but I never changed it at all. Before I sold it, the only work I had done was a new regulator and a standard service / grease and oil. The garage said it all looked in pretty decent condition to them considering. By that time it had about ~140,000km - still ran like new - was a Toyota Corolla Seca. Similar to this: http://memimage.cardomain.net/member_images/7/web/ 2215000-2215999/2215171_4_full.jpg
Alright, bad form to reply to myself, though before anyone flames me, I did have to refuel rather a lot - the rovers, not so much. Nuclear reactors are still socially unacceptable under the hood, otherwise I'd have one - stupid hippies.
Haven't they only traveled a few kilometres though?
While my car car hasn't had to withstand millions of miles wrapped up in radiation soaked gold foil, pass through reentry on a distant planet, followed by a good bounce across the ground, it has managed to take me more than 120,000 kilometres in 2 years without ever needing a service. Traveled on all kinds of road surfaces - including that outback powdery red dirt crap that is rather common in Australia. Alright, I had to change the tires a couple of times, but only because the 'law' gets all angry if I let them go down to the metal strands of the steel belt.
I should have clarified, yes, definitely meant as near as possible for the artist to get 10 cents per song.:-) I understand it sounds low to those that feel production costs need to be several million dollars per album, though keep in mind I just want the song, not posters, not merchandise, I don't want to foot the bill for some exec to buy a 3 minute advert for it on radio or MTv! Make it once, distribute it electronically, beyond bandwidth and storage space, it doesn't cost a whole lot to keep that song available and for sale indefinitely.
Piracy stats are one thing when said in public, behind closed doors I'm sure the rhetoric is toned down a tad and they do actually have a good handle on the real story. Looks to me like they are doing what their customers are calling out for - DRM free music - we see this desire spelled out every other day on slashdot.
256kbps is good enough for me, though I'd really only buy if the price point was closer to 10 cents. Lots of reasons for this, though the main one is simply that I live in Asia, piracy is common. Like it or not, that's what they have to compete with. 10 cents per song is about double the profit margin over pirated CD's, though if I can reliably go to an online store from the comfort of my home, then that's where I'd rather be.
It takes all of 90 seconds with two wifi cards working on the problem at the same time - it often works better if two separate machines are used, one for the attacking, the other in a passive role to recover the pass phrase. Most cards are singular, so it would more commonly take days, weeks, or months on an averagely loaded system. That is why it is not so trivial to add a button to do it automatically. The parent makes this seem like a simple task, it is far from it. The current set of tools mostly require a far deeper understanding of what they do than just the info provided in documents supplied with those tools. A good understanding of networking, and WiFi in general, is also handy if one is a complete novice with little computing experience.
Are you so thick headed you cannot comprehend the greater purpose behind the humble red light camera - or how they work? Do you not understand the basic logic that if people stopped running red lights, then there would be no fines handed out, fewer accidents, thus no money in the guise of 'thinly veiled tax revenue'? I expect you would respond with all the fringe situations in which you think you have no choice but to run a red light - police are people too - explain your valid reason and you might even find they retract the fine, or suck it up and pay because you broke a law for the common good of society.
Red light cameras are not just slapped at any and every intersection, generally they are only in areas that are more accident prone, or places with very high traffic flow. They are neither free to own or operate, over their lifetime very few will pay for themselves in the fines they are able to inflict.
It is ludicrous to think these things are revenue generators. They exist to keep people, apparently like you, in line so that others can be safe.
Now what would you say if your 'helmetless' sister died from preventable head injuries suffered because some moron ran a red light and legged it, never to be found? Morbid, yes, but it's all just revenue until it's too late right.
I remember training a few years back for an instrument rating in general aviation, every instructor that I flew with would either yell at me over the headset or physically tap my hands with a ruler the moment I stopped scanning the instrument panel. With good reason, if you stop, you can be dead. I live in the Philippines now, drink driving here is still largely socially acceptable, and rarely policed. I'd love for some type of real time driver monitoring to become mandatory. You make it so black and white with your analysis, but all of these false positives could be worked out - the bigger problem are the morons that would figure ways to circumvent it.
If you can't see the benefits of such a system, you obviously have no concern for your own safety or anyone else. (It's all ok until it's too late) When I fly, I have a minimum expectation that those around me are alert and professional at what they do, I'd like to think they could feel the same way about me. Driving scares me significantly more than flying ever has.
You don't need OpenMoko to do those things already, though I'm sure it would do them far better. I have a Nokia N80 that has each of the things you describe, (most provided by 3rd parties) including a few you haven't thought of yet:-) The only downside is that it does all of these things a little too slowly.
I have an IVR system - whenever people I don't know call, they can choose to leave a message, get their call rejected outright, or receive a polite SMS telling them to have a nice day, all based on calling number, address book entries, or black and white lists.
Also have A complex filter for rejecting unwanted SMS, based on either the content of the text itself, or the senders number.
Now if only the K and W models from Sony Ericsson could do this, I'd be happy.
Since nothing was copied illegally, and a valid serial number was purchased from Microsoft in exchange for actual money, you still feel it could be copyright infringement? I'm glad you don't make laws. Your speculation is ridiculous.
At best you break some little fluff piece in an EULA. It is fully a license issue, not copyright infringement.
Interestingly enough, I purchased a copy of Indesign and Photoshop in the Philippines (for use in the Philippines) The sales woman actually called Adobe up and gave them a copy of my name, address, contact numbers, serial number, and every other scrap of info I wrote on the receipt. Then politely reminded me that piracy is illegal.
I can understand that piracy is a problem, but the second they *reminded* me of this I demanded my money back and went next door - more expensive, but no being treated like a criminal just for actually doing the right thing and buying original software. It is not adobe is demanding this info, more like businesses not wanting to be identified at as the point of sale for some warez kiddie who goes off and prints 3 million copies. I have no idea what the solution is for that, though I do know treating me like a criminal is definitely not the right start. The stupid part is that the serial number on the box requires on-line activation - a small 10 kilobyte keygen creates any number of serial numbers that don't require the software to phone home.
We're just starting to see signs here that say 'piracy is stealing' - I only wish truth in advertising was law here. No wonder people don't think twice about piracy.
Don't forget that the average price of pirated software in Asia is based on as much as can be crammed on to a CD or more commonly now DVD - on average it's around $2 US for *any* CD, regardless of content. Unless Microsoft can compete at the $10 dollar price point, they can have as many feel good initiatives as they want, the average person will still choose the pirate copy. Vista for $66 is probably more aimed at bringing business in to line than the average home user.
And now that Vista is slightly cheaper, what about Office? That still costs a metric crap load to buy, OEM or retail, hardly much of a difference.
People will always wonder why others allow their children to be uncontrolled and undisciplined idiots, that will not change with or without this 'V-Chip'. There is no government intervention beyond the mandate that certain devices cannot be built or imported in to your country without this circuit - and this does not detract from an ability to be a good or bad parent at all.
the government is not deciding what your children can and can't watch in the privacy of your own home - you do. The government is mandating a tiny microchip that enables content filtering based on a rating system, switched off by default. Do you like to receive all your spam, or do you like to have it filtered out?
I live in the Philippines where the 'Government should fix everything' outlook is a fairly common and convenient excuse for an individual not getting off their own backside to make a difference in their world. One group of people feel the government should step inside peoples homes and, you know, 'think of the children', the other want the government to butt out. (Ok, it's not quite so black and white) I'm not sure if this is what you are actually saying though?
The V chip needs to be user activated before it does anything at all. While I personally prefer to actually be part of my child's life, and hopefully teach her to view the world with a balanced outlook, I really don't understand why people think the V chip is a bad thing. To me it's a tad like 'spamassassin' - just an optional filtering tool that does not report back to its maker.
In this country, what passes for a good movie must come complete with many emotional gut wrenching highs and lows, all sprinkled with a heavy helping of gunfights, murder, and plain old senseless violence. People would, however, be mortified if one of the babes happened to show a little exposed breast, and enraged by a bit of pubic hair. I have no idea what my point is, though domestic movies are something I would want to filter from my children. Also that mid-day brain-killing variety talk show crap.
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So what happens when you take that very same minimum spec vista machine and shove Linux on it?
I'm guessing you are young. Your logic is interesting, do you really think the rest of the world fears the US because a couple of you over there incorrectly paint the entire country as a single entity unique in the belief that the infantile rubbish you are parroting off is absolute truth. Fortunately the rest of the world is touch smarter and a little more rational than that.
Do some basic economics, you'll find that the US is propped up on the backs of a good many nations. It would only take one or two of the bigger ones to start grumbling and your house of cards could very easily come tumbling down. Remove China from the big picture and what do you have? Slash oil production and where are you? Perhaps a lot of jobs would return to the US, but your economy will have the backside ripped out of it as a result - that fine military of which you speak will not have such a rosy outlook.
Understand the bigger picture, it has nothing to do with military power.
What can congress do to stop some random guy or girl in a white lab coat with clipboard in hand from knocking over a jug of radioactive sludge? Seems to me like it was a screw up in procedure on several levels, these can be fixed.
What you are doing is whining about some political agenda that has no relevance to the article, write a letter if you feel so strongly.
So your that one single dot on the US chart.
How long did you let it grow out for? It is definitely irritating for the first 6 weeks, not so bad after that. Did you use conditioner every day?
There is obviously much compelling evidence that indicates the age of the universe, but with a good deal of that, the words 'if we are correct in our assumptions' can be found fairly regularly. (A good thing in my opinion) What if we are (widely) wrong about the currently accepted values? Not trolling, genuinely curious - most of the alternate theories are up their with the conspiracy crackpots, surely there must be some rational ~scientific~ argument from the other side of the fence?
Where does relativity fit in to the equation, expansion, dark matter, 600 million years is a spec of time, what's the margin of error? And why?
That would be why the moon is perfectly smooth and fully dent free then yes?
An optimizer would work only in so far as it could tell you which businesses have already been hit, not the reverse for assignment purposes. I would assume there are still some things left on earth that google don't know about yet, in particular the commercial nature or otherwise of every unknown building on the planet :-)
I did top the oil up every very infrequently (mobil 1 synthetic), but I never changed it at all. Before I sold it, the only work I had done was a new regulator and a standard service / grease and oil. The garage said it all looked in pretty decent condition to them considering. By that time it had about ~140,000km - still ran like new - was a Toyota Corolla Seca. Similar to this: http://memimage.cardomain.net/member_images/7/web/ 2215000-2215999/2215171_4_full.jpg
Alright, bad form to reply to myself, though before anyone flames me, I did have to refuel rather a lot - the rovers, not so much. Nuclear reactors are still socially unacceptable under the hood, otherwise I'd have one - stupid hippies.
Haven't they only traveled a few kilometres though?
While my car car hasn't had to withstand millions of miles wrapped up in radiation soaked gold foil, pass through reentry on a distant planet, followed by a good bounce across the ground, it has managed to take me more than 120,000 kilometres in 2 years without ever needing a service. Traveled on all kinds of road surfaces - including that outback powdery red dirt crap that is rather common in Australia. Alright, I had to change the tires a couple of times, but only because the 'law' gets all angry if I let them go down to the metal strands of the steel belt.
I should have clarified, yes, definitely meant as near as possible for the artist to get 10 cents per song. :-) I understand it sounds low to those that feel production costs need to be several million dollars per album, though keep in mind I just want the song, not posters, not merchandise, I don't want to foot the bill for some exec to buy a 3 minute advert for it on radio or MTv! Make it once, distribute it electronically, beyond bandwidth and storage space, it doesn't cost a whole lot to keep that song available and for sale indefinitely.
Piracy stats are one thing when said in public, behind closed doors I'm sure the rhetoric is toned down a tad and they do actually have a good handle on the real story. Looks to me like they are doing what their customers are calling out for - DRM free music - we see this desire spelled out every other day on slashdot.
256kbps is good enough for me, though I'd really only buy if the price point was closer to 10 cents. Lots of reasons for this, though the main one is simply that I live in Asia, piracy is common. Like it or not, that's what they have to compete with. 10 cents per song is about double the profit margin over pirated CD's, though if I can reliably go to an online store from the comfort of my home, then that's where I'd rather be.
It takes all of 90 seconds with two wifi cards working on the problem at the same time - it often works better if two separate machines are used, one for the attacking, the other in a passive role to recover the pass phrase. Most cards are singular, so it would more commonly take days, weeks, or months on an averagely loaded system. That is why it is not so trivial to add a button to do it automatically. The parent makes this seem like a simple task, it is far from it. The current set of tools mostly require a far deeper understanding of what they do than just the info provided in documents supplied with those tools. A good understanding of networking, and WiFi in general, is also handy if one is a complete novice with little computing experience.
Are you so thick headed you cannot comprehend the greater purpose behind the humble red light camera - or how they work? Do you not understand the basic logic that if people stopped running red lights, then there would be no fines handed out, fewer accidents, thus no money in the guise of 'thinly veiled tax revenue'? I expect you would respond with all the fringe situations in which you think you have no choice but to run a red light - police are people too - explain your valid reason and you might even find they retract the fine, or suck it up and pay because you broke a law for the common good of society.
Red light cameras are not just slapped at any and every intersection, generally they are only in areas that are more accident prone, or places with very high traffic flow. They are neither free to own or operate, over their lifetime very few will pay for themselves in the fines they are able to inflict.
It is ludicrous to think these things are revenue generators. They exist to keep people, apparently like you, in line so that others can be safe.
Now what would you say if your 'helmetless' sister died from preventable head injuries suffered because some moron ran a red light and legged it, never to be found? Morbid, yes, but it's all just revenue until it's too late right.
I remember training a few years back for an instrument rating in general aviation, every instructor that I flew with would either yell at me over the headset or physically tap my hands with a ruler the moment I stopped scanning the instrument panel. With good reason, if you stop, you can be dead. I live in the Philippines now, drink driving here is still largely socially acceptable, and rarely policed. I'd love for some type of real time driver monitoring to become mandatory. You make it so black and white with your analysis, but all of these false positives could be worked out - the bigger problem are the morons that would figure ways to circumvent it.
If you can't see the benefits of such a system, you obviously have no concern for your own safety or anyone else. (It's all ok until it's too late) When I fly, I have a minimum expectation that those around me are alert and professional at what they do, I'd like to think they could feel the same way about me. Driving scares me significantly more than flying ever has.
You don't need OpenMoko to do those things already, though I'm sure it would do them far better. I have a Nokia N80 that has each of the things you describe, (most provided by 3rd parties) including a few you haven't thought of yet :-) The only downside is that it does all of these things a little too slowly.
I have an IVR system - whenever people I don't know call, they can choose to leave a message, get their call rejected outright, or receive a polite SMS telling them to have a nice day, all based on calling number, address book entries, or black and white lists.
Also have A complex filter for rejecting unwanted SMS, based on either the content of the text itself, or the senders number.
Now if only the K and W models from Sony Ericsson could do this, I'd be happy.
Not sure how it is where you are from, though in Australia journalists are rated pretty low on the scale, quite near the bottom in fact.
Source: Roy morgan Poll: http://www.roymorgan.com/news/polls/2007/4153/ (Scroll down a little for the nice table)
Since nothing was copied illegally, and a valid serial number was purchased from Microsoft in exchange for actual money, you still feel it could be copyright infringement? I'm glad you don't make laws. Your speculation is ridiculous.
At best you break some little fluff piece in an EULA. It is fully a license issue, not copyright infringement.
Interestingly enough, I purchased a copy of Indesign and Photoshop in the Philippines (for use in the Philippines) The sales woman actually called Adobe up and gave them a copy of my name, address, contact numbers, serial number, and every other scrap of info I wrote on the receipt. Then politely reminded me that piracy is illegal.
I can understand that piracy is a problem, but the second they *reminded* me of this I demanded my money back and went next door - more expensive, but no being treated like a criminal just for actually doing the right thing and buying original software. It is not adobe is demanding this info, more like businesses not wanting to be identified at as the point of sale for some warez kiddie who goes off and prints 3 million copies. I have no idea what the solution is for that, though I do know treating me like a criminal is definitely not the right start. The stupid part is that the serial number on the box requires on-line activation - a small 10 kilobyte keygen creates any number of serial numbers that don't require the software to phone home.
We're just starting to see signs here that say 'piracy is stealing' - I only wish truth in advertising was law here. No wonder people don't think twice about piracy.
Don't forget that the average price of pirated software in Asia is based on as much as can be crammed on to a CD or more commonly now DVD - on average it's around $2 US for *any* CD, regardless of content. Unless Microsoft can compete at the $10 dollar price point, they can have as many feel good initiatives as they want, the average person will still choose the pirate copy. Vista for $66 is probably more aimed at bringing business in to line than the average home user.
And now that Vista is slightly cheaper, what about Office? That still costs a metric crap load to buy, OEM or retail, hardly much of a difference.
I would assume there is no easy 'pork' as such, but you never know.
Tri-Vision International, a Canadian based company. They hold the patent and licenses for the V Chip. http://www.tri-vision.ca/
People will always wonder why others allow their children to be uncontrolled and undisciplined idiots, that will not change with or without this 'V-Chip'. There is no government intervention beyond the mandate that certain devices cannot be built or imported in to your country without this circuit - and this does not detract from an ability to be a good or bad parent at all.
the government is not deciding what your children can and can't watch in the privacy of your own home - you do. The government is mandating a tiny microchip that enables content filtering based on a rating system, switched off by default. Do you like to receive all your spam, or do you like to have it filtered out?
I live in the Philippines where the 'Government should fix everything' outlook is a fairly common and convenient excuse for an individual not getting off their own backside to make a difference in their world. One group of people feel the government should step inside peoples homes and, you know, 'think of the children', the other want the government to butt out. (Ok, it's not quite so black and white) I'm not sure if this is what you are actually saying though?
The V chip needs to be user activated before it does anything at all. While I personally prefer to actually be part of my child's life, and hopefully teach her to view the world with a balanced outlook, I really don't understand why people think the V chip is a bad thing. To me it's a tad like 'spamassassin' - just an optional filtering tool that does not report back to its maker.
In this country, what passes for a good movie must come complete with many emotional gut wrenching highs and lows, all sprinkled with a heavy helping of gunfights, murder, and plain old senseless violence. People would, however, be mortified if one of the babes happened to show a little exposed breast, and enraged by a bit of pubic hair. I have no idea what my point is, though domestic movies are something I would want to filter from my children. Also that mid-day brain-killing variety talk show crap.