Exactly in that race. I couldn't stand either candidate and I personally wrote in "Inanimate Carbon Rod" for that race. But I am in Manatee County and we use the scantron like ballots which are harder for Jennings to use to cast doubt on the race. She lost in a district that has historically (even before the touch screen voting) gone to Republicans. Sure the margin is getting tighter, but it isn't close enough for Jennings someone who was in the nobody position of Lt. Governor to come in and sweep it.
Apple will fail to advertise Mac OS X again and let people think Apple is out of date and Vista is new and innovative.
I have to agree, Apple ads for it's Mac products leave much to be desired. The ads are not what made me purchase a Mac it was Aperture. And based on a sampling of my friends and family they seem more confused by the current Mac ads compared to the switch ads, and even the Switch ads left much to be desired. The iPod ads on the other hand, are excellent, and eye catching.
Since you state your expirences are from 1997, you obviously haven't purchased an Acer recently. IMO Acer is very closely behind the Thinkpad and the Mac Book Pro (I own a Mac Book Pro also, and one of my clients uses all IBM/Leveno gear). Our company hasn't had any issues with our Acer TravelMate's, and I think that they are one of the best designed notebooks I have used since the Mac Book Pro (at the very least the best notebook keyboard).
Basically, copyrights and patents are anti-competitive, and competition is what drives innovation
Your premises would only work in a communistic society, currently there is only a couple of communistic societies. Within a modern capitalist societies without patents and copyrights, you make an innovation, and within days it will be copied and resold with none of the profits transfered to the original copyright holders. The whole idea of copyrights started because the printing press allowed works to be copied too easily. Heck even with copyrights and patents you still have people that steal your works, search on ebay and you will see CDs filled with copyrighted music and pictures.
The port on my ACER laptop will not supply power without an active driver in WinXP - and Motorola doesn't include drivers with the phone (or allow them to be downloaded later).
I have an Acer, and no it will not provide power to recognizable USB device without a driver. But it does allow the pulling of power without a driver, I use a USB powered light, and speakers on my TravelMate 8100.
Copyrights do date back to the 1700's,so it's quite likely that Beethoven's work could have been under copyright.
Now as curing cancer you seem to forget that the companies invest millions into the development of each drug, also factor in the various projects that don't make it to the market for whatever reason, you are talking about serious amounts of money. Government grants often only cover a small part of the research, and often only the early research. And no ones forcing you to pay the money, the companies often give many dosages of the drug away for free to people that can't afford them. And governments also pay to provide these drugs to their citizens in many cases.
How would the world be better without Copyright laws? Content producers getting their works copied and distributed the moment that they put out the first example of it, often seeing not a dime of the profits. I do agree that changes need to be made, the lengths of the term is way too long, I think that 25 years with one renewal by the original copyright holder is about right IMO.
Or we could solve the problem by getting rid of copyright law altogether. Then, if people wanted to share, they could, and if they didn't want to share but someone saw them doing something and wanted to "copy" them, they could, just like you can do with anything else and should be allowed to do. True freedom is having laws that don't steal freedoms, that's the real heart of the matter. Our governments are pro-monopoly though, so they love preventing society from using technology so that the few can much more easily benefit the many. Instead of giving freedoms, they're bent on adding more and more restrictions until they incite another revolution.
That is quite possible the stupidest statement that I have heard in this entire thread. Yes copyright laws have gotten out of hand, but completely abolishing them is like throwing the baby out with the bath water. Without copyright laws there would be little motive for many of the great authors, musicians, artists, photographers and playwrites that myself and many others have come to admire to make and publish their works. Do you think we would have seen more works out of Beethoven if anyone could just photocopy is sheet music, and thus he didn't get his fair share for his hard work. Current Copyright laws need some reworking to abolishing them would hurt everyone.
This has little to do with IP laws they were simply looking for a way so they don't have to pay the $20 per a player fee to the DVD group to handle the royalties on the codecs.
Why does this always come up when military spending is mentioned. The $10,000 Toilet seat is one of three examples on a submarine designed to prevent seawater from coming up the toilet, they are really expensive because of all the R&D invovled and how few are made. The $1,000 wrench is a wrench made of a non-sparking metal for use around high explosives in the USAF.
Most of the item prices that people go off about are limited production items, and often the costs figure in R&D to bring it upto military specs, and the lowered productivity of the production line because of military auditors and paperwork. GE for example charges 25% more for the same engine if it's going to the military because the auditors slow the line down, and they have to store all the additional paperwork for years longer then would be required for it's civil product. Lockheed Martin for example is still charging the DOD for warehouse full of paperwork just for the F-16.
You have free healthcare? Where do I sign up. I currently pay nearly $1,000 a month for health care, not including my out-of-pockets and co-pays.
You really need to look at your health care provider again, I pay max $100 a month in health care expenses that includes co-pays, and my Class 1 Flight Physical that I have to pay out of pocket. For $1,000 I could get health care coverage out of pocket for a very sick family of 4. With health insurance from my employer I don't think I would have to pay more then $100 if I had a family.
Honest impartial police forces? Hmmm...I'll bet you don't live in a major city like Detroit or Los Angeles, do you?
The situations you are citing are likely the exception not the rule. I have dealt with the Police in LA, they are overworked but they were very professional.
Pensions? Yeah, right. Sick pay? My employer doesn't pay sick days, but I do get a generous allotment of vacation days that I can use.
Then you need to find a better employer, because nearly every employer in the United States offers a retirement program of some kind. Sick days for the most part have been absorbed into Vacation days because most employers realize that a majority of employees rarely take more then one or two real sick days a year. My HR department where I work warns employees that they shouldn't use all their vacation days until the end of the year for this reason. And then at the end of the year most employees either cash them out for extra pay or take an extended Christmas vacation.
Exactly being good at your job doesn't mean your smart. My clients swear I can just put my ear up to a server and I know what's wrong, that doesn't come from being smart that comes from expirence. At the same time I have met some intelligent people with PhD's in computer science that have Windows boxes that are so filled with so much spyware it's not even funny.
What I look for in an employee moderately smart, been around the IT block at least once or twice (sorry recent grads), and is a quick study.
CD&DVD burning softwareCheck HTTP and FTP ServerCheck graphics editorCheck word processorCheck
That's just a quick run down. Windows isn't quite as stripped down as most people think, just because the programs included aren't the best doesn't mean that it includes some basic versions of it. Microsoft has to keep a delicate balance, in some cases they may want to include such programs, but in most cases if they do so they get slapped with lawsuits even when they win in a competitive market
You are also missing the point, the summary said how can Windows work on a machine with only half a gig of space when the average Windows install takes a gig and a half of space. The grand parent was pointing out that such attacks are out of place when Fedora Core comes on 5 CDs compressed. Windows would do it the same way Fedora would, by using a stripped down OS.
Nope libertarians, at least when I last looked at them, were isolationists.
Though I voted for Republicans in everything except the Senate (I voted for the Inanimate Carbon Rod instead of Harris). The libertarians though close to my politics are way too islationists for my likes. The world is a global economy, what happens in one country now can effect nearly every other country in the world.
That being said if Lieberman ran in Florida I would vote for him. Other then his stupid anti-video game crusade he had in the 90's, we agree on a lot of stuff, though I am much more of a fiscal conservative.
Though not quite as varied as cases for PCs you can find build it yourself laptops. You select the CPU, RAM, hard drive, and sometimes the wireless card. Since it doesn't come with a hard drive it doesn't come with Windows.
On top of that there are the usual PC shops that sell Linux laptops.
And who would govern the Internet then?
The UN: The UN gives every country a say, countries with censorship goals and laws out number the countries that protect almost all forms of speech.
The EU: Most EU countries have much more censorship then we do.
Private Corporation: Well thats pretty much how the internet operates right now. With exception of some veto powers the US pretty much leaves the internet alone and lets the companies they contracted run the internet.
About the only negative aspect you can point to the US running the internet is the.xxx debate, which was a stupid debate in the first place, unless all countries that have a domain registry passed laws that required porn sites to be on that domain list, it's simply another money maker for the registry companies.
If thats the only thing you have to complain about it's a very small deal. The EU and the UN want control of the internet because those that control the information control the power. The US believes that it's the best country to control the internet, and I agree, the only other country that I think even remotely has the right attitude to control the internet would be Japan, because I think that they would take a similar more hands off approach like the US does.
I never said that iTunes was great, I just said that it was easy to use. Which I believe is required for a product like a Tivo or an iPod to hit critical mass in the market. If either iTunes or the iPod had a bad interface and was hard to use, the iPod would not be nearly as big of a success as it is today.
Huh? Why is broken iTMS DRM a reason not to buy an iPod? Since I purchased my first iPod years ago I only have 4 protected music files, 3 of which are political speeches from the National Conventions in 2004, and another is the free song that I got from a Pepsi. Heck I don't even use iTunes to put music on my iPod anymore, I use XPlay.
Anyone that assumes that the iPods success comes from iTunes Music Store is mistaken IMO, iTMS helps the iPod alot but what makes the iPod such a hot seller is good marketing by Apple, and a good product. The user interface for the iPod is still the best one on the market (never mind the fact that Apple has a patent on the interface which prevents competition), and iTunes is extremely easy to use even for people that know little about computers. That combined with excellent marketing makes the iPods extremely popular.
IMO it simply sounds like a bug in the installer, the Windows 2000 and 2003 both asked for you to set the default administrator password during the install, sounds like someone forgot to put that in the install options. It's an early beta, with 6 months or more until release, bugs like these often happen.
If it makes it's way into the shipping product at least how it's described I'll eat my own hat.
I have changed out more motherboards with Windows XP then I care to count, most times Windows XP chugged along, but a few times it asked me to call up to revalidate it, it was a painless process, I just tell the lady (truthfully in my cases) that I changed out the motherboard because the old one was fried, then the lady read up the new key, and the user was up and running.
That's 5 simultaneous network devices. Most installs of Windows 2003 have that same restriction until you add more CALs. Since the home edition is not a network server you can't add more CALs.
Jeez it's nothing new either XP has the same restriction if I remember correctly.
In every school I went to, gym was extra practice for the jocks...
At every school I went to the jocks were exempt from gym class if they choose to be. At one of my schools gym class was only for the freshmen and sophomores, and not only did the usual soccer, football, baseball, but also did dancing (swing, line dancing, et al), archery and others.
It was quite pleasing to out shoot everyone else in archery because the rest of the kids had typical city families that never shot a gun or went hunting (my father enjoyed bow hunting in particular), and get picked by the prettiest girl in the class to be her dance partner for swing dancing week.
Yes kudos to Google for protecting criminals. If the story is right (granted it's a news item), the Brazilian police have identified accounts that are being used for the crimes, and wants their IP addresses so they can track them down.
Also Google isn't defending the users rights, they are simply saying "Send the request to Mountain View, not to our local affiliate," whether they are doing that as a delaying measure or not remains to be seen.
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Exactly in that race. I couldn't stand either candidate and I personally wrote in "Inanimate Carbon Rod" for that race. But I am in Manatee County and we use the scantron like ballots which are harder for Jennings to use to cast doubt on the race. She lost in a district that has historically (even before the touch screen voting) gone to Republicans. Sure the margin is getting tighter, but it isn't close enough for Jennings someone who was in the nobody position of Lt. Governor to come in and sweep it.
I have to agree, Apple ads for it's Mac products leave much to be desired. The ads are not what made me purchase a Mac it was Aperture. And based on a sampling of my friends and family they seem more confused by the current Mac ads compared to the switch ads, and even the Switch ads left much to be desired. The iPod ads on the other hand, are excellent, and eye catching.
Since you state your expirences are from 1997, you obviously haven't purchased an Acer recently. IMO Acer is very closely behind the Thinkpad and the Mac Book Pro (I own a Mac Book Pro also, and one of my clients uses all IBM/Leveno gear). Our company hasn't had any issues with our Acer TravelMate's, and I think that they are one of the best designed notebooks I have used since the Mac Book Pro (at the very least the best notebook keyboard).
Your premises would only work in a communistic society, currently there is only a couple of communistic societies. Within a modern capitalist societies without patents and copyrights, you make an innovation, and within days it will be copied and resold with none of the profits transfered to the original copyright holders. The whole idea of copyrights started because the printing press allowed works to be copied too easily. Heck even with copyrights and patents you still have people that steal your works, search on ebay and you will see CDs filled with copyrighted music and pictures.
I have an Acer, and no it will not provide power to recognizable USB device without a driver. But it does allow the pulling of power without a driver, I use a USB powered light, and speakers on my TravelMate 8100.
Now as curing cancer you seem to forget that the companies invest millions into the development of each drug, also factor in the various projects that don't make it to the market for whatever reason, you are talking about serious amounts of money. Government grants often only cover a small part of the research, and often only the early research. And no ones forcing you to pay the money, the companies often give many dosages of the drug away for free to people that can't afford them. And governments also pay to provide these drugs to their citizens in many cases.
How would the world be better without Copyright laws? Content producers getting their works copied and distributed the moment that they put out the first example of it, often seeing not a dime of the profits. I do agree that changes need to be made, the lengths of the term is way too long, I think that 25 years with one renewal by the original copyright holder is about right IMO.
That is quite possible the stupidest statement that I have heard in this entire thread. Yes copyright laws have gotten out of hand, but completely abolishing them is like throwing the baby out with the bath water. Without copyright laws there would be little motive for many of the great authors, musicians, artists, photographers and playwrites that myself and many others have come to admire to make and publish their works. Do you think we would have seen more works out of Beethoven if anyone could just photocopy is sheet music, and thus he didn't get his fair share for his hard work. Current Copyright laws need some reworking to abolishing them would hurt everyone.
This has little to do with IP laws they were simply looking for a way so they don't have to pay the $20 per a player fee to the DVD group to handle the royalties on the codecs.
Most of the item prices that people go off about are limited production items, and often the costs figure in R&D to bring it upto military specs, and the lowered productivity of the production line because of military auditors and paperwork. GE for example charges 25% more for the same engine if it's going to the military because the auditors slow the line down, and they have to store all the additional paperwork for years longer then would be required for it's civil product. Lockheed Martin for example is still charging the DOD for warehouse full of paperwork just for the F-16.
You really need to look at your health care provider again, I pay max $100 a month in health care expenses that includes co-pays, and my Class 1 Flight Physical that I have to pay out of pocket. For $1,000 I could get health care coverage out of pocket for a very sick family of 4. With health insurance from my employer I don't think I would have to pay more then $100 if I had a family.
Honest impartial police forces? Hmmm...I'll bet you don't live in a major city like Detroit or Los Angeles, do you?
The situations you are citing are likely the exception not the rule. I have dealt with the Police in LA, they are overworked but they were very professional.
Pensions? Yeah, right. Sick pay? My employer doesn't pay sick days, but I do get a generous allotment of vacation days that I can use.
Then you need to find a better employer, because nearly every employer in the United States offers a retirement program of some kind. Sick days for the most part have been absorbed into Vacation days because most employers realize that a majority of employees rarely take more then one or two real sick days a year. My HR department where I work warns employees that they shouldn't use all their vacation days until the end of the year for this reason. And then at the end of the year most employees either cash them out for extra pay or take an extended Christmas vacation.
What I look for in an employee moderately smart, been around the IT block at least once or twice (sorry recent grads), and is a quick study.
HTTP and FTP Server Check
graphics editor Check
word processor Check
That's just a quick run down. Windows isn't quite as stripped down as most people think, just because the programs included aren't the best doesn't mean that it includes some basic versions of it. Microsoft has to keep a delicate balance, in some cases they may want to include such programs, but in most cases if they do so they get slapped with lawsuits even when they win in a competitive market
You are also missing the point, the summary said how can Windows work on a machine with only half a gig of space when the average Windows install takes a gig and a half of space. The grand parent was pointing out that such attacks are out of place when Fedora Core comes on 5 CDs compressed. Windows would do it the same way Fedora would, by using a stripped down OS.
Nope libertarians, at least when I last looked at them, were isolationists.
Though I voted for Republicans in everything except the Senate (I voted for the Inanimate Carbon Rod instead of Harris). The libertarians though close to my politics are way too islationists for my likes. The world is a global economy, what happens in one country now can effect nearly every other country in the world.
That being said if Lieberman ran in Florida I would vote for him. Other then his stupid anti-video game crusade he had in the 90's, we agree on a lot of stuff, though I am much more of a fiscal conservative.
On top of that there are the usual PC shops that sell Linux laptops.
The UN: The UN gives every country a say, countries with censorship goals and laws out number the countries that protect almost all forms of speech.
The EU: Most EU countries have much more censorship then we do.
Private Corporation: Well thats pretty much how the internet operates right now. With exception of some veto powers the US pretty much leaves the internet alone and lets the companies they contracted run the internet.
About the only negative aspect you can point to the US running the internet is the .xxx debate, which was a stupid debate in the first place, unless all countries that have a domain registry passed laws that required porn sites to be on that domain list, it's simply another money maker for the registry companies.
If thats the only thing you have to complain about it's a very small deal. The EU and the UN want control of the internet because those that control the information control the power. The US believes that it's the best country to control the internet, and I agree, the only other country that I think even remotely has the right attitude to control the internet would be Japan, because I think that they would take a similar more hands off approach like the US does.
I never said that iTunes was great, I just said that it was easy to use. Which I believe is required for a product like a Tivo or an iPod to hit critical mass in the market. If either iTunes or the iPod had a bad interface and was hard to use, the iPod would not be nearly as big of a success as it is today.
Actually I do exactly what you describe with my iPod. Using Xplay you get the same functionality with an iPod as you describe.
It's not IMO I think the patent is stupid as I have a 15 year old Sony VCR that uses a circular interface to shuffle through the movies.
Anyone that assumes that the iPods success comes from iTunes Music Store is mistaken IMO, iTMS helps the iPod alot but what makes the iPod such a hot seller is good marketing by Apple, and a good product. The user interface for the iPod is still the best one on the market (never mind the fact that Apple has a patent on the interface which prevents competition), and iTunes is extremely easy to use even for people that know little about computers. That combined with excellent marketing makes the iPods extremely popular.
If it makes it's way into the shipping product at least how it's described I'll eat my own hat.
Add Ram: Went from 512M to 2G then had stick fail so went down to 1G
Add Hard Drive: Added a second Hard Drive
Replace Motherboard and CPU: Went from a Asus cheapy mobo with a A64 3000 to a Asus nice Mobo with a A64 3700
Changed Video Card: Went from a Nvidia 5x00 (don't remember the model number but it sucked) to a 6800GT
Through all that I only had to reactivate once, and that's when I ripped out my Intel NIC for a Wifi NIC when I moved to my new house.
So I did 7 upgrades only have to reactive once. I don't know where the horror stories are coming from.
Now of course my luck at work isn't nearly as easy just about every motherboard replacment that I have done at work requires a call for reactivation.
I have changed out more motherboards with Windows XP then I care to count, most times Windows XP chugged along, but a few times it asked me to call up to revalidate it, it was a painless process, I just tell the lady (truthfully in my cases) that I changed out the motherboard because the old one was fried, then the lady read up the new key, and the user was up and running.
Jeez it's nothing new either XP has the same restriction if I remember correctly.
At every school I went to the jocks were exempt from gym class if they choose to be. At one of my schools gym class was only for the freshmen and sophomores, and not only did the usual soccer, football, baseball, but also did dancing (swing, line dancing, et al), archery and others.
It was quite pleasing to out shoot everyone else in archery because the rest of the kids had typical city families that never shot a gun or went hunting (my father enjoyed bow hunting in particular), and get picked by the prettiest girl in the class to be her dance partner for swing dancing week.
Also Google isn't defending the users rights, they are simply saying "Send the request to Mountain View, not to our local affiliate," whether they are doing that as a delaying measure or not remains to be seen.