The Verizon argument rests on the assumption that they own all of this information solely free and clear of other interested parties. Even if they did it would be a property rights argument, not a Free Speech argument. Property rights are commonly subjected to community interest and standards of no pernicious harm. IANAL but this argument is about as specious as they get. I will not be renewing my contract with Verizon when it comes up.
The quote is right. Only intolerant idealism would rain on possible great longevity improvements because they may at first be too costly for the majority.
This is evil. It is a great chill on freedom of expression. Not only is some nation able to censor citizens worldwide through Google's help but ISPs and possibly individuals all over the world are open to hassle and further chilling of freedom. Google, STOP THE EVIL now!
Any decent webapp provider knows how to protect against losing significant user data. I am sure Google knows how. So what is this noise about the lost data being non-recoverable? Or does beta mean they didn't yet put in such niceties? Google has the some of the largest pipes, compute grids and disk installation on the planet. It is surely not a matter of resources. Someone screwed up. Yeah computers break down, although very seldom at the level of hardware especially in even a minimally fault tolerant design. This isn't a hardware error. It is a software bug. Yeah these happen ofter in our industry. But they aren't an excuse for not having a workable data recovery plan. Not for uber-pros like the folks at Google are expected to be.
What a minute. Either this is a fit replacement for hard disks or it is not. If it is not we need to calm down the WooHoo a bit and say much more clearly what it is and isn't good for.
How slow are we talking about on writes to this beastie compared to hard disk? I can't afford to much slowdown for writes for my usage pattern. So does anyone have the numbers handy?
If you are going to understand logical argumentation you need a form of math. If you are going to read statistical arguments and understand them at all much less judge their validity you need math. If you are going to understand much about your computer or make it do anything beyond what someone else programmed in you need some algorithmic reasoning which is more math. If you are to understand much of anything about modern tecnology or science or vote intelligently about increasingly tecnological and complex public issues you need math. If you are to understand debt and budgeting and interest you need more than the four basic functions. If you are in most any science, computer, insurance, medical, sales, finance, business career path you need more math. Math is fundamental it is not a luxury subject for the majority in a modern society.
Stuff the sexist and homophobic krap. I am female and I kick engineering butt all day. I don't take $h*i from anyone. Your REAL MEN can be as moronic and weak as anyone else.
Having students graduate relatively dumb in something as crucial to understanding much of the modern world as mathematics is an act of major intellectual sabotage and sabotage of the future of the students concerned. An teachers or administrators guilty of this in any school should be dismissed and sued by concerned students and parents.
Since when? Either they press criminal charges or they do not. But even if they do and found guilty there is no power in the law I am aware of that can force someone to resign their position. IANAL, but if such power is in the hands of SEC it is clearly pernicious.
The biggest scam is perpetrated by the IRS. Most "income" taxed by the IRS is not "income" by the Tax Code the IRS is bound by law to follow. The 16th Amendment was never meant to tax the salary, property sales (e.g., ebay), etc. of the vast majority of Americans. There is ample case law besides the obsfucated but decipherable wording of the code on these issues. The majority of Americans have been conned into paying 25% or more of all that comes in to the IRS. It is time for this great scam to end not for the scam to expand its reach in the name of some bogus "fairness". It is time for the purportedly free people of America to stand up and utterly refuse to be part time slaves for whatever the government dreams up. This is NOT freedom. It is servitude. Without this larcenous scam the government would not be able to run roughshod over the rights of the people. It would not be able to engage in vile and expensive adventurism around the world. It is time for the government to fear its people whom it is supposed to serve. It is time for the people to stop fearing the IRS or any other part of their government. Bind the Beast or be bound by it.
1) Why on earth would anyone delay purchase of an Apple machine until the new OS version comes out? There is no large hardware dependency as there is with Vista. I doubt it is the cost as a new Mac OS variant is not much more than $100. Mac OS X upgrades are notoriously simple to install. So why would this delay of hardware purchase make any sense?
2) Perhaps there is a bit more meat to Leopard than you think making it more than worth the wait regardless of iPhone. The company has other ideas about priorities than you do. Time will tell if it was the right choice. But I doubt that delaying Leopard a few months is make or break for Apple. Apple is on a roll.
Digital lifestyle is not just stylish new toys. It is the fuller integration of computation in our lives to increase not just our enjoyment but the richness, depth and reach of all that we do. I don't think it is reasonable to contrast this as less important and more frivolous than revving the OS. For Apple as a company I think that failing to deliver a product that has generated huge press as iPhone has would be much more of a blow than postponing the next OS release by a few months. If both could not be solidly completed as per the original schedule then slipping Leopard was obviously the right call.
Davos is not exactly a forum where I would expect to here of such things. How do we know that the actual purpose of this claim is other than to stir up fear to justify massive governmental crackdowns on the Internet? Certainly the referenced article gives not one shred of supporting evidence. If kiddie porn and spam doesn't do it then let's find some other excuse by all means. Why should any of us take this figure seriously without considerable evidence? Some of us who are well aware that it isn't that easy to coordinate even a small network out in the open. To network many millions of computers in secret successfully implies all the really good hackers wear black hats. I don't buy it. Look for the effects. As who or what may benefit.
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How is "the local political machine" going to "make sure you voted correctly" just because you have a paper receipt? You can read it and eat it, burn it, take it home with you or whatever. Without physical coercion you can be made to show it to anyone else. So I think it is bullocks to claim that such a mechanism "will inevitably lead to coercive voting". Your argument is specious.
This one we squeaked by on. What is with the Democrat's? Do they not get freedom or that their power or the government having control is not what is really important? Perhaps the people will learn this time that neither party is their friend or to be trusted. Maybe. If we have the memory of a grasshopper.
There is no way that 911 happened the way the official story claims. I wish people would stop pretending it did. For one thing, 6 of the named terrorist purportedly responsible are known to be very much alive and not involved at all. For another there is the inconvenient free fall collapse speed of the buildings. Go research it. The truth is out there.
Terrorism is not our primary problem. Not even close. That people believe it is and let themselves get railroaded by believing it is a large problem. What "everyone knows" is almost invariably what some powerful groups want them to "know".
A reasonable calculation of the odds of being killed by any form of terrorism yields something in the order of the same odds of being struck by a meteor. Only a very small subset of that would be dying because your plane was hit by a surface to air missle. Spending mulit billions for this is utterly ridiculous.
The word "vitamin" in a message means it is spam? Methinks that the intelligence should be applied to better test for what is spam rather than simple minded associated term collecting for hot words from various online sources. Bayesian filters are much better than this already and do not require wikipedia reading to do their jobs with 99% accuracy after fairly minimal training.
I would ban obscentity. I would ban the obscentity of power hungry yahoos deciding how everyone else should act and then forcing you and I at gunpoint (by law) to not only act that way but to snitch on everyone else that acts differently. This in an unholy obscenity of the highest order! The creature that proposed such vicious un-American nonsense has no place whatsoever in public office. Not in a free country. Not even in a country that makes the slightest pretense at being a free country.
Last time I looked entrepreneurship was about bringing an idea to life and making it a paying proposition. There is no requirement in the term to not get rich nor is making money "selling out" or one whit less idealistic. It is about making dreams become reality. Presumably the folks at Craig's List have a good reason for their business model and practices that allows them to get out of their work what they value. But they are not automatically any more (or any less for that matter) virtuous if they make less money from their efforts for the amount value create than others.
Don't have the cash? Actually Mac laptops are now quite competitive for the same feature set with other offerings. And, at the speed new models are coming out, there is a pretty brisk discounted trade of owners selling off their older models to discount new purchases.
I think the biggest factors behind this rather meaningless stat are that there are a LOT of boomers out there who are computer literate and Apple has done a fabulous job making a lot more value easier to use on the Mac. Also the message is sinking in and sinking in to more careful older folks faster that there are a lot less viruses on the Mac. That the Intel Macs can dual boot windows is also a significant factor. Besides, Microsoft with its Vista madness and other idiocies seems to be determined to self-destruct.
Give me a break. The odds on being killed by a terrorist are roughly equivalent to being hit by lightening. We are supposed to utterly rearrange our lives to the extent of being stripped of many rights and even our electronics (if we want to fly) over this? Limitless governmente power is to be freely granted along with massive government secrecy over this? Massive funds, endless excuses for war and total surveillance of you and I is to be granted? This is not remotely rational. Terrorists or alleged terrorists don't have to actually do anything much more than start a few rumors to see supposed moderm societies tear themselves apart with idiotic levels of paranoia. We have a LOT better things to do.
The reason we aren't getting more in the way of media PCs is that it is an IP and DRM nightmare. Talk to the MPAA, RIAA, broadcaster's association and so on. Talk to the congress critters out to apparently maximize the profit of publishers, innovators estates and middlemen but not to inform, educate and enhance creativity of the American people. The technology is here now. Demand is what people know is possible and available. Lets stop making meaningless excuses and address the real issue.
Was the writer even at the same conference? As a Mac devotee and app builder I had a huge grin on my face for the entire presentation. The crowd was very happy.
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The Verizon argument rests on the assumption that they own all of this information solely free and clear of other interested parties. Even if they did it would be a property rights argument, not a Free Speech argument. Property rights are commonly subjected to community interest and standards of no pernicious harm. IANAL but this argument is about as specious as they get. I will not be renewing my contract with Verizon when it comes up.
The quote is right. Only intolerant idealism would rain on possible great longevity improvements because they may at first be too costly for the majority.
This is evil. It is a great chill on freedom of expression. Not only is some nation able to censor citizens worldwide through Google's help but ISPs and possibly individuals all over the world are open to hassle and further chilling of freedom. Google, STOP THE EVIL now!
Any decent webapp provider knows how to protect against losing significant user data. I am sure Google knows how. So what is this noise about the lost data being non-recoverable? Or does beta mean they didn't yet put in such niceties? Google has the some of the largest pipes, compute grids and disk installation on the planet. It is surely not a matter of resources. Someone screwed up. Yeah computers break down, although very seldom at the level of hardware especially in even a minimally fault tolerant design. This isn't a hardware error. It is a software bug. Yeah these happen ofter in our industry. But they aren't an excuse for not having a workable data recovery plan. Not for uber-pros like the folks at Google are expected to be.
What a minute. Either this is a fit replacement for hard disks or it is not. If it is not we need to calm down the WooHoo a bit and say much more clearly what it is and isn't good for.
How slow are we talking about on writes to this beastie compared to hard disk? I can't afford to much slowdown for writes for my usage pattern. So does anyone have the numbers handy?
You do know that the majority of the US population sucks much more at general science knowledge than they do at math, right?
If you are going to understand logical argumentation you need a form of math. If you are going to read statistical arguments and understand them at all much less judge their validity you need math. If you are going to understand much about your computer or make it do anything beyond what someone else programmed in you need some algorithmic reasoning which is more math. If you are to understand much of anything about modern tecnology or science or vote intelligently about increasingly tecnological and complex public issues you need math. If you are to understand debt and budgeting and interest you need more than the four basic functions. If you are in most any science, computer, insurance, medical, sales, finance, business career path you need more math. Math is fundamental it is not a luxury subject for the majority in a modern society.
Stuff the sexist and homophobic krap. I am female and I kick engineering butt all day. I don't take $h*i from anyone. Your REAL MEN can be as moronic and weak as anyone else.
Having students graduate relatively dumb in something as crucial to understanding much of the modern world as mathematics is an act of major intellectual sabotage and sabotage of the future of the students concerned. An teachers or administrators guilty of this in any school should be dismissed and sued by concerned students and parents.
Since when? Either they press criminal charges or they do not. But even if they do and found guilty there is no power in the law I am aware of that can force someone to resign their position. IANAL, but if such power is in the hands of SEC it is clearly pernicious.
The biggest scam is perpetrated by the IRS. Most "income" taxed by the IRS is not "income" by the Tax Code the IRS is bound by law to follow. The 16th Amendment was never meant to tax the salary, property sales (e.g., ebay), etc. of the vast majority of Americans. There is ample case law besides the obsfucated but decipherable wording of the code on these issues. The majority of Americans have been conned into paying 25% or more of all that comes in to the IRS. It is time for this great scam to end not for the scam to expand its reach in the name of some bogus "fairness". It is time for the purportedly free people of America to stand up and utterly refuse to be part time slaves for whatever the government dreams up. This is NOT freedom. It is servitude. Without this larcenous scam the government would not be able to run roughshod over the rights of the people. It would not be able to engage in vile and expensive adventurism around the world. It is time for the government to fear its people whom it is supposed to serve. It is time for the people to stop fearing the IRS or any other part of their government. Bind the Beast or be bound by it.
1) Why on earth would anyone delay purchase of an Apple machine until the new OS version comes out? There is no large hardware dependency as there is with Vista. I doubt it is the cost as a new Mac OS variant is not much more than $100. Mac OS X upgrades are notoriously simple to install. So why would this delay of hardware purchase make any sense?
2) Perhaps there is a bit more meat to Leopard than you think making it more than worth the wait regardless of iPhone. The company has other ideas about priorities than you do. Time will tell if it was the right choice. But I doubt that delaying Leopard a few months is make or break for Apple. Apple is on a roll.
Digital lifestyle is not just stylish new toys. It is the fuller integration of computation in our lives to increase not just our enjoyment but the richness, depth and reach of all that we do. I don't think it is reasonable to contrast this as less important and more frivolous than revving the OS. For Apple as a company I think that failing to deliver a product that has generated huge press as iPhone has would be much more of a blow than postponing the next OS release by a few months. If both could not be solidly completed as per the original schedule then slipping Leopard was obviously the right call.
Davos is not exactly a forum where I would expect to here of such things. How do we know that the actual purpose of this claim is other than to stir up fear to justify massive governmental crackdowns on the Internet? Certainly the referenced article gives not one shred of supporting evidence. If kiddie porn and spam doesn't do it then let's find some other excuse by all means. Why should any of us take this figure seriously without considerable evidence? Some of us who are well aware that it isn't that easy to coordinate even a small network out in the open. To network many millions of computers in secret successfully implies all the really good hackers wear black hats. I don't buy it. Look for the effects. As who or what may benefit.
How is "the local political machine" going to "make sure you voted correctly" just because you have a paper receipt? You can read it and eat it, burn it, take it home with you or whatever. Without physical coercion you can be made to show it to anyone else. So I think it is bullocks to claim that such a mechanism "will inevitably lead to coercive voting". Your argument is specious.
This one we squeaked by on. What is with the Democrat's? Do they not get freedom or that their power or the government having control is not what is really important? Perhaps the people will learn this time that neither party is their friend or to be trusted. Maybe. If we have the memory of a grasshopper.
There is no way that 911 happened the way the official story claims. I wish people would stop pretending it did. For one thing, 6 of the named terrorist purportedly responsible are known to be very much alive and not involved at all. For another there is the inconvenient free fall collapse speed of the buildings. Go research it. The truth is out there.
Terrorism is not our primary problem. Not even close. That people believe it is and let themselves get railroaded by believing it is a large problem. What "everyone knows" is almost invariably what some powerful groups want them to "know".
A reasonable calculation of the odds of being killed by any form of terrorism yields something in the order of the same odds of being struck by a meteor. Only a very small subset of that would be dying because your plane was hit by a surface to air missle. Spending mulit billions for this is utterly ridiculous.
The word "vitamin" in a message means it is spam? Methinks that the intelligence should be applied to better test for what is spam rather than simple minded associated term collecting for hot words from various online sources. Bayesian filters are much better than this already and do not require wikipedia reading to do their jobs with 99% accuracy after fairly minimal training.
I would ban obscentity. I would ban the obscentity of power hungry yahoos deciding how everyone else should act and then forcing you and I at gunpoint (by law) to not only act that way but to snitch on everyone else that acts differently. This in an unholy obscenity of the highest order! The creature that proposed such vicious un-American nonsense has no place whatsoever in public office. Not in a free country. Not even in a country that makes the slightest pretense at being a free country.
Last time I looked entrepreneurship was about bringing an idea to life and making it a paying proposition. There is no requirement in the term to not get rich nor is making money "selling out" or one whit less idealistic. It is about making dreams become reality. Presumably the folks at Craig's List have a good reason for their business model and practices that allows them to get out of their work what they value. But they are not automatically any more (or any less for that matter) virtuous if they make less money from their efforts for the amount value create than others.
Don't have the cash? Actually Mac laptops are now quite competitive for the same feature set with other offerings. And, at the speed new models are coming out, there is a pretty brisk discounted trade of owners selling off their older models to discount new purchases.
I think the biggest factors behind this rather meaningless stat are that there are a LOT of boomers out there who are computer literate and Apple has done a fabulous job making a lot more value easier to use on the Mac. Also the message is sinking in and sinking in to more careful older folks faster that there are a lot less viruses on the Mac. That the Intel Macs can dual boot windows is also a significant factor. Besides, Microsoft with its Vista madness and other idiocies seems to be determined to self-destruct.
Give me a break. The odds on being killed by a terrorist are roughly equivalent to being hit by lightening. We are supposed to utterly rearrange our lives to the extent of being stripped of many rights and even our electronics (if we want to fly) over this? Limitless governmente power is to be freely granted along with massive government secrecy over this? Massive funds, endless excuses for war and total surveillance of you and I is to be granted? This is not remotely rational. Terrorists or alleged terrorists don't have to actually do anything much more than start a few rumors to see supposed moderm societies tear themselves apart with idiotic levels of paranoia. We have a LOT better things to do.
The reason we aren't getting more in the way of media PCs is that it is an IP and DRM nightmare. Talk to the MPAA, RIAA, broadcaster's association and so on. Talk to the congress critters out to apparently maximize the profit of publishers, innovators estates and middlemen but not to inform, educate and enhance creativity of the American people. The technology is here now. Demand is what people know is possible and available. Lets stop making meaningless excuses and address the real issue.
Was the writer even at the same conference? As a Mac devotee and app builder I had a huge grin on my face for the entire presentation. The crowd was very happy.