This is trivially easy to work around. Just put a description of the video at the beginning or end, or use freely available video editing software to make a scrolling image across the bottom. Heck, you could just insert a couple black frames randomly across the film. Or scale it down and put it on a background of white noise.
Checksums are horrible ways of checking non-text data.
News Flash: Daimler is bringing it to the US, and 20,000 people have put $100 down to reserve one.
I'd be happy with an automotive unitasker. Right now my daily driver is a 125cc motor scooter, and I'm looking to trade in my Mazda Protege for something more reliable in the near future. This thing won't be out in time, but it's definitely a great vehicle for my situation. I just don't think most people are in my situation.
I don't drive up mountains with deer in the back. I do, however, drive about six miles each way for work, and short grocery runs during the week. I bought a scooter that gets 80mpg, but I'm definitely interested in something that can get the same or better mileage but keep me out of the elements.
Just because you don't think something is useful doesn't mean other people don't.
Electric power plants are significantly better for the environment than a gasoline powered vehicle. First, they extract more energy per ton of carbon released than a small engine. Also, it's a lot easier to regulate or sequester the emissions from a power plant than it is from a million cars. And finally it's relatively easy for a lot of people to buy renewable energy to power this vehicle.
This may be biased, my sample set is only Stanford undergrads (I feel old), 3/4 of which would not consider any other job, because the pay is too low. The idea of having to work more then 5 years making a mil a year before they retire is completely absurd to them.
It's not just those Stanford undergrads. I used to have kids from Franklin & Marshall college renting the house next door. I would often overhear them talking about not wanting to be "stuck" making $250,000/year for the next decade. (Meanwhile, I own the house next door on about $45,000/year.) One girl told me that she might go to law school, but is just hoping to meet a rich guy to marry.
It might just be kids from expensive schools, but I've found this attitude in kids from my local high school, who are middle to upper middle class kids. I'm only 25, so why is there such a gap between me and these people who are only a couple years younger than I am?
How about I sign a contract prior to starting college that says that my employer will get at least x years of employment at a discounted rate if they pay for my education? It's like student loans, except without the crushing debt.
If you don't need the features of $HIGHER_QUALITY_THING, or you don't use the item enough to justify the extra expense, why not go with $LESSER_QUALITY_THING.
By your model, people should all be living in the largest house they can afford, driving the most luxurious, most capable vehicle they can buy, and upgrading all of their electronics yearly to make sure they've got the highest quality things.
I live six miles from work, so why should I buy a super-expensive car when I don't spend that much time in it. It's just me and my wife in our house, why do I need more than 1200 square feet? I don't watch a ton of TV, why should I get the 42" plasma HDTV? All I want to do is record a few shows I might miss, why should I spend the extra money to get a TiVo?
Different people put value on different things. You might think it's weird that I buy high quality pans and knives when I can get them at the dollar store for a buck, but it makes a difference to me.
I'm thinking more along the lines of Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Douglas Adams. Of course, in my neck of the woods exposing a baby to atheism could be considered child abuse.
I think what GP is asking, and what I'm wondering as well, is how we'll prevent corporations from putting poisons into the air and water or abusing their workers if the only enforcement is after-the-fact in a courtroom? And what about the fact that corporations have orders of magnitude more money to spend defending themselves than the government or private citizens.
The only way I can see this working is if corporate personhood was revoked, which I don't see on any of the Libertarian Party's platforms.
Of course, this wouldn't make me a libertarian, since I'm also in favor of single-payer health care and subsidized education and child care, social security, police and fire fighters. And the national parks system.
Finally, It's not 'personnel,' it's 'personal.' You'd think a political party could afford a proofreader.
My wife and I are going to have our first kid in October. She's going to be working second shift, so I'll have the kid to myself for a few hours each day. I'm planning on getting a portable iPod speaker system and playing back audiobooks to the kid while I putter around the house. That way, he or she (I'm hoping for the former) will learn real English rather than baby talk.
It's reasons like this I told the job recruiter when I graduated college that I won't work for military contractors. There's plenty of jobs out there that I don't have to compromise my principles for.
If I found out something I built was going to be used to monitor my fellow citizens or poison the Internet, I think I'd kill myself.
I use my own password generator (source code) to generate secure and easy to remember passwords. It's really handy because I have accounts on a bunch of machines at work and I can't use passwords that are too hard to remember in case I need to scp from one machine to another.
The wife and I went to a casino in Atlantic City. I took out $20 and left my bank cards in the car so that I couldn't take out any more. Five minutes at one slot machine and I was out of dough. I looked at my wife and asked "Okay, so now what?" It wasn't fun at all.
Now, sitting down at a table with a bunch of friends and playing cards is one thing, but pushing a button on a machine like a rat? I can do that at home for free.
If you go to Atlantic City, make sure you check out the Ripley's museum. It's the only good thing in that god foresaken town.
I do coding on a laptop, but I hook it up to an external 23" screen. The bonus is that I can use my laptop's screen to show my email and IMs so I'm switching between windows less frequently. And if I have to do coding from some other location, I've got my workstation with me.
The real advantage that desktops have, for me, is that they're upgradeable and have a higher top end. You can throw a couple more drives in them and use sophisticated cooling techniques to get really fast processors, so you're right that they'll always have their place.
But for the vast majority of people a laptop is a great solution. Some friends of mine bought a laptop and a wireless router and are thrilled to be able to actually sit in their living room or bedroom and be on their computer, rather than going upstairs and sitting alone in a room without a TV. As usual, this is the kind of technology decision that's not cut and dried. But the trend of laptops over desktops is there.
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Enough about the brain, what about the grits?
This is trivially easy to work around. Just put a description of the video at the beginning or end, or use freely available video editing software to make a scrolling image across the bottom. Heck, you could just insert a couple black frames randomly across the film. Or scale it down and put it on a background of white noise.
Checksums are horrible ways of checking non-text data.
I drive a 125cc motor scooter and a Mazda Protege. I have never felt unsafe on the road for being small.
News Flash: Daimler is bringing it to the US, and 20,000 people have put $100 down to reserve one.
I'd be happy with an automotive unitasker. Right now my daily driver is a 125cc motor scooter, and I'm looking to trade in my Mazda Protege for something more reliable in the near future. This thing won't be out in time, but it's definitely a great vehicle for my situation. I just don't think most people are in my situation.
I don't drive up mountains with deer in the back. I do, however, drive about six miles each way for work, and short grocery runs during the week. I bought a scooter that gets 80mpg, but I'm definitely interested in something that can get the same or better mileage but keep me out of the elements.
Just because you don't think something is useful doesn't mean other people don't.
As someone who ride a scooter, the safety argument doesn't really get to me. If I'm hit by anything larger than a small dog I'm street pizza.
But a $13,000 electric car? Where do I sign up?
Electric power plants are significantly better for the environment than a gasoline powered vehicle. First, they extract more energy per ton of carbon released than a small engine. Also, it's a lot easier to regulate or sequester the emissions from a power plant than it is from a million cars. And finally it's relatively easy for a lot of people to buy renewable energy to power this vehicle.
It's also about getting us off this bug-infested mudball before an asteroid wipes us out.
It's not just those Stanford undergrads. I used to have kids from Franklin & Marshall college renting the house next door. I would often overhear them talking about not wanting to be "stuck" making $250,000/year for the next decade. (Meanwhile, I own the house next door on about $45,000/year.) One girl told me that she might go to law school, but is just hoping to meet a rich guy to marry.
It might just be kids from expensive schools, but I've found this attitude in kids from my local high school, who are middle to upper middle class kids. I'm only 25, so why is there such a gap between me and these people who are only a couple years younger than I am?
How about I sign a contract prior to starting college that says that my employer will get at least x years of employment at a discounted rate if they pay for my education? It's like student loans, except without the crushing debt.
Yeah, if you outlaw drugs only outlaws will have drugs.
They've calculated that electricity is about equivalent to $1/gallon.
If you don't need the features of $HIGHER_QUALITY_THING, or you don't use the item enough to justify the extra expense, why not go with $LESSER_QUALITY_THING.
By your model, people should all be living in the largest house they can afford, driving the most luxurious, most capable vehicle they can buy, and upgrading all of their electronics yearly to make sure they've got the highest quality things.
I live six miles from work, so why should I buy a super-expensive car when I don't spend that much time in it. It's just me and my wife in our house, why do I need more than 1200 square feet? I don't watch a ton of TV, why should I get the 42" plasma HDTV? All I want to do is record a few shows I might miss, why should I spend the extra money to get a TiVo?
Different people put value on different things. You might think it's weird that I buy high quality pans and knives when I can get them at the dollar store for a buck, but it makes a difference to me.
Just be so broke you can't afford a cable box or a TiVo. Then you don't have to worry about it.
I'm thinking more along the lines of Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Douglas Adams. Of course, in my neck of the woods exposing a baby to atheism could be considered child abuse.
I don't think that the second amendment really matters if people are willing to commit the treasonous act of rebelling against their government.
I think what GP is asking, and what I'm wondering as well, is how we'll prevent corporations from putting poisons into the air and water or abusing their workers if the only enforcement is after-the-fact in a courtroom? And what about the fact that corporations have orders of magnitude more money to spend defending themselves than the government or private citizens.
The only way I can see this working is if corporate personhood was revoked, which I don't see on any of the Libertarian Party's platforms.
Of course, this wouldn't make me a libertarian, since I'm also in favor of single-payer health care and subsidized education and child care, social security, police and fire fighters. And the national parks system.
Finally, It's not 'personnel,' it's 'personal.' You'd think a political party could afford a proofreader.
My wife and I are going to have our first kid in October. She's going to be working second shift, so I'll have the kid to myself for a few hours each day. I'm planning on getting a portable iPod speaker system and playing back audiobooks to the kid while I putter around the house. That way, he or she (I'm hoping for the former) will learn real English rather than baby talk.
There was an autopsy, but he was supposedly cremated.
Who they did the autopsy of, I'm not sure.
If I found out something I built was going to be used to monitor my fellow citizens or poison the Internet, I think I'd kill myself.
Last I checked you didn't need corporations to have capitalism.
I'd just add that I've got all the people who call me for tech support running OS X.
I use my own password generator (source code) to generate secure and easy to remember passwords. It's really handy because I have accounts on a bunch of machines at work and I can't use passwords that are too hard to remember in case I need to scp from one machine to another.
The wife and I went to a casino in Atlantic City. I took out $20 and left my bank cards in the car so that I couldn't take out any more. Five minutes at one slot machine and I was out of dough. I looked at my wife and asked "Okay, so now what?" It wasn't fun at all.
Now, sitting down at a table with a bunch of friends and playing cards is one thing, but pushing a button on a machine like a rat? I can do that at home for free.
If you go to Atlantic City, make sure you check out the Ripley's museum. It's the only good thing in that god foresaken town.
I do coding on a laptop, but I hook it up to an external 23" screen. The bonus is that I can use my laptop's screen to show my email and IMs so I'm switching between windows less frequently. And if I have to do coding from some other location, I've got my workstation with me.
The real advantage that desktops have, for me, is that they're upgradeable and have a higher top end. You can throw a couple more drives in them and use sophisticated cooling techniques to get really fast processors, so you're right that they'll always have their place.
But for the vast majority of people a laptop is a great solution. Some friends of mine bought a laptop and a wireless router and are thrilled to be able to actually sit in their living room or bedroom and be on their computer, rather than going upstairs and sitting alone in a room without a TV. As usual, this is the kind of technology decision that's not cut and dried. But the trend of laptops over desktops is there.