I don't remember where I read it, but some pundit blogger recently wrote something like, "Not too long ago, it would have been unimaginable that Apple would be the monopolist, Google the evil betrayer of privacy and Microsoft the underdog." I know I'm misquoting, but you get the gist. It's amazing how much things change in a relatively short amount of time.
I wish you could be modded up to 10. I've had the same problem with those battle bots shows; they're not robots, for geek's sake, they're remote controlled vehicles with remote controlled weapons systems. Cool and fun, but unless they stalk and kill their prey or defend themselves using pre-programmed algorithms (or learn to do so using pre-programmed algorithms), they're not robots.
Mines similar; they require monthly changes with 10 days expiration warning. But here's the rub: we have something like 25 internal systems which are not SSO-enabled, so for that 10 days, I might get the warning a dozen or more times. Nice, huh?
This. The article says to me, "Come to my house: I have cool robots to steal!" Just carry a battery-powered wifi jammer (google it; WTF is going on with paste on/.?) and the robots won't be able to report you!
Yes, when a rich person buys a $10,000 Rolex, or a $300,000 Bentley, it benefits me directly. No, wait, it doesn't. The lion's share of that money leaves the US economy, with a small fraction of it going to sales- and maintenance workers.
You know what makes more sense than your argument? That a rich business person should love entitlements, because they enable poor people to have more discretionary spending, which gives the merchant and corporate classes more opportunity to reap profits.
Reagan used to say that a rising tide lifted all boats. I agree: if we raise the level of education for everyone in this country, it will lead to a more innovative, more productive workforce, and even more wealth for the wealthy. Every millionaire should be begging to give money to public school districts for this reason alone, say nothing of the benefits they'll reap through lower crime rates.
There are definitely some of the ultra-wealthy who put their money right back into the economy and create further wealth through the jobs they create. More power to them. For every one of them, there are probably hundreds of others (I know, citation needed) who simply hoard their wealth (buying more houses than they can count), waste it away in manners that provide no sum benefit to the world (MC Who-mer?) or investing it in ways that only target increasing their wealth exponentially (Murdoc, Koch et al).
Thanking these banqueteers for your job is like being a firefighter and thanking an arsonist for keeping you employed. Once you've amassed wealth equal to an average American's lifetime earning potential, if you're not working extra hard to give it all away or invest it in a way that will provide for more than your own heirs, you are hurting the economy and hurting the world.
Why hasn't someone set up a torrent of all of the contents of the offending site so that all of us can host it? I mean, if it's a popular site, they must have some good content, and it's all public domain... maybe I could make a few bucks hosting their content on my servers with my own ads...
That's not true. Apple is great, and the iPad is not a "walled garden". It's a "curated experience", like the most awesome touch-screen museum in the world^H^H^H^H^
sorry, wrong script.
I remember when I saw Toy Story, thinking, "Wouldn't it be cool if, in addition to a normal DVD release, they released a version with all of the model, action, sound and lighting information, but where you could grab the "camera" and move it anywhere in the story's defined universe?" With live action films, stereoscopic projection is as good as it will realistically get, but there's no reason that 100% CG movies couldn't allow for some more immersive features.
Even DVDs, when they first came out, were supposed to be revolutionary because they allowed directors to include multiple angles for the same scene. How many movies have that? I haven't seen any. But imagine if you could re-shoot the whole thing. Even if you couldn't change the audio, sets and the action, imagine being able to muck with the lighting and camera angles and make a noir version of your favorite episode of Dinosaur Train...
And to drill down a little bit from your statement, how could the kids have possibly known their actions would lead to the death of the elderly woman. (A) They don't understand death at that age and (B) they've probably been run into themselves, and while I'm sure they didn't like it, they eventually got up and played again. Even if they could reason to some degree, they just don't have the experience and perspective to understand the effect of their actions.
I don't like the litigious nature of so many people in the US, but the parent or guardian in charge of that four year old at least deserves to have their level of responsibility in the incident questioned, far more than the 4-year-old's.
That being said, if a broken hip was enough to kill the woman, I don't wish to sound disrespectful, but it's likely that something else would have taken her out in relatively short order as well. A running dog, a sudden noise, a slippery step, a moment of disorientation. It's sad that she died and I feel for her family, but while the accident was the precipitating event, one could reasonably assign blame to the passage of time.
Now, to play the devil's advocate, if I were a defense lawyer on this one, I would look into the woman's dietary and exercise history: if I could show that with better diet and exercise, other people her age would have reasonably been able to recover from such an accident, I could probably minimize or even remove my client's liability.
That's right; USB is strictly a master/slave deal, and even though it seems like there's a daisy-chain option, it's not a real daisy chain. A computer->keyboard->mouse connection is really a computer to hub connection, and the hub within the keyboard fans out to the actual keyboard and then one or two more ports.
Yeah. Remember when Bill Gates said the Internet was a fad and that's why it took them so long to introduce dial-up TCP/IP into Windows? I remember helping customers configure Chameleon and Winsock, among others.
And while the Mac's built-in stuff came faster, it was still annoying; I remember having to reboot every time you changed a networking setting. Those were the days.
WRT the floppies, you must either be joking or a kid. Long before Apple was the first to abandon 3.5" floppies, they were among the first mass market computer makers to adopt their use. When the original Mac came out, nearly every other system came by default with 5.25" floppy drives. 3.5" drives were available as options for those other systems, but the Mac was, if not the first, one of the first to have 3.5" as the built-in standard.
WRT FireWire vs. USB, I'm pretty certain (although I could stand corrected) that Apple's stance has always been that there are some things for which FW is better, and other things for which USB is better. I'm pretty sure that every Mac that has shipped with a FW port has also shipped with at least one USB port. Apple never, ever, ever tried to push anyone towards FW keyboards and mice, for example.
What's interesting is that with USB2.0--while it's still not as fast as FW400 due to its half-duplex connection--Apple has accepted that FW's benefits aren't really all that tangible outside of the professional realm. Running a music studio and need to do 32-track digital audio? Get a Mac Pro with FW800. Recording your neighborhood jam sessions with Garage Band? The USB interface on your MacBook is good enough.
I wouldn't be surprised if, once USB3.0 ships, Apple even moves away from FW800 on pro devices and just puts USB3 on everything. My understanding is that USB3 goes full duplex *and* increases to 800Mbps (though I could be wrong). If that is indeed the case, then unless there's something I'm not aware of, the benefits of FW400/800 are essentially nil.
Actually, Apple *invented* Firewire; Sony made it popular outside of the Mac world by taking the generic specification (IEEE1394) and using it on their DV cameras. But Apple did indeed popularize USB by making it the only peripheral port on the iMac, encouraging more peripheral manufacturers to support it (the iMac was pretty wildly successful when it first came out), and it was largely because of this that *every* PC manufacturer started making USB a priority over the old serial ports.
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I don't remember where I read it, but some pundit blogger recently wrote something like, "Not too long ago, it would have been unimaginable that Apple would be the monopolist, Google the evil betrayer of privacy and Microsoft the underdog." I know I'm misquoting, but you get the gist. It's amazing how much things change in a relatively short amount of time.
I wish you could be modded up to 10. I've had the same problem with those battle bots shows; they're not robots, for geek's sake, they're remote controlled vehicles with remote controlled weapons systems. Cool and fun, but unless they stalk and kill their prey or defend themselves using pre-programmed algorithms (or learn to do so using pre-programmed algorithms), they're not robots.
Sorry to be pedantic, but it should be, "yeah yeah, nobody RsTFA"
Mines similar; they require monthly changes with 10 days expiration warning. But here's the rub: we have something like 25 internal systems which are not SSO-enabled, so for that 10 days, I might get the warning a dozen or more times. Nice, huh?
Or what they can't take: freeeeeedommmmm!
This. The article says to me, "Come to my house: I have cool robots to steal!" Just carry a battery-powered wifi jammer (google it; WTF is going on with paste on /.?) and the robots won't be able to report you!
Yes, when a rich person buys a $10,000 Rolex, or a $300,000 Bentley, it benefits me directly. No, wait, it doesn't. The lion's share of that money leaves the US economy, with a small fraction of it going to sales- and maintenance workers.
You know what makes more sense than your argument? That a rich business person should love entitlements, because they enable poor people to have more discretionary spending, which gives the merchant and corporate classes more opportunity to reap profits.
Reagan used to say that a rising tide lifted all boats. I agree: if we raise the level of education for everyone in this country, it will lead to a more innovative, more productive workforce, and even more wealth for the wealthy. Every millionaire should be begging to give money to public school districts for this reason alone, say nothing of the benefits they'll reap through lower crime rates.
There are definitely some of the ultra-wealthy who put their money right back into the economy and create further wealth through the jobs they create. More power to them. For every one of them, there are probably hundreds of others (I know, citation needed) who simply hoard their wealth (buying more houses than they can count), waste it away in manners that provide no sum benefit to the world (MC Who-mer?) or investing it in ways that only target increasing their wealth exponentially (Murdoc, Koch et al).
Thanking these banqueteers for your job is like being a firefighter and thanking an arsonist for keeping you employed. Once you've amassed wealth equal to an average American's lifetime earning potential, if you're not working extra hard to give it all away or invest it in a way that will provide for more than your own heirs, you are hurting the economy and hurting the world.
Why hasn't someone set up a torrent of all of the contents of the offending site so that all of us can host it? I mean, if it's a popular site, they must have some good content, and it's all public domain... maybe I could make a few bucks hosting their content on my servers with my own ads...
...think about the owls?!
Thank you for explaining my point to captain obvious :)
Ummm, as long as you have opposable thumbs, buying a gun and some ammo is about the same as buying a loaded gun.
That's not true. Apple is great, and the iPad is not a "walled garden". It's a "curated experience", like the most awesome touch-screen museum in the world^H^H^H^H^ sorry, wrong script.
How do you feel about using someone's open access wifi? Some people on /. would say that, if it's not being protected, it's an invitation to access.
Correct. And gun shops do that all day every day, all over the country.
I remember when I saw Toy Story, thinking, "Wouldn't it be cool if, in addition to a normal DVD release, they released a version with all of the model, action, sound and lighting information, but where you could grab the "camera" and move it anywhere in the story's defined universe?" With live action films, stereoscopic projection is as good as it will realistically get, but there's no reason that 100% CG movies couldn't allow for some more immersive features.
Even DVDs, when they first came out, were supposed to be revolutionary because they allowed directors to include multiple angles for the same scene. How many movies have that? I haven't seen any. But imagine if you could re-shoot the whole thing. Even if you couldn't change the audio, sets and the action, imagine being able to muck with the lighting and camera angles and make a noir version of your favorite episode of Dinosaur Train...
I think that's the point. Not much could "go right" with this plan.
Then a tow truck came by and said, "Hey, free taxi!"
Thank you for making milk come out my nose.
And to drill down a little bit from your statement, how could the kids have possibly known their actions would lead to the death of the elderly woman. (A) They don't understand death at that age and (B) they've probably been run into themselves, and while I'm sure they didn't like it, they eventually got up and played again. Even if they could reason to some degree, they just don't have the experience and perspective to understand the effect of their actions.
I don't like the litigious nature of so many people in the US, but the parent or guardian in charge of that four year old at least deserves to have their level of responsibility in the incident questioned, far more than the 4-year-old's.
That being said, if a broken hip was enough to kill the woman, I don't wish to sound disrespectful, but it's likely that something else would have taken her out in relatively short order as well. A running dog, a sudden noise, a slippery step, a moment of disorientation. It's sad that she died and I feel for her family, but while the accident was the precipitating event, one could reasonably assign blame to the passage of time.
Now, to play the devil's advocate, if I were a defense lawyer on this one, I would look into the woman's dietary and exercise history: if I could show that with better diet and exercise, other people her age would have reasonably been able to recover from such an accident, I could probably minimize or even remove my client's liability.
That's right; USB is strictly a master/slave deal, and even though it seems like there's a daisy-chain option, it's not a real daisy chain. A computer->keyboard->mouse connection is really a computer to hub connection, and the hub within the keyboard fans out to the actual keyboard and then one or two more ports.
Good point; I hadn't thought of that. I don't know what USB3 is going to be like. Maybe the work will be offloaded to the video processor... :)
Yeah. Remember when Bill Gates said the Internet was a fad and that's why it took them so long to introduce dial-up TCP/IP into Windows? I remember helping customers configure Chameleon and Winsock, among others.
And while the Mac's built-in stuff came faster, it was still annoying; I remember having to reboot every time you changed a networking setting. Those were the days.
His refusal to adopt WMA or license FairPlay killed DRM in the music industry
I'm sure it had NOTHING to do with the fact that WMA and FairPlay sucked, nor a little out-of-bottle genie called Napster.
WRT the floppies, you must either be joking or a kid. Long before Apple was the first to abandon 3.5" floppies, they were among the first mass market computer makers to adopt their use. When the original Mac came out, nearly every other system came by default with 5.25" floppy drives. 3.5" drives were available as options for those other systems, but the Mac was, if not the first, one of the first to have 3.5" as the built-in standard.
WRT FireWire vs. USB, I'm pretty certain (although I could stand corrected) that Apple's stance has always been that there are some things for which FW is better, and other things for which USB is better. I'm pretty sure that every Mac that has shipped with a FW port has also shipped with at least one USB port. Apple never, ever, ever tried to push anyone towards FW keyboards and mice, for example.
What's interesting is that with USB2.0--while it's still not as fast as FW400 due to its half-duplex connection--Apple has accepted that FW's benefits aren't really all that tangible outside of the professional realm. Running a music studio and need to do 32-track digital audio? Get a Mac Pro with FW800. Recording your neighborhood jam sessions with Garage Band? The USB interface on your MacBook is good enough.
I wouldn't be surprised if, once USB3.0 ships, Apple even moves away from FW800 on pro devices and just puts USB3 on everything. My understanding is that USB3 goes full duplex *and* increases to 800Mbps (though I could be wrong). If that is indeed the case, then unless there's something I'm not aware of, the benefits of FW400/800 are essentially nil.
Actually, Apple *invented* Firewire; Sony made it popular outside of the Mac world by taking the generic specification (IEEE1394) and using it on their DV cameras. But Apple did indeed popularize USB by making it the only peripheral port on the iMac, encouraging more peripheral manufacturers to support it (the iMac was pretty wildly successful when it first came out), and it was largely because of this that *every* PC manufacturer started making USB a priority over the old serial ports.