Speaking as Mr accident-prone, I have a 1st gen iPod Touch. I can report that the thing survived being dropped into a toilet bowl quite nicely, and also an incident that sent it skidding face down about 3 meters along a pavement.
I think your last paragraph actually makes my point for me - California's electors are not all all nothing. The state as a whole is. Therefore the individuals who chose to vote against the majority within the state are effectively disenfranchised.
You have to make the federation appealing to states with low populations or they won't join
Yes. but if you just change the magnification on your binoculars a bit, you get a federation consisting of individual voters, at which point the statement becomes:
"You have to make the federation appealing to individual voters or they won't vote". The problem with the electoral college is that in many cases it disenfranchises the individual voter, leading to lower voter turnout.
I'm sure Microsoft isn't sure either. That's what 'research' is for. It's an interesting idea, let's implement it, hey that's cool. Mmm - is it useful?
It *may* be that users work quicker and better with physical objects than user interface elements on the screen. It may be that people just like playing with it because it is cool, and this aids problem-solving/productivity in some way.
At the moment, my gut feeling is with you - it's very cool, but probably not particularly useful. But I may be wrong.
Why is NO ONE from UK protesting against this monstrous humongous assault on rights and freedom?
To answer this and all your other questions - because this isn't a formal government plan yet, it hasn't been published and no-one knows about it. "Government officials" have apparently been talking to some phone companies about it.
... why my local Tesco changed every one of its chip-and-PIN readers to a new make and model about 2 months ago. At this point you're probably wonding which make the old devices were, and I can't for the life of me remember. Sorry.
Actually, I never assumed for a moment that the parent was a left wing nut. I assumed he was a right wing nut. There is a certain section of conservative opinion that believes any international multilateral body (I'm looking at you, U.N) is the spawn of satan.
NAT breaks the internet and is essentially an ugly workaround that results in the need for lots of other workarounds.
Sorry, but you sound exactly like the Bellheads of yore who argued that the Internet was a horrid kludgy mess, and whay everyone actually needed was ATM to the desktop. Afterall, they argued, there's absolutely no way you could get effective video or voice over a medium with no decent QoS, end-to-end bandwidth reservation system etc.
He's a bloke, who, unable to come up with a a coherent explanation for consciousness decided "it must be a quantum thing". He's also great if you want someone to tile your bathroom. Am I right?
Nobody read the EULA/TOS of iTunes and nobody understands that when you're "buying" the song for a dollar, you're not buying anything but the right to listen to that song for some undetermined amount of time.
I do actually read the EULA for the software and the TOS for the store, and I'd like you to point out the parts that suggest that to you, because it doesn't gel with
Here's a simple case: What happens to "your songs" when you die?
That, of course is the least simplest case, it would be interesting to get chapter and verse on this.
In practical terms it remains sits on my machine. There is nothing that Apple can do under the current TOS to make it magically disappear from that machine. The UK license says "(ii) You shall be authorised to use the Products only for personal, non-commercial use, and not for redistribution, transfer, assignment or sublicence, to the extent permitted by law." The question is, to what extent does the law allow property to be transferred via a will, this clause not-withstanding.
It's interesting that the iTunes TOS refer extensively to 'selling products' rather than 'selling a license' throught.
I'd recommend DropBox. Not, FOSS I know, but you get 2Gigs of storage gratis, and it is great. Skype is going to be the obvious solution for IM and voice, leaving you witj whiteboarding
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Damn, I meant to add: http://www.no2id.net/
.... even in its watered down state, donate a little cash to the splendid NO2ID campaign: - I gave them £20 earlier this week and every little helps.
Speaking as Mr accident-prone, I have a 1st gen iPod Touch. I can report that the thing survived being dropped into a toilet bowl quite nicely, and also an incident that sent it skidding face down about 3 meters along a pavement.
how you should justify the cost of the time spent calculating the cost.
I think your last paragraph actually makes my point for me - California's electors are not all all nothing. The state as a whole is. Therefore the individuals who chose to vote against the majority within the state are effectively disenfranchised.
Did you not notice that this very video was embedded in TFA?
Yes. but if you just change the magnification on your binoculars a bit, you get a federation consisting of individual voters, at which point the statement becomes:
"You have to make the federation appealing to individual voters or they won't vote". The problem with the electoral college is that in many cases it disenfranchises the individual voter, leading to lower voter turnout.
I'm very very sceptical of this claim. But I'm willing to wait and hear your methodology.
I'm sure Microsoft isn't sure either. That's what 'research' is for. It's an interesting idea, let's implement it, hey that's cool. Mmm - is it useful?
It *may* be that users work quicker and better with physical objects than user interface elements on the screen. It may be that people just like playing with it because it is cool, and this aids problem-solving/productivity in some way.
At the moment, my gut feeling is with you - it's very cool, but probably not particularly useful. But I may be wrong.
Remember folks, never have any hobbies, never do voluntary work, don't sit and stare and a sunset. The pay for any of those is dreadful.
To answer this and all your other questions - because this isn't a formal government plan yet, it hasn't been published and no-one knows about it. "Government officials" have apparently been talking to some phone companies about it.
... why my local Tesco changed every one of its chip-and-PIN readers to a new make and model about 2 months ago. At this point you're probably wonding which make the old devices were, and I can't for the life of me remember. Sorry.
Thank goodness good old fashioned analogue telly had advanced protection against some using a RF transmitter to beam stuff into your home. Errrr
Thank goodness then that we are all moderates here.
Actually, I never assumed for a moment that the parent was a left wing nut. I assumed he was a right wing nut. There is a certain section of conservative opinion that believes any international multilateral body (I'm looking at you, U.N) is the spawn of satan.
Sorry, but you sound exactly like the Bellheads of yore who argued that the Internet was a horrid kludgy mess, and whay everyone actually needed was ATM to the desktop. Afterall, they argued, there's absolutely no way you could get effective video or voice over a medium with no decent QoS, end-to-end bandwidth reservation system etc.
I would rather expect "an ambassador" for MySQL to be saying that kind of thing in here himself, if he agrees with your appraisal of the situation.
He's a bloke, who, unable to come up with a a coherent explanation for consciousness decided "it must be a quantum thing". He's also great if you want someone to tile your bathroom. Am I right?
You need Mozy for the backup. You need Dropbox for the sharing. Unless you simply want to alias all of their files and folders into the Dropbox,
OK, I'll bite
... , or "avast"?
I'd recommend DropBox. Not, FOSS I know, but you get 2Gigs of storage gratis, and it is great. Skype is going to be the obvious solution for IM and voice, leaving you witj whiteboarding
Excellent, I managed to inject a typo into my own pedantic post.
"insensive purposes"? what does that mean? Did you mean to say "intents and purposes"? Or have a just fallen for a well-crafted troll?
Now, I'm an atheist - but I think you need to look up the word 'metaphor'.