Requesting a hotfix from MSFT support is pretty easy these days. Find the KB articles, go to this address, enter your email, the KB number, platform information, and they email you the hotfix.
It's a lot better than the old days where you had to get a support ticket opened, find a human, convince them there was a hotfix, and get them to provide you the bits somehow.
I'm familiar with it, but I don't think it applies. It rings true in cases of unexpected, or undesired spending. I wreck my car, I have to pay a body shop. In this case, SETI didn't break their old antenna and have to buy a new one. They chose to. Instead of me wrecking my car, I voluntarily chose to spend the money on a new car, and sell my old one.
The parable is better applied with the government in the role of the boy, and the public in the role as the shopkeeper. The government takes the public's choice out of spending X% of their resources in the form of taxes and directs it to the window glazier. Loss of choice is the ultimate opportunity cost.
Another reply compared the merits of buying $100 worth of textbooks for the underprivileged vs $100 of Internet porn, or $100 of rubber chickens. I love this example, because it tries to put a value on giving the textbook to the underprivileged individual, but ignores my point that either way $100 is flowing from the buyer to a seller. Either a bookstore, an adult entertainment site, or a joke shop. While some of those choices might be more likely to pass the cash on to more "humanitarian" efforts, I'll go out on a limb and say that all three shopkeepers are most likely going to buy groceries for their kids, make their car payments, etc. Maybe the bookshop owner needs the cash to finance his crystal meth lab, and the adult entertainment site operator works for Meals on Wheels due to their more flexible schedule. From an economic standpoint, neither outcome should have an influence on my $100 purchase.
I'm not heartless, just a realist. We can't all dedicate our lives to "helping". Some people have to fish, and others have to cut bait, clean fish, cook, gather firewood, etc. I have friends who are full time humanitarians. Because a lot of companies "waste" money on IT services that just make them more "evil money", I can afford to help support my friends efforts.
Another responder called me a liberal who wants the government to take everything and redistribute it. It was an AC poster so I'm just assuming they're a troll and not an idiot.:) In case they were serious, I suggest the look up the word "libertarian".
I always find it amusing when people say money is "wasted". If I took a stack of bill and burned them, or buried them never to be seen again, that would be wasting them.
If they spent $100mill on a telescope array, where did the money go? It went to some firms who do that, who in turn paid their employees and their suppliers, who paid their employees, etc. Those employees bought groceries, sent their kid to the dentist, sent their kid to college, bought a new car.. the money flowed through the economy. Assuming a large percentage of the firms and suppliers are in this country, then the money stayed in the national economy.
When the economy is flowing actively, more of those people downstream will be willing to donate their time and money to what you'd probably classify as "good things". When it slows down, or the Government is taking a big chunk at every step as taxes, then they'll be less inclined to do so.
No, don't let them do this. It'll just open the doors for them offering only one channel, and you get all the others for free if you take it. That's not a la carte.
The GP says that their negotiations with the content providers is our problem. It isn't. It's their (the cable company and content providers) problem. Let me pick the channels I want and pay for them. If content providers want to give me channels for free, with no strings attached, fine.
A commercial free network with premium content (HBO, etc)? I'll pay $3-5/mo for that. A premium cable network with ads, (Discovery, TLC, Food), I'll pay $.50-$1 for one of those. Something I can pick up free OTA, (PBS, FOX, ABC, etc) I either expect free, or in the $.50-$1 range for an HD feed (which I can still probably get free OTA).
I'd have to look at my Tivo history over the last few months, but I bet that with the above pricing model, I'd be paying $30-45/mo. Beats the $120 I pay now. I would probably be a lot more selective on my movie watching. Do I pay $5/mo for another HBO when I only really care about one or two movies a month, or order them PPV.
I'd say the vaquitain in the Gulf of Mexico are already gone, if they ever existed, because they have only ever been known to live in the Gulf of California.
Why keep a cam if you're electronically controlling the valves? Just like ignition systems have gone to fully solid state, with very few cars having distributors any more, why not move to fully digital timing?
The cam/valves are really the last mechanical part of the loop. The fuel/air mixtures are now fully controlled by the ECU, and can change on the fly to adjust for altitude, temperature, manifold pressure (turbo and supercharged systems), and the octane of the fuel. As I mentioned above, the spark systems are now fully controlled by a computer, and advance or retard the cylinder ignition, sometimes in conjunction with the fuel curve, to best burn the fuel/air mixture. Being able to dynamically change the valve timing, opening, closing, overlap, duration opens up even more possibilities for tuning and timing an engine.
Agreed. My wife tends to get motion sickness in IMAX and 3D type movies.. combine the two and we're got bigger trouble. With the polarized technology, she was able to watch Meet the Robinsons without a problem. If the effects ever bothered her, she could close one eye and watch it in 2D. No noticeable blur, nothing lost except the illusion of depth.
Check out this project. It lets the vision impaired "see" using a set of headphones, a pc (laptop rig) and web cam (head mounted). Check out some of the video demos.. I was able to quickly pick out the windows and doors on the buildings the user was walking past.
I am not vision impaired, and I think using this would probably give me a massive headache, but I could get used to it if it was my only option.
Nevermind.. My bad. Your comment and a few above merged in my mind, and I was trying to remember a remake of "2001: A Space Odyssey". Give it another decade or two I guess, and someone will try that I'm sure.
Gossemer Gear's Marapoosa Plus backpack - 20oz 3liter Platypus water bladder, drinking hose, inline Sawyer water filter - 5oz (dry weight) custom made bivy sack & sleeping bag liner, good down to 30F which is about as cold as I go out. - 8oz Spectralite tarp tent (http://www.mountainlaureldesigns.com/shop/product _info.php?cPath=21&products_id=50&osCsid=26c40bb56 61a292d8a7150a56ba802f6) - 4oz with TI stakes and spectra guylines Carbon Fiber treking poles - 15oz aluminum can denatured alcohol stove and aluminum windscreen - 1.5oz 1qt aluminum pot, with handle removed - 4.5oz
Those are the major items in under 4lbs.. throw in a first aid kit, titanium spork, my pound of geek gear, UnderArmour top, underwear, some lightweight shorts, trailrunner shoes, change of socks, sil-nylon raingear, and other misc gear comes in at 7.8lbs currently. I'm going out with it this weekend, so I just repacked and weighed everything.
Thats a solo spring/summer/early fall pack weight. If I'm going out with other people, I may carry a couple pounds more gear for comfort (larger cook pot, different shelter, bigger first aid kit, a water pump instead/in addition to my inline filter).
I normally carry 2 liters of water at a time, so about 4lbs there, and 1.25 to 1.5lbs of dry food per day. The alcohol stove uses about 1 fluid ounce (.8oz weight) of denatured alcohol to boil a quart of water for 5+ minutes, so about one of those per day.
I practice lightweight backpacking, but I still sometimes carry some tech gear with me, especially if its multi-purpose.
My TMobile MDA Windows Mobile phone (HTC Wizard in other markets) - Cell phone, web access (if I'm in an area with coverage), PocketPC applications for keeping logs, reading eBooks, listening to mp3s & podcasts, and I sometimes leave the camera at home and just use the built in camera in the phone.
Pair the phone with a bluetooth GPS (I use a Pharos 500 in a GPS-BTII cradle) and a good mapping application for the PocketPC makes the phone/PDA serve another purpose. I carry a compass and topo map, and I know how to use them, but I rarely ever do if I have the GPS with me.
Solio photovoltaic charger (http://www.solio.com/v2/) - I love this thing... it has a built in battery that can be pre-charged from a wall socket, and then you can keep it charged from the sun. You can get tips to charge most of the major cell phones, but it comes with the common ones, a miniUSB, a female USB, and a car charger port (so you can charge anything you've ot a car charger for, if you feel like lugging those cables around). My phone/pda and GPS will all charge from USB or MiniUSB. A full day with this strapped to the top of my pack is enough to fully recharge my phone/pda.
5.8oz for the PDA, 2.3oz for the GPS, and 5.6oz for the Solio charger. All my tech needs in under a pound, with some earbuds and misc cables.
I have a base weight (backpack, clothes, shelter, sleeping bag, first-aid kit, water filter, and misc gear) minus consumables (fuel for my stove, water, and food) under 8lbs, including my "Geek Gear". I've used this loadout for up to a month at a time, with limited resupply.
Yes, I read it. I just don't think the arguments hold much weight. Job's arguments are for why they aren't willing to try, not why it can't be done.
Being able to live up to the security and update requirements would just be a part of licensing the technology. Obviously not every device maker would be able to live up to it and Apple wouldn't work with them.
Having your device's support dropped by the latest required iTunes update because your engineers didn't get a bios update out in time would put a real crimp in your sales. Jumping through Apple's technical certification process in order to have your device supported, even going so far to pay Apple consulting fees for an Apple employed engineer to develop the support layer for your device, would be a huge boost in sales, at least in my mind. As much as I love my iPod, I'd like to see some other viable options out there.
All Jobs is doing is turning the blame back on the music industry (who certainly deserve a wake up call) and asking them to do something they are unwilling to do; release music without DRM.
Jobs could actually license the iTunes DRM to other companies and allow other devices to work with it. The Apple DRM really isn't that bad, if only other devices could be supported without jumping trough (license violating) hoops.
Phonographs had a consumer level -R version. Gramaphones never had an affordable consumer -R version preventing a lot of format conversions. Our ancestors were forced to re-buy the White Album just like we are.
You play wax cylinders on a gramaphone? I play gramaphone records on mine, and put the wax cylinders on the phonograph. Much easier on the media that way.
Blogs, forums, files, photos, RSS feeds, role based security, etc. I use it to host a site for all my old college friends. The SQL server database is quite happy on both of the free MS SQL offerings, Microsoft Data Engine (MSDE) and SQL Express. Only the blog and forum postings and settings are stored in the database. The files and photos are stores in the file system.
Are you calling SQL Reporting Services a flop? If so, I'd like to introduce you to some of my clients who love it, and have happily dumped Crystal and are enjoying eaily rolled out reports with a good front end for ad-hoc reporting.
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Requesting a hotfix from MSFT support is pretty easy these days. Find the KB articles, go to this address, enter your email, the KB number, platform information, and they email you the hotfix.
It's a lot better than the old days where you had to get a support ticket opened, find a human, convince them there was a hotfix, and get them to provide you the bits somehow.
I'm familiar with it, but I don't think it applies. It rings true in cases of unexpected, or undesired spending. I wreck my car, I have to pay a body shop. In this case, SETI didn't break their old antenna and have to buy a new one. They chose to. Instead of me wrecking my car, I voluntarily chose to spend the money on a new car, and sell my old one.
:) In case they were serious, I suggest the look up the word "libertarian".
The parable is better applied with the government in the role of the boy, and the public in the role as the shopkeeper. The government takes the public's choice out of spending X% of their resources in the form of taxes and directs it to the window glazier. Loss of choice is the ultimate opportunity cost.
Another reply compared the merits of buying $100 worth of textbooks for the underprivileged vs $100 of Internet porn, or $100 of rubber chickens. I love this example, because it tries to put a value on giving the textbook to the underprivileged individual, but ignores my point that either way $100 is flowing from the buyer to a seller. Either a bookstore, an adult entertainment site, or a joke shop. While some of those choices might be more likely to pass the cash on to more "humanitarian" efforts, I'll go out on a limb and say that all three shopkeepers are most likely going to buy groceries for their kids, make their car payments, etc. Maybe the bookshop owner needs the cash to finance his crystal meth lab, and the adult entertainment site operator works for Meals on Wheels due to their more flexible schedule. From an economic standpoint, neither outcome should have an influence on my $100 purchase.
I'm not heartless, just a realist. We can't all dedicate our lives to "helping". Some people have to fish, and others have to cut bait, clean fish, cook, gather firewood, etc. I have friends who are full time humanitarians. Because a lot of companies "waste" money on IT services that just make them more "evil money", I can afford to help support my friends efforts.
Another responder called me a liberal who wants the government to take everything and redistribute it. It was an AC poster so I'm just assuming they're a troll and not an idiot.
I always find it amusing when people say money is "wasted". If I took a stack of bill and burned them, or buried them never to be seen again, that would be wasting them.
If they spent $100mill on a telescope array, where did the money go? It went to some firms who do that, who in turn paid their employees and their suppliers, who paid their employees, etc. Those employees bought groceries, sent their kid to the dentist, sent their kid to college, bought a new car.. the money flowed through the economy. Assuming a large percentage of the firms and suppliers are in this country, then the money stayed in the national economy.
When the economy is flowing actively, more of those people downstream will be willing to donate their time and money to what you'd probably classify as "good things". When it slows down, or the Government is taking a big chunk at every step as taxes, then they'll be less inclined to do so.
Yes, and if you ever hear an American referring to a woman's "fanny", they're talking about her rear end, not what you think they're talking about. :)
No, don't let them do this. It'll just open the doors for them offering only one channel, and you get all the others for free if you take it. That's not a la carte.
The GP says that their negotiations with the content providers is our problem. It isn't. It's their (the cable company and content providers) problem. Let me pick the channels I want and pay for them. If content providers want to give me channels for free, with no strings attached, fine.
A commercial free network with premium content (HBO, etc)? I'll pay $3-5/mo for that. A premium cable network with ads, (Discovery, TLC, Food), I'll pay $.50-$1 for one of those. Something I can pick up free OTA, (PBS, FOX, ABC, etc) I either expect free, or in the $.50-$1 range for an HD feed (which I can still probably get free OTA).
I'd have to look at my Tivo history over the last few months, but I bet that with the above pricing model, I'd be paying $30-45/mo. Beats the $120 I pay now. I would probably be a lot more selective on my movie watching. Do I pay $5/mo for another HBO when I only really care about one or two movies a month, or order them PPV.
I'd say the vaquitain in the Gulf of Mexico are already gone, if they ever existed, because they have only ever been known to live in the Gulf of California.
Why keep a cam if you're electronically controlling the valves? Just like ignition systems have gone to fully solid state, with very few cars having distributors any more, why not move to fully digital timing?
The cam/valves are really the last mechanical part of the loop. The fuel/air mixtures are now fully controlled by the ECU, and can change on the fly to adjust for altitude, temperature, manifold pressure (turbo and supercharged systems), and the octane of the fuel. As I mentioned above, the spark systems are now fully controlled by a computer, and advance or retard the cylinder ignition, sometimes in conjunction with the fuel curve, to best burn the fuel/air mixture. Being able to dynamically change the valve timing, opening, closing, overlap, duration opens up even more possibilities for tuning and timing an engine.
Agreed. My wife tends to get motion sickness in IMAX and 3D type movies.. combine the two and we're got bigger trouble. With the polarized technology, she was able to watch Meet the Robinsons without a problem. If the effects ever bothered her, she could close one eye and watch it in 2D. No noticeable blur, nothing lost except the illusion of depth.
http://www.seeingwithsound.com/
Check out this project. It lets the vision impaired "see" using a set of headphones, a pc (laptop rig) and web cam (head mounted). Check out some of the video demos.. I was able to quickly pick out the windows and doors on the buildings the user was walking past.
I am not vision impaired, and I think using this would probably give me a massive headache, but I could get used to it if it was my only option.
Nevermind.. My bad. Your comment and a few above merged in my mind, and I was trying to remember a remake of "2001: A Space Odyssey". Give it another decade or two I guess, and someone will try that I'm sure.
I'm sorry... what remake are you referring to?
Gossemer Gear's Marapoosa Plus backpack - 20ozt _info.php?cPath=21&products_id=50&osCsid=26c40bb56 61a292d8a7150a56ba802f6) - 4oz with TI stakes and spectra guylines
3liter Platypus water bladder, drinking hose, inline Sawyer water filter - 5oz (dry weight)
custom made bivy sack & sleeping bag liner, good down to 30F which is about as cold as I go out. - 8oz
Spectralite tarp tent (http://www.mountainlaureldesigns.com/shop/produc
Carbon Fiber treking poles - 15oz
aluminum can denatured alcohol stove and aluminum windscreen - 1.5oz
1qt aluminum pot, with handle removed - 4.5oz
Those are the major items in under 4lbs.. throw in a first aid kit, titanium spork, my pound of geek gear, UnderArmour top, underwear, some lightweight shorts, trailrunner shoes, change of socks, sil-nylon raingear, and other misc gear comes in at 7.8lbs currently. I'm going out with it this weekend, so I just repacked and weighed everything.
Thats a solo spring/summer/early fall pack weight. If I'm going out with other people, I may carry a couple pounds more gear for comfort (larger cook pot, different shelter, bigger first aid kit, a water pump instead/in addition to my inline filter).
I normally carry 2 liters of water at a time, so about 4lbs there, and 1.25 to 1.5lbs of dry food per day. The alcohol stove uses about 1 fluid ounce (.8oz weight) of denatured alcohol to boil a quart of water for 5+ minutes, so about one of those per day.
I practice lightweight backpacking, but I still sometimes carry some tech gear with me, especially if its multi-purpose.
My TMobile MDA Windows Mobile phone (HTC Wizard in other markets) - Cell phone, web access (if I'm in an area with coverage), PocketPC applications for keeping logs, reading eBooks, listening to mp3s & podcasts, and I sometimes leave the camera at home and just use the built in camera in the phone.
Pair the phone with a bluetooth GPS (I use a Pharos 500 in a GPS-BTII cradle) and a good mapping application for the PocketPC makes the phone/PDA serve another purpose. I carry a compass and topo map, and I know how to use them, but I rarely ever do if I have the GPS with me.
Solio photovoltaic charger (http://www.solio.com/v2/) - I love this thing... it has a built in battery that can be pre-charged from a wall socket, and then you can keep it charged from the sun. You can get tips to charge most of the major cell phones, but it comes with the common ones, a miniUSB, a female USB, and a car charger port (so you can charge anything you've ot a car charger for, if you feel like lugging those cables around). My phone/pda and GPS will all charge from USB or MiniUSB. A full day with this strapped to the top of my pack is enough to fully recharge my phone/pda.
5.8oz for the PDA, 2.3oz for the GPS, and 5.6oz for the Solio charger. All my tech needs in under a pound, with some earbuds and misc cables.
I have a base weight (backpack, clothes, shelter, sleeping bag, first-aid kit, water filter, and misc gear) minus consumables (fuel for my stove, water, and food) under 8lbs, including my "Geek Gear". I've used this loadout for up to a month at a time, with limited resupply.
Yes, because he updated his profile to show it after he realized it wasn't visible.
Since I can't seem to find a way to contact you in your profile, here: http://mail.google.com/mail/a-918525b4ed-0d5b5e7fa 7-d5b4b8634a
:)
You get to race the rest of the world for it
Yes, I read it. I just don't think the arguments hold much weight. Job's arguments are for why they aren't willing to try, not why it can't be done.
Being able to live up to the security and update requirements would just be a part of licensing the technology. Obviously not every device maker would be able to live up to it and Apple wouldn't work with them.
Having your device's support dropped by the latest required iTunes update because your engineers didn't get a bios update out in time would put a real crimp in your sales. Jumping through Apple's technical certification process in order to have your device supported, even going so far to pay Apple consulting fees for an Apple employed engineer to develop the support layer for your device, would be a huge boost in sales, at least in my mind. As much as I love my iPod, I'd like to see some other viable options out there.
All Jobs is doing is turning the blame back on the music industry (who certainly deserve a wake up call) and asking them to do something they are unwilling to do; release music without DRM.
Jobs could actually license the iTunes DRM to other companies and allow other devices to work with it. The Apple DRM really isn't that bad, if only other devices could be supported without jumping trough (license violating) hoops.
One year, 3 different mints, so to be complete, you need 3.
Sorry, not true. I've got a virgin machine here in my testing lab, with a fresh XP SP2 install, and boom, here comes IE7.
With a whole lot of 15 minute samples, and very few 15 second samples, then toss in some rounding, and there you go.
Bitter, instate rivals... get those confused in the wrong company in this town, and you'll regret it :)
Randy Farmer
Atlanta, GA
Phonographs had a consumer level -R version. Gramaphones never had an affordable consumer -R version preventing a lot of format conversions. Our ancestors were forced to re-buy the White Album just like we are.
You play wax cylinders on a gramaphone? I play gramaphone records on mine, and put the wax cylinders on the phonograph. Much easier on the media that way.
Allow me to give you a Microsoft based solution (open sourced though!). http://communityserver.org/Default.aspx
Blogs, forums, files, photos, RSS feeds, role based security, etc. I use it to host a site for all my old college friends. The SQL server database is quite happy on both of the free MS SQL offerings, Microsoft Data Engine (MSDE) and SQL Express. Only the blog and forum postings and settings are stored in the database. The files and photos are stores in the file system.
Are you calling SQL Reporting Services a flop? If so, I'd like to introduce you to some of my clients who love it, and have happily dumped Crystal and are enjoying eaily rolled out reports with a good front end for ad-hoc reporting.