The First Amendment does not establish the right to send me e-mail.
I agree...but i'd go so far as to say the First Amendment doesn't give anyone the right to even talk to you if you don't want them to. I feel that the first amendment promises that should I want to say something, people may CHOOSE to listen to me. But they may also choose not to. Of course this right to speach also implies the right to listen.
Privacy implications? How about the fact that most people pick poor passwords. Imagine the amount of damange you could do to a person if you got their password for EVERYTHING.
It may not be a 'ticket', but SPEED ENFORCEMENT is left to the police. PIs can't go around seaching people's home, or arresting anyone, b/c those are duties performed SOLEY by police.
When you rent an apartment your apartment manager can't put clauses in that they can search your apartment for crack.
Also there is some dispute on just how clear the contract made things.
Um, i think violating police powers would be enforcement of things normally left to the police. I can't give anyone a ticket even though i may have a radar gun.
I doubt they will do that. I mean, wouldn't you dump the thing if you got mailed speeding tickets? And here in Philly, everyone dumping ezpass would return us to the exits backed up to the 2 mile sign problem.
I dunno what turnpikes you drive, but i've never had that happen to me on either the PA turnpike or the NY thruway. Which by the way has some of the worst speeders.
PA just got ezpass too, and decided NOT to do something like that. Probably b/c no one would get ezpass and the problem they are trying to solve (huge backups at exits) would be ruined. I sure wouldn't get ezpass if i was gonna be mailed a speeding ticket.
I agree. The number of accidents did not increase when they increased the speed limit to 65 on interstates (and here, interstates are commuter highways).
Around here, i think alot of the problem is poor road and traffic designs. It backs everything up, thus pissing everyone off, and people make rash decisions when they're mad. Road rage anyone? I get alot more annoyed around here then i did living in a city with good road planning. I'm willing to bet that most of road rage problems are caused b/c poor road design.
I was under the impression there was only one IDE. Besides, the notion of pebbles i thought was built into the language, just like the idea of melting vs. freezing. Which reminds me of another dislike with this language; the fact that to get decent speed, you'd have to freeze (or one of those), which actually just rewrote the eiffle code into C++ code anyway. It also took forever.
Dude, adding a link where there was none before IS rewriting. If the authors wanted certain words to be links, they would have done so themselves.
While you and I may turn it off, do you really think the clueless masses will even know they can? Its doubtful, and its not unreasonalbe to think that these same people won't know the original authors didn't put in those links.
Eiffel, you've got to be kidding me? My school (RIT) actualy did use it when i started, but the other little things (pebbles, etc) got in the way of learning. We did actually switch to Java (after i was done the sequence, of course), which i think was a smart move. We do cut over to C++ in the 2nd half of the second course of the sequence. Syntax-wise, they are very similar in nature, and so the transition is less painful.
The ads pay for the content. Turn off the ads, turn off the content, and everything becomes pay-per-view. Be careful what you wish for.
Except we are talking about CATV, which one has to pay for. Thats what annoys me, especially about HBO..you're paying for it, but you STILL have ads. Although they are less prominate on HBO.
Um, your anology isn't quite right. Imagine if i went to a book store and modified every copy of a certain book...not just with a highlighter, but actually rewriting part of the story. Thats what this is doing, not simply 'highlighting' parts of it. And people WILL think thats how the authors wrote the page; most people barely know enough to get around on the web as it is, and just b/c somethings underlined in blue instead of green or whatever won't clue these people in.
Um, i lived in Rochester NY for about 5 years, and we had time warner cable...and i did see commercials for dsl from the local (small) phone company, Frontier.
From my experience with laptops, it was windows, not the laptop that was being fiesty. I even had an old dell laptop that ran linux wonderfully, and didn't shit bricks when i plugged in pc cards. I agree w/you about win2k..if you're going to have windows, i would think thats the version to have.
From everything i have been hearing, win2k sales have been very disapointing. Even if they have 5 million copies, thats not a lot concidering the number of computers out there.
As far as uptime goes, you're right, home user joe may not care for a 300+ day uptime. However, even joe user seems to be leaving his computer on more (probably b/c it eliminates boot time), and i'm sure they want an uptime of more then 30mins...which is about as good as you could get with previous versions. Even NT4 gave me alot of headaches during the day when we used that at work. Win9x and NT always seemed to crash at least once a day.
Besides, you seem to forget that NT4 may be stable enough for the home user, BUT, most home users DON'T have NT; they have that shitty DOS upgrade, win9x/ME.
I'm not a die hard MS fan; quite the opposite, i've found most of their products to be shoddy pieces of crap. I was suprised however when win2k actually does seem pretty stable. Yes it crashes, but crashes for me have been a rarity, and all the blue screens i have were b/c of a gravis gamepad driver...and even that has happened maybe 5 times in 9 months. To me its ironic that MS finally produces something thats pretty stable, yet not many people are buying it...but i guess their past reputation has caught up with them.
Most console gamers i know would throw out their console if it 'crashed.' indeed, while its been a while since i've played console games, i've nevre known the system to crash.
Actually, Edison helped build the electric chair, but on the stipulation that it would only run on AC. He hoped that AC powing the chair of death would put a negative slant on AC, and people would choose his DC instead. The plan backfired however...
No, the problem is poorly managed deregulation. If it was done properly, there would be no energy crisis in CA. I believe NY and PA deregulated without problems.
But right now its the market that's to blame; there are quite a few people getting rich off of the shortage in CA...unfortunatlly they are doing in such a way as to make the shortages worse, not better.
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The First Amendment does not establish the right to send me e-mail.
I agree...but i'd go so far as to say the First Amendment doesn't give anyone the right to even talk to you if you don't want them to. I feel that the first amendment promises that should I want to say something, people may CHOOSE to listen to me. But they may also choose not to. Of course this right to speach also implies the right to listen.
Privacy implications? How about the fact that most people pick poor passwords. Imagine the amount of damange you could do to a person if you got their password for EVERYTHING.
It may not be a 'ticket', but SPEED ENFORCEMENT is left to the police. PIs can't go around seaching people's home, or arresting anyone, b/c those are duties performed SOLEY by police.
When you rent an apartment your apartment manager can't put clauses in that they can search your apartment for crack.
Also there is some dispute on just how clear the contract made things.
Well maybe ohio does it, but they don't in NY or PA. Besides, in PA you can make up for speeding at the exit..where you can sit for 10+ minutes
Um, i think violating police powers would be enforcement of things normally left to the police. I can't give anyone a ticket even though i may have a radar gun.
I doubt they will do that. I mean, wouldn't you dump the thing if you got mailed speeding tickets? And here in Philly, everyone dumping ezpass would return us to the exits backed up to the 2 mile sign problem.
I dunno what turnpikes you drive, but i've never had that happen to me on either the PA turnpike or the NY thruway. Which by the way has some of the worst speeders.
PA just got ezpass too, and decided NOT to do something like that. Probably b/c no one would get ezpass and the problem they are trying to solve (huge backups at exits) would be ruined. I sure wouldn't get ezpass if i was gonna be mailed a speeding ticket.
B/c they tried that and found it caused more accidents then prevented.
but stupid drivers do.
I agree. The number of accidents did not increase when they increased the speed limit to 65 on interstates (and here, interstates are commuter highways).
Around here, i think alot of the problem is poor road and traffic designs. It backs everything up, thus pissing everyone off, and people make rash decisions when they're mad. Road rage anyone? I get alot more annoyed around here then i did living in a city with good road planning. I'm willing to bet that most of road rage problems are caused b/c poor road design.
I was under the impression there was only one IDE. Besides, the notion of pebbles i thought was built into the language, just like the idea of melting vs. freezing. Which reminds me of another dislike with this language; the fact that to get decent speed, you'd have to freeze (or one of those), which actually just rewrote the eiffle code into C++ code anyway. It also took forever.
Dude, adding a link where there was none before IS rewriting. If the authors wanted certain words to be links, they would have done so themselves.
While you and I may turn it off, do you really think the clueless masses will even know they can? Its doubtful, and its not unreasonalbe to think that these same people won't know the original authors didn't put in those links.
Yes, and yahoo removed the items from those servers. They should not have been forced to do so with the us servers.
Eiffel, you've got to be kidding me? My school (RIT) actualy did use it when i started, but the other little things (pebbles, etc) got in the way of learning. We did actually switch to Java (after i was done the sequence, of course), which i think was a smart move. We do cut over to C++ in the 2nd half of the second course of the sequence. Syntax-wise, they are very similar in nature, and so the transition is less painful.
Yes, i know that..i've had HBO for a while.
Personally i find most ads annoying, but am greatful at least when something finally does start, its not interupted.
The ads pay for the content. Turn off the ads, turn off the content, and everything becomes pay-per-view. Be careful what you wish for.
Except we are talking about CATV, which one has to pay for. Thats what annoys me, especially about HBO..you're paying for it, but you STILL have ads. Although they are less prominate on HBO.
Um, your anology isn't quite right. Imagine if i went to a book store and modified every copy of a certain book...not just with a highlighter, but actually rewriting part of the story. Thats what this is doing, not simply 'highlighting' parts of it. And people WILL think thats how the authors wrote the page; most people barely know enough to get around on the web as it is, and just b/c somethings underlined in blue instead of green or whatever won't clue these people in.
Um, i lived in Rochester NY for about 5 years, and we had time warner cable...and i did see commercials for dsl from the local (small) phone company, Frontier.
From my experience with laptops, it was windows, not the laptop that was being fiesty. I even had an old dell laptop that ran linux wonderfully, and didn't shit bricks when i plugged in pc cards. I agree w/you about win2k..if you're going to have windows, i would think thats the version to have.
From everything i have been hearing, win2k sales have been very disapointing. Even if they have 5 million copies, thats not a lot concidering the number of computers out there.
As far as uptime goes, you're right, home user joe may not care for a 300+ day uptime. However, even joe user seems to be leaving his computer on more (probably b/c it eliminates boot time), and i'm sure they want an uptime of more then 30mins...which is about as good as you could get with previous versions. Even NT4 gave me alot of headaches during the day when we used that at work. Win9x and NT always seemed to crash at least once a day.
Besides, you seem to forget that NT4 may be stable enough for the home user, BUT, most home users DON'T have NT; they have that shitty DOS upgrade, win9x/ME.
I'm not a die hard MS fan; quite the opposite, i've found most of their products to be shoddy pieces of crap. I was suprised however when win2k actually does seem pretty stable. Yes it crashes, but crashes for me have been a rarity, and all the blue screens i have were b/c of a gravis gamepad driver...and even that has happened maybe 5 times in 9 months. To me its ironic that MS finally produces something thats pretty stable, yet not many people are buying it...but i guess their past reputation has caught up with them.
Most console gamers i know would throw out their console if it 'crashed.' indeed, while its been a while since i've played console games, i've nevre known the system to crash.
Of course, the problem with that is that people will use the old way until its no longer an option.
Actually, Edison helped build the electric chair, but on the stipulation that it would only run on AC. He hoped that AC powing the chair of death would put a negative slant on AC, and people would choose his DC instead. The plan backfired however...
Since the Sherman antitrust act i believe...or one of its later modifications. IIRC, the SAA was enacted around the 1930s.
No, the problem is poorly managed deregulation. If it was done properly, there would be no energy crisis in CA. I believe NY and PA deregulated without problems.
But right now its the market that's to blame; there are quite a few people getting rich off of the shortage in CA...unfortunatlly they are doing in such a way as to make the shortages worse, not better.