This arguement is common and dangerous. Not only do unlimited wiretaps destroy our privacy they destroy our anonymity. Free speech means I can communicate over any medium and say anything I want. Including criticism of the current government. In the private sphere of my house I cannot be prosecuted for ANYTHING I say. But these days, the Patriot Act and other dubious pieces of legislation allow the government to hold me without cause, brand me a terrorist and destroy my life. AT&T is now making that even easier, I'm not sure the best way of protecting your people and a way of life lies in destroying that which makes it free. I'm sure the American Revolution would never have happened if gov't had known about it.
1) You do not live in a country with a Free Market.
2) The so called 'free market' begs to be regulated, so it can pursue courses of action like the two tiered internet. As well, regulation maintains some semblance of stability. The 'Free Market' lead to the depression.
3) The government does not agree with you, it thinks 'the people' are a witless stampede of chaos that must be controlled so that large scale corporations can make short term profits. It takes people like you to correct this misnomer.
4) I firmly support your views on communication anarchy, this is what the internet should be. The people need to unite and disrupt corporate profiteering, only then can we have any real power. Unite, network, and change.
The real solution is in small lightweight autonomous agents that can query the 'monolithic' RDMS in an evolutionary fashion. No need to scrap a proven system or to scrap SQL. Just use it smarter.
Yeah, why GPS? GPS is great for AVL (Automatic Vehicle Location) but absolutely useless for the function of a GPS odometer. I know, I work with this stuff daily in the transit, paratransit, and taxi industry. It's not reliable enough.
Nope, this is all madness. Coke and Pepsi have been appearing in each others ads for years. You don't see them suing each other. LV is completely off their rocker here.
Now let's keep it real here. I too am a mac fanboy, I have the iPod, a powerbook, and a mac mini. BUT let's keep remember one simple fact. Apple snagged the windowed OS from Xerox.
As Bill put it to Steve, "I feel like I broke into Xerox to steal their TV only to find you stonle it first."
Can anyone point to a resource regarding 'software' patents in North America? I'm terribly confused about it. IP is becoming more muddled and quagmire-ish, I'm afraid to write code because IBM mave have already patented it. More importantly, who owns the FIFO Queue patent?
The police *may* be taking liberties. Other than that, AVL (Automatic Vehicle Location)is a huge business for transit, taxi, and services. OnStar is also popular. In the event of a emergency OnStar has huge benefits in directing EMS to your location. If I have GPS in my vehicle and someone steals it, I can locate my property and apprehend the thief.
Now, to the police issue. How is this different from a detective offering you a glass of water the getting your prints off of it? Your vehicle is a plain sight item, so what if the plunked a GPS tracker on it? This only tells them where to look for a plain site item. What if they had 10 plainclothes detectives following this individual around. Last time I checked, you didn't need a warrant to trail a suspect.
I really like your comment. My thoughts are this though.
The correction necessary to see the money in the hands of right people will never happen because of Movie house greed. Even Kenny-the-stuntman's heartfelt appeal during movie previews makes me sick. I know the movie houses are exploiting that stuntman in oh-so-many ways. Much like the music industry, the movie folks are missing the boat in many ways. There is a great business case here.
Where are the true artists? Gone, they haven't been around for years. With every second movie being a remake and original content only being on the indie circuit, why are they charging me $15 at the theater, $5 to rent it, and $30 to own a piece of crap they made a better version of 10 years ago? The 'pop-erization' (nice word) of music accomplishes the same level of mediocrity. Make a product people will buy. I think that is better place to start than litigating the internet.
Lastly, this is an interesting time for the technology/IP/Copyrights legislation. Between US gov't mandates and the large corporation interests groups who/how do we decide what is going on with peoples personal data? People forget, bit torrent does far more than steal movies, it provides excellent infrastructure for informatics projects, pervassive data store/share, and grid computing. As a user of the iTMS, I condone legal download services and condem piracy. At the same time, I don't appreciate the liberties lawyers are taking with MY data. Especially lawyers/Politicians that have no idea what the internet is (and it's not the child of Mr. Gore). My bits are my bits. Mr. Tenet, Pres. Bush, the *AA can kindly step away from my any thought about pillaging my data.
If everyone puts a WAP in their house and allows anon connections, you could build the WiFi for free. Yeah yeah yeah, people would take advantage of it. But it would be a thing of beauty. When the verizon cops show up at your door kindly excercise your constitutional right to bear arms.;-)
Yeah, I highly doubt those Total Cost of Ownership Assuming Your IT Department Is A Bunch of Blathering Idiots type of reports exist. Maybe this is a case point that they should? I am not being negative to SAs, I have met some talented ones and some less than talented ones. I feel bad for them, they have a huge amount of responsibility, lots of stress and not enough respect. Let's be honest, mistakes happen, it would be nice to know what the bottom line is if you completely screw the pooch. I bet the execs wouldn't mind know it either. It will cost X dollars if we completely screw up, let's assume it will happen once a year.
Something that makes me curious, you hear Ballmer lament about the lower TCO of windows. You hear the linux community shriek about it's lower TCO.
The bottom line is really this, if your sysAdmins are less than competent and bugger up something like this which system would have a lower cost to recover? This is a really good thing to know when you are considering any enterprise system. Call it, TCCR (total cost of catastrophic recovery). Ballmer, Linux communities answer me this!
Well, due to the wheel base/car dimensions this vehicle has outrageously agile handling. Right up there with the Mini Cooper.
As previously stated, a frontal collision doesn't put the engine in your lap like most domestic (US) models. I don't know what people are refering to with this bounce comment. This vehicle is not designed to 'bounce off' other vehicles in collision. The plastics used in the body are your 'crumple' zone. On impact they will absorb as much of the impact as they can before shattering. You'd be shocked how much abuse they take.
Most interesting of all is the axel spacing. Since the wheel base is so short, this vehicle ranks as one of the safest side impact vehicles. Instead of folding in on itself in the event of a t-bone accident, the axels absorb the punishment while the roll cage protects you.
This all requires perspective, this vehicle will survive an accident on par with any other vehicle. Not even a chevy impala will do well against a hummer or a semi truck. The goal is survivability. I feel that smart cars address that issue quite well compared to other more evolved vehicles. For example, the F-150 which is the most notorious fatal side impact vehicle.
Well, seeing as more people live in the state of California or New York than all of Canada it makes sense when the Airports/Train Stations/etc are packed. Besides, thanksgiving between the two coutries is wildly different. Compare Christmas, that would be more realistic. Per capita travel is likely very close.
Tis about perspective.
You raise an interesting point, the solution is actually simple, you use a series of biometrics and create a composite biometric. Something perhaps like a fingerprint and a retinal scan. Besides the obvious logistical problems with the composite I mentioned this is how you could make situations like demolition man more difficult to acheive.
There will always be ways to circumvent any security system. Text based security is OK, but it is being abused and raped by naive users and crackers. Biometrics is just the next level in digital personal security it is certainly not the end all solution.
You are 100% correct. My encounter with said SUV was not at speed. In fact, it is more in line with your other comments, the driver was not cyclist aware. The driver pulled out of side street into the curb lane without looking. I'm glad I had the helmet.
The issues are definitely complicated. Enforcing helmets may give drivers a false sense of security, oh that cyclist has a helmet, I don't have to pay attention to them. At the same time, convincing your city to put in bike lanes and educate the public (cyclists and drivers) has proven to be somewhat difficult.
I'm not a fan of riding like a 'nob' in fact, my riding ettiquette is pretty solid. You have to respect what is happening on the road. I still feel better in a helmet. This reminds me about the seatbelt laws. People went up in arms when it became mandatory to wear a seatbelt. I still think in addition to your other very valid points (driver/cyclist education and awareness) that mandatory helmets are not a bad idea.
I wear a helmet when I ride a bike. It's not the conservationalist yuppie in me, it's the yuppies driving their damn SUVs with bush bars. Get hit by one of those and then say something about helmets. Without mine, I'd be dead. I also wear a helmet skiing. As a racer you have little choice. It saved me on many occasions.
Regardless of what Apple may have claimed since day one, generally getting something "for PC" or "For Mac" only meant which drivers it included. If you could connect it to the same type of port and run it driverless, you could use it on either. Ethernet-connected "Apple-only" PCL6 printer? Yeah, right, whatever, smoke s'more, Jobs.
Obviously it's NOT the driver. Earlier in the thread, in the manual and pretty much anywhere else you will learn quickly that the file system on a mac-formatted iPod is HFS and the file system on a PC-formatted iPod is FAT32. Nothing to do with drivers.
When it's a printer, or scanner, or other type of I/O peripheral it shouldn't matter about the OS when you connect it. But when the peripheral is a secondary storage device (ie an iPod) it really bloody matters how the OS looks at it.
As did the standard issue PowerBooks. I ordered the as-is 15", 1Ghz ComboDrive on Oct. 24th. Ship date was supposed to be Nov 5th, I just found out, November 30th is the updated ship date. While I am kinda sad, new toy coming and all that, I am inspired that they may be correcting the problem. I can wait.
Is there such a thing as a 'benevolent' monopoly? I hope apple will prove me wrong. This situation with MusicMatch is understandable though. Annoying, but understandable.
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This arguement is common and dangerous. Not only do unlimited wiretaps destroy our privacy they destroy our anonymity. Free speech means I can communicate over any medium and say anything I want. Including criticism of the current government. In the private sphere of my house I cannot be prosecuted for ANYTHING I say. But these days, the Patriot Act and other dubious pieces of legislation allow the government to hold me without cause, brand me a terrorist and destroy my life. AT&T is now making that even easier, I'm not sure the best way of protecting your people and a way of life lies in destroying that which makes it free. I'm sure the American Revolution would never have happened if gov't had known about it.
1) You do not live in a country with a Free Market. 2) The so called 'free market' begs to be regulated, so it can pursue courses of action like the two tiered internet. As well, regulation maintains some semblance of stability. The 'Free Market' lead to the depression. 3) The government does not agree with you, it thinks 'the people' are a witless stampede of chaos that must be controlled so that large scale corporations can make short term profits. It takes people like you to correct this misnomer. 4) I firmly support your views on communication anarchy, this is what the internet should be. The people need to unite and disrupt corporate profiteering, only then can we have any real power. Unite, network, and change.
The real solution is in small lightweight autonomous agents that can query the 'monolithic' RDMS in an evolutionary fashion. No need to scrap a proven system or to scrap SQL. Just use it smarter.
Yeah, why GPS? GPS is great for AVL (Automatic Vehicle Location) but absolutely useless for the function of a GPS odometer. I know, I work with this stuff daily in the transit, paratransit, and taxi industry. It's not reliable enough.
Nope, this is all madness. Coke and Pepsi have been appearing in each others ads for years. You don't see them suing each other. LV is completely off their rocker here.
Now let's keep it real here. I too am a mac fanboy, I have the iPod, a powerbook, and a mac mini. BUT let's keep remember one simple fact. Apple snagged the windowed OS from Xerox.
As Bill put it to Steve, "I feel like I broke into Xerox to steal their TV only to find you stonle it first."
Can anyone point to a resource regarding 'software' patents in North America? I'm terribly confused about it. IP is becoming more muddled and quagmire-ish, I'm afraid to write code because IBM mave have already patented it. More importantly, who owns the FIFO Queue patent?
Now that's thinking outside the box. I like it. I can see it now, www.WhereDaCopsAt.com
The police *may* be taking liberties. Other than that, AVL (Automatic Vehicle Location)is a huge business for transit, taxi, and services. OnStar is also popular. In the event of a emergency OnStar has huge benefits in directing EMS to your location. If I have GPS in my vehicle and someone steals it, I can locate my property and apprehend the thief. Now, to the police issue. How is this different from a detective offering you a glass of water the getting your prints off of it? Your vehicle is a plain sight item, so what if the plunked a GPS tracker on it? This only tells them where to look for a plain site item. What if they had 10 plainclothes detectives following this individual around. Last time I checked, you didn't need a warrant to trail a suspect.
I really like your comment. My thoughts are this though. The correction necessary to see the money in the hands of right people will never happen because of Movie house greed. Even Kenny-the-stuntman's heartfelt appeal during movie previews makes me sick. I know the movie houses are exploiting that stuntman in oh-so-many ways. Much like the music industry, the movie folks are missing the boat in many ways. There is a great business case here. Where are the true artists? Gone, they haven't been around for years. With every second movie being a remake and original content only being on the indie circuit, why are they charging me $15 at the theater, $5 to rent it, and $30 to own a piece of crap they made a better version of 10 years ago? The 'pop-erization' (nice word) of music accomplishes the same level of mediocrity. Make a product people will buy. I think that is better place to start than litigating the internet. Lastly, this is an interesting time for the technology/IP/Copyrights legislation. Between US gov't mandates and the large corporation interests groups who/how do we decide what is going on with peoples personal data? People forget, bit torrent does far more than steal movies, it provides excellent infrastructure for informatics projects, pervassive data store/share, and grid computing. As a user of the iTMS, I condone legal download services and condem piracy. At the same time, I don't appreciate the liberties lawyers are taking with MY data. Especially lawyers/Politicians that have no idea what the internet is (and it's not the child of Mr. Gore). My bits are my bits. Mr. Tenet, Pres. Bush, the *AA can kindly step away from my any thought about pillaging my data.
If everyone puts a WAP in their house and allows anon connections, you could build the WiFi for free. Yeah yeah yeah, people would take advantage of it. But it would be a thing of beauty. When the verizon cops show up at your door kindly excercise your constitutional right to bear arms. ;-)
Yeah, I highly doubt those Total Cost of Ownership Assuming Your IT Department Is A Bunch of Blathering Idiots type of reports exist. Maybe this is a case point that they should? I am not being negative to SAs, I have met some talented ones and some less than talented ones. I feel bad for them, they have a huge amount of responsibility, lots of stress and not enough respect. Let's be honest, mistakes happen, it would be nice to know what the bottom line is if you completely screw the pooch. I bet the execs wouldn't mind know it either. It will cost X dollars if we completely screw up, let's assume it will happen once a year.
Something that makes me curious, you hear Ballmer lament about the lower TCO of windows. You hear the linux community shriek about it's lower TCO. The bottom line is really this, if your sysAdmins are less than competent and bugger up something like this which system would have a lower cost to recover? This is a really good thing to know when you are considering any enterprise system. Call it, TCCR (total cost of catastrophic recovery). Ballmer, Linux communities answer me this!
Well, due to the wheel base/car dimensions this vehicle has outrageously agile handling. Right up there with the Mini Cooper. As previously stated, a frontal collision doesn't put the engine in your lap like most domestic (US) models. I don't know what people are refering to with this bounce comment. This vehicle is not designed to 'bounce off' other vehicles in collision. The plastics used in the body are your 'crumple' zone. On impact they will absorb as much of the impact as they can before shattering. You'd be shocked how much abuse they take. Most interesting of all is the axel spacing. Since the wheel base is so short, this vehicle ranks as one of the safest side impact vehicles. Instead of folding in on itself in the event of a t-bone accident, the axels absorb the punishment while the roll cage protects you. This all requires perspective, this vehicle will survive an accident on par with any other vehicle. Not even a chevy impala will do well against a hummer or a semi truck. The goal is survivability. I feel that smart cars address that issue quite well compared to other more evolved vehicles. For example, the F-150 which is the most notorious fatal side impact vehicle.
Well, seeing as more people live in the state of California or New York than all of Canada it makes sense when the Airports/Train Stations/etc are packed. Besides, thanksgiving between the two coutries is wildly different. Compare Christmas, that would be more realistic. Per capita travel is likely very close. Tis about perspective.
Um, no one is *making* you go. 'Sides, hit up Taco Bell and get all the diarrhea you in the comfort of your homeland.
You raise an interesting point, the solution is actually simple, you use a series of biometrics and create a composite biometric. Something perhaps like a fingerprint and a retinal scan. Besides the obvious logistical problems with the composite I mentioned this is how you could make situations like demolition man more difficult to acheive.
There will always be ways to circumvent any security system. Text based security is OK, but it is being abused and raped by naive users and crackers. Biometrics is just the next level in digital personal security it is certainly not the end all solution.
You are 100% correct. My encounter with said SUV was not at speed. In fact, it is more in line with your other comments, the driver was not cyclist aware. The driver pulled out of side street into the curb lane without looking. I'm glad I had the helmet. The issues are definitely complicated. Enforcing helmets may give drivers a false sense of security, oh that cyclist has a helmet, I don't have to pay attention to them. At the same time, convincing your city to put in bike lanes and educate the public (cyclists and drivers) has proven to be somewhat difficult. I'm not a fan of riding like a 'nob' in fact, my riding ettiquette is pretty solid. You have to respect what is happening on the road. I still feel better in a helmet. This reminds me about the seatbelt laws. People went up in arms when it became mandatory to wear a seatbelt. I still think in addition to your other very valid points (driver/cyclist education and awareness) that mandatory helmets are not a bad idea.
I wear a helmet when I ride a bike. It's not the conservationalist yuppie in me, it's the yuppies driving their damn SUVs with bush bars. Get hit by one of those and then say something about helmets. Without mine, I'd be dead. I also wear a helmet skiing. As a racer you have little choice. It saved me on many occasions.
Regardless of what Apple may have claimed since day one, generally getting something "for PC" or "For Mac" only meant which drivers it included. If you could connect it to the same type of port and run it driverless, you could use it on either. Ethernet-connected "Apple-only" PCL6 printer? Yeah, right, whatever, smoke s'more, Jobs.
Obviously it's NOT the driver. Earlier in the thread, in the manual and pretty much anywhere else you will learn quickly that the file system on a mac-formatted iPod is HFS and the file system on a PC-formatted iPod is FAT32. Nothing to do with drivers.
When it's a printer, or scanner, or other type of I/O peripheral it shouldn't matter about the OS when you connect it. But when the peripheral is a secondary storage device (ie an iPod) it really bloody matters how the OS looks at it.
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dude, you just made my day with that link. Rock on.
well, it seemed like a good idea, then Apple was worried they'd get sued for making people fat.
I would like to superDrive my Combo please.
As did the standard issue PowerBooks. I ordered the as-is 15", 1Ghz ComboDrive on Oct. 24th. Ship date was supposed to be Nov 5th, I just found out, November 30th is the updated ship date. While I am kinda sad, new toy coming and all that, I am inspired that they may be correcting the problem. I can wait.
Is there such a thing as a 'benevolent' monopoly? I hope apple will prove me wrong. This situation with MusicMatch is understandable though. Annoying, but understandable.