Before car manufacturers spend money on Microsoft shit, I would much prefer them to add a small system to display and interpret the engine diagnostics rather than having to take it to the dealership and be charged a small fortune for connecting their maufacturer supplied diagnostic unit (which cost them a LARGE fortune).
Actually that's called OBDII or OnBoard Diagnostics II. Since 1994 all cars destined for the US market (excluding diesels, and some others) are required to have an OBDII connector and standard diagnostic output. You can get a code reader at Wal-Mart, AutoZone, O'Reilly's, wherever for about 60 bucks.
What I don't want is some freakin' clown running into the back of my car with my kids in it because they can't get Outlook to open the pr0n attachment they downloaded. Or some grandma gets a carputer virus, and crosses the median when her car blue screens. What happens when your "Windows Genuine Advantage" license runs out?
Actually this solves two problems...choice in school education could break the illegal property tax scheme that holds property owners hostage to municipalities and counties currently squandering taxpayer dollars. Vouchers work on a federal level, but I'd rather see them work at a local or county level. If my kids don't attend your school, then you don't get my money. School districts don't understand basic math. They say that if I remove my kids from their school and get a voucher, then they don't get enough money from tax dollars. It turns out that the fewer kids you have in a school, the less money you need.
It's GM, but I do like the idea of a GE, or a Westinghouse getting in on the action. And you are spot on in your support for non-government-funded free-market endeavors to accomplish this, all the while making a profit.
So then, what... you have a computer that doesn't need to interact with any of the hardware on it, and magically boots to a web browser and takes you directly to some Flash-based Valhalla? I'll grant you that developments on the web have made application design a lot less operating system specific, but as long as W3C standards are routinely ignored and bandwidth is limited by less-than-capitalist business practices, browser design, and subsequently operating system design will always be relevant.
Does anyone know if Tiffany and Co. has sued any "brick and mortar" auction houses for this same type of thing? I suspect that there are any number of antique shops that routinely, perhaps unwittingly, sell fake Tiffany pieces.
I guess the statement "We haven't put in an application yet" was missed by the OP. Bletchley isn't being rescued yet. They are in discussions preceding an application for the grant.
wow... wish I read that completely unrealistic rant sooner after you wrote it.
Handguns have many purposes... not the least of which is defense of self or others. Whether that involves killing someone is usually up to that someone. If I point a weapon at an attacker in my own defense or that of my family, and they keep coming, they have chosen to die. You have a decidedly one-sided view of the issue, because you still believe in an idealistic utopia that doesn't exist in real life. Handguns are defensive weapons you gutless pansy. They defend me and you against government oppression, muggings, rattlesnakes, whatever.
I have even hunted deer with a handgun. A very large scary one with a holographic scope. OOOOOHHHH!!! Guns are BAAAADDD!!! Bullshit. They are very purposeful. The same cannot be said of you.
Hmmm... given that there is already at least anecdotal evidence of 4 percent false positives in fingerprints, zero reliability in bullet lead analysis, and questionable, and even non-existent review procedures, your analogy has holes in it. The reason we don't, and shouldn't have a database of ballistic fingerprints, is because we make the correct assumption of innocence. It's the same reason we don't put your fingerprints in a database when you're born. We assume you are innocent. Call me a libertarian (I view it as a compliment) but I think that any of these practices should raise eyebrows, hackles, dander, etc.
If I remember correctly, this is similar to how Compaq did it when reverse engineering IBM's BIOS. They had to get folks that didn't have ANY internal knowledge of the code. So the code is clean, but the functionality is the same.
Your brand of idiocy, where ham comes from cows, and lead poisoned retarded cows are loose in the streets, robbing trains, and killing women and children, uniquely qualifies you for political office. Left wing, of course.
Because it has larger implications for your digital rights. I'm sure you can cook up a scenario where if EFF's mission didn't creep, the scope of a decision scuttling the doctrine of first sale would itself creep.
Not gonna read TFA because NBA is irrelevant, but I'm guessing their return to relevancy might involve some new technology that will help the referees call a "traveling" violation every now and again.
While I agree that you shouldn't be locked into a two year contract, not having one would drive the price of your $89 phone up to more than double. But since the two year contract probably hides a tripling of the phone price, you're better off without the contract anyway. I say bring on the $300 phone, with no contract and unlimited usage for 20 bucks a month!!!
I was stationed at Ft. Hood, TX for three years, and during my stint, we occasionally had to pull guard duty. While doing so, we were required to check out an M16, but were not given ammunition. After complaining to the Sergeant Major, and explaining, that we would be more effective with night clubs, our M16s were taken away too.
Is OpenOffice.Org not sufficient for your needs? I realize that TFA is about VBA returning, so there may be some functionality in MSOffice that you "need", but I would think that for basic tasks, you don't need (and sounds like don't want) MSOffice.
I disagree on the point of baseball being ruined. There is a decidedly downhill slide occurring and it has much to do with marketing (among many other things), as you correctly point out. However, it's not beyond repair. Complicity between owners and players in the steroid scandal, marketing "multi-hundred dollar sneakers to our kids", player strikes, new stadium building binges funded by taxpayers, and all the maladies that affect baseball will never be able to overcome the nobility of baseball, unless we the fans allow it.
However, take a kid to little league practice, or go watch a double-A game sometime. You'll see that all is not lost. I went to the Springfield (MO) Cardinals vs. St. Louis Cardinals game just this Saturday, and saw Albert Pujols catching the first pitch thrown by a kid with Down Syndrome. That kid was smiling from ear-to-ear. He threw out the first pitch, and Albert caught it and gave him the ball.
Later, I saw some small minor league kid hit into an easy out. I also saw his first base coach, at a level in baseball where players sometimes begin to become "uncoachable" *cough*J.D. Drew*cough*, actually coach him. He gave him pointers on what to look for from the pitcher, where to try and hit the ball, and then gave him an encouraging slap on the behind.
My kid's little league coach is a woman. She's one of the few coaches I've seen that can actually coach. She fits more instruction into an hour of practice than most of the men I've seen coach. She doesn't have to yell to do it, and the kid's pay close attention.
Take heart, my/. friend. Baseball will prevail. Just look at the face of any kid getting an autograph from their favorite, larger-than-life player and you will see.
I never understood the notion of "low profitability" completely. Isn't profitability good, whether it's 5 percent or 100 percent? I understand that a company or individual can do something more efficiently and make larger profit margins, but a profit is a profit. If a company operates with all its liabilities and expenses including land, labor, and capital, and manages to turn a profit, then that company functions correctly.
its not their product, they don't make money off it.. so why should they spend the development dollars ? Because the PC is not their product either, and if they weren't simply trying to further their monopoly position, they could easily build support for additional OSes. Imagine if they were a much smaller company and they were only selling Hyper-V. They'd certainly build the support in then wouldn't they? But they're not small, they're a near monopoly that's artificially holding on to that position.
On a side note, would you tolerate a TV that only got NBC? What if it supported only NBC affiliated channels? See my point? Computer and software manufacturers should strive to interact, not build silos.
Abso-fucking-lutely right on. WHEN society loses its right to object, to think and speak as we see fit, we have no one to blame but ourselves.
This "please-protect-me-and-my-children-from-anything-and-anyone-including-myself-even-at-the-expense-of-my-God-given-liberties-because-I'm-a-lemming" mentality must die.
My car doesn't die if I fail to feed it regularly. I don't have to clean out my parking spot every few weeks. My old unsightly Pontiac would die quickly if not fed gasoline, and routinely shit in the driveway, as does.Net. It dies if not fed huge amounts of memory, and pukes regularly.
Your sarcasm is noted, re: this article, but you are spot on in your distrust.
No chick ever trusted any guy who said "I'll just put the tip in", and no thinking person should trust a government that says they are trying to make your life safer by invading your privacy.
I have seen and heard comments that are dismissive and arrogant to anyone who brings up the privacy issue, and that article seals it for me. We go from making your life safer by installing cameras everywhere, then to watching where you travel, in the name of anti-terrorism, then to collecting your DNA and making predictions about whether you will become a criminal.
George Orwell was not only an author, but apparently also somewhat of a prophet.
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Actually that's called OBDII or OnBoard Diagnostics II. Since 1994 all cars destined for the US market (excluding diesels, and some others) are required to have an OBDII connector and standard diagnostic output. You can get a code reader at Wal-Mart, AutoZone, O'Reilly's, wherever for about 60 bucks.
What I don't want is some freakin' clown running into the back of my car with my kids in it because they can't get Outlook to open the pr0n attachment they downloaded. Or some grandma gets a carputer virus, and crosses the median when her car blue screens. What happens when your "Windows Genuine Advantage" license runs out?
Actually this solves two problems...choice in school education could break the illegal property tax scheme that holds property owners hostage to municipalities and counties currently squandering taxpayer dollars. Vouchers work on a federal level, but I'd rather see them work at a local or county level. If my kids don't attend your school, then you don't get my money. School districts don't understand basic math. They say that if I remove my kids from their school and get a voucher, then they don't get enough money from tax dollars. It turns out that the fewer kids you have in a school, the less money you need.
It's GM, but I do like the idea of a GE, or a Westinghouse getting in on the action. And you are spot on in your support for non-government-funded free-market endeavors to accomplish this, all the while making a profit.
I was thinking of poking the dead horse with a sharp stick. Beating it is so 1990's.
So then, what... you have a computer that doesn't need to interact with any of the hardware on it, and magically boots to a web browser and takes you directly to some Flash-based Valhalla? I'll grant you that developments on the web have made application design a lot less operating system specific, but as long as W3C standards are routinely ignored and bandwidth is limited by less-than-capitalist business practices, browser design, and subsequently operating system design will always be relevant.
Does anyone know if Tiffany and Co. has sued any "brick and mortar" auction houses for this same type of thing? I suspect that there are any number of antique shops that routinely, perhaps unwittingly, sell fake Tiffany pieces.
I guess the statement "We haven't put in an application yet" was missed by the OP. Bletchley isn't being rescued yet. They are in discussions preceding an application for the grant.
wow... wish I read that completely unrealistic rant sooner after you wrote it.
Handguns have many purposes... not the least of which is defense of self or others. Whether that involves killing someone is usually up to that someone. If I point a weapon at an attacker in my own defense or that of my family, and they keep coming, they have chosen to die. You have a decidedly one-sided view of the issue, because you still believe in an idealistic utopia that doesn't exist in real life. Handguns are defensive weapons you gutless pansy. They defend me and you against government oppression, muggings, rattlesnakes, whatever.
I have even hunted deer with a handgun. A very large scary one with a holographic scope. OOOOOHHHH!!! Guns are BAAAADDD!!! Bullshit.
They are very purposeful. The same cannot be said of you.
Hmmm... given that there is already at least anecdotal evidence of 4 percent false positives in fingerprints, zero reliability in bullet lead analysis, and questionable, and even non-existent review procedures, your analogy has holes in it. The reason we don't, and shouldn't have a database of ballistic fingerprints, is because we make the correct assumption of innocence. It's the same reason we don't put your fingerprints in a database when you're born. We assume you are innocent. Call me a libertarian (I view it as a compliment) but I think that any of these practices should raise eyebrows, hackles, dander, etc.
But TFA says they (Amazon) aren't collecting them. So since they aren't being paid, they aren't being deducted.
I don't know why the IRS would be interested in state sales tax.
If I remember correctly, this is similar to how Compaq did it when reverse engineering IBM's BIOS. They had to get folks that didn't have ANY internal knowledge of the code. So the code is clean, but the functionality is the same.
Your brand of idiocy, where ham comes from cows, and lead poisoned retarded cows are loose in the streets, robbing trains, and killing women and children, uniquely qualifies you for political office. Left wing, of course.
Because it has larger implications for your digital rights. I'm sure you can cook up a scenario where if EFF's mission didn't creep, the scope of a decision scuttling the doctrine of first sale would itself creep.
Not gonna read TFA because NBA is irrelevant, but I'm guessing their return to relevancy might involve some new technology that will help the referees call a "traveling" violation every now and again.
While I agree that you shouldn't be locked into a two year contract, not having one would drive the price of your $89 phone up to more than double. But since the two year contract probably hides a tripling of the phone price, you're better off without the contract anyway. I say bring on the $300 phone, with no contract and unlimited usage for 20 bucks a month!!!
I was stationed at Ft. Hood, TX for three years, and during my stint, we occasionally had to pull guard duty. While doing so, we were required to check out an M16, but were not given ammunition. After complaining to the Sergeant Major, and explaining, that we would be more effective with night clubs, our M16s were taken away too.
Is OpenOffice.Org not sufficient for your needs? I realize that TFA is about VBA returning, so there may be some functionality in MSOffice that you "need", but I would think that for basic tasks, you don't need (and sounds like don't want) MSOffice.
I disagree on the point of baseball being ruined. There is a decidedly downhill slide occurring and it has much to do with marketing (among many other things), as you correctly point out. However, it's not beyond repair. Complicity between owners and players in the steroid scandal, marketing "multi-hundred dollar sneakers to our kids", player strikes, new stadium building binges funded by taxpayers, and all the maladies that affect baseball will never be able to overcome the nobility of baseball, unless we the fans allow it.
However, take a kid to little league practice, or go watch a double-A game sometime. You'll see that all is not lost. I went to the Springfield (MO) Cardinals vs. St. Louis Cardinals game just this Saturday, and saw Albert Pujols catching the first pitch thrown by a kid with Down Syndrome. That kid was smiling from ear-to-ear. He threw out the first pitch, and Albert caught it and gave him the ball.
Later, I saw some small minor league kid hit into an easy out. I also saw his first base coach, at a level in baseball where players sometimes begin to become "uncoachable" *cough*J.D. Drew*cough*, actually coach him. He gave him pointers on what to look for from the pitcher, where to try and hit the ball, and then gave him an encouraging slap on the behind.
My kid's little league coach is a woman. She's one of the few coaches I've seen that can actually coach. She fits more instruction into an hour of practice than most of the men I've seen coach. She doesn't have to yell to do it, and the kid's pay close attention.
Take heart, my /. friend. Baseball will prevail. Just look at the face of any kid getting an autograph from their favorite, larger-than-life player and you will see.
I'll be taking my leave of your lawn now.
I never understood the notion of "low profitability" completely. Isn't profitability good, whether it's 5 percent or 100 percent? I understand that a company or individual can do something more efficiently and make larger profit margins, but a profit is a profit. If a company operates with all its liabilities and expenses including land, labor, and capital, and manages to turn a profit, then that company functions correctly.
On a side note, would you tolerate a TV that only got NBC? What if it supported only NBC affiliated channels? See my point? Computer and software manufacturers should strive to interact, not build silos.
Abso-fucking-lutely right on. WHEN society loses its right to object, to think and speak as we see fit, we have no one to blame but ourselves.
This "please-protect-me-and-my-children-from-anything-and-anyone-including-myself-even-at-the-expense-of-my-God-given-liberties-because-I'm-a-lemming" mentality must die.
Your sarcasm is noted, re: this article, but you are spot on in your distrust.
No chick ever trusted any guy who said "I'll just put the tip in", and no thinking person should trust a government that says they are trying to make your life safer by invading your privacy.
I have seen and heard comments that are dismissive and arrogant to anyone who brings up the privacy issue, and that article seals it for me. We go from making your life safer by installing cameras everywhere, then to watching where you travel, in the name of anti-terrorism, then to collecting your DNA and making predictions about whether you will become a criminal.
George Orwell was not only an author, but apparently also somewhat of a prophet.