Nice try; according to TFA, Digital Photo Frames are small flat-panel displays for displaying digital images. TFA didn't specify, but it was implied that they were sold by mainstream retailers.
That by itself would have stopped the hijackers on 9/11. Reinforced security doors were available and should have been on all airplanes LONG before 9/11. The reason they were not installed is because the airlines thought that they were too expensive.
RFC3514 compliance would be a very bad thing as it could result in DRM that would be more difficult to break, and it could make DRM acceptable to too many people. It is MUCH better to have fragile, onerous DRM right now so that it can be easily broken and so that it will piss off enough people so that DRM is abandoned as being unworkable.
I guess that my point is that a library is useless to me if the librarians can't differentiate the values of an ARRL Handbook and a book on Compuserve. I don't know how the librarians of 30 years ago dealt with selecting technical books, but they did a WHOLE bunch better job than they do now.
They were all recent books; there were no Windows books, and few of them were computer related. Some of them were junior college level electronics theory books, two were recent ARRL Handbooks, there was a Samba book and an LDAP book, a recent physics text book, and some others. They were desirable books, if they weren't, the used book store would not have purchased them.
I am baby boomer and have haven't been to a library for over 10 years. I used to just about live in the library, but they have become irrelevant to me. The technical section is full of out of date arcane crap, yet they spend huge sums on Oprah books and Brittany Spears CDs. A few years ago I tried to donate a box full of recent technical books to the local library; THEY REFUSED TO TAKE THEM. It used to be that even if the library didn't want the books for the shelves they took them for their book sales. The up side to that is that the local used book store gave me a good price (store credit) for the books, because they were the type of books that they can sell.
Anymore, I either get the information from the internet or I buy the books.
"if you want Firefox to take off, you need to get it included/bundled with Windows."
That is not going to happen. It is also very unlikely that significant numbers of computer manufacturers will bundle Firefox on their computers. It is very nice for a software company when they have an unfettered monopoly on the desktop and laptop computer OS and can control computer manufacturers like this. On the desktop/laptop, Linux is still a hobbyist OS and Apple is a niche market.
Users aren't going to give fuck whether they are "authorized" to rip CDs or not, or even if it is fair use -- they are simply going to do it. The only thing that will stop them would be DRM, and DRM on CDs is pretty much ineffective anyway.
There are electronic stethoscopes available, but they are expensive and noisy. The ability to electronically produce a clean sound from a stethoscope would have some niche uses, primarily in the educational area. It would be nice to be able to allow a gaggle of interns to hear a patient's heart rather than to have each of them have to listen individually with their own stethoscope. I wonder if the designers have included Bluetooth in the original design. As was already mentioned there may be pros and cons to recording stethoscope sounds; I tend to believe that recording the sounds would become desirable for some doctors. Doctors tend to record and document everything as it is, and this could make it practical to record stethoscope sounds, Yeah, the prototype may be big, heavy, and a battery pig; that means that there are many opportunities to reduce its size, weight, and power consumption.
Although the original design does not include waveform diagnostics, analysis, and display capability, that could be added later at little cost.
That converter is about $50 with delivery; and it is from a third party with a miserable 75% positive rating. For many people in the US, $50 is a substantial amount of money; and a 75% positive rating is the shits.
For many people, $500 or $700 may as well be $10,000 -- they simply don't have that kind of money to spend on a TV; especially when it is to replace a TV that was perfectly adequate until US government regulations turned it into a vacuum filled brick.
Will Circuit City and Best Buy be giving away subsidized converters that allow people to view digital signals on their perfectly good, but soon to be obsoleted TVs?
It used to be that most households had one phone line. For a little while during the dialup ISP era, there were some homes that had two phone lines. Our household got rid of the second phone line long ago when we got broadband cable. We are now back to one land line, that is used mostly for conference calls, many of which are REALLY long, and my partner and I each have a cell phone. I also have an employer provided Crackberry.
The landline is a basic unlimited local phone line and other than toll free calls we don't place long distance calls on it. We each have very basic $30 a month plans that include 500 anytime minutes, free after 7 PM, and unlimited data. So, for about $90 a month we get three phone lines; two of which, for us, includes essentially unlimited free long distance. I can remember paying more than $90 a month for a single land line and long distance charges.
For now, we will not give up our land line and corded phones. A few years ago we found out how long cell phone service and broadband cable service lasts after the power goes out -- it is less than a few hours. During a three day power outage we had the only working telephone in our condo building; some people only had cell phones and the ones who had land lines only had cordless phones. We had neighbors who wouldn't even say 'hi' before the power outage all of a sudden feel a need to get to know us -- and our phone. After about the first day, we also had people come by asking me if I could make their useless, and now dying, cordless phone stop beeping.
NYSE started migrating from a mainframe this past summer, somehow I don't think that they care about Windows interoperability. Apache is likely to provide all of the Windows compatibility that they would ever need.
It is not that the OS can't handle power saving features, it is that this particular power saving feature is breaking standards. Disabling a standards breaking feature is a valid way to take care of the problem. A better solution would be for the drive manufacturer to follow standards and to correct or replace any devices that do not follow standards.
The episodes are Flash, I didn't see any advertising, and you can randomly access any part of the video. I didn't try, but I suspect that the files can be downloaded.
ISPs and cable TV providers in the US are not common carriers, Comcast doesn't have common carrier status. If ISPs were common carriers there would be no net neutrality issues.
It doesn't sound to me like it was the geeks who blew it. The geeks designed a system, which very well might work if it were deployed as designed; the suits got cheap and undersized the deployment.
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Whichever way you read it, £24bn is a fair bit of dosh
Nice try; according to TFA, Digital Photo Frames are small flat-panel displays for displaying digital images. TFA didn't specify, but it was implied that they were sold by mainstream retailers.
I bet that most people would have NO idea that this could possibly happen.
These bugs are not normally noticeable by the user, but some of the bugs may be exploitable.
"2. The cockpits are more secure."
That by itself would have stopped the hijackers on 9/11. Reinforced security doors were available and should have been on all airplanes LONG before 9/11. The reason they were not installed is because the airlines thought that they were too expensive.
There is no logic in faith, and there is no need to reconcile the two.
Public education, science education in particular, should not mention gods at all. This may be an attempt to bring a god into the classroom.
RFC3514 compliance would be a very bad thing as it could result in DRM that would be more difficult to break, and it could make DRM acceptable to too many people. It is MUCH better to have fragile, onerous DRM right now so that it can be easily broken and so that it will piss off enough people so that DRM is abandoned as being unworkable.
I guess that my point is that a library is useless to me if the librarians can't differentiate the values of an ARRL Handbook and a book on Compuserve. I don't know how the librarians of 30 years ago dealt with selecting technical books, but they did a WHOLE bunch better job than they do now.
They were all recent books; there were no Windows books, and few of them were computer related. Some of them were junior college level electronics theory books, two were recent ARRL Handbooks, there was a Samba book and an LDAP book, a recent physics text book, and some others. They were desirable books, if they weren't, the used book store would not have purchased them.
I wish they were 1901 technical books, they would be infinitely more interesting than the current library crap.
I am baby boomer and have haven't been to a library for over 10 years. I used to just about live in the library, but they have become irrelevant to me. The technical section is full of out of date arcane crap, yet they spend huge sums on Oprah books and Brittany Spears CDs. A few years ago I tried to donate a box full of recent technical books to the local library; THEY REFUSED TO TAKE THEM. It used to be that even if the library didn't want the books for the shelves they took them for their book sales. The up side to that is that the local used book store gave me a good price (store credit) for the books, because they were the type of books that they can sell.
Anymore, I either get the information from the internet or I buy the books.
"if you want Firefox to take off, you need to get it included/bundled with Windows."
That is not going to happen. It is also very unlikely that significant numbers of computer manufacturers will bundle Firefox on their computers. It is very nice for a software company when they have an unfettered monopoly on the desktop and laptop computer OS and can control computer manufacturers like this. On the desktop/laptop, Linux is still a hobbyist OS and Apple is a niche market.
Users aren't going to give fuck whether they are "authorized" to rip CDs or not, or even if it is fair use -- they are simply going to do it. The only thing that will stop them would be DRM, and DRM on CDs is pretty much ineffective anyway.
TFA didn't mention if ad blocking was taken into account.
There are electronic stethoscopes available, but they are expensive and noisy. The ability to electronically produce a clean sound from a stethoscope would have some niche uses, primarily in the educational area. It would be nice to be able to allow a gaggle of interns to hear a patient's heart rather than to have each of them have to listen individually with their own stethoscope. I wonder if the designers have included Bluetooth in the original design. As was already mentioned there may be pros and cons to recording stethoscope sounds; I tend to believe that recording the sounds would become desirable for some doctors. Doctors tend to record and document everything as it is, and this could make it practical to record stethoscope sounds, Yeah, the prototype may be big, heavy, and a battery pig; that means that there are many opportunities to reduce its size, weight, and power consumption.
Although the original design does not include waveform diagnostics, analysis, and display capability, that could be added later at little cost.
There is also Amateur Radio, although that requires a license.
That converter is about $50 with delivery; and it is from a third party with a miserable 75% positive rating. For many people in the US, $50 is a substantial amount of money; and a 75% positive rating is the shits.
For many people, $500 or $700 may as well be $10,000 -- they simply don't have that kind of money to spend on a TV; especially when it is to replace a TV that was perfectly adequate until US government regulations turned it into a vacuum filled brick.
Will Circuit City and Best Buy be giving away subsidized converters that allow people to view digital signals on their perfectly good, but soon to be obsoleted TVs?
It used to be that most households had one phone line. For a little while during the dialup ISP era, there were some homes that had two phone lines. Our household got rid of the second phone line long ago when we got broadband cable. We are now back to one land line, that is used mostly for conference calls, many of which are REALLY long, and my partner and I each have a cell phone. I also have an employer provided Crackberry.
The landline is a basic unlimited local phone line and other than toll free calls we don't place long distance calls on it. We each have very basic $30 a month plans that include 500 anytime minutes, free after 7 PM, and unlimited data. So, for about $90 a month we get three phone lines; two of which, for us, includes essentially unlimited free long distance. I can remember paying more than $90 a month for a single land line and long distance charges.
For now, we will not give up our land line and corded phones. A few years ago we found out how long cell phone service and broadband cable service lasts after the power goes out -- it is less than a few hours. During a three day power outage we had the only working telephone in our condo building; some people only had cell phones and the ones who had land lines only had cordless phones. We had neighbors who wouldn't even say 'hi' before the power outage all of a sudden feel a need to get to know us -- and our phone. After about the first day, we also had people come by asking me if I could make their useless, and now dying, cordless phone stop beeping.
NYSE started migrating from a mainframe this past summer, somehow I don't think that they care about Windows interoperability. Apache is likely to provide all of the Windows compatibility that they would ever need.
It is not that the OS can't handle power saving features, it is that this particular power saving feature is breaking standards. Disabling a standards breaking feature is a valid way to take care of the problem. A better solution would be for the drive manufacturer to follow standards and to correct or replace any devices that do not follow standards.
The episodes are Flash, I didn't see any advertising, and you can randomly access any part of the video. I didn't try, but I suspect that the files can be downloaded.
ISPs and cable TV providers in the US are not common carriers, Comcast doesn't have common carrier status. If ISPs were common carriers there would be no net neutrality issues.
It doesn't sound to me like it was the geeks who blew it. The geeks designed a system, which very well might work if it were deployed as designed; the suits got cheap and undersized the deployment.