Linux is well poised for the appliance market... but I have to wonder when DRM and the DMCA will make it difficult, if not impossible, to provide the services on Linux needed to compete in the media space if DRM gets in the way.
The simple way, I guess, is to put the DRM enforcement into hardware, but I think that leaves us all worse off in the end.
Government has a monopoly -- on taking your money under threat of gunpoint and giving it to someone else -- without fear of legal retribution.
If the government had granted the ability to have compulsory fees for everyone, even those who don't use the broadband provided, in order to pay for the others... would you be OK with this? Do you hold government in that much higher of an esteem than you hold corporations?
I spend most of my daylight hours during the week under fluourescent lighting with no natural light (underwhelming cubeworld). Fluourescents don't give off much IR, right?
While I can see that it could be wonderful for some things, I think I'm better off plugging my phone into the wall to charge.
I think that saying, "If you don't play fair, we'll put a tarriff on imports from China" is the prerogative of a government addressing international trade with a partner who's done little to address your concerns about illegal business activities.
Bandwidth is incredibly cheap - I'm not sure how necessary this is. Bought in bulk (20, 50, 100mbps) from a hosting facility, bandwidth is cheap enough for all but the most amateur of users to send a single stream up to the hosted server and distribute from there... perhaps to multiple boxes that then split the stream further.
I think this is a technology in search of a purpose rather than real-world problem solving.
I think you'd also have to consider things like the heat-insulating properties of the sealants. That whole law-of-unintended-consequences thing. Would suck to solve the tin whiskers problem, but have your CPU fail because of overheating.
Imagine the engineering needed to make the tin man a razor which would give him a close shave... hell, I think that giving him a heart would be easier.
How long until the "not validated" number makes it into a whine by MS about what percentage of XP is pirated?
Cost is definitely a factor for me with new apps
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Lately, I've had problems that I thought could be solved by software I bought, but it simply let me down. Free as in beer is pretty important not only because of the software which is useful, but because there's no penalty when it's not.
Well, if it doesn't lift the torso up too high to full-body standing height (after all, wheelchairs don't), the center of gravity would be lower than a typical person on a standard Segway (less leverage to counterbalance, etc).
Without legs, a person's mass would be substantially reduced.
If the person is lifted above where the feet would go on a standard Segway, there would be more space for batteries as well...
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The problem with democracy is that so many people are fucking morons.
Yes, well... we libertarians think that government services should be limited to quite a small subset of services used...
Linux is well poised for the appliance market... but I have to wonder when DRM and the DMCA will make it difficult, if not impossible, to provide the services on Linux needed to compete in the media space if DRM gets in the way. The simple way, I guess, is to put the DRM enforcement into hardware, but I think that leaves us all worse off in the end.
Government has a monopoly -- on taking your money under threat of gunpoint and giving it to someone else -- without fear of legal retribution.
If the government had granted the ability to have compulsory fees for everyone, even those who don't use the broadband provided, in order to pay for the others... would you be OK with this? Do you hold government in that much higher of an esteem than you hold corporations?
It's only $29.95 for the first 6 months.
After that, depending on what other Cablevision services you have, it's either $44.95 or $49.95 per month
It's still "wicked fast", but I wanted to make sure people had the straight dope.
I spend most of my daylight hours during the week under fluourescent lighting with no natural light (underwhelming cubeworld). Fluourescents don't give off much IR, right?
While I can see that it could be wonderful for some things, I think I'm better off plugging my phone into the wall to charge.
I think that saying, "If you don't play fair, we'll put a tarriff on imports from China" is the prerogative of a government addressing international trade with a partner who's done little to address your concerns about illegal business activities.
Bandwidth is incredibly cheap - I'm not sure how necessary this is. Bought in bulk (20, 50, 100mbps) from a hosting facility, bandwidth is cheap enough for all but the most amateur of users to send a single stream up to the hosted server and distribute from there... perhaps to multiple boxes that then split the stream further.
I think this is a technology in search of a purpose rather than real-world problem solving.
Thank you.
I think you'd also have to consider things like the heat-insulating properties of the sealants. That whole law-of-unintended-consequences thing. Would suck to solve the tin whiskers problem, but have your CPU fail because of overheating.
Imagine the engineering needed to make the tin man a razor which would give him a close shave... hell, I think that giving him a heart would be easier.
And they'd still solder the socket onto the board...
Shut up, Rob! Don't make me hunt you down and cause even more chaos in your life!
I did. It just says that lead tends to help it not happen. Not why. Are there other substances which would help? Gold tends to be non-reactive.
How about just teaching kids to avoid licking circuit boards?
What does lack of using lead have to do with the tin whiskers problem?
Can you archive HDTV broadcasts, though? 15 hours isn't much in the whole scheme of things.
do the games start with WOPR saying, "Would you like to play a game?"
A CMS allows you to have anyone update the site because you trade in some flexibility for simplicity.
Some people are better off with AOL, others just need a TCP/IP pipe.
How long until the "not validated" number makes it into a whine by MS about what percentage of XP is pirated?
Lately, I've had problems that I thought could be solved by software I bought, but it simply let me down. Free as in beer is pretty important not only because of the software which is useful, but because there's no penalty when it's not.
Well, if it doesn't lift the torso up too high to full-body standing height (after all, wheelchairs don't), the center of gravity would be lower than a typical person on a standard Segway (less leverage to counterbalance, etc).
Without legs, a person's mass would be substantially reduced.
If the person is lifted above where the feet would go on a standard Segway, there would be more space for batteries as well...
Because someone needs to work with the USAF on how to handle a disease that inevitably people in the USAF get?
It might be cool to have, instead of a wheelchair or prosthetic legs, a Segway-like 2-wheel thing.
Well, if you save space by removing duplicated components, don't you have more room for additional battery, even if it's external to the unit?