They'll tell us that's what it's for, but let's be honest profit is the real motivator. The inhibitor to innovation is the 0 risk game we all seem to want to play, and I agree the FDA testing procedures do slow that down, and with reason. Yes, if I buy an "approved medical device" then I want to be assured that it is as safe as it can possibly be. However, some people are willing to take a risk/reward gamble. Trying to outlaws that does not make things better for anyone. As he stated, the condition is dangerous anyway, so tinkering with a device may be worth the risk to some people.
Let people make those *INFORMED* decisions themselves. We can't assume they don't have the power to understand their decision. The balance right now with it being illegal to sell/distribute but legal to tinker with for your own use seems like a perfectly valid line. Let them work it out, let an industry come along and distribute a "proven open source design". After all, the "medical industry" is always using "R&D" as their scapegoat for ridiculously high costs on everything. The open source community is removing that cost. Now all you have to do is refine the design into a neat little pager sized case and profit, but you better do it at a more reasonable price point because you don't own an exclusive patent now!
The entire reason to make it free was to resolve the split user base, which costs them money by maintaining old versions as well as all their development partners for having to support multiple versions. My suspicion is they're trying to get everyone on a common base and start moving to a model more like Mac, with more frequent, far cheaper upgrades. I think the "deadlines" are mainly to encourage people to "hurry up and get it done"
The filter encouraged the driver to travel at 107 mph in a 55 zone. It doesn't matter who was holding the phone.
How do you figure? Let's accept the fact that there is a 100mph trophy, which appears to be in debate, but let's just accept it as true. Then snapchat encouraged users to go fast. Are there many legal and safe ways to go that fast? Yes. Plane, train, passenger on a racetrack (yes there are options for that), etc. It is not an achievement for going 107mph in a 55mph zone. It was not for going faster than the speed limit. It did not encourage illegal behavior. It encouraged, at best, behavior that is the users responsibility to determine a safe time and place to perform.
My fitbit encourages me to run. It does NOT encourage me to run into traffic. It does not encourage me to plow others out of my way so I can run on a crowded path. My scuba computer tracks my max depth, so is it encouraging me to dive deep? Sure, especially when combined with online dive logs. Is it encouraging me to go deeper than I know by my training to be safe for my training and equipment?
No. It is my responsibility as a human with a brain to determine when activities are acceptable. It wasn't a death toll counter or encouraging anything with no legal opportunity. It wasn't financially incentivizing illegal behavior (the equivalent argument to paying someone to punch someone else).
The driver is responsible for their actions. They drove a car at nearly twice the legal speed limit. That was their decision, and that responsibility is on them.
A fee of 1%, which is half or less of what a traditional credit card fee charges. Steam/Valve don't accept Credit Cards either. Visa, Mastercard, Maestro, etc will provide a service (for a fee) of turning your credit card number into the actual money that Valve demands.
What's your point? All currency exchange is just agreed upon IOU's for goods or services. This is just one more that opens up new markets to them as well as decreases processing fees for them if existing customers jump on it.
Hahahaha, you're funny! Running as non-administrator accounts. Windows doesn't even make this the slightest recommendation when you setup a new PC. Who cares about the 1% of PC's that will require an admin password. For 99% of them you just send the enter key after an action that will require elevated permissions.
non-admin accounts. . . you kill me:D ! What are people going to think of next?!?! Having your password secured somewhere other than that post it next to the screen?
ZOMG, can you imagine the threat? Why, I just returned from the UK, and when I landed there was a vending machine just FULL of SIM cards. I got a phone number and full service without ANY question, and I don't even have any of the terrorist training. I was just, able to buy something normal without ANY background check or inquiry into my plans. When I came back to the US, I saw another machine offering similar things. This is the way the world ends, not with world war 3, but with anonymous, prepaid cell phone service.
People that have dependents are also apparently more valuable to the company. I never understood that. All my coworkers with spouses and kids get a bump (in terms of insurance premiums paid for and in some cases family leave, but I don't get any "equivalent value" by not having those things. I know people will point out that they don't really "get extra" because their wives shop, husbands buy toys, kids are expensive, etc, but as an employee working for my company how does that make them worth more?
I agree. During the day I think they are absolutely worthless, your sight distance is your indicator. At night, one would assume they indicate that "if you see no headlights ahead, you've got room to pass". You don't necessarily. So, if they're not needed during the day, and untrustworthy at night, what purpose do they serve?
Maybe you can, most of us can't. The closest I can get is a phone line with no services (including no local service) for $5 and then put a DSL line on top of that. Even local calls are billed per minute. I have nothing hooked up to it, but it's a phone line for my DSL and my account number = phone number. If I hook a phone up to it and call that number, it will ring.
I would love this. Our electric co-op is asked about this regularly, and I'm one of the ones that ask. They already have the customer base, the easements for running lines, and a large amount of the infrastructure work done. This is how electricity made it out to the rural areas back in the early days, and for large parts of of the country, co-op's still run the electric distribution. Some co-ops have started "trials" to provide internet, but ours still says it's not profitable and they are "watching other co-ops to see how viable it is".
How do you figure this? I can buy a "sufficiently large display that takes HDMI input" at any big box store or on Amazon, take in my car anywhere I want, including my cabin in the woods if I'm so inclined. I can't buy an "internet connection with a wired last mile" and put it where I want. Huge areas of the US are not covered by high speed internet providers, which is why the prevelance of satellite internet exists. It's also a big reason people like myself would love to have the ability to get a large block of bandwidth over my cellular carrier, which provides far better connectivity than the joke of a DSL provider I DO have access to. I'm at least fortunate enough to have DSL, even if it will barely stream a youtube clip.
Crashplan allows you to host on your own environments, or peer with a friend and exchange diskspace for encrypted backups. You can even seed backups via removable disks to get a large backup hosted quickly.
I didn't think you were required to have AMA to "fly in public", which is pretty broad. I thought that was just highly encouraged by the community for insurance, the same reason flying fields require it. Maybe a local city law for flying at public parks?
I used to do that, but the manufacturers of my notebooks stopped releasing updates (new ones).
This sounds like a joke, but I *LIKED* my 5-star notebooks with heavyweight (20 lb) paper. Most notebooks have terribly thin paper. I haven't found a replacement.
When the internet started, yes, everything was free. It was also almost entirely educational institutions and hobbyists. These things don't scale. Yes I can provide free e-mail to my friends and family, but I can't give it to everyone. As more "consumers" joined the web, it became a lot more one sided. Most people on the internet now provide nothing of value to the internet. I can provide a free product (say facebook, google, drop box, etc) when I can handle the load off of one computer. When demand grows, I either have to shut it off or monetize it, I can't continue to give it away when the demand for my product requires a million dollar server farm on every continent.
To provide a car analogy: I can give my friend a ride to work for free every day so he has no need to have a car. I might even be able to work a couple more friends in. But eventually, I either have to charge for the ride and become a full time taxi service, or start saying no.
Again, depends on your company. Some companies pay for training, and they also have you do the training as part of your normal work schedule. Some companies pay for training. Some just expect it.
AMD doesn't count? Even Intel supports the AMD64 instruction set. AMD has set the direction of the industry in the past, not sure I'd be so quick to dismiss them.
It's common to have polarity, but not directionality. It's always been common to have them denoted in some way (usually a white stripe on the jacket, or gold/silver wire, etc). This denotes your "common" and your "signal" (alternating). Polarity is different than directionality. The arrow would indicate that a signal travels through better one way than another, which would mean your cable is acting as a diode. If that doesn't fail spec I don't know what would.
Yes it still has privacy controls similar to CM Privacy Guard. That was one of the points in their launch demo. The 1080p screen I'm actually ok with. It's plenty resolution for a 5" screen and better on the battery, though I'd also agree that it's not a major bragging point spec wise.
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They'll tell us that's what it's for, but let's be honest profit is the real motivator. The inhibitor to innovation is the 0 risk game we all seem to want to play, and I agree the FDA testing procedures do slow that down, and with reason. Yes, if I buy an "approved medical device" then I want to be assured that it is as safe as it can possibly be. However, some people are willing to take a risk/reward gamble. Trying to outlaws that does not make things better for anyone. As he stated, the condition is dangerous anyway, so tinkering with a device may be worth the risk to some people.
Let people make those *INFORMED* decisions themselves. We can't assume they don't have the power to understand their decision. The balance right now with it being illegal to sell/distribute but legal to tinker with for your own use seems like a perfectly valid line. Let them work it out, let an industry come along and distribute a "proven open source design". After all, the "medical industry" is always using "R&D" as their scapegoat for ridiculously high costs on everything. The open source community is removing that cost. Now all you have to do is refine the design into a neat little pager sized case and profit, but you better do it at a more reasonable price point because you don't own an exclusive patent now!
The entire reason to make it free was to resolve the split user base, which costs them money by maintaining old versions as well as all their development partners for having to support multiple versions. My suspicion is they're trying to get everyone on a common base and start moving to a model more like Mac, with more frequent, far cheaper upgrades. I think the "deadlines" are mainly to encourage people to "hurry up and get it done"
Clearly you've never sat around with people from Arizona and Louisiana arguing whether it's the heat or humidity that's worse.
The filter encouraged the driver to travel at 107 mph in a 55 zone. It doesn't matter who was holding the phone.
How do you figure? Let's accept the fact that there is a 100mph trophy, which appears to be in debate, but let's just accept it as true. Then snapchat encouraged users to go fast. Are there many legal and safe ways to go that fast? Yes. Plane, train, passenger on a racetrack (yes there are options for that), etc. It is not an achievement for going 107mph in a 55mph zone. It was not for going faster than the speed limit. It did not encourage illegal behavior. It encouraged, at best, behavior that is the users responsibility to determine a safe time and place to perform.
My fitbit encourages me to run. It does NOT encourage me to run into traffic. It does not encourage me to plow others out of my way so I can run on a crowded path. My scuba computer tracks my max depth, so is it encouraging me to dive deep? Sure, especially when combined with online dive logs. Is it encouraging me to go deeper than I know by my training to be safe for my training and equipment?
No. It is my responsibility as a human with a brain to determine when activities are acceptable. It wasn't a death toll counter or encouraging anything with no legal opportunity. It wasn't financially incentivizing illegal behavior (the equivalent argument to paying someone to punch someone else).
The driver is responsible for their actions. They drove a car at nearly twice the legal speed limit. That was their decision, and that responsibility is on them.
A fee of 1%, which is half or less of what a traditional credit card fee charges. Steam/Valve don't accept Credit Cards either. Visa, Mastercard, Maestro, etc will provide a service (for a fee) of turning your credit card number into the actual money that Valve demands.
What's your point? All currency exchange is just agreed upon IOU's for goods or services. This is just one more that opens up new markets to them as well as decreases processing fees for them if existing customers jump on it.
Hahahaha, you're funny! Running as non-administrator accounts. Windows doesn't even make this the slightest recommendation when you setup a new PC. Who cares about the 1% of PC's that will require an admin password. For 99% of them you just send the enter key after an action that will require elevated permissions.
non-admin accounts. . . you kill me :D ! What are people going to think of next?!?! Having your password secured somewhere other than that post it next to the screen?
That's kinda what Git does. It stores full snapshots rather than diffs.
ZOMG, can you imagine the threat? Why, I just returned from the UK, and when I landed there was a vending machine just FULL of SIM cards. I got a phone number and full service without ANY question, and I don't even have any of the terrorist training. I was just, able to buy something normal without ANY background check or inquiry into my plans. When I came back to the US, I saw another machine offering similar things. This is the way the world ends, not with world war 3, but with anonymous, prepaid cell phone service.
People that have dependents are also apparently more valuable to the company. I never understood that. All my coworkers with spouses and kids get a bump (in terms of insurance premiums paid for and in some cases family leave, but I don't get any "equivalent value" by not having those things. I know people will point out that they don't really "get extra" because their wives shop, husbands buy toys, kids are expensive, etc, but as an employee working for my company how does that make them worth more?
Suddenly we have readers of slashdot that were the GIVERS of swirlies? I doubt that.
I agree. During the day I think they are absolutely worthless, your sight distance is your indicator. At night, one would assume they indicate that "if you see no headlights ahead, you've got room to pass". You don't necessarily. So, if they're not needed during the day, and untrustworthy at night, what purpose do they serve?
Maybe you can, most of us can't. The closest I can get is a phone line with no services (including no local service) for $5 and then put a DSL line on top of that. Even local calls are billed per minute. I have nothing hooked up to it, but it's a phone line for my DSL and my account number = phone number. If I hook a phone up to it and call that number, it will ring.
I would love this. Our electric co-op is asked about this regularly, and I'm one of the ones that ask. They already have the customer base, the easements for running lines, and a large amount of the infrastructure work done. This is how electricity made it out to the rural areas back in the early days, and for large parts of of the country, co-op's still run the electric distribution. Some co-ops have started "trials" to provide internet, but ours still says it's not profitable and they are "watching other co-ops to see how viable it is".
How do you figure this? I can buy a "sufficiently large display that takes HDMI input" at any big box store or on Amazon, take in my car anywhere I want, including my cabin in the woods if I'm so inclined. I can't buy an "internet connection with a wired last mile" and put it where I want. Huge areas of the US are not covered by high speed internet providers, which is why the prevelance of satellite internet exists. It's also a big reason people like myself would love to have the ability to get a large block of bandwidth over my cellular carrier, which provides far better connectivity than the joke of a DSL provider I DO have access to. I'm at least fortunate enough to have DSL, even if it will barely stream a youtube clip.
Crashplan allows you to host on your own environments, or peer with a friend and exchange diskspace for encrypted backups. You can even seed backups via removable disks to get a large backup hosted quickly.
I didn't think you were required to have AMA to "fly in public", which is pretty broad. I thought that was just highly encouraged by the community for insurance, the same reason flying fields require it. Maybe a local city law for flying at public parks?
I used to do that, but the manufacturers of my notebooks stopped releasing updates (new ones).
This sounds like a joke, but I *LIKED* my 5-star notebooks with heavyweight (20 lb) paper. Most notebooks have terribly thin paper. I haven't found a replacement.
When the internet started, yes, everything was free. It was also almost entirely educational institutions and hobbyists. These things don't scale. Yes I can provide free e-mail to my friends and family, but I can't give it to everyone. As more "consumers" joined the web, it became a lot more one sided. Most people on the internet now provide nothing of value to the internet. I can provide a free product (say facebook, google, drop box, etc) when I can handle the load off of one computer. When demand grows, I either have to shut it off or monetize it, I can't continue to give it away when the demand for my product requires a million dollar server farm on every continent.
To provide a car analogy:
I can give my friend a ride to work for free every day so he has no need to have a car. I might even be able to work a couple more friends in. But eventually, I either have to charge for the ride and become a full time taxi service, or start saying no.
Again, depends on your company. Some companies pay for training, and they also have you do the training as part of your normal work schedule. Some companies pay for training. Some just expect it.
So, doubling what you're getting now for the same price is just "OK"?
AMD doesn't count? Even Intel supports the AMD64 instruction set. AMD has set the direction of the industry in the past, not sure I'd be so quick to dismiss them.
It's okay, when it's in a 3 way.
With a honey in the middle there's some leeway.
It's common to have polarity, but not directionality. It's always been common to have them denoted in some way (usually a white stripe on the jacket, or gold/silver wire, etc). This denotes your "common" and your "signal" (alternating). Polarity is different than directionality. The arrow would indicate that a signal travels through better one way than another, which would mean your cable is acting as a diode. If that doesn't fail spec I don't know what would.
Well great, now when someone says "Free as in Beer" I'll still wonder what kind of free they mean.. . .
Yes it still has privacy controls similar to CM Privacy Guard. That was one of the points in their launch demo. The 1080p screen I'm actually ok with. It's plenty resolution for a 5" screen and better on the battery, though I'd also agree that it's not a major bragging point spec wise.