First, the FAA has domain over a pilot's actions. There's a 600' minimum ceiling required. Some would question that as being too low, but that's the current rule. The theory is that buildings and obstructions would be noted, or beacons placed on top of them, noted on charts, etc.
A drone must follow the same rules. Privacy is another theory that has no established limits for the large part. Reasonable expectation of privacy has eroded to almost nothing, and the dignity of privacy has been methodically robbed.
If the drone went over the private property as seems to be implied, under the 600' ceiling, the drone owners warned, then IMHO, it's fair game, despite my negative opinion of pigeon hunting.
Now, some gaggle of attorneys has their vacuum cleaner nozzle in the back pockets of the investors, who sadly are likely to lose an enormous wad of money. Instead, the investors will now start to pour more money onto the pile of ashes, blow on them, and watch even more money ignite and burn.
You're splitting hairs. Look at what you wrote: typing isn't the only thing it's used for.
Meditate on that one for a while.
Go back and fit it into the context of what I said: tablets suck for document production, and I'll add: gaming and coding to the lot. This is a toy in comparison to the cranky laptop I'm using at this moment.
Does iCloud and its analog competition increase its viability? Of course, but for the entire set of potential users, not just tablet users. You have swallowed the fanboi KoolAid. Jim Jones would have welcomed you on your way to Guyana.
I must disagree with you again, strongly. Wrong tool for the stated job.
Tablets for coding, document generation, even gaming remind me of one of those children's workbenches with the cute little plastic tools. nice, but don't do real work with them. They're mostly for play. You're trying to elevate tablets where tablets don't go. I have shovels in my garage but do you think I'm going to dig a mine with them?
Yes, Microsoft will put Office onto Metro. It'll make people comfortable. My own seemingly anecdotal experience is met with the test of lots of experience. Arrogant as fuck? No. Considered opinion. But you have no clue of my credentials, nor I, yours.
A tablet is a really lousy device as a laptop replacement, where the criteria is that a laptop is used for more than document viewing and surfing and media consumption. I type about 2500-3500 words every day of the week. That's been my output for more than a decade and a half. It's what I do. To my left is a tablet with a bluetooth keyboard (a pretty nice one) that has to its immediate left, a bluetooth mouse. The tablet, brand nameless, totally sucks for document production. Heaven forbid someone tries to use the touchscreen keyboard/pad for rational document production. It can be done but at the price of speed and accuracy. My own anecdotal experience as a journeyman document producer is: tablets suck for that purpose.
If computers are tools, use the right one. Office is going to be ported to W8 on ARM. Pity. Apple didn't sell the millions of iPads based on the availability of document readers, as you imply-- it's all about comfort. The very document formats used to be the crux of proprietary insanity. They still are, when DRM is considered. But most people are using tablets as reader devices. Some will make a screw driver into a crowbar, and so forth. That works, but the tool wasn't designed for it. Tablets aren't designed for document production, and that's what the Office suites were designed to do.
Let me answer in reverse order. First, porting the Office app suite to Windows isn't so much a non-trivial exercise, as it's an enormous waste.
There will be people that use the iStuff on iOS to write books, do legendarily large spreadsheets, etc, because it's a monitor with some intelligence built into the back of it (actually inside). The 10" form factor isn't very good for doing document production, but I've written whole books on 5" screens when I had an Osborne I, with floppy disks as storage media. So I understand that people will use tablets for laptop/notebook replacement devices.
And they're insane to do so, IMHO.
Tablets light, wonderful devices, and are great to read, watch videos, and have many practical uses. That the iPad has iWorks and runs it "just fine" is great for a segment of the population, but I don't know five people that own iPads that have used these apps if but once or twice as media file viewers. They don't do compositional document production on them. It's a flat-head driver when you need a drill press. Wrong tool.
Microsoft is indeed apparently porting Office to Windows 8 ARM tablets. I think they're crazy. Office 15 isn't a secret sauce that's going to make a Microsoft-based Windows 8 tablet sell any better.
Do people need Microsoft in general? There are four items that Microsoft has that keep hooks into people's work lives: Exchange/Outlook, Active Directory and federated identity management, generations of Microsoft-based apps that go back to when Jobs was in the Wilderness, and plentiful marketing to business customers. These hooks don't address other issues Microsoft has, and they are plentiful.
Is porting Office 15 to Windows ARM tablets going to make a difference? I don't believe so. I've seen two reports saying they are going to do this. There are already tablets out with Windows 7 and they'll run Office, and let you have keyboard directly attached, bluetooth/USB, etc. And none of them are selling worth a crap, unless you believe finding them on the secondary sites like Dailysteals and Woot is in an indicator of success. I don't think it is. I'm not sure Metro is going to make a difference at all, but I'll wait to see what happens. In the interim, Apple's philosophy of appealing to end-users is serving it well; businesses, however, don't like being twisted by Apple consumers demanding iOS access to organizational resources. Currently, "Business Apple" is an oxymoron--- not that it's hurting Apple earnings.
IMHO, on Heartland's side, this is about generating attorney fees and doing the dumbest things you can do in terms of damage control. This must be a nightmare for them for many reasons, not that I'm sympathizing with them at all.
Loin girding is to be expected, but threatening libel and slander lawsuits is to me, about the most hilarious thing they could do. Getting to the source, proving forgery (if that's possible), and using it all as an "event" in terms of damage control would be the best- but they won't do that, I'm guessing.
Spanking their attorneys makes no real difference; attorneys don't feel pain unless you can't pay them. Then you feel pain.
It's a media consumption/review device. Office readers would be great. Office is such a pig for resources otherwise, that compositional tools would be plainly insane to port to iOS.
The question itself if a fishing attempt to find feature interest. Office is coming to Windows 8 in one form or another, so do they bother to port it to iOS? Same chipset (ARM) same form factor (tablet) same profile of consumer (please, no sandals vs loafers arguments).
Hey-- believe who you want. In the real world, I do this for a living, and Tom's Hardware, while a decent sort of place, uses canned benchmarks. We're a SPEC licensee, and use quite a bit of comparatively sophisticated benchmark techniques. But hey, I understand that I'm anonymous to you. Go ahead and do it for yourself. We did.
The latest AMD stuff is not up to par, we'll agree. But that's not what I said. For a long time, AMD chewed Intel up. Fanboi if you like, but I've got the data and made the choices.
DMA and protected DMA movement was faster, clock for clock. I'll admit that the Core series starting at i5 changed the playing field, but I deal with multi-core servers mainly, and I should have made that clear.
Today, AMD has some work to do. But while we're all watching CISC CPUs do well, I'm guessing that ARM density in three years will be undeniably fast for both cost and power consumption. The old arguments will rise again, and if Oracle is lucky, they might get a clue. The Itanium was indeed the Itanic, despite its luxurious instruction set and wicked fast DMA. Too bad it was victimized.
Our testing of everything up to quadcores says that clock for clock, AMD made mincemeat out of Intel. In notebooks, where there can be much different chipsets, AMD lagged with their ATI chipsets. Intel with nVidia combos ate their lunch. Of course, there was that little problem with nVidia's chips cratering, but we can overlook that for now.
Further lowering my expectations of the truth from a CEO (ex- of eBay) at HP. It's sad for any former fan of HP to hear of such high BS from the top spot in an organization once respected for its leadership in industrial acumen.
It shows a fundamental misunderstanding on the part of the new HP CEO regarding how open source works from a licensing perspective. If I thought HP might have a wild chance, such an abysmal fail and propaganda lie has dashed that hope against the rocks of stupidity. HP's unsettling recent history isn't over; Whitman has jumped the shark already. Next batter, please.
Not often, but often enough. I've received quite a bit of income for my inconvenience. And I've slept in airports waiting 37hrs for the next flight that was still 120mi away from my home airport. Oversubscription might work for virtual machines, but not for confirmed airlines reservations.
Don't let them buy you off. It's boorish to do what they do. It shouldn't have to happen. Full is full.
It's true-- it's a byproduct of stuffing flights to the gills, and financially prodding people to do their own baggage porter work. They should be ashamed.
I'm not sure how much you travel, but when I sit in various terminals across the USA and EU, I hear lots of requests for volunteers on popular, oversold routes. Some people are joyous to get the free pittance offered to them in "compensation". Others sit in airports, sometimes for days, waiting for flights.
Your term "exceptionally rarely" is both meaningless, and in common use, not how the real world works. Those elaborate models you cite make most flights into cattle cars, sardine cans, with overhead storage bulging to the bursting point.
Pseudo-random number generation is a problem that's been seen before. That numerous machines can be at a point where their seed is odd means that an additional factor, like a time-date hash, could re-randomize the key, thus reducing the attack set.
I wonder if it's specific to one platform or another....
Your frustrated attitude is shared by others, and I'm squeezed, too. You can let your life be frustrated in this way, or cut away the things that don't matter until you find what does. Personally, my taxes have gone up a bit. Fine. I pay them.
Gas and oil? I have a motorcycle and a car with great MPG. There's a nice van that doubles as an RV. I ride a bike when I can. Walk if I'm allowed. I chose those circumstances to cut my overhead.
The capitalist-socialist argument that you make isn't bound in either fact or in history. You have listened to the propaganda, and swallowed it whole. You are therefore constrained by it, and your anger and frustration are fueled by it. This is your choice. There are other choices available.
I pay my dues, my taxes, and gladly. I live in a great country. It has its problems. We work through them, one at a time. We take care of our own, and have been generous enough to take care of others. That means, you and your family, too. Mine has been gifted with good luck and a few brains, and made choices that had return on their value-- in a genuinely capitalistic sense. Government has grown large in some areas, but is woefully lacking in others. Slowly, the expenditures related to military conflict will go down. We need to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels, because it's fed the motivation to go to war-- not Afghanistan, but certainly Iraq. Lots of American blood was lost more to insure oil supplies than Middle Eastern peace. The swords are rattling again, against Iran-- again, and it doesn't bode well for us.
I don't want to give government sustenance in the form of new Cadillacs; but people need to be able to live, and some of them got there through really tough luck. I'm not here to judge them, only to bring up the bottom to a human level.
Tax rates have gone down. Your ruse of "ever rising burden of taxes" is in fact, a sham for most income rates in the United States today, Feb 14th, 2012.
We don't pay enough taxes. I'm a responsible adult, and believe that given a civil attitude, government should work for all of its constituents. I'm an entrepreneur, own my own business, and have not seen a W2 in fourteen years. 100% of my income is 1099, and it's probably more than yours. I'm a capitalist, and not a socialist. I'm not a 1%er.
Yes, taxes seem like death by a thousand cuts. Yes, it needs to be more equitable, but no one can agree what equitable is, unless it's someone else paying. All government monies do not come from one place, the US, as you contend. US taxpayers don't pay for everything-- philanthropy in the US is wonderful. Charity is great, and I give until it hurts, and then give again. You do as you see fit. The reality of the world is that we work for some of our personal gain, but very much a lot for the gain of others. And yes, it could be a lot less bereft of inequity.
No, the wealthy are not taxed "plenty", whatever that means. Do the research. You'll see that you're defense is based on the propaganda of reality distortion fields.
Look at history, learn how the debt has been reduced in various administrations. See what was done to reduce the deficits. Understand the economic climates at the time that enabled deficit reduction. Then understand that there are vested interests in wealth protection that are reasonable, and many more that are not. We're becoming fiefdoms, just like the Middle Ages. Think about wealth protection, trusts, inheritance taxes, and how intergenerational wealth distribution causes new fiefs to emerge. That's one aspect. There are many.
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First, the FAA has domain over a pilot's actions. There's a 600' minimum ceiling required. Some would question that as being too low, but that's the current rule. The theory is that buildings and obstructions would be noted, or beacons placed on top of them, noted on charts, etc.
A drone must follow the same rules. Privacy is another theory that has no established limits for the large part. Reasonable expectation of privacy has eroded to almost nothing, and the dignity of privacy has been methodically robbed.
If the drone went over the private property as seems to be implied, under the 600' ceiling, the drone owners warned, then IMHO, it's fair game, despite my negative opinion of pigeon hunting.
Now, some gaggle of attorneys has their vacuum cleaner nozzle in the back pockets of the investors, who sadly are likely to lose an enormous wad of money. Instead, the investors will now start to pour more money onto the pile of ashes, blow on them, and watch even more money ignite and burn.
Silly investors.
You're splitting hairs. Look at what you wrote: typing isn't the only thing it's used for.
Meditate on that one for a while.
Go back and fit it into the context of what I said: tablets suck for document production, and I'll add: gaming and coding to the lot. This is a toy in comparison to the cranky laptop I'm using at this moment.
Does iCloud and its analog competition increase its viability? Of course, but for the entire set of potential users, not just tablet users. You have swallowed the fanboi KoolAid. Jim Jones would have welcomed you on your way to Guyana.
I must disagree with you again, strongly. Wrong tool for the stated job.
Tablets for coding, document generation, even gaming remind me of one of those children's workbenches with the cute little plastic tools. nice, but don't do real work with them. They're mostly for play. You're trying to elevate tablets where tablets don't go. I have shovels in my garage but do you think I'm going to dig a mine with them?
They do Tetris, why not Office?
Yes, Microsoft will put Office onto Metro. It'll make people comfortable. My own seemingly anecdotal experience is met with the test of lots of experience. Arrogant as fuck? No. Considered opinion. But you have no clue of my credentials, nor I, yours.
A tablet is a really lousy device as a laptop replacement, where the criteria is that a laptop is used for more than document viewing and surfing and media consumption. I type about 2500-3500 words every day of the week. That's been my output for more than a decade and a half. It's what I do. To my left is a tablet with a bluetooth keyboard (a pretty nice one) that has to its immediate left, a bluetooth mouse. The tablet, brand nameless, totally sucks for document production. Heaven forbid someone tries to use the touchscreen keyboard/pad for rational document production. It can be done but at the price of speed and accuracy. My own anecdotal experience as a journeyman document producer is: tablets suck for that purpose.
If computers are tools, use the right one. Office is going to be ported to W8 on ARM. Pity. Apple didn't sell the millions of iPads based on the availability of document readers, as you imply-- it's all about comfort. The very document formats used to be the crux of proprietary insanity. They still are, when DRM is considered. But most people are using tablets as reader devices. Some will make a screw driver into a crowbar, and so forth. That works, but the tool wasn't designed for it. Tablets aren't designed for document production, and that's what the Office suites were designed to do.
Let me answer in reverse order. First, porting the Office app suite to Windows isn't so much a non-trivial exercise, as it's an enormous waste.
There will be people that use the iStuff on iOS to write books, do legendarily large spreadsheets, etc, because it's a monitor with some intelligence built into the back of it (actually inside). The 10" form factor isn't very good for doing document production, but I've written whole books on 5" screens when I had an Osborne I, with floppy disks as storage media. So I understand that people will use tablets for laptop/notebook replacement devices.
And they're insane to do so, IMHO.
Tablets light, wonderful devices, and are great to read, watch videos, and have many practical uses. That the iPad has iWorks and runs it "just fine" is great for a segment of the population, but I don't know five people that own iPads that have used these apps if but once or twice as media file viewers. They don't do compositional document production on them. It's a flat-head driver when you need a drill press. Wrong tool.
Microsoft is indeed apparently porting Office to Windows 8 ARM tablets. I think they're crazy. Office 15 isn't a secret sauce that's going to make a Microsoft-based Windows 8 tablet sell any better.
Do people need Microsoft in general? There are four items that Microsoft has that keep hooks into people's work lives: Exchange/Outlook, Active Directory and federated identity management, generations of Microsoft-based apps that go back to when Jobs was in the Wilderness, and plentiful marketing to business customers. These hooks don't address other issues Microsoft has, and they are plentiful.
Is porting Office 15 to Windows ARM tablets going to make a difference? I don't believe so. I've seen two reports saying they are going to do this. There are already tablets out with Windows 7 and they'll run Office, and let you have keyboard directly attached, bluetooth/USB, etc. And none of them are selling worth a crap, unless you believe finding them on the secondary sites like Dailysteals and Woot is in an indicator of success. I don't think it is. I'm not sure Metro is going to make a difference at all, but I'll wait to see what happens. In the interim, Apple's philosophy of appealing to end-users is serving it well; businesses, however, don't like being twisted by Apple consumers demanding iOS access to organizational resources. Currently, "Business Apple" is an oxymoron--- not that it's hurting Apple earnings.
That's interesting.
I wonder how it'll be different. The current app payload is pretty huge at this point.
IMHO, on Heartland's side, this is about generating attorney fees and doing the dumbest things you can do in terms of damage control. This must be a nightmare for them for many reasons, not that I'm sympathizing with them at all.
Loin girding is to be expected, but threatening libel and slander lawsuits is to me, about the most hilarious thing they could do. Getting to the source, proving forgery (if that's possible), and using it all as an "event" in terms of damage control would be the best- but they won't do that, I'm guessing.
Spanking their attorneys makes no real difference; attorneys don't feel pain unless you can't pay them. Then you feel pain.
It's a media consumption/review device. Office readers would be great. Office is such a pig for resources otherwise, that compositional tools would be plainly insane to port to iOS.
The question itself if a fishing attempt to find feature interest. Office is coming to Windows 8 in one form or another, so do they bother to port it to iOS? Same chipset (ARM) same form factor (tablet) same profile of consumer (please, no sandals vs loafers arguments).
Hey-- believe who you want. In the real world, I do this for a living, and Tom's Hardware, while a decent sort of place, uses canned benchmarks. We're a SPEC licensee, and use quite a bit of comparatively sophisticated benchmark techniques. But hey, I understand that I'm anonymous to you. Go ahead and do it for yourself. We did.
The latest AMD stuff is not up to par, we'll agree. But that's not what I said. For a long time, AMD chewed Intel up. Fanboi if you like, but I've got the data and made the choices.
DMA and protected DMA movement was faster, clock for clock. I'll admit that the Core series starting at i5 changed the playing field, but I deal with multi-core servers mainly, and I should have made that clear.
Today, AMD has some work to do. But while we're all watching CISC CPUs do well, I'm guessing that ARM density in three years will be undeniably fast for both cost and power consumption. The old arguments will rise again, and if Oracle is lucky, they might get a clue. The Itanium was indeed the Itanic, despite its luxurious instruction set and wicked fast DMA. Too bad it was victimized.
Core i7 is indeed pretty juicy. Prior editions were less so, especially in memory movement and fp. The i5 is also very decent, too.
Most of my work is in multi-core servers, and my results focuses on them; sorry to have not made that clear.
If it were true.
Our testing of everything up to quadcores says that clock for clock, AMD made mincemeat out of Intel. In notebooks, where there can be much different chipsets, AMD lagged with their ATI chipsets. Intel with nVidia combos ate their lunch. Of course, there was that little problem with nVidia's chips cratering, but we can overlook that for now.
I'm normally a peaceful guy, but this one calls for a flogging (at the polls).
Further lowering my expectations of the truth from a CEO (ex- of eBay) at HP. It's sad for any former fan of HP to hear of such high BS from the top spot in an organization once respected for its leadership in industrial acumen.
It shows a fundamental misunderstanding on the part of the new HP CEO regarding how open source works from a licensing perspective. If I thought HP might have a wild chance, such an abysmal fail and propaganda lie has dashed that hope against the rocks of stupidity. HP's unsettling recent history isn't over; Whitman has jumped the shark already. Next batter, please.
Not often, but often enough. I've received quite a bit of income for my inconvenience. And I've slept in airports waiting 37hrs for the next flight that was still 120mi away from my home airport. Oversubscription might work for virtual machines, but not for confirmed airlines reservations.
Don't let them buy you off. It's boorish to do what they do. It shouldn't have to happen. Full is full.
It's true-- it's a byproduct of stuffing flights to the gills, and financially prodding people to do their own baggage porter work. They should be ashamed.
I'm not sure how much you travel, but when I sit in various terminals across the USA and EU, I hear lots of requests for volunteers on popular, oversold routes. Some people are joyous to get the free pittance offered to them in "compensation". Others sit in airports, sometimes for days, waiting for flights.
Your term "exceptionally rarely" is both meaningless, and in common use, not how the real world works. Those elaborate models you cite make most flights into cattle cars, sardine cans, with overhead storage bulging to the bursting point.
Pseudo-random number generation is a problem that's been seen before. That numerous machines can be at a point where their seed is odd means that an additional factor, like a time-date hash, could re-randomize the key, thus reducing the attack set.
I wonder if it's specific to one platform or another....
Your frustrated attitude is shared by others, and I'm squeezed, too. You can let your life be frustrated in this way, or cut away the things that don't matter until you find what does. Personally, my taxes have gone up a bit. Fine. I pay them.
Gas and oil? I have a motorcycle and a car with great MPG. There's a nice van that doubles as an RV. I ride a bike when I can. Walk if I'm allowed. I chose those circumstances to cut my overhead.
The capitalist-socialist argument that you make isn't bound in either fact or in history. You have listened to the propaganda, and swallowed it whole. You are therefore constrained by it, and your anger and frustration are fueled by it. This is your choice. There are other choices available.
I pay my dues, my taxes, and gladly. I live in a great country. It has its problems. We work through them, one at a time. We take care of our own, and have been generous enough to take care of others. That means, you and your family, too. Mine has been gifted with good luck and a few brains, and made choices that had return on their value-- in a genuinely capitalistic sense. Government has grown large in some areas, but is woefully lacking in others. Slowly, the expenditures related to military conflict will go down. We need to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels, because it's fed the motivation to go to war-- not Afghanistan, but certainly Iraq. Lots of American blood was lost more to insure oil supplies than Middle Eastern peace. The swords are rattling again, against Iran-- again, and it doesn't bode well for us.
I don't want to give government sustenance in the form of new Cadillacs; but people need to be able to live, and some of them got there through really tough luck. I'm not here to judge them, only to bring up the bottom to a human level.
You move too many variables at once, and that's why your math isn't coming out well. Best of luck.
Tax rates have gone down. Your ruse of "ever rising burden of taxes" is in fact, a sham for most income rates in the United States today, Feb 14th, 2012.
We don't pay enough taxes. I'm a responsible adult, and believe that given a civil attitude, government should work for all of its constituents. I'm an entrepreneur, own my own business, and have not seen a W2 in fourteen years. 100% of my income is 1099, and it's probably more than yours. I'm a capitalist, and not a socialist. I'm not a 1%er.
Yes, taxes seem like death by a thousand cuts. Yes, it needs to be more equitable, but no one can agree what equitable is, unless it's someone else paying. All government monies do not come from one place, the US, as you contend. US taxpayers don't pay for everything-- philanthropy in the US is wonderful. Charity is great, and I give until it hurts, and then give again. You do as you see fit. The reality of the world is that we work for some of our personal gain, but very much a lot for the gain of others. And yes, it could be a lot less bereft of inequity.
No, the wealthy are not taxed "plenty", whatever that means. Do the research. You'll see that you're defense is based on the propaganda of reality distortion fields.
Look at history, learn how the debt has been reduced in various administrations. See what was done to reduce the deficits. Understand the economic climates at the time that enabled deficit reduction. Then understand that there are vested interests in wealth protection that are reasonable, and many more that are not. We're becoming fiefdoms, just like the Middle Ages. Think about wealth protection, trusts, inheritance taxes, and how intergenerational wealth distribution causes new fiefs to emerge. That's one aspect. There are many.