Not only his favor, he we also find a way to have that support the right to carry firearms. In the purely hypothetical case of this leading to ESR shooting himself in the foot, I actually might agree.
Yes, but they got back to normal because the people and their representatives kept accepting the bullshit some legislators where thinking out? Most likely not! "Good night and Good luck" is a nice movie in that perspective, and I actually think that the chance that one of the big television stations would support a revolt like that nowadays is much much smaller.
So every step against these corrupt laws should be taken. Yes this is pure corruption. As you say: it worked in the past, so it will work again.
Starbucks in Basel, Switzerland has nice porcelain mugs. As for the quality of the coffee, it's pretty easy to find some very good italian coffee at a small shop, and I like to support local business more than a multinational chain. Unfortunately (?), with people going to a coffee shop for the coffee, there's not much reason to install wi-fi in this places.
It won't take long before disclosing remote areas with wifi only will be actually cheaper than the cost for (maintaining) phone cables and wired internet in these areas. Already during the introduction of DVB-T, the remote areas actually got it first here in Germany, if I recall correctly.
Thank you for pointing that out, I didn't notice it. Also this shows that the "because of saving bandwith" argument is just a heap of bull....
If the US government finds protecting their entertainment industry that is on a one-way street downhill anyway more important than keeping the access of universities to new technologies up (new linux distros, etc), it will just put the US one step down on the ladder of progress, and it wasn't as high as it used to be already.
I know of several bright scientists who moved to the US because of the money, and several who stay in Europe because they find the US a wrong environment to live and do research. Just noting: All it will take to completely stop the influx of the bright to the US will be a few more cuts in the science budget.
Once again: if you haven't seen it yet, watch "Idiocracy". It's no cinematic masterpiece, but the pace in which reality resembles this movie is very very painfull. I've read that the movie was originally planned to describe the year 3000, but it was adjusted to 2500 before it was released. Who knows, even that may be too optimistically far away.
You have a very valid point. Even more valid than you could imagine.
During my pharmacy study I received the weekly dutch magazine for pharmacists. A professor from my university had a column where he reevaluated case studies from random patients. He studied the pattern of drugs prescribed, knew the illnesses for which these are normally described, found that a lot of drugs were described against side-effects of previous drugs, and in most cases concluded that the 10+ drugs weekly should be replaced by nor more than 2-3 different drugs. If there would be a program that would do this systematically for you, the amount of money saved on both hospital visit because of wrong drug prescriptions and of course the costs of those drugs would be enormous! It would lead to less income for the pharma industries, but the wiser application of their drugs can also lead to less costs in legal and economical damages after their drug has proven dangerous when applied incorrectly. This is a long term win-win situation, but unfortunately no one is interested in doing the short-term investment to actually start such checks.
By the way, this actually made me understand why there is such an intuitive dislike against the roland piquepaille posts. He just places the standard PR messages from companies/universities as news, without taking a single effort of a critical evaluation of the message. It is certainly not journalism. You might call it blogging, I call it ad-farming. Or maybe he honestly believes that every single PR message he receives/reads is completely true,b as innovative as it claims, and faultless.
This quote is one to remember. Now these d**kheads have to make up excuses to put copyright infringement equal to at least a bank robbery, rape, or drive-by shootings.
They don't keep every penny, I found an inflatable plastic cushion from the BSA in my previous office. I guess the idea was that you sleep better with the BSA.
What no-one didn't mention so far is that they collected ONLY 89 milion since 1993. That's 6.3 million per year, is that even enough to pay for their own employees? I also wonder how many damages they managed to get per year, it seems to me that either the damages are very low, or they good only get damages from a few companies.
I have the impression that the BSA is in itself only costing money for the cooperations who make use of it. But I guess the feeling of making your costumers shit in their pants every time they buy your software is priceless.
That's why I, who never ever buys first generation hardware, bought the EEE the day it came out here in Europe. They made a few mistakes in the beginning, concerning making the source available, a "warranty void" sticker on the RAM lid, but immediately improved in this. Mine had just a neutral "eeepc sticker" on the RAM lid and the source is available on the front page of their eee service site.
The idea is simple, buy this machine and do with it what you want. They support only their part, but the rest is easy enough to change. With an attitude like that, it was clear to me that this would be a safe buy. And, damn this machine is fine. I will even keep the base system on it, because it works so smoothly, and still allows me to neatly install any compatible debian-etch based package.
And that is why I didn't buy an apple. Their combination of unix power and a quality GUI is their most appealing mix, but for my low hardware demands, Asus managed the same without the poo-ha that comes around it when apple does it. If no one had come with the idea to make such a specialized small-form-factor linux laptop, I would have decided to by the ibook. Now I'm just glad not to be stuck with jobs' masterplan.
You can try this out yourself: drive with a mobile phone, coffecup, whatever, in your hand on your way to work and also backwards. At no point on your route you should let go of it. To comply to common use, use your right hand to push your phone to your left ear (Why do they do that?). Note how much more complicated it becomes. People that have only one arm use a specially adapted steering mechanism in their cars, do you have one? If no, then don't try to.
I will not deny that it is an attention problem, but physical control does matter a lot! You cannot keep control with one hand if your car drives onto an unexpected hump. The combination of lack of attention AND physical control makes non-handsfree driving a one way lottery ticket to the hospital (for you or your innocent fellow road users)
Then why is Apple holding on to DRM when more and more record labels started ditching it? Will Apple ditch it, so you can use iTunes to get songs for your Sandisk player?
I have been at several university campuses in Europe, and all these measures haven't been necessary there, except maybe for a few cameras near the entry of the door. The newspeak "Free Speech Areas" are the beginning of the end IMHO.
There's only one appropriate way to summarize the situation you describe:
WTF? What is wrong with you people. Seriously. What kind of mentality do you need to screw up your own education and throw away your liberties in the process? And these are supposed to be the intellectual upper class (or at least middle class).
If you didn't see it yet, watch Mike Judge's "Idiocracy". Its resemblance to real life is getting scary.
The only reason not to change password is the fact that you will inevitably forget it. I found writing it down on a post-it and pasting that on the bottom of the machine a pretty reasonable solution. That problem solved, routers should just not route any traffic at all before the password is changed. Not much of a programming effort, I would guess.
This has also been installed on the EEE (video). For a PC on the go it is pretty neat, after pressing the "on" button you directly get to choose what to boot, after selecting the Splashtop it directly opens the OS and you can work. Now the EEE is already pretty fast with Xandros, but the Splashtop really makes it close to PDA speed for startup. Even recovering from a hibernate might take normally longer than this. I was quite impressed.
That is if you are actually allowed to install the software on that pc (e.g. install policy at work). I guess that anyone with enough money to buy one of these things will already have another mac anyway. Oh and if it's anything like iTunes, it won't install on linux:(
They got it right that optical drives will be less and less important. But I'd rather be able to plug in some peripherals without having to create a clutter with external USB hubs. And how much energy can you pull from that USB hub to have the peripherals work from it.
Some Knee-Jerk reactions indeed, very well said. But "Troll" or "Flamebait" would also have been a good description of your post there.
There is no "status quo" in keeping with.doc. The internals of.doc,.ppt,.xls can and will change at Microsoft's will. You should have been long enough at slashdot to have read about this (or was there a UID yardsale that I missed out on).
The non-openness of these formats creates immense and costly problems for the users (companies and employees). I once had a talk, edited on several versions of powerpoint, shown on a laptop from someone else, where half the figures rendered as big, red, crosses. Imagine that on the talk for a multimillion dollar contract.
If you don't believe in the support from Sun for ODF, then just believe in the support from IBM. And even if their support wouldn't last, you would always be able to read the ODF files because the format is open. An industry-wide open format is important for users, and has immense economic advantages over the closed or open formats from Microsoft Office. Even if Microsoft Office can write to OOXML (except certain dates because they aren't rendered correctly...).
So, how do you connect your flash drive AND cd-rom at the same time? Or are you in the possession of a wireless cd-rom drive?
You obviously didn't get the point. Fact is, 1 USB port is not enough. Even the 300 euro EEE pc has 3 of them, and don't think they didn't try to save on both money and space on that thing...
Indeed, the keyboard is real, just very expensive.
Furthermore it is hardly a long-time vaporware product, considering the fact that the before last year there were no displays available on the market that could do what they wanted for the optimus. On just two years they created a functional keyboard, and have been completely open in the development process, even if that would inform competition how far they were, I would dare any other company to do the same.
I wonder what kind of info screen will show at the moment of a shooting... Do they have a powerpoint presentation prepared or will they make one with the appropriate info at the moment itself. Will people have time to read it anyways.
I think an intercom or alarm bells turned on at a critical moment will do just fine in getting everybody out.
I agree with you, freeze drying for example is a place where physics can come in without changing the chemical composition. But I think there are possibilities to improve chemistry without messing up the natural constituents of food. One example would be less chemically intrusive ways to decaffinate coffee. They were using organic solvents in the beginning, I think a water-based solution is used now.
Even if you only change the physical process, you still need at least to know about the chemistry and biology of the food you are processing to understand what's happening. PRetty multidisciplinary
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Not only his favor, he we also find a way to have that support the right to carry firearms. In the purely hypothetical case of this leading to ESR shooting himself in the foot, I actually might agree.
So every step against these corrupt laws should be taken. Yes this is pure corruption. As you say: it worked in the past, so it will work again.
Starbucks in Basel, Switzerland has nice porcelain mugs. As for the quality of the coffee, it's pretty easy to find some very good italian coffee at a small shop, and I like to support local business more than a multinational chain. Unfortunately (?), with people going to a coffee shop for the coffee, there's not much reason to install wi-fi in this places.
It won't take long before disclosing remote areas with wifi only will be actually cheaper than the cost for (maintaining) phone cables and wired internet in these areas. Already during the introduction of DVB-T, the remote areas actually got it first here in Germany, if I recall correctly.
I know of several bright scientists who moved to the US because of the money, and several who stay in Europe because they find the US a wrong environment to live and do research. Just noting: All it will take to completely stop the influx of the bright to the US will be a few more cuts in the science budget.
Once again: if you haven't seen it yet, watch "Idiocracy". It's no cinematic masterpiece, but the pace in which reality resembles this movie is very very painfull. I've read that the movie was originally planned to describe the year 3000, but it was adjusted to 2500 before it was released. Who knows, even that may be too optimistically far away.
During my pharmacy study I received the weekly dutch magazine for pharmacists. A professor from my university had a column where he reevaluated case studies from random patients. He studied the pattern of drugs prescribed, knew the illnesses for which these are normally described, found that a lot of drugs were described against side-effects of previous drugs, and in most cases concluded that the 10+ drugs weekly should be replaced by nor more than 2-3 different drugs. If there would be a program that would do this systematically for you, the amount of money saved on both hospital visit because of wrong drug prescriptions and of course the costs of those drugs would be enormous! It would lead to less income for the pharma industries, but the wiser application of their drugs can also lead to less costs in legal and economical damages after their drug has proven dangerous when applied incorrectly. This is a long term win-win situation, but unfortunately no one is interested in doing the short-term investment to actually start such checks.
By the way, this actually made me understand why there is such an intuitive dislike against the roland piquepaille posts. He just places the standard PR messages from companies/universities as news, without taking a single effort of a critical evaluation of the message. It is certainly not journalism. You might call it blogging, I call it ad-farming. Or maybe he honestly believes that every single PR message he receives/reads is completely true,b as innovative as it claims, and faultless.
same here! It might work pretty for new & expensive cars, though, it can go together with the central locking mechanism.
This quote is one to remember. Now these d**kheads have to make up excuses to put copyright infringement equal to at least a bank robbery, rape, or drive-by shootings.
What no-one didn't mention so far is that they collected ONLY 89 milion since 1993. That's 6.3 million per year, is that even enough to pay for their own employees? I also wonder how many damages they managed to get per year, it seems to me that either the damages are very low, or they good only get damages from a few companies.
I have the impression that the BSA is in itself only costing money for the cooperations who make use of it. But I guess the feeling of making your costumers shit in their pants every time they buy your software is priceless.
The idea is simple, buy this machine and do with it what you want. They support only their part, but the rest is easy enough to change. With an attitude like that, it was clear to me that this would be a safe buy. And, damn this machine is fine. I will even keep the base system on it, because it works so smoothly, and still allows me to neatly install any compatible debian-etch based package.
And that is why I didn't buy an apple. Their combination of unix power and a quality GUI is their most appealing mix, but for my low hardware demands, Asus managed the same without the poo-ha that comes around it when apple does it. If no one had come with the idea to make such a specialized small-form-factor linux laptop, I would have decided to by the ibook. Now I'm just glad not to be stuck with jobs' masterplan.
I will not deny that it is an attention problem, but physical control does matter a lot! You cannot keep control with one hand if your car drives onto an unexpected hump. The combination of lack of attention AND physical control makes non-handsfree driving a one way lottery ticket to the hospital (for you or your innocent fellow road users)
Then why is Apple holding on to DRM when more and more record labels started ditching it? Will Apple ditch it, so you can use iTunes to get songs for your Sandisk player?
There's only one appropriate way to summarize the situation you describe:
WTF? What is wrong with you people. Seriously. What kind of mentality do you need to screw up your own education and throw away your liberties in the process? And these are supposed to be the intellectual upper class (or at least middle class).
If you didn't see it yet, watch Mike Judge's "Idiocracy". Its resemblance to real life is getting scary.
The only reason not to change password is the fact that you will inevitably forget it. I found writing it down on a post-it and pasting that on the bottom of the machine a pretty reasonable solution. That problem solved, routers should just not route any traffic at all before the password is changed. Not much of a programming effort, I would guess.
Then it works perfectly, it's all explained in the name of the test ;)
This has also been installed on the EEE (video). For a PC on the go it is pretty neat, after pressing the "on" button you directly get to choose what to boot, after selecting the Splashtop it directly opens the OS and you can work. Now the EEE is already pretty fast with Xandros, but the Splashtop really makes it close to PDA speed for startup. Even recovering from a hibernate might take normally longer than this. I was quite impressed.
They got it right that optical drives will be less and less important. But I'd rather be able to plug in some peripherals without having to create a clutter with external USB hubs. And how much energy can you pull from that USB hub to have the peripherals work from it.
There is no "status quo" in keeping with .doc. The internals of .doc, .ppt, .xls can and will change at Microsoft's will. You should have been long enough at slashdot to have read about this (or was there a UID yardsale that I missed out on).
The non-openness of these formats creates immense and costly problems for the users (companies and employees). I once had a talk, edited on several versions of powerpoint, shown on a laptop from someone else, where half the figures rendered as big, red, crosses. Imagine that on the talk for a multimillion dollar contract.
If you don't believe in the support from Sun for ODF, then just believe in the support from IBM. And even if their support wouldn't last, you would always be able to read the ODF files because the format is open. An industry-wide open format is important for users, and has immense economic advantages over the closed or open formats from Microsoft Office. Even if Microsoft Office can write to OOXML (except certain dates because they aren't rendered correctly...).
They should add the darwin awards t-shirt prints to the MS Office default clip-art collection.
I saw 'Idiocracy' two weeks ago. The resemblance of what you describe and that movie is just plain creepy! "Idiocracy" will be the new 1984.
You obviously didn't get the point. Fact is, 1 USB port is not enough. Even the 300 euro EEE pc has 3 of them, and don't think they didn't try to save on both money and space on that thing...
Furthermore it is hardly a long-time vaporware product, considering the fact that the before last year there were no displays available on the market that could do what they wanted for the optimus. On just two years they created a functional keyboard, and have been completely open in the development process, even if that would inform competition how far they were, I would dare any other company to do the same.
I think an intercom or alarm bells turned on at a critical moment will do just fine in getting everybody out.
Even if you only change the physical process, you still need at least to know about the chemistry and biology of the food you are processing to understand what's happening. PRetty multidisciplinary
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