Apple has a feature called "Share My Internet Connection" that takes precisely six clicks to turn on and configure.
Theoretically, you could have this turned on by default in every computer with an Airport card installed and you'll have a roaming mesh network, so long as just one computer can get on an access point.
What's wrong with these people? Don't they realize that Apple is a company? I love my Macs, and I like being part of the community, and I'll dispute FUD till the cows come home, but I have no expectation that Apple somehow owes me something because I've owned a Mac since 1997.
What do they expect? Will they ask for receipts and give everyone who bought a Mac during the Amelio era a free iPod?
Boo hoo, they cancelled the London Expo and don't release a version that spells color with a 'u.' I've *never* had a Mac Expo in my city. Do I get to protest, too? Disrupting a keynote at a major conference will just make them look like a bunch of asshats.
If I were them I wouldn't worry about security throwing me out, I'd watch out for the people who have paid good money to see Jobs speak. Hell hath no fury like a Mac user who gets interrupted while drooling over new hardware.
BBC News is so great my parents watch it instead of American news programs. And, unlike American sitcoms, I actually laugh at Britcoms they show on PBS.
True, but unlike cars it only takes one person to get the cat out of the bag. Once it's on the Internet in an un-DRM format no amount of kicking and screaming by the *AA can remove it without violating civil liberties. (Right to privacy, which includes encryption.)
Imagine if Sony had never licensed CD technology. You had to buy a Sony CD player to play any CD. Now imagine that CDs were 80% of the music market, and the other 20% were a competing format that looked like a CD, but couldn't be played in a Sony CD player, which had majority market share. Sony should ethically (and maybe legally) license the CD format to other companies.
Apple is missing a huge revenue stream by not licensing the technology. iTMS is a loss-leader for the iPod. Imagine if they could sell licenses to other digital media players based on the number of players sold; they'd make a killing.
And a lot of people would still buy iPods because, well, they're better than other devices out there.
Businesses exist to make profits. That is their sole goal. If someone wants to start a company they don't have any ethics other than 'make the most money possible.' No one should trust a business to do the right thing, especially if it's unprofitable.
My wife drives a Pontiac Vibe which has a 115V outlet in it. It's not grounded, but with one of those two-prong to three-prong adapters it would power a TV nicely. Until it ran out of gas, that is.
I have the same opinion about WiFi. I don't go places that don't have free WiFi. All the Starbucks in my area use T-Mobile. When I found this out, I told the manager that I wasn't going to stay in a coffee shop that didn't have free WiFi, and that once the novelty of the Starbucks ran out (we've just gotten them in the past couple years), a lot of other people won't either. He shrugged, and I went a few miles down the road to a local coffee shop that has free WiFi, nicer employees, and shorter lines. But mostly it's the free WiFi.
In high school my friend and I used to dial into each other's computers to play Descent. Not only was his computer 33Mhz slower than mine (100 vs. 66), he also got disoriented quickly.
So I'd just pump him with the plasma cannon and watch as he helplessly twitched, trying to escape.
Get your own hosted web space. It's good for more than just blogs, and often comes with free installer scripts for blogs. I use Hostdime, but there are plenty of other hosting companies out there.
The issue I see most often is that blogs cludge up Google. Of course, there are solutions to this, like putting a default robots.txt in all blog software or Google making a blog search tool.
Satellite broadband is dumb. It takes at least 238 ms for the signal to go up to the satellite and back down again. Double that number and add to any ping times you currently get and you'll have how long it will take for your data to go from you to any server and back again.
A fellow Slashdotter posted something a while back that makes a lot of sense.
"When they talk about the economy being good, and lots of money moving around, that means that rich bankers and loan officers are able to skim more. The government is able to skim gigantic amounts on taxes, and to then dole it out in the form of lucrative contracts to the rich."
Originally I wanted the blog to be private (I was using B2 and there was no "private entry" option) and the gallery to be public.
But then my mother-in-law emailed her entire family the wrong link (she forgot to put a dot between after the subdomain) and everybody went to my home page and then to my blog. (I was young and stupid).
My side of the family didn't even know I had a website until the wedding.
And they're not joined because I abhor integration. My blog blogs well, my gallery does its job well, and never shall they meet.
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You're not selling the software then. You're selling the fact that it's in a neat little package that you'll support. Kinda like Red Hat or SUSE.
If you improve GIMP, license it and sell it who are you to say that all the people who contributed to the GIMP project don't get a cut of the revenue.
So, yeah, go ahead and license your code however the hell you want. Just don't license my code however the hell you want.
What we'd need then is time zones for the processor.
Theoretically, you could have this turned on by default in every computer with an Airport card installed and you'll have a roaming mesh network, so long as just one computer can get on an access point.
What do they expect? Will they ask for receipts and give everyone who bought a Mac during the Amelio era a free iPod?
Boo hoo, they cancelled the London Expo and don't release a version that spells color with a 'u.' I've *never* had a Mac Expo in my city. Do I get to protest, too? Disrupting a keynote at a major conference will just make them look like a bunch of asshats.
If I were them I wouldn't worry about security throwing me out, I'd watch out for the people who have paid good money to see Jobs speak. Hell hath no fury like a Mac user who gets interrupted while drooling over new hardware.
BBC News is so great my parents watch it instead of American news programs. And, unlike American sitcoms, I actually laugh at Britcoms they show on PBS.
John Mayer is a no-name artist? What fucking rock have you been hiding under?
WTF??? If it's that easy why were we upset when Suprnova got shut down?
"Him make good snoo snoo."
Well, they don't. But if I had to run a fridge or something, I'd be set.
True, but unlike cars it only takes one person to get the cat out of the bag. Once it's on the Internet in an un-DRM format no amount of kicking and screaming by the *AA can remove it without violating civil liberties. (Right to privacy, which includes encryption.)
Imagine if Sony had never licensed CD technology. You had to buy a Sony CD player to play any CD. Now imagine that CDs were 80% of the music market, and the other 20% were a competing format that looked like a CD, but couldn't be played in a Sony CD player, which had majority market share. Sony should ethically (and maybe legally) license the CD format to other companies.
Apple is missing a huge revenue stream by not licensing the technology. iTMS is a loss-leader for the iPod. Imagine if they could sell licenses to other digital media players based on the number of players sold; they'd make a killing.
And a lot of people would still buy iPods because, well, they're better than other devices out there.
Businesses exist to make profits. That is their sole goal. If someone wants to start a company they don't have any ethics other than 'make the most money possible.' No one should trust a business to do the right thing, especially if it's unprofitable.
My parents have been getting cheap organic food for the past five years now. They grow their own.
My wife drives a Pontiac Vibe which has a 115V outlet in it. It's not grounded, but with one of those two-prong to three-prong adapters it would power a TV nicely. Until it ran out of gas, that is.
I have the same opinion about WiFi. I don't go places that don't have free WiFi. All the Starbucks in my area use T-Mobile. When I found this out, I told the manager that I wasn't going to stay in a coffee shop that didn't have free WiFi, and that once the novelty of the Starbucks ran out (we've just gotten them in the past couple years), a lot of other people won't either. He shrugged, and I went a few miles down the road to a local coffee shop that has free WiFi, nicer employees, and shorter lines. But mostly it's the free WiFi.
So I'd just pump him with the plasma cannon and watch as he helplessly twitched, trying to escape.
Good times...
Get your own hosted web space. It's good for more than just blogs, and often comes with free installer scripts for blogs. I use Hostdime, but there are plenty of other hosting companies out there.
The issue I see most often is that blogs cludge up Google. Of course, there are solutions to this, like putting a default robots.txt in all blog software or Google making a blog search tool.
Satellite broadband is dumb. It takes at least 238 ms for the signal to go up to the satellite and back down again. Double that number and add to any ping times you currently get and you'll have how long it will take for your data to go from you to any server and back again.
"When they talk about the economy being good, and lots of money moving around, that means that rich bankers and loan officers are able to skim more. The government is able to skim gigantic amounts on taxes, and to then dole it out in the form of lucrative contracts to the rich."
Source
My GUI is scriptable. Of course, I use a Mac.
I'll ask my wife about this tonight. Thanks a lot!
But then my mother-in-law emailed her entire family the wrong link (she forgot to put a dot between after the subdomain) and everybody went to my home page and then to my blog. (I was young and stupid).
My side of the family didn't even know I had a website until the wedding.
And they're not joined because I abhor integration. My blog blogs well, my gallery does its job well, and never shall they meet.
But I am looking forward to having it.