Design always implies a designer, so evolutionary design is always a religious reference. He communicated perfectly, but I'm not sure if he communicated what he intended.
While it is true that Cheney was probably not at fault, there's also the fact that Cheney and co. delayed reporting the incident until his blood-alcohol level had plenty of time to drop. Which would be a crime in itself, if I had done it.
The OLPC was announced long before you could actually buy one. Until the OLPC was announced, I could not find anything sub 13" for under $999. A year and a half later, there comes the EEE for $399. Exactly a dollar under the give-one-get-one OLPC which was just out.
Your focus on CPU speed ignores consumers like me who actually care about form factor, battery, and price. I don't buy a netbook to run SETI, I want to be able to read word documents on planes and buses.
The CherryPal Africa is exactly what the OLPC should have been. But just because the OLPC was a virtual failure doesn't mean they didn't have a good idea first.
And maybe this version won't suck on price and availability.
funny how asus "invented" the netbook right after the OLPC pricepoint was set. Could it be that selling commodity computers for a small margin was less of an "invention" and more of a reaction to competition?
Wait, are you claiming you don't use IPv4 for anything? Or are you claiming you use IPv6 for some things? Because if the latter, you're right in line with Bernstein's claim. Note he doesn't say IPv6 doesn't work, he says there is no smooth transition path for IPv6 adoption from IPv4.
Websites with external consumers cannot stop using IPv4 until all potential consumers use IPv6. So until everyone uses IPv6, every host must continue to run IPv4 or both.
Does this mean you cannot run IPv6 at home? No, it just means you must also run IPv4 to get to websites that haven't bothered to support both.
Which relegates IPv6 to hobbyists, same as in 2002.
It's not that teachers are exempt, it's that educational purposes are exempt. And historically this has been a very broad category, a fact fought since the invention of the phonograph. So if I give a song to you or to anyone so that you can learn something from it, even if it's just learning to like a new band, that's a legitimate use of a song of which I own a copy.
A high school student who says, "hey, these are all the coolest bands, checkout this mix." and hands a mix-cd to a friend, has exercised fair-use.
Now, if he charges for that CD, or gives out entire albums in that manner, or if the people he gives them to choose to keep them indefinitely rather than tossing it out or buying anything from the artists they've learned about, those are possibly infringement. But it's up to the record company to show infringement, not up to the individual to demonstrate fair use.
The DMCA does change this, in that it is now illegal to make any copies of any media containing a Digital Restriction Mechanism, because fair-use no longer applies to any such media, ever. Backup copies of a movie you keep on a shelf in case your original gets scratched are now illegal, along with photos of your television screen.
You're mistaken. Webapps were originally the ONLY apps for the iPhone -- that makes them first-class, only-class. The API out now was only released after everyone hated on safari for a while.
Yes, you can make a web app show as an icon on the home screen, I just did 20 minutes ago. And it is cached on the browser, so the second time did not require internet -- although maybe next time it will, we'll see.
But good luck making a complex app in any browser on a tiny device where battery life is precious. Firefox is not magically 10 times less demanding than safari.
I'm not sure that we know enough to dismiss Mars yet. Certainly it has the potential for simple life.
BTW, I clicked your sig but I'm not going to bookmark and wait for a site that completely closes up shop simply because they want to say they've gone open source. Give me something or give me nothing, either way I'm gone now.
You're ignoring many factors in reaching your idea that "people want Windows."
First, do people know they have choices? Many people don't know what linux is, thinking it's some type of application that operates a system of some kind. under windows, obviously, since they're a PC.
Second, windows machines are ubiquitous. I go into Best Buy, I see nothing but MS Windows or OS X machines. I choose the $300 one. What did I buy?
Third, most preinstalled linux machines are truly pathetic. If you buy a laptop with Linspire and a bad wifi driver... why would you not return it and get the not-broken/windows version?
There is no product that competes with Windows in the consumer market, except OS X.
While it is true that increased regulations are often a barrier to entry, thereby decreasing competition, that has nothing to do with this case.
The FTC is not adding a new rule, they are enforcing an old one. And that rule can be summarized as: do not deliberately defraud your consumers in one market to make the competition look bad in another market (in this case, market one: compilers, market 2: CPUs).
Any company that cannot stay within that rule will also not be capable of providing a benefit to the market.
Um.. you do realize that the majority of the drama queens and undesirables are college students, right? You can get a bigger dose of drama by hanging out in the quad, banning facebook wouldn't change a thing.
d'you spend more than $26 per phone ? If so, I'll keep my 300 minutes + $0.1/minute overage, $0.2/sms and $0.02//Kb data, and just use it as a phone/wifi device.
While you bring up some valid points against one single person being able to climb the pop charts, you ignore the GP's point.
Spending $100G on production, plus $100G on advertising and $100G on distribution is a little bit more demanding than spending $100K on production, plus $100k on advertising and $100k on distribution.
That's how recording a typical US release album compares to recording a typical US release movie. There are exceptions, like "Open Water," coming in at $500k, but that's not a typical blockbuster, now is it?
So while a movie that brings in a million dollars is a failure, a CD that bring in the exact same amount is a huge success. And no amount of FUD from the music industry about how much they "need" to make has any bearing on the amount of music that will be available next year. Because indie special effects generally suck, but indie guitar still rocks.
Valid point - if the data points don't exist, he can't very well reference them.
I prefer to say that since there are no data points to be referenced we have no reason to assume they exist.
ISPs may complain about hogs all they want but until they release some data, we should assume such hogs were within their contracted rights.
I can't get out of my AT&T contract by saying they failed to meet our contracted terms, I have to offer proof. All I ask is that they be held to the same standard.
Lots of new features, I thought the 2.X.Y versions where X is an even number are supposed to be "stable." There isn't even a 2.7 branch.
Future versions of Linux will start with 2.6 -- only a major restructure and rewrite of the entire kernel would change that. We now denote changes using 2.6.Y.Z This is analogous to the way all versions of MacOS are version 10.x (X.x??) There is no need to say the two point six part -- this is Linux kernel 32.
There is also no longer such a thing as stable/unstable branches, 2.6.32 is a new feature release, stability testing falls to the distributions.
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And when the guy next to you in yoga says, "yeah, God must really hate us," does that make him a professor in biology?
People joke about religion all the time. It's still religion.
You're claiming that "a general plan or intention," does not imply a planner?
Words often have specific meanings, you should use those.
Have you attached an iPhone to an exchange server, ever? Remote wipe, required passkey locking, ability to disable camera...
Apple gave my corporate overlords huge amounts of power when I hooked my personal phone into the company email/calendar.
Design always implies a designer, so evolutionary design is always a religious reference. He communicated perfectly, but I'm not sure if he communicated what he intended.
Taking classic, famous literary works that are in in the public domain, and making them available to the .... ummm .... public ...... is piracy?
The very definition of piracy, no doubt.
While it is true that Cheney was probably not at fault, there's also the fact that Cheney and co. delayed reporting the incident until his blood-alcohol level had plenty of time to drop. Which would be a crime in itself, if I had done it.
The OLPC was announced long before you could actually buy one. Until the OLPC was announced, I could not find anything sub 13" for under $999. A year and a half later, there comes the EEE for $399. Exactly a dollar under the give-one-get-one OLPC which was just out.
Your focus on CPU speed ignores consumers like me who actually care about form factor, battery, and price. I don't buy a netbook to run SETI, I want to be able to read word documents on planes and buses.
The CherryPal Africa is exactly what the OLPC should have been. But just because the OLPC was a virtual failure doesn't mean they didn't have a good idea first.
And maybe this version won't suck on price and availability.
funny how asus "invented" the netbook right after the OLPC pricepoint was set. Could it be that selling commodity computers for a small margin was less of an "invention" and more of a reaction to competition?
Wait, are you claiming you don't use IPv4 for anything? Or are you claiming you use IPv6 for some things? Because if the latter, you're right in line with Bernstein's claim. Note he doesn't say IPv6 doesn't work, he says there is no smooth transition path for IPv6 adoption from IPv4.
Websites with external consumers cannot stop using IPv4 until all potential consumers use IPv6. So until everyone uses IPv6, every host must continue to run IPv4 or both.
Does this mean you cannot run IPv6 at home? No, it just means you must also run IPv4 to get to websites that haven't bothered to support both.
Which relegates IPv6 to hobbyists, same as in 2002.
It's not that teachers are exempt, it's that educational purposes are exempt. And historically this has been a very broad category, a fact fought since the invention of the phonograph. So if I give a song to you or to anyone so that you can learn something from it, even if it's just learning to like a new band, that's a legitimate use of a song of which I own a copy.
A high school student who says, "hey, these are all the coolest bands, checkout this mix." and hands a mix-cd to a friend, has exercised fair-use.
Now, if he charges for that CD, or gives out entire albums in that manner, or if the people he gives them to choose to keep them indefinitely rather than tossing it out or buying anything from the artists they've learned about, those are possibly infringement. But it's up to the record company to show infringement, not up to the individual to demonstrate fair use.
The DMCA does change this, in that it is now illegal to make any copies of any media containing a Digital Restriction Mechanism, because fair-use no longer applies to any such media, ever. Backup copies of a movie you keep on a shelf in case your original gets scratched are now illegal, along with photos of your television screen.
It really does bother me, enough that I did ask an astronomer. He figured it was because the AU is older, and more earth-centric. ie. no good reason.
Thanks for humoring my crazyness though, I'll save the rest of my rant for my journal.
You're mistaken. Webapps were originally the ONLY apps for the iPhone -- that makes them first-class, only-class. The API out now was only released after everyone hated on safari for a while.
Yes, you can make a web app show as an icon on the home screen, I just did 20 minutes ago. And it is cached on the browser, so the second time did not require internet -- although maybe next time it will, we'll see.
But good luck making a complex app in any browser on a tiny device where battery life is precious. Firefox is not magically 10 times less demanding than safari.
I'm not sure that we know enough to dismiss Mars yet. Certainly it has the potential for simple life.
BTW, I clicked your sig but I'm not going to bookmark and wait for a site that completely closes up shop simply because they want to say they've gone open source. Give me something or give me nothing, either way I'm gone now.
I've never understood this. Why use a separate unit for measuring distance in space? We already have a distance unit, it's called the meter.
Why is 2Tm less convenient when measuring distance in space than 14AU?
Because it's... in space?
You're ignoring many factors in reaching your idea that "people want Windows."
First, do people know they have choices? Many people don't know what linux is, thinking it's some type of application that operates a system of some kind. under windows, obviously, since they're a PC.
Second, windows machines are ubiquitous. I go into Best Buy, I see nothing but MS Windows or OS X machines. I choose the $300 one. What did I buy?
Third, most preinstalled linux machines are truly pathetic. If you buy a laptop with Linspire and a bad wifi driver... why would you not return it and get the not-broken/windows version?
There is no product that competes with Windows in the consumer market, except OS X.
It's not infringement, because I'm a teacher. Consider yourself schooled.
"Fair use" still means I can give a friend of mine a copy of your song off a CD I own so they can listen to it.
You don't like that? Well, thank goodness you have a huge lobby group working to change all the laws in your favor.
But lets be clear on who the freeloader is here.
While it is true that increased regulations are often a barrier to entry, thereby decreasing competition, that has nothing to do with this case.
The FTC is not adding a new rule, they are enforcing an old one. And that rule can be summarized as: do not deliberately defraud your consumers in one market to make the competition look bad in another market (in this case, market one: compilers, market 2: CPUs).
Any company that cannot stay within that rule will also not be capable of providing a benefit to the market.
And you're a coward, as your posting ID suggests.
She didn't threaten you (or anyone, technically) so what are you so scared of?
Um.. you do realize that the majority of the drama queens and undesirables are college students, right? You can get a bigger dose of drama by hanging out in the quad, banning facebook wouldn't change a thing.
d'you spend more than $26 per phone ?
If so, I'll keep my 300 minutes + $0.1/minute overage, $0.2/sms and $0.02//Kb data, and just use it as a phone/wifi device.
read his post -- articles from 1995+ are free, article from before that are $31.50. because that's a sane business model.
While you bring up some valid points against one single person being able to climb the pop charts, you ignore the GP's point.
Spending $100G on production, plus $100G on advertising and $100G on distribution is a little bit more demanding than spending $100K on production, plus $100k on advertising and $100k on distribution.
That's how recording a typical US release album compares to recording a typical US release movie. There are exceptions, like "Open Water," coming in at $500k, but that's not a typical blockbuster, now is it?
So while a movie that brings in a million dollars is a failure, a CD that bring in the exact same amount is a huge success. And no amount of FUD from the music industry about how much they "need" to make has any bearing on the amount of music that will be available next year. Because indie special effects generally suck, but indie guitar still rocks.
Valid point - if the data points don't exist, he can't very well reference them.
I prefer to say that since there are no data points to be referenced we have no reason to assume they exist.
ISPs may complain about hogs all they want but until they release some data, we should assume such hogs were within their contracted rights.
I can't get out of my AT&T contract by saying they failed to meet our contracted terms, I have to offer proof. All I ask is that they be held to the same standard.
Lots of new features, I thought the 2.X.Y versions where X is an even number are supposed to be "stable." There isn't even a 2.7 branch.
Future versions of Linux will start with 2.6 -- only a major restructure and rewrite of the entire kernel would change that. We now denote changes using 2.6.Y.Z
This is analogous to the way all versions of MacOS are version 10.x (X.x??) There is no need to say the two point six part -- this is Linux kernel 32.
There is also no longer such a thing as stable/unstable branches, 2.6.32 is a new feature release, stability testing falls to the distributions.