I'm with you on this one. I stayed in temporary housing in SF for a month and didn't want to drop the $150 on a phone line. Mobile phones were great for voice, but not internet. But my new laptop came with 802.11b and three of my neighbors broadcasted for me. I didn't abuse it...just checked email now and then and surfed for plane tickets. Total bandwidth consumed was obviously negligible. Of course, this begs the question of why, then, all of us need to have the fattest pipe available when none of us will ever use more than 30% of our capacity.
Sorry, I digress...
As for the legal details...it's an internet connection, and it WON'T hold up in court if someone connects through your WAP to do something illegal. Disagree? Run traceroute and figure out the distribution of liability.
Of the 8 posts on apple's site, most of them seem to think that Apple has done this intentionally. Let's be clear--Apple has NOTHING to gain by pissing off the Windows user base. Their entire strategy hinges on positive experience with Apple products that encourages people to switch and have that experience with every interaction. I would be surprised if the actual interactions with Apple have been all that negative (yes...I'm saying that some people may be aggrevated and exaggerating). My interactions with Apple (as a Mac user) have always been reasonably positive, whether this be for sales, technical support or developer relations.
It's silly to think they're trying to sabatoge the Windows base. And if some phone rep blew it...well, that's clearly a problem but I just don't see this as anything more than one person's screw up.
Amen (again) to the idea that ST just needed to take more chances. There was no substantial risk for anything in the series, except for the loss of the Enterprise in almost every movie.
By the way, wouldn't someone in the 25th century finally figure out that it's too damn expensive to keep giving Picard a new ship? If that were real life, ol' baldy would be driving the Starfleet equivilent of a Gremlin and be on a very short leash.
I like this new slant of the WWF -- first they get a governor, now they've got economists (and environmental ones at that!)
I think even Malthus (see http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/malthus/malthus.0.h tml) would be turning over in his grave from this bullshit. His initial predictions from the late 1700s always gave "generations" until the human race would die from overpopulation and overplundering of natural resources. Of course, that hasn't happened yet thanks to technological advances and such. However, in this latest DOOMSDAY ALERT we seem to have around 48 years.
Is this just viral marketing for Lost in Space 2? Or maybe Odyssey 5?
Let's assume for a moment that the observatory really IS able to discern the energy released as the minature black holes--wouldn't that energy be largely comprised of particles from our own spacetime dimension? My assumption is that the energy released would be the collision of the singularity with the surrounding particles, so in effect all we would be able to track would be "common" energy, not the extradimensional black hole which would have collapsed into nothingness.
Many states will allow you to get a drivers license without actually being a citizen. Linking together all of these state-based databases will do nothing more than give you a complete record of drivers in the country, which counts really no one. The goal, at least as initially stated, was to create one true set of data that represented the U.S. population, and this falls well short of that.
I think that Larry's still got room to argue the benefits of his system before the legistlatures throw it away. Mark my words: this isn't done yet.
...is just to prove that porn-solicitations and X10 ads aren't the true purpose of "distributed communications." Remember when you could actually carry on an on-topic thread?
I recently tried to track down the milestone changes for Mozilla, and got a link to the original newsgroup posting. I thought I'd dig around through the responses and see what everyone else thought -- 550 message headers later, I realized that even the Mozilla servers were utterly spammed with "me and my friends, naked & FREE!" For some reason (probably just bad memory) it didn't seem like we had these types of problems back at Berkeley...
Yes, but Microsoft has NEVER really created anything in this space. Their WebTV product was developed by Moxi's creator (who, I believe, also left the blueprints for the later-released UltimateTV product under the WebTV umbrella).
Wouldn't you think that he would keep his rights to the product for future development?
If the sites could do content negotiation based on mother country, could some company (like, say, the Academy Awards show for example...) use this to restrict 'net content based on your time zone? That way the east coast broadcast mirrors the east coast webcast, and the west then has their own?
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Besides, would YOU want a huge, single function button..."
Have you seen the mac mouse? It *IS* a huge, single function button:)
I get your point, but first you have to explain to the common user what a port is.
Microsoft has made a very AOL-like mistake in bringing overly-advanced functions to users that don't know what to do with them. Sure, these tools are awesome if you know what to do with them. But they've fundamentally misunderstood their audience -- if you're a power-user and know how to best utilize either the UP&P or the personal firewall...well, I guess I'm wondering how many of those people still want to run Windows?
Oh, and why wasn't the "personal firewall" on by default? Better yet, why was UP&P on at all? This is "future technology" from their write-up...
Put data outlets in common rooms - the livingroom, dining room den etc. These areas could end up as common homework computer areas for the kids.
I'm building my own home, too, and have been thinking about a wireless solution for networking (a la Apple's Airport) -- with the exact concern that you listed. Do you think this is a workable solution, or is the technology just not there yet?
Thanks, Microsoft -- you've just effectively intruded on the iMac's in schools trend from the last few years. My 12-year-old is in a public school with a really amazing iMac network. Here I've been thinking how wonderful this is, but you can just see this "donation" as a way into a sector that they've completely FUCKED for the last few years.
EMPLOYEE: JONES, PAUL
Biohazards: Clean
Infectious Diseases: Clean
Genetic anomolies: Clean
Pharmacopia: Found -
** ASPIRIN - Trace Amounts
==================
Report submitted to Human Resources for individual factors improvements...
These reports, while "sold" as providing the ability to detect hazardous materials could in fact be used in a manner similar to the Gattica theory: testing for genetic predispositions or even medications (say, the AIDS cocktail) to determine whether you should get that promotion or not. Really, from the business end--you've got rounds of layoffs, shouldn't you have the best information when selecting who goes and who stays?
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I'm with you on this one. I stayed in temporary housing in SF for a month and didn't want to drop the $150 on a phone line. Mobile phones were great for voice, but not internet. But my new laptop came with 802.11b and three of my neighbors broadcasted for me. I didn't abuse it...just checked email now and then and surfed for plane tickets. Total bandwidth consumed was obviously negligible. Of course, this begs the question of why, then, all of us need to have the fattest pipe available when none of us will ever use more than 30% of our capacity.
Sorry, I digress...
As for the legal details...it's an internet connection, and it WON'T hold up in court if someone connects through your WAP to do something illegal. Disagree? Run traceroute and figure out the distribution of liability.
It's been over three years since I last had to consult the dictionary for a ./ posting. Thanks for solipsism...
Okay, so next step is to use it in a sentence.
proving yet again that the day of the machines has not yet arrived.
I was worried there for a second, seeing as how our potential savior has just been elected Governor of California.
Of the 8 posts on apple's site, most of them seem to think that Apple has done this intentionally. Let's be clear--Apple has NOTHING to gain by pissing off the Windows user base. Their entire strategy hinges on positive experience with Apple products that encourages people to switch and have that experience with every interaction. I would be surprised if the actual interactions with Apple have been all that negative (yes...I'm saying that some people may be aggrevated and exaggerating). My interactions with Apple (as a Mac user) have always been reasonably positive, whether this be for sales, technical support or developer relations.
It's silly to think they're trying to sabatoge the Windows base. And if some phone rep blew it...well, that's clearly a problem but I just don't see this as anything more than one person's screw up.
I can see it now. You trip on the subway and your PDA clicks on the nameless popup and the entire screen is taken over by Asian Porn.
Honey--really, I didn't MEAN to click on that!
Maybe we need more INTENTIONAL forms of input...
Amen (again) to the idea that ST just needed to take more chances. There was no substantial risk for anything in the series, except for the loss of the Enterprise in almost every movie.
By the way, wouldn't someone in the 25th century finally figure out that it's too damn expensive to keep giving Picard a new ship? If that were real life, ol' baldy would be driving the Starfleet equivilent of a Gremlin and be on a very short leash.
Safari -- it's the OSX version of CyberDog!
Thanks, Apple. What this world needed was another browser...
I think even Malthus (see http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/malthus/malthus.0.h tml) would be turning over in his grave from this bullshit. His initial predictions from the late 1700s always gave "generations" until the human race would die from overpopulation and overplundering of natural resources. Of course, that hasn't happened yet thanks to technological advances and such. However, in this latest DOOMSDAY ALERT we seem to have around 48 years.
Is this just viral marketing for Lost in Space 2? Or maybe Odyssey 5?
Let's assume for a moment that the observatory really IS able to discern the energy released as the minature black holes--wouldn't that energy be largely comprised of particles from our own spacetime dimension? My assumption is that the energy released would be the collision of the singularity with the surrounding particles, so in effect all we would be able to track would be "common" energy, not the extradimensional black hole which would have collapsed into nothingness.
Maybe I'm missing something...
Yeah, whatever... We got those plans, and the transparent aluminum, all from that craft that took the whales away.
Don't you read the newspaper?
Working for China, are you?
:)
Oh, and those grey canvas jumpers are very fashionable
Many states will allow you to get a drivers license without actually being a citizen. Linking together all of these state-based databases will do nothing more than give you a complete record of drivers in the country, which counts really no one. The goal, at least as initially stated, was to create one true set of data that represented the U.S. population, and this falls well short of that.
I think that Larry's still got room to argue the benefits of his system before the legistlatures throw it away. Mark my words: this isn't done yet.
As I was reading through the first chunk of the image, I thought "holy shit, we sent them Space Invaders!"
:)
See, now that's the "cool" version of First Contact...just, um, sponsored by Atari
...is just to prove that porn-solicitations and X10 ads aren't the true purpose of "distributed communications." Remember when you could actually carry on an on-topic thread?
I recently tried to track down the milestone changes for Mozilla, and got a link to the original newsgroup posting. I thought I'd dig around through the responses and see what everyone else thought -- 550 message headers later, I realized that even the Mozilla servers were utterly spammed with "me and my friends, naked & FREE!" For some reason (probably just bad memory) it didn't seem like we had these types of problems back at Berkeley...
Yes, but Microsoft has NEVER really created anything in this space. Their WebTV product was developed by Moxi's creator (who, I believe, also left the blueprints for the later-released UltimateTV product under the WebTV umbrella).
Wouldn't you think that he would keep his rights to the product for future development?
If the sites could do content negotiation based on mother country, could some company (like, say, the Academy Awards show for example...) use this to restrict 'net content based on your time zone? That way the east coast broadcast mirrors the east coast webcast, and the west then has their own?
Have you seen the mac mouse? It *IS* a huge, single function button :)
Yeah, and regex -- who the hell can read that?!?
I get your point, but first you have to explain to the common user what a port is.
Microsoft has made a very AOL-like mistake in bringing overly-advanced functions to users that don't know what to do with them. Sure, these tools are awesome if you know what to do with them. But they've fundamentally misunderstood their audience -- if you're a power-user and know how to best utilize either the UP&P or the personal firewall...well, I guess I'm wondering how many of those people still want to run Windows?
Oh, and why wasn't the "personal firewall" on by default? Better yet, why was UP&P on at all? This is "future technology" from their write-up...
Great, so now our chips will have annoying animated ads in them too?
Sheesh.
I'm building my own home, too, and have been thinking about a wireless solution for networking (a la Apple's Airport) -- with the exact concern that you listed. Do you think this is a workable solution, or is the technology just not there yet?
Yeah, I saw something like that in a Val Kilmer movie -- it's gotta be true!
:)
Thanks, Microsoft -- you've just effectively intruded on the iMac's in schools trend from the last few years. My 12-year-old is in a public school with a really amazing iMac network. Here I've been thinking how wonderful this is, but you can just see this "donation" as a way into a sector that they've completely FUCKED for the last few years.
I'm really, really pissed about this.
Can you see the reports to management?
EMPLOYEE: JONES, PAUL
Biohazards: Clean
Infectious Diseases: Clean
Genetic anomolies: Clean
Pharmacopia: Found -
** ASPIRIN - Trace Amounts
==================
Report submitted to Human Resources for individual factors improvements...
These reports, while "sold" as providing the ability to detect hazardous materials could in fact be used in a manner similar to the Gattica theory: testing for genetic predispositions or even medications (say, the AIDS cocktail) to determine whether you should get that promotion or not. Really, from the business end--you've got rounds of layoffs, shouldn't you have the best information when selecting who goes and who stays?
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My version of FrontPage locks up every time I write something negative about Microsoft. That's pretty sweet coding :)