Not to mention, retired people don't like to pay for excessive things like extra TV signals. They'll take the channels they can get via rabbit ears and read the newspaper.
You do realize that current 50-somethings and 60-something aren't in that category, right? In the past, older people didn't pay excessive things because they grew up with the Great Depression and World War II, and were taught not to be wasteful.
The 50 and 60 somethings of today are Baby Boomers -- the so-called "me" generation. Most of them are so self-absorbed, that they can't imagine a world without luxuries they've taken for granted for many years, including cable TV and, at least for some, the Internet.
I said *American*, right? Lada, Audi, and Fiat are not American car companies. Anyway, there's only one American car company whose name is four-letter word. And it was a joke. In the US, when one is referring to a 'four-letter word', they usually mean a swear word, as most of them are.
The former CIO of one of America's 'Big Three' car companies, who shall remain nameless, but I'll say that the name of the company is a four-letter word;) -- was an IBM vendor puppet. Of course, he came from IBM, and after he left, he went back to work for IBM....hmmm.....
Needless to say, his policies live on. The only approved vendor at the four-letter American automobile manufacturer is... IBM.
Maybe people could adopt individual grains of sand at the beach, to raise money to help keep the beaches clean. The hard part is writing the chosen names with a sharpie on each grain of sand.
This can be done on a grain rice (I've seen it done, but with a fine, fine writing/drawing instrument, not a sharpie), but on a grain of sand I think you need to start getting microscopic.
That being said, I'm not interested. If I want people to know where I am going to be I'll tell them if they need to know, not post it or have some 'micro blog' tracking my every move. I don't need to blog it or broadcast it. Maybe I am showing my age but I am really finding all of this stuff to be getting increasingly silly.
Agreed. And if anyone is seriously interested in tracking some random person's whereabouts and goings-on all day long....well, actually, isn't that why we have stalking laws?
What I mean is, people will be intentionally allowing other people to stalk them by means of this geospatialmicrobloggerificbullshit.
Maybe I'm just getting old, but damn, some people just need to get a life!
Ah, yes! *googles for it* I remember this now. The ancient democracy in which lizards rule. Now, if only we could get people to understand that 'lizards' == 'Democans and Republicrats'.
Low voter turnout in the USA is regularly interpreted as people being digusted and disillusioned of the system. A politically correct name to put it is "voter apathy".
Unfortunately, with the high voter turnout in the primaries, it's looking like this will by a high-turnout election in November.
Protest votes are mainly voting for "the other big party".
That's not a protest vote. Sure, they want you to think that's a protest vote, but it's not. As you said, above, there's not a dime's worth of difference between Republicrats and Democans. Vote for one, you might as well have voted for the other, for as long as you do, nothing will ever change in this country.
IOW, people, if you want the "change" and "hope" Barack Obama is promising you, you won't get it voting either for McCain or Obama.
Don't you think a more intelligent solution would be to offer both labels AND folders? You may not see or understand why some people would rather have real folders instead of some half-baked solution that kind of do the job, but your own limitations should not impose any solution to other people. If the problem is "we didn't have the resource to do it" then I can understand it, otherwise it just shows incompetence.
Solution: Get Thunderbird or [insert your favorite mail client here] and point it at GMail's servers. You can use either POP or IMAP, and you can use it in addition to, rather than instead of, GMail's (rather excellent, IMHO) Web UI.
I should also point out that the filters and labels approach Gmail uses is not unlike the 'virtual folders' aka 'saved searches' approach in Evolution or Outlook.
Which reminds me... the reviewer complained about having to do lots of key remapping every day. Is this really the case? With a good system (eg, X) you can keep lists of kemappings in a file and just apply the whole file in one go. You can even bind the command to do that to a menu in any good window manager. That way, you can have as many keyboard types as you wish, for instance wierd laptop internal, external UK and external US.
There is no way I would release anything under 'AGPL' or even 'GPL' if it was important to my core business. How am I supposed to pay for a roof over my head!?
Somebody's got to support all that AGPL and GPL code, right?
<sarcasm> First they want to put Microsoft out of business and now Google!
Why, it's un-American! </sarcasm>
Yep. Open source works with the web, too. I can imagine a world where different applications could be built from pieces and parts that might even be hosted on different, random sites.
um what DRM? there is no DRM n the hardware. Apple simply uses the intel upgraded version of the 80's piece of shit tech of BIOS. it is Called EFI and any OS that supports booting from EFI can load on a Mac.
The OS checks against a hardware key stored in EFI to ensure it is booting on Apple hardware, right? How is that not DRM?
BIOS like PS/2 ports are outdated but stick around because that is all MSFT supports well.
Windows, Mac OS X and most Linux distros support using USB keyboards and mice out of the box.
My question is how many people actually upgrade memory or hard drives in laptops?
I would imagine a LOT of people upgrade memory in a Macbook. Many Mac users are using high-end applications that process lots of data, like high-end audio and video editing systems, and, therefore, would reap benefits from upgrading the memory in any Macbook. It's not like these things ship with 8GB standard.
Failing hard drives, you're probably right. Notebook HDDs, on average, seem last about 5-7 years, well after the time most people would be upgrading to a new machine anyway.
OTOH, some might need more storage than comes standard. On the third hand, there is portable USB or NAS storage for those who have serious storage needs.
Your NFCG is about 10 times more competent with a PC or PC laptop than with an Apple. Most of them would be lost if you asked them to upgrade your MacBook. You can pay the NFCG now and pay extra to fix their mistakes later or you can pay Apple service now.
Current Macbooks are PC laptops with a different OS and some DRM.
But anyway, I thought installing hardware in your Mac was easy because 'it just works' and you wouldn't have to pay your NFCG, right?
Once I actually understood what on earth they are on about, it seems like an interesting idea with very little basis in reality. Their main claim seems to be a magic-wand approach to getting round copyright, as opposed to a particularly useful distributed filesystem:
No data passing through the network can be considered copyrighted because the means by which it is represented is truly random
Sure... So if I put in Brittany's latest album, then tell my friend to click on the url that 'reassembles' the 'truly random' data into, well, Brittany's latest album, then do you really think copyright has nothing to say?
You guys are getting all the wrong idea. Here's the deal: it doesn't matter whether nodes are known or not, because there is not one single piece of data that can represent the copyrighted info on any one particular individual's system. There are no pointers, either, because the pointers are stored in the same manner.
So, in order to sue anyone for copyright infringement, you have to sue EVERYONE connected to the network, jointly. Good luck with a court letting you name 1,000,000 individuals collectively as one defendant.
The nodes are saying 'go talk to the uploaders, we don't have any copyrighted data on each of our systems', while actually tracking down the uploader is just about impossible without compromising a vast majority of nodes on the network.
And my last statement is the problem, not what the rest of you are on about.
Actually, no, it's not unreasonable or impractical. In fact, that's how it actually works. Star Wars is copyrighted as a DVD, Film, mpeg, script, live performance, song, interpretive dance, etc...right?
Not necessarily, at least on the last 4 or 5 items.
If I do 'Star Wars as interpretive dance', what I have isn't necessarily a copyright violation, it may be parody. And parody is protected under 'fair use' exemptions as free speech. It depends on how closely it tracks to the original film. And I'm guessing 'SW as ID', by definition, isn't going to track closely enough to not be parody.
1. Apply for patent on a basic technology of the Internet 2. The clueless and fumbling USPTO grants the patent. 2. Attracting attention of mob, no longer a problem. 3. File lawsuit for $1,000,000,000 *pinky extended* 4. ??? 5. Profit!!!!
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Not to mention, retired people don't like to pay for excessive things like extra TV signals. They'll take the channels they can get via rabbit ears and read the newspaper.
You do realize that current 50-somethings and 60-something aren't in that category, right? In the past, older people didn't pay excessive things because they grew up with the Great Depression and World War II, and were taught not to be wasteful.
The 50 and 60 somethings of today are Baby Boomers -- the so-called "me" generation. Most of them are so self-absorbed, that they can't imagine a world without luxuries they've taken for granted for many years, including cable TV and, at least for some, the Internet.
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I said *American*, right? Lada, Audi, and Fiat are not American car companies. Anyway, there's only one American car company whose name is four-letter word. And it was a joke. In the US, when one is referring to a 'four-letter word', they usually mean a swear word, as most of them are.
The former CIO of one of America's 'Big Three' car companies, who shall remain nameless, but I'll say that the name of the company is a four-letter word ;) -- was an IBM vendor puppet. Of course, he came from IBM, and after he left, he went back to work for IBM....hmmm.....
Needless to say, his policies live on. The only approved vendor at the four-letter American automobile manufacturer is ... IBM.
Chief Information Officer
CEO: Chief Executive Officer
CFO: Chief Financial Officer
CxO terms are pretty common for the top level in larger corporations.
CTO: Chief Technology Officer
COO: Chief Operating Officer
All equal to:
CYO: Cover Your Own _____
This can be done on a grain rice (I've seen it done, but with a fine, fine writing/drawing instrument, not a sharpie), but on a grain of sand I think you need to start getting microscopic.
Agreed. And if anyone is seriously interested in tracking some random person's whereabouts and goings-on all day long....well, actually, isn't that why we have stalking laws?
What I mean is, people will be intentionally allowing other people to stalk them by means of this geospatialmicrobloggerificbullshit.
Maybe I'm just getting old, but damn, some people just need to get a life!
Just imagine...if we all had geospatially-enabled Slashdot: geommicroslashdotting!
A scorched earth policy wouldn't be voting out every incumbent, it would be putting them all against the wall and shooting every last one of them.
Maybe then they'd see we're fed up.
Ah, yes! *googles for it* I remember this now. The ancient democracy in which lizards rule. Now, if only we could get people to understand that 'lizards' == 'Democans and Republicrats'.
Excellent post, BTW.
Unfortunately, with the high voter turnout in the primaries, it's looking like this will by a high-turnout election in November.
That's not a protest vote. Sure, they want you to think that's a protest vote, but it's not. As you said, above, there's not a dime's worth of difference between Republicrats and Democans. Vote for one, you might as well have voted for the other, for as long as you do, nothing will ever change in this country.
IOW, people, if you want the "change" and "hope" Barack Obama is promising you, you won't get it voting either for McCain or Obama.
You know, you can now use AOL with a high-speed connection, n00b. ;)
Don't you think a more intelligent solution would be to offer both labels AND folders? You may not see or understand why some people would rather have real folders instead of some half-baked solution that kind of do the job, but your own limitations should not impose any solution to other people. If the problem is "we didn't have the resource to do it" then I can understand it, otherwise it just shows incompetence.
Solution: Get Thunderbird or [insert your favorite mail client here] and point it at GMail's servers. You can use either POP or IMAP, and you can use it in addition to, rather than instead of, GMail's (rather excellent, IMHO) Web UI.
I should also point out that the filters and labels approach Gmail uses is not unlike the 'virtual folders' aka 'saved searches' approach in Evolution or Outlook.
Mod parent up. Then we don't need 'plugins', 'AJAX', 'file handlers' or anything.
$ telnet www.google.com 80
nuff said.
Yep. There a quite a few million of 'em out there, too.
Taco uses a Mac.
Oh, there you are, Hans!
My wife is very noisy, too. I was wondering if you had a fix for that?
Oh, never mind.
Somebody's got to support all that AGPL and GPL code, right?
<sarcasm>
First they want to put Microsoft out of business and now Google!
Why, it's un-American!
</sarcasm>
Yep. Open source works with the web, too. I can imagine a world where different applications could be built from pieces and parts that might even be hosted on different, random sites.
Imagine the possibilities.
The OS checks against a hardware key stored in EFI to ensure it is booting on Apple hardware, right? How is that not DRM?
Windows, Mac OS X and most Linux distros support using USB keyboards and mice out of the box.
I would imagine a LOT of people upgrade memory in a Macbook. Many Mac users are using high-end applications that process lots of data, like high-end audio and video editing systems, and, therefore, would reap benefits from upgrading the memory in any Macbook. It's not like these things ship with 8GB standard.
Failing hard drives, you're probably right. Notebook HDDs, on average, seem last about 5-7 years, well after the time most people would be upgrading to a new machine anyway.
OTOH, some might need more storage than comes standard. On the third hand, there is portable USB or NAS storage for those who have serious storage needs.
Current Macbooks are PC laptops with a different OS and some DRM.
But anyway, I thought installing hardware in your Mac was easy because 'it just works' and you wouldn't have to pay your NFCG, right?
You guys are getting all the wrong idea. Here's the deal: it doesn't matter whether nodes are known or not, because there is not one single piece of data that can represent the copyrighted info on any one particular individual's system. There are no pointers, either, because the pointers are stored in the same manner.
So, in order to sue anyone for copyright infringement, you have to sue EVERYONE connected to the network, jointly. Good luck with a court letting you name 1,000,000 individuals collectively as one defendant.
The nodes are saying 'go talk to the uploaders, we don't have any copyrighted data on each of our systems', while actually tracking down the uploader is just about impossible without compromising a vast majority of nodes on the network.
And my last statement is the problem, not what the rest of you are on about.
Not necessarily, at least on the last 4 or 5 items.
If I do 'Star Wars as interpretive dance', what I have isn't necessarily a copyright violation, it may be parody. And parody is protected under 'fair use' exemptions as free speech. It depends on how closely it tracks to the original film. And I'm guessing 'SW as ID', by definition, isn't going to track closely enough to not be parody.
1. Apply for patent on a basic technology of the Internet
2. The clueless and fumbling USPTO grants the patent.
2. Attracting attention of mob, no longer a problem.
3. File lawsuit for $1,000,000,000 *pinky extended*
4. ???
5. Profit!!!!