Because the 4-year old is actually quite fond of her father, and will stand outside the door pounding on the door and yelling "Daddy!" until I come out and spank her. And I don't really enjoy spanking her (spanking her mother is another story). And yes, I've given up on locking the bathroom door for the same reason.
It's a lot easier to tell your kid "NO! You can't have that game!" then it is to tell them "No, you can't spend any time with your father today!"
the guys sounds like a bit of an asshole apologist for 'Big Brother' No, the guy sounds like a realist. Scott "Privacy is dead, get over it" McNealy sounds much more like an asshole apologist for Big Brother!
In both cases, these bandwidth numbers are meaningless because you're sharing the bandwidth with every other user on the cable or access point. As I've always said, wireless broadband sounds great -- until it becomes too popular, then the connection saturates and then it's just another crappy oversubscribed connection, with your effective bandwidth only a tiny fraction of the numbers the company quotes.
But since corporations have unlimited lifetimes, cannot be put and jail, and usually enjoy the financial resources of millions of real people, that gives them a bit of an unfair advantage over us mere mortals, doesn't it? By the way, corporations were originally designed as a way for nonprofits to limit the liability of their participants. Not sure how for-profit companies came to enjoy the same protections of human beings, but I'm sure it couldn't have anything to do with campaign contributions...
They weren't "arbitrarily" censoring email; they had received complaints from several students, and decided those students were representative of the population as a whole. How many students have complained that they are now unable to receive this spam? Communication requires a willing speaker and a willing listener. Your right to free speech only gives you a right to communicate with the people that actually want to hear what you have to say. You seem to be arguing that I have the right to scream obscentities outside a public gradeschool, and the government should force the children to listen, lest they infringe on my "free speech". This clearly isn't true.
Explain that to the Oregonian (our local newspaper). Two days a week, their delivery person distributes free newspaper to induce people to subscribe. Causing me to call up their subscription department and threaten legal action against them, to which they reply, "Well, you're not on the list". So then they put me on the list for about 6 months, then delete me, and the cycle starts all over again. For some reason, I have been unable to convince the newspaper that they have no right to tresspass on my property, or to throw trash into my yard, or to convince them that an "opt out" policy for throwing trash in people's yards is a bad idea. However, if I went to the publisher's house and threw things in his yard, I'm fairly certain I'd eventually be arrested for criminal tresspass and offensive littering. Any suggestions?
Doing 3D in Java is actually an option -- if you don't mind slow 3D with a very limited number of polygons. There is a Java 3D API available. Generally, when doing 3D you want to get as close to the hardware as possible. Java is not the best way to do that, neither is Xlib. Perhaps more experienced developers can suggest cross-platform 3D implementations that actually provide good performance, but I don't know of any.
Good. Now say something incredibly negative about Microsoft in you blog, and see what happens! Does the phrase "career limiting move" mean anything to you? Do you really expect me to beleive you can be completely impartial when speaking about Microsoft when they are giving you a paycheck every week... a paycheck that you presumably would like to continue receiving? And by the way, I thought it was common knowledge that Microsoft is now paying bloggers to evangelize Longhorn/Vista, although I can't find any direct proof of that.
As far as Lotus 1-2-3, no I don't beleive Microsoft deliberately set out to break it. Lotus was such a fragile piece of software that many 3rd party applications would break it. Any problems Lotus had with new versions of DOS are more easily explained by Microsoft simply not caring whether or not Lotus still run, rather deliberately trying to break it. However, the explicit check for DR-DOS in Windows 3.0 is a very different story -- a very deliberate attempt to tie Windows to MS-DOS and only MS-DOS. In most industries, this would be referred to as "anticompetitive behaviour."
You have obviously never actually experienced a 7 hour commute to the ocean floor to do a few hours work, followed by a 48 hour decompression period. And by the way, given that the pressure is several atmosheres, you're pretty much forced to do everything by remote control anyway, even if your are in a sub! Given a choice of sitting around 80% of the time doing nothing, or working by remote control, I think I would choose remote control. Unless, of course, we're exploring the Dallas Cheerleaders' locker room... some things you just have to do by hand!
Agreed, I appreciate his disclaimer very much. However, he can hardly be viewed as an impartial critic of Microsoft, especially since Microsoft can and will fire his ass for saying anything negative about Microsoft in a blog, as I beleive they have done to others.
The is the Proudly Serving My Corporate Masters website to some that admits to working for Microsoft... I'm sure he'd be real forthcoming about it if he had some dirt on Microsoft, wouldn't he? Gee, what are the chances that Microsoft is actually paying him to write this blog?
And Windows 3.0 didn't explicitly check for DR-DOS and print out a messages stating that it wouldn't work properly with anything other the MS-DOS either... except that I actually saw that error message on a CRT in the lab.
VHS tape sales went way down for some odd reason. You mean because people realized that VHS tapes were a lot cheaper to rent than to buy, especially if your intent was to make a copy of them?
once people have an MP3 of a song that they can listen to as many times as they want, there's little need to go buy another copy. Unless, of course, they want to listen something a little higher quality than the crappy lossy-compressed files generally available on the web... this used to be called "try before you buy", where the record store would provide turntables and let you listen to a record before you actually payed for it. If you know of any places I can get CD-quality files for free, I'd appreciate you telling me about them.
How could file downloads be any more damaging to music than radio airplay, which the record companies appear to beleive increases record sales, otherwise they wouldn't spend so much money paying for airplay! Here these people are providing an equivalent service free of charge, and they are claiming it is "damaging music"? The only way it could damage music is if they use a compression scheme that is too lossy!
I for one would like to see how the "open access point" defense holds up in court, e.g. claiming that you internet connection was through an unencrypted wireless router, therefore ANY of your neighbors could have been sharing those files! If somebody taps into your phone line and then uses it to threaten the Prime Minister, should they come and arrest you, just because you're the one paying for the phone line?
I fail to see why 3 axles are superiour to 2, especially since it is not articulated between the axles. Won't most obstacles just cause the wheels on one of the axles to lose contact with the ground anyway?
SCO is run by lawyers with a "if it's not explicitly illegal, then it must be ok" attitude. I don't beleive that SCO has ever argued in court that the GPL is invalid. They have made insinuations that it was invalid in press releases and public statements, but obviously they feel that it is ok to lie in press releases and public statements, since it is not explicitly illegal. And by the way, the Samba team a long time ago decided to take the moral high road and not do anything to stop SCO from using Samba, since at least by my reading of the GPL it is ok (violating the GPL for one "program" does not automagically violate the GPL for all other GPL'ed programs). However, I doubt if supporting SCO is very high on any open source developers priority list!
While I would very much like to see a new version of the GPL that states that anybody attacking the GPL or any GPL'ed software isn't allowed to use any GPL'ed software, that is NOT what the current GPL says. Furthermore, who decides what entities are "attacking" the GPL? (Yes, SCO is an obvious case we could arrive at a pretty quick consensus about... but there may be other cases.)
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If it's got to be within 10m (30ft), then why not just use a cable? Bluetooth is extremly low power/short range. Zigbee appears to be slightly higher power/longer range.
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It's a lot easier to tell your kid "NO! You can't have that game!" then it is to tell them "No, you can't spend any time with your father today!"
the guys sounds like a bit of an asshole apologist for 'Big Brother' No, the guy sounds like a realist. Scott "Privacy is dead, get over it" McNealy sounds much more like an asshole apologist for Big Brother!
Are you thinking of the Transparent Society essay by David Brin?
I have a 4-year old. Trust me, I get far, far fewer interruptions when working at the office than when working at home!
In both cases, these bandwidth numbers are meaningless because you're sharing the bandwidth with every other user on the cable or access point. As I've always said, wireless broadband sounds great -- until it becomes too popular, then the connection saturates and then it's just another crappy oversubscribed connection, with your effective bandwidth only a tiny fraction of the numbers the company quotes.
I don't think even my wife can talk that fast!
But since corporations have unlimited lifetimes, cannot be put and jail, and usually enjoy the financial resources of millions of real people, that gives them a bit of an unfair advantage over us mere mortals, doesn't it? By the way, corporations were originally designed as a way for nonprofits to limit the liability of their participants. Not sure how for-profit companies came to enjoy the same protections of human beings, but I'm sure it couldn't have anything to do with campaign contributions...
They weren't "arbitrarily" censoring email; they had received complaints from several students, and decided those students were representative of the population as a whole. How many students have complained that they are now unable to receive this spam? Communication requires a willing speaker and a willing listener. Your right to free speech only gives you a right to communicate with the people that actually want to hear what you have to say. You seem to be arguing that I have the right to scream obscentities outside a public gradeschool, and the government should force the children to listen, lest they infringe on my "free speech". This clearly isn't true.
Explain that to the Oregonian (our local newspaper). Two days a week, their delivery person distributes free newspaper to induce people to subscribe. Causing me to call up their subscription department and threaten legal action against them, to which they reply, "Well, you're not on the list". So then they put me on the list for about 6 months, then delete me, and the cycle starts all over again. For some reason, I have been unable to convince the newspaper that they have no right to tresspass on my property, or to throw trash into my yard, or to convince them that an "opt out" policy for throwing trash in people's yards is a bad idea. However, if I went to the publisher's house and threw things in his yard, I'm fairly certain I'd eventually be arrested for criminal tresspass and offensive littering. Any suggestions?
Imagine my chagrin at discovering a "porter stout" and a "stout porter" were entirely two different things!
Doing 3D in Java is actually an option -- if you don't mind slow 3D with a very limited number of polygons. There is a Java 3D API available. Generally, when doing 3D you want to get as close to the hardware as possible. Java is not the best way to do that, neither is Xlib. Perhaps more experienced developers can suggest cross-platform 3D implementations that actually provide good performance, but I don't know of any.
As far as Lotus 1-2-3, no I don't beleive Microsoft deliberately set out to break it. Lotus was such a fragile piece of software that many 3rd party applications would break it. Any problems Lotus had with new versions of DOS are more easily explained by Microsoft simply not caring whether or not Lotus still run, rather deliberately trying to break it. However, the explicit check for DR-DOS in Windows 3.0 is a very different story -- a very deliberate attempt to tie Windows to MS-DOS and only MS-DOS. In most industries, this would be referred to as "anticompetitive behaviour."
You have obviously never actually experienced a 7 hour commute to the ocean floor to do a few hours work, followed by a 48 hour decompression period. And by the way, given that the pressure is several atmosheres, you're pretty much forced to do everything by remote control anyway, even if your are in a sub! Given a choice of sitting around 80% of the time doing nothing, or working by remote control, I think I would choose remote control. Unless, of course, we're exploring the Dallas Cheerleaders' locker room... some things you just have to do by hand!
Agreed, I appreciate his disclaimer very much. However, he can hardly be viewed as an impartial critic of Microsoft, especially since Microsoft can and will fire his ass for saying anything negative about Microsoft in a blog, as I beleive they have done to others.
The is the Proudly Serving My Corporate Masters website to some that admits to working for Microsoft... I'm sure he'd be real forthcoming about it if he had some dirt on Microsoft, wouldn't he? Gee, what are the chances that Microsoft is actually paying him to write this blog?
And Windows 3.0 didn't explicitly check for DR-DOS and print out a messages stating that it wouldn't work properly with anything other the MS-DOS either... except that I actually saw that error message on a CRT in the lab.
VHS tape sales went way down for some odd reason. You mean because people realized that VHS tapes were a lot cheaper to rent than to buy, especially if your intent was to make a copy of them?
once people have an MP3 of a song that they can listen to as many times as they want, there's little need to go buy another copy. Unless, of course, they want to listen something a little higher quality than the crappy lossy-compressed files generally available on the web... this used to be called "try before you buy", where the record store would provide turntables and let you listen to a record before you actually payed for it. If you know of any places I can get CD-quality files for free, I'd appreciate you telling me about them.
How could file downloads be any more damaging to music than radio airplay, which the record companies appear to beleive increases record sales, otherwise they wouldn't spend so much money paying for airplay! Here these people are providing an equivalent service free of charge, and they are claiming it is "damaging music"? The only way it could damage music is if they use a compression scheme that is too lossy!
I for one would like to see how the "open access point" defense holds up in court, e.g. claiming that you internet connection was through an unencrypted wireless router, therefore ANY of your neighbors could have been sharing those files! If somebody taps into your phone line and then uses it to threaten the Prime Minister, should they come and arrest you, just because you're the one paying for the phone line?
I fail to see why 3 axles are superiour to 2, especially since it is not articulated between the axles. Won't most obstacles just cause the wheels on one of the axles to lose contact with the ground anyway?
So HTML 4.01 is better than XHTML because IE is broken? Isn't that like saying a Kia is better than a Ferrari because there is a 55mph speed limit?
While I would very much like to see a new version of the GPL that states that anybody attacking the GPL or any GPL'ed software isn't allowed to use any GPL'ed software, that is NOT what the current GPL says. Furthermore, who decides what entities are "attacking" the GPL? (Yes, SCO is an obvious case we could arrive at a pretty quick consensus about... but there may be other cases.)
Why is HTML 4.01 better than XHTML?
If it's got to be within 10m (30ft), then why not just use a cable? Bluetooth is extremly low power/short range. Zigbee appears to be slightly higher power/longer range.