I call bullshit. I left Vonage very recently and to date they had not implemented E911 and did not make any mention of an intention to do so. I call bullshit on you.
Any vonage customer can dial 933 and get a recorded message indicating the E911 status for their line. Mine says that E911 is in place and working and has for over a year.
I give Woz mad props, no doubt about it. Looking back on things like the IWM... If they had not been able to make the ]['s floppy system so cheap it's doubtful it would have been as successful as it was.
Still, Woz's love of tricky, simplified hardware simply moved the complexity into the soft/firmware. Operating the floppy drive (at the lowest levels) was an exercise in bit-banging and tight timing loops. In some cases, you had to make sure your code was page aligned (we're talking about 256 byte pages here) to insure that incrementing the high order byte of the address pointer didn't screw up the timing.
And that is a double-edged sword. Simplifying the hardware saves you real dollars per device. But tricky, touchy drivers and firmware costs you in support, debugging and developer training.
Once upon a time, a bunch of guys cut down a bunch of trees to build a bridge to cross a stream. Between that moment and today, we've had thousands of years of often subtle improvements in our understanding of everything that underlies civil engineering.
And despite that, last week an overpass in Oakland melted and failed because of a tanker truck fire.
The rate at which failures occur in engineered structures of all sorts built during modern times is very low. This is because every time something has failed in the past, we've established another data point or have learned another lesson.
What does this have to do with computer security? The same thing that the September 11th attacks have to do with civil engineering. The failures of the WTC towers may not have been preventable, but had the stairwells been protected against impact, many hundreds if not thousands of lives could have been saved. But there had never been a need to protect stairwells against impact. Now, we know better. Just as once upon a time, there had never been a need to protect SMTP servers from open-relay abuse. Now, we know better.
Software engineering is no different. It's just that it is a very young endeavor. Over the course of time, we'll get better at software engineering as a species just as we got better at mechanical and civil engineering. But even as our tools and methods improve, the world will always knock us for a loop with things we hadn't thought of before. Some of those will be new ways to attack existing infrastructure.
1. That doesn't address the point. If distributing a movie doesn't generate an income for the artist, then how is Rodriguez even going to get his 5 grand back (much less make a living)?
2. I actually saw both movies, and I'd say that at least in my opinion, yes Spiderman did provide 60,000 times more entertainment.
But that doesn't mean they are violating any of your rights.
In the most pedantic sense, you're right. Nothing in copyright law dictates that the copyright owner make access to copyrighted works easy. Copyright law merely dictates that there are certain actions that an owner of a copy may not perform without the copyright owner's permission - namely distribution and public performance. The original intent was to insure that only the copyright owner could profit from distribution so that they'd be incented to create creative works.
The bit of the equation that violates my (and everyone else's rights) is the DMCA which says that it's illegal for the first guy to workaround the DRM to tell me and everybody else how he did it (remember, computer software is "speech" in the first ammendment sense). As soon as that law is properly neutered, then all will once again be right with the world.
Copyright law used to work just fine back in the days when making a copy of a copyrighted work was non-trivial. In the digital domain, because making a copy of a work is trivial, it is virtually impossible to police. As we have seen, DRM only makes it slightly more inconvenient for a little while.
Where this leads us, I don't know. The current system of copyrights is irreparably broken. Some new system based on the notion that copies are easy and trivial to create will need to replace it. But the problem there is that you need to compensate artists for their work. The Spiderman movie cost many hundreds of millions of dollars to create. If you want movies like that to be made in the future, then some way to gather those hundreds of millions to do it will need to be found. But there's more to copyright than huge Hollywood productions - it needs to work for the garage band selling CD-Rs at their concerts too.
Let me clarify the clarification. Even getting head is not so bad. Clinton's actions were "assholish" on two counts:
1. He was married at the time. Granted, there are open marriages out there where it may be ok to get some on the side, I don't recall any evidence that this was the case with the Clintons. The fact that he had to seek her forgiveness, in fact, supports that it was a move with "asshole" status.
2. He was getting it from a subordinate employee approximately half his age. Retire the cup.
The parent is correct that the only reason it became grist for Congress' mill was the fact that he lied about it under oath. Besides, rumorsabound that he wasn't the first president who might have got his winky wet the wrong way.
So once again, the/. summary leaves out the most important bits - you can't talk about resolution without also mentioning screen size and distance from the eyes.
We have a 50" 720p set 6 feet away from us, and for us, it's ideal. A larger set would overwhelm the room, and we wouldn't really want to move any closer or further away. But with that set-up, the difference between HD and SD programming is both obvious and striking. Even mundane stuff - like comparing WPT broadcasts to the NBC National Heads-up championship (the former in SD, the latter in HD) - you can see more of the nuances in their expressions better.
But, like the article says, I am doubious that spending more for a 1080p set would have made any further difference for us. Perhaps with a 60" screen if we really strained to see, probably with a 72" screen... but we wouldn't want anything that big in that room.
Ha ha. Actually, there was no such increase. War time didn't start until after Pearl Harbor and the only other enemy attack on areas covered by War Time (North American U.S. territory) was the Japanese invasion of the allutian islands (which was largely unopposed) and a number of balloon bombs that exploded in the Pacific North West in the latter stages of the war. One of those bombs killed 6 people (the only North American civilian casualties of enemy action for the entire war), but none damanged any structures (so far as I am aware).
In an ideal world they'd keep pushing it back until the start and end finally met,
This would cause problems in northern latitudes during the winter. The sun potentially wouldn't rise until very late in the morning, which would be tres suck. The last time they tried this was during WWII, and there was a noted rise in the early morning accident rate in the winter. Of course, you could also partially blame that on the blackouts, but then without War Time the blackouts wouldn't have had as much impact in the later morning hours.
If a paint manufacturer put a label on the paint can seal that was 'accepted upon opening' that stated that you couldn't use the paint except on PaintCo Brand Wood, would we call 'pirate' painters criminals or would we all just laugh in unison at PaintCo for misunderstanding freedom?
Sigh.
What about the freedom to negotiate contract terms as you like?
IF the paint manufacturer had a seal on the paint can that was indeed 'accepted upon opening,' AND if that same seal said that if you didn't agree to the terms you could return the paint for a full refund, then indeed they could hold you to that license if they wanted to, including suing you for damages (probably the price difference between their encumbered and nonencumbered paint lines, I suppose).
We would laugh in unison at the paint company not because they "misunderstand freedom," but because they would be in the unenviable position of trying to enforce what would be effectively unenforcable. This is probably why paint companies don't do silly things like that.
what's to stop me putting a (legal) copy os OS X on any common-or-garden x86 box?
As others have said, there is no way to get a legal (that is, one whose license doesn't tie it directly to the hardware with which it was distributed) copy of the Intel version of OS X.
But let's take a time-warp ahead to when Leopard (10.5) comes out. It won't be possible to buy a retail copy of OS X and install it on a beige box legally. In order to get OS X to run on a beige box, you would have to defeat the "Dont Steal Mac OS X.kext" driver (or whatever its equivalent will be). This driver checks for and authenticates the crypto chip on the motherboard of all Intel macs. It's a sure bet that any attempt to defeat this "protection" will violate the license.
This probably also applies to attempts to get OS X to run on the ATV.
There's a difference between pressure and partial pressure of oxygen. Reduced PP inhibits fire and FEELS TO HUMANS like being at altitude. Fire burns at altitude because the PP of o2 is the same. Humans feel like the PP is reduced because there's just fewer oxygen molecules (along with fewer of everything else).
My wife has COPD. She has an oxygen concentrator (really, it's just a nitrogen separator. It removes a large chunk of the nitrogen from room air and sends the rest of it down a tube to her nose). We have to post warnings in the windows and the like because the increased oxygen saturation near her when she's using her concentrator makes things that aren't usually flammable quite a bit more so - the exact opposite of the concept described in TFA. An ordinary bic lighter can become quite a sight when you aim the output from the concentrator at it (don't try this at home, kids).
This was precisely what Ferris was saying. What he was telling his audience was that they might think that probability comes into play, but it does not.
Some years ago there was a documentary series called "The Creation of the Universe," with Timothy Ferris. They talked about this theory that the universe could have sprung into existence from out of nowhere. He said of the idea, "It sounds incredibly unlikely, but then it only ever had to happen once."
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Any vonage customer can dial 933 and get a recorded message indicating the E911 status for their line. Mine says that E911 is in place and working and has for over a year.
And almost always has tons more bugs, which cost a LOT more to fix.
Because your presumption is false.
I give Woz mad props, no doubt about it. Looking back on things like the IWM... If they had not been able to make the ]['s floppy system so cheap it's doubtful it would have been as successful as it was.
Still, Woz's love of tricky, simplified hardware simply moved the complexity into the soft/firmware. Operating the floppy drive (at the lowest levels) was an exercise in bit-banging and tight timing loops. In some cases, you had to make sure your code was page aligned (we're talking about 256 byte pages here) to insure that incrementing the high order byte of the address pointer didn't screw up the timing.
And that is a double-edged sword. Simplifying the hardware saves you real dollars per device. But tricky, touchy drivers and firmware costs you in support, debugging and developer training.
And despite that, last week an overpass in Oakland melted and failed because of a tanker truck fire.
The rate at which failures occur in engineered structures of all sorts built during modern times is very low. This is because every time something has failed in the past, we've established another data point or have learned another lesson.
What does this have to do with computer security? The same thing that the September 11th attacks have to do with civil engineering. The failures of the WTC towers may not have been preventable, but had the stairwells been protected against impact, many hundreds if not thousands of lives could have been saved. But there had never been a need to protect stairwells against impact. Now, we know better. Just as once upon a time, there had never been a need to protect SMTP servers from open-relay abuse. Now, we know better.
Software engineering is no different. It's just that it is a very young endeavor. Over the course of time, we'll get better at software engineering as a species just as we got better at mechanical and civil engineering. But even as our tools and methods improve, the world will always knock us for a loop with things we hadn't thought of before. Some of those will be new ways to attack existing infrastructure.
In the most pedantic sense, you're right. Nothing in copyright law dictates that the copyright owner make access to copyrighted works easy. Copyright law merely dictates that there are certain actions that an owner of a copy may not perform without the copyright owner's permission - namely distribution and public performance. The original intent was to insure that only the copyright owner could profit from distribution so that they'd be incented to create creative works.
The bit of the equation that violates my (and everyone else's rights) is the DMCA which says that it's illegal for the first guy to workaround the DRM to tell me and everybody else how he did it (remember, computer software is "speech" in the first ammendment sense). As soon as that law is properly neutered, then all will once again be right with the world.
Copyright law used to work just fine back in the days when making a copy of a copyrighted work was non-trivial. In the digital domain, because making a copy of a work is trivial, it is virtually impossible to police. As we have seen, DRM only makes it slightly more inconvenient for a little while.
Where this leads us, I don't know. The current system of copyrights is irreparably broken. Some new system based on the notion that copies are easy and trivial to create will need to replace it. But the problem there is that you need to compensate artists for their work. The Spiderman movie cost many hundreds of millions of dollars to create. If you want movies like that to be made in the future, then some way to gather those hundreds of millions to do it will need to be found. But there's more to copyright than huge Hollywood productions - it needs to work for the garage band selling CD-Rs at their concerts too.
They HAVE released Quickbooks for mac... and I know of at least one business that switched already.
That's British for "Clue."
You are extoling the virtues of Windows Vista.
Cancel or allow?
Let me clarify the clarification. Even getting head is not so bad. Clinton's actions were "assholish" on two counts:
1. He was married at the time. Granted, there are open marriages out there where it may be ok to get some on the side, I don't recall any evidence that this was the case with the Clintons. The fact that he had to seek her forgiveness, in fact, supports that it was a move with "asshole" status.
2. He was getting it from a subordinate employee approximately half his age. Retire the cup.
The parent is correct that the only reason it became grist for Congress' mill was the fact that he lied about it under oath. Besides, rumors abound that he wasn't the first president who might have got his winky wet the wrong way.
Here here!
But the difference is that I'm not paying that temp - I, you and 300,000,000 others are.
So I'm supposed to just "take one for the team?" Uh, no. I sent a dead tree. Several, from the thickness of the envelope.
So once again, the /. summary leaves out the most important bits - you can't talk about resolution without also mentioning screen size and distance from the eyes.
We have a 50" 720p set 6 feet away from us, and for us, it's ideal. A larger set would overwhelm the room, and we wouldn't really want to move any closer or further away. But with that set-up, the difference between HD and SD programming is both obvious and striking. Even mundane stuff - like comparing WPT broadcasts to the NBC National Heads-up championship (the former in SD, the latter in HD) - you can see more of the nuances in their expressions better.
But, like the article says, I am doubious that spending more for a 1080p set would have made any further difference for us. Perhaps with a 60" screen if we really strained to see, probably with a 72" screen... but we wouldn't want anything that big in that room.
So how many devices are vulnerable to this? About 12 or so?
Ha ha. Actually, there was no such increase. War time didn't start until after Pearl Harbor and the only other enemy attack on areas covered by War Time (North American U.S. territory) was the Japanese invasion of the allutian islands (which was largely unopposed) and a number of balloon bombs that exploded in the Pacific North West in the latter stages of the war. One of those bombs killed 6 people (the only North American civilian casualties of enemy action for the entire war), but none damanged any structures (so far as I am aware).
This would cause problems in northern latitudes during the winter. The sun potentially wouldn't rise until very late in the morning, which would be tres suck. The last time they tried this was during WWII, and there was a noted rise in the early morning accident rate in the winter. Of course, you could also partially blame that on the blackouts, but then without War Time the blackouts wouldn't have had as much impact in the later morning hours.
Sigh.
What about the freedom to negotiate contract terms as you like?
IF the paint manufacturer had a seal on the paint can that was indeed 'accepted upon opening,' AND if that same seal said that if you didn't agree to the terms you could return the paint for a full refund, then indeed they could hold you to that license if they wanted to, including suing you for damages (probably the price difference between their encumbered and nonencumbered paint lines, I suppose).
We would laugh in unison at the paint company not because they "misunderstand freedom," but because they would be in the unenviable position of trying to enforce what would be effectively unenforcable. This is probably why paint companies don't do silly things like that.
As others have said, there is no way to get a legal (that is, one whose license doesn't tie it directly to the hardware with which it was distributed) copy of the Intel version of OS X.
But let's take a time-warp ahead to when Leopard (10.5) comes out. It won't be possible to buy a retail copy of OS X and install it on a beige box legally. In order to get OS X to run on a beige box, you would have to defeat the "Dont Steal Mac OS X.kext" driver (or whatever its equivalent will be). This driver checks for and authenticates the crypto chip on the motherboard of all Intel macs. It's a sure bet that any attempt to defeat this "protection" will violate the license.
This probably also applies to attempts to get OS X to run on the ATV.
We need a "-1 wrong" mod.
The quote is, indeed, said by Arthur Carlson. After all, it was HIS idea to drop the turkeys from the chopper.
And you try and tell this to the kids of today, and they won't believe you!
Luxury.
We had to draw our data in the sand. We hadn't heard about zeros, so we had to write them as I-I.
Remember Apollo I?
There's a difference between pressure and partial pressure of oxygen. Reduced PP inhibits fire and FEELS TO HUMANS like being at altitude. Fire burns at altitude because the PP of o2 is the same. Humans feel like the PP is reduced because there's just fewer oxygen molecules (along with fewer of everything else).
My wife has COPD. She has an oxygen concentrator (really, it's just a nitrogen separator. It removes a large chunk of the nitrogen from room air and sends the rest of it down a tube to her nose). We have to post warnings in the windows and the like because the increased oxygen saturation near her when she's using her concentrator makes things that aren't usually flammable quite a bit more so - the exact opposite of the concept described in TFA. An ordinary bic lighter can become quite a sight when you aim the output from the concentrator at it (don't try this at home, kids).
This was precisely what Ferris was saying. What he was telling his audience was that they might think that probability comes into play, but it does not.
Some years ago there was a documentary series called "The Creation of the Universe," with Timothy Ferris. They talked about this theory that the universe could have sprung into existence from out of nowhere. He said of the idea, "It sounds incredibly unlikely, but then it only ever had to happen once."