I'd have to say your references to "stuck" or "fraying" cables is heavily due to cost cutting - I've never seen one get stuck on older cars. - I've seen them fray and fail but in each case the linkage was designed so it drops the motor to idle.
yes i don't have anything to reference on this other than the years of working with them - the traditional accelerator cable is a bicycle cable - something that can fail yes - something that should be checked yes - something that fails in design to justify a recall?? no - unless they are built wrong.
the Air look nice - acouple things killed it in my eyes..
the lack of a proper network port/ docking station.
SSD only which knocked the price way too high
which means we grab each part of the finger prints and see how unique they are to our data set BUT we don't keep them together with each other.
if you notice they give a rating to you based on each of the areas and your over all is the highest unique..
Or - they fact that cell companies like to reuse numbers quickly - it used to be that the phone company would wait 1 year before reissuing a number after it is disconnected. i want to say the cell phone companies wait 30 days? if that it seems.
my bank has an intresting way of doing that.
Any time your account fails a login (typeo or what ever) the next suceeful login is required to answer a personalized security question (it selects one of 5 at random - and yes you pick the question and answers when you set the account up).
They also track via cookie what computer you last logged in from - and from one of the last 2 IP's you came from then no question. if you are coming from the last IP and don't have a cookie again no question..
it works quite nice.. using my laptop home/work i get prompted maybe once a month if that - but go out of town or a friends and hey - answer a question.
oh and you get 5 tries at the question because it is an exact string match (i can't spell if you've noticed so yes i've locked my self out of my account)
I've been happy with their policies
and Gnash started by implementing v1 before v2.. just like adobe did..
give the guy a break - what he did was not an easy feat (if it was it would have already been done).
why not give it some time or support - as far as i know Gnash isn't supported on an iPhone or many other devices.
he found a nich and filled it - and from what i saw - i don't think it would be too hard to update it and find flash objects via DOM and run Gordon in place of flash (if flash isn't available).. meaning after some updates maybe it's just include this js file and non flash supporting browsers and devices can now view flash on your site if they have JavaScript.
while i'm not a fan of flash at all - this is a good thing.. and i would love to see it progress farther.
The only one i remember is the Intel Compiler optimizations only working on Intel CPU's..
Such as doing some math tasks via MMX - even though AMD's had MMX the compiler wouldn't put in the optimizations unless the CPU was identified as Intel.
People got pissed because Intel's compiler was the defacto default for a alot of people - but if you think about it - why should they be responsiable for optimizing a compiler for a competitors CPU? and dealing with all the bug checkking that has to go into it.
Say they had allowed it to do the optimization and AMD's cpu had an erata that caused it to fail and crash the program because of the optimization - people would be pointing the finger at Intel's compiler..
honestly i would have done what they did - and say screw it - if they want optimizations they can release their own compiler.
the marketing racket they had with dell - yea that was wrong - but leave their compiler out of it - AMD should release their own if they want optimizations.
whether that control is there or not - or the amount of control is not the point - it is that the person has a feeling of control and therefor has a lack of fear (or at least a suppression).
And while i agree there are no driving tactics that make driving safer than flying - there are driving tactics that make driving safer. With that logic - what flying tactics are there that make flying safer?
ignore the fact that flying is already amazingly safe for what it is - but put your self in the random Joe's shoes that doesn't know it? people that don't bother doing the math on probabilities.. the Average Joe who fly less than once a year. they Hear about this plane crashing - this one attacked - and they all fear that their plane will be next.
The government as seen a niche - they realize that they can do what ever they want as long as it is presented to Average Joe as the ONLY tactic to make flying safer - so it isn't his flight.
It's a load of shit - but that is how it is happening.
not sure - but i always wondered that too - i think it is because they have this worry that it is unexpected.
when driving - i expect the SUV to cut me off - and try to drive over me - there for i pay attention and try to avoid being hit or forced into an accident.
when you have people whom are afraid of the unexpected - they feel helpless because there is nothing they know they can do to avoid it. Sure it's on the outside chance that it will happen but they still are struck with fear of it. I know people that won't go swimming in the ocean for the fear of sharks (FYI east cost US here - not really a problem).
i think it all boils down to a sence of control. If people have a feeling that they are in control of what is happening to them - even if its a remote feeling or chance of action - they seem to have less fear and therefor will put them selves in far more danger. Take that feeling away and they are helpless - which induces fear, even of the most remote chance of being harmed.
i didn't read the article or the KB but from the types you have listed - first thing came to mind.
exchange.
edb/sdb belong to exchange stores - log is common but also used for transaction longs and chk if i remember right is used when rebuilding from TL's or doing an offline defrag.
given the type of shit thats in mailboxes and queues and that it isn't executable - sure stuff is there but not a risk.
then given the normal actions of AV software (hey i found shit in this file -remove handles deny access - hey user i quarantined this thing for you).. humm that could be quite bad
yes there are plenty of examples of why you wouldn't want to exclude things - but at the same time there are alot of reasons to.
I agree that this does smell of the "Hey listen to us! Then buy our antivirus." especially since Security Essentials actually turned out nice.
how about this - in NC you can't pass inspection if you have a check engine light code active.
even i that code is a dealer only code even if the car runs fine and would even pass emissions if they used the sniffer
dealer wants 85$ just to read the code out. and 90% of the time it is a set of things that can cause it and are dealer only parts.
it has gotten to the point that you can't even get shop manuals for newer cars.
and with the way ODB ties every thing together - that 600$ ford part is going to be the only one that might work - where as in my older cars i can wire it up the way i want so that it works, using parts of my choice.
don't know about everybody - but i will say that i have sworn off new cars - you just can't fix them your self. too many specialty tools - too many "design improvements"
when my 79 MG is more reliable and gets better mileage than newer cars (even if you do it based on weight). thats just sad.
recently i was looking to buy a truck.. i intentionally looked for an older truck pre 95 so that it would NOT have any of the ODB crap on it, why? because i want to be able to fix it my self instead of paying lots of $$$ for what are slowly turning to dealer only fixable problems that shouldn't be problems in the first place.
yea not everyone wants to fix their own car BUT there are a lot of people who would IF they could - and the limit on that is coming from the manufactures not the consumers
the rehab unit would have access to the health records and we can assume consent (in the fine print) to do this as a way of keeping people straight and not delusional.
It sounds stupid - but so does Avatars in rehab - or Dances with Smurfs.
But this isn't completely point less as if tweeter and Facebook hasn't taught us already too many people will take what ever is thrown at them
you can't Patent a drug - only the process to manufacture it (which has to be FDA approved too).
the reason you wait for generic drugs is that even after a drug has passed the FDA if you where to make it using a different process then you would still have to go through FDA approval for it - might as well come up with something different.
yea i'll inform my wife on how to skip using VLC on the standalone dvd player
to be fair now days - yea we use a media PC but several years ago we used a standalone dvd player - not much you can do to skip if it doesn't let you (hence the rip and re burn)
Originally it was put in there to make the copyright FBI warning sign stay up so there is no excuse that the movie didn't have it - then they realized they could flip that bit for the ad's too..
I've had movies where they ad's where so long i just ripped the damn movie and re burned it without the ad's
that might just be the Durham police being them selves - either way i would report them (the cell provider) - give time/date/location/number called from.
that is a serious issue - on another note when 911 doesn't work you can use *HP in NC and the cell tower will drop you to the closest Highway Patrol station dispatch, its great to report drunks.
Well i think at issue here is companies using the word Unlimited. my home cable connection isn't sold as Unlimited but rather an unmonitored 7mb/512kb - same as when you order frame circuits, they are sold at a rate either monitored or not with or without transfer caps.
AT&T sells theirs as 3G unlimited. word usage is completely different.
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I'd have to say your references to "stuck" or "fraying" cables is heavily due to cost cutting - I've never seen one get stuck on older cars. - I've seen them fray and fail but in each case the linkage was designed so it drops the motor to idle. yes i don't have anything to reference on this other than the years of working with them - the traditional accelerator cable is a bicycle cable - something that can fail yes - something that should be checked yes - something that fails in design to justify a recall?? no - unless they are built wrong.
the Air look nice - acouple things killed it in my eyes.. the lack of a proper network port/ docking station. SSD only which knocked the price way too high
which means we grab each part of the finger prints and see how unique they are to our data set BUT we don't keep them together with each other. if you notice they give a rating to you based on each of the areas and your over all is the highest unique..
Or - they fact that cell companies like to reuse numbers quickly - it used to be that the phone company would wait 1 year before reissuing a number after it is disconnected. i want to say the cell phone companies wait 30 days? if that it seems.
just wait - i bet at some point they get the bright idea of using the person wearing it as a heatsink..
my bank has an intresting way of doing that. Any time your account fails a login (typeo or what ever) the next suceeful login is required to answer a personalized security question (it selects one of 5 at random - and yes you pick the question and answers when you set the account up). They also track via cookie what computer you last logged in from - and from one of the last 2 IP's you came from then no question. if you are coming from the last IP and don't have a cookie again no question.. it works quite nice.. using my laptop home/work i get prompted maybe once a month if that - but go out of town or a friends and hey - answer a question. oh and you get 5 tries at the question because it is an exact string match (i can't spell if you've noticed so yes i've locked my self out of my account) I've been happy with their policies
and Gnash started by implementing v1 before v2.. just like adobe did.. give the guy a break - what he did was not an easy feat (if it was it would have already been done). why not give it some time or support - as far as i know Gnash isn't supported on an iPhone or many other devices. he found a nich and filled it - and from what i saw - i don't think it would be too hard to update it and find flash objects via DOM and run Gordon in place of flash (if flash isn't available).. meaning after some updates maybe it's just include this js file and non flash supporting browsers and devices can now view flash on your site if they have JavaScript. while i'm not a fan of flash at all - this is a good thing.. and i would love to see it progress farther.
The only one i remember is the Intel Compiler optimizations only working on Intel CPU's..
Such as doing some math tasks via MMX - even though AMD's had MMX the compiler wouldn't put in the optimizations unless the CPU was identified as Intel.
People got pissed because Intel's compiler was the defacto default for a alot of people - but if you think about it - why should they be responsiable for optimizing a compiler for a competitors CPU? and dealing with all the bug checkking that has to go into it.
Say they had allowed it to do the optimization and AMD's cpu had an erata that caused it to fail and crash the program because of the optimization - people would be pointing the finger at Intel's compiler..
honestly i would have done what they did - and say screw it - if they want optimizations they can release their own compiler.
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1567108/intel-compiler-cripples-code-amd-via-chips
then you have to look at stuff like this
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=518
the marketing racket they had with dell - yea that was wrong - but leave their compiler out of it - AMD should release their own if they want optimizations.
Was that due to competition or what the unions did which drove costs up for the US steel plants?
Competition - Japan has some of the best quality - and even a nearly exclusive ability to forge some parts (an example)
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aaVMzCTMz3ms
it's an interesting read
The worst part was that he freely admitted that his wife was a loon.
It's not the worst part - to be honest that is just how it is - if it made her happy and comfortable living there then he did what he needed to.
the worst part is - he isn't alone - the rest of us poor suckers would do it too.
whether that control is there or not - or the amount of control is not the point - it is that the person has a feeling of control and therefor has a lack of fear (or at least a suppression).
And while i agree there are no driving tactics that make driving safer than flying - there are driving tactics that make driving safer. With that logic - what flying tactics are there that make flying safer?
ignore the fact that flying is already amazingly safe for what it is - but put your self in the random Joe's shoes that doesn't know it? people that don't bother doing the math on probabilities.. the Average Joe who fly less than once a year. they Hear about this plane crashing - this one attacked - and they all fear that their plane will be next.
The government as seen a niche - they realize that they can do what ever they want as long as it is presented to Average Joe as the ONLY tactic to make flying safer - so it isn't his flight.
It's a load of shit - but that is how it is happening.
not sure - but i always wondered that too - i think it is because they have this worry that it is unexpected.
when driving - i expect the SUV to cut me off - and try to drive over me - there for i pay attention and try to avoid being hit or forced into an accident.
when you have people whom are afraid of the unexpected - they feel helpless because there is nothing they know they can do to avoid it. Sure it's on the outside chance that it will happen but they still are struck with fear of it. I know people that won't go swimming in the ocean for the fear of sharks (FYI east cost US here - not really a problem).
i think it all boils down to a sence of control. If people have a feeling that they are in control of what is happening to them - even if its a remote feeling or chance of action - they seem to have less fear and therefor will put them selves in far more danger. Take that feeling away and they are helpless - which induces fear, even of the most remote chance of being harmed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amstrad_PCW
we had one of the first ones - i remember having to trouble shoot it once - turns out it couldn't boot unless the printer was attached.
Find me a shop manual for a 01 Volvo S80
the part number is there but it never went into print.
same for later S80's and Porsche and several others simply pay fines instead of producing books.
and again the 60$ reader doesn't do any good when you have no reference to look up what the code means.
i didn't read the article or the KB but from the types you have listed - first thing came to mind.
exchange.
edb/sdb belong to exchange stores - log is common but also used for transaction longs and chk if i remember right is used when rebuilding from TL's or doing an offline defrag.
given the type of shit thats in mailboxes and queues and that it isn't executable - sure stuff is there but not a risk.
then given the normal actions of AV software (hey i found shit in this file -remove handles deny access - hey user i quarantined this thing for you).. humm that could be quite bad
yes there are plenty of examples of why you wouldn't want to exclude things - but at the same time there are alot of reasons to.
I agree that this does smell of the "Hey listen to us! Then buy our antivirus." especially since Security Essentials actually turned out nice.
and will give you a number/code - thats it - they don't know what all the codes stand for.
there is the generic codes and even some of the special codes available to them - but for the rest it's dealer only.
how about this - in NC you can't pass inspection if you have a check engine light code active.
even i that code is a dealer only code
even if the car runs fine and would even pass emissions if they used the sniffer
dealer wants 85$ just to read the code out. and 90% of the time it is a set of things that can cause it and are dealer only parts.
it has gotten to the point that you can't even get shop manuals for newer cars.
and with the way ODB ties every thing together - that 600$ ford part is going to be the only one that might work - where as in my older cars i can wire it up the way i want so that it works, using parts of my choice.
don't know about everybody - but i will say that i have sworn off new cars - you just can't fix them your self. too many specialty tools - too many "design improvements"
when my 79 MG is more reliable and gets better mileage than newer cars (even if you do it based on weight). thats just sad.
recently i was looking to buy a truck.. i intentionally looked for an older truck pre 95 so that it would NOT have any of the ODB crap on it, why? because i want to be able to fix it my self instead of paying lots of $$$ for what are slowly turning to dealer only fixable problems that shouldn't be problems in the first place.
yea not everyone wants to fix their own car BUT there are a lot of people who would IF they could - and the limit on that is coming from the manufactures not the consumers
well one thing i could see them pushing this patent onto would be the use of VR for post rehab counculing.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/07/16/db.secondlifetherapy/index.html
the rehab unit would have access to the health records and we can assume consent (in the fine print) to do this as a way of keeping people straight and not delusional.
It sounds stupid - but so does Avatars in rehab - or Dances with Smurfs.
But this isn't completely point less as if tweeter and Facebook hasn't taught us already too many people will take what ever is thrown at them
you can't Patent a drug - only the process to manufacture it (which has to be FDA approved too).
the reason you wait for generic drugs is that even after a drug has passed the FDA if you where to make it using a different process then you would still have to go through FDA approval for it - might as well come up with something different.
i know EE's that can't use a soldering iron - it's sad but true
yea i'll inform my wife on how to skip using VLC on the standalone dvd player
to be fair now days - yea we use a media PC but several years ago we used a standalone dvd player - not much you can do to skip if it doesn't let you (hence the rip and re burn)
Originally it was put in there to make the copyright FBI warning sign stay up so there is no excuse that the movie didn't have it - then they realized they could flip that bit for the ad's too..
I've had movies where they ad's where so long i just ripped the damn movie and re burned it without the ad's
that might just be the Durham police being them selves - either way i would report them (the cell provider) - give time/date/location/number called from.
that is a serious issue - on another note when 911 doesn't work you can use *HP in NC and the cell tower will drop you to the closest Highway Patrol station dispatch, its great to report drunks.
Well i think at issue here is companies using the word Unlimited. my home cable connection isn't sold as Unlimited but rather an unmonitored 7mb/512kb - same as when you order frame circuits, they are sold at a rate either monitored or not with or without transfer caps.
AT&T sells theirs as 3G unlimited. word usage is completely different.