All the other runners use the same legs to run with as they use to go to the grocery store. He doesn't. These are special devices that he uses only for running. It would be fair for him to use three foot long springs as long as all the other runners could use three foot long springs.
Well, all the other runners also wear "special shoes" only for running. They wear "special shorts", "special socks", and "special shirts" also, probably.
I just don't quite get how they draw the line at this guy's prosthetic legs. Do they have specifications for "permitted shoes"? What if the shoes had some super springy soles and heels, would they be disqualified? At what point do "great shoes" become "illegal shoes"?
.. according to the ACLU representative quoted in the article, privacy and civil liberties, but this 'drinking record' could also create problems for people in civil and criminal lawsuits as proof of alcohol purchases in DUI cases..
(BTW, why is active jamming unacceptable because of 911 calls, but copper mesh in theater walls to achieve the exact same end allowed?)
At least two reasons:
1. copper mesh is legal, jamming is illegal
2. copper mesh will always block the cell signal, whereas jamming can be turned on and off so the user can play games like those described in the article. Thus with copper mesh, I can see right away that my phone won't work in the establishment, and decide to leave it for one where it does work; with a jammer, my phone may work when I enter the establishment, but be disabled during my stay there. Big difference to me.
If you're in a restaurant and someone is hurt, the restaurant will call 911 for you.
Many establishments have a rule that "internal security" is to be contacted in case of emergency, and only they can decide to call 911. They do not often publicize this rule to their customers.
Odd, your reference is to a term paper at Berkeley, and it looks like all of the papers do not list the author's name. I would have expected Berkeley to at least render credit where credit is due to the authors of these term papers which the university has decided to make publicly available on their website. (Yes, I realize that the student authors already received "credit" towards their degrees, but I know of no scientists who would happily see their hard work displayed without attribution, and see no reason for such liberty to be taken towards students' work.)
What keeps the pee from being absorbed into the ground when I pee into that freshly dug hole? Do I need to coat the inside of the hole with some marine epoxy before peeing. Please answer quickly, I can't hold it in much longer.
I think the problem here is that most of these sites get paid for clicks / ad-loads. So you actually are contributing to the financial welfare of the hosting site simply by looking. The result may be increased demand for such images.
If only my ancestors had truly understood the horrible dangers of "pads of paper", whose insidious nature permitted forensic recovery of exact handwritten correspondence. The prosecution needed only a #2 pencil to reveal damaging evidence by merely wiping the edge of the pencil "lead" across the page whose surface had been silently altered to store the impressions of the writer's penmanship.
Besides, I much prefer to use an operating system that not only doesn't keep shadow copies of my work, but rather, in a heroic effort to safeguard my privacy, quickly loses the originals ("file not found", "seek error at track nnnnn", etc.).
I say "boo" to Windows Vista. We don't need no stinkin' backups of our data.
- And NOW Bloomberg wants to charge us money to drive down below 86th St. He is creating a straw man problem -- there is NO PROBLEM with traffic in Manhattan! Most people don't have cars anyway,
Well, then, problem solved! So few cars, so few people driving them, then I guess ole Bloomy won't be collecting many $8 bills.
He will quickly see that he was merely imagining bumper-to-bumper traffic, gridlock, and a general difficulty breathing the hydrocarbon fumes (oops. I mean "air").
Vengeance isn't the only fruit of being able to trace who perpetrated (and ultimately, who planned, organized, and financed) a terrorist act.
There is definitely potential, even in the case where a terrorist act is implemented, to use such trackback information to prevent future terrorist activities.
To paraphrase a well-known quote to which your reply seems indebted:
First they came for the bozos driving gas-guzzlers within the crowded confines of the city's streets, but I didn't drive my gas-guzzler much, and certainly didn't use it to commute within the city instead of using subways, so I was silent.
Then there was a huge drop in automobile traffic, so I rode my bike again. (We can dream.)
From the Wikipedia article you reference: Intel announced that it is in discussions to supply 300,000 laptops to the Mexican government, and the Brazilian government is evaluating whether to buy Intel's or the OLPC's laptop.[8] Regardless of the hardware chosen, the Brazilian government announced that it would use the Linux operating system.[9] It has been confirmed that Intel will be shipping the Laptops with Mandriva Linux, Discovery 2007 edition.[10]
From the Wikipedia article you reference: Intel has announced that its machine will cost 400 U.S. dollars, compared to $100 for the OLPC XO device. In May 2007 the price was given as "over $200".[7]
From TFA, referring to Nicholas Negroponte: He accused Intel of selling its own cut-price laptop - the Classmate - below cost to drive him out of markets.
And, later in TFA (which is the "footnote 7" in your Wikipedia article): Intel says it already has orders for "thousands" of Classmates, which currently cost over $200 (£100). Like the OLPC machine, Intel expects the price to eventually fall.
TFA also states, with respect to the OLPC: They will initially cost $176 (£90) but the eventual aim is to sell the machine to governments of developing countries for $100 (£50).
So it appears to me that the prices of the two (OLPC and Classmate) are converging, and Negroponte is angry that Intel is trying to "drive him out of markets" by selling their product below cost. Sort of a "damned if you do" (provide low-cost computers to young students) and "damned if you don't" for Intel there. Negroponte appears to just want the market share to himself, for purportedly altruistic reasons of course.
If you don't terribly mind reading TFA, you will note that the caption beneath the photo of the Intel "Classmate PC" says:
Intel's Classmate PC runs Microsoft Windows and Linux
So while Intel might not like the prospect that "kids around the world are going to cut their teeth on AMD", the "/ Linux" part of your comment is off the mark.
Is Negroponte doing his OLTP thing as a purely philanthropic endeavor? I know that his organization is listed as "nonprofit", but that doesn't exclude its management from cutting themselves fantastic salaries, as do many at other nonprofit organizations. His "nonprofit" may be slated to make him a very rich man indeed.
OTOH, the Intel offering, at around the same price, may well be a better product. Think of the children!
My mom was a tax accountant, and in her "retirement" she often helped people with incomes around $20K to settle back taxes (that the IRS was demanding, sometimes properly, othertimes, incorrectly because the people didn't provide the documentation that IRS required).
Granted that oversubscription of capacity is the best economic model both for ISPs (to maximize the number of customers who can afford to subscribe) and for customers (to minimize their costs), the problem as I see it is one of advertising.
The usual ad states something like "Up to 5Mbps Blazing Speed!".
Instead of stopping there, with smiling faces all around and the low price in a giant font, they ought to be required to show actual average available bandwidth per customer in a 24x7 or 24x30 (hrs x days) graphic. Then potential customers could see what type of "experience" they can actually expect. This of course depends on the customer being knowledgable enough to interpret the graphic, but that could be eased by the fact that simply have the information available would lead to popular journalists "breaking it down" for the average Joe.
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I just don't quite get how they draw the line at this guy's prosthetic legs. Do they have specifications for "permitted shoes"? What if the shoes had some super springy soles and heels, would they be disqualified? At what point do "great shoes" become "illegal shoes"?
So now we see what happens when noncompliant removable media meets noncompliant device. Tune in next week for "Standards - Why Should I Care Anyway?"
But a banana plantation in support of Women's Empowerment, hmmmmmmmmmmm
All I have to do is climb up the hill and answer one question. BRB ...
1. copper mesh is legal, jamming is illegal
2. copper mesh will always block the cell signal, whereas jamming can be turned on and off so the user can play games like those described in the article. Thus with copper mesh, I can see right away that my phone won't work in the establishment, and decide to leave it for one where it does work; with a jammer, my phone may work when I enter the establishment, but be disabled during my stay there. Big difference to me.
Odd, your reference is to a term paper at Berkeley, and it looks like all of the papers do not list the author's name. I would have expected Berkeley to at least render credit where credit is due to the authors of these term papers which the university has decided to make publicly available on their website. (Yes, I realize that the student authors already received "credit" towards their degrees, but I know of no scientists who would happily see their hard work displayed without attribution, and see no reason for such liberty to be taken towards students' work.)
What keeps the pee from being absorbed into the ground when I pee into that freshly dug hole? Do I need to coat the inside of the hole with some marine epoxy before peeing. Please answer quickly, I can't hold it in much longer.
I think the problem here is that most of these sites get paid for clicks / ad-loads. So you actually are contributing to the financial welfare of the hosting site simply by looking. The result may be increased demand for such images.
But the Pimsleur course that I have is audio only -- no written language.
If only my ancestors had truly understood the horrible dangers of "pads of paper", whose insidious nature permitted forensic recovery of exact handwritten correspondence. The prosecution needed only a #2 pencil to reveal damaging evidence by merely wiping the edge of the pencil "lead" across the page whose surface had been silently altered to store the impressions of the writer's penmanship.
Besides, I much prefer to use an operating system that not only doesn't keep shadow copies of my work, but rather, in a heroic effort to safeguard my privacy, quickly loses the originals ("file not found", "seek error at track nnnnn", etc.).
I say "boo" to Windows Vista. We don't need no stinkin' backups of our data.
He will quickly see that he was merely imagining bumper-to-bumper traffic, gridlock, and a general difficulty breathing the hydrocarbon fumes (oops. I mean "air").
Vengeance isn't the only fruit of being able to trace who perpetrated (and ultimately, who planned, organized, and financed) a terrorist act.
There is definitely potential, even in the case where a terrorist act is implemented, to use such trackback information to prevent future terrorist activities.
To paraphrase a well-known quote to which your reply seems indebted:
First they came for the bozos driving gas-guzzlers within the crowded confines of the city's streets, but I didn't drive my gas-guzzler much, and certainly didn't use it to commute within the city instead of using subways, so I was silent.
Then there was a huge drop in automobile traffic, so I rode my bike again. (We can dream.)
From the Wikipedia article you reference: Intel announced that it is in discussions to supply 300,000 laptops to the Mexican government, and the Brazilian government is evaluating whether to buy Intel's or the OLPC's laptop.[8] Regardless of the hardware chosen, the Brazilian government announced that it would use the Linux operating system.[9] It has been confirmed that Intel will be shipping the Laptops with Mandriva Linux, Discovery 2007 edition.[10]
From the Wikipedia article you reference: Intel has announced that its machine will cost 400 U.S. dollars, compared to $100 for the OLPC XO device. In May 2007 the price was given as "over $200".[7]
From TFA, referring to Nicholas Negroponte: He accused Intel of selling its own cut-price laptop - the Classmate - below cost to drive him out of markets.
And, later in TFA (which is the "footnote 7" in your Wikipedia article): Intel says it already has orders for "thousands" of Classmates, which currently cost over $200 (£100). Like the OLPC machine, Intel expects the price to eventually fall.
TFA also states, with respect to the OLPC: They will initially cost $176 (£90) but the eventual aim is to sell the machine to governments of developing countries for $100 (£50).
So it appears to me that the prices of the two (OLPC and Classmate) are converging, and Negroponte is angry that Intel is trying to "drive him out of markets" by selling their product below cost. Sort of a "damned if you do" (provide low-cost computers to young students) and "damned if you don't" for Intel there. Negroponte appears to just want the market share to himself, for purportedly altruistic reasons of course.
If you don't terribly mind reading TFA, you will note that the caption beneath the photo of the Intel "Classmate PC" says:
Intel's Classmate PC runs Microsoft Windows and Linux
So while Intel might not like the prospect that "kids around the world are going to cut their teeth on AMD", the "/ Linux" part of your comment is off the mark.
Is Negroponte doing his OLTP thing as a purely philanthropic endeavor? I know that his organization is listed as "nonprofit", but that doesn't exclude its management from cutting themselves fantastic salaries, as do many at other nonprofit organizations. His "nonprofit" may be slated to make him a very rich man indeed.
OTOH, the Intel offering, at around the same price, may well be a better product. Think of the children!
It is gratifying to see an article about me, but why did they add in the irrelevant stuff about bdelloid rotifers?
I can see why he wanted his photo removed permanently from the 'net: http://www.boingboing.net/2006/11/02/michael_crook _sends_.html
My mom was a tax accountant, and in her "retirement" she often helped people with incomes around $20K to settle back taxes (that the IRS was demanding, sometimes properly, othertimes, incorrectly because the people didn't provide the documentation that IRS required).
You're a litle naive, perhaps.
Granted that oversubscription of capacity is the best economic model both for ISPs (to maximize the number of customers who can afford to subscribe) and for customers (to minimize their costs), the problem as I see it is one of advertising.
The usual ad states something like "Up to 5Mbps Blazing Speed!".
Instead of stopping there, with smiling faces all around and the low price in a giant font, they ought to be required to show actual average available bandwidth per customer in a 24x7 or 24x30 (hrs x days) graphic. Then potential customers could see what type of "experience" they can actually expect. This of course depends on the customer being knowledgable enough to interpret the graphic, but that could be eased by the fact that simply have the information available would lead to popular journalists "breaking it down" for the average Joe.