1. You can tuck a key under the doormat if you lose the ones in your pocket. Not so electronic gadget.
2. As somebody else mentioned - flat battery? lose access to all your property. Flat battery in the lock or power cut in the house? lose access.
3. Replacing locks just got a whole lot more expensive and no doubt all lock makers would have to have some kind of license agreement with Apple. In short, LAME.
This seems to be technology for technology's sake. I can see pretty much nothing but downsides to this.
"Killing hundreds of thousands [wikipedia.org] of people deserve a bit more than quotation marks, don't you think?"
No, because Turkey doesn't view it as Genocide. So that was legitimate use of quotes to get a point across.
"Which is fucked up itself......"
I agree. So what's your point?
My argument was that this continual ZOMG! China! is rediculous because we and other countries do *exactly* the same kind of censorship. Sometimes just as blatant and other times more insidiously.
The question is of degree. YouTube and other websites have been and will continue to be blocked or censored provided they do not adhere to local laws or sentiments. In the place of China you should also include Thailand (nothing derogatory about the king), Turkey (don't mention the "genocide" against Armenians, most of the middle east (porn), UK (knives and anything deemed pro-terrorist or deemed as such), Germany (no holocaust denial). The list goes on and on. This idea unfortunately mostly by westerners, that they should somehow "subvert" any country that doesn't agree with their views or actions is nothing but a hangover from colonialist attitudes of supremacy.
Agree totally.
"I was wondering how many people wouldn't stop to think before they replied, blaming her in the process"
Just check out the asses on Digg http://digg.com/linux_unix/Ubuntu_Causes_Girl_To_Drop_Out_of_College. They absolutely slated her.
And they wonder why people don't want to get on the Linux train....
"So how do you counter this kind of problem?"
We could start by getting rid of some of the supposed Linux supporters on the equivalent Digg post who had nothing other than ridicule for this girl. First hurdle for Linux on the desktop/laptop is the lack of visibility (nobody but geeks or friends of geeks know about it)
Second hurdle is getting rid of the asses who think helping adoption can be done by taking the piss out of potential new users.
How is it that Opera beats Firefox in all but one test (SVG and Canvas) and beats it in the ACID3 and yet still gets placed 3rd?
And then he says (despite it getting the highest ACID3 score) that both Opera and IE7 have compatibility issues? WTF?
What an over reacting lefty veggie tree hugger. There was nothing authoritarian about it. It was a mistake plain and simple. Get over it. People do jobs that require life or death decisions. When a/.er makes a mistake all that results is a runtime error, when service member makes a mistake someone can die. But they are human and can make mistakes under pressure as well. It's reactions like yours that make people hate liberals because of your incessant ranting and raving. Most reasonable people can understand that the police were under pressure. You clearly can't. Maybe a stint in uniform would help you understand better than sitting in the dark in your underpants.
What i find curious is that in most historical cases like those quoted here, the technology/industry that has been usurped still always managed to produce jobs and profit as the new technology required newly skilled workers. That however is not the case in software. People are doing it for free in their spare time and there is absolutely no way that commercial software can really compete. As a software i am pleased that open source exists, but i am also painfully aware that we're actually killing our own job prospects by undermining a large part of our own industry.
i can buy a far more powerful machine second hand. I can see the rationale for a low priced hand held size device as that niche didn't exist before. But a desktop? Especially when everyone is moving towards laptops...
At that price i could probably get an entire bookshelf of books that i can read offline at any time i want. Not only that,i think this is only going to be good for books that you read from cover to cover. If you reference books extensively or are looking for say coding examples, a lot of the time you may have several pages open in several different books at the same time. On a laptop browser that is manageable. A real physical set of books is also manageable if inconventient. But on a reader with the screen the size of a large paperback which displays one screen at a time i suspect it would be very hard to manage indeed unless the navigation is absolutely top notch.
to "Psychologists Don't Know Shit". Being a "proper" science student i once peeked into a friend's psychology book (non clinical i might add) only to find it was full of long convoluted words used to explain the most mundane boring common sense stuff. I quickly concluded that the couch analysis shrink students should be stood right along side the Sociologists and other such riff raff.
because they are sociologists. To quote an old telco advert, "Its an 'ology'. You're a scientist!"
Its incredible what some of "ologists" churns out, and downright sad that they are given any credibility at all.
And it makes a hell of a lot more sense for Opera too since they are involved with the mobile/console market. But for firefox there are already plugins that do this, so i don't see any urgent dedicate brand new to this functionality.
"MFC technology could also find its way into inflatable space structures can be used for antennas, communication satellites, space station trusses, and solar sail support structures"
Brilliant, so in the event of a power failure, your structure ends up looking like an empty shopping bag. What is really required is a material that relaxes when a voltage is applied. That way during power failure the only issue is not being able to extend a structure and not having to fear the structure turns into Spaghetti.
i'm always in the universe where XP crashes? By rights i should also see XP perform smoothly and securely but that doesn't happen. Ever. I say bullshit!
So as an added benefit the chinese don't have to take the crappy EULA/DRM etc from M$ and can just all switch to to the official Red Flag Linux. A win for Linux and the people's rights.
On another note, all those ranting about how business has no morals and how its all about the money. You're right. But how about the morals for the Government. It's not like the foreign policy is setting a blindingly good example for the rest of the world to follow at the moment is it? Oh and by the way don't forget China pretty much owns the US at the moment. $1 Trillion in reserves. So there you have it, Suck it up, bitches....
"The technology exists"???
Such as what exactly? Unless they physically get to your car engine there is no way they could stop you from using it.
Anyhow even if could do that (say, during servicing) they don't, because firstly there is nothing in the contract to say anything about not permitting modifications. Secondly, i'm sure everyone including the government would be up in arms about it.
I agree that you are free to choose whether you want to agree to the license or not i'd also like to point out something with regard to "you are free to make that choice". That is true now. It wasn't for a long while before. M$ achieved its dominant position by applying anticompetitive practices on opposition and computer makers.
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1. You can tuck a key under the doormat if you lose the ones in your pocket. Not so electronic gadget. 2. As somebody else mentioned - flat battery? lose access to all your property. Flat battery in the lock or power cut in the house? lose access. 3. Replacing locks just got a whole lot more expensive and no doubt all lock makers would have to have some kind of license agreement with Apple. In short, LAME. This seems to be technology for technology's sake. I can see pretty much nothing but downsides to this.
Thank god for that. It was driving me absolutely nuts. Closure at last.
I guess you won't be buying anything from regions other than North America and Europe then.
No idea why my original post was modded flamebait. Rediculous.
"Killing hundreds of thousands [wikipedia.org] of people deserve a bit more than quotation marks, don't you think?" No, because Turkey doesn't view it as Genocide. So that was legitimate use of quotes to get a point across. "Which is fucked up itself......" I agree. So what's your point? My argument was that this continual ZOMG! China! is rediculous because we and other countries do *exactly* the same kind of censorship. Sometimes just as blatant and other times more insidiously.
The question is of degree. YouTube and other websites have been and will continue to be blocked or censored provided they do not adhere to local laws or sentiments. In the place of China you should also include Thailand (nothing derogatory about the king), Turkey (don't mention the "genocide" against Armenians, most of the middle east (porn), UK (knives and anything deemed pro-terrorist or deemed as such), Germany (no holocaust denial). The list goes on and on. This idea unfortunately mostly by westerners, that they should somehow "subvert" any country that doesn't agree with their views or actions is nothing but a hangover from colonialist attitudes of supremacy.
Agree totally. "I was wondering how many people wouldn't stop to think before they replied, blaming her in the process" Just check out the asses on Digg http://digg.com/linux_unix/Ubuntu_Causes_Girl_To_Drop_Out_of_College. They absolutely slated her. And they wonder why people don't want to get on the Linux train....
"So how do you counter this kind of problem?" We could start by getting rid of some of the supposed Linux supporters on the equivalent Digg post who had nothing other than ridicule for this girl. First hurdle for Linux on the desktop/laptop is the lack of visibility (nobody but geeks or friends of geeks know about it) Second hurdle is getting rid of the asses who think helping adoption can be done by taking the piss out of potential new users.
How is it that Opera beats Firefox in all but one test (SVG and Canvas) and beats it in the ACID3 and yet still gets placed 3rd? And then he says (despite it getting the highest ACID3 score) that both Opera and IE7 have compatibility issues? WTF?
Yeah, and AJAX is enabled by XMLHttpRequest. I wonder who came up with that? Criticizing is fine as longs as it's fair.
Wake me up when we can get into the ladies changing rooms without getting bitch slapped.
What an over reacting lefty veggie tree hugger. There was nothing authoritarian about it. It was a mistake plain and simple. Get over it. People do jobs that require life or death decisions. When a /.er makes a mistake all that results is a runtime error, when service member makes a mistake someone can die. But they are human and can make mistakes under pressure as well. It's reactions like yours that make people hate liberals because of your incessant ranting and raving. Most reasonable people can understand that the police were under pressure. You clearly can't. Maybe a stint in uniform would help you understand better than sitting in the dark in your underpants.
What i find curious is that in most historical cases like those quoted here, the technology/industry that has been usurped still always managed to produce jobs and profit as the new technology required newly skilled workers. That however is not the case in software. People are doing it for free in their spare time and there is absolutely no way that commercial software can really compete. As a software i am pleased that open source exists, but i am also painfully aware that we're actually killing our own job prospects by undermining a large part of our own industry.
i can buy a far more powerful machine second hand. I can see the rationale for a low priced hand held size device as that niche didn't exist before. But a desktop? Especially when everyone is moving towards laptops...
At that price i could probably get an entire bookshelf of books that i can read offline at any time i want. Not only that,i think this is only going to be good for books that you read from cover to cover. If you reference books extensively or are looking for say coding examples, a lot of the time you may have several pages open in several different books at the same time. On a laptop browser that is manageable. A real physical set of books is also manageable if inconventient. But on a reader with the screen the size of a large paperback which displays one screen at a time i suspect it would be very hard to manage indeed unless the navigation is absolutely top notch.
to "Psychologists Don't Know Shit". Being a "proper" science student i once peeked into a friend's psychology book (non clinical i might add) only to find it was full of long convoluted words used to explain the most mundane boring common sense stuff. I quickly concluded that the couch analysis shrink students should be stood right along side the Sociologists and other such riff raff.
because they are sociologists. To quote an old telco advert, "Its an 'ology'. You're a scientist!" Its incredible what some of "ologists" churns out, and downright sad that they are given any credibility at all.
And it makes a hell of a lot more sense for Opera too since they are involved with the mobile/console market. But for firefox there are already plugins that do this, so i don't see any urgent dedicate brand new to this functionality.
"MFC technology could also find its way into inflatable space structures can be used for antennas, communication satellites, space station trusses, and solar sail support structures" Brilliant, so in the event of a power failure, your structure ends up looking like an empty shopping bag. What is really required is a material that relaxes when a voltage is applied. That way during power failure the only issue is not being able to extend a structure and not having to fear the structure turns into Spaghetti.
Opera passed it ages ago
i'm always in the universe where XP crashes? By rights i should also see XP perform smoothly and securely but that doesn't happen. Ever. I say bullshit!
Dell: - I know Linux! Slashdotters: Show me... Cue bullet time laptop slinging and OS slapping....
All these worlds are yours except Mars. Attempt no landings there.
So as an added benefit the chinese don't have to take the crappy EULA/DRM etc from M$ and can just all switch to to the official Red Flag Linux. A win for Linux and the people's rights. On another note, all those ranting about how business has no morals and how its all about the money. You're right. But how about the morals for the Government. It's not like the foreign policy is setting a blindingly good example for the rest of the world to follow at the moment is it? Oh and by the way don't forget China pretty much owns the US at the moment. $1 Trillion in reserves. So there you have it, Suck it up, bitches....
"The technology exists"??? Such as what exactly? Unless they physically get to your car engine there is no way they could stop you from using it. Anyhow even if could do that (say, during servicing) they don't, because firstly there is nothing in the contract to say anything about not permitting modifications. Secondly, i'm sure everyone including the government would be up in arms about it. I agree that you are free to choose whether you want to agree to the license or not i'd also like to point out something with regard to "you are free to make that choice". That is true now. It wasn't for a long while before. M$ achieved its dominant position by applying anticompetitive practices on opposition and computer makers.