I'm all for allowing people to make poor decisions, hell a lot of those poor decisions have turned out in retrospect to be amazingly useful. But certain choices are known to be poor, and we shouldn't be wasting resources to fix every possible poor decision that a particular person might wish to make. If people want to have fun and eat too much, fine, but they should be the ones bearing the price of such irresponsibility.
This sort of thing doesn't, in my view, make any particular sense, perhaps putting something of this sort up strategically in parts of the city where walking really isn't reasonable, or providing some sort of accommodation for movements between areas. I know locally there's a couple places which get completely snowed in easily when it snows and where getting to and from would really benefit from a gondola due to the topography.
Planting trees isn't just a way to spend money, it actually has a natural impact on the way that people use an area. Planting trees is a way of getting people to slow down when driving as well as cleaning up some of the air pollution.
This whole notion of moving sidewalks is a bad idea. It would be better to spend the money on proper mass transit. As in better connections and some form of arrangement for people that are going shorter distances. Perhaps even spending the money on a sort of zip bicylce, check the bike out and then return it when you're done.
Not any more than at present. At least not until it' s freed, of patent issues. Doing otherwise would lead to either fragmentation or infinge on known Patents.
Indiana Jones was his idea, but Spielberg directed all of them. That's not to say that Lucas doesn't deserve credit, but to say that he mostly deserves credit for not tanking them the way that he tanks most of his films.
MagSafe is one thing, but their refusal to license their DRM back when they were using it to cement the iPod as the premier MP3 player definitely violated antitrust regulations.
They didn't get to the top in a competitive way any more than MS got to the top of the OS market by playing fair.
I've been using their version for a long time. It's great to be able to easily take it with me wherever I go. Nice to see that they've already got a copy available. Personally, anytime I can keep an app out of the registry, I tend to do it, seems to greatly improve stability.
What scares me is that this doesn't look any less legitimate than a lot of the corporate policies out there. Charging people for tech support on a product you've already charged them for. Rearranging the order in which checks are cleared to maximize the number of them that bounce. Using unclear language in insurance documents hoping to not have to pay out the promised sums of money.
You can blame Apple's "Think Different" approach to things. (Though oddly ironic in that it's misspelled) It's been their brand for sometime to do things differently even if it's not a good idea. Think hockey puck mouses and single button at that. Fortunately they've ditched that, but Apple does seem to have an at times pathological need to be different.
I don't think that completely standardizing the plug is a great idea, what I'd like to see is for them to decide on how the polarity is expressed, sort of like how power outlets generally do. And for the cord that plugs into the brick to be one design. Preferably 3 pronged. And have a different size and color for the notebook end depending upon voltage.
Upgrades and replacements. Currently, there's a limited number of components that can be replaced. I think memory, hard disk and sometimes the wireless card. That being said, upgrades are pretty dumb as the laptop has to be designed to deal with the energy dissipation and battery life in mind from the start.
You mean the Internet formerly known as wild, freaky porn land. He's just mad because there's freakier weirder stuff online than he could ever compete with.
Since when have they cared about that sort of collateral damage? Around here the local baseball team had to give up on enforcing the no scalping rule after they got hauled into court for in effect scalping themselves. So now, at least as far as baseball tickets go, they can sell them at face value, but you still have to be careful that the tickets haven't already been used.
It's been a problem for years where there'd be large numbers of tickets which weren't available to the general public to buy because they'd been in effect sold prior to the tickets going on sale.
For all intents and purposes correct. However USPS does offer certified mail, wherein the item travels under lock and key the entire way until an authorized party signs for it. That's definitely quite a bit more secure than what either Fed Ex or UPS will offer.
I agree with you, I used to be really into the hardware aspect of computing and would know what every number meant including the model numbers, but at some point it gets ridiculous. I'd extend your statement to all other portions of hardware as well. Intel's system is complete bollocks, it's confusing to figure out what exactly it is that you're buying with some of the new model numbers. AMD for its part has at least tried to have their model numbers reflect reality, even if it is getting to be a bit futile to do so.
It's not overblown, it's getting worse. The problem is that most of it is ineffectual to begin with, and the stuff that actually works requires you to be logged in constantly. Ultimately, the users bear the cost of the DRM and the brunt of the burden that it causes as well. Pirates don't have to put up with it because it's already removed by the time they download their copy.
Probably the worst thing though is that there isn't any compelling evidence that DRM reduces piracy rates to any meaningful extent. I'd like to play Starcraft II when it comes out, but I won't because the DRM is ridiculous.
No it doesn't. Steam proves that people are lazy and impatient enough to agree to those terms rather than go to a store or wait for the item to be delivered. Steam has some really obnoxious copy protection embedded in it, allowing them to cut off portions of the user experience at will and without explanation. As well as prevent people from selling their copy second hand.
Yeah, but right now try and pop in a PS2 game into a PS3 and see how that works out. Depending upon the model it may or may not work, and there's no indication on the box that they've removed the functionality to turn a profit. That sort of pissed me off finding out that my PS3 was crippled so that Sony could save some money on the unit.
The problem is that the voters tend to reward such stupid things. Sort of like in 2006, when the Feds were debating same sex marriage and abortion rather than the federal budget and the ongoing wars.
We do have secured credit cards here, where you have to put down collateral in order to borrow. But the problem is that it's your money in the bank account. Whereas you're asking to borrow their money.
Compare reporting fraud on an ATM card versus on a CC in the US and you'd see what I mean. Because it's their money with a CC the anti-fraud measures tend to be much more significant than an an ATM card where it's your money, not theirs.
Photography of sites is surprisingly unhelpful to terrorists. The reality is that there's usually a copy of plans for the building on the web somewhere, the photography being banned is more a matter of trying not to freak out the people that work in the building. Given the changes to technology over the years, it's pretty much inevitable that the people that are caught aren't doing anything. Since cameras are commonly small enough to not be spotted with any effort at all to conceal them.
Eh, not just that, I got a call the other day from US Pharmacy, wanting to know about my Xanax prescription. I don't take Xanax and a quick google revealed it to be a phishing scam wherein they eventually ask for your CC number to supposedly look up the account information. Of course, I hung up when he wouldn't admit that I don't have a prescription for that from them.
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No, the Segways were supposed to cure cash in the pocket and looking too cool syndrome.
I'm all for allowing people to make poor decisions, hell a lot of those poor decisions have turned out in retrospect to be amazingly useful. But certain choices are known to be poor, and we shouldn't be wasting resources to fix every possible poor decision that a particular person might wish to make. If people want to have fun and eat too much, fine, but they should be the ones bearing the price of such irresponsibility.
This sort of thing doesn't, in my view, make any particular sense, perhaps putting something of this sort up strategically in parts of the city where walking really isn't reasonable, or providing some sort of accommodation for movements between areas. I know locally there's a couple places which get completely snowed in easily when it snows and where getting to and from would really benefit from a gondola due to the topography.
Planting trees isn't just a way to spend money, it actually has a natural impact on the way that people use an area. Planting trees is a way of getting people to slow down when driving as well as cleaning up some of the air pollution.
This whole notion of moving sidewalks is a bad idea. It would be better to spend the money on proper mass transit. As in better connections and some form of arrangement for people that are going shorter distances. Perhaps even spending the money on a sort of zip bicylce, check the bike out and then return it when you're done.
Not any more than at present. At least not until it' s freed, of patent issues. Doing otherwise would lead to either fragmentation or infinge on known Patents.
Indiana Jones was his idea, but Spielberg directed all of them. That's not to say that Lucas doesn't deserve credit, but to say that he mostly deserves credit for not tanking them the way that he tanks most of his films.
MagSafe is one thing, but their refusal to license their DRM back when they were using it to cement the iPod as the premier MP3 player definitely violated antitrust regulations.
They didn't get to the top in a competitive way any more than MS got to the top of the OS market by playing fair.
Nope, but there is no guarantee that it won't. At least this way you know that you've got a back up if something doesn't quite work.
I've been using their version for a long time. It's great to be able to easily take it with me wherever I go. Nice to see that they've already got a copy available. Personally, anytime I can keep an app out of the registry, I tend to do it, seems to greatly improve stability.
What scares me is that this doesn't look any less legitimate than a lot of the corporate policies out there. Charging people for tech support on a product you've already charged them for. Rearranging the order in which checks are cleared to maximize the number of them that bounce. Using unclear language in insurance documents hoping to not have to pay out the promised sums of money.
You can blame Apple's "Think Different" approach to things. (Though oddly ironic in that it's misspelled) It's been their brand for sometime to do things differently even if it's not a good idea. Think hockey puck mouses and single button at that. Fortunately they've ditched that, but Apple does seem to have an at times pathological need to be different.
I don't think that completely standardizing the plug is a great idea, what I'd like to see is for them to decide on how the polarity is expressed, sort of like how power outlets generally do. And for the cord that plugs into the brick to be one design. Preferably 3 pronged. And have a different size and color for the notebook end depending upon voltage.
Upgrades and replacements. Currently, there's a limited number of components that can be replaced. I think memory, hard disk and sometimes the wireless card. That being said, upgrades are pretty dumb as the laptop has to be designed to deal with the energy dissipation and battery life in mind from the start.
Next time, they need to leave Bruce Willis.
You mean the Internet formerly known as wild, freaky porn land. He's just mad because there's freakier weirder stuff online than he could ever compete with.
Since when have they cared about that sort of collateral damage? Around here the local baseball team had to give up on enforcing the no scalping rule after they got hauled into court for in effect scalping themselves. So now, at least as far as baseball tickets go, they can sell them at face value, but you still have to be careful that the tickets haven't already been used.
It's been a problem for years where there'd be large numbers of tickets which weren't available to the general public to buy because they'd been in effect sold prior to the tickets going on sale.
For all intents and purposes correct. However USPS does offer certified mail, wherein the item travels under lock and key the entire way until an authorized party signs for it. That's definitely quite a bit more secure than what either Fed Ex or UPS will offer.
Nope, I was mistaken,it was 2004.
I agree with you, I used to be really into the hardware aspect of computing and would know what every number meant including the model numbers, but at some point it gets ridiculous. I'd extend your statement to all other portions of hardware as well. Intel's system is complete bollocks, it's confusing to figure out what exactly it is that you're buying with some of the new model numbers. AMD for its part has at least tried to have their model numbers reflect reality, even if it is getting to be a bit futile to do so.
It's not overblown, it's getting worse. The problem is that most of it is ineffectual to begin with, and the stuff that actually works requires you to be logged in constantly. Ultimately, the users bear the cost of the DRM and the brunt of the burden that it causes as well. Pirates don't have to put up with it because it's already removed by the time they download their copy.
Probably the worst thing though is that there isn't any compelling evidence that DRM reduces piracy rates to any meaningful extent. I'd like to play Starcraft II when it comes out, but I won't because the DRM is ridiculous.
No it doesn't. Steam proves that people are lazy and impatient enough to agree to those terms rather than go to a store or wait for the item to be delivered. Steam has some really obnoxious copy protection embedded in it, allowing them to cut off portions of the user experience at will and without explanation. As well as prevent people from selling their copy second hand.
Yeah, but right now try and pop in a PS2 game into a PS3 and see how that works out. Depending upon the model it may or may not work, and there's no indication on the box that they've removed the functionality to turn a profit. That sort of pissed me off finding out that my PS3 was crippled so that Sony could save some money on the unit.
The problem is that the voters tend to reward such stupid things. Sort of like in 2006, when the Feds were debating same sex marriage and abortion rather than the federal budget and the ongoing wars.
We do have secured credit cards here, where you have to put down collateral in order to borrow. But the problem is that it's your money in the bank account. Whereas you're asking to borrow their money.
Compare reporting fraud on an ATM card versus on a CC in the US and you'd see what I mean. Because it's their money with a CC the anti-fraud measures tend to be much more significant than an an ATM card where it's your money, not theirs.
Photography of sites is surprisingly unhelpful to terrorists. The reality is that there's usually a copy of plans for the building on the web somewhere, the photography being banned is more a matter of trying not to freak out the people that work in the building. Given the changes to technology over the years, it's pretty much inevitable that the people that are caught aren't doing anything. Since cameras are commonly small enough to not be spotted with any effort at all to conceal them.
Eh, not just that, I got a call the other day from US Pharmacy, wanting to know about my Xanax prescription. I don't take Xanax and a quick google revealed it to be a phishing scam wherein they eventually ask for your CC number to supposedly look up the account information. Of course, I hung up when he wouldn't admit that I don't have a prescription for that from them.