Gmail also supports user+whatever@gmail.com. While your email address user@gmail.com could be derived from this, most automated systems wont do that, allowing you to create an account per vendor and write rules for each.
Isn't this just regulating the magnetism of the motor, like how an alternator is regulated and dynamically expanded to increase or decrease the generation resistance? This seems like a motor with a variable internal coil (by feeding the back EMF into the motor shaft), so it is making the motor more efficient at higher speeds so the motor's current draw goes down and the speed goes up.
Somewhat related to your post, just this morning in my waking moments I had running through my mind the parallels of tech support that comes with commercial software and universal health-care. I was imagining what it would be like if Microsoft made Vista support free (from cost) whether one bought a license or not; the long hold times, the poor quality of support, the up-hill battle in getting to someone that is actually knowledgeable rather than just a body to answer the phone. Then compare that to something like ubuntuforums.org, where I've never had to register because every problem I've ever had was already fully documented with the solution.
So I would do what exactly with the customer support ID card that Microsoft would send me in the mail?
> People have no idea that a thing, software, can be "free as in speech." I don't even go there.
I disagree. The average person can understand both "free from" (cost) and "free to" (use and distribute). As others have already pointed out, the skeptics are often concerned about things free from cost as those things are often gimmicks. However, people naturally expect a right to install a physical CD that they already paid for on as many computers as they want since they own it and it is in their possession; they can (in their minds) watch a DVD on as many TVs as they want (not at the same time, but many don't make that distinction).
Your post implies that people can't feel the shackles of non-free software. I will simply cite the existence and size of the FOSS community to show that people want their freedom.
He doesn't have "beliefs" about what authorities the federal government has, it's clearly in the laws that defined our government system, it's written down yet you make it sound like his opinion.
Wrong, he supports state legislation of reproductive rights; not his fault, he didn't design the constitution (which Kucinich claims to follow). But all of that is trivial compared to our corrupt money system.
Free markets probably work best when the market is a moving target. The IT industry is an example of an ever progressing market. Imagine if there was the same innovation in health care. I can see the costs of vaccines falling like 802.11 routers and there is always another illness or flu strain around the corner. I could imagine monopolies forming in companies that deliver bottled water because there is almost no innovation. Yet there is still competition at distribution points, Wal-2-O or something; I guess there are the gimmicks like oxygenating. Though you never hear complaints about the prices of over-the-counter medications.
What social programs have we fought so hard for? The New Deal programs made the depression twice as bad and were mostly found unconstitutional, just as nationalized health care is. You should study the history of the on-again off-again central bank and how it rips you off, and the poor especially. You should worry about local government and fight for health care in your state if you want it.
I trust private Kosher certifications more than FDA regulation. That aspect of your argument defends regulation but not government regulation per se.
I also don't buy your argument about vaccines. There is an analogy to that in the IT world - virtualization. Virtualization allows businesses to consolidate many servers into fewer with less overhead, but it also means selling less hardware. And guess what, I work for a company that has a primary revenue of selling servers yet it goes to road shows touting virtualization and invests in the software to enhance it. Why? Because they can try to sell servers all they want, but they must keep up with the shifting market. Selling 20 servers to a new customer instead of 100 is better than a competitor selling those 20 servers instead.
If health care is a public service, it is a state service because the federal government isn't authorized to provide that service or collect taxes to pay for it. Why haven't the people figured this out yet and created this service in their state if they want it?
Yet if 'all the practices that make business work' are opposed to providing quality care, then such a public service is doomed to fail due to bringing the public further into debt or it simply can't provide quality care. In either case I hope you're wrong.
I personally would rather have a say in what quality means to me. For my own health, I am right and you are not because it is my business, not yours -- and vice versa.
I'm not sure how I feel about people 'deserving' care, that sounds like an idealistic straw man. In what way does a sick individual reciprocate this care? Why do healthy individuals 'deserve' this tax?
(In some ways I'm playing Devil's advocate, but your point of view sounds nice so I'd like to understand it so I can defend it.)
How about int nReversedIMin = m_nIMax; for starters? Do you really believe a single line comment that could be 40 lines above the code that uses nIMin is sufficient? Adding the comment there just says "I intentionally made this code confusing. Good luck."
I think if you relax your absolutism a little you can find better solutions.
(BTW, m_ is a very weak convention. 'this' is much more clear and some compilers can enforce that you *must* use it -- Eclipse/Java project settings for example. I've also seen someone prefix every function parameter name with 'arg', what is that about? Talk like a pirate day?)
VMware Server is the answer. When my work laptop came preinstalled with a Windows environment that I thought was useless, I ram VMware Converter, converted the physical machine to a VMware image, and now I happily run Ubuntu and have a useful workstation, but can boot the Windows XP image, and even run it fullscreen if I have to, without interrupting my real work.
I don't know. If you need that much exposure to your father (it sounds like you have had some). I personally tend to pick up the mannerisms of anyone I'm around that I have some kind of affinity for. I begin to gesture like them, I know what they would say in certain situations, I begin to respond to certain situations the same way they would. This can happen even if I only met someone once. This includes: facial expressions (squinting, raising eyebrows), voice inflections, laughing, pauses when speaking. I notice it in written text as well.
Hrm... I guess I should start looking at my bill. I usually have it auto-pay, but that stops working every once in a while and I see that they haven't been paid for a few months. One would think that they would at least get that part right.
Why mountains? If people really needed this feature, couldn't they start with black&white/greyscale rather than color images? Many other technologies came into the world this way: the television, the gameboy, network terminals, etc.
But people already need to (too) frequently upgrade their care because they're built for such a low duty cycle. I have serious doubts that any car built today is going to be able to outlive the technology cycle.
Of course antivirus software keeps us safe. You must be one of those conspiracy theorists that doesn't understand how the current incumbent keeps us safe from terrorism.
How about a display that shows the cost per mile instead? It would either have to somehow get the national average automatically or let the user enter a price. But I think the $ unit means more to people than the gal. unit. It could be made abstract so rather than being 14 cents / mile it could be a scale from $ to $$$$ but I think the cents / mile would be a useful metric to help people see a tangible cost that they could keep low.
(Slightly off-topic, but on-line voting would certainly make this work a lot smoother.)
The first stage should be about defining the ticket - The general population votes to establish the most important issues (an incumbent should be able to disseminate information with his or her opinion about the matter before this vote occurs).
The second stage is about finding the individual best suited to hold the pre-defined position - A candidate then focuses on a campaign about how he or she will interpret the definition of the job and how he or she has the necessary experience.
Think about it like every couple of years, a contract job ends and a new one opens up. This is about government employment, is it not? Why not focus on employment-like things rather than popularity contest-like things? I think some kind of independent council can be formed to help ensure that these government employees meet their contracts.
I challenge you to list 5 famous, successful inventors who's primary focus was reaping profits as they designed their inventions.
True inventors fit the open source model pretty well, IMHO, they want to take on a challenge for their own enrichment and they want their products to be used by whoever will find them useful but they also do it simply for fun.
I think you're missing the spirit of patents that they are designed for and by those that simply want to, as you put it, capitalize on them. Any inventor that puts on the hat of a patenter is no longer an inventor, he becomes a business man. Certainly, an inventor may want credit for his work, but there must be other ways receive due credit without owning a patent.
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Gmail also supports user+whatever@gmail.com. While your email address user@gmail.com could be derived from this, most automated systems wont do that, allowing you to create an account per vendor and write rules for each.
Does FF look like a web page to you? It is also written in XUL...
Isn't this just regulating the magnetism of the motor, like how an alternator is regulated and dynamically expanded to increase or decrease the generation resistance? This seems like a motor with a variable internal coil (by feeding the back EMF into the motor shaft), so it is making the motor more efficient at higher speeds so the motor's current draw goes down and the speed goes up.
How do I nominate your post for the hall of fame?
Somewhat related to your post, just this morning in my waking moments I had running through my mind the parallels of tech support that comes with commercial software and universal health-care. I was imagining what it would be like if Microsoft made Vista support free (from cost) whether one bought a license or not; the long hold times, the poor quality of support, the up-hill battle in getting to someone that is actually knowledgeable rather than just a body to answer the phone. Then compare that to something like ubuntuforums.org, where I've never had to register because every problem I've ever had was already fully documented with the solution.
So I would do what exactly with the customer support ID card that Microsoft would send me in the mail?
> People have no idea that a thing, software, can be "free as in speech." I don't even go there.
I disagree. The average person can understand both "free from" (cost) and "free to" (use and distribute). As others have already pointed out, the skeptics are often concerned about things free from cost as those things are often gimmicks. However, people naturally expect a right to install a physical CD that they already paid for on as many computers as they want since they own it and it is in their possession; they can (in their minds) watch a DVD on as many TVs as they want (not at the same time, but many don't make that distinction).
Your post implies that people can't feel the shackles of non-free software. I will simply cite the existence and size of the FOSS community to show that people want their freedom.
I changed my voter registration to Republican because of Ron Paul.
I'd like to see break lights flash at a rate proportional to the rate of speed. I think this would help buffer panic breaking.
He doesn't have "beliefs" about what authorities the federal government has, it's clearly in the laws that defined our government system, it's written down yet you make it sound like his opinion.
Wrong, he supports state legislation of reproductive rights; not his fault, he didn't design the constitution (which Kucinich claims to follow). But all of that is trivial compared to our corrupt money system.
Free markets probably work best when the market is a moving target. The IT industry is an example of an ever progressing market. Imagine if there was the same innovation in health care. I can see the costs of vaccines falling like 802.11 routers and there is always another illness or flu strain around the corner. I could imagine monopolies forming in companies that deliver bottled water because there is almost no innovation. Yet there is still competition at distribution points, Wal-2-O or something; I guess there are the gimmicks like oxygenating. Though you never hear complaints about the prices of over-the-counter medications.
What social programs have we fought so hard for? The New Deal programs made the depression twice as bad and were mostly found unconstitutional, just as nationalized health care is. You should study the history of the on-again off-again central bank and how it rips you off, and the poor especially. You should worry about local government and fight for health care in your state if you want it.
I trust private Kosher certifications more than FDA regulation. That aspect of your argument defends regulation but not government regulation per se.
I also don't buy your argument about vaccines. There is an analogy to that in the IT world - virtualization. Virtualization allows businesses to consolidate many servers into fewer with less overhead, but it also means selling less hardware. And guess what, I work for a company that has a primary revenue of selling servers yet it goes to road shows touting virtualization and invests in the software to enhance it. Why? Because they can try to sell servers all they want, but they must keep up with the shifting market. Selling 20 servers to a new customer instead of 100 is better than a competitor selling those 20 servers instead.
If health care is a public service, it is a state service because the federal government isn't authorized to provide that service or collect taxes to pay for it. Why haven't the people figured this out yet and created this service in their state if they want it? Yet if 'all the practices that make business work' are opposed to providing quality care, then such a public service is doomed to fail due to bringing the public further into debt or it simply can't provide quality care. In either case I hope you're wrong. I personally would rather have a say in what quality means to me. For my own health, I am right and you are not because it is my business, not yours -- and vice versa. I'm not sure how I feel about people 'deserving' care, that sounds like an idealistic straw man. In what way does a sick individual reciprocate this care? Why do healthy individuals 'deserve' this tax? (In some ways I'm playing Devil's advocate, but your point of view sounds nice so I'd like to understand it so I can defend it.)
How about int nReversedIMin = m_nIMax; for starters? Do you really believe a single line comment that could be 40 lines above the code that uses nIMin is sufficient? Adding the comment there just says "I intentionally made this code confusing. Good luck."
I think if you relax your absolutism a little you can find better solutions.
(BTW, m_ is a very weak convention. 'this' is much more clear and some compilers can enforce that you *must* use it -- Eclipse/Java project settings for example. I've also seen someone prefix every function parameter name with 'arg', what is that about? Talk like a pirate day?)
It can be frustrating if you've gotten used to reading wikinews where you can correct these kinds of mistakes.
VMware Server is the answer. When my work laptop came preinstalled with a Windows environment that I thought was useless, I ram VMware Converter, converted the physical machine to a VMware image, and now I happily run Ubuntu and have a useful workstation, but can boot the Windows XP image, and even run it fullscreen if I have to, without interrupting my real work.
I don't know. If you need that much exposure to your father (it sounds like you have had some). I personally tend to pick up the mannerisms of anyone I'm around that I have some kind of affinity for. I begin to gesture like them, I know what they would say in certain situations, I begin to respond to certain situations the same way they would. This can happen even if I only met someone once. This includes: facial expressions (squinting, raising eyebrows), voice inflections, laughing, pauses when speaking. I notice it in written text as well.
Hrm... I guess I should start looking at my bill. I usually have it auto-pay, but that stops working every once in a while and I see that they haven't been paid for a few months. One would think that they would at least get that part right.
Why mountains? If people really needed this feature, couldn't they start with black&white/greyscale rather than color images? Many other technologies came into the world this way: the television, the gameboy, network terminals, etc.
But people already need to (too) frequently upgrade their care because they're built for such a low duty cycle. I have serious doubts that any car built today is going to be able to outlive the technology cycle.
Of course antivirus software keeps us safe. You must be one of those conspiracy theorists that doesn't understand how the current incumbent keeps us safe from terrorism.
How about a display that shows the cost per mile instead? It would either have to somehow get the national average automatically or let the user enter a price. But I think the $ unit means more to people than the gal. unit. It could be made abstract so rather than being 14 cents / mile it could be a scale from $ to $$$$ but I think the cents / mile would be a useful metric to help people see a tangible cost that they could keep low.
(Slightly off-topic, but on-line voting would certainly make this work a lot smoother.)
The first stage should be about defining the ticket - The general population votes to establish the most important issues (an incumbent should be able to disseminate information with his or her opinion about the matter before this vote occurs).
The second stage is about finding the individual best suited to hold the pre-defined position - A candidate then focuses on a campaign about how he or she will interpret the definition of the job and how he or she has the necessary experience.
Think about it like every couple of years, a contract job ends and a new one opens up. This is about government employment, is it not? Why not focus on employment-like things rather than popularity contest-like things? I think some kind of independent council can be formed to help ensure that these government employees meet their contracts.
I challenge you to list 5 famous, successful inventors who's primary focus was reaping profits as they designed their inventions.
True inventors fit the open source model pretty well, IMHO, they want to take on a challenge for their own enrichment and they want their products to be used by whoever will find them useful but they also do it simply for fun.
I think you're missing the spirit of patents that they are designed for and by those that simply want to, as you put it, capitalize on them. Any inventor that puts on the hat of a patenter is no longer an inventor, he becomes a business man. Certainly, an inventor may want credit for his work, but there must be other ways receive due credit without owning a patent.
Has the victim tried to post a new ad asking for her stuff back? The lost+found section?