Actually, we didn't have to pay for the broadcast of the radio address at all; there are many outlets that carry it, even on TV.
Now, if you want it available on-demand, when you want it, that will cost you. Either in tax dollars, so we can accomodate an on-demand generation, or in privacy when you let them use something commercial and sponsored by ads.
I vote for the tax dollars. My privacy is valuable. The Administration got this one right.
YouTube, Facebook, MySpace, et al are not free, not even as in beer. They cost more than we dare think. Like when your credentials get cracked and you have to change passwords all over...
Hasn't someone pointed out yet that the Times could then sell other publishers 'rights' to let their publications also be displayed on the NYTKindle? It's called licensing, I think.
Another revenue stream, the other publishers avoid having to lay out the capital to seed the world with *another* Kindle for their subscribers, fewer trees cut down, even more paperworkers sent home without pay.
Nonetheless, whoever makes the first move could benefit the industry, the world, and their bottom line. I which order doesn't bother me one bit, so long as all three occur.
Now for Warner or Sony to get it and send out MP3 players with their whole catalog on it for a plain old fee. Let others... oh, wait, that isn't much different than iTunes. nevermind.
"web is becoming an integral part of the computer and the basic distinction between the OS and the browser doesn't matter very much any more', he says"
Um, the Web is actually an internetwork, that is networks of networks. It is *not* part of the computer, it is a resource the computer accesses, based on user commands.
Remember Larry Ellison telling us "The network is the computer"? No, Larry, the network is the network. The computer is the computer. Apparently you get this in your CS4xx classes, the ones you skipped when you had your one Big Idea, kinda like the kids who come out for the NBA Draft a year early and skip their NBA4xx classes on foul shots and firearm safety.
The browser may be the most-used, most common, multifunctional software on the computer, but the basic distinction between the OS and the browser is that the browser can't yet boot the computer, or render it useful for other things such as file management, network connectivity, or printing. The browser is an application. We see Windows with so many services and features that intertwine the browser (and other apps) with it that it is hard to tell where the OS stops and the app begins, but that's the simplistic view anyways.
How about Google makes good on that statement and pump out a down and dirty OS/browser combo that just does it? Include an install that lets you multi-boot XP/Vista/Windows7 or whatever Linux ya got, and people will be choosing either 'ChromeOS' or 'my usual OS', and lamenting that they have the wrong one loaded for whatever they want to do next. Or go whole hog and write it as a VM shell, and let Windows run underneath it. Xen is giving their stuff away now, how about leveraging that? And yes, I know of at least one reason right now why that doesn't work. I'm just ignoring it for the sake of the argument.
I know, I know. One of my machines is still a Sempron, the others are Pentium 4 CPUs, and I had no real reason to upgrade until now. So current VMWare won't like those so much, what with VT extensions missing. So I've got a reason to upgrade, finally - taking Xen up on their offer.
Bleagh. The apps guys are still trying to make the OS superfluous. And making stupid statements.
ps - which CPU should I buy to be able to dive into VMware and Xen in a big way? Core 2 Duo or AMD?
...but I can think of some misguided but almost rational reasons for the policy:
- Specifying sexual orientation could be construed as prospecting for potential partners. XBox Live is not a dating service.
- Specifying your sexual orientation explicitly could be interpreted by some as a politicized statement. XBox Live is not a political forum. ps- this falls apart when Microsoft encourages you to contact your elected officials to protest whatever they are planning to to do that might impact Microsoft's XBox business. It's only a matter of time, if not before this gaffe, soon enough.
- Advertising anything beyond game-related facts is just asking for trouble. XBox Live is intended for game-related discussions, facts, and entertainment. Anything else is a distraction. Of course, gaming is a distraction, so this is logically inconsistent on some level.
And I think all of these arguments, save the first, are lost and pointless.
The first argument is also pointless, but for a different reason. I haven't seen a public forum on the Internet yet that didn't turn into an A/S/L chatfest. It's the way it is, and the younger the audience, the faster it happens.
Good luck with that policy, Microsoft. You will lose this fight, or lose more $ than it could possibly be worth.
The corporate image I use has IE6. No choice by me. IE7 is in the works, but no ETA and not a high priority.
We live inside a pretty robust firewall and proxy server, and I don't use the system outside the office unless I'm VPN'd in through the proxy. Infestations are rare and so far always caused by bypassing the proxy. No one on our team is aware of any malware getting into our systems, other teams have different experiences.
It's not like I can choose at work. At home, it's Firefox mostly and IE7 otherwise.
Lately I've taken to opening something suspicious in the Steel browser on my G1. It seems to not much care about malware, but it does tell me when something acted up. It would be cool to get my G1 infected, just for the heck of it... Maybe it would start spamming the White House... Sweeeet!
The last post I saw from someone trying the Cupcake drop said many std. apps didn't work. It is still in dev, and not expected to be doing much. I haven't heard of an updated drop with much fixed, though I expeect to hear of progress by mid-March.
I'm not whining cause it's not finished already. I'm patiently waiting.
Half the ease of use of a touch screen keyboard is, IMHO, in the software.
I use the Steel browser on my G1 in preference to the standard browser (eat it, Google, I want my iGoogle page MY way, you evil uncaring dictatorial bastards!), and the on-screen keyboard in the first rev was weak and difficult. I mistyped a lot.
The recent update changed the onscreen keyboard just enough that it is almost more accurate for me than the hard keys. And I do not have small fingers, nor am I very accurate. My typing sucks. All the change was a version. The screen is the same.
And I echo the sentiment that the G1 is robust. It may feel floppy, but it's doing everything I want it to do, suffers falls, and is as tough as my old 7105t. I put a skin on it to preserve the bronze finish.
Now to find a way to enhance the keyboard lighting, which is beyond useless on bronze and white G1s.
A side note (as if I didn' already drift OT), but the release date for the Vodaphone G2 is not good news. We G1 users are dying for Cupcake to solve some problems, add A2DP, and generally enhance the phone. We won't see Cupcake before the G2 release, I bet, and I didn't see detailed specs on the G2, so I dunno if A2DP will make it in. If the G2 doesn't get it, I fear it is doomed and the BT stack will be forever incomplete. I'm not so hopeful as I once was. Notice I'm not buying a set of BT stereo headphones?
How about a spec that includes something smarter in charging?
- Like signalling the charger to come out of ultra-low-consumption sleep mode and deliver current?
- And permit a near-contact solution, be it a mat with large contact pads, or inductive?
- Even prioritized charging, telling the device how much current it will get, so the device can be smarter about power use and maybe shut off the 'unnecessary' devices to accelerate charging?
My G1, for all its faults, charges pretty quick. I don't notice it charging slower on a PC, though when I plug it into my Ubunbtu box it gets connected, the SD card need only be mounted on the device, and Ubuntu is ready out of the box to swap files and be nice to it. My XP box wants to treat it like a USB stick alsl, but one of my desktops doesn't want to charge it unless a driver is installed. The others are happy just the way it is.
I don't much care what the connector is, except we should be looking past USB I think. While non-contact charging is all the rage for the future set, an inductive gizmo would be sweet. I wonder how lossy, that's all.
ps- when I realized that my G1 is essentially a really tiny netbook with a phone and GPS in it, I got over the battery life problems. It does as well as any standard netbook, and I can hide it in a glove. Yes, the keyboard doesn't compare, but hey, we manage...
"No. Therefore, it's an INCREDIBLE show of the power of the anti-detection capabilities of these subs that they BOTH manouvered close enough to each other to collide without EITHER of them detecting the other. That's bloody fantastic. A technology used by the military that actually works in production and has an incredibly relevant use."
More likely, this points out that British and French subs have inadequate DETECTION capabilities. Couldn't find each other to the point of a collision.
Not knowing there's something out there a mile away I can understand, that's the state of the art. But a hundred meters away gets more intriguing. That's probably the minimum distance for evading a collision, and assumes the captains don't both make the wrong move. They ought to have heard something at that distance.
I suspect the damage radius of modern torpedoes is in excess of a hundred meters, especially if the torps are nuclear, but they sure don't need to be. This incident seems to me to point out that these boats didn't know each other were out there, more because they couldn't detect the other, and most likely because they aren't that good at finding other boats.
I wonder if an L.A. class boat in the area, watching the action... hehe...
Rats will squeeze through most any opening. Physical barriers are almost pointless.
And they gnaw constantly, as their teeth grow constantly as well.
If you are located in the North, they may have moved indoors. Driving them out into the frozen wastes will be difficult, as they aren't that stupid.
Steel wool is an excellent deterrent, it drives them C-R-A-Z-Y when it gets in their teeth. Eliminating the food supply is paramount, but usually the most difficult thing. Poison is as good a solution as anything.
Traps should be kill traps, but the bait is important. Does peanut butter work for rats as well as it does for red squirrels? Set the traps along walls, near potential openings, places where people are not during off hours. Service them regularly. I don't think rats mind seeing their friends dead in traps, they just learn from the experience. Red squirrels, OTOH, move pretty quickly when they see dead ones.
If you decide to get an active deterrent, dogs are the best, but no one breeds hunting Rat Terriers anymore. Shame, they are really good.
Ultimately, though, unless you remove the food supply, you will probably lose. The rats are really good.
If only you could let a snake loose in there... You could sell tickets.:)
The Chinese seem to be active in EWS, largely because we've developed the bad habit of admitting them to the U.S. for so long to our best PhD programs.
Stat. anal. return processing would require multiple antennas to develop what amounts to a 'map' of the space being irradiated. This sounds a little like the prmise behind backscatter systems, where adapting to the changing propogation effects was a big hurdle. Various random and pseudorandom baseband noise techniques might make the returns less usable. This sounds like EWS and surveillance systems, since tracking and targeting need more precision and quicker response, and generally work in shorter ranges where even raw power can overcome some countermeasures.
Of course, you generally don't need to entirely defeat a system, merely degrade the performance, delay the response, or just confuse the system long enough to get past it. Maybe a few seconds sometimes.
There are other fields to consider, especially military stuff. Try EWS, fun stuff there, though it takes a few years to get past merely reading the manuals and being able to understand what the heck is going on.
Then separate and go to work for one of the vendors. woot.
More like it was the Concorde's inability to survive an encounter with debris on the runway, and the catastrophic results.
Kinda like claiming the Shuttle is safe, it's just that the ice from the main fuel tank can cause damage leading to catastrophic failure. It's not the Shuttle, it's the ice. Shuttle's fine dudes, carry on.
And yes, the Shuttle needs fuel tanks, just like the Concorde does.
But the issue here isn't that you do or do not have the 'right' to make public statements about someone else, true or not.
It's more about the someone else taking issue with them, being able to prove that they are false or unprovable, and that you knew (or should have known, or could not have known and therefore are reckless) they were false or unprovable, and that you are entitled to be compensated for any harm or damage caused by those statements.
So it's rational that you be able to know who made these public statements, that you can confront them and that the courts can in fact compel them to compensate you. Along with whatever other penalties are available.
Hasn't this been argued fairly often in the 'Old Days', when newspapers had letters to the editor, and could be compelled to disclose the identity of 'anonynous' writers?
As much as I value anonymity sometimes, it's wrong to spew the sort of venom and expect to blithely walk away.
Then again, I believe less of what I read on unmoderated forums all the time. And not much of the moderated ones.
This is the same Chinese outfit that makes such great knockoffs of other stuff, like this copy of a Samsung WEP-200.
When the WEP-200 first came out, I ended up needing a new headset, and it looked cool to me. Imagine my surprise when I couldn't even buy one for two weeks. All the mall carts had were the copies. And they weren't that good.
China has a ways to go. Creative I wouldn't call them. Opportunistic. Which also works.
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Actually, we didn't have to pay for the broadcast of the radio address at all; there are many outlets that carry it, even on TV.
Now, if you want it available on-demand, when you want it, that will cost you. Either in tax dollars, so we can accomodate an on-demand generation, or in privacy when you let them use something commercial and sponsored by ads.
I vote for the tax dollars. My privacy is valuable. The Administration got this one right.
YouTube, Facebook, MySpace, et al are not free, not even as in beer. They cost more than we dare think. Like when your credentials get cracked and you have to change passwords all over...
Hasn't someone pointed out yet that the Times could then sell other publishers 'rights' to let their publications also be displayed on the NYTKindle? It's called licensing, I think.
Another revenue stream, the other publishers avoid having to lay out the capital to seed the world with *another* Kindle for their subscribers, fewer trees cut down, even more paperworkers sent home without pay.
Nonetheless, whoever makes the first move could benefit the industry, the world, and their bottom line. I which order doesn't bother me one bit, so long as all three occur.
Now for Warner or Sony to get it and send out MP3 players with their whole catalog on it for a plain old fee. Let others... oh, wait, that isn't much different than iTunes. nevermind.
"web is becoming an integral part of the computer and the basic distinction between the OS and the browser doesn't matter very much any more', he says"
Um, the Web is actually an internetwork, that is networks of networks. It is *not* part of the computer, it is a resource the computer accesses, based on user commands.
Remember Larry Ellison telling us "The network is the computer"? No, Larry, the network is the network. The computer is the computer. Apparently you get this in your CS4xx classes, the ones you skipped when you had your one Big Idea, kinda like the kids who come out for the NBA Draft a year early and skip their NBA4xx classes on foul shots and firearm safety.
The browser may be the most-used, most common, multifunctional software on the computer, but the basic distinction between the OS and the browser is that the browser can't yet boot the computer, or render it useful for other things such as file management, network connectivity, or printing. The browser is an application. We see Windows with so many services and features that intertwine the browser (and other apps) with it that it is hard to tell where the OS stops and the app begins, but that's the simplistic view anyways.
How about Google makes good on that statement and pump out a down and dirty OS/browser combo that just does it? Include an install that lets you multi-boot XP/Vista/Windows7 or whatever Linux ya got, and people will be choosing either 'ChromeOS' or 'my usual OS', and lamenting that they have the wrong one loaded for whatever they want to do next. Or go whole hog and write it as a VM shell, and let Windows run underneath it. Xen is giving their stuff away now, how about leveraging that? And yes, I know of at least one reason right now why that doesn't work. I'm just ignoring it for the sake of the argument.
I know, I know. One of my machines is still a Sempron, the others are Pentium 4 CPUs, and I had no real reason to upgrade until now. So current VMWare won't like those so much, what with VT extensions missing. So I've got a reason to upgrade, finally - taking Xen up on their offer.
Bleagh. The apps guys are still trying to make the OS superfluous. And making stupid statements.
ps - which CPU should I buy to be able to dive into VMware and Xen in a big way? Core 2 Duo or AMD?
arghhh....
...but I can think of some misguided but almost rational reasons for the policy:
- Specifying sexual orientation could be construed as prospecting for potential partners. XBox Live is not a dating service.
- Specifying your sexual orientation explicitly could be interpreted by some as a politicized statement. XBox Live is not a political forum. ps- this falls apart when Microsoft encourages you to contact your elected officials to protest whatever they are planning to to do that might impact Microsoft's XBox business. It's only a matter of time, if not before this gaffe, soon enough.
- Advertising anything beyond game-related facts is just asking for trouble. XBox Live is intended for game-related discussions, facts, and entertainment. Anything else is a distraction. Of course, gaming is a distraction, so this is logically inconsistent on some level.
And I think all of these arguments, save the first, are lost and pointless.
The first argument is also pointless, but for a different reason. I haven't seen a public forum on the Internet yet that didn't turn into an A/S/L chatfest. It's the way it is, and the younger the audience, the faster it happens.
Good luck with that policy, Microsoft. You will lose this fight, or lose more $ than it could possibly be worth.
As if you can really own women.
They rent you.
I asked my brother in-law AND my ex-brother-in-law, who both work for Bath Iron works.
You don't want this boat. Even for free.
One of them mentioned some ancient wisdom about being given boats for free...
So is the iPhone, sir.
But my G1 is in fact a net device. It is part of the population Adobe was describing.
Next...
There's no Flash on my effing G1 either. Another million or so missing there.
The corporate image I use has IE6. No choice by me. IE7 is in the works, but no ETA and not a high priority.
We live inside a pretty robust firewall and proxy server, and I don't use the system outside the office unless I'm VPN'd in through the proxy. Infestations are rare and so far always caused by bypassing the proxy. No one on our team is aware of any malware getting into our systems, other teams have different experiences.
It's not like I can choose at work. At home, it's Firefox mostly and IE7 otherwise.
Lately I've taken to opening something suspicious in the Steel browser on my G1. It seems to not much care about malware, but it does tell me when something acted up. It would be cool to get my G1 infected, just for the heck of it... Maybe it would start spamming the White House... Sweeeet!
Throwing a A href="http://www.etypewriters.com/mag-card-II.JPG">Mag Card off the roof.
Magnificent.
Oh, grow up.
The last post I saw from someone trying the Cupcake drop said many std. apps didn't work. It is still in dev, and not expected to be doing much. I haven't heard of an updated drop with much fixed, though I expeect to hear of progress by mid-March.
I'm not whining cause it's not finished already. I'm patiently waiting.
Cupcake is in the dev branch. it is just not ready for production. Yes you can check it out, but not everything works.
Half the ease of use of a touch screen keyboard is, IMHO, in the software.
I use the Steel browser on my G1 in preference to the standard browser (eat it, Google, I want my iGoogle page MY way, you evil uncaring dictatorial bastards!), and the on-screen keyboard in the first rev was weak and difficult. I mistyped a lot.
The recent update changed the onscreen keyboard just enough that it is almost more accurate for me than the hard keys. And I do not have small fingers, nor am I very accurate. My typing sucks. All the change was a version. The screen is the same.
And I echo the sentiment that the G1 is robust. It may feel floppy, but it's doing everything I want it to do, suffers falls, and is as tough as my old 7105t. I put a skin on it to preserve the bronze finish.
Now to find a way to enhance the keyboard lighting, which is beyond useless on bronze and white G1s.
A side note (as if I didn' already drift OT), but the release date for the Vodaphone G2 is not good news. We G1 users are dying for Cupcake to solve some problems, add A2DP, and generally enhance the phone. We won't see Cupcake before the G2 release, I bet, and I didn't see detailed specs on the G2, so I dunno if A2DP will make it in. If the G2 doesn't get it, I fear it is doomed and the BT stack will be forever incomplete. I'm not so hopeful as I once was. Notice I'm not buying a set of BT stereo headphones?
How about a spec that includes something smarter in charging?
- Like signalling the charger to come out of ultra-low-consumption sleep mode and deliver current?
- And permit a near-contact solution, be it a mat with large contact pads, or inductive?
- Even prioritized charging, telling the device how much current it will get, so the device can be smarter about power use and maybe shut off the 'unnecessary' devices to accelerate charging?
My G1, for all its faults, charges pretty quick. I don't notice it charging slower on a PC, though when I plug it into my Ubunbtu box it gets connected, the SD card need only be mounted on the device, and Ubuntu is ready out of the box to swap files and be nice to it. My XP box wants to treat it like a USB stick alsl, but one of my desktops doesn't want to charge it unless a driver is installed. The others are happy just the way it is.
I don't much care what the connector is, except we should be looking past USB I think. While non-contact charging is all the rage for the future set, an inductive gizmo would be sweet. I wonder how lossy, that's all.
ps- when I realized that my G1 is essentially a really tiny netbook with a phone and GPS in it, I got over the battery life problems. It does as well as any standard netbook, and I can hide it in a glove. Yes, the keyboard doesn't compare, but hey, we manage...
"No. Therefore, it's an INCREDIBLE show of the power of the anti-detection capabilities of these subs that they BOTH manouvered close enough to each other to collide without EITHER of them detecting the other. That's bloody fantastic. A technology used by the military that actually works in production and has an incredibly relevant use."
More likely, this points out that British and French subs have inadequate DETECTION capabilities. Couldn't find each other to the point of a collision.
Not knowing there's something out there a mile away I can understand, that's the state of the art. But a hundred meters away gets more intriguing. That's probably the minimum distance for evading a collision, and assumes the captains don't both make the wrong move. They ought to have heard something at that distance.
I suspect the damage radius of modern torpedoes is in excess of a hundred meters, especially if the torps are nuclear, but they sure don't need to be. This incident seems to me to point out that these boats didn't know each other were out there, more because they couldn't detect the other, and most likely because they aren't that good at finding other boats.
I wonder if an L.A. class boat in the area, watching the action... hehe...
Rats will squeeze through most any opening. Physical barriers are almost pointless.
And they gnaw constantly, as their teeth grow constantly as well.
If you are located in the North, they may have moved indoors. Driving them out into the frozen wastes will be difficult, as they aren't that stupid.
Steel wool is an excellent deterrent, it drives them C-R-A-Z-Y when it gets in their teeth. Eliminating the food supply is paramount, but usually the most difficult thing. Poison is as good a solution as anything.
Traps should be kill traps, but the bait is important. Does peanut butter work for rats as well as it does for red squirrels? Set the traps along walls, near potential openings, places where people are not during off hours. Service them regularly. I don't think rats mind seeing their friends dead in traps, they just learn from the experience. Red squirrels, OTOH, move pretty quickly when they see dead ones.
If you decide to get an active deterrent, dogs are the best, but no one breeds hunting Rat Terriers anymore. Shame, they are really good.
Ultimately, though, unless you remove the food supply, you will probably lose. The rats are really good.
If only you could let a snake loose in there... You could sell tickets. :)
The Chinese seem to be active in EWS, largely because we've developed the bad habit of admitting them to the U.S. for so long to our best PhD programs.
Stat. anal. return processing would require multiple antennas to develop what amounts to a 'map' of the space being irradiated. This sounds a little like the prmise behind backscatter systems, where adapting to the changing propogation effects was a big hurdle. Various random and pseudorandom baseband noise techniques might make the returns less usable. This sounds like EWS and surveillance systems, since tracking and targeting need more precision and quicker response, and generally work in shorter ranges where even raw power can overcome some countermeasures.
Of course, you generally don't need to entirely defeat a system, merely degrade the performance, delay the response, or just confuse the system long enough to get past it. Maybe a few seconds sometimes.
There are other fields to consider, especially military stuff. Try EWS, fun stuff there, though it takes a few years to get past merely reading the manuals and being able to understand what the heck is going on.
Then separate and go to work for one of the vendors. woot.
More like it was the Concorde's inability to survive an encounter with debris on the runway, and the catastrophic results.
Kinda like claiming the Shuttle is safe, it's just that the ice from the main fuel tank can cause damage leading to catastrophic failure. It's not the Shuttle, it's the ice. Shuttle's fine dudes, carry on.
And yes, the Shuttle needs fuel tanks, just like the Concorde does.
"In this house we are subject to the laws of thermodynamic..."
Fixed that for ya...
But the issue here isn't that you do or do not have the 'right' to make public statements about someone else, true or not.
It's more about the someone else taking issue with them, being able to prove that they are false or unprovable, and that you knew (or should have known, or could not have known and therefore are reckless) they were false or unprovable, and that you are entitled to be compensated for any harm or damage caused by those statements.
So it's rational that you be able to know who made these public statements, that you can confront them and that the courts can in fact compel them to compensate you. Along with whatever other penalties are available.
Hasn't this been argued fairly often in the 'Old Days', when newspapers had letters to the editor, and could be compelled to disclose the identity of 'anonynous' writers?
As much as I value anonymity sometimes, it's wrong to spew the sort of venom and expect to blithely walk away.
Then again, I believe less of what I read on unmoderated forums all the time. And not much of the moderated ones.
/. buggy? Not at all, it's jsut that the code lags the documentation.
That can be fixed, in documentation, right?
ps- It should be obvious now that /. is not yet self-aware.
This is the same Chinese outfit that makes such great knockoffs of other stuff, like this copy of a Samsung WEP-200.
When the WEP-200 first came out, I ended up needing a new headset, and it looked cool to me. Imagine my surprise when I couldn't even buy one for two weeks. All the mall carts had were the copies. And they weren't that good.
China has a ways to go. Creative I wouldn't call them. Opportunistic. Which also works.
Why did they ground the fleet? Too expensive to fix?
The Concorde is, in fact, one of the most dangerous airliners around It can be made safe. Too expensive.
The Shuttle is, for what it does, amazing. But safe? RELATIVELY.
Um, can you buy a ticket on the Concorde today?
Nope. Turns out it was a firetrap. More reliable than the Shuttle, less reliable than a 747.
Damned fast, of course. If they had actually maintained the Concorde, it might still be flying. Alas...