I don't think this is going to fly with the general public. Here are some the issues I see:
1. Downloading - easy 20 mins not too long to wait, very convenient 2. Playback on computer - easy but not as comfortable as living room TV 3. Playback on TV - comfortable but system probably quite hard to setup for non-technophile 4. DRM - makes it hard to transfer amongst friends and family
This would make more sense if there was a video device that was tied to this much like the iPod is for music - because I don't see people wanting to watch feature length movies on a 2.5 inch display all that much. So maybe Apple will be launching some sort of futuristic portable projection device that can store these movies - the iProject(or) maybe?
I agree - my Laptop Blue-screened just this weekend and it was comforting to know that it was the USB driver for my external audio interface that caused it and not some other more critical piece of hardware. Seeing as this is the first time it happened since I got it 8 months ago I think I can live with that frequency of failure.
It might have been as most frequent business travellers given the chance will not take a window seat because it is a major pain to keep getting up and down for the bathroom. Therefore your preference for a window seat might have indicated unusual behaviour for the normal business traveller.
I think you are correct in that an expanded rail system would be a good thing. But I don't think it would necessarily be a safer form of transport wrt to terrorist threat. There are thousands of miles of rail track and it is probably easy to cause a train derailment or explosion which would be just as spectacular as an airplane, e.g. Madrid and London.
This is the indicator I look for with my son. If I suggest a social real life thing to do - like go to the bookstore - and he would prefer to play a game then I would know that he is getting seriously too sucked in to the computer game (he does play WOW). Fortunately this hasn't happened yet. But it will be an interesting conversation when it does.
I have found with the few wireless installations I've set up with that the Linksys routers are pretty low powered. It only takes a couple of rooms to be between the router and the receiver for there to much degradation in performance. This is a pain when the entry point is on the other side of the house then you have to run wire anyway getting the router closer to the computers that need it.
I live in a rental where I want to refrain from laying out too much cable so wireless is a nice solution. That doesn't help me with my xboxes though where I have to run cable through the house anyway (or get yet more wireless gear between the source and the box).
Why couldn't we just let the farmers explain themselves? Using, you know, those whizzbang computer thingies. I'm sure a couple of them who had these issues could handle one of those new-fangled eelecktronical devices to get the word out.
No, my point was - why do you think the local regional issues are so severely affected by whether or not the president is Republican or Democrat? I don't mean for a specific local area but for the nation as a whole. I'm sure we could quote party policy from both sides over history that has screwed various specific regions of the country significantly.
In the old days when communications systems were much slower (days compared to seconds now) it may have been prudent to guard against someone being able to sway the seat of power away from the rural areas in favor of condensed urbanized areas. Nowadays, you've got to be kidding me. There is no local issue that couldn't explained or understood in a matter of minutes to the whole population of the US if it was necessary to save the whole country from starving let's say. However, that is not how government of the masses works. To think that the government elected by people in the urban areas could do insurmountable damage to the rest of the nation is just ridiculous hyperbole. Do you really think that a Democratic president would have screwed up our nation THAT badly compared to Bush? Give me a fucking break.
This is bullshit. The method by which minority peoples' rights are protected is the law and the bill of rights/constitution. The President can (and should) still be elected by the majority of people - other institutions take care of the rights.
This post gets modded 5, Interesting you have got to be fucking kidding me.
Teachers in the US do not get "above average salaries" (maybe they do in Canada but I doubt it). If I went into teaching I would have to take a 50 percent pay cut. How the hell are well qualified people going to be attracted into that profession?
Scientific theories form two main purposes:
1. They are useful at predicting how things will behave (e.g. important for NASA)
2. They provide a framework to show the way for future work.
Einstein's axioms of constancy were constructs built from empirical evidence which yielded some interesting and very useful insights into the way things worked. They also showed potential paths forward which Einstein himself pursued until his death. Einstein himself knew his theories were not the last word and any scientist knows this is a fundamental philosophy of the scientific method. The rest of the world can pretend there is something else sensational going on if they want to but it isn't science.
I agree. After reading a rather populist economics book I came to the conclusion that "free-market" economists will do anything to shoe-horn the philosophy of free market thinking into any "real world" problem. The "market" is after all an abstraction which paints with a very wide brush across the canvas of what actually happens in the real world. For these people the free market is able to solve and explain any problem which it patently is not because supply and demand cannot be free for some goods and services - hence the need for another organizational structure called the government. Of course the abstraction that is the government cannot solve all problems either.
I have the same opinion about Eclipse. It hogs memory and sometimes bogs down so much it grinds to a halt. But restarting and shying away from using the Visual Editor too much keeps it working fairly well. I put up with these minor inconveniences because I didn't pay for it and i am thankful that a free tool makes me so productive.
I agree. I think what microsoft has done with back compatibility for their platforms is amazing. I can even compile an executable on a Windows 2000 machine and have it run on a Windows 95 box. Actually when I did this I did it without thinking and only later thought of the implications of it working.
Your argument is not right even if you DO capitalize the word. For starters, the money for Treasury Bills is not created "out of thin air" the bills are bought by people with real money. Because the people who buy them expect money to be earned from their monetary investment the bills earn interest. The only money created then is the interest on the bills (a fairly low interest at that - on a par with the growth of the overall economy). What we really are investing in is the future economic growth of the total country in increased taxation of real earnings.
What you said would be true if the government gave people money without having got it from somebody else but this just is not true. For example, I remember getting a temporary real estate loan from a bank and in the note there was an individual guarantor named who was putting up the money and if you think about it logically this is the way the system has got to work. In reality the cash one sees on the street is the physical manifestation of money that has been earned in the past and has nothing to do with getting money from "thin air".
Also, taxation is not theft it is the cash payment for living in a well ordered structured society. Philophically we could have a discussion about the level or form of this payment but even the existence of a government necessitates a citizen contribution of some kind.
IANAE but it seems inane to me to blame inflation on printing of money. Surely it is the other way around, i.e. the only way one can get extra money out of a bank is because it has earned interest. So the extra printed money is actually used to pay people for interest earned. The fact that we work under an inflationary economy where people are expected to earn money for having money is the real underlying issue here. Inflation is therefore caused by the inflationary pressure of expected interest earnings which is passed on to the customer as added value (price) in the product sold. One can easily drive up inflation by increasing interest rates and the converse is true notice that inflation has been really low over the last few years when interest rates were low.
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I don't think this is going to fly with the general public. Here are some the issues I see:
1. Downloading - easy 20 mins not too long to wait, very convenient
2. Playback on computer - easy but not as comfortable as living room TV
3. Playback on TV - comfortable but system probably quite hard to setup for non-technophile
4. DRM - makes it hard to transfer amongst friends and family
This would make more sense if there was a video device that was tied to this much like the iPod is for music - because I don't see people wanting to watch feature length movies on a 2.5 inch display all that much. So maybe Apple will be launching some sort of futuristic portable projection device that can store these movies - the iProject(or) maybe?
I agree - my Laptop Blue-screened just this weekend and it was comforting to know that it was the USB driver for my external audio interface that caused it and not some other more critical piece of hardware. Seeing as this is the first time it happened since I got it 8 months ago I think I can live with that frequency of failure.
It might have been as most frequent business travellers given the chance will not take a window seat because it is a major pain to keep getting up and down for the bathroom. Therefore your preference for a window seat might have indicated unusual behaviour for the normal business traveller.
Some good ones.
I think you are correct in that an expanded rail system would be a good thing. But I don't think it would necessarily be a safer form of transport wrt to terrorist threat. There are thousands of miles of rail track and it is probably easy to cause a train derailment or explosion which would be just as spectacular as an airplane, e.g. Madrid and London.
This is the indicator I look for with my son. If I suggest a social real life thing to do - like go to the bookstore - and he would prefer to play a game then I would know that he is getting seriously too sucked in to the computer game (he does play WOW). Fortunately this hasn't happened yet. But it will be an interesting conversation when it does.
Amen brother.
I have found with the few wireless installations I've set up with that the Linksys routers are pretty low powered. It only takes a couple of rooms to be between the router and the receiver for there to much degradation in performance. This is a pain when the entry point is on the other side of the house then you have to run wire anyway getting the router closer to the computers that need it.
I live in a rental where I want to refrain from laying out too much cable so wireless is a nice solution. That doesn't help me with my xboxes though where I have to run cable through the house anyway (or get yet more wireless gear between the source and the box).
In England the phrase "could not care a less" is quite popular
Why couldn't we just let the farmers explain themselves? Using, you know, those whizzbang computer thingies. I'm sure a couple of them who had these issues could handle one of those new-fangled eelecktronical devices to get the word out.
No, my point was - why do you think the local regional issues are so severely affected by whether or not the president is Republican or Democrat? I don't mean for a specific local area but for the nation as a whole. I'm sure we could quote party policy from both sides over history that has screwed various specific regions of the country significantly.
"Carter. 'Nuff said."
Interesting game. I counter with.....
Nixon. 'Nuff said.
In the old days when communications systems were much slower (days compared to seconds now) it may have been prudent to guard against someone being able to sway the seat of power away from the rural areas in favor of condensed urbanized areas. Nowadays, you've got to be kidding me. There is no local issue that couldn't explained or understood in a matter of minutes to the whole population of the US if it was necessary to save the whole country from starving let's say. However, that is not how government of the masses works. To think that the government elected by people in the urban areas could do insurmountable damage to the rest of the nation is just ridiculous hyperbole. Do you really think that a Democratic president would have screwed up our nation THAT badly compared to Bush? Give me a fucking break.
This is bullshit. The method by which minority peoples' rights are protected is the law and the bill of rights/constitution. The President can (and should) still be elected by the majority of people - other institutions take care of the rights.
This post gets modded 5, Interesting you have got to be fucking kidding me. Teachers in the US do not get "above average salaries" (maybe they do in Canada but I doubt it). If I went into teaching I would have to take a 50 percent pay cut. How the hell are well qualified people going to be attracted into that profession?
Because they want to get re-elected?
Scientific theories form two main purposes: 1. They are useful at predicting how things will behave (e.g. important for NASA) 2. They provide a framework to show the way for future work. Einstein's axioms of constancy were constructs built from empirical evidence which yielded some interesting and very useful insights into the way things worked. They also showed potential paths forward which Einstein himself pursued until his death. Einstein himself knew his theories were not the last word and any scientist knows this is a fundamental philosophy of the scientific method. The rest of the world can pretend there is something else sensational going on if they want to but it isn't science.
"There are probably a few I've missed." A Few.. a FEW...
It is interpreted and not compiled... This gets modded 4, Interesting WTF????
I agree. After reading a rather populist economics book I came to the conclusion that "free-market" economists will do anything to shoe-horn the philosophy of free market thinking into any "real world" problem. The "market" is after all an abstraction which paints with a very wide brush across the canvas of what actually happens in the real world. For these people the free market is able to solve and explain any problem which it patently is not because supply and demand cannot be free for some goods and services - hence the need for another organizational structure called the government. Of course the abstraction that is the government cannot solve all problems either.
I have the same opinion about Eclipse. It hogs memory and sometimes bogs down so much it grinds to a halt. But restarting and shying away from using the Visual Editor too much keeps it working fairly well. I put up with these minor inconveniences because I didn't pay for it and i am thankful that a free tool makes me so productive.
I agree. I think what microsoft has done with back compatibility for their platforms is amazing. I can even compile an executable on a Windows 2000 machine and have it run on a Windows 95 box. Actually when I did this I did it without thinking and only later thought of the implications of it working.
Your argument is not right even if you DO capitalize the word. For starters, the money for Treasury Bills is not created "out of thin air" the bills are bought by people with real money. Because the people who buy them expect money to be earned from their monetary investment the bills earn interest. The only money created then is the interest on the bills (a fairly low interest at that - on a par with the growth of the overall economy). What we really are investing in is the future economic growth of the total country in increased taxation of real earnings.
What you said would be true if the government gave people money without having got it from somebody else but this just is not true. For example, I remember getting a temporary real estate loan from a bank and in the note there was an individual guarantor named who was putting up the money and if you think about it logically this is the way the system has got to work. In reality the cash one sees on the street is the physical manifestation of money that has been earned in the past and has nothing to do with getting money from "thin air". Also, taxation is not theft it is the cash payment for living in a well ordered structured society. Philophically we could have a discussion about the level or form of this payment but even the existence of a government necessitates a citizen contribution of some kind.
IANAE but it seems inane to me to blame inflation on printing of money. Surely it is the other way around, i.e. the only way one can get extra money out of a bank is because it has earned interest. So the extra printed money is actually used to pay people for interest earned. The fact that we work under an inflationary economy where people are expected to earn money for having money is the real underlying issue here. Inflation is therefore caused by the inflationary pressure of expected interest earnings which is passed on to the customer as added value (price) in the product sold. One can easily drive up inflation by increasing interest rates and the converse is true notice that inflation has been really low over the last few years when interest rates were low.