If Grandma is only using the data connection to check her email once a day, and that with the 60% of data bandwidth that seems to be left over for the 97% of users who don't use iPhones, then I don't really see why we can't peacefully co-exist. If you really want to be fair, you'll reduce Grandma's current rates, since there's no justification for charging her $30 a month for that kind of minimal usage.
In addition to recommending 1Password for the Mac, another solution I used for a long time was a list of sites, login names and password hints (you could even have your login name as a login hint, if you wanted). This meant that even in an unencrypted plaintext file, there's no information there that will really make sense to anyone else. I also don't typically use more than three passwords, and I have my own mental rating system as to when each password is appropriate to use, meaning that knowing one of them isn't going to give access to everything.
Because private industry has been doing a great job with health care so far? I have lived in two countries with some form of socialized medicine (Germany and Japan), and it was both competent, transparent and above all, affordable. In no country with socialized medicine do you have several million people a year declaring bankruptcy, or hospitals being shut down due to the influx of uninsured Americans clogging their ERs and bankrupting them as well.
Funny that this got rated insightful rather than flamebait, but there you go.
So we need to encourage our kids to aim lower? From what age should we tell kids that having aspirations is a bad thing? As a teacher, I have as yet to meet a kid who was both stupid and had unrealistic expectations. As for the rest, someone who puts in enough hard work studying will beat out a kid with talent but less industry nine times out of ten.
Having lofty career goals doesn't automatically engender bad credit habits, either; it's more often those who are pursuing those trade-oriented jobs who have credit issues because the poor pay they get after their schooling doesn't live up to their expectations. As for huge student loans, that's the fault of the inflated cost of education at colleges and universities rather than people with the temerity to study there. We would do better to revamp the higher education system (per the topic of this conversation) regarding its financial expenses (maintaining expensive and unnecessary sports programs, for example) rather than blaming it on people who somehow manage to be smart enough to get a degree but not smart enough to get hired afterwards.
Depends on where in Asia. I've taught at 19 Japanese schools over a 7-year period, and two of those were high schools of differing levels. While the kids here excel at math and science, it's only in the areas where rote learning is emphasized. They really are at a disadvantage when it comes to original thinking. They think the teacher is responsible for telling them what's right. Also, they really hate trying to extrapolate an answer based on previous knowledge, because they might be wrong.
As for advancement through school, the boards of education are encouraging the "no child left behind" idea; even if you don't participate in class you receive a 55%, and 90% of your grade is based on the tests, not the classwork. This means that you only really have to cram for about eight weeks out of the year to do a decent job. For those who still manage to fail despite all of these measures, a single make-up test is offered every year for each subject failed, for which the student is rigorously coached (using the actual test questions) beforehand.
Japan and the US share a serious problem in common: a lot of bureaucratic interference from people who have no education credentials and are ham-stringing the teaching process to the point where everybody passes but nobody actually learns anything. Spending more time being taught badly isn't going to resolve the issue; we need to revamp the teaching system and eliminate the pandering cruft that is bogging down our schools.
I assume that what the author's comment about Apple "merely dabbling" in touch interfaces was in reference to desktops only? Apple runs circles around Microsoft when it comes to successful touch interfaces built onto their OS's back end; look at the iPhone. Microsoft's own Windows Mobile platform makes almost no effort whatsoever by comparison.
Capitalism is good, extortion is bad. We support people trying to make a buck, it's when they hold your life ransom in order to make unreasonable amounts of cash that we have a problem. This is an example of the government doing what it's supposed to do: represent the people's will. The people think the car companies are taking advantage of them and want it to stop.
Also, in terms of capitalism, the car companies are muscling legitimate competition (the independent mechanics) out of the picture. This brings us to the ironic position of requiring regulation in order to maintain a free market. It's a good thing, though.
A video editing solution that isn't reliable is no solution at all, at least from a professional standpoint. It's hard enough to get professional solutions that don't have their little quirks, since the programmers seem focused on the internals and overlook the little niceties of day-to-day file I/O - for example, Final Cut Pro 6 has a bad habit of refusing to overwrite files when exporting a movie, and Combustion 4 has issues with trying to deal with double-byte characters in file dialogs (I live in Japan). Something *less* reliable than these programs is unacceptable. It's bad enough putting up with the crap I already deal with.
I hope they can protect it! It would be a great tragedy to lose the observatory. Its beautiful architecture, unique location and accessibility to the public makes it a real treasure.
I love how the American government seems dead-set and determined to find the most inefficient crops to create bio-fuel (usable energy per square meter of crop sort of thing).
Perhaps it depends on the professional involved. I've been using Adobe since 1993 and the only time I called up their support was because their DRM had locked me out of running CS2 on a new system (the old system was destroyed in an accident so could not be manually de-authorized). Besides that, I can't think of one reason why I need support from them beyond such unforeseen installation issues. As others have mentioned, if you're using it for business then there's no real necessity to upgrade to 10.6.
I'm sorry, but you're not comparing updates to updates. 10.5.1 through 10.5.8 have been free updates, as have all such system updates have been. These are more appropriate equivalents to service pack updates than full OS releases. Apple's OS upgrades are no more expensive than Microsoft's OS upgrade pricing.
With the current method, the politicians reach a very tiny portion of the population indeed; only those who are within ear's reach of the megaphones. They will occasionally appear on designated street corners and preach to the masses, but few, if any, bother to stop and listen, because nobody wants to stand around outside when they've got places to go.
The Japanese system is very, very broken, and as others have mentioned, the only people who get any kind of face time are those who already have campaign systems in place. It's very hard to break in if you're not already related to somebody in power.
That is an excellent point about number pads. I'd love to be able to get a keyboard that had a number pad on the left side; there's no reason that even right-handed people such as myself couldn't get up and running in relatively short order.
While I think it would benefit a programmer to learn the keyboard shortcuts in order to make his or her life easier, as an animator (a profession that also benefits from keyboard shortcuts), I prefer the Logitech MX1000 wireless laser mouse. It meets all of your requirements for clutter, weight and button-ry, and works smoothly even with my KVM.
If you're going to join in on a game and then not actually play, it's your own damn fault when you get your ass handed to you. If you want to chat, go to IRC. If you want to do it with an avatar, go to Second Life. If you're going to bitch because somebody tries to fight you in a (gasp!) fighting game, you may be pointing the finger of blame in the wrong direction.
An action/adventure game is meant to be just that. It's not like the rules weren't outlined in advance. If I join a baseball game, I expect to be playing baseball, not watching everybody stand around preening and admiring how they look in their jerseys.
I think the point is that they *wish* they had that kind of power, and decided to act it out in their ill-advised sequel.
Seriously, exactly who are they targeting with this video? Perhaps they're going for the more subtle commentary that due to piracy they can't afford to make decent marketing materials. They represent an industry that includes some of the best storytellers and artistic talent around and this is the best they can do? We really *should* worry, if in fact this is the direct upshot of piracy.
First of all, a GPS WOULD be able to support your claim that you're not using public roads; problem solved. Also, the government already has special tax exemptions in place for farm vehicles, and could feasibly be extended to a mileage tax exemption as well. Of course, since the farm vehicle tax exemption is regularly abused (there are farmers who attempt to register any and all vehicles as such, including their son's new car for the high school commute), this is actually a pretty good argument in favor of the GPS system.
Disclaimer: I'm not crazy about the potential abuse of such information, either.
How can you be blamed for finding an acceptable solution when there simply isn't one available? He is a software developer, not a hardware one. Not everybody can just go out and design their own servers like Google does. He's saying he's been tripped up by the fact that the server manufacturers aren't delivering on their promises; hardly something he should be blamed for. Your attempts to read more into his comment about "not being cheap" and compare it to the false words of a politician seems like a pretty big stretch.
If you read the entire article, he not only doesn't say that his decisions have led to disasters, but instead says that his infrastructure development decisions have led to very smooth transitions, even when Facebook rolls out big, new features like the customized home page URLs. He is only voicing his disappointment in saying that the servers aren't living up to the hype, and that he is still looking for a better solution.
I will say that his comment to not be cheap seems to be in direct conflict with the rest of his argument, since his criticism over AMD and Intel revolves around the fact that they need to be cheaper. Seems a bit counter-intuitive.
Assuming they're not just lying through their teeth, Dropbox guarantees 128-bit encryption from start to finish. They couldn't look through your files even if they wanted to.
If you want to really be paranoid, you can pre-archive sensitive files with a password.
Fair use gives you the right to use it for critique, education, and sharing with friends and family. It does not explicitly give you the right to download something ad infinitum, although your logic, based on the music industry's own arguments, would appear to be correct on the surface. At the very least I think it would be fair to say that if you have a legitimate license you can at least feel morally absolved for downloading an additional copy of the same album, as you have technically gained nothing over the original purchase. (As the original poster said, you could make the copy directly from your CD drive and get the exact same results).
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If Grandma is only using the data connection to check her email once a day, and that with the 60% of data bandwidth that seems to be left over for the 97% of users who don't use iPhones, then I don't really see why we can't peacefully co-exist. If you really want to be fair, you'll reduce Grandma's current rates, since there's no justification for charging her $30 a month for that kind of minimal usage.
In addition to recommending 1Password for the Mac, another solution I used for a long time was a list of sites, login names and password hints (you could even have your login name as a login hint, if you wanted). This meant that even in an unencrypted plaintext file, there's no information there that will really make sense to anyone else. I also don't typically use more than three passwords, and I have my own mental rating system as to when each password is appropriate to use, meaning that knowing one of them isn't going to give access to everything.
Because private industry has been doing a great job with health care so far? I have lived in two countries with some form of socialized medicine (Germany and Japan), and it was both competent, transparent and above all, affordable. In no country with socialized medicine do you have several million people a year declaring bankruptcy, or hospitals being shut down due to the influx of uninsured Americans clogging their ERs and bankrupting them as well.
This would be based on the unwavering generosity of the web-surfing public?
Funny that this got rated insightful rather than flamebait, but there you go.
So we need to encourage our kids to aim lower? From what age should we tell kids that having aspirations is a bad thing? As a teacher, I have as yet to meet a kid who was both stupid and had unrealistic expectations. As for the rest, someone who puts in enough hard work studying will beat out a kid with talent but less industry nine times out of ten.
Having lofty career goals doesn't automatically engender bad credit habits, either; it's more often those who are pursuing those trade-oriented jobs who have credit issues because the poor pay they get after their schooling doesn't live up to their expectations. As for huge student loans, that's the fault of the inflated cost of education at colleges and universities rather than people with the temerity to study there. We would do better to revamp the higher education system (per the topic of this conversation) regarding its financial expenses (maintaining expensive and unnecessary sports programs, for example) rather than blaming it on people who somehow manage to be smart enough to get a degree but not smart enough to get hired afterwards.
Depends on where in Asia. I've taught at 19 Japanese schools over a 7-year period, and two of those were high schools of differing levels. While the kids here excel at math and science, it's only in the areas where rote learning is emphasized. They really are at a disadvantage when it comes to original thinking. They think the teacher is responsible for telling them what's right. Also, they really hate trying to extrapolate an answer based on previous knowledge, because they might be wrong.
As for advancement through school, the boards of education are encouraging the "no child left behind" idea; even if you don't participate in class you receive a 55%, and 90% of your grade is based on the tests, not the classwork. This means that you only really have to cram for about eight weeks out of the year to do a decent job. For those who still manage to fail despite all of these measures, a single make-up test is offered every year for each subject failed, for which the student is rigorously coached (using the actual test questions) beforehand.
Japan and the US share a serious problem in common: a lot of bureaucratic interference from people who have no education credentials and are ham-stringing the teaching process to the point where everybody passes but nobody actually learns anything. Spending more time being taught badly isn't going to resolve the issue; we need to revamp the teaching system and eliminate the pandering cruft that is bogging down our schools.
Not to mention that it has the unfortunate front and rear profiles of a butt with two butt-cracks. Definitely designed for function rather than form.
I assume that what the author's comment about Apple "merely dabbling" in touch interfaces was in reference to desktops only? Apple runs circles around Microsoft when it comes to successful touch interfaces built onto their OS's back end; look at the iPhone. Microsoft's own Windows Mobile platform makes almost no effort whatsoever by comparison.
Capitalism is good, extortion is bad. We support people trying to make a buck, it's when they hold your life ransom in order to make unreasonable amounts of cash that we have a problem. This is an example of the government doing what it's supposed to do: represent the people's will. The people think the car companies are taking advantage of them and want it to stop.
Also, in terms of capitalism, the car companies are muscling legitimate competition (the independent mechanics) out of the picture. This brings us to the ironic position of requiring regulation in order to maintain a free market. It's a good thing, though.
A video editing solution that isn't reliable is no solution at all, at least from a professional standpoint. It's hard enough to get professional solutions that don't have their little quirks, since the programmers seem focused on the internals and overlook the little niceties of day-to-day file I/O - for example, Final Cut Pro 6 has a bad habit of refusing to overwrite files when exporting a movie, and Combustion 4 has issues with trying to deal with double-byte characters in file dialogs (I live in Japan). Something *less* reliable than these programs is unacceptable. It's bad enough putting up with the crap I already deal with.
I hope they can protect it! It would be a great tragedy to lose the observatory. Its beautiful architecture, unique location and accessibility to the public makes it a real treasure.
I love how the American government seems dead-set and determined to find the most inefficient crops to create bio-fuel (usable energy per square meter of crop sort of thing).
Perhaps it depends on the professional involved. I've been using Adobe since 1993 and the only time I called up their support was because their DRM had locked me out of running CS2 on a new system (the old system was destroyed in an accident so could not be manually de-authorized). Besides that, I can't think of one reason why I need support from them beyond such unforeseen installation issues. As others have mentioned, if you're using it for business then there's no real necessity to upgrade to 10.6.
I'm sorry, but you're not comparing updates to updates. 10.5.1 through 10.5.8 have been free updates, as have all such system updates have been. These are more appropriate equivalents to service pack updates than full OS releases. Apple's OS upgrades are no more expensive than Microsoft's OS upgrade pricing.
Napster, anyone? Seriously, it's made that much more pathetic by the fact that we've already been through all this before.
With the current method, the politicians reach a very tiny portion of the population indeed; only those who are within ear's reach of the megaphones. They will occasionally appear on designated street corners and preach to the masses, but few, if any, bother to stop and listen, because nobody wants to stand around outside when they've got places to go.
The Japanese system is very, very broken, and as others have mentioned, the only people who get any kind of face time are those who already have campaign systems in place. It's very hard to break in if you're not already related to somebody in power.
I'm curious: why would a tech need to drill into carpet?
That is an excellent point about number pads. I'd love to be able to get a keyboard that had a number pad on the left side; there's no reason that even right-handed people such as myself couldn't get up and running in relatively short order.
While I think it would benefit a programmer to learn the keyboard shortcuts in order to make his or her life easier, as an animator (a profession that also benefits from keyboard shortcuts), I prefer the Logitech MX1000 wireless laser mouse. It meets all of your requirements for clutter, weight and button-ry, and works smoothly even with my KVM.
If you're going to join in on a game and then not actually play, it's your own damn fault when you get your ass handed to you. If you want to chat, go to IRC. If you want to do it with an avatar, go to Second Life. If you're going to bitch because somebody tries to fight you in a (gasp!) fighting game, you may be pointing the finger of blame in the wrong direction.
An action/adventure game is meant to be just that. It's not like the rules weren't outlined in advance. If I join a baseball game, I expect to be playing baseball, not watching everybody stand around preening and admiring how they look in their jerseys.
I think the point is that they *wish* they had that kind of power, and decided to act it out in their ill-advised sequel.
Seriously, exactly who are they targeting with this video? Perhaps they're going for the more subtle commentary that due to piracy they can't afford to make decent marketing materials. They represent an industry that includes some of the best storytellers and artistic talent around and this is the best they can do? We really *should* worry, if in fact this is the direct upshot of piracy.
First of all, a GPS WOULD be able to support your claim that you're not using public roads; problem solved. Also, the government already has special tax exemptions in place for farm vehicles, and could feasibly be extended to a mileage tax exemption as well. Of course, since the farm vehicle tax exemption is regularly abused (there are farmers who attempt to register any and all vehicles as such, including their son's new car for the high school commute), this is actually a pretty good argument in favor of the GPS system.
Disclaimer: I'm not crazy about the potential abuse of such information, either.
How can you be blamed for finding an acceptable solution when there simply isn't one available? He is a software developer, not a hardware one. Not everybody can just go out and design their own servers like Google does. He's saying he's been tripped up by the fact that the server manufacturers aren't delivering on their promises; hardly something he should be blamed for. Your attempts to read more into his comment about "not being cheap" and compare it to the false words of a politician seems like a pretty big stretch.
If you read the entire article, he not only doesn't say that his decisions have led to disasters, but instead says that his infrastructure development decisions have led to very smooth transitions, even when Facebook rolls out big, new features like the customized home page URLs. He is only voicing his disappointment in saying that the servers aren't living up to the hype, and that he is still looking for a better solution.
I will say that his comment to not be cheap seems to be in direct conflict with the rest of his argument, since his criticism over AMD and Intel revolves around the fact that they need to be cheaper. Seems a bit counter-intuitive.
Assuming they're not just lying through their teeth, Dropbox guarantees 128-bit encryption from start to finish. They couldn't look through your files even if they wanted to.
If you want to really be paranoid, you can pre-archive sensitive files with a password.
Fair use gives you the right to use it for critique, education, and sharing with friends and family. It does not explicitly give you the right to download something ad infinitum, although your logic, based on the music industry's own arguments, would appear to be correct on the surface. At the very least I think it would be fair to say that if you have a legitimate license you can at least feel morally absolved for downloading an additional copy of the same album, as you have technically gained nothing over the original purchase. (As the original poster said, you could make the copy directly from your CD drive and get the exact same results).
So nanotubes still win in the area of tensile strength, i.e. space elevator construction?