. am i unusual here? how many people want roaming profiles at home?
Yes you are unusual. I would expect most people would want their laptop and desktop to be in sync. Maybe not for everything, but definitely for things they are working on.
Additionally, why should there be unsupervised "observers" standing around a polling place and potentially intimidating voters?
Because this is a free country, and we have a right to assembly.
There are also pollers, reporters, and who knows what other type of people. I don't know, because I vote from my house.
Isn't this an opt in system? I would have assumed you would need something other than the ticket, to indicate you are in the prescreening program.
Isn't this like stamping the ticket "first class" or "mvp flyer?"
Of course if you did away with the TSA and security screening, this wouldn't be a problem.
They are toys. While the PC can be used for entertainment, its primary purpose is as a tool.
Are you sure about that?
Your office desktop isn't going anywhere soon. But for the consumer, the tablet is enough. It is a great consumption device. I would be willing to bet, that a tablet, or tablet like device will replace many office desktops. Not everyone with an office desktop needs to create stuff. A consumptive device is plenty for reading reports.
So if the PC "dies", maybe that's ok. It'l die slow, and probably a niche market will arise again. The pendulum swings all the time, for just about everything. We'll be ok.
The PC won't die, and the niche market won't "rise again." There will always be a need for content creators. The PC as a consumer device will slowly fade, but never die. In the future you might not be able to get a desktop at BestBuy, but you will be able to get it at Frys.
Unless one is in an early stage startup and needs the Android revenue to afford the $1250 startup cost for iOS development ($650 Mac mini, $500 iPad, $100 certificate).
Right because they will develop their Andriod app in thin air?
If you are developing ANYTHING, it requires some money. You'll need a computer, an internet connection isn't required, but would be useful. And you'll probably want an android device to test on. None of these are free, even for Android development.
I don't get it. I am sure there are a lot of products that we use today, that were designed to help people with serious problems. And yet someone discovered they were also helpful to people who didn't have serious problems.
This is really only an issue if there was a big shortage on the medication. And the article mentions nothing of a shortage.
Of course non-prescription use is ethical - if it is used for its intended purpose.
The question is, is it ethical to use it for something other than the intended purpose. But that is a loaded question. Many things are used for things other than their intended purposed. How many people use WD-40 to displace water?
Even drugs have multiple side effects. And they might be used differently than the creator intended. Does it make it wrong, or unethical to use them?
I don't even know why it is an ethics question
What is the "horrendous" problem with "search bars?"
When you say 'files you download/save 'magically'" are you talking about linux or windows?
Sounds like you are complaining about IE, Firefox, Chrome, and not windows.
If this were true, for every 10 times you are shortchanged, you should have another 10 times when you receive too much money. How often does that happen?
I get extra money about as often as I've been shortchanged.
WTF is a POL? I can barely understand the summary, doesn't look like there is a lot of English in there. The first three lines has like 2 verbs. But can we at least have a summary that makes a bit of sense? Like maybe don't use abbreviations when it isn't necessary. My first thought was it was a typo and they meant Polls...
What about the technologies that are going undeployed or never see commercial application because of patents and copyrights? They were originally supposed to inspire innovation, not inspire innovative people to flee our country to sell their work overseas. I have any number of ideas that could create jobs and help our economy that simply aren't possible in this country because of our stupid laws.
Are you saying that your idea won't work, because you failed to negotiate properly? This isn't a problem with the laws, but a problem with your negotiating abilities.
Patents are supposed to allow the original inventors to invent more, not to allow people to build on other's inventions.
That line of reasoning only works if this one guy is the only person they're going to punish for the filesharing. i.e. Once he's fined, the other 90 people who downloaded songs are free and clear, since the punishment for sharing 90 songs has already been meted out.
It doesn't work that way. They BOTH broke the law. Just because one person paid, doesn't been the ones who downloaded shouldn't be punished. Of course they should be punished, but not pay restitution, as that has already been paid.
I'm pretty sure it would be fairly difficult for the Dutch police to break into my American home and install covert cameras. I'm also pretty sure it would be seriously frowned on, if after the broke into a home, installed covert cameras, that they set a bomb off.
Realistically, though, the whole thing should be comparable to phone taps and one should either oppose both or deem both to be acceptable
No, this is more like them being allowed to rummage around in your house when you aren't there, and planting a bomb. This is much different than passively listening to phone conversations.
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. am i unusual here? how many people want roaming profiles at home?
Yes you are unusual. I would expect most people would want their laptop and desktop to be in sync. Maybe not for everything, but definitely for things they are working on.
I like keeping an OS' base system abstracted from the GUI. I.
So instead, attach it to a CLI? The OS is abstracted from the GUI.The GUI is essentially explorer.exe, which is not the OS.
Additionally, why should there be unsupervised "observers" standing around a polling place and potentially intimidating voters?
Because this is a free country, and we have a right to assembly.
There are also pollers, reporters, and who knows what other type of people. I don't know, because I vote from my house.
You mean you were treated like a human being? In the rest of the world that's what we call "normal".
You do know the rest of the world treats anyone getting on a plane as a criminal. It isn't just the US.
Isn't this an opt in system? I would have assumed you would need something other than the ticket, to indicate you are in the prescreening program.
Isn't this like stamping the ticket "first class" or "mvp flyer?"
Of course if you did away with the TSA and security screening, this wouldn't be a problem.
I think you violated the policy.
and far too often just a puppet-theatre for an author's philosophical rant.
That pretty much is the definition of art.
They are toys. While the PC can be used for entertainment, its primary purpose is as a tool.
Are you sure about that?
Your office desktop isn't going anywhere soon. But for the consumer, the tablet is enough. It is a great consumption device. I would be willing to bet, that a tablet, or tablet like device will replace many office desktops. Not everyone with an office desktop needs to create stuff. A consumptive device is plenty for reading reports.
So if the PC "dies", maybe that's ok. It'l die slow, and probably a niche market will arise again. The pendulum swings all the time, for just about everything. We'll be ok.
The PC won't die, and the niche market won't "rise again." There will always be a need for content creators. The PC as a consumer device will slowly fade, but never die. In the future you might not be able to get a desktop at BestBuy, but you will be able to get it at Frys.
Unless one is in an early stage startup and needs the Android revenue to afford the $1250 startup cost for iOS development ($650 Mac mini, $500 iPad, $100 certificate).
Right because they will develop their Andriod app in thin air?
If you are developing ANYTHING, it requires some money. You'll need a computer, an internet connection isn't required, but would be useful. And you'll probably want an android device to test on. None of these are free, even for Android development.
I don't get it. I am sure there are a lot of products that we use today, that were designed to help people with serious problems. And yet someone discovered they were also helpful to people who didn't have serious problems.
This is really only an issue if there was a big shortage on the medication. And the article mentions nothing of a shortage.
Of course non-prescription use is ethical - if it is used for its intended purpose.
The question is, is it ethical to use it for something other than the intended purpose. But that is a loaded question. Many things are used for things other than their intended purposed. How many people use WD-40 to displace water?
Even drugs have multiple side effects. And they might be used differently than the creator intended. Does it make it wrong, or unethical to use them?
I don't even know why it is an ethics question
There are two good reasons to upgrade from XP.
One is to continue to get security fixes
The other is more memory.
And it still looks Fisher-Pricey ---
And what OS looks good?
What is the "horrendous" problem with "search bars?" When you say 'files you download/save 'magically'" are you talking about linux or windows? Sounds like you are complaining about IE, Firefox, Chrome, and not windows.
If this were true, for every 10 times you are shortchanged, you should have another 10 times when you receive too much money. How often does that happen?
I get extra money about as often as I've been shortchanged.
Nothing is equal.
Tell that to Allyson Felix and Jeneba Tarmoh
WTF is a POL? I can barely understand the summary, doesn't look like there is a lot of English in there. The first three lines has like 2 verbs. But can we at least have a summary that makes a bit of sense? Like maybe don't use abbreviations when it isn't necessary. My first thought was it was a typo and they meant Polls...
If everyone steals everything, there will be little incentive to innovate. And thus the customer loses.
What about the technologies that are going undeployed or never see commercial application because of patents and copyrights? They were originally supposed to inspire innovation, not inspire innovative people to flee our country to sell their work overseas. I have any number of ideas that could create jobs and help our economy that simply aren't possible in this country because of our stupid laws.
Are you saying that your idea won't work, because you failed to negotiate properly? This isn't a problem with the laws, but a problem with your negotiating abilities.
Patents are supposed to allow the original inventors to invent more, not to allow people to build on other's inventions.
It's not "stealing" -
They took something without permission. They appropriated the titles without right or acknowledgement. Hence they stole it.
That line of reasoning only works if this one guy is the only person they're going to punish for the filesharing. i.e. Once he's fined, the other 90 people who downloaded songs are free and clear, since the punishment for sharing 90 songs has already been meted out.
It doesn't work that way. They BOTH broke the law. Just because one person paid, doesn't been the ones who downloaded shouldn't be punished. Of course they should be punished, but not pay restitution, as that has already been paid.
I'm pretty sure it would be fairly difficult for the Dutch police to break into my American home and install covert cameras. I'm also pretty sure it would be seriously frowned on, if after the broke into a home, installed covert cameras, that they set a bomb off.
They would have to somehow get me to run the program on my computer first. Good luck with that.
So you run NO software?
I would be willing to bet it is MUCH easier than you might think it is.
Realistically, though, the whole thing should be comparable to phone taps and one should either oppose both or deem both to be acceptable
No, this is more like them being allowed to rummage around in your house when you aren't there, and planting a bomb. This is much different than passively listening to phone conversations.