By either making it yourself, or by purchasing something made by someone else only when it fits all your particular requirements.
how do we make it, who gets to make it and who gets access to what has been made?
If you truly value freedom, and not just freedom for you and those who agree with your particular worldview, you don't 'choose' those things. You allow people to be free to make whatever they like however they like and you react to those choices as above.
Apple's products are Apple's right up to the point where they sell them to you. If they choose to not make the source code for their software available and sell it only as a compiled version, that is their choice. If they choose to offer only their own means on installing additional software, their choice.
To argue they should be obligated differently is fine with me, but to cloak that under the guise of promoting 'freedom' is not.
There is a significant difference between a service I find useful for embedding photos on web forums, or similar things, and one I'd store my plain text tax forms on.
It's like when Shick went to 5 blades, they are just going to not bother producing the next logical step in jets and go directly to the one after that.
If any of the TV providers who could reach me would offer an exclusively 'on demand' service I would probably prefer that over Hulu or torrents or the other current options. As it stands, in order to get access to 'on demand' service I have to also purchase a TV package filled with content I don't want. I care only for HD but I have to buy non-HD content to get to the HD 'add on'. If I wanted only HBO I can't get just that, I have to buy the basic package + the extended package, then I can get to HBO, then add HBO HD.
Fine grained choice is as big a part of what traditional content providers should be learning from the internet. The music industry was dragged there kicking and screaming, which should serve as a model for the others.
You'd think they would look at the death throes of the newspaper guys, and magazines, and Blockbuster et al, and record stores, and etc etc, and change their ways. But they won't.
As others have noted, you should not be driving an economy car if you want excellent throttle response.
Or you might investigate whether a tuner is available. I drive a diesel pickup some of the time, and with 'economy' settings loaded into its computer I can press the accelerator to the floor and it will calmly pull away from a stoplight, but it gets about 22 MPG. If I am pulling something heavy I can tap the 'tow' button on the tuner and add power, but drop mileage to 18 or so. If I want to act like a hillbilly the 'performance' button will let my spin all 4 tires and pin me back to my seat while burning 10 mpg.
What firmwares are Adobe products compatible with?
Sometime RSLogix is backward compatible but more often it is not. If you have different customers on different versions the only safe bet is install multiple versions.
If you have an Allen Bradley Logix series PLC, its firmware must match your version of RSLogix all the way down to the point release. Unless you maintain a support agreement there is no upgrade path, you just buy the full new version.
You can reflash the PLC's firmware but that often sticks you with known bugs.
It should be obvious by now that Microsoft is incapable of competing with Android and iOS whether on the phone or the tablet. Much less get into the game with something great enough it makes up for their tardiness.
The only strategy left is to hope it all goes away soon, and denegrating that part of the market is the only commentary they can make to help that along.
Look on the bright side MS, at least the standalone digital music player market is shrinking.
I'll note here that I know little about nuclear power or nuclear reactor design. I know enough to throw out the obvious lies told by the extremes from each side.
So I'm wondering, if the containment system can handle a meltdown just fine, why are they going to such great lengths to try to cool it despite having undergone at least a partial meltdown?
I can see the owners of the plant wanting to save their economic investment by doing everything possible to save it. And very small releases of radioactive iodine in vented steam or the like is probably an acceptable tradeoff. But at this point is the facility recoverable? If not, why not evacuate the workers and let the core melt into containment? Then construct something specifically to cool that, so it can be dealt with.
Serious questions, that nag at me anytime I see an assertion that this reactor design can handle a meltdown just fine.
I doubt anyone in the US is vulnerable to the original Stuxnet worm's ultimate payload, not because they've updated their AV, but because there isn't likely anyone using the specific drives in the specific configuration that the payload targets.
On #1 of your list, I don't know of any big controls outfits that haven't been using VMs at least since Ethernet IO came into widespread use. Probably not since VMs that run well on laptops became available. We visit far too many facilities with different configs to have to manually configure even something as simple as RSLinx on every call.
2-3 would not have helped against Stuxnet until, as the article notes, more than a year after it was in the wild. If someone is working on critical infrastructure that someone else, with the resources to pull off a Stuxnet, might want to destroy, their efforts would probably be better focused on physical security than hoping for a Microsoft Update to protect them.
We still don't know the ogirinal infection vector. Given all the resources that were spent to create Stuxnet in the first place it wouldn't suprise me if ninjas broke into the cargo hold of the airplane the orignal programmers were taking to Iran and rooted their laptops in mid flight.
I actually think the online music stores help albums sell. On iTunes, and I assume the others, if an album is composed of 15 songs and you buy 1 of them at $0.99 and decide you want the rest, you can 'complete the album' for its normal price - $0.99 you already paid.
I'm not a huge music buyer but for 10 or so new artists I've gone back and bought the rest of the album after the single song grew on me.
Every time I hear that Eels song "I Like Birds" I think of PBG.
Often I read comments here and wonder if the poster is MEEPT or one of the Adequacy trolls. I still open every Microsoft realted story and hope to see something from l33t j03.
I don't think the anti-trolling measures implemented here have done much more than blunt the readership's ability to spot real trolls. Yesterday's cell phone story had a couple of obvious trolls that caught dozens of serious replies. Actual crapflooding is down, which is good, but trolling is up if affected at all.
It is possible that 2011 might be a year in which there could be some unspecified increase in what could loosely be termed malware that might be targeted in whole or in part to infect certain devices that might be considered mobile devices under certain definitions of mobile or device.
If you feel you have to lead off with a statement that your prediction is essentially the same one you've been making for the past six years and it has yet come true, maybe you should leave off setting a deadline for the thing.
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how do we choose what gets made
By either making it yourself, or by purchasing something made by someone else only when it fits all your particular requirements.
how do we make it, who gets to make it and who gets access to what has been made?
If you truly value freedom, and not just freedom for you and those who agree with your particular worldview, you don't 'choose' those things. You allow people to be free to make whatever they like however they like and you react to those choices as above.
Apple's products are Apple's right up to the point where they sell them to you. If they choose to not make the source code for their software available and sell it only as a compiled version, that is their choice. If they choose to offer only their own means on installing additional software, their choice.
To argue they should be obligated differently is fine with me, but to cloak that under the guise of promoting 'freedom' is not.
There is a significant difference between a service I find useful for embedding photos on web forums, or similar things, and one I'd store my plain text tax forms on.
How do you prosecute those people? If you did convict them in absentia, how would you serve the sentence on them?
It's like when Shick went to 5 blades, they are just going to not bother producing the next logical step in jets and go directly to the one after that.
As above.
If any of the TV providers who could reach me would offer an exclusively 'on demand' service I would probably prefer that over Hulu or torrents or the other current options. As it stands, in order to get access to 'on demand' service I have to also purchase a TV package filled with content I don't want. I care only for HD but I have to buy non-HD content to get to the HD 'add on'. If I wanted only HBO I can't get just that, I have to buy the basic package + the extended package, then I can get to HBO, then add HBO HD.
Fine grained choice is as big a part of what traditional content providers should be learning from the internet. The music industry was dragged there kicking and screaming, which should serve as a model for the others.
What are some examples of the 'extreme costs' you accept in lieu of watching a commercial?
You'd think they would look at the death throes of the newspaper guys, and magazines, and Blockbuster et al, and record stores, and etc etc, and change their ways. But they won't.
As others have noted, you should not be driving an economy car if you want excellent throttle response.
Or you might investigate whether a tuner is available. I drive a diesel pickup some of the time, and with 'economy' settings loaded into its computer I can press the accelerator to the floor and it will calmly pull away from a stoplight, but it gets about 22 MPG. If I am pulling something heavy I can tap the 'tow' button on the tuner and add power, but drop mileage to 18 or so. If I want to act like a hillbilly the 'performance' button will let my spin all 4 tires and pin me back to my seat while burning 10 mpg.
Try that with a throttle cable.
What firmwares are Adobe products compatible with?
Sometime RSLogix is backward compatible but more often it is not. If you have different customers on different versions the only safe bet is install multiple versions.
I submit that Rockwell Software is yet worse.
If you have an Allen Bradley Logix series PLC, its firmware must match your version of RSLogix all the way down to the point release. Unless you maintain a support agreement there is no upgrade path, you just buy the full new version.
You can reflash the PLC's firmware but that often sticks you with known bugs.
Was the prof Edward Tufte?
It should be obvious by now that Microsoft is incapable of competing with Android and iOS whether on the phone or the tablet. Much less get into the game with something great enough it makes up for their tardiness.
The only strategy left is to hope it all goes away soon, and denegrating that part of the market is the only commentary they can make to help that along.
Look on the bright side MS, at least the standalone digital music player market is shrinking.
believed to possibly
Good enough for me, lets ban it and any cartoon references to it.
You are going to have to smack them quite a bit harder.
And then only for my amusement, as they are incapable of understanding your point here. My dog gets it, they don't and won't.
I'm taking the same careful precuations here in Alaska. Cheers to your Japanese friend.
I'll note here that I know little about nuclear power or nuclear reactor design. I know enough to throw out the obvious lies told by the extremes from each side.
So I'm wondering, if the containment system can handle a meltdown just fine, why are they going to such great lengths to try to cool it despite having undergone at least a partial meltdown?
I can see the owners of the plant wanting to save their economic investment by doing everything possible to save it. And very small releases of radioactive iodine in vented steam or the like is probably an acceptable tradeoff. But at this point is the facility recoverable? If not, why not evacuate the workers and let the core melt into containment? Then construct something specifically to cool that, so it can be dealt with.
Serious questions, that nag at me anytime I see an assertion that this reactor design can handle a meltdown just fine.
I doubt anyone in the US is vulnerable to the original Stuxnet worm's ultimate payload, not because they've updated their AV, but because there isn't likely anyone using the specific drives in the specific configuration that the payload targets.
On #1 of your list, I don't know of any big controls outfits that haven't been using VMs at least since Ethernet IO came into widespread use. Probably not since VMs that run well on laptops became available. We visit far too many facilities with different configs to have to manually configure even something as simple as RSLinx on every call.
2-3 would not have helped against Stuxnet until, as the article notes, more than a year after it was in the wild. If someone is working on critical infrastructure that someone else, with the resources to pull off a Stuxnet, might want to destroy, their efforts would probably be better focused on physical security than hoping for a Microsoft Update to protect them.
We still don't know the ogirinal infection vector. Given all the resources that were spent to create Stuxnet in the first place it wouldn't suprise me if ninjas broke into the cargo hold of the airplane the orignal programmers were taking to Iran and rooted their laptops in mid flight.
I actually think the online music stores help albums sell. On iTunes, and I assume the others, if an album is composed of 15 songs and you buy 1 of them at $0.99 and decide you want the rest, you can 'complete the album' for its normal price - $0.99 you already paid. I'm not a huge music buyer but for 10 or so new artists I've gone back and bought the rest of the album after the single song grew on me.
Every time I hear that Eels song "I Like Birds" I think of PBG.
Often I read comments here and wonder if the poster is MEEPT or one of the Adequacy trolls. I still open every Microsoft realted story and hope to see something from l33t j03.
I don't think the anti-trolling measures implemented here have done much more than blunt the readership's ability to spot real trolls. Yesterday's cell phone story had a couple of obvious trolls that caught dozens of serious replies. Actual crapflooding is down, which is good, but trolling is up if affected at all.
And the rights part?
How does the answer to that question matter? It isn't like, in most cases, there was a choice.
It is possible that 2011 might be a year in which there could be some unspecified increase in what could loosely be termed malware that might be targeted in whole or in part to infect certain devices that might be considered mobile devices under certain definitions of mobile or device.
If you feel you have to lead off with a statement that your prediction is essentially the same one you've been making for the past six years and it has yet come true, maybe you should leave off setting a deadline for the thing.
i'm running Linux!
I'd like to buy targets at Target, but they choose not to sell them and I'm all right with their being allowed to do that.
I appreciate this post and I'm not even British.