It's all a matter if spin. It should be "bug found and patched because of open source" if it was closed few if any would have been able to look and find and patch the bug
Apple funds the majority of WebKit which is open source. So they are funding open source to the tune of millions of dollars a year. I'm guessing they have between 50 and 200 programmers on WebKit. I'm guessing they have a few other open source projects as well.
Hasn't there been 360 movies before? There's "America the Beautiful" that used to be at Disneyland and I guess was at a world's fair before that. There were also plenty of 360 videos from things like go-pro and attachments for iPhone/Android etc...
It seems to me (but maybe I'm missing it) like it's not going to be cool until it's actually a 3D movie and by 3D movie I mean rendered in real time so that you can not just look but also translate, at least a little, through the environment. That seemed to be what Abrash was mentioning in his talk. Movies are old, "Presence" is new. "Presence" requires real time rendering.
If Microsoft wanted to be awesome they'd make all their dev tools work for Android. Visual Studio for Android (meaning runs on Windows, targets Android) would be orders of magnitude better than the crap tools that Android developers currently have to put up with.
Here in Singapore my friend's back sends a SMS/text/msg to her phone/tablet anytime she makes a purchase online. She has to type that number into the web page form (or whatever) for the transaction to be approved. I think I wish I had this option. Though as I'm traveling right now I can imagine a few times when I might need the number and not have a signal.
Similarly, why not switch to an (optional?) system like for non-online purchases. Msg me the number. That way there's no PIN for anyone to steal. That number is only good for that transaction.
So you're going to tell blind people who have cameras for eyes they have to turn them off?
Maybe it's time to face the future instead of being stuck in the past. People are going to have digital eyes instead of biological eyes. First those with bad site, then soldiers, then the public. They're also going to have digital memory instead of biological memory. You have no more right to tell me how to use my digital eyes and digital memory then you do for my biological eyes and biological memory. That fact that there is a distinction today is irrelevant and will have to change in the near future.
But you can count on it. You add one script tag and you're done. Saying that because it requires JavaScript will prevent it probably false since the lots of the web requires JavaScript. Tons of developers are using tags that requires JavaScript. Check out AngularJS for just one example
I'm sure this will get modded down but why does MathML need to built into the browser? It's only used on some very small percentage of pages so why bloat the browsers with something almost no pages need. Especially since the JavaScript implementation works just fine. Even better the JavaScript implementation can be updated and modified at any pace the MathML proponents want where as that's not true with built in implementations. The markup is the same regardless so what's the need for it to be built in ?
Both Chrome and Firefox use DirectX on windows to support various features like access to direct2d and hardware video decoding. So they both end up emulating OpenGL for WebGL by using ANGLE so they can have access to both an OpenGL API and those other things at the same time. It also doesn't help that the state of OpenGL drivers on window is pretty poor for most user. Sure gamers have high end gpus and up to date drivers but most users don't.
Well, in order to for angle to emulate OpenGL ES 3.0 it requires DirectX 11 (or maybe only 10). Regardless that means for all practical purposes XP won't be supported.
London's is older than NYCs (built in the mid 19th century) and looks clean and new and is of a comparable size and ridership so it's certainly possible for a large subway system to get overhauled. They're doing a major renewal effort right now and have a great system to keep people informed which lines have issues and how to work around them. They have websites to check and very clear P.A. systems announcing the issues in all stations. Usually they appear to only close portions of lines on weekends with details on how to bus around the closures.
Tokyo's system is also clean and MUCH BIGGER than NYCs. The reason it doesn't appear that way is because of who get's to define it. Tokyo has 10 independent transit companies running 55 lines through Tokyo. Some are labeled as trains vs subway even though they're the same trains running on the same tracks. For example the Toyoko-line train line becomes both the Hibiya-line (subway) or the Fukutoshi-line (subway) depending on which train is coming down the track. Same cars, no one gets off the train where it becomes one vs the other. The system called "Tokyo Subway" is just one of those 10 companies (possibly 2).
My only point the fact that other similar sized systems can update and keep their trains clean means NYC has no excuse.
No you don't have a "right" to privacy actually. The law might say you do but it's certainly not a natural right. Nothing in nature protects your privacy. Whereas other than force, nothing in nature prevents me from seeing, remembering and sharing.
The self-entitled is the person that thinks their unnatural right to privacy outweighs others natural rights to sight, sound, memory, and sharing.
I don't think my policy will backfire. Rather I think it's inevitable. Try to fight against it and you'll fail.
I'm not "Recording" you. I'm "remembering" you. I just happen to either (a) have digital augmentation or (b) have equipment to read my memories (c) or both.
I will politely tell you go shove it. You have no right to tell me what I can remember or how I can remember it whether I see it with organic eyes or digital eyes, hear it with organic ears or digital ears and store it in organic memory or digital memory. You also have no right to tell me who can I share my memories with or how I share them whether with analog audio or digital audio, whether with analog transmission or digital transmission.
The rest of us will augment. First it will start with people that can't see or can't hear or can't remember things well, then it will continue to most of the rest of us. It's only a matter of time. Just like we augmented our skin with clothing, our feet with shoes, our brains with slide rules, then calculators, then computers, we'll do the same with sight, sound, and memory.
I do not think this phrase "any account" means what you think it means. I suspect I can not transfer money into or out of my Japanese accounts. Something I would love to be able to do.
I'd really like to see someone start OSSEA, the Open Source Space Exploration Association. Get Neil Degrasse Tyson as the spokesperson and a few other space and science luminaries and use kickstarter or similar to find each project. Accept volunteers. Put all data collected online.
No idea if it would work but I use would be neat to see them try. I'd donate money and possibly donate time as well being open source
I would like all my reviews to show up publically when people search for stuff. That's why I wrote the reviews. I've put reviews on Amazon, TripAdvisor, Yelp, Booking.com, etc... When a product or service has been outstanding I want others to know it worked for me. When a product or service sucks I want to help steer people away from them.
Google's implementation seems great. I can choose to review something, I can choose to make it public or private or share it with specific people like "family" so that 6 months later when my mom is looking for a digital camera and types "digital camera" into google she seems my reviews. That sounds awesome to me.
Of course if Google only shows positive reviews that would be bad but AFAICT that's not what they're doing. I've certainly googled for stuff and seen 1 and 2 star ratings.
When I was growing up (70s) in Southern California you could register your bike with the police. They'd stamp a number into it. I had my bike stolen 3 times, got it back from the police twice. Since it was registered they called us when they found it.
Same in Japan far more recently. Bought a bike, registered it with the police, go stolen, got it back from the police since it was registered they knew how to contact me.
In other words, this seems like a solvable problem for the most part. If Finland wants it to work they need just need to require people to register their bikes, with contact info, at the time of sale just like people have to register cars when they're sold.
That might not help if the thieves file off the numbers but my experience is they don't do that enough so registering still makes sense.
It should be even easier now since back then it was paperwork but nowadays it could easily be done online with smartphones requiring far less manpower to deal with registration.
Mostly because I used to work on Chrome but I like gyp. It will generate projects for XCode and Visual Studio so developers on those platforms can use the tools they're comfortable with. It will also generate projects for Ninja which is much faster than Make.
What utter bullshit. You want to know if the internet is free at a hotel? Any of the major hotel booking sites will tell you. I've been traveling in Europe for about 2.5 months now. Stayed at 8 hotels so far, 3 more to to go, made sure every one of them had free internet. It's not hard, you can even select it as a filter when searching for hotels. They'll even tell you if it's available in the rooms or only in the lobby.
Ever try to copy and paste text from the web based Kindle reader? No new DRM extensions needed. I couldn't copy and paste. Even inspecting elements I couldn't find the text. I didn't try disassembling the JavaScript.
All I wanted to do was copy a list from a self help book I purchased into something could actually use the list on.:-(
So you're saying every time someone shares some else's post on FB (clicks the share button) they're breaking copyright? And every time someone forwards an email from one friend to other friends that might be interested they're breaking copyright?
IANAL but my understanding is copyright does not prevent disclosing info. The best you could do under copyright is sue for monetary damages for lost sales and since it would be nearly impossible to prove any monetary damages for lost sales copyright is not going to help.
It would also arguably be bad if you couldn't post emails. How many times have we seen someone post the email correspondence between some bad company and some individual trying to deal with them?
You could have a confidentiality agreement in place but most people don't have those with each other for email.
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It's all a matter if spin. It should be "bug found and patched because of open source" if it was closed few if any would have been able to look and find and patch the bug
Apple funds the majority of WebKit which is open source. So they are funding open source to the tune of millions of dollars a year. I'm guessing they have between 50 and 200 programmers on WebKit. I'm guessing they have a few other open source projects as well.
Hasn't there been 360 movies before? There's "America the Beautiful" that used to be at Disneyland and I guess was at a world's fair before that. There were also plenty of 360 videos from things like go-pro and attachments for iPhone/Android etc...
It seems to me (but maybe I'm missing it) like it's not going to be cool until it's actually a 3D movie and by 3D movie I mean rendered in real time so that you can not just look but also translate, at least a little, through the environment. That seemed to be what Abrash was mentioning in his talk. Movies are old, "Presence" is new. "Presence" requires real time rendering.
If Microsoft wanted to be awesome they'd make all their dev tools work for Android. Visual Studio for Android (meaning runs on Windows, targets Android) would be orders of magnitude better than the crap tools that Android developers currently have to put up with.
Here in Singapore my friend's back sends a SMS/text/msg to her phone/tablet anytime she makes a purchase online. She has to type that number into the web page form (or whatever) for the transaction to be approved. I think I wish I had this option. Though as I'm traveling right now I can imagine a few times when I might need the number and not have a signal.
Similarly, why not switch to an (optional?) system like for non-online purchases. Msg me the number. That way there's no PIN for anyone to steal. That number is only good for that transaction.
So you're going to tell blind people who have cameras for eyes they have to turn them off?
Maybe it's time to face the future instead of being stuck in the past. People are going to have digital eyes instead of biological eyes. First those with bad site, then soldiers, then the public. They're also going to have digital memory instead of biological memory. You have no more right to tell me how to use my digital eyes and digital memory then you do for my biological eyes and biological memory. That fact that there is a distinction today is irrelevant and will have to change in the near future.
But you can count on it. You add one script tag and you're done. Saying that because it requires JavaScript will prevent it probably false since the lots of the web requires JavaScript. Tons of developers are using tags that requires JavaScript. Check out AngularJS for just one example
I'm sure this will get modded down but why does MathML need to built into the browser? It's only used on some very small percentage of pages so why bloat the browsers with something almost no pages need. Especially since the JavaScript implementation works just fine. Even better the JavaScript implementation can be updated and modified at any pace the MathML proponents want where as that's not true with built in implementations. The markup is the same regardless so what's the need for it to be built in ?
Both Chrome and Firefox use DirectX on windows to support various features like access to direct2d and hardware video decoding. So they both end up emulating OpenGL for WebGL by using ANGLE so they can have access to both an OpenGL API and those other things at the same time. It also doesn't help that the state of OpenGL drivers on window is pretty poor for most user. Sure gamers have high end gpus and up to date drivers but most users don't.
Well, in order to for angle to emulate OpenGL ES 3.0 it requires DirectX 11 (or maybe only 10). Regardless that means for all practical purposes XP won't be supported.
It's only Google planning for another epic Holiday Party
London's is older than NYCs (built in the mid 19th century) and looks clean and new and is of a comparable size and ridership so it's certainly possible for a large subway system to get overhauled. They're doing a major renewal effort right now and have a great system to keep people informed which lines have issues and how to work around them. They have websites to check and very clear P.A. systems announcing the issues in all stations. Usually they appear to only close portions of lines on weekends with details on how to bus around the closures.
Tokyo's system is also clean and MUCH BIGGER than NYCs. The reason it doesn't appear that way is because of who get's to define it. Tokyo has 10 independent transit companies running 55 lines through Tokyo. Some are labeled as trains vs subway even though they're the same trains running on the same tracks. For example the Toyoko-line train line becomes both the Hibiya-line (subway) or the Fukutoshi-line (subway) depending on which train is coming down the track. Same cars, no one gets off the train where it becomes one vs the other. The system called "Tokyo Subway" is just one of those 10 companies (possibly 2).
My only point the fact that other similar sized systems can update and keep their trains clean means NYC has no excuse.
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No you don't have a "right" to privacy actually. The law might say you do but it's certainly not a natural right. Nothing in nature protects your privacy. Whereas other than force, nothing in nature prevents me from seeing, remembering and sharing.
The self-entitled is the person that thinks their unnatural right to privacy outweighs others natural rights to sight, sound, memory, and sharing.
I don't think my policy will backfire. Rather I think it's inevitable. Try to fight against it and you'll fail.
I'm not wearing Google Glass. I'm having my blind eyes replaced with digital eyes and my disabled brain augmented with digital memory.
I'm not "Recording" you. I'm "remembering" you. I just happen to either (a) have digital augmentation or (b) have equipment to read my memories (c) or both.
I will politely tell you go shove it. You have no right to tell me what I can remember or how I can remember it whether I see it with organic eyes or digital eyes, hear it with organic ears or digital ears and store it in organic memory or digital memory. You also have no right to tell me who can I share my memories with or how I share them whether with analog audio or digital audio, whether with analog transmission or digital transmission.
The rest of us will augment. First it will start with people that can't see or can't hear or can't remember things well, then it will continue to most of the rest of us. It's only a matter of time. Just like we augmented our skin with clothing, our feet with shoes, our brains with slide rules, then calculators, then computers, we'll do the same with sight, sound, and memory.
If you're not ready for that too bad for you.
I do not think this phrase "any account" means what you think it means. I suspect I can not transfer money into or out of my Japanese accounts. Something I would love to be able to do.
I'd really like to see someone start OSSEA, the Open Source Space Exploration Association. Get Neil Degrasse Tyson as the spokesperson and a few other space and science luminaries and use kickstarter or similar to find each project. Accept volunteers. Put all data collected online.
No idea if it would work but I use would be neat to see them try. I'd donate money and possibly donate time as well being open source
I would like all my reviews to show up publically when people search for stuff. That's why I wrote the reviews. I've put reviews on Amazon, TripAdvisor, Yelp, Booking.com, etc... When a product or service has been outstanding I want others to know it worked for me. When a product or service sucks I want to help steer people away from them.
Google's implementation seems great. I can choose to review something, I can choose to make it public or private or share it with specific people like "family" so that 6 months later when my mom is looking for a digital camera and types "digital camera" into google she seems my reviews. That sounds awesome to me.
Of course if Google only shows positive reviews that would be bad but AFAICT that's not what they're doing. I've certainly googled for stuff and seen 1 and 2 star ratings.
When I was growing up (70s) in Southern California you could register your bike with the police. They'd stamp a number into it. I had my bike stolen 3 times, got it back from the police twice. Since it was registered they called us when they found it.
Same in Japan far more recently. Bought a bike, registered it with the police, go stolen, got it back from the police since it was registered they knew how to contact me.
In other words, this seems like a solvable problem for the most part. If Finland wants it to work they need just need to require people to register their bikes, with contact info, at the time of sale just like people have to register cars when they're sold.
That might not help if the thieves file off the numbers but my experience is they don't do that enough so registering still makes sense.
It should be even easier now since back then it was paperwork but nowadays it could easily be done online with smartphones requiring far less manpower to deal with registration.
Mostly because I used to work on Chrome but I like gyp. It will generate projects for XCode and Visual Studio so developers on those platforms can use the tools they're comfortable with. It will also generate projects for Ninja which is much faster than Make.
What utter bullshit. You want to know if the internet is free at a hotel? Any of the major hotel booking sites will tell you. I've been traveling in Europe for about 2.5 months now. Stayed at 8 hotels so far, 3 more to to go, made sure every one of them had free internet. It's not hard, you can even select it as a filter when searching for hotels. They'll even tell you if it's available in the rooms or only in the lobby.
Ever try to copy and paste text from the web based Kindle reader? No new DRM extensions needed. I couldn't copy and paste. Even inspecting elements I couldn't find the text. I didn't try disassembling the JavaScript.
All I wanted to do was copy a list from a self help book I purchased into something could actually use the list on. :-(
So you're saying every time someone shares some else's post on FB (clicks the share button) they're breaking copyright? And every time someone forwards an email from one friend to other friends that might be interested they're breaking copyright?
IANAL but my understanding is copyright does not prevent disclosing info. The best you could do under copyright is sue for monetary damages for lost sales and since it would be nearly impossible to prove any monetary damages for lost sales copyright is not going to help.
It would also arguably be bad if you couldn't post emails. How many times have we seen someone post the email correspondence between some bad company and some individual trying to deal with them?
You could have a confidentiality agreement in place but most people don't have those with each other for email.
Just what we need. Incentivise the government to sell our data.
"We're short on tax revenue. I know, let's sell some data to the NSA"