That's Ubuntu for Android and a separate project. It actually, IMHO, has more usefulness than an entire Ubuntu OS for phones, which is what this thread is actually about. It's hard to search for information for one of these without getting information about the other.
Margaret Atwood's "Positron" series of E-books explores the idea of a community that is set up where people volunteer to be locked up half the time so that everyone can have jobs. It's not a very practical idea (the ultimate version of the Broken Window fallacy) but it's an interesting thought experiment... a self-supporting community that is held together because at any one time the other half of the population is in jail and needs to be supported.
Passing a regulation is not automatically a "Big Government heavy-handed move". There is no equivalency there. Certain propaganda that is constantly being drummed into our heads only makes some of us THINK it's there. Yes, Virginia, some things deserve to be regulated.
Yes you're missing something... the government is supposed to be representing the greater good, not pure corporate interest.
I know they've pretty much only been doing the latter since 1980 and its easy for people these days to not see what the purpose of government even IS... but come on. If people are being scammed they are supposed to care. That's the government interest.
Fiber is coming to my city in the next year or so and I am waiting on pins and needles to sign up. I'll be the first in line because cable cost has increased around 100% in the last few years. I only watch less than 5 channels but because of tiering I have to get 3 or so different packages.
That's how they make their money and this is why this bill will probably not even get to a committee hearing.
The Indianapolis 500 still blacks out it's coverage to the Indianapolis area market because their Board of Fossils, I mean Directors, are scared to death about getting people to buy tickets. This is even though they sell out the stands every year and they can barely fit people into the infield anymore.
It's fear and corporate idiots thinking they know something they don't.
On top of it, the NFL says their stats say blackouts don't make any difference in ticket sales. You're just limiting the market for your sponsors.
Fat, Pinhead Manager comments on IT Security recommendation: "Why should we worry about THAT? We've never had those problems in the past. Besides, I don't quite understand what it is, so it must be a waste of money. No VPN!"
The problem with the "LOW MARKET SHARE!!1!!" comments is that you're talking about a company having a 10% of a market worth billions of dollars. I will take 10% of a billion dollars any day of the week.
Apple *is* getting converts in key sectors and if Microsoft continues to blunder and do whatever the fuck they want they will get more. Microsoft won't go anywhere - there are too many Microsoft zombies in upper management - but to roll out the "low market share" argument is absurd here when Apple has more cash on hand than the federal government.
The problem with Microsoft is after they got to a certain size they started taking on characteristics of IBM. It does seem that the attitude is "they'll take what we give them." Their decisions about their products always seem to be based on what is good for THEM and what they want reality to be rather than what is good for users and what actual reality is.
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That's Ubuntu for Android and a separate project. It actually, IMHO, has more usefulness than an entire Ubuntu OS for phones, which is what this thread is actually about. It's hard to search for information for one of these without getting information about the other.
If it runs a version of zeitgeist, no fucking way.
Margaret Atwood's "Positron" series of E-books explores the idea of a community that is set up where people volunteer to be locked up half the time so that everyone can have jobs. It's not a very practical idea (the ultimate version of the Broken Window fallacy) but it's an interesting thought experiment... a self-supporting community that is held together because at any one time the other half of the population is in jail and needs to be supported.
We're so outside the constitutional reason for copyright it isn't even funny.
Let's see.. "limited time" no, for promotion of works, no.
They go against a corporate "right."
In the people with walnut-sized minds, anything anti-corporate is communist.
He's joking or trolling, but he is correct about ISS dropping XP on their laptops...
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/155392-international-space-station-switches-from-windows-to-linux-for-improved-reliability
Why would you be wasting your time on Slashdot talking to nerdy idiots? Hmm? I'm sure the NASCAR crowd things about YOU like that.
It's taste.
Passing a regulation is not automatically a "Big Government heavy-handed move". There is no equivalency there. Certain propaganda that is constantly being drummed into our heads only makes some of us THINK it's there. Yes, Virginia, some things deserve to be regulated.
Yes you're missing something... the government is supposed to be representing the greater good, not pure corporate interest.
I know they've pretty much only been doing the latter since 1980 and its easy for people these days to not see what the purpose of government even IS... but come on. If people are being scammed they are supposed to care. That's the government interest.
Fiber is coming to my city in the next year or so and I am waiting on pins and needles to sign up. I'll be the first in line because cable cost has increased around 100% in the last few years. I only watch less than 5 channels but because of tiering I have to get 3 or so different packages.
That's how they make their money and this is why this bill will probably not even get to a committee hearing.
The Indianapolis 500 still blacks out it's coverage to the Indianapolis area market because their Board of Fossils, I mean Directors, are scared to death about getting people to buy tickets. This is even though they sell out the stands every year and they can barely fit people into the infield anymore.
It's fear and corporate idiots thinking they know something they don't.
On top of it, the NFL says their stats say blackouts don't make any difference in ticket sales. You're just limiting the market for your sponsors.
oh, B.S.
Figure out a way to make some fatass executive rich off of it.. THEN it will pass.
That combo, as I understand it, was Card's early draft. It was rewritten a bunch of times since then.
And that sounds fairly reasonable to me.
Kate Pierson and Fred Schneider were fairly pissed about that, too.
Fat, Pinhead Manager comments on IT Security recommendation:
"Why should we worry about THAT? We've never had those problems in the past. Besides, I don't quite understand what it is, so it must be a waste of money. No VPN!"
Fat, Pinhead Manager post-break security incident:
"Why didn't IT protect our vital infrastructure?"
Selective memory and buck passing makes like in this century wonderful
The problem with the "LOW MARKET SHARE!!1!!" comments is that you're talking about a company having a 10% of a market worth billions of dollars. I will take 10% of a billion dollars any day of the week.
Apple *is* getting converts in key sectors and if Microsoft continues to blunder and do whatever the fuck they want they will get more. Microsoft won't go anywhere - there are too many Microsoft zombies in upper management - but to roll out the "low market share" argument is absurd here when Apple has more cash on hand than the federal government.
The problem with Microsoft is after they got to a certain size they started taking on characteristics of IBM. It does seem that the attitude is "they'll take what we give them." Their decisions about their products always seem to be based on what is good for THEM and what they want reality to be rather than what is good for users and what actual reality is.
the media want an easy answer. That is because journalism has slid so low.
Oh.. but in the U.S. it's AOK for the right to call for other sorts of institutional power constantly: I.E. corporate power.
well fuck, Frank Herbert, the famous Mr. Wizard, was the biggest terrorist in HISTORY!
I am pretty sure she charged the kid because she's an idiot.
However the whole institution can be argued to have bias against blacks. Especially a DA.
How does this equivalency work exactly?
Any time of firearm (even BB guns) are totally illegal on school property. Bringing it onto the property ITSELF breaks the law.
Is there a law against tinfoil and cleaner yet?
Gallagher said in one of his specials:
"I like the shape of Florida. It looks like we're pissing on Cuba."
Perhaps it was the only time Gallagher has ever been funny.
Don't count on it...