Nearly every Cell phone manufacture sells a power cable for their phone, so most people don't bother buying extra ones. Most of these phones become obsolete before the need a new cable. Usually those extra accessories will try to take advantage of a unique feature in the phone, so even if the cable fits it doesn't mean the software will work with it. Sure it would be nice if they all fit and worked together... However is this such a big deal worth governments making decisions on this... I don't think so.
The EU Law on this is just one of their Lets just find a way to stick it to the Americans law, because they had a fit that Apple took over Nokia lead.
Or... Trying to have some sort of standard so they are not trying to teach around many different platforms, and Open Source isn't the issue.
Most of these schools already have a Microsoft license, having some kids do stuff in OpenOffice, or LIbreoffice... Means teachers who are already under stress needs to know how to deal with many platforms.
As for Delphi... My best guess it they want for focus more on Database application vs Object Oriented.
Saying that they are banning Open Source because of this is like saying a group of people are not your friends just because they didn't invite you to a particular party.
Should they be teaching Open Source, absolutely, the more you are taught the better you are... However if you need to pick and choose, then Open Source may not always be the best option.
Here is the problem I see it. 1. Automation has reduced the need for unskilled labor. 2. Lower Education K-12 is designed to produce people who is able to perform unskilled labor effectively 3. Higher Education is designed to produce people who will go into research, and education for education purposes. 4. Due to having an economic advantage of not being bombed to hell in WWII the US had little economic competition for 50 years, now these countries have been rebuilt with a more modern infrastructure. But we had a few generation who had a higher quality of life that is now unsustainable, and we don't have an infrastructure to make lower quality of life better. (Public Transportation, Safe Low income housing...) So the $10.00 an hour worker would have a living wage. They may not have a Car or an X-Box but a safe roof over their head and able to raise a family in safety.
We need to fix lower education, and raise up the prestige of Vocational Training. So we are not unskilled labor, or college grads with no practical skills. The job of tomorrow need people who can be versatile and think on their feet, and adapt quickly to changes. We need to teach these skills.
We need to redesign residential areas where the Rich and the Poor live together and we have an infrastructure to allow people to work.
That and if others are doing bad things with your paid network connection, you may be responsible for it.
So if you have an Open Wi-Fi and your neighbors are pirating stuff or other things, who is the first person the cops will knock on the door of. You! even if you found innocent you have to deal with the process. Your better off securing your Wireless and have your neighbors buy their own.
Well that is what happened when you get too greedy.
Hi we want to upgrade your infrastructure. We want you to pay us for the inconvenience of a guy at the side of the road with some orange cable. OK we won't.
Media makers say: We need to you make sure you have DRM or we wont sell to you. Device Makers can say No, and not get the media makers provide, (giving opportunity to your competitors) Device Makers can say Yes, and add those DRM restrictions, thus being able to give the media makers media. You sell more products and most of your customers are happy they can get access to the media.
Microsoft, and AMD are willing to give DRM so they they offer the competitive advantage of selling product that will work with more Media.
Sony is a Media maker along with others and still haven't really got a good why to protect their IP without screwing over others, who wants to use their media legally.
I wouldn't blame the technology makers, they are corporations they will do whatever makes them money. If the Media makers stop all their DRM requirements that is one less feature for them to maintain. But the media makers are to blame for pushing this on them.
Sure some companies can say no. However if they do, they will get a few customers who really care, but most want the media and not worry about what they are giving up.
Watson is a Super Computer, Google has a cluster of small computers.
It is the difference between a lot of small computers doing something simple. Vs. one large computer doing a lot of work.
Google you have hundred of thousands of hits per second. Getting good enough back. Vs. a Super computer you can probably get a dozen hits per second all getting really good back.
In many ways we get all up an arms about Governments and Corporations "spying" or "profiling your information" however the internet wasn't ever really meant for private information. It design doesn't make private information easy. Sure we have came up with encryption and other crazy hacks to try to make us more secure, we are still communicating on a public network, to systems that we shouldn't fully trust.
Encryption and other privacy methods are akin to putting a lock on the door (Good enough to stop most casual attempts to poke around), often not enough to be rally secure, against any group that really wants to get it.
Remember this fact if you are going to choose a SaaS or Cloud solution. Not that using such systems are Bad or Evil like RMS likes to claim, however if you are going to trust your information to an outside source, you better be sure that you could handle a breach.
Well why the heck did Bill Gates have this the combination to make you login into Windows NT.
Back in Dos and Windows 3.1 Alt-Ctrl-Delete Rebooted the PC, when it locked up. Then they started catching it and giving you more and more options, and you need it to login??
How does one license a particular software make it more or less different then an other piece of software?
Windows and OS X and Linux are all very different. The uniqueness of Linux's interface isn't due to its open source, but due to the fact it's design was based on Unix and X-Windows, which usually requires a Windows Manager to run on top of the X-Server.
Ok the desktop isn't going to die, but it is becoming more of a workstation than a personal computer. That said, Windows, OS X, and Desktop based Linux distro's are going to take a hit. All the big players are trying to make their OS more tablet like. However the desktop is becoming more niche in its use, so they really should focus their UI on what people need for desktops now aday.
Programming, Number crunching, CAD... Less sexy, but a move away from happy friendly OS for grandma to a serious work OS with work productivity in mind is important. I am not saying we should go back to all the old ways. There is a lot of new design work that needs to be done. But it is needs to be more business centric and less home centered.
Good enough happened. While Myst had superior graphics... It is pre-rendering made the world feel less immersive. Compared to Doom and Quake, while the graphics were primitive, you were more immersed in the game.
However there isn't any evidence that other Race/Ethnicity/Religion of Adults have any sort of developmental limitations. They are rules and regulations across genders though.
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Back in them good old days before Hard Drives were common, people used software via Floppy Disk.
Common on the Apple PC was to put your program disk in, turn on your computer and the program will Run. Common for the IBM PC was you put in your DOS Disk in. You booted DOS, take that disk out and put in your program disk and typed in the exe program to run. Once the program was done it would bring you to the DOS prompt (however if the program used too much memory, you may need to put your DOS disk back in to get to the prompt) Common for the Commodore it would bring you to a Basic prompt you would put your floppy disk in and do a LOAD "*",8,1 then a RUN
Zork was odd that it didn't need an OS. so for the PC you just put the disk in and it booted and ran the program. For the most part your drive sounded like you had bad sectors.
However it doesn't fall exactly on ones birthday, most normal children follow a rather regular cycle of development. Most children will happily believe in Santa Clause or the Easter Bunny (Unless you have joyless parents) Until they are between 5 - 8. Santa is real to them, in their stage of development there isn't anything questioning that, people who try convince them otherwise would be considered just as a silly joke. Then they get older, and the fact that Santa doesn't exist but it is their parents get accepted. This tend to happen with kids all around the same age. Even later on most kids differences between reality and fantasy doesn't really solidify until they are around 10. Their view of fantasy is more based on acting, or lying. Now kids get confused when fantasy is mixing with real elements. Such as bringing up Saint Nicholas as a real person in history. So by the time they are 10,11,12 they are usually solid on that however media shapes how they see the world. The look at a game like GTA, they see a world with people at their worst. They will then try to adapt to survive in that world. Now this doesn't make them murders or will join a gang, but it will make them sensitive and thinking how they could function in that world. They know it isn't fully true, but its elements are true and they should figure out how to deal with it if it happens. Teens tend not to have good judgement, as their brains are still based on the here and now. Such influences could spark the idea this seems like fun right now.
Now some kids could handle a game like GTA when they are 10. Others not until they are 25. But by 18 most of them should be Ok. That is why we make these rules, not that 18 is a magic age where everything clicks into place. but the age most people have achieved a particular level or maturity.
Bah those integrated circuits were just a repackaging of normal Circuits. Satellite communication, just an other radio communication. GPS, ok we see a neat little effect with Satellite communication, lets use some basic match to give you location. Internet just an extra overhead from computer to computer communication. Flat Monitors, ohhh a beefed up digial watch! mice, You mean the upside down trackball? GUI, well we are already displaying text, we slow down to pc to put that text in a little box Cell Phones, we have normal phones but we use the radio communication too... Lame. Wi-Fi, Bluetooth more radio hackery. CDs, DVDs... You mean LaserDisks?
They came from incremental changes over time... None of these things when released were a huge Wow! Like dropping the Atomic Bomb.
Actually Linux is not Ready for the Desktop. It made it in other areas. The desktop problem is a problem of too much hardware, in a Windows world. When Microsoft started to push the OS which required drivers, hardware manufactures dropped the idea of following standards and did whatever they felt like, just as long as they made a Windows driver they are OK. Linux, on the other hand, needs to back track and get those drivers made, with or without the hardware vendors support. Now some vendors are wary of making Linux Drivers, either because of Rabid GNU Fanatics, who will cause all sorts of problem if it is open source. Or they just cannot make their driver open source due to licencing concerns in their own development.
Now with the other stuff where Linux has a strong hold, is where the Hardware Maker, also makes the full environment. A Linux based devices and control all the hardware and software. The irony is Linux works best on Closed systems.
What is new and revolutionary that came out of the tech industry in the past 50 years?
A bunch of incremental changes. Leading to the next step better. And every once and awhile a step back because they can do something useful and cheaper, and get a broad consumer market out of it.
Actually there isn't that much difference between the two. It comes down to if you have Android Apps, then you stay on Android, or if you have iOS apps then you stay on iOS.
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Nearly every Cell phone manufacture sells a power cable for their phone, so most people don't bother buying extra ones. Most of these phones become obsolete before the need a new cable. Usually those extra accessories will try to take advantage of a unique feature in the phone, so even if the cable fits it doesn't mean the software will work with it.
Sure it would be nice if they all fit and worked together... However is this such a big deal worth governments making decisions on this... I don't think so.
The EU Law on this is just one of their Lets just find a way to stick it to the Americans law, because they had a fit that Apple took over Nokia lead.
Or...
Trying to have some sort of standard so they are not trying to teach around many different platforms, and Open Source isn't the issue.
Most of these schools already have a Microsoft license, having some kids do stuff in OpenOffice, or LIbreoffice... Means teachers who are already under stress needs to know how to deal with many platforms.
As for Delphi... My best guess it they want for focus more on Database application vs Object Oriented.
Saying that they are banning Open Source because of this is like saying a group of people are not your friends just because they didn't invite you to a particular party.
Should they be teaching Open Source, absolutely, the more you are taught the better you are... However if you need to pick and choose, then Open Source may not always be the best option.
Here is the problem I see it.
1. Automation has reduced the need for unskilled labor.
2. Lower Education K-12 is designed to produce people who is able to perform unskilled labor effectively
3. Higher Education is designed to produce people who will go into research, and education for education purposes.
4. Due to having an economic advantage of not being bombed to hell in WWII the US had little economic competition for 50 years, now these countries have been rebuilt with a more modern infrastructure. But we had a few generation who had a higher quality of life that is now unsustainable, and we don't have an infrastructure to make lower quality of life better. (Public Transportation, Safe Low income housing...) So the $10.00 an hour worker would have a living wage. They may not have a Car or an X-Box but a safe roof over their head and able to raise a family in safety.
We need to fix lower education, and raise up the prestige of Vocational Training. So we are not unskilled labor, or college grads with no practical skills. The job of tomorrow need people who can be versatile and think on their feet, and adapt quickly to changes. We need to teach these skills.
We need to redesign residential areas where the Rich and the Poor live together and we have an infrastructure to allow people to work.
You sound like you are from New York City.
Simple, WEP and WPA...
That and if others are doing bad things with your paid network connection, you may be responsible for it.
So if you have an Open Wi-Fi and your neighbors are pirating stuff or other things, who is the first person the cops will knock on the door of. You! even if you found innocent you have to deal with the process. Your better off securing your Wireless and have your neighbors buy their own.
Well that is what happened when you get too greedy.
Hi we want to upgrade your infrastructure. We want you to pay us for the inconvenience of a guy at the side of the road with some orange cable. OK we won't.
But you ended up with a fiber network infrastructure.
Media makers say: We need to you make sure you have DRM or we wont sell to you.
Device Makers can say No, and not get the media makers provide, (giving opportunity to your competitors)
Device Makers can say Yes, and add those DRM restrictions, thus being able to give the media makers media. You sell more products and most of your customers are happy they can get access to the media.
Microsoft, and AMD are willing to give DRM so they they offer the competitive advantage of selling product that will work with more Media.
Sony is a Media maker along with others and still haven't really got a good why to protect their IP without screwing over others, who wants to use their media legally.
I wouldn't blame the technology makers, they are corporations they will do whatever makes them money. If the Media makers stop all their DRM requirements that is one less feature for them to maintain. But the media makers are to blame for pushing this on them.
Sure some companies can say no. However if they do, they will get a few customers who really care, but most want the media and not worry about what they are giving up.
But we want to see a particular attack against Linux from a company, not some silly licensing reasons that while my disagree with, make sense.
I would say it is also an issue of scale-ability.
Watson is a Super Computer, Google has a cluster of small computers.
It is the difference between a lot of small computers doing something simple. Vs. one large computer doing a lot of work.
Google you have hundred of thousands of hits per second. Getting good enough back. Vs. a Super computer you can probably get a dozen hits per second all getting really good back.
In many ways we get all up an arms about Governments and Corporations "spying" or "profiling your information" however the internet wasn't ever really meant for private information. It design doesn't make private information easy. Sure we have came up with encryption and other crazy hacks to try to make us more secure, we are still communicating on a public network, to systems that we shouldn't fully trust.
Encryption and other privacy methods are akin to putting a lock on the door (Good enough to stop most casual attempts to poke around), often not enough to be rally secure, against any group that really wants to get it.
Remember this fact if you are going to choose a SaaS or Cloud solution. Not that using such systems are Bad or Evil like RMS likes to claim, however if you are going to trust your information to an outside source, you better be sure that you could handle a breach.
Well why the heck did Bill Gates have this the combination to make you login into Windows NT.
Back in Dos and Windows 3.1 Alt-Ctrl-Delete Rebooted the PC, when it locked up.
Then they started catching it and giving you more and more options, and you need it to login??
How does one license a particular software make it more or less different then an other piece of software?
Windows and OS X and Linux are all very different. The uniqueness of Linux's interface isn't due to its open source, but due to the fact it's design was based on Unix and X-Windows, which usually requires a Windows Manager to run on top of the X-Server.
Ok the desktop isn't going to die, but it is becoming more of a workstation than a personal computer.
That said, Windows, OS X, and Desktop based Linux distro's are going to take a hit.
All the big players are trying to make their OS more tablet like. However the desktop is becoming more niche in its use, so they really should focus their UI on what people need for desktops now aday.
Programming, Number crunching, CAD... Less sexy, but a move away from happy friendly OS for grandma to a serious work OS with work productivity in mind is important. I am not saying we should go back to all the old ways. There is a lot of new design work that needs to be done. But it is needs to be more business centric and less home centered.
Good enough happened.
While Myst had superior graphics... It is pre-rendering made the world feel less immersive. Compared to Doom and Quake, while the graphics were primitive, you were more immersed in the game.
However there isn't any evidence that other Race/Ethnicity/Religion of Adults have any sort of developmental limitations.
They are rules and regulations across genders though.
Back in them good old days before Hard Drives were common, people used software via Floppy Disk.
Common on the Apple PC was to put your program disk in, turn on your computer and the program will Run.
Common for the IBM PC was you put in your DOS Disk in. You booted DOS, take that disk out and put in your program disk and typed in the exe program to run. Once the program was done it would bring you to the DOS prompt (however if the program used too much memory, you may need to put your DOS disk back in to get to the prompt)
Common for the Commodore it would bring you to a Basic prompt you would put your floppy disk in and do a LOAD "*",8,1 then a RUN
Zork was odd that it didn't need an OS. so for the PC you just put the disk in and it booted and ran the program. For the most part your drive sounded like you had bad sectors.
However it doesn't fall exactly on ones birthday, most normal children follow a rather regular cycle of development.
Most children will happily believe in Santa Clause or the Easter Bunny (Unless you have joyless parents) Until they are between 5 - 8. Santa is real to them, in their stage of development there isn't anything questioning that, people who try convince them otherwise would be considered just as a silly joke. Then they get older, and the fact that Santa doesn't exist but it is their parents get accepted. This tend to happen with kids all around the same age.
Even later on most kids differences between reality and fantasy doesn't really solidify until they are around 10. Their view of fantasy is more based on acting, or lying. Now kids get confused when fantasy is mixing with real elements. Such as bringing up Saint Nicholas as a real person in history.
So by the time they are 10,11,12 they are usually solid on that however media shapes how they see the world. The look at a game like GTA, they see a world with people at their worst. They will then try to adapt to survive in that world. Now this doesn't make them murders or will join a gang, but it will make them sensitive and thinking how they could function in that world. They know it isn't fully true, but its elements are true and they should figure out how to deal with it if it happens.
Teens tend not to have good judgement, as their brains are still based on the here and now. Such influences could spark the idea this seems like fun right now.
Now some kids could handle a game like GTA when they are 10. Others not until they are 25. But by 18 most of them should be Ok. That is why we make these rules, not that 18 is a magic age where everything clicks into place. but the age most people have achieved a particular level or maturity.
If it is so easy why don't we do it now...
Bah those integrated circuits were just a repackaging of normal Circuits.
Satellite communication, just an other radio communication.
GPS, ok we see a neat little effect with Satellite communication, lets use some basic match to give you location.
Internet just an extra overhead from computer to computer communication.
Flat Monitors, ohhh a beefed up digial watch!
mice, You mean the upside down trackball?
GUI, well we are already displaying text, we slow down to pc to put that text in a little box
Cell Phones, we have normal phones but we use the radio communication too... Lame.
Wi-Fi, Bluetooth more radio hackery.
CDs, DVDs... You mean LaserDisks?
They came from incremental changes over time... None of these things when released were a huge Wow! Like dropping the Atomic Bomb.
Checking last years balance sheet 4.7 billion is about how much RIM has in owned property.
The burning man doesn't sound like a good time to me.
All the problems with living in a city combined with all the problems of camping.
I much rather go camping away from all the people. Or visit a City where there is an infrastructure to make sure I can survive well.
Actually Linux is not Ready for the Desktop. It made it in other areas.
The desktop problem is a problem of too much hardware, in a Windows world. When Microsoft started to push the OS which required drivers, hardware manufactures dropped the idea of following standards and did whatever they felt like, just as long as they made a Windows driver they are OK. Linux, on the other hand, needs to back track and get those drivers made, with or without the hardware vendors support.
Now some vendors are wary of making Linux Drivers, either because of Rabid GNU Fanatics, who will cause all sorts of problem if it is open source. Or they just cannot make their driver open source due to licencing concerns in their own development.
Now with the other stuff where Linux has a strong hold, is where the Hardware Maker, also makes the full environment. A Linux based devices and control all the hardware and software.
The irony is Linux works best on Closed systems.
What is new and revolutionary that came out of the tech industry in the past 50 years?
A bunch of incremental changes. Leading to the next step better. And every once and awhile a step back because they can do something useful and cheaper, and get a broad consumer market out of it.
9999/10000 is a fraction.
Actually there isn't that much difference between the two. It comes down to if you have Android Apps, then you stay on Android, or if you have iOS apps then you stay on iOS.