Well, it has more to do with the fact that despite the MANY MANY attempts by Americans to say differently over the years, no part of the American Constitution (nor any law subject thereto) applies to ANYONE who is neither a Citizen, nor a Resident, nor an inhabitant of the United States or it's protectorates (i.e. Costa Rica etc).
At which point the distinction in one of it's clauses (i.e. "person" vs "citizen") is a moot one anyway...
If such an individual conducts business within the US, he or she may do so contrarily to the law, but even still, subject to an order of extradition which must be approved by the individual's home country, the law does not apply to the individual.
-AC
Very convenient. Is this why Guantanamo Bay is no problem in the US?
I've seen this coming for a long time. I've even asked for this myself. As smartphones get bigger and bigger, holding them to your ear is more and more awkward. Can you imagine putting your 10" iPhone to your ear? I cannot. Or having to carry your big pad close at hand so when it rings, you can answer the call. That's a bit hard to do when it is in your bagpack where it belongs. But consumers what the bigger smartphones for their ease of use and need a mobile plan with it to use the internet. So: buy two mobile plans? Get two simcard with your one mobile plan? Or get a small BT-enabled phone that you can carry in your pocket while the "mother-device" stays tucked away.
It's a natural development. We've all seen how the laptop has grown to something unwieldy, manufacturers have recognized that and made the small laptops like the EEEpc and iPad. This is the next step.
Microsoft is 'frustrated with major OEMs who didn't build nearly enough touch systems.'
Yeah, manufacture what the seller needs, not what the buyer needs. That's a good strategy.
I worked for the Woolworths retail chain in the UK for a while. They had the most peculiar strategy. Usually you let people come to your store and and stock your stores with those products your consumers want to buy. Woolworths HQ pushed products to the stores and told them to sell them.
No wonder they went bust.
I must say, I only had the shortest time to play with Windows 8 in a shop, but from that 2 minutes, I couldn't make head nor tails from it. No idea how it worked an even less idea how I could get back to the initial screen it was showing.
In a democracy *the people* are the arbiters of what is 'nonsense' and what is not. Not some jumped up bureaucrat or an AC fascist apologist. While I might not agree with the Death Star petition, nor the Sharia for USA petition, it doesn't mean that people shouldn't have the chance to put anything to their fellow citizens and have the White House consider them without raising the threshold to un-democratically restrictive levels.
And the people still have the change to put anything forward. But just like the shouting masses, you can not answer everybody.
I fail to see why 100.000 signatures out of a population of virtualy infinite (because I do not see a requirement to be a US citizen to create an account on thewhitehouse.gov, or even a ban on multiple accounts per person) would be any threshold.
I don't know about others, but my reflex, still from the olden CRT days, when lusers start pointing at my screen is to yell out "get your fingers off my screen". If they actually touch my screen, they lose a finger. With touchscreen phones I have the inane habit to keep cleaning the screen because of all the fingerprints that get left on it.
Ok, I know, there is no coating that you can ruin with your greasy prints, but old reflexes die hard.
And now try the same using the datetime datatype.
Incidently, the timestamp is (in the mysql manual) described with a range of '1970-01-01 00:00:01' UTC to '2038-01-19 03:14:07' UTC. So it's not a bug, it's a feature.
Except that a Ford Aspire is basically a Kia. Not really an american car, certainly not to my european eyes (can anyone name me a truly american car with a 91 ci engine?).
Did you know Chevrolet now makes 3-cylinder engined cars? That's just plain wrong.
Normally, most particles have average or near-average energies, with only a few particles zipping around at higher energies. In theory, if the situation is reversed, with more particles having higher, rather than lower, energies, the plot would flip over and the sign of the temperature would change from a positive to a negative absolute temperature
I'm sorry, but to me that is just absolute bollocks. So if you have more particles with a higher energy, you have a lower temperature?
If I flip my thermometer upside-down, I'm also measuring a decrease in temperature when I heat it up. That makes sense too.
he treats all new hardware as something new to learn from and does not approach it with any preconception
The Woz is a very rational guy, and is just enjoying the coolness that his world provides. If you WTFV then you can perceive that he is hyper-aware of the misuse of data by less ethical entities and is somewhat dismayed by this as well. He appreciates the bleeding edge, so an interview is always valuable for that POV. Great to see he's still surfing that wave.
I guess he's one of the two guys who ownes a Microsoft Phone.
Him and Steve Ballmer.
Why are all these guys called Steve? Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Steve Ballmer.
When machines start translating languages on the fly, people will stop learning other languages and that's a bad thing.
Right now, English is the de-facto lingua franca of the world, because peoples need to talk to each other for business purposes. I reckon that need alone goes a long way to (mostly) maintain world peace, because when someone learns a foreign language, they're also exposed to a foreign culture. Machine translators don't expose those who use them to other cultures.
Why not? If I go to China, I can't communicate. So my exposure to the culture is minimal, it's limited to what I see. When I understand what people are saying, I get a lot more cultural information. And then I'm not even talking about apprehension to go to a country I don't know the language for.
But it does make me wonder. Babelfish, Star Trek universal translator: how do these things cope with languages that don't have the same syntax? "Alea iacta est". That's a bit hard to translate on the fly. You'll need the whole sencente before you can translate it.
Over 10 years ago I had a Dell Latitude 800 with a 15" 1600x1200 screen. I thought that would be the standard for the years to come and that great things were to come.
That's 133 dpi, convert that to a modern 24" widescreen monitor and you'll get 2560x1600. But you'll only find those in 27" and bigger.
Exactly. The way to make more money is to get it from more people. That they lose money is not your concern, that's just plain old capitalism. Bitcoins just took the next step on the long and winding road of capitalism. And will end up exactly where all others end: in stock crashes.
Greece has a long history of prosecuting planespotters for espionage. In 2002 there was a fairly high profile case of 12 British and 2 Dutch nationals, who were evenrually acquitted because they were just that: planespotters (and not spies).
In any case, even in this day and age (or should I say: especially in this day and age) it is not a good idea to go to military bases and start photographing equipment. The authorities might take exception to that.
Especially don't do it outside your own country where you don't know local laws and customs. These two guys are just plain stupid and should have known better.
The problem is: a million people bragging about the same thing is not bragging anymore. You lose all bragging rights there and then. That's normality.
On the other hand: 10 people bragging about something, then you've got something.
BTW: you're not bragging about having an economic car (I have one). If you do, you're just autofellating.
I only saw Concorde taking off once. I was in the 2nd or 3rd next plane waiting in line on Heathrow to take off. All of a sudden there was a thunderous roar and I thought "that can't be right! We're not even facing the right way yet!" because I thought it was our enginges revving up for take-off.
Then the captain came on the radio (it was a BA flight so he was rightly proud): "Ladies and gentlemen, on your left... Concorde".
And there it thundered past, 4 afterburners flaming, making the most noise I've ever heard from a plane.
So sad I never had the money to get a ticket on it.
I applaud this plan! I don't have a Girlfriend(tm) but would love to have one. Please assign me one and I will even sign documents to say I will never hack again. Do I get to choose my Girlfriend(tm) or is one just assigned to me? Please supply me with a readhead, and not some cheap Polish importbride. I assume the contract will be invalidated if and when the Girlfriend(tm) decides to leave me and is not superseded by Girlfriend(tm) v2.0.
If you think what he did is allowed, then you also have to think Apple was allowed to do tracking with the iPhones. That Google was allowd to recording Wifi information while taking streetview pictures. That the government is allowed to track your every move.
But reading between the lines I come to the conclusion that he doesn't think that's right. So who in the hell could he come to the conclusion that installing software on an other person's (company's) computer is right. Using them to spy on people (i.e.: take pictures covertly) is right. Publishing then is right.
You know what the difference between Microsoft and the rest of the tech world is? Microsoft tries too hard and doesn't succeed. It's probably not because they don't have the expertise, but it's because they are the archetypal spotted geeks that don't get the girls.
Simple example: I was watching the show Ridiculousness on MTV. The hoster said "let's Bing this".
Of course Microsoft are paying MTV to use the word "Bing". And then it is used in such a lame way that it will never catch on.
I don't see myself working on a tablet when I do such tasks as programming, audio or videoediting or just doing my own household tasks. This is yet another example of the industry telling the consumer what he should do, thereby having the excuse of doing what they say the consumer wants.
It's the same for 1290x1080 computerscreens (no sane person would choose that above 1920x1200) and will probably also be true for that hideous 21:9 TV format.
I'm one step further than you. I hate the idea of "app stores". Ever since Apple invented it I have a kneejerk reaction to them, and that's not because it was "Apple". App stores are the mother of repressiveness. The idea of the vendor of a piece of hardware controlling what I can and cannot install on my device is so utterly wrong that for the life of me I can not comprehend that these things have grown so big.
Wait, I do. It is because Apple "invented" it and everything Apple invents is good and proper and will be copied ad naseum. There you have it, it is Apple that gives me the kneejerk reaction. I apologise to all the fanboys.
But this is still a long way from the laws of robotics. This is just the corporate world trying to exert their leverage on you. Ok, if you let them, than you may need the laws of robotics.
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Well, it has more to do with the fact that despite the MANY MANY attempts by Americans to say differently over the years, no part of the American Constitution (nor any law subject thereto) applies to ANYONE who is neither a Citizen, nor a Resident, nor an inhabitant of the United States or it's protectorates (i.e. Costa Rica etc).
At which point the distinction in one of it's clauses (i.e. "person" vs "citizen") is a moot one anyway...
If such an individual conducts business within the US, he or she may do so contrarily to the law, but even still, subject to an order of extradition which must be approved by the individual's home country, the law does not apply to the individual.
-AC
Very convenient. Is this why Guantanamo Bay is no problem in the US?
I've seen this coming for a long time. I've even asked for this myself. As smartphones get bigger and bigger, holding them to your ear is more and more awkward. Can you imagine putting your 10" iPhone to your ear? I cannot. Or having to carry your big pad close at hand so when it rings, you can answer the call. That's a bit hard to do when it is in your bagpack where it belongs. But consumers what the bigger smartphones for their ease of use and need a mobile plan with it to use the internet. So: buy two mobile plans? Get two simcard with your one mobile plan? Or get a small BT-enabled phone that you can carry in your pocket while the "mother-device" stays tucked away.
It's a natural development. We've all seen how the laptop has grown to something unwieldy, manufacturers have recognized that and made the small laptops like the EEEpc and iPad. This is the next step.
Yeah, manufacture what the seller needs, not what the buyer needs. That's a good strategy.
I worked for the Woolworths retail chain in the UK for a while. They had the most peculiar strategy. Usually you let people come to your store and and stock your stores with those products your consumers want to buy. Woolworths HQ pushed products to the stores and told them to sell them.
No wonder they went bust.
I must say, I only had the shortest time to play with Windows 8 in a shop, but from that 2 minutes, I couldn't make head nor tails from it. No idea how it worked an even less idea how I could get back to the initial screen it was showing.
In a democracy *the people* are the arbiters of what is 'nonsense' and what is not. Not some jumped up bureaucrat or an AC fascist apologist. While I might not agree with the Death Star petition, nor the Sharia for USA petition, it doesn't mean that people shouldn't have the chance to put anything to their fellow citizens and have the White House consider them without raising the threshold to un-democratically restrictive levels.
And the people still have the change to put anything forward. But just like the shouting masses, you can not answer everybody.
I fail to see why 100.000 signatures out of a population of virtualy infinite (because I do not see a requirement to be a US citizen to create an account on thewhitehouse.gov, or even a ban on multiple accounts per person) would be any threshold.
Or well, act like it's 1984 all over again.
I don't know about others, but my reflex, still from the olden CRT days, when lusers start pointing at my screen is to yell out "get your fingers off my screen". If they actually touch my screen, they lose a finger. With touchscreen phones I have the inane habit to keep cleaning the screen because of all the fingerprints that get left on it.
Ok, I know, there is no coating that you can ruin with your greasy prints, but old reflexes die hard.
And now try the same using the datetime datatype.
Incidently, the timestamp is (in the mysql manual) described with a range of '1970-01-01 00:00:01' UTC to '2038-01-19 03:14:07' UTC. So it's not a bug, it's a feature.
Except that a Ford Aspire is basically a Kia. Not really an american car, certainly not to my european eyes (can anyone name me a truly american car with a 91 ci engine?).
Did you know Chevrolet now makes 3-cylinder engined cars? That's just plain wrong.
I'm sorry, but to me that is just absolute bollocks. So if you have more particles with a higher energy, you have a lower temperature? If I flip my thermometer upside-down, I'm also measuring a decrease in temperature when I heat it up. That makes sense too.
And if you kill animals for no fucking reason, you can bet someone will do more than just try to catch your sorry ass on camera.
I'm afraid I don't fuck animals. Do I now or do I now not have a fucking reason?
he treats all new hardware as something new to learn from and does not approach it with any preconception
The Woz is a very rational guy, and is just enjoying the coolness that his world provides. If you WTFV then you can perceive that he is hyper-aware of the misuse of data by less ethical entities and is somewhat dismayed by this as well. He appreciates the bleeding edge, so an interview is always valuable for that POV. Great to see he's still surfing that wave.
I guess he's one of the two guys who ownes a Microsoft Phone.
Him and Steve Ballmer.
Why are all these guys called Steve? Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Steve Ballmer.
When machines start translating languages on the fly, people will stop learning other languages and that's a bad thing.
Right now, English is the de-facto lingua franca of the world, because peoples need to talk to each other for business purposes. I reckon that need alone goes a long way to (mostly) maintain world peace, because when someone learns a foreign language, they're also exposed to a foreign culture. Machine translators don't expose those who use them to other cultures.
Why not? If I go to China, I can't communicate. So my exposure to the culture is minimal, it's limited to what I see. When I understand what people are saying, I get a lot more cultural information. And then I'm not even talking about apprehension to go to a country I don't know the language for.
But it does make me wonder. Babelfish, Star Trek universal translator: how do these things cope with languages that don't have the same syntax? "Alea iacta est". That's a bit hard to translate on the fly. You'll need the whole sencente before you can translate it.
Over 10 years ago I had a Dell Latitude 800 with a 15" 1600x1200 screen. I thought that would be the standard for the years to come and that great things were to come.
That's 133 dpi, convert that to a modern 24" widescreen monitor and you'll get 2560x1600. But you'll only find those in 27" and bigger.
Exactly. The way to make more money is to get it from more people. That they lose money is not your concern, that's just plain old capitalism. Bitcoins just took the next step on the long and winding road of capitalism. And will end up exactly where all others end: in stock crashes.
Bill has more than enough money himself. Donate to the needy, not the greedy.
Greece has a long history of prosecuting planespotters for espionage. In 2002 there was a fairly high profile case of 12 British and 2 Dutch nationals, who were evenrually acquitted because they were just that: planespotters (and not spies).
In any case, even in this day and age (or should I say: especially in this day and age) it is not a good idea to go to military bases and start photographing equipment. The authorities might take exception to that.
Especially don't do it outside your own country where you don't know local laws and customs. These two guys are just plain stupid and should have known better.
Putin, Vladimir Putin
The problem is: a million people bragging about the same thing is not bragging anymore. You lose all bragging rights there and then. That's normality.
On the other hand: 10 people bragging about something, then you've got something.
BTW: you're not bragging about having an economic car (I have one). If you do, you're just autofellating.
I only saw Concorde taking off once. I was in the 2nd or 3rd next plane waiting in line on Heathrow to take off. All of a sudden there was a thunderous roar and I thought "that can't be right! We're not even facing the right way yet!" because I thought it was our enginges revving up for take-off.
Then the captain came on the radio (it was a BA flight so he was rightly proud): "Ladies and gentlemen, on your left... Concorde".
And there it thundered past, 4 afterburners flaming, making the most noise I've ever heard from a plane.
So sad I never had the money to get a ticket on it.
I applaud this plan! I don't have a Girlfriend(tm) but would love to have one. Please assign me one and I will even sign documents to say I will never hack again. Do I get to choose my Girlfriend(tm) or is one just assigned to me? Please supply me with a readhead, and not some cheap Polish importbride. I assume the contract will be invalidated if and when the Girlfriend(tm) decides to leave me and is not superseded by Girlfriend(tm) v2.0.
If you think what he did is allowed, then you also have to think Apple was allowed to do tracking with the iPhones. That Google was allowd to recording Wifi information while taking streetview pictures. That the government is allowed to track your every move.
But reading between the lines I come to the conclusion that he doesn't think that's right. So who in the hell could he come to the conclusion that installing software on an other person's (company's) computer is right. Using them to spy on people (i.e.: take pictures covertly) is right. Publishing then is right.
This guy must be a bit thick.
You know what the difference between Microsoft and the rest of the tech world is? Microsoft tries too hard and doesn't succeed. It's probably not because they don't have the expertise, but it's because they are the archetypal spotted geeks that don't get the girls.
Simple example: I was watching the show Ridiculousness on MTV. The hoster said "let's Bing this".
Of course Microsoft are paying MTV to use the word "Bing". And then it is used in such a lame way that it will never catch on.
Easily fixed. Put electronic devices in the road. Induction wires, maybe even RFID tags will suffice.
I don't see myself working on a tablet when I do such tasks as programming, audio or videoediting or just doing my own household tasks. This is yet another example of the industry telling the consumer what he should do, thereby having the excuse of doing what they say the consumer wants.
It's the same for 1290x1080 computerscreens (no sane person would choose that above 1920x1200) and will probably also be true for that hideous 21:9 TV format.
I'm one step further than you. I hate the idea of "app stores". Ever since Apple invented it I have a kneejerk reaction to them, and that's not because it was "Apple". App stores are the mother of repressiveness. The idea of the vendor of a piece of hardware controlling what I can and cannot install on my device is so utterly wrong that for the life of me I can not comprehend that these things have grown so big.
Wait, I do. It is because Apple "invented" it and everything Apple invents is good and proper and will be copied ad naseum. There you have it, it is Apple that gives me the kneejerk reaction. I apologise to all the fanboys.
But this is still a long way from the laws of robotics. This is just the corporate world trying to exert their leverage on you. Ok, if you let them, than you may need the laws of robotics.