Australia also has a constitution. We just don't treat it like Moses brought it down off the mountain.
Please explain. The Constitution in Australia establishes the structure and powers of government and the law. How is that less sacrosanct than the US Constitution? And it gets interpreted in new ways just as the US Constitution does. But there is no Bill of Rights and only a few rights are expressed or implied which makes it an inferior document in my view to its US counterpart. I don't know but I imagine Australia's citizens back then must have thought Common Law protections were good enough - but those can and have changed as we have seen.
IRL is not a valid comparison. Damage via say gossip is often transient and local within a small community. It is also not always attached to a trackable unique identity - you might be just passing through. By contrast, Facebook can if they wish expose your data to whoever, forever, and it links back to what is probably your real name and photo.
This would be a reasonable suggestion if adopting a child was even one-millionth as easy as impregnating any random female and waiting 9 months. It can take years to adopt a child especially from another country where that child may face a catastrophic future. For single men in Western countries adopting a child is almost but not quite impossible afaik. With so many orphans and dying unloved kids in the world it is truly bizarre that governments keep the bar raised so high for adoption. It says that governments would rather see children die or grow up parentless than take even the slightest chance that kids might be adopted into an affluent but even slightly abusive environment. If I was the Somalian child facing death by starvation, I know which chance I would take. It's telling of our complete inability to be rational in this area.
So: putting the lawnmower away and impregnating a random female is by far the easiest way to completely fill up your life with smelly nappies.
I had a similar experience walking in the heat *and* drinking beer as I went for several miles. Beer-enabled exercise rules. Beer is truly a wonder drug! Of course, later that day I felt rather woozy.
There was a comment on/. some weeks ago that got me thinking. The commenter said that UI was a 'solved problem' but that designers will always insist that it is not. So designers keep fixing what is not broken. Similarly, it often occurs to me that programmers keep building and re-building because that is what coders do. Coders code, designers design. That is what they do. This is the problem with Gnome and most interface issues (it's not just Linux - look at how MS botched Vista). It takes a firm handle on what might be called evidence-based product management and a good understanding of the market needs to pull these people in and get them to just stop. Fix the old bugs and quit breaking the interface.
Apple developed the desktop, point-and-click metaphor that everyone has since used in, what was it, 1984? More correctly, they borrowed ideas from Zerox. It took until Windows 95 for Microsoft to imitate the Mac gui properly. There has been no other significant change in UI since other than the touchpad, gesture-based and accelerometer interfaces in which iOS (Apple again) and perhaps Nintendo reign supreme. No-one seems to want a desktop interface that is not, in essence, derived from Mac 1984. All that is added are bells and whistles. I will not be surprised if no-one will want a smartphone or tablet interface that is not somewhat similar to the iPhone and iPad (unless you consider Android not similar to the iPhone interface).
Kudos to your son. In fact, NASA's Goddard Space Centre has speculated that gravitational pull from another universe might explain the Dark Flow of galaxies http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_flow This is unproven however.
And Apple and Microsoft will continue to use H.264 for the HTML5 video tag. Apple are always thinking about how to maintain their vertical grip on device + market so they can lock out competitors. So Apple want to drive HTML5 to hurt Adobe and they also don't want webm to succeed which would reduce royalty overheads. Apple devices have big enough margins to easily absorb proprietary codec royalty fees for H264/AAC whereas Android phones have much smaller margins and this is why Google want a free video codec. By supporting H264 and not webm, Apple uses its market presence to create demand for continued H264 content which means Android phones have to keep eating into their thin margins with royalty payments for H264, even if Flash were to disappear overnight. I don't think this is far fetched - Apple really do think this aggressively and this far ahead about ways of gaining advantage.
Impressive. Wondering: are you in the security industry, hence the interest in working out how to close any back doors in the phone? There are probably clients in government/industry/crime who would pay to have their phones locked down.
Yeah and please stop all this nonsense about movies that talk and horseless carriages. They were crap to begin with also. Seriously - there is no way the industry is not going to find a way to improve this technology. They have invested too heavily. It will get better.
A must-read story by William Gibson about the force of imagined futures:
During his assignment to photograph 1930s era futuristic architecture, Parker begins to realize a "continuum," an alternate reality containing the possible future of the world represented by the architecture he is photographing – a future that could have been, but was not, thereby contrasting modernism to postmodern reality.
I'm surprised They didn't just have him extraordinarily rendered - while speaking of a world where governments collude in the capture of persons while ignoring due process.
... it sounds like they are killing off their central idea birthing grounds?
No. You forget that everything is about 'apps' and the 'app ecosystem' now. App sales = money. Google labs != money. Why provide lab extensions for free when someone can sell an app for money? That is where they are heading.
On the surface this is just plain dumb. But lab extensions like Tasks should just be a default part of gmail anyway and hopefully will be. My guess is this is about superseding the labs concept with apps which can come from anywhere and are easy to monetize.
You can show there is a back door in GPG? Now that would be news.
And whose to say the Russian Mob - assuming they do own all the data centers in Iceland - would be any worse than Microsoft?
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Australia also has a constitution. We just don't treat it like Moses brought it down off the mountain.
Please explain. The Constitution in Australia establishes the structure and powers of government and the law. How is that less sacrosanct than the US Constitution? And it gets interpreted in new ways just as the US Constitution does. But there is no Bill of Rights and only a few rights are expressed or implied which makes it an inferior document in my view to its US counterpart. I don't know but I imagine Australia's citizens back then must have thought Common Law protections were good enough - but those can and have changed as we have seen.
IRL is not a valid comparison. Damage via say gossip is often transient and local within a small community. It is also not always attached to a trackable unique identity - you might be just passing through. By contrast, Facebook can if they wish expose your data to whoever, forever, and it links back to what is probably your real name and photo.
This would be a reasonable suggestion if adopting a child was even one-millionth as easy as impregnating any random female and waiting 9 months. It can take years to adopt a child especially from another country where that child may face a catastrophic future. For single men in Western countries adopting a child is almost but not quite impossible afaik. With so many orphans and dying unloved kids in the world it is truly bizarre that governments keep the bar raised so high for adoption. It says that governments would rather see children die or grow up parentless than take even the slightest chance that kids might be adopted into an affluent but even slightly abusive environment. If I was the Somalian child facing death by starvation, I know which chance I would take. It's telling of our complete inability to be rational in this area.
So: putting the lawnmower away and impregnating a random female is by far the easiest way to completely fill up your life with smelly nappies.
I had a similar experience walking in the heat *and* drinking beer as I went for several miles. Beer-enabled exercise rules. Beer is truly a wonder drug! Of course, later that day I felt rather woozy.
There was a comment on /. some weeks ago that got me thinking. The commenter said that UI was a 'solved problem' but that designers will always insist that it is not. So designers keep fixing what is not broken. Similarly, it often occurs to me that programmers keep building and re-building because that is what coders do. Coders code, designers design. That is what they do. This is the problem with Gnome and most interface issues (it's not just Linux - look at how MS botched Vista). It takes a firm handle on what might be called evidence-based product management and a good understanding of the market needs to pull these people in and get them to just stop. Fix the old bugs and quit breaking the interface.
Apple developed the desktop, point-and-click metaphor that everyone has since used in, what was it, 1984? More correctly, they borrowed ideas from Zerox. It took until Windows 95 for Microsoft to imitate the Mac gui properly. There has been no other significant change in UI since other than the touchpad, gesture-based and accelerometer interfaces in which iOS (Apple again) and perhaps Nintendo reign supreme. No-one seems to want a desktop interface that is not, in essence, derived from Mac 1984. All that is added are bells and whistles. I will not be surprised if no-one will want a smartphone or tablet interface that is not somewhat similar to the iPhone and iPad (unless you consider Android not similar to the iPhone interface).
Kudos to your son. In fact, NASA's Goddard Space Centre has speculated that gravitational pull from another universe might explain the Dark Flow of galaxies http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_flow This is unproven however.
And Apple and Microsoft will continue to use H.264 for the HTML5 video tag. Apple are always thinking about how to maintain their vertical grip on device + market so they can lock out competitors. So Apple want to drive HTML5 to hurt Adobe and they also don't want webm to succeed which would reduce royalty overheads. Apple devices have big enough margins to easily absorb proprietary codec royalty fees for H264/AAC whereas Android phones have much smaller margins and this is why Google want a free video codec. By supporting H264 and not webm, Apple uses its market presence to create demand for continued H264 content which means Android phones have to keep eating into their thin margins with royalty payments for H264, even if Flash were to disappear overnight. I don't think this is far fetched - Apple really do think this aggressively and this far ahead about ways of gaining advantage.
You could say the same about Tibetan Buddhists refusing to use armed insurrection against the Chinese. Can you say the Dalai Lama is not intelligent?
Well there's one that drinks in my local bar and he still thinks Status Quo were the best rock band *ever*. And he refuses to learn Python.
It's difficult for an asthmatic to even hear the word "wheezy" and not reach for an inhaler.
Impressive. Wondering: are you in the security industry, hence the interest in working out how to close any back doors in the phone? There are probably clients in government/industry/crime who would pay to have their phones locked down.
Kids today. I used to dream of living in a basement ....
Anal tracking should be similarly useful.
Yeah and please stop all this nonsense about movies that talk and horseless carriages. They were crap to begin with also. Seriously - there is no way the industry is not going to find a way to improve this technology. They have invested too heavily. It will get better.
Hotty! I imprinted on women like this.
During his assignment to photograph 1930s era futuristic architecture, Parker begins to realize a "continuum," an alternate reality containing the possible future of the world represented by the architecture he is photographing – a future that could have been, but was not, thereby contrasting modernism to postmodern reality.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gernsback_Continuum
I thought we were almost already there.
Wall to wall plastic. These guys were plastic fetishists.
I'm surprised They didn't just have him extraordinarily rendered - while speaking of a world where governments collude in the capture of persons while ignoring due process.
... it sounds like they are killing off their central idea birthing grounds?
No. You forget that everything is about 'apps' and the 'app ecosystem' now. App sales = money. Google labs != money. Why provide lab extensions for free when someone can sell an app for money? That is where they are heading.
On the surface this is just plain dumb. But lab extensions like Tasks should just be a default part of gmail anyway and hopefully will be. My guess is this is about superseding the labs concept with apps which can come from anywhere and are easy to monetize.
You're right, they don't *need* a watch. But a nice watch, however that is defined, is a nice accessory or fashion statement.
Super nerdy retro digital plastic watches are back in fashion for youth in Europe. I'm sure that is discussed elsewhere here.
That is cool. I want one.
You can show there is a back door in GPG? Now that would be news. And whose to say the Russian Mob - assuming they do own all the data centers in Iceland - would be any worse than Microsoft?