How many people *ACTUALLY* need to run custom code tho? It keeps the iPhone mostly free of viruses or crash prone apps and the target audience for iPhone is customers not DIY hackers.
Android is so open but yet the Jelly Bean installation base is only 1.5% after 3 months. There's a difference between "theoretically open" and actual real world practise.
If you really want to run your own code for whatever reason (custom robot?) you can either Jailbreak or just get an enterprise license from Apple then you can run any code you want.
Android is open source. Anyone can modify it and submit changes to Google, or just run the modified Android as they see fit (Amazon). There are, indeed, many companies that make Android phones. So it's very practically open.
You mention jailbreaking - I can access any appstore with my Android phone without jailbreaking it. Which again shows that it's very practically open.
Consultants are nothing but leeches, and they will almost always give you advice on how you can make your company just like every other company in your industry. I yearn for the days when companies looked for ways to set themselves apart, to stand out from the crowd, instead of trying desperately to follow lockstep in line with everyone else. Other companies have massive layoffs, so hey, let's do it too!
Thank you for articulating that though for me so clearly. I've always hated consultants, and their stupid, homogenizing action.
Your solution of any value mostly to newbies who are incapable of going to the BIOS and typing in a new signing key (yes, some chipset manufacturers, like ASUS, offer this option for now).
Open Access sounds great and as an unemployed Ph.D. at the moment, I'm grateful for those who publish that way, but pay-to-publish puts up a barrier to the release of good science conducted by poorly funded researchers
The great majority (maybe all) OA journals have a policy of waving fees for poorly funded scientists.
and provides an incentive for journals to accept sub-par papers.
That has not been an issue at all, so far - quality has been the same for OpenAccess journal articles.
This is different from an university library... how?
Sorry, but the only real solution is Open Access journals. And thanks goodness, they're gaining ground. Nature is doing this token gesture because they at least have some intuition on how the gradual but unstoppable move towards Open Access publishing will sweep them away, alongside the other too-greedy-for-their-own-good journal publishers.
I must confess I enjoyed reading Groklaw during the SCO-vs-linux days (well technically those aren't over, but you get what I mean). But the whole echo chamber of support seems to have gone to PJ's head and she's gone full-on anti-Apple, and in so doing betrayed her lack of knowledge in quite a few legal matters - for example, complaining about how some of Samsung's patents are "standards essential" while Apple's aren't, yet the licensing $ on offer to Samsung for those patents are significantly less than what Apple wants for its patents, exhibits a fundamental lack of understanding of how FRAND operates.
I guess it's true that eventually you live long enough to see all your heroes crumble, and reading Groklaw's extremely one-sided (and often inaccurate) coverage just makes me sad about the old days, when SCO was just this laughably bad adversary.
(It's like how WWII was the "golden age" for war movies because the Nazis were such simple, no-need-to-think-too-hard enemies you could gun down by the thousands without restraint... SCO provided that when it went after Linux with it's incredibly futile attack).
Groklaw is, I see now, no longer an unbiased cut-through-the-bullshit critique of what's going on on the legal side of tech. Groklaw has an agenda - understand this and you can read it safely.
I bolded the part of your text that is actually relevant to the topic at hand.
And that is really, to get rid of "legacy" apps entirely. I think Microsoft is pretty tired of having third parties (hence, the reason for the surface) and OEMs give their hard work a bad name. So what they are doing is introducing a new API (Windows RT) that requires "certification"
Utter bollox. The only reason MS is doing all this, is because they want a share of every sale of every software made for Windows, through their appstore. They don't, like they never did, give a flying supersonic shit about "third parties and OEMs give their hard work a bad name".
I contributed to the charity, and remember quite well that it was expected that the land purchase could go through at a lower amount, because the charity could pay all the money up-front. So that would have left a big chunk of money available for the museum construction, and the tower re-building.
The Arts Technica says nothing about the specifics, only the stuff everybody knows already.
Do you test the food you bring home from the supermarket every single week? I mean, they could sell you food laced with anthrax and you would be no wiser.
If there is no guarantee of who the source is, then yes, that's exactly my fucking point!
And, because the chain of custody has been violated, the Canadian government doesn't know shit about it, either.
Exactly.
My comment was more general, though. It's about the fact that, generally, it is plausible that food sold at grocery stores could come from untrusted sources.
Etienne St-Pierre said his usual suppliers, small producers based in Quebec, sold it to him.
This made me think: basically, a foodstuff was sold to someone who'll sell it to the public later on. He didn't ask about the source of the foodstuff, didn't check for quality, didn't check for adulteration, didn't check for chemical or biological contaminants - NOR DID HE KNOW SHIT whether anyone has done such tests.
He could have gotten maple syrup laced with anthrax, and would have sold it forward, and noone would have been the wiser.
WINE would make absolutely no sense in ChromeOS. The entire point of ChromeOS is that there is no persistent state on the client - you can drop your Chromebook in the sea and nothing of value is lost[1]. To do the same thing with Windows applications, you'd want rdesktop installed and a Windows terminal server (which maybe using WINE, or just a real Windows install).
Well, well, well.... maybe YOU are actually proposing the better, more manageable solution - a full-fledged (Linux-y) desktop, capable of running all Linux apps AND some Win32 apps, following the user from computer to computer.
Right now, the great majority of people don't have a choice. Corporations need Windows, and when MS says "jump", they fucking JUMP. But they're tired of it.
Google, with a beefed-up ChromeOS, could truly disrupt the status quo - include WINE so that it can run a select few Win32 apps - notably MS Office -, make it manageable remotely, and a lot of desktops will migrate to ChromeOS.
Not easy, but Google is the only who can pull it off. And should - since Win 8 is a walled garden environment, about to shut the others out.
Since over 50% of US electrical production is from coal it's not like an electrical vehicle produces zero CO2, in fact full lifecycle analysis shows a modern high efficiency non-hybrid may produce the same CO2 as a hybrid.
Electrical production, even in the US, is slowly but steadily shifting towards renewable sources, like solar and wind. So the percentage of electrical energy that does not contribute to increasing CO2 emissions will, over time, increase, but the gallon of gas will always mean the same amount of non-renewable crude oil.
Cyclists should wear helmets because it can save their life if hit by a car, not to stop a bruise when they fall over at traffic lights because their fancy shoes didn't unclip.
Actually, helmets will protect against bruises or cranial fracture, but not against concussions. The problem with concussions is that they are caused by rotational movements (which cause shear) of the head, and a hit perpendicular to the cranium, while painful, won't cause brain-cell damage, or at least, the damage will be much lesser to none.
That is two big dogs and a chihuahua. Does anyone really thing Russia will ever be a "top dog" again? Russia's economy is smaller than the economy of Brazil or Italy [wikipedia.org]. Russia's population is declining, partly because of low birthrate and poor public health policies, but also because of emigration of the best and brightest.
Actually, Russia's fertility rate has picked up steam in the last decade, and if the trend continues, the country is not in danger from "white death".
The agency in question is the Iranian state-controlled FARS news agency. What bothers me in this event is that FARS didn't mention the source of their (mis)information.
Megaupload's Kim Dotcom, a willfully tacky fat guy with a baby face and a vanity license plate that says "guilty," has styled himself as a kind of comic villain, a composite of everything people love to hate. He effectively serves as empire's face of piracy: an overweight nouveau-riche wannabe hacker who finally gets his comeuppance through the macho justice of Uncle Sam. It's so easy to hate Kim Dotcom that you almost forget that the US convinced the New Zealand government to send in an assault brigade, bereft of a valid warrant but outfitted with automatic weapons and helicopters, to arrest a Finnish citizen at the demand of Hollywood studios. If Kim Dotcom didn't exist, the FBI, with the help of the MPAA, would have invented him.
Hate him because he's overweight? Really? Is the world so full of stupid psychopaths that such a thought is taken for granted? Or hate him for providing a valuable service? Sure, if you're the MAFIAA then you'll be nuthugging the God of Copyright. But the rest of us, we ordinary people (including scientists) have little to like about copyright, and hence, little reason to hate someone who helped provide copyrighted material.
Besides, if you want to get all legalistic (though, I think it's clear by now, I don't give a shit about copyright laws, which I believe are unethical), Megaupload is in no way different from DVD writers - used to save and share copyrighted material, just as well. Or the internet, used to distribute copyrighted material. So even legally, there is no ground to hold Kim Dotcom guitly of anything.
âoeWe are doing anything we can to alert the government to the very serious situation in the entertainment industryâ
I can't quite put my finger on it exactly, but for some reason that sentence made me LOL bigtime. Luckily no coffee was in my mouth at that moment, or I'd have ejected it explosively through several facial orifices.
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How many people *ACTUALLY* need to run custom code tho? It keeps the iPhone mostly free of viruses or crash prone apps and the target audience for iPhone is customers not DIY hackers.
Android is so open but yet the Jelly Bean installation base is only 1.5% after 3 months. There's a difference between "theoretically open" and actual real world practise.
If you really want to run your own code for whatever reason (custom robot?) you can either Jailbreak or just get an enterprise license from Apple then you can run any code you want.
Android is open source. Anyone can modify it and submit changes to Google, or just run the modified Android as they see fit (Amazon). There are, indeed, many companies that make Android phones. So it's very practically open.
You mention jailbreaking - I can access any appstore with my Android phone without jailbreaking it. Which again shows that it's very practically open.
Consultants are nothing but leeches, and they will almost always give you advice on how you can make your company just like every other company in your industry. I yearn for the days when companies looked for ways to set themselves apart, to stand out from the crowd, instead of trying desperately to follow lockstep in line with everyone else. Other companies have massive layoffs, so hey, let's do it too!
Thank you for articulating that though for me so clearly. I've always hated consultants, and their stupid, homogenizing action.
Your solution of any value mostly to newbies who are incapable of going to the BIOS and typing in a new signing key (yes, some chipset manufacturers, like ASUS, offer this option for now).
FTFY
Open Access sounds great and as an unemployed Ph.D. at the moment, I'm grateful for those who publish that way, but pay-to-publish puts up a barrier to the release of good science conducted by poorly funded researchers
The great majority (maybe all) OA journals have a policy of waving fees for poorly funded scientists.
and provides an incentive for journals to accept sub-par papers.
That has not been an issue at all, so far - quality has been the same for OpenAccess journal articles.
This is different from an university library... how?
Sorry, but the only real solution is Open Access journals. And thanks goodness, they're gaining ground. Nature is doing this token gesture because they at least have some intuition on how the gradual but unstoppable move towards Open Access publishing will sweep them away, alongside the other too-greedy-for-their-own-good journal publishers.
IAAL.
I must confess I enjoyed reading Groklaw during the SCO-vs-linux days (well technically those aren't over, but you get what I mean). But the whole echo chamber of support seems to have gone to PJ's head and she's gone full-on anti-Apple, and in so doing betrayed her lack of knowledge in quite a few legal matters - for example, complaining about how some of Samsung's patents are "standards essential" while Apple's aren't, yet the licensing $ on offer to Samsung for those patents are significantly less than what Apple wants for its patents, exhibits a fundamental lack of understanding of how FRAND operates.
I guess it's true that eventually you live long enough to see all your heroes crumble, and reading Groklaw's extremely one-sided (and often inaccurate) coverage just makes me sad about the old days, when SCO was just this laughably bad adversary.
(It's like how WWII was the "golden age" for war movies because the Nazis were such simple, no-need-to-think-too-hard enemies you could gun down by the thousands without restraint... SCO provided that when it went after Linux with it's incredibly futile attack).
Groklaw is, I see now, no longer an unbiased cut-through-the-bullshit critique of what's going on on the legal side of tech. Groklaw has an agenda - understand this and you can read it safely.
I bolded the part of your text that is actually relevant to the topic at hand.
And that is really, to get rid of "legacy" apps entirely. I think Microsoft is pretty tired of having third parties (hence, the reason for the surface) and OEMs give their hard work a bad name. So what they are doing is introducing a new API (Windows RT) that requires "certification"
Utter bollox. The only reason MS is doing all this, is because they want a share of every sale of every software made for Windows, through their appstore. They don't, like they never did, give a flying supersonic shit about "third parties and OEMs give their hard work a bad name".
All developers, programmers, researchers - we're all blue collar. People working in administration and accounting are considered white collar.
As a scientist, I don't feel insulted to be "blue collar". I'm fine with that.
I am not surprised that a reactionary, right-wing administration would stand behind Monsanto.
Luckily, the elections are behind the corner and things are about to ch.. oh, shit!
I contributed to the charity, and remember quite well that it was expected that the land purchase could go through at a lower amount, because the charity could pay all the money up-front. So that would have left a big chunk of money available for the museum construction, and the tower re-building.
The Arts Technica says nothing about the specifics, only the stuff everybody knows already.
Do you test the food you bring home from the supermarket every single week? I mean, they could sell you food laced with anthrax and you would be no wiser.
If there is no guarantee of who the source is, then yes, that's exactly my fucking point!
And, because the chain of custody has been violated, the Canadian government doesn't know shit about it, either.
Exactly.
My comment was more general, though. It's about the fact that, generally, it is plausible that food sold at grocery stores could come from untrusted sources.
From the article:
Etienne St-Pierre said his usual suppliers, small producers based in Quebec, sold it to him.
This made me think: basically, a foodstuff was sold to someone who'll sell it to the public later on. He didn't ask about the source of the foodstuff, didn't check for quality, didn't check for adulteration, didn't check for chemical or biological contaminants - NOR DID HE KNOW SHIT whether anyone has done such tests.
He could have gotten maple syrup laced with anthrax, and would have sold it forward, and noone would have been the wiser.
WINE would make absolutely no sense in ChromeOS. The entire point of ChromeOS is that there is no persistent state on the client - you can drop your Chromebook in the sea and nothing of value is lost[1]. To do the same thing with Windows applications, you'd want rdesktop installed and a Windows terminal server (which maybe using WINE, or just a real Windows install).
Well, well, well.... maybe YOU are actually proposing the better, more manageable solution - a full-fledged (Linux-y) desktop, capable of running all Linux apps AND some Win32 apps, following the user from computer to computer.
I think Google definitely could make this happen.
Right now, the great majority of people don't have a choice. Corporations need Windows, and when MS says "jump", they fucking JUMP. But they're tired of it.
Google, with a beefed-up ChromeOS, could truly disrupt the status quo - include WINE so that it can run a select few Win32 apps - notably MS Office -, make it manageable remotely, and a lot of desktops will migrate to ChromeOS.
Not easy, but Google is the only who can pull it off. And should - since Win 8 is a walled garden environment, about to shut the others out.
Since over 50% of US electrical production is from coal it's not like an electrical vehicle produces zero CO2, in fact full lifecycle analysis shows a modern high efficiency non-hybrid may produce the same CO2 as a hybrid.
Electrical production, even in the US, is slowly but steadily shifting towards renewable sources, like solar and wind. So the percentage of electrical energy that does not contribute to increasing CO2 emissions will, over time, increase, but the gallon of gas will always mean the same amount of non-renewable crude oil.
Cyclists should wear helmets because it can save their life if hit by a car, not to stop a bruise when they fall over at traffic lights because their fancy shoes didn't unclip.
Actually, helmets will protect against bruises or cranial fracture, but not against concussions. The problem with concussions is that they are caused by rotational movements (which cause shear) of the head, and a hit perpendicular to the cranium, while painful, won't cause brain-cell damage, or at least, the damage will be much lesser to none.
That is two big dogs and a chihuahua. Does anyone really thing Russia will ever be a "top dog" again? Russia's economy is smaller than the economy of Brazil or Italy [wikipedia.org]. Russia's population is declining, partly because of low birthrate and poor public health policies, but also because of emigration of the best and brightest.
Actually, Russia's fertility rate has picked up steam in the last decade, and if the trend continues, the country is not in danger from "white death".
Other than that, I fully agree with your post.
Why just patents? Copyright must go too.
Hear hear! I fully agree.
Apple has a walled garden. That's it. Android does too.
Yeah, except for the little detail that Android doesn't.
Feel free to spout more lies.
The agency in question is the Iranian state-controlled FARS news agency. What bothers me in this event is that FARS didn't mention the source of their (mis)information.
That it is gone is good riddance.
Fuck you with a rake.
Some of us liked that service. Just because you didn't like it, it doesn't mean it should be taken away from the rest of us.
Very much alike the islamists, if something offends you, it should be completely removed from everyone?
As I said: fuck you.
Megaupload's Kim Dotcom, a willfully tacky fat guy with a baby face and a vanity license plate that says "guilty," has styled himself as a kind of comic villain, a composite of everything people love to hate. He effectively serves as empire's face of piracy: an overweight nouveau-riche wannabe hacker who finally gets his comeuppance through the macho justice of Uncle Sam. It's so easy to hate Kim Dotcom that you almost forget that the US convinced the New Zealand government to send in an assault brigade, bereft of a valid warrant but outfitted with automatic weapons and helicopters, to arrest a Finnish citizen at the demand of Hollywood studios. If Kim Dotcom didn't exist, the FBI, with the help of the MPAA, would have invented him.
Hate him because he's overweight? Really? Is the world so full of stupid psychopaths that such a thought is taken for granted?
Or hate him for providing a valuable service? Sure, if you're the MAFIAA then you'll be nuthugging the God of Copyright. But the rest of us, we ordinary people (including scientists) have little to like about copyright, and hence, little reason to hate someone who helped provide copyrighted material.
Besides, if you want to get all legalistic (though, I think it's clear by now, I don't give a shit about copyright laws, which I believe are unethical), Megaupload is in no way different from DVD writers - used to save and share copyrighted material, just as well. Or the internet, used to distribute copyrighted material. So even legally, there is no ground to hold Kim Dotcom guitly of anything.
Why did quotes become "Ãoe"? Slashbug?
âoeWe are doing anything we can to alert the government to the very serious situation in the entertainment industryâ
I can't quite put my finger on it exactly, but for some reason that sentence made me LOL bigtime. Luckily no coffee was in my mouth at that moment, or I'd have ejected it explosively through several facial orifices.