"Most homes have been wired for 2 lines for decades."...
Really!, tell that to any UK telecoms person and they will laugh at you.......I suspect this is also untrue in most countries including the US.... why would they lay more copper than they need?
I suspect that even in the UK (which has a much higher population density than the US) the majority of people live more than 1km from an exchange...and this assumes that the copper is relatively new and has clean connections....
In the US I suspect this is completely pointless for most people.... the only thing is that it might mean that they can get broadband at all...
...Eric, Larry, Sergy I knew of... Marissa Mayer It didn't....shows how much I pay attention to Google's internal staff!
I agree if it's cited at all then unless I know the subject I won't judge the cites, but if it's not cited then I assume it might be "just made up"....
A Children's bookshop has an obvious and well defined policy, so they are not arbitrarily censoring content outside this...
A DVD shop can stock what they like, if they do not stock one category because of perceived lack of demand then that is their option, I can always go somewhere else
Apple's policy seems to be arbitrary and not a fixed policy,.... and I cannot go elsewhere there is nowhere else to go Apple has made sure of that
The iPod alternatives are working very nicely thank you
They are cheaper, and work better
They however are struggling in a market dominated by one device, Try and buy an accessory for any other device and see if you get offered an iPod compatible one that will not work with your device
Maybe many people see the ubiquity of the iPod and decide to buy the compatible device....
If it has Cites that appear relevant then I leave things alone, If I know what I am talking about then I check them...
Articles without cites get spotted by bots, and will get at least a "need cites" message with a timeout to be deleted
I agree some people do appear to be overeager to delete articles, and some people will, without knowing the subject, question all the citations, but this is how it is supposed to work...
I had never heard of Matt Cutts, Now I do and it looks to be a well cited article and so I can have some confidence that it is mostly correct...
The EU is not like the US Federal Government...it is not a single government either, it does not have the power to cripple Google, or in this case the willingness to, it is essentially a fight between the ISP's and Google
The ISP's in the UK have already tried this with the various "watch again" services from the TV companies, they tried to force the TV Companies to pay for the extra bandwidth that these services were generating, like Google they were already paying for a high bandwidth connection to serve this content and the customers were mostly on "Unlimited" connections...
...Instead of Working in the fields and living until they were 70-75 if they were lucky, and working for a greedy and rich landowner
they worked in factories and died young, working for a greedy and rich factory owner
A great improvement....
Until the government tightened up controls on working conditions and pay, so they could live until they were 75 again...
Laissez Faire Capitalism will always mean that there will be the very rich and the very poor - The system is very good if you happen to be one of the rich
I don't want the government to interfere with my life even to save me from myself - but I do want them to stop the powerful undermining my rights....
Libertarianism - Assumes people will be greedy and act in their own self interest - But also assumes they will never act in the interests of society
Communism - Assumes people will be selfless and act in the interests of society - But also assumes they will never act selfishly
This is why neither works....
The middle road, where you assume people will sometimes act selfishly, sometimes selflessly, is what most countries have now.. with a bit of bias one way of the other...
I was better at the things people cared about (Convenience : a whole movie on one tape), and price (Cheaper)
I was initially worse on the things people did not care about (Picture quality, tape wear)
Comcast were better on two counts - Cost, and availability - Where they have competition they are cheaper where they do not they are a effective monopoly...
Apple disclosed the patents under the W3C's royalty-free patent licensing terms. This means means that Apple is required to provide royalty-free licensing for the patent whenever the Canvas element becomes part of a future W3C recommendation created by the HTML working group....So Apple are not being "Evil" and so no double standards needed....
The oxygen in the atmosphere is and was generated mostly by unicellular life (not plant or animal)
Unicellular life existed hundreds of millions of years before the atmosphere was pumped full of oxygen, and it was toxic to the majority of that life... this is why multicellular anoxic life is interesting and unexpected
...and you think Google does not know this, and is incapable of asking the publisher who the copyright holders are, and asking them ?
Google seems to be being accused of violating copyright when they have not done so... and have made a strong effort not to....and have announced they are not going to......"but you are publishing photographs without permission...." Well actually they aren't
1) they still showed it - It was not censored, the fine was after the fact
2) you can see far more explicit content on US TV (Cable)
All the hand-wringing, apologies, and remedies to stop it happening again were done by the TV company before the FCC were involved, the fine was incidental
Do you really think the FCC would or could shut down a national network TV station?
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"Most homes have been wired for 2 lines for decades." ...
Really!, tell that to any UK telecoms person and they will laugh at you .... ...I suspect this is also untrue in most countries including the US .... why would they lay more copper than they need?
I suspect that even in the UK (which has a much higher population density than the US) the majority of people live more than 1km from an exchange ...and this assumes that the copper is relatively new and has clean connections ....
In the US I suspect this is completely pointless for most people .... the only thing is that it might mean that they can get broadband at all ...
...Eric, Larry, Sergy I knew of ... Marissa Mayer It didn't ....shows how much I pay attention to Google's internal staff!
I agree if it's cited at all then unless I know the subject I won't judge the cites, but if it's not cited then I assume it might be "just made up" ....
A Children's bookshop has an obvious and well defined policy, so they are not arbitrarily censoring content outside this ...
A DVD shop can stock what they like, if they do not stock one category because of perceived lack of demand then that is their option, I can always go somewhere else
Apple's policy seems to be arbitrary and not a fixed policy,.... and I cannot go elsewhere there is nowhere else to go Apple has made sure of that
The iPod alternatives are working very nicely thank you
They are cheaper, and work better
They however are struggling in a market dominated by one device, Try and buy an accessory for any other device and see if you get offered an iPod compatible one that will not work with your device
Maybe many people see the ubiquity of the iPod and decide to buy the compatible device ....
It did YouTube by playing video by another method ....all other uses of flash were not important enough to bother about
Flash does everything?
Well it does Video - Badly, and we don't need it for that anymore
And it does crappy games, slowly and badly, that there is usually a native version of that runs better, faster, etc ....
And it does Adverts ..... Enough said ......
What else (I may be missing something I use flashblock)?
Democracy appears to be fairly stable and seems to work fairly well
"Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time" - Winston Churchill
It's stable because it tends to exclude the extremists, it mostly works because the majority agrees with the outcomes (most of the time)
If it has Cites that appear relevant then I leave things alone, If I know what I am talking about then I check them ...
Articles without cites get spotted by bots, and will get at least a "need cites" message with a timeout to be deleted
I agree some people do appear to be overeager to delete articles, and some people will, without knowing the subject, question all the citations, but this is how it is supposed to work ...
I had never heard of Matt Cutts, Now I do and it looks to be a well cited article and so I can have some confidence that it is mostly correct ...
The original Internet WebServer that sat on Tim Berners Lee's desk at CERN was a NeXTCube ...
The EU is not like the US Federal Government...it is not a single government either, it does not have the power to cripple Google, or in this case the willingness to, it is essentially a fight between the ISP's and Google
The ISP's in the UK have already tried this with the various "watch again" services from the TV companies, they tried to force the TV Companies to pay for the extra bandwidth that these services were generating, like Google they were already paying for a high bandwidth connection to serve this content and the customers were mostly on "Unlimited" connections ...
If it cannot work without perfect information (or near perfect)
Then anyone opting out of giving information can undermine the system and out-compete everyone else ... and so everyone will do this if they can
and so the system collapses
So what you are saying is that it can only work in an ideal world and it is intrinsically unstable
...Instead of Working in the fields and living until they were 70-75 if they were lucky, and working for a greedy and rich landowner
they worked in factories and died young, working for a greedy and rich factory owner
A great improvement ....
Until the government tightened up controls on working conditions and pay, so they could live until they were 75 again ...
Laissez Faire Capitalism will always mean that there will be the very rich and the very poor - The system is very good if you happen to be one of the rich
I don't want the government to interfere with my life even to save me from myself - but I do want them to stop the powerful undermining my rights....
Libertarianism - Assumes people will be greedy and act in their own self interest - But also assumes they will never act in the interests of society
Communism - Assumes people will be selfless and act in the interests of society - But also assumes they will never act selfishly
This is why neither works ....
The middle road, where you assume people will sometimes act selfishly, sometimes selflessly, is what most countries have now .. with a bit of bias one way of the other ...
Pure Capitalism does not work (you get a monopoly of one which becomes a dictatorship)
Pure communism does not work either (It becomes easy to take over and becomes a dictatorship)
VHS was better, just not technically better
I was better at the things people cared about (Convenience : a whole movie on one tape), and price (Cheaper)
I was initially worse on the things people did not care about (Picture quality, tape wear)
Comcast were better on two counts - Cost, and availability - Where they have competition they are cheaper where they do not they are a effective monopoly ...
You know that ...I know that .... but the rest of the English speaking world does not know if you made it up unless you cite a source ....
You did, they stopped nominating it for deletion .... that's how Wikipedia is *supposed* to work ...
Apple disclosed the patents under the W3C's royalty-free patent licensing terms. This means means that Apple is required to provide royalty-free licensing for the patent whenever the Canvas element becomes part of a future W3C recommendation created by the HTML working group ....So Apple are not being "Evil" and so no double standards needed ....
Plant life needs Carbon Dioxide and Oxygen ....
The oxygen in the atmosphere is and was generated mostly by unicellular life (not plant or animal)
Unicellular life existed hundreds of millions of years before the atmosphere was pumped full of oxygen, and it was toxic to the majority of that life ... this is why multicellular anoxic life is interesting and unexpected
...and you think Google does not know this, and is incapable of asking the publisher who the copyright holders are, and asking them ?
Google seems to be being accused of violating copyright when they have not done so ... and have made a strong effort not to ....and have announced they are not going to .... .."but you are publishing photographs without permission...." Well actually they aren't
...plus it's in the Guinness book of Records ...
The reason it was unmanned is that no-one could survive the acceleration
The only thing it had going for it was that is was cross platform .....now it is not
So now it's just another music player, among all the others out there .... ...watch it die
1) they still showed it - It was not censored, the fine was after the fact
2) you can see far more explicit content on US TV (Cable)
All the hand-wringing, apologies, and remedies to stop it happening again were done by the TV company before the FCC were involved, the fine was incidental
Do you really think the FCC would or could shut down a national network TV station?
...the only things that take a significant time (besides network lag) are the things they are always trying to speed up (Plugins and Javascript/Java)
The correct solution is to run a real application instead
The workaround is to speed up the processing of scripting languages and VM languages that have no way of fully utilising the real hardware
I'd like to see an implementation of grammar-check-while-typing that works ....at all
All the implementations so far are wrong and annoying ...