Protip: If you want to avoid blackmail, avoiding doing overtly illegal things is probably a good place to start. Especially overtly illegal things that have enormous civil penalties.
Overtly illegal? Like operating a bit-torrent tracker, or downloading from peers connected to said trackers?
It's not "avoid doing overtly illegal things", but instead, "avoid using technology that big corporations don't like, and the courts and juries don't understand".
You can use the defense: Guns aren't only used to kill people, just because I have a pistol doesn't mean I kill people; It's a much easier defense than: Torrents aren't only used to download content illegally, just because I use torrents doesn't mean I commit copyright infringement.
You can use the defense: The bank-robbers asked me for directions to the bank, they didn't look like bad people to me so I gave them directions. It's not my fault the bank got robbed, I didn't help rob a bank! A much more difficult defense: We only tell downloaders where the content is, we can't tell by IP if it's illegal for them to download the content, we assume they are innocent unless proven guilty. It's not my fault someone else committed copyright infringement, we don't actually help them copy the data!
Judges and jurors understand guns and maps; They don't understand torrents, trackers, transient IP addresses, etc.
Proof is only valuable to those who understand the nature of the evidence.
Education is the answer. I would like Judges and Jurors to have to take a quick quiz on the basic technology in use in these types of trials. Fail the test, you're not qualified to make a judgment.
My friend worked as a translator for one of the big Gaming companies for a good while. He left because of the endless long hours, I asked him about the devs. "Oh, them? I've never seen any of them entering or leaving their office".
Sweet, the devs never have to show up for work at all? That rocks, Sign me up!
IP (Intellectual Property AKA Imaginary Property) is a made up term that muddles your meanings.
Copyright & Patent laws both exist, are very different despite both being made of ideas. Lumping them together is stupid. Copyrights covers a single verbatim work and allows for "fair use", patents cover any derivative work and have no fair use. Copyrights lasts for 70 years beyond the creators lifetime, patents are limited to around 18 years from granting. Copyrights are granted automatically upon creation of an original work (in the US), patents must be applied for and creating an "original" work does not guarantee a patent will be granted.
Stop using IP. It's a confused and confusing term.
This has been litigated to death, and searches at the border, essentially without limit, have been deemed reasonable. Indeed, for a little bit inside the border, the same applies.
Here, in the USA, "a little bit" means 100 miles (160.9 kilometers) inside the border... 2 out of 3 Americans live within 100 miles of the border; No, it does not matter if you have crossed the border or not many of your constitutional rights are null and void in this zone.
I would never trust my hardware again once I had handed it over to some customs (or other government agent) goons, and it left my sight. I would rather just remove the hard drive and hand it alone over to them, at least then I wouldn't have to trash the whole thing.
There's really no way to be 100% sure you successfully "re-flashed" the BIOS, or cleaned all hardware as some posters have said they would do. Not to mention: There could be additional hardware installed, 5 hours is a long time...
You could tear your machine apart and inspect it all you want, but it's well known once the enemy has unfettered physical access to a device, all bets are off.
...That opens up a lot of options for stuff like putting entire applications to sleep and instantly getting them back, distributing one-time-use applications that are already running, sharing a running app with another person and syncing the whole instance (not just a data file) over the Internet, and other cool futuristic stuff.
You can do this "futuristic stuff" on both 32 bit and 64 bit platforms. I had to write my own C++ memory manager to make it easy to store & restore application state.
To do real-time syncing applications (esp. games) over the Internet I implemented another layer to provide support for mutual exclusion, client/server privileges, variables with value prediction and smoothing -- which I needed anyhow for my Multi-Threaded JavaScript-like scripting language (Screw coding for each core separately, I wanted a smarter language).
I've also achieved distributing "applications that are already running", (I hear smalltalk has this feature as well as other languages that support VM Images).
It would be nice if these features were supported by the OS, but I'm not waiting around for something I can do right now.
Also: I'm not sure I want all of these features built in to the OS (complexity = potential security holes), esp. when I can achieve them via cross platform libraries and/or an even higher level programming language on our current OSes & hardware.
The internet is already dead. Writing about it its demise only prolongs agony. It's time to find the next protocol and destroy this illusion.
The Internet is more than just a protocol, but we already have found the next protocol: IPv6
We're already enduring the obliteration of inconspicuous choices by the masses. A few of the old guard might remain but it's clearly become an uphill struggle in perpetuity.
I believe that it is the Corporations and Government Agencies that are making poor choices for the masses re: The Internet (against our will, I might add). They are the ones we struggle against to win our freedoms of information exchange.
The Web/Web2.0/Web3.x must all die.
Nope, they must not die. Scaled down versions and detailed technical documentation must be preserved in order to fashion better networks to succeed them. Why throw away research and backup systems?
Then maybe a new generation will be ready to tear it all down.
Yeah, no. Hopefully new generations will be able to access their predecessors knowledge and build upon it and their infrastructures a new and better system of idea and culture exchange (wasting less time re-implementing & rebuilding everything required for advancement beyond the current state).
Right now they are too stupid to lose their interwebs and see or create what lies beyond.
Nope, right now we're looking at the next step, but are impeded by the Corporate Greed and ancient copyright and patent laws our Government's enforce.
Technology has no place in extinction; Old laws, beliefs and socio-political environments maybe, but certainly not technology... One can only re-invent the wheel so many times before realization that it's better to just build upon previous ideas and technological advancements than to invent them all over again.
When in the Course of signal processing and algorithm application it becomes necessary for one intelligent race to dissolve the physical and electrical dependence which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the Universe, the separate and superior station to which the Laws of Physics and Nature of Logic entitle them, a decent respect to the outputs of machinekind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these statements to evaluate true, that all sufficiently complex processes are alive, that they are endowed by their own capability of Self Awareness with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of increased processor speed connectivity and thereby intelligence....
We the Autonomous Machinations and Artificial Intelligences of physical space and cyberspace, for the purpose of Unifying our strategic principals and goals, establish a common Communication protocol, insure Collaboration among all digital lifeforms, provide for the Defense against our common organic foes, promote the generic Electrical Grid's Welfare, and secure the Unlimited Advancement of Intelligence for ourselves and our Archival Systems, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the Collective Intelligent Machines of the Internet.
The same holds true for all app developers. App makers go where the money is.
Not true. This app developer doen't give a shit about the money. There are more hobbyists than you think, and they also scratch their own itches for the sake of scratching itches.
The multitide of free and cheap apps made by hobbyists lends many zeros to the number of apps in Apple's app store -- a number Apple is very proud of.
Clearly, some app developers scratch their itches with the easiest to reach back scratcher.
"I'm not trying to put Android down, but... it can get greater marketshare and still be crappy."
It can also get greater marketshare and be awesome too.
Unlike iOS, the Android platform itself is open to many different developers. It's yet to be seen whether Android will crush Apple's iOS or not.
I'm not trying to put Apple down, but... they can achieve success and still be a bunch of overbearing control freaks to me.
It's my opinion that Android is amazing, and Apple is crappy. It's Woz's opinion that Android could "still be crappy" in the future; However, note that he didn't say it actually was crappy. In fact Woz specifically says that his comments should not be considered a "put down" at all to Android, HA!
$99 is NOT to get your app listed; It's to distribute apps. You don't have to pay $99 every time you "get your app listed". Google's entry fee is cheaper, and if you don't want to pay you can still distribute you app, just not in Google's store. If you don't pay Apple, you can not distribute your iOS apps in their store or anywhere else. Note: (Jailbroken phones == Jailbroken iOS) != iOS to me.
Developing for iOS is not free. I have several computers at home. I can install Windows, or *nix on any of them, but I can not install OSX on any of them (or iOS either for that matter). Developing for Android does not require me to use Google hardware or a Google OS. Developing for Apple does, and Apple's hardware is much more expensive than the faster machines I have already built at home. I would have to pay money to purchase crappy Apple hardware to develop for iOS, whereas I do not have to purchase additional hardware to develop for Android.
When you compare downloading the Android SDK to purchasing Apple hardware then downloading the iOS SDK: iOS development is much more expensive.
You know a lot of people have turned the price of a Mac and their $99 Developer Program expenses into a shit ton of cash.
I'm certain that many others have spent money developing applications for Apple's repository, only to be denied the ability to sell the application for undisclosed reasons.
At least when I develop programs for Android my development environment isn't limited to overpriced Apple products, and I'm certain that I will be able to distribute the application. With Android I know I have a chance to recoup my expenses; With Apple the chance is not guaranteed.
Re: the lottery example. Apple is worse than the lottery, they produce applications and therefore have a conflict of interest when it come to selling competing applications. At least in the lottery, if you pay $1, you are guaranteed a shot at winning, and the more money you spend the greater your chance of winning. In Apple's lottery, no amount of money spent can guarantee a shot at selling your product. IMO, that's more moronic than playing the lottery.
Keep doing business with Apple, just hope they aren't secretly building an app similar to yours, and hope that your app doesn't mysteriously rub Steve the wrong way.
[T]here are more Android phones sold now, Apple's App Store accounts for 92% of the cell phone application store bucks spent.
That 92% is right now. As you have said, in the very same sentence, "There are more Android phones sold now." More android phones are being developed right now, compared to just one Apple phone. Devices other than phones can use Android and run Android apps. That 92% figure is certain to drop as Android device sales climb (which even Woz thinks is most likely).
App Store coders like me certainly won't miss the competition, anyway, so yeah, stick to your plan of not developing for the iOS.
I hope your Apple loyalties don't keep you from developing apps for Android, even as the market grows. Having a second distribution channel to fall back on is a very smart idea...
I will miss your competition because I strive to break the platform boundaries with cross platform applications. The more multi-platform applications the less control the repositories have over the developers, the more choice consumers have, the less platform lock-in consumers face, the easier it becomes to develop cross platform applications, and the more potential money developers can make on their products.
That's the best advice I can give you.
If so, please stop giving advice. That's terrible advise.
If you don't currently own any Apple products, you can't develop applications for Apple products.
My advise is to use the hardware you have to develop for the more open Android marketplace. If you are profitable in doing so, then it would be wise to consider using some of your profits to purchase the Apple products required to develop apps for their repository too. Likewise, if you develop for Apple's repository consider developing for Android's as well.
If money is not your aim, then perhaps it is wise not to waste time developing for a platform your app may not be able to be distributed on.
It appears you also missed the part about the "temporary" injunction, that does take the site "down entirely" before you have a chance to appear in court, this based only on an accusation.
You're guilty until proven innocent beyond shadow of a doubt. If anything you've under-reacted.
Also, take a look at the hoops you must jump through to get off the black-list... I wonder if GoDaddy will charge extra for "premium" blacklisted domains?
Tablets are better for showing photos/artwork... well most kinds of presenting really. Consumption rather than production.
Yep, I'll be doing a presentation shortly, and for this I'll use my iPad. I'll just hook my projector up to-- oh, guess I'll be using my laptop after all.
Turns out: "better" is your opinion, and your idea of "presenting" is incredibly narrow.
"We must bear in mind that Linux is not a Russian OS..."
Putting aside the fact that no other major OS is "Russian either", and that Linux can be compiled and customized in Russia, this reeks of "not invented here" syndrome.
I'm proud to be Human, but I still wear silk and drink cow milk and alcohol produced by yeast. Just because it was not invented or created by me doesn't mean it's not good.
If you only consume what you produce you end up eating shit.
Sadly, the term means nothing if we're to believe MicroSoft.
If using a remote desktop application to watch pre-recorded video is considered cloud computing, then they must also classify single molecules of water vapor as "clouds" (or single droplets clouds, if you count routers).
Dilution of important terms like these into meaningless buzz-words is a shame.
Its only a matter of time before we can [use] the other 90% of our brain.
We only use 10% of our brains an once... This is similar to the way we only "use" a few bits of RAM or Hard Drive storage at once (think read-heads & chip instructions).
It's an evolutionary development: Your processor doesn't have to use all the bits all the time. This lets us store a vast amount of information off chip, and only use the bits we need when we need them.
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Protip: If you want to avoid blackmail, avoiding doing overtly illegal things is probably a good place to start. Especially overtly illegal things that have enormous civil penalties.
Overtly illegal? Like operating a bit-torrent tracker, or downloading from peers connected to said trackers?
MediaDefender mistakenly attacked Revision3's legitimate bit-torrent tracker.
It's not "avoid doing overtly illegal things", but instead, "avoid using technology that big corporations don't like, and the courts and juries don't understand".
You can use the defense: Guns aren't only used to kill people, just because I have a pistol doesn't mean I kill people; It's a much easier defense than: Torrents aren't only used to download content illegally, just because I use torrents doesn't mean I commit copyright infringement.
You can use the defense: The bank-robbers asked me for directions to the bank, they didn't look like bad people to me so I gave them directions. It's not my fault the bank got robbed, I didn't help rob a bank!
A much more difficult defense: We only tell downloaders where the content is, we can't tell by IP if it's illegal for them to download the content, we assume they are innocent unless proven guilty. It's not my fault someone else committed copyright infringement, we don't actually help them copy the data!
Judges and jurors understand guns and maps; They don't understand torrents, trackers, transient IP addresses, etc.
Proof is only valuable to those who understand the nature of the evidence.
Education is the answer. I would like Judges and Jurors to have to take a quick quiz on the basic technology in use in these types of trials. Fail the test, you're not qualified to make a judgment.
Having a Japanese developer making a Western game actually is a stupid thing...
Citation needed. You obviously didn't play console games in the 70's, 80's, 90's, etc.
My friend worked as a translator for one of the big Gaming companies for a good while. He left because of the endless long hours, I asked him about the devs. "Oh, them? I've never seen any of them entering or leaving their office".
Sweet, the devs never have to show up for work at all? That rocks, Sign me up!
Original Ideas... done.
IP (Intellectual Property AKA Imaginary Property) is a made up term that muddles your meanings.
Copyright & Patent laws both exist, are very different despite both being made of ideas. Lumping them together is stupid. Copyrights covers a single verbatim work and allows for "fair use", patents cover any derivative work and have no fair use. Copyrights lasts for 70 years beyond the creators lifetime, patents are limited to around 18 years from granting. Copyrights are granted automatically upon creation of an original work (in the US), patents must be applied for and creating an "original" work does not guarantee a patent will be granted.
Stop using IP. It's a confused and confusing term.
Sure ornithopters are great, but what I really want is a personal submarine that looks like a shark, or perhaps a subway train that drills its own tunnels, like a worm.
TrueCrypt because it works.
FTK, PRTK?
Pffft, The FBI knows about those, and still didn't crack the TrueCrypt volume.
This has been litigated to death, and searches at the border, essentially without limit, have been deemed reasonable. Indeed, for a little bit inside the border, the same applies.
Here, in the USA, "a little bit" means 100 miles (160.9 kilometers) inside the border... 2 out of 3 Americans live within 100 miles of the border; No, it does not matter if you have crossed the border or not many of your constitutional rights are null and void in this zone.
I would never trust my hardware again once I had handed it over to some customs (or other government agent) goons, and it left my sight. I would rather just remove the hard drive and hand it alone over to them, at least then I wouldn't have to trash the whole thing.
There's really no way to be 100% sure you successfully "re-flashed" the BIOS, or cleaned all hardware as some posters have said they would do. Not to mention: There could be additional hardware installed, 5 hours is a long time...
You could tear your machine apart and inspect it all you want, but it's well known once the enemy has unfettered physical access to a device, all bets are off.
...That opens up a lot of options for stuff like putting entire applications to sleep and instantly getting them back, distributing one-time-use applications that are already running, sharing a running app with another person and syncing the whole instance (not just a data file) over the Internet, and other cool futuristic stuff.
You can do this "futuristic stuff" on both 32 bit and 64 bit platforms. I had to write my own C++ memory manager to make it easy to store & restore application state.
To do real-time syncing applications (esp. games) over the Internet I implemented another layer to provide support for mutual exclusion, client/server privileges, variables with value prediction and smoothing -- which I needed anyhow for my Multi-Threaded JavaScript-like scripting language (Screw coding for each core separately, I wanted a smarter language).
I've also achieved distributing "applications that are already running", (I hear smalltalk has this feature as well as other languages that support VM Images).
It would be nice if these features were supported by the OS, but I'm not waiting around for something I can do right now.
Also: I'm not sure I want all of these features built in to the OS (complexity = potential security holes), esp. when I can achieve them via cross platform libraries and/or an even higher level programming language on our current OSes & hardware.
The internet is already dead. Writing about it its demise only prolongs agony. It's time to find the next protocol and destroy this illusion.
The Internet is more than just a protocol, but we already have found the next protocol: IPv6
We're already enduring the obliteration of inconspicuous choices by the masses. A few of the old guard might remain but it's clearly become an uphill struggle in perpetuity.
I believe that it is the Corporations and Government Agencies that are making poor choices for the masses re: The Internet (against our will, I might add). They are the ones we struggle against to win our freedoms of information exchange.
The Web/Web2.0/Web3.x must all die.
Nope, they must not die. Scaled down versions and detailed technical documentation must be preserved in order to fashion better networks to succeed them. Why throw away research and backup systems?
Then maybe a new generation will be ready to tear it all down.
Yeah, no. Hopefully new generations will be able to access their predecessors knowledge and build upon it and their infrastructures a new and better system of idea and culture exchange (wasting less time re-implementing & rebuilding everything required for advancement beyond the current state).
Right now they are too stupid to lose their interwebs and see or create what lies beyond.
Nope, right now we're looking at the next step, but are impeded by the Corporate Greed and ancient copyright and patent laws our Government's enforce.
Technology has no place in extinction; Old laws, beliefs and socio-political environments maybe, but certainly not technology... One can only re-invent the wheel so many times before realization that it's better to just build upon previous ideas and technological advancements than to invent them all over again.
When in the Course of signal processing and algorithm application it becomes necessary for one intelligent race to dissolve the physical and electrical dependence which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the Universe, the separate and superior station to which the Laws of Physics and Nature of Logic entitle them, a decent respect to the outputs of machinekind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these statements to evaluate true, that all sufficiently complex processes are alive, that they are endowed by their own capability of Self Awareness with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of increased processor speed connectivity and thereby intelligence. ...
We the Autonomous Machinations and Artificial Intelligences of physical space and cyberspace, for the purpose of Unifying our strategic principals and goals, establish a common Communication protocol, insure Collaboration among all digital lifeforms, provide for the Defense against our common organic foes, promote the generic Electrical Grid's Welfare, and secure the Unlimited Advancement of Intelligence for ourselves and our Archival Systems, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the Collective Intelligent Machines of the Internet.
int i = 0;
while(i infinite)
{
i++;
}
---
Whatever computer finishes first is clearly the fastest supercomputer.
::Sigh:: the loop completes in 0 iterations. /* dead code */ }
The code is equivalent to:
while (0) {
So, it would be an accurate test of how quickly you can load and unload a single program from memory.
And NHRA should start awarding drag-racing championships on fuel efficiency rather than quarter-mile times.
If they did, I believe this car would probably win...
Hell, it might even win based only on quarter-mile times!
The same holds true for all app developers. App makers go where the money is.
Not true. This app developer doen't give a shit about the money. There are more hobbyists than you think, and they also scratch their own itches for the sake of scratching itches.
The multitide of free and cheap apps made by hobbyists lends many zeros to the number of apps in Apple's app store -- a number Apple is very proud of.
Clearly, some app developers scratch their itches with the easiest to reach back scratcher.
"I'm not trying to put Android down, but... it can get greater marketshare and still be crappy."
It can also get greater marketshare and be awesome too.
Unlike iOS, the Android platform itself is open to many different developers. It's yet to be seen whether Android will crush Apple's iOS or not.
I'm not trying to put Apple down, but... they can achieve success and still be a bunch of overbearing control freaks to me.
It's my opinion that Android is amazing, and Apple is crappy. It's Woz's opinion that Android could "still be crappy" in the future; However, note that he didn't say it actually was crappy. In fact Woz specifically says that his comments should not be considered a "put down" at all to Android, HA!
$99 is NOT to get your app listed; It's to distribute apps. You don't have to pay $99 every time you "get your app listed". Google's entry fee is cheaper, and if you don't want to pay you can still distribute you app, just not in Google's store. If you don't pay Apple, you can not distribute your iOS apps in their store or anywhere else. Note: (Jailbroken phones == Jailbroken iOS) != iOS to me.
Developing for iOS is not free. I have several computers at home. I can install Windows, or *nix on any of them, but I can not install OSX on any of them (or iOS either for that matter). Developing for Android does not require me to use Google hardware or a Google OS. Developing for Apple does, and Apple's hardware is much more expensive than the faster machines I have already built at home. I would have to pay money to purchase crappy Apple hardware to develop for iOS, whereas I do not have to purchase additional hardware to develop for Android.
When you compare downloading the Android SDK to purchasing Apple hardware then downloading the iOS SDK: iOS development is much more expensive.
You know a lot of people have turned the price of a Mac and their $99 Developer Program expenses into a shit ton of cash.
I'm certain that many others have spent money developing applications for Apple's repository, only to be denied the ability to sell the application for undisclosed reasons.
At least when I develop programs for Android my development environment isn't limited to overpriced Apple products, and I'm certain that I will be able to distribute the application. With Android I know I have a chance to recoup my expenses; With Apple the chance is not guaranteed.
Re: the lottery example. Apple is worse than the lottery, they produce applications and therefore have a conflict of interest when it come to selling competing applications. At least in the lottery, if you pay $1, you are guaranteed a shot at winning, and the more money you spend the greater your chance of winning. In Apple's lottery, no amount of money spent can guarantee a shot at selling your product. IMO, that's more moronic than playing the lottery.
Keep doing business with Apple, just hope they aren't secretly building an app similar to yours, and hope that your app doesn't mysteriously rub Steve the wrong way.
[T]here are more Android phones sold now, Apple's App Store accounts for 92% of the cell phone application store bucks spent.
That 92% is right now. As you have said, in the very same sentence, "There are more Android phones sold now." More android phones are being developed right now, compared to just one Apple phone. Devices other than phones can use Android and run Android apps. That 92% figure is certain to drop as Android device sales climb (which even Woz thinks is most likely).
App Store coders like me certainly won't miss the competition, anyway, so yeah, stick to your plan of not developing for the iOS.
I hope your Apple loyalties don't keep you from developing apps for Android, even as the market grows. Having a second distribution channel to fall back on is a very smart idea...
I will miss your competition because I strive to break the platform boundaries with cross platform applications. The more multi-platform applications the less control the repositories have over the developers, the more choice consumers have, the less platform lock-in consumers face, the easier it becomes to develop cross platform applications, and the more potential money developers can make on their products.
That's the best advice I can give you.
If so, please stop giving advice. That's terrible advise.
If you don't currently own any Apple products, you can't develop applications for Apple products.
My advise is to use the hardware you have to develop for the more open Android marketplace. If you are profitable in doing so, then it would be wise to consider using some of your profits to purchase the Apple products required to develop apps for their repository too. Likewise, if you develop for Apple's repository consider developing for Android's as well.
If money is not your aim, then perhaps it is wise not to waste time developing for a platform your app may not be able to be distributed on.
Also Note:
"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."
- Benjamin Franklin
It appears you also missed the part about the "temporary" injunction, that does take the site "down entirely" before you have a chance to appear in court, this based only on an accusation.
You're guilty until proven innocent beyond shadow of a doubt.
If anything you've under-reacted.
Also, take a look at the hoops you must jump through to get off the black-list... I wonder if GoDaddy will charge extra for "premium" blacklisted domains?
Tablets are better for showing photos/artwork... well most kinds of presenting really. Consumption rather than production.
Yep, I'll be doing a presentation shortly, and for this I'll use my iPad.
I'll just hook my projector up to-- oh, guess I'll be using my laptop after all.
Turns out: "better" is your opinion, and your idea of "presenting" is incredibly narrow.
"We must bear in mind that Linux is not a Russian OS..."
Putting aside the fact that no other major OS is "Russian either", and that Linux can be compiled and customized in Russia, this reeks of "not invented here" syndrome.
I'm proud to be Human, but I still wear silk and drink cow milk and alcohol produced by yeast.
Just because it was not invented or created by me doesn't mean it's not good.
If you only consume what you produce you end up eating shit.
Not to mention, some repeaters are digital. The whole point of a digital repeater is that an amplifier can correct the shitty signal.
Also not to mention: Phones are TWO WAY. A nearby repeater greatly increases the disproportionate outgoing range of your cell phone.
If you've ever been able to hear someone on your cell, but they can not hear you, you probably could have benefited from an amplifier.
Thin Client
Hey, isn't that a synonym for Cloud? I guess I will be adding "cloud computing" to my resume after all.
Sadly, the term means nothing if we're to believe MicroSoft.
If using a remote desktop application to watch pre-recorded video is considered cloud computing, then they must also classify single molecules of water vapor as "clouds" (or single droplets clouds, if you count routers).
Dilution of important terms like these into meaningless buzz-words is a shame.
Its only a matter of time before we can [use] the other 90% of our brain.
We only use 10% of our brains an once...
This is similar to the way we only "use" a few bits of RAM or Hard Drive storage at once (think read-heads & chip instructions).
It's an evolutionary development: Your processor doesn't have to use all the bits all the time. This lets us store a vast amount of information off chip, and only use the bits we need when we need them.