..that Facebook will give some of the money to the people who where spammed, RIGHT? Else, the court should give WAY less to Facebook, probably in the order of 1 dollar/spam message.
Never ever link to a "registration needed" site. I actually understand more (but still dislike) a paysite, they at least have some motivation to require a tedious register/login procedure.
By the way, let's hope that their smartphones will be really open. A Free OS does not automagically give you the right to modify it, neither means an "open" user experience.
You are right, releasing it in a unfinished state would not be a good idea. But they can't continue to ship phones with Symbian now that they told everyone that it's not the future. A good compromise is to promise a stable Meego update for some of their smart phones, and release alphas even sooner.
Release Meego phones. Now. As they announced that new N* phones will use only Meego, they essentialy killed Symbian. Symbian was already seen as "OS for almost smart phones", now they made clear that it's not (and never will) targeted for smart phones. Moving developers to Qt is a nice temporary idea, but does not give binary compatibility from Symbian to Meego, and history has shown that binary compatibility is almost everything. The "open source Symbian" failed because the phones (not the software) they sell are not open enough, and open source developers can't (and have no interest to) turn crap to gold anyway. IMHO they should have only one OS, skinned differently, except for feature phones where they should focus on web technologies. Their biggest competitor is google, not apple, as apple can't sell things cheap, they would loose the cool factor. Moreover, Nokia can't imitate Apple and have so much diversity in their products, and diversity has always been their strength. There is an openness war with google out there, and they are not competitive enough. They should release somewhat cheaper phones with Meego, so to attract hackers and developers. They don't need to be much powerful, the cost factor and openness is way more important.
You can't deny his arguments. Do you expect a CEO to explain to his shareholders "We took that decision because I believe that it's fair"? It's just money. And I'm not saying that it's not right, I'm just saying that you can't expect from corporation to self-regulate. Regulation from government (e.g. by the citizens) it's not interference, it's something called democracy. and mod me up too:)
Do you really want your OS taking on the overhead of RAID? Desktop motherboards with hardware RAID 0/1/0+1 are easy to find and cheap.
Except most of the time it's software raid with pretty "drivers". Anyway, even hardware raid is not useful because you can't reliably switch motherboard while keeping the raid, which makes the whole point of having RAID useless (Faster recovery than using backups). Modern CPUs makes hardware raid solutions well, redundant (for desktops).
mod parent up. we need cars to be as light as possible, if there are not special (acknowledged by law) needs. Else there is a more-mass race which will just get us more energy wasting cars. Or, perhaps, heavier vehicles should be made more secure (-> more deformable) for other vehicles too, so one does not buy an heavy car just to feel more safe against heavier cars.
Why are you talking about *cooking* eggs? we are talking about very little scale damage (proteins) which can happen with a very low probability, but may have important consequences as a whole. I'm not strongly supporting that theory, but I don't understand your reasoning. The test would be to count how many proteins in the egg white denatures. Even "few" would be alarming. Anyway I don't think an egg white is a good model of the human head or body.
I'm saying you can't stop a car by rear braking WHILE ACCELERATING.
One, that isn't what you wrote.
I thought it was obvious in the context. We are talking about a car with a stuck accelerator pedal, and about using the "emergency brake" to stop it.
Two, you're begging the question. If thrust exceeds resistance, then you're accelerating. Clearly in that case you're going to go faster until some other limit is reached. But if it's the opposite, you're decelerating, and you will go slower until you stop.
It's just matter of language. Of course by accelerating I meant "having the accelerator pedal pressed". Sorry for the misunderstanding.
if you try to stop a car by rear brakes alone it will take *way* more space than with front brakes, at the point of not being always useful.
So you *can* stop a car with rear brakes, then. Again, not what you said before.
You can also stop the car by waiting for air resistance to eventually stop it. But is it useful? Is it right to call that a way to stop a car?
If this was true, then a lot more people will have accidents when their front break stop working.
I'm saying you can't stop a car by rear braking WHILE ACCELERATING. Rear breaks are for 1) redundancy 2) stopping the car while going backwards 3) minor work when the car is heavily loaded That's why they are there. Anyway, if you try to stop a car by rear brakes alone it will take *way* more space than with front brakes, at the point of not being always useful. This is especially true for light cars.
Just try with your car (obviously in safe conditions). It will _never_ work! Rear wheels will bite a little more, but never enough to stop the car. Especially at moderate/high speed.
Rear wheels will block, and you will go ahead and slowly decelerate. If you push the accelerator, the car will continue to run.
Note that some cars have a partially electronic hand-brake, and will sound an audible alarm and use the front brakes too.
That said, if the emergency brake in your car doesn't slow your car down, your brake system is probably calibrated wrong, and you're going to burn up your front disk brakes much faster than normal because they're doing all the work.
Virtually NO car except one with a ridiculously under-powered engine and very good rear brakes/tires will stop by rear brakes alone. That's how people have fun at drifting.
You don't know how things works in Italy. The government makes random laws and never think how to enforce them. The result is that there are plenty of laws which are never enforced. And do you know how they fix this? They make more laws:)
When I hear some bad decision made in the United States I don't think the same of US Citizens. I don't think it's their fault, and I don't think they deserve whatever happens after that decision. I expect people from all over the world to express their opinions about my government and I like to do the same to other governments than my own. We are citizens of the world. Of course, there are smaller issues we don't understand and which are better discussed by people living in their state. (An Italian citizen)
As nobody had predicted the success of netbooks and the reasons of that success are not completely clear, it makes sense to try the ARM approach just in case it's going to be very successful.
Quite some people installs Windows on them. I don't like it, but I think without windows compatibility the netbook success would have been different.
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..that Facebook will give some of the money to the people who where spammed, RIGHT?
Else, the court should give WAY less to Facebook, probably in the order of 1 dollar/spam message.
That's why laws should change according to pressure from citizens (environment), which is what often, but not always, happens :)
Ok, I should RTFA. But the summary told nothing about the actual news. Anyway it's good to know they are doing something.
using no antibiotics and killing the diseased animals? In the long rung they would get superanimals :)
well known fact. And no regulation to stop it.
Never ever link to a "registration needed" site.
I actually understand more (but still dislike) a paysite, they at least have some motivation to require a tedious register/login procedure.
If they manage to get this bill through, it would also mean the end for any wiki leakers in Italy too.
I don't think so. Most leakers in the world are illegal anyway :)
By the way, let's hope that their smartphones will be really open. A Free OS does not automagically give you the right to modify it, neither means an "open" user experience.
You are right, releasing it in a unfinished state would not be a good idea.
But they can't continue to ship phones with Symbian now that they told everyone that it's not the future.
A good compromise is to promise a stable Meego update for some of their smart phones, and release alphas even sooner.
Release Meego phones. Now.
As they announced that new N* phones will use only Meego, they essentialy killed Symbian.
Symbian was already seen as "OS for almost smart phones", now they made clear that it's not (and never will) targeted for smart phones.
Moving developers to Qt is a nice temporary idea, but does not give binary compatibility from Symbian to Meego, and history has shown that binary compatibility is almost everything.
The "open source Symbian" failed because the phones (not the software) they sell are not open enough, and open source developers can't (and have no interest to) turn crap to gold anyway.
IMHO they should have only one OS, skinned differently, except for feature phones where they should focus on web technologies.
Their biggest competitor is google, not apple, as apple can't sell things cheap, they would loose the cool factor.
Moreover, Nokia can't imitate Apple and have so much diversity in their products, and diversity has always been their strength.
There is an openness war with google out there, and they are not competitive enough.
They should release somewhat cheaper phones with Meego, so to attract hackers and developers. They don't need to be much powerful, the cost factor and openness is way more important.
You can't deny his arguments. :)
Do you expect a CEO to explain to his shareholders "We took that decision because I believe that it's fair"?
It's just money. And I'm not saying that it's not right, I'm just saying that you can't expect from corporation to self-regulate.
Regulation from government (e.g. by the citizens) it's not interference, it's something called democracy.
and mod me up too
...who read "Gaming On Six Pixels?"
Do you really want your OS taking on the overhead of RAID? Desktop motherboards with hardware RAID 0/1/0+1 are easy to find and cheap.
Except most of the time it's software raid with pretty "drivers". Anyway, even hardware raid is not useful because you can't reliably switch motherboard while keeping the raid, which makes the whole point of having RAID useless (Faster recovery than using backups). Modern CPUs makes hardware raid solutions well, redundant (for desktops).
If you treat *any* source as absolute proof, you are wrong. No warning label can fix this.
if they keep logs of any activity done with the drones. It may reduce, if not eliminate, abuse by officers.
mod parent up. we need cars to be as light as possible, if there are not special (acknowledged by law) needs.
Else there is a more-mass race which will just get us more energy wasting cars. Or, perhaps, heavier vehicles should be made more secure (-> more deformable) for other vehicles too, so one does not buy an heavy car just to feel more safe against heavier cars.
Why are you talking about *cooking* eggs? we are talking about very little scale damage (proteins) which can happen with a very low probability, but may have important consequences as a whole. I'm not strongly supporting that theory, but I don't understand your reasoning.
The test would be to count how many proteins in the egg white denatures. Even "few" would be alarming.
Anyway I don't think an egg white is a good model of the human head or body.
One, that isn't what you wrote.
I thought it was obvious in the context. We are talking about a car with a stuck accelerator pedal, and about using the "emergency brake" to stop it.
Two, you're begging the question. If thrust exceeds resistance, then you're accelerating. Clearly in that case you're going to go faster until some other limit is reached. But if it's the opposite, you're decelerating, and you will go slower until you stop.
It's just matter of language. Of course by accelerating I meant "having the accelerator pedal pressed". Sorry for the misunderstanding.
So you *can* stop a car with rear brakes, then. Again, not what you said before.
You can also stop the car by waiting for air resistance to eventually stop it. But is it useful? Is it right to call that a way to stop a car?
If this was true, then a lot more people will have accidents when their front break stop working.
I'm saying you can't stop a car by rear braking WHILE ACCELERATING.
Rear breaks are for
1) redundancy
2) stopping the car while going backwards
3) minor work when the car is heavily loaded
That's why they are there.
Anyway, if you try to stop a car by rear brakes alone it will take *way* more space than with front brakes, at the point of not being always useful. This is especially true for light cars.
Just try with your car (obviously in safe conditions). It will _never_ work!
Rear wheels will bite a little more, but never enough to stop the car. Especially at moderate/high speed.
Rear wheels will block, and you will go ahead and slowly decelerate. If you push the accelerator, the car will continue to run.
Note that some cars have a partially electronic hand-brake, and will sound an audible alarm and use the front brakes too.
I know it's not real drifting in forward-wheel-drive cars, but anyway it works and highlights you can't stop a car using rear brakes.
That said, if the emergency brake in your car doesn't slow your car down, your brake system is probably calibrated wrong, and you're going to burn up your front disk brakes much faster than normal because they're doing all the work.
Virtually NO car except one with a ridiculously under-powered engine and very good rear brakes/tires will stop by rear brakes alone. That's how people have fun at drifting.
How exactly would they enforce this?
You don't know how things works in Italy. The government makes random laws and never think how to enforce them. The result is that there are plenty of laws which are never enforced. And do you know how they fix this? They make more laws :)
When I hear some bad decision made in the United States I don't think the same of US Citizens. I don't think it's their fault, and I don't think they deserve whatever happens after that decision. I expect people from all over the world to express their opinions about my government and I like to do the same to other governments than my own. We are citizens of the world. Of course, there are smaller issues we don't understand and which are better discussed by people living in their state.
(An Italian citizen)
As nobody had predicted the success of netbooks and the reasons of that success are not completely clear, it makes sense to try the ARM approach just in case it's going to be very successful.
Quite some people installs Windows on them. I don't like it, but I think without windows compatibility the netbook success would have been different.