Look, I've heard this a lot but it is just totally wrong. Prices are set by supply and demand.
Look at Exxon Mobil, last year it sold petroleum products for a profit of XX billion dollars. If we lowered corporate taxes, why would Exxon sell petroleum products for any less than it already did? Because the shareholders decided to be kind?
I used sphinx recently (pocketsphinx) to implement a voice recognition system for a sailboat, allowing quadriplegic sailors to control the boat. Sphinx is a decent voice recognition system but can't match big time commercial products like Google voice or Dragon naturally speaking. This is especially the case if you want recognition of natural speech (instead of the few code words used in my project).
Have you considered the microsoft speech API (http://www.microsoft.com/speech/speech2007/default.mspx) ? I don't have any personal experience but I've heard that it is a fairly powerful system.
Because there is an army to protect your land from other countries, a justice system (police, courts, etc) to keep other people from using your land, etc...
I'm sure that Glider signed a contract with blizzard
The issue isn't "Can you enforce license agreements?" the issue is "Can you sue someone who makes something to help other people break license agreements?"
The costs to prosecute and incarcerate offenders are comparatively tiny.
Pretty sure this is wrong. Even if a victim had a full-time counselor that would cost maybe 60-80k a year. Federal prisoners cost about 175k/year to house. Plus you probably don't need full-time counseling for the 20 years to life that child pornography possessors get. This is of course ignoring the great costs in terms of freedom, privacy, etc that child porn laws create.
It seems that compilation could be made a lot easier for newbie users if every package had a shell script labeled
"Install" that was just "./configure; make; make install"
In Canada (and presumably in cold places in the US) many/most parking lots are full of electric outlets to power block heaters. I've never heard of a large problem with power stealing.
You mean control over the DNS and IP allocation system is not enough to concern you? That seems unlikely. Say you want to go to "www.usgovernmentsucks.com", what guarantees that you can get there? The DNS system. Sure you can use SSL, but same thing with the city owning the wireless network.
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Do some research http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081201081917.htm
Look at Exxon Mobil, last year it sold petroleum products for a profit of XX billion dollars. If we lowered corporate taxes, why would Exxon sell petroleum products for any less than it already did? Because the shareholders decided to be kind?
I used sphinx recently (pocketsphinx) to implement a voice recognition system for a sailboat, allowing quadriplegic sailors to control the boat. Sphinx is a decent voice recognition system but can't match big time commercial products like Google voice or Dragon naturally speaking. This is especially the case if you want recognition of natural speech (instead of the few code words used in my project). Have you considered the microsoft speech API (http://www.microsoft.com/speech/speech2007/default.mspx) ? I don't have any personal experience but I've heard that it is a fairly powerful system.
You can buy the developer version of the android from google directly that comes with root access.
Because there is an army to protect your land from other countries, a justice system (police, courts, etc) to keep other people from using your land, etc ...
Actually independent agencies like the FCC are generally considered to be a part of the "executive" because they exercise executive functions.
Within I2P, there
Obviously they just mean when communicating to other I2P servers, not entering into the public internet (which would use an "exit node")
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katko_v._Briney
Use privoxy with chrome to eliminate most ads
You're assuming that the cell phone industry is a competitive market.
Since when is russia a communist or socialist country?
oops, accidentally rated overrated instead of funny
Link?
1) All those issues you identify exist with gmail but gmail doesn't block encrypted emails (it just gives you ads for PGP)
2) Your compression argument is bs. The files taking up the most space are going to be music, video and image files, none of which compress very well.
3) How would they know your data is encrypted? Just put it all in an mkv container or something and voilla, it looks like video.
The issue isn't "Can you enforce license agreements?" the issue is "Can you sue someone who makes something to help other people break license agreements?"
That "excuse" is just typical apple BS for wanting to charge you to replace the battery.
Canada has a constitution
The costs to prosecute and incarcerate offenders are comparatively tiny.
Pretty sure this is wrong. Even if a victim had a full-time counselor that would cost maybe 60-80k a year. Federal prisoners cost about 175k/year to house. Plus you probably don't need full-time counseling for the 20 years to life that child pornography possessors get. This is of course ignoring the great costs in terms of freedom, privacy, etc that child porn laws create.
It seems that compilation could be made a lot easier for newbie users if every package had a shell script labeled "Install" that was just "./configure; make; make install"
Couple this with the fact that stupid people are beeding the most, and it becomes obvious that we are doomed.
The irony is hilarious.
I think he was implying that the publishers should sell electronic versions.
In Canada (and presumably in cold places in the US) many/most parking lots are full of electric outlets to power block heaters. I've never heard of a large problem with power stealing.
The energy shortages were artificially created by Enron to boost profits. No actual shortages occurred.
You mean control over the DNS and IP allocation system is not enough to concern you? That seems unlikely. Say you want to go to "www.usgovernmentsucks.com", what guarantees that you can get there? The DNS system. Sure you can use SSL, but same thing with the city owning the wireless network.
To me they seem essential in preserving liberty by providing some accountability to those in positions of power.