People don't want to pay for Google, Facebook, etc.
I don't even want to USE Google, Facebook, etc. But the thing is that they want to track me anyway. They lurk on almost every website. These companies invade the web. So don't pretend it is my fault. I have to install a zillion firefox plugins to block them. This is not a "it's free, so shut up" situation, but an "it's evil, these corporations must be punished" situation.
Are you sure? Central banks only come after the fact, when regular banks have already poofed the money up. They can only play with some interest figures, which are not very influential. I am afraid you greatly over-estimate the power of a central bank.
Why blame the victim? The rise and fall in price (PLEASE, not "value". There's a difference, you know) is due to speculation, not to the currency itself. Dollars, euros and other fiat currency are just as vulnerable.
You sure? If this proves "secure", say for a doomsday device to be activated only by the president, it would require the president to have his brainwaves recorded periodically. And each recording is an opportunity to breach the system. And if the shit really hits the fan, he might be too upset to authenticate (which, in this particular case, would be a good thing).
But it might be quite easy with a live head. If you can intercept the signal, you can reproduce it. And intercepting a bluetooth signal should not be that hard. The problem is that it takes some "middle man hardware" to get the brainwaves into the computer. And middlemen can be a lot easier to fake. It is a bit like voice recognition: the voice may be personal and unique (or personal and unique enough), but recording a voice and playing it back is dead easy.
They probably mean that they cannot make enough money on it. Economically viable means that your situation (literally your household) improves. Most probably they are economically far more viable than cheap polluting alternatives.
Like waiting for the music to end when you applaud. As a (amateur) musician, the greatest disrespect you can give me is when you applaud directly after a solo. And yes, I know it is not meant disrespectfully. But please think of the musicians.
While there's never been a "golden age" of American Democracy, he added, the perils emerging today are new.
No they are not. We live in a second 18th century. Everything that isn't yet in corporate hands is "enclosed". At all fronts. In Europe, even co-housing is now starting to be illegal. Ideas are enclosed. The money system is enclosed. And off course democracy is enclosed. At both sides of the pond. When will politicians ever learn from the past?
'Statistics are like a drunk with a lamppost,
used more for support than illumination.'
-- Sir Winston Churchil
"There's Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics."
If you tweak statistics enough, you will always find what you are looking for. Especially if your sought answer has nothing to do with the questions that were asked. Or would you really ban sober driving if 25% of the traffic accidents are due to alcohol use?
Reading the Ubuntu site, I only see phone and tablet apps, no desktop programs. While a video player often looks "special" on a desktop (and I hate that, video players already eat enough resources when playing videos), a word processor must not. Or a CAD program. Or a spreadsheet. My e-mail client on my phone looks totally different than on my desktop and I want to keep it that way. I much rather configure my phone, tablet and desktop separately than having one config to overrule them all and in infeasibility bind them.
This is the opposite of Ubuntu for Android, where you get a desktop if you plug desktop hardware (through a docking device) into your phone. If that desktop is a real destop (XFCE, LXDE or whatever, not Unity), that would by far more practical.
And then off course there is the nightmare of "secure" boot. I have seen professionals burn a few days over installing an OS that, according to the manufacturer, should be no problem. And this despite the manufacturer's support department tried its best. So if you order a new machine, order it with win7 pre-installed.
Yes I did. And it is not that hard either. VRML is a great language, I still want language designers to learn from its event handling system. What killed VRML in my opinion, was that the standards body was taken over by a company that wanted to push its own format. Killed by commerce.
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People don't want to pay for Google, Facebook, etc.
I don't even want to USE Google, Facebook, etc. But the thing is that they want to track me anyway. They lurk on almost every website. These companies invade the web. So don't pretend it is my fault. I have to install a zillion firefox plugins to block them. This is not a "it's free, so shut up" situation, but an "it's evil, these corporations must be punished" situation.
"innocent until proven guilty" is replaced by the "content industry" with "guilty even if proved innocent". For quite some time already.
...have central banks that can intervene
Are you sure? Central banks only come after the fact, when regular banks have already poofed the money up. They can only play with some interest figures, which are not very influential. I am afraid you greatly over-estimate the power of a central bank.
Why blame the victim? The rise and fall in price (PLEASE, not "value". There's a difference, you know) is due to speculation, not to the currency itself. Dollars, euros and other fiat currency are just as vulnerable.
You sure? If this proves "secure", say for a doomsday device to be activated only by the president, it would require the president to have his brainwaves recorded periodically. And each recording is an opportunity to breach the system. And if the shit really hits the fan, he might be too upset to authenticate (which, in this particular case, would be a good thing).
But it might be quite easy with a live head. If you can intercept the signal, you can reproduce it. And intercepting a bluetooth signal should not be that hard. The problem is that it takes some "middle man hardware" to get the brainwaves into the computer. And middlemen can be a lot easier to fake. It is a bit like voice recognition: the voice may be personal and unique (or personal and unique enough), but recording a voice and playing it back is dead easy.
You unbellythinkful clod!
Please tell that to all the suicidal folks who smoke in gas stations.
Or worse: send zillions of DMCA requests for non-existing material, just to pollute the list...
Like we don't have enough satellites as it is. Space junk is not something to laugh about.
No. That must have been a hell of a slap.
They probably mean that they cannot make enough money on it. Economically viable means that your situation (literally your household) improves. Most probably they are economically far more viable than cheap polluting alternatives.
Like waiting for the music to end when you applaud. As a (amateur) musician, the greatest disrespect you can give me is when you applaud directly after a solo. And yes, I know it is not meant disrespectfully. But please think of the musicians.
Or does the processor really come with a full-blown jet engine?
While there's never been a "golden age" of American Democracy, he added, the perils emerging today are new.
No they are not. We live in a second 18th century. Everything that isn't yet in corporate hands is "enclosed". At all fronts. In Europe, even co-housing is now starting to be illegal. Ideas are enclosed. The money system is enclosed. And off course democracy is enclosed. At both sides of the pond. When will politicians ever learn from the past?
Well, wouldn't you be at least a tad surprised if you saw a part of a bagpipe minding its own business at 1750 feet?
'Statistics are like a drunk with a lamppost, used more for support than illumination.'
-- Sir Winston Churchil
"There's Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics."
If you tweak statistics enough, you will always find what you are looking for. Especially if your sought answer has nothing to do with the questions that were asked. Or would you really ban sober driving if 25% of the traffic accidents are due to alcohol use?
So it is actually a negative Turing test. You must be as insensitive as a machine to be able to sit through the entire "captcha". Great!
Reading the Ubuntu site, I only see phone and tablet apps, no desktop programs. While a video player often looks "special" on a desktop (and I hate that, video players already eat enough resources when playing videos), a word processor must not. Or a CAD program. Or a spreadsheet. My e-mail client on my phone looks totally different than on my desktop and I want to keep it that way. I much rather configure my phone, tablet and desktop separately than having one config to overrule them all and in infeasibility bind them.
This is the opposite of Ubuntu for Android, where you get a desktop if you plug desktop hardware (through a docking device) into your phone. If that desktop is a real destop (XFCE, LXDE or whatever, not Unity), that would by far more practical.
But couldn't those avian carriers carry tubes with snakes? Should be possible if they can carry a coconut...
And then off course there is the nightmare of "secure" boot. I have seen professionals burn a few days over installing an OS that, according to the manufacturer, should be no problem. And this despite the manufacturer's support department tried its best. So if you order a new machine, order it with win7 pre-installed.
XP is still tolerable but gets it support removed this year
What, AGAIN?
And Theology explains Economics.
Economics is a belief system far beyond the capability of ordinary religious people, and even beyond the capability of quantum physicists.
But did you ever try to create 3D content?
Yes I did. And it is not that hard either. VRML is a great language, I still want language designers to learn from its event handling system. What killed VRML in my opinion, was that the standards body was taken over by a company that wanted to push its own format. Killed by commerce.
That did not prevent the patent to be upheld by court. So your point is?