I agree 100%. Scripting interfaces are an absolute requirement, and will likely come well before the GUI.
What scripting language is there to be used? I am still waiting for "DOS" to be anywhere usable without installing all unix command-line tools. Any alternative to DOS is too short-lived or too unsafe to use (really, the fact that web scripting languages have gotten file access is still the worst bug in Windows. Especially security-wise).
Yes, an UTF-8 version would be nice!
I once made a "The Hague" version for a friend of mine, with all kinds of accents that beautify the The Hague dialect. Off course, I also invented some new rules, such as "Wat je leg mot je je bek ùit kunne krège" (You must be able to pronounce what you lay down) and off course all illnesses gave extra points.
I experienced something opposite many years ago: Just holding your hand over a recently used finger print scanner was enough to log you in as the previous user. The previous login had left enough sweat for the device to recognise as a real finger. Holding your hand above it was just to trigger the temperature sensor to activate the reading. The finger print scanners have hopefully improved much since then...
Since when do we have European elections then? Each time I have to vote in the "European elections", I can only vote for national parties, and the amount of national seats is fixed beforehand. I never had the chance to vote for French socialists, Italian Catholics, the German Green party or any party at all that has an international reputation of being serious in their own ways.
Even though I have voted in these ridiculous "elections", I am still waiting for elections where I can put my vote on the European
party that deserves it, rather than on our national parties.
No. Definitely not. I don't want my complete life to stagnate when I loose the ID card, for instance. Furthermore, the idea of coupling payments to the ID card (which is basically a passport) is so horrible I do not forgive a government to even suggest it.
Which is what these devices do, if I follow the news from the past few years. These missiles just explode, and anyone near enough gets killed or injured also. This is not any different from a car bomb, which that same government would most probably call terrorism. When it is a missile instead of a car, it is obviously terrorism also, but I bet that the government won't call it that.
For the victims, it is just a bomb like any other. Is it really that difficult that you fight a war on on terrorism with intelligence, and a war on terra with military force?
What incentive does a distribution channel have for producing/marketing/shipping/promoting/selling an author's work?
Other than just doing their business? If the distributor cannot make a business without stealing the author's rights, why are they in business? If the publisher cannot make a profit and pay the author his share, then why are they in the publishing business?
Furthermore, an exclusivity agreement is something quite different than handing any future revenue to the publisher.
If the author's only revenue is something to sell to the party that gets the real revenue, then the copyright laws are basically flawed. They promote the "rights holder" and therefore NOT the author. If the copyright laws are about promoting art, they should reward the artist. Full stop.
Maybe the manufacturers should add an extra digitizer to the notebooks for doodling or just add this feature to a bigger touchpad. Off course, a doodle application and a touchscreen would do the trick as well.
Why do people believe that I can give the fact that I wrote a story or a song away? Shouldn't the first issue in any copyright negotiations be that the author's right is non-transferable?
If author's rights are transferable, the "new author" (a publisher, for example) will not write the sequel to the original book, nor write the next song of the original author. In fact, the author is only discouraged to write anything if somebody else can steal his rights.
If your camera is going to record a vast amount of data only to throw away 90 percent of it when you compress, why not just save battery power and memory and record 90 percent less data in the first place?..
Big corporations put their computers physically close to the stock exchange to have that nanosecond advantage for their automatic buying / selling machines. But that is obviously OK.
It's a shaking motion. The designers thought that the most used motion should be used to the mostly needed command, and every phone has an acceleration sensor these days. Also, if something is not working, users shake the device automatically. Some of the designers suggested that this should be coupled to the user shouting "HELLO!", but that had some internationally challenging problems.
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A user.
Hello? Hello? Hmm, it seems to work...
I agree 100%. Scripting interfaces are an absolute requirement, and will likely come well before the GUI.
What scripting language is there to be used? I am still waiting for "DOS" to be anywhere usable without installing all unix command-line tools. Any alternative to DOS is too short-lived or too unsafe to use (really, the fact that web scripting languages have gotten file access is still the worst bug in Windows. Especially security-wise).
Yes, an UTF-8 version would be nice!
I once made a "The Hague" version for a friend of mine, with all kinds of accents that beautify the The Hague dialect. Off course, I also invented some new rules, such as "Wat je leg mot je je bek ùit kunne krège" (You must be able to pronounce what you lay down) and off course all illnesses gave extra points.
Better give them back then before they find out they are missing.
I experienced something opposite many years ago: Just holding your hand over a recently used finger print scanner was enough to log you in as the previous user. The previous login had left enough sweat for the device to recognise as a real finger. Holding your hand above it was just to trigger the temperature sensor to activate the reading. The finger print scanners have hopefully improved much since then...
Since when do we have European elections then? Each time I have to vote in the "European elections", I can only vote for national parties, and the amount of national seats is fixed beforehand. I never had the chance to vote for French socialists, Italian Catholics, the German Green party or any party at all that has an international reputation of being serious in their own ways.
Even though I have voted in these ridiculous "elections", I am still waiting for elections where I can put my vote on the European
party that deserves it, rather than on our national parties.
So THAT is why I see all these geese who have never belonged here forming a real plague now. It's because the drop-dead obvious does not exist...
It's usually not the head puppet who is watching. It is the people in government who are not rotated at the elections who do this.
He's too busy building the organ while stroking the white cat.
Watch an ad and you're f*cked automatically!
Well, at least the honeypot becomes more credible to real terrorists now...
And as we are speaking about the UK, I really like the promise of the queen to pay me the amount mentioned on the paper money.
No. Definitely not. I don't want my complete life to stagnate when I loose the ID card, for instance. Furthermore, the idea of coupling payments to the ID card (which is basically a passport) is so horrible I do not forgive a government to even suggest it.
Maybe the buyers of this generation ID cards would just want, well, an ID card.
Which is what these devices do, if I follow the news from the past few years. These missiles just explode, and anyone near enough gets killed or injured also. This is not any different from a car bomb, which that same government would most probably call terrorism. When it is a missile instead of a car, it is obviously terrorism also, but I bet that the government won't call it that.
For the victims, it is just a bomb like any other. Is it really that difficult that you fight a war on on terrorism with intelligence, and a war on terra with military force?
As if slightly less terrible news is suddenly good news...
What incentive does a distribution channel have for producing/marketing/shipping/promoting/selling an author's work?
Other than just doing their business? If the distributor cannot make a business without stealing the author's rights, why are they in business? If the publisher cannot make a profit and pay the author his share, then why are they in the publishing business?
Furthermore, an exclusivity agreement is something quite different than handing any future revenue to the publisher.
If the author's only revenue is something to sell to the party that gets the real revenue, then the copyright laws are basically flawed. They promote the "rights holder" and therefore NOT the author. If the copyright laws are about promoting art, they should reward the artist. Full stop.
You never played in a band and got a song broadcasted, did you?
I think any porn site will require payment. For that fact alone, they already have a secure site, if only to prevent scaring away paying customers.
Maybe the manufacturers should add an extra digitizer to the notebooks for doodling or just add this feature to a bigger touchpad. Off course, a doodle application and a touchscreen would do the trick as well.
So we now need to build a computer to know what the actual question was...
Why do people believe that I can give the fact that I wrote a story or a song away? Shouldn't the first issue in any copyright negotiations be that the author's right is non-transferable?
If author's rights are transferable, the "new author" (a publisher, for example) will not write the sequel to the original book, nor write the next song of the original author. In fact, the author is only discouraged to write anything if somebody else can steal his rights.
If your camera is going to record a vast amount of data only to throw away 90 percent of it when you compress, why not just save battery power and memory and record 90 percent less data in the first place? ..
That's what a digital camera is about, isn't it?
Big corporations put their computers physically close to the stock exchange to have that nanosecond advantage for their automatic buying / selling machines. But that is obviously OK.
It's a shaking motion. The designers thought that the most used motion should be used to the mostly needed command, and every phone has an acceleration sensor these days. Also, if something is not working, users shake the device automatically. Some of the designers suggested that this should be coupled to the user shouting "HELLO!", but that had some internationally challenging problems.