Here is the thing, in developing and third-world nations the infrastructure simply isn't there. Most of the time their countries are located in hostile terrain, either they are isolated by mountains, the sea, have extreme climates, have a corrupt government that doesn't want to help its people, or the people simply live in remote areas. Just look at rural America, there are lots of places where the best you can get is cell phone internet speeds, and a lot of these people live just a mile or two outside of a town. Think of how bigger of a challenge this is where you have people who live many miles from any major town, are dirt poor, and you have to cross hostile terrain. Thats how its like in most of these countries.
Or could this be a patent to block MS? Think about it, MS software is expensive, with Windows 7 they actually have an OS that doesn't totally suck, perhaps Apple is just blocking MS from making an ad-supported Windows 8?
Any true libertarian recognizes that copyright is an artificial regulation produced by the government and therefore should be reduced to a minimum length (think 5-20 years or so), or abolished and the DMCA further reduces a free economy. If we have sane copyright, reduced patents (Again is government regulation of an economy), and less government involvement (so governments can't mandate closed standards) we essentially have the perfect system for free software. Propriatary software can still exist but it is checked by the fact that people can legally use it after a certain sane amount of time, little to no patents, the ability to decompile and redistribute modified sources would make it be a free economy for both authors of software and consumers. Think of it this way, we might have Windows 9X in the public domain by now, we can decompile it and use it as more or less of a backend for WINE to emulate Windows, while NT might not yet be in the public domain, a lot of legacy programs are still used, this would get us one step closer to a perfect Linux system.
Any libertarian who is against government intervention should be against copyright, and even though RMS might be against a state in which there is no or a very weak copyright, it is a plus for both free software and consumers.
Of course they are going to be happy simply to have food to eat because they don't know of any luxuries. We've all seen people driving expensive cars, seen the benchmarks on expensive CPUs, read the motherboard documentation to see how much RAM you can stuff in there, seen and probably ate a five course meal. Most of those people have to struggle to gain food every single day, their lives are brutal and short. While most of us/.ers can probably bet on living to at least 60 or 70 unless you develop some condition, even the most healthy kid can only aspire to living to 40 at the longest in many societies like that because of either war, famine, sickness or other preventable ways. So how can you complain about not driving a fancy car when you don't know about any cars other than the humanitarian aid jeeps?
If you think because people in third world countries are happy because they don't have a lot, might I suggest trading places with someone in a third world country? I'm sure they would be happier in the US or Europe and you would be more miserable wherever they were.
I suggest we look to the roots and foundations of 'evil' and how we can circumvent its expressions in life; most cases indicate that 'money' should be destroyed and new cultures and ways of existence need arise.
Ok, so how are we supposed to do that? In 2009 we still have finite supplies of everything, if I want a ham sandwich I can't magically produce ham by speaking "create ham", it isn't even digital where if you have one piece of ham you can make almost infinite copies without damaging the original ham or using any other parts.
You know it is your culture that taught you to be jealous of polygamy.
Um, I don't see how I'm "jealous" of polygamy, its hard enough work keeping one woman happy, let alone three or four.
It is your culture that taught you to put common man at opposition.
What are you on? In case you haven't looked at the natural world (as I'm assuming you are basically saying you think humans are nothing more than evolved animals) every animal wants to dominate all the other animals. We as humans at least can do it civilly without much bloodshed and still maintain a society where just about everyone can live without fear of hunger or their safety. Sure, we can't all afford 50 inch plasmas, a Ferrari and 5 Core i7 boxes, but in general most everyone in at least a semi-free society will know they are going to be able to eat tomorrow.
It is your culture that prioritizes the individual over community.
Yeah, and look at how well the cultures that prioritized the community over the individual. You know governments such as fascism like Nazi Germany where they felt they needed to kill a few "individual" Jews for the sake of the "community" and don't even try bringing in "modern science" because that is what they manipulated to get the German public to at least tolerate it. Other governments such as communism that end up being corrupt to the core, breed dictators like Joesph Stalin, people who don't care if their people starve like Kim Jung-Il, Which country would you rather live in? North Korea where the "community" comes first, or in the US which is "individualistic" where I can be pretty sure I'll have food to eat tomorrow, the day after that and the day after that and I can be confident I can have medical treatment whenever I need it (even if I might have to pay for it later), and I can at least have a few freedoms (though they are being taken away day after day by the government).
Very little in what is wrong with humans can be attributed to nature: nurture is where we go wrong.
Are you just a troll or have you not seen nature? In nature life is brutal, short and in general not much fun. While we have leisure time to think, to ponder and to have fun, in nature you always have to be perpetually looking out against predators, gathering food, and making sure that the members of your own species don't decide to kill you. If you have a sickness no one cares, you just die in pain. You mean to say that the "natural" way of doing things is "better" because we don't have this "evil"? I'd prefer to be sent these spam e-mails than to spend every day fighting to survive.
Not all IT people are "geek squad" types. Most of us who aren't in high school work on functional machines and functional networks. Hardware needs to be replaced and upgraded, new machines are added to the network, the need to keep up-to-date with the latest software, testing the latest software, eliminating security vulnerabilities, even if all the computer users in the world had a virus-free PC very few real IT workers would be out of a job.
Technology cannot eliminate human stupidity. What person doesn't know not to go double clicking on random EXEs, install random Active X controls, etc. yet the number of virus infested Windows boxes shows that most people don't follow that advice. Seriously, how many people think they can make millions by following the directions in these e-mails?
The success of these e-mails is a testament to human stupidity in and of itself.
A torrent system such as TPB is more or less content neutral, similar to a GPS. What copyright holders want is effectively for the GPS to censor out and remove all references to where to get drugs. If 123 West Somestreet was a crackhouse, I can still punch that into a GPS and get directions to it, yet the GPS manufacturers wouldn't be liable for it. That is a lot more accurate of a description then selling maps with "GET FREE DRUGS HERE" signs.
What are you talking about? Disney has been a proponent of eternal copyright (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act) which I'd say is unethical at the least, an attack on the public and plain evil at the worst.
Since the Copyright Act of 1976, copyright would last for the life of the author plus 50 years, or 75 years for a work of corporate authorship. The Act extended these terms to life of the author plus 70 years and for works of corporate authorship to 120 years after creation or 95 years after publication, whichever endpoint is earlier.
Because apparently 75 years is too few for Disney. Why do they need to increase copyright to 120 years, far beyond the average lifespan of a human, heck the oldest verified person died at age 122, so I don't think Disney is concerned about having someones work fall into the "horror" of the public domain where it can be used freely and expanded upon and is an actual asset to culture at a whole.
Disney is not an ethical company, this is particularly disturbing because even if you don't like Disney movies chances are you watch Touchstone or read/watch Marvel books/movies both companies Disney owns.
Some do though. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xandros more or less does. Then again every time I've used Xandros (usually on an EEE PC) its been a horrible experience compared to Ubuntu, Debian and even Fedora.
Change happens slowly and change is slower when there is lots of ignorance. Vista lacked a lot of drivers for things, Vista broke not just games but essential productivity tools, Vista added new annoyances that didn't make -any- difference in security, etc. The only reason Vista managed to "survive" is it was shipped by default on most new computers. Its only a matter of time until MS has to get rid of all the legacy cruft. When that happens people will A) Upgrade things to use newer, more open standards B) Use emulators or compatibility layers (such as WINE) to run old programs or C) Will switch programs. Other than UNIX and a few niche OSes, very few operating system designs are able to be relevant when faced with changing needs or demands. Mac OS has already radically switched designs many times. Not only in basic OS architecture going from OS 9 and earlier to OS X, but even different CPU architectures. Microsoft should have changed ages ago with NT (back when it was the sole usable OS for x86, Linux required either a computer science degree or a burnt offering to work) but instead they added the legacy back on top of NT which is leading them with no real OS in 2009 that is sustainable. Windows 7 is but a patch in a leaking boat, it might keep them afloat for a bit longer but in a few more years they are going to have to either change or be devoured by Linux and OS X.
While I agree with your general sentiments I disagree on some of your points.
- Space - I can fit a paperback in my pocket.
You can fit one paperback in your pocket, but how about a bunch of University textbooks? A few novels? The paper? A large encyclopedia? If you are only reading one book sure, its more convenient, but if you are a student or read a lot its a lot easier carrying around one e-reader than 3-4 different books.
- Durability - Both are ruined by water, but I can bang a paper book around pretty good and it's still readable. Even if I totally destroy a paper book, I'm only out the few dollars it cost me for that book [I buy most books used].
True, but this is the same for all electronics. Its kinda silly for me to argue how CDs are better than an iPod because if I break a CD I'm only out ~7 bucks.
Obsolesence - in 15, or 50 years I can give my books to my daughter or grandkids, and they'll be able to read them all or sell them to someone else to read [hopefully not:) ]. There's a good chance that the ebook I buy today won't be readable in 5 years let alone 50.
It depends, but some e-books are in plain text or an open format that will be readable for the foreseeable future.
What really needs to happen is that publishers need to wake up and realize that people don't want to pay extra for an ebook version of a physical book, especially on older titles. I'm not going to pay $15 or even $10 to read To Kill a Mockingbird even though it was a decent-ish book, if it was around $3 I'd buy it. On the other hand a new book that interested me I'd have no problems spending $10 on the e-book version.
Every time they do that it is the customers get screwed. Lets see here, you get rootkits because of "piracy", you get updates that can break your console because of "piracy" (such as the Wii update that disabled homebrew and there are many many things you can do via homebrew that isn't piracy), etc. There isn't a single console that has been truly killed because of "piracy" that had everything going for it. The most cited example is the Dreamcast which had a host of problems including lack of DVD support which the PS2 promised, lack of good games, etc. and that kills a console more than piracy can ever.
Because every other manufacturer before this generation has pretty much allowed whatever? I've used 3rd party memory cards for the Playstation, PlayStation 2, Wii, Gamecube and just about every console that has supported memory cards with no disadvantages. This changes things.
Ideally, yes. In practice no. Ideally we would all learn how to think for ourselves, how to form opinions, how to learn and how to adapt. In practice you sit through lectures about topics that most of the time won't benefit you, cram before a test, regurgitate the information on a test and repeat. Not only that but everyone is out to screw you for your last dollar. You pay for overpriced texbooks with new editions that are just old editions rebranded with pages switched around so you can't use the old textbook, you pay overpriced tuition, you live in tiny dorms that are smaller than some bedrooms with some strange roommate who either enjoys doing drugs, listening to the type of music you don't like at full blast, coming in late at 3 AM and waking you up, or something equally as annoying. Yeah, education should be more than how you will function in society but if you've stepped onto a typical campus in 2009, you will find that isn't the case.
Its becoming increasingly obvious that education is more or less worthless for the -vast- majority of occupations. While a top degree will perhaps land you a job, people are starting to wonder why. The CEOs with degrees at Harvard are running companies into the ground. While education is a "nice thing" perhaps its time to start, as a society rebelling against unneeded education, especially with the internet. 25 years ago to find a lot of stuff you would need to spend time researching things either at a public library or at a college library. Today that is no longer the case. Similarly, even though technology has expanded, the skills needed to do a job have not for most careers, if anything technology has automated many of the tedious, time consuming and error-prone tasks. Knowledge is free, education is not. Knowledge is needed at most jobs, education in all honesty is not. I think its time for society to realize this.
Capable for what? The platform has stagnated, its dated both architecturally and UI-wise, and honestly has no benefits over Android when modified, lets take some points of the article you linked.
Nvidia exec praised for having a "low footprint"
Of course anything designed for systems in 2003 and before would have a low footprint, just like saying how Debian 2.2 runs great on a Core i7, that doesn't mean that you should use that over the most recent version of Debian.
and being "rock solid."
Well, for an OS that hasn't changed hardly at all for over half a decade I'd say that at the very least it should be solid.
Nvidia is busy optimizing its multimedia-savvy Tegra system-on-chip for Windows CE. Such improvements won't arrive for at least a year to Android
Ok, so they won't make optimizations to Tegra for Android so therefore they think its better.
which has an inflexible UI and poor graphics support for devices larger than a smartphone, says Nvidia
News flash, an OS written for smartphones is best on... smartphones. Just like you aren't going to take WebOS or iPhone OS and have that as your desktop.
And a nice OS? What are you comparing it to? Windows 3.1? Please tell me what is so "nice" about Windows CE compared to the wealth of other mobile OSes?
Chrome Frame was required for running Google Wave (HTML5) in IE. So its not much different than all those Active X plugins you used to have to install to get other things to work back in the "bad old days".
The problem with Windows Mobile is there has been no. And I mean no innovation in the last few years. Yes we have 7 which will be coming out... eventually. But seriously, 6.1 and 6.5 other than having a Zune-like UI are essentially the same as the Pocket PC 2000 OSes. There are UI inconsistencies, in general manufacturers find that its so ugly having the default UI so they switch to a different UI, etc. About the only benefit of Windows Mobile is that there are a lot of applications, but when you compare it to Android and the iPhone there really aren't that more real apps. To put it nicely, Windows Mobile sucks. If it was rock-solid stable, that would be one thing, but when everything is pretty much crap on it and it freezes all the time, why not just get an iPhone, Pre or Android device that is going to actually get better with time?
Is there really a use now for embryonic stem cells now that we can do just about everything with adult stem cells? Really, if we could move some of the less informed political activists for more funding for adult stem cells perhaps we could do a lot more.
Depends which jobs you are applying for, but if you aren't going into a super technology-based field (such as if you are applying to be a sysadmin at a local business, not applying for Google, MS or IBM) use big recognizable names. Even if you only submitted a small patch for the Linux kernel, saying that you have developed part of the Linux kernel might just be what is needed on your resume. Other large projects such as Firefox, Open Office, and other things that the people in HR recognize might just make them think you are great at your job even if its only tiny patches you submitted.
Wait... If both statements are true. Bill Gates must be God! It would explain some of the weird things in DNA that don't seem to do anything but it doesn't work when you take them away....
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Here is the thing, in developing and third-world nations the infrastructure simply isn't there. Most of the time their countries are located in hostile terrain, either they are isolated by mountains, the sea, have extreme climates, have a corrupt government that doesn't want to help its people, or the people simply live in remote areas. Just look at rural America, there are lots of places where the best you can get is cell phone internet speeds, and a lot of these people live just a mile or two outside of a town. Think of how bigger of a challenge this is where you have people who live many miles from any major town, are dirt poor, and you have to cross hostile terrain. Thats how its like in most of these countries.
Or could this be a patent to block MS? Think about it, MS software is expensive, with Windows 7 they actually have an OS that doesn't totally suck, perhaps Apple is just blocking MS from making an ad-supported Windows 8?
Any true libertarian recognizes that copyright is an artificial regulation produced by the government and therefore should be reduced to a minimum length (think 5-20 years or so), or abolished and the DMCA further reduces a free economy. If we have sane copyright, reduced patents (Again is government regulation of an economy), and less government involvement (so governments can't mandate closed standards) we essentially have the perfect system for free software. Propriatary software can still exist but it is checked by the fact that people can legally use it after a certain sane amount of time, little to no patents, the ability to decompile and redistribute modified sources would make it be a free economy for both authors of software and consumers. Think of it this way, we might have Windows 9X in the public domain by now, we can decompile it and use it as more or less of a backend for WINE to emulate Windows, while NT might not yet be in the public domain, a lot of legacy programs are still used, this would get us one step closer to a perfect Linux system.
Any libertarian who is against government intervention should be against copyright, and even though RMS might be against a state in which there is no or a very weak copyright, it is a plus for both free software and consumers.
Of course they are going to be happy simply to have food to eat because they don't know of any luxuries. We've all seen people driving expensive cars, seen the benchmarks on expensive CPUs, read the motherboard documentation to see how much RAM you can stuff in there, seen and probably ate a five course meal. Most of those people have to struggle to gain food every single day, their lives are brutal and short. While most of us /.ers can probably bet on living to at least 60 or 70 unless you develop some condition, even the most healthy kid can only aspire to living to 40 at the longest in many societies like that because of either war, famine, sickness or other preventable ways. So how can you complain about not driving a fancy car when you don't know about any cars other than the humanitarian aid jeeps?
If you think because people in third world countries are happy because they don't have a lot, might I suggest trading places with someone in a third world country? I'm sure they would be happier in the US or Europe and you would be more miserable wherever they were.
I suggest we look to the roots and foundations of 'evil' and how we can circumvent its expressions in life; most cases indicate that 'money' should be destroyed and new cultures and ways of existence need arise.
Ok, so how are we supposed to do that? In 2009 we still have finite supplies of everything, if I want a ham sandwich I can't magically produce ham by speaking "create ham", it isn't even digital where if you have one piece of ham you can make almost infinite copies without damaging the original ham or using any other parts.
You know it is your culture that taught you to be jealous of polygamy.
Um, I don't see how I'm "jealous" of polygamy, its hard enough work keeping one woman happy, let alone three or four.
It is your culture that taught you to put common man at opposition.
What are you on? In case you haven't looked at the natural world (as I'm assuming you are basically saying you think humans are nothing more than evolved animals) every animal wants to dominate all the other animals. We as humans at least can do it civilly without much bloodshed and still maintain a society where just about everyone can live without fear of hunger or their safety. Sure, we can't all afford 50 inch plasmas, a Ferrari and 5 Core i7 boxes, but in general most everyone in at least a semi-free society will know they are going to be able to eat tomorrow.
It is your culture that prioritizes the individual over community.
Yeah, and look at how well the cultures that prioritized the community over the individual. You know governments such as fascism like Nazi Germany where they felt they needed to kill a few "individual" Jews for the sake of the "community" and don't even try bringing in "modern science" because that is what they manipulated to get the German public to at least tolerate it. Other governments such as communism that end up being corrupt to the core, breed dictators like Joesph Stalin, people who don't care if their people starve like Kim Jung-Il, Which country would you rather live in? North Korea where the "community" comes first, or in the US which is "individualistic" where I can be pretty sure I'll have food to eat tomorrow, the day after that and the day after that and I can be confident I can have medical treatment whenever I need it (even if I might have to pay for it later), and I can at least have a few freedoms (though they are being taken away day after day by the government).
Very little in what is wrong with humans can be attributed to nature: nurture is where we go wrong.
Are you just a troll or have you not seen nature? In nature life is brutal, short and in general not much fun. While we have leisure time to think, to ponder and to have fun, in nature you always have to be perpetually looking out against predators, gathering food, and making sure that the members of your own species don't decide to kill you. If you have a sickness no one cares, you just die in pain. You mean to say that the "natural" way of doing things is "better" because we don't have this "evil"? I'd prefer to be sent these spam e-mails than to spend every day fighting to survive.
Not all IT people are "geek squad" types. Most of us who aren't in high school work on functional machines and functional networks. Hardware needs to be replaced and upgraded, new machines are added to the network, the need to keep up-to-date with the latest software, testing the latest software, eliminating security vulnerabilities, even if all the computer users in the world had a virus-free PC very few real IT workers would be out of a job.
Technology cannot eliminate human stupidity. What person doesn't know not to go double clicking on random EXEs, install random Active X controls, etc. yet the number of virus infested Windows boxes shows that most people don't follow that advice. Seriously, how many people think they can make millions by following the directions in these e-mails?
The success of these e-mails is a testament to human stupidity in and of itself.
A torrent system such as TPB is more or less content neutral, similar to a GPS. What copyright holders want is effectively for the GPS to censor out and remove all references to where to get drugs. If 123 West Somestreet was a crackhouse, I can still punch that into a GPS and get directions to it, yet the GPS manufacturers wouldn't be liable for it. That is a lot more accurate of a description then selling maps with "GET FREE DRUGS HERE" signs.
Disney haven't been too unethical over they years
What are you talking about? Disney has been a proponent of eternal copyright (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act) which I'd say is unethical at the least, an attack on the public and plain evil at the worst.
Since the Copyright Act of 1976, copyright would last for the life of the author plus 50 years, or 75 years for a work of corporate authorship. The Act extended these terms to life of the author plus 70 years and for works of corporate authorship to 120 years after creation or 95 years after publication, whichever endpoint is earlier.
Because apparently 75 years is too few for Disney. Why do they need to increase copyright to 120 years, far beyond the average lifespan of a human, heck the oldest verified person died at age 122, so I don't think Disney is concerned about having someones work fall into the "horror" of the public domain where it can be used freely and expanded upon and is an actual asset to culture at a whole.
Disney is not an ethical company, this is particularly disturbing because even if you don't like Disney movies chances are you watch Touchstone or read/watch Marvel books/movies both companies Disney owns.
....So spend the $3 on an old VHS player at a garage sale?
But how do you really feel.
I really feel you should have ended that sentence with a question mark.
Some do though. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xandros more or less does. Then again every time I've used Xandros (usually on an EEE PC) its been a horrible experience compared to Ubuntu, Debian and even Fedora.
Change happens slowly and change is slower when there is lots of ignorance. Vista lacked a lot of drivers for things, Vista broke not just games but essential productivity tools, Vista added new annoyances that didn't make -any- difference in security, etc. The only reason Vista managed to "survive" is it was shipped by default on most new computers. Its only a matter of time until MS has to get rid of all the legacy cruft. When that happens people will A) Upgrade things to use newer, more open standards B) Use emulators or compatibility layers (such as WINE) to run old programs or C) Will switch programs. Other than UNIX and a few niche OSes, very few operating system designs are able to be relevant when faced with changing needs or demands. Mac OS has already radically switched designs many times. Not only in basic OS architecture going from OS 9 and earlier to OS X, but even different CPU architectures. Microsoft should have changed ages ago with NT (back when it was the sole usable OS for x86, Linux required either a computer science degree or a burnt offering to work) but instead they added the legacy back on top of NT which is leading them with no real OS in 2009 that is sustainable. Windows 7 is but a patch in a leaking boat, it might keep them afloat for a bit longer but in a few more years they are going to have to either change or be devoured by Linux and OS X.
To be honest shouldn't -any- code used to tally votes be released in the public domain for any US citizen?
- Space - I can fit a paperback in my pocket.
You can fit one paperback in your pocket, but how about a bunch of University textbooks? A few novels? The paper? A large encyclopedia? If you are only reading one book sure, its more convenient, but if you are a student or read a lot its a lot easier carrying around one e-reader than 3-4 different books.
- Durability - Both are ruined by water, but I can bang a paper book around pretty good and it's still readable. Even if I totally destroy a paper book, I'm only out the few dollars it cost me for that book [I buy most books used].
True, but this is the same for all electronics. Its kinda silly for me to argue how CDs are better than an iPod because if I break a CD I'm only out ~7 bucks.
Obsolesence - in 15, or 50 years I can give my books to my daughter or grandkids, and they'll be able to read them all or sell them to someone else to read [hopefully not :) ]. There's a good chance that the ebook I buy today won't be readable in 5 years let alone 50.
It depends, but some e-books are in plain text or an open format that will be readable for the foreseeable future.
What really needs to happen is that publishers need to wake up and realize that people don't want to pay extra for an ebook version of a physical book, especially on older titles. I'm not going to pay $15 or even $10 to read To Kill a Mockingbird even though it was a decent-ish book, if it was around $3 I'd buy it. On the other hand a new book that interested me I'd have no problems spending $10 on the e-book version.
Clearly they're trying to prevent piracy
Every time they do that it is the customers get screwed. Lets see here, you get rootkits because of "piracy", you get updates that can break your console because of "piracy" (such as the Wii update that disabled homebrew and there are many many things you can do via homebrew that isn't piracy), etc. There isn't a single console that has been truly killed because of "piracy" that had everything going for it. The most cited example is the Dreamcast which had a host of problems including lack of DVD support which the PS2 promised, lack of good games, etc. and that kills a console more than piracy can ever.
Because every other manufacturer before this generation has pretty much allowed whatever? I've used 3rd party memory cards for the Playstation, PlayStation 2, Wii, Gamecube and just about every console that has supported memory cards with no disadvantages. This changes things.
Ideally, yes. In practice no. Ideally we would all learn how to think for ourselves, how to form opinions, how to learn and how to adapt. In practice you sit through lectures about topics that most of the time won't benefit you, cram before a test, regurgitate the information on a test and repeat. Not only that but everyone is out to screw you for your last dollar. You pay for overpriced texbooks with new editions that are just old editions rebranded with pages switched around so you can't use the old textbook, you pay overpriced tuition, you live in tiny dorms that are smaller than some bedrooms with some strange roommate who either enjoys doing drugs, listening to the type of music you don't like at full blast, coming in late at 3 AM and waking you up, or something equally as annoying. Yeah, education should be more than how you will function in society but if you've stepped onto a typical campus in 2009, you will find that isn't the case.
Its becoming increasingly obvious that education is more or less worthless for the -vast- majority of occupations. While a top degree will perhaps land you a job, people are starting to wonder why. The CEOs with degrees at Harvard are running companies into the ground. While education is a "nice thing" perhaps its time to start, as a society rebelling against unneeded education, especially with the internet. 25 years ago to find a lot of stuff you would need to spend time researching things either at a public library or at a college library. Today that is no longer the case. Similarly, even though technology has expanded, the skills needed to do a job have not for most careers, if anything technology has automated many of the tedious, time consuming and error-prone tasks. Knowledge is free, education is not. Knowledge is needed at most jobs, education in all honesty is not. I think its time for society to realize this.
Nvidia exec praised for having a "low footprint"
Of course anything designed for systems in 2003 and before would have a low footprint, just like saying how Debian 2.2 runs great on a Core i7, that doesn't mean that you should use that over the most recent version of Debian.
and being "rock solid."
Well, for an OS that hasn't changed hardly at all for over half a decade I'd say that at the very least it should be solid.
Nvidia is busy optimizing its multimedia-savvy Tegra system-on-chip for Windows CE. Such improvements won't arrive for at least a year to Android
Ok, so they won't make optimizations to Tegra for Android so therefore they think its better.
which has an inflexible UI and poor graphics support for devices larger than a smartphone, says Nvidia
News flash, an OS written for smartphones is best on... smartphones. Just like you aren't going to take WebOS or iPhone OS and have that as your desktop.
And a nice OS? What are you comparing it to? Windows 3.1? Please tell me what is so "nice" about Windows CE compared to the wealth of other mobile OSes?
Chrome Frame was required for running Google Wave (HTML5) in IE. So its not much different than all those Active X plugins you used to have to install to get other things to work back in the "bad old days".
The problem with Windows Mobile is there has been no. And I mean no innovation in the last few years. Yes we have 7 which will be coming out... eventually. But seriously, 6.1 and 6.5 other than having a Zune-like UI are essentially the same as the Pocket PC 2000 OSes. There are UI inconsistencies, in general manufacturers find that its so ugly having the default UI so they switch to a different UI, etc. About the only benefit of Windows Mobile is that there are a lot of applications, but when you compare it to Android and the iPhone there really aren't that more real apps. To put it nicely, Windows Mobile sucks. If it was rock-solid stable, that would be one thing, but when everything is pretty much crap on it and it freezes all the time, why not just get an iPhone, Pre or Android device that is going to actually get better with time?
Is there really a use now for embryonic stem cells now that we can do just about everything with adult stem cells? Really, if we could move some of the less informed political activists for more funding for adult stem cells perhaps we could do a lot more.
Depends which jobs you are applying for, but if you aren't going into a super technology-based field (such as if you are applying to be a sysadmin at a local business, not applying for Google, MS or IBM) use big recognizable names. Even if you only submitted a small patch for the Linux kernel, saying that you have developed part of the Linux kernel might just be what is needed on your resume. Other large projects such as Firefox, Open Office, and other things that the people in HR recognize might just make them think you are great at your job even if its only tiny patches you submitted.
Wait... If both statements are true. Bill Gates must be God! It would explain some of the weird things in DNA that don't seem to do anything but it doesn't work when you take them away....