I wonder how long it will actually take to phase out bluetooth. I mean, that tech has been around forever and never really caught on outside of phones.
Comcast is not a monopoly. They are pretty close, and they certainly operate like one in certain local areas, but on the whole there is competition nationwide. So trying to prosecute under monopoly statues is impossible.
I can agree that the price seems outrageous, however I would say that cheap is fairly applied here. Also note that the product does not seem quite ready for mass market consumption (something which drives price down much more), and until it is I suspect none of these devices will ever seem "cheap" to you.
The argument for DRM in the car MIGHT fly in cars that are leased (which in my lay-person's brain sounds somewhat similar to a license for using software), but there can be absolutely no reason for preventing me from accessing information on something that I own outright.
Its not like I bought a license to drive the car (that was provided freely (sans a few yearly fees) by the government of my state), I own the metal. What possible argument can there be for preventing me from reading the information in my car's engine?
Except you can't use gets, because the subject of the sentence is you, not everyone else.
It may be popularly used, but I'm pretty sure even in British English no one would ever say: "You gets out of bed."
Grammar error in summary too:
"Google is apparently planning on rolling out 'high-quality news' to users who not actively searching for news."
There should be an "are" after who, I believe.
you realize that most of the applications you use are actually constrained by something other than your CPU speed (probably memory bandwidth or hard drive write speed).
Also isn't an axiom of computer security that if someone can get physical access to your machine there is pretty much no software in the world that can stop them?
Its all well and good to encrypt, but that won't help you if they remove the drive and have their beowulf cluster break your your RSA.
I thought the purpose (however misguided it may be) was to prevent people from uploading copyrighted songs/music videos and re-mixing them. So if I only use portions of the song that aren't in the first 30s I'm home free? That seems silly, the system must still be under refinement or is only there to stop the most blatant offenders.
More likely the plans have been shelved for only long enough to let the public outcry subside and for some other thing to take hold so they can be quietly rolled out under a different name and with slightly different wording.
Actually materials like that are used in semiconductors all the time. Gallium-Arsenide is a popular doping material in fact. There is a lot more arsenic in your computer right now than you expect. As long as you're not eating it, everything is fine.
Seriously if you are already tech minded why on God's Green Earth would you want to get involved with the legal profession if you could possibly avoid it?
I don't know about hell freezing over just yet, but someone is probably keeping their eyes on the dropping thermostat. This particular story is less interesting IMO than when MS licensed ActiveSync to Apple.
There are easily better applications, but you'd be surprised how much uses "PC Computing" these days.
How about enabling automatic de-icing systems on planes without needing pilot intervention. Or using the engine exhaust heat to tune your car's performance?
All of these use computers and are totally valid applications of TFA. So I hope they develop these devices if only for use in other computing fields.
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I wonder how long it will actually take to phase out bluetooth. I mean, that tech has been around forever and never really caught on outside of phones.
Comcast is not a monopoly. They are pretty close, and they certainly operate like one in certain local areas, but on the whole there is competition nationwide. So trying to prosecute under monopoly statues is impossible.
Oh what a coincidence! I think this is the same strategy the US uses for drug and patent policy. It all makes so much sense now.
lol, beta testers in '09. D3 won't start into beta until 2010 at the earliest. I would be the game doesn't hit shelves until 2011 or 2012.
One only wonders how long it will be until every spreadsheet process becomes "business critical" to override restrictions such as this.
I wouldn't bet on it. Although given the glacial pace that the IEEE has set here, I wouldn't be surprised if nothing at all had changed.
I can agree that the price seems outrageous, however I would say that cheap is fairly applied here. Also note that the product does not seem quite ready for mass market consumption (something which drives price down much more), and until it is I suspect none of these devices will ever seem "cheap" to you.
I think using SQL injection hasn't qualified as "hacking" since it showed up on XKCD.
The argument for DRM in the car MIGHT fly in cars that are leased (which in my lay-person's brain sounds somewhat similar to a license for using software), but there can be absolutely no reason for preventing me from accessing information on something that I own outright.
Its not like I bought a license to drive the car (that was provided freely (sans a few yearly fees) by the government of my state), I own the metal. What possible argument can there be for preventing me from reading the information in my car's engine?
Except you can't use gets, because the subject of the sentence is you, not everyone else. It may be popularly used, but I'm pretty sure even in British English no one would ever say: "You gets out of bed."
Grammar error in summary too: "Google is apparently planning on rolling out 'high-quality news' to users who not actively searching for news." There should be an "are" after who, I believe.
You'll never have one show up on your head when you fall asleep if you sleep to the sounds of Stairway to Heaven.
you realize that most of the applications you use are actually constrained by something other than your CPU speed (probably memory bandwidth or hard drive write speed).
This is even more true, because if they have physical access you are in much closer proximity (probably) to that very same $5 wrench.
Also isn't an axiom of computer security that if someone can get physical access to your machine there is pretty much no software in the world that can stop them? Its all well and good to encrypt, but that won't help you if they remove the drive and have their beowulf cluster break your your RSA.
I thought the purpose (however misguided it may be) was to prevent people from uploading copyrighted songs/music videos and re-mixing them. So if I only use portions of the song that aren't in the first 30s I'm home free? That seems silly, the system must still be under refinement or is only there to stop the most blatant offenders.
There's a hole in the bucket, dear Liza, dear Liza...
And this version is also intended only for emerging markets I believe. I highly doubt the US will even have such a version available.
More likely the plans have been shelved for only long enough to let the public outcry subside and for some other thing to take hold so they can be quietly rolled out under a different name and with slightly different wording.
Could this be Soil-ent Green Tomatoes?
ext-remely unlikely.
Actually materials like that are used in semiconductors all the time. Gallium-Arsenide is a popular doping material in fact. There is a lot more arsenic in your computer right now than you expect. As long as you're not eating it, everything is fine.
Seriously if you are already tech minded why on God's Green Earth would you want to get involved with the legal profession if you could possibly avoid it?
I don't know about hell freezing over just yet, but someone is probably keeping their eyes on the dropping thermostat. This particular story is less interesting IMO than when MS licensed ActiveSync to Apple.
There are easily better applications, but you'd be surprised how much uses "PC Computing" these days.
How about enabling automatic de-icing systems on planes without needing pilot intervention. Or using the engine exhaust heat to tune your car's performance?
All of these use computers and are totally valid applications of TFA. So I hope they develop these devices if only for use in other computing fields.