So the alternative is what? Nokia and MS both fell behind, and the future of both companies does not look good. This partnership is the only thing I see that can bring WP7 to a large enough market share.
Unlockable, rootable, dual boot, are features that are irrelevant to the majority of phone users.
What is relevant is great hardware, and 3d acceleration, which my N900 has already. Combined with an easy to use SDK, which can port to/from windows/xbox/wp7 this may be able to compete with android. Don't forget the playstation phone runs android, so the barrier to entry for new mobile OSes keeps increasing.
I think you just stumbled upon the solution - video games as a religion.
Hell, there is plenty of child rape, murder and other horrific atrocities committed in the Bible and other religious texts, and it's even marketed towards kids! If you think video games are violent now, imagine a FPS game that walks you through the old testament.
So your argument is that it's OK to give a break to Intel, yet at the same time fair to tax Nike, which seems to have found a loop hole by outsourcing labor.
Accumulating capitol... machines, wealth, knowledge, should never be taxed, since those are the tools needed to create products and services. Tax the end goal, the profits.
High frequency trading just fixes the inefficiencies that used to take days to equilibriate.
Here's a quote from the Chicago Board Options Exchange, ala wiki "The fast-growing practice of high-frequency trading, in which traders place vast flurries of securities trades, is speeding up execution times for all investors, making it cheaper to buy or sell and posing no risk to small investors."
However, they are still in the millisecond and microsecond range..... so slow.
Or perhaps maybe give out a grant to write a textbook. Open textbooks for freshmen level classes should be possible, and is being worked on.
It's ridiculous making freshmen pay $200 for a physics textbook, that IMHO is worse than the one I paid $80 for 10 years ago.
There are about 400 students in the 100 level physics classes at my school. That's $80,000 for just 1 year of books, in one subject, only freshmen level, at one university.
So obviously it's millions per year per subject nationwide. Don't you think for a couple million we could get someone to write a free textbook, and then we can save millions year after year.
It's almost as insane as paying so much for journal subscriptions, instead of switching to open publications.
No matter how you look at it, the Sun and Earth revolve around each other, it's just that their center of mass is approximated by the position of the Sun, since it's much more massive. The CM (center of mass) is the only point that doesn't accelerate in all inertial reference frames.
It's really not that many people, and doesn't account for much of the budget. In an advanced society I think this is exactly what we need, and where we should aim to head. Right now, if you are happy living of 10 grand or so, you don't have to work. Sure it sucks, and surprisingly people still choose to. Hopefully we will steadily increase how much you get for not working, 20 grand, 30 grand, with more and more people not working. The future promises good lives for everyone, with machines doing more and more work.
What's sad is that there are still poor and homeless people, while others know the system and live happily without working.
The summary's point was the even if the paper is correct, there may be systematic errors in the data. I.E., these guys downloaded the data from the telescope repositories, this data might have errors.
Here here, if you have a corvette, it should be much cheaper than 365.25*25 = $9,131.25 a year to go 90mph. A corvette going 100mph can't be any less safe than a 18 wheeler doing 75mph.
Of course they would still be out there, it would just become more humorous when no money is involved. Just think of your spambox full of Rick Roll videos.
That's why they will intervene, not because of moral or legal reasons.
You have it all wrong, it IS the moral thing to do. If the US can't protect it's IP when it manufactures abroad, it'll have to bring all those factories home. Those countries will have no one to export to. India is testing the front on eavesdropping on everyone, including businesses, we'll see if that affects outsourcing. Brazil is testing a different front. China and many US businesses have issues, just remember the Google fiasco.
It's also the Legal thing, Patents are in the constitution. I agree that the US is far to aggressive(borderline ridiculous) in it's approach/pricing, but Tit for Tat. We need IP laws, just sensible ones. Artists DO have a right to their work, but how about 5-15yrs, not 90yrs. I thought the Pirate Party in Sweden had a chance to accomplish that, but I think they will have their hand full with Wikileaks.
I don't get the concern, all the credit card companies are currently selling information about what we buy to whoever will pay. I love the way they go after Google, instead of the companies profiting by selling personal information about people by the 1000. Last I checked, you couldn't call up Google and ask for the addresses of everyone that eats out Italian at least once a month, within a certain zip code.
But you can call plenty of other companies for that data.
Ummm, prepaid cell phones are available almost anywhere in the U.S. , and you can purchase them with cash. We aren't talking about you willingly giving up your information to a company known for spying on US citizens just to get some iCrap.
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So the alternative is what? Nokia and MS both fell behind, and the future of both companies does not look good. This partnership is the only thing I see that can bring WP7 to a large enough market share.
Unlockable, rootable, dual boot, are features that are irrelevant to the majority of phone users.
What is relevant is great hardware, and 3d acceleration, which my N900 has already. Combined with an easy to use SDK, which can port to/from windows/xbox/wp7 this may be able to compete with android. Don't forget the playstation phone runs android, so the barrier to entry for new mobile OSes keeps increasing.
Yea, I almosted mentioned porn, but I figured good VR porn is further in the future than good VR violence.
Virtual reality is gonna suck balls if it's nonviolent.
I think you just stumbled upon the solution - video games as a religion.
Hell, there is plenty of child rape, murder and other horrific atrocities committed in the Bible and other religious texts, and it's even marketed towards kids! If you think video games are violent now, imagine a FPS game that walks you through the old testament.
And no taxes :)
So your argument is that it's OK to give a break to Intel, yet at the same time fair to tax Nike, which seems to have found a loop hole by outsourcing labor.
Accumulating capitol... machines, wealth, knowledge, should never be taxed, since those are the tools needed to create products and services. Tax the end goal, the profits.
So you mean to say, start printing bitcoin notes at a bitcoin treasury... and expand the money supply to avoid deflation.
correction: read the summary.
agreed, the demo is being promoted on xbox right now and I keep avoid dling it, until I read this article!
It's also the only way to combat piracy that works. You need the legit game to play with your friends that use legit copies.
High frequency trading just fixes the inefficiencies that used to take days to equilibriate.
Here's a quote from the Chicago Board Options Exchange, ala wiki "The fast-growing practice of high-frequency trading, in which traders place vast flurries of securities trades, is speeding up execution times for all investors, making it cheaper to buy or sell and posing no risk to small investors."
However, they are still in the millisecond and microsecond range..... so slow.
Or perhaps maybe give out a grant to write a textbook. Open textbooks for freshmen level classes should be possible, and is being worked on. It's ridiculous making freshmen pay $200 for a physics textbook, that IMHO is worse than the one I paid $80 for 10 years ago.
There are about 400 students in the 100 level physics classes at my school. That's $80,000 for just 1 year of books, in one subject, only freshmen level, at one university.
So obviously it's millions per year per subject nationwide. Don't you think for a couple million we could get someone to write a free textbook, and then we can save millions year after year.
It's almost as insane as paying so much for journal subscriptions, instead of switching to open publications.
That's also the entire point of TrueCrypt, hiding an encrypted volume within an encrypted volume.
That's the WHOLE point of encryption, if it didn't look random, you could crack it right away.
No matter how you look at it, the Sun and Earth revolve around each other, it's just that their center of mass is approximated by the position of the Sun, since it's much more massive. The CM (center of mass) is the only point that doesn't accelerate in all inertial reference frames.
You will able to get TV quality footage without lighting!!!
It's really not that many people, and doesn't account for much of the budget. In an advanced society I think this is exactly what we need, and where we should aim to head. Right now, if you are happy living of 10 grand or so, you don't have to work. Sure it sucks, and surprisingly people still choose to. Hopefully we will steadily increase how much you get for not working, 20 grand, 30 grand, with more and more people not working. The future promises good lives for everyone, with machines doing more and more work.
What's sad is that there are still poor and homeless people, while others know the system and live happily without working.
Tried Google desktop? You can search your outlook/thunderbird mail in a blink of an eye, as well as anything else on your computer.
The summary's point was the even if the paper is correct, there may be systematic errors in the data. I.E., these guys downloaded the data from the telescope repositories, this data might have errors.
Here here, if you have a corvette, it should be much cheaper than 365.25*25 = $9,131.25 a year to go 90mph. A corvette going 100mph can't be any less safe than a 18 wheeler doing 75mph.
Maybe he just reads Alex Jones and Glenn Beck all day... probably a 911 truther too.
Of course they would still be out there, it would just become more humorous when no money is involved. Just think of your spambox full of Rick Roll videos.
That's why they will intervene, not because of moral or legal reasons.
You have it all wrong, it IS the moral thing to do. If the US can't protect it's IP when it manufactures abroad, it'll have to bring all those factories home. Those countries will have no one to export to. India is testing the front on eavesdropping on everyone, including businesses, we'll see if that affects outsourcing. Brazil is testing a different front. China and many US businesses have issues, just remember the Google fiasco.
It's also the Legal thing, Patents are in the constitution. I agree that the US is far to aggressive(borderline ridiculous) in it's approach/pricing, but Tit for Tat. We need IP laws, just sensible ones. Artists DO have a right to their work, but how about 5-15yrs, not 90yrs. I thought the Pirate Party in Sweden had a chance to accomplish that, but I think they will have their hand full with Wikileaks.
I don't get the concern, all the credit card companies are currently selling information about what we buy to whoever will pay. I love the way they go after Google, instead of the companies profiting by selling personal information about people by the 1000. Last I checked, you couldn't call up Google and ask for the addresses of everyone that eats out Italian at least once a month, within a certain zip code. But you can call plenty of other companies for that data.
...AT&T...
Ummm, prepaid cell phones are available almost anywhere in the U.S. , and you can purchase them with cash. We aren't talking about you willingly giving up your information to a company known for spying on US citizens just to get some iCrap.
And in America we are all Americans :)