"The Associated Press has the news that Georgia State Senate Majority Leader Chip Rogers is sponsoring a bill that 'would prevent public broadband providers from paying for communication networks with tax or government revenue.'
Indeed, do you think these countries would have a problem with a massive influx of Americans seeking employment over their own countrymen looking for work? Can we say that the problem is with them and their countrymen instead of "ill thought out internet advice isn't worth the electrons used"?
If you want to complain about the safety of nuclear power tell us what you want to replace it with. Be honest and include the expected change in fatalities resulting from switching over to your alternative.
Replace it with the hot air from congress. Safest source known to man.
Indeed, if there's a weak environmental link in the chain, it's the American consumers who start it by buying tens of millions of pounds of Christmas tree lights every year, only to throw them into the recycle bin, guilt free, when a bulb breaks. But Li, for one, doesn't mind: that waste is the raw material for his green business.
The real story is that Americans are so wasteful that they'll throw away a string of lights for the sake of one bulb.
BTW wonder how their process will deal with LED lights?
But as this little Apple story tells us, manufacturing seems to come in two kinds at the moment. Lots of jobs but very low wages assembly work, the stuff that is done in China. Or very few jobs indeed high tech stuff. Which is nice, sure, but it just doesn’t employ tens of millions of people, not even tens of thousands.
So in other words the "knowledge economy" will not be our economic savior?
And the actual value isn’t in making the things anyway, it’s in the designing of them and the selling. Which is the part of the process that America dominates anyway.
To test, I think you'd have to set up your own cell, as this doesn't use the wifi network. People with their own personal cell tower to test with probably work for or with the carriers, and so are under NDA WRT the whole thing.
Such a thing is called a microcell and can be purchased by the public.
I don't want to DRM my book(s). I want people to read them.
DRM pisses me off and ultimately hurts the consumer and then, eventually, the publisher too. Hell if someone made a torrent on The Pirate Bay of my work I'd probably just feel proud that I'd made a book people really want to read.
Bet you'd feel even more proud when people start paying you for your efforts. As long as enough people do that to make creating worth the trouble, we as a society can thumb our collective noses at the problem. Question is, when the problem goes beyond that point, can any creator stand upon moral ground and say it's wrong, and can the hands be turned back to the point just before the, "we don't care" and creators can start creating again?
NASA's Vector Electric Field Instrument aboard the U.S. Air Force's Communications/Navigation Outage Forecast System satellite has detected Schumann resonance from space. This comes as a surprise, since current models of Schumann resonance predict these waves should be caged at lower altitude, between the ground and a layer of Earth's atmosphere called the ionosphere.
Darn! There goes my plans to build Tesla's wireless power plant.
If the big six began selling ebooks without DRM, readers would at least be able to buy from other retailers and read their ebooks on whatever platform they wanted, thus eroding Amazon's monopoly position.
You mean I can't buy from the likes of B&N already? Never mind they already have their own DRM. Also as a side note it would be interesting to both see E-reader sales and how much each purchaser buys?
Some power companies are wiring the smart-grid backbones with fiber optic. Aside from serving their needs it's also a sneaky way of putting a consumer WAN in behind the established players backs.
Slashdot Mirror
"The Associated Press has the news that Georgia State Senate Majority Leader Chip Rogers is sponsoring a bill that 'would prevent public broadband providers from paying for communication networks with tax or government revenue.'
How about if I just give them the money?
Indeed, do you think these countries would have a problem with a massive influx of Americans seeking employment over their own countrymen looking for work? Can we say that the problem is with them and their countrymen instead of "ill thought out internet advice isn't worth the electrons used"?
Genera
Manufacturing prowess is another word for "brute force" because we just can't live without our legacy decisions.
If you want to complain about the safety of nuclear power tell us what you want to replace it with. Be honest and include the expected change in fatalities resulting from switching over to your alternative.
Replace it with the hot air from congress. Safest source known to man.
Indeed, if there's a weak environmental link in the chain, it's the American consumers who start it by buying tens of millions of pounds of Christmas tree lights every year, only to throw them into the recycle bin, guilt free, when a bulb breaks. But Li, for one, doesn't mind: that waste is the raw material for his green business.
The real story is that Americans are so wasteful that they'll throw away a string of lights for the sake of one bulb.
BTW wonder how their process will deal with LED lights?
The Invisible Computer Lab
What are some of your ideas for a great computer lab for education?
The Perfect Educational Computer Lab
We'd be programming in either Interlisp or Smalltalk-80.
But as this little Apple story tells us, manufacturing seems to come in two kinds at the moment. Lots of jobs but very low wages assembly work, the stuff that is done in China. Or very few jobs indeed high tech stuff. Which is nice, sure, but it just doesn’t employ tens of millions of people, not even tens of thousands.
So in other words the "knowledge economy" will not be our economic savior?
And the actual value isn’t in making the things anyway, it’s in the designing of them and the selling. Which is the part of the process that America dominates anyway.
ProtectIP
So, I ask you, Slashdotters, what web framework do you find to be the best and why? Why would you avoid others?
Seaside or Weblocks
Not a big fan of Franken, but he seems to be quite clued on Technological issues.
Look at the list of co-sponsors for ProtectIP.
To test, I think you'd have to set up your own cell, as this doesn't use the wifi network. People with their own personal cell tower to test with probably work for or with the carriers, and so are under NDA WRT the whole thing.
Such a thing is called a microcell and can be purchased by the public.
Maybe the indented audience was UI designers?
How Carrier IQ was wrongly accused of keylogging
Skeptics find flaws in Carrier IQ application analysis
As I posted in another forum, the court of public opinion isn't in complete agreement.
Disclaimer: I'm currently finalizing a book for the Amazon store. Shameless linkwhore here.
I don't want to DRM my book(s). I want people to read them.
DRM pisses me off and ultimately hurts the consumer and then, eventually, the publisher too. Hell if someone made a torrent on The Pirate Bay of my work I'd probably just feel proud that I'd made a book people really want to read.
Bet you'd feel even more proud when people start paying you for your efforts. As long as enough people do that to make creating worth the trouble, we as a society can thumb our collective noses at the problem. Question is, when the problem goes beyond that point, can any creator stand upon moral ground and say it's wrong, and can the hands be turned back to the point just before the, "we don't care" and creators can start creating again?
NASA's Vector Electric Field Instrument aboard the U.S. Air Force's Communications/Navigation Outage Forecast System satellite has detected Schumann resonance from space. This comes as a surprise, since current models of Schumann resonance predict these waves should be caged at lower altitude, between the ground and a layer of Earth's atmosphere called the ionosphere.
Darn! There goes my plans to build Tesla's wireless power plant.
If the big six began selling ebooks without DRM, readers would at least be able to buy from other retailers and read their ebooks on whatever platform they wanted, thus eroding Amazon's monopoly position.
You mean I can't buy from the likes of B&N already? Never mind they already have their own DRM. Also as a side note it would be interesting to both see E-reader sales and how much each purchaser buys?
We've just released preview ICS builds of Freescale's iMX53, ST Ericsson's Snowball, Samsung's Origen and TI's Panda boards
Wonderful. Now all I need is an inexpensive touch-panel to go with my Pandaboard.
With that in mind, they revealed the final board is exactly the same size as a credit card, measuring 85.65 x 53.98mm."
And it's name will be Selma
OpenStep or NextStep. The easiest using Unix variants till MacOSX came along.
If in the future the patents are found groundless, will all those who paid get their money back?
Some power companies are wiring the smart-grid backbones with fiber optic. Aside from serving their needs it's also a sneaky way of putting a consumer WAN in behind the established players backs.
I thought we all were in agreement that piracy was an unmeasurable phenomenon? Which of course also means that benefits are immeasurable.