Why? They're both 2-3MB data files that can be duplicated an infinite number of times and neither costs more or less to host or provide. Variable pricing is a result of Demand AS WELL AS Supply. Since there is no limit here on supply, basing pricing purely on demand is completely asinine.
If anything, more popular songs should be LESS expensive since the overhead operating costs for distributing those songs is lower on a per-copy basis.
I wish Netflix would make their video streaming be integrated into Windows Media Center (and MythTV while they're at it). They already have in-browser working so it should be relatively trivial to make a plugin app. They're already spending so much money and attention on the set top boxes and now this.
Be thankful they send you a screenshot. Windows doesn't dump screenshots to file, it puts them in the clipboard. I'd rather they sent me a screenshot pasted into Word than "the computer had an error"
You also can block SMS altogether by calling a rep (the option in the online account manager doesn't work for some reason - or at least didn't when I last tried it).
$.20/text so that people can send messages to my smartphone? Screw it... email me instead. Most systems allow you to text to an email address instead of a phone number, and I don't have to pay extra to get my email (unlimited data).
Same thing. I was tiers of wasting all my holiday visits cleaning the computer of spyware. When the XP genuine advantage crap started showing up (I hadn't set up the machine), I was finally able to convince them to get a new computer. My dad needs Quickbooks so I figured a Mac Mini would be perfect.
My dad's first question was "but will it run OpenOffice and Firefox?"
AOL bought Netscape because it was relatively cheap, and they could use it for leverage to get better deals out of MS who were too scared of losing such a significant portion of marketshare.
That's the problem we're in. We have several P3 Xeons in the 300-500 MHz range that run absolutely great for our needs as AD controllers. But lack of support and difficulty with integrating newer XP 64bit, OSX (and in the future, Vista) workstations means that we'll have to replace the machine relatively soon even though they are sufficient for their taks.
So, tipping the unit slightly to check if the cables are loose is not expected behavior? Plenty of people do this with plenty of devices, not just game consoles.
Set-top DVD players don't get tipped because they're designed to only stand in one position. The game console makers have decided to make a trendy design decision allowing the units to stand on their sides instead of flat. Once you've decided that orientation is flexible, you have to expect that people will want to change the orientation.
Like a portable player, you're marketing on the fact that it can be reoriented. Do the due diligence and make sure your product lives up to what you're advertising.
Private professional organizations are NOT the same thing as licensed professions. One does not need to be a member of the AIA to be an architect, or a member of the AMA to be a doctor.
One must be LICENSED to call themselves an architect or a doctor, but licensing is controlled by the state. The licensee also takes on a significant amount of liability and is legally responsible for maintaining a certain level of competence in their profession.
The professional organizations are made up of licensed members in those professions, which in turn help advise the state on appropriate requirements (testing, etc) for licensing, and also help market and increase public awareness of that particular profession.
For example, architects are required to undergo continuing education to maintain their license. The AIA (American Instute of Architects) helps facilitate this by sending appropriate materials that meet the requirements to its members. But by all means, individuals can earn their continuing education credits elsewhere without the assistance or, or membership in, the AIA.
No, I just meant that the difference between meaning and data has no bearing on whether the idea of a semantic web has failed.
Even if the meta attributes stored in the semantic web were purely data and not meaning (eg. the ID3 data on an MP3), the semantic web would still fail simply because people are inherently lazy and won't generate the extra meta data.
The only way that it could work is if meta data were generated automatically (like EXIF on photos). The current batch of meta information that can be generated simultaneously with the content is of relatively limited use. I don't care how many of my photos were shot with an F-stop of 8 on 28mm lense, or what app I used to rip a CD. I do care about which of my photos include pictures of my infant cousins, or which MP3s contain orchestral pieces in major keys (eg. Pandora).
Significant targeted AI enhancements have been made that can for example, identify faces within batches of photos, or find all the photos with a red cup. But these are post-creation search and index algorithms. It would take very large advances (hence AI, and what current realtime vision processing on robots does) to do this at the point of content creation.
But back to your argument, yes I want meaning, not simply data. But without meaning, data is useless, and at some point we have to encode meaning as data in order to convey the meaning as we exchange data. Arguably you could interpret an infinite variety of meanings from the same data, but certain fundamental meanings can and should be encoded as data so that meaning does not need to be re-interpreted at every stage. But again, that becomes a philosophical discussion has no bearing on whether the semantic web failed. I blame the failure purely on human laziness.
I've got a better reason why it failed that doesn't require delving into first year philosophy.
People are lazy. Look at any image database and figure out why it's difficult to find something. Because people don't want to spend 20 minutes filling in tags for a single image they just want to show off to their friends.
Now expand that to every other form of data type, and its easy to see why the semantic web never did, and never will take off without significant AI involvement.
This should be trivial to implement, even with the system being open.
If roaming is turned off as a general system level preference, the TCP/IP stack (substitute appropriate data network interface) should be disabled when the phone is in roaming mode. Open or not, that's something easy to enforce at the system level.
If I turn off TCP/IP in Windows, I get no TCP/IP traffic, regardless of whether programs want it or not. The only option at that point is for a program to provide its own TCP/IP stack which there really isn't much incentive to do except in very specialized situations. Disabling data roaming should work the same way on an Android and is something fully within the power of Google to dictate and setup.
Assuming developers will check general system config files and respect them is a flawed development model that leads to the kind of security problems that Windows has. If the setting isn't enforced, then what is the point of having the setting?
If I disable roaming from a system-wide preference. It should do exactly that, disable roaming. 3rd party apps should not be override that. It's assinine to expect users to remember all the details about how every program on their system may or may not use various system resources.
This is the kind of thing, user experience, that Apple gets right and why Android isn't an iPhone killer.
Not sure if you are in their service area, but Speakeasy offers "One-Link" which is DSL that does not require a landline with a dialtone, only the physical wires.
I've been using it for years and am down to just cellphone + dsl for my telecom bills.
That's exactly why I recommended Mindstorms above. The basic programming interface isn't code, it's a flow chart, really emphasizing the idea of doing problem solving and breaking it down into components instead of worrying about language and syntax.
If you're trying to introduce the concepts of looping, iterations, etc and don't want to get hung up on the details of the language, I highly recommend the Lego Mindstorm kits. They have a flow-chart programming interface that I had great success introducing programming to my 11-13 year old cousins, and if I remember correctly, they also have a lower level interface to let you start writing your own functions.
For kids this age, nothing is better/cooler at showing them the basics of programming than something that gives a physical response. Loops, conditions, make so much more sense when trying to figure out how to keep your robot from running off the edge of the table.
Tangible real-world feedback, and a sense of real accomplishment. If you just give them abstract languagues for the sake of language, they get disappointed they can't just whip up the next Madden game. Besides, they probably all already have Legos at home, and a Mindstorm kit is something they can easily get at home, which probably won't happen with Pascal compilers or Basic editors.
If the Federal Government or contractors ran the cameras, edited, and digitized the footage, then it's a product of the Government and is subject to the public domain criteria you setup.
However, if all the above were done by independent news-reporting corporations, then the copyright to that footage lies firmly in the hands of those corporations with the power to use or licenses them as they see fit.
I'm going to disagree with you. The camera angle system in Mari64 was a nightmare leading to all kinds of clipping and camera-in-wall problems.
Mario Galaxy is much better about handling the camera, and rarely do I find myself reorienting it. Ratchet and Clank did a good job as well. I think that's the big discussion here is that 3D for 3D's sake generally isn't an improvement in and of itself. But adding to the gameplay, without causing undo hassle is a requirement for 3D in games to be successful.
I didn't get that. And since the poster obfuscated what kind of organization is under discussion, potential liability and courses of action are meaningless since different kinds of entities have different sets of legal restrictions and expectations.
You're assuming the "network operator" is simply a provider, like an ISP. The original poster, by calling it "my organization" wasn't clear if he meant a company, a service provider, a charity, or any other number of organization types.
A company is certainly liable for the activities their employees engage in using company resources. This is exactly why companies tend to have strict rules about what can and can't be done with their assets and resources (IT or otherwise). Same reason why anti-moonlighting policies exist, because if the employee used any company resources, the company may be held liable for the employee's moonlighting work.
If you are a company, you certainly are responsible for what your employees do with your network resources. Just about the only way the company can weasel out of it is to show good faith attempts at reprimanding the offenders and attempts at preventing their future misbehavior.
Business are taxed on income, not profits. Profits are after taxes, and if redistributed to shareholders, the shareholders then pay capital gains taxes on what they receive.
Charitable donations are deducted against income, whereas normal business expenses merely reduce profits.
So, by making a charitable donation, a business can reduce their taxes. Of course if they didn't make the donation, they would have higher profit.
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Why? They're both 2-3MB data files that can be duplicated an infinite number of times and neither costs more or less to host or provide. Variable pricing is a result of Demand AS WELL AS Supply. Since there is no limit here on supply, basing pricing purely on demand is completely asinine.
If anything, more popular songs should be LESS expensive since the overhead operating costs for distributing those songs is lower on a per-copy basis.
I wish Netflix would make their video streaming be integrated into Windows Media Center (and MythTV while they're at it). They already have in-browser working so it should be relatively trivial to make a plugin app. They're already spending so much money and attention on the set top boxes and now this.
Be thankful they send you a screenshot. Windows doesn't dump screenshots to file, it puts them in the clipboard. I'd rather they sent me a screenshot pasted into Word than "the computer had an error"
You also can block SMS altogether by calling a rep (the option in the online account manager doesn't work for some reason - or at least didn't when I last tried it).
$.20/text so that people can send messages to my smartphone? Screw it... email me instead. Most systems allow you to text to an email address instead of a phone number, and I don't have to pay extra to get my email (unlimited data).
Same thing. I was tiers of wasting all my holiday visits cleaning the computer of spyware. When the XP genuine advantage crap started showing up (I hadn't set up the machine), I was finally able to convince them to get a new computer. My dad needs Quickbooks so I figured a Mac Mini would be perfect.
My dad's first question was "but will it run OpenOffice and Firefox?"
I almost cried.
AOL bought Netscape because it was relatively cheap, and they could use it for leverage to get better deals out of MS who were too scared of losing such a significant portion of marketshare.
That's the problem we're in. We have several P3 Xeons in the 300-500 MHz range that run absolutely great for our needs as AD controllers. But lack of support and difficulty with integrating newer XP 64bit, OSX (and in the future, Vista) workstations means that we'll have to replace the machine relatively soon even though they are sufficient for their taks.
EOL on software forces hardware obsolescence.
So, tipping the unit slightly to check if the cables are loose is not expected behavior? Plenty of people do this with plenty of devices, not just game consoles.
Set-top DVD players don't get tipped because they're designed to only stand in one position. The game console makers have decided to make a trendy design decision allowing the units to stand on their sides instead of flat. Once you've decided that orientation is flexible, you have to expect that people will want to change the orientation.
Like a portable player, you're marketing on the fact that it can be reoriented. Do the due diligence and make sure your product lives up to what you're advertising.
Private professional organizations are NOT the same thing as licensed professions. One does not need to be a member of the AIA to be an architect, or a member of the AMA to be a doctor.
One must be LICENSED to call themselves an architect or a doctor, but licensing is controlled by the state. The licensee also takes on a significant amount of liability and is legally responsible for maintaining a certain level of competence in their profession.
The professional organizations are made up of licensed members in those professions, which in turn help advise the state on appropriate requirements (testing, etc) for licensing, and also help market and increase public awareness of that particular profession.
For example, architects are required to undergo continuing education to maintain their license. The AIA (American Instute of Architects) helps facilitate this by sending appropriate materials that meet the requirements to its members. But by all means, individuals can earn their continuing education credits elsewhere without the assistance or, or membership in, the AIA.
No, I just meant that the difference between meaning and data has no bearing on whether the idea of a semantic web has failed.
Even if the meta attributes stored in the semantic web were purely data and not meaning (eg. the ID3 data on an MP3), the semantic web would still fail simply because people are inherently lazy and won't generate the extra meta data.
The only way that it could work is if meta data were generated automatically (like EXIF on photos). The current batch of meta information that can be generated simultaneously with the content is of relatively limited use. I don't care how many of my photos were shot with an F-stop of 8 on 28mm lense, or what app I used to rip a CD. I do care about which of my photos include pictures of my infant cousins, or which MP3s contain orchestral pieces in major keys (eg. Pandora).
Significant targeted AI enhancements have been made that can for example, identify faces within batches of photos, or find all the photos with a red cup. But these are post-creation search and index algorithms. It would take very large advances (hence AI, and what current realtime vision processing on robots does) to do this at the point of content creation.
But back to your argument, yes I want meaning, not simply data. But without meaning, data is useless, and at some point we have to encode meaning as data in order to convey the meaning as we exchange data. Arguably you could interpret an infinite variety of meanings from the same data, but certain fundamental meanings can and should be encoded as data so that meaning does not need to be re-interpreted at every stage. But again, that becomes a philosophical discussion has no bearing on whether the semantic web failed. I blame the failure purely on human laziness.
I've got a better reason why it failed that doesn't require delving into first year philosophy.
People are lazy. Look at any image database and figure out why it's difficult to find something. Because people don't want to spend 20 minutes filling in tags for a single image they just want to show off to their friends.
Now expand that to every other form of data type, and its easy to see why the semantic web never did, and never will take off without significant AI involvement.
This should be trivial to implement, even with the system being open.
If roaming is turned off as a general system level preference, the TCP/IP stack (substitute appropriate data network interface) should be disabled when the phone is in roaming mode. Open or not, that's something easy to enforce at the system level.
If I turn off TCP/IP in Windows, I get no TCP/IP traffic, regardless of whether programs want it or not. The only option at that point is for a program to provide its own TCP/IP stack which there really isn't much incentive to do except in very specialized situations. Disabling data roaming should work the same way on an Android and is something fully within the power of Google to dictate and setup.
Assuming developers will check general system config files and respect them is a flawed development model that leads to the kind of security problems that Windows has. If the setting isn't enforced, then what is the point of having the setting?
If I disable roaming from a system-wide preference. It should do exactly that, disable roaming. 3rd party apps should not be override that. It's assinine to expect users to remember all the details about how every program on their system may or may not use various system resources.
This is the kind of thing, user experience, that Apple gets right and why Android isn't an iPhone killer.
Earthlink also blocks SMTP that isn't going to their servers making it a pain to use your non-earthlink email address.
Not sure if you are in their service area, but Speakeasy offers "One-Link" which is DSL that does not require a landline with a dialtone, only the physical wires.
I've been using it for years and am down to just cellphone + dsl for my telecom bills.
That's exactly why I recommended Mindstorms above. The basic programming interface isn't code, it's a flow chart, really emphasizing the idea of doing problem solving and breaking it down into components instead of worrying about language and syntax.
If you're trying to introduce the concepts of looping, iterations, etc and don't want to get hung up on the details of the language, I highly recommend the Lego Mindstorm kits. They have a flow-chart programming interface that I had great success introducing programming to my 11-13 year old cousins, and if I remember correctly, they also have a lower level interface to let you start writing your own functions.
For kids this age, nothing is better/cooler at showing them the basics of programming than something that gives a physical response. Loops, conditions, make so much more sense when trying to figure out how to keep your robot from running off the edge of the table.
Tangible real-world feedback, and a sense of real accomplishment. If you just give them abstract languagues for the sake of language, they get disappointed they can't just whip up the next Madden game. Besides, they probably all already have Legos at home, and a Mindstorm kit is something they can easily get at home, which probably won't happen with Pascal compilers or Basic editors.
Dibs on tel.WTF!
If the Federal Government or contractors ran the cameras, edited, and digitized the footage, then it's a product of the Government and is subject to the public domain criteria you setup.
However, if all the above were done by independent news-reporting corporations, then the copyright to that footage lies firmly in the hands of those corporations with the power to use or licenses them as they see fit.
Are you an employee of your ISP?
I'm going to disagree with you. The camera angle system in Mari64 was a nightmare leading to all kinds of clipping and camera-in-wall problems.
Mario Galaxy is much better about handling the camera, and rarely do I find myself reorienting it. Ratchet and Clank did a good job as well. I think that's the big discussion here is that 3D for 3D's sake generally isn't an improvement in and of itself. But adding to the gameplay, without causing undo hassle is a requirement for 3D in games to be successful.
I didn't get that. And since the poster obfuscated what kind of organization is under discussion, potential liability and courses of action are meaningless since different kinds of entities have different sets of legal restrictions and expectations.
You're assuming the "network operator" is simply a provider, like an ISP. The original poster, by calling it "my organization" wasn't clear if he meant a company, a service provider, a charity, or any other number of organization types.
A company is certainly liable for the activities their employees engage in using company resources. This is exactly why companies tend to have strict rules about what can and can't be done with their assets and resources (IT or otherwise). Same reason why anti-moonlighting policies exist, because if the employee used any company resources, the company may be held liable for the employee's moonlighting work.
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If you are a company, you certainly are responsible for what your employees do with your network resources. Just about the only way the company can weasel out of it is to show good faith attempts at reprimanding the offenders and attempts at preventing their future misbehavior.
Not quite,
Business are taxed on income, not profits. Profits are after taxes, and if redistributed to shareholders, the shareholders then pay capital gains taxes on what they receive.
Charitable donations are deducted against income, whereas normal business expenses merely reduce profits.
So, by making a charitable donation, a business can reduce their taxes. Of course if they didn't make the donation, they would have higher profit.