Part of the problem with this sort of thing is, with no policy, where do reasonable expectations of privacy for using someone's pipe they've offered you access to begin and end? In general, with no privacy policy, there is no expectation of privacy, unfortunately.
It is far far worse than just that. What really has happened is the content lawyers now have a sword they can hold over everyone's heads who deal in indexing services: do what we want or we sue your for your shirt. TPB was not targeted because of what they were doing being any different from Google, but rather because the *AA's didn't like how they were doing it, and they didn't cave to the *AA's whims upon command.
I don't necessarily agree. Providers already have a large profit margin. There will be increased competition to cellular service over the next few years with voip and wifmax delivering a one-two punch allowing for even more competition in this space. I'm sure most of the cost will be passed onto consumers, but I'm also sure that due to competition they will eat some of that cost out of their profit margin as well. No tears in my eyes for that.
Yeah, and considering most Internet love is the lonely, cry into your beer afterwards kind, I wonder why they would wish such a thing on the wife of an Internet hero, much the less their worst enemy.
Well, many people work on open source AT work FOR work. In fact, its my understanding that is how most FOSS code is generated. Unfortunately, as much as the big closed source guys are laying off people too, it seems to me that the type of firms who contribute to random FOSS projects are being forced into reorg and layoffs on an overall much greater scale.
I don't agree with this. Microsoft has some of the best visualization technologies and research out there right now, and this should allow backwards compatibility to be implemented in a secure fashion. They just haven't gotten it right yet, and so rely on the oldschool hacks. The problem is, you can't disable the hacks, and so even if you don't have an app that needs to make your system insecure to work, you get to deal with the insecurity.
This is so ass backwards, and actually encourages developers to let their software fall behind the times. Compare this to Apple, who will gleefully break applications written for a 3 year old version of their OS if it helps they roll out a fix. I've had Mac apps break as a result of this, and its annoying as heck. But the devs usually respond to the breaking, and things work out.
Well, different features are useful to different people. For some people, Unix systems in 1983 had everything they'd ever want out of an OS for workstation use, and many more people were happy once they got perl and some other nice tools to go with such a system. And from a strictly purest standpoint, any OS that allows efficient multitasking is as complete as it can be.
But for your typical non-technologist user, sometimes the simplest tweaks can improve the experience. For example, Windows 7 better exposes some of Vista's advanced search features, but you hear the blogs brag on about the search in Windows 7 like some new superfeature. Sometimes, a feature might as well not exist unless you express it in the right way, or make it fun to use.
This is also part of the problem in outsourcing the actual industrial production of all this stuff. It's really hard to remain innovative and relevant when you design by CAD tool only. This whole idea of design here produce there is just not sustainable for very long.
Daily hands on experience with a wide variety of actual manufacturing technologies and techniques is part of what made the US innovative before and is what of what will make China innovative in the future.
I'm guessing this will help facilitate half-assed ports of desktop linux apps to Android by not having to change the libraries or anything but just the way the GUI is laid out. I'm all for this sort of things as a stop-gap or for apps too unpopular to get support otherwise, but this sort of don't design but instead reuse mentality is a tragic flaw of FOSS and so should be avoided in as long term solutions.
Someone needs to come out with ECM for the rest of us in this new surveillance world. Jamming cameras isn't hard, but its not cheap sans mass production behind it.
The one thing I learned about about optics from the elective class I took in college: all lenses look similar, but function very very differently. To evaluate a lens based on how it looks is something like evaluating a microprocessor based on how the die looks.
As someone who has worked in high power engineering, I will note that is easier said than done. Its really hard to send power a long distance efficiently even when you have lots of transformer stations and such along the way, and with the benefits of the ground plane and other factors you get in land based transmission systems. I just don't think it would be practical to send that much electrical power 1 km with modern affordable technology in a straight shot, even on Earth.
Well, they will obviously go down in price eventually. The real price issue won't be affordability but rather value. Do most consumers out there really want a what would seem to average out to slightly faster drive, or an order of magnitude or two more storage? There have always been fast drive solutions in the past and they have never been very popular, and quickly become obsolete.
Eventually some sort of SSD will take over the market, but I don't believe this sort of compromised experience business model will sell them, unless cloud storage and internet everywhere becomes mainstream fast.
Or violent books, like say, the Bible. When they start putting warning labels on Bibles or the sorts of things these legislators and such care about concerning the graphic violence and such therein, perhaps then I will hear them out on how they wish to tarnish the stuff I like to protect the childrens.
I was confused by this though. Usually explosive yields and such impulsive events are given in terms of energy. I'm not sure what to make of the power of a burst. After all, the power of a pulse is zero except when integrated over a limited time range, and without being given an interaction time, this claim is sort of ambiguous.
Not only that, but allowing developers to develop the types of applications they want. Its absurd that you can't develop an email client for the iPhone. Imagine the fallout that would be had from any other set of developers over such a policy.
As an MSEE student, I find this thread painful. I'm not even going to try to get into it, save vaguely mentioning that voltage and current are not unrelated when it comes to a voltage source.
Even if he tried to do something profitable using them, between paying for power and bandwidth to operate them, it would have to be a real business model to even expect to break even in the modern economy of cheap professional server hosts.
If there is a local university by you, I'd advertise trying to donate it to a local college or University with engineering/computer science programs. Often students just need academic clusters for the experience of parallel programming problems, and of course it could even help in minor actually useful research. And I'm sure they could help you work out a way to get some sort of tax recognition for the donation.
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Part of the problem with this sort of thing is, with no policy, where do reasonable expectations of privacy for using someone's pipe they've offered you access to begin and end? In general, with no privacy policy, there is no expectation of privacy, unfortunately.
It is far far worse than just that. What really has happened is the content lawyers now have a sword they can hold over everyone's heads who deal in indexing services: do what we want or we sue your for your shirt. TPB was not targeted because of what they were doing being any different from Google, but rather because the *AA's didn't like how they were doing it, and they didn't cave to the *AA's whims upon command.
Did you seriously just associate not being a hard Sci-Fi fan with being a member of the laity?
I don't necessarily agree. Providers already have a large profit margin. There will be increased competition to cellular service over the next few years with voip and wifmax delivering a one-two punch allowing for even more competition in this space. I'm sure most of the cost will be passed onto consumers, but I'm also sure that due to competition they will eat some of that cost out of their profit margin as well. No tears in my eyes for that.
Yeah, and considering most Internet love is the lonely, cry into your beer afterwards kind, I wonder why they would wish such a thing on the wife of an Internet hero, much the less their worst enemy.
Well, many people work on open source AT work FOR work. In fact, its my understanding that is how most FOSS code is generated. Unfortunately, as much as the big closed source guys are laying off people too, it seems to me that the type of firms who contribute to random FOSS projects are being forced into reorg and layoffs on an overall much greater scale.
I don't agree with this. Microsoft has some of the best visualization technologies and research out there right now, and this should allow backwards compatibility to be implemented in a secure fashion. They just haven't gotten it right yet, and so rely on the oldschool hacks. The problem is, you can't disable the hacks, and so even if you don't have an app that needs to make your system insecure to work, you get to deal with the insecurity. This is so ass backwards, and actually encourages developers to let their software fall behind the times. Compare this to Apple, who will gleefully break applications written for a 3 year old version of their OS if it helps they roll out a fix. I've had Mac apps break as a result of this, and its annoying as heck. But the devs usually respond to the breaking, and things work out.
Well, different features are useful to different people. For some people, Unix systems in 1983 had everything they'd ever want out of an OS for workstation use, and many more people were happy once they got perl and some other nice tools to go with such a system. And from a strictly purest standpoint, any OS that allows efficient multitasking is as complete as it can be. But for your typical non-technologist user, sometimes the simplest tweaks can improve the experience. For example, Windows 7 better exposes some of Vista's advanced search features, but you hear the blogs brag on about the search in Windows 7 like some new superfeature. Sometimes, a feature might as well not exist unless you express it in the right way, or make it fun to use.
This is also part of the problem in outsourcing the actual industrial production of all this stuff. It's really hard to remain innovative and relevant when you design by CAD tool only. This whole idea of design here produce there is just not sustainable for very long. Daily hands on experience with a wide variety of actual manufacturing technologies and techniques is part of what made the US innovative before and is what of what will make China innovative in the future.
I think he means to say, he likes Vista so he isn't just a Windows hater, but even XP is too sluggish for his needs on the netbook.
I'm guessing this will help facilitate half-assed ports of desktop linux apps to Android by not having to change the libraries or anything but just the way the GUI is laid out. I'm all for this sort of things as a stop-gap or for apps too unpopular to get support otherwise, but this sort of don't design but instead reuse mentality is a tragic flaw of FOSS and so should be avoided in as long term solutions.
Had to be at least 10 years ago for someone to use an email account used for work-related stuff to send such a message.
Someone needs to come out with ECM for the rest of us in this new surveillance world. Jamming cameras isn't hard, but its not cheap sans mass production behind it.
The one thing I learned about about optics from the elective class I took in college: all lenses look similar, but function very very differently. To evaluate a lens based on how it looks is something like evaluating a microprocessor based on how the die looks.
As someone who has worked in high power engineering, I will note that is easier said than done. Its really hard to send power a long distance efficiently even when you have lots of transformer stations and such along the way, and with the benefits of the ground plane and other factors you get in land based transmission systems. I just don't think it would be practical to send that much electrical power 1 km with modern affordable technology in a straight shot, even on Earth.
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Well, they will obviously go down in price eventually. The real price issue won't be affordability but rather value. Do most consumers out there really want a what would seem to average out to slightly faster drive, or an order of magnitude or two more storage? There have always been fast drive solutions in the past and they have never been very popular, and quickly become obsolete. Eventually some sort of SSD will take over the market, but I don't believe this sort of compromised experience business model will sell them, unless cloud storage and internet everywhere becomes mainstream fast.
Or violent books, like say, the Bible. When they start putting warning labels on Bibles or the sorts of things these legislators and such care about concerning the graphic violence and such therein, perhaps then I will hear them out on how they wish to tarnish the stuff I like to protect the childrens.
I was confused by this though. Usually explosive yields and such impulsive events are given in terms of energy. I'm not sure what to make of the power of a burst. After all, the power of a pulse is zero except when integrated over a limited time range, and without being given an interaction time, this claim is sort of ambiguous.
I always knew sitting in a chair all day in front of a computer would kill me, but not quite in this way.
This is the real reason he threw the chair. He realized it was about to explode and got it out of the way just in time. What a hero.
Not only that, but allowing developers to develop the types of applications they want. Its absurd that you can't develop an email client for the iPhone. Imagine the fallout that would be had from any other set of developers over such a policy.
Well, throwing up cameras is a cheap and easy way to make it seem like you are actually doing something to stop crime.
As an MSEE student, I find this thread painful. I'm not even going to try to get into it, save vaguely mentioning that voltage and current are not unrelated when it comes to a voltage source.
Even if he tried to do something profitable using them, between paying for power and bandwidth to operate them, it would have to be a real business model to even expect to break even in the modern economy of cheap professional server hosts. If there is a local university by you, I'd advertise trying to donate it to a local college or University with engineering/computer science programs. Often students just need academic clusters for the experience of parallel programming problems, and of course it could even help in minor actually useful research. And I'm sure they could help you work out a way to get some sort of tax recognition for the donation.