Speaking as an American - your comment reads as if you think the American two-party political model is the only one in use world-wide.
While true, they're getting less and less common all the time. And it's still not a great system, regardless of how common it is.
I think most people, living in a democracy, would agree: choice is a good thing. Unless you really believe that every single possible mainstream political perspective can be represented by only two candidates, it's probably fair to say that more is better.
I don't know about the author, but the Daily Mail isn't affiliated with Murdoch, it's a rival.
It's probably fair to say, though, that very few of the companies involved in "old media" (newspapers, television, record sales) are enthusiastic about the internet, and even fewer about their new massive, global competitors (Google, Apple, etc.). Murdoch's just one of the few who are powerful enough to go down fighting.
I used to play games on my digital television. Sky had a whole "interactive" channel dedicated to overpriced crappy quizzes, puzzlers, and classic clones. And DVR does take us part of the way towards active, personal scheduling too.
iPads (and other portable computers) aren't fundamentally different to modern TVs, they just do everything better.
Easily fixed by the likes of "Featured Content" or "Most Popular" pages on content streaming sites. Or better yet, "channel" features of preordained content- just because content streaming allows for new and exciting features, it doesn't mean that it can't still replicate the old features.
One of the only reasons I ever used Impulse was because I liked Stardock as a company (particularly in their attitude to DRM). Other than that, it's a bloaty client and not the best prices.
Without the incentive to support Stardock, I'll be moving to a service that doesn't bother with the client (GOG, GamersGate, Game.co.uk, etc.). Without Stardock, Impulse is basically Steam Lite.
All of this talk of linking separatly entangled systems to produce more powerful QCs is crap. If you don't get anywhere near expontential scaling as a function of qbits then game over.
Why?
Serious question. I honestly don't know much about q-computing, but batteries of small systems to make a single large system sounds pretty par for the course, technologically. Doesn't sound like there's any fundamental problem with that.
Curiously enough, that is true. ASA do not allow car manufacturers to advertise cars in any way that implies that they can be driven fast (or "recklessly"). That's while you'll never see cars in adverts doing anything more than a sedate, stylish turn around pretty scenic roads.
It would probably be illegal under insider trading laws, too. You're not supposed to buy and sell shares in companies if you know something everyone else doesn't about a huge change in said companies' fortunes.
I'm not that familiar with California's legal system, but in most places Trade Secrets aren't protected in the same way as copyright or patents.
Usually, the only way to protect a Trade Secret is through contract law (non-disclosure agreements, non-compete clauses in employment contracts, etc.). I suppose there could be something regarding Trade Secrets in the product's EULA/T&C, but who knows (I don't).
It is these types of things that inspire kids to get an education. It was frequent trips to NASA that inspired me to become a technical person. It was observing real scientists doing real science that taught me to be a scientist. We cannot just wave out hands around a beg and plead for students to study math and science, and for teach to competently present the subject. Without real experiences what will the teacher present? Dull facts out of books they have read. Without the ability to see real science what will the students learn? That these things are what far away people do, with no relation to their local opportunities.
Sadly, I understand that from the other point of view. My childhood was distinctly devoid of anyone or anything even remotely interested in science and engineering, and my school education seemed to take the attitude that 2 hours a week copying out of text books was all the science education a person would need (I had only 6 months of genuinely interesting science education in my whole school career- and only because my teacher for those two terms funded a great deal of experiments out of her own pocket).
It wasn't until I was firmly out of education that I was introduced to science and engineering, and became drawn into that fantastic world. And realigning my skills and career to that industry is a slow and painful business with my years of free education behind me.
Anything that gives kids a chance to experience science properly would get my vote, and as many of my tax pennies as they need.
Although far less sensational than "MS are evil and oppressing poor victims of the world", it's still a bit of a PR nightmare for MS.
To be clear, MS have allowed a bug to creep into one of their biggest front-line communication services that caused people in countries like Syria, Bahrain and Iran to lose a key element of their email security, in the middle of one of the biggest popular uprisings / state crackdowns in decades.
If my oven set my house on fire, I'd be pissed. It would be only small comfort to know the manufacturer didn't do it on purpose.
And they managed to get in a good, FUDdy parting shot on their way out (lovely chaps, those folks at Oracle).
Unless of course they're telling the truth. Which would be a shame, if not a surprise. Itanium deserved at least slightly better a life than it go (and Intel, once burned, may never try moving away from i86 again, god help us).
"Damages" are what you pay to repair the damage that your activity has caused the claimant. If the purpose of the payment is to punish, or to act as deterrant, the correct term is usually "fine".
To add more fun statistical context, the CIA World Factbook tells me that Planet Earth's entire money supply coincidentally equals (at the broadest estimate) $75.86 trillion.
So, the music industry is basically asking Limewire for all of Earth's money. I hope their lawsuit is backed up by a frickin' "laser" on the moon.
TFA is about trying to test and prove abiogenesis. Indeed, about a test being (relatively) succesful in proving that (a small part of the theory) is plausible and correct.
Are tests to replicate life formation in lab conditions not as valid as tests to measure gravity in lab conditions?
GP was implying that he actually did fine (4.5 star rating, popular, etc.) with the only skill-set he felt he was lacking being an editor.
You're quite right in pointing out that you get a whole package of things with a publisher. But if all you want is an editor, you might aswell just pay an editor (bonus points if it's a friend of yours) rather than mucking around with middlemen. And a cut of sales rather than an upfront payment means you don't need bags of startup cash.
If you're going to sell it in electronic formats only then you don't need a print production consultant, or any warehousing or distribution. If you're happy to rely on one of the many ebook selling sites (like Smashwords, see GP again) you don't need a salesman. And if you're either a) already famous or b) doing it as a hobby/pocket money rather than full time, marketing and PR aren't strictly necessary either. So why use a business model that factos in pay for all those people, if you don't actually need all those people?
Personally I'm not arguing publishers are dead. But they now fill a much smaller niche than they used to.
Because editors cost money, even when you're friends with a few. ( And I'd never ask a friend to edit my work for free as anything other than a mutual crit. )
You could always offer them a cut. If it takes you 3 months to write, and it takes them 1 week to edit, offer them about a 12th of the overall profit (which means you're about equal in terms of reward-per-hour). If thee book's a runaway success you can make them rich, if not then they get a trickle of pocket money for their trouble.
While you may have a point, that hardly works as an argument against such reactors being built in France, say, or China (both of whom have nuclear bombs, and plenty of nuclear reactors of various designs).
I doubt many people would say that the US can't build a type of reactor for fear of it allowing them to get nuclear bombs...
If the postal service runs at a loss, and the state funds it, removing state funding would mean raising prices or worsening service.
If a healthy and affordable delivery service is vital to your economy as a whole (and there's a school of thought that says that it is), then state funding there is no less morale than state funding for roads (also vital for a strong economy).
Super-cars are different. They earn their stripes by being stupidly high-performance, but suffer because they push the technological boundaries.
To bring Ferraris into our analogy- they'd be like paying 10 times the cost of a Dell Inspiron, but getting a machine with 10 times the high-performance hardware. Which is not how it works with Apple- there you get the same hardware, but allegedly superior build quality and user experience.
Not that I disagree with you- there is a strong correlation between places that receive our attention and places with strategic resources. And I am in general reluctant to support military intervention. But this probably is the right thing to do in Libya- it'd probably be genocide if Gadaffi retook Benghazi. And seeing as he's yet another demon of our own making (we sold him weapons, we "welcomed him back into the international community"), that does give us somewhat a moral obligation not to abandon those people to their fates.
This is a UN-sanctioned action with tacit approval from China, Russia, Brazil, India, et al.- they don't exactly leap at foreign interventions in other countries' internal conflicts, and even they were convinced that intervention might be needed (even if not so convinced as to actually support the motion- lack of veto is as good as it gets from that crowd). That should tell you something about how the situation is panning out.
Dells are cheap mass-produced trash- you get what you pay for, and no less than you expect.
If you pay nearly twice the going rate for a premium product, you might expect it to be somewhat closer to flawless. You expect your £100k Bentley to run perfectly, while you might forgive the Chevvy Matiz given away free with your Happy Meal for breaking down every time it rains.
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Speaking as an American - your comment reads as if you think the American two-party political model is the only one in use world-wide.
While true, they're getting less and less common all the time. And it's still not a great system, regardless of how common it is.
I think most people, living in a democracy, would agree: choice is a good thing. Unless you really believe that every single possible mainstream political perspective can be represented by only two candidates, it's probably fair to say that more is better.
I don't know about the author, but the Daily Mail isn't affiliated with Murdoch, it's a rival.
It's probably fair to say, though, that very few of the companies involved in "old media" (newspapers, television, record sales) are enthusiastic about the internet, and even fewer about their new massive, global competitors (Google, Apple, etc.). Murdoch's just one of the few who are powerful enough to go down fighting.
I used to play games on my digital television. Sky had a whole "interactive" channel dedicated to overpriced crappy quizzes, puzzlers, and classic clones. And DVR does take us part of the way towards active, personal scheduling too.
iPads (and other portable computers) aren't fundamentally different to modern TVs, they just do everything better.
Easily fixed by the likes of "Featured Content" or "Most Popular" pages on content streaming sites. Or better yet, "channel" features of preordained content- just because content streaming allows for new and exciting features, it doesn't mean that it can't still replicate the old features.
You're not far off.
http://www.swisstool.co.uk/st/home.php?cat=313
One of the only reasons I ever used Impulse was because I liked Stardock as a company (particularly in their attitude to DRM). Other than that, it's a bloaty client and not the best prices.
Without the incentive to support Stardock, I'll be moving to a service that doesn't bother with the client (GOG, GamersGate, Game.co.uk, etc.). Without Stardock, Impulse is basically Steam Lite.
All of this talk of linking separatly entangled systems to produce more powerful QCs is crap. If you don't get anywhere near expontential scaling as a function of qbits then game over.
Why?
Serious question. I honestly don't know much about q-computing, but batteries of small systems to make a single large system sounds pretty par for the course, technologically. Doesn't sound like there's any fundamental problem with that.
Curiously enough, that is true. ASA do not allow car manufacturers to advertise cars in any way that implies that they can be driven fast (or "recklessly"). That's while you'll never see cars in adverts doing anything more than a sedate, stylish turn around pretty scenic roads.
It would probably be illegal under insider trading laws, too. You're not supposed to buy and sell shares in companies if you know something everyone else doesn't about a huge change in said companies' fortunes.
I'm not that familiar with California's legal system, but in most places Trade Secrets aren't protected in the same way as copyright or patents.
Usually, the only way to protect a Trade Secret is through contract law (non-disclosure agreements, non-compete clauses in employment contracts, etc.). I suppose there could be something regarding Trade Secrets in the product's EULA/T&C, but who knows (I don't).
In the UK, that information is readily available to anyone using a Freedom of Information Act request.
As with all personal data, they should have a proper plan for disposing of the data after a certain legal period of time.
It does put into context how hyperactive (and stupid) the German government was in reacting to the Google Streetview thing. Typical of politicians.
It is these types of things that inspire kids to get an education. It was frequent trips to NASA that inspired me to become a technical person. It was observing real scientists doing real science that taught me to be a scientist. We cannot just wave out hands around a beg and plead for students to study math and science, and for teach to competently present the subject. Without real experiences what will the teacher present? Dull facts out of books they have read. Without the ability to see real science what will the students learn? That these things are what far away people do, with no relation to their local opportunities.
Sadly, I understand that from the other point of view. My childhood was distinctly devoid of anyone or anything even remotely interested in science and engineering, and my school education seemed to take the attitude that 2 hours a week copying out of text books was all the science education a person would need (I had only 6 months of genuinely interesting science education in my whole school career- and only because my teacher for those two terms funded a great deal of experiments out of her own pocket).
It wasn't until I was firmly out of education that I was introduced to science and engineering, and became drawn into that fantastic world. And realigning my skills and career to that industry is a slow and painful business with my years of free education behind me.
Anything that gives kids a chance to experience science properly would get my vote, and as many of my tax pennies as they need.
Although far less sensational than "MS are evil and oppressing poor victims of the world", it's still a bit of a PR nightmare for MS.
To be clear, MS have allowed a bug to creep into one of their biggest front-line communication services that caused people in countries like Syria, Bahrain and Iran to lose a key element of their email security, in the middle of one of the biggest popular uprisings / state crackdowns in decades.
If my oven set my house on fire, I'd be pissed. It would be only small comfort to know the manufacturer didn't do it on purpose.
And they managed to get in a good, FUDdy parting shot on their way out (lovely chaps, those folks at Oracle).
Unless of course they're telling the truth. Which would be a shame, if not a surprise. Itanium deserved at least slightly better a life than it go (and Intel, once burned, may never try moving away from i86 again, god help us).
Then they shouldn't be called "damages".
"Damages" are what you pay to repair the damage that your activity has caused the claimant. If the purpose of the payment is to punish, or to act as deterrant, the correct term is usually "fine".
To add more fun statistical context, the CIA World Factbook tells me that Planet Earth's entire money supply coincidentally equals (at the broadest estimate) $75.86 trillion.
So, the music industry is basically asking Limewire for all of Earth's money. I hope their lawsuit is backed up by a frickin' "laser" on the moon.
TFA is about trying to test and prove abiogenesis. Indeed, about a test being (relatively) succesful in proving that (a small part of the theory) is plausible and correct.
Are tests to replicate life formation in lab conditions not as valid as tests to measure gravity in lab conditions?
GP was implying that he actually did fine (4.5 star rating, popular, etc.) with the only skill-set he felt he was lacking being an editor.
You're quite right in pointing out that you get a whole package of things with a publisher. But if all you want is an editor, you might aswell just pay an editor (bonus points if it's a friend of yours) rather than mucking around with middlemen. And a cut of sales rather than an upfront payment means you don't need bags of startup cash.
If you're going to sell it in electronic formats only then you don't need a print production consultant, or any warehousing or distribution. If you're happy to rely on one of the many ebook selling sites (like Smashwords, see GP again) you don't need a salesman. And if you're either a) already famous or b) doing it as a hobby/pocket money rather than full time, marketing and PR aren't strictly necessary either. So why use a business model that factos in pay for all those people, if you don't actually need all those people?
Personally I'm not arguing publishers are dead. But they now fill a much smaller niche than they used to.
I use to have a pdf of the book but the BW charges from people downloading started to cost me money every monthjust to give it away.
You could pop a torrent up to take the strain off your host. It's always nice to have one more legitimate, non-pirated torrent out in the wild.
Because editors cost money, even when you're friends with a few. ( And I'd never ask a friend to edit my work for free as anything other than a mutual crit. )
You could always offer them a cut. If it takes you 3 months to write, and it takes them 1 week to edit, offer them about a 12th of the overall profit (which means you're about equal in terms of reward-per-hour). If thee book's a runaway success you can make them rich, if not then they get a trickle of pocket money for their trouble.
While you may have a point, that hardly works as an argument against such reactors being built in France, say, or China (both of whom have nuclear bombs, and plenty of nuclear reactors of various designs).
I doubt many people would say that the US can't build a type of reactor for fear of it allowing them to get nuclear bombs...
If the postal service runs at a loss, and the state funds it, removing state funding would mean raising prices or worsening service.
If a healthy and affordable delivery service is vital to your economy as a whole (and there's a school of thought that says that it is), then state funding there is no less morale than state funding for roads (also vital for a strong economy).
Super-cars are different. They earn their stripes by being stupidly high-performance, but suffer because they push the technological boundaries.
To bring Ferraris into our analogy- they'd be like paying 10 times the cost of a Dell Inspiron, but getting a machine with 10 times the high-performance hardware. Which is not how it works with Apple- there you get the same hardware, but allegedly superior build quality and user experience.
if it were, we'd invade Africa.
Libya is Africa, FYI.
Not that I disagree with you- there is a strong correlation between places that receive our attention and places with strategic resources. And I am in general reluctant to support military intervention. But this probably is the right thing to do in Libya- it'd probably be genocide if Gadaffi retook Benghazi. And seeing as he's yet another demon of our own making (we sold him weapons, we "welcomed him back into the international community"), that does give us somewhat a moral obligation not to abandon those people to their fates.
This is a UN-sanctioned action with tacit approval from China, Russia, Brazil, India, et al.- they don't exactly leap at foreign interventions in other countries' internal conflicts, and even they were convinced that intervention might be needed (even if not so convinced as to actually support the motion- lack of veto is as good as it gets from that crowd). That should tell you something about how the situation is panning out.
Dells are cheap mass-produced trash- you get what you pay for, and no less than you expect.
If you pay nearly twice the going rate for a premium product, you might expect it to be somewhat closer to flawless. You expect your £100k Bentley to run perfectly, while you might forgive the Chevvy Matiz given away free with your Happy Meal for breaking down every time it rains.
Yes yes, I know, oblig.