There are two problems with everyday voting, you are only trying to solve one: the technology. The other problem is that to make important informed decisions every day you need to do research and think about the issues. Most of us have jobs and family to keep us busy and many of us aren't really interested in "researching and thinking". The realistic expectation is that everyday voting would lead to ultra-low participation, rampant sensationalism (as that would be the only way to make people actually vote on specific issues) and hiding important issues as "everyday stuff".
In other words you are attempting to solve a human problem with technology. It will not work.
Speak for yourself. I'm still using my old CRT Sony TV and the image quality I perceive far surpasses the LCDs I see at my friends places -- the LCDs seem great with high quality HD material but with the crappy SD stuff that most channels around here are, the old CRT looks way better...
I'll get a new set when HD is prevalent, not sooner.
That's not the whole truth. The idea of the military as the defender of the secular state is an old one but the constitutional backing is not. The national security council and the new constitution were a result of a coup in the sixties and it was strengthened in the aftermath of the 1980 coup. Pretty convenient, eh?
1) Why can't the tests be created with a random generator? Create webpage, internal logic calculates image which should be generated, test image generated with screenshot (or better, pull the image from the drawing cache).
"internal logic", huh? Do you realize that means a complete implementation of all the relevant standards with no faults. If we could do that, maybe we should put it in a browser...
Religions have a pretty lousy record of getting these answers right though: There are loads and loads of religious tenets that have been shattered with more knowledge -- how do we know the stuff they now push is the real thing?
I mean, it might turn out that it actually _isn't_ turtles all the way down.
and what exactly does this tool do? "low level format" isn't a well defined term with regards to flash drives.
Sorry to be so negative, but the snake oil industry is doing better than ever in the digital age... I'd be genuinely interested if the tool really does speed up a USB flash drive that's become slower over time.
So... what exactly does it do on flash memory? Hard to tell with zero documentation or source code but I'm guessing the equivalent of dd (on the whole device) or dban. Even running it probably wouldn't give me the answers -- and I sure as hell wouldn't run a random executable from the web.
Several people seem to consider your answer informative, maybe they just know more than I do.
He's referring to Bluetooth pairing passcode, I bet. I would have thought the article would have mentioned if this was a Bluetooth attack -- that would make this about 1000 times more serious.
The original GPL was a reasonable idea and made a lot of sense to a lot of people. GPLv3 is RMS and co's attempt to turn that popularity into a vehicle for their minority views on software development, and I guess we can see now how little of the community's support of the GPL was really down to believing in the FSF's political stance, and how much was just pragmatism.
I think that's slightly revisionist.
RMS's ideas have pretty much always been originally minority views that people have tried to label as unpragmatic (and even laughed at). In time surprisingly many of those views have become "reasonable" and "mainstream" -- and it wasn't RMS who changed his mind.
The guy may be nuts, but he's a visionary -- his track record at defining a long term vision and seeing it come true pretty much beats anyone else in the industry. This will remain so whether in ten years GPLv3 turns out to become "reasonable" according to the rest of the industry or not.
For a single user of the codecs, you are certainly correct. For companies that base their business on widely accessible video consumption/production, it is no longer a clear cut case: I'm pretty sure e.g. Google has actually thought about this before they opened VP8...
The protection that H264 has is that any outside entity filing an h264 patent lawsuit is going to have to defend themselves against MPEGLA's patent portfolio.
Could you explain your thinking here? If I have a submarine patent in H264, I can start sending people bills for a license and the MPEG LA can't do jack shit.
For a long term position: Fail gracefully. Everyone makes mistakes (and when you're starting out they will feel like major fuckups): don't cover up, but get help instead and learn in the process. Show your expertise and when necessary, the lack of expertise.
Could you explain then... You said "netbook sales are in freefall". What did you mean? I'm honestly interested because a growing figure cannot imply freefall for me.
Just to give some more background for this: Let's assume you meant that netbook sales growth should have stayed at last years figures...Do you realize that there would have been more netbooks than people in 2015 if that had happened? As I see it, what you call 'freefall' is the only thing that prevents us from drowning in netbooks.
Or maybe you just made a small mistake with words and aren't man enough to admit it?
You do realize that publishing of books, television, and movies has already been like this for years.
Your font and re-broadcast examples have very little to do with this. They are about copyright of the actual piece of art: that is a totally separate issue. It's important and something that needs to be looked at by anyone publishing anything, but it's still totally orthogonal to the issue at hand.
Continuing on my example case: A dog club publishing their training videos can easily avoid copyright violation. A small company can easily publish tutorial videos of their products without copyvio problems. With H.264 licensing they are in murky waters.
Just because someone writes something in a contract doesn't mean its actually legal, there are exceptions and courts regularly deal with issues like this where its clearly bullshit.
You didn't actually point out _what_ is clearly bullshit in this case. I think MPEG-LA has been quite open about their licensing and there should be no surprises to anyone who actually reads the license...
People already have H.264 tools and hardware in their hands, TODAY....
MPEG-LA will ask for fees from everybody around the planet? For what? Microsoft and Apple both pay the license fees, it's included in the OS price.
Sort of: remember to read the whole license agreement. As long as your use is personal and non-commercial, you are probably covered. Anything else and you usually aren't.
It's possible that the ads on your blog don't actually make it commercial (please have your lawyer check the license), but sites like slashdot would definitely have to start negotiating with MPEG-LA. A dog training club would have to get a license before they publish training videos on the web.
Maybe you shouldn't be so quick in categorizing people?
Outlook Express and Outlook are different applications. Former is truely awful email client in pretty much every way (protocol support is a joke, it corrupts its own database, security track record is abysmal, the whole application seems to be implemented by amateurs) -- Microsoft replaced OE with Windows Mail for a reason. Outlook on the other hand is a fairly usable email/PIM client as long as you use it _exactly_ as God and Microsoft intended.
The really early cell phones were the size of briefcases, so heavy that you needed a separate handset part -- I guess calling them "mobile" would be a bit too much. See the (Nokia) Mobira Talkman 450 in all its beauty...
I remember my dad buying one and us being pretty damn impressed when it actually worked at the summer cottage in the middle of the forest. We had to lug the damn thing to the roof to get a signal, but it did work.
Yeah, there are calculations. They all come to the same conclusion: The effort needed to get those addresses back in to use is enormous and the benefit would be that the final deadline moved 12-18 months forward...
In other words, it's not even close to being worth it.
Exactly. Even if you look at just viruses for Microsoft platforms, Dark Avenger came out in 1989, spread wildly and destroyed user data without caution.
Your post stands generally speaking but referring to "the truthful historical record" with regards to Muhammad is a bit weird. Historical records from the pre-Islamic period are rare and quite unreliable: they mostly give us insight on what was considered a somewhat plausible story at the time. Records from the islamic time are better (although still fairly few) but as Muhammad was such a hot topic, their reliability is quite suspect as well.
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There are two problems with everyday voting, you are only trying to solve one: the technology. The other problem is that to make important informed decisions every day you need to do research and think about the issues. Most of us have jobs and family to keep us busy and many of us aren't really interested in "researching and thinking". The realistic expectation is that everyday voting would lead to ultra-low participation, rampant sensationalism (as that would be the only way to make people actually vote on specific issues) and hiding important issues as "everyday stuff".
In other words you are attempting to solve a human problem with technology. It will not work.
Speak for yourself. I'm still using my old CRT Sony TV and the image quality I perceive far surpasses the LCDs I see at my friends places -- the LCDs seem great with high quality HD material but with the crappy SD stuff that most channels around here are, the old CRT looks way better...
I'll get a new set when HD is prevalent, not sooner.
Have you tried any of the converter solutions that seem to exist for this situation? I guess something like this would do it: http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=33050
That's not the whole truth. The idea of the military as the defender of the secular state is an old one but the constitutional backing is not. The national security council and the new constitution were a result of a coup in the sixties and it was strengthened in the aftermath of the 1980 coup. Pretty convenient, eh?
"internal logic", huh? Do you realize that means a complete implementation of all the relevant standards with no faults. If we could do that, maybe we should put it in a browser...
I'd say the early Mobiras (first NMT phones) were exactly that:
http://www.nokiamuseum.com/view.php?model=Mobira%20Talkman
http://www.flickr.com/photos/21877990@N03/2162232049/
TXT is fine if that's what you're after. Many customers want a bit more and I can't blame them.
PDF is not even close to being a usable generic ebook format: Try reflowing a PDF based on your screen width.
Still, you are right that there's no need for a new format -- or at least Mr Shanks should explain what he needs that's not available in ePub.
Religions have a pretty lousy record of getting these answers right though: There are loads and loads of religious tenets that have been shattered with more knowledge -- how do we know the stuff they now push is the real thing?
I mean, it might turn out that it actually _isn't_ turtles all the way down.
and what exactly does this tool do? "low level format" isn't a well defined term with regards to flash drives.
Sorry to be so negative, but the snake oil industry is doing better than ever in the digital age... I'd be genuinely interested if the tool really does speed up a USB flash drive that's become slower over time.
So... what exactly does it do on flash memory? Hard to tell with zero documentation or source code but I'm guessing the equivalent of dd (on the whole device) or dban. Even running it probably wouldn't give me the answers -- and I sure as hell wouldn't run a random executable from the web.
Several people seem to consider your answer informative, maybe they just know more than I do.
He's referring to Bluetooth pairing passcode, I bet. I would have thought the article would have mentioned if this was a Bluetooth attack -- that would make this about 1000 times more serious.
I think that's slightly revisionist.
RMS's ideas have pretty much always been originally minority views that people have tried to label as unpragmatic (and even laughed at). In time surprisingly many of those views have become "reasonable" and "mainstream" -- and it wasn't RMS who changed his mind.
The guy may be nuts, but he's a visionary -- his track record at defining a long term vision and seeing it come true pretty much beats anyone else in the industry. This will remain so whether in ten years GPLv3 turns out to become "reasonable" according to the rest of the industry or not.
For a single user of the codecs, you are certainly correct. For companies that base their business on widely accessible video consumption/production, it is no longer a clear cut case: I'm pretty sure e.g. Google has actually thought about this before they opened VP8...
Could you explain your thinking here? If I have a submarine patent in H264, I can start sending people bills for a license and the MPEG LA can't do jack shit.
For a long term position: Fail gracefully. Everyone makes mistakes (and when you're starting out they will feel like major fuckups): don't cover up, but get help instead and learn in the process. Show your expertise and when necessary, the lack of expertise.
Careers are made by failing and learning.
Could you explain then... You said "netbook sales are in freefall". What did you mean? I'm honestly interested because a growing figure cannot imply freefall for me.
Just to give some more background for this: Let's assume you meant that netbook sales growth should have stayed at last years figures...Do you realize that there would have been more netbooks than people in 2015 if that had happened? As I see it, what you call 'freefall' is the only thing that prevents us from drowning in netbooks.
Or maybe you just made a small mistake with words and aren't man enough to admit it?
Engadget story that neither Intel, Apple nor any other third party have confirmed. Isn't that pretty much the definition of rumor?
Your font and re-broadcast examples have very little to do with this. They are about copyright of the actual piece of art: that is a totally separate issue. It's important and something that needs to be looked at by anyone publishing anything, but it's still totally orthogonal to the issue at hand.
Continuing on my example case: A dog club publishing their training videos can easily avoid copyright violation. A small company can easily publish tutorial videos of their products without copyvio problems. With H.264 licensing they are in murky waters.
You didn't actually point out _what_ is clearly bullshit in this case. I think MPEG-LA has been quite open about their licensing and there should be no surprises to anyone who actually reads the license...
Sort of: remember to read the whole license agreement. As long as your use is personal and non-commercial, you are probably covered. Anything else and you usually aren't.
It's possible that the ads on your blog don't actually make it commercial (please have your lawyer check the license), but sites like slashdot would definitely have to start negotiating with MPEG-LA. A dog training club would have to get a license before they publish training videos on the web.
Is this the future we want?
Maybe you shouldn't be so quick in categorizing people?
Outlook Express and Outlook are different applications. Former is truely awful email client in pretty much every way (protocol support is a joke, it corrupts its own database, security track record is abysmal, the whole application seems to be implemented by amateurs) -- Microsoft replaced OE with Windows Mail for a reason. Outlook on the other hand is a fairly usable email/PIM client as long as you use it _exactly_ as God and Microsoft intended.
The really early cell phones were the size of briefcases, so heavy that you needed a separate handset part -- I guess calling them "mobile" would be a bit too much. See the (Nokia) Mobira Talkman 450 in all its beauty...
I remember my dad buying one and us being pretty damn impressed when it actually worked at the summer cottage in the middle of the forest. We had to lug the damn thing to the roof to get a signal, but it did work.
Yeah, there are calculations. They all come to the same conclusion: The effort needed to get those addresses back in to use is enormous and the benefit would be that the final deadline moved 12-18 months forward...
In other words, it's not even close to being worth it.
Exactly. Even if you look at just viruses for Microsoft platforms, Dark Avenger came out in 1989, spread wildly and destroyed user data without caution.
You said Jehovah again! Stone him!
Your post stands generally speaking but referring to "the truthful historical record" with regards to Muhammad is a bit weird. Historical records from the pre-Islamic period are rare and quite unreliable: they mostly give us insight on what was considered a somewhat plausible story at the time. Records from the islamic time are better (although still fairly few) but as Muhammad was such a hot topic, their reliability is quite suspect as well.