I remember a similar argument said about microsoft because for a long time it did not use its patents in an offensive way... including to stiffle competition... what is to stop google from changing their mind next year? or simply to sell their patents to a more litigative (If you think this can not happen, just look at the recent sale of novell patents)
we are about to be served with a "let's look at your DNA" at every visit for completely unrelated diseases in every possible scenario possible. This is going to get annoying very fast
What do you mean we'll never see? with the pace at which we've been refining our far space detecting objects, I fully expect that we will be able to see an alien taking a dump galaxies away by the end of the century haha... I say don't underestimate the power of progress... but I have been wrong before
Access to knowledge should be universal... of course it does not replace schools but at least one has the possibility to learn on their own if they want to. This is particularely true when as tablet usage becomes universal... allowing to carry a whole bookshelf in one tiny object.
Also, it would enable knowledge access to poorer neighborhoods/countries, allowing the usage of other books when they neither can afford to create material or buy books.
Not just moral... legal... facebook is under the scrutiny of privacy comittees for violating privacy laws in many different countries... That said, I don't see them lasting long if they offer absolutely no privacy to their users if they desire so. (yes, they changed multiple times what was available... but that is part of the reason they are investigated and even then, they allowed people to opt out of new features)
I do think Facebook is a bad example. Their API is open and the SDK is open too... yes, the code is executed remotely... but that is the whole point because it interacts with the user data... that is the beauty behind technologies like XML-RPC or soap... good luck to facebook opening up access to their whole database... they don't care about privacy but even they would not do that
now, it is true that a lot of companies provide an open SDK with a binary part... a good example would be video drivers which are open source yet include a binary part that is not open source. Games are another example.
Even then, I would still consider it progress because before that there was no SDK, the only way to modify existing products was through a hex editor... at least now, software editors provide an api to interact.
The concept is not even new... windows operating system is based on binary DLLs that many times only microsoft has the source code... yet visual studio comes with sourcecode and a very complete toolkit... but even that was not the first time open api was provided to a binary core... I guess that is just the way software is done
My apologies, it was Chandrayaan indeed... Though, it is interesting to note Nasa did contribute the M3 mineral maper module that made the discovery... I may be wrong but without it, I do not think that without this instrument, it would have been possible to make the discovery (not to diminish in any way Chandrayaan's accomplishment... awesome to see a new country doing something interesting, Kudos to the Indians). To be fair, I was more referring to the Nasa LCROSS mission which actually settled for sure there water was present in big quantities... before that, there was a lot of speculation
Not denigrating Nasa efforts... discovery of water on the moon is awesome... can't wait for curiosity to land... but china is definitely moving forward for MANNED exploration... while the world is in a recession. When they announced they wanted 10 space stations in orbit (not a typo), i thought they were mad... now, I am thinking... hey it might not have been such a crazy announcement after all... all that because they were not allowed to participate in the ISS.
It actually may be a good thing for Nasa too... because soon china space program will increasingly be doing more interesting stuff, there may be a new space race and therefore an incentive to increase the budget.
The problem with Nasa is so many awesome projects get canceled every new election as its direction changes... and they keep reinventing the wheel... stalling the space program, wasting resources.
To be fair, there may be other constraints such as bandwidth, collisions, processing on both ends... but somehow 3 seconds seems too much for that kind of thing
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I remember a similar argument said about microsoft because for a long time it did not use its patents in an offensive way... including to stiffle competition... what is to stop google from changing their mind next year? or simply to sell their patents to a more litigative (If you think this can not happen, just look at the recent sale of novell patents)
must be professor eShrodinger :p
we are about to be served with a "let's look at your DNA" at every visit for completely unrelated diseases in every possible scenario possible. This is going to get annoying very fast
he is a slashdotter... bonus points if he actually leaves his parent's basement :)
What do you mean we'll never see? with the pace at which we've been refining our far space detecting objects, I fully expect that we will be able to see an alien taking a dump galaxies away by the end of the century haha... I say don't underestimate the power of progress... but I have been wrong before
no, no, I meant over the shelf scotch tape... you know the clear one that is about 1cm wide :)... That speed tape is way too expensive, haha
should be fine :p... nothing to worry about :p
Access to knowledge should be universal... of course it does not replace schools but at least one has the possibility to learn on their own if they want to. This is particularely true when as tablet usage becomes universal... allowing to carry a whole bookshelf in one tiny object.
Also, it would enable knowledge access to poorer neighborhoods/countries, allowing the usage of other books when they neither can afford to create material or buy books.
last time it did not go too well
Maria... is that the database lady? I hear she is cute :p
I suspect many people won't come forward
it must have been much more difficult to dig dirt when people wanted to divorce without saying they wanted out :)
and turn off the computer... and hopefully that will keep your data secure :)
ROFL.. You get off the highway? lol, niiice :p
an "oops" after a baby picks up the ipad would be really bad :p
Not just moral... legal... facebook is under the scrutiny of privacy comittees for violating privacy laws in many different countries... That said, I don't see them lasting long if they offer absolutely no privacy to their users if they desire so. (yes, they changed multiple times what was available... but that is part of the reason they are investigated and even then, they allowed people to opt out of new features)
now, if it stops working you can either eat it... or in the case of cotton, use it to wipe out the mess :)
I do think Facebook is a bad example. Their API is open and the SDK is open too... yes, the code is executed remotely... but that is the whole point because it interacts with the user data... that is the beauty behind technologies like XML-RPC or soap... good luck to facebook opening up access to their whole database... they don't care about privacy but even they would not do that
now, it is true that a lot of companies provide an open SDK with a binary part... a good example would be video drivers which are open source yet include a binary part that is not open source. Games are another example.
Even then, I would still consider it progress because before that there was no SDK, the only way to modify existing products was through a hex editor... at least now, software editors provide an api to interact.
The concept is not even new... windows operating system is based on binary DLLs that many times only microsoft has the source code... yet visual studio comes with sourcecode and a very complete toolkit... but even that was not the first time open api was provided to a binary core... I guess that is just the way software is done
My apologies, it was Chandrayaan indeed... Though, it is interesting to note Nasa did contribute the M3 mineral maper module that made the discovery... I may be wrong but without it, I do not think that without this instrument, it would have been possible to make the discovery (not to diminish in any way Chandrayaan's accomplishment... awesome to see a new country doing something interesting, Kudos to the Indians). To be fair, I was more referring to the Nasa LCROSS mission which actually settled for sure there water was present in big quantities... before that, there was a lot of speculation
Not denigrating Nasa efforts... discovery of water on the moon is awesome... can't wait for curiosity to land... but china is definitely moving forward for MANNED exploration... while the world is in a recession. When they announced they wanted 10 space stations in orbit (not a typo), i thought they were mad... now, I am thinking... hey it might not have been such a crazy announcement after all... all that because they were not allowed to participate in the ISS.
It actually may be a good thing for Nasa too... because soon china space program will increasingly be doing more interesting stuff, there may be a new space race and therefore an incentive to increase the budget.
The problem with Nasa is so many awesome projects get canceled every new election as its direction changes... and they keep reinventing the wheel... stalling the space program, wasting resources.
That would probably be bing... their numbers have been increasing quite a bit
wait, i think we kind of already know that :p... just stick to gravity field I guess haha :p
To be fair, there may be other constraints such as bandwidth, collisions, processing on both ends... but somehow 3 seconds seems too much for that kind of thing
Oh my god, a plane abortion! plane foetuses are planes too you know :)
well that's how half of zombie and monster movies start at least... so they must be right :p... is this what the mayans were talking about?