> very good research is only for those in the privileged high class universities from high class families.
There's also counterargument that the research might cost significant amount of money. Like france built LHC at some high cost of billions. It is very difficult to get the money back, even if all your research goes as planned. While government pays most of the stuff, it wouldn't be a surprise if they try to recoup some of the cost from people who absolutely need that information. Putting your papers under paywall is one way to do that. It's not simply a matter of excluding part of the population from the information, but it's also about how to ensure that the research can continue in the future.
> A PhD committee has no way of telling where you got your cited publications from
Yeah, when they try to check your publications, and they end up in a paywall of 2 million bucks, it's dead obvious that you're not that rich to get access to it. Or it might take longer to access the papers than it took for you to create your work? It'll be dead obvious when you refer to bunch of amazing papers that noone else has proper access.
Pirated papers can only end badly. It's not possible for academics to refer to a paper obtained from pirate source. Once such activities are revealed, there's significant pressure from universities to cancel the credit people got from using pirate papers. This means some people are going to lose their Phd over issue of using the pirate site.
But it is sad that elsevier has not managed to make their service convinient enough that researchers could access the same data legally. There's high chance that scientific progress is harmed by this problem, and it should be high priority issue to fix immediately. It is strange development that the most bleeding edge technology always need to be at the edge (or over) the legal limits, as it seems those limits are causing real problems in the world.
Phone companies do not need this information. The reason is that whatever software ordinary people can get access to, it is definitely several iterations too old software. Finding problems from stuff that was created 3 years ago is simply not useful activity. The hardening of the software needs to happen with the bleeding edge software that only the companies themselves have access to. Thus end users reporting vulnerabilities to phone companies is completely useless activity. They're way too late in their reporting. Worse, while reporting the problems, they might reveal them to the criminals too, and there might be millions of devices on the open with the existing vulnerabilties in it. Fixing just newest versions of the software simply wouldn't work either, if criminals gets access to the information. Automatic updates are helping a little, and can solve some of the problems, but basically requires that phone companies are actively updating versions of the software that are like 4 years old. This takes significant amount of effort to keep old software versions updated. But the basic problem is that the information is coming in way too late.
> The only thing it "infringes" on is their profits.
Raise hand if you have used a printer in last 24 months? It starts to be kinda outdated technology already. Everything is on the web, and noone is printing web pages...
> And the entire point of licensed taxis was to guarantee > service at all times and to all areas at a fair price.
Actually, the reason why there's a permit required to start a taxi service is because otherwise everyone that had a car could start a underground taxi service. Almost every adult have a car, thus we would have thousands of underground taxi services in the country. They want driving a taxi to be profitable occupation, thus it requires a permit issued by the government. Ordinary people who have cars are not allowed to start a taxi service. Uber should follow the law, and get permits from the government for anyone driving taxis.
> Was it worth it for Microsoft to take a $7.6 billion hit just > to take Nokia out of the mobile phone business?
How much you think microsoft spent money developing their windows phone OS? It had no hardware for the OS before buying nokia's hardware... Microsoft invested HUGE pile of money without knowing beforehand that they'd get hardware for their software.
My bet is that Nokia buys the phones back from microsoft once microsoft's OS becomes outdated. And then they have something new available for the users? Should think in the long term plans -- what OS is going to replace windows phone?
I don't have epilepsy, but still the flashing animations or music videos which alternate black and white screens are very annoying. They should really be banned for good. Whoever creates such videos for consumption of large number of people should consider it 2nd time before posting their video. Same problem is with discos and restaurants that use flickering or blinking lights synced to the music.
-true masters have their own style of writing c++ code. They don't listen to the newest silver bullets, but instead can decide themselves, which techniques to use in each situation. Masters can dodge the pressure of bleeding edge features, and focus on the requirements. They implement the simplest possible code, without any advanced tricks or newest fads, never coding themselves to a corner. They don't listen when the world screams that the code is shitty, when they know better than everyone else. Masters develop their own coding standards and conventions, distinguishing his code from the gray mass that everyone else is doing. Going against the tide is important part of being a master.
I mean, their current setup is displaying an interference pattern.
But how about doing it in reverse. Start from existing interference pattern, and go through all possible molecules until you find the one which matches the same interference pattern?
Current marketshare isn't really relevant, since they haven't yet started their work. It takes lots of effort to get the marketshare up, but that's why they have large organisation. All those people need to have something to do, and improving windows phone market share is good task for them. We'll see how the market share improves as soon as they can create enough phones to match the number of phones they were creating with symbian.
> Elop should have chosen to go with Android for the killer platform of the their OS with Nokia's hardware.
That's only end-user perspective. There is other considerations, like how operators improve their networks, and what kind of improvements the company's engineers want to do to the os. Also hardware support is important consideration - it wouldnt be good if they had to use same type of parts for the phones as android vendors are using, since world supply of those components is soon consumed already. Important decision point seem to be ecosystem.
> Nokia workers being laid off by the tens of thousands must > be thrilled. Wonder what they think of the news...
Guess it's some big evil masterplan. The question to ask -- what is the evil plan that takes billions and billions of money, enough for a big company like nokia to run out of money enough that they must sell some assets. The decrease in sold mobile phones is not explaining it, since if they're not using their time to create phones, _what_ exactly are they creating? I think we're going to see some big surprices in the future. Noone just knows yet what they are. Maybe they're expanding their market area reach to cover US market and building ecosystem. But what it will contain is anyone's guess. Nokia and Microsoft today are just placing their first moves in a bigger game; and something big is coming. We just don't yet know what it is.
> I still don't get what Nokia gains from the exclusive deal with Microsoft.
Think of what they're doing. They create hardware. Why is deal with microsoft important for their hardware? If they create N million units of phones, they need large amount of hardware components. How is the deal with microsoft useful in this situation? It could be simply that microsoft already ported their OS to the hardware components. Or somethiing else like that. We will never find out, if we just think about how end users are using the phones.
My bet is that developing several operating systems costs too much money. Taking both winphone and android costs so much money that they can't afford it. They already have several platforms. Too many of them is not good plan.
> They're just sealing themselves off from a very large part of the market.
If you know the history, they have not been very successful in US market. Maybe microsoft gave them access to new big market like the USA.
> Microsoft OS: 90 bucks or whatever they're charging > Smaller ecosystem for apps Works with the hardware.
>Compared to: >Larger ecosystem by orders of magnitude >An OS that doesn't cost a dime (unmodded) Doesn't work with the hardware - would take 3 years to port.
I'm pretty sure the hardware is the key. MS ported their OS to correct hardware platform.
Oh wait, Nokia doesn't like to use the same hardware as google is using?
Reason: Trolls. I'm pretty sure kernel would be written in perl if trolls had their way. It's just amazing how much pressure there is in the highvolume opensource projects. It takes 2 loud persons to cause pressure to a project in the mailing list. Popular projects have lots more trolls than real people. Rude is necessary in this environment. Just reading the mailing list is a pain.
Then trying to control the trolls to build big software that always need to work. It becomes impossible over the email after project size is more than 10 people. I don't understand how linus can handle kernel. It must be real pain in the ass.
If we consider the url trick to be operation that normal people would not do. Further, after url trick, he got access to someone elses account details. It's pretty similar to normal hacking operations -- find gaps in the protection of the data, and once found, utilize the gaps to cause damage. He bypasses security measures by skipping the authentication mechanisms and accessing someone elses account. In this case, every AT&T customer's account details. Once he saw the unauthorized account details, he didn't stop there, but created software to fetch all the data he can find. By this operation, he upgraded himself from normal web user to a software expert, and software experts are supposed to know that unauthorized access to someone elses data is not allowed. Convicting this guy no way changes the status of normal web users as amici thinks, but changes the status of software experts. Experts now need to be more careful about how they publish data. Software experts anyway need to be very careful what data to publish. Giving account details of someone else fetched from AT&T's servers to the press is just very stupid operation for a software expert. I say this is unauthorised access of AT&T's servers, recardless of what response the server is giving. The server configuration just doesn't matter. He bypassed the authentication mechanisms to access accounts of AT&T's customers. Jump from software expert to security researcher is tricky one. As software expert he's clearly breaking publishing rules. If he cannot make the jump from software expert to security researcher, then the conviction is just ok. Not all software experts need to be security researchers.
> I'm truly curious what background check will keep someone from stealing another person's legally obtained weapon?
Laws and regulations against guns works better than you expect. Crazy person who only thinks of "where can I get a gun" will have problems finding one if the regulation is enforced. They will find pieces of glass or knifes instead, and the damage will be much smaller. This is the purpose of gun laws, the damage needs to be minimized.
It's completely stupid idea to let someone sell semiautomatic weapons to whoever has money.
There seems to be plenty of gaming libs and frameworks already available. Not sure why this announcement would be special? In recent open source gaming competition there were 48 games, and pretty much every one of them was made with different frameworks, so it means there must be at least 48 different gaming frameworks available. Announcing new gaming framework is not a big event it seems.
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> very good research is only for those in the privileged high class universities from high class families.
There's also counterargument that the research might cost significant amount of money. Like france built LHC at some high cost of billions. It is very difficult to get the money back, even if all your research goes as planned. While government pays most of the stuff, it wouldn't be a surprise if they try to recoup some of the cost from people who absolutely need that information. Putting your papers under paywall is one way to do that. It's not simply a matter of excluding part of the population from the information, but it's also about how to ensure that the research can continue in the future.
> A PhD committee has no way of telling where you got your cited publications from
Yeah, when they try to check your publications, and they end up in a paywall of 2 million bucks, it's dead obvious that you're not that rich to get access to it. Or it might take longer to access the papers than it took for you to create your work? It'll be dead obvious when you refer to bunch of amazing papers that noone else has proper access.
Pirated papers can only end badly. It's not possible for academics to refer to a paper obtained from pirate source. Once such activities are revealed, there's significant pressure from universities to cancel the credit people got from using pirate papers. This means some people are going to lose their Phd over issue of using the pirate site.
But it is sad that elsevier has not managed to make their service convinient enough that researchers could access the same data legally. There's high chance that scientific progress is harmed by this problem, and it should be high priority issue to fix immediately. It is strange development that the most bleeding edge technology always need to be at the edge (or over) the legal limits, as it seems those limits are causing real problems in the world.
Phone companies do not need this information. The reason is that whatever software ordinary people can get access to, it is definitely several iterations too old software. Finding problems from stuff that was created 3 years ago is simply not useful activity. The hardening of the software needs to happen with the bleeding edge software that only the companies themselves have access to. Thus end users reporting vulnerabilities to phone companies is completely useless activity. They're way too late in their reporting. Worse, while reporting the problems, they might reveal them to the criminals too, and there might be millions of devices on the open with the existing vulnerabilties in it. Fixing just newest versions of the software simply wouldn't work either, if criminals gets access to the information. Automatic updates are helping a little, and can solve some of the problems, but basically requires that phone companies are actively updating versions of the software that are like 4 years old. This takes significant amount of effort to keep old software versions updated. But the basic problem is that the information is coming in way too late.
> The only thing it "infringes" on is their profits.
Raise hand if you have used a printer in last 24 months? It starts to be kinda outdated technology already. Everything is on the web, and noone is printing web pages...
> And the entire point of licensed taxis was to guarantee
> service at all times and to all areas at a fair price.
Actually, the reason why there's a permit required to start a taxi service is because otherwise everyone that had a car could start a underground taxi service. Almost every adult have a car, thus we would have thousands of underground taxi services in the country. They want driving a taxi to be profitable occupation, thus it requires a permit issued by the government. Ordinary people who have cars are not allowed to start a taxi service. Uber should follow the law, and get permits from the government for anyone driving taxis.
> Was it worth it for Microsoft to take a $7.6 billion hit just
> to take Nokia out of the mobile phone business?
How much you think microsoft spent money developing their windows phone OS? It had no hardware for the OS before buying nokia's hardware... Microsoft invested HUGE pile of money without knowing beforehand that they'd get hardware for their software.
My bet is that Nokia buys the phones back from microsoft once microsoft's OS becomes outdated. And then they have something new available for the users? Should think in the long term plans -- what OS is going to replace windows phone?
I don't have epilepsy, but still the flashing animations or music videos which alternate black and white screens are very annoying. They should really be banned for good. Whoever creates such videos for consumption of large number of people should consider it 2nd time before posting their video. Same problem is with discos and restaurants that use flickering or blinking lights synced to the music.
> In a multi-threaded environment where objects may be shared, or not
Isnt it bad sign, if you're forced to use unreliable multi-threaded abstractions... Good luck finding all race conditions...
-true masters have their own style of writing c++ code. They don't listen to the newest silver bullets, but instead can decide themselves, which techniques to use in each situation. Masters can dodge the pressure of bleeding edge features, and focus on the requirements. They implement the simplest possible code, without any advanced tricks or newest fads, never coding themselves to a corner. They don't listen when the world screams that the code is shitty, when they know better than everyone else. Masters develop their own coding standards and conventions, distinguishing his code from the gray mass that everyone else is doing. Going against the tide is important part of being a master.
and there isnt exactly lack of gaming related engines... this page has plenty of them: http://www.slant.co/topics/149...
They spent 16 years on that? Wow. Sounds like outdated tech.
I was thinking more like getting teleportation working. if we know the interference pattern, can we use that info to construct the molecule?
I mean, their current setup is displaying an interference pattern.
But how about doing it in reverse. Start from existing interference pattern, and go through all possible molecules until you find the one which matches the same interference pattern?
> -Bad: Picking MS, the last place platform
Current marketshare isn't really relevant, since they haven't yet started their work. It takes lots of effort to get the marketshare up, but that's why they have large organisation. All those people need to have something to do, and improving windows phone market share is good task for them. We'll see how the market share improves as soon as they can create enough phones to match the number of phones they were creating with symbian.
> Elop should have chosen to go with Android for the killer platform of the their OS with Nokia's hardware.
That's only end-user perspective. There is other considerations, like how operators improve their networks, and what kind of improvements the company's engineers want to do to the os. Also hardware support is important consideration - it wouldnt be good if they had to use same type of parts for the phones as android vendors are using, since world supply of those components is soon consumed already. Important decision point seem to be ecosystem.
> Nokia workers being laid off by the tens of thousands must
> be thrilled. Wonder what they think of the news...
Guess it's some big evil masterplan. The question to ask -- what is the evil plan that takes billions and billions of money, enough for a big company like nokia to run out of money enough that they must sell some assets. The decrease in sold mobile phones is not explaining it, since if they're not using their time to create phones, _what_ exactly are they creating? I think we're going to see some big surprices in the future. Noone just knows yet what they are. Maybe they're expanding their market area reach to cover US market and building ecosystem. But what it will contain is anyone's guess. Nokia and Microsoft today are just placing their first moves in a bigger game; and something big is coming. We just don't yet know what it is.
> I still don't get what Nokia gains from the exclusive deal with Microsoft.
Think of what they're doing. They create hardware. Why is deal with microsoft important for their hardware? If they create N million units of phones, they need large amount of hardware components. How is the deal with microsoft useful in this situation? It could be simply that microsoft already ported their OS to the hardware components. Or somethiing else like that. We will never find out, if we just think about how end users are using the phones.
My bet is that developing several operating systems costs too much money. Taking both winphone and android costs so much money that they can't afford it. They already have several platforms. Too many of them is not good plan.
> They're just sealing themselves off from a very large part of the market.
If you know the history, they have not been very successful in US market. Maybe microsoft gave them access to new big market like the USA.
> Microsoft OS: 90 bucks or whatever they're charging
> Smaller ecosystem for apps
Works with the hardware.
>Compared to:
>Larger ecosystem by orders of magnitude
>An OS that doesn't cost a dime (unmodded)
Doesn't work with the hardware - would take 3 years to port.
I'm pretty sure the hardware is the key. MS ported their OS to correct hardware platform.
Oh wait, Nokia doesn't like to use the same hardware as google is using?
Reason: Trolls. I'm pretty sure kernel would be written in perl if trolls had their way. It's just amazing how much pressure there is in the highvolume opensource projects. It takes 2 loud persons to cause pressure to a project in the mailing list. Popular projects have lots more trolls than real people. Rude is necessary in this environment. Just reading the mailing list is a pain.
Then trying to control the trolls to build big software that always need to work. It becomes impossible over the email after project size is more than 10 people. I don't understand how linus can handle kernel. It must be real pain in the ass.
If we consider the url trick to be operation that normal people would not do. Further, after url trick, he got access to someone elses account details. It's pretty similar to normal hacking operations -- find gaps in the protection of the data, and once found, utilize the gaps to cause damage. He bypasses security measures by skipping the authentication mechanisms and accessing someone elses account. In this case, every AT&T customer's account details. Once he saw the unauthorized account details, he didn't stop there, but created software to fetch all the data he can find. By this operation, he upgraded himself from normal web user to a software expert, and software experts are supposed to know that unauthorized access to someone elses data is not allowed. Convicting this guy no way changes the status of normal web users as amici thinks, but changes the status of software experts. Experts now need to be more careful about how they publish data. Software experts anyway need to be very careful what data to publish. Giving account details of someone else fetched from AT&T's servers to the press is just very stupid operation for a software expert. I say this is unauthorised access of AT&T's servers, recardless of what response the server is giving. The server configuration just doesn't matter. He bypassed the authentication mechanisms to access accounts of AT&T's customers. Jump from software expert to security researcher is tricky one. As software expert he's clearly breaking publishing rules. If he cannot make the jump from software expert to security researcher, then the conviction is just ok. Not all software experts need to be security researchers.
Current skill set obviously means that all my CATEGORY THEORY skills are useless, but JAVA is hot...
> I'm truly curious what background check will keep someone from stealing another person's legally obtained weapon?
Laws and regulations against guns works better than you expect. Crazy person who only thinks of "where can I get a gun" will have problems finding one if the regulation is enforced. They will find pieces of glass or knifes instead, and the damage will be much smaller. This is the purpose of gun laws, the damage needs to be minimized.
It's completely stupid idea to let someone sell semiautomatic weapons to whoever has money.
So, they invent new tech, and the only thing to print with the 3d printers is guns? Can't they think of anything more useful to do with the tech?
There seems to be plenty of gaming libs and frameworks already available. Not sure why this announcement would be special? In recent open source gaming competition there were 48 games, and pretty much every one of them was made with different frameworks, so it means there must be at least 48 different gaming frameworks available. Announcing new gaming framework is not a big event it seems.