Just Yesterday, when I logged into LinkedIn, which I do about 2 to 4 times a week, it pointed out 3 Linux... LINUX!... sysadmin jobs under "Jobs you may be interested in beta". Out of curiosity, I looked. Under each one it listed several more of different varieties under "People Who Viewed This Job Also Viewed" (scroll down).
For some reason it seems to be pushing a lot of jobs in the San Francisco Bay Area at me. Either it misunderstands where I am or there's an excess of such jobs out there someone is wanting to push. Are you near SF or willing to move there (I'm not)?
Not me. The CD is already a physically obsolete medium. If there were no internet, I would still not by CDs. If the music industry didn't provide music on micro-SD cards, I'd just get it on micro-SD cards at the local flea markets.
BTW, when music hit the internet, but before the flash devices were practical, I actually did buy more CDs as a result, because I could sample so much more music and be sure I was buying something I knew I would like. Then I had to copy them into my "juke box" system (Linux based).
Now days, most of my music collection comes from Magnatune... all legal (and not evil).
Dynamic typing was hard to do when your code was translated to hardware machine language, since different data value types had to be handled by different sequences of code. Static typing is actually the legacy approach, and the crutch upon which weaker coding-time validation methods depend on.
Better yet, fix the 4G design so the cells towers continuously transmit their ID (well, every second at least). Then phones can just listen first until they find one suitable to use. And they should be settable to even slow that down when not in use (assuming you aren't pocket surfing).
Sounds like a stupid design to me. The cell towers should have a master frequency they periodically (every few seconds) transmit on with ID number, site ID key, whatever. No reason for any phone to ever transmit unless it detects a tower it wants to communicate with.
It's the values that are typed, not the variables. That's common for dynamic languages. Some people are quite accustomed to this. You can be, too, if you want.
Beta is for when they want others to test it. That means they know it has bugs. Only those that want to help find the bugs should apply. Obviously this is not your cup of tea.
Maybe. Copyright does not prevent you from making your own art. Then you have the right to express it, yourself. Copyright law does have some flaw, and is routinely abused by big corporations (which abuse a LOT of laws, routinely). But its fundamental basis is still valid, to protect a specific art. Freedom of speech protects AN expression of an idea. Copyright doesn't apply to the idea.
Preventing others from doing so is not the basis of patent laws. The basis is to promote innovation for the national good. At one time the law scheme we had did an adequate job of that. But that was before we had all these too big to fail corporations that act as economic bullies. Time to change the law. But the basis, for improving our nation, remains the proper basis for how the laws should change.
The language of a compulsory licensing law would require demonstrating that every licensee is charged a fair and equitable price, which cannot be any higher than the price of their own products minus the material and production costs. And that difference would be distributed among the many patents used in a single product in the proportion the company specifies (for all).
I take it you would vote against such a law and allow big corporations to continue to stifle innovation and drag this country down?
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Just Yesterday, when I logged into LinkedIn, which I do about 2 to 4 times a week, it pointed out 3 Linux ... LINUX! ... sysadmin jobs under "Jobs you may be interested in beta". Out of curiosity, I looked. Under each one it listed several more of different varieties under "People Who Viewed This Job Also Viewed" (scroll down).
For some reason it seems to be pushing a lot of jobs in the San Francisco Bay Area at me. Either it misunderstands where I am or there's an excess of such jobs out there someone is wanting to push. Are you near SF or willing to move there (I'm not)?
All that would need is FUSE in Android ... unless you are an iPhone fan (then plead your case with the powers that be at Apple). EncFS uses FUSE.
Then mount EncFS on top of that and you have encryption, too. Windows has even more to do to catch up.
Less risk of Google killing it and more risk of the government closing it.
You must not be a Linux user, then.
And given Google's privacy policies, encryption is clearly well justified.
They already do. Your point is?
Not me. The CD is already a physically obsolete medium. If there were no internet, I would still not by CDs. If the music industry didn't provide music on micro-SD cards, I'd just get it on micro-SD cards at the local flea markets.
BTW, when music hit the internet, but before the flash devices were practical, I actually did buy more CDs as a result, because I could sample so much more music and be sure I was buying something I knew I would like. Then I had to copy them into my "juke box" system (Linux based).
Now days, most of my music collection comes from Magnatune ... all legal (and not evil).
If it's paywalled, it didn't happen!
Dynamic typing was hard to do when your code was translated to hardware machine language, since different data value types had to be handled by different sequences of code. Static typing is actually the legacy approach, and the crutch upon which weaker coding-time validation methods depend on.
Better yet, fix the 4G design so the cells towers continuously transmit their ID (well, every second at least). Then phones can just listen first until they find one suitable to use. And they should be settable to even slow that down when not in use (assuming you aren't pocket surfing).
Sounds like a stupid design to me. The cell towers should have a master frequency they periodically (every few seconds) transmit on with ID number, site ID key, whatever. No reason for any phone to ever transmit unless it detects a tower it wants to communicate with.
It's the values that are typed, not the variables. That's common for dynamic languages. Some people are quite accustomed to this. You can be, too, if you want.
I don't care about Flash. I just want WebM+VP8 everywhere.
Beta is for when they want others to test it. That means they know it has bugs. Only those that want to help find the bugs should apply. Obviously this is not your cup of tea.
Tax those 1%-ers. Make 'em send in 30% of the bits.
The most common feature. The most boring feature.
Maybe. Copyright does not prevent you from making your own art. Then you have the right to express it, yourself. Copyright law does have some flaw, and is routinely abused by big corporations (which abuse a LOT of laws, routinely). But its fundamental basis is still valid, to protect a specific art. Freedom of speech protects AN expression of an idea. Copyright doesn't apply to the idea.
Preventing others from doing so is not the basis of patent laws. The basis is to promote innovation for the national good. At one time the law scheme we had did an adequate job of that. But that was before we had all these too big to fail corporations that act as economic bullies. Time to change the law. But the basis, for improving our nation, remains the proper basis for how the laws should change.
The language of a compulsory licensing law would require demonstrating that every licensee is charged a fair and equitable price, which cannot be any higher than the price of their own products minus the material and production costs. And that difference would be distributed among the many patents used in a single product in the proportion the company specifies (for all).
I take it you would vote against such a law and allow big corporations to continue to stifle innovation and drag this country down?
Bzzzzt! Wrong! Many actually do accomplish at least some things. See what Sallie Mae changed as a result here and here.
They license lots of code from companies who wouldn't want the source released.
Then release it without those parts and the community can fill in the gaps. Also, document the interface of the hardware.
Also, they gain nothing by doing so.
They get a more solid and reliable code base through the community eyes.
Republicrats and Demicans are just a big trust against the people.
That's the only way to get people to support it. They're not going to actually read the bill to see what's in it.
And don't forget Harry Reid.