Google will solve the payment problem. It will allow us to make secure payments over the internet. Amazon and iTunes are already on board... Skype didn't want in, they wanted to be bought, hence Google Talk...
I love the interoperability argument. iTunes is the only music store with DRM that works with anything other than Windows. It seems the labels are in cahoot with Microsoft to force Windows upon us. If Apple loses its dominance in Digital Music, everybody will believe it was because it was "a closed system". Nobody will remember an orchestrated campaign to help a monopoly.
Even if the quality is good this will fail. TV is too absorbing to do outside of the house... Think about it. Are there a lot of Protable DVD players? Or people watching their own movies in laptops, PocketPCs, PSPs, etc? What about those small TVs that are dirt cheap and have been around for years? I don't see them around. The only two places that a small screen is acceptable are planes and back seat of cars... And you have to be a kid to do the latter.
So, finally, we learn the ugly truth about GPL, Open Source and Free Software. All the theory about how nice it was to read the code is bull, Not even progammers can read the code and understand what it does!. With that comment all open source/free software development should stop and the geeks should go home and think it over...
Now the poor sops giving Mac tech support will suffer the infamous dialog:
TS: "now, right click..."
ID10T: "Err, where do I write it?"
TS: "No, I mean you should click your right mouse button."
ID10T: "I only have one mouse and it is on my left!"
Apple didn't argue "bloggers aren't journalist" it argued "this guys aren't journalists." Journalist do not have the protection this guys think they have. If a crime was committed by the source a judge will force the journalist to reveal it, the only protection is that revealing the source has to be a last resource after all other avenues are exhausted, Apple is arguing they are. Apple can't deny first amendment rights to anyone... Only congress can do that. Just read the damn thing!
Actually, this is soooo misguided. Neither Google nor Apple are monopolies, neither have been convicted of illegal actions... No, Microsoft is STILL the only Microsoft. The rest is mental masturbation.
As you all can see everything in Venezuela is highly overshadow by a deep political division. This has been the problem with both Anti-Chavistas and Chavistas alike.
The reality is that the venezuelan government and people use mostly pirated software, most with full knowledge as copies are sold in streets and Malls, some because they are fooled by counterfeiters. Thus, it is an excellent idea to use Open Source (as an aside, they invited RMS but use Open Source as a term instead of Free Software, that's why Chavez followers have trouble making friends...:-). The problem is whether they will actually succeed in the project. Such a project will required skills that seem to be absent in Venezuela (both in government and elsewhere) such as organization, efficiency and control.
I wish them well, but the term you are most likely to hear is "Cuanto hay pa' eso?" (a Venezuelan expression asking how much money they will get from a legal or illegal activity).
"Let's see. Apple sells about 1000 songs a day and everybody knows they have less than 2% of the market. Why! We should get close to a Million a day easy!"
I am somewhat clumsy and I have drop both my iPods (5Gb and 20Gb 3G) from different heights with no significant effects other than the cosmetics and my personal ego (both were in pretty bad shape, anyway)
Any two bodies attract and that force is proportional to the inverse of distance squared (and proportional to the product of the masses). A small distance (between the centers of mass of the bodies) implies a huge force. The question is not whether there is enough gravity to hold the object, but what other forces are involved.
Actually, Adam Smith opined that there couldn't be any free trade without the free movement of labor. With free labor movement this kind of "outsourcing" wouldn't make sense as salaries would tend to be the same throughout the world...
Lots of people are justifying the sacking of this poor guy, as if it made sense to think of a picture as a security threat. If you are threaten by pictures, How are you going to stop the small phones with cameras on them? Your enemies can take as many pictures as they want! (unless you are a military base).
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Google will solve the payment problem. It will allow us to make secure payments over the internet. Amazon and iTunes are already on board... Skype didn't want in, they wanted to be bought, hence Google Talk...
I love the interoperability argument. iTunes is the only music store with DRM that works with anything other than Windows. It seems the labels are in cahoot with Microsoft to force Windows upon us. If Apple loses its dominance in Digital Music, everybody will believe it was because it was "a closed system". Nobody will remember an orchestrated campaign to help a monopoly.
I heard that SCO is claiming that code is theirs!
*DUCKING*
Not very insightful, are you? LOL. Everyone who wants it can have it. Right now.
It has leaked! and it is a DVD... There are movies of people running Mac OS X on a Dell... Here is one.
... and it never will be.
So what you are saying is: he was almost right? ;-P
Even if the quality is good this will fail. TV is too absorbing to do outside of the house... Think about it. Are there a lot of Protable DVD players? Or people watching their own movies in laptops, PocketPCs, PSPs, etc? What about those small TVs that are dirt cheap and have been around for years? I don't see them around. The only two places that a small screen is acceptable are planes and back seat of cars... And you have to be a kid to do the latter.
So, finally, we learn the ugly truth about GPL, Open Source and Free Software. All the theory about how nice it was to read the code is bull, Not even progammers can read the code and understand what it does!. With that comment all open source/free software development should stop and the geeks should go home and think it over...
Just like with PCs equals Windows, this lack of coherence is goint to byte us all in the future.
Now the poor sops giving Mac tech support will suffer the infamous dialog:
TS: "now, right click..."
ID10T: "Err, where do I write it?"
TS: "No, I mean you should click your right mouse button."
ID10T: "I only have one mouse and it is on my left!"
Apple didn't argue "bloggers aren't journalist" it argued "this guys aren't journalists." Journalist do not have the protection this guys think they have. If a crime was committed by the source a judge will force the journalist to reveal it, the only protection is that revealing the source has to be a last resource after all other avenues are exhausted, Apple is arguing they are. Apple can't deny first amendment rights to anyone... Only congress can do that. Just read the damn thing!
Actually, this is soooo misguided. Neither Google nor Apple are monopolies, neither have been convicted of illegal actions... No, Microsoft is STILL the only Microsoft. The rest is mental masturbation.
How Heraclitus would Design a Programming Language
Err.... I don't know... It's all greek to me!
As you all can see everything in Venezuela is highly overshadow by a deep political division. This has been the problem with both Anti-Chavistas and Chavistas alike. :-). The problem is whether they will actually succeed in the project. Such a project will required skills that seem to be absent in Venezuela (both in government and elsewhere) such as organization, efficiency and control.
The reality is that the venezuelan government and people use mostly pirated software, most with full knowledge as copies are sold in streets and Malls, some because they are fooled by counterfeiters. Thus, it is an excellent idea to use Open Source (as an aside, they invited RMS but use Open Source as a term instead of Free Software, that's why Chavez followers have trouble making friends...
I wish them well, but the term you are most likely to hear is "Cuanto hay pa' eso?" (a Venezuelan expression asking how much money they will get from a legal or illegal activity).
"Let's see. Apple sells about 1000 songs a day and everybody knows they have less than 2% of the market. Why! We should get close to a Million a day easy!"
I am somewhat clumsy and I have drop both my iPods (5Gb and 20Gb 3G) from different heights with no significant effects other than the cosmetics and my personal ego (both were in pretty bad shape, anyway)
A proper autopsy is done after the person is dead...
Any two bodies attract and that force is proportional to the inverse of distance squared (and proportional to the product of the masses). A small distance (between the centers of mass of the bodies) implies a huge force. The question is not whether there is enough gravity to hold the object, but what other forces are involved.
They always are! Poor guys, trying to use last century OS crap! :-P
Actually, Adam Smith opined that there couldn't be any free trade without the free movement of labor. With free labor movement this kind of "outsourcing" wouldn't make sense as salaries would tend to be the same throughout the world...
Lots of people are justifying the sacking of this poor guy, as if it made sense to think of a picture as a security threat. If you are threaten by pictures, How are you going to stop the small phones with cameras on them? Your enemies can take as many pictures as they want! (unless you are a military base).
But Micro$oft loves doing that... Look at Windows 2000. It is based on "NT Technology" or "New Technology Technology"
The guy sounds guilty as hell. But his defendants here do not seem deterred by this.
Half would be pretty good for Fox, of course.
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