I can see WiFi. WiFi 'Cameras' are freely available at electronics stores. They connect to your computer, and even translate the blinking point sources into useful data for you automatically! And instead of expensive playback software, all you need is a web browser:)
Yeah, but the intention definitely matters. The adult photographer is clearly trying to get photographs of strange children, whereas Google is trying to build a useful service. I'd say Google's use is a lot less creepy than the strange guy.
Here's a car analogy: If you cut me off because you're rushing your pregnant wife to the hospital through dense traffic, I don't mind. But if you cut me off because you're talking on your cell phone and not paying attention, we have a problem.
Right, and how do we teach social conventions like underlining to a nine-year-old? Maybe some kind of scheme where we quantitatively judge work based on some criteria, like how well the convention was understood...
It's not like grades are important at that age either. At least here in Canada, grades don't count for anything unless you're in the last few years of high school and applying to a university. And yes, the university will care about proper underlining:)
I run my car on Pirelli tires, and it's nigh impossible to drive a car properly without tires (just like you can't have a kernel without GNU). Therefore, I should really be referring to my car as a Pirelli/Mazda.
I think everytime we refer to Linux, we should really be calling it GNU/Linux/XOrg/KDE (or GNU/Linux/XOrg/Gnome if you prefer). I mean it's not a terribly useful desktop OS to the great unwashed without KDE or Gnome (or XFCE or Fluxbox or whatever).
And anybody who calls it "GNU/Linux" without the XOrg and desktop environment hates freedom!
Okay, so I publish the raw database online (in non-copyrightable form), then let people individually "sample" the database to build their own "creative" sequences to publish under CC. Crowdsource'd.
And how well does your combination lock work against me reading the combo through a pair of binoculars as you enter it? Or a blowtorch up close? Or smashing your windows and bypassing the lock entirely?
Flash also has a retarded garbage collector that's incapable of cleaning up large objects. Oh, and you can't force it to do a cleanup, so if it decides your object is too big, it's stuck in memory forever. Good luck optimizing that.
And the computer you get will be fast and secure, and there will be people who will quite happily pay Apple's price for it. And if you don't like it, you can always buy a copy of Google Windows(tm) down the street for less money which is more "open", but slower, less secure, and clunkier.
As much as Linux zealots like to rant about Choice(tm), very few of them seem to understand that it's my choice to surrender unsigned code in exchange for performance, stability, ease of use, functionality, and my own sanity. And believe me, as an IT professional dealing with vendors' crap all day, my sanity is worth a lot to me.
This may seem like a stupid question, but why exactly does Google Maps need to "read phone state and identity" (i.e. not just dialing phone numbers), "record audio", and "modify/delete SD card contents"?
Yes, but it's not just listening. It has to send the tower a keep-alive so the network knows where you are, and calls can be routed to the right tower. Otherwise every cell tower on earth would have to individually broadcast every call made, and wait for a phone, somewhere, to respond.
Plus, carriers gotta be able to charge you through the nose for "roaming" just because your phone is powered on in their airspace:p
Okay, so you buy private insurance. What exactly does it get you? All the hospitals, clinics, and labs are free, the drugs are subsidized, and everything else is covered by 'supplemental insurance'. Private insurance would be a huge waste of your money, and the governments' for having to deal with private insurance companies.
Health care is a right up here, not something you have to be able to afford.
They don't produce their hardware, but they do design it. The back of my iPhone says "Designed by Apple in California, Assembled in China". In the end, it doesn't really matter who puts consumer electronics together since 95% of the work is the design (by Apple) and making sure they're built to spec (also by Apple).
Who manufactures your Google Nexus One? Was it Google? Nope. But everyone still calls it the "googlephone", and for good reason.
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I can see WiFi. WiFi 'Cameras' are freely available at electronics stores. They connect to your computer, and even translate the blinking point sources into useful data for you automatically! And instead of expensive playback software, all you need is a web browser :)
It's all just EM, baby!
Yeah, but the intention definitely matters. The adult photographer is clearly trying to get photographs of strange children, whereas Google is trying to build a useful service. I'd say Google's use is a lot less creepy than the strange guy.
Here's a car analogy: If you cut me off because you're rushing your pregnant wife to the hospital through dense traffic, I don't mind. But if you cut me off because you're talking on your cell phone and not paying attention, we have a problem.
I played with a friend's iPhone... then I bought one. What was the point of your comment?
Right, and how do we teach social conventions like underlining to a nine-year-old? Maybe some kind of scheme where we quantitatively judge work based on some criteria, like how well the convention was understood...
:)
It's not like grades are important at that age either. At least here in Canada, grades don't count for anything unless you're in the last few years of high school and applying to a university. And yes, the university will care about proper underlining
Yup!
I run my car on Pirelli tires, and it's nigh impossible to drive a car properly without tires (just like you can't have a kernel without GNU). Therefore, I should really be referring to my car as a Pirelli/Mazda.
I think everytime we refer to Linux, we should really be calling it GNU/Linux/XOrg/KDE (or GNU/Linux/XOrg/Gnome if you prefer). I mean it's not a terribly useful desktop OS to the great unwashed without KDE or Gnome (or XFCE or Fluxbox or whatever).
And anybody who calls it "GNU/Linux" without the XOrg and desktop environment hates freedom!
Okay, so I publish the raw database online (in non-copyrightable form), then let people individually "sample" the database to build their own "creative" sequences to publish under CC. Crowdsource'd.
Would that work?
Anybody else find this just a little bit ironic, given the OP?
You'll never get mine, now matter how hunter2-ing hard you try
And how well does your combination lock work against me reading the combo through a pair of binoculars as you enter it? Or a blowtorch up close? Or smashing your windows and bypassing the lock entirely?
It's all relative.
Can't they just use the name on the credit card you used to pay?
Y'know, I can't say I've ever heard of anybody else named || Xion ||... maybe it's a regional thing ;)
Flash also has a retarded garbage collector that's incapable of cleaning up large objects. Oh, and you can't force it to do a cleanup, so if it decides your object is too big, it's stuck in memory forever. Good luck optimizing that.
Linkey: http://www.andymoore.ca/2010/03/motherfucking-as3-garbage-collection/
1995 just called. They want their joke back.
And the computer you get will be fast and secure, and there will be people who will quite happily pay Apple's price for it. And if you don't like it, you can always buy a copy of Google Windows(tm) down the street for less money which is more "open", but slower, less secure, and clunkier.
As much as Linux zealots like to rant about Choice(tm), very few of them seem to understand that it's my choice to surrender unsigned code in exchange for performance, stability, ease of use, functionality, and my own sanity. And believe me, as an IT professional dealing with vendors' crap all day, my sanity is worth a lot to me.
This may seem like a stupid question, but why exactly does Google Maps need to "read phone state and identity" (i.e. not just dialing phone numbers), "record audio", and "modify/delete SD card contents"?
Yes, but it's not just listening. It has to send the tower a keep-alive so the network knows where you are, and calls can be routed to the right tower. Otherwise every cell tower on earth would have to individually broadcast every call made, and wait for a phone, somewhere, to respond.
:p
Plus, carriers gotta be able to charge you through the nose for "roaming" just because your phone is powered on in their airspace
Gotta love the stupidity with that URL turning out to be "amazon.com/man-whose-name-wouldnt-author's name/more stuff".
Hey, as a girl on the internets, I take offense to that!
No...
wait...
You're right, I'm actually a guy.
Oh for some +1 Funny mod points...
Okay, so you buy private insurance. What exactly does it get you? All the hospitals, clinics, and labs are free, the drugs are subsidized, and everything else is covered by 'supplemental insurance'. Private insurance would be a huge waste of your money, and the governments' for having to deal with private insurance companies.
Health care is a right up here, not something you have to be able to afford.
Alright, I hereby give you my permission to stop the Gulf Oil Leak. Report back in a week.
That's true, and I agree 100%, but unfortunately people like you and I are vastly in the minority.
Yup, vegetarian here and I agree 100%
They don't produce their hardware, but they do design it. The back of my iPhone says "Designed by Apple in California, Assembled in China". In the end, it doesn't really matter who puts consumer electronics together since 95% of the work is the design (by Apple) and making sure they're built to spec (also by Apple).
Who manufactures your Google Nexus One? Was it Google? Nope. But everyone still calls it the "googlephone", and for good reason.