If the proponents of GM food win this one, there is still another approach: provide an opt-in certification for labelling non-GM foods. Like organic foods, if companies decide that customers are swayed by this label, then more might opt-in.
My main beef with GM foods, is the amount of testing and the attitudes of companies like Monsanto when it comes to control of food variety and persecution of farmers who end up being contaminated by Monsanto pollen.
With the waste produced by nuclear reactors, I have always wondered whether it would be possible to feed the waste of one reactor into another reactor that is designed to use the waste of the first? You could then have a whole chain of reactors each optimised to use the waste of the previous reactor.
The other question is I have is whether Thorium reactors produce less waste?
The alternative term, which I find less fuzzy sounding is 'hosted services'. For me, 'cloud computing' just seems like a term to obfuscate stuff and make marketing people happy.
Maybe there is à market for a non-Apple app store? If someone gets in the act now, and Apple pulls the rug, then it would be possible to apply anti-trust laws.
With regards to sandboxing, I can understand why Apple is doing this, but have they gone too far with their sand boxing model? What needs to be improved and does a better model exist elsewhere?
If a company promises life-time and spell out what they mean by it, then they should be held accountable on the terms defined. Then again in all reality, there is no such thing as a life-time account, just as in life there are no guarantees.
If you aren't hosting your own service, then be ready to be kicked out when the landlord decides to kick you out, but at the same time they should a) be abiding to the terms of services and b) giving you sufficient time to find an alternative provider. One month is *very* short notice and at the very least they should be giving you six months to make your move.
I used to be with a company call 'Bigfoot', but they too changed business direction and degraded the quality of their services. At that time I moved to GMail and haven't looked back.
Each OS has its own quirks, its own primary audience and its own compromises.
Darwin is open source. If you take your time you will find plenty of ways of doing "non-Jobs approved" stuff. The difference with Linux is that it wasn't designed with hackers and software engineers as the primary audience, but that doesn't stop them from doing many of the same things.
Choose the OS that best serves your needs and accept other people have chosen an OS that best serves their present needs. Needs change and so may their OS, or yours.
Well that or anti-trust, since this is clearly anti-competitive.
I can accept something like a Mac being locked down, to a certain extent, since it is Apple hardware with Apple software - though I don't believe they prevent you from installing other operating systems? Generic PC hardware not at all, since this is third party hardware, with Windows being an add-on. If Microsoft wants hardware this locked down to run Windows, then they should sell their own hardware.
What I would like to see is being able to disable UEFI Secure boot, via the UEFI prompt. If you have physical access to a machine, and the UEFI password (if there is one), then I can't see much of a security risk that would bother anyone.
One question, is how easy is it to identify hardware that is 'broken' like this?
I am surprised the Android doesn't limit creation of shortcuts or icons external to the app, to an API? This API would automatically notify the user on trigger. If there is one, how are these apps successfully getting around it? Wouldn't this be something that Google could detect before listing an app?
Note, I am not an Android developer, so excuse any ignorance here.
Apple and their morals. Saying that a brominated flame retarded ant is a harmful toxin! They're just special, no need to drag their name through the mud.
Me thinks someone was typing from their phone, because I really don't know what a 'brominated flame retarded ant' is, though maybe it is a species of ant that I wasn't aware about?
The same pharma companies that spend over 50% of budget on marketing and advertising? Don't you think it is a little wasteful?
PS: No, I don't need to provide a link, google it.
Your response would have been better if you had provided a link yourself. Anyhow, here is one link (PDF), entitled 'Pharmaceutical Marketing – Time for Change':
All this sounds good, but what is to be seen is whether they can package and present this to a market that has built its expectations around what Android and iOS are offering. Have a great product on paper is only half the race, being able to present this to a market sucessfully with increased expectations is the other half. Also, having rested their laurels did help. Also, as much as their business focus has been their advantage, the shift to 'bring your own device', will hurt them if they don't understand this shift. Also, as having been portrayed negatively by the press, they need to work twice as hard to provide an appealing product and ready for release in weeks.
One of the major mistakes RIM was when they presented the Playbook, in that it revealed to much of its hand, had a feature set that was likely to be trumped by the new iPad when it came out and also selected a release date that was too close to the iPad. Had they been a few months earlier they would have been able to capitalize on that advantage. Requiring the use of a BB to use the Playbook was another short sighted mistake, especially if you are trying evangelize a new user base. This is certainly the past at this point, but if RIM is to succeed then it needs to stop thinking like a traditional electronics company.
Apple in the late 90s really had a lot of great stuff, but that didn't stop them from almost going under - they also had rested on their laurels for a time. It was only under the right management and change in focus, (and a little financial help from Bill Gates) were they able to make a come back. Also, Apple focused on keeping inventory at a minimum, so avoiding related costs. RIM needs something of a leader to do the same, ideally someone who is neither an accountant or a lawyer.
I am not going to counter your argument, since I haven't done the analysis myself. On the other and I am curious to know where RIM is ahead of the curve and whether they are capatilizing on that advantage?
With the right management RIM can be turned around, but it needs someone with a 'vision' of where things need to go.
If you look at Apple's history they ended up in a similar positions, since they had become complacent about the merrits of their operating system, while Windows slowly edged past them. It was only when Steve Jobs came back did things start turning around. The difference between him and many current CEOs is that he was neither a lawyer or an accountant. Too many companies seem to be run by people who seem more interested in their paycheck than trying to take a risk and trying something different.
If you forever focus on the balance book, then the balance book will rule the company and the technology that should be driving it.
In many ways RIM is repeating another company's history: Palm. Whoever is in charge needs to avoid making those mistakes, otherwise it simply will be a collection of IP bought by a new bigger player.
I'm totally used to right to left from manga these days. You know - the comics with actually good Pedo incest stories:-p
FTFY i don't buy manga, it's illegal in a lot of places and even if you win in court, you are famous as "the guy with the pervert comics"
Now that is just silly. Clearly some people are so close minded, interpret over broadly stuff they dont undertand and throw them into the untouchable category without consideration. Believe me this is more about protecting their narrow view point than the kids.
If you removed the article for business reasons and it is available in some other form (a book maybe?), then you should probably provide a reference to the new format, especially since the article links to your page. Your page simply has something indicating that your site is going under reconstruction, without a reason why the article text vanished.
The Internet tends to try to recover lost information, with more concern for culture, than ownership. If you can provide the missing information or a reference to it, then it usually helps people feel the information is not lost.
The problem is that nvidia doesn't even provide a documented interface to build a driver on top of. If they want the software working with their card, then it is up to them to provide the glue. I imagine they could more of the logic into the firmware and then make the driver a basic shim.
The other alternatives is for Nvidia to come out and indicate what they need from Linux to make their lives easier.
Just because we haven't observed them yet doesn't mean they don't exist
Then again, what is the likely hood we will find the Bosen Higgs particle first? The other possibility is that they break down before entering the political collider?
I don't believe anyone should be forcing anyone to pay for the effects of natural pollination, which is generally down the nature of the winds and insect pollinators. What I was saying with my comment is that Monsanto should not be in a position to sue or force the farmers to pay them. If the law decides that some sort of compensation should be paid either way, then I believe that Monsanto should be forced to do the paying. While not ideal, Monsanto could easily have mandated their crops be grown in sealed green houses and this would have prevented cross-contamination. Though in reality their army of lawyers will lay siege to any farmer trying to put up a resistance. The only way to break the strangle hold of a company like Monsanto is to only buy food that is clearly of not of a GM source and bugging your grocer to label non-GM foods.
One thing that bothers me about GM crops, is that very much like testing of software won't find out subtle side effects, I am not sure the methods of testing GM crops will do either.
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If the proponents of GM food win this one, there is still another approach: provide an opt-in certification for labelling non-GM foods. Like organic foods, if companies decide that customers are swayed by this label, then more might opt-in.
My main beef with GM foods, is the amount of testing and the attitudes of companies like Monsanto when it comes to control of food variety and persecution of farmers who end up being contaminated by Monsanto pollen.
With the waste produced by nuclear reactors, I have always wondered whether it would be possible to feed the waste of one reactor into another reactor that is designed to use the waste of the first? You could then have a whole chain of reactors each optimised to use the waste of the previous reactor.
The other question is I have is whether Thorium reactors produce less waste?
The alternative term, which I find less fuzzy sounding is 'hosted services'. For me, 'cloud computing' just seems like a term to obfuscate stuff and make marketing people happy.
Maybe there is à market for a non-Apple app store? If someone gets in the act now, and Apple pulls the rug, then it would be possible to apply anti-trust laws.
With regards to sandboxing, I can understand why Apple is doing this, but have they gone too far with their sand boxing model? What needs to be improved and does a better model exist elsewhere?
If a company promises life-time and spell out what they mean by it, then they should be held accountable on the terms defined. Then again in all reality, there is no such thing as a life-time account, just as in life there are no guarantees.
If you aren't hosting your own service, then be ready to be kicked out when the landlord decides to kick you out, but at the same time they should a) be abiding to the terms of services and b) giving you sufficient time to find an alternative provider. One month is *very* short notice and at the very least they should be giving you six months to make your move.
I used to be with a company call 'Bigfoot', but they too changed business direction and degraded the quality of their services. At that time I moved to GMail and haven't looked back.
What made it interesting is the fact it also included audio lines, making it easy to add to home audio equipment.
Each OS has its own quirks, its own primary audience and its own compromises.
Darwin is open source. If you take your time you will find plenty of ways of doing "non-Jobs approved" stuff. The difference with Linux is that it wasn't designed with hackers and software engineers as the primary audience, but that doesn't stop them from doing many of the same things.
Choose the OS that best serves your needs and accept other people have chosen an OS that best serves their present needs. Needs change and so may their OS, or yours.
Thanks for the clarification. Apparently I wasn't doing my homework, and just followed what the mob was saying.
Lawsuit?
Well that or anti-trust, since this is clearly anti-competitive.
I can accept something like a Mac being locked down, to a certain extent, since it is Apple hardware with Apple software - though I don't believe they prevent you from installing other operating systems? Generic PC hardware not at all, since this is third party hardware, with Windows being an add-on. If Microsoft wants hardware this locked down to run Windows, then they should sell their own hardware.
What I would like to see is being able to disable UEFI Secure boot, via the UEFI prompt. If you have physical access to a machine, and the UEFI password (if there is one), then I can't see much of a security risk that would bother anyone.
One question, is how easy is it to identify hardware that is 'broken' like this?
Hopefully they remembered to make a photocopy of the documents before sending them ;)
I am surprised the Android doesn't limit creation of shortcuts or icons external to the app, to an API? This API would automatically notify the user on trigger. If there is one, how are these apps successfully getting around it? Wouldn't this be something that Google could detect before listing an app?
Note, I am not an Android developer, so excuse any ignorance here.
Here in France 70 € has been the standard for a long time, that's $85 US...
That may be the case, but we talking two countries with different economies and published US prices do not include sales tax in them.
Apple and their morals. Saying that a brominated flame retarded ant is a harmful toxin! They're just special, no need to drag their name through the mud.
Me thinks someone was typing from their phone, because I really don't know what a 'brominated flame retarded ant' is, though maybe it is a species of ant that I wasn't aware about?
The same pharma companies that spend over 50% of budget on marketing and advertising? Don't you think it is a little wasteful?
PS: No, I don't need to provide a link, google it.
Your response would have been better if you had provided a link yourself. Anyhow, here is one link (PDF), entitled 'Pharmaceutical Marketing – Time for Change':
http://ejbo.jyu.fi/pdf/ejbo_vol9_no2_pages_4-11.pdf
All this sounds good, but what is to be seen is whether they can package and present this to a market that has built its expectations around what Android and iOS are offering. Have a great product on paper is only half the race, being able to present this to a market sucessfully with increased expectations is the other half. Also, having rested their laurels did help. Also, as much as their business focus has been their advantage, the shift to 'bring your own device', will hurt them if they don't understand this shift. Also, as having been portrayed negatively by the press, they need to work twice as hard to provide an appealing product and ready for release in weeks.
One of the major mistakes RIM was when they presented the Playbook, in that it revealed to much of its hand, had a feature set that was likely to be trumped by the new iPad when it came out and also selected a release date that was too close to the iPad. Had they been a few months earlier they would have been able to capitalize on that advantage. Requiring the use of a BB to use the Playbook was another short sighted mistake, especially if you are trying evangelize a new user base. This is certainly the past at this point, but if RIM is to succeed then it needs to stop thinking like a traditional electronics company.
Apple in the late 90s really had a lot of great stuff, but that didn't stop them from almost going under - they also had rested on their laurels for a time. It was only under the right management and change in focus, (and a little financial help from Bill Gates) were they able to make a come back. Also, Apple focused on keeping inventory at a minimum, so avoiding related costs. RIM needs something of a leader to do the same, ideally someone who is neither an accountant or a lawyer.
I am not going to counter your argument, since I haven't done the analysis myself. On the other and I am curious to know where RIM is ahead of the curve and whether they are capatilizing on that advantage?
With the right management RIM can be turned around, but it needs someone with a 'vision' of where things need to go.
If you look at Apple's history they ended up in a similar positions, since they had become complacent about the merrits of their operating system, while Windows slowly edged past them. It was only when Steve Jobs came back did things start turning around. The difference between him and many current CEOs is that he was neither a lawyer or an accountant. Too many companies seem to be run by people who seem more interested in their paycheck than trying to take a risk and trying something different.
If you forever focus on the balance book, then the balance book will rule the company and the technology that should be driving it.
In many ways RIM is repeating another company's history: Palm. Whoever is in charge needs to avoid making those mistakes, otherwise it simply will be a collection of IP bought by a new bigger player.
I'm totally used to right to left from manga these days. You know - the comics with actually good Pedo incest stories :-p
FTFY i don't buy manga, it's illegal in a lot of places and even if you win in court, you are famous as "the guy with the pervert comics"
Now that is just silly. Clearly some people are so close minded, interpret over broadly stuff they dont undertand and throw them into the untouchable category without consideration. Believe me this is more about protecting their narrow view point than the kids.
But why is it worth understanding at all? Can't we just strike it up to being 'different'?
We can, but that won't people trying to study human psychology.
^ - THIS, many feminists don't realize that difference in the amount of people in a profession can come down to.. them not being interested in it.
Yup, though why they aren't interested in it is worth understanding. Another field where there is a misbalance, but in reverse is nursing.
If you removed the article for business reasons and it is available in some other form (a book maybe?), then you should probably provide a reference to the new format, especially since the article links to your page. Your page simply has something indicating that your site is going under reconstruction, without a reason why the article text vanished.
The Internet tends to try to recover lost information, with more concern for culture, than ownership. If you can provide the missing information or a reference to it, then it usually helps people feel the information is not lost.
The problem is that nvidia doesn't even provide a documented interface to build a driver on top of. If they want the software working with their card, then it is up to them to provide the glue. I imagine they could more of the logic into the firmware and then make the driver a basic shim.
The other alternatives is for Nvidia to come out and indicate what they need from Linux to make their lives easier.
Just because we haven't observed them yet doesn't mean they don't exist
Then again, what is the likely hood we will find the Bosen Higgs particle first? The other possibility is that they break down before entering the political collider?
I don't believe anyone should be forcing anyone to pay for the effects of natural pollination, which is generally down the nature of the winds and insect pollinators. What I was saying with my comment is that Monsanto should not be in a position to sue or force the farmers to pay them. If the law decides that some sort of compensation should be paid either way, then I believe that Monsanto should be forced to do the paying. While not ideal, Monsanto could easily have mandated their crops be grown in sealed green houses and this would have prevented cross-contamination. Though in reality their army of lawyers will lay siege to any farmer trying to put up a resistance. The only way to break the strangle hold of a company like Monsanto is to only buy food that is clearly of not of a GM source and bugging your grocer to label non-GM foods.
One thing that bothers me about GM crops, is that very much like testing of software won't find out subtle side effects, I am not sure the methods of testing GM crops will do either.