Remember when TiVo went by the letter of the GPL (v2) but not the apparent spirit? A new section of GPL v3 was born.
I'm not saying that in the future, a GPLvN -will- exist that includes terms regarding sale of GPL(vN)'ed software - but in the given case, why wouldn't there be.
The only problem I see, is taken fully to its conclusion, this will do nothing to benefit users of GPL software at all, however will impose more needless restrictions. Specifically, this will outlaw using GPL on any platform which is not open to these undefined 'spirit of the GPL' rules.
Just like people that do not want to run closed software, choose to only put GPL or equally free software on their computer... Why can't they leave the rest of us alone to choose to run GPL software on closed platforms, when they can simply choose to not run GPL software on any closed platforms.
Me being able to pay these developers for a binary I can use on my iPhone, in no way shape or form affects the original developers in ANY WAY!
Someone could have forked their GPL code, and started selling binaries for Ubuntu and been within the law and spirit of the GPL!
If a developer did not want their softwares users to have freedom to choose what platform to run it on, they should have not used the GPL, and chosen a more restrictive license like the rest of commercial closed software does (Original pissy author, I'm looking at you!)
Apple does not allow "duplication of functionality" and they would surely reject such resubmissions.
So the first person to submit a binary to Apple gets control of that software on the appstore, can charge for it, and can prevent anyone else from doing the same including the software's copyright-holder. Legality aside, this is bad, bad chemistry between the GPL and the appstore.
First off, while I don't know this guy, just from how he talks about the project, I bet he would be more than willing to pull his app to let someone else publish it for him, especially so if that means there would be no more cost to him (Thou before he paid apples $99 fee would have been a better time for that offer)
Second, even if he didn't, how is apples policy, one this developer has no control or influence over, the responsibility of the developer?
The problem is that Apple is not in sync with the GPL. The developer is to the fullest of his abilities.
Personally, I feel he should give Apple the finger, and just have released it for Cydia on his own repo (or in one of the existing ones that host other peoples apps, like modmyi.com) Sadly, that advice too would have been best before he paid Apples fee:/
They really think that 1/10 the speed of light is all Alien civilizations could muster? That seems very short sighted to me. It should at least be figured at 1/2, if not faster than the speed of light. There are scientist, Including Steven Hawking, that say Warp drive [bbc.co.uk] may be possible. It amazes me that because we haven't figured out a way to easily go faster than 1/10 the speed of light, then that must be the limit.
No one has stated that 1/10th the speed of light is a limit (Except your post of course)
They state that was an assumed value. Which is perfectly reasonable.
When you don't know the value, you pick one, maybe two values, and do the math for both.
*IF* they are limited to 1/10th, then *HERE* are the numbers. If they are *NOT* limited to 1/10th speed of light, then simply multiply our numbers to make the odds of advanced life existing even higher and better than stated.
This isn't rocket science.
It's no different than google maps giving driving direction time with an assumed '55 miles an hour'. They arn't saying you are actually limited to 55mph, just if you DO go faster than 55mph, the estimated time given will be too high.
...and we haven't been back since. Beyond the question of how long it would take a motivated civilization to expand throughout the galaxy, there's the question of "would they bother?". We don't seem to be bothering.
Except they arn't addressing "Motivated Civilizations" since that is an impossible metric to assume or guess without already having some form of communication, understanding, and relations with such a civilization, and even then only the motivations of that one. They are addressing "Technologically Advanced Civilizations", of which humanity does not qualify, under any definition.
In the layman definition, an advanced civilization should already be at high levels of efficiency, generally either effecently using energy or resources, or as a metric for our 'useful work' output. Our planet does not have that. We have many many separate civilizations none of which are particularly advanced.
The theorists definition uses a scale where '0' is a civilization with no technology (IE no tools, no fire, etc) while the '100' side of the scale is a level of technology already at the limits of the physical laws of our universe. 'Advanced' is a value in that scale closer to the 100 side than the 0 side.
Physisists generally use the Kardashev Civilization Level scale, laid out by Nikolai Kardashev in his mid 60's paper titled "Transmission of Information by Extraterrestrial Civilizations" There are three main levels, however additionally there is a pre-1 level (where we are now) and a post 3 level which is mainly reserved for additional laws of physics that we do not know about yet, let alone understand, but as we can't rule them out, the upper limits imposed on technology by *the currently understood laws of physics* may not be the real upper limit! These levels are based on the energy utilization and harnessing of the civilization in question.
KT-I level uses the full energy output of a planet, about 10^12 watts (Which is why we are still a pre-I civilization) KT-II uses the entire output of a star (Usually referenced in theories such as Dyson spheres, Jupiter brains, and Matrioska Brains among others. Around 10^23 to 10^29 watts. KT-III uses the entire power output of a galaxy, which is something like 10^38 watts or more.
The sad part is, humanity could be lifted to a KT-I civilization fairly quickly if the motivation was there. Even KT-II is possible mostly with technology available today, just not on a scale we are used to dealing with yet. It would also take a lot of time and resources dedicated to doing so. The advantages of doing this however are both extremely high, and are farther out in the future than a couple years, so I don't see humanity willing to deal with it as we are now. Maybe in a few generations I would hope. But definitely not now:{
What you could or couldn't do on the platform was more or less defined but what you could or couldn't get its bizarre hardware to do. (There's an excellent recent book [amazon.com] that traces just how big an influence the Atari's odd hardware had on its game design, among other things.)
Then you will probably enjoy reading through some of the Atari 2600 programming tutorials. The hardware is so primitive, and some games go way beyond what anyone at the time thought would even be possible, it is simply amazing to learn about.
One most excellent one (My personal favorite), by Andrew Davie: http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=33233 I would suggest skipping chapter 1 if you know of assembly. Either knowing enough to follow, or know about it and don't care, either way the fun starts in chapter 2 with a history of the TV, how TV CRTs function, and how the Atari and its software is so tied into the low level TV drawing functions. Chapter 3 is where the programming and hardware details begin.
Also I question the ethics of administering a vaccine in a way that people cannot resist it. It should be a basic right to refuse a vaccine, adn the only people that would effect is those who do not accept the vaccine. Why not just deliver the vaccine in a shot?
Woah, where did all of that come from? Why would you even think that?
All subjects provided written informed consent. The trial was approved by the institutional review board at the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre.
And you got modded +5 insightful, for asking a question already answered in the article... I think I just threw up in my throat a little:/
Would you support banning HTTP on government computers too?
Yes.
Unless their job description specifically requires the use of the HTTP protocol to fulfill that job function, then yes, I do not pay them to sit around all day posting to slashdot.
So why was he so good with it? Punch cards are quaint from my perspective but I wouldn't know where to start with them. Is he also proficient with using a morse code transmitter?
Because he's Scotty. He's bad ass!
Don't you watch the show?
P.S., yes, he is proficient in morse code. Even lowly captain picard knows how to write long instructions in binary! And we all know the engineers know waaaay more than the officers, in any time period:D
(Two more stamps on my geek card and I get a free sandwich!)
Upgrade the firmware? I prefer a phone where MMS Just Works, Out Of The Box.
Well, I suppose you can just throw your old phone in the trash and purchase a brand new one every few months instead of just downloading the free updates over the internet. The new phone will be loaded with the newest firmware out of the box already after all.
I am curious, you never apply patches or updates to your current phone?
Using that logic, if you can't apply SP1 to Windows Vista, then it is safe to say, even now after multiple service packs, that Vista should only be judged on how it worked on first release, out of the box, pre-SP?
And one of the strengths of Linux is many eyes on the source code, looking for and reporting security bugs, so they can get patched before the day is out. I guess you consider remote root exploits "correct" since it was a feature out of the box only to be corrected by an update you don't want to install?
Well, at least you are on the right forum for logic like that...
I don't like the Iphone's lack of copy/paste/Java/MMS/etc - can jailbreaking fix this?
Of course not. Some phones have flaws or missing features. The Iphone has plenty. Jailbreaking won't fix any of this. Jailbreaking is something that you have to do in addition, to get functionality that on other phones Just Works.
I am not defending apple not including such basic features 'out of the box' like they should have... But there are some factual inaccuracies in your post I thought I would kindly point out.
Jailbreaking (Pre os 3.0 at least) will fix the lack of copy/paste. There are a couple tools one can use for that, one standalone, and others built into various replacement management apps like bossprefs or sbsettings apps. Needless to say, in 3.0 there is copy/paste built in like it should have been from the start, so nothing needs fixing.
And to be fair with SMS, those blocks are actually in place by AT&T. There are other SMS apps you can install after jail breaking, which give you full SMS functionality, but only if you are not using AT&T. For some silly reason, there is actually filters in place on their end, to simply drop any SMS with attachments. So even if apples SMS app had support for them, the messages would still be blocked silently long before reaching the phone. Now why this is, and why apple hasn't made more effort to persuade AT&T to stop being asshats, is another story.
As for java, flash, and other interpreted languages. I can definitely see how apples decision is consistent with their vision for their platform, at least the vision they are always going on about in public.
With that said, I too disagree with that 'vision' and think they are going WAY over the top with the whole 'it just works' closed system. That might be a nice argument, if it actually just worked. You are correct too in that jail breaking is an extra additional step, arguably one that should not be needed.
However just as it is your choice to purchase the phone you want, and get one that is more open, free, featured, and closer to what you see as perfection, there is no need to insult those of us who purchased an iPhone willingly and knowingly of its limitations as dictated by apple, and whom choose to exploit the hardware we own to its full potential despite apple. I purchased an iPhone specifically to run jail broken, and accepting those consequences. One of those features however is alternate installation repositories, and not having to rely on apple. It is the same hacker ethic as modding an xbox to run Linux, despite being a closed DRMed platform made by another evil company.
I have to wonder if there is ever anything "apple fans" ever complain or disagree with Apple about? I'd like to hear from Apple fans to know if they are actually independent or completely sold into the Apple view. I remember some faint complaints about the change to OSX but those didn't last long. The "classic" mode also raised a bit of ire and frustration as I recall. But is Apple "simply perfect?" Can Apple do no wrong?
Well played troll sir! Well played! Lets play fetch first, then I'll give you a treat!
I am an apple fan. This choice, and those like it relating to rejecting apps from the store for very stupid reasons does indeed piss me off.
So your entire argument is now moot, as 'all' apple fans do not follow your description. (Remember, it only takes 1 person out of all of them to make the filter 'all' answer as false)
While this is not why I jail broke my phone, it is one more advantage to doing so. My guess is that apple truly believes these decisions are somehow a good thing to their business, and that is why they are doing them. I also know I am far from the only person to complain directly to apple about it, so they can't possibly think "Wow, so many of our customers are complaining about this, we MUST be doing a great job at making the full user experience excellent!"
This means there is either something we don't know, and it really is being a benefit to their business despite all the harm to their public image and frustration they are causing their customers (Some of which went to apple specifically to avoid this type of crap at other companies) or, and the most likely answer, is this clearly is a mistake and a bad choice on their part. ("This" being their real accept/reject policy. The one their staff uses right now to choose if an app should be rejected or not. Even if 'this' happens to be 'whatever the will of the person checking at that moment is', it is still a mistake on their part no matter What the process (or lack of) is.) We can't very well as point out to apple (or anyone) what needs to be made better and how, if one can't admit there is currently something that is not perfect and needs improvement. In fact that is exactly the process to achieve perfection.
The only two types of posts one will see on slashdot, are people like myself, who have no issues telling others that this is bullshit, and obvious trolls who are doing what trolls do, which is saying whatever it takes to get a kneejerk reaction. Trolls do not believe what they say. Their goal isn't to gain trust/respect, but to get the reaction from you that you just gave:P So the truth is not needed, and most often detrimental to their goals. A troll knows apple is not perfect, despite saying apple is perfect.
That makes pretty much nobody whom you can say honestly believe apple does no wrong and is perfect.
The moral is that a computer will always just run lines of code without "thinking" and therefore never do stuff it isn't programmed to do so.
Then by definition, that isn't strong AI, and thus isn't the topic of this discussion.
Strong AI is when the only program made acts similar to a natural brain. Then it must be taught, no different than our newborns.
Then it will be strong AI, and will have the same ability to learn as our brains do. This is the type of software everyone is worried about, since as you say it will be thinking and therefore will always do stuff it is not programmed to do.
Just as without pimps, sex would never have been invented."
Now that is a little harsh, comparing him to a pimp!
I mean, I've never known a pimp to give out a free sample and Then start charging (Although I must admit all of my pimp information comes from sitcoms on TV... But TV would never lie!)
He is more like a drug dealer. Convincing everyone they want his stuff by giving out a sample, then once he thinks you are hooked, charging more and more!
He just doesn't realize that a whole bunch of other people in his neighborhood are selling the same thing priced anywhere from free to cheap, and is probably just as confused when no one comes around anymore to buy his overpriced warez.
Does this mean we have to be careful of Barry doing drive-by's on us and popping a cap in our ass?:o
So this type of wireless power tech has been available in consumer products since 2007 and it appears that there has not been a lot of interest. I am really mystified as why nobody cares. Is it because they mistake this technology for some other kind of well known technology? I can't figure out the psychology here.
I'm going to place a guess that it involves price, and possibly obscurity.
Admittedly, I am just going by the $400 pricetag on that tree from 2007, but most people that would be preparing and setting up a christmas tree today, have been doing so for awhile already and in most all cases don't see a drawback to the wires. They have wired things up before, so the process is pretty well understood and worked around.
Now, as a geek I would love to have these, but for me it would be specifically for the reason that they are wireless lights. To non-geeks, the primary function of christmas lights is to pretty up the tree (well, or 'tradition' maybe), and both wired and wireless lights would do that job. I can see lack of wires helping it be more attractive for sure, but these days most christmas tree wires are green colored to blend in and hide, and due to the fact everyone they know would have the same setup, it's not like you are the odd guy out with some weird freak setup.
Compare a $10 string of lights (Or $1-2 from discount/dollar stores) to $400 for wireless, when both perform the primary function identically, many will go for the cheapest option. Especially considering some people have no problems paying under $20/year for new strands of wires, just to avoid having to untangle them or replace bulbs. It isn't exactly a long term investment item;} Clearly the wireless light tree is an investment, but that still goes back to the fact not many people are in the mindset to invest in one.
Then there is the problem of obscurity. Even I had no idea this product was on the market until you pointed it out. And I think it is awesome and would like something like this! Most non-geeks have no such desire, thus wouldn't go looking for it, and are less likely to run across it being mentioned (such as I just did on a tech site, from another fellow geek)
I hate to say "If I didn't know about it being a geek, how would any non-geek know?" but it really feels like that.
I dunno, just thinking out loud. Those are my guesses anyway. PS, thanks for the links!:D
Holiday was fined $500 by the Kansas Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control. His customer was arrested in March 2008 for being a minor in possession of alcohol and for presenting police with a fake driver's license. He paid $452 in fines and court fees.
Holiday being the bar owner.
P.S. You really should check out this new site called Google. It lets you confirm such simple queries in less time than it takes to type the question (0.12 seconds in this case) instead of asking on a forum and having to wait minutes to hours for a reply.
Their service says that they keep user supplied data in house. They do not. Their service says that they use advanced technological means to do the transcription. They do not.
How on earth do you take that to mean 'their service does what it says'?
You are wrong.
You seemed to have forgotten to attach Proof.zip before hitting send. You say "They do not" as if one could tell from the situation that they do or do not.
Knowing how companies lie, you clearly can not choose the wine in front of them. Knowing how disgruntled ex-employees lie, you can clearly not choose the wine in front of you.
I thought the reason why they shot these things off from an island in a sparsely populated area, over the ocean, far away from major shipping channels, was in case it glitches an explodes near the ground after flight, nobody (besides the astronauts) would be near it. It's not like Orlando is a particularly large city (famous because of Disney world, yes, large... no).
Only partially. The main reason is because to get something into an equatorial orbit, it is by far easier to do so by launching it from the equator. Now, assuming a US organization such as NASA, with huge political ties to the US, would want to launch from US soil... that leaves basically Florida and Texas.
Between the two of those choices, Florida was indeed chosen as launching East (which they also need to do) will place the potential failure over the ocean instead of over land. At least after a certain amount of flight time. But this choice only makes sense when you realize that before this part mattered at all, they only had two options to pick from.
Besides, if a city has more than roughly 10 people in it, it is already worth blowing up the rocket with 10 fairly easily and many times over. If anything over 10 is considered enough, then 200,000 times larger than 'enough' would qualify as 'large' in my book.
Regardless, whether to force someone to sell you something is legal under their "terms of service", it's bad business. As this story grows, I can see e-bay piling up with Kindles.
It sounds to me more illegal than just bad business. Or I don't know, maybe it is OK to do...
Does that mean if I steal Jeff Bezos car, it isn't theft as long as I leave a pile of money in its place equal to what he paid for it?
RIAA sued Piratebay RIAA won RIAA want's their money before Piratebay tries to run off with it
You sure? I don't know the specifics of Swedish law, but in other countries, the court case isn't over until it is over. An appeal by definition means it is not over. I too would assume the RIAA is owed Nothing until the court case is finished and over with.
So because at this point partially through the trial, the last thing said so far was that the RIAA is owed money, does not mean in any way that will be the outcome of the court case. It may, but it may not.
Otherwise, what is the point of having appeals at all if you can't use them to appeal?
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Remember when TiVo went by the letter of the GPL (v2) but not the apparent spirit? A new section of GPL v3 was born.
I'm not saying that in the future, a GPLvN -will- exist that includes terms regarding sale of GPL(vN)'ed software - but in the given case, why wouldn't there be.
The only problem I see, is taken fully to its conclusion, this will do nothing to benefit users of GPL software at all, however will impose more needless restrictions. Specifically, this will outlaw using GPL on any platform which is not open to these undefined 'spirit of the GPL' rules.
Just like people that do not want to run closed software, choose to only put GPL or equally free software on their computer... Why can't they leave the rest of us alone to choose to run GPL software on closed platforms, when they can simply choose to not run GPL software on any closed platforms.
Me being able to pay these developers for a binary I can use on my iPhone, in no way shape or form affects the original developers in ANY WAY!
Someone could have forked their GPL code, and started selling binaries for Ubuntu and been within the law and spirit of the GPL!
If a developer did not want their softwares users to have freedom to choose what platform to run it on, they should have not used the GPL, and chosen a more restrictive license like the rest of commercial closed software does (Original pissy author, I'm looking at you!)
Apple does not allow "duplication of functionality" and they would surely reject such resubmissions.
So the first person to submit a binary to Apple gets control of that software on the appstore, can charge for it, and can prevent anyone else from doing the same including the software's copyright-holder. Legality aside, this is bad, bad chemistry between the GPL and the appstore.
First off, while I don't know this guy, just from how he talks about the project, I bet he would be more than willing to pull his app to let someone else publish it for him, especially so if that means there would be no more cost to him (Thou before he paid apples $99 fee would have been a better time for that offer)
Second, even if he didn't, how is apples policy, one this developer has no control or influence over, the responsibility of the developer?
The problem is that Apple is not in sync with the GPL. The developer is to the fullest of his abilities.
Personally, I feel he should give Apple the finger, and just have released it for Cydia on his own repo (or in one of the existing ones that host other peoples apps, like modmyi.com) :/
Sadly, that advice too would have been best before he paid Apples fee
They really think that 1/10 the speed of light is all Alien civilizations could muster? That seems very short sighted to me. It should at least be figured at 1/2, if not faster than the speed of light. There are scientist, Including Steven Hawking, that say Warp drive [bbc.co.uk] may be possible. It amazes me that because we haven't figured out a way to easily go faster than 1/10 the speed of light, then that must be the limit.
No one has stated that 1/10th the speed of light is a limit (Except your post of course)
They state that was an assumed value. Which is perfectly reasonable.
When you don't know the value, you pick one, maybe two values, and do the math for both.
*IF* they are limited to 1/10th, then *HERE* are the numbers.
If they are *NOT* limited to 1/10th speed of light, then simply multiply our numbers to make the odds of advanced life existing even higher and better than stated.
This isn't rocket science.
It's no different than google maps giving driving direction time with an assumed '55 miles an hour'.
They arn't saying you are actually limited to 55mph, just if you DO go faster than 55mph, the estimated time given will be too high.
...and we haven't been back since. Beyond the question of how long it would take a motivated civilization to expand throughout the galaxy, there's the question of "would they bother?". We don't seem to be bothering.
Except they arn't addressing "Motivated Civilizations" since that is an impossible metric to assume or guess without already having some form of communication, understanding, and relations with such a civilization, and even then only the motivations of that one.
They are addressing "Technologically Advanced Civilizations", of which humanity does not qualify, under any definition.
In the layman definition, an advanced civilization should already be at high levels of efficiency, generally either effecently using energy or resources, or as a metric for our 'useful work' output.
Our planet does not have that. We have many many separate civilizations none of which are particularly advanced.
The theorists definition uses a scale where '0' is a civilization with no technology (IE no tools, no fire, etc) while the '100' side of the scale is a level of technology already at the limits of the physical laws of our universe. 'Advanced' is a value in that scale closer to the 100 side than the 0 side.
Physisists generally use the Kardashev Civilization Level scale, laid out by Nikolai Kardashev in his mid 60's paper titled "Transmission of Information by Extraterrestrial Civilizations"
There are three main levels, however additionally there is a pre-1 level (where we are now) and a post 3 level which is mainly reserved for additional laws of physics that we do not know about yet, let alone understand, but as we can't rule them out, the upper limits imposed on technology by *the currently understood laws of physics* may not be the real upper limit!
These levels are based on the energy utilization and harnessing of the civilization in question.
KT-I level uses the full energy output of a planet, about 10^12 watts (Which is why we are still a pre-I civilization)
KT-II uses the entire output of a star (Usually referenced in theories such as Dyson spheres, Jupiter brains, and Matrioska Brains among others. Around 10^23 to 10^29 watts.
KT-III uses the entire power output of a galaxy, which is something like 10^38 watts or more.
The sad part is, humanity could be lifted to a KT-I civilization fairly quickly if the motivation was there. Even KT-II is possible mostly with technology available today, just not on a scale we are used to dealing with yet. It would also take a lot of time and resources dedicated to doing so. The advantages of doing this however are both extremely high, and are farther out in the future than a couple years, so I don't see humanity willing to deal with it as we are now. Maybe in a few generations I would hope. But definitely not now :{
What you could or couldn't do on the platform was more or less defined but what you could or couldn't get its bizarre hardware to do. (There's an excellent recent book [amazon.com] that traces just how big an influence the Atari's odd hardware had on its game design, among other things.)
Then you will probably enjoy reading through some of the Atari 2600 programming tutorials. The hardware is so primitive, and some games go way beyond what anyone at the time thought would even be possible, it is simply amazing to learn about.
One most excellent one (My personal favorite), by Andrew Davie:
http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=33233
I would suggest skipping chapter 1 if you know of assembly. Either knowing enough to follow, or know about it and don't care, either way the fun starts in chapter 2 with a history of the TV, how TV CRTs function, and how the Atari and its software is so tied into the low level TV drawing functions. Chapter 3 is where the programming and hardware details begin.
Sounds like they're trying to turn the console into a locked-down PC.
Close. They tried with the original Xbox. With the 360, they did, and did it fairly well.
Also I question the ethics of administering a vaccine in a way that people cannot resist it. It should be a basic right to refuse a vaccine, adn the only people that would effect is those who do not accept the vaccine. Why not just deliver the vaccine in a shot?
Woah, where did all of that come from? Why would you even think that?
All subjects provided written informed consent. The trial was approved by the institutional review board at the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre.
And you got modded +5 insightful, for asking a question already answered in the article... :/
I think I just threw up in my throat a little
"It has less change of a meltdown, but if that meltdown occurs, and it will, it's no difference from chernobyle, except this one wil be bigger"
Evidence? Support? Simply saying something is true doesn't make it so.
I think he is referring to when the Sun explodes a few billion years from now...
Personally, I don't want to wait that long without electricity however
Would you support banning HTTP on government computers too?
Yes.
Unless their job description specifically requires the use of the HTTP protocol to fulfill that job function, then yes, I do not pay them to sit around all day posting to slashdot.
A "keyboard"... how quaint.
So why was he so good with it? Punch cards are quaint from my perspective but I wouldn't know where to start with them. Is he also proficient with using a morse code transmitter?
Because he's Scotty. He's bad ass!
Don't you watch the show?
P.S., yes, he is proficient in morse code. Even lowly captain picard knows how to write long instructions in binary! :D
And we all know the engineers know waaaay more than the officers, in any time period
(Two more stamps on my geek card and I get a free sandwich!)
Upgrade the firmware? I prefer a phone where MMS Just Works, Out Of The Box.
Well, I suppose you can just throw your old phone in the trash and purchase a brand new one every few months instead of just downloading the free updates over the internet. The new phone will be loaded with the newest firmware out of the box already after all.
I am curious, you never apply patches or updates to your current phone?
Using that logic, if you can't apply SP1 to Windows Vista, then it is safe to say, even now after multiple service packs, that Vista should only be judged on how it worked on first release, out of the box, pre-SP?
And one of the strengths of Linux is many eyes on the source code, looking for and reporting security bugs, so they can get patched before the day is out. I guess you consider remote root exploits "correct" since it was a feature out of the box only to be corrected by an update you don't want to install?
Well, at least you are on the right forum for logic like that...
I don't like the Iphone's lack of copy/paste/Java/MMS/etc - can jailbreaking fix this?
Of course not. Some phones have flaws or missing features. The Iphone has plenty. Jailbreaking won't fix any of this. Jailbreaking is something that you have to do in addition, to get functionality that on other phones Just Works.
I am not defending apple not including such basic features 'out of the box' like they should have... But there are some factual inaccuracies in your post I thought I would kindly point out.
Jailbreaking (Pre os 3.0 at least) will fix the lack of copy/paste. There are a couple tools one can use for that, one standalone, and others built into various replacement management apps like bossprefs or sbsettings apps.
Needless to say, in 3.0 there is copy/paste built in like it should have been from the start, so nothing needs fixing.
And to be fair with SMS, those blocks are actually in place by AT&T.
There are other SMS apps you can install after jail breaking, which give you full SMS functionality, but only if you are not using AT&T. For some silly reason, there is actually filters in place on their end, to simply drop any SMS with attachments. So even if apples SMS app had support for them, the messages would still be blocked silently long before reaching the phone.
Now why this is, and why apple hasn't made more effort to persuade AT&T to stop being asshats, is another story.
As for java, flash, and other interpreted languages. I can definitely see how apples decision is consistent with their vision for their platform, at least the vision they are always going on about in public.
With that said, I too disagree with that 'vision' and think they are going WAY over the top with the whole 'it just works' closed system.
That might be a nice argument, if it actually just worked. You are correct too in that jail breaking is an extra additional step, arguably one that should not be needed.
However just as it is your choice to purchase the phone you want, and get one that is more open, free, featured, and closer to what you see as perfection, there is no need to insult those of us who purchased an iPhone willingly and knowingly of its limitations as dictated by apple, and whom choose to exploit the hardware we own to its full potential despite apple.
I purchased an iPhone specifically to run jail broken, and accepting those consequences.
One of those features however is alternate installation repositories, and not having to rely on apple.
It is the same hacker ethic as modding an xbox to run Linux, despite being a closed DRMed platform made by another evil company.
I have to wonder if there is ever anything "apple fans" ever complain or disagree with Apple about? I'd like to hear from Apple fans to know if they are actually independent or completely sold into the Apple view. I remember some faint complaints about the change to OSX but those didn't last long. The "classic" mode also raised a bit of ire and frustration as I recall. But is Apple "simply perfect?" Can Apple do no wrong?
Well played troll sir! Well played!
Lets play fetch first, then I'll give you a treat!
I am an apple fan. This choice, and those like it relating to rejecting apps from the store for very stupid reasons does indeed piss me off.
So your entire argument is now moot, as 'all' apple fans do not follow your description.
(Remember, it only takes 1 person out of all of them to make the filter 'all' answer as false)
While this is not why I jail broke my phone, it is one more advantage to doing so.
My guess is that apple truly believes these decisions are somehow a good thing to their business, and that is why they are doing them. I also know I am far from the only person to complain directly to apple about it, so they can't possibly think "Wow, so many of our customers are complaining about this, we MUST be doing a great job at making the full user experience excellent!"
This means there is either something we don't know, and it really is being a benefit to their business despite all the harm to their public image and frustration they are causing their customers (Some of which went to apple specifically to avoid this type of crap at other companies)
or, and the most likely answer, is this clearly is a mistake and a bad choice on their part. ("This" being their real accept/reject policy. The one their staff uses right now to choose if an app should be rejected or not. Even if 'this' happens to be 'whatever the will of the person checking at that moment is', it is still a mistake on their part no matter What the process (or lack of) is.)
We can't very well as point out to apple (or anyone) what needs to be made better and how, if one can't admit there is currently something that is not perfect and needs improvement. In fact that is exactly the process to achieve perfection.
The only two types of posts one will see on slashdot, are people like myself, who have no issues telling others that this is bullshit, and obvious trolls who are doing what trolls do, which is saying whatever it takes to get a kneejerk reaction. Trolls do not believe what they say. Their goal isn't to gain trust/respect, but to get the reaction from you that you just gave :P So the truth is not needed, and most often detrimental to their goals. A troll knows apple is not perfect, despite saying apple is perfect.
That makes pretty much nobody whom you can say honestly believe apple does no wrong and is perfect.
Hopefully that answers your question
The moral is that a computer will always just run lines of code without "thinking" and therefore never do stuff it isn't programmed to do so.
Then by definition, that isn't strong AI, and thus isn't the topic of this discussion.
Strong AI is when the only program made acts similar to a natural brain.
Then it must be taught, no different than our newborns.
Then it will be strong AI, and will have the same ability to learn as our brains do.
This is the type of software everyone is worried about, since as you say it will be thinking and therefore will always do stuff it is not programmed to do.
If machines made the decisions, based on cold, hard, logic, humanity is doomed. It's that simple.
I'd gladly trade that for having Summer Glau breaking my door down and having her way with my body to save humanity...
Shh, it could happen ;{
Why do they even bother?
Seven words: All your base are belong to us.
That is why.
Just as without pimps, sex would never have been invented."
Now that is a little harsh, comparing him to a pimp!
I mean, I've never known a pimp to give out a free sample and Then start charging (Although I must admit all of my pimp information comes from sitcoms on TV... But TV would never lie!)
He is more like a drug dealer. Convincing everyone they want his stuff by giving out a sample, then once he thinks you are hooked, charging more and more!
He just doesn't realize that a whole bunch of other people in his neighborhood are selling the same thing priced anywhere from free to cheap, and is probably just as confused when no one comes around anymore to buy his overpriced warez.
Does this mean we have to be careful of Barry doing drive-by's on us and popping a cap in our ass? :o
Since when did Kansas City become a part of Canada?
Since, never? Why think it is?
You realize the question I answered never said it a canadian bar, just any bar, thus it was answered as such.
It is hardly my problem they don't know how to phrase a question proper!
So this type of wireless power tech has been available in consumer products since 2007 and it appears that there has not been a lot of interest. I am really mystified as why nobody cares. Is it because they mistake this technology for some other kind of well known technology? I can't figure out the psychology here.
I'm going to place a guess that it involves price, and possibly obscurity.
Admittedly, I am just going by the $400 pricetag on that tree from 2007, but most people that would be preparing and setting up a christmas tree today, have been doing so for awhile already and in most all cases don't see a drawback to the wires. They have wired things up before, so the process is pretty well understood and worked around.
Now, as a geek I would love to have these, but for me it would be specifically for the reason that they are wireless lights.
To non-geeks, the primary function of christmas lights is to pretty up the tree (well, or 'tradition' maybe), and both wired and wireless lights would do that job. I can see lack of wires helping it be more attractive for sure, but these days most christmas tree wires are green colored to blend in and hide, and due to the fact everyone they know would have the same setup, it's not like you are the odd guy out with some weird freak setup.
Compare a $10 string of lights (Or $1-2 from discount/dollar stores) to $400 for wireless, when both perform the primary function identically, many will go for the cheapest option. Especially considering some people have no problems paying under $20/year for new strands of wires, just to avoid having to untangle them or replace bulbs. It isn't exactly a long term investment item ;}
Clearly the wireless light tree is an investment, but that still goes back to the fact not many people are in the mindset to invest in one.
Then there is the problem of obscurity.
Even I had no idea this product was on the market until you pointed it out. And I think it is awesome and would like something like this!
Most non-geeks have no such desire, thus wouldn't go looking for it, and are less likely to run across it being mentioned (such as I just did on a tech site, from another fellow geek)
I hate to say "If I didn't know about it being a geek, how would any non-geek know?" but it really feels like that.
I dunno, just thinking out loud. Those are my guesses anyway. :D
PS, thanks for the links!
Governments also consistently ruled that if someone gives the barman a fake ID and they fall for it, it's still the barman's fault
[citation_needed]
http://www.kansascity.com/637/story/1322917.html?storylink=omni_popular
Holiday was fined $500 by the Kansas Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control. His customer was arrested in March 2008 for being a minor in possession of alcohol and for presenting police with a fake driver's license. He paid $452 in fines and court fees.
Holiday being the bar owner.
P.S. You really should check out this new site called Google. It lets you confirm such simple queries in less time than it takes to type the question (0.12 seconds in this case) instead of asking on a forum and having to wait minutes to hours for a reply.
What?
No.
Their service says that they keep user supplied data in house. They do not.
Their service says that they use advanced technological means to do the transcription. They do not.
How on earth do you take that to mean 'their service does what it says'?
You are wrong.
You seemed to have forgotten to attach Proof.zip before hitting send.
You say "They do not" as if one could tell from the situation that they do or do not.
Knowing how companies lie, you clearly can not choose the wine in front of them.
Knowing how disgruntled ex-employees lie, you can clearly not choose the wine in front of you.
I thought the reason why they shot these things off from an island in a sparsely populated area, over the ocean, far away from major shipping channels, was in case it glitches an explodes near the ground after flight, nobody (besides the astronauts) would be near it. It's not like Orlando is a particularly large city (famous because of Disney world, yes, large... no).
Only partially. The main reason is because to get something into an equatorial orbit, it is by far easier to do so by launching it from the equator. Now, assuming a US organization such as NASA, with huge political ties to the US, would want to launch from US soil... that leaves basically Florida and Texas.
Between the two of those choices, Florida was indeed chosen as launching East (which they also need to do) will place the potential failure over the ocean instead of over land. At least after a certain amount of flight time.
But this choice only makes sense when you realize that before this part mattered at all, they only had two options to pick from.
Besides, if a city has more than roughly 10 people in it, it is already worth blowing up the rocket with 10 fairly easily and many times over. If anything over 10 is considered enough, then 200,000 times larger than 'enough' would qualify as 'large' in my book.
Everything they do is cool.
In fact, everything they do is about -455 degrees Fahrenheit (-270 C) cool!
Regardless, whether to force someone to sell you something is legal under their "terms of service", it's bad business. As this story grows, I can see e-bay piling up with Kindles.
It sounds to me more illegal than just bad business.
Or I don't know, maybe it is OK to do...
Does that mean if I steal Jeff Bezos car, it isn't theft as long as I leave a pile of money in its place equal to what he paid for it?
RIAA sued Piratebay
RIAA won
RIAA want's their money before Piratebay tries to run off with it
You sure?
I don't know the specifics of Swedish law, but in other countries, the court case isn't over until it is over. An appeal by definition means it is not over.
I too would assume the RIAA is owed Nothing until the court case is finished and over with.
So because at this point partially through the trial, the last thing said so far was that the RIAA is owed money, does not mean in any way that will be the outcome of the court case. It may, but it may not.
Otherwise, what is the point of having appeals at all if you can't use them to appeal?