Now you're working on Power. Perhaps someday soon your name will appear on my utility bills as well.
So-far everything is good. But I'm afraid. You control my email, you control my web searches, you pay me for ads on my site. You say don't be evil. And I believe you.
But I'm still afraid. I'm afraid that if I will ever wrong you, if you're ever displeased with what I say about you, I will dissapp#~s8 -`15ht@#&fge LOST CARRIER...
"I believe that together, Microsoft and Yahoo will promote more choice, better value and greater innovation to our customers, as well as to advertisers and publishers."
Wait, Two companies combining forces, eliminating the better search engine(IMHO) and then we're told this will result in "more choice"?
I really don't understand how this could be, but I won't use Yahoo (a mediocre SE. at best) anymore. For me it means less choice.
I'm sure physics geeks will be heartily debating the THEORETICAL correctness any minute now. After all, what else would they be doing on a Saturday night.
Source please? Last figures I saw were about a mere 40 million.
Anyhow, you do realise that the market for mobile phones is about a billion every year? Of course, you probably don't, since you're an Apple fan. Yes, I'm sure Apple can make some money in their niche market, but it's nothing particularly notable.
The 75 million figure is for "iPhone" OS devices from a slide that Jobs showed at the iPad event. This figure includes iPod touch devices, not just phones(I had to double-check).
I'm not a Apple fan, but I do think OS X is much better than Windows. One of the reasons I tell people to get a Mac is cause then I end up helping them with their computer once a year at most, not every month.
Yes, you're right. If you figure out the links by hand, it will take alot longer, but you will learn alot more. I was concentrating on the 'UML' part and the 'PROFIT!' part.
3. But 2 of those are work phones, which were provided with heavy subsidy. Only one friend outright bought the iPhone, and he waited until the 3GS model.
Alright, so those friends do know what the iPad will be about.
I have 3 friends with iPhones who like them and 2 friends who got rid of theirs. I personally dislike the iPhone, but I probably will get an iPad sooner or later. It all depends on how much tinkering and development will be allowed without Apple's blessing.
I'm impressed by the iPad, not because of its specs or software. I'm impressed because it is a work of art with microchips inside of it.
Flywheels have been used to store energy for ages, but do they change the handling of the car at all? Boats can have gyroscopic roll stabilizers, but what effect does this flywheel have?
Step 1: Find a very large wall Step 2: Print out allthe code (in very small font) and paste the code up on the wall Step 3: Identify all the classes, functions, DBs, etc. Step 4: Create a visual map (on a white board) of how they're all linked together. Step 5: PROFIT!
6: Write a program that does all these steps automatically. 7: PROFIT! (or get sued by the people who patented the process).
But seriously, isn't there a program that can do all this?
We have recently been placed in charge of inheritance of 40,000 loc, I have the privilege to request your assistance to maintain the henceforth mentioned sum. The above sum resulted from a contract, executed, commissioned and written five years (5) ago by a foreign contractor. This action was however intentional and since then the source has been in a suspended terminal awaiting the fg command.
We are now ready to transfer the source overseas and that is where you come in. It is important to inform you that as outsourced servants, we are forbidden to debug foreign code; that is why we require your assistance. You will be required to debug and analyze the code and transfer the bug free code to our central repository after which we will reimburse you for your time with post it notes and slightly dated coffee creamer.
We are looking forward to doing this business with you and solicit absolute confidentiality from you in this transaction. Please acknowledge receipt of this letter, using the above Telefax number for more details regarding this transaction. Also endeavor to send the requested information.
I'm going to inter-splice book pages of the Terminator and the wizard of Oz. A bit of tape, and I will be famous!
Would this be my creation or that of Cameron and Baum? What if I paraphrase the sources? What if I rewrite everything in another language? What if I don't tell anyone what my sources are?
The limits of what we view as original work are shifting, why would that which is applicable to music or other media, not be applicable to books?
If I paint Leonardo painting the last supper and his canvas covers most of my canvas, then at what point does this cease to be my painting and become a copy of his? What about art not in the public domain? Would Disney be upset if I painted one of their artists creating Mickey mouse?
The girls book has won numerous awards. I don't know how much of her book really is just a "copy" of someones work, and if these are in the public domain. But her book must be interesting, otherwise this debate would not exist. To me this would qualify as 'sampling' other art to create something unique.
If I drew an illustration and someone used a part of it without my permission, at what point would I be upset? I think I would be upset if the new work decreases the value of my own work.
There are so many what if's that would be answered differently depending on culture or century, - that I find it unreasonable to think that our view should be static.
Did she copy stuff? Yes Did she combine it into a new and unique work? Yes Did it negatively influence any of the (non-public domain yet) copyright holders? I highly doubt it.
I disagree. Most of my friends are not hard core tinker happy nerds. And they were all underwhelmed with the iPad. In fact, I don't know a single person who was actually impressed by it.
How many of those friends have an iPhone?
If even a fraction of the people with iPhones will buy an iPad then it will be a success.
Apple is selling this as a new way to experience the internet. The hardware to accomplish this is not as impressive as the software.
Ideally - iPad software on something like the IdeaPad U1 would be great, but for now I think (for most people) a half-as-powerful Apple product has a better user-experience than a far superior (hardware-wise) product running another OS.
As for myself, if I had an iPad - then for me the priority would be to get an OS I can compile myself on it. But I'm not most people.
Aside from the recent thing in China, can you source that? I was under the impression Google followed spying and censorship laws both in the US and abroad.
I'm primarily referring to that. Are there other places where these issues were raised? Perhaps I just didn't hear about them. Either way, Google is still nicer than the other players. But I'm still using my own mailserver.
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All the power to you!
You're working on fiber to the home.
Now you're working on Power.
Perhaps someday soon your name will appear on my utility bills as well.
So-far everything is good. But I'm afraid.
You control my email, you control my web searches, you pay me for ads on my site.
You say don't be evil. And I believe you.
But I'm still afraid. ...
I'm afraid that if I will ever wrong you,
if you're ever displeased with what I say about you,
I will dissapp#~s8 -`15ht@#&fge LOST CARRIER
FTA
"I believe that together, Microsoft and Yahoo will promote more choice, better value and greater innovation to our customers, as well as to advertisers and publishers."
Wait, Two companies combining forces, eliminating the better search engine(IMHO) and then we're told this will result in "more choice"?
I really don't understand how this could be, but I won't use Yahoo (a mediocre SE. at best) anymore. For me it means less choice.
So will this make Yahoo suck like Bing, or Bing actually find pages (I'm interested in) just like Yahoo?
Every time I've used Bing, I've been disappointed.
I, for one, am glad that twitter wasn't around when Clinton was president.
tmi about Clinton already, what happens at the next scandal?
Outsource security and programming to those countries responsible for the attacks.
Right away the system will have fewer vulnerabilities and there will be fewer attacks.
Only if they are loaded with oxytocin.
That doesn't make sense.
Robots don't have nipples.
eat only live prey
So what do they plan to feed them once they become "giant" ?
chickens?
goats?
cows?
Just stand back from the pool, will ya?
I'm sure physics geeks will be heartily debating the THEORETICAL correctness any minute now. After all, what else would they be doing on a Saturday night.
Stargate Marathon!!! YEaaaaah....
Source please? Last figures I saw were about a mere 40 million.
Anyhow, you do realise that the market for mobile phones is about a billion every year? Of course, you probably don't, since you're an Apple fan. Yes, I'm sure Apple can make some money in their niche market, but it's nothing particularly notable.
The 75 million figure is for "iPhone" OS devices from a slide that Jobs showed at the iPad event. This figure includes iPod touch devices, not just phones(I had to double-check).
I'm not a Apple fan, but I do think OS X is much better than Windows. One of the reasons I tell people to get a Mac is cause then I end up helping them with their computer once a year at most, not every month.
If we go by market figures, less than 5%
Yes, a whole 75 million iPhones.
New way? What new way is this?
Jobs is better at explaining it than I. Just watch the keynote.
What is so special about this?
Toronto has been using water from lake Ontario to cool the downtown core for years.
Yes, you're right. If you figure out the links by hand, it will take alot longer, but you will learn alot more.
I was concentrating on the 'UML' part and the 'PROFIT!' part.
How may of those friends have an iPhone?
3. But 2 of those are work phones, which were provided with heavy subsidy.
Only one friend outright bought the iPhone, and he waited until the 3GS model.
Alright, so those friends do know what the iPad will be about.
I have 3 friends with iPhones who like them and 2 friends who got rid of theirs.
I personally dislike the iPhone, but I probably will get an iPad sooner or later.
It all depends on how much tinkering and development will be allowed without
Apple's blessing.
I'm impressed by the iPad, not because of its specs or software. I'm impressed
because it is a work of art with microchips inside of it.
I know, I thought about it right after I posted.
I have my own version of cat, so I have a bad habit of using it even when I don't need to.
Flywheels have been used to store energy for ages, but do they change the handling of the car at all?
Boats can have gyroscopic roll stabilizers, but what effect does this flywheel have?
Step 1: Find a very large wall
Step 2: Print out allthe code (in very small font) and paste the code up on the wall
Step 3: Identify all the classes, functions, DBs, etc.
Step 4: Create a visual map (on a white board) of how they're all linked together.
Step 5: PROFIT!
6: Write a program that does all these steps automatically.
7: PROFIT! (or get sued by the people who patented the process).
But seriously, isn't there a program that can do all this?
Dear Sir,
We have recently been placed in charge of inheritance of 40,000 loc, I have the
privilege to request your assistance to maintain the henceforth mentioned sum.
The above sum resulted from a contract, executed, commissioned and written five
years (5) ago by a foreign contractor. This action was however intentional and
since then the source has been in a suspended terminal awaiting the fg command.
We are now ready to transfer the source overseas and that is where you come in.
It is important to inform you that as outsourced servants, we are forbidden to
debug foreign code; that is why we require your assistance. You will be required
to debug and analyze the code and transfer the bug free code to our central
repository after which we will reimburse you for your time with post it notes
and slightly dated coffee creamer.
We are looking forward to doing this business with you and solicit absolute
confidentiality from you in this transaction. Please acknowledge receipt of
this letter, using the above Telefax number for more details regarding this
transaction. Also endeavor to send the requested information.
Batteries have a limiting lifespan.
If they used a capacitor instead, this device would run virtually forever.
Place this in a solid glass marble, and it might last forever too.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these.
Forget that.
Imagine a Beowulf Swarm of these.
I'm going to inter-splice book pages of the Terminator and the wizard of Oz.
A bit of tape, and I will be famous!
Would this be my creation or that of Cameron and Baum?
What if I paraphrase the sources?
What if I rewrite everything in another language?
What if I don't tell anyone what my sources are?
The limits of what we view as original work are shifting, why would that which is applicable to music or other media, not be applicable to books?
If I paint Leonardo painting the last supper and his canvas covers most of my canvas, then at what point does this cease to be my painting and become a copy of his?
What about art not in the public domain?
Would Disney be upset if I painted one of their artists creating Mickey mouse?
The girls book has won numerous awards. I don't know how much of her book really is just a "copy" of someones work, and if these are in the public domain. But her book must be interesting, otherwise this debate would not exist. To me this would qualify as 'sampling' other art to create something unique.
If I drew an illustration and someone used a part of it without my permission, at what point would I be upset? I think I would be upset if the new work decreases the value of my own work.
There are so many what if's that would be answered differently depending on culture or century, - that I find it unreasonable to think that our view should be static.
Did she copy stuff? Yes
Did she combine it into a new and unique work? Yes
Did it negatively influence any of the (non-public domain yet) copyright holders? I highly doubt it.
I disagree. Most of my friends are not hard core tinker happy nerds. And they were all underwhelmed with the iPad. In fact, I don't know a single person who was actually impressed by it.
How many of those friends have an iPhone?
If even a fraction of the people with iPhones will buy an iPad then it will be a success.
Apple is selling this as a new way to experience the internet. The hardware to accomplish this is not as impressive as the software.
Ideally - iPad software on something like the IdeaPad U1 would be great, but for now I think (for most people) a half-as-powerful Apple product has a better user-experience than a far superior (hardware-wise) product running another OS.
As for myself, if I had an iPad - then for me the priority would be to get an OS I can compile myself on it.
But I'm not most people.
The EXIF data in the moon photographs will surely prove that the moon landings were faked.
For most of my photos, this works:
cat image_name.jpg | strings | more
Aside from the recent thing in China, can you source that? I was under the impression Google followed spying and censorship laws both in the US and abroad.
I'm primarily referring to that. Are there other places where these issues were raised? Perhaps I just didn't hear about them.
Either way, Google is still nicer than the other players. But I'm still using my own mailserver.
Why Google's email and not Yahoo's, Microsoft's, or AOL's?
Because Google doesn't play nice with dictatorships and oppressive regimes.