When I make a copy I do not deprive the artist, or anyone else, of anything.
You deprive them of a potential sale. It's possible your world view is so limited that you don't recognize that as having value, but in the real world it does. People like RMS are like people trying to understand physics before the concept of "potential energy".
And I don't believe you when you say you think copyright should last 10 or 20 years. If that's what you believe, do you pay for all music, movies, and shows created in the last 10 to 20 years? I think you're just looking for justifications to get valuable stuff without paying for it-- which is my definition of stealing.
Yeah, this is fixed in iOS 6. Separate prompts for Location, Contacts, Calendars, Reminders, Photos, and after the fact you can see who requested it, who currently has access, and toggle them.
My only complaint is that the App Store doesn't give you this information before you download the app. Developers should have to declare that they want to access any of these things (and show ads, and have in-app purchases), and the App Store listing should contain the information about what the app is going to want to do before you buy it.
iOS - the first operating system with package management that doesn't run hash-checks on installer packages to check for corruption. That's right, Apple did it first!
That's the weird thing, though... Apple not only DOES check it, they require the developer to cryptographically sign the entire package with keys they provide, and apps won't run unless it matches. There should be nothing in between that could modify code without tripping that up.
From everything I've read, Proview actually signed the agreement then backed out when they found out it was Apple because they figured they could milk them for a lot more money. I guess, it being Chinese law, they were right.
Presumably anyone who cant manage to support two versions of Android is stupid or incompetent.
I think the is the crux of the problem: is it that thousands and thousands of developers are all stupid or incompetent, or is it that Google has not provided an ecosystem that makes it financially worth it to make things work perfectly, debug, test, answer support questions, etc., for large numbers of versions and devices?
The iPhone is a whole different beast. There have been 5 total models since its initial release, and 5 versions of the OS. Over 80% of all iPhone users are on the latest OS. The iPhone 3GS, released about 3 years ago, runs the current OS and will be upgradable to the next one. That leaves the original iPhone, and the iPhone 3G (which many had complaints about its upgradability) as the only orphaned iPhones. That's one side of the equation. On the other side is an app marketplace which outsells Android by a significant margin despite a smaller installed base, and which is well-curated with a clear path from development to release to sales. That yields a dramatically better return on investment, and is (I think) the reason developers are less willing to support the latest (or multiple) Android versions.
I've seen far more believable bots sitting in random irc channels than this thing. It loses track of context easily, repeats itself a lot, can't introspect or infer and misuses common words but accurately uses big long words. And none of these in the way a 13yr old would.
'What's up?'
'I don't understand that. Where do you work again? I must have missed it.'
'Um, you never asked me'
'Never say never! That's what my gandma says.'
'You never had a grandma'
'This is true. Where do you work again? I must have missed it.'
a) incredibly obvious bot
b) eerily sounds like an info scraper for some marketing crap...../really/ insists on knowing where I work?
Yikes! No wonder so many people fall for scammers and social engineering! Unleash a horde of these things on Facebook and you'd have the answers to everyone's bank account security questions inside a week.
One factor you forgot: natural gas. A *lot* of cheap natural gas is coming online right now in the United States, displacing oil in electricity, industry, and home heating needs. Oil's "competition" isn't "no oil", it's natural gas, and it has to get cheaper to compete. Combine that with China's growth slowing, Europe slowly imploding, and certain oil-producing nations needing some cash (I'd put more weight on Venezuela and their election than Saudi Arabia and their interests), and yeah, you get cheap(er) oil.
He was hounded into dangerous therapies because of his sexual orientation. Now the largest computer company in the world is run by a gay man. What would Alan had given us with another 20 years?
One would hope nothing... didn't the guy deserve a lifelong vacation by that point?
I think you misunderstand the patent office. In modern times, they basically act as a registry for assertions people claim are novel. Unless something is really, really obvious they'll go ahead and file the patent. Whether the inventions actually are novel or not is largely determined by court filings and later re-examinations. It's this aspect of the current patent system that bothers me the most. I have no problem with software being patented, because I think it's an expressive form of communication that mimics in all measurable way a mechanism/solution as might exist in the real world. (I don't buy into the "software is just mathematics" argument any more than saying "all existence is just mathematics".) But a little more a priori examination of novelty by practitioners of the art, and a higher bar for "obviousness" would go a long way towards allowing actual innovators to profit from their investment while separating more wheat from chaff in the patent warehouse.
Pirates of the Caribbean part 3 [...] Subtract the "ooo wow" of 3D and you're left with a flat film filled with flat characters and a story that wouldn't even fill a 100 page novel.
Don't use iOS devices for anything important. This kind of risk is the exactly one of the reasons the App Store and iOS' close ties to that store, is such a dumb idea to become dependent upon.
It's not your computer. Get that into your head.
And if people would stop buying them because of that, then developers would target some other, much more friendly, computer. Then you wouldn't be screwed right now.
How is this "insightful" and not "flamebait"? It's not "dumb" that this girl found a device that lets her communicate better than any other-- calling the little girl "dumb" is pretty inappropriate. It's "dumb" that the company had the competing product pulled while the process was litigated. In this case there were two options-- an iPad or an $8000 specialized device.
Ethernet dongles (likely at added cost on $2k+) laptop.
Face it wifi is not all over the place and Ethernet is faster, has more security, work better in some places, ect.
I was just in a hotel with in room cable modems hooked to the tv system with Ethernet and Poor wifi in room.
I don't know too many frequent travelers that don't carry around an AirPort Express or other pocket-sized wi-fi device of their own for those hotels that either haven't or can't upgrade to pervasive wi-fi. Your hotel Ethernet is not going to be "faster, more secure, or work better" than if it was plugged into an AirPort Express anyway.
For lab use, you probably wouldn't get the dongle but rather the whole docking station and connect the monitors, ethernet, keyboard, mouse, everything via that one port.
Yup, the head of the House Appropriations CJS subcommittee in charge of NASA, Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va) actually attached a clause to NASA's funding bill last year that explicitly prohibits any NASA collaboration with China.
Of course, ITAR restrictions would have prohibited most of the collaboration even without this new clause.
Also, you'll have to prove in a court of law that the Government did, in fact, distribute the software; that the recipient requested and was denied the source code; and that the owners of the Copyright have standing to sue. That's even before Sovereign issues. I'm not optimistic.
How do you eliminate bad teachers like the joker I had who wasted 40 minutes of every class talking about his karate lessons and/or last weekend at the bar? You need testing to see if the teacher is really teaching, or not.
You do what people do in every other employment field. 360-degree evaluations, manager involvement and leadership, peer reviews, and (appropriately weighted) student feedback questionnaires. Sure, throw a test in there as well if you'd like. But the idea that student ("customer") betterment should be the one and only thing on which everything rests is a little misguided. Not only is it not a very good judge of an employees quality as they have limited control over some of the most important parts of learning (ie. parental involvement, student interest in the subject, local funding resources), but it's also not great for the students' education itself.
Ok, I see these creation vs. evolution stories all the time, and we always assume the creationists are wrong, but what if they aren't? And why is it OK to have multiple points of view in the scientific community, unless you think that the world was created (by a higher power or other means).
If Creationism is correct then Science is wrong. Which is fine, I suppose... if that turns out to be true then we can stop teaching Biology at all. Just don't teach Creationism and claim that it's Science. Science requires natural, repeatable, testable hypotheses, and saying "God did it" undermines the entire premise. It's perfectly acceptable to say that evolution's "random" events are influenced by God, or that God set it all in motion according to His plan. But there's no scientific way to test that, so it belongs in theology or social studies class. Evolution as a theory does not directly address the origin of life; just the origin of the species, so really there's room for everyone to play.
This has nothing to do with PCs. Nothing. Not one thing. This is all in reference to UEFI on ARM tablets that Microsoft has partnered up with OEMs to produce to their specs SPECIFICALLY FOR: Windows 8.
Nothing has changed here, nearly all ARM systems are locked down today by OEMs. Do any of you expect Microsoft to produce one that isn't (zune: locked down xbox: locked down)?
You are completely wrong-- what you say is the opposite of true.
This is referring to x86, not ARM. Fedora is not going to play Microsoft's game on ARM where Microsoft has little influence. But they are going to pay Microsoft a fee to get their bootloader signed for the x86 platform so they can run in the Windows8 world.
Now if only they'd get rid of the fake "4G" tag the iPhone 4S has on AT&T. It's barely faster than the "3G" on the iPhone 4, and isn't real "4G" by any means.
Except that it's 4-5x times faster than the "3G" on the Verizon network, so while it's not as fast as LTE it does seem like there's some room for calling it something other than what Verizon called their dog-slow pre-LTE "3G" network. This wasn't Apple's call, anyway... AT&T's HSPA+ network has the "official" 4G designation so it's as "4G" as anything. You'll have to look specifically for "LTE" if you want that speed.
Its recent success has obviously been tied to one gigantic hit platform, for which it is the only natively supported PL.
It's the only one supported by Apple, perhaps, but there are compilers for Flash, C#, C, C++, Ruby, Lua, and many others. Many games are written in Unity and compiled onto the various platforms, including iOS, without writing a scrap of Objective-C. There's even Codea, which is an iOS app that can generate iOS apps (the highly addictive Cargo-Bot, available in the app store, was written in it.)
...for everyone who's not Google. Google boosts their own services to the top and provides links and HTML5 implementations of services for search results that encourage the users to stay with Google instead of going to one of the sites that Google has indexed.
Besides, "algorithmically determined" doesn't mean unbiased. That's like saying "we used science so we're impartial!"
Besides, Facebook has allowed you to download all your data in XML format for years from the bottom of the "account settings" window. Google later added that feature to Google+ as well. So it's not really a technology problem... of the people who actually care about any of that data, you're never going to get more than a tiny fraction of the people to actually download it and back it up properly.
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When I make a copy I do not deprive the artist, or anyone else, of anything.
You deprive them of a potential sale. It's possible your world view is so limited that you don't recognize that as having value, but in the real world it does. People like RMS are like people trying to understand physics before the concept of "potential energy".
And I don't believe you when you say you think copyright should last 10 or 20 years. If that's what you believe, do you pay for all music, movies, and shows created in the last 10 to 20 years? I think you're just looking for justifications to get valuable stuff without paying for it-- which is my definition of stealing.
Yeah, this is fixed in iOS 6. Separate prompts for Location, Contacts, Calendars, Reminders, Photos, and after the fact you can see who requested it, who currently has access, and toggle them.
My only complaint is that the App Store doesn't give you this information before you download the app. Developers should have to declare that they want to access any of these things (and show ads, and have in-app purchases), and the App Store listing should contain the information about what the app is going to want to do before you buy it.
iOS - the first operating system with package management that doesn't run hash-checks on installer packages to check for corruption. That's right, Apple did it first!
That's the weird thing, though... Apple not only DOES check it, they require the developer to cryptographically sign the entire package with keys they provide, and apps won't run unless it matches. There should be nothing in between that could modify code without tripping that up.
http://allthingsd.com/20120216/take-a-look-at-some-of-apples-evidence-in-proview-ipad-dispute/
From everything I've read, Proview actually signed the agreement then backed out when they found out it was Apple because they figured they could milk them for a lot more money. I guess, it being Chinese law, they were right.
Presumably anyone who cant manage to support two versions of Android is stupid or incompetent.
I think the is the crux of the problem: is it that thousands and thousands of developers are all stupid or incompetent, or is it that Google has not provided an ecosystem that makes it financially worth it to make things work perfectly, debug, test, answer support questions, etc., for large numbers of versions and devices?
The iPhone is a whole different beast. There have been 5 total models since its initial release, and 5 versions of the OS. Over 80% of all iPhone users are on the latest OS. The iPhone 3GS, released about 3 years ago, runs the current OS and will be upgradable to the next one. That leaves the original iPhone, and the iPhone 3G (which many had complaints about its upgradability) as the only orphaned iPhones. That's one side of the equation. On the other side is an app marketplace which outsells Android by a significant margin despite a smaller installed base, and which is well-curated with a clear path from development to release to sales. That yields a dramatically better return on investment, and is (I think) the reason developers are less willing to support the latest (or multiple) Android versions.
I've seen far more believable bots sitting in random irc channels than this thing. It loses track of context easily, repeats itself a lot, can't introspect or infer and misuses common words but accurately uses big long words. And none of these in the way a 13yr old would.
'What's up?'
'I don't understand that. Where do you work again? I must have missed it.'
'Um, you never asked me'
'Never say never! That's what my gandma says.'
'You never had a grandma'
'This is true. Where do you work again? I must have missed it.'
a) incredibly obvious bot
b) eerily sounds like an info scraper for some marketing crap..... /really/ insists on knowing where I work?
Yikes! No wonder so many people fall for scammers and social engineering! Unleash a horde of these things on Facebook and you'd have the answers to everyone's bank account security questions inside a week.
The multi-threaded stuff sounds nice. But bounds checking, really? How difficult is it to check buffer size before copying?
A little bit more difficult than not having to do it. And if you make writing secure code a little easier, it's a little more likely to happen.
One factor you forgot: natural gas. A *lot* of cheap natural gas is coming online right now in the United States, displacing oil in electricity, industry, and home heating needs. Oil's "competition" isn't "no oil", it's natural gas, and it has to get cheaper to compete. Combine that with China's growth slowing, Europe slowly imploding, and certain oil-producing nations needing some cash (I'd put more weight on Venezuela and their election than Saudi Arabia and their interests), and yeah, you get cheap(er) oil.
Or cause one, once things come back up.
Whoosh... someone utterly misses the point.
He was hounded into dangerous therapies because of his sexual orientation. Now the largest computer company in the world is run by a gay man. What would Alan had given us with another 20 years?
One would hope nothing... didn't the guy deserve a lifelong vacation by that point?
I think you misunderstand the patent office. In modern times, they basically act as a registry for assertions people claim are novel. Unless something is really, really obvious they'll go ahead and file the patent. Whether the inventions actually are novel or not is largely determined by court filings and later re-examinations. It's this aspect of the current patent system that bothers me the most. I have no problem with software being patented, because I think it's an expressive form of communication that mimics in all measurable way a mechanism/solution as might exist in the real world. (I don't buy into the "software is just mathematics" argument any more than saying "all existence is just mathematics".) But a little more a priori examination of novelty by practitioners of the art, and a higher bar for "obviousness" would go a long way towards allowing actual innovators to profit from their investment while separating more wheat from chaff in the patent warehouse.
Pirates of the Caribbean part 3 [...] Subtract the "ooo wow" of 3D and you're left with a flat film filled with flat characters and a story that wouldn't even fill a 100 page novel.
Or a single theme park ride?
Don't use iOS devices for anything important. This kind of risk is the exactly one of the reasons the App Store and iOS' close ties to that store, is such a dumb idea to become dependent upon.
It's not your computer. Get that into your head.
And if people would stop buying them because of that, then developers would target some other, much more friendly, computer. Then you wouldn't be screwed right now.
How is this "insightful" and not "flamebait"? It's not "dumb" that this girl found a device that lets her communicate better than any other-- calling the little girl "dumb" is pretty inappropriate. It's "dumb" that the company had the competing product pulled while the process was litigated. In this case there were two options-- an iPad or an $8000 specialized device.
Ethernet dongles (likely at added cost on $2k+) laptop.
Face it wifi is not all over the place and Ethernet is faster, has more security, work better in some places, ect.
I was just in a hotel with in room cable modems hooked to the tv system with Ethernet and Poor wifi in room.
I don't know too many frequent travelers that don't carry around an AirPort Express or other pocket-sized wi-fi device of their own for those hotels that either haven't or can't upgrade to pervasive wi-fi. Your hotel Ethernet is not going to be "faster, more secure, or work better" than if it was plugged into an AirPort Express anyway.
For lab use, you probably wouldn't get the dongle but rather the whole docking station and connect the monitors, ethernet, keyboard, mouse, everything via that one port.
Yup, the head of the House Appropriations CJS subcommittee in charge of NASA, Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va) actually attached a clause to NASA's funding bill last year that explicitly prohibits any NASA collaboration with China.
Of course, ITAR restrictions would have prohibited most of the collaboration even without this new clause.
Also, you'll have to prove in a court of law that the Government did, in fact, distribute the software; that the recipient requested and was denied the source code; and that the owners of the Copyright have standing to sue. That's even before Sovereign issues. I'm not optimistic.
How do you eliminate bad teachers like the joker I had who wasted 40 minutes of every class talking about his karate lessons and/or last weekend at the bar? You need testing to see if the teacher is really teaching, or not.
You do what people do in every other employment field. 360-degree evaluations, manager involvement and leadership, peer reviews, and (appropriately weighted) student feedback questionnaires. Sure, throw a test in there as well if you'd like. But the idea that student ("customer") betterment should be the one and only thing on which everything rests is a little misguided. Not only is it not a very good judge of an employees quality as they have limited control over some of the most important parts of learning (ie. parental involvement, student interest in the subject, local funding resources), but it's also not great for the students' education itself.
Ok, I see these creation vs. evolution stories all the time, and we always assume the creationists are wrong, but what if they aren't? And why is it OK to have multiple points of view in the scientific community, unless you think that the world was created (by a higher power or other means).
If Creationism is correct then Science is wrong. Which is fine, I suppose... if that turns out to be true then we can stop teaching Biology at all. Just don't teach Creationism and claim that it's Science. Science requires natural, repeatable, testable hypotheses, and saying "God did it" undermines the entire premise. It's perfectly acceptable to say that evolution's "random" events are influenced by God, or that God set it all in motion according to His plan. But there's no scientific way to test that, so it belongs in theology or social studies class. Evolution as a theory does not directly address the origin of life; just the origin of the species, so really there's room for everyone to play.
This has nothing to do with PCs. Nothing. Not one thing.
This is all in reference to UEFI on ARM tablets that Microsoft has partnered up with OEMs to produce to their specs SPECIFICALLY FOR: Windows 8.
Nothing has changed here, nearly all ARM systems are locked down today by OEMs.
Do any of you expect Microsoft to produce one that isn't (zune: locked down xbox: locked down)?
You are completely wrong-- what you say is the opposite of true.
This is referring to x86, not ARM. Fedora is not going to play Microsoft's game on ARM where Microsoft has little influence. But they are going to pay Microsoft a fee to get their bootloader signed for the x86 platform so they can run in the Windows8 world.
Getting back on topic, has anyone started a petition to get the other Steve back as head honcho at Apple?
Shit, that happens, let me know.
With Woz at the helm, I may just be forced to reconsider my Apple boycott, walled garden or not...
And you'll probably be able to augment your iPhone via 6 PCI slots or one of 20 ports...
Now if only they'd get rid of the fake "4G" tag the iPhone 4S has on AT&T. It's barely faster than the "3G" on the iPhone 4, and isn't real "4G" by any means.
Except that it's 4-5x times faster than the "3G" on the Verizon network, so while it's not as fast as LTE it does seem like there's some room for calling it something other than what Verizon called their dog-slow pre-LTE "3G" network. This wasn't Apple's call, anyway... AT&T's HSPA+ network has the "official" 4G designation so it's as "4G" as anything. You'll have to look specifically for "LTE" if you want that speed.
Its recent success has obviously been tied to one gigantic hit platform, for which it is the only natively supported PL.
It's the only one supported by Apple, perhaps, but there are compilers for Flash, C#, C, C++, Ruby, Lua, and many others. Many games are written in Unity and compiled onto the various platforms, including iOS, without writing a scrap of Objective-C. There's even Codea, which is an iOS app that can generate iOS apps (the highly addictive Cargo-Bot, available in the app store, was written in it.)
Google results are algorithmically determined.
...for everyone who's not Google. Google boosts their own services to the top and provides links and HTML5 implementations of services for search results that encourage the users to stay with Google instead of going to one of the sites that Google has indexed.
Besides, "algorithmically determined" doesn't mean unbiased. That's like saying "we used science so we're impartial!"
Besides, Facebook has allowed you to download all your data in XML format for years from the bottom of the "account settings" window. Google later added that feature to Google+ as well. So it's not really a technology problem... of the people who actually care about any of that data, you're never going to get more than a tiny fraction of the people to actually download it and back it up properly.