GP also fails, however, as in court his "he farted" would be his word vs the guy's at best - while streetview is for all (billions) of people to see at any time they want
First of all, this is about Google picking up wifi payloads of networks as they passed by. They did not make this data publicly available. Secondly, If we revisit the "he farted" example, if instead of just writing it down, I had also gone online and posted publicly "Today, when I was walking down such and such street, when I passed house number #, I heard the man inside shout 'I farted!'." And then the man sued me for "invasion of privacy" he'd still get laughed out of court.
Sony Delayed it by providing the OtherOS feature. The team that got the keys, Fail0verflow even stated they didn't begin working on hacking the PS3 until the forced removal of the OtherOS feature. Then Sony was publicly humiliated when it was shown that they apparently don't know how to do effective cryptography. I doubt they are happy right now.
Remember: They don't make unlocked versions of devices because they absolutely do not want you doing what you want with your device. This is true for almost every iOS/Android/WP7/Console made.
While this is true with some game consoles. It is not true at all with phones. Google sells Dev Android phones, I assume MS also sells dev WP7 phones along with being able to buy XNA 360 dev kits that allow you to create your own games and run them on the 360. Seems Sony and Nintendo are really the only ones who prevent it...
Hmm, I seem to remember the fact that Obama got elected because of the influx of this generation's 18 - 28 year old voters who went and voted for him.......
Now, if you said the republicans got control of the house because he didn't vote, then I might agree since there was a HUGE dropoff of voters for the mid-terms.
The study that backs this up, at least by correlation, is the fact that violent crimes and specifically violence between the ages of 18-24 has decreased significantly since the introduction of video games.
Actually, of the many studies I've seen, they've only succeeded at proving a correlation not causation (I've only read the video game ones.) The link that the evidence seems to prove is more than likely that violent and aggressive people both seek out and prefer violent media, and are excited enough by it to show it more directly after, than before.
When people had 28kbps, they said "that's fast enough for anything I want to do" and then they got 128k. Then 128k was "fast enough" until faster was available cheaper. You have 6mbps which is "fast enough" but what if you could get 20 mbps for the same price? Then you found a use for the extra bandwidth, whether you can do more things at once, run a server, get higher quality streaming, etc. Soon, you'll decide that 20 mbps is "fast enough". If no one had ever decided that the current speed wasn't fast enough, we'd still be running 28k.
I agree completely. The idea of a public backbone that ISPs tie into is the best way of doing it and would also have the result of lowering the barrier to entry enough for there to be real competition.
Get a job in consulting where both are highly valued
It's insulting that you would say that. Yes, a good engineer who can schmooze, sell, and build relationships is a damn good thing. But don't expect that good engineer to get a job in consulting. They'll want to work on solving problems and making the product better.
Engineers who bitch about the sales people making more than them aren't saying that the Engineers should be the ones making more, (at least most of the time) they are saying that the damn good top engineer should be making at least as much as the damn good top sales or consulting person.
The best built software in the world is useless if nobody can sell it.
And the best salesman in the world is useless if he has nothing to sell. You think that the salesman is valuable enough to be paid so much? That's fine, but your engineers are just as valuable as your sales people.
but has not done anything to encourage technology in the private sector.
You mean besides giving billions of taxpayer money to subsidize the ISPs to build out more infrastructure and then failing to actually DO anything about it when they didn't upgrade and build infrastructure with the money...
You do realize that H.264 has the same problem? If someone was waiting for the hardware encoding to reach full saturation of H.264 in everything before coming forward with a patent that covers it, then the MPEG-LA can't do anything to help anyone. Everyone would get sued for tons of money and no one could argue against it. All that is needed is a single patent that covers H.264. Thus, H.264 is also a ticking time bomb, why shouldn't people stay away from it?
IETF also has items like RFC1149: A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers
So the fact that the IETF RFC's have a history of April Fools jokes makes it bad? Perhaps they see the date and allow it because it's a good April Fool's joke. It's also amusing that you chose that one because someone actually did implement it:). Had a latency of 56 minutes if i remember.
Private cables owned by private companies used by private homeowners...you mean phone lines right? The FCC definitely has authority over phone lines.
Oh, you were talking about internet infrastructure. What was the difference again? If the FCC has the authority to regulate telecommunications and enforce the common carrier laws with phone lines, they they have the authority to impose net neutrality. It's illogical for it to be otherwise. Whether the legal system will be logical is a different situation altogether.
No one said anything about free. We are completely willing to pay for service, good service. Service that is on par with the service that modern civilized countries outside the US get. We pay over $50/month on average for less than 30mbit/s lines on average. Other countries pay a lot less for a lot more. The difference is the lack of competition between ISPs and possibly public infrastructure.
Not that I want the government to swoop in and intervene, because I don't, but it's funny how you never notice the free market people pimping out situations where customers complaining about their perceived problems actually erects meaningful change instead of the company just ignoring the vocal minority....
The Philocalian Calendar provides the first mention of both Christmas and Sol Invictus. As they are first attested at the same time, it's hard to say which influenced which. The Roman Empire in the 4th century had a fascinating competition between religions, with Christianity becoming popular in urban centres, Mithraism a fad in the army, and a handful of people even trying to "return to the sources" in pagan worship. An unqualified claim that religion X took custom Y from religion Z is an oversimplification of a complex and murky period.
It's interesting to look at your claims. The celebrations of Christmas are claimed to take pieces of the pagan holiday of Yule not Sol Invictus. It is not an unqualified claim considering that the date of Christmas was changed to Dec 25 in order to coincide with the Pagan rituals (which is why some sects celebrate Christmas as being in the beginning of January, not December.) Then consider the traditions of Christmas. It is called "yuletide" and you have a "yule log" which are obvious references to the original pagan Holiday of Yule. The Christmas tree is another take away as what does a tree have to do with the birth of the savior? Most pagan customs were very Nature based and those who celebrated Yule were already accustomed to having a Tree or some other showing of Nature, incorporating it into the Christmas traditions was a simple way of trying to get people more comfortable with this new religion to try to convert them.
There are many other examples that can be found. The point is that the date and traditions were changed and chosen to coincide with existing Pagan traditions for an existing Pagan holiday that took place at the same time. Since people would already be celebrating, praying, and otherwise religious at that time, it was considered to be the best way to convert them. What better way to offer a new religion than to not force them to drastically change a yearly routine?
You do realize that there is more than enough material to have a "Unix Programming" class. where you teach the concepts of how the file system works, how the OS interacts with the file system, using the system libraries etc. It's not something you'd do with freshman, but in a CS class, teaching an OS as the subject does make sense. And if you're note doing a Unix Programming class, you could be doing an OS class which describes various concepts that Operating Systems use such as process scheduling, memory management, etc. and you can compare and contrast how various OSes do various things.
I'm assuming that when the poster says "teaching linux" that, for a CS class, he means to be teaching how to use linux for development and how to develop on Linux, which makes sense as the first lecture or two of an introductory CS class.
so OSS, with it's high requirement for people to work for free, will never have the broad scope and quality of commercial software. For PC use it'll remain a fringe activity.
Except that there is no requirement that people work for free (look at the above posts which quote the high statistics of OSS being worked on my paid developers). In addition there is a lot of OSS that does have the broad scope and quality of commercial software, the Kernel, Apache server software, lots of system administration tools and other utilities.
That isn't to say there isn't a lot of crap OSS, however there's nearly just as much crap commercial software.
Technically since he was not law enforcement, it wouldn't get thrown out.
It's like if a burglar breaks into your home and finds your weed stash and you call the cops. You can still get arrested for that bag of weed, even though the burglar obtained it illegally.
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GP also fails, however, as in court his "he farted" would be his word vs the guy's at best - while streetview is for all (billions) of people to see at any time they want
First of all, this is about Google picking up wifi payloads of networks as they passed by. They did not make this data publicly available. Secondly, If we revisit the "he farted" example, if instead of just writing it down, I had also gone online and posted publicly "Today, when I was walking down such and such street, when I passed house number #, I heard the man inside shout 'I farted!'." And then the man sued me for "invasion of privacy" he'd still get laughed out of court.
Sony Delayed it by providing the OtherOS feature. The team that got the keys, Fail0verflow even stated they didn't begin working on hacking the PS3 until the forced removal of the OtherOS feature. Then Sony was publicly humiliated when it was shown that they apparently don't know how to do effective cryptography. I doubt they are happy right now.
Please explain how installing Linux on the PS3 = stealing.
Remember: They don't make unlocked versions of devices because they absolutely do not want you doing what you want with your device. This is true for almost every iOS/Android/WP7/Console made.
While this is true with some game consoles. It is not true at all with phones. Google sells Dev Android phones, I assume MS also sells dev WP7 phones along with being able to buy XNA 360 dev kits that allow you to create your own games and run them on the 360. Seems Sony and Nintendo are really the only ones who prevent it...
Hmm, I seem to remember the fact that Obama got elected because of the influx of this generation's 18 - 28 year old voters who went and voted for him.......
Now, if you said the republicans got control of the house because he didn't vote, then I might agree since there was a HUGE dropoff of voters for the mid-terms.
ESRB = rating system for games like they have in movies.
It already exists and is in wide use. In fact, it's quite effective.
The study that backs this up, at least by correlation, is the fact that violent crimes and specifically violence between the ages of 18-24 has decreased significantly since the introduction of video games.
Actually, of the many studies I've seen, they've only succeeded at proving a correlation not causation (I've only read the video game ones.) The link that the evidence seems to prove is more than likely that violent and aggressive people both seek out and prefer violent media, and are excited enough by it to show it more directly after, than before.
When people had 28kbps, they said "that's fast enough for anything I want to do" and then they got 128k. Then 128k was "fast enough" until faster was available cheaper. You have 6mbps which is "fast enough" but what if you could get 20 mbps for the same price? Then you found a use for the extra bandwidth, whether you can do more things at once, run a server, get higher quality streaming, etc. Soon, you'll decide that 20 mbps is "fast enough". If no one had ever decided that the current speed wasn't fast enough, we'd still be running 28k.
I agree completely. The idea of a public backbone that ISPs tie into is the best way of doing it and would also have the result of lowering the barrier to entry enough for there to be real competition.
Get a job in consulting where both are highly valued
It's insulting that you would say that. Yes, a good engineer who can schmooze, sell, and build relationships is a damn good thing. But don't expect that good engineer to get a job in consulting. They'll want to work on solving problems and making the product better.
Engineers who bitch about the sales people making more than them aren't saying that the Engineers should be the ones making more, (at least most of the time) they are saying that the damn good top engineer should be making at least as much as the damn good top sales or consulting person.
The best built software in the world is useless if nobody can sell it.
And the best salesman in the world is useless if he has nothing to sell. You think that the salesman is valuable enough to be paid so much? That's fine, but your engineers are just as valuable as your sales people.
All the arguments about population density don't address two things:
1) The countries that have a lower population density than the US but still have better broadband penetration
2) The fact that even in the metropolitan areas, the US gets more expensive but slower internet than other countries
but has not done anything to encourage technology in the private sector.
You mean besides giving billions of taxpayer money to subsidize the ISPs to build out more infrastructure and then failing to actually DO anything about it when they didn't upgrade and build infrastructure with the money...
You seem to be missing a few: (in Mbps)
.... and so on
Sure, we're 31 out of 168. Still, why are we so far down the list?
You do realize that H.264 has the same problem? If someone was waiting for the hardware encoding to reach full saturation of H.264 in everything before coming forward with a patent that covers it, then the MPEG-LA can't do anything to help anyone. Everyone would get sued for tons of money and no one could argue against it. All that is needed is a single patent that covers H.264. Thus, H.264 is also a ticking time bomb, why shouldn't people stay away from it?
IETF also has items like RFC1149: A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers
So the fact that the IETF RFC's have a history of April Fools jokes makes it bad? Perhaps they see the date and allow it because it's a good April Fool's joke. It's also amusing that you chose that one because someone actually did implement it :). Had a latency of 56 minutes if i remember.
It's easy, patent infringement and you get slapped with a bankrupting lawsuit :(
Private cables owned by private companies used by private homeowners...you mean phone lines right? The FCC definitely has authority over phone lines.
Oh, you were talking about internet infrastructure. What was the difference again? If the FCC has the authority to regulate telecommunications and enforce the common carrier laws with phone lines, they they have the authority to impose net neutrality. It's illogical for it to be otherwise. Whether the legal system will be logical is a different situation altogether.
No one said anything about free. We are completely willing to pay for service, good service. Service that is on par with the service that modern civilized countries outside the US get. We pay over $50/month on average for less than 30mbit/s lines on average. Other countries pay a lot less for a lot more. The difference is the lack of competition between ISPs and possibly public infrastructure.
Not that I want the government to swoop in and intervene, because I don't, but it's funny how you never notice the free market people pimping out situations where customers complaining about their perceived problems actually erects meaningful change instead of the company just ignoring the vocal minority....
The Philocalian Calendar provides the first mention of both Christmas and Sol Invictus. As they are first attested at the same time, it's hard to say which influenced which. The Roman Empire in the 4th century had a fascinating competition between religions, with Christianity becoming popular in urban centres, Mithraism a fad in the army, and a handful of people even trying to "return to the sources" in pagan worship. An unqualified claim that religion X took custom Y from religion Z is an oversimplification of a complex and murky period.
It's interesting to look at your claims. The celebrations of Christmas are claimed to take pieces of the pagan holiday of Yule not Sol Invictus. It is not an unqualified claim considering that the date of Christmas was changed to Dec 25 in order to coincide with the Pagan rituals (which is why some sects celebrate Christmas as being in the beginning of January, not December.) Then consider the traditions of Christmas. It is called "yuletide" and you have a "yule log" which are obvious references to the original pagan Holiday of Yule. The Christmas tree is another take away as what does a tree have to do with the birth of the savior? Most pagan customs were very Nature based and those who celebrated Yule were already accustomed to having a Tree or some other showing of Nature, incorporating it into the Christmas traditions was a simple way of trying to get people more comfortable with this new religion to try to convert them.
There are many other examples that can be found. The point is that the date and traditions were changed and chosen to coincide with existing Pagan traditions for an existing Pagan holiday that took place at the same time. Since people would already be celebrating, praying, and otherwise religious at that time, it was considered to be the best way to convert them. What better way to offer a new religion than to not force them to drastically change a yearly routine?
Until someone can quote a specific patent or the MPEG-LA actually acts on its threats, this is simply FUD.
You do realize that there is more than enough material to have a "Unix Programming" class. where you teach the concepts of how the file system works, how the OS interacts with the file system, using the system libraries etc. It's not something you'd do with freshman, but in a CS class, teaching an OS as the subject does make sense. And if you're note doing a Unix Programming class, you could be doing an OS class which describes various concepts that Operating Systems use such as process scheduling, memory management, etc. and you can compare and contrast how various OSes do various things.
I'm assuming that when the poster says "teaching linux" that, for a CS class, he means to be teaching how to use linux for development and how to develop on Linux, which makes sense as the first lecture or two of an introductory CS class.
so OSS, with it's high requirement for people to work for free, will never have the broad scope and quality of commercial software. For PC use it'll remain a fringe activity.
Except that there is no requirement that people work for free (look at the above posts which quote the high statistics of OSS being worked on my paid developers). In addition there is a lot of OSS that does have the broad scope and quality of commercial software, the Kernel, Apache server software, lots of system administration tools and other utilities.
That isn't to say there isn't a lot of crap OSS, however there's nearly just as much crap commercial software.
Technically since he was not law enforcement, it wouldn't get thrown out.
It's like if a burglar breaks into your home and finds your weed stash and you call the cops. You can still get arrested for that bag of weed, even though the burglar obtained it illegally.